What will happen on 2012.

has nobody bothered to mention the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy possibility? There are so many idiots out there who believe that 2012 will actually bring the apocalypse or whatnot that they bunker up and hide in their homes for a year. Others commit suicide because they're too afraid to face what might happen. Others just riot and loot the stores because they think it's their last chance at having anything.

With all this chaos, the rational people of earth can't quite handle the economic collapse, leading to a severe recession. Bush-esque politicians are once again re-elected and pass laws "for security", setting the world back another hundred years or so in human rights. On top of that, massive hoarding of resources like oil by countries "looking out for themselves" causes the collapse of many major industrial oil importers like the US, Britain, and Japan.

The middle east rises out of the ashes as a new economic superpower, alongside China...

^ Damn you man that was EXACTLY what I was going to say, save for the part about the middle east rising as a new superpower.

My other theory is that enough people will jokingly vote for Sara Palin that she will actually get elected.

edited 23rd Mar '11 6:53:05 PM by JohnnyCakes

Absol-utely noting

Someone will upload an anthromorphic Absol picture to Deviantart.

To put it in the superior words of James Rolfe...

"With about twenty seconds left until Armageddon, the lion, the tinman, and the scarecrow escaped the doomed future through use of time travel through some kind of warp zone, which erases their memories until back in the first Wizard Of Oz movie. The scarecrow has no brain, the tinman has no heart, and the lion is now a coward. These characters will now embark on a new mission to find what they have lost. Meanwhile, with less than ten seconds left, Super Mecha Death Christ fires a world-blower-upper bomb which goes into the air and comes down as Lucifer counts the seconds off. "5...4...3...2...1!" The year 99 changes to zero, resetting the time-space continuum back to the year zero, which was when Jesus was born. So at the last second before impact, Super Mecha Death Christ reverts back into the baby Christ, obviously not an evildoer, so he puts up a force field which blocks the world-blower-upper bomb and redirects it to hell to blow up Lucifer instead. However, the fact that Super Mecha Death Christ was actually labeled 2000 BC, it denies his existence in the present time, so a prototype of Super Mecha Death Christ appears in the year 2000 BC, where the Vikings, the Cavemen, and the Egyptasaurus destroy it, which prevents the creation of the new 3.0 beta version, which cancels the reason for Dorothy to come to Oz in the first place, which means that the scarecrow, tinman, and cowardly lion would have never met the Wizard of Oz and asked for a heart, a brain, and courage, and the baby Christ being present in Oz makes no sense for him being in the Bible, so if there's no Jesus, there would be no New Testament, and Satan would have nothing better to do than sit around and stick his pitchfork up his ass. And the son of David would be playing croquet with angels, dogs and cats would be rolling in the mud, and Dorothy would be reincarnated into a pig taking a shit off the side of a barn, and it all creates a big time paradox, AND THE WHOLE FUCKING MOVIE EXPLODES."

edited 2nd Apr '11 10:15:55 AM by AgentDragonhunter

@willyolio: Nothing much happened in 2000, so I doubt that anything like that will happen in 2012 either.

Plenty of people who have made a fortune selling books and talking to talk shows will claim that they have been misunderstood, or that whatever entity was supposed to destroy the world changed idea, or that the end of the world begun in 2012 but it's not clear when it will end, or whatever, and will retire to their diamond-plated Jacuzzis for some quiet soul-seeking.

People will forget all about that, until a few years before the next doomsday date - what do you think it will be, by the way? 2020 has a nice ring to it, but perhaps it's too soon after 2012...

I will laugh desrisively at all the people who thought something would happen.

"Yes, but that wouldn't work unless Jesus was 12 when he was crucified."

Be fair, he said almost two thousand years. Over a couple of millennia, what's a couple decades?

edited 7th Apr '11 7:07:55 AM by AFP

Due to the imminent government shutdown, the Republican Party splits into two: the Republican Party with center-right candidates and the Tea Party with far right candidates. Neither party takes Donald Trump seriously as a Presidential candidate due to his multiple bankruptcies and lack of political experience. The Presidential ballot ends up having three Republican candidates against an incumbent: Mitt Romney on the Republican side, Sarah Palin on the Tea Party side (with Rand Paul as a running mate) and Donald Trump as an independent (possibly using his Donald Trump clone from the Oreo commercials). The split ends up creating a Truman in 1948 situation in which the underdog incumbent wins.

When Glenn Beck leaves Fox News, Fox News will collapse due to being overstaffed and often having made-up statistics. Also, people will realize Congress was the real reason being the government problems and the President was misblamed.

Juan Williams's run on Fox News will be a complete disaster as his blatant racism will get him much controversy and many fines from the FCC. Anti-NPR activists will realize NPR did the right thing to fire him.

Several Congressmen will resign as a result of their stupid idea to push a budget that cut or canceled out everything non-military. To rub salt on the wounds, military funding is cut by 33% and the department of homeland security is reorganized into a division of foreign diplomacy.

Texas leaves the Union and forms the People's Republic of Texas. Austin leaves that country and becomes the 50th state. Texas is taken over by Mexico and becomes New New Mexico.

The Mayans will all come back to life, do a dance routine, mock us, and then die again.

Rickrolling becomes funny again. Chuck Norris jokes too.

edited 9th Apr '11 12:59:52 AM by Carciofus

Every U.S. Marine breaks out of hell, led by Chesty Puller, they then procede to the U.S., organize an invasion of hell, procede to occupy it, Satan escapes and sells his holdings in all religions (except for the catholic church) buys the majority of the Catholic Church, becoming the majority shareholder. Once this happens,all religions that are notthe Catholic Church will lead an assult on the Vatican, however, this wll all be null and void when we realize that Switzerland took over the world decades ago and they have us under mind control, and this is all a glitch in the system, once enough people realiz this a mass breakout will ensue, we will overwhelm the swiss and procede to blow our selves up, all the while Cthulhu and every other immortal being will procede to point and laugh at us... until they realize that we have created a reality destroying vortex that will take them with us. Chuck Norris and Mr. T will then clash again and start the cycle again.

more likely: nothing

A Zombie plague breaks out and kills more than 95% of the Earth's population. Human society is essentially destroyed as the few that are immune to it slowly descend into barbarianism. Seizing their opportunity, a small invasion fleet from the Zeta Reticuli star system appears and takes over the planet with barely a whisper as they pick off what's left. The surviving Humans are transferred offworld to serve as a slave race and the Zetas begin to terraform Earth to try to make it habitable to their species as a colony world.

edited 10th Apr '11 12:58:48 AM by ThePixelatedAssassin

Zombies are virtually impossible in full description of them but technicalities can come

I believe we'll all die due to a massive government conspiracy involving Justin bieber and fred combining turning everyone into mush or having everyone suicide from the monstrocity of a sound.

Well, they are making a Fred movie in 3-D so that could happen.

The entire Final Fantasy fanbase will enjoy Final Fantasy XV.

Rebbecca Black sings a new song, entitled "June". The chorus will go like this:

''It's June, June,

We'll be out of school soon,

We can spend the next two months doing

Whatever we want to do!''

The swarm of dislikes will grow even more until youtube explodes from server stress. Countless people will blame each other for the incident, killing each other for bringing the gigantic, free website to ruin and being too lazy to buy their own music. Or the world just explodes from another Rebbecca Black song. *

People will buy calendars for 2013?

OMG I would love it!

This will happen.

I heard that movie got 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The entire British realises that reality TV sucks. All hell breaks loose as common denominators have nothing to watch except sitcoms, panel shows, and documentaries about important stuff.

Someone will laugh so hard a God will cry.

edited 25th Jun '11 2:50:31 PM by PerfectltyABNormal

Chuck Norris dies. And the internet explodes from a bajillion jokes moving through the tube at the speed of light.

We finally start cloning people

TV Tropes WMG's instantly become reality.