History BadFuture / LiveActionTV

* In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' Season 5, Team Coulson are sent 74 years into the future, and find that Earth has been [[EarthShatteringKaboom totally destroyed]], with all that's left being a crescent that barely has an atmosphere and is overrun with alien predators. What remains of humanity is packed onto a crowded space station, where they've been enslaved by the Kree. Complicating matters is [[spoiler:the implication that it's actually a StableTimeLoop, that the team's efforts to undo the future are in fact what leads to it occurring. Fortunately, [[ScrewDestiny this turns out to not be the case]], but [[ForWantOfANail one dose of Centipede Serum in the wrong place]] is the difference between Earth remaining intact and the real Destroyer of Worlds - [[FaceHeelTurn Talbot]], having turned into a batshit insane DarkMessiah from a mixture of brain damage, guilt over betraying S.H.I.E.L.D., and [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Gravitonium infusion]], the last of which merely exacerbated existing SanitySlippage - turning it into an asteroid field and the aforementioned crescent.]]

* ''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'' has Stephanie trying to prevent one by changing [[ForWantOfANail one small action]] by Jim.

** ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'' has its movie take place in a bad future where the Orphnochs rule the world and humanity is being exterminated. Unlike later entries on this list, the movie is completely noncanon to the series, [[BittersweetEnding not that the series timeline turns out great either]].

* ''Series/Sanctuary2007'', Pavor Nocturnus. Though [[spoiler: it's likely to have been just a fabricated illusion.]]
* A short-lived version pretty much ''every episode'' in ''Series/SevenDays''. Basically, Parker's job is to go back in time to the previous week and prevent something horrible from happening. Several episodes involve chrononauts from years in the future claiming that they have been sent to prevent a long-term example. As it is, we only have the word of the chrononauts that this is the case. One of them is determined to kill a female scientist who is supposed to discover the CureForCancer, which will mutate into a global plague. Another wants to assassinate a Muslim religious leader to prevent him from plunging the world into a new wave of terror ([[spoiler:this one turns out to be a demon of some sort trying to create a bad future]]).

* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', Pavor Nocturnus. Though [[spoiler: it's likely to have been just a fabricated illusion.]]

* ''Series/DangerFive'''s second season ends in an alternate timeline where Hitler won UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, after a time travelling mishap in the second-to-last episode. In a rare version of this trope, there seems to be no way to return to the default timeline, and Danger Five have to make do in the Bad Future. Once they finally [[CatchPhrase kill Hitler]], though, everything seems to work itself out.

** A cast-centric variation in the episode "Timeless". Voyager has crashed on an ice planet killing the entire crew except for Chakotay and Harry Kim, who try to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. However there's nothing else wrong with the future, so Geordi [=LaForge=], a main character from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', is trying to stop them.

* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episodes "The End," reveals that, five years in the future, the Croatoan virus has turned almost everyone into violent, zombie-like killers, the United States is a veritable wasteland under Martial Law, Lucifer has gotten his perfect vessel and taken over, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Sarah Palin is President]]. Castiel is a drug-addled FallenAngel, despondent over losing his powers and is running a New Age sex cult. Bobby is dead. [[spoiler:Sam said yes to Lucifer.]] Dean is a hardened guerilla leader who is willing to sacrifice his friends, including Castiel, to stop Lucifer. By the end, [[spoiler:future!Dean, future!Castiel and many of their friends]] are all dead, with Lucifer pointing out that it will always end here and he will always win. However, because Dean was sent there by an angel who clearly had ulterior motives, it has been suggested that Dean was instead sent to a PocketDimension designed specifically to convince him to [[spoiler:take the offer to become Michael's vessel]].

* Season 7 of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has a parallel storyline taking place in 2040, where Star City is once again a WretchedHive, with gangs running everything outside the Glades and corrupt politicians and cops just care about their own pockets. The key figures of this storyline are William, his half-sister Mia, John's adopted son Connor, and Zoe. [[spoiler:They get a chance to change this future by somehow ending up in 2019 and working with the original Team Arrow.]]

* ''Series/DangerFive'''s second season ends in an alternate timeline where Hitler won WorldWarTwo, after a time travelling mishap in the second-to-last episode. In a rare version of this trope, there seems to be no way to return to the default timeline, and Danger Five have to make do in the Bad Future. Once they finally [[CatchPhrase kill Hitler]], though, everything seems to work itself out.

* ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'' is about a group of time travelers coming back to stop the protagonist from growing up into an EvilOverlord who rules the world with an iron fist. One group of travelers wants to stop him by either killing him or ensuring he becomes a hero instead, while the other group thinks this future isn't bad ''enough'' and wants someone even worse to take his place.

** Played with in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E03TheVisitor The Visitor]]". The future depicted is a rough one for the Sisko family, but compared to what happens in the subsequent seasons, it's arguably a ''better'' future for the Alpha Quadrant as a whole.

* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episodes "The End," reveals that, five years in the future, the Croatoan virus has turned almost everyone into violent, zombie-like killers, the United States is a veritable wasteland under Martial Law, Lucifer has gotten his perfect vessel and taken over, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Sarah Palin is President]]. Castiel's fallen, is sleeping with any woman he meets, as well as taking drugs. Bobby's dead. [[spoiler:Sam said yes to Lucifer.]] Dean's a bastard who sacrifices his friends. By the end, [[spoiler:future!Dean, future!Castiel and Bobby]] are all dead, with Lucifer pointing out that it will always end here and he will always win. However, because Dean was sent there by an angel who clearly had ulterior motives, it has been suggested that Dean was instead sent to a PocketDimension designed specifically to convince him to [[spoiler:take the offer to become Michael's vessel]].

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In episode "My Three Crichtons", Crichton is split into two more versions, one is a neanderthal-like primitive ancestor and the other a alien-like future descendant of his genetic code. The future Crichton is cruel, mean, cold and ruthless, which Crichton himself mentions it as something that worries him despite knowing that is only one possibility among millions.

* The ending of ''Series/MadAboutYou'' is not particularly bad as most examples of this trope, but does shows a future were Jamie has a spontaneous abortion (making Mabel only child) and were Paul and Jamie get divorce ([[spoiler:for a while]]).