Five teenagers must survive after civilization as they know it is wiped out. Twelve years later, their story is unearthed.
"Until the end."
End Times (2013-present) is a web series created by Mad Manatee Productions. After a virus wipes out most of civilization, five teenage survivors start recording their adventures on an old camcorder. Twelve years later, a bitter woman recovering from a life-changing injury finds and attempts to make sense of the videos. The series is told entirely through footage the characters record.
End Times contains examples of:
- After the End: the file starts three months after a virus wipes out civilization, and the Archivist's recording starts twelve years after that.
- Age-Appropriate Angst: Literally everyone
- Apocalyptic Log: the entire series, though we have yet to see how the record ends.
- Apologises a Lot: Charlie.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Kimber and the baseball bat.
- Buffy Speak: Many examples, as most of the characters are college-aged in a situation much removed from their experience.
- In season 2, 'the thing.'
- Catchphrase"Until the end."
- Childhood Friend Romance: Harry and Dane's science fair rivalry could be seen as this.
- Disabled Snarker: by season 2 the Archivist has become this. "So now I'm the fence lub with the scanner who can't leave because she's on wheels!"
- Embarrassing Nickname: Trace calls Harry "Worf"
- Evil Sounds Deep: Subverted. Maddi is a token valley-girl.
- False Friend: Hanson seemed to have an epic broship with Charlie before he was revealed as an attempted assassin.Charlie: You needed my help!Hanson: Or else I never would have been here.
- The Hero's Journey: If you take the five survivors as a single hero they fit this to a T.
- Macguffin: Dr. Ramirez's generator. Which as far as we can tell is an extension cord plugged into itself. And acids.
- The Movie Buff: Harry, Charlie, and Trace.
- Mysterious Past: Kimber, at first.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis: Constantly. Trace, Harry, and Charlie are all seeped in pop-culture knowledge and talk in references, sometimes for humor and other times very much not so.
- "I like the Doc as much as anyone, but the second movie still hasn't come out." "And it won't."
- "We're going to have to be The Avengers."
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Kimber is always missing the other survivors' pop culture references. 12 years later the Archivist doesn't get them either, probably because 1. she was maybe 8 back when TV or internet was a thing and 2. she was at least partially brainwashed by a military dictatorship and spent most of her teenage years as an assassin.
- Shipper on Deck: Trace is always trying to get Harry to admit his feelings for Dane.
- Spell My Name with a "The": The Archivist.
- Took a Level in Badass: Trace, Harry, and Dane when they decide to "be the Avengers." Kimber later that episode with the baseball bat.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Trace, Harry, and Charlie have a weird obsession with finding cannibals. Guess who shows up in the last act...
