Line #72 BadFuture/LiveActionTV


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2	* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'':
3	** In "The Starzl Mutation", Shawn receives a cigar as a wedding present from Claudio Borghi but it is no ordinary cigar. Claudio, who disappeared in 1961, has the ability to induce visions of possible futures in the people that he touches. As he prepared the cigar himself, it contains his ability. When Shawn smokes it, he sees two visions of the future. In the first possible future in which he married Isabelle, Richard turned the 4400 into an army and launched a preemptive strike on the general public. Instead of helping Isabelle to get in touch with her humanity, Shawn was corrupted by her influence. He uses his HarmfulHealing ability to kill Richard and takes pleasure from the experience. In the second possible future in which Tom talked him out of marrying Isabelle, the catastrophe that the people from the future hoped to prevent has come to pass. Shawn frantically brings Tom back from the dead, clearly not for the first time, but he only remains alive for a brief period. Everyone else that they know and love is dead.
4	** In "Try the Pie", Maia begins DreamingOfThingsToCome, which is not the normal way that her ability manifests itself. She sees herself, the rest of the 4400 and everyone who is promicin positive being rounded up and sent to an internment camp, possibly even a death camp. From a prominent photograph of him at the camp, it is determined that Gabriel Hewitt, a member of the UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} City Council and a candidate in the mayoral election, is a senior figure in the government in this potential future but it is unclear whether is the President, the Vice President or a Cabinet member. Diana is concerned that Shawn running for the City Council may be providing Hewitt with a platform for his anti-4400 views, thereby unintentionally giving him the political capital that he needs to make this future come to pass.
5	* A short-lived version pretty much ''every episode'' in ''Series/SevenDays1998''. 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]]).
6	* 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 ne 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.]]
7	* ''Series/{{ALF}}'' episode "Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" has Alf thinking on his own future once he realized he will live up to 200 years and wonder who would he live with. All his visions are nightmarish including; living with the already senile Willy and Kate to the point he chooses to surrender himself to the US government, living with Lynn and his boyfriend who are mimes and use him in dangerous circus performances, living with an adult Brian who is married to a mafia boss who hates him and treats him as a pet until she decides to execute him and finally with Eric who as an adult is the host of a children's show and uses Alf as a living puppet. Of course, once he tells all these fantasies to the Tanners, Kate clarifies that no member of the family would ever treat him like that.
8	* In Gene Roddenberry's ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'':
9	** About halfway through season 2, Trance Gemini swaps herself for another her from a bad future, who has come to help avoid making the same mistakes that led to her bad future, although by doing so, she might as well have made things worse.
10	** Dylan Hunt finds himself brought to a BadFuture via TimeDilation, and since traveling back in time is not an option (well, it does happen twice, but both times he realizes that YouCannotChangeTheFuture), he tasks himself with single-handedly restoring TheFederation.
11	* 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 when the Monitor sends them back 2019 in the lead up the [[Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019 Crisis]], and them working with the original Team Arrow alters events.]]
12	* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
13	** Londo as all centauri has glimpses of the way he would die, he recognizes the face of G'kar when he meets him on the station but much older knowing they will strangle each other.
14	** In the two-parter "Recap/BabylonFiveS03E16WarWithoutEndPart1" Sheridan travels into the future to find an embittered old Londo (or so it seems) living in a ruined Centauri Prime and with Delenn as prisoner. Sadly despite Delenn's advices Sheridan's efforts to avoid this future become [[spoiler:SelfFulfillingProphecy]].
15	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has a partial example (bad, but not exactly the future) in the Season Three episode "The Wish". Cordelia's wish for Buffy to have never come to Sunnydale is granted by a spirit: Sunnydale's population lives in terror of the vampires, Xander and Willow are bloodsuckers (and particularly brutal ones, at that), Oz and Giles are members of a ragtag and badly outnumbered resistance, [[BigBad The Master]] is still around, Angel is his mentally broken prisoner, and a now Cleveland-based Buffy is a rude, apathetic jerk. The episode ends with all the above (including Cordelia!) dead but for Oz, Giles, and The Master before Giles can undo the wish.
16	* The future that Chris comes from in ''Series/{{Charmed\|1998}}''. An earlier episode has the sisters use an embarrassing spell on a JerkAss guy for his dog's actions. Then they end up in the BadFuture as their older selves and see that this one act has resulted in the guy [[BrokenMasquerade revealing the existence of witches]] and becoming a powerful politician winning on the platform of BurnTheWitch. One of the sisters is accused of murdering a {{Muggle}} with magic and sentenced to [[KillItWithFire death by fire]]. Worse, as they find out from a security footage, she actually did it. In the end, the guilty sister chooses to allow herself to burn as punishment for her crime. This future is, presumably, averted after all three return to their time and undo the spell on the JerkAss guy.
17	* ''Series/ChouSeiKantaiSazerX'' starts off with one. In 2005, a band of space pirates managed to take over earth. A flash forward to 2500 shows the earth being covered by dark red skies and the last pockets of human resistance living in hidden underwater bases. The series itself focuses on three heroes from said future traveling back to 2005 to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong prevent said future from happening]].
18	* The "Remedial Chaos Theory" episode of ''Series/{{Community}}'' has an alternate timeline in which Pierce is dead, Annie has gone insane, Jeff's lost an arm, Shirley is an alcoholic, Troy lost his voicebox and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Britta has a blue streak in her hair.]] Things got dark.
19	* ''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 kill Hitler, though, everything seems to work itself out.
20	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
21	** While it isn't quite a traditional BadFuture story, Season 2's "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]", the sequel to the first Dalek story, has just about all of the standard features of one. It showed a 22nd century Earth ruled by Daleks. This has gotten enshrined in the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} as ''the'' 22[[superscript:nd]] century, but the later "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Day of the Daleks]]" showed ''another'' 22[[superscript:nd]] century dominated by Daleks, [[spoiler:which did get undone]]. (The "Day of the Daleks" future happened following a nuclear war in the 20th century.)
22	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum The Space Museum]]", because of a malfunction in the TARDIS, the Doctor and friends see their own dead bodies preserved in the Morok Empire's eponymous museum, then spend the rest of the serial trying to prevent that from happening.
23	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]" combined elements of MirrorUniverse with Bad Future, except in this case [[spoiler: the Doctor has ended in a MirrorUniverse just a little bit further ahead in time, too, meaning that he knows what will happen in his world]].
24	** In a few stories, the Doctor shows why they can't just leave even if they have seen the future. They have become part of events and need to see them through.
25	*** This is first done in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Pyramids of Mars]]" when Sarah Jane says they can leave 1911, where [[PhysicalGod Sutekh]] is about to break free, as they know the world wasn't destroyed in 1911. The Doctor takes her to 1980 and shows the world has been destroyed as they weren't there to stop Sutekh, therefore they need to go back and stop him.
26	*** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E2TheDevilsChord The Devil's Chord]]", the Doctor and Ruby Sunday run afoul of the Maestro, a HumanoidAbomination who [[AbstractEater feeds on music]], in 1963. When Ruby wants to cut their losses and return to 2024, the Doctor shows that if the Maestro isn't stopped, the human race will have no outlet for their frustrations, and will kill themselves off by waging HopelessWar on each other.
27	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]" has the Doctor claim half a million years of industrial progress has led to a polluted world where humans have evolved into Haemovores, aquatic [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampires]]. The Doctor convinces the final Haemovore to avert a StableTimeLoop in poisoning the seas and instead destroy Fenric. However it is left unclear if this future has been averted or staved off. [[spoiler: He does, however, explicitly prevent the destruction of our Earth in the 20th century.]]
28	** When the Master took over the world in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]", [[spoiler:the next episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last of the Time Lords]]", starts [[TimeSkip one year later]], where the Earth has become a CrapsackWorld. The heroes manage to press the ResetButton.]] This marks the first major appearance of the TimeyWimeyBall in the new series.
29	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]": Donna has an alternate timeline created around her where she never met the Doctor and he [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride dies underneath the Thames]]. Without him around to stop several crises, the Earth gets worse and worse. Southeastern England is [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned flooded with radiation]], and the UK gradually turns into a fascist state.
30	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited The Girl Who Waited]]" has Amy Pond accidentally get trapped in a faster time stream on Apalapucia. By the time the Doctor and Rory get to her she is 36 years older. They are able to rescue Amy 36 years previously, at the cost of the older Amy allowing herself to be [[RetGone erased from existence]].
31	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor The Name of the Doctor]]" has the Doctor visit his grave on Trenzalore, a planet devastated by his final battle. This timeline is averted when [[spoiler:the Doctor tweaks his (apparent) resolution to the Time War, sealing the Time Lords in a parallel universe instead of destroying them, in "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]". They return the favour by granting him a new set of regenerations as he is dying on Trenzalore in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]".]]
32	* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'''s season-concluding Epitaph episodes show us the logical conclusion of the brain-warping technology.
33	** "Epitaph One": To put it simply, [[spoiler:if you get too close to any form of technology, there is a good chance you will be affected by a "signal" that wipes your memory and imprints you with simple orders to "kill everyone who isn't programmed to kill everyone."]] That's not even the worst part.
34	** "Epitaph Two: Return" and the end of the previous episode establish that the Bad Future is [[spoiler:the canon ending of the series, and even after Topher's HeroicSacrifice to restore everyone's original minds, the world is still a post-apocalyptic CrapsackWorld. And the weaponized Dollhouse tech is still out there....]]
35	* ''Series/DoubleTheFist'' shows us one in the second to last episode where Steve has taken over the world and punishes people for being weak (which entails such things as reading and being comfortable) and uses Womp as the symbol of Weakness. Subverted in that this future apparently comes to be, and that within the context of the show, this is a good thing.
36	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In episode "My Three Crichtons", Crichton is split into two more versions, one is a neanderthal-like primitive ancestor and the other an 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.
37	* ''Series/TheFlash1990'' had a particularly contrived version of this, in which a villainous ''motorcycle gang leader'' became mayor of the city and somehow turned it into a repressive dystopia.
38	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': The WhamShot at the end of the pilot reveals that ten years down the line, the Flash will end up disappearing while fighting [[Comicbook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths a crisis that turns the skies red]]. [[spoiler: [[TheMentor Dr. Wells]] is either from this period, or somehow knows about it, and seems to be manipulating Barry to bring it about.]] In Season 3, Barry travels to his own future and discovers that [[spoiler:in grief over Iris's death, his future self has quit being a hero, allowing meta-criminals to take the streets, Cisco has lost his hands (and powers) in a fight with Killer Frost (who is permanently evil), and Barry and Joe haven't spoken in years. Barry inspires his future self to try to rebuild Team Flash and go back to heroing, although it's all moot, as he manages to avert this future, when HR makes a HeroicSacrifice to save Iris, and Savitar is erased from the timeline]].
39	* In the ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' episode, "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do," Vivian leaves Philip when his political career leaves no time for her. The Banks siblings' [[ImagineSpot each imagine their own future where Vivian and Philip don't get back together]]:
40	** Ashley imagines he's become a lonely, pathetic hermit, while she's still stuck working in a BurgerFool in her middle age.
41	** Carlton imagines Phil becoming a CorruptPolitician who would force his son to commit felonies on his behalf, and then throw him under a bus while denying responsibility.
42	** Averted with Will and Hillary: The latter just imagines [[ItsAllAboutMe some guy would fall for her if her parents split up]], while in the former's imagination, he becomes a [[KavorkaMan middle-aged player]].
43	* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'':
44	** Season 3 finale. The AlternateUniverse got destroyed, but instead of saving ours, it only makes things worse. Walternate is somehow alive and wants to destroy our universe as a revenge. Even opening credits become gray for this occasion. The opening credits also include things that are at the cutting edge of science. The title sequence for this episode includes things like hope and water.
45	** The end of the 4th season is even worse. How worse? The intro lists Joy, Individuality and Imagination amongst similar themes as fringe sciences. Unlike previous one, this appears to be a legitimate flash forward, without any sort of ResetButton hit. [[spoiler: It's hit in the series finale, but that takes a HeroicSacrifice from Walter.]]
46	* ''Series/FullHouse'' has an episode were the guys imagine how their elderly lives would be if they keep spoiling the girls. It shows them all single, old (and in the case of Jesse bald) and maybe senile getting bullied by all the girls who despite being adults still live with them and have pretty much the same spoiled girl behavior.
47	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Dany gets a glimpse of this in the House of the Undying. The Red Keep is in ruins, winter has come (and hasn't left for a long time), everyone's dead, and snow sits on the Iron Throne. This premonition also shows up in Bran's visions later on, implying it's a demonstration of what will happen if the White Walkers overrun the entire continent.
48	** [[spoiler: [[ProphecyTwist However]], as the end of the series shows, the vision Dany saw wasn't of what would happen if she lost. It was what would happen [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope if]] [[ThenLetMeBeEvil she]] ''[[TyrantTakesTheHelm won]]''.]]
49	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', "Five Years Gone," after New York was blown up, and Sylar takes over the country. And then ''again,'' with the Shanti virus having wiped out most of humanity. Season Three ''starts off'' apparently averting one BadFuture and creating another, eerily similar to the BadFuture they prevented in Season One (minus the New York explosion).
50	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
51	** ''Series/KamenRider555'' 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]].
52	** ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'' has a movie that's simultaneously a bad future and a bad ''past'', as it depicts an alternate timeline where the world has been destroyed by a meteor strike and overrun by the shapeshifting alien Worms that came to Earth riding on it. At the end of the movie, Kabuto gains the power of time travel and uses it to go back to the original meteor strike, reduces the size of the meteor before it can hit Earth so that it only destroys part of Tokyo, and creates the timeline of the show itself.
53	** ''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.
54	** ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'' has the ability to see the future as one of the powers the Sword of Darkness can grant its bearer. Its third wielder is traumatized when he unlocks this power and learns that ''every possible future'' is a bad future.
55	* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'' has an episode that follows this trope. In the 'bad future' Richard and Cara are thrown into, the confessor/wizard combo son of [[BigBad Darken Rahl]] and Kahlan Amnell goes on to confess the entire world into being his thralls of darkness. It's left up to Richard and Cara to [[TeethClenchedTeamwork put aside their differences]] to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong find a way home]].
56	* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' is all about a disparate team of C-List heroes and a couple of [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]] being recruited by a man from the future trying to stop BigBad Vandal Savage from conquering the world by the second half of the [=22nd=] century. The pilot actually opens here, with a scene of Savage's forces annihilating London in the "Second Blitz", and the episode "Leviathan" sees the team actually travel to this period and get a first hand look at Savage's conquest.
57	** And every time that the team [[NiceJobBreakingItHero messes up a mission]], they're shown how the consequences might result in an even ''worse'' future, until the heroes manage to undo the damage and prevent it from occurring -- in part two of the pilot, after Savage gets his hands on a piece of Ray's ATOM suit, we see a future where he reverse engineers the technology and accelerates his conquest to the point that Central City is shown burning in 2016. In "Fail Safe", after Prof. Stein is captured by Savage and his Soviet allies, we see a potential future where they force him to share the secrets of the Firestorm matrix, resulting in an army of Soviet Firestorms winning the Cold War and conquering America by the turn of the century.
58	** During the sixth episode of the series, they also crash-land in the 2046 version of Star City, the main setting in ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. All of the main cast of that show except for Oliver and Felicity have been killed off, and the city is reduced to a bunch of ruins ruled by criminal gangs, united under the leadership of [[LegacyCharacter Grant Wilson, the second Deathstroke]]. Oliver has crossed the DespairEventHorizon while Felicity has long since left the city as it was considered a lost cause.[[spoiler: The team help Oliver and the new Green Arrow, Connor Hawke, overthrow Grant and begin to retake the city, before they leave. And Rip repeatedly points out that this is just a ''potential'' future, that will probably be undone when the team return to their own time.]]
59	** In "Progeny", the team travels to 2147 in an attempt to sabotage one of the key events leading to Savage's rise. In this time, [[OneNationUnderCopyright corporations have supplanted all governments]], and outside the Kasnia Conglomerate (which is only stable because it's a PoliceState) that controls Eastern Europe, the world is an overpopulated, poverty-ridden mess (there are repeated mentions of food riots). And in just five years time, Kasnia will come under the control of a dictator loyal to Savage, who will unleash a virus that will decimate the world's population and leave it ripe for Savage's conquest. [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero And the team's attempt to stop this just makes it happen sooner]].]]
60	** In "Destiny", the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Time Masters]] reveal that the reason they're allowing Savage's conquest of the world [[spoiler: (and in fact are aiding it)]] is because they've foreseen that in 2175, [[AlienInvasion the Thanagarians will invade Earth]], and being united under Savage is the only way the planet will survive. Though Rip is quick to point out that a world ruled by Savage is ''not'' a vast improvement.
61	** Season Two is all about the team preventing abberations in the timestream caused by rogue time travellers, the consequences of which will usually result in a Bad Future. For example, in [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E4Abominations "Abominations"]] an abberation will cause the South to win the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, and in [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E6OutlawCountry "Outlaw Country"]], one will cause a future where outlaw Quentin Turnbull will use [[{{Unobtanium}} dwarf star alloy]] to take over all of the United States west of the Rockies. In "Doomworld", the Legion of Doom uses the Spear of Destiny to create a world, where Team Flash and Team Arrow are dead, the Legends have been given menial jobs or serve the bad guys, Darhk is the mayor of Star City, ruthlessly eliminating any opposition (and has his powers back), Thawne runs S.T.A.R. Labs and is hailed as the world's greatest scientist, Merlyn has his family and hand back, and [[spoiler:Snart and Rory can rob any bank in Central City with impunity (Snart owns them all anyway)]].
62	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Galadriel gets a glimpse of the future when she touches the palantir at Miriel's invitation. [[spoiler:She sees Numenor sinking under water]].
63	* The {{Flash Forward}}s on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' are fairly dystopian, with characters hallucinating (maybe), trying to commit suicide, being killed, and going crazy. Unfortunately for them, all of the flashforwards have now happened in the present, making this BadFuture the canonical bad past in the show's current present time.
64	* The ending of ''Series/MadAboutYou'' is not as bad as most examples of this trope, but does depict a future where Jamie has a spontaneous abortion (making Mabel only child), and Paul and Jamie get divorced ([[spoiler:for a while]]).
65	* ''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'' has Stephanie trying to prevent one by changing [[ButterflyOfDoom one small action]] by Jim.
66	* This is where Matt Anderson comes from in ''Series/{{Primeval}}''. He came back to the present to try to keep it from happening. Before that, Helen Cutter tries, in her own way, to prevent one from happening, except [[spoiler:her attempts, including killing her husband who has just saved her life, are likely to make things ''worse'']].
67	* Played with in the penultimate episode of ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. The [[BenevolentAI Machine]] presents simulations to Harold Finch showing what would have happened if he had never built the Machine. At first it appears this alternate future is no better or worse than the current one -- some friends who've died during the series live and thrive, while others who have found redemption through [[WeHelpTheHelpless Team Machine]] continue on their dark path. Then it's shown that without the Machine to oppose it, [[EvilCounterpart Samaritan]] [[YouCantFightFate was built anyway]] and is well on its way to [[TheComputerIsYourFriend taking over the world]].
68	* ''Series/RedDwarf'' uses this trope at least once in series 6, episode 6 (Out of Time) [[spoiler: where the crew meets their future selves, refuse to become them, fight them, and are blown up by them.]] The series also inverts the trope once in series 1 episode 2 (Future Echos) and subverts the trope in Series 2 episode 4 (Stasis Leak). It was also used in the first episode of Series 7 (Tikka to Ride). There, by accidentally preventing the Kennedy assassination, they create a future where J. Edgar Hoover became president - and ended up in the Mafia's pocket. The end result was an America under nuclear threat where all major cities (or at least Dallas) were deserted.
69	* ''Series/Sanctuary2007'', Pavor Nocturnus, though [[spoiler:it's likely to have been [[AllJustADream just a fabricated illusion]]]].
70	* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' probably the shorter example of this list: After hearing that Elaine is engage like George is, Jerry has a vision of the future with him living alone with Kramer listening to his crazy plans forever.
71	* ''Series/SleepyHollow'': Throughout the back half of Season 4, there are repeated vision glimpses of a future in which [[BigBad Malcolm Dreyfuss]], having become immortal and gained control of the Four Horsemen, has conquered the world, crushing all resistance, ruling as a tyrant, and keeping Ichabod imprisoned to torment. This comes into play in the final episodes, as Malcolm's lieutenant Lara [[spoiler: (a [[FutureBadass future version]] of Molly)]] has a HeelRealization and travels back in time [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong to stop this from happening]].
72	* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has a future ruled by Zod, which Lois visited between Seasons 8 and 9, and which we finally saw in "Pandora".
73	* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' had an instance of this in the fourth season finale "The Last Man". Due to a freak solar flare, Sheppard went 48,000 years into the future where a hologram of Rodney informed him that due to his disappearance, the expedition fell apart and "Michael" took over the galaxy. To set it right, said hologram predicted when a similar flare would occur and sent him back a few days after his accident.
74	* ''Series/StargateSG1'' has the paired episodes '2010' and '2001'. The first takes place entirely ''in'' the bad future, with them eventually sending a message back to the 'present'. It looks like they succeeded, but then two seasons later they run into the same bad guys again, fortunately someone remembers the old warning they got and that it might have been in reference to these new potential "friends". History looks like it's starting to repeat, but SG-1 recognises the threat and averts it.
75	** It says much about the Stargate Command personnel that, when a note written in Colonel O'Neill's handwriting and splashed with Major Carter's blood comes out of the Stargate warning them of a BadFuture if they make contact with a particular planet, they ''immediately'' take that advice to heart and lock the address out of the system without needing to see for themselves.
76	** The spin-off novel ''Relativity'' looks at another Aschen-caused bad future; an attempt at revenge against the Tau'ri unleashes a pathogen that basically sterilizes ninety percent of the human race across the galaxy.
77	** In the spin-off novel ''Apocalypse'' trilogy, SG-1 travel into an alternate future where the NID's illegal offworld activities were never stopped, resulting in Earth being abandoned by their offworld allies and decimated by an attack from the Goa'uld. Even worse, once Atlantis rose to the surface in the Pegasus galaxy following the ZP Ms being drained, the Wraith were able to take control of the city-ship with the aid of a Wraith worshiper who had the Ancient gene, resulting in the Milky Way galaxy being caught in a war between the Wraith and the Goa'uld, with a major player in this future being the Goa'uld Hestia, [[spoiler:who has taken Janet Frasier as her host and manipulated Ry'ac to act as her First Prime]].
78	* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
79	** Played with in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E03TheVisitor The Visitor]]", which is set in a timeline where Captain Sisko disappeared into subspace after an accident on the ''Defiant''. The future depicted is a rough one for the Sisko family, as Sisko has spent the past several decades floating lost in subspace and Jake has given up everything else that ever mattered to him in his desperation to find a way to save his father from being lost forever; however, the future depicted is also a future where, by all indications, the Dominion War never happened, so compared to what happens in the subsequent seasons, it's arguably a ''better'' future for the Alpha Quadrant as a whole.
80	** "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E22ChildrenOfTime Children Of Time]]" has a variation by way of a TimeyWimeyBall. The ''Defiant'' crew encounters a colony made up of their own descendants, created from a BadFuture in which the ''Defiant'' was thrown back in time 200 years, leaving them stranded in the past, permanently cut off from their families, and causing Kira's premature death. The rest of the episode revolves around them [[SadisticChoice trying to decide]] whether to save themselves, thus [[RetGone erasing the colony and its inhabitants from history]], or to give up their own lives and futures to let the same sequence of events play out.
81	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
82	** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E15YesterdaysEnterprise Yesterday's Enterprise]]" has the ''Enterprise'''s most recent namesake get brought forward from the past due to a NegativeSpaceWedgie. The very act of the ''Enterprise'' C not being where she was supposed to be, [[HeroicSacrifice destroyed in battle in four-to-one odds defending a Klingon colony from the Romulans]], means that the Federation and the Klingon Empire have spent the last two decades at war, which the Federation is on the verge of losing entirely. A partial example, in that the setting is the 'present', but not an example of BadPresent, since the entire point is that the setting is a worse alternate to the 'real' history.
83	** In the series finale "All Good Things..." Picard jumps between the day he took command, the present, and twenty-five years into the future. The future isn't a strictly-speaking ''bad'' one for most involved (Crusher captains her own medical ship, Data has Isaac Newton's old job and a few dozen cats), but Riker and Worf now hate each other thanks to Worf starting a relationship with Troi just before Riker was going to try and get together with her again--and then Troi died in unspecified circumstances. Present Picard ignores the usual prohibition on discussing the future to share these details with them in hopes of preventing these estrangements.
84	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
85	** 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 La Forge, a main character from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', is trying to stop them.
86	** Likewise in "Shattered". Voyager is split into past and future timelines which Janeway and Chakotay must pass through to solve the problem. The problem is that ''this'' Janeway is from before she destroyed the Caretaker Array, so from her perspective everything she sees is a BadFuture. Chakotay has some trouble convincing her not to ScrewDestiny and SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.
87	** The future in "Endgame" is a Downplayed example. Voyager successfully returned to Earth, but the journey took over twenty years, Seven of Nine died, Chakotay is implied to have suffered DeathByDespair as a result of Seven's death, and Tuvok went insane from a disease that was untreatable in the Delta Quadrant but treatable with a compatible Vulcan. Although most of the crew seems relatively happy, Janeway is so distraught over these losses that she arranges to go back to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.
88	* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'':
89	** Prior to the events of season 2, Spock encounters a being called the Red Angel who shows him a vision of the future. In this vision, a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] called "Control" destroys all sentient life in the galaxy after upgrading itself with data currently stored on ''Discovery''. Ultimately, the solution is to send ''Discovery'' into the distant future, stopping Control's plans and preventing this apocalypse.
90	** Season 3, however, reveals that while galactic omnicide was prevented, the 32nd century isn't exactly hunky-dory. ''Discovery'' arrives to discover that a catastrophe called "The Burn" neutralized dilithium throughout the galaxy, destroying millions of warp-capable starships. As a result, TheFederation collapsed from 350 member worlds to just 38.
91	* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'':
92	** In the Season One finale, a future ''Admiral'' Pike travels back in time to convince his younger Captain self from trying to avert his future. He reveals that if he does, [[spoiler:he retains control of the ''Enterprise'', but reignites the Federation/Romulan War because he goes through the events of the iconic episode "Balance of Terror" and tries to reason with the Romulans, making them think that the Federation is too weak and they try to conquer the Federation, their initial attack gravely wounding Spock.]]
93	** A variation with Pike knowing his own BadFuture involving an accident that leaves him badly hurt and in a wheelchair (from a time stone he touched in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery''). He spends much of SNW season 1 trying to come to terms with this future, knowing he's going to save four cadets who would otherwise die. Even more admirable since he's not aware that the events following the accident won't be as bad as he thinks (thanks to Spock, Vina, and the Talosians).
94	** The season 2 episode "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" sends La'an into a bad timeline where Earth is a dead wasteland, TheFederation never formed, and the Romulans are conquering the quadrant. La'an works with this alternate version of Captain Kirk (who wasn't born in Riverside, Iowa, but instead aboard the USS ''Iowa'') to set things right.
95	* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'':
96	** Episode "Twilight" has Captain Archer waking up twelve years in the future (for him) suffering a decease that makes him forget everything that happened after the accident when he contract it the next day. T'Pol who seems to be his wife now, explains that the Xindi actually destroyed Earth and all human colonies except for that were they live. Luckily for him [[spoiler:Phlox develops a cure that due to the sci-fi nature of the decease to begin with resets the timeline.]]
97	* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E04TheEnd 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]].
98	* This is the ''cornerstone'' of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', as it's set in the {{Franchise/Terminator}} universe.
99	* ''Series/TheThundermans'': In "Winter Thunderland" after Max steals Christmas from the family, he is given a glimpse into the future of what will happen should he not fix his mistake. It caused the rest of the family to become evil, with Hank and Barb now cackling thieves, Phoebe becoming the ruler of Hiddenville High, Billy becomes the most evil of the family from his anger, takes over Max's lair and makes Max his pet, and Nora, the only one who stayed good, moved back to Metroburg where she lives alone and isolated.
100	* ''Series/ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil'': In the penultimate episode, "The Toddessy", Todd is accidentally transported [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture sixteen years]] into the future by a [[ItMakesSenseInContext time-traveling crippled kid]]. What he finds is that [[TheSmartGuy Hannah]] has had a FaceHeelTurn and helped [[BigBadWannabe Atticus]] actually [[TheBadGuyWins succeed]] in taking over the town, turning it into a hell hole, with only a prematurely-aged Curtis, an embittered Jenny, and a few others as a losing LaResistance.
101	%%* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' has one for fantasy writers.

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