History ApocalypseHow / ClassZ

* '''Original Negation''' (Class Z-3): The Ontological and Complete Annihilation of everything. There's ''no'' coming back from this one. Even the PowersThatBe or the [[{{God}} One True God]] of the setting, the Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_sof Ein Sof]] that has absolute control over everything and anything in the setting -- even these things don't survive. Bluntly, all universes, every physical thing, the laws of physics themselves, whatever metaphysical realities there might be, and [[{{TheMaker}} whoever or whatever is ultimately behind it all]] -- all of it simply doesn't exist once this happens. Not only is it categorically impossible for anything in the setting to have ''ever'' existed, but it's also modally impossible that anything about the setting could ever exist "again".

* '''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Real World Destruction.]]''' (Class Z-4): ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. It's far more severe because the Omniversal-scale Annihilation happens beyond the fourth wall, not just in a specific piece of fiction like the ones in the other classes. The PowersThatBe (above), [[RageAgainstTheAuthor the author]], or even the aforementioned [[{{God}} One]] [[TopGod True]] [[AboveTheGods God]] of the setting, TheMultiverse, even TheVerse, who are the Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient, even a ''boundless'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_sof Ein Sof]] that has absolute control over everything and anything in the setting, even the '''[[ExecutiveMeddling executive and companies behind all those and its fictions (especially the authors and co.)]]'''? They don't just fail to survive (as in Class Z-3), they all '''''[[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]]'''''. In this case, not only the {{fiction}} and {{Metafiction}} itself are DeaderThanDead, but so is RealLife.
** Like Class Z-3, there would be no going back from this form of apocalypse. That being said, a true Class Z-4 in fiction would also require at least an ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 to happen in RealLife. This form also {{deconstruct|ion}}s the {{fiction}}, even more so than a Class Z-3 (see above) do. While the mere possibility that a work by its own self could create a real Z-4 event is more speculative than anecdotal, there's [[ParanoiaFuel no concrete proof that it's impossible either.]]
** If it would somewhat happen, there would be nobody around to document it on this website. [[LogicBomb Nor would there be a website, or any documenting at all, not even the concept of registry, representation, symbol and meaning, would exist".]] Therefore, there aren't any concrete examples of this trope to list. All of them would fall under the other types of apocalypse described beforehand.

FridgeLogic[=/=]FridgeBrilliance[=/=]: audiences can potentially claim that this is occurring offscreen when an author [[DiedDuringProduction dies suddenly before finishing the series]].

** If it would somewhat happen, there would be nobody around to document it on this website. [[LogicBomb Nor would there be a website, or any documenting at all, not even the concept of registry, representation, symbol and meaning, would exist".]] Therefore, there isn't any concrete examples of this trope to list. All of them would fall under the other types of apocalypse described beforehand.

* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': In the final season, [[spoiler:Haggar/Honerva's motive is to be together with Zarkon and Lotor by finding a reality where the two of them are alive]], but doing so would instantly destroy other realities in the process. Although [[spoiler:she managed to reach the world she desperately craved, both alternate versions of Lotor and Zarkon reject her after realizing she's their real Honerva, and in a rage, [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery she decides to obliterate all other realities until the fabric of existence has been reduced to absolute nothingness]].]]