History BadFuture / WesternAnimation

* Episode "The Future's So Bright Syndrome" of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' has J traveling into the future by accident where he sees a world dominated by the Worm aliens and Humanity on the edge of extinction.

** Let's face it, this show loves this plot. "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E13TimeWarped The Once and Future Thing: Time, Warped]]" sees Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Batman travel into the future chasing a time villain, Chronos, where they meet [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry [=McGinnis=] i.e. the current Batman]] who, along with an older [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock Static]] Warhawnk and the elderly Bruce Wayne, are the only pockets of resistance left to face against him and his enhanced Jokerz gang who have all but wiped out the Justice League.

** Let's face it, this show loves this plot. "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E13TimeWarped The Once and Future Thing: Time, Warped]]" sees Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Batman travel into the future chasing a time villain, Chronos, where they meet [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry [=McGinnis=] i.e. the current Batman]] who, along with an older [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock Static]] and the elderly Bruce Wayne, are the only pockets of resistance left to face against him and his enhanced Jokerz gang who have all but wiped out the Justice League.

** Another variant occurs in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E11And12ABetterWorld A Better World]]", in which an AlternateUniverse Flash, a member of the [[EvilCounterpart Justice Lords]], is killed by then [[PresidentEvil president]] Lex Luthor, [[ForWantOfANail causing the Justice Lords]] to go rogue and kill him, in the oval office. This results in a BadFuture and a subsequent [[TheMultiverse universe crossover]], with the teams' [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans different]] but [[KnightTemplar similar]] moralities causing them to come to blows.

** Seen in the Season 5 Finale, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 The Cutie]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2 Re-Mark]]". [[spoiler:Starlight Glimmer makes her return and acquires a time travelling spell and uses it in an attempt to sabotage [[ForWantOfANail Rainbow Dash's first Sonic Rainboom]] so the Mane Six don't get their cutie marks, causing several bad futures where TheBadGuyWins: King Sombra has conquered the Crystal Empire and half of Equestria, and leads an army against Princess Celestia and the other half; Queen Chysalis and her Changelings conquer Equestria, forcing ponies to escape to the Everfree Forest and form a ragtag resistance group led by Zecora; Nightmare Moon has defeated Celestia and banished her to the moon instead, putting Equestria into eternal night; Tirek ''destroys'' Equestria; Celestia and Luna are powerless to stop Discord and have been made his personal entertainment clowns; The Flim-Flam Brothers have turned Equestria into an industrial wasteland; etc. The final straw is when Twilight Sparkle takes Starlight herself to one of these bad futures to give her a real experience first hand of the consequences. Equestria is a ''total desolate wasteland'' with ''nothing'' in sight. No ponies, no buildings, no villains, no trees, no water, just ''[[NothingIsScarier nothing]]'', like everyone has either fled Equestria entirely, or worse. This causes Starlight to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize the error of her ways]], and perform a HeelFaceTurn afterwards]].

*** In the same TOH short, one of the futures Homer visits is actually good where he is rich, Bart and Lisa are well behaved, and Patty and Selma have recently died. However, donuts apparently do not exist in this timeline, making Homer freak out and start over again. As soon as he leaves, [[GaveUpTooSoon donuts start falling from the sky]] and Marge comments that "its raining" again.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'', several of the Joes are blasted "sideways" into an AlternateHistory where [[BadFuture Cobra Commander has beaten them]]. They find that [[RushmoreRefacement every national landmark from The Lincoln Memorial to the Statue of Liberty now sports a Cobra operative's likeness]].

* PlayedForLaughs (if that's even possible) in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. "The Time Traveler's Pig" reveals that the gigantic, time-devouring baby from another dimension that was mentioned in one of the previous episode's [[FreezeFrameBonus Freeze Frame Bonuses]] will eventually be released from its frozen prison in Antarctica by global warming. He will then take over the universe. However, since the event doesn't happen for ''several centuries'', the main characters do nothing to correct the event (if they're even aware of it) since it has nothing to do with them; plus, humanity got time travel out of it, so it isn't ''all'' bad. Also, at some point he will travel to the past where he'll [[spoiler:be destroyed by [[BigBad Bill Cipher]] during the events of Weirdmaggedon]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' episode "Time Heals," [[spoiler: Gwen herself accidentally creates a future (or rather, present) ruled by Hex when she goes back in time to save Kevin from mutating when the Omnitrix is hacked in the season premiere.]]

** Inverted in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E18MeetTheQuagmires Meet the Quagmires]]" when Peter goes back in time and fails to hook up with Lois. As a result, UsefulNotes/AlGore wins the 2000 election, and the world is a [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetson]]-like utopia. When Brian finds out, he begs Peter not to try to get back with Lois, until they find out that Creator/ChevyChase hosts ''Series/TheTonightShow'', and that [[FromBadToWorse Lois has married Quagmire]].

** [[Recap/FuturamaS1E1SpacePilot3000 The pilot]] shows future society with several ridiculously dystopian aspects: your career is dictated by computer, and [[KillThePoor you'll be executed if you don't work]]. Suicide is so commonplace and accepted that people line up on the streets for coin-operated [[WeWillHaveEuthenasiaInTheFuture "suicide booths"]]. Several extras walk around wearing numbers meant to imply a FantasticCasteSystem. Later episodes downplay or abandon these ideas, and life is generally shown as not much better or worse than modern day.

** In the first case, it deals with general social/environmental decay caused by Wheeler's desire/decision to leave the Planeteers (thus rendering them unable to summon the eponymous hero to stop Hoggish Greedly from ruining the world).

* "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E50TimeAndPunishment Time and Punishment]]", a ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode, has this happen when Gosalyn ends up taken to the future and sees that Darkwing Duck has changed his name to Dark''warrior'' Duck, and is now a tyrannical KnightTemplar who rules the city with an iron fist, punishing its citizens for "crimes" such as [[AllCrimesAreEqual staying out too late and eating too much junk food]]. [[spoiler:It was her disappearing in the present that drove him insane; her return was all that was needed to set things straight.]]

** In the episode "Father Time", Timmy melts his dad's trophy with heat vision. He goes back in time to make sure his dad doesn't win it in a race (all because of Cosmo’s stupidity); he comes in last place, winning a trip to dictator school. Returning to his future, his dad is the ruler of the world. Timmy goes back in time again and wins the race while impersonating his dad.
** There was also the TV movie Channel Chasers which featured one ruled by Vicky.

** In the episode "Back to the Pilot", Stewie and Brian [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin travel to the first episode of the series]] in order for Brian to find where he buried a tennis ball. While there, Brian warns his past self about 9/11. When they get home, Brian is hailed as a hero for foiling the terrorist plot. Stewie is outraged, as he specifically warned Brian about changing the past. At the same time, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, who has lost the 2004 presidential election and has once again become the Governor of Texas, declares the secession of Texas and several other Southern states, sparking another Civil War. Brian still maintains that, in five years time, it'll all work out. They jump into the future and see that the United States has been destroyed by a nuclear war between the states. Anyone leaving the house has to put on a radiation suit and arm themselves.
** Inverted in an episode where Peter goes back in time and fails to hook up with Lois. As a result, UsefulNotes/AlGore wins the 2000 election, and the world is a [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetson]]-like utopia. When Brian finds out, he begs Peter not to try to get back with Lois, until they find out that Creator/ChevyChase hosts ''Series/TheTonightShow'', and that [[FromBadToWorse Lois has married Quagmire]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'', one was created in the episode "The Future of Mom" when Bill accidentally squashes the Toe of Evil in his mom's high school yearbook and sent it to the past. As a result, Bill's Mom became its keeper while she was a teenager, and Drool's monsters reduced Earth to a barren wasteland due to her initially having no idea how to deal with their constant attacks on her for the Toe.

** The pilot showed future society with several ridiculously dystopian aspects: Your career is dictated by computer, and [[KillThePoor you'll be executed if you don't work]]. Suicide is so commonplace and accepted that people line up on the streets for coin-operated "suicide booths". Several extras walk around wearing numbers meant to imply a FantasticCasteSystem. Later episodes downplay or abandon these ideas, and life is generally shown as not much better or worse than modern day.
** In an episode featuring a time machine that can only go forward, the characters visit a BadFuture in which robots are destroying all of humanity. Bender, however, thought it was an excellent future. Did you see the view from the [[NothingButSkulls mountain of skulls]]?
** In "The Cryonic Woman," Fry and Michelle, his girlfriend, end up in the year 4000, where it's nothing but a barren wasteland whose only known inhabitants were a gang of children with guns. [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitchTimeskip Subverted in that it was actually only two days in the future, and they were actually in Los Angeles.]]]]
** In "Decision 3012," Nixon's reelection results in Bender [[RobotWar leading a robot uprising]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld successfully taking over Earth]] by 3027.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has the episode "Cat Blanc" where [[spoiler:Adult Bunnyx takes main timeline Ladybug to a future where, though a series of events, Cat Noir has been akumatized into Cat Blanc, destroyed Paris, and in the process killed both Ladybug and Hawk Moth. For the first time, this episode averted InferredHolocaust and the titular akuma was a KnightOfCerebus. While his timeline is ultimately averted, it still ratchets up the stakes of the main plot by showing just how disastrous things could turn out if the Miraculous Holders learn each other’s secrets.]]

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]", Twilight Sparkle meets her future self who's decked in black, [[EyepathAfterTimeskip wearing an eye patch]], and has a DarkerAndEdgier hairstyle, and she attempts to tell her something before quickly fading away. [[spoiler:It turns out that everything that gave Twilight her scary future look were mostly self-inflicted injuries, nothing bad happened in the future, and her future self was just trying to tell her ''not'' to worry about anything happening in the future. Twilight just couldn't shut up long enough for her to deliver the message. And then after learning this, [[StableTimeLoop she tries going back in time to tell her past self this information with predictable results]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': "The Choices" gives us personal examples of what Nicole's life would've been like if she hadn't met Richard. The first bad future involves her becoming everything her AbusiveParents wanted her to be, ultimately resulting in her becoming a megalomaniacal dictator that was so bad, Principal Brown says "Thank heavens she's gone." when the world is seemingly reduced to a barren wasteland and after she's presumably been overthrown and executed.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'' had several Bad/Dark Future episodes as well, in the first case it dealt with general social/environmental decay caused by Wheeler's desire/decision to leave the Planeteers (thus rendering them unable to summon the eponymous hero to stop Hoggish Greedly from ruining the world).
** In the second the World's Summit gets sabotaged by Zarm and the other eco-villains, the ENTIRE WORLD went down the crapper as said eco-villains ran rampant destroying everything for fun, profit, whatever. Zarm adds insult to injury by having the Planeteers experience the world themselves while laughing about it AND holding a rapidly aging Gaia hostage.
** The third one was also one set 100 years from the present where the descendants of the Eco Villains are in charge and the world is a complete waste dump.
** There was another where a boy from the future, where the rainforest was gone and [[ExtinctInTheFuture gorillas were now extinct]] and thought to be mere myth, was sent back 100 years by a mysterious woman [[spoiler:who was revealed to be Gaia]] and helped the Planneteers SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. [[spoiler:When he returned, he was given the ring for Earth, and presumably became a planeteer in his time.]]

* The ''Westernanimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: FUTURE" has this happen after Wally escapes from Madame Margaret, but not in time to save the rest of the team from girlification. 75 years later, Madame Margaret dominates the planet, having turned most of the population into girls; the [[LaResistance last few boys]], led by an elderly Wally (who is apparently reliant on Mr Wink and Mr Fibb's chair technology), huddle together in a small cave, desperately seeking a way to survive.
* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' and Penfold are whisked by a thunderstorm to the year 5001 A.D. in "Planet Of The Cats," where London in under a police state dictated by a race of felines. A future relative of Baron Greenback, calling himself "Big Leo" rules the cats from an undisclosed location. Not even the cats know it's a frog from whom they're taking orders.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' Movie "WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy": Danny finds out that he ''will'' [[FutureMeScaresMe become a rampaging]] [[PsychoForHire sadistic sociopath]] who would ''gladly'' and ''gleefully'' [[AxCrazy murder his mother, his father, his sister, his two best friends]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and his English teacher]] to [[MagnificentBastard protect his own existence]] and also happens to be the [[BigBad strongest]] ghost on the planet. He killed his ''[[OurGhostsAreDifferent human self]]'' and hinted to have killed [[OmnicidalManiac many, MANY more]]. All of it was because he [[NiceJobBreakingItHero got pretty much caught cheating on a test]] and his ensuing SurvivorsGuilt; which itself was caused by a StableTimeLoop only broken by [[TimeMaster Clockwork]] stepping in to sever said loop. The good sides? Vlad was reformed, which did not happen in the real timeline, tragically; and for all the bad in that future, it did give present!Danny access to a powerful ghost ability his future self had ''just perfected'', and it did let Danny know that his older sister discovered (and, more importantly, accepted) the fact that he was half-ghost.

** A variant of this trope appears when the League, with the exception of Batman, were under the protection of Green Lantern's power field when changes wrought by a time-travelling Vandal Savage winning WWII for Nazi Germany overwrote the current Earth and replaced it with a BadFuture version with him as supreme EvilOverlord. They were therefore unaffected and able to use the time machine Savage used to go back to WWII to fix matters -- they even find that Earth's version of Batman on the way, who is the leader of LaResistance because his parents were killed for speaking out against Savage's regime.
** Another variant appears in the second season, where Superman is sent several thousand years into the future and finds himself on a ruined, depopulated and desolated Earth -- where he encounters Vandal Savage, who is immortal. Savage used Superman's absence to steal a device that allowed him to control gravity, which he lost control over and thus ruined the entire solar system, rendering the Earth a destroyed wasteland. Having had time to reflect on his errors, Savage willingly assists Superman in returning even at the cost of his own existence once that future is overwritten.
** Yet another variant occurs when an AlternateUniverse Franchise/TheFlash, a member of the [[EvilCounterpart Justice Lords]] is killed by then [[PresidentEvil president]] ComicBook/LexLuthor, [[ForWantOfANail causing the Justice Lords]] to go rogue and kill him, in the oval office. This resulted in a BadFuture and a subsequent [[TheMultiverse universe crossover]], with the teams' [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans different]] but [[KnightTemplar similar]] moralities causing them to come to blows.
** Let's face it, this show loves this plot. The second of a two part episode sees Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Batman travel into the future chasing a time villain, Chronos, where they meet [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry [=McGinnis=] i.e. the current Batman]] who, along with an older [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock Static]] and the elderly Bruce Wayne, are the only pockets of resistance left to face against him and his enhanced Jokerz gang who have all but wiped out the Justice League.

* ''Series/MrMeaty:'' In ''Suburb of the Apes'', after losing their place in line in front of the game store to some bullies, Parker builds a time machine so he and Josh can travel two months into the future for a new game console so they won't have to wait for it to restock. Instead, they accidentally wind up in 2676, [[AnimalIsTheNewMan where mankind has been overthrown by a race of baboons]] and the mall is [[RuinsOfTheModernAge an overgrown ruin]] littered with human skeletons. After beating the alpha male, the boys make it back to the present and bring some baboons back with them to beat up the bullies and get back their place in line. Josh wonders if these are [[StableTimeLoop the same baboons who eventually conquer the world]], but Parker brushes it aside and [[SkewedPriorities is more interested in getting the new console.]]

** In "It's About Time", Twilight Sparkle meets her future self who's decked in black, wearing an eye patch, and has a DarkerAndEdgier hairstyle, and she attempts to tell her something before quickly fading away. [[spoiler: It turns out that everything that gave Twilight her scary future look were mostly self-inflicted injuries, nothing bad happened in the future, and her future self was just trying to tell her ''not'' to worry about anything happening in the future. Twilight just couldn't shut up long enough for her to deliver the message. And then after learning this, [[StableTimeLoop she tries going back in time to tell her past self this information with predictable results]].]]

** Seen in the Season 5 Finale, "The Cutie Re-Mark". [[spoiler: Starlight Glimmer makes her return and acquires a time travelling spell and uses it in an attempt to sabotage [[ForWantOfANail Rainbow Dash's first Sonic Rainboom]] so the Mane Six don't get their cutie marks, causing several bad futures where TheBadGuyWins: King Sombra has conquered the Crystal Empire and half of Equestria, and leads an army against Princess Celestia and the other half; Queen Chysalis and her Changelings conquer Equestria, forcing ponies to escape to the Everfree Forest and form a ragtag resistance group led by Zecora; Nightmare Moon has defeated Celestia and banished her to the moon instead, putting Equestria into eternal night; Tirek ''destroys'' Equestria; Celestia and Luna are powerless to stop Discord and have been made his personal entertainment clowns; The Flim-Flam Brothers have turned Equestria into an industrial wasteland; etc. The final straw is when Twilight Sparkle takes Starlight herself to one of these bad futures to give her a real experience first hand of the consequences. Equestria is a ''total desolate wasteland'' with ''nothing'' in sight. No ponies, no buildings, no villains, no trees, no water, just ''[[NothingIsScarier nothing]]'', like everyone has either fled Equestria entirely, or worse. This causes Starlight to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize the error of her ways]], and perform a HeelFaceTurn afterwards]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyPonyLife'' had this in one episode in which Rainbow Dash multiplied the butterflies for Fluttershy's Trail Trotters party, leading to all parties being banned from Ponyville, the butterflies blotting out the sun, & Ponyville being renamed Monarchville. As a result, Rainbow Dash had to calm down in order to get back to her time to fix the mess.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' episode "It's About Time" Kowalski comes back in time to warn Private and then Skipper. Private's dream of the perfect future is a little different to Skipper's dream....
-->'''Future Kowalski 1:''' Private, can you think of one time I have played a trick or told a joke?
-->'''Private:''' You really are from the future! Tell me, am I living in a cottage in Nova Scotia happily married with one egg and another on the way?
-->'''Future Kowalski 1:''' Uh... no.
-->'''Private:''' Aw...

-->'''Skipper:''' There's two of you? You're from the future! Tell me, does the Earth become a post-apocalyptic wasteland terrorized by roaming bands of irradiated mutants?! ''(punches one flipper into another eagerly)''
-->'''Future Kowalski 2:''' Uh... no.
-->'''Skipper:''' Oh...
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", Future Candace going to the past to bust the boys on the day they built The Rollercoaster in the first episode leads to a future where creativity has been banned, [[AndIMustScream children are all stored in]] PeopleJars until adulthood, Perry the Platypus was incapacitated long enough for Doofenshmirtz to [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over the Entire Tri-State Area]], turning it into an industrial dictatorship, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and everyone is forced to]] [[PlanetOfSteves change their name to "Joe"]] because Doofenshmirtz doesn't want to memorize everyone's names.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' movie ''WesternAnimation/EgoTrip'' subverts this. Mandark takes over the world and turns it into a dull dystopia, but we are told from the beginning of the movie that the future was saved, and even see the (happy) ending before the DarkestHour.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' movie subverts this. Mandark takes over the world, but we are told from the beginning of the movie that the future was saved, and even see the final (happy) ending before the DarkestHour.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'''s BigDamnMovie ''Big Boogie Adventure'' had one of these at the start where Boogie Man sends two robot clones of Billy and Mandy to make sure it happens. We're initially lead to believe it's because the heroes fail to stop the Boogie man from getting [[MacGuffin Horror's Hand]], but right at the end of the movie, when Mandy is holding the gauntlet, a future Billy appears and says that Mandy is the dark lord, and Grim snatches it away from her. Then, at the very ''very'' end it's revealed that the bad future still happened, and the lord of darkness is revealed to be [[spoiler: [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Fred]] [[TheDitz Fredburger]].]]
** One episode showed one where Mandy had taken over the world by transforming into a giant wormlike creature who entertains herself with Billy clones that regularly die. (It's a big ShoutOut to ''Franchise/{{Dune}}.'')

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'' end up here in "Speed Demon" when they approached the speed of light while racing home after school. The future they find themselves in was one where their absence had caused the world to grow gradually worse until [[{{Satan}} Him]] was able to take over, transforming it into a blasted wasteland where all of the inhabitants of Townsville we see have long since been driven mad (such as the Professor obsessively trying to recreate the girls while haunted by hallucinations, Ms. Bellum ranting about how the girls disappeared while guarding the Mayor's hat and sash which are all that remain of him, and Ms. Keane standing in the ruins of the kindergarten [[MadnessMantra repeating the last thing she did before the girls vanished]]). Then they go backwards again, preventing it -- the future was bad only because they'd been absent in the years between.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Powerpuff Girls|1998}}'' ended up here when they approached the speed of light. The future they found themselves in was one where their absence had caused the world to grow gradually worse until [[{{Satan}} Him]] was able to take over, transforming it into a blasted wasteland where all of the inhabitants of Townsville we see have long since been driven mad (such as the Professor obsessively trying to recreate the girls while haunted by hallucinations, Ms. Bellum ranting about how the girls disappeared while guarding the Mayor's hat and sash which are all that remain of him, and Ms. Keane standing in the ruins of the kindergarten [[MadnessMantra repeating the last thing she did before the girls vanished]]). Then they went backwards again, preventing it -- the future was bad only because they'd been absent in the years between.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': "Back to the Past" gives us a rather cruel example of what would have happened if Man Ray was never frozen inside tartar sauce by Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy: Patrick eats the tartar sauce that was supposed to trap him, allowing him to escape; in the present day, Bikini Bottom is now called Man Ray-opolis, and everyone has to do what he demands.

** Let's face it, this show loves this plot. The second of a two part episode sees Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Batman travel into the future chasing a time villain, Chronos, where they meet [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry [=McGinnis=] i.e. the current Batman]] who along with an older [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock Static]] and the elderly Bruce Wanye are the only pockets of resistance left to face against him and his enhanced Jokerz gang who have all but wiped out the Justice League.

* WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex: Rex is transported 6 months into the future by Breach. The BigBad is gone, but he finds his Providence under new management by Black Knight who's more of a KnightTemplar than White Knight, the previous boss. Wild EVO creatures are put under mind control and his friends have all gone missing. Rex initially believes he's in a bad future, even noting his brother has grown a goatee (and has dropped the Heroic and Comedic from his HeroicComedicSociopath nature). By the end of the episode, Rex comes to terms that this is his future and he's here to stay, so he joins the defect group with his friends.

* WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug, in "Cat Blanc" has episode where [[spoiler:Adult Bunnyx takes main timeline Ladybug to a future where, though a series of events, Cat Noir has been akumatized into Cat Blanc, destroyed Paris, and in the process killed both Ladybug and Hawk Moth. For the first time, this episode averted InferredHolocaust and the titular akuma was a KnightOfCerebus. While his timeline is ultimately averted, it still ratchets up the stakes of the main plot by showing just how disastrous things could turn out if the Miraculous Holders learn each other’s secrets.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", Future Candace going to the past to bust the boys on the day they built The Rollercoaster in the first episode lead to a future where creativity has been banned, [[AndIMustScream children are all stored in]] PeopleJars until adulthood, and Perry the Platypus was incapacitated long enough for Doofenshmirtz to [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over the Entire Tri-State Area]].