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* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': Prophets always came and warned people before they were entirely wiped out.
** Lehi is stated to be a contemporary of Jeremiah and had a similar "Jerusalem will be destroyed unless you repent" message. The people plot his death in response.
** Abinadi warns the people of King Noah that they will be captured and driven and persecuted, and if they still don't repent, they will be entirely exterminated. The king tries to dismiss him as a madman, but when Abinadi starts glowing while preaching, that won't stick. So he executes Abinadi instead.
** Ether warns the last Jaredite king about the coming total mutual annihilation, but is rejected and has to run away and hide to avoid being killed.
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* In ''Fanfic/AquamanMonster'', Reverend Mother Cetea sees traces of titanium as a sign of the Titans returning to bring about the end times.
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* At one point in ''[[[Webcomic/EdmundFinneysQuestToFindTheMeaningOfLife Edmund Finney's Quest to Find the Meaning of Life]]'', Edmund meets a man holding [[https://eqcomics.com/2011/03/15/the-end/ an odd variation on one of these.]]

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* A pamphlet from the [[ParodyReligion Church of the SubGenius]] has a masthead reading "The world is coming to an end...and it's hilarious!"



* In ''Literature/ExperimentalFilm'', the farmer Hendrij Wròbl let all his animals go, burned his crops, and led his family into the remains of the field, where they spent two weeks waiting for the end. Nine-year-old Giscelia was the SoleSurvivor, with the rest of her family dying of privation, being beaten to death by Hendrij, or [[spoiler:in Hendrij's case, getting decapitated by Lady Midday]].



* A pamphlet from the [[ParodyReligion Church of the SubGenius]] has a masthead reading "The world is coming to an end...and it's hilarious!"
* In ''Literature/ExperimentalFilm'', the farmer Hendrij Wròbl let all his animals go, burned his crops, and led his family into the remains of the field, where they spent two weeks waiting for the end. Nine-year-old Giscelia was the SoleSurvivor, with the rest of her family dying of privation, being beaten to death by Hendrij, or [[spoiler:in Hendrij's case, getting decapitated by Lady Midday]].


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* ''Literature/TheWaterBabies'': As Tom runs through the moors, he startles a grouse, who flies away yelling "Cur-u-uck-cock-kick — the end of the world is come!" The grouse's wife isn't concerned because he's always talking about the world ending and thinks it's about to happen any time he gets startled.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsOfDrakkenheim'' features the Followers of the Falling Fire, an apocalyptic breakaway sect of the Church of the Sacred Flame who have united around a doom-prophesizing seeress who foresaw the comet of GreenRocks that annihilated Drakkenheim in the first place.
** The player's guide lets players play a doomsday prophet as a bardic subclass called the College of Doomsayers.
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* [[MiniSeries The mini series version]] of Creator/StephenKing's ''Series/TheStand'' featured one of these, played by Kareem Abdul Jabbar of all people. He goes all around UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity screaming "Bring out your dead" in a reference to the Black Plague, even before people start dying en masse from a disease with a 99% fatality rate. He actually survives the plague, and continues his doomcrying until Randall Flagg kills him personally.

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* [[MiniSeries The mini series version]] of Creator/StephenKing's ''Series/TheStand'' ''Series/TheStand1994'' featured one of these, played by Kareem Abdul Jabbar of all people. He goes all around UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity screaming "Bring out your dead" in a reference to the Black Plague, even before people start dying en masse from a disease with a 99% fatality rate. He actually survives the plague, and continues his doomcrying until Randall Flagg kills him personally.
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* The villains in ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' are the members of a fanatical doomsday cult that believes the world is about to end and are launching a holy war to "cleanse" nonbelievers of their sins (through torture, drugs, and brainwashing).

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* The villains in ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' are the members of a fanatical doomsday cult that believes the world is about to end and are launching a holy war to "cleanse" nonbelievers of their sins (through torture, drugs, and brainwashing). [[spoiler:Disturbingly, the end of the game reveals that they were actually right the whole time- due to geopolitical issues beyond the control of them or the player, nuclear war breaks out.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'', a rat wearing a sandwich board made out of two slices of bread can actually be seen warning all the other rats about the floodgates.
* One of these appears in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' ranting on the streets of Thebes.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'', a rat wearing a sandwich board made out of two slices of bread can actually be seen warning all the other rats about the floodgates.
* %%* One of these appears in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' ranting on the streets of Thebes.

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