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Doomsday Clock

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Doomsday Clock	comment	This handy metaphor is pulled out of the writer's bag of tricks whenever we need to be shown that time is of the essence in a particular dilemma. It is almost as good as a Magic Countdown for getting across the message that time is running out. Expect the minute hand to be mighty close to the 12 at the top of the clock. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago actually keep one as a prop... of DOOM! When it was originally introduced in 1947 the clock symbolized how close the world was to nuclear war, with the metaphor supporting it being: talks have broken down, and once midnight hits, the attacks start. And we are all DOOMED. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the original metaphor is (supposedly) obsolete, and it was expanded to catastrophic destruction of any sort, provided it's on a global scale. The Bulletin's website specifically mentions Global Warming and bio-engineering as possible causes of DOOM in addition to nuclear war; however, given they can never go a year without also mentioning "global nuclear weapons modernizations" it's most probable that the simple existence of nukes remains a big Author Tract for the Bulletin. It's also worth noting that the Bulletin evaluates every January every year to discuss whether events in the previous year warrant bringing the minute hand closer to midnight, moving it farther away, or keeping it at the same time. As of January 2023, it is 90 seconds until midnight. That said, in the 75 years that the clock has existed, the furthest it's ever been till midnight (1991, after the end of the Cold War) was 11:43PM, so keeping track of it can cause people to think “Too Bleak, Stopped Caring”: if it's always so close to potential doomsday that WWIII could erupt in the time it takes to drive into town on a routine errand, why bother get worked up about the precise location of the minute hand? This is a subtrope of When the Clock Strikes Twelve. It may overlap with Timed Mission. Also see Death's Hourglass. For the DC Comics mini-series crossing over with Watchmen, click here or the "Comic Book" icon above.
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Doomsday Clock / int_12300cc3	comment	A recurring motif in Watchmen with the clock gradually ticking towards midnight until the end. It is also mentioned directly with the clock being at five minutes near the beginning. Ironically, because of the deterrent posed by Dr. Manhattan at the beginning of the story, this is actually further from midnight than the real-life clock was in the early to mid-1980s (his departure moves the clock up significantly). The clock is seen more often as the most well-known symbol of the series: the Comedian's smiley-face badge. If you look at it with both eyes pointing up, the bloody smear resembles a minute hand pointing at 11 on a clock. This was actually the entire point of the design, to dress up something happy to something terrifying, with one tiny change. Doomsday Clock, as a sequel of sorts to Watchmen by DC Comics, uses the imagery in its title, but less so in the actual comics.
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Doomsday Clock / int_2a5145ed	comment	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII features this as a central theme of the game, but plays with it: Regardless of what happens, Nova Chrysalia will be destroyed no matter what you do as the player. The clock signifies that you have thirteen (or, if you play really well, fourteen) twenty-four hour days left in to ensure that said world and all of the people living on it are reborn. If you accomplish the tasks at hand, the world will renew itself.
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Doomsday Clock / int_2a931966	comment	One Sunday strip of Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! had Agent X bring aboard the Doomsday Clock, itself a physical representation of the time to doomsday. Brewster, having missed this explanation, thinks the clock is off and sets to the proper time of midnight. This causes nuclear explosions all around Earth in the background.
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Doomsday Clock / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	The Heroes episode "Seven to Midnight" revolves around stopping a nuclear bomb from going off in New York City. At the time it was aired the clock stood at seven minutes.
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Doomsday Clock / int_43576f5	comment	The second to last episode of Supernatural season 5 is called "Two Minutes to Midnight". "Midnight" in this case referring to the The Final Battle between Lucifer and Michael, AKA the Apocalypse.
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Doomsday Clock / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck has a doomsday clock near Terezi's home.
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Doomsday Clock / int_51005dfa	comment	In Pandora's Tower, while not a Doomsday Clock perse as the fate of the world is not at stake, but the humanity of one girl, there is a clock that ticks throughout the game while you are in the towers. As it depletes, Elena's humanity will slowly fade away as she's painfully transformed into a monster. If it runs out, you get a Non-Standard Game Over, though you can extend the time whenever you want by giving her flesh from the monsters of the towers.
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Doomsday Clock / int_6059ad6b	comment	In xkcd, disaster strikes when the doomsday clock is adjusted for Daylight Savings Time.
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Doomsday Clock / int_6c8b9d4f	comment	One episode of Adventures of the Gummi Bears featured a Doomsday Clock built by an evil sorcerer, which would actually destroy the world if it ever struck twelve — unless, of course, it was destroyed first.
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Doomsday Clock / int_6c9193a1	comment	The title of The Venture Bros. episode Twenty Years to Midnight is a reference to the actual Doomsday Clock.
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Doomsday Clock / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost reveals in later seasons that the repeated number sequence, 4 8 15 16 23 42 is in fact a component of an insanely accurate Doomsday Clock: the Valenzetti Equation, which predicts the extinction of mankind, with the Numbers serving as the input.
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Doomsday Clock / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS episode "Murder 2.0" had the Doomsday Clock, at the time set to five minutes, used as a clue to indicate the next murder would take place at 11:55 p.m.
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Doomsday Clock / int_a479bcf1	comment	"Look at Me (When I Rock Wichoo)" by the Black Kids mentions it in the refrain:
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Doomsday Clock / int_aca0ecd9	comment	Girls' Frontline: During "Poincare Recurrence", the Doomsday Clock can be seen edging closer to midnight as the Commander races to stop a Paradeus attack from occurring on Unity Day. They succeed, but the clock keeps ticking, and at the end of Chapter 4, it hits midnight, signifying that Carter's attack on G&K HQ has begun. Finally, at the end of the event, the clock moves one minute past midnight, cementing that the endgame has begun.
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Doomsday Clock / int_b0028436	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, when Polnareff first appears as an enemy, he uses his rapier on Avdol's flames to draw a clock on a flipped table, claiming that he could kill Avdol before its hand reached the 12. But Avdol uses his manipulation of fire to get rid of the clock, calling Polnareff out on his arrogance.
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Doomsday Clock / int_bb58cad8	comment	Justice League (2017).
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Doomsday Clock / int_bc5c6d99	comment	" One Minute to Midnight" by Justice.
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Doomsday Clock / int_beac6ffb	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the player has three days until the moon crashes down on Termina, with a giant clock tower counting down to this in the center of the Hub Level (which is appropriately named Clock Town) and a smaller clock display at the bottom of the screen.
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Doomsday Clock / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The story "Four to Doomsday" was released when the real life clock was at four minutes. Possibly a coincidence. The story "Kinda" has an apocalyptic dream sequence that features a multitude of Doomsday Clocks of different technological types. In "The Pyramid at the End of the World", every clock on earth displays the doomsday time, beginning at three minutes to midnight and advancing throughout the episode as the event that threatens to wipe out all life on earth unfolds. The closest the clock gets to midnight is 23:59:40.
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Doomsday Clock / int_cd3d981c	comment	One episode of Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine had the clock as a background element, as it centered around a Central American leader traveling to New York to make a speech to the UN. As fears that his speech will escalate Cold War spread, and people try to kill him to keep him from making it, the clock edges closer to midnight. Then he makes it to New York and instead gives a speech that de-escalates international tensions, and the clock rewinds.
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Doomsday Clock / int_d494343b	comment	"2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden.
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Doomsday Clock / int_d72b0239	comment	While not an exact representation, Rise of Nations has an example clearly based on the Doomsday Clock. When a player researches nuclear weapons, a counter appears on his HUD. Every time any player uses a nuke, it goes down by 1. If it reaches zero, the game ends with everyone losing as the clock strikes midnight.
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Doomsday Clock / int_e6444cd2	comment	Used in The New Order Last Days Of Europe for Sergey Taboritsky's Holy Russian Empire. The clock represents the regent's sanity. When the clock strikes twelve, Taboritsky finally sees through his myriad delusions and realises Alexei Romanov is dead and not coming back, and dies from the sheer despair. Things go From Bad to Worse for Russia from there.
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Doomsday Clock / int_fe83990a	comment	Laid close to the Twelve Zodiac Houses in Saint Seiya, is a tower whose clock has blue flames where the numbers would normally be. When Athena gets hit by a cursed arrow, the flames tell how many hours remain until the arrow ends up killing the wounded goddess. Once every hour, one flame is extinguished, so the main characters have only twelve hours to travel through the twelve houses, defeat the Gold Saints patrolling said houses, and convince the head honcho to remove the arrow from Athena's chest. In the end, all twelve flames in the clock disappear, but Athena manages to lift the curse and the arrow with her cosmic energy.
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