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The End of the World as We Know It
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This trope does not refer to the condition in the song by R.E.M. that is the Trope Namer for this trope, where Michael Stipe sings, "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." Rather, it's the exact opposite. This is what will happen if the heroes don't stop the Evil Plan from doing its nasty work. It can be either supernatural or superscience, depending on the villain, but in either case the bad guy must be beaten down and his toys broken in order to save the planet, or the universe, depending on the focus of the story. Usually it's figurative — expressed as "merely" the death of humankind, the obliteration of Civilization, or its subjugation to aliens, for example — rather than the literal rendering of the planet down to gravel. This is a common trope in Speculative Fiction, horror and over-the-top espionage shows, as well as many anime series. It may serve as a prequel to an After the End series, or the culmination of a Just Before the End story. May also include Cosy Catastrophe and/or Scavenger World elements — if so, let's just hope the dog lives. It's also very common in video games, where it's occasionally unavoidable, sometimes occurring halfway through the game; in other cases, poor play may result in the world coming to a bad end. If it's a Cosmic Horror Story, expect an Eldritch Abomination to be on its way and, should it make it to Earth before the protagonists can get the necessary power to stop it from coming, nothing can stop its rampage as such stories rarely end in a victory for humanity. If the heroes are slated to succeed in preventing the End, they (and the audience) may be treated to a detailed preview of what's coming. The most common subversion keys on the "as we know it" part of the phrase: the world may not actually end so much as be changed beyond all recognition, thus "ending" an old world and beginning a new one. Depending upon the world, this may actually be an improvement. Inevitably draws the suitably heroic into a Saving the World plot. See Apocalypse How for various types of End Of the World. For when Take Our Word for It simply won't do, Apocalypse Wow is this trope given dramatic form. When asked just why they want to destroy the world as we know it, villains usually say something from the "Why You Should Destroy the Planet Earth" list. That is, if they even have one. May be preceded by Signs of the End Times. If the plot starts after End of the World happened, see After the End. If the villain does destroy the planet, it may be a case of The Bad Guy Wins and a possible Downer Ending, although it could end as a Bittersweet Ending if all hope isn't lost. The Omnicidal Maniac is defined by this trope; destruction of the world is their goal because that would destroy all life on it. It is a common source of Enemy Mine if another villain wants to Take Over the World, because after the End of the World as We Know It, there's nothing left to take over. As it happens, don't be surprised by the appearance of the Despair Event Horizon. A Depopulation Bomb is a downplayed version of this, although they can get pretty close to this. |
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In Shin Megami Tensei IV if the protagonist decides to take the Nihilist route because of the endless war between Law and Chaos, The White help him destroy the entire world. With a black hole for irony. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: Prior to the Final Boss battle, it's revealed that Lorule, Hyrule's alternate dimension counterpart, was crumbling away after Princess Hilda's ancestors destroyed Lorule's Triforce. Death Mountain suffers from an everlasting winter, the swamp region is always flooded, constant earthquakes have torn the land apart, and the kingdom is overrun with monsters. Without the Triforce, Lorule would eventually be destroyed. Luckily, Link and Zelda use their own Triforce to restore Lorule's Triforce. | |
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Adventure Time: Occurred about 1000 years before the events of the show in the form of what is only known as the Great Mushroom War. The circumstances are left extremely ambiguous, although the presence of both evidence of modern society in the wreckage and supernatural beings in the present has led many to conclude that the magic coming back was somehow involved. Also the goal of the show's Omnicidal Maniac Big Bad, The Lich. |
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Fallen King has this as a looming threat. The Millennium Items can cause this, and Pegasus plans to do this. | |
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In inFAMOUS, Kessler and the First Sons have, in the name of human advancement, developed a device that can activate superpowers in the user... and it kills everyone else in a six-block radius in the process. It turns out that only some people with a specific genetic trait can even use it, and others who meet this criteria in the blast radius will also receive powers. It doesn't take long for most of the cast to come to the obvious conclusion: whoever can get their hands on this device will be able to make their own super-powered soldiers with plenty of collateral damage they can blame on terrorists, ushering in a new era of warfare that will irrevocably change the world for the worse. And all of that's just a Red Herring, because Kessler is actually a time traveler from a Bad Future and his real goal is to awaken his past-self's powers ahead of schedule so he'll be ready to face down a genocidal monster called the Beast before it can rise, at which point it will ravage the entire world and end all life. | |
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In Arc the Lad the final boss's first sentient act after being released from imprisonment is to rip the world a new one. He seems to learn to prioritize better in the sequel, since when he is released that time he then decides to have fun after he kills those pesky heroes. | |
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In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, the protagonist does this in at least one timeline. Considering what happens to her in this series, and that she didn't know she would become a massively powerful Eldritch Abomination as a result of defeating a weaker one, you can't entirely blame her. | |
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In Worm, a precog predicts that if Jack Slash is not killed, somewhere between thirty three and ninety six percent of the human population will be wiped out. It happens when Jack induces a Face–Heel Turn in Scion, who proceeds to go on a rampage that begins with obliterating the entire island of Great Britain and gets worse from there. By the time the dust has settled, it is estimated that more than half the human population on MULTIPLE Earths has been annihilated, and the Earth that suffered 500,000,000 losses is considered to have gotten off easy. | |
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In Star Ocean: The Second Story the main antagonist plans on erasing the universe by causing the Big Crunch. His plan goes through anyway even after you defeat him. And in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, the Big Bad intends to delete the Universe. | |
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2012 manages to outdo both films in sheer devastation by laying way to the planet itself, and it's the only film that explicitly states the disaster to be an apocalypse. Entire continents are ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the human race is driven to near extinction apart from a few thousand survivors, and very little landmass is left at the end of the movie. | |
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There are quite a few The Far Side strips that depict the world coming to an end in a nuclear war. One strip has two fishermen realize they can fish all they want with no one to stop them, while another has a dog seeing another dog as people flee. | |
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Metallica: "Fight Fire With Fire" from Ride the Lightning "Blackened" too, though it's more about Earth After the End. |
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Left Beyond takes the End Times series Left Behind and gives its ending a new spin, turning it from "foregone conclusion" to "interplanetary conspiracy a century in the making". Notable for being one of the first works written with AI assistance, in 2015-2016. | |
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The Digimon multiverse, which shares similarities with the Pretty Cure worlds except for the whole shounen mon series thing, has the exact same looming threat every time. | |
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This is Friend's ultimate goal in 20th Century Boys. He comes dangerously close to succeeding, too. | |
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Terranigma kinda reversed it. The world has already ended from the start of the game and it's then the job of the Hero to starts the world again. Then he takes on the task of keeping it from ending again, much to the consternation of the god he's been taking orders from the whole time. | |
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In Champions Online, the fallen angel Therakiel is destined to bring about the Apocalypse in the city of Vibora Bay. Two mortals, Robert Caliburn and Valerian Scarlet, shall be the key players of this final conflict, though no one knows which side they shall take. Well, actually Valerian is working for Therakiel and you just handed the apocalypse starting artifacts to her. Oh, and you stole the gem that gives Robert his powers. Better fire up the time machine! | |
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This is the state of the world in B.P.R.D. since the start of the Hell on Earth arc, following a worldwide invasion of Eldritch Abominations and Kaijus. Civilization in pretty much gone and the remnants of humanity are trying to survive by avoiding the monsters. The surface world is ultimately destroyed and completely new life evolves on it, and while humanity survives it will spend the rest of its existence underground. All ongoing Mignolaverse stories naturally take place before this happens. | |
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This is the threat K'Z'K poses in Sluggy Freelance. Other dimensions shown in the series have visited have faced similar threats. On a couple occasions the main characters have helped save these other worlds; on a couple other occasions, they're actually the ones responsible (directly or indirectly) for the destruction of the human race. Oops. | |
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This is the ultimate goal of Ruin in Duel Savior Destiny, though the details on it are only slowly unveiled. First it seems that the world will simply have humanity purged from it and replaced with monsters, then it turns out that this will happen to all worlds if it happens in Avatar and then it turns out that the universe itself will be remade should Ruin win. | |
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The Silmarillion: The Big Bad Morgoth is seeking to completely destroy the entire universe because he's jealous that God created it and not him. Tolkien says that if Morgoth could, he would smash all of creation into dust and then hate the dust. A Valar prophet known as Mandos predicted that Morgoth would break out of his imprisonment at some point in the future and instigate the Final Battle, in which he will destroy all of Arda, and it will be rebuilt in a superior image after his final defeat. |
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A Certain Magical Index has this as the Big Bad's goal in the New Testament series. However, Othinus isn't planning on just ending the world, Othinus will recreate it afterward. What form it will take, no one knows, but everyone agrees they don't want Othinus to be the omnipotent ruler of all creation. In New Testament 8 Othinus succeeds and ends the world with a wave of her hand. The last few pages of the book are nothing but total black. Touma is the only other survivor. After an adventure where Othinus creates world after world, she is eventually convinced to restore it to the way it was. | |
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The Thing (1982): It's made very clear that if The Thing were to ever escape the desolate wasteland of Antarctica, it's game over for humanity. Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion is only in effect because it landed in an area with virtually no other lifeforms to take over. The plot becomes just as much about making sure it never leaves as about the science crew's fight for survival. | |
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Magic Knight Rayearth's plot begins with trying to prevent this from happening to Cephiro. | |
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Anthropology: Discord is trying to cause the extinction of the human race on Earth, just like he previously did in Equestria, because Lyra wanted to be a human herself, and rather gleefully tells Lyra that since humans seem so obsessed with the idea of the idea of the apocalypse he might as well give it to them. There's a reason why this story takes place in 2012. | |
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When Angel spun-off, the world was often facing two ends at once, one L.A.-based in the form of Wolfram & Hart's ongoing plans for Armageddon, the other Sunnydale-based with a different villain threatening the world each season. It even reached the point where, in the Buffy Grand Finale, Wolfram & Hart helped stop Sunnydale's apocalypse, partly because it interfered with their own apocalyptic plans. With the alarmingly frequent amounts of Apocalypses going on, it's pretty safe to assume there are several happening all at the same time. Wolfram and Hart has an archive specifically devoted to upcoming Apocalypses for Christ's sake! | |
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The basic plot of Fort of Apocalypse via the Zombie Apocalypse. | |
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The aliens in the 1980s miniseries V intended to harvest the human race for use as snack food and drain all the water, and were turning the planet into a thinly disguised version of Nazi Germany to make it easier. In the end there would be nothing left but a dead desert planet. Diana puts a spin on this when the resistance is close to winning — if she can't have it then no one will. She tries to deploy her mothership as a bomb to turn the world into an irradiated wasteland. | |
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Changeling: The Dreaming has the overhanging threat of Endless Winter, a time when imagination, belief and hope are all but gone and the world of the fae slowly withers and dies. | |
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Delete: What would happen if the AI wins or the US destroys technology to stop it. | |
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Star Shift Series: The Purge is an event where the misuse of time travel causes time and space to collapse, causing a massive explosion that destroys most planets in the universe. | |
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Subtly implied in Bloodborne that this would be the ultimate result of the School of Mensis' ritual that starts to be unravelled near the end of the game - in their insane attempts to gain knowledge and godhood, they beckoned an eldritch Nightmare that starts merging with reality, or at the absolute least drag the entire city of Yharnam close to sinking in the Nightmare realm. By the time their ritual is revealed, the sky turns an apocalyptic red, the entire city devolves into an even greater madness, and horrifying things start appearing in the waking world when they shouldn't, such as the several Great Ones like the minor Amygdalas, which go from hidden from view unless you have really high Insight, to being visible all the time. It's implied from a note left by a dead hunter that unless the ritual is stopped, everyone is going to turn into beasts. | |
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A Similar event occurs in Dark Cloud 2: The being who is the true identity of the assumed Big Bad is the one who has invoked and is responsible for stopping the Star of Oblivion from falling. | |
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In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Galeem does this...successfully. It's only Kirby's escape that keeps World of Light from a full-on Downer Ending. | |
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Dark Souls revolves around this. If the First Flame dies out, darkness will cover the world. Most of the game's characters want to stop this from happening, by rekindling the Flames (called "Linking the Fire") and allowing them to keep burning. A bit of a twist in that there's no grand evil being that's actively trying to quench the Fire; the Flames are dying simply due to the long march of time, as nothing can last forever. It's also pretty clear that the world will continue on just fine, the question is whether any life as it is currently known can survive the oncoming Age of Dark. Ultimately, the games leave it up to the player to decide what's really best for the world: kindle the Flames and try to prolong the current era as long as possible, let the Flames die and nature take its course, or reject the choice and seek a third option... if any such option even exists. | |
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The ABC film The Day After and its BBC counterpart Threads both deal with this trope in a very grim and realistic way. In both, nuclear war breaks out between The U.S. and the Soviet Union, resulting in a dark Scavenger World inhabited by the hapless victims of the catastrophe. Both were Anvilicious in the sense that they resorted to scare tactics to show people what the world would be like if they allowed political tensions to get the better of them, but at a time when some people thought nuclear war was survivable and a handful even cried out for war, this may have been a good thing. | |
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All 4 games in the Guild Wars series involve a looming threat that will destroy the world if the player characters don't stop it. The first game (Prophecies) twists the trope by having you discover at the end (just in time to be able to do something about it) that you've been duped by the Big Bad, and all your actions have been helping to bring the end of the world, instead of averting it. The next two (Factions and Nightfall) play the trope straight. The fourth (Eye of the North) subverts it at the end, when a cutscene seen by the players (but not the characters) hints that you didn't actually kill the Big Bad, and something end-of-the-world-ish is still going to happen anyway. Word of God has confirmed this interpretation in pre-release information about Guild Wars 2. | |
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In Ah! My Goddess, removing the seals of the goddesses while on Earth — it's noted that any carelessness with that level of power could result in massive damage, up to the end of the world. Belldandy removes hers only when the Lord of Terror threatens complete universal cessation of existence. | |
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And as such, the sequel, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, establishes that this is inevitable no matter what. Lightning's task is to save as many souls as she can to bring into the new world that shall be created. | |
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"The Grand Finale" by Set It Off shows us the end of the world from two different perspectives. | |
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Which End of the World as We Know It are we talking about when we talk about the Old World of Darkness? Well, there's Gehenna from Vampire: The Masquerade, when the Antediluvians rise from their slumber, run roughshod over the earth and devour their vampiric children. And then there's the Ba'ali, who believe a different set of Eldritch Abominations will rise, the so-called 'Children' who existed before God created light and who will surely destroy all of mankind should they ever wake up. To prevent this, the Ba'ali commit as many utterly depraved acts as possible in the name of the Children, in an attempt to ensure they don't realise how relatively nice the World of Darkness is and come to remake things in their image. And then there's the Apocalypse from (duh) Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the final battle against the Wyrm and his corruptive forces. Mage: The Ascension featured a somewhat optimistic end of the world in its endgame, where all of mankind Awakens at once and the constraints on reality are lifted as everyone becomes a god unto themselves. Unless the 4th apocalyptic scenario is used, where the Nephandi win and bring hell on earth. Changeling: The Dreaming has the overhanging threat of Endless Winter, a time when imagination, belief and hope are all but gone and the world of the fae slowly withers and dies. Wraith: The Oblivion ended the line with the Sixth Great Maelstrom, where a harrowing wind tore through the Shadowlands as Oblivion ran roughshod and Stygia fell. Orpheus let the players explore the aftermath... while, incidentally, dealing with Grandmother, the thing that spawned Wraith's big horrors and threatens to devour the worlds of both the living and dead. Ultimately, most of these finally happened, with sourcebooks released for Vampire, Werewolf, and Mage each covering the end of the world from their perspectives, with the other lines having their ends come with Time of Fire, the final book released for the original Old World of Darkness. |
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Specifically, it's caused by an asteroid. Even worse, it happens sooner than expected. | |
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In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey the Schwarzwelt swallows Earth in a few seconds if you die. | |
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Missile Command. Only you can prevent the nuclear destruction of Earth's last remaining cities. And you will lose. | |
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Treasure of the Rudra followed this pattern of extinction of races about 5 times before the game actually begins; Every 4,000 years, a being called Rudra kills off the current race and creates a new one. This turns out to be a plan established by Mitra: Creator of the world in order to create a race that can defeat invaders from destroying the world in the first place when she is defeated or unable to do her duty. | |
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Justice League faced these several times. The Pilot had the formation of the League to stop an invasion by the aliens that destroyed all life on Mars. In "Twilight", Darkseid gets the League to help him save his own world, Apokolips, from being destroyed by Brainiac. However, not only are the two villains in cahoots in an Evil Plan to capture Superman, Darkseid betrays Brainiac and rewrites his programming to become a servant of his will. He intends to use him to destroy the universe and remake it in his image, which obviously qualifies for this trope in its own right. "War World" forced Superman to choose between death and letting this happen to an innocent planet. The second season finale, "Starcrossed", has the Earth invaded by the Thanagarians. They say they're building a giant shield generator to protect us from even more hostile invading aliens. It's actually a hyperspace bypass that will destroy the Earth. "The Return" has the super-android Amazo come streaking back in from wherever he's been, destroying Oa on his way back. Turns out he just moved it out of the universe because it was in his way. Two of these occur in "The Greatest Story Never Told", in which Booster Gold is relegated to traffic duty while the rest of the League — the entire League, consisting of dozens of heroes-, battle against the Dark Lord Mordru, who will bring this about if he is not stopped. Instead Booster becomes a Hero of Another Story when a scientist needs his help to stop a black hole consuming the planet. "Dark Heart" had a gray goo scenario, with fairly large goo. "The Once and Future Thing" culminated with the unraveling of reality due to the injudicious use of time travel. "Divided We Fall", the second season finale of Justice League Unlimited, brought back Brainiac, and his standard procedure of absorbing all information on a planet and then destroying the original. And finally, in the two-part Grand Finale "Destroyer" and "Alive!", Darkseid comes Back from the Dead and decides he's going to bring this about, purely to get back as Superman for killing him the first time. He nearly succeeds, and actually defeats the Man of Steel in battle, but Lex Luthor (seemingly) destroys him and himself with the Anti-Life Equation. That or they are both coming back in the future to enslave the universe. |
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Since Odin Sphere is based on the Norse legend of Ragnarök, the world ends no matter what path you take. The fate of the world, however (whether it stays destroyed or reborn), depends on whether or not the player correctly chooses who faces the final bosses. | |
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"Fight Fire With Fire" from Ride the Lightning | |
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Every Shin Megami Tensei game (including the spinoffs) deals with this in some fashion or another. In one of those spinoffs, Persona 3, the Main Character is explicitly told from the start that "the End" is coming soon. If he chooses, he can delay it a couple of months and have it come without knowing it's coming. Or, he can go out fighting, but it's ultimately portrayed as futile. And then you win. Kind of. In the original Shin Megami Tensei I, halfway through the game, civilization is destroyed in a nuclear war. You and your companions are spared by being transported to the demons' realm, but when you return a few decades later, the world remains devastated as demons roam free and the forces of Gaia and Messiah wage war. Then Messiah floods Tokyo for good measure. In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (or Lucifer's Call), the world ends after the first hour of gameplay and you spend the rest of the game rebuilding it while not getting ganked by the Demons who roam freely now. And the True Demon Ending involves ending everything in order to destroy Heaven. In Digital Devil Saga, another spinoff, not only does the world of the Junkyard end at the end of the game, but the real world that you end up in was half destroyed five years ago, and starts disintegrating into the sun halfway through the game. Your goal is to stop it. In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey the Schwarzwelt swallows Earth in a few seconds if you die. In Shin Megami Tensei IV if the protagonist decides to take the Nihilist route because of the endless war between Law and Chaos, The White help him destroy the entire world. With a black hole for irony. |
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The Others (2015) is essentially about the world being on the brink of destruction every day by the spontaneous appearance of monsters on a regular basis, and should you fail to stop it during your mission, the Sins of the Apocalypse will rise up and demolish the city before taking down the world. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is set After the End, when most of humanity was wiped out by the machinations of the Anti-Spiral. When they start making a comeback thanks to the protagonists, a failsafe kicks in to drop the moon on the planet and finish humanity off. And on top of that, Spiral Energy's ability to generate energy and matter from nothing but Heroic Resolve risks destroying the entire universe if overused, and the Anti-Spirals are trying to prevent that from happening. | |
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Callahan's Crosstime Saloon: One of the early stories has an alien race that will sterilize the Earth of humanity unless a bar full of drunks can find a way to stop it. In Callahan's Key, Spider Robinson's novel is based on the notion that if the heroes do not accomplish the save-the-day task, the entire universe not only will cease to exist, but will retroactively cease ever to have existed. |
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In Naruto Tobi's Assimilation Plot is to invoke this, creating a genjutsu to cover the entire world in order to create a new reality where everyone lives, heroes succeed and the like, at the cost of free will. Unfortunately, his method of completing the plan involves the revival of the Ten-Tails, the combined form of all nine of the tailed-beasts and the only being they fear. The Sage of the Six Paths, the greatest ninja to have ever lived and the founder of ninjutsu legitimately feared that its revival would cause this, as the Ten-Tails is the progenitor of all that exists in the world and the source of all chakra, and with its lack of comprehension of the ideals of good and evil, it is essentially the personification of God Is Evil. | |
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In Supergirl series Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, Mr. Mxyzptlk tries to destroy the third dimension together with several Reality planes to become more powerful. | |
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In Darksiders, the Apocalypse is destined to happen. The twist however, it's supposed to happen once The Third Kingdom (Mankind) has progressed to the point it can stand on equal footing with Heaven and Hell, and thus the three races will clash for the right to decide who will determine the fate of Creation. However, somebody triggered the End War early, which resulted in Hell torching Earth, killing off humanity, and catching the unprepared Heaven off-guard. The Horseman of the Apocalypse War, who has been accused of causing it due to showing up on Earth when the Seven Seals weren't broken, is tasked with hunting down the perpetrators or die trying. It turns out Abaddon, one of Heaven's greatest warriors, triggered the End War early to try and launch a sneak attack on Hell's leaders while repairing the destroyed Seals to trick everyone into thinking Hell struck first, thus letting Heaven win by default since humanity isn't advanced enough to challenge them (but also stopping the fighting before Earth would be destroyed). Unfortunately, Hell already knew about this and came out guns blazing, resulting in the current predicament. | |
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In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the Big Bad Cyrus wants to use the power of Palkia and Dialga to wipe out the current world and create a new "perfect" one in its place. Platinum further expounds his motivations: to eradicate human "spirit", which he deems responsible for the world's ills. Further back, the climax of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire has Groudon/Kyogre's awakening bring about an endless drought/flood. The game outright states that the Hoenn region could be destroyed if this isn't stopped, but who's to say it would end there? In Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, it is heavily implied (and outright confirmed in Lysandre's case) that a few alternate universes were destroyed as a result of the lack of anyone stopping the Big Bad of various games from their goals. |
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Finale ends this way, with the gamma radiation from a nearby galaxy causing Earth to become uninhabitable. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, Father opens the gate sacrificing the Earth itself so he can become one with God, and rips the souls of nearly every living thing in the country of Amestris with only a select few remaining humans and homunculi remaining. A true Wham Episode. He makes a transmutation circle out of Amestris to do so, thus following the "Equivalent exchange" rule. Many people the brothers have met are seen passing out. Ed proceeds to beat Father to a pulp, and so Father enters the gates and the humanoid shape shown in earlier chapters to be 'wearing' Ed's arm and leg is hinted to be god, due to their similar colouring and grin. Father dies and they all live happily ever after. | |
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The final stage of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), the aptly-named End of the World, has the protagonists scrambling to gather the Chaos Emeralds from the distorted fragments of reality that remain as the time-space-devouring abomination Solaris goes to work. Sonic Forces has Eggman winning and the whole world getting run over with fire, Death Egg Robot sentinels, and Infinite's replicas. Oh and, the Resistance has only 3 days to stop the end of the world. |
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In Fragment, scientists and the military must act fast to eradicate the hyper-lethal, hyper-invasive wildlife of Henders Island, before it can spread to other landmasses and spell The End Of The Biosphere As We Know It. | |
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In animated Christian short The Way of Peace, the world ends in a fiery nuclear holocaust, which the narration warns is what will happen if we don't follow Jesus and "the way of peace." | |
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Obviously from the title, This Is the End. It really does end. | |
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In Endstone, Jon tried to do this. Given the hints of a Lotus-Eater Machine, this may not mean he's a complete monster. | |
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Silent Night (2021): A group of friends gather at an English country house to celebrate a final Christmas party before an apocalyptic storm caused by climate change reaches them. | |
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In The Last Ship, the story of an American ship after a nuclear war, the protagonists helped contribute to the end by nuking the Soviet city of Orel. | |
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In Daystar, the Federacy fears that Boh-Dabar's arrival will lead to either a complete Sentinel uprising or the complete destruction of the entire galaxy via supernova stars, and thus they set out to execute him. Unfortunately for them, his deliberate death is what triggers the end of the world. However, the world is then remade in perfection, with all those who chose Life being brought into the new world, so it was not actually a bad thing. | |
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The first two seasons of Lyrical Nanoha involved unstable Lost Logia and the heroes trying to prevent the destruction of a few worlds, including the one they call home. The third season, however, had a Big Bad who knew how to handle Lost Logia, and thus would have only ended with The Federation obliterated and the entire multiverse effectively taken hostage should the heroes fail. Jail's an Evilutionary Biologist, not an Omnicidal Maniac, after all. | |
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In the original Shin Megami Tensei I, halfway through the game, civilization is destroyed in a nuclear war. You and your companions are spared by being transported to the demons' realm, but when you return a few decades later, the world remains devastated as demons roam free and the forces of Gaia and Messiah wage war. Then Messiah floods Tokyo for good measure. | |
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In Who Took the Super out of Superman?, Xviar intends to blow Earth up by turning Superman into a human ticking bomb. | |
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Standard thing the heroes of Dragon Ball are trying to prevent, although the ante was upped in the Buu saga of Dragon Ball Z, where the Big Bad could easily have wiped out the entire universe had he not been stopped. Also in Dragon Ball Super, the entire future timeline is destroyed by Future Zen'o to stop Merged Zamasu, who fused with multiverse after losing his physical body and killed everyone in it except for a few named characters. | |
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Lori Petty's opening narration for Tank Girl uses the trope name exactly — hear it here, at about 0:14 — to describe the cause of the film's After the End setting. | |
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). Massive nuclear testing at the poles throw the Earth out of orbit towards the Sun, but a series of massive nuclear detonations in Siberia may avert the catastrophe. The last scene shows the sweating journalists waiting in the print room with two next editions ready for printing; the camera pans to one that says "WORLD SAVED", but just as it seems that everything is going to be okay the camera continues panning, and we see the alternative cover, "WORLD DOOMED." | |
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Fire Fire by EZO is a Protest Song... about nuclear war ending the world. | |
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The end of the world was threatened so many times by so many different villains of Xiaolin Showdown that it was eventually lampshaded. | |
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A Certain Magical Friendship: In Context_SHIFT, Nightmare Moon's Eternal Night removing the light of the sun would eventually make the Earth too cold to live on. | |
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The Demented Cartoon Movie ends the world many times in a thirty minute stretch of time. Sometimes a series of worldwide nuclear explosions demolishes the planet itself. Sometimes the planet falls into the sun. Once, somebody just has to say a word that triggers the explosion of the planet. | |
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The B-movie Solar Crisis features a similar premise, but the earth is directly threatened by a massive solar flare that Our Heroes must trigger prematurely. | |
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Parodied in Calvin and Hobbes: | |
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In Tin Man, a Steampunk adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, the evil queen of the OZ, Azkadellia, seeks the Emerald of the Eclipse so that she can use it to power a device called the Anti-Sun Seeder that will fix the two moons of the OZ in a permanent eclipse, plunging the land into eternal darkness which removing photo-synthesis will result in as the Mystic Man aptly predicts, the complete destruction of the OZ. It's not entirely clear what Azkadellia hopes to achieve by this, but she is after all insane as a result of being possessed by the Evil Witch of the Dark. It's implied that this is the Wicked Witch from the original story, coming back to take revenge on Dorothy's descendants. | |
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Coreline happens after The End Of The World As We (that is, people who didn't had to be concerned about Breaking the Fourth Wall and Rage Against the Author except as a random gag in a story) Knew It, in the midst of all the chaos that (even after a decade-plus of years) Earth is still reeling from. And there's a great many number of monsters out there that wish to finish the job... | |
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In Future Diary, this is Deus' reason for holding the survival game. He is dying, which is bringing about the end of the world. | |
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Supernatural has a demon apocalypse progress through Signs of the End Times to a truncated Apocalypse. In fact, beyond the very beginning of the series, this is usually what the protagonists are working to prevent in various ways and forms. The World Is Always Doomed and the Winchesters and their allies are apparently the only ones who can save it. Usually because they're mixed up in causing it in some way. If it's not a fight between Michael and Lucifer that would tear the world apart, or rogue Angels or Demons (or both) causing chaos and destruction that could threaten civilization, it's invasion by Leviathans or destruction of reality itself. | |
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Oblivion: Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince of Destruction, serves as the Big Bad. As an Omnicidal Maniac of the highest regard, he seeks the utter destruction of Mundus, the mortal world. Naturally, it is up to the Champion of Cyrodiil, Hidden Backup Prince Martin Septim, and the Blades to stop him. Worse still, in The Seven Fights of the Aldudagga, it is implied that Alduin originally cursed Dagon into this state as a form of Ironic Hell as a punishment for hiding parts of earlier kalpas from him: In the Shivering Isles expansion, you need to help prevent this from happening to the titular Shivering Isles, the Daedric realm of Sheogorath, Daedric Prince of Madness. During a recurring event known as the Greymarch, the Isles are destroyed by Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of Order. As it turns out, Sheogorath is the person-shaped can that Jygglag was sealed inside of by the other Daedric Princes who were fearful and jealous of his power. Saving the world in this case involves taking on the mantle of Sheogorath yourself to free Jyggalag and end the Vicious Cycle. |
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In The Shannara Chronicles, Amberle has visions from a large tree, the Ellcrys, that warn her that unless she acts, demons will devastate everything and kill every living being besides themselves. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion seems to be about preventing the End of the World as We Know It at first, but apparently this outcome had been clear from the very beginning. The attempts to stop the Angels from reaching Terminal Dogma under Tokyo-3 are only meant to buy more time to arrange that the event happens in a way most favorable to the various factions. That the 18th Angel (humanity itself) will succeed in causing the end in The End had always been a foregone conclusion. Also invoked in Rebuild of Evangelion: 2.0 ends with Shinji kicking off Third Impact. Kaworu stops him, but by that point, most of humanity had been wiped out, save for himself, Shinji, Rei, Gendou, Fuyutsuki, and Misato and her crew. It gets worse at the climax of 3.0. |
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In Super Paper Mario, Count Bleck and Dimentio wish to destroy ALL worlds via the Dark Prognosticus. They actually succeed in destroying the Sammer Guys' Kingdom — almost while the heroes are still in it. | |
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24: Jack Bauer and his allies have 24 hours to stop the End of the World as We Know It. Turned on its head in the final season, in which Jack Bauer himself is the one who nearly causes it on a vengeance-fueled rampage, and his former allies have to stop him. | |
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In Flashpoint (1999), this happened in the backstory when Mars' civilization was destroyed by the Speed Force tuning fork, which had the unintended side effect of vaporizing everything organic on the planet. | |
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In Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the SDF-1, after a year of fighting, returns to Earth only to witness the nuclear bombardment of the planet by Boddolza's main Zentradi fleet of over 4,000,000 warships (killing "most" of the population and destroying 95% of the environment), however, with a little help from a wave motion cannon back on Earth, and Lynn Minmei, the Macross nukes Boddolza's remaining flagship. The remnants of humanity and the Zentradi are then shown to be co-existing on what remains of the planet, but because of some of the bored Zentradi, conflict begins anew. Fortunately, later Macross series show that humanity and its Zentradi allies have bounced back and created a thriving interstellar civilization. | |
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Every couple of books, the Discworld is threatened with the End of the World as We Know It. In The Light Fantastic, it nearly collided with a red star; in Sourcery, the birth of a sorcerer nearly brings about a second Mage War and the Apocralypse [sic]; in The Last Hero, Cohen the Barbarian's scheme to get revenge on the gods threatens to destroy the magic that holds the Discworld together; and in Thief of Time, the Auditors trick a human with unusual abilities into building a clock that will leave the Discworld, and possibly the universe, frozen in time forever. | |
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In the Mouth of Madness: Sutter Cane's last book on Hobb's End prominently featured the end of the world as people turned into monsters and reality became host to otherworldly horrors. It turns out that he used Trent to spread this disease throughout the real world by retrieving his book. Society is well on its way to total collapse by the end. | |
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If the Dimensional Guardians from Dimension Heroes don't find the seven cybaspheres and fix the rip the space/time continuum, both their world and Creturia will destroy one another. | |
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Minecraft: Story Mode: The Wither Storm is basically a walking version of this. If not stopped, it will likely reduce the world to bedrock. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV had Nael van Darnus bring down the lesser moon, Dalamud as a part of the Meteor Project. The moon turns out to be an ancient Allagan construct designed to seal the elder primal, Bahamut. Once the moon breaks apart, Bahamut razes all of Eorzea with his fiery and destructive powers. Bahamut could have easily caused total global destruction, but thanks to Louisox intervening, the damage was reduced to just within Eorzea itself. The expansion Shadowbringers is about trying to stop this from happening to the world of the First as a result of an overabundance of Light. It is later revealed that stopping the First from being destroyed is key to preventing the destruction of your homeworld of Hydaelyn, as the destruction of the First would coincide with the deployment of a Deadly Gas weapon by The Empire, the influx of light aether from the destroyed First making said gas so deadly that it would poison Hydaelyn to planet's core. It is also revealed that this had happened to seven other Shard worlds, the destruction of each one coinciding with an Umbral Calamity on Hydaelyn. Furthermore, the shards were created long ago when the ancient Ascian civilization was confronted by an apocalypse of their own, resulting from their creation magics running out of control until they summoned two gods, Hydaelyn and Zodiark, and Hydaelyn defeated Zodiark with a blow so powerful that it split the world into fourteen alternate dimensions. The Endwalker expansion explores several more "end of the world" scenarios. It at first appears that Fandaniel and Zenos's plan to recreate the Final Days of the Ancients is just to raise an army of Primals, all controlled by a stronger Primal born of Garlemald's Cult of Personality reverence of their emperor. It turns out that the Primals were just a diversion from the real plan to harvest enough aether to forcefully break the seal on Zodiark, whom Fandaniel promptly hijacks. This seems like a setup for Fandaniel to rampage using Zodiark's godly powers, but it turns out the real actual plan was to kill Zodiark, which the Warrior of Light helped accomplish, thus allowing the actual Final Days to begin once more. Sure enough, the events of the Final Days slowly begins to spread, with the main difference being that this time, rather than creating the monsters with rampaging creation magick, the people themselves are transformed into monsters. When the Warrior of Light goes back in time to find out the cause, it turns out that it's caused by an Ancient creation named Meteion, a Hive Mind of "sisters" designed to interact with an energy affected by emotion known as Dynamis and travel to other stars to learn about their civilizations. What she ended up finding was countless civilizations that were either dead or dying, which drove the Meteia collectively to insane nihilism and convinced them to travel to the far edge of the universe and use their power of dynamis to kill all life not just on her homeworld of Ethyris, but all life in the universe, and speed up the heat death of the universe itself just to make sure that no more life would ever be born. When the Warrior of Light and the Scions of the Seventh Dawn finally make it to Meteion's nest, they find that she's recreated portions of the dead worlds and civilizations she encountered so that their despair would fuel the dynamis, which the party ends up having to traverse on the way to Meteion. |
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Parodied in the episode "Make Love, not Warcraft." A player in the game has become so powerful that even the admins can't stop him from killing other players, and the fear is that everyone will become frustrated and stop playing: | |
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The premise of World's End Harem. In 2040 physical labor has been made unnecessary, technology handles every sphere of society, with humanity just sitting back letting machines do all the work for them; one day a killer virus comes and kills every single man on earth, society promptly collapses for apparently the majority within the few people that could handle the independent AI that made society work were men, the surviving women couldn’t provide support for the machines as good as it was when men lived and since they grew up in a society that has abandoned the idea of doing things with their own hands they barely have the knowledge to keep things together; only a select group of women can keep the world barely standing, they find that five men still live and are immune to the virus, now urging them to father a new human race and pass on the knowledge it’s still available to one day get out of this crisis and prevent extinction. | |
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In Uncommon Time, if the World Tuning isn't successfully performed by the end of the year, the world will experience global cooling and enter an ice age. This ends up happening in one of the bad endings, where Alto decides the world doesn't deserve to be saved and allows the eternal winter to spread. | |
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Cthulhu (2007). Although loosely based on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by H. P. Lovecraft, the movie also works in elements of "The Call of Cthulhu" in that humanity is beginning to descend into chaos as a prelude to the return of the Old Ones from the sea, with scenes of rioting, madness and murder. | |
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At the climax of The Man Who Could Work Miracles, Fotheringay buys some time by making the Earth stop rotating. Alas, he fails to consider the basic physics of the rotation of the planet and so sends his palace, all living creatures and objects whirling off the world's surface. Civilization and all life (save Fotheringay) are obliterated as everything in the world flies through the air and is dashed to pieces. | |
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The looming threat of nuclear war in Thirteen Days. | |
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Skarin from Viking: Battle for Asgard brings this about. Granted it's more the extremely uncomfortable variety but it still counts since he unleashes Fenrir who kills the Gods thus bringing about the Norse version of the Apocalypse. | |
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The Sister Verse and the Talons of Ruin has this as the eventual consequence of John and Diana's story. As soon as Diana becomes an ascendant, her reality and everyone in it will probably cease to exist, or be reinserted into another reality. | |
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All of the Star Fox games deal with this trope on a more galactic scale; however, Star Fox Adventures plays this straighter with the potential end of only Dinosaur Planet (renamed Sauria in later games). | |
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From Bliss Stage: "The effects of the Bliss were sinister and immediate: every human above the age of 18 were struck with a sudden weariness, and when they fell asleep, they did not awaken... ...Society, particularly industrialized society, begins to collapse one month later, as food production and utilities break down." | |
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In Tokyo Mew Mew, the aliens want to cause this by accelerating humans' destruction of the environment, just so the Muggles can see what they've done to the Earth and actually care about it. | |
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The Child of Love: For most of the history the Children fought the Angels thinking they were stopping a bunch of Eldritch Abominations from exterminating the humankind. After Gendo got arrested his right hand Fuyutsuki came clean with Misato and Kaji, revealing that secret organization SEELE was using NERV to cause the end of the world. From that point the cast fights to stop both the Angels and SEELE and save the world. | |
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Homestuck features a benign-looking computer game that turns out to summon the end of the world. In a unique variation, this is how the story begins, and rather than being the result of a villain's meddling, it is a natural part in a multi-universal circle of life. Not that that makes it any less disconcerting to see messages from the people left behind on Earth. | |
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The Rapture: At the end of the movie Sharon and her fellow believers are proven right when the rapture happens. | |
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"Apocalypse Coming", from Vision Divine's Send Me An Angel: | |
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Preventing this is the fundamental point of Arkham Horror. Should you fail to stop the arrival of the eldritch god, it razes the city as you fight it back, and defeating it doesn't actually stop it. Additionally, beating it in combat means you don't win the game, you and the eldritch god tie as the rules state. Defeating it means it still had time to bulldoze the city and destroy a lot of the world. Should you fail, which is a definite option in this game, this trope is essentially played straight. Special mention goes to Azathoth. While he is usually considered to be a Warmup Boss as he has the longest Doom Track in the game (14) and only gives Maniacs +1 toughness, the game is instantly over if he awakens, as he has a combat rating of -infinity while his Attack simply reads "The end is here! Azathoth destroys the world." For comparison, the lowest combat rating where the Investigators can actually win is -6 (e.g. Cthulhu). |
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In Irregular Webcomic! the various temporal paradoxes eventually destroyed the whole universe. It got better. | |
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Pacifica Casull the eponymous Scrapped Princess is hunted by everyone due to a prophesy that she was destined to literally "end the world as we know it". Subverted in that she "ends the world as we know it" by breaking an artificially enforced Medieval Stasis. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", the entire universe will be engulfed in darkness if Gaspar's watch strikes 12 o'clock. | |
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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: Armamageddon. Finn and Bianca's mother, tired of their constant fighting, orders them to put away their toys. This is represented as an apocalypse greater than anything Apocalypseburg has seen, with everyone from both there and the Systar System being sucked up into dark voids (Finn and Bianca's toy boxes), never to be seen again. Until Finn and Bianca make up and finish the story together. | |
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In Final Fantasy X this is subverted towards the end, as the protagonists try to end the "eternal spiral of death" that had the entire world in it's grip for a thousand years, bringing the End of the World as We Know It. In Final Fantasy X-2, the world is recovering from the confusion left after the removal of the Corrupt Church. It's played straight with the original creation of Sin, which turned a futuristic cyber world into a society of villages outlawing the use of machines and advances technology. | |
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"The Return" has the super-android Amazo come streaking back in from wherever he's been, destroying Oa on his way back. Turns out he just moved it out of the universe because it was in his way. | |
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Westworld: It's been foreshadowed since Season 1 that humanity will eventually go extinct and a new species will take over. In fact, Season 4's premise is about "a dark odyssey about the fate of sentient life on Earth". As seen in the middle of the season, Host-Hale has nearly controlled humanity in an iron fist until, in the last two episodes, the Man in Black host hijacks her control to force everybody to kill each other. At the end of the season, Dolores narrates that sentient life will die out soon but she decides to give humanity another chance to evolve and coexist with the hosts by recreating the Westworld park in the Sublime for one final loop where, this time, everybody can be set free. | |
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Stars Above: In this Lucky Star / Madoka Magica Crossover, if anything happens to either of the Hiiragi twins, the entire multiverse will be destroyed. | |
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Averting this trope is the main reason Order of the Stick have been struggling to foil Xykon and Redcloak. May turn out to be a subversion, as recent revelations suggest there's more to the Snarl's prison than both good and bad guys have been led to believe. | |
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In Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, in addition to the destruction of the Moon Kingdom in the past, Princess Serenity does the same with the Earth at the end of the series. | |
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Sonic Forces has Eggman winning and the whole world getting run over with fire, Death Egg Robot sentinels, and Infinite's replicas. Oh and, the Resistance has only 3 days to stop the end of the world. | |
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The spinoff show Crusade features the Earth yet again on the brink of destruction after the Drakh infects the whole planet with a plague that will slowly kill the population in 5 years. | |
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4:44 Last Day on Earth Focuses on a New York couples relationship as they await the end of all life on earth which will happen at 4:44AM the next morning. | |
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In Skyrim, the aforementioned Alduin returns and serves as the Big Bad. However, he has chosen to shirk his duties as World-Eater and instead wants to Take Over the World instead, to rule it and be worshiped as a god by mortals, something he once established long ago with the other dragons and mortal dragon priests. Akatosh, Alduin's divine father and Top God of the Nine Divines pantheon, has sent the Last Dragonborn to oppose Alduin. Failure would still mean the end of the world, with an emphasis on "as we know it". | |
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In one of those spinoffs, Persona 3, the Main Character is explicitly told from the start that "the End" is coming soon. If he chooses, he can delay it a couple of months and have it come without knowing it's coming. Or, he can go out fighting, but it's ultimately portrayed as futile. And then you win. Kind of. | |
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This Ugly Yet Beautiful World: Hikari's evil alternate personality tries to destroy the world, requiring Takeru and Akari to stop her. | |
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In "Twilight", Darkseid gets the League to help him save his own world, Apokolips, from being destroyed by Brainiac. However, not only are the two villains in cahoots in an Evil Plan to capture Superman, Darkseid betrays Brainiac and rewrites his programming to become a servant of his will. He intends to use him to destroy the universe and remake it in his image, which obviously qualifies for this trope in its own right. | |
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This was also hilariously mocked by Chuggaaconroy in a Tweet added on December 21: | |
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Cream Heroes had this as a story arc in Kittisaurus Villains with spacetime breaking down due to the imbalance of snack and meow energies. In reality, Claire was moving house so the arc's conclusion has the cats jump to another spacetime to save themselves. | |
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Demigod Power: Attempted (perhaps unwittingly) during the Ronin War. Destroying the gods has been stated in the source canon as ending Western Civilization. As of the Rise of the Hierophant arc, this appears to be the Hierophant's plan, in a Well-Intentioned Extremist way. | |
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HERZ: Secret organization SEELE tried to bring it about in 2015. They failed and spent the next twelve years preparing to attempt to finish it for real as the heroes prepared to stop them for good. | |
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Sam & Fuzzy: In the final arc of the comic, Hazel and Fuzzy unseals The Pit. Then Hart gets access to it, drowning The Underground and much of North America in Tar, a psycho-reactive substance that dissolves fantastical beings on touch and drives humans incurably insane by exposure. | |
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The History Channel ran the "documentary" Life After People, which speculates on what would happen to the Earth if humans suddenly disappeared... | |
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Fitting its bleak overall tone, Texhnolyze ends with Ichise as the only sane person in the dying Lux who hasn't been turned into a cyber-tree. Oh, the people on the surface are still alive, but lacking any will or initiative they are already counted as living dead. The Shapes, too. One by one, they take root and go into hibernation, also alive in only the most tenuous sense. | |
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Exalted has several factions planning their own, most notably The Fair Folk (who don't like order very much) and the Neverborn (who don't like anything very much). This is to say nothing of the two separate apocali in the backstory (and a few other events that may qualify for the title, if we knew more about them). The Usurpation was the end of the First Age, a period of high magic and well managed utopia that was brought crashing down to an end by a conspiracy of the Sidereal and Terrestrial Exalted. They killed all the Solar Exalted and prevented their Exaltations from finding new hosts, and drove the Lunar Exalted (most likely to be able to step down the technologies that depended on the Solars safely) out to the borders of Creation. Then, about seven centuries later, some of the more bitter ghosts of the slain Solars unleashed the Great Contagion, a disease that killed 9/10ths of ALL LIVING THINGS IN CREATION... including the Exalted themselves. The sudden shortage of... everything... gave the Fair Folk an opportunity to sweep in and nearly destroy the Reality of Creation entirely, in a worldwide war recorded as 'The Balorian Crusade'. The "Return Of The Scarlet Empress" book details the actual bringing about of the End of the World as We Know It at the hands of the Yozi, (who actually like lots of things, but prefer them crushed under their rule), particularly the Ebon Dragon (who deeply hates absolutely everything on a personal basis). |
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In Black Clover, the Spade Kingdom intends to open a gate to the underworld using the Tree of Qliphoth, with Yami and Vangeance as sacrificial offerings. Over seven days, seven gates to seven levels will gradually open. If the final devil Lucifer emerges, the world is finished. | |
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Shadowside: Resulting from a Mass Super-Empowering Event and the Fantastic Racism it inevitably started. | |
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Avengers: Infinity War features Thanos successfully wiping out half the Universe's population. Technically, it's not the end for everyone, but still pretty bad. Everyone gets better in Avengers: Endgame. | |
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College Roomies from Hell!!!. Don't be fooled by the early years; the "from Hell" part is quite literal. | |
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Victorian-set fantasy Darkness Visible is all about the protagonists' attempts to prevent the End Of The World, though this does not become clear until quite a long way through (because Lewis, the narrator, hasn't realised how serious things are). At first, we think it's only London which is at risk. It isn't. | |
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All of the Slayers continuities, especially the anime, dealt with this trope in some way. | |
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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is set in an alternate-timeline 2007 where cybernetics and war are more common, plus culture hasn't progressed past the '80s. Then an actual nuclear apocalypse happens in Far Cry 5. |
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In Fahrenheit, if you give Jade to the Purple Clan, the world ends in eternal winter. Giving her to the Orange Clan or learning her secret yourself saves the world, though in the former case that may only be for a short time. | |
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In Thousand Shinji, even though the main characters save mankind from the Angels, at the end Third Impact happens anyway, killing two thirds of human population. | |
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While the main cast of Prétear eventually succeeds in preventing the End of the World as We Know It (the standard Big Bad's goal), the manga gives a nice description of the world drained of Life Energy — not only without living beings, but without wind, sounds, temperature, light. The anime version further illustrates the possible outcome by having the Big Bad destroy the local Magical Land. | |
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Thor: Ragnarok is about the world-ending scenario from Norse Mythology that was already mentioned in the mythology folder, although the film version of Ragnarok plays out much differently than it does in the myths, or even the comics. Much of the movie is spent trying to prevent the goddess of death, who is Thor and Loki's sister, Hela, from starting Ragnarok and destroying Asgard. In the end, it is Thor and Loki who have to make the decision to start the events that lead to Ragnarok and Asgard's destruction in order to prevent Hela from conquering and perhaps destroying the rest of the nine realms, and maybe beyond. Avengers: Infinity War features Thanos successfully wiping out half the Universe's population. Technically, it's not the end for everyone, but still pretty bad. Everyone gets better in Avengers: Endgame. |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: In Avatar: The Last Airbender, in the first episode of the four-part series finale Aang learns that if he doesn't stop the Firelord before Sozin's Comet, that Ozai will go on an Earth Kingdom and Water Tribe genocide, obliterating every race in the world except the firebenders. And the worst part is that he's more than capable of doing that. The Legend of Korra has a scenario that is even worse and to the letter; it's implied that if God of Evil Vaatu wins during a Harmonic Convergence, humans won't be around to see the next one, and Vaatu and the Dark Spirits will rule the world. In the Book 2 finale, we see what would happen if Vaatu succeeded, but it didn't last. |
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Quite a few Dungeons & Dragons game-settings have a World-Shattering Kaboom in their backstory, such as Krynn's Cataclysm or Mystara's Great Rain of Fire. When you get to a high enough level, you can kill gods and wipe out entire planes of existence.... The defining trait of the D20 setting DragonMech is that this is going on right now, with the friggin' moon descending on the planet, complete with a perpetual meteor bombardment and the gods being attacked by the lunar gods. Well, this is one defining trait, the other being Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!. |
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Off-White: The premise of the whole comic is that the balance of all things has been upset and thus everything is slowly going down the drain. | |
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Most of the Skulduggery Pleasant novels have this theme. For the first three books, Skulduggery and Valkyrie must prevent religious fanatics from releasing a race of Eldritch Abominations called the Faceless Ones who used to rule the world until they were banished into another dimension. If they return, they will inhabit human bodies, tear down man's cities, destroy the countryside, destroy half the human race, enslave the rest and work them until they die before moving onto another world. In the fourth book, a madman named Dreylan Scarab tries to provoke a war between the "mortal" and magical communities that will almost certainly result in the end of civilisation. In the fifth, a race of evil spirits are released who are looking for an evil sorceress named Darquesse who will raze the world. | |
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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun was unique in that its last missions were essentially a race against time before everything changed. Kane has completed his World Altering Missile, which will turn all life into Tiberium based life, and there is only three hours left till it is fired. As Nod, you have to set up the ICBM launchers in Hammerfest which will destroy the Philadelphia as it passes overhead, thus assuring the WAM goes off. As GDI, you have to prevent the launch of the missile in Cairo and the ICBMs. | |
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Fan-made supplement Siren: The Drowning has it as part of its premise: the titular Sirens actually are humans who were transformed by the song of a Goddess warning them about a Bad Future where an apocalypse called the Deluge happened, and they must now do everything in their power to prevent the various potential causes of the Deluge in order to make sure it won't happen. | |
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Commander Keen had to prevent this a couple of times in the classic platform-game series by Apogee. His first game-series was titled The Earth Explodes, and he had to prevent the mind controlled Vorticons — who were being manipulated by his Evil Counterpart — from doing just that. The sequel, 'Goodbye Galaxy', upped the ante as suggested. The next series was supposed to be about him preventing the end of the entire universe, but at that point, Apogee was running out of money, and he only got enough funding to save his babysitter. In the second game it is in fact possible to blow up the earth by 'accident' by flipping the switch on one of the Death Rays before disabling it, leading to a Nonstandard Game Over. |
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Wonder Woman: Black and Gold: Apollo points out that if humans do not drastically change the way their big industries are run climate change will soon permanently alter the earth with the creatures living there, including humans, as the casualties. | |
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The Cutie Mark Crusaders Bring About The Apocalypse: Yeah, nice job finding that book, girls! Now Equestria is doomed because of you! | |
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Well, there's Gehenna from Vampire: The Masquerade, when the Antediluvians rise from their slumber, run roughshod over the earth and devour their vampiric children. | |
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In Stargate SG-1, The World Is Always Doomed. A few notable examples follow. If the Goa'uld had ever attacked Earth with ships in orbit, at least before Season 5 or so, they could have used orbital bombardment to conquer or destroy Earth civilization with impunity. The SGC prevented that with guerrilla tactics, alliances with other enemies of the Goa'uld, and sheer luck. The Replicators, a Grey Goo made up of Lego-sized pieces that acted like a Horde of Alien Locusts, could have consumed and overrun Earth if they ever got a foothold on it, but they never did. Throughout the series, numerous Goa'uld plots or other misused alien technology could have caused Earth Shattering Kabooms all by themselves. The SGC generally prevented those by Reversing The Polarity, digging up the right Applied Phlebotinum, or, again, guerrilla tactics and luck. |
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This is the goal of everyone in Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica. There are two different Assimilation Plots: Ascension halfway through the game and Sublimation at the end. You yourself almost destroy the known world when you screw up singing Metafalica early in the game, and at the end you have to destroy half of it in order to reveal the Very Definitely Final Dungeon. | |
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In Goodbye Volcano High, a comet is coming that will wipe out almost all life on Earth, ending the era of dinosaurs. Fang, the player character, has to decide what they'll do with their remaining time. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, in the first episode of the four-part series finale Aang learns that if he doesn't stop the Firelord before Sozin's Comet, that Ozai will go on an Earth Kingdom and Water Tribe genocide, obliterating every race in the world except the firebenders. And the worst part is that he's more than capable of doing that. | |
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Shikkoku no Sharnoth nearly has an end of the world situation when Sharnoth overwrites the real world for a brief time. | |
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The Witch's Throne: If the Witch isn't stopped, she'll exterminate all living things with her magic. | |
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In the latter trilogy of The Black Company, the Company focuses on trying to stop a cult from resurrecting the goddess Kina, who will swiftly get to work bringing about the Year of the Skulls. | |
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In the Season 4 finale of Archer, we find out that Pam has a thing for this trope, including keeping a "bug-out bag" on-hand with vital supplies. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: A falling moon threatens to wipe out the world of Termina. In most other games in the series, the villain's only trying to rule the world. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: Prior to the Final Boss battle, it's revealed that Lorule, Hyrule's alternate dimension counterpart, was crumbling away after Princess Hilda's ancestors destroyed Lorule's Triforce. Death Mountain suffers from an everlasting winter, the swamp region is always flooded, constant earthquakes have torn the land apart, and the kingdom is overrun with monsters. Without the Triforce, Lorule would eventually be destroyed. Luckily, Link and Zelda use their own Triforce to restore Lorule's Triforce. |
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A series of sketches in That Mitchell and Webb Look featured "The Quiz Broadcast" (Remain Indoors!), filmed by and starring the last huddling remnants of humanity after "the Event" destroyed civilization. The Event was apparently so horrible that it seems to have imposed a near-universal amnesia about life before it, and anyone who tries to think about it is reduced to hysterics. There's also the live broadcast of the Invasion of the Earth by an unknown but vastly powerful extraterrestrial aggressor. | |
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The Halos in the Halo series are weapons designed to wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy, i.e. The End Of The Galaxy As We Know It, to prevent the Flood from spreading; naturally enough, when such an outbreak occurs in the first game, the Player Character has to stop the weapon from firing. | |
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The Haruhi Suzumiya franchise has a rather unusual condition for The End Of The World as We Know It to happen: if the title character becomes too bored with her life, she could inadvertently destroy the universe in a subconscious attempt to create one more to her liking. Not only that, the rest of the SOS-dan suspects that she has already done it at least once before — but obviously no-one can tell. | |
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At the end of Mass Effect 3, all of the endings have shades of this, though with an optimistic outlook for the future. Except for the Refusal option, where the Reapers ultimately succeed in harvesting the current galactic civilization, and the minimal-EMS "Destroy" ending, where the activation of the Crucible causes the mass relays to overload and cause widespread damage throughout the galaxy. | |
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In Fallout, The World as We Know It Ends on October 23, 2077. The prologue of Fallout 4 is set on that fateful day. | |
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The Day After Tomorrow is even more destructive, as it affects the entire Northern Hemisphere. Thanks to global warming melting the polar ice caps and disrupting the North Atlantic Current, a massive superstorm plunges the entire world into a new ice age. The destruction of Los Angeles and New York City in particular are shown in detail, and the rest of the world isn't much better off. | |
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In Steven Universe, it's revealed that "the Cluster" Peridot was sent to check on is an enormous conglomeration of Gem shards that will destroy the Earth if it awakens. Fortunately, in "Gem Drill" Steven is able to pacify the Cluster and get its component shards to "bubble" one another. | |
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The planet of Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Phantasia suffers from this like a recurring rash. It happened for sure 4000 years before Symphonia at the conclusion of a devastating war, when the planet was split in two and taken over by a malicious racial supremacist theocracy, and then again between Symphonia and Phantasia when another devastating war set the planet up to be nuked back to the dark ages by a meteor strike. Also, there were several during the 4000 years of theocratic rule due to a resource conservation schemenote Only one of the two halves would get the resources it needed at any given time, and it would periodically switch — and when that happened, societies in the previously thriving half would crumble, but we only know of one for certainnote The fall of the dynasty ruling Sylvarant. It comes close to happening again in Phantasianote The Big Bad needs humanity to use as few resources as possible, and decided the best and easiest way to do that would be to kill them all, or at least nuke 'em to the stone age but the heroes stop it that time. | |
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In Mass Effect, Shepard's mission is to prevent the End of the Galaxy As We Know it at the hands of Saren, whose ship is in reality an AI known as Sovereign, a representative of an ancient race of sentient machines (A.I.s) who are responsible for bringing about the destruction of all sentient organic life in the galaxy every 50,000 years or so. In Mass Effect 3, this happens in the first ten minutes of the game. At the end of Mass Effect 3, all of the endings have shades of this, though with an optimistic outlook for the future. Except for the Refusal option, where the Reapers ultimately succeed in harvesting the current galactic civilization, and the minimal-EMS "Destroy" ending, where the activation of the Crucible causes the mass relays to overload and cause widespread damage throughout the galaxy. |
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In Finch (2021) a solar flare has destroyed the ozone and the earth has become a scorched wasteland and the titular Finch (played by Tom Hanks), his dog and the robot he built go on a cross country journey to escape a massive storm. | |
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The novel ''Fleet Action'', by William Forstchen, not only has the Earth threatened with orbital bombardment by "dirty" nukes (averted by a Big Damn Heroes moment), but actually kills off two colonies in orbit around Sirius by that manner, on the way to Earth. Fan-made mod Standoff, based on the events of Fleet Action, lets you play as one of the said Big Damn Heroes. |
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LEMMiNO has videos talking about previous times in history when the Earth either had close calls with extinction or possible threats that could cause extinction in the future called "Grazed by the Apocalypse" and "Consumed by the Apocalypse". | |
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Tom Siddell described City Face (a Gunnerkrigg Court interim comic) as "a story of how love can save the world." It turns out to be literal: a fairy informs City Face that if he doesn't win the heart of his dream girl, the world could be destroyed. City Face is a pigeon, and Gunnerkrigg fairies are ... not renowned for their sanity (they're basically all manic-depressives, except that when they're "depressive," they're still manic). So how seriously one is supposed to take this is questionable at best. |
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There's a free online flash game Pandemic and its sequel Pandemic 2 in which the player assumes control over a disease by spending evolution points on symptoms like fever or making the disease transmitted by air. The goal is to kill every single human on earth. Its Spiritual Successor Plague Inc. follows the same concept. It also includes some non-standard world-ending scenarios, such as humanity devolving to Neanderthals, or being enslaved to the last man by either a brain-worm or vampires. |
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Jean Grey goes nuts as the Dark Phoenix and destroys many many galaxies in Issue #27 (Volume 1) | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, this is the end goal for Rau Le Cruset, who wants Naturals and Coordinators to kill each other in endless war caused by escalating tactics. | |
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Then an actual nuclear apocalypse happens in Far Cry 5. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8033f25c | comment |
In The Golden Child, the titular child is a Cosmic Keystone keeping the forces of evil at bay by his very existence. Should he be killed, which is only possible if he succumbs to evil, The Legions of Hell would be free to conquer Earth. The heroes' mission is to rescue him before that happens. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_81202666 | type |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_81202666 | comment |
In Chainsaw Man, the Big Bad Ensemble are the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the looming threat of Nostradamus' prophecy that the world would end in 1999, a year from then, hangs over everyone's heads in a universe than runs on Clap Your Hands If You Believe. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_81692f99 | type |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_81692f99 | comment |
Star Trek, repeatedly and in many different ways. Most notably, the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise features the ship in a race against time to save not only the World, but the Universe As We Know It. If a group of genocidal aliens succeed in destroying the Earth, it will alter history and the Federation will never exist. An episode called "Twilight" showed what might happen if they succeeded. | |
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Serah and Noel attempt to avert this trope in Final Fantasy XIII-2 by changing the future. They ultimately do change the future... but the results are much, much worse. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8268c95e | comment |
Fallen (1998), with Denzel Washington. The demons of the film are said to desire the destruction of human civilization, which they call "the fall of Babylon" and pursue this by possessing people. Though not said, this would presumably account for much of the evil in the world. Also not said but speculated is that true believer Christians will be immune to demonic possession. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_842c5731 | comment |
Godzilla: Final Wars not only has the titular monster saving the world from an asteroid, but also dozens of other monsters as well. | |
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Godzilla: Final Wars | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_84823809 | comment |
Kaeloo: At the end of Episode 77, the planet gets destroyed by a meteor, but it's back to normal by the next episode. Nobody dies, fortunately, since everyone escapes except Stumpy, who is an Iron Butt Monkey. | |
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Kaeloo | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_86312631 | comment |
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: Armageddon, the world-ending battle between Good and Evil at a place set out by a Prophecy early on. | |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_86814e56 | comment |
Subverted in Final Fantasy VI, wherein the Big Bad, Kefka, actually succeeds in destroying the world, despite your best efforts otherwise. You watch as countless NPCs are killed as their land is ripped apart, and the world map is left permanently scarred. The rest of the game is spent trying to get revenge because you failed the first time around and trying to break his tyrannical grip on what's left of society. | |
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Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_87e00d8e | comment |
The Season 4 3-part finale on Teen Titans (2003) to conclude the big Raven arc. The world ended, but was restored after the Big Bad was destroyed in Raven's big moment of Calling the Old Man Out. | |
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Teen Titans (2003) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_88043b11 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_88043b11 | comment |
In World of Goo — and this meets the original definition of sheer — the world becomes incompatible with its inhabitants, like software, when it's upgraded into three dimensions. | |
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World of Goo (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_885e1bec | comment |
In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality it has been prophesied multiple times that the world is bound to end and that Harry will be the reason for that. There is, however, a caveat to that.Not a single prophecy mentions that the world's people will die alongside it. Therefore, it is technically possible for Harry to destroy the world but manage to save its inhabitants. Dumbledore went to great lengths to make it happen and he seemingly succeeded in setting Harry into the right path. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_889b3701 | comment |
Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo has the majority of the plot focusing on how Cruje will erase Wonderland and recreate it when she inherits the Manager position from Ureshiko. When she finally does inherit the position and recreates the world, she recreates it almost exactly as it was before, with the only difference being that the school didn't burn down, even if the baseball victory flag still has burn marks. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_88b580f0 | comment |
And then there's the Apocalypse from (duh) Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the final battle against the Wyrm and his corruptive forces. | |
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_898bd243 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_898bd243 | comment |
In Armageddon (1998), a large asteroid is coming with enough force to blow every last bit of life into oblivion, and two teams are sent, each with drilling equipment and a nuclear missile, to drill a tube, insert the missile, and split the asteroid in half before it's too late. | |
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Armageddon (1998) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8a39c411 | comment |
Some time before the beginning of the Hyperion Cantos, the Earth is destroyed by an experiment with black holes conducted in Kiev. It's then revealed that the Earth was not destroyed, but instead whisked away to the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, implying that the Kiev Experiment was the Techno Core's first attempt at the creation of a Farcaster. | |
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Hyperion Cantos | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8aef1fcf | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8aef1fcf | comment |
In the first two Space Quest games, Big Bad Vohaul plots to destroy Xenon. Roger must save Xenon from an Earth-Shattering Kaboom in the first game, and from insurance salesmen in the second. | |
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Space Quest (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8b802b56 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8b802b56 | comment |
Michio Yuki of MW tries to take the world with him by using the titular chemical warfare. | |
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MW (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8c371d03 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8c371d03 | comment |
The World's End: As you might have guessed from the title. It may be a bit misleading, however. The threat isn't the end of society, it's the nature of society itself — the Class II apocalypse is caused by the heroes when they reject the influence of the Network. This is a good thing, if a tad bittersweet. | |
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The World's End | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8d62323c | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8d62323c | comment |
Danganronpa: The first game turns out to take place in the aftermath of an incident known as "The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History" (or simply "The Tragedy" for short). Later installments in the franchise reveal the full story: a Straw Nihilist Apocalypse Cult known as "Ultimate Despair", led by Junko Enoshima and composed of elite students at Hope's Peak Academy, commited various atrocities, including the first "Mutual Killing Game". Through a brainwashing "Despair Video", Ultimate Despair caused a massive uprising that lead to worldwide unrest, chaos, and warfare. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8d8157e0 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8d8157e0 | comment |
In the sci-fi series Lexx, the main characters go through much of the second season unaware that an enemy they defeated earlier is still alive. The villain, Mantrid, rebuilds himself, takes an army of simple-minded floating robot drones, and destroys much of the "Light Zone", one of two parallel universes. The heroes eventually stop him, but soon afterwards, the entire universe collapses in on itself. The main characters (and their ship, the Lexx) are spit out as interstellar debris into the "Dark Zone", the second universe. Our universe is in the Dark Zone. | |
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Lexx | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8da8001b | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8da8001b | comment |
RWBY: Reckoning has this as the main reason Darrel is brought into the world of RWBY. Apparently, the titular Reckoning is an event where, under the influence of the story's Big Bad, the Creatures of Grimm amass and overwhelm humanity. Even worse, it's not just limited to Remnant. It's outright stated that when the Grimm are done with Remnant, Earth will be next. | |
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RWBY: Reckoning (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8dd8ec81 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8dd8ec81 | comment |
In the manga, the world (along with the Big Bad) is destroyed at the end of the third story arc by Sailor Saturn... only to be immediately restored by Princess Serenity. | |
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Sailor Moon (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8e114ae6 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8e114ae6 | comment |
In Popcorn Avatar, this is the fate of the world should the Devas lose, as the Asura's stated purpose was to literally wipe the slate clean so that creation can begin anew. | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8e114ae6 | featureApplicability |
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Popcorn Avatar (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_8fc090bc | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_8fc090bc | comment |
Skippy's List has examples: | |
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Skippy's List | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_91209b29 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_91209b29 | comment |
In Xenosaga humanity has unconsciously been causing a chain reaction to undo all existence over many myriad iterations of the universe, all because of the existential horror of uniting with the Collective Unconscious. The Big Bad is trying to stop this from happening. Sort of. God tries to figure out what our deal is. | |
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Xenosaga (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_91209b29 | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_927963ad | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_927963ad | comment |
The Great Divorce: The sunrise in Heaven will cause the destruction of the Grey Town (i.e. Hell) and cause terrible pain to fall over the Ghosts who choose to remain there. | |
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The Great Divorce | hasFeature |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_927963ad | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_92ecf224 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_92ecf224 | comment |
S.D.I. and Shadows of War/Ashes In The Sky by Loudness are also about a world ended by nuclear war. | |
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Loudness (Music) | hasFeature |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_92ecf224 | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_93f9c777 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_93f9c777 | comment |
In The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer this is the goal of the Big Bad, and also the main characters, Sami and Yuuhi. (The aim is to smash the planet to rubble, too.) | |
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The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_9591f30c | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_9591f30c | comment |
Time Bandits... | |
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Time Bandits | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_985ddbb1 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_985ddbb1 | comment |
The Super Robot Wars Alpha sub-series's finale had several endings that involved trying to stop the death of all sentient life in the universe. The worst one involved the embodiment of life and rebirth going nuts and using its Wave-Motion Gun at the party... which kills everyone in the quadrant. | |
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Super Robot Wars Alpha (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_98f107f3 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_98f107f3 | comment |
Bokurano takes this trope to a whole new level of cruelty by adding a twist: to save the world from ending the kids must cause the destruction of other worlds. The pilots die regardless of the outcome of the battle. | |
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Bokurano (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_999762c8 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_999762c8 | comment |
The first season finale of X-Men '97 deals with this: Magneto, having been driven over the Despair Event Horizon, unleashes a powerful EMP wave that not only shuts down virtually every electronic in the world, setting back humanity centuries, but destroys the magnetosphere, leading to Earth dying in less than twelve hours. | |
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X-Men '97 | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_999855bb | comment |
In the fourth installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series, the world that the previous games take place in is destroyed when two incredibly powerful magical swords that were featured in expansions of the previous game clash. Fortunately, portals start appearing all over the place that take the lucky survivors to the new world of Axoth. | |
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Heroes of Might and Magic (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_99baa8c7 | comment |
In the distant future seen in The Immortal Superman, years of war and environmental abuse have turned Earth into a barren, lifeless rock. | |
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The Immortal Superman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
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Armageddon by Gamma Ray: | |
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Gamma Ray (Music) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It / int_9bb5aad4 | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_9bb5aad4 | comment |
Carried over in the second season of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX but with the pressure upped even more, when Jaden is told, "The fate of the universe now rests with you." | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX | hasFeature |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
The End of the World as We Know It / int_9d0c8e9c | comment |
At the end of Gloryhammer's second album Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards, which is set in a dystopian future similar to Warhammer 40,000, Hootsman detonates the Neutron Star powering his heart in order to stop Zargothgrax's ritual, taking the Earth with him. Weakened and defeated but not dead, Zargothrax throws himself into the cosmic rift that now stands where Earth once was, and Angus McFife XIII follows in pursuit. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: In the series' mythology, Alduin, the draconic Beast of the Apocalypse, provides a very literal example of the trope. It is repeatedly stated that Alduin, as the World-Eater, is not going to erase all of Creation from existence; he is "merely" going to destroy the current incarnation of the world so that a new one can take its place. This Eternal Recurrence is his divine mandate. As Alduin is embodiment of the end of the world itself, he can only manifest his full power when it is time to actually end the world, at which point he becomes a titanic monster with divine power even beyond that of the Daedric Princes. Oblivion: Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince of Destruction, serves as the Big Bad. As an Omnicidal Maniac of the highest regard, he seeks the utter destruction of Mundus, the mortal world. Naturally, it is up to the Champion of Cyrodiil, Hidden Backup Prince Martin Septim, and the Blades to stop him. Worse still, in The Seven Fights of the Aldudagga, it is implied that Alduin originally cursed Dagon into this state as a form of Ironic Hell as a punishment for hiding parts of earlier kalpas from him: In the Shivering Isles expansion, you need to help prevent this from happening to the titular Shivering Isles, the Daedric realm of Sheogorath, Daedric Prince of Madness. During a recurring event known as the Greymarch, the Isles are destroyed by Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of Order. As it turns out, Sheogorath is the person-shaped can that Jygglag was sealed inside of by the other Daedric Princes who were fearful and jealous of his power. Saving the world in this case involves taking on the mantle of Sheogorath yourself to free Jyggalag and end the Vicious Cycle. In Skyrim, the aforementioned Alduin returns and serves as the Big Bad. However, he has chosen to shirk his duties as World-Eater and instead wants to Take Over the World instead, to rule it and be worshiped as a god by mortals, something he once established long ago with the other dragons and mortal dragon priests. Akatosh, Alduin's divine father and Top God of the Nine Divines pantheon, has sent the Last Dragonborn to oppose Alduin. Failure would still mean the end of the world, with an emphasis on "as we know it". According to C0DA, an "Obscure Text" online graphic novel by former series writer Michael Kirkbride, Nirn (the planet on which the series takes place) is destroyed in the late 5th Era in an event known as "Landfall". Rather than being destroyed by the Underking as previously believed, Numidium was instead caught in a time warp and emerges in the distant 5th Era where the Aldmeri Dominion, led by the Thalmor, dominates Tamriel. Picking up where it left off in the 2nd Era, Numidium wages war on the Dominion and uses its "ancestroscythe" to refute the entire Altmer race from existence. It then proceeds to destroy the rest of Nirn with all attempts to stop it being temporary distractions at best. A group of survivors is able to flee to Nirn's moon Masser in a special ship, but Numidium eventually follows it there. Finally, a Dunmer noble known as Jubal-lun-Sul is able to "verbally defeat" Numidium. The Landfall ends when Jubal-lun-Sul creates the first of the "New Men" with the Physical God Vivec. Yes, it's just that sort of story. |
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In Kryptonite Nevermore a group of pirates led by international spy Quig take over a Government installation and threaten with detonating a hydrogen bomb and blowing the world up if their demands are not met. | |
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Stuff like this occurring is the norm in Regular Show. | |
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The Book of Revelation from The Bible, which serves as the inspiration for the Left Behind books and any Christian end-times related fiction. | |
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In Good Omens, an angel and a demon team up to prevent the scheduled Biblical Apocalypse. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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The Nightside novels feature one possible end of the world in a Timeslip that the main character supposedly brings about. | |
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Is a favorite ending to many What If? stories from Marvel Comics. Korvac uses the ultimate nullifier to destroy reality in Issue #32 (Volume 1) Jean Grey goes nuts as the Dark Phoenix and destroys many many galaxies in Issue #27 (Volume 1) The Serpent God Set's children were successfully born in Issue #25 (Volume 2), they then in turn wipe out all life on Earth before moving on to conquer other planets and other dimensions. |
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The Zodiac Series has the Last Prophecy, which foretells a future where the sun will go out, taking the entire galaxy with it. It's eventually revealed to be a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, and the Well-Intentioned Extremist Big Bad's attempts to save people from it are what's going to cause it to happen. Thankfully, it ends up averted outright. | |
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Mother 3's Dark Dragon would easily destroy the world if Porky's minions managed to pull at least four of the Seven Needles. He does anyway when Lucas pulls the final needle, but in the finale you find that most if not all of the good characters survived, presumably to be reborn into the next world. |
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This happens in The DCU every other week. It's amazing they even send journalists to cover it any more. "Oh look, it's Darkseid again. Wanna get some coffee while we wait for the superheroes to turn up?" | |
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Used in Futurama, when the Professor and his crew must prevent a giant ball of 20th century New York garbage from returning to Earth and destroying the planet. Then there was the What If episode where Fry destroyed the universe by never coming to the future, causing a Temporal Paradox. And again when the Brainspawn plan to destroy the Universe after learning every piece of data in it. And again when a box containing our Universe is about to be destroyed because it's in a Universe that's about to be destroyed because it's in a box that's about to be thrown into the Sun. Try to sort that out. And yet again when Farnsworth harvested chronoton particles to speed the growth of his atomic-powered mutant basketball team. This destabilized time with increasingly dangerous effects. If the world is going to end, Professor Farnsworth is probably responsible in some way. "The Inhuman Torch" has a blue flame alien who nearly turns Earth Supernova. Bender stops him, though. |
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In the Orion's Arm universe, the Grey Goo plague of the "Nanoswarm Era" destroys the original Terran civilization (although many humans, robots, and A.I.s survive to create new civilizations from the ashes). The Amalgamation is threatening to do it again, and more completely. | |
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The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, where Richard and Kahlan save the World as we Know it... again... and again... and again. One can only assume that, since the world was just fine before they met, it's them knowing each other that's the ultimate cause for all the trouble they have to go through. | |
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Stuff like this happens on Wishfart semi-regularly. Akiko becoming a living girl brings literal Hell on Earth; Dez messing with Fireball Cat's magic scarf causes the literal fabric of reality to unravel; Dez wishing on himself in a mirror causes their universe to collide with a parallel universe... | |
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In Don't Look Up a pair of Astronomers played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence discover a comet the size of Mount Everest is heading directly towards Earth and attempt to warn humanity of the incoming danger. | |
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By the Waters of Babylon: A war called the "Great Burning" later destroyed the US at some point in the past, with only ruins left and tribal humans surviving with myths surrounding what happened. | |
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In Independence Day, the world is about to be blown up, settlement by settlement, by aliens in giant spaceships. But, as always, America saves the day. Which was predictable from the moment you found out the film was about a hostile alien attack. Funnily enough, the Trope Namer song by R.E.M was playing in the background of one of the first scenes, where the UFO on the moon is detected by the radar. | |
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In The Story to End All Stories, fiction itself might cease to exist if the Nothing is not stopped dead in its tracks. | |
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Touhou Project, in its eleventh game, finally featured a Big Bad who was actually willing to pull one of these off. She just happened to be a crow who was powered by nuclear fusion, and turning the underworld into a new Sun. | |
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The point of The Madness Dossier is that if the heroes lose, humanity will simply become a Slave Race to a bunch of sociopathic cosmic horrors. Which is only how history was supposed to be before a successful reality-twisting revolution fifteen hundred years ago, admittedly. | |
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Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails is set in an dystopian future. The songs "In This Twilight" and "Zero-Sum" illustrate this trope best. | |
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In Cthulhu Armageddon, the Great Old Ones finally rose from the dead in a world implied to be full of scholar and science heroes only for the heroes to be completely defeated without the Eldritch Abomination's ranks even noticing. The series is a Weird West set 100 years later when humanity has adapted to being ants in their footsteps. | |
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Fate of the Clans: Bad Ends: All Beasts have a Nega skill that affects those on humanity's layer. Nega-Messiah from Beast VI creates an expanding conceptual bounded field that eliminates all life except that Beast within. Using it to a global scale forces that layer to begin life anew. | |
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This is at least part of the villain's plan in almost every Final Fantasy game. Subverted in Final Fantasy VI, wherein the Big Bad, Kefka, actually succeeds in destroying the world, despite your best efforts otherwise. You watch as countless NPCs are killed as their land is ripped apart, and the world map is left permanently scarred. The rest of the game is spent trying to get revenge because you failed the first time around and trying to break his tyrannical grip on what's left of society. In Final Fantasy X this is subverted towards the end, as the protagonists try to end the "eternal spiral of death" that had the entire world in it's grip for a thousand years, bringing the End of the World as We Know It. In Final Fantasy X-2, the world is recovering from the confusion left after the removal of the Corrupt Church. It's played straight with the original creation of Sin, which turned a futuristic cyber world into a society of villages outlawing the use of machines and advances technology. This is the main goal of the Big Bad in the Chains of Promathia expansion in Final Fantasy XI. It really doesn't help that the avatar Bahamut thinks that the best way to prevent this is to wipe out all sentient life on Vana'diel. Serah and Noel attempt to avert this trope in Final Fantasy XIII-2 by changing the future. They ultimately do change the future... but the results are much, much worse. And as such, the sequel, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, establishes that this is inevitable no matter what. Lightning's task is to save as many souls as she can to bring into the new world that shall be created. Final Fantasy XIV had Nael van Darnus bring down the lesser moon, Dalamud as a part of the Meteor Project. The moon turns out to be an ancient Allagan construct designed to seal the elder primal, Bahamut. Once the moon breaks apart, Bahamut razes all of Eorzea with his fiery and destructive powers. Bahamut could have easily caused total global destruction, but thanks to Louisox intervening, the damage was reduced to just within Eorzea itself. The expansion Shadowbringers is about trying to stop this from happening to the world of the First as a result of an overabundance of Light. It is later revealed that stopping the First from being destroyed is key to preventing the destruction of your homeworld of Hydaelyn, as the destruction of the First would coincide with the deployment of a Deadly Gas weapon by The Empire, the influx of light aether from the destroyed First making said gas so deadly that it would poison Hydaelyn to planet's core. It is also revealed that this had happened to seven other Shard worlds, the destruction of each one coinciding with an Umbral Calamity on Hydaelyn. Furthermore, the shards were created long ago when the ancient Ascian civilization was confronted by an apocalypse of their own, resulting from their creation magics running out of control until they summoned two gods, Hydaelyn and Zodiark, and Hydaelyn defeated Zodiark with a blow so powerful that it split the world into fourteen alternate dimensions. The Endwalker expansion explores several more "end of the world" scenarios. It at first appears that Fandaniel and Zenos's plan to recreate the Final Days of the Ancients is just to raise an army of Primals, all controlled by a stronger Primal born of Garlemald's Cult of Personality reverence of their emperor. It turns out that the Primals were just a diversion from the real plan to harvest enough aether to forcefully break the seal on Zodiark, whom Fandaniel promptly hijacks. This seems like a setup for Fandaniel to rampage using Zodiark's godly powers, but it turns out the real actual plan was to kill Zodiark, which the Warrior of Light helped accomplish, thus allowing the actual Final Days to begin once more. Sure enough, the events of the Final Days slowly begins to spread, with the main difference being that this time, rather than creating the monsters with rampaging creation magick, the people themselves are transformed into monsters. When the Warrior of Light goes back in time to find out the cause, it turns out that it's caused by an Ancient creation named Meteion, a Hive Mind of "sisters" designed to interact with an energy affected by emotion known as Dynamis and travel to other stars to learn about their civilizations. What she ended up finding was countless civilizations that were either dead or dying, which drove the Meteia collectively to insane nihilism and convinced them to travel to the far edge of the universe and use their power of dynamis to kill all life not just on her homeworld of Ethyris, but all life in the universe, and speed up the heat death of the universe itself just to make sure that no more life would ever be born. When the Warrior of Light and the Scions of the Seventh Dawn finally make it to Meteion's nest, they find that she's recreated portions of the dead worlds and civilizations she encountered so that their despair would fuel the dynamis, which the party ends up having to traverse on the way to Meteion. |
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Dominaria, the central world of Magic: The Gathering, has suffered no less than several apocalypses: The Brothers' War (the entire face of the planet shattered, two thousand years of ice and snow). The Phyrexian Invasion (the greater part of the world's population slaughtered by demonic invaders). Karona's apocalypse (all magic in the world briefly extinguished). The "Time Spiral" crisis was an attempt to keep the entire plane from folding in on itself in the wake of these and various other huge magical events — an apocalypse caused by having too many apocalypses, and this doesn't count near-apocalypses like the end of the Thran War. It's a wonder the old rock's still holding together. The Melting of the Iceage was its own apocalypse, and the world exploded at least three times during the Invasion Cycle. And that's to say nothing of the other planes we've visited since Invasion, where each one has had at the very least one world-ending event, if not two or three, in addition to the general world-wide-war situation most of them are in. Mirrodin features a Zombie Apocalypse in the Scars of Mirrodin block wherein all the people of Mirrodin are slowly infected with The Virus and become the aforementioned demonic invaders' descendants. Rise of the Eldrazi. In artificial planes, the lack of someone to focus on keeping the plane stable causes the plane to collapse. This happened to Serra's Realm, when coupled with the presence of a Phyrexian in a white-mana realm. Inverted in Innistard, where the End of the World as we know it was the return of the angel Avacyn, thereby putting the world closer to the way it was before we ever saw it. There are actually cards that let you "destroy all X". These cards tend to have names like Armageddon, Wrath of God, Global Ruin, Catastrophe, Planar Collapse... |
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Odyssey 5 begins with the destruction of Earth; our heroes are then sent back in time to try and stop it. | |
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Parodied in the CLANNAD game with this quote: | |
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Also invoked in Rebuild of Evangelion: 2.0 ends with Shinji kicking off Third Impact. Kaworu stops him, but by that point, most of humanity had been wiped out, save for himself, Shinji, Rei, Gendou, Fuyutsuki, and Misato and her crew. It gets worse at the climax of 3.0. | |
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Mage: The Ascension featured a somewhat optimistic end of the world in its endgame, where all of mankind Awakens at once and the constraints on reality are lifted as everyone becomes a god unto themselves. Unless the 4th apocalyptic scenario is used, where the Nephandi win and bring hell on earth. | |
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In Wing Commander III, one of the missions is to shoot down missiles carrying biowarfare warheads that would render a planet uninhabitable by humans for centuries. Also the fate of Earth in the losing scenarios of the game, though just hinted at with a Terminator 2-esque scene of a Kilrathi boot crushing a human skull. From the same game there's also the more literal world-enders of the Behemoth and the Temblor Bomb. | |
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The Danger Mouse episode "Gremlin Alert" starts with reports of utter global chaos as Colonel K relays to DM and Penfold: | |
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Two of these occur in "The Greatest Story Never Told", in which Booster Gold is relegated to traffic duty while the rest of the League — the entire League, consisting of dozens of heroes-, battle against the Dark Lord Mordru, who will bring this about if he is not stopped. Instead Booster becomes a Hero of Another Story when a scientist needs his help to stop a black hole consuming the planet. | |
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NatOne Productions's story-line Denazra invokes this trope over and over again. The denazra are a race of self-replicating machines spreading at real speeds throughout the galaxy and eradicating all known organic life. Very slowly. The Coalition has assembled mighty fleets to stop them time and time again over hundreds of years, but they have yet to successfully defend a single world. There's so much time between invasions, however, that most people don't seem to be all that concerned. | |
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In The House of Night, Aphrodite has received multiple visions of this if Zoey doesn't step up to plate and prevent Kalona and Neferet from achieving Power!. | |
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99 Red Luftballons by Nena describes how World War III starts when an Army General declares a nuclear attack after mistaking a bunch of balloons as enemy missiles. | |
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Early in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Earth gets destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a hyperspace bypass. | |
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In the season 4 finale of The Magnus Archives the watcher's crown ritual succeeds in changing the world. Geography and time don't work as the should, and all of humanity is trapped in fearscapes. | |
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My-HiME threatens the end of the world with the approaching of the HiME Star precipitating natural disasters and the last surviving HiME gaining the power to remake the world as she sees fit. | |
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In Rewrite, the world is at risk of undergoing the Song of Salvation and having humanity wiped out. It has happened before. | |
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The Dark Crystal: Aughra states that The Great Conjunction is "THE END OF THE WORLD... or the beginning", noting they're the same thing. | |
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Bokeh An American couple on holiday in Iceland wake up one morning to discover that everyone else has disappeared, leaving them as the only two humans on Earth. | |
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In Fate/stay night: In the end, it is revealed that the Holy Grail has been turned into an Artifact of Doom that will grant all wishes as destruction, and continuously spew out evil on a scale that threatens the entire human race. Gilgamesh's "sword", which he calls Ea, is said to have the capacity to end all life on Earth, effectively destroying the world. Gilgamesh never uses that much power though... kind of stupid to destroy the world you're living in, after all. Word of God states that if Gilgamesh ever actually tried to do that, he would fail: the Counter Force would get involved to prevent the destruction of both mankind and the planet, and even Gilgamesh isn't powerful enough to resist the wrath of the Counter Force. |
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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker's climax (of Chapter 4, at least) dealt with trying to stop Peace Walker from both launching a nuke to Cuba and transmitting false trajectory data to NORAD after Coldman, in his dying breaths, activated Peace Walker. | |
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Wraith: The Oblivion ended the line with the Sixth Great Maelstrom, where a harrowing wind tore through the Shadowlands as Oblivion ran roughshod and Stygia fell. Orpheus let the players explore the aftermath... while, incidentally, dealing with Grandmother, the thing that spawned Wraith's big horrors and threatens to devour the worlds of both the living and dead. | |
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Pecola: In the episode "Constellation Pecola", Dr. Hornbender notices that one of the planets in the solar system has been knocked out of orbit and is headed right towards Cube Town. Cue Pecola spreading Hornbender's warning to the rest of Cube Town, and the townspeople reacting accordingly. However, there is no planet colliding with Cube Town at the end of the episode, as Pecola had rearranged the stars and planets on a rendering of the solar system in Hornbender's lab to look like his face, and the arrangement of the stars only made it look like the planet was knocked out of orbit. | |
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In Digital Devil Saga, another spinoff, not only does the world of the Junkyard end at the end of the game, but the real world that you end up in was half destroyed five years ago, and starts disintegrating into the sun halfway through the game. Your goal is to stop it. | |
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One of the three endings to Saya no Uta results in this, where Saya releases her spores into the atmosphere, forcibly rewriting the human genome into her own genetic code to turn humanity into a race of Eldritch Abomination just like herself. We don't get to see the aftermath, except for Tanbo, who has secluded herself in Dr. Ougai's cabin in the remote woods to complete his notes before she also turns. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Imperium has a policy to bring this about, on a single world, through Exterminatus. It's usually done with cyclonic torpedoes or the result of a virus bombing (with what's left over in the latter usually being set on fire), or sometimes other, more exotic means. Normally done when a world is considered to not be worth the manpower or resources in taking it, or when the inhabitants of an established planet, or the planet itself is considered beyond redemption. This is considered to be crossing the Godzilla Threshold in-universe, though it still happens pretty frequently. Also, this is technically not as bad as other examples, since you could (on paper) escape, and there are at least a million worlds out there; but it's still a loss typically in the millions or billions of lives. This is also what happens when certain other entities arrive on the world. Tyranids making landfall on a world can mean a swift, bitter war; and if they aren't pushed back, they'll eat everything down to the bedrock to get all the organic matter before moving on to the next world. A single plague zombie getting on the surface of a world can be disastrous. Certain Necron dynasties are known for sterilizing conquered worlds. A particularly bad daemonic incursion can end with all mortal life being butchered or the world being swallowed into a warp storm. Dozens of ways, really. On the grander scale, the universe is entering the eleventh millennium of the ongoing end of the Galaxy. As the Imperium is considered to be the only real contender against most galactic threats, and it's been steadily failing by inches, as well as being the main force fighting most enemies simultaneously. The only reason it's lasted this long is because most of the bringers of the end are as happy to fight each other as humanity. Chaos wants to engulf the galaxy, Orks and Necrons both want to climb to the top and kill or subjugate everything left standing, the Tyranids want to eat everything, and the Eldar fear the last war against Chaos will be starting sooner than they predicted. |
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The Shadowrun setting may or may not be wiped out by the Horrors, depending on how soon they break through into reality and whether technology gives more of an advantage to them or us. Oh, and whether or not your game master acknowledges that Earthdawn ever happened. | |
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The various ways this can happen are what in The Laundry Files are known as NIGHTMARE scenarios. Right now, the one looking most likely is NIGHTMARE GREEN, i.e. a combination of Earth entering an unstable area of space-time and the mental activity of seven billion humans causing a trans-dimensional rift and letting in something with too many angles and tentacles. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: A falling moon threatens to wipe out the world of Termina. In most other games in the series, the villain's only trying to rule the world. | |
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Would have been the fate of the world in three of Drakengard's Multiple Endings if not for the intervention of the protagonists. | |
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The end of the End Times event for Warhammer involved the complete obliteration of the Warhammer world to make way for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. | |
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Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights, another Magical Girl Crossover by the same author, puts the multiverse under an even greater threat when Joker decides to put a permanent end to the Eternal Recurrence of the battle of good versus evil. | |
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In Chrono Trigger, the driving point of the game is to prevent Lavos from destroying the world in 1999 AD. (The 'present' year in the game is 1000.) And that one of the time periods you eventually find yourself is 2300 AD, thus providing the player a playable Post-Apocalypse. Also, after a boss battle, the magical kingdom of Zeal does a Colony Drop where the entire floating continent falls from the sky. The resulting destruction (including a huge tidal wave) destroys everything, leaving a small handful of survivors in the world. This apocalypse is also indirectly caused by Lavos. |
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In Hellboy (2019), Big Bad Nimue plans to raise an army of creatures of the dark to wipe out mankind and reshape Earth according to her twisted vision. Then she meets Hellboy and realizes she can do even better: by convincing Hellboy, the Destroyer Of All Things, that they can rule together and call forth the The Legions of Hell to inflict an even worse fate on the world. She comes damn close to succeeding before the heroes stop her. | |
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Warriors of the World: The entire overarching plot is to prevent Ragnarok from taking place again. | |
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Snowpiercer: Just like in the original film, attempts to reverse global warming worked too well, causing the planet to freeze over. Now all that's left of humanity is the 3000 or so people living aboard the titular super-train that's endlessly circling the world. Though the Season 1 finale reveals that an unknown number also survived aboard a smaller prototype train called Big Alice. | |
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Upon realizing his lover's mortality in the La Vita Nuova, Dante has a nightmare where the entire world falls apart upon her death. The sun goes black, the stars begin to cry, birds drop from the sky, and the whole earth quakes, in a scene right out of the Book of Revelation. | |
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Eclipse Phase takes place 10 years after rogue seed AIs called the TITANs went insane, rose up against their creators, and wiped out 95% of transhumanity before disappearing to parts unknown. Earth is a smoking wasteland ravaged by nanoplagues and remnant TITAN war machines, and is under interdiction by Kill Sats. The survivors of the Fall have spread throughout the solar system. | |
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Discussed in "The End of the World!?" by Matthew Santoro, a video made in 2010, where Matthew discusses whether the world will end in 2012. | |
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This is what Galactus plans to do in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Should you lose to him in the final battle, he succeeds. | |
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Doctor Who plays the trope straight a lot. Menaces such as the Slitheen, the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Master, etc. are constantly trying to bring about the end of the world. Sutekh the Destroyer. The Doctor shows Sarah Jane what the world would become if he isn't stopped — a dark, windblown wasteland. Sarah Jane, who had earlier said: "We know the world didn't end in 1911" (the year the events of "Pyramids of Mars" take place) immediately realises they have to go back and deal with Sutekh, or the world as she knows it will never exist. "The End of the World" is a subversion: The Doctor takes Rose to see planet Earth finally bite the dust billions of years in the future, but it's a natural event that's supposed to happen. When asked if he's going to swoop in at the last moment and save the planet, he replies that there's no point because everyone has moved to greener pastures already. The Master actually succeeds towards the end of "The Sound of Drums", the penultimate episode of Series 3 — but then the Doctor reverses time, saving the day, er, year, and only a select few people remember "the year that never was". "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End": Davros and the Daleks attempt to destroy the entire universe across all possible realities. "The End of Time": The Time Lords try to achieve the eponymous "end of time", which would allow the Time Lords to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence while the rest of the universe rips apart. "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang" has the TARDIS blow up, causing every sun in the universe to explode at every instant. The Doctor manages to reverse it only because of a rather complex, self-fulfilling Time Paradox. "The Wedding of River Song" has River trying to prevent the fixed-point death of the Doctor teased all season, which causes all of time to start happening at once. Luckily, that's not the real Doctor, so it's okay to go through with shooting him/it. "The Name of the Doctor" has the Great Intelligence enter the Doctor's timestream to destroy all his victories, and thus the universe. He is defeated by Clara Oswald, who becomes the Impossible Girl when following it leads to countless "echoes" of her helping stop it all across time and space. "Dark Water"/"Death in Heaven" is a "destruction of humanity" version: Missy wants to turn first Earth's dead, then its living into an army of emotionless Cybermen — and it's all intended as a "gift" for the Doctor, so he can conquer the universe and they can be friends again. "Hell Bent" has the Time Lords trying to prevent the prophecy of the Hybrid, an ultimate warrior that's said to be their ruin, from coming to pass. In the process, they accidentally turn the Doctor into a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who risks the safety of the universe when their efforts to get whatever information he has about the Hybrid indirectly lead to the final death of Clara, whereupon he tries to defy a fixed point in time and save her. He and the universe come back from the brink at the end. "The Pyramid at the End of the World" has aliens trying to invade Earth by taking advantage of a potential world-ending event, with representatives of humanity consenting to their complete control to stop it. They also turn every clock around the world into the Doomsday Clock. At first, the event is thought to be a war between great powers, but it turns out to actually be genetically engineered bacteria that had accidentally been given too much of a certain enzyme. |
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Playfully subverted in Men in Black — the universe is inches away from Armageddon due to alien interference all the time. The Men in Black casually erase the memories of anyone who catches wind of these impending disasters to prevent a general panic. Very similar to The World Is Always Doomed. | |
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In Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (or Lucifer's Call), the world ends after the first hour of gameplay and you spend the rest of the game rebuilding it while not getting ganked by the Demons who roam freely now. And the True Demon Ending involves ending everything in order to destroy Heaven. | |
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This is the plot of Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack — Char wants to speed up humanity's ascension into space and turn them into Newtypes, thus he decides the best way to do it is to drop a meteor onto the Earth, specifically the abandoned Neo Zeon asteroid Axis, and bring about an Endless Nuclear Winter so Earth can finally be abandoned and humanity to travel the stars. Amuro and the rest of Londo Bell really don't want that. | |
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Avalon Code has this as its premise. The world is going to get destroyed, and your job is to collect (well, scan them by hitting them with the book...) anything worth being recreated into the next world. It turns out that this particular end is happening too soon, due to Werner and Olly's meddling. | |
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The Poison Belt features what the main characters believe will be the end of the world, caused by the Deadly Gas of the title, but it turns out to be harmless in the book's Twist Ending. | |
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Child of the Storm: Throughout the story, it's stated that HYDRA removing the Darkhold from its containment is weakening the boundaries between dimensions, allowing creatures from those worlds to leak through into ours, not least of which being Chthon threatening to emerge as well. During the Final Battle, he succeeds, causing reality to essentially collapse in on itself, unleashing countless natural disasters and monsters and villains from throughout time and space onto the world. Fortunately, this also brings forth the heroes from all those times and places as well, who counter the disasters and threats long enough for Chthon to be re-banished, after which Harry uses his connection to the Phoenix Force to undo the damage to reality and restore it to its normal state. | |
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Johan Liebert of Monster tries to become last standing at the end of the world by having insane supporters cause destruction until he has them kill each other. | |
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Super Mario Galaxy has one, but purely by accident and is not a part of Bowser's plan, but ignoring the programming of the game, it would have happened anyway whether he defeats Mario or not, because he unwittingly puts his plan above his own safety. After beating Bowser for the final time, one of the suns around his galaxy reactor implodes, causing a huge chain reaction that creates a massive super black hole that begins to suck up everything in the universe. This is the end of the universe as they know it! All the Lumas throw themselves into the black hole to stop the destruction in a Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Villains by Necessity: This is the threat the protagonists are trying to stop. Assuming that the forces of Good aren't thwarted, the entire world will be "sublimated"-vaporized in a flash of light. | |
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This is the theme of the "Ruiner" table in Ruiner Pinball; the player's objective is to start World War III and invoke a nuclear exchange. | |
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In Snowpiercer, attempts to reverse global warming work too well, causing the planet to enter a new ice age that appears to be permanent. The only survivors are those aboard the titular super-train, which acts as The Ark, keeping the remnants of humanity (and an entire car with aquatic life) alive as it circles the Earth indefinitely. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: The second and third season of the series (dub version only), emphasized with a mantra frequently repeated by Yugi to the point of exasperation: "The fate of the world depends on it!" Season 4 plays this completely straight. Dartz believes that killing everybody and feeding their souls to The Great Leviathan would save the world. This is also the goal of the Big Bad in The Movie. This motive is questioned (and lampshade) by Yami in Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Movie, where he asks the Big Bad what he hopes to gain from the destruction of the world. Receiving an unsatisfactory answer, he dismisses the Big Bad as "the most disappointing movie villain since General Grievous." Played straight in the final season with Yami Bakura as well. |
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One of the levels in Tears to Tiara 2 takes place in an unnamed village. The village priest's description of it sounds like Benedictine Monasticism. Turns out the priest is a Giant Spider, the village full of monsters, the inhabitants are brainwashed and forced to pray to Watos, and it's all a test for a bigger project by the Holy Empire. | |
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A couple of Black Sabbath songs cover the subject, with causes ranging from Satan himself ("Black Sabbath", from Black Sabbath), to nuclear war ("Electric Funeral"), to terrorism and/or political corruption ("War Pigs"), to time-travelers gone insane ("Iron Man"; all three tracks are from Paranoid). | |
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And finally, in the two-part Grand Finale "Destroyer" and "Alive!", Darkseid comes Back from the Dead and decides he's going to bring this about, purely to get back as Superman for killing him the first time. He nearly succeeds, and actually defeats the Man of Steel in battle, but Lex Luthor (seemingly) destroys him and himself with the Anti-Life Equation. That or they are both coming back in the future to enslave the universe. | |
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The series The Dead Zone has a recurring Arc about Greg Stillson somehow being responsible for the End of the World as We Know It in the near future, and Johnny Smith has to find a way to stop him. He screws up in the series finale and ends up causing it instead. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero | |
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Superman: In Supergirl series Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, Mr. Mxyzptlk tries to destroy the third dimension together with several Reality planes to become more powerful. In Kryptonite Nevermore a group of pirates led by international spy Quig take over a Government installation and threaten with detonating a hydrogen bomb and blowing the world up if their demands are not met. In Who Took the Super out of Superman?, Xviar intends to blow Earth up by turning Superman into a human ticking bomb. In the distant future seen in The Immortal Superman, years of war and environmental abuse have turned Earth into a barren, lifeless rock. |
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Hulk: The End is set 200 years after a nuclear war and follows The Hulk/Bruce Banner who is now the last man on Earth, which has been turned into a radioactive wasteland inhabited by nothing but cockroaches. | |
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In Live A Live, during the game's final chapter, you have the option of playing as Oersted, who is corrupted into Odio, Lord of the Dark. You play as Boss Rush of all the previous levels, but as the boss. If you get close to losing, you're given an "Armageddon" option. This triggers a cutscene of an explosion happening across all space and time, wiping out all existence. | |
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The angels and demons of In Nomine face this possibility in The Final Trumpet, when it appears that the prophesied signs of Armageddon are beginning to arrive. What's not known until later is that it's actually a practical joke by the Demon Prince of Dark Humor, who's hoping to get Heaven and Hell to devastate the Earth over a FAKE Armageddon. | |
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Happens in Food for the Gods by Fireaxe. Twice. The first time around it's a class 3a, 4, 5, 6, X, or X-2 (it's not explicitly stated) at the end of On Earth as it is in Hell. Then in Cold and Dark Infinity, God completely loses it, and obliterates all of creation in an angry rage, resulting in a Class Z. | |
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The premise of Battlestar Galactica (2003) is that this has already happened, and now the Colonials are on the run in search of a new home. When they get there, it had already been obliterated in a nuclear attack 2000 years in the past. They find another one, though. | |
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). The distant-planet-colonizing rocket seems benign, until it's revealed that the rocket's afterburners will ignite the Earth's atmosphere. | |
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In Power Rangers RPM, the entire world has been ravaged thanks to the virus Venjix, with the last bastion of civilization being the domed city of Corinth. Thankfully, it's an alternate universe. Venjix tries again at the end of Power Rangers Beast Morphers as Evox, but the Rangers of main world stop him. | |
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The Pokémon: The Series films typically leave preventing the End of the World as We Know It to Ash Ketchum and his friends. | |
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Assassin's Creed II reveals that the main plot, Assassins versus Templars fighting over ancient artifacts that can control the fate of mankind, is actually part of a larger plot by Those Who Came Before. Assassin's Creed: Revelations details how their First Civilization, countless millennia ago, was destroyed by a solar flare, nearly wiping mankind off the face of the Earth. The Pieces of Eden and the genetic legacy they left in certain human bloodlines were all designed to converge in 2012 and communicate the information necessary so that the modern-day Assassins can avert a repetition of this catastrophe. | |
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The Dreamside Road: After the Thunderworks attacks, most world governments fell apart, except at the regional level. Though various groups are working to rebuild, the instability allowed for the rise of the Liberty Corps and other opportunistic movements. | |
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The Top Gear special, Top Gear Apocalypse showed what would happen to motoring after the end of the world via a nuclear holocaust. | |
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The Lucifer comic books, ironically, involved the Devil's efforts to prevent this. He was leaving the Creation before the world was starting to end. When the ending did start it threatened his second Creation as well as Yahweh's, so he had to help or be destroyed. Though his principles kept him from saving the world the easiest way (taking God's place) and instead he went through a Gambit Roulette to put someone else in the role. | |
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In TimeSplitters series, the world has ended in wars past... you fix everything in the third game though. | |
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An independent movie called Last Night deals with this. It takes place on the very last day before the end of existence and it focuses on how different people are dealing with their impending demise. What's strange is that everyone knows that the world is ending at midnight, but what it is that's causing the world to end is never explained or mentioned. | |
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At the end of the Tokkô manga's main storyline, Ranmaru has a monologue where he reveals that the world ends two years after the end of the story. | |
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Happens at the end of Dr. Strangelove. After the US recalls all other nuclear bombers, and the Russians damage (but don't destroy) the last one, the final bomber drops a bomb, which triggers Russia's Doomsday Device to end the world. Since it is a Dark Comedy, we see a large number of nuclear explosions with "We'll Meet Again" as the background music. | |
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In X/1999, both sides actually believe they are fighting to prevent the end of the world. The Dragons of Earth are attempting to destroy all humans to prevent humans from destroying the Earth, while the Dragons of Heaven are trying to save humanity from the Dragons of Earth. It was revealed near the end that Kanoe main supporter of the Dragons of the Earth knew that the Dragons of the Earth would lead to the complete ruination of the world (humans, plants everything), she just didn't tell anyone. | |
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In Muv-Luv Unlimited, all of the endings result in this. | |
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The Genesis song "The Day The Light Went Out" is about something that arrives here and puts out the light... and then, it prepares to feed... | |
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South Park: Parodied in the episode "Make Love, not Warcraft." A player in the game has become so powerful that even the admins can't stop him from killing other players, and the fear is that everyone will become frustrated and stop playing: The Movie had this happen when Satan rises at the climax and starts two thousand years of darkness.. Thank you, Sheila. |
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The Legend of Korra has a scenario that is even worse and to the letter; it's implied that if God of Evil Vaatu wins during a Harmonic Convergence, humans won't be around to see the next one, and Vaatu and the Dark Spirits will rule the world. In the Book 2 finale, we see what would happen if Vaatu succeeded, but it didn't last. | |
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The R.E.M. song is referenced in Final Night: | |
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In The Wotch, Anne actually laughs at Xaos when he reveals that he wants to use her to destroy all worlds, claiming she is "not sure [he] thought this diabolical plan all the way through." | |
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The Resistance series on the PS3 features The Virus systematically conquering and assimilating humanity in an alternate history setting. | |
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"Your World Will Fail" by Les Friction is about someone who comes from a utopian planet come to destroy another, less utopian world: | |
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Vanishing on 7th Street has a mysterious phenomenon where darkness is causing people to disappear and sources of lights and even daylight hours are steadily running out. | |
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Blood and Revolution has Saitou and Shun waking a God in Human Form to stop a war that they believe will be disastrous. The god ends up inadvertently driving every living thing insane for a hundred years. | |
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Empire of the Vampire: Due to Daysdeath, a perpetual shroud of dust and smog smothering the world's atmosphere, there is an acute lack of sunlight across the entire continent. Beyond the immediate problems such as crop failure, the resulting risk of famine and the gradual decline of all natural food chains, this also allows the formerly minor and endemic threat of vampires to spiral out of control through targeted mass turnings by a handful of ancient, powerful highbloods. As hordes of ravenous Dead sweep away the last bastions of old civilization across a starving, dying world, it seems reasonable for many characters to conclude that the End Times have come. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer built each season around a Big Bad whose plans usually threatened the End of Everything if he wasn't stopped by late Spring. At one point, when Giles proclaimed the Big Bad was about to cause the end of the world, everyone present groaned, "Again?" One of Buffy's boyfriends once lamented that hanging around her had caused him to need to know "the plural of apocalypse." In one episode, averting the apocalypse was the B-plot. When Angel spun-off, the world was often facing two ends at once, one L.A.-based in the form of Wolfram & Hart's ongoing plans for Armageddon, the other Sunnydale-based with a different villain threatening the world each season. It even reached the point where, in the Buffy Grand Finale, Wolfram & Hart helped stop Sunnydale's apocalypse, partly because it interfered with their own apocalyptic plans. With the alarmingly frequent amounts of Apocalypses going on, it's pretty safe to assume there are several happening all at the same time. Wolfram and Hart has an archive specifically devoted to upcoming Apocalypses for Christ's sake! There's no secret made of the fact that The World Is Always Doomed, in the Buffyverse. |
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"I'm a Distraction" from To Boldly Flee is a song about the end of the world (Specifically the end of the Planet Krypton). | |
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Anyone living in the world of any Pretty Cure series should try not to get too attached to the universe. It was already one lost fight away from total destruction in the very first episode, with multiple near-misses along the way; in particular, almost all life was wiped out near the end of Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star, though the heroines managed to reverse it by defeating the bad guy. | |
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The House With a Clock in Its Walls: The evil magicians Isaac and Selenna Izzard spend their lives plotting to bring about the end of the world; the eponymous clock is a Doomsday Device trying to pull the cosmos into the proper alignment so it can happen. The protagonists can only speculate what exactly prompted the Izzards to do this, as they are both dead(ish) at the start of the story. | |
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One would not expect this trope to pop up in a game revolving around baking cookies, but Cookie Clicker proves otherwise. Late into the game, the player could trigger the Grandmapocalypse, an event involving angering the Grandmatriarchs. The more it advances, the grimmer are the news reports from around the world. It is notoriously one of the very, very few things that are not Played for Laughs in the game. | |
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One episode of Big Wolf on Campus has hero Tommy Dawkins prevent the end of the world by winning a wrestling match against a demon. | |
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In Rift, Defiant player characters are sent back in time from a Bad Future in order to avert the Class 5 or 6 apocalypse that's the result of Regulos winning. | |
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In Armored Core for Answer, it's implied that the main character wiped out the rest of humanity on ending C. Other paths to humankind's extinction exist in the game as well... | |
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While Elfen Lied starts as a story about two cousins hiding an abused and escaped mutant from an evil government agency, it is later revealed that said mutants may very well destroy all human life on earth and it becomes a very close call near the end, though considering how monstrous humans have been portrayed, maybe it's what should have happened. It is absent in the Anime. | |
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At the end of the Chaos Timeline, World War III between the superpowers Germany and China breaks out, and although it doesn't last long (less than one day, in fact), the world will never be again as it was before. Because the hackers Logos and their allied AIs take over the world and the military and tell the war off. | |
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Queen Millennia: Sankei University Tsukuba Observatory discovers the Tenth Planet is on collision course with Earth and will arrive shortly 9/9/1999 00:09:09. The planet entering Uranus's orbit is enough to start devastating earthquakes on Earth. La-Metal can control its own speed, but Yayoi has made preparations assuming it won't stop. Which turns out to be a huge Batman Gambit on Larela's part, and as soon as Yayoi makes humans immigrate to La-Metal, Larela tries to send her people to now unoccupied and much more comfortable Earth. | |
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In Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, it is heavily implied (and outright confirmed in Lysandre's case) that a few alternate universes were destroyed as a result of the lack of anyone stopping the Big Bad of various games from their goals. | |
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Unknown Armies has an interesting take on this. The world will end when the number of the Invisible Clergy hits 333; once it ends, the 333 Clergy members and the Archetypes they embody get to have their say in how the next world is shaped, the Clergy is emptied, and the whole process starts again. In other words, the current incarnation of the world shapes the next, for good or ill. It's insinuated that this has happened several times before; the Comte de Saint-Germain is always present because he embodies The First and Last Man — the first human born in the new world and the final person to ascend to the Clergy. | |
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In the end of Saikano the world does come to an end. Chise loses her body in a climactic final battle and becomes a ball of light and Shuuiji is the sole survivor in the entire planet.Few things could be sadder. | |
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The end of Chapter 4 in Bravely Second has the heroes arrive just too late to stop the Kaiser's plan: He escapes into the Holy Pillar bringing Agnes with him, but not before destroying the Moon, which kills all of Magnolia's allies, plunges the world into an eternal night, and since the Moon was the only line of defense against Ba'als, they invade Luxendarc, replacing all random encounters, with NPCs in every town going from panicking to being resigned to their fate. Good thing the player has a Reset Button and Yew is quick to recommend they use it. | |
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In The Last Witch Hunter, the Witch Queen's plan is to eradicate the entire human civilization and all traits of it so that the witches can rule the world. | |
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In Turtles Forever, the 2003 Shredder plans to set out on a conquest of the Turtles Multiverse, until he learns that there will be a team of Ninja Turtles that would be waiting to stop him in each and every dimension. He decides to destroy all of them at once by going after the source, Turtle "Prime", blind to the fact that destroying the multiverse would mean the end for him, as well. And he almost won, too. | |
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In A New World, an extremist Lunarian faction executes a virtual coup d'etat by killing the Watatsuki sisters and refusing to leave the True Moon even in the face of the human advance in the surface. Then they use their super-advanced technology to hack into Earth's arsenals and trigger a massive apocalypse by faking huge amounts of telemetry, and when that's not enough, outright seizing control the planet's nuclear arsenals and liberally dispensing nukes. The result is a bloody collapse of Earth's infrastructure, killing billions, to save a force of less than two hundred Lunarians. And to cap it off, the remaining Lunarians descend en masse to smash Gensokyo. | |
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Dr. STONE begins with a flash of light that petrifies humanity for thousands of years, effectively ending all civilization and almost everything humans built with no one to maintain any of it. Senku comments a few times early on that they're living in a "Stone World" now and previous rules of how the world work no longer apply. | |
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Cataclysm takes place in the near-future, where the world has been simultaneously been struck by a Zombie Apocalypse, giant bug invasion, Mushroom Man infestation, and the opening of several portals to an alternate dimension full of Eldritch Abominations. | |
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Far Out There opens with Trigger being trained from birth to prevent this. (It turns out to be completely unnecessary) | |
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New World of Darkness: One of the supplement books, Mirrors, provides various possible scenarios to handle a campaign involving the end of the World, as well as the consquences it would have on all the supernatural inhabitants. Fan-made supplement Siren: The Drowning has it as part of its premise: the titular Sirens actually are humans who were transformed by the song of a Goddess warning them about a Bad Future where an apocalypse called the Deluge happened, and they must now do everything in their power to prevent the various potential causes of the Deluge in order to make sure it won't happen. |
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Further back, the climax of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire has Groudon/Kyogre's awakening bring about an endless drought/flood. The game outright states that the Hoenn region could be destroyed if this isn't stopped, but who's to say it would end there? | |
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Wander over Yonder: This is Lord Dominator's MO. Although other characters, such as Lord Hater and Buster have destroyed worlds too. | |
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Weiss' and Hickman's Dragon Lance series has had quite a few of these. There's the main Cataclysm, in which a "mountain of fire" (Word of God says it was a meteor) which annihilated the Kingdom of Istar and killed millions outside of it with fire, earthquakes, etc. On the same day, Taladas, the continent to the northeast of Ansalon, suffered the "Great Destruction," in which an earthquake wiped out the mighty Aurim empire and filled the interior of the continent with molten lava. In Adlatum, the third continent the Cataclysm came in the form of the Great Drowning in which massive tidal waves flooded large parts of the land and never receded. And then, in more recent times Chaos showed up... | |
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Horizon Zero Dawn is set After the End. The Old World has fallen, but humanity has survived as scattered tribes on the Bronze Age level (at best) living among the ruins of their advanced precursor civilizations. And for some reason, they share their world with an entire ecosystem of robotic animals and even dinosaurs. The big story twist is that mankind did not, in fact, survive the fall of the Old World. Every living thing on Earth down to microbes was wiped out by the Faro Plague, a rogue swarm of Killer Robots that fed on biomass to fuel their self-replicating armies. With the Old Ones fighting a Hopeless War against the relentlessly encroaching swarms, they poured their last resources into the construction of a massive terraforming network that would restore life to the planet once the Faro Plague ran out of things to eat and shut down. It worked, and the game's plot is set almost a thousand years after the world as we know it ended in fire. All those robots you encounter on your quest are either part of this terraforming system or remnants of the Faro Plague, and thus play crucial roles in the story. | |
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Destroy the Godmodder has a more limited example. The entire community ragequits permanently, leaving the target (server or Minecraft) completely desolate and devoid of activity. It gets worse in the second game, with the end result being everyone forced to ragequit from God Craft, fail, and then ragequit harder. Forever. When that was averted, the Godmodder promptly went omnicidal and promptly decided to destroy all of existence, starting with the universe of Minecraft, with the aid of the Red Dragon. The Conflict also has this as their ultimate goal. In the TV Tropes session, the penalty for failing is the end of TV Tropes. Forever. This actually happened in the original MSPA session due to the lack of activity; the Godmodder pretty much obliterated the entirety of Paradox Space because no one stood up to him. Fortunately, this will be retconned away because the MPSA session is being rebooted in the near future. |
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The Awakened DLC for Dead Space 3 has the Brother Moons — planet-sized Eldritch Abominations spawned from entire species consumed by the necromorph virus — chowing down on Earth itself at the end. Gotta love that Cosmic Horror Story. | |
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At the end of The Curse of Sleeping Beauty, Rose awakens then kisses and attacks Thomas. Rose kills the Veiled Demon, but before doing so, it tells them that Thomas' bloodline 'stores' many demons, which Rose will summon to unleash upon the world. Rose states she will not kill them so they can see the darkness to come and begins to awaken the demons in Thomas' bloodline. Meanwhile, after the full text from the book is deciphered Daniel reads the curse that awakening the demons in Thomas' bloodline will trigger the Apocalypse. | |
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In BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, each of the three main villains want to cause it, albeit in different ways and for different reasons. Arianna wants to use STORM’s power to wipe the Internet clean, then replace it with a cold and clinical world of pure data where she feels safe. (The Overtaken plague seems to be an unintended side effect, and it’s unclear if she even knows it’s happening). Boxxyfan puts emphasis on the “as we know it.� He aims to revert the Internet back to a chaotic and primordial state, killing off the entire current population in the process. Finally, in the True Ending route, Legion wants to purge all human users from cyberspace, then break free from the virtual world and unleash his wrath upon reality, too. |
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The Halloween Unspectacular anthology series often uses this, or the threat of it, in many stories. This especially prominent at the climaxes of several of its yearly Story Arcs: In the first edition, ReGenesis uses its vast power to begin systematically destroying the world almost immediately upon being created. Within a matter of hours, the remaining heroes (and possibly the only survivors on the planet) are making their Last Stand in Australia. Fortunately, the Doctor manages to convince ReGenesis to use its powers to hit the Reset Button. In the second edition, the bringing together of the three Fiddley Things causes the universe to be wiped from existence, except for the villains' headquarters. When Sandy wins the fight for control of all three Things, reality is restored. While it doesn't quite reach this point in the third edition, it's mentioned that if the Witchfinders succeed in destroying Britain's magic, the whole island will be destroyed, with an implied ripple effect for the rest of the world. In the fifth edition, Galahad's plan is to collapse The Multiverse in order to break the cycle of fate. But this is doomed to fail, instead unleashing a horde of demons which destroy the world, as the Bad Future which Tammy comes back to avert shows. |
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In Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, Demon Lord Vearn wants to destroy the Human World to get a glimpse of the sun for the Demon World. He comes dangerously close to succeeding. | |
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Tales of the Otherverse: The titular parallel Earth was destroyed by an interdimensional war caused by all manner of evil super-beings and monsters invading the place when the borders between realities weakened. | |
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In inFAMOUS 2 we learn that Kessler was missing a vital piece of information and the Beast's actual goal is to save as many people as he can from an incurable plague that's spreading across the world, but his process kills others. The evil ending is agreeing that this is the best course of action and helping him do it. | |
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The End of Ponies: The end of Equestria is referred to as the Cataclysm; discovering how it happened drives the plot from Chapter 5 onward. As of Chapter 30, the Cataclysm may also be called (or have something to do with) the Onyx Eclipse. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts, The Darkness is attempting to extinguish the Heart of reality itself. The protagonists get a glimpse what will happen to the multiverse if they fail when they visit a place called "The End of the World." It's the center of all Darkness — a bleak, mostly formless mess made up of the stuff of worlds devoured by The Heartless, who themselves are made up of the stuff of people devoured by The Heartless or devolved by their own descent into evil. | |
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This was hilariously mocked in Penn & Teller: Bullshit! where they interview someone who claims to be Mayan royalty about the end of the world. When she denies the world will end in 2012, Penn snarks "Ah, what does she know?" | |
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The End of the World by Fantasy Flight Games allows players to experience the apocalypse from its beginning where they live, with themselves serving as the player characters. | |
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Babylon 5: Part of the backstory is the near-annihilation of Earth during the Earth-Minbari War. In the episode "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", it is revealed that Earth centuries in the future eventually suffers an apocalyptic event brought upon by a civil war, and the Interstellar community, led by the Rangers, are working in secret to slowly bring human civilization back. The spinoff show Crusade features the Earth yet again on the brink of destruction after the Drakh infects the whole planet with a plague that will slowly kill the population in 5 years. |
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The sun is dying in the sci-fi movie Sunshine and has to be reignited with a nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan Island. The B-movie Solar Crisis features a similar premise, but the earth is directly threatened by a massive solar flare that Our Heroes must trigger prematurely. |
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Aliens: Armageddon, like its title implies, deals with the impending Armageddon of mankind after an alien infestation on the spaceship USS Capella reaches earth and spreads out of control. You don't even get to stop the alien outbreak, and instead the entire game is focused on your efforts to help the last batch of human survivors leave earth while fending off alien attacks led by the alien queen. | |
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Many of the Dragonriders of Pern novels concern the heroes' struggle to avert the End Of The World As The Pernese Know It, by defending human civilization against Threadfall. Thread eats anything organic it touches; in Dragonsdawn, the ecology-based scientists remark on the paucity of animal and plant life on land. (Thread drowns in water.) | |
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In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Ashera is the Goddess of Order. If there's too much war and conflict, she destroys the world, angry that the dark god has been freed and that Lehran hasn't been able to fulfill his promise.. However, the galdr of release freeing Yune prevents her from doing this and she turns almost everyone into stone statues, preparing to rebuild the world anew. | |
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The Second Try: After the Third Impact Shinji and Asuka are the only people left on Earth: Humanity has been wiped out, human cities are in ruins, the world has became a wasteland and wildlife is getting out of control. | |
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City of Heroes... if there were a time when the world isn't imperilled by callous villains, giant robots, aliens from Another Dimension, Experiments Gone Horribly Wrong and so forth, it was probably removed in beta. Even the villains get a few cracks at saving the world in a bit of Destiny subversion a certain arc shows you what would happen if you fulfill your potential as a Destined One and take over the world — there'll be no world left to take over. You then have to thwart Big Bad Lord Recluse in the future to convince the present Recluse not to go through with the plan... which really does mess with the whole ball of Timey Wimey Stuff, and player's heads. | |
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Sailor Moon: The Moon Kingdom was completely destroyed in the past. the Earth is constantly in danger as one villainous group invades it after another, and the last arc/season's Big Bad has already rendered most of the Galaxy dead before attacking the Earth. In the manga, the world (along with the Big Bad) is destroyed at the end of the third story arc by Sailor Saturn... only to be immediately restored by Princess Serenity. In Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, in addition to the destruction of the Moon Kingdom in the past, Princess Serenity does the same with the Earth at the end of the series. |
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This sort of thing happens a lot, to any number of planets, at various points in the assorted Transformers cartoons, comics, etc. Some planets make it, some don't. | |
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As for the authenticity of the legend, The Other Wiki cautiously states that "it is not clear whether Lucas invented this legend or was inspired by it." | |
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On Gravity Falls, Bill Cipher's goal is to open a tear to his dimension and turn Earth into a World Gone Mad. He succeeds near the end of the second season when he manipulates Mabel into giving him a compressed dimensional rift accidentally created by Ford's portal. Thankfully, a barrier limited his power to Gravity Falls, and he was defeated in the Grand Finale before he could escape. | |
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In Crysis 3 this is the result if you don't fire Archangel at the True Ceph warship; it fires its Wave-Motion Gun and the last thing you see before fade to black is the shockwave visibly spreading over Earth's surface. | |
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