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{{quote|''[[Darkseid]] goes all out. A lot of villains tell everyone about their plan, but Darkseid filmed an elaborate dramatization of it. Look at those special effects. He didn't just have a computer rendered picture of what his battle station will look like, he got actors to run around on an airfield while planes were getting vaporized.''|'''[[Seanbaby]]'''}}
Sometimes, it's enough to just say "[[The World Is Always Doomed|The World Is In Danger]]!" and hope the hero (and the audience) may understand the urgency and risk and answer [[The Call]]. Sometimes, though, a little more is in order.
Compare [[Just Between You and Me]], [[Villain World]] and [[Bad Future]], which can be the Storyboarded Apocalypse given form. See also [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]. Contrast [[Apocalypse Wow]], which is also a narrative depiction of the apocalypse, only used for very different dramatic goals.
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* ''[[X 1999]]'' (also known as "The Shoujo Armageddon") not only features a lengthy vision by [[Waif Prophet|dreamseer Hinoto-hime]] on how the apocalypse will proceed, it also flashes forward and flashes back to that dream sequence many times throughout the series.
* The Anti-Spiral in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' explains exactly how and why the Earth will be destroyed, complete with a helpful 3-D simulation. Simon realizes through instinct that it's the truth, going briefly into a [[Heroic BSOD]].
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog The Movie|Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie]]''. When it becomes clear that Metal Sonic intends to destroy the world, Knuckles explains to the skeptical president how exactly a single robot could accomplish this: by puncturing the lava veins that flow through the giant mountain/glaciar that holds the various [[Floating Continent
* The major driving force of the ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]'''s plot is a prophecy of the devastating war between espers and normal humans, completed with realistic visions that several characters has experienced.
* Done twice in ''[[Naruto]]'' by the two masterminds of Akatsuki regarding their individual plans for creating a lasting peace.
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* In ''Saga of the [[Swamp Thing]]'', the resurrected Anton Arcane rants about how he's going to bring the worst of the damned back into the world, inciting chaos and a literal Apocalypse. Scenes of havoc wrought by those he's already unleashed provide a literal "storyboard" of the kinds of hell Arcane would've spread around the world, had he not underestimated <s> Holland</s> Swamp Thing.
* ''[[Hellboy]]'' did it on a number of occasions, most memorably in "The Right Hand of Doom". Hellboy wonders what might happen if he cuts off his [[Evil Hand]], and we see a splash page of a hooded man standing in a burning ruin, holding up the severed hand and chanting, "Anung un Rama..." (Hellboy's true name [[Screw Destiny|at the time]]).
* ''[[Justice League: The New Frontier]]'' features a particularly creepy example, where the [[Big Bad]]'s genocidal plans for Earth are communicated via the writings of a children's
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* ''[[Seven Days]]'' operate similarly to the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' examples above: show what happened, then use [[Time Travel]] to go back and fix things.
* ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]: [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' begins with a scene of a terminator killing John Connor, triggering [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Fortunately, it was [[All Just a Dream]].
* The last story arc of the first season of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' began with this. Even though it had been less than a season, the [[Big Bad|Goa'uld]] might have already been looking a bit [[Harmless Villain|harmless]]. Their foot soldiers had apparently attended the [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]] and wore [[Armor Is Useless|Useless Armor]]. The SG-1 team was threatened inadvertently by [[Human Alien
* Although the deadliness of the Xindi threat was stated often in ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''; the episode "''Twilight''" demonstrates EXACTLY what would happen if they made it to Earth.
* In the aptly named ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "The End", the angel Zachariah shows Dean a [[Bad Future]] where Sam is [[Demonic Possession|possessed by Lucifer]], the angels are all either fallen or missing, and Dean himself has become [[Darker and Edgier|harder and more cynical]] because of the ongoing [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
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