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Caught Up in the Rapture
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A standard feature of some Christian eschatology that purports that before (or possibly after) God allows Satan to screw the world over, He will rapture His church, grabbing everyone who is Christian or will be saved and lifting them up into the air before departing to Heaven, while everyone else will be left on Earth to suffer through the End Times. In reality, while this idea has worked its way into popular consciousness regarding the End of the World, it's actually a fairly recent idea, dating back to a Protestant group called the Plymouth Brethren in the 1830s. A former Anglican minister by the name of John Nelson Darby took a single verse from 1 Thessalonians describing how the church will be "caught up together in the clouds" to join with Jesus. Combining this with Premillenialist theology stating that there will be a period of a great tribulation and hardship on Earth before Jesus comes back to defeat evil for good and reign for 1000 years, Darby is largely responsible for creating the major trappings of the Rapture that people most commonly associate with Christianity today. Today the Rapture is primarily believed by a very specific type of Evangelical Protestant. Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, and many other Protestant groups do not hold with the idea of the Rapture at all. Curiously, the theology of the Rapture has extended itself out of Christianity entirely. Many New Age gurus who have left Christianity maintain some of the teachings surrounding the rapture, and many of these pseudo-Christian ideas exist in, for instance, Terrance McKenna's Timewave Zero and the various expositions of the end of the age in the Mayan Calendar in December 2012. (P.S: the last one didn't happen, either. Of course, the world could have ended on December 21st, we've just been caught up in our own affairs so much that we didn't notice.) The aftermath of the Rapture is often depicted with Empty Piles of Clothing. The time preceding the Rapture may be filled with Signs of the End Times. The Trope Namer, the song "Caught Up in the Rapture" by Anita Baker, is not about this trope but rather about being deeply in love. |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Referenced. The title refers to the end of the world, the day Skynet launched nuclear weapons. The three billion people who died were effectively "raptured". The ones left behind called the war Judgment Day, and then fought in the final war...against machines not demons, but whatever. | |
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This is the premise of Living The Dream. Everyone on Earth is raptured and given a choice to choose between Heaven, Hell, or any world they wish to live in. The story follows those who chose their paradise in Equestria. | |
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The Simpsons: "Thank God It's Doomsday" opens with Homer seeing a movie called Left Below (an obvious spoof of Left Behind) while taking the kids to get their hair cut, causing him to become exceedingly anxious about the end times. He starts researching exactly when and how the end of the world will come about, and how to avoid being "left below". He predicts it would be mere days from then, and is ridiculed when he turns out to be wrong...and consequently still disbelieved when he realises the actual date was only slightly later. This time he is right, but he manages to talk God into a Cosmic Retcon and call the whole thing off. The "Simpsons Bible Stories" episode featured the Flanders family raptured while everyone else in Springfield is left to go to Hell. Lisa was about to be Raptured too but gets pulled down by Homer. Of course, apparently, the worst thing about Hell is pineapple pieces in the cottage cheese. There's also the scene in "Sideshow Bob Roberts" where the construction crew arrives to tear down the house while Homer's sleeping. Homer wakes suddenly and yells, "Ahhh! It's the Rapture! Quick! Get Bart out of the house before God comes!" Clearly, this was during one of Homer's more devout phases. |
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It's used as a one-off gag in Men in Hats. Everybody except for The Fundamentalist Sam (who it's been made clear annoys God as much as he does everyone else) gets taken up into heaven. After hanging out for a few hours they are given souvenir t-shirts and head back home when the party dies down. | |
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Community - On a Halloween episode where scary stories are being exchanged, Shirley tells one where the rest of her study group is having a debauched party when the radio announces "We interrupt your death metal to bring you some heavy news: all the good Christians got raptured up to Heaven so if you're hearing this, the good news is you're the coolest people in the world. [all: "Yes!"] The bad news is, the world is over. This is NPR." As they wail in agony, Shirley appears as a pure being of light not to save them, just to say she forgives them for ostensibly picking on her, then leaves them to their doom. | |
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Kicks off the main plot of This Is the End. The fact that everybody at James Franco's party completely misses the Rapture is used to indicate just how depraved they all are — nobody at that party was good enough to get into heaven. The characters left behind can also get Raptured later on upon making a Heel–Face Turn, as happens to Craig Robinson, Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen and (almost) Franco, at least before he botches it. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Human instrumentality, especially as it is represented in The End of Evangelion. | |
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Paul Bortolazzo's Last Days Trilogy is an Author Tract for the pre-wrath Rapture instead of the pre-Tribulation Rapture as in Left Behind, as the main characters on the side of God continue drilling this in-story fact into people's heads using the Bible as proof. However, unlike Left Behind, being raptured to heaven does not mean that the person is free from the judgment that could send that person to hell. | |
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Scud the Disposable Assassin is set in a world where the Rapture was scheduled to happen in the 1980s... but then Satan failed to show, on account of being killed and overthrown. God wasn't willing to throwing the first punch, so the Rapture has just kinda been in limbo; officially, it's still going on, but nothing is actually happening. Things have been going downhill on Earth ever since. | |
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Anita Baker's song "Caught Up in the Rapture" is not actually an example of this trope, it's just using it as a metaphor for love.* "Left Behind", the theme song of Left Behind (2000), by Bryan Duncan featuring ShineMK. | |
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The Rapture: The evangelical church Sharon and Randy join believes this will happen. At the end of the film, they're proven right. | |
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Perhaps unintentionally done in The Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos, upon becoming God through acquiring the Infinity Gems, causes half of all life in the universe to disappear, causing mass panics as people see their loved ones disappear right in front of them, wars and the typical conflicts associated with the end of days. The people who have disappeared aren't taken into Heaven, but rather become a part of Death herself. | |
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The whole premise of All Worlds Alliance Missions - CROSSOVERDOSE involves countless people from various corners of the multiverse mysteriously disappearing by a "bright light". As it turns out it is caused not by a God but by the mysterious culprit in the Void. Said culprit happens to be a part of the story's Big Bad Ensemble with the Apostles and Silas Moron. | |
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In the American Dad! episode "Rapture's Delight", when the Rapture happens Stan and Francine are among those who get left behind, probably because they just had sex in the church's closet. Later Stan seeks out Jesus and nearly gets raptured. |
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Avengers: Infinity War heavily evokes this with the imagery of the Snap. Billions of people simply vanish, their bodies turning to dust, while those left behind look on in shock and horror. The Stinger, in which Nick Fury and Maria Hill witness the chaos caused by the Snap before they themselves get dusted, explicitly recalls stories like Left Behind and A Thief in the Night that show the Rapture accompanied by mass panic. Leah Schnelbach called it "a secular Rapture movie" and went into detail on how the effects of Thanos' Badass Fingersnap seemed designed to call to mind the Rapture. | |
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"Vanity. Definitely my favorite sin." | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, when Piccolo heads to Ginger Town in Episode 42, where Imperfect Cell was consuming people to increase his power, he finds a bunch of piles of clothing. Nail and Kami discuss this as a possible cause. This was immediately after Piccolo had fused with Kami, temporarily depriving Earth of its God. | |
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The Apocalypse film series kicks off with this, with the Antichrist Franco Maccalusso explaining that those who disappeared were removed by him because they were obstacles to the goal of achieving world peace. | |
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A plot point in Jerusalem Countdown, where Biblical prophecies are related to the terrorist plot at hand. It happens in the end, too. | |
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In the Christ Clone Trilogy by James Beauseigneur, the Rapture is somewhat subverted, in that when what becomes known to the world as "The Disaster" strikes, the raptured Christians don't disappear, but actually die. Their souls still go to God, though. The tribulation judgements, unlike the cartoonish ones in the Left Behind novels, are pure horror. | |
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The name of the city of Rapture in BioShock is an obvious reference to this concept, and its setup bears some marked similarities to it. The main difference is that, rather than devout Christians being whisked away in a flash, it's the "productive class" leaving society voluntarily, Atlas Shrugged style — business owners who feel that their workers shouldn't control them, artists who feel that they are being censored by a society too stupid to see their "brilliance", scientists who feel that "petty" morality and ethics hinder proper research, etc. | |
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture has different interpretations, but at least one is essentially spoiled by the title. | |
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In Good Omens, a televangelist is gushing about the Rapture to his TV audience, when he's accidentally possessed by Aziraphale, an actual angel, who lets it slip that no, they're going to be far too busy with Judgement Day to bother with protecting the locals. Let God sort it out. | |
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Averted in Preacher, as the planned-for Rapture by the Grail involves launching every country's nukes at midnight at the end of the millennium, where they will... fail to explode, with the Grail emerging to rule the world. As Herr Starr puts it: "You just want to inherit the Earth". | |
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Chick Tracts use the Rapture quite a bit, both in his tracts and his Alberto series of comic books. | |
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Rapture Rejects, a Cyanide and Happiness-based video game, uses the Rapture as the basis of its game: God's had it with the Earth, so he grabs all the good people in the world and leaves everyone to die when he blows up the Earth. The leftover people don't like that, so God gives them one (1) ticket to join in and whoever survives the longest gets the ticket, leading everyone to duke it out Battle Royale-style. | |
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Dr. Fate catches up various superheroes for the purpose of confronting G. Gordon Godfrey at the end of Legends (DC Comics) to put an end to his stirring up the hatred of superheroes for their destruction, as per Darkseid's overall plan. The cover of issue #5 has Captain Marvel standing among piles of empty superhero clothing, completing the image of the Rapture, although that part doesn't happen in the story itself. | |
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A fairly contrived storyline in Uncanny X-Men (Chuck Austen) features a conspiracy by the Church for Humanity to cause a fake Rapture in the Catholic Church, using explosive wafers to 'rapture' Catholics and tricking the world into thinking Nightcrawler (whose mutation makes him resemble a stereotypical devil) is the Antichrist. Notably, the Catholic church does not officially believe in the Rapture, and it ignores all the other denominations who do believe in it and would be rather confused. | |
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Averted in The Leftovers, the only thing anyone on a panel of religious experts agrees on is that whatever caused the disappearance of 2% of earth's population was not the Rapture ("If there is a God, He sat out on this one"), as the missing was a completely random mix of people ("The Pope I get, but Gary Busey?") and aside from pets who witnessed the disappearance of their owners apparently going berserk there hasn't been any other supernatural phenomena in three years. | |
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Played for horror in the Arcia Chronicles, where the Wanderer is a powerful interdimensional being who can enter worlds on the brink of apocalypse and offer people he deems worthy (at least, the ones who are willing to abandon everything, including their "unworthy" friends and families, for his salvation) an escape. Where exactly they go is unclear, but multiple cults on different worlds come to worship him as their savior (in fact, the Wanderer is based on the Savior from Nick Perumov's multiverse, who actually consumed the souls of those who left with him to gain power). At one point, Neo and Norgerel visit a dead world and witness its last moments, where the Wanderer appears in the middle of a Final Battle, and offers escape to just two "worthy" people: the wife and the daughter of one of the army commanders. The former pleads to take her husband with them, then chooses to stay with him, while the latter runs back to her parents just as the world ends. | |
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The Laundry Files: The Apocalypse Codex features a charismatic evangelical preacher who hopes to bring about the Rapture. Unfortunately for nearly everyone, he's got the wrong Christ... | |
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The "800-pound gorilla" in this scenario is the Left Behind series of Christian thrillers. The opening of the first book has the main character, Rayford, a pilot, contemplating cheating on his wife with a stewardess, before said stewardess comes into the cockpit to inform Rayford that half of the passengers have disappeared. The parody novel Right Behind had a fake Rapture and a climax of the protagonist fighting the Antichrist in a Christian bookstore by chucking Precious Moments figurines. |
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Mentioned by Tapper in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf mini-story "It's The End Of The World (As Tapper Knows It)", where he humorously refers to the event as "the Almighty smurfing His Son to smurf His sheep together and smurf the flock out of here." | |
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Therefore, Repent! and its sequel Sword Of My Mouth are a sort of anarchist Take That! against Left Behind, with the Splitters who side with the angels who randomly butcher people against our heroes who have rediscovered magic in the wake of the rapture and are La Résistance. | |
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In Nomine: The Rapture occurs between the Fifth and Sixth Trumpets during the leadup to Armageddon. Appropriately virtuous humans are marked with a special sigil that marks them for collection by Rikbiel, the Angel of Ascension, an Ofanite in the form of a living chariot of fire who will take them directly to Heaven. | |
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d20 Modern: This is the central idea of the "Earth Inherited" scenario, with a unique wrinkle: the truly good and the truly evil — regardless of their beliefs — are spirited away to Heaven and Hell respectively, leaving the uncommitted to make sense of what's left while angels and demons battle for their souls. The angels and demons themselves are also shut out of the afterlife, leading many of them to question their purpose. | |
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Genius: The Transgression lists the Rapture as one of the future events that may be encountered by foolish time-traveling Geniuses, although things seem to be pretty under control. | |
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Happens towards the beginning of Rapture-Palooza. | |
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Knowing is a thinly veiled allegory to the rapture, with aliens taking the place of God. | |
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The parody novel Right Behind had a fake Rapture and a climax of the protagonist fighting the Antichrist in a Christian bookstore by chucking Precious Moments figurines. | |
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New World of Darkness: Mirrors presents the Rapture as one of many causes for post-apocalyptic scenarios. Genius: The Transgression lists the Rapture as one of the future events that may be encountered by foolish time-traveling Geniuses, although things seem to be pretty under control. |
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The Seraphim's endgame in Angel of the Bat is an inversion. He essentially views every sect of Christianity but his own as being just as corrupt as everyone else, and chooses to attack them specifically on Christmas Eve by destroying every church in Gotham and any attendants of midnight services with them. Since only the members of his own church will survive, he is of the belief everyone will come to see they have earned God’s favor while all others earned his scorn, leading to mass conversions. Essentially, instead of the saved being taken peacefully, the damned are all violently slaughtered. | |
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