History Main / TheDayOfReckoning

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern:'' The Blackest Night, when the enemies of the Green Lantern corps will mass against them and destroy them. ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' centers all around a version of it, [[spoiler:which ends up getting thwarted]].

* The two-parter Second Season finale of ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' is actually titled "Day of Reckoning." It involves the iconic Franchise/XMen figure of a Sentinel being let loose in the city and attacking all mutants and them having to defend themselves, leading to their existence being revealed on national television.

* In the Victoriad, Arthur Leywin who is CameBackStrong has a rematch with Nico and Cadell as he cripples Nico and kills Cadell as payback for all the misery they caused under Agrona's command. ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd''

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': An ancient conflict between the gods and [[BigBad Salem]] has left humanity a shattered remnant of its former glory. The God of Light [[TheChosenOne tasked]] the great hero [[BigGood Ozma]] to guide humanity towards the Day of Judgement: unite people in harmony and prove to the gods that humanity can be redeemed; if he fails, both humanity and Remnant itself will be destroyed. [[spoiler:To achieve this goal, Ozma is forced to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnate over and over]] into [[FusionDance the bodies of living men]] to ensure that Ozma never carries the burden of this responsibility alone. [[BadassTeacher Professor Ozpin]] is the [[LegacyOfTheChosen inheritor]] of this divine mission until responsibility passes to [[FarmBoy Oscar]] in Volume 4. [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne The catch]] is that uniting humanity is impossible [[CompleteImmortality as long as Salem exists]]... and Salem is [[ForeverWar impossible to kill]].]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': An ancient conflict between the gods and [[BigBad Salem]] has left humanity a shattered remnant of its former glory. The God of Light [[TheChosenOne tasked]] the great hero [[BigGood Ozma]] to guide humanity towards the Day of Judgement: unite people in harmony and prove to the gods that humanity can be redeemed; if he fails, both humanity and Remnant itself will be destroyed. [[spoiler:To achieve this goal, Ozma is forced to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnate over and over]] into [[FusionDance the bodies of living men]] to ensure that Ozma never carries the burden of this responsibility alone. [[BadassTeacher Professor Ozpin]] was the [[LegacyOfTheChosen inheritor]] of this divine mission until responsibility passes to [[FarmBoy Oscar]] in Volume 4. [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne The catch]] is that uniting humanity is impossible [[CompleteImmortality as long as Salem exists]]... and Salem is [[ForeverWar impossible to kill]].]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': An ancient conflict between the gods and [[BigBad Salem]] has left humanity a shattered remnant of its former glory. The God of Light [[TheChosenOne tasked]] the great hero [[BigGood Ozma]] to guide humanity towards the Day of Judgement: unite people in harmony and prove to the gods that humanity can be redeemed; if he fails, both humanity and Remnant itself will be destroyed. [[spoiler:To achieve this goal, Ozma is forced to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnate over and over]] into [[FusionDance the bodies of living men]] to ensure that Ozma never carries the burden of this responsibility alone. [[BadassTeacher Professor Ozpin]] was the[[LegacyOfTheChosen inheritor]] of this divine mission until responsibility passes to [[FarmBoy Oscar]] in Volume 4. [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne The catch]] is that uniting humanity is impossible [[CompleteImmortality as long as Salem exists]]... and Salem is [[ForeverWar impossible to kill]].]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': An ancient conflict between the gods and [[BigBad Salem]] has left humanity a shattered remnant of its former glory. The God of Light [[TheChosenOne tasked]] the great hero [[BigGood Ozma]] to guide humanity towards the Day of Judgement: unite people in harmony and prove to the gods that humanity can be redeemed; if he fails, both humanity and Remnant itself will be destroyed. [[spoiler:To achieve this goal, Ozma is forced to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnate over and over]] into [[FusionDance the bodies of living men]] to ensure that Ozma never carries the burden of this responsibility alone. [[BadassTeacher Professor Ozpin]] was the[[LegacyOfTheChosen inheritor]] of this divine mission until responsibility passes to [[FarmBoy Oscar]] in Volume 4. [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne The catch]] is that uniting humanity is impossible [[CompleteImmortality as long as Salem exists]]... and Salem is [[ForeverWar impossible to kill]].

->''"I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of apocalypse."''\\
--'''Riley Finn''', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', the day you enter TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, the [[spoiler:Qliphoth World]], occurs on the Day of Reckoning.
** ''Royal'' supersedes the previous final dungeon with a new final dungeon, and the day which you fight the TrueFinalBoss in that dungeon is called the Day of Fates, significant because [[spoiler:it is the day that Mementos and the real world permanently fuse, allowing the AntiVillain BigBad to achieve his goals, and also the date of said BigBad's former fiancée's birthday, whose memory loss basically kickstarted his ambitions to end all suffering]].

* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', [[spoiler:the game's final dungeon, Qliphote World]] occurs on the Day of Reckoning.

'''[[TheManBehindTheMan Detweiler]]''': A reckoning has come today, Sergeant. Our slates are being wiped clean. [...] I'm afraid you have a decision to make.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' had the arrival of Myotismon be "The Hour of the Beast" or [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar 6 seconds past 6:06 PM]].

* The joke religion the Church of the [=SubGenius=] tells of the day when the spaceships from Planet X are to take those who have accepted J.R. "Bob" Dobbs into their minds from Earth before it is destroyed (called "The Rupture" in their literature) to their final financial reward. This was to have occurred on July 5, 1998, but the parchment on which it was documented was read wrong. It should have been July 5, 19,998.

* The joke religion the Church of the [=SubGenius=] tells of the day when the spaceships from Planet X are to take those who have accepted J.R. "Bob" Dobbs into their minds from Earth before it is destroyed (called "The Rupture"in their literature) to their final financial reward. This was to have occurred on July 5, 1998, but the parchment on which it was documented was read wrong. It should have been July 5, 19,998.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar III'' Kratos at last brings fourth the destruction of Mount Olympus, and the gods upon it, as all was foretold.