History BadFuture / ComicBooks

** ''Weight of the Worlds'', the miniseries wrapping up Gerard Way's run, shows a future where the team has clearly seen better days, the disaster starting when Cliff Steele became so addicted to his new Robotman body's ability to upgrade itself every time he does a good deed that he transformed himself into a sentient planet to try and save the universe on his terms.

* In the ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' story "[[ComicBook/{{JusticeLeagueOfAmericaRockOfAges}} Rock of Ages]]", destroying the eponymous rock results in a Bad Future where "Darkseid is". (In complete control of Earth and slowly rooting out the survivors, having laid waste to New Genesis, that is.)

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* At one point in an [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] and Comicbook/PowerPack crossover, the Pack gets thrown into one of these by Kang, where they meet badass-looking future versions of themselves.

** There's also a storyline in the 90s involving a group of Titans going into the past to kill Donna Troy and prevent the birth of Lord Chaos. Lord Chaos created this dystopic world where he controls everything with drugs. That future was averted when his past self Robert Long was killed in a car accident.

* In the ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' story "Rock of Ages", destroying the eponymous rock results in a Bad Future where "Darkseid is". (In complete control of Earth and slowly rooting out the survivors, having laid waste to New Genesis, that is.)

* ''ComicBook/DaredevilEndOfDays'': Not the darkest future of the Marvel Universe, with Spider-Man, the Punisher, and Nick Fury, among a few others, still around, but certainly not the brightest future, either. As if Bullseye finally triumphing over Daredevil and murdering him wasn’t bleak enough, it was also revealed that Daredevil crossed the [[EveryoneHasStandards line in the eyes of Hell’s Kitchen]] when he [[spoiler: killed Kingpin]]. And it’s not just Daredevil, Black Widow and the Fantastic Four are said to have died quite some time ago, the Avengers are nowhere to be found, groups of SHIELD Helicarriers patrol New York, Stark Tower is now an automated museum, the Falcon (Sam Wilson) is now the U.S President, which sounds good until you remember that the VP is named [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Osborn]], and certain heroes have their legacies and names shilled, with things like Hulk Burgers, Hammer Insurance, and a kind of whiskey with Hawkeye’s name on it.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyondRebirth'' is a relatively more optimistic take with the setting being during the aftermath of a RobotWar with Brother Eye which mankind won, with the world recovering. Gotham is now {{cyberpunk}}, Damian became the new [[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's Al Ghul]], and ComicBook/TheJoker [[JokerImmunity is still kicking]].
* The ''ComicBook/New52'' run on Animal Man and Swamp Thing deals with this in their Rotworld Arc. Where Swampy and Animal Man are baited into travelling into the rot and come out years later to a world taken over by Rotlings with gruesome and grim showings of how the heroes of the world unaffiliated with the powers of the Red and Green (and a few exceptions) were unable to prevent the spread of the Rot around the world and were turned into monsters themselves.

* Played with in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''; [[spoiler: Brainstorm traveling back in time]] creates an alternate timeline where the Functionist Council took over Cybertron, turning the planet into a dystopic police state where any class of Transformer that doesn't serve an overt purpose is either killed or exiled. However it's discovered that while Cybertron sucks in this reality, the rest of the universe is seemingly ''better'' than the main timeline, as the Great War never occurred. However this gets double-subverted; [[spoiler:The Functionist Council plan to make an army, and take their horror show to the rest of the universe.]]

* ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'' has a distant future where Mars was colonized by Earth forces that had terraformed the planet and enslaved the local natives with the resistance lead by [[BigGood John Carter]]'s distant descendant. This possible timeline is visited by Carter's wife Dejah, whose actions are implied to have solved the conflict and possibly prevented the timeline from existing in the first place.

** From the O5 X-Men’s perspective, the current era is this in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''. Mutants are even more feared and hated than they were in their time, their [[ComicBook/ProfessorX beloved mentor]] is dead (and turns out to have been secretly kind of a bastard), superheroes as a whole have degenerated into warring gangs of petty jerks, and the X-Men have been taken over by a [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} sociopathic asshole]]. Additionally, all their lives turned out to have really sucked: ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}} is a globally-reviled terrorist and all his friends hate him, [[ComicBook/JeanGrey Marvel Girl]] and her entire family are all dead, Angel has [[SuperpoweredEvilSide gone crazy]], ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}} turned into a monster and ComicBook/{{Iceman}} is [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking still in the closet]].

* ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'': the ComicBook/RedSkull rules the world, all the heroes are either dead, in hiding, given up or just plain corrupt ([[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]] has become the vile patriarch of a sizeable clan of inbred cannibalistic deformed hick offspring), and the world is pretty much a PostApocalyptic wasteland.

* The death of [[NobleDemon The Raider]] creates one in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'': his son is convinced it was all Paperinik's fault and swear to destroy him: fifteen years later Paperinik's SecretIdentity is revealed to the world and he is a ''wanted terrorist'', his hideout was bombed down,[[RobotGirl Lyla]] was deactivated, the TimePolice was shut down and its job given to a society at the order of [[TheSyndicate The Organization]]... and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Angus is running for President]].

* ''ComicBook/InfinityWars2019:'' Plays a part in the origin of Ghost Panther. In 2099, Earth is invaded by Martians, and while they fight them off, one freedom fighter, Erik Killraven, blames Wakanda and travels back in time to get revenge. The follow-up event, ''ComicBook/SecretWarps'', shows it in more details, and in the style of the universe it's a mash-up of several other Marvel futures, including ''Iron Man 2020'', the Dargo Ktor Thor, and the Danielle Cage Captain America.