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So the plot of your standard adventure story needs to keep referencing the story arc or continuing plot, and the heroes need to know there's some sort of threat and it's big and dangerous and evil. Not a problem, unless you can't let the heroes, or the audience, know what that threat is specifically. Hence we get crazy visions and nonsense prophecies and bits of shadowy groups talking of vagueness. They typically consist of "Evil is coming", "The darkness will arrive" or possibly "The End Is Nigh", or some such. The audience is reminded of a coming villain or threat but is never really given a clue what it might be. It could occur once or in every episode. Omens, like strange animals, strange behavior or peculiar weather can also work. When the threat is never made explicit and only the effects are shown, see Take Our Word for It. If the actual threat fails to impress our frightened heroes, see Feet of Clay. Conversely, if the threat (or the character's reactions to it) uproots the existing status quo, see Nothing Is the Same Anymore. Goes beyond Foreshadowing. See also Cryptic Conversation and The Omniscient Council of Vagueness. Often You Will Know What to Do. Subtrope of Portent of Doom. A Storm Is Coming is a specific subtrope. Related to Arc Words. Poor Communication Kills goes with the territory if the confused characters aren't asking the obvious questions or for clarification. Not to be confused with Harbinger of Impending Doom. |
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Invoked by Lawrence Bristow in Pale, where he justifies his dictatorial plans for the practitioner community with the need to protect and organize against future threats, and when defeated declares that a threat of great magnitude will emerge within a few decades at most, but never provides specifics. He's proven right, after a fashion, a few months later, when Charles Abrams seizes the throne of the Carmine Beast and begins levying arbitrary punishments on practitioners across Ontario, depriving them of magic at the worst possible times, but it's noted that he could not have predicted this-he was simply referring to the continued decay of systems that keep the peace between human and Other, the growing human population, and the new interconnectedness of the practitioner community with the rise of modern communication, holding that enough will go wrong eventually to produce a major threat. | |
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Worm: Happens both in the original story and the sequel, Ward. In both precognitive parahumans are able to perceive that an apocalyptic disaster is coming and humanity is very unlikely to survive... but they can't see what exactly that disaster is. All they can really tell in both cases is that there is a very high chance that billions will die if nothing is done, with total human extinction a very real possibility. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): One of the people in Berezniki who's psychically affected by the Many and/or Ghidorah says the following regarding their Evil Plan for Monster X: | |
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The Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) played with this a lot before Ian Flynn took over as the writer. Ken Penders in particular was fond of hinting at various important magical destinies for the cast, only to implore readers to buy the next issue to see what happens. When he finally quit the title, a lot of plot threads from him and various other writers were left hanging, so Flynn spent his first year wrapping all of them up before moving onto new stories. | |
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Destiny is a big-time repeat offender. The Darkness is coming. An ancient power slumbers below. Something dark lies beneath. The shadow rises, we need your light. The dark is strong here. | |
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Various characters in Fables get thoroughly fed up with this; the ghost of Colin Piggy aka the avatar of Hope appears to both Snow White and Rose Red to warn them things are about to get tougher and they need to brace themselves. Both of them repeatedly ask for useful details, but the vision says it can never stay for very long and always disappears before giving any information that would actually help them prepare a plan. The discovery of what the vision really is makes this a Justified Trope; Hope isn't about reason or making strategies to survive, its province is the simple refusal to lie down and give up the fight, so it makes sense that it only tells people to summon their strength. Ozma the witch gives young Ambrose Wolf a prophecy about his siblings, which he relays to Snow and Bigby. The prophecy is actually quite detailed, but it doesn't give anyone any information on how to avoid it. As of the end of Cubs in Toyland certain parts of it have already come true. The Forsworn Knight shouts prophecies that are vague even by the standards of this trope (i.e. "The time is coming!" and nothing more than that), and Bufkin the monkey gets thoroughly fed up with it and directly lampshades the fact that he never says anything useful and never does anything beyond sound ominous. |
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The Beast's arrival in season 4 of Angel is foreseen in vague implications of fire and blood. Before that, in season 3, the Nyazian scrolls contain vague forebodings about Angel's child, the return of Holtz, and the imminent destruction of mankind. Angel's crew and Wolfram and Hart repeatedly misinterpret the prophecies to their chagrin. It turns out that a time-traveler had edited the Nyazian scrolls for his own benefit, making their misinterpretations inevitable. | |
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Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars: In the few missions before he supposedly dies, Kane is very nearly giddy about the arrival of... something. It's only once it shows up that anybody else, player included, learns that it's aliens. Hostile aliens. He's equally cryptic about what "ascension" is (he's an alien who was exiled onto Earth in prehistoric times and after Vega crashed the ship Kane built to escape the planet in GDI territory, Kane intentionally lured the Scrin onto Earth in order to hijack their wormhole technology instead), and everything else. | |
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In Grant Morrison's JLA run, the various New Gods the JLA run into say something along the lines of "IT'S COMING!" to foreshadow the arrival of ancient god-weapon Mageddon. | |
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The Very Secret Diary: While trying to sort Ginny into her house, the Sorting Hat detected Tom Riddle's presence, but only warned, "There is something alien in this brain of yours, my girl...take heed...". Ginny, of course, didn't understand the problem. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: In "Afterlife", Gordon tells Cal that his violent behavior has decided his fate as well as Skye's. It later turns out that he was talking about Cal's exile, meaning he would be permanently separated from his daughter. In "A Life Earned", there is a prophecy that S.H.I.E.L.D. will come to save the people of the Lighthouse from the Kree. The Kree find the whole prophecy annoyingly vague, as they don't know how many agents are coming—there could be two, or twenty. Deke points out that it would probably be less vague if the Kree hadn't killed everyone who knew anything about it. Indeed, we briefly see one of the last people to know the full details of the prophecy, and he knew exactly who was coming, when they were coming, and was able to recognize them on sight. Robin, the seer who provided the prophecy in the first place, is a subversion. Her prophecies are simple, easy to understand, and accurate. Unfortunately, her mind is unstuck in time, so she often forgets which of her prophecies are relevant at the moment. She spends much of her childhood desperately trying to warn people about dangerous events that won't happen for another fifty years. |
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Generally averted in Dominic Deegan. All seers are as specific and detailed about their visions as possible. Dominic himself is somewhat dismissive of this trope, quipping that a seer who resorts to this is "disguising his ignorance with cliché mysticism". That said, the comic doesn't completely avoid this trope, using once in a while for some tension. | |
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Played dead straight in the 2011-12 season finale of Fringe. After the main action of the episode is wrapped up, one of the Observers appears to say to the hero "They are coming," and the season ends. | |
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Even the subtitle of Episode I, The Phantom Menace, suggests this (it's clear to someone familiar with the original trilogy but otherwise it's played straight). | |
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Chapter 2 of What a Strange Little Colt has a stinger where Princess Luna only says she “brings terrible news� before the chapter ends. | |
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Justified in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann when Guame makes a pair of cryptic references to humanity's "true enemy" and the danger of Spiral Power (referring to the Anti-Spirals and the Spiral Nemesis respectively). In the first case, he was musing aloud and in the second he was speaking to his boss who already knows about both; so he doesn't provide details because he doesn't need to. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: In the epilogue serving as a Sequel Hook, Dr. G reveals that C's actions were actually perpetrated by an unknown Nebulous Evil Organization that would eventually make another move. On top of that, a document found in a research room at The Consortium mentions that the energy emanating from the Limen crater is slowly growing and could bring about an apocalyptic event without precedence on the planet. | |
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In the ninth issue of Legion of Super-Heroes (2020), Dream Girl warns everyone that a "Great Darkness" is coming. | |
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The second half of the second season of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated had the Arc Words "Nibiru is coming". Nibiru isn't really a person but rather an event that will enable the evilest creature in the Scooby Doo franchise to enter this dimension. | |
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Happens in the end of Chapter 9, remastered version of The Night Unfurls. The Rat, after being given Morgan's Soul by Kyril, tells the Hunter that another war is imminent, "The Old Gods are waking", and they may have in need of him in the future. It is unclear what all these mean specifically, and Kyril doesn't even question The Rat further. The chapter even ends off with the Rat saying, "I hope the Goddess is ready...", with little elaboration. | |
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In Chapter 2 of Another Code, one of the puzzles you solve reveals the message "Bill will come". You don't get any more info about Bill until Chapter 4, but it's a nice, vague warning about the game's antagonist. | |
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In Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles, both Hagrid and Dumbledore repeatedly say that "dark days are coming", but don't offer much explanation. | |
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The story of Harry Potter's life. He's given nibbles that there's something terrifying on the horizon - and as a matter of fact, a very clear prophecy was given about him… that he isn't told about for five books. There's also the centaurs…"Mars is bright", indeed. Lampshaded by Hagrid, who doesn't have a lot of patience for cryptic centaur speech. | |
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The souls of the dead in The Divine Comedy often warn Dante that his native city is only going to get worse and worse and that his own fate will be shaped by the sins of Florence. These prophecies refer to Dante's real-life exile from Florence four years after the Comedy is set. | |
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Xiaolin Showdown: Count the number of times you hear the phrase "a thousand years of darkness". It's pretty much used in place of saying "the world will be destroyed". | |
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In Attack on Titan, Reiner and Bertolt after revealing themselves make vague references to a force that lies beyond the walls also "their hometown", and repeatedly state that "there's no future inside the walls". Uri Reiss also made similar statements. It turns out what they refer to in The Reveal is the Kingdom of Marley who are among living proof that humanity is thriving outside the walls and they plan to conquer for their resources along with the Coordinate. | |
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In the issues before The Death of Superman started, there would be a page of a mysterious fist pounding at a wall, proclaiming "Doomsday is Coming" until it busted through, in which it went "Doomsday is Here!" | |
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The Seven Deadly Sins: A Holy War was prophesied to engulf all of Britannia. However, who the Holy War would be against is not stated. The King of Lyonesse tried to prevent the war by asking his knights to lay down their swords. The Holy Knights instead decided to prevent the war by overthrowing the king and forcing the various civilians to make preparations for it. | |
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Justified in The Dresden Files — vague statements and misdirection are a way of preventing time paradoxes. For example, the Gatekeeper's extremely vague message about dark magic in Proven Guilty is actually the start of a convoluted Gambit Roulette to get around the fact that if he told the rest of the White Council about the impending vampire attack, they'd evacuate and the attack wouldn't happen, so he couldn't have foreseen it. It also serves to set up events so that Molly isn't executed as a warlock. In Harry's internal monologues, he's noting a decreasingly-vague threat in the form of the Black Council. Fridge Logic has that because in the Dresdenverse names have so much power, it's possible that by thinking about and searching for the Black Council, he's defining its essence. It's also possible that they didn't really have their act in gear before. We'll see. |
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In the miniseries version of The Stand, Mother Abagail helpfully informs the heroes: "The Beast is loose in the fields of Bethlehem. The rats are in the corn!" She also says "A Storm Is Coming. His storm!" And "the rats are his." Both quote William Butler Yeats: "What rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" |
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Supernatural: In the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21), Sam says, "I mean, the size of what's coming — it's bigger than anyone has ever seen. I mean, it's gonna get bad." But, Sam really does not flesh this out further. In S10, Death says getting rid of the Mark of Cain will unleash the Darkness. WHAT the Darkness is exactly is completely vague. Even now that the Darkness IS released. It takes the form of an attractive woman, but she doesn't know much of anything, even wondering "who is this 'Death'?" when Dean told her that Death knew about her. Pretty much a summary of Season 11's overarching mythology plot. The Darkness' moniker is whispered by fearful souls, and the immortals quake, but no one really knows what she's capable of. She rarely shows her powers on screen and when she does, it's powers that are visually unimpressive like fog (albeit fog that kills people). Her powers are never fully explained, only implied by the fact that she is God's sister who has inverse powers. What exactly she plans to do to the universe is never completely explained beyond the idea that she wants to "end it." Her infatuation with Dean is never really clarified other than he freed her and he's one of God's creations. It's almost like the writers wanted to create a threat that would be difficult for any combination of the Winchesters, Castiel or God to neutralize, but had no idea where to go with it once they came up with a concept. |
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In the Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5 episode "Better Off Red", Sage states something even worse than the Red Sentients is coming and she's building a weapon to try and stop it. A lot of her strange behavior that episode seems to simply be because she's terrified of whatever this evil is to the point she didn't want to tell the group about it and hoped never to face it. The season finale reveals that this new enemy is the Ancient Ones, but nothing more is explained except rather frightening shadowy images of them and the fact they predate the Sentients (who created the multiverse). These facts, along with the fact their name seems to be a Shout-Out to the Old Ones, heavily implies they're in Eldritch Abomination territory. | |
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In the Whateley Universe, Chaka received a rhyming prediction (or series of predictions) from a prognosticator. The entire team has sat down and gone over the poem, and not even Teen Genius Phase can make any sense out of it. | |
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Tower of God: And that wave is Twenty-Fifth Bam. |
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Discworld: In a bit about the various timekeeping methods on the Disc, this comes up: | |
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Parodied in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist about the arrival of the Chosen One: | |
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In Aquaman: Monster, the creatures around Atlantis are known to make prophecies and comments on the future, which only Arthur can hear and understand. Unfortunately for Arthur, they tend to be vague and hard to parse at best. | |
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In Atlantis, the soothsayer tells Jason that he is the subject of a prophecy and vague destiny and doom and fate and other stuff is in his future. He's also The Chosen One, although she doesn't tell Jason that or what exactly he is chosen for. Specifics are rather thin on the ground. | |
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Torchwood: The Abaddon gets a few of these in the first series. "The twenty-first century is when everything changes." Repeated every few episodes, and in the opening narration. From "Children of Earth": "WE... ARE... COMING!" |
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In The Screaming Staircase, the first book of Lockwood & Co., the first things that the whispering skull tells Lucy is that "death is coming" and that "death is in life and life is in death." Both do have actual meaning and the latter becomes particularly meaningful in light of the revelations of the final two books of the series. Both, however, are so irritatingly vague at the time that Lucy's immediate reaction is to close herself off from communication from the skull and leave it be for time being, despite the fact it's the first known instance of anyone communicating with a type III ghost since Marissa Fittes. | |
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Pokémon Sword and Shield: After praising the player for completing their training on the Isle of Armor, Mustard says under his breath that maybe they'll be prepared for what's to come, possibly alluding to a follow-up in the Crown Tundra DLC. | |
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This appears in the premiere book of The Mysterious Benedict Society as "the thing to come." Mr. Benedict and his crew are already aware that "the Sender" is the cause of the phenomenon known as the Emergency and due to a number of factors have good reason to believe that something much worse is coming. Due to their limited ability to gather information up until the arrival of the main characters (the titular society), they don't know what this "thing to come" is, only that for them and those like them whose minds have a powerful love of truth, it is likely to be very bad indeed. | |
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Ultimate Marvel: Ultimate Origins: The Watchers show up to watch some imminent devastation, and empower a human to deal with it, which they know nothing about, other than it will happen. Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: The video of the dying aliens really knows how to get a point across, but doesn't really say much that might be actually useful. "No. No escape. No escape. It comes. And there's no escape. All the stars got out. You are already dead. It comes and you are all dead. We are all dead. Listen. There is only death for you. There is only small life. Then there is this. We he I send this tell this warn this. There is only horror now. There is only death now" |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "The Phantom Apprentice" (which takes place at the same time as Revenge of the Sith), Maul reveals to Ahsoka that he's been having visions of things to come, namely in that Darth Sidious will soon change everything forever. He doesn't know the exact details, but he does know that Sidious is eyeing Anakin as his new apprentice, and once that happens, it's over. Since he lacks (or won't say) any further details and she still believes in her former master, Ahsoka refuses to listen to anything else Maul has to say. | |
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The second episode of Dinosaur Planet revolves around a catastrophic volcanic eruption threatening the lives of the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Elkhorn Range. The dinosaurs being animals, they don't properly process what's about to happen, only being plagued by the telltale signs of the approaching disaster like violent explosions of gas and the smoking mountain. It's not until the pyroclastic flow from the eruption wipes out half of the region that the dinosaurs finally recognize that whatever is coming is a threat. By then, it's too late, and the entire cast is wiped out. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Throughout the first half of Vol 2, there are several mentions of "the death of the future-tense", which is apparently serious enough to bring time-travellers back to 2007 to try and kill the Guardians. It turns out this means the appearance of The Magus causing every single timeline to turn into one where he and the Church of Universal Truth rule the universe. | |
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The first Deptford Mice book includes a scene where the prophet bats outline the main plot of the trilogy, but in a way that's not much practical help to anyone. | |
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This is how the main conflict of The Simpsons Movie is set up. Abe Simpson has a "religious experience" in church, culminating in a strange prophecy that everyone initially dismisses as just a foolish old man's eccentricities. His ravings during the episode are all in the form of riddles, so they sound incomprehensible and aren't taken seriously. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The Dark One, god of the goblins, averts this with his message for Redcloak — "Don't screw this up." | |
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A Future of Friendship, a History of Hate: The heralds each seek out their counterpart among the Mane Six just before Ruinate's escape from his prison to creepily give a warning/prophecy about it. The girls react with various degrees of fear and confusion. | |
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In Persona 5, Igor repeatedly mentions the "coming ruin." Good luck getting anything solid from him about the "coming ruin." However, this is Justified when it turns out that the one speaking is the impostor Yaldabaoth, having imprisoned the real Igor as part of an Assimilation Plot. Thus, it's fully in his interests to not disclose what's going on, and talking about his own ominous threat essentially lets him indulge in Evil Gloating without suspicion. The wording itself is also a hint that this Igor is an imposter; the real one is much more vague. | |
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Dave Barry Slept Here: | |
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Probably one of the harder-to-find examples: buried within the code of Undertale is Entry #17, the only one not among Alphys' notes in the True Lab. The entry was apparently written by Doctor W.D. Gaster himself, and references his monitoring of some kind of ever-increasing darkness (in which photon readings are apparently negative), before asking "What do you two think?" The identity of those he addresses are unknown. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The JOJOLands, after Jodio outwits Rohan as the group succeeds in obtaining the lava rock, Rohan warns them that they will be hunted by an unknown party, but refuses to elaborate further. | |
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Many of the prophecies of the Jedi mystics in Master and Apprentice are of this nature, such as "When the kyber that is not kyber shines forth, the time of prophecy will be at end." Kenobi laments the seeming absurdity of there being a prophecy about prophecy. | |
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Scott The Woz has a subtle one in False Advertising. | |
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Always Visible: The very first thing you read is Delia's nightmare of five men killing an invisible man. This is a foreshadowing of what the story will tell later about her friend Jo, whom society has effectively "made invisible" from her own eyes. | |
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In the Witch Hunt DLC for Dragon Age: Origins, Morrigan alludes to some great upheaval that is coming to the setting of Thedas, though she specifically avoids sharing any concrete details. | |
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In the Final Destination comics (as well as some of the films) the words "it's coming", and "it's here" can be seen at various points. | |
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The Owl House has the plans of Emperor Belos, the Big Bad of the show and an event he calls "The Day of Unity". It eventually turns out that he's planning to use the power of a solar eclipse combined with his subjects' coven sigils to wipe out all the witches and demons on the Boiling Isles. All the talk of unity was just posturing to manipulate the masses into signing their own death warrent. | |
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In One-Punch Man, the great prophet's last prophecy is "the earth is in trouble!" Several A-rank heroes lampshade the utter uselessness of this prophecy. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: The Arc Words: "The sun approaches the horizon. The Everstorm comes. The True Desolation. The Night of Sorrows." Interestingly, while the first seems metaphorical, the Everstorm comes in the climax of Words of Radiance, and the Desolations are real events that are much worse. One starts to wonder how terrible the Night of Sorrows will prove... Then there are the Death Rattles, prophetic whispers sometimes uttered by the dying. They describe many of the events of the books weeks or even months before they happen, but use such obscure terminology it's nearly impossible to puzzle them out even after the fact. Notable that the Arc Words were a Death Rattle, and bits and pieces of them show up all the time. |
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Mortal Kombat 9: The game starts after Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, with Shao Kahn victorious and all the heroes dead. Raiden uses the last of his power to send a message back in time to himself around the time of the first Mortal Kombat game, including images of some of the disasters that have come to pass and the words "He must win." Past!Raiden does his best to act on this cryptic warning, but his attempts tend to backfire spectacularly, like how he keeps Smoke from getting turned into a cyborg and ends up causing the same fate to befall the second Sub-Zero. It isn't until the end of the game when Raiden finally realizes what his future self was trying to say: the "he" is Shao Kahn himself — once he breaks the rules by merging Earthrealm and Outworld without winning the Mortal Kombat tournament, the Elder Gods finally get off their divine asses and smite him. Unfortunately, at that point, most of the cast is dead, including Liu Kang, and Earth is in ruins thanks to the invasion. As well, Shinnok is waiting in the wings for his chance to take over ... | |
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In Smallville Jor-El tries to get Clark to stop Darkseid's hold on the world but is so vague about it that Clark thinks he's talking about something else entirely, and stops that instead. Jor-El responds by yelling at him. Well sorry Jor-El, but maybe if you communicated better you wouldn't have this problem. Considering his prior track record...yeah. | |
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Berserk: The Skull Knight makes his first appearance after Guts defeats Griffith and leaves the Band of the Hawk and tells Guts that from that moment up until the Eclipse in one year, he and his friends have begun walking toward their doom. Though he does not give any more detail about what the Eclipse actually does or signifies, he doesn't hesitate to tell Guts that when it does go down, horrible things will happen, saying that a storm of death will come and consume the Band of the Hawk which is quite literal when the Eclipse actually does happen — and the chapter where it all starts going down is even called "Storm of Death." A year later, when Griffith reaches his Despair Event Horizon and activates his Crimson Behelit and the Eclipse finally happens, all Guts could think was that he and his comrades were in terrible danger. All of the times that Nosferatu Zodd popped in to remind Guts and the Band of the Hawk about his prophecy was doom on a layaway plan. The Holy See has a prophecy about the sun dying for the fifth time and appearing above a red lake, signifying the appearance of the Hawk of Darkness that will bring about an age of darkness and chaos. It's unclear what is meant, though the first part refers to The Eclipse with the sun dying for a fifth time being the creation of the fifth Godhand and the red lake being the copious amounts of blood from the Band of the Hawk sacrifices. The Millenium Falcon arc eventually reveals that the Hawk of Darkness is none other than Griffith, and the age of darkness and chaos has him open the paths and merge the astral and physical realm together, resulting in all sorts of mythical creatures to appear and basically create Hell on Earth, with reality-bending inwards upon itself. |
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One of the side missions in Batman: Arkham City ends with Batman receiving one of these, ostensibly as a Sequel Hook. | |
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Cradle Series: Predicting the future is always imprecise, not least because Fate can, in fact, be changed. Dream and Shadow madra tend to be the best at it, but even Akura Malice, inarguably the greatest Shadow artist in the world, has difficulty determining more than "this person will be important soon." So it's rather worrying in Reaper when suddenly every single seer starts predicting the exact same thing with crystal clarity. When the Mad King appears in the sky, the entire world trembles, any seer of any power starts screaming, and various oracle devices begin repeating "a destroyer has come" over and over. When Ozriel, Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court appears to challenge him, the trembling stops, and the message changes to "The Destroyer has come." | |
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The Ganymede Takeover. Mekkis opposed the conquest of Earth because his Oracle (a creeche capable of precognition) foresaw a 'coming darkness'. The apparent success of the invasion means that Mekkis is now discredited. When Mekkis demands an explanation, the Oracle can only repeat the same vague warnings. | |
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In the first season finale of The Walking Dead, Rick's group is being allowed to escape the self-destructing CDC by Dr. Jenner. Rick tells Jenner that he's grateful he's letting them escape and live, but Jenner cryptically warns him, "the day will come when you won't be." Jenner is accurately predicting the hardships that the group will face out in the apocalypse, but the Season 7 premiere, named after Jenner's quote, strongly implies that the day Negan arrived was the day Jenner inadvertently warned Rick about all those years ago. Even before the Season 7 premiere, hints foreshadowing Negan's arrival came off like this, such as the presence of the Saviors mentioning their unseen boss with reverence in early Season 6, making us wonder just who they're talking about. In the mid-season premiere of Season 6, a Savior tells the characters that they must submit to Negan, but at the time, we don't know who he is or what he's talking about. | |
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The tutorial level of Kingdom Hearts has quite a lot of this. But don't be afraid - the door's not yet open. | |
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In Endride, Eljuia is pretty upfront that he doesn't have much to go on in his visions of what's about to come, but it always looks ominous. | |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS gives this as an ability to the Saint Church's knight, Knight Carim, allowing her to write vague poems that apparently predict the future. She can only write them once a year and they're all written in Ancient Belkan (resulting in details being Lost in Translation), as well. It's lampshaded within the show, with the TSAB's higher-ups refusing to believe her prophecies due to vagueness. The most major instance of this is when she prophesies the "Ship of Law guarding the land" being destroyed. When Section Six and the Ground Forces are subsequently destroyed, they thought that this was what the prophecy meant (and what the heroes were trying to prevent). Until the ancient warship of the Belkans, a Lost Logia, is reconstructed by Jail Scaglietti. The prophecy was pointing to Section Six successfully destroying it. | |
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In Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, every plan the Jakanja devise is to invoke a mysterious phenomenon called "It". Every time they send out a Monster of the Week it's as part of a plan to summon "It", every new piece of information that comes up has something to do with "It" and everything the Hurricanegers are working to stop is involved in "It". It takes until the final few episodes of the series for us to get a good idea of what "It" is — an Eldritch Abomination seeking to destroy and remake the universe. | |
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Steven Universe: At the end of "Ocean Gem", Garnet and Pearl muse about what the future will bring after Lapis Lazuli manages to leave Earth. In "Catch and Release", the Crystal Gems capture Peridot, who cryptically rambles about the Cluster, which is later revealed to be a dangerous experiment done by the Homeworld that could spell the end of Earth if it "awakens". |
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Squidbillies mocks this trope on a number of occasions with Granny's Ghost Stories... which invariably come true and the actual menace turns out to be every bit as vague and nonsensical. | |
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In Watership Down, Fiver's descriptions of his prophetic visions take this form: "I know now… a terrible thing is coming." … "something very bad is about to happen...! It's all around us!" and later, "There's a bad danger coming—" "—It's not good!" (it indeed proves to be very bad). This makes sense, as Fiver is not only a rabbit, but a little kid, and the rabbit language that all the dialogue is being translated from almost certainly has no words to even remotely describe the warren being filled with poison gas. | |
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Ace Savvy: A New Hope: In The Stinger, Lisa alludes to something really bad coming that threatens all of Royal Woods but doesn't specify what it is. | |
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Played with in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016). Having already had one disastrous run-in with the Call to Adventure, Link is quick to pick up on even the most subtle Portent of Doom as a sign that shit is about to go down and he'll be the center of it. But he's also desperate to hold onto the new life he's carved out for himself for as long as possible, and the building guilt and fear he feels for doubling down on pretending everything is just fine result in seemingly unprovoked mood swings that serve as a much more obvious omen than any spooked animals or inexplicably blighted bumper crop. When people start disappearing, one of the villagers immediately identifies Link as a Doom Magnet, and Link finally breaks. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIII-2, both Cocoon and Gran Pulse are prophesied to be doomed, but the exact nature of the calamity remains unclear because time has been twisted and warped so many times that any of a number of things could cause it. | |
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Kitty Norville: In "Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand" Odysseus Grant keeps giving Kitty vague warnings to stay away from the Band of Tiamat. When she asks for specifics, Grant tells her she wouldn't believe him if he told her. Kitty responds, "I'm a freaking werewolf! Try me!" | |
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The ancient prophecy introduced late in My Little Animaniacs. It describes many creatures from a faraway land saving everyone from evil. | |
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Lost adored this trope. Just about every season finale/season premiere (and quite a few regular episodes) would end with someone saying something along these lines. At least once, it was actually lampshaded — the psychic who advised Claire about her baby warned her that blurriness is a very bad sign in a premonition. | |
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2010: The Year We Make Contact. Dave Bowman arrives and tells everyone they've got to get their butts in gear and leave within 2 days. Everyone asks what's going to happen, and all Dave bothers saying is "Something wonderful". Perhaps "The monolith is going to transform Jupiter into a sun" would be too hard for folks to understand. | |
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Ultimate Origins: The Watchers show up to watch some imminent devastation, and empower a human to deal with it, which they know nothing about, other than it will happen. | |
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In the second Wings of Fire series, Moon's prophecy- the only hint of an overarching plot- begins: | |
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Star Wars Resistance: In "Bibo", Tam calls out Kel and Eila for doing this when describing the latter's future dream, saying she doesn't like vagueness. | |
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The ending of Walking with Dinosaurs depicts the Cretaceous extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. In their final moments, the dinosaurs of Montana are all seen pausing and looking up at the sky, sensing something approaching. The kid-friendly Prehistoric Planet version also emphasizes that the dinosaurs don't know what's coming, even if they can sense something. | |
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura starts with the Player Character emerging from the wreckage of a shot-down blimp, who then talks to the only other survivor, a gnome named Preston Radcliffe who is actually a disguised dwarf named Stennar Rock-Cutter. He gives the player a ring and tells them to "find the boy", as well as informing them that he "escaped" from somewhere and that someone is "coming back" to destroy everything, all the while not elaborating on any of the information that he just gave you. This is justified by the fact that he was dying, and it was a painful struggle just to get each word out. | |
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In the Pony POV Series, the Dark World Series has this happen, starting with the Storming the Castle Arc: It starts with the Valeyard's Final Speech implying that Discord isn't the only Big Bad they need to worry about. Then Aquamarine, a Sea Pony they meet, warns of an Alicorn Witch coming to destroy the world, and after helping defeat Odyne!Cruelty, Fluttershy's ghost warns them that they're "Apple Pie's hamster" (Apple Pie's pet hamster is named Groundhog). These are all warnings about the true Big Bad, Nightmare Eclipse/Paradox. Comically subverted with the prophecy Princess Thalia (Pinkie's potential future Alicorn incarnation) gave her potential followers, the Love Cats. It is very specific right down to mentioning that Moth and her fellow reformed Changelings aren't bad guys. It specifically says the Changelings are the bad guys 'except the one who looks like Bon Bon and her friends.' |
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Deltarune: This game is full of prophecies about "the Knight", but you never learn what the Knight is or what it's trying to do, at least in chapter 1. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Double Subversion in the house motto of House Stark: "Winter is coming". In itself, it is perfectly straightforward and not vague at all, only a warning that the cyclic years-long winter will be coming in due time. However, this time, winter includes a mounting potential threat of invasion by the Others and the reanimated zombies of their victims coming down from the North to invade Westeros. The prophecies about the 'The Prince that was Promised' and the 'Song of Ice and Fire' fit the trope as well. |
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One Piece: When Blackbeard defeats Ace in the duel on Banaro Island, the narrator noted this event will give rise to a major change in the status quo of the world. And it didn't disappoint. Ace's capture leads to the Summit War, which leads to Ace dying in Luffy's arms after fatally intercepting an attack by Akainu. Blackbeard himself showing up and killing Whitebeard. Whitebeard defiantly revealing "One Piece does exist" to the entire world before dying while still standing proud. Blackbeard achieving the impossible In-Universe feat of having two Devil Fruit abilities by somehow stealing Whitebeard's Devil Fruit, and finally Blackbeard and his crew managing to take Whitebeards position as one of the Four Emperors during the Two year Time Skip. Law notes during the Summit War that "D will always cause another storm" while rescuing a KOed Luffy. It's revealed later in the Dressroa arc that Law heard this from his Big Brother Mentor, Corazon, when he revealed that those who carry the Will of D are the natural enemies of the Gods. In this case referring to the World Nobles who consider themselves Gods because they are the descendants of the creators of the world, i.e., the 19 Royal Families who founded the World Government several centuries ago.note There were actually 20 Royal Families who founded the World Government but one of them, the Nefertari Family, decided to remain in their home kingdom while the rest moved to the Holy Land of Mariejois. Thus, the Nefertari descendants are not considered World Nobles. The repeated mention of D being enemies of the Gods by the secret King of the World, Imu, hints that the characters who carry the name D will trigger some kind of massive event that destabilizes the world currently ruled by the World Nobles. When the Straw Hat Grand Fleet first formed at the end of the Dressrosa arc, the narrator foreshadows they will be the cause of a major world changing incident sometime in the future. When the Mink tribe is introduced in the Zou arc, we learn of an event called the "Dawn of the World". Not much is known about this event other than the Minks are waiting for someone to bring about this dawn.When Pedro sacrifices himself to allow the Straw Hats to escape during the Whole Cake Island arc, he tells Carrot that he firmly believes that they are the ones who will bring about the dawn of the world. As the World Government ships surround the Egghead island to eliminate Luffy and Vegapunk, the narration notes that this event will lead to a massive change in the status quo. |
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Justified in Good Omens, which features The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. The Author managed to foresee centuries worth of events, including her own death (for which she planned accordingly), the apocalypse or lack thereof, and the world that came after. The problem is that she saw things well beyond her time, and described them in ways that could rarely be deciphered until after they came to pass. How could one describe the Kennedy assassination in a time when Dallas didn't exist? She also cared more about things affecting her descendants more than general history; she didn't mention Dallas, but the warning about a falling brick on the same date was clearly understood. | |
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Parodied in Bored of the Rings, where Goodgulf tries to warn Dildo with a series of portentous statements, going from "Evil Ones are afoot in the lands" to "There is a dog in the manger." | |
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Explained in the Sword of Truth as a limitation of prophecy and a language barrier of sorts: first of all, there are a lot of variables that the prophet isn't let in on. Secondly, prophets have a very hard time describing the phenomenon to anyone without the gift of prophecy - it would be at least as hard as explaining colors to a person born blind. Adding to the excitement, some prophecies are false, a prophet rarely has a sense of time or place regarding when or where their prophecy will occur, and a prophet rarely has context for a prophecy - he might witness cheering at an execution, and get the wrong impression because he doesn't know that the person being executed was a mass-murderer. | |
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The Bible's Book of Revelation can apply to many ages. | |
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The Flash Sentry Chronicles: Mist Veil, Flash Sentry’s mother, was born with the ability to see into the future. However, in Season 4, she stops having visions, but the last vision that she had involved an armored stallion who had wings and a horn. In the ending of The Forgotten Darkness, Shade warns that there is a shadow coming to consume Equestria, and that he’s going to remain in prison so that he won’t get in its way. |
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The Ravenloft metaplot features a prophecy that alludes to a "Time of Unparalleled Darkness". Very few details are given as to the specifics, other than it sounds bad. Events like the Grand Conjunction, the Grim Harvest, the disappearance of Ruldolph van Richten, and the outright disappearance of several island domains have all been hinted as leading up to this time of climactic badness. Considering the themes already present in the Ravenloft setting as a default, that's saying something. The Grand Conjunction itself was one at the time. A prophecy by the Hyskosa, the setting's Nostradamus analogue, laid out six incredibly vague events that, when brought to pass, would lead to the destruction of the entire demiplane. Only interference by Azalin, who had been manipulating events to bring the prophecies about ahead of time and inadvertently juxtaposing the last two verses prevented the Grand Conjunction from taking hold in full. Even so, the turmoil was tremendous, leading to a modified Class 1, with several domains shuffled, lost, destroyed, and discovered, along with a massive Bottomless Pit covering hundreds of square miles in the center of the Core's landmass. |
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Nightwish: In the lyrics of "7 Days to the Wolves" time is running out and some wolves are coming, and… that's about it. In "End of All Hope", this is the end of all hope, because... well, it's the end of all hope. |
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In Impure Blood Dark forces are rising. | |
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In trailers for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the narrator says that "Darkness is coming...", presumably alluding to The Battle of Five Armies and, of course, Sauron and the One Ring. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, Beryl, a creepy girl who is head of the Occult Club, loves making predictions of darkness and impending disaster, but is rarely specific as to exactly what will happen. | |
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The Force Awakens had this in its very first teaser with Supreme Leader Snoke's voiceover: "There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? The dark side...and the light." Subsequent trailers did little to clarify this. Even after the film's release, the precise nature of this "awakening" remains unclear. | |
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Game of Thrones made the books' prophecy of "The Prince That Was Promised" even more vague by stating that, in the language of the prophecy makers, the word for "Prince" was gender neutral. Meaning now the ever-growing list of those who might qualify as "The Prince" just doubled. | |
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Infinite Crisis was set up for years by DC, and during the course of this long game, various characters would make mysterious speeches about "a time of great darkness" and other such variations on that theme. | |
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Since the start of the Grand Magic Games in Fairy Tail, the story constantly tries to foreshadow some terrible, apocalyptic event that would happen the day after the Games end. A few clues are given to what might happen (Lucy will in some way be taken out from the plot and Levy will take over her narrator role, several people will die, the knight Arcadios is thinking out the so-called Eclipse Plan which will involve a Stellar Spirit Mage that will be either Yukino or Lucy, and there has been a mention of the Dragon King Feast where humans, dragons, and demons will meet), but most of it is shaded in mystery until the end of the arc. | |
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Renfield in Bram Stoker's Dracula: "The Maaaster is coming!" (of course the audience know who the Master is, but the unwitting inhabitants of London don't, yet). | |
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Tattered World: Chrysa regularly lampshades the fact that the prophecies she gets are of this nature, and is none too happy about it. | |
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In 52, Veronica Cale spends a panel foreshadowing Final Crisis with a vague, oracular monologue. | |
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In the first episode of Agent Carter, the Nebulous Evil Organisation for the series is introduced in suitably ominous terms. | |
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Played quite seriously in Judge Dredd: leading to the Day of Chaos event, a cadet with psionic abilities named Hennessy begins to see vague but harrowing visions of the future, of death and destruction yet to come, but everyone tells her to be more specific, something she can't find herself to do. In the end, it is precisely this vagueness that leads to Dredd being unable to prevent it. | |
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In the season 3 premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Princess Celestia is signing papers in her throne room when a guard rushes in to inform her "It has returned", causing her to drop everything. "It" turns out to refer to the Crystal Empire. | |
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Doctor Who: Practically all of the Arc Words of the new series count as a vague threat — "Bad Wolf" (though that turned out to be a good thing), "You have something on your back", "He will knock four times", "The song is ending", "Darkness is coming", "The Pandorica Will Open", "Silence Will Fall", "Tick-Tock, goes the clock". "Fear Her": At the end, the Doctor announces that A Storm Is Coming, not-so-subtly hinting at the upcoming Season Finale. "The Fires of Pompeii" is chock-full of this in an even more bizarre form than usual, because the characters are ancient Romans being influenced by an alternative timeline to develop psychic powers which they naturally attribute to the gods, and accordingly couch in all kinds of Meaningless Meaningful Words. Which is why it's nice when the Doctor eventually gets sick of it. "Planet of the Dead": At the end, psychic Carmen gives the Doctor a prophecy that's vague but still enough to unnerve him: "The Beast Below" has a creature that everyone refers to only as... the Beast Below. "Silence will fall" is especially terrifying, given the circumstances under which it's revealed. And then we find out it's a bit of a mistranslation; "Silence must fall, when the question is asked". The General tries to do this in "Hell Bent" with regard to the Hybrid (a fabled super-warrior, supposedly half-Time Lord, half-Dalek), a creature of prophecies that had been haunting the Doctor throughout Series 9. The Doctor, the one person who knows the truth about it, is having none of it. "Fugitive of the Judoon": Companions Graham, Ryan and Yaz encounter Captain Jack Harkness, who is trying to reach the Doctor but is unable to get a lock on her with the equipment he's using due to interference. He passes on a message to "Beware the lone Cyberman" and to not give it what it wants, running out of time before he can go into detail. "The Star Beast": Before the Meep is taken away, they tell the Doctor that they'll have the last laugh because "the boss" will be very pleased when he finds out that there is another being with two hearts on Earth. "The Giggle": While boasting to the Doctor about various other powerful beings he has defeated, the Toymaker mentions "The One Who Waits", a being that even he didn't want to face. |
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Men in Black: The disguised alien who James Edwards chases down at the beginning delivers several panicky warnings that "your world is gonna end" and "he's coming!" Apparently this is something MIB has to handle on a regular basis. |
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Parodied in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, when a Recap Episode summarizes Shadi's vague prophecies. | |
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Parodied in Asterix and the Soothsayer. It is about a soothsayer who predicts the vague things that each one wants to hear. That the storm will end and then there will be good weather, that Obelix would find a girl, that Cacofonix's voice would become a music trend, that the Roman centurion will be promoted... stop. The Roman centurion tells him that all Gaul soothsayers must be taken to prison, so he cravenly admits he is a fraud who cheats people. But the centurion is so arrogant that he is damn sure that he would be promoted, and so keeps treating him as a real soothsayer. He even warned the Gaul village (under Roman orders) that the air would be polluted, and that they had to escape; Getafix played a joke on him by actually polluting the air on purpose. | |
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Elena of Avalor: Following the events of "Realm of the Jaquins", Quita Moz warns Elena there's a darkness rising somewhere that not even he knows about, and she must relinquish this darkness or she'll never become queen of Avalor. Then she encounters Shuriki, the thought-to-be-gone sorceress she defeated a while ago, and eventually she manages to kill her off...but it turns out Shuriki's rise was not the darkness as predicted, and this one's even worse than her. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: At the beginning of "Zero Hour", Kallus, aka Fulcrum, is only able to send the Rebels a brief message about what the Empire's about to do due to his transmission being blocked partway through. | |
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Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: The video of the dying aliens really knows how to get a point across, but doesn't really say much that might be actually useful. "No. No escape. No escape. It comes. And there's no escape. All the stars got out. You are already dead. It comes and you are all dead. We are all dead. Listen. There is only death for you. There is only small life. Then there is this. We he I send this tell this warn this. There is only horror now. There is only death now" | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2020): Doctor Doom teleports to Throneworld to claim Hulking's space sword because, in his own words, "Something is coming." It turns out the "something" is Dormammu, and Doom knows this because he's kind of responsible. | |
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Invoked by Lilith in Young Justice: Darkness Falls when she foreshadows the coming of Trigon. | |
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In Kamen Rider Gaim, early on several characters have visions of a mysterious woman who looks identical to Team Gaim's Mai and gives vague warnings about how dark times are coming and that they can achieve their heart's desire if they have the strength to persevere. And then late in the series, we find out that this woman actually is Mai, who after gaining god-like power from the "Golden Fruit" used Time Travel to try and prevent all the terrible things that have happened. And she wasn't vague on purpose, either; because she didn't have full control over her powers, her direct warnings like "Do NOT put on that belt!" were warped into the cryptic messages we saw the first time around. | |
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TNA was VERY bad with this during the THEY storyline. For most of the arc, Sting, Kevin Nash, and the Pope were being so vague that if they had just told Dixie Carter who THEY were, the whole mess that they have on their hands right now could have been dealt with! | |
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The Stronger Evil: Shortly after Shendu's turned to stone once again, the world is unnaturally affected by powers of nature which the magically aware people explain to be a result of the unbalancing chis of the world. They're caused by the awakening of an unknown entity with Creepy Blue Eyes, who is eventually revealed to be Tiamat, the primordial god of creation and mother of the Demon Sorcerers. | |
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In the novels Thrawn and Empire's End, a threat in the Unknown Regions of space is alluded to by several characters. We never learn what it is, but it spooked Palpatine and also was serious enough that Thrawn felt the need to go looking for allies to combat it. It's implied to be the Big Bad of The Force Awakens, Supreme Leader Snoke, but there's no telling for sure at the moment. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker implies it's Exegol, the lost planet of the Sith - and the legion of Dark Side worshiping cultists who call it home, with millennia worth of Sith magic and evil science at their disposal. |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): In "Lay Down Your Burdens: Part 1", Sharon tells Helo that a "dark time" is coming for humanity. Presumably she's referring to the Cylons catching up to humanity on New Caprica which happens one year later (which may lead viewers to wonder how she could know about that). | |
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Phantasmagoria has the Fortune Teller's message: "Evil will walk once more." | |
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Lost Soul Aside: In the 2016 trailer, the playable character mentions that "a new war is coming." | |
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The Keepers in Thief are an organization dedicated to interpreting such prophecies, devoting years of study to each of them and maintaining a gigantic library full of materials on them. Garrett (on those rare occasions that he works with them) is notably irritated by how vague the prophecies always are. | |
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The Sandman (1989): This trope is invoked by Destiny in one issue, describing his encounter with the Three Fates: "Their comments were, unsurprisingly, oracular and ambiguous." | |
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Used many times in the Warrior Cats series. For example, in Midnight, we actually see StarClan receive the vision, but they are incredibly vague about it. A conversation from the first two pages: And what did all that vagueness refer to? Humans building a housing development in the forest. An article written by the story team revealed that they intentionally write the prophecies vague because they don't plan out a full arc in advance and want to leave room for reinterpretation in case they change things. |
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Bert in Mary Poppins. "Wind's in the east. Mist coming in. Like something is brewing, about to begin. Can't put my finger on what lies in store. But I feel what's to happen, has all happened before." | |
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In Dragon Age II, Flemeth herself hints that Thedas will be undergoing some major turmoil, though in typical fashion for Flemeth, she refuses to say exactly what. In the same game, talk to Sandal enough and he'll suddenly come out with an ominous prophecy. |
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Mocked by Angela the herbalist in Eldest, the second book of Inheritance Cycle in making a Doomy Dooms of Doom prediction. "Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me." | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Much of the fanfare around the First Evil — "From beneath you, it devours." Dawn was anticipated three times in a Dream Sequence: Faith talking about "Little Miss Muffet", and with Faith saying "Little sis is coming" and Buffy responding "I know." And once with Tara saying "be back before Dawn." Note, the first of these was at the end of Season 3. Dawn came around in Season 5. Joss plans way too far ahead. The Beast's arrival in season 4 of Angel is foreseen in vague implications of fire and blood. Before that, in season 3, the Nyazian scrolls contain vague forebodings about Angel's child, the return of Holtz, and the imminent destruction of mankind. Angel's crew and Wolfram and Hart repeatedly misinterpret the prophecies to their chagrin. It turns out that a time-traveler had edited the Nyazian scrolls for his own benefit, making their misinterpretations inevitable. |
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Unicorn: Warriors Eternal: After merging with Alfie and meeting him in the cosmic realm, Seng tells him "The future has been altered, but there is still time". It isn't clear yet what this could mean. | |
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The Dark is Rising is named after this trope. Played with, in that while the only description of the Forces of Evil given in the prophecy is "When the dark comes rising," and that's it, the rest of the prophecy lists out, quite succinctly, the forces of Good that shall be mustered against it. The series is then a step-by-step process of attaining the Plot Coupons listed in the prophecy, and bringing together the Six who shall turn the darkness back. | |
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Star Wars Legends: In Legacy of the Force, Luke felt the coming of the man who doesn't exist. Not kidding. | |
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Star Control Origins: Throughout the game, aliens you meet repeatedly make mention of some dire threat that is heading for the local area of the galaxy, but none of them seem to want to discuss the nature of this threat. All that's known is that it's wiping out entire civilizations and everyone's reaction is basically to just run away as fast as possible. It isn't until the post-game that we even get some kind of a name for this threat: the "Outsider phenomenon". What's particularly scary though is that it isn't just weaker or less advanced civilizations fleeing from it... the Higher-Tech Species and borderline Sufficiently Advanced Aliens are also fleeing. | |
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The Firefly / Doctor Who crossover "The Man with No Name" has this, with the way River often talks . In this case, she predicts the Doctor at the end of the first chapter. By one of his scary names. | |
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Queen Millennia: Yayoi has a habit of saying that Hajime has to do important things for important reasons with no explanation until after they happen. | |
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In Amphibia, during the flashback from "The Core and the King", it is revealed that Leif's motives for stealing the Calamity Box and hiding it in Earth was that she had a vague vision upon touching the gems where she saw how Amphibia would be destroyed by further use of the box. She didn't know that this was actually a self-fulfilling prophecy and that by betraying Andrias and hiding the box on Earth, she just kickstarted the events of the entire series. | |
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Said third game couples this with a mild Prophecy Twist - the Wild Hunt are elves from another dimension, and they're fleeing the true threat of the White Frost. | |
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In a sense, the Super Saiyan prophecy is this in the Namek arc of Dragon Ball Z. Despite how ubiquitous it is now, at the time all that was known was that a prophecy existed of a Super Saiyan who would be a bloodthirsty apex of the Saiyan Race, and very little was known about it. Nowadays it's essentially an open secret. | |
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The Left Hand of Darkness: Subverted, much to the protagonist's surprise, when he visits a group of Seers he's skeptical about. Having heard stories about their Mathematician's Answers and other unclear responses, he asks them whether the planet will join the Ekumene within the next five years and gets a Blunt "Yes" in response. They're correct. | |
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The original Baldur's Gate is full of references by miscellaneous oracles and people in the know to something dark being about to happen in general and looming in the Player Character's destiny in particular. When you're playing a second time and know what it is all about, it's amazing you didn't guess the answer the first time from all the hints. | |
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Event Horizon - when Justin temporarily regains consciousness after spending time in vacuum, his contribution to the conversation is "It's coming... the dark..." | |
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Occurs at various points throughout The Lord of the Rings films. "Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumors grew of a shadow in the east... whispers of a nameless fear." "Smoke rrises from the mountain of Doom. The hour grows late..." "The stars are veiled. Something stirs in the east... a sleepless malice. The eye of the Enemy is moving!" Granted it can be excused, as due to the current times everyone knows what's being talked about. In trailers for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the narrator says that "Darkness is coming...", presumably alluding to The Battle of Five Armies and, of course, Sauron and the One Ring. |
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President P. Resident in Twillight Sparkle's awesome adventure is bad at describing what Enemy Boss Leader's weapon will do. | |
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The trailer for Fantastic Four (2015) went this route. | |
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Play through Universe mode in the WWE series and sooner or later an angle will crop up hinting The End is Coming. One of the guys or girls on your roster is going to be pushed into an Undertaker or Sting style feud, generally a Face–Heel Turn, with all the hoopla such a feud entails. | |
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City of Heroes has/had "The Coming Storm", which was introduced in Issue 9 as the background plot justification for Ouroboros (Which lets you travel through time). The plotline was dropped until Issue 19 (that's right, 10 whole issues), where "The Coming Storm" seems to be happening now, with the incursion of the Praetorians. The Praetorian invasion may not even have been it. Issue 21 (12 issues later) brings a meteor storm / Shivan invasion that would seem to be the beginning of the "storm", as it ties in with a mission in the Ouroboros introductory arc. As of issue 22 (February 2012), the Dark Astoria arcs somewhat clarify what "the Coming Storm" may be: An alien invasion force known as the "Battalion", of which the Shivans are only part of their force. Naturally, the contact who tells you this admits that they aren't certain of it, however. In addition to Ouroboros, the NPC Prometheus who offers semi-tutorial information for the end-game Incarnate system also can be coaxed into revealing non-specific hints as to future events (or confirm your own suspicions about the events occurring in the world). However, to unlock these discussions, you'll have to show completion of certain tasks and trials. |
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In Mysterium, the ghost cannot simply say “it was the barber who killed me in the garden with a hammer.� Instead, the ghost only provides abstract images, like... a bunch of rabbits falling into a tunnel. A man in a plague mask on a train. A falling top hat. It’s up to the players to determine what the image or set of images is intended to communicate. | |
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From Loki: Agent of Asgard comes, together with general warnings to be brave/strong/careful/etc. and remember, this piece of oddity: "That which is called ego-death is coming to you.", which was given to a time travelling Doctor Doom by Evil!Future!Loki's skull "friend", and Loki themself by one of Odin's crows. | |
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Gravity Falls: Near the end of "Dreamscaperers", Bill Cipher tells the Pines Twins (and Soos) that "A darkness approaches... a day will come in the future when everything you care about will change. Until then, I'll be watching you! I'LL BE WATCHING YOU..." And in a flashback from "A Tale of Two Stans", Stanford's assistant Fiddleford makes this rambling after poking his head into the interdimensional portal. |
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