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''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 as We Know It]] or other potential disasters is some [[Crazy Homeless People|crazy-looking person]] (usually holding a sign) or street preacher declaring that we should all repent because the world is coming to an end. Ha! [[Cassandra Truth|As if that will ever happen!]]
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== Comic Strips ==
* In ''[[Frank and Ernest]]'', they see such a man.
{{quote|'''Ernest''':
'''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.
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* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]''. Crowds of of these are seen being broken up by mounted police outside the Houses of Parliament, indicating the "Panic, sheer bloody panic!" inspired by the villainous Lord Blackwood's return from the dead. One man really goes to town describing the terrible events to come.
{{quote|"The end is nigh! Blackwood's come back from Hell, and laid a curse upon this land! He walks in every shadow, and every puff of smoke. Behold, he cometh with clouds, and everyone shall see him!"}}
* In ''[[The Seventh Seal]],'' a radical flagelante comes before a crowd to tell them
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* 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."
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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.
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* ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'' has this guy in the form of Olimar.
* Red Chocobo's [[Let's Play]] of [[Pokémon]] [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|Emerald]] has the cutest The End is <s> Ny</s> Nigh [http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Emerald/Update%2058/raltsarmageddon.jpg ever].
* The two goofy unicorns in a ''[[Charlie the Unicorn]]'' short say this phrase and perform an out-of-place frightening image.
{{quote|'''Charlie:''' Okay, that was the scariest thing I've ever seen.}}
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'', as the food storm rages all over the world, two guys wearing
* ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' (in the episode that introduces Angel) features a doomsayer like this, bearing a sign with "Angels are among us!"
* ''[[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".
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