An episode called "Twilight" showed what might happen if they succeeded. Subverted in Final Fantasy VI, wherein the Big Bad, Kefka, actually succeeds in destroying the world, despite your best efforts otherwise. 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. The Day the Saucers Came, by Neil Gaiman almost parodies this, describing how every possible apocalypse happens on the same day. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). Dozens of ways, really. The lyrics to this song border on the ridiculous, but it also provides some much-needed comedic relief in a list of songs that represent a lot of death and destruction. Most of the Skulduggery Pleasant novels have this theme. Oblivion: Alduin: "You I curse right here and right now! Bri - Chelmsford, MA. "If The End Of The World Was Near Lyrics" sung by Billie Eilish represents the English Music Ensemble. Turned on its head in the final season where Jack Bauer himself is the one who nearly causes it on a vengeance-fueled rampage and his former allies have to stop him. In Super Paper Mario, Count Bleck and Dimentio wish to destroy ALL worlds via the Dark Prognosticus. 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.
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. "Oh look, it's Darkseid again. It's outright stated that when the Grimm are done with Remnant, Earth will be next. He was leaving the Creation before the world was starting to end. The name of the song is The End of the World which is sung by Billie Eilish. 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. 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. 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. The World Is Always Doomed and the Winchesters and their allies are apparently the only ones who can save it. In the end there would be nothing left but a dead desert planet. 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. A true Wham Episode.
Roland Emmerich is this trope: - In Independence Day, the world is about to be blown up, settlement by settlement, by aliens in giant spaceships. Description:- The End of the World Lyrics Billie Eilish are Provided in this article. I take away your ability to jump and jump and jump and doom you to [the void] where you will not be able to leave except for auspicious days long between one and another and even so only through hard, hard work. Demigod Power: Attempted (perhaps unwittingly) during the Ronin War. If he chooses, he can delay it a couple of months and have it come without knowing it's coming. 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'. Saving the world in this case involves taking on the mantle of Sheogorath yourself to free Jyggalag and end the Vicious Cycle.
The klans, were now pissed off at their leader, decided to take him to the police station for his arrest for fraud. There are two different Assimilation Plots: Ascension halfway through the game and Sublimation at the end. In Mind Games, half of humanity is wiped out in a single day after a mysterious "System Start" causes magic to start working and technology to stop working, with devastating results. Post-apocalyptic songs. "The End Of The World" is a song by British singer/songwriter Rob Dickinson which was covered acoustically by Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas O'Connell. Which was predictable from the moment you found out the film was about a hostile alien attack.
Well, actually Valerian is working for Therakiel and you just handed the apocalypse starting artifacts to her. Breathe the air again, it's a beautiful day. 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. From the same game there's also the more literal world-enders of the Behemoth and the Temblor Bomb. 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. When the "Hour of Doom" passes and they see that the world hasn't ended, hilarity ensues.
This ironic and somewhat disturbing poem by Archibald MacLeish, titled — appropriately enough — "The End of the World" (which, come to think of it, might also work as an example of the Nothing Is Scarier trope): Quite unexpectedly, as Vasserot. Blood and Revolution has Saitou and Shun waking a God in Human Form to stop a war that they believe will be disastrous. 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. It may be a bit misleading, however. 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. That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Stars Above: In this Lucky☆Star / Madoka Magica Crossover, if anything happens to either of the Hiiragi twins, the entire multiverse will be destroyed. 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. Technically we are already in the Kali Yuga. 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. It was also the most-viewed Songfacts entry around this time. Nega-Messiah from Beast VI creates an expanding conceptual bounded field that eliminates all life except that Beast within.
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. 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. This song is sung by Billie Eilish. In the glorious sense. Akatosh, Alduin's divine father and Top God of the Nine Divines pantheon, has sent the Last Dragonborn to oppose Alduin.
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!. The second one, Mechanical Animals has this in "The Last Day On Earth", but the world doesn't actually end in-album (it's a prequel to Antichrist Superstar and there's a song after it). So surreal, they hold onto anything. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light. 5) Practice Lookin' Hard. The Lucifer comic books, ironically, involved the Devil's efforts to prevent this. So, if you're looking for some more upbeat songs to listen to during the apocalypse, this genre has got you covered. He just wanted to get me in front of the camera, and then focus on images. 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. Their KGB sources no longer answer their phones. An old cartoon had two Inuit outside an igloo while missiles from the USA and USSR fly overhead; one says to the other "Looks like the end of the world as they know it.
Of the endThe Kingdom will fall life will descend. Brett Anderson, lead singer of the all-girl band The Donnas, told Rolling Stone. This Song will release on 2021. The SGC generally prevented those by Reversing The Polarity, digging up the right Applied Phlebotinum, or, again, guerrilla tactics and luck. 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 Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). 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. 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.
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. This satirical number by Bob Dylan essentially ridicules the fears that many people had at the time about the possibility of a third World War. It could also be REM's interpretation of the Book of Revelations. This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear. "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. Randall: Too right, and the last thing we want to do is see Him on. Why do the birds go on singing? Luckily, that's not the real Doctor, so it's okay to go through with shooting him/it. The Day After Tomorrow is even more destructive, as it affects the entire Northern Hemisphere.
One would not expect this trope to pop up in a game revolving around baking cookies, but Cookie Clicker proves otherwise. Sometimes the armies would emerge victorious. Through a brainwashing "Despair Video", Ultimate Despair caused a massive uprising that lead to worldwide unrest, chaos, and warfare. All the life they spent till then.