Storyboarding the Apocalypse: Difference between revisions

{{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. '''Story-Boarding[[Storyboarding the Apocalypse''']] is a disturbingly detailed narrated account of the impending [[Gotterdammerung]] and rise of the ultimate evil, accompanied by a montage to give plenty of [[Nightmare Fuel]] inducing visions of the end to all parties involved.

'''Story-Boarding[[Storyboarding the Apocalypse''']] is used on a few different occasions: The hero might [[Refusal of the Call|refuse the call]], forcing his [[Mentor]] to show him how the [[Big Bad]] can hurt him, by turning his [[Hidden Elf Village|secluded hometown]] into a [[Doomed Hometown]]. Or the [[Big Bad]] might give a [[Motive Rant]] and expound at length on how they'll turn the world into [[Mordor]], or bring about a new Eden via utter destruction because [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]. Especially detail oriented villains will have prepared dioramas, movies, and even commission an [[Earth-Shattering Poster]] or two to help hammer it in. Or they might just [[Exposition Beam|beam it into the hero's skull with a laser.]] Occasionally this is given as a warning by less direct conventional methods; [[Cassandra Truth]] can deliver it, or via [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]], or [[Time Travel]] in the hope of driving the point home to the hero and the audience.