Line #7 Main/TheEndIsNigh


1	%%%
2	%%
3	%% This page has been alphabetized. Please add new examples in the correct order. Thanks!
4	%%
5	%%%
6
7	[[quoteright:345:[[WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cloudy_meatballs_end_is_nigh.jpeg]]]]
8	[[caption-width-right:345:Guess which one wins.[[note]]Neither.[[/note]]]]
9
10	->''"REPENT THE END IS EXTREMELY FUCKING NIGH"''
11	->''"There's no call for language like that"''
12	->''"I have to agree too much"''
13	->''"END OF THE WORLD OR NOT, THERE ARE STANDARDS"''
14	-->-- '''Competing graffiti''', ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''
15
16	An obligatory trope for any depiction of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt or the threat thereof is a scene of some [[CrazyHomelessPeople crazy-looking hobo]] (usually shown [[BeggarWithASignboard holding or wearing a sign]]), or possibly a street preacher (typically brandishing a [[Literature/TheBible Bible]]), or maybe just a common guy [[MadOracle believing himself to be a prophet]] (more oftentimes than not wearing a [[CheapCostume bedsheet draped over as a makeshift robe]]) declaring that we should all repent because the world is coming to an end. Ha! [[CassandraTruth As if that will ever happen!]]
17
18	Compare with TheCassandra, JustBeforeTheEnd, and HarbingerOfImpendingDoom. Not to be confused with SignsOfTheEndTimes, AStormIsComing, or VaguenessIsComing, none of which involve sandwich boards. May overlap with SignOfTheApocalypse, the StockPhrase joking that something unexpected signals the end of the world. When the media does this it's MediaScaremongering.
19
20	Not to be confused with [[Creator/EdmundMcMillen Edmund McMillen's]] [[Videogame/TheEndIsNigh indie game of the same name]].
21	----
22	!!Examples:
23
24	[[foldercontrol]]
25
26	[[folder:Comic Books]]
27	* Sight gag in an Italian comic book. Two men, holding signs that claim "The world will end tomorrow" and "The world will end the day after tomorrow" respectively, are beating each other in the background. In the foreground, a third man is reading a newspaper article titled "Is the world ending today?"
28	* In one ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' storyline, the {{antihero}} ComicBook/{{Anarky}} distributes money to a wide variety of anti-establishment groups and individuals, one of whom is a doomsday prophet who uses part of the money to pay homeless people to walk around Gotham wearing sandwich-board signs proclaiming his message. (Unfortunately, he uses the rest of the money to finance his plan to blow up most of downtown Gotham, which he believes will kick-start the apocalypse.)
29	%%* A guy like this is featured in one of the early issues of ''ComicBook/{{Buffy\|the Vampire Slayer}} Season 8''.
30	* A man in a "The End Is Nigh" sandwich board is one of the people watching Moriarty's bombing of London in ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', presumably feeling somewhat vindicated.
31	* ''ComicBook/{{Ms Marvel}}'': PlayedForLaughs. During an actual world ending event, a man can be sign with a sign saying "I told u the END was NIGH!! please buy my Mixtape" [sic]. After the world [[ComicBook/{{SecretWars2015}} does end and is subsequently reconstructed]], graffiti can be spotted reading "The end was nay."
32	* ''ComicBook/{{Pondus}}'' has a subversion PlayedForLaughs: A robed and bearded man with a poster that reads: "Everything is in due order!" Pondus has the following comment: "''Shit'', NOW I actually began to worry!"
33	* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': In "[[Recap/TintinTheShootingStar The Shooting Star]]", the [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mad ex-astronomer Philippulus]] goes around in white robes, banging a gong and generally making a nuisance of himself.
34	* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': A hobo is seen several times carrying a sign with this trope's exact title printed on it. [[spoiler:He is revealed to be [[VigilanteMan Rorschach]]'s civilian identity]]. It also lampshades the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over everyone (not to mention future events in the comic).
35	[[/folder]]
36
37	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
38	* A long running trope in magazine comics -- always a guy in a robe with the sign saying the end is near. Best one is the man running down the street screaming "10 ... 9 ... 8 ..."
39	----
40	%%* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin had at least one strip with snowmen doing this. [[ComicStrip/FoxTrot Jason]] as well.
41	* ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'': After encountering a guy with a sign that says "The world will end tomorrow," Billy asks his mom if he still has to do his homework.
42	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'':
43	** One strip has a flea holding up a sign saying "The end of the dog is coming." He's right.
44	** Another has the guy who ''makes'' all these signs glaring out his shop window as the mushroom clouds bloom, and bemoaning the fact that the bottom just dropped out of the market.
45	* ''ComicStrip/FrankAndErnest'':
46	** The two see a man with an end-of-the-world sign.
47	-->'''Ernest''': ''You think that's right, Frank?''\
48	'''Frank''': Of course not! They haven't even started rolling the credits yet.
49	** In another strip, one man predicts the world will end today, one tomorrow -- and Frank observes they can't make ends meet.
50	* ''ComicStrip/JumpStart'': Sunny's friend Dexter starts joyfully carrying a sign when he realizes it's almost the end of the school year.
51	* A cartoon in ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' parodied the media's constant scaremongering over issues like climate change and terrorism by having ''everyone'' in a street wearing "The End Is Nigh" sandwich boards, except one man, who is scorned and called 'weirdo' by the others.
52	* ''ComicStrip/USAcres'': one of the last comics had Lanolin walking around with a sign reading "the end is near", as {{foreshadowing}} that the series was about to end.
53	[[/folder]]
54
55	[[folder:Fan Works]]
56	* In ''Fanfic/AquamanMonster'', Reverend Mother Cetea sees traces of titanium as a sign of the Titans returning to bring about the end times.
57	* ''Fanfic/{{Boldores and Boomsticks}}'': Professor Cyric Cypress is constantly worrying about new threats to the world. Most of the time he's dead wrong, but when it comes to the Grimm...
58	[[/folder]]
59
60	[[folder:Films — Animated]]
61	* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' (pictured above), as the food storm rages all over the world, two guys wearing sandwichboards are standing on a street corner in NYC. The first guy's board says "The end of the world is today!" and the other's says "The end is tomorrow!" The second guy is crushed by a hot dog, and the first guy gloats, "I was right!"
62	* In ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'', a rat wearing a sandwich board made out of two slices of bread can be seen warning all the other rats about the floodgates.
63	%%* One of these appears in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' ranting on the streets of Thebes.
64	[[/folder]]
65
66	[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
67	* ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'' has one who stops his ranting to address the main character whilst in 1996. It's implied that many doomsayers are actually time travelers scattered throughout history who have [[TemporalSickness gone insane]].
68	* A GenericGraffiti version in ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''. A bit of [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4xcq5muSp1qzayxbo1_1280.jpg graffiti]] written on the wall, when Jim enters a chapel reads: "The end is EXTREMELY FUCKING nigh." Unlike most examples on this page the person wrote it knew what they were talking about, but if anything it's out of date by the time Jim sees it: The End [[SleptThroughTheApocalypse came and went while he was unconscious]]...
69	* There is a random guy like this in ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', seen on a street corner during the earthquake that eats California.
70	* Early in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', someone has gratified The End Is Nigh on a billboard advertising the redeveloped Gotham Seaport, [[{{Foreshadowing}} where Lex Luthor is up to something sinister]].
71	* There's a drunk guy in the diner in ''Film/TheBirds'' who claims that the apocalypse is coming.
72	* Don't forget that guy in ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' [[spoiler: who turns out to be God all along]].
73	** Bonus points for creative variations on the theme, like "Armageddon Outta Here".
74	* In ''Film/GodToldMeTo'', some Christians interpret the outbreak of religious violence this way, and take to the streets waving signs that urge people to repent.
75	* In the British {{kaiju}} film '' Film/{{Gorgo}}'', a guy with a sign around his neck goes around screaming "REPENT!" in the middle of a panicking crowd and is [[TooDumbToLive promptly trampled to death]]. One hopes he'd already repented himself.
76	* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'', there is a preacher in the ruins of Los Angeles who is like this. Justified in that the end ''already'' came.
77	* ''Film/IronSky''. James Washington is shown on a street corner trying to warn people that the Moon Nazis who turned him into a white man are about to invade Earth. Needless to say, [[CassandraTruth no-one pays the crazy hobo any attention]].
78	* In ''Film/LeftBehind2014'', Chloe Steele sees a THE END IS NEAR sign (next to empty clothes of the person probably holding it) changed to read THE END IS HERE after the Rapture happens.
79	* In ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'', a radical flagellant comes before a crowd to tell them they're all doomed, and says it several times in succession. Lots of people actually pay attention to him, though, because they're all afraid of TheBlackDeath.
80	* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''. Crowds of these are seen being broken up by mounted police outside the Houses of Parliament, indicating the "Panic, sheer bloody panic!" inspired by the villainous [[EvilOverlord Lord Blackwood's]] apparent return from the dead. One man really goes to town describing the terrible events to come.
81	-->"The end is nigh! Blackwood's come back from Hell, and laid a curse upon this land! He walks in every shadow, and every puff of smoke. Behold, he cometh with clouds, and everyone shall see him!"
82	* Played for BlackComedy in the opening titles of ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', where a [[TemptingFate man with a sign saying THE END IS NEAR]] is being attacked by zombies.
83	* Even before the arrival of Lot and the Hebrews to the title cities in ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'', street preacher Alabias regularly warns his fellow Sodomites that they will one day be held to account for the evil they are committing in building their fortune off slave labour and wallowing in decadence and corruption; the other Sodomites laugh him off. He stays on for the cities' destruction in the film's climax, seeing the confirmation of his predictions as reward enough.
84	* In ''Film/StandClearOfTheClosingDoors'', one man on the UsefulNotes/NewYorkCitySubway reacts to the approach of Hurricane Sandy by warning people about the end of the world and handing out ComicBook/ChickTracts.
85	[[/folder]]
86
87	[[folder:Literature]]
88	* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/ThePsychohistorians": Hari Seldon predicts the collapse of the Galactic Empire, within [[DownplayedTrope 300 years]]. Despite the centuries between then and now, Seldon believes this is happening quickly, because after those 300 years will be 10,000 years where the galaxy is a feudal disaster.
89	* It's worth mentioning that ''Literature/TheBible'' is ambivalent about these types, claiming that only God the Father (Jesus himself saying he ''doesn't know'') knows when the world will end and anyone preaching of this is either misguided or outright a false prophet. So basically stop worrying and live the best life you can.
90	* ''Literature/ChickenLittle'' is one of the more effective versions of this trope, which is ironic as the overwrought chicken is literally panicking over nothing.
91	* A pamphlet from the [[ParodyReligion Church of the SubGenius]] has a masthead reading "The world is coming to an end...and it's hilarious!"
92	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The Red Star cultists in ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'' believe (or claim to believe) that the red star heralds the end of the Disc unless everyone does what they say.
93	* In ''Literature/ExperimentalFilm'', the farmer Hendrij Wròbl let all his animals go, burned his crops, and led his family into the remains of the field, where they spent two weeks waiting for the end. Nine-year-old Giscelia was the SoleSurvivor, with the rest of her family dying of privation, being beaten to death by Hendrij, or [[spoiler:in Hendrij's case, getting decapitated by Lady Midday]].
94	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Tyrion Lannister comes across a Begging Brother preaching about the red comet as a PortentOfDoom and decrying the corruption of the current regime. Westeros is already in the midst of a CivilWar so none of this is news, but it serves a foreshadowing for the later increase in religious fundamentalism.
95	* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', we have poor Tanelat. His job as the last Herald of the Almighty was to show up, inform humanity that the Desolation was at hand, and provide leadership and scientific knowledge to help them survive it. Unfortunately, as a result of getting stuck in Hell for several times as long as he was supposed to, he is nearly catatonic and can do little more than babble.
96	* In ''Literature/TwelveDays'', a mysterious organization posts a letter online on December 12, saying that the sinners of the world will start to die on December 13, and the end will finally come on Christmas. Most people don't take it seriously, until high-profile criminals start suddenly dying in a series of violent convulsions, with no apparent cause.
97	* ''Literature/TheWaterBabies'': As Tom runs through the moors, he startles a grouse, who flies away yelling "Cur-u-uck-cock-kick — the end of the world is come!" The grouse's wife isn't concerned because he's always talking about the world ending and thinks it's about to happen any time he gets startled.
98	[[/folder]]
99
100	[[folder:Live Action TV]]
101	* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}''
102	** The Season 1 finale of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' has a variation where everyone is running like hell while waving the requisite doomsaying signs, because they've been told an EarthquakeMachine is about to level the Glades. [[TooDumbToLive Why anyone would waste time]] making up a sign under those circumstances is not explained.
103	** In ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths2019'', Creator/WilWheaton plays a doomsday preacher who carries such a sign, warning people that the end is near and that Supergirl cannot save them, when a dragon comes out of the sky and attacks him, only for Supergirl to suddenly zoom down and protect him from the dragon's flame breath.
104	** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''. In "The One Where We're Trapped on TV", the Fates have rewritten history so Earth is a ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''-type dystopia.
105	--->'''CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker:''' The Fates are always watching. Relinquish free will. The world is perfect.
106	--->'''Gary:''' ''(wearing sandwich board saying THE WORLD IS WRONG!)'' The world is wrong! Can't you people see? None of this is how it should be! ''(sees Mona)'' Do I know you? You look familiar. Do you recognize me? My name is Gary but most people call me Crazy Guy.
107	--->'''Mona:''' Stay away from me, you weirdo!
108	--->'''Gary:''' Yeah, they call me that too.
109	* ''Series/BarneyMiller'': In "[[Recap/BarneyMillerS3E07 The Recluse]]" the 12th Precinct brings in a nutcase who was causing a public disturbance by ranting about the end of the world. When Barney says "Yes, Mr. Roberts, but the question is when?", Mr. Roberts catches him by surprise by saying "5:30."
110	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Towards the end of Season 7 as the population of Sunnydale pack up and flee, a crazy homeless guy is hauled into the police station shouting the ArcWords "From beneath you, it devours."
111	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': One of the victims in "[[Recap/CSINYS03E17 The Ride-In]]" makes, distributes and uploads a video explaining why he believes the world will be destroyed by a flood the following Sunday, and invites viewers to join him in the Ark he's built (and filled with animals) in his backyard. He does require that they help with construction costs, tho.
112	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode "The Shakespeare Code"]], as the Doctor shows Martha around 1599 London, they pass by a preacher shouting "And the Earth will be consumed by flames!". At the end, when the [[SealedEvilInACan void opens and the Carrionites are being released]], the same preacher is seen screaming with almost glee-like tones, "I TOLD THEE SO! I TOLD THEE!"
113	* Seen in the miniseries of ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'', before the Earth is destroyed. When he realizes the end actually IS nigh, he abandons his sign.
114	* Parodied in ''Series/{{Sliders}}''. The fifth season opener has the group land on a world performing experiments with dimensional travel, causing severe and dangerous weather phenomena. One guy on the streets is reading off apocalyptic Bible verses right until the end, where the experiments are shut off and everything returns to normal. He quickly says, "Or not."
115	* [[MiniSeries The mini series version]] of Creator/StephenKing's ''Series/TheStand1994'' featured one of these, played by Kareem Abdul Jabbar of all people. He goes all around UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity screaming "Bring out your dead" in a reference to the Black Plague, even before people start dying en masse from a disease with a 99% fatality rate. He actually survives the plague, and continues his doomcrying until Randall Flagg kills him personally.
116	** The character was present in the book too, although in an even smaller role than he had in the mini series. Like in the series, he does the "Bring out your dead" shouting, but IIRC is a short, overweight white guy who runs away from Larry when Larry tries to approach him.
117	* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. In the climatic scene of "The Naked Time", the crew has gone mad and the Enterprise is falling towards the disintegrating planet below. Captain Kirk is heading for the Bridge to carry out a [[ItsTheOnlyWay thousand-to-one chance]] that will save the ship or blow them all to bits, when he sees someone has painted SINNER REPENT on the turbolift doors in an obvious reference to this trope.
118	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Future's End" a [[TimePolice Starfleet timeship piloted by Captain Braxton]] tries to destroy Voyager, claiming they'll be responsible for a disaster that will destroy the entire solar system in the 29th Century. Voyager resists and they get pulled into a time rift, emerging in 1990's Earth where the Voyager crew find Captain Braxton (who ended up crashing back in TheSixties) as a crazed hobo putting up signs saying the End is Nigh. Technically he's about 900 years out, but what's nigh is the launch of the timeship by a 20th Century CorruptCorporateExecutive who stole it from Braxton, which will [[StableTimeLoop lead to the destruction of the solar system when it arrives in the future]].
119	-->'''Braxton:''' It's too late now. All things are set in motion. The terrible explosion will occur. The end is coming! The [[TitleDrop future's end]].
120	* Parodied (Inverted maybe) in the pilot for ''Series/SuperForce''. While Zach is walking around, looking at the future world, we see a street preacher holding a sign reading "Repent! The world will never end!"
121	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. Justified in Season 5 because the angels have [[BoringButPractical recruited Christian fundamentalist street preachers to locate Sam and Dean]], as part of their plan to bring about the Apocalypse. So when these preachers say that Angels of the Lord have told them TheEndIsNigh, it's the literal truth. It's not a coincidence that in the episode where we find this out, Dean ends up in a BadFuture.
122	[[/folder]]
123
124	[[folder:Music]]
125	* Pretty much the whole point of Music/JethroTull's album ''Stormwatch''.
126	[[/folder]]
127
128	[[folder:Radio]]
129	* Ford Prefect portends this at the start of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978,'' without really telling anyone how--that a Vogon constructor fleet was on its way to demolish the Earth to make room for a hyperspace bypass. Ford eventually tells Arthur when the lead ship arrives.
130	[[/folder]]
131
132	[[folder:Religion]]
133	* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': Prophets always came and warned people before they were entirely wiped out.
134	** Lehi is stated to be a contemporary of Jeremiah and had a similar "Jerusalem will be destroyed unless you repent" message. The people plot his death in response.
135	** Abinadi warns the people of King Noah that they will be captured and driven and persecuted, and if they still don't repent, they will be entirely exterminated. The king tries to dismiss him as a madman, but when Abinadi starts glowing while preaching, that won't stick. So he executes Abinadi instead.
136	** Ether warns the last Jaredite king about the coming total mutual annihilation, but is rejected and has to run away and hide to avoid being killed.
137	[[/folder]]
138
139	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
140	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsOfDrakkenheim'' features the Followers of the Falling Fire, an apocalyptic breakaway sect of the Church of the Sacred Flame who have united around a doom-prophesizing seeress who foresaw the comet of GreenRocks that annihilated Drakkenheim in the first place.
141	** The player's guide lets players play a doomsday prophet as a bardic subclass called the College of Doomsayers.
142	* ''TabletopGame/TheOthers2015'' features a series of {{hobos}} who parade around with these signs warning of the doom that comes, and indeed it is coming as the Sins of the Apocalypse are coming down to destroy Earth. Funny enough, said hobos are part of the problem as they're corrupted monsters.
143	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' features Flagellants, mobs of unhinged religious fanatics who are convinced that the latest Chaos invasion, Orc Waaagh!, Dark Elf raid, Skaven uprising, Undead attack, civil war... anyway, they're convinced that it's the End Times and want to take part in the final battle. Since their fervor makes them fearless and they like to bludgeon enemies to death with two-handed flails, Empire generals tolerate their presence, even if army morale tends to suffer slightly.
144	[[/folder]]
145
146	[[folder:Video Games]]
147	* The DefectiveDetective PlayerCharacter of ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' can, after awakening in a wrecked hotel room with amnesia and a horrible hangover, begin preaching that the age of Armageddon is night. [[ProperlyParanoid They have a point]]: [[ViceCity Revachol]] is a powder keg of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName fascists]], [[DirtyCommies crooked communists]], [[SociopathicSoldier psychopathic]] PrivateMilitaryContractors, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat an uncaring foreign-controlled government]], desperate poverty, and [[spoiler:a currently miniscule, but inexorably growing ''[[CosmicHorrorReveal hole in the fabric of spacetime]]'']]. Perfectly sane and sober individuals will wryly agree that, yes, something very big ''is'' likely to go down very soon, and it doesn't take a supernatural sense to figure it out.
148	* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
149	** The player can encounter a seemingly insane Chasind barbarian ranting about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Blight]] in the front courtyard of the Lothering Chantry. Several civilians are trying to silence him, as his shouting is starting to unsettle people. The Warden can choose to ignore him, intimidate him or even shame him into leaving, or try to calm him down with diplomacy. (A sufficiently persuasive Warden can discover the reason for his madness: the darkspawn slaughtered his entire clan, and he was forced to watch as they [[AFateWorseThanDeath dragged off his wife]].)
150	** Another doomsayer can appear in Redcliffe, albeit briefly. He warns that the attack on the village by a [[NightOfTheLivingMooks horde of walking corpses]] is a sign of the end of the world and that everyone should repent their sins. Like Lothering, the Warden can ignore or drive off the doomsayer, or they can just kill him. He shouts that he welcomes death as you attack him.
151	* ''VideoGame/EmpireEarth'''s units change appearances as you progress through time, the final prophet unit is a homeless-looking guy wearing only a sandwich board with "The End Is Near" written on it. In all eras, the prophet unit will also vocalize that the end is coming and other apocalyptic phrases (since their entire function is to unleash natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanoes).
152	* There is actually a game called ''VideoGame/TheEndIsNigh''. [[NintendoHard Get ready to die a lot.]]
153	* The villains in ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' are the members of a fanatical doomsday cult that believes the world is about to end and are launching a holy war to "cleanse" nonbelievers of their sins (through torture, drugs, and brainwashing). [[spoiler:Disturbingly, the end of the game reveals that they were actually right the whole time- due to geopolitical issues beyond the control of them or the player, nuclear war breaks out.]]
154	* ''VideoGame/{{Flight}}'': After the Egyptian man receives the plane, he looks at the drawing of a man and a woman near a fire and misinterprets it as some kind of catastrophe, after which he writes "THE END IS NEAR." on it.
155	* In ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace'', Adis people do this near the end of the game. [[spoiler:Of course, by the time they do this, the universe destruction ''has'' already started to happen.]]
156	* In the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series:
157	** ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': Manuel, a delusional research assistant at the Eden Prime dig site, correctly foreshadows the Reaper's coming. He's rewarded with a [[TalkToTheFist punch to the face]], courtesy of a renegade Shepard.
158	** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has a "Mad Prophet" who uses the trope name: "Repent! The end is nigh!" (Presumably, he doesn't know about the [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]] who are planning to destroy all civilization; he blames humans as a "blight" -- "You, sir, are a blight! And you! And you!")
159	** The Mad Prophet returns for a brief cameo in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC campaign "Omega", blaming humans for the occupation of Omega (which is factually correct, by the way) and the ongoing Reaper invasion.
160	* In the "Enter the Metro" trailer for ''[[VideoGame/Metro2033 Metro Last Light]]'', a scraggly homeless man is standing in the middle of a street in Moscow preaching about the end of the world -- then he laughs as the [[WorldWarIII air raid alarms sound and ICBMs launch in the background]].
161	* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' has a few of these, with them thinking that the [[IncurableCoughOfDeath Wailing Death plague]] is a sign of the end.
162	* Inverted in ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': A denizen of Strike City wears a sign saying the world is ''not'' going to be destroyed, despite overwhelming evidence pointing towards the opposite claim.
163	* A homeless guy in Santa Monica does this in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. Someone familiar with the game's plot and the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness {{Metaplot}} will find grains of truth in most of what he says.
164	* The above cards are based on the Doomsayers and Validated Doomsayers from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. The Doomsayers appeared before the launch of the ''Legion'' expansion pack, giving warnings of impending doom and handing out pamphlets. Validated Doomsayers appeared later in the expansion after [[spoiler:Argus]] appeared in the skies of Azeroth with updated pamphlets.
165	** The content of the pamphlets indicates the doomsayers aren't a unified lot. Some support the Legion, some support the Old Gods, and others are just crazy survivalists.
166	*** Following on from this the spinoff game ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'' has cards based on these Doomsayer characters, which proclaim "The end is coming!" on entering the playfield and destroys everything on the board if allowed to survive to the next turn. He says, "I knew it!" when he dies. If prevented from dying with a silencing effect and then buffed to be able to attack, his attack dialogue is, [[DevelopersForesight "Did I miss it?"]]
167	*** In Whispers of the Old Gods expansion we have doomsayer's triumphant return in the form of validated doomsayer. Because the expansion is about the hour of twilight,[[note]]The day that the old gods awaken and claim the planet as their own, corrupting everything in their path[[/note]] he get the literal last laugh.
168	--->'''Validated Doomsayer:''' I was right all along!
169	[[/folder]]
170
171	[[folder:Webcomics]]
172	* The rabbit community of ''Webcomic/CrossedClaws'' has Jered, an old rabbit raving about how cats in the fields are going to kill them all. Of course, while there ''is'' a cat out there, she's one of the most kindhearted characters in the comic. [[spoiler: Of course, her ''caretakers'' are another story...]]
173	* At one point in ''[[Webcomic/EdmundFinneysQuestToFindTheMeaningOfLife Edmund Finney's Quest to Find the Meaning of Life]]'', Edmund meets a man holding [[https://eqcomics.com/2011/03/15/the-end/ an odd variation on one of these.]]
174	* The crazy old guy in ''Webcomic/{{Exiern}}'' who keeps walking around shouting "DOOM!" and narrating to no one that anyone in the strip can see.
175	* In ''Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO'', Jeanne mistakes Paul Bunyan riding on Babe the Blue Ox for the Rider of the Apocalypse and begin ranting about the end of the world with a plank sign on her.
176	%% * In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3007 Seymour interrupts Slick's trying to persuade Monique to sleep with him because everything's wonderful -- and Slick promptly converts to telling to sleep with him because the world's falling apart.]]
177	* In ''Webcomic/TiffanyAndCorey'', Corey encounters [[https://tiffanyandcorey.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-beginning-of-end.html one of these]] as an old bearded man with a sign.
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	[[folder:Web Original]]
181	* The creepy eyeless vagrant from ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'' wears a sandwich board with the message "The End is Nigh" written over it. [[spoiler:He turned out to be an hologram created by the BigBad]]
182	* The two goofy unicorns in a WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn short say this phrase and perform an out-of-place frightening image.
183	-->'''Charlie:''' Okay, that was the scariest thing I've ever seen.
184	* Ross Twedell of Cultaholic lapses into this when he recaps something some sort of shocking twist in whatever pro wrestling show he's recapping...
185	-->'''Ross''': ...[[MotorMouth you know what that means grab two of every animal and run for the bastard border]]!\
186	''(Warning sirens blare as [[ChromaKey forest scenery]] is shown)''\
187	'''Ross''': ''(marching by)'' THE END IS NIGH, THE END IS NIGH, TIME TO RUN AWAY, THE END IS NIGH--BYE!
188	* Red Chocobo's LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/PokemonEmerald'' has the cutest The End is [[strike: Ny]] Nigh [[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Emerald/Update%2058/raltsarmageddon.jpg ever]].
189	* ''WebVideo/ThereWillBeBrawl'' has this guy in the form of Olimar.
190	[[/folder]]
191
192	[[folder:Western Animation]]
193	* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'': In "Belief Relief", when Uncle Hurry is introducing his brother's family to [[ScamReligion Paymeism]] and Ma asks Hurry why her family should join, he warns that "the end of the world is nigh" and adds that "only true-blue Paymeists will be saved."
194	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In the episode "Let's Play Ecologists", when Stumpy hears about air pollution, he panics and hyperventilates. He then assumes that his being unable to breathe properly is a result of air pollution, and he starts screaming "We're all going to die! [[TitleDrop The end is nigh!]]"
195	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' -- a guy is holding a sign like this early in the episode. When we get to the MonsterOfTheWeek part it reads "Told You So".
196	* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' -- In the episode "Child's Play", A street preacher voiced by Garrett Morris holds one of these signs, and sees a fountain turning a bubbling red as a sign that thirty years of doing this has finally paid off; He is notably upset when it turns out to be a prank with fruit-flavored soda mix. He turns up to the sky and asks plaintively why God is messing with his head.
197	* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' (in the episode that introduces Angel) features a doomsayer like this, bearing a sign with "Angels are among us!"
198	[[/folder]]
199
200	[[folder:Real Life]]
201	%%* Harold Camping's Judgement Day Predictions. There were six of them, total.
202	%%* The 2012 phenomenon.
203	%%* [[MillenniumBug Y2K.]]
204	* Going by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events Wikipedia]], Christians have been predicting the Apocalypse literally since the beginning (despite the fact that Jesus was very emphatic about how even he himself doesn't know when the world will end).
205	* The Seventh Day Adventist Church is built on this. In fact, they were originally formed from the remains of the Millerite movement, a group led by William Miller, who predicted the second coming of Christ in the year 1843.
206	* The signs are TruthInTelevision given some street preachers are known to carry signs carrying the same or similar wording [[note]]the exact phrase "The End Is Nigh" apparently originally coming from a man who walked up and down Oxford Street in London carrying a sandwich board or placard with the phrase[[/note]]; however, this may or may not necessarily indicate The End will be ''definitely'' next week, more as an inducement to repent and believe the Christian gospel by means of warning of impending judgement to come.
207	[[/folder]]
208

Context Main / TheEndIsNigh