The World Is Always Doomed: Difference between revisions

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', almost every villain at least tries to take over the world, which probably counts as doomed. Oh, and {{spoiler|it really [[Earthshattering Kaboom|IS destroyed]] once, though it got better}}. In fact one of the reasons Goku decides to stay dead midway through ''Dragonball Z'' is that he's [[Genre Savvy|noticed this]], and furthermore, that he's usually [[Weirdness Magnet|what the villains are seeking]]. Later, he tries to get Gohan, Goten and Trunks, and later Uub to be the heroes because the villains ''still'' come. Ironically, the one who [[Jumped At the Call]], his granddaughter Pan, didn't have the muscle necessary to take over the hero job.

** The manga is worse. {{spoiler|Chise is the apocalypse, and is completely unstoppable long before people realize how devastating she's become. She's not futilely protecting people from some foreign and out-of-control weapon, she IS the out-of-control weapon. She kills everyone. Personally. ''Except Shuuji.''}}

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the Earth is threatened by [[Eldritch Abomination]]s that threaten to destroy all life, five times, 6 counting the side story. Justified, since the foes are actually {{spoiler|fragments of the same abomination, Chaos.}}

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* As [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] puts it: "It's the DC Universe, the end of the world isn't even an excuse for getting off work any more."

* In one ''[[Astro City]]'' story, most residents of an apartment building gather on the roof to watch a potentially cataclysmic battle - except for one kid who stays inside to finish his homework. As his mother explains, "if the world doesn't end, he's still got school tomorrow." .

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[The Dark Crystal]]''. It's '''the end of the world'''... or the beginning. Same thing.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' movies. Apparently, every other day there's a situation where the world just barely avoids being blown up by disgruntled aliens.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In the fiction chapters of ''[[Discworld/The Science of Discworld|The Science of Discworld]] II'', Roundworld keeps getting smacked by cometary impacts just as yet another native life form is starting up its own civilization.

 

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'' have ''at least'' one planet-ending apocalypse per year (the Hellmouth alone was almost opened on three separate occasions), as well as one ''reality-ending'' apocalypse, along with endless armies of vampires, demons and the forces of darkness maiming and slaughtering and generally being not very nice. [[Lampshade]]d in numerous episodes, to the point where characters were going "AGAIN?!" whenever anybody mentioned it. One episode of ''[[Angel]]'' even has Spike and Angel arguing over who ''saved the world more'':

{{quote|'''Angel:''' I helped save the world, you know.

'''Lt. Col Mitchell:''' Teal'c, actually. He mentions it quite often. }}

* This trope was basically the entire premise of ''[[Seven Days]]''. It's about the agent the NSA sends back in time to avert all the catastrophes that would befall us every week without his intervention—things like a weapons test wiping out all life on Earth, or [[Taiwan|China and Taiwan]] getting into a war, or the President's nuclear launch computer falling into the hands of an irate ape. This raises the question of how the world survived before the Backstep project went online.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The Bydo of [[R-Type]] are a similar case. While they were ''apparently'' beaten for good in [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Final]], it's hard to say for sure when your enemy aren't just [[The Virus]], but also exist [[Eldritch Abomination|outside of time]].

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Somewhat lampshaded in "It's About Time", with Twilight ''immediately'' assuming that Future Twilight contacted her to warn her of some terrible catastrophe, every other pony easily believing her (at least before she started another [[Sanity Slippage]]), and in the course of attempting to prevent the disaster {{spoiler|that doesn't exist}} they encounter ''another'' potential disaster completely by accident.

** The same episode also revealed that Ponyville is located at a walking distance from ''the gates of Hell'', where an imense number of monsters and demons are kept imprisioned. And then we have the dreadful Everfree Forest, which is literally next to Applejack's farm and it's full to the brim with all kind of deadly creatures.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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