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* ''VideoGame/StarShiftSeries'': The Purge is an event where the misuse of time travel causes time and space to collapse, causing a massive explosion that destroys most planets in the universe.
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* In ''ComicBook/Flashpoint1999'', this happened in the backstory when Mars' civilization was destroyed by the Speed Force tuning fork, which had the unintended side effect of vaporizing everything organic on the planet.

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* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''WebVideo/SonicTheHedgehog2SpecialEdition'':
-->'''Mystic Cave Zone Boss''': You may have received messages about the universe being destroyed or some nonsense. These are lies of a bored child. They are meant to amuse you.


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* At the end of the Literature/ChaosTimeline, WorldWarIII between the superpowers Germany and China breaks out, and although it doesn't last long (less than one day, in fact), the world will never be again as it was before. [[spoiler:Because the [[strike:hackers]] Logos and their allied [=AIs=] take over the world and the military and tell the war off.]]


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* If the Dimensional Guardians from ''Literature/DimensionHeroes'' don't find the seven cybaspheres and fix the rip the space/time continuum, both their world and Creturia will destroy one another.


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* ''Literature/SkippysList'' has examples:
--> 39. Not allowed to ask for the day off due to religious purposes, on the basis that the world is going to end, more than once.


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* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', a precog predicts that if [[spoiler:Jack Slash is not killed]], somewhere between thirty three and ninety six percent of the human population will be wiped out. [[spoiler:It happens when Jack induces a FaceHeelTurn in [[PhysicalGod Scion]], who proceeds to go on a rampage that begins with obliterating the entire island of Great Britain and gets worse from there. By the time the dust has settled, it is estimated that more than half the human population on MULTIPLE Earths has been annihilated, and the Earth that suffered 500,000,000 losses is considered to have gotten off easy.]]


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* In the ''[[Videogame/OrderOfTheStick Giant in the Playground]]'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=32 Freeform Roleplaying section]], this has apparently been threatened three times, and a fourth is planned. Although this one's going to be a conquer, not destroy, the world.


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* ''Script/C0DA'', written by former ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series writer/designer Creator/MichaelKirkbride, takes place in the far distant future of ''TES'' universe. Numidium, the [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]] HumongousMecha of [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwemer]] construction, presumed destroyed following the events of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', returns after having been caught in a time warp. It continues its war on the [[AntiHumanAlliance Aldmeri Dominion]], led by the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName fascistic Thalmor]], leading to an apocalyptic event known as "Landfall", which has forced the remaining inhabitants of Nirn to take refuge on the moon Masser. The story centers around the Dunmer noble, Jubal-lun-Sul, who seeks the means to shepherd his people to a safe world, away from Landfall.
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* In the flash game ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/463278 Mastermind]]'', this is your ultimate goal; the titular Mastermind forgets to tell his henchmen this rather important fact. When it comes time to push the button and end the world, they're understandably freaked out. Then hilariously parodied when the Mastermind, having made his escape into space, looks back on the debris of Earth and muses "Now what do I do? Hm, maybe I should've thought this out more."


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* In the animated UrbanFantasy ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'', the EvilPlan of TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness involves [[spoiler: the death of almost every major politician and military leader on the planet, which, combined with the psychic trauma to surrounding populations and visions of "the eye of God" watching from the sky, will result in a collapse of modern societies, allowing for the BigBad to rebuild civilization anew, [[WellIntentionedExtremist more in keeping with his enlightened, philanthropic, and humanitarian views]]]].
* Jason "Fluid" Windsor's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs The End of the World]] is a Flash cartoon from 2003 providing [[BlackComedy a tongue-in-cheek look at the prospect of nuclear war breaking out]] and leading to MutuallyAssuredDestruction.
-->"Ruling out the ice caps melting, meteors becoming crashed into us, the ozone layer leaving, and the sun exploding, we're definitely going to blow ourselves up."
* ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie'' ends the world many times in a thirty minute stretch of time. Sometimes a series of worldwide nuclear explosions demolishes the planet itself. Sometimes the planet falls into the sun. Once, somebody just has to say a word that triggers the explosion of the planet.
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* In the ''Website/OrionsArm'' universe, the GreyGoo plague of the "Nanoswarm Era" destroys the original Terran civilization (although many humans, robots, and AIs survive to create new civilizations from the ashes). [[AIIsACrapshoot The Amalgamation]] is threatening to do it again, and more completely.
* Rational Wiki has a [[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_of_the_end_of_the_world page]] listing when the world will have or should have had its GameOver.
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* Discussed in "The End of the World!?" by WebVideo/MatthewSantoro, a video made in 2010, where Matthew discusses whether the world will end in 2012.
* ''WebVideo/NatOneProductions'''s story-line ''Denazra'' invokes this trope over and over again. The denazra are a race of self-replicating machines spreading at real speeds throughout the galaxy and eradicating all known organic life. Very slowly. [[TheAlliance The Coalition]] has assembled mighty fleets to stop them time and time again over hundreds of years, but they have yet to successfully defend a single world. There's so much time between invasions, however, that [[HeadInTheSandManagement most people don't seem to be all that concerned]].
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* ''Literature/EmpireOfTheVampire'': Due to [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Daysdeath]], a perpetual shroud of dust and smog smothering the world's atmosphere, there is an acute lack of sunlight across the entire continent. Beyond the immediate problems such as crop failure, the resulting risk of {{Famine}} and the gradual decline of all natural food chains, this also allows the formerly minor and endemic threat of vampires to spiral out of control through targeted mass turnings by a handful of ancient, powerful ''highbloods''. As [[TheNightOfTheLivingMooks hordes of ravenous Dead]] sweep away the last bastions of old civilization across a starving, dying world, it seems reasonable for many characters to conclude that the End Times have come.

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* ''Literature/EmpireOfTheVampire'': Due to [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Daysdeath]], a perpetual shroud of dust and smog smothering the world's atmosphere, there is an acute lack of sunlight across the entire continent. Beyond the immediate problems such as crop failure, the resulting risk of {{Famine}} [[TheFamine famine]] and the gradual decline of all natural food chains, this also allows the formerly minor and endemic threat of vampires to spiral out of control through targeted mass turnings by a handful of ancient, powerful ''highbloods''. As [[TheNightOfTheLivingMooks [[NightOfTheLivingMooks hordes of ravenous Dead]] sweep away the last bastions of old civilization across a starving, dying world, it seems reasonable for many characters to conclude that the End Times have come.
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* ''Literature/EmpireOfTheVampire'': Due to [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Daysdeath]], a perpetual shroud of dust and smog smothering the world's atmosphere, there is an acute lack of sunlight across the entire continent. Beyond the immediate problems such as crop failure, the resulting risk of famine and the gradual decline of all natural food chains, this also allows the formerly minor and endemic threat of vampires to spiral out of control through targeted mass turnings by a handful of ancient, powerful ''highbloods''. As hordes of ravenous Dead sweep away the last bastions of old civilization across a starving, dying world, it seems reasonable for many characters to conclude that the End Times have come.

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* Creator/SMStirling's ''[[Literature/{{Emberverse}} Dies the Fire]]'' and its various sequels are set in a world where every kind of "energy-dense" technology stops working, plunging the human race back in TheDungAges... forever. Not the end of the ''world,'' but certainly the end of the world ''we'' know. (And, for the overwhelming majority of people, the end of ''them'': try feeding seven billion people with twelfth-century technology.)


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* Creator/SMStirling's ''[[Literature/{{Emberverse}} Dies the Fire]]'' and its various sequels are set in a world where every kind of "energy-dense" technology stops working, plunging the human race back in TheDungAges... forever. Not the end of the ''world,'' but certainly the end of the world ''we'' know. (And, for the overwhelming majority of people, the end of ''them'': try feeding seven billion people with twelfth-century technology.)
* ''Literature/EmpireOfTheVampire'': Due to [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Daysdeath]], a perpetual shroud of dust and smog smothering the world's atmosphere, there is an acute lack of sunlight across the entire continent. Beyond the immediate problems such as crop failure, the resulting risk of famine and the gradual decline of all natural food chains, this also allows the formerly minor and endemic threat of vampires to spiral out of control through targeted mass turnings by a handful of ancient, powerful ''highbloods''. As hordes of ravenous Dead sweep away the last bastions of old civilization across a starving, dying world, it seems reasonable for many characters to conclude that the End Times have come.
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* Subtly implied in ''VideoGame/BloodBorne'' that this would be the ultimate result of the [[ReligionOfEvil School of Mensis]]' ritual that starts to be unravelled near the end of the game - in their insane attempts to gain knowledge and godhood, they beckoned an eldritch Nightmare that starts merging with reality, or at the absolute least drag the entire city of Yharnam close to sinking in the Nightmare realm. By the time their ritual is revealed, the sky turns an apocalyptic red, the entire city devolves into an even greater madness, and horrifying things start appearing in the waking world when they shouldn't, such as the ''several'' [[EldritchAbomination Great Ones]] like the minor Amygdalas, which go from hidden from view unless you have really high Insight, to being visible ''all'' the time. It's implied from a note left by a dead hunter that unless the ritual is stopped, ''everyone'' is going to turn into beasts.

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