History Main / BizarroApocalypse

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': {{Downplayed}}. While [[ThePlague Rash Illness]] has ''technically'' resulted in a ZombieApocalypse, [[UndeadAbomination Trolls, Beasts and Giants]] are far from your ordinary living dead -- they're hideously mutated, [[PerpetualMotionMonster ageless]] horrors which ''nobody'' can even begin to understand. Given that [[TheMagicComesBack magic has awakened in the world as well]], there's possibly [[MysticalPlague an overlap]], with many believing the illness to be a punishment from the Gods and nothing to prove them wrong.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': {{Downplayed}}. While the Rash pandemic has ''technically'' resulted in a ZombieApocalypse, [[UndeadAbomination Trolls, Beasts and Giants]] are far from your ordinary living dead -- they're hideously mutated, [[PerpetualMotionMonster ageless]] horrors which ''nobody'' can even begin to understand. Given that [[TheMagicComesBack magic has awakened in the world as well]], there's possibly [[MysticalPlague an overlap]], with many believing the illness to be a punishment from the Gods and nothing to prove them wrong.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': {{Implied|Trope}}. [[spoiler:King frees The Collector and convinces them to stop the Draining Spell from killing the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles by convincing the childlike entity they need everyone alive to play a game called 'Owl House'. However, this leaves everyone at the mercy of [[MadGod The Collector]], and while what exactly they do hasn't yet been shown, he's last seen using his reality warping powers to turn the Boiling Isles into his own personal playground with little care for anyone's safety]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime" is set after a massive flood of magic saturated and reshaped Earth almost beyond recognition- the continents have rearranged, people are eaten by rainbows, candy has achieved sentience and created a potent empire, strange monsters stalk the world and alien gods reshape reality to their whims. [[DownplayedTrope However]], it's been like that for 1000 years now, [[PerspectiveFlip so that's all considered normal and it's the occasional remnants from the times before magic that are bizarre and alien]]

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a ''very'' complicated plot involving multiple human factions trying to cause the end of the world and reshape it into their image, all the while {{Eldritch Abomination}}s called Angels are just trying to end all life regardless of the method. A series of events known as the Impacts were all nearly apocalyptic themselves, as each one irrevocably altered the laws of physics of reality itself. ''End of Evangelion'' shows us one such possible apocalypse, as when an angel merges with Adam, all life just turns into the vaguely defined LCL fluid that is used inside the cockpits that are needed to pilot EVA units and apparently becomes a HiveMind. The endings of the various incarnations of the franchise have left a LOT to debate and interpret, as nobody can seem to agree on just what the hell they just witnessed.

* ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'': [[spoiler:In the single player campaign "Return of the Mammalians", this is revealed to be the endgoal of Mr. Grizz, who is revealed to be a giant, grizzly bear. He started the Grizzco company in order to get Inklings and Octolings to gain the Golden Eggs from the Salmonids so he can use the eggs to create 'Fuzzy Ooze' when combined with his owm fur. He plans to spread the ooze all over the planet Earth to transform all life on the planet and bring back the mammals, who have all gone extinct. In the bad ending where you don't stop him in time, we see his actions have caused an apocalypse-like situation, with many Inklings and Octolings turned into giant fuzzballs, and the later see the world being transformed into what is decribed as "a massive Fuzzball"]].

--> -- '''Bill Cipher''', in the [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E18Weirdmageddon eponymous episode]], ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''

And in the [[AfterTheEnd resulting world]], reality is well and truly [[RealityIsOutToLunch out to lunch]]. An EldritchLocation with AlienGeometries everywhere, [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm incomprehensible creatures]] roaming the ruined streets, [[TimeCrash time itself may break down]], and simply ''looking'' at this bizarre hellscape can [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drive the strongest-willed insane]] in mere moments.

* As you might expect, such events are rather common in the [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Foundationverse]]:

-->'''Ray:''' Fire and brimstone raining down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!
-->'''Egon:''' Forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes...
-->'''Winston:''' The dead rising from the grave!
-->'''Venkman:''' Human sacrifice, dogs and cats livin' together... mass hysteria!
* In the film ''Film/MysteryMen'', the BigBad's doomsday weapon is the Psycho-Frackulator, a machine that physically and lethally warps reality into twisted and disturbing shapes. This is used on the imprisoned Captain Amazing with disturbing results, leaving a twisted and unrecognizable corpse. Later, it's turned on the city and causes mass destruction, though of a more mundane nature.

* In the short story [[https://www.tor.com/2020/07/15/everythings-fine-matthew-pridham/ "Everything's Fine"]] by Matthew Pridham, Earth is in the middle of an unspecified apocalypse, causing all manner of dangerously surreal transformations. The Moon is cracking, talking cadavers hang from the trees in the park, and schoolyard games can result in the children melding together into an amorphous flesh ball. Strangest of all, these horrors mostly target those who directly acknowledge them -- so one's best hope of survival is to [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight ignore the weirdness]] and [[ObviouslyNotFine insist that everything's fine]].
* In a similar way, the short story ''Something Passed By'', where, well, SOMETHING passed by the earth and turned reality and physics as humanity knows it upside down and inside out. Water becomes like nitroglycerine, but gasoline becomes drinkable. Ground randomly becomes like quicksand and solidifies back just as randomly. Clouds rain stones or literal flesh and blood. Random enclosed areas completely consume every atom of air in them and refuse to let more in, turning them into pockets of hard vacuum. People age rapidly or in reverse, or spontaneously combust or have their brains leak out of their ears. Gravity randomly magnifies immensely at equally random points, creating 'gravity howitzers' that destroy anything where they occur. At the end, there's a strange shimmering on the horizon moving forward that basically suggests that the bonds of reality have completely fallen apart and everything is ceasing to exist.

* ''Series/TheLeftovers'': {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The Sudden Departure happens, instantly disappearing a small percentage of the world's population...and they are never seen again and no answers come as to what happened. The world then appears to go on as normal, but as time passes, more and more strange things begin to happen: Nora is apparently healed from her intense grief by a single hug; a man who may be God gets mauled by a lion on a sex boat; Kevin Garvey comes back from the dead (multiple times); and numerous other very strange things happen. The series as a whole is mostly focused on trying to live a "normal" enough life in the face of a totally inexplicable apocalypse.

* The 7th edition of ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' is set after the CERN Supercollider caused every possible timeline to merge into one, scattering bits of time and space all over a vast wasteland.

* The ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series holds in its [[AllThereInTheManual backstory]] the concept of Towers, CosmicKeystones raised in the [[CreationMyth Merethic Era]] and binding reality into linear time. Should they all fall, the setting would sink back into nonlinearity and take on the full aspect of all the trippy weirdness that, even now, occasionally bubbles to the surface. More than half of the towers have fallen already.
* In ''Videogame/FallenLondon'' and related games, the oft-mentioned "Liberation of Night" increasingly looks like one of these the more you advance into the lore, with light as a concept being removed from existence. The truth of it entails [[spoiler:the complete destruction of all law, including the laws of nature and reality, and of both its creators ([[SentientStars the Judgements]]) and their law-enforcing light. Those proposing it hardly see it as a cataclysm, finding the Judgements are too tyrannical to suffer and ''literally anything'' would be an improvement, but it's hard not to see it as an apocalypse all by itself]].

* In the Website/{{YouTube}} series ''WebAnimation/{{Autodale}}'' by David Armsby, humanity has fallen victim to something known as "The Withering". ''Exactly'' what it is, and what caused it, are both complete unknowns, but its effects include GravityScrew, the spread of some sort of fungus-based sickness that merges people into the grass and vines which have grown to cover everything, and potentially mutating others into the reptilian monsters known as "Freaks". The only human community known to survive is the titular town, a {{Dystopia}} sustained only by the energy of a [[PoweredByAForsakenChild tortured, dying god]].

** S. D. Locke's Proposal, "[[{{Pun}} When Day Breaks]]" describes a nightmarish scenario in which, with no explanation or warning, the Sun started transforming any creature exposed to its rays (including those reflected through moonlight) into [[BodyHorror hideous, amorphous blobs of flesh]] that seek to drag any survivors into the sunlight. It's pretty bleak even by SCP standards.

* {{Discussed|Trope}} in the climax of ''Webcomic/EightBitTheatre'': Black Mage argues it might not actually be so bad for Chaos to win (because he might set the world on fire, but he might also turn it into cake, [[InsaneTrollLogic and there are more kinds of cake than there are fire so the odds are in cake's favour]]) and Chaos overhears and decides to start the "pastrylogical singularity".
-->'''Chaos:''' I mean, that's the kind of crazy, 'oh, man, look at that embodiment of chaos go nuts' thing people expect out of me. But they don't expect ''that''. But they should. But can't. But should.
-->'''White Mage:''' Chaos, we ''will'' stop you.
-->'''Chaos:''' You know, I'm talking about turning your world into pure confectionary strata. It's a little ''beyond'' your ability to influence.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "The Return of Harmony" two-parter deals with the return of Discord, who upon beating the Mane 6 creates an apocalypse that is certainly weird, including the roads turning into soap, buildings that float in midair, and the day and night coming in at random. And that's not counting the changes Discord made beforehand, like chocolate rain and rabbits growing deer-like legs.

* Used as the framing device for ''WesternAnimation/TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'' episode "Other Space": A scientist opens a portal to another universe, but the hostile beings that come through start to transform Earth into a world they can inhabit.

* In ''Script/{{C0DA}}'', a graphic novel script by former ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' writer Creator/MichaelKirkbride, Numidium (a HumongousMecha RealityWarper thought destroyed centuries in the past) reappears and causes the apocalyptic event known as "Landfall". [[TimeCrash Time is "unbound"]], Numidium uses it's ability as the walking embodiment of refutation to bring "[[{{Unperson}} erasure]]" upon the Altmer (High Elves), it "stomps" Hammerfell into sea, and it outright [[KillTheGod kills several gods]] causing a myriad of bizarre effects on the universe while leaving Nirn explicitly uninhabitable. The survivors have fled to Nirn's moon Masser where they eek out a living under the surface.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has a ''very'' complicated plot involving multiple human factions trying to cause the end of the world and reshape it into their image, all the while {{Eldritch Abomination}}s called Angels are just trying to end all life regardless of the method. A series of events known as the Impacts were all nearly apocalyptic themselves, as each one irrevocably altered the laws of physics of reality itself. ''End of Evangelion'' shows us one such possible apocalypse, as when an angel merges with Adam, all life just turns into the vaguely defined LCL fluid that is used inside the cockpits that are needed to pilot EVA units and apparently becomes a HiveMind. The endings of the various incarnations of the franchise has left a LOT to debate and interpret, as nobody can seem to agree on just what the hell they just witnessed.

Naturally, this can be the outcome of the CosmicHorrorStory. The end result might also be a WorldOfChaos. A subtrope of ApocalypseHow and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Compare SignsOfTheEndTimes, when strange things start happening ''before'' the apocalypse.

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* In the short story [[https://www.tor.com/2020/07/15/everythings-fine-matthew-pridham/ "Everything's Fine"]] by Matthew Pridham, Earth is in the middle of an unspecified apocalypse, causing all manner of dangerously surreal transformations. The Moon is cracking, talking cadavers hang from the trees in the park, and schoolyard games can result in the children melding together into an amorphous flesh ball. Strangest of all, these horrors mostly target those who directly acknowledge them--so one's best hope of survival is to [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight ignore the weirdness]] and [[ObviouslyNotFine insist that everything's fine]].

* In a similar way, the short story ''Something Passed By'', where, well, SOMETHING passed by the earth and turned reality and physics as humanity knows it upside down and inside out. Water becomes like nitroglycerine, but gasoline becomes drinkable. Ground randomly becomes like quicksand and solidifies back just as randomly. People age rapidly or in reverse. At the end, there's a strange shimmering on the horizon that basically suggests that the bonds of reality have completely fallen apart and everything is ceasing to exist.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'': {{Discussed|Trope}} when the Ghostbusters promise the Mayor that if they aren't released to stop Gozer, New York is going to experience some "real Wrath-of-God type stuff," and pull out whatever sounds worst:

'''White Mage:''' Chaos, we ''will'' stop you.
'''Chaos:''' You know, I'm talking about turning your world into pure confectionary strata. It's a little ''beyond'' your ability to influence.

* In the film ''Film/MysteryMen'', the big bad?s doomsday weapon is the Psycho-Frackulator - a machine that physically and lethally warps reality into twisted and disturbing shapes. This is used on the imprisoned Captain Amazong with disturbing results, leaving a twisted and unrecognizable corpse.

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Other potential titles:
* EldritchCataclysm (original)
* {{Acid-Trip Armageddon}}
* {{Weirdmageddon}}