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Sometimes, it's enough to just say "The World Is In Danger!" and hope the hero (and the audience) may understand the urgency and risk and answer The Call. Sometimes, though, a little more is in order. Storyboarding the Apocalypse is a disturbingly detailed narrated account of the impending Götterdämmerung and rise of the ultimate evil, accompanied by a montage to give plenty of Nightmare Fuel-inducing visions of the end to all parties involved. Storyboarding the Apocalypse is used on a few different occasions: The hero might refuse the call, forcing his Mentor to show him how the Big Bad can hurt him, by turning his secluded hometown into a Doomed Hometown. Or the Big Bad might give a Motive Rant and/or New Era Speech expounding at length on how they'll turn the world into Mordor, or bring about a new Eden via utter destruction because Utopia Justifies the Means. Or maybe this same calamity happened somewhere else once before, and they decided to Fling a Light into the Future. Occasionally this is given as a warning by less direct conventional methods; Cassandra Truth can deliver it, or via Psychic Dreams for Everyone, or Time Travel in the hope of driving the point home to the hero and the audience. Especially detail-oriented villains will have prepared dioramas, movies, a Spreading Disaster Map Graphic, and even commission an Earth-Shattering Poster or two to help hammer it in. Or they might just beam it into the hero's skull with a laser. Compare Just Between You and Me, Villain World, and Bad Future, which can be the Storyboarded Apocalypse given form. See also Unspoken Plan Guarantee. Contrast Apocalypse Wow, which is also a narrative depiction of the apocalypse, only used for very different dramatic goals. See It's a Wonderful Failure for video games storyboarding the apocalypse when you fail. |
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Although the hero of The Pendragon Adventure is always trying to prevent whatever world he's in from falling apart, Bobby gets a good, long, disturbing look at what will happen if he fails in the third book and the Nazis win World War II. | |
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A scene in Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness has the main character experiencing a hallucination and seeing the Dark One's rise to power. (Near the end, if the player loses the game, the Dark One does rise, mirroring the sequence exactly.) | |
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Terminator: The Terminator provides a glimpse of the future where humanity is being hunted down by SkyNet. Terminator 2: Judgment Day shows Sarah Connor's nightmare of a city being destroyed, just to remind us of the nuclear holocaust, quite disturbing for those who remember the Cold War days. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines shows the apocalypse happening as nuclear missiles rain down on cities. |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day shows Sarah Connor's nightmare of a city being destroyed, just to remind us of the nuclear holocaust, quite disturbing for those who remember the Cold War days. | |
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At the end of the first episode of Fantastic Four: The Animated Series, Puppet Master takes one last stab at ultimate power and imagines ruling the world, complete with montage. | |
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A convoluted example appears in Sin and Punishment. In an effort to motivate the Action Girl to shoot her transformed-by-The Virus partner, the Mysterious Waif shows her a vision of a future in which he has become evil. This vision becomes a stage, complete with the chance to get a Game Over. Yet, despite her mowing down hundreds of enemies during the dream sequence without any noticeable effect, the final shot she makes against the corrupted hero somehow causes her to shoot him in the present as well. | |
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During the Sons of Empire arc of Fables, Lumi A.K.A. The Snow Queen details her plans to wipe out life in the mundy world (our world). They consist of using warlocks and witches to spread plagues across the globe, sending dragons and fire imps to burn our cities to the ground, coming in herself and putting the whole planet into perpetual winter, then finally leaving us to wither and die without crops or any means of producing anything. When they're done the Empire will use our devastated, uninhabitable planet as a prison world. Subverted almost immediately afterward, however, by the Adversary's son, who's lived in Fabletown until recently Storyboards the Aversion of the Apocalypse. The big problem with Lumi's plan is that we'll catch on to the fact that we're being attacked by germ warfare fairly quickly, and while that alone wouldn't help much as we have no idea how to leave this world for the Homelands of the Fables, the residents of Fabletown will likely approach the US government and go public with their existence. Once they do, they'll give us all the info we need on the Empire's location, and since the Empire has a ban on all modern technology from our world (The Adversary fears a rebellion if his subjects did carry it) our armies would obliterate theirs, and the Empire would fall. At the end of the arc, the Adversary decides to hold off on the invasion until they have the Fables living among us all killed so they can't intervene. |
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In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Gellert Grindelwald has had a vision of the future, which he shares with a large audience via a smoke illusion. To fairly recent veterans of World War I, seeing another war, long lines of refugees and starving prisoners, bomber airplanes, and finally a nuclear explosion is pretty much an Apocalypse. | |
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Hellboy did it on a number of occasions, most memorably in "The Right Hand of Doom". Hellboy wonders what might happen if he cuts off his Evil Hand, and we see a splash page of a hooded man standing in a burning ruin, holding up the severed hand and chanting, "Anung un Rama..." (Hellboy's true name at the time). | |
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Done in Angel: After The Fall: Wesley gives a dying Angel a vision of how the Shanshu Prophecy plays out for him, which involves a lot of heads on pikes. Angel then promptly wishes for death so he can avoid it! | |
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Although the deadliness of the Xindi threat is stated often in Star Trek: Enterprise, the episode "Twilight" demonstrates exactly what will happen if they make it to Earth. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction, the first vision received from the Millennium Items is from the future-telling Millennium Necklace. It shows Reshef burning the world, and Yami Yugi, to the ground. | |
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The podcast It Could Happen Here is a downplayed example: Each episode opens with a short narrative describing the life of a U.S. citizen living through the (fictional) Second American Civil War of 2024, as things grow increasingly dire and the focus of the narration loses their luxuries, their safety, their friends, their home, and eventually their country to the growing division, chaos, and violence. While not apocalyptic in scale, things end up pretty bad at the end, with the U.S. divided into a series of bickering successor states, genocide of minorities living in the 'wrong' areas, a massive refugee crisis, wide-range ecological collapse with uncontrollable forest fires and mudslides and mass release of greenhouse gasses, mass starvation as the Midwestern bread basket falls apart, and the destruction of the U.S. as global hegemon that ruins the post-WW2 international consensus. | |
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Heroes does this once a season, usually via Time Travel or precognitive paintings. | |
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In Wreck-It Ralph, King Candy describes what might happen if Vanellope plays: her glitchiness might cause the game to crash, forcing the game to be unplugged. Not only do we see the population fleeing in terror trying to get out, but worse, Vanellope, as a glitch, can't leave the game. She'll be stuck as the game goes offline, and go with it into oblivion. But that's not the worst part. It's a lie. King Candy is a lying bastard who is doing this to keep himself in power because if Vanellope did win, the game would reset and Vanellope would be restored to her rightful position. | |
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And in the Justice League Grand Finale, there's a brief image of what'll happen to Earth when the Thanagarians activate the hyperspace bypass - basically, the planet implodes. Worryingly, Batman's response is "Ingenious!" | |
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The Anti-Spiral in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann explains exactly how and why the Earth will be destroyed, complete with a helpful 3-D simulation. Simon realizes through instinct that it's the truth, going briefly into a Heroic BSoD. | |
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Done twice in Naruto by the two masterminds of Akatsuki regarding their individual plans for creating a lasting peace. Pain had developed the design for a massively powerful weapon using the bijuu. His intent was to use it in order to wipe out the current order, reducing humanity to a subsistence level. The weapon would be left intact, used by their descendants whenever hate overcame their fear, repeating the cycle and preventing a full-out war. Madara intended to use the chakra of the bijuu for an incredibly powerful jutsu. By reforming the bijuu into the Jubi and absorbing its chakra, he would gain enough power to cast an eternal genjutsu at the moon, which would then reflect to the earth. Every living being would be ensnared in his genjutsu and made into extensions of Madara. |
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7 Days (1998) operates similarly to the Doctor Who examples above: show what happened, then use Time Travel to go back and fix things. | |
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V for Vendetta: Finch describes the upcoming revolution with shots spliced in of an overeager enforcer killing a kid with a Fawkes mask and then getting lynched by the angry neighbors: He finishes his guess a bit later. Fortunately, he was wrong. |
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During Ragnarok, how many steps backward will Thor take after slaying Jormungand before keeling over from the poison? The Poetic Edda can tell you. It's nine. | |
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Alexandra Roivas receives a vision of the potential apocalypse in Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem caused by the Ancient she has unleashed to defeat Pious's Ancient. | |
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A straighter example from The Last Hero: Ponder Stibbons has said that unless an explosion at the Hub is prevented, the magical field will collapse for up to two years, with a hypothetical illustration showing the Discworld After the End, with the turtle and elephants reduced to skeletons and the disc itself turned reddish and dead. | |
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DC: The New Frontier features a particularly creepy example, where the Big Bad's genocidal plans for Earth are communicated via the writings of a children's author — specifically, a Dr. Seuss Expy. | |
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In Dragon Age: Inquisition, if you opt to recruit the Templars in the quest Champions of the Just, the Envy Demon torments the Herald of Andraste with visions of what it will do once it has assumed their identity: imprisoning people for "heresy" (disobeying/questioning the will of the Herald), executing the families of those who don't confess to their "crimes", crushing the nations of Thedas with the Inquisition's troops, and, eventually, leading a demon army on behalf of the Elder One. | |
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In the Austin Powers movies, Dr. Evil goes to elaborate lengths to explain his latest world-threatening scheme to his henchmen. It usually ends with the show going awkwardly wrong and him being embarrassed. | |
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In Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: after Spot absorbs the power of Mumbattan's super-collider and becomes "Black Spot", he shows Miles that he plans to get revenge by killing Jefferson the same way other Captain Stacy figures have died in other dimensions and coerce him into making a Heroic Sacrifice to save a child. | |
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Over the course of The Dresden Files, more and more bad shit keeps happening, and The Masquerade gets thinner and thinner. (Word of God has already revealed that he'll end the series with an apocalypse scenario.) Cold Days reveals that this is not a coincidence; various supernatural foes have had their Evil Plans crash into one another, and Nemesis, The Man Behind the Man, (er, so to speak) is specifically trying to manipulate everyone else into causing the end of the world. Retroactively speaking, the entire series has been Storyboarding the Apocalypse. | |
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In the aptly named Supernatural episode "The End", the angel Zachariah shows Dean a Bad Future where Sam is possessed by Lucifer, the angels are all either fallen or missing, and Dean himself has become harder and more cynical because of the ongoing Zombie Apocalypse. | |
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24 will often feature a Presidential adviser or a CTU analyst using a PowerPoint presentation to literally storyboard what will occur if the terrorists' plot succeeds. The second season premiere shows President David Palmer staring in shocked silence at a computer projection of the "worst case scenario" death toll if the nuclear bomb goes off in LA. | |
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Discworld: Parodied in The Science of Discworld II: The Globe, in which Ponder Stibbons has set up an elaborate presentation to show the danger to the Roundworld Project, only for Rincewind to sum things up in one sentence when he still has "a dozen slides and a flowchart" to go. A straighter example from The Last Hero: Ponder Stibbons has said that unless an explosion at the Hub is prevented, the magical field will collapse for up to two years, with a hypothetical illustration showing the Discworld After the End, with the turtle and elephants reduced to skeletons and the disc itself turned reddish and dead. In Making Money, the local economics expert (who doesn't get out much) explains to Moist what will happen if there's a run on the bank, getting progressively worse until he mentions trolls rampaging from the mountains. Moist interrupts him, explaining that the trolls are already there (and have been for quite some time now, and are quite civilized too). Hubert then amends his scenario to say that if things get as bad as he predicts, the trolls will probably rampage back to the mountains. |
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In a trailer for the World of Warcraft content patch: Rage of The Firelands, Thrall is begging the elemental spirits for guidance... when one answers. Ragnaros rises from the Maelstrom and brings Thrall on a ride to the end of the world, culminating in Ogrimmar being destroyed by a sea of fire, which is about to engulf Thrall himself. Thrall screams as loud as he can before being interrupted by Aggra, realizing that the events he witnessed were a vision of what is to come if Ragnaros is not stopped. | |
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Averted in Golden Sun. If Isaac Refused the Call, the screen simply fades to sepia with the caption, "And so, the world drifted toward its fated destruction..." and then offers to let you restart. The vagueness of this explanation is both arguably creepier than this trope, and neatly hiding the true reason for the world's destruction. | |
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In Thirteen Days, President Kennedy uses this to give an example of how the Cuban Missile Crisis can easily turn into nuclear war. After bringing up a historical example in The Guns of August (a recently-published book about the events of August 1914 leading up to World War I), he plays out something similar if the US decides to implement a blockade of Cuba: | |
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Alien Force: When the kids on first meet Paradox (from their P.O.V. anyway), he shows them what the future will be like if a time-distorting entity isn't stopped. He does this by taking them to the Moon of the future and letting them look at the long-dead Earth from there ... and then warning them that it's their best possible future. Brief, but an effective demo. | |
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In Making Money, the local economics expert (who doesn't get out much) explains to Moist what will happen if there's a run on the bank, getting progressively worse until he mentions trolls rampaging from the mountains. Moist interrupts him, explaining that the trolls are already there (and have been for quite some time now, and are quite civilized too). Hubert then amends his scenario to say that if things get as bad as he predicts, the trolls will probably rampage back to the mountains. | |
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The story of EarthBound (1994) involves aliens invading the future as we see it in the title of the game. This sends Buzz-Buzz to the present day to find the 4 heroes who can stop Big Bad before that happens. The team never go to the future for an observation of the Bad Future, as Big Bad is actually in the past, controlling the world's destiny from there. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: A parody of this occurs near the end of the movie, referring to the interstate bypass, and eerily foreshadowing the modern strip mall. | |
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Chrono Trigger has a more literal example, when the party finds a computer in a post-apocalyptic world that shows a visual record of the "Day of Lavos" from 300 years prior. The footage, combined with the fact that the event is due to happen a thousand years in their future, nearly gives the party a breakdown but galvanizes them to try and change history. | |
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Done hilariously in Penny Arcade, here. | |
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Done (in crayon format) by Redcloak in The Order of the Stick's prequel, Start of Darkness. Rather than destruction, however, he expects his plan to use a god-killing abomination to blackmail the deities of his world to result in a modern-style utopia for his people. | |
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In the James Bond movie Moonraker, The Diabolical Mastermind Hugo Drax had such an exposition. | |
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The major driving force of the Psychic Squad's plot is a prophecy of the devastating war between espers and normal humans, completed with realistic visions that several characters have experienced. | |
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GaoGaiGar used this when the heroes discussed or contemplated what would happen if they failed. | |
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Life After People examines what would happen to our cities (and everything else) if all humans were to suddenly and simultaneously vanish. | |
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The American Dad! episode "Rapture's Delight" includes Stan and Francine being shown a videotape intended to explain the Rapture to children, which includes graphic, Warhammer 40,000-esque depictions of demons and angels doing battle on earth. Later, the episode shows those very things actually happening. | |
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In The General Series, the computer secretly advising Raj Whitehall can show him detailed audiovisual scenarios of the most likely results of various courses of action. Sometimes, just to rub in for us what a Crapsack World they're in, it'll show him situations he can't do anything about. | |
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The ending of Assassin's Creed: Revelations, true to its title, reveals the full scope of the plot of Those Who Came Before to save the Earth from the second coming of the same catastrophe that destroyed their First Civilization. The scene where this is communicated has an FMV sequence showing in lavish detail just exactly how that first catastrophe happened. | |
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Sometimes happens on The X-Files when the Arc Words "the timetable has been set" come up. Particularly memorable are Dr. Kurtzweil's ramblings in The Movie The X-Files: Fight the Future, where he reveals the first steps in the impending eradication of humanity and the subsequent alien colonization of Earth. | |
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Transformers: Twilight's Last Gleaming: A one-panel case during the original arc shows the Earth and its native plant life being turned into metal while animals flee if Megatron succeeds in Hostile Terraforming the planet into New Cybertron using the Allspark. | |
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The 3.5 Dungeons & Dragons supplement Elder Evils is basically a How-To guide for ending your group's campaign world in a spectacularly apocalyptic manner via Eldritch Abomination. Naturally, it gives detailed scenarios of such, including things from the Zombie Apocalypse to the magical equivalent of the runaway greenhouse effect. | |
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In The Umbrella Academy (2019), Number Five time travels to a Bad Future where everyone is dead, then explains what he saw to his siblings. | |
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During the series finale of Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends, the Shadoen fleet plans to blow up earth's moon. Before actually carrying through with their plan they show a simulation where large chunks of said moon rain down all across the planet. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Done when Drago is describing his plan to create Hell on Earth, showing swarms of demonic dragons running amuck, the moon broken in half in a red sky, and mankind's cities reduced to ruins and the humans cowering at a supreme-ruling Drago's feet. | |
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The last story arc of the first season of Stargate SG-1 begins with this. Even though it had been less than a season, the Goa'uld might have already been looking a bit harmless. Their foot soldiers had apparently attended the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy and wore Useless Armor. The SG-1 team was threatened inadvertently by Human Aliens, Starfish Aliens and Negative Space Wedgies as often as by the Goa'uld intentionally. But in the episode "There but for the Grace of God", Daniel visits an Alternate Universe and learns that if the Goa'uld ever made it to Earth in ships (at least, ships without saboteurs inside) Earth would be screwed. Apparently, the Goa'uld don't need good aim when they are bombarding Earth's cities from orbit. Another episode is later devoted to this, showing a future where Daniel received the knowledge of the Goa'uld, and also their evil. | |
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The Day After Tomorrow condenses the beginning of a new ice age into a couple of months — the apocalypse is story-boarded like a very fast flip-book, in climactic terms. We get a more regular example by the midpoint of the film when the storms start and Professor Hall puts it simple for his superior, drawing a line that bisects the United States length-wise and saying that everybody beneath that line must Run for the Border as fast as they can right now — and everybody over that line must be written off as soon to freeze to death. | |
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Done in Mass Effect, where you're treated to a detailed lecture on how the last Apocalypse occurred, and then reminded in no uncertain terms that the next one is just around the corner. | |
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Spider-Man: Far From Home features an example of the "it already happened somewhere else" type, when Quentin Back shows Peter a holographic simulation of what the elementals did to his home Earth. (Of course, we later find out that he made the whole thing up.) | |
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Heinz Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb has made this into his hobby. Often literally making a storyboard or slides to show to Perry, but also using flashbacks and future visions, a well-prepared speech, plays with actors, movies, commercials, musicals, maquettes, songs, costumes, custom made props. Ultimately, he just wrote a book about it that you can actually buy in Real Life. | |
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The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police: A tongue-in-cheek Storyboarding appears in the first episode, "The Thing That Wouldn't Stop It", showing the fate of the world's frozen-food industry at stake due to a monstrous mutated TV dinner. | |
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The intro (and possibly some endings, depending on the player's karma) sequences of Fallout games. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings, Galadriel memorably storyboards what would happen if she were to take the Ring for herself when Frodo offers it to her before ultimately refusing it. | |
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This was done to the original Exiles team on their second mission, which was to ensure the death of Phoenix during an alternate Trial of the Phoenix. Once they learnt that the Phoenix actually was Jean Grey, their leader refused the mission and planned to reveal everything in hopes of a better solution only for everyone to be subjected to a graphic mental download by their Mission Control of the horrific destruction that would occur if she wasn't killed at that point in time. | |
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Transformers: Prime: At the end of Season 1, Unicron's awakening causes a Dark Energon-infused Megatron to experience visions of Unicron destroying the Earth from the inside-out via Earth-Shattering Kaboom. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, Anubis shows Yugi, Joey, and Tristan visions of the world being destroyed since they won't be around to see it themselves. It mostly consists of Anubis using living Duel Monsters to destroy everything. | |
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Armageddon (1998) contains two examples of this. One is at the beginning of the film, as Charlton Heston's voiceover about what happened to the dinosaurs threatens the same consequence for Earth later on. Truman later makes it explicit: | |
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Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring shows Frodo a vision of The Shire as an industrial work camp. In the book it turns out she was bang on; in the following movies Saruman gets shanked early and that side of the conflict ends. | |
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The Terminator provides a glimpse of the future where humanity is being hunted down by SkyNet. | |
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When Batman archvillain Ra's Al Ghul lays out his plan to destroy humanity in Batman: The Animated Series, it is accompanied by a series of detailed stills showing the world being saturated by the Lazarus Pits, in chaos, and finally at "a blessed peace." | |
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Animorphs: An early book has the Ellimist showing the heroes a supposedly inevitable Yeerk-dominated world, and then actually giving them the opportunity to Refuse The Call. However, this wasn't a message of doom, an easy out, or even a possible future, but a Batman Gambit on the Ellimist's part to show the heroes where the location of a generator (which no longer needs to be hidden in the Bad Future) that will cripple the alien invasion for a short time is. Later on, an entire book is devoted to this, when Jake wakes up in a future where the Yeerks have won. There's also a Megamorphs based on the idea that they never walked through the construction site and got their powers (a deal that Jake agreed to in a moment of weakness). Suffice to say it doesn't end well. |
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Original Series: The tick's worshippers in "The Big Tick" do this using a holographic display of the tick's feeding cycle, and a brief vision of the hell that the tick will turn the Earth into is provided to the audience. | |
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Deltarune: At the end of Chapter 2, Berdly and the other Lightners realise how much better the Dark World is than the Light World, and begin to create another Dark Fountain. However, Ralsei interrupts them and goes into detail on what happens if there are too many Fountains: Titans will emerge from the fountains and destroy the land, and Darkners will be crushed by the darkness, turning into stone. This explanation not only dissuades the Lightners from making another Fountain, but also makes Queen pull a Heel–Face Turn, realising that her goal of covering the world in darkness would result in The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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Stoically averted in Good Omens: while a good bulk of the book revolves around the prophecies of Agnes Nutter, who predicted the apocalypse down to the slightest detail, and one of the protagonists knows all of them by heart, nothing is ever revealed in the text before it actually happens. | |
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The Bible's Book of Revelation is the Trope Codifier, meaning it's Older Than Feudalism. The Book of Daniel is a less well-known but older example. Both are examples of apocalyptic literature, an entire genre of turn-of-the-common-era artwork in which this trope was the whole point. Unfortunately, as no one can agree on which parts are symbolic and which parts are literal given the obtusely poetic language, there's a myriad of interpretations as to what each part of the storyboarding means (most fundamentally, are they talking about the literal end of the world or the fall of specific empires that were powerful at the times of writing?). And these - plus scattered allusions by Jesus himself in the gospels - are only the two books that made the final edit. There was quite a fashion for writing Apocalypses in the early centuries AD: at least eight others have survived, whole or in fragments. |
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In The Flight of Dragons, Ommadon the Red Wizard outlines his plan to use Black Magic to win The Magic Versus Technology War, and attempts to convince his brother wizards to join him, complete with images: | |
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In an episode of Galactic Guardians, Darkseid - in a plot to hijack the space station of Star City and outfit it with weapons - almost literally Storyboards The Apocalypse in a scene made relatively well-known by Seanbaby's website: | |
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Teen Titans used this at least twice. In "Revolution", Mad Mod - who has control of the city and most of the Titans on the run - gives a captured Robin a look at what he calls "coming attractions" (possibly a subtle reference to a scene in Nineteen Eighty-Four, which the episode takes much of its inspiration from). On a more serious note, in "Birthmark", Slade transports Raven into a devastated world that she is destined to bring about, a vision that actually comes true in the season finale. | |
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The journal from The House on the Borderland recounts a vision (?) of the end of the solar system. | |
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In the Rankin Bass production of The Return of the King, Samwise becomes the bearer of the One Ring, which tries to corrupt him with a vision of a world in which he has become all powerful. Of course, it being Samwise, this vision involves innocuous things like turning all of the orcs into cute animals and the entire world into a flower garden. Samwise realizes how silly the idea of him being an Evil Overlord would be and is able to resist the allure of the Ring. | |
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Invader ZIM: In the episode "Door to Door", ZIM slapped alien VR goggles onto everyone to show them the horrors that would befall the earth if they didn't buy candy bars from him. The scene was only aired in full once, shortly before 9/11, and was subsequently edited to no longer show New York City in ruins. | |
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The Core has the lead character explaining the Earth's ultimate fate with a peach and an aerosol can flamethrower. | |
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Young Justice: In "Endgame", Blue Beetle's Scarab projects a hologram storyboarding the end result if they don't disable all the Magnetic Field Disruptors: they'll generate an energy chrysalis that'll envelop the entire Earth, followed by an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. | |
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles begins with a scene of a terminator killing John Connor, triggering The End of the World as We Know It. Fortunately, it was All Just a Dream. | |
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In the finale of Mahou Sentai Magiranger/Power Rangers Mystic Force, the Rangers are zapped by the Big Bad to a barren world where he has taken control. Its precise nature isn't exactly clear (we never saw much of it beyond a small cave), but it seems to be less of an outright Alternate Dimension than a mere taste of what's coming. In Magiranger, at least, N. Ma claims to be "devouring time", aging the entire planet except himself and the Rangers. | |
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Hellboy: "I will give you a brief, brief glimpse into the future..." | |
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Child of the Storm: arguably the entire series is Doctor Strange storyboarding this, or rather, doing his best to storyboard the aversion of this. In the final chapter of the first book when called on to explain himself for his schemes and manipulations, he proceeds to detail exactly how things would have turned out if he had not acted, or if he had acted earlier, quoting the original "For Want of a Nail" poem. | |
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The Ultimate Galactus Trilogy has a scene where Reed Richards lays out Gah Lak Tus's M.O.: First it broadcasts a signal that drives those who receive it insane, absolutely destroying a civilization's infrastructure. Then, when the first shuttles land, they release a flesh-eating virus so that all organic life is killed. Then, it harvests the molten core of the planet and strip mines the surface before moving on to the next world. Reed ends up using a holographic projector. In the original Galactus Trilogy, The Watcher gives a similar description of just what will happen if Galactus eats Earth, though it's projected into the characters' minds as opposed to being holographic. |
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Early into Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time, a presentation by Orvus shows what happens when time is messed with enough that it causes a Time Rip, which the Great Clock was created to reverse. It serves as an example of what would happen if Nefarious' or Azimuth's intentions come to fruition. This technique is used in other titles as well to give a sampling of the villains' plans, such as the Protopet and Cragmite invasions, or Nefarious turning all of Metropolis into robots. | |
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Just before making his wish, Emperor Pilaf of Dragon Ball takes a moment to visualize himself as emperor of the world, and we get a sequence showing him as emperor. (He spends the entire fantasy standing on a podium doing nothing but laugh while a crowd hails him.) Oolong uses this time to ruin the whole thing by wishing for panties. | |
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Beast Wars: When trying to talk Tigatron out of his 10-Minute Retirement, Dinobot describes to him what will happen if Megatron wins the Beast Wars and takes the planet's energon. While Dinobot narrates, displayed onscreen is a vision of Cybertron getting torn apart by war while Megatron watches with an Evil Laugh. | |
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In Starcraft II Wings Of Liberty, an embittered Jim Raynor is dead-set on killing the zerg-infested Kerrigan. Then Zeratul appears and shows him a (playable) vision of what will happen if Kerrigan dies. It isn't pretty. | |
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Parodied in The Science of Discworld II: The Globe, in which Ponder Stibbons has set up an elaborate presentation to show the danger to the Roundworld Project, only for Rincewind to sum things up in one sentence when he still has "a dozen slides and a flowchart" to go. | |
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X1999 (also known as "The Shoujo Armageddon") not only features a lengthy vision by dreamseer Hinoto-hime on how the apocalypse will proceed, it also flashes forward and flashes back to that dream sequence many times throughout the series. | |
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In Superman Returns Lex Luthor shows Lois Lane a series of maps detailing exactly how his plan will destroy pretty much the entire Western Hemisphere. | |
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Burt does this a few times in Tremors, describing how failure to eliminate a Graboid or shrieker quickly will snowball into mass destruction if they breed and/or metamorphose. | |
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The Word and the Void: The Knights of the Word have these occur to them every time they fall asleep. | |
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In the season opener for Galactica 1980, Doctor Zee shows a simulation of what a Cylon invasion of Earth would look like. The destruction was recognizable to viewers as Cylon fighters superimposed over stock footage of the movie Earthquake — but that makes sense in-universe, as Doctor Zee could have easily captured the footage from TV airings of the movie! For some reason, promotional material for the movie that was made from that opener seemed to draw almost exclusively from this attack. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Doomed", after Giles reveals that the Monster of the Week wants to open the Hellmouth and end the world, everyone groans "Again?" and Xander comments that it's lost its impact — at which point Giles proceeds to remind them exactly what that means, in detail. In the seventh season, the First Slayer gives Buffy a vision of the inside of the Hellmouth: an entire army of the Ubervamps that are nearly impossible to kill (only they're strangely not, anymore). |
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Subversions abound in Star Wars Legends, where such visions often lead to the very events they depict. Jacen Solo's are the most specifically apocalyptic; his visions of what the future will be like turn him to the Dark Side in order to prevent the galaxy from lapsing into unending war. Ironically, they all involve him killing Luke Skywalker, but it never occurs to him to kill himself. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie. When it becomes clear that Metal Sonic intends to destroy the world, Knuckles explains to the skeptical president how exactly a single robot could accomplish this: by puncturing the lava veins that flow through the giant mountain/glacier that holds the various Floating Continents that make up the Land of the Sky together, the planet's own rotation will hurl them off into outer space (though this won't affect the Land of Darkness, which is the actual planet's surface). Unfortunately, Sonic overhears this conversation, and due to the Psychic Link, Metal knows everything that Sonic knows... | |
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In the original Galactus Trilogy, The Watcher gives a similar description of just what will happen if Galactus eats Earth, though it's projected into the characters' minds as opposed to being holographic. | |
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines shows the apocalypse happening as nuclear missiles rain down on cities. | |
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In a fifth-season episode of The Batman, Lex Luthor uses one of these (in sepia tone) to describe his vision for the world. | |
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Gravity Falls: In "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls" Bill Cipher explains his plan to turn the Earth, and eventually the rest of the universe, into his personal World of Chaos if Stanford helps him escape the confines of Gravity Falls. He caps it off by combining it with We Can Rule Together, offering to let Ford join Bill and his henchmaniacs in becoming the all-powerful rulers of the cosmos. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation giant novel 'Metamorphosis', Data learns the fate of the galaxy should he choose to stay a human. | |
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