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{{quote|''"The Eastern world, it is explodin'
''Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
''You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'
''You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
''And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'
''But you tell me over and over and over again, my friend
''You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction"''
|'''Barry McGuire'''|"Eve of Destruction"}}
An obligatory trope for any depiction of [[The End of the World
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As a corollary, see also [[Crying Wolf]].
Not to be confused with [[One of the Seven Signs of the Apocalypse]].
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Tintin
* ''[[Watchmen]]''. {{spoiler|Rorschach uses this as his cover}}. It also lampshades the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over everyone (not to mention future events in the comic).
* A guy like this is featured in one of the early issues of ''[[Buffy]] Season Eight''.
* Sight gag in an Italian comic book. Two men, holding signs that claim "The world will end tomorrow" and "The world will end the day after tomorrow" respectively, are beating each other in the background. In the foreground, a third man is reading a newspaper article titled "Is the world ending today?"
* In one [[Batman]] storyline, the [[Anti-Hero]] Anarky distributes money to a wide variety of anti-establishment groups and individuals, one of whom is a doomsday prophet who uses part of the money to pay homeless people to walk around Gotham wearing sandwich-board signs proclaiming his message. (Unfortunately, he uses the rest of the money to finance his plan to blow up most of downtown Gotham, which he believes will kick-start the apocalypse.)
* In ''[[Frank and Ernest]]'', they see such a man.▼
{{quote| '''Ernest''':''You think that's right, Frank?''<br />▼
'''Frank''': Of course not! They haven't even started rolling the credits yet. }}▼
** In another strip, one man predicts the world will end today, one tomorrow -- and Frank observes they can't make ends meet.▼
== Film ==
* Played for black comedy in the opening titles of ''[[
* Don't forget that guy in ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'' {{spoiler|who turns out to be God all along}}.
* There is a random guy like this in ''[[
* In the movie ''[[
* There's a drunk guy in the diner in ''[[The Birds]]'' who claims that the apocalypse is coming.
* In ''[[Independence Day]]'', there is a preacher in the ruins of Los Angeles who is like this. Justified in that the end ''already'' came.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
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* In ''[[The Seventh Seal]],'' a radical flagelante comes before a crowd to tell them
* ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Seen in the miniseries of ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', before the Earth is destroyed. When he realizes the end actually
▲* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' ("The Shakespeare Code"). The doomsayer is quite delighted that the end of the world is happening, crying: "I told ye so! I told ye so!"
▲* Seen in the miniseries of ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', before the Earth is destroyed. When he realizes the end actually IS nigh, he abandons his sign.
* [[Miniseries|The mini series version]] of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Stand]]'' featured one of these, played by Kareem Abdul Jabbar of all people. He goes all around [[New York City]] screaming "Bring out your dead" in a reference to the Black Plague, even before people start dying en masse from a disease with a 99% fatality rate. He actually survives the plague, and continues his doomcrying until Randall Flagg kills him personally.
** The character was present in the book too, although in an even smaller role than he had in the
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Towards the end of Season 7 as the population of Sunnydale pack up and flee, a crazy homeless guy is hauled into the police station shouting the [[Arc Words]] "From beneath you, it devours."
== Music ==
* Pretty much the whole point of [[Jethro Tull]]'s album ''Stormwatch''.
* Mocked by the song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdZvYwP-kiw "Maybe Tomorrow"] by [[Chance Waters]].
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes
** ''[[FoxTrot]]'': Jason as well.
* ''[[The Far Side]]'' has a cartoon with a flea holding up a sign saying "The end of the dog is coming." He's right.
* A cartoon in ''[[Private Eye]]'' parodied the media's constant scaremongering over issues like climate change and terrorism by having ''everyone'' in a street wearing "The End Is Nigh" sandwich boards, except one man, who is scorned and called 'weirdo' by the others.
▲* In ''[[Frank and Ernest]]'', they see such a man.
▲'''Frank''': Of course not! They haven't even started rolling the credits yet. }}
▲** In another strip, one man predicts the world will end today, one
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' features Flagellants, mobs of unhinged religious fanatics who are convinced that the latest Chaos invasion, Orc Waaagh!, Dark Elf raid, Skaven uprising, Undead attack, civil war... anyway, they're convinced that it's the End Times and want to take part in the final battle. Since their fervor makes them fearless and they like to bludgeon enemies to death with two-handed flails, Empire generals tolerate their presence, even if army morale tends to suffer slightly.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' has a few of these, with them thinking that the [[Incurable Cough of Death|Wailing Death plague]] is a sign of the end.
* In ''[[Infinite Space]]'', Adis people do this near the end of the game. {{spoiler|Of course, by the time they do this, the universe destruction ''has'' already started to happen.}}
* In ''[[Dragon Age
** Another doomsayer can appear in Redcliffe, albeit briefly. He warns that the attack on the village by a [[Night of the Living Mooks|horde of walking corpses]] is a sign of the end of the world and that everyone should repent their sins. Like Lothering, the Warden can ignore or drive off the doomsayer, or they can just kill him. He shouts that he welcomes death as you attack him.
* A homeless guy in Santa Monica does this in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]''. Someone familiar with the game's plot and the [[Old World of Darkness]] [[Metaplot]] will find grains of truth in most of what he says.
* In the "Enter the Metro" trailer for ''[[Metro 2033 (
== Web Comics ==
* The crazy old guy in ''[[Exiern]]'' who keeps walking around shouting "DOOM!" and narrating to no one that anyone in the strip can see.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
== Web Original ==
* ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' has this guy in the form of Olimar.
* Red Chocobo's [[Let's Play]] of [[Pokémon]] [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
* The two goofy unicorns in a ''[[Charlie the Unicorn]]'' short say this phrase and perform an out-of-place frightening image.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Cloudy
* ''[[X
* ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' - a guy is holding a sign like this early in the episode. When we get to the [[Monster of the Week]] part it reads "Told You So".
* One of these appears in ''[[Hercules (
* A rat wearing a sandwich board made out of two slices of bread can actually be seen warning all the other rats about the floodgates in ''[[Flushed Away]]''.
== Other Media ==▼
* Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20161117031848/http://images.archives.newyorker.com/djvu/Conde%20Nast/New%20Yorker/2009_01_05/webimages/page0000001_3.jpg?v=v5 this] 2009 ''New Yorker'' magazine cover.▼
▲== Other ==
▲* Parodied in [http://images.archives.newyorker.com/djvu/Conde%20Nast/New%20Yorker/2009_01_05/webimages/page0000001_3.jpg?v=v5 this] 2009 ''New Yorker'' magazine cover.
== Real Life ==
* Harold Camping{{context}}
* The 2012 phenomenon.{{context}}
* [[Millennium Bug|Y2K.]]{{context}}
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