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1* The entirety of ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'' is one to the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', sort of. It's a different universe with different people and Mobile Suit designs, but events pretty much play out exactly the same way right up until the point things get pear-shaped and [[ColonyDrop all the space colonies fall on Earth]].
2** Similarly, Bakunetsumaru's home universe in ''Anime/SDGundamForce'' is implied to take place in a version of the [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Future Century]] where the Devil Gundam won. The SD Gundams there are all made from NanoMachines not unlike the DG Cells and are all based on ''G Gundam'' designs. Humans are said to have once lived there but they have long since gone extinct.
3* In the 2001 series of ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'', it turns out that [[spoiler: the Psychic Assassins come from one of these... where Black Ghost has taken over the world. When Joe/009 lands in it with Leena and she tells him what's going on, he suffers a ''severe'' HeroicBSOD.]]
4* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasTreasureIsland'' has the visions of Captain Silver, where he saw the world being destroyed in a cataclysm centuries later through his TimeMachine. It leads to the captain deciding to loot the world's resources and use his PlanetSpaceship to start life anew in another planet, though it turns out to be a SelfFulfillingProphecy as Silver's actions is likely what doomed the world in the future in the first place.
5* The Future Trunks timeline from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' was this type of future, where humanity is struggling to survive and the Androids have wiped out just about all the heroes in existence (this is in fact the ''original'' timeline, thanks to Goku dying of a heart virus and the Androids catching the cast completely by surprise). The FutureBadass's reason for going back in time is NOT to change his future, but (as stated by Future Bulma) to gain the knowledge needed to find a weakness in the Androids to defeat them, or if one can't be found, bringing someone like Goku into their future to defeat them. Since Trunks also brings a cure to the heart virus and warns everyone of the Androids, he also helps prevent his future from happening in the "familiar" timeline we see in the show. Fortunately, with the power boost he gained from training in the past, Trunks is finally able to destroy his Androids... and even his Cell, who without the Androids can't reach his perfect form and thus is no challenge to him at all. As well, it turned out that time travel in Dragon Ball works a bit like in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': changing the past only creates a new future, rather than altering the one you came from, so Trunks couldn't overwrite his future even if he wanted to.[[note]]Another reason why the BadFuture doesn't happen in the main timeline are the Androids themselves. They are ''stronger'' than Trunks' Androids, but they're not AxCrazy {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s and aren't interested in killing people besides Goku, and even that's a tenuous objective given to them by their creator, whom they loathe. By the end of the arc, 17 and 18 are neutral at best live out peaceful lives.[[/note]]
6** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', we go back into Future Trunks' timeline and the future got even ''worse'' than when the Androids wreck havoc on Earth. An evil doppelganger of Goku, who Bulma dubbed Goku Black, appeared out of nowhere and began killing all the remaining humans. By the time the arc begins, Trunks has been fighting him for about a year with little success, numerous cities are reduced to rubble, and barely anyone is left. Trunks is forced to go back to the past to ask for the heroes' help once again. [[spoiler:As the arc progresses, it turns out that things are far worse: Goku Black and his ally/AlternateSelf, Future Zamasu, had killed all the Kais of the multiverse, in turn killing all the Gods of Destruction, and they had already purged numerous planets before coming to Earth. In the end, with a merged Zamasu becoming an EldritchAbomination and threatening to consume the multiverse, the only option is to have [[TopGod Zeno]] obliterate the entire timeline. The only survivors, Future Trunks and Future Mai, [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble go back to an earlier point in the future]], to warn Future Beerus about everything and thus prevent it from happening again.]]
7* In ''Manga/EdensZero'', the heroes find out that because [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Mother]] is killed]] in their time period, [[MagicByAnyOtherName Ether]] gradually fades away throughout the cosmoses. This causes organic life to die out first, but eventually even the androids that succeeded them will be doomed to run out of energy and go extinct. [[spoiler:Ziggy]] was actually sent back to the "present" era to prevent this.
8* In ''Anime/EurekaSevenAo'', the Scub Burst created by the Secrets and Scub Coral have eventually ended the human civilization by the year 12021 at the end of episode 22. It is unknown if this ruined future is the same world as the original TV series or AO's world, and is not known whether Ao firing the final shot of the Quartz cannon averted this future from happening.
9* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
10** Erza attempts to perform a HeroicSacrifice in order to save all her friends. While doing so, however, she gets a brief glimpse of her own funeral where everyone is tearfully mourning for her, and Natsu, who witnesses her sacrifice, refusing to accept her death and having to be restrained when he flips out--naturally, this is far from the future Erza intended. [[spoiler:Natsu averts this future by saving Erza before she can carry out her sacrifice]].
11** Narrative flash-forwards during the Grand Magic Games arc suggest one's looming on the horizon where something really bad will go down after the Games' conclusion, resulting in at least the destruction of Fiore's royal castle and the death of several guild members.
12** Later on in the arc, it is revealed that there are two - both involving humanity being driven to near-extinction by [[spoiler:Dragons]]. The first (and the one the flash forwards were pointing towards) has [[spoiler:10,000 dragons emerge from Eclipse, destroying everything in their path (Future Lucy's future)]]. The second has [[spoiler:the gate being shut/prevented from opening, but the Dragon King Acnologia conquers the world (Future Rogue's future)]]. The first one was averted with [[spoiler:Eclipse's destruction and the resulting paradox]]. As for the second, the first signs of its aversion were [[spoiler:the avoidance of Frosch's death by Gray's hands (which sent Future Rogue spiraling into villainy in the first place)]] before it was fully averted [[spoiler:with Acnologia's death at the end of the manga]].
13* Rare inverted example in ''Manga/FutureDiary'', where a [[spoiler: parallel dimension is created]], and through a series of events, the survival game is prevented, and everyone's bad future is prevented. Reisuke's parents are still alive and happy together, Tsubaki has two loving parents who are still alive ''and'' the ReligionOfEvil is actually a benevolent group, Yuno is a completely normal girl with friends, and Yuki doesn't even know her, having his own girlfriend as well.
14* In ''Manga/GetterRobo'', a major plot element later in the series is the bad future that several characters get a glimpse into. In a twist, the villains of the ''Shin'' and ''Arc'' parts of the saga are [[spoiler: actually ''from'' the bad future and are trying to stop it, because ''the main characters themselves'' are the ones that will cause it. Namely, the constant evolution of the Getter Robo, combined with the Getter Team’s unwavering will to protect humanity no matter the cost, will eventually result in mankind being fused with machines and/or becoming world-destroying conquerors under the leadership of the nightmarish, universe-devouring [[MechanicalAbomination Getter Emperor]]. The villains are trying to wipe out humanity to prevent this, since humans refuse to give up studying the Getter Rays]]. The characters have varying reactions to these revelations:
15** Ryoma is unsettled enough that [[spoiler: he straight up [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits the Getter Team]] in an attempt to keep the future he saw from coming to pass, in no small part because he realised that ''he himself'' is [[FutureMeScaresMe Emperor’s pilot.]]]]
16** Hayato is [[spoiler: actually ''excited'' by the prospect of humanity’s future, and declares he wants to see where the Getter will lead to.]]
17** Takuma and Baku [[spoiler: are deeply unsettled by the future they see, outright calling it a nightmare. Though they remain committed to protecting humanity, they declare that [[ScrewDestiny they will make their own future]] instead.]]
18** Kamui [[spoiler: pulls a HeelFaceTurn and decides that the only way to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save the universe from the horror of the Getter]] is to ''wipe out humanity entirely'' before they can become a threat to the rest of existence.]]
19* The ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' movie ''Be Forever Yorozuya'' has this as its plot. Gintoki is sent five years into the future to find Edo in ruins due to a SyntheticPlague and must learn not only its origins and how to stop it, but must try to figure out his future self's mysterious disappearance and how it affected his friends. [[spoiler: The plot was a ThanatosGambit created by Future!Gintoki due to the reveal that Gintoki had been infected/possessed by the creators of the disease for ten years since the Joui War, becoming [[TyphoidMary the originator of]] [[PatientZero an improved plague]]. The only way to stop it was to send his present self to the past and [[HeroicSuicide kill his past self]] after getting infected, causing Gintoki to cease existing. Present!Gintoki was in the future to also [[SuicideByCop kill his future self,]] who was now [[DeathSeeker consumed with guilt and despair]] and unable to control much of his body due to the creators taking over. The plan actually succeeds and the timeline is altered. But his TrueCompanions refuse to not live without him and so send themselves back to the past to both save Gintoki and destroy the creators once and for all, succeeding.]]
20* ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'' never outright states it, but it's implied by [[spoiler: Chiaki]] that the future isn't a great place: [[spoiler: the painting that he wanted to see ends up destroyed, there's no baseball, he mentions how there's "so many people around," and that it was the first time he was even able to ''see the sky.'']]
21* ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'' deals with this as Harry and Hugtan travel from the future to help prevent the Criasu Corporation from freezing the present day in time, similarly to what they had done in their time. [[spoiler:It turns out that this future had already been altered as our main heroine, Hana, had opted to change schools and awkwardly cut her hair, where she didn't in that timeline.]]
22* In the manga ''Shinu Hodo Kimi no Shojo ga Hoshii (I Would Die to Have Your First Time)'' the hero Tooru jumps forward to adulthood any time he's knocked out, and these futures are always harsh for himself and his love Mika, including Mika being raped and locking herself in for years, marrying a predator who'd stalked and assaulted her, and more.
23* It's more of an immediate future than most, but [[spoiler: Kira's Bites The Dust ability]] in [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]] of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ends up causing one where the entire main cast dies, while the one inadvertently causing it to go off and getting stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop as a result has to find a way to stop it before the ability is canceled and the Bad Future is made permanent.
24* The future of the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' universe is shown being bleak in ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero''. The premise of that spin-off is the world and the entire mankind have been burnt to ashes [[spoiler:by a Mazinger-Z turned EldritchAbomination]] in the future, and RobotGirl Minerva-X sends ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Kouji Kabuto]]'' back in time to save everybody. However they are locked into a GroundhogPeggySue loop since Kouji has failed every time so far, and Minerva keeps sending him back because she can trust no one else. They have repeated the same cycle almost three thousand times when the series starts, so it seems not matter what Kouji does, the world is doomed.
25* Parodied, like everything else, in ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'': In Rin's future, the Charismatic Pervert II has taken over the world, ushering in a FreeLoveFuture of sluts and perverts. A small resistance remains, comprised of the 10% of men who are not masochists, and 30% of women. And there are spaceships and magical dragons, for some reason.
26** However, later story arcs show that this isn't all PlayedForLaughs: [[spoiler:The spaceships are there because Nagisa Aizawa's home planet invaded Earth after being unable to peacefully coexist with humanity; Nagisa blames herself for being unable to mediate between the two worlds. Even later it's revealed that the reason nobody from the future talks about Youko is because her [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire vampiric powers]] went out of control just before graduation and she ran away, never to be seen again. Thus, both Future Nagisa and Rin begin working with Asahi to avert this disaster.]]
27* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Negi and his team are sent forward a week by a time-trap, arriving in a world where the mastermind succeeded in busting the {{masquerade}} [[TheUnmasquedWorld wide open]]. [[TimeyWimeyBall Naturally, this doesn't stop Negi]], who finds a way back to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. [[ReedRichardsIsUseless Quite arguably]] (and this was a source of much angst for Negi), this was actually a ''Good'' Future (for the world as a whole, at least; less so for the main cast).
28** Wherever[=/=]whenever Chao came from counts as well. She and her compatriots never mentioned it, downplaying it as something relatively trivial. Chapter 298 reveals that it's ''far'' from trivial: [[spoiler:a horrible, century-long war between Earth-born and Mars-born humans, brought about by Mundus Magicus' collapse]].
29** Near the end, Asuna wakes up in an unhappy but not necessarily bad future when she essentially oversleeps in her magical coma and misses over a century's worth of events. She goes back in time to be with her friends again. A major reveal in ''Manga/UQHolder'' is that [[spoiler:it takes place in this particular future, just a couple decades before Asuna finally woke up. A number of terrible events occurred that wouldn't occur in the Negima timeline thanks to Asuna's intervention.]]
30* ''Anime/{{Noein}}'' has two bad futures. Shangri'la, an empty world created solely to bring about the convergence of all other time spaces, and La'Cryma, a battered world that is under assault by Shangri'la.
31** There is a possible future shown wherein [[spoiler: Haruka is dead/gone/something?/out-of-picture, Yuu is away at school, Ai loses use of one leg and nearly commits suicide, Isami loses his parent(s) and becomes a delinquent then loses an eye and is about to commit murder in revenge, and Miho has gone insane and is also on the verge of suicide. The murder is prevented by sending (Young) Yuu to Isami, to remind Isami of who he really is, and tell him that Ai needs him. Isami then comes running to the roof of the hospital to stop Ai. Miho is brought back by Atori, of all people. By Shangrila's space-time power, and Haruka's power as the Dragon Torque, it is HIGHLY LIKELY that if they'd died in this alternate future vision, they would be dead. Permanently. Half the main cast was almost wiped out.]] It is also somewhat implied that this future is similar to Lachryma's past.
32** Additionally, BigBad Noein is [[spoiler: Yuu / Karasu]] from an alternate future where every other main character was wiped out in a car crash. Even their TEACHER.
33* It's not exactly clear what happened to the world between the present day and the distant future of ''Manga/{{Psyren}}''.... But seeing as how the end result was an uninhabitable wasteland swarming with horrific monsters, it can't have been anything good.
34* ''Manga/Reborn2004'': Roughly half of the cast is dead or about to be exterminated, 10 years from the "present". The 9 previous years were apparently peaceful and prosperous, though.
35** Subverted that this is actually the best future out of ''8 trillion''. The guardians are still alive, the world has yet to be conquered by the BigBad, the invention of the Vongola Boxes and [[spoiler:Vongola Decimo is still alive!]]
36* In ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' Chibi-usa comes back to the present to get help in order to save her own time. The Senshi end up travelling forward with her and fighting the evil force which has invaded Future!Earth. Becomes a bit of a TimeyWimeyBall since there is a lot of travel between the present and the future, both by heroes and by villains, and Present!Mamoru and Usagi learn things which ought to help them avert the BadFuture in the first place, but apparently they don't because they need to go forward in order to learn them.
37* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': [[spoiler:Bond]] sees one where the bombs planted by a group of Ostanian student terrorists go off, Twilight dies, along with the politician he was trying to protect, and Westalis and Ostania go to a bloody war. Anya, being a mind-reader, gets to see this and attempts to change it.
38* The intro to the first episode of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. It was possibly initially intended to be a flash-forward to later events in the series, but with the direction the series eventually took it instead appears to show one of these: [[spoiler:Namely, one in which Simon failed to heed the Anti-Spirals and continued to abuse Spiral Energy, triggering a war between dimensions.]]
39* In the "Inaba the Dreammaker" story of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', the characters started exploring the Room of Destiny where all their possible futures were created. They were not at all pleased with anything they saw, but the capper was when Ataru was able to check out the future he'd handcrafted where he finally had his harem... and upon learning that Lum had left him and why, he beat up his future self and threw the future away.
40* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': During the 4th season, Syrus, Chazz and Alexis were trapped in this type of situation. Nighshroud later showed Jaden that this would be the result of humans that gave into the darkness within their hearts.

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