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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* The ''[[Firefly]] / [[
{{quote| '''Mal:''' She said, and I quote, '[[A Storm Is Coming|A storm is coming]].'<br />
'''Inara:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|That's...vague]]. }}
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** In every ''[[Star Wars]]'' film there's a least one person who has "...a bad feeling about this."
* ''[[Event Horizon]]'' - when {{spoiler|:Justin temporarily regains consciousness after spending time in vacuum}}, his contribution to the conversation is "It's coming... the ''dark''..."
* ''[[
* Bert in ''[[Mary Poppins]]''. "Wind's in the east. Mist coming in. Like something is brewing, about to begin. Can't put my finger on what lies in store. But I feel what's to happen, has all happened before."
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* In the [[Made for TV Movie|miniseries]] version of ''[[The Stand]]'', Mother [[Magical Negro|Abagail]] helpfully informs the heroes: ''"The Beast is loose in the fields of Bethlehem. The rats are in the corn!"'' She also says "[[A Storm Is Coming]]. ''[[He Who Must Not Be Named|His]]'' storm!" And "the rats are his."
** Both quote [[Creator/Yeats|Yeats]]: "What rough Beast, its hour come round at last, ''[[Slouch of Villainy|slouches toward]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Bethlehem]]'' to be born?"
* ''[[
** In 'The Beast Below', an episode of ''[[
** Practically all of the [[Arc Words]] of the revival of ''Doctor Who'' count as a vague threat - "Bad Wolf" (though that turned out to be a good thing), "The girl will die in battle", "You have something on your back", "He will knock four times", "The song is ending", "Darkness is coming", "The Pandorica Will Open", "Silence Will Fall", "Tick-Tock, goes the clock".
** "The Fires of Pompeii" is chock-full of this in [[Ice Cream Koan|even more bizarre form]] than usual, because the characters are ancient Romans being influenced by an alternative timeline to develop psychic powers which they naturally attribute to the gods and accordingly couch in all kinds of [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]]. Which is why it's nice when the Doctor eventually gets sick of it.
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Where the [[Dying Like Animals|people are many and their hands are all empty]]<br />
Where the [[
Where the [[He Who Must Not Be Seen|executioner's face is always well hidden]] ...<br />
Where [[Dark Is Evil|black is the color]], where [[Numerological Motif|none is the number]]...<br />
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* ''[[Squidbillies]]'' mocks this trope on a number of occasions with Granny's [[Ghost Stories]]... which invariably [[Weirdness Magnet|come true]] and the actual menace turns out to be every bit as [[Feet of Clay|vague and nonsensical]].
* [[Villain of the Week|Protoclown]]'s arrival on ''[[The Tick]]'' was simply described as "It's coming!"
* In the ''[[Hot Wheels Battle Force 5]]'' episode ''Better Off Red'', Sage states something even worse than the Red Sentients is coming and she's building a weapon to try and stop it. A lot of her strange behavior that episode seems to simply be because she's terrified of whatever this evil is to the point she didn't want to tell the group about it and hoped never to face it. The season finale reveals that this new enemy is the Ancient Ones, but nothing more is explained except rather frightening shadowy images of them and the fact they predate the Sentients (who created the multiverse). These facts, along with the fact their name seems to be a [[Shout
== [[Real Life]] ==
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