History Main / BizarroApocalypse

It may have been caused by a sufficiently dangerous RealityWarper, EldritchAbomination or GodOfChaos, the energy of PrimordialChaos somehow leaking into reality, powerful magic [[MagicMisfire gone very, very wrong]], TheSingularity gone very, very wrong, or perhaps [[ForScience arrogant scientists]] messing around with ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow. Often, however, there is ''no'' explanation available, and the characters, no matter how intelligent or skilled, can't change a damn thing about it. Such a world could be practically uninhabitable by humanity, [[EarthThatWas and the survivors, once dead, will leave behind a planet lacking in their presence.]]

It may have been caused by a sufficiently dangerous RealityWarper, EldritchAbomination or GodOfChaos, the energy of PrimordialChaos somehow leaking into reality, powerful magic [[MagicMisfire gone very, very wrong]], TheSingularity gone very, very wrong, or perhaps [[ForScience arrogant scientists]] messing around with ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow. Often, however, there is ''no'' explanation available, and the characters, no matter how intelligent or skilled, can't change a damn thing about it.

It may have been caused by a sufficiently dangerous RealityWarper, EldritchAbomination or GodOfChaos, the energy of PrimordialChaos somehow leaking into reality, powerful magic [[MagicMisfire gone very, very wrong]], or perhaps [[ForScience arrogant scientists]] messing around with ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow. Often, however, there is ''no'' explanation available, and the characters, no matter how intelligent or skilled, can't change a damn thing about it.

* ''Literature/LeftBehind'': The series details the steady destruction of the Earth in the apocalypse foretold (kind of) in the biblical book of Revelation, but having the events written down doesn't make them any less bizarre. All Christians on the planet vanish, leading to various judgements including a plague of demonic stinging locusts (whose victims are incapable of dying to ease their pain), massive shifts in weather, a huge earthquake, invisible-to-nonbelievers demon horsemen who slay a tenth of the remaining population, solar flares... and that doesn't include the actual {{Antichrist}} who gets possessed by Satan himself halfway through the Tribulation (who celebrates by riding a giant pig), or the part where Jesus shows up and slaughters an entire army by speaking. After that, humans and animals live together tranquilly, rivers have turned to milk, the survivors can live to be hundreds of years old (but without their youth), and humanity has collectively abandoned relationships and sexuality to spend eternity worshipping Jehovah. [[SarcasmMode And they all lived happily ever after.]]

It may have been caused by a sufficiently dangerous EldritchAbomination or RealityWarper, the energy of PrimordialChaos somehow leaking into reality, powerful magic [[MagicMisfire gone very, very wrong]], or perhaps [[ForScience arrogant scientists]] messing around with ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow. Often, however, there is ''no'' explanation available, and the characters, no matter how intelligent or skilled, can't change a damn thing about it.

-->'''[[spoiler:The Collector]]:''' If we're going to play Owl House, we're going to ''need'' an Owl House!

* ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'': PlayedForLaughs with 'The Big Uneasy': after an (elderly) [[VirginPower virgin witch]] spills a drop of her blood on the ''Necronomicon'', all sorts of supernatural beings including zombies, vampires, werewolves and good old {{Eldritch Abomination}}s begin to manifest on Earth.

* ''WebAnimation/SkibidiToiletSeries'': The videos follow a war between a race of evil disembodied heads living in moving toilets, which can seemingly convert humans into more of themselves, and an alliance of hardware-headed robots opposing them. Humanity is implied to be wiped out early in the conflict, leaving the two bizarre factions to war in the ruins of civilization.

* ''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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[spoiler:This is [[EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher's]] endgame: Weirdmageddon, where he will transform all of our reality into a [[WorldOfChaos Universe of Chaos]] so he and his Henchmaniacs can enjoy doing whatever the hell they want for all of eternity. Partially realized in the eponymous three-part SeriesFinale, where Bill destroys Gravity Falls and [[TakenForGranite petrifies most of the townsfolk]] before being stopped by the Pines family.]]

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-> ''"Time is dead and meaning has no meaning! Existence is upside-down and I reign supreme! Welcome, one and all, to '' '''WEIRDMAGEDDON!'''''

* 'Series/DoctorWho'': In the series 6 finale "The Wedding of River Song," River Song's [[spoiler: refusal to kill the Doctor]] creates a time paradox that breaks reality. The result is a bizarre, twisted world in which all historical events are happening at once. Winston Churchill is now Holy Roman Emperor with a Silurian as his physician, Charles Dickens promotes his work on television, and pterodactyls are a common pest. This is undone when River Song agrees to resolve the paradox by [[spoiler: killing a robot duplicate of the Doctor instead.]]

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* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': [[spoiler:The Parliament's goal is to [[AssimilationPlot assimilate everything together into the Old Flesh and effectively reset the universe]]. They do so by messily connecting and severing zones, engineering their own carcinogen to infect everyone and everything, and setting up PerceptionFilters.]] Just like everything else in this comic, it's very MindScrew-y.
* ''Webcomic/{{Echotale}}'': The SHIFT caused the Underground, which was already a magical place beneath a mountain, to become a bizarre, bordering on EldritchLocation where the forests are made of letter boxes, snow is hot and lava is cold, the only flowers still around are the Echoflowers which call out [[spoiler:messages from the [=SOULs=] trapped within them]], and each area seems to have forgotten what laws of physics are supposed to apply in it, where its located and what it's made of.
* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in the climax. 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.
* ''WebComic/EndStone:'' A RealityWarper scientist's experiment transformed the mundane world into a fantasy world with magic and humans taking the place of animal species like deer. The MadScientist wants to change the world back into something like our own - which, to the protagonists, is just as bizarre a change.
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': {{Downplayed}}. While [[ThePlague the 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.
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* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheatre'': {{Discussed|Trope}} in the climax. 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".

[[caption-width-right:350:What exactly ''[[GainaxEnding were]]'' you expecting?]]

---> "Welcome to a world without logic. A place of much pain, torment, with an extra helping of shock and awe. This is a Foundation that has failed without knowing, where inmates run the asylum and the last man has flown over the cuckoo's nest."

And in the [[AfterTheEnd resulting world]], reality is well and truly [[RealityIsOutToLunch out to lunch]]. [[TimeCrash Time itself may have ceased to function]], [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm incomprehensible creatures]] roam the ruined streets and the landscape has fused together into [[AlienGeometries bizarre forms which cannot be understood by the human eye]], simply ''looking'' at which can [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drive the strongest-willed insane]] in mere moments.

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, where [[TimeCrash time itself has ceased to function]], and simply ''looking'' at this bizarre hellscape can [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drive the strongest-willed insane]] in mere moments.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[GainaxEnding What exactly]] ''[[GainaxEnding were]]'' [[GainaxEnding you expecting?]]]]

* ''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. [[GainaxEnding 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.]]

* ''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]]