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See also: SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat, EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce and JustForFun/WhyYouShouldDestroyThePlanetEarth. If they actually show it, then you have an ApocalypseWow. Contrast with UnspecifiedApocalypse.
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See also: SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat, EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce and JustForFun/WhyYouShouldDestroyThePlanetEarth. If they actually show it, then you have an ApocalypseWow. Contrast with UnspecifiedApocalypse. See also StoryboardingTheApocalypse, which involves an InUniverse examination of one of these playing out should the protagonists fail.
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* '''Societal Disruption:''' Civilization survives intact, but is forever altered. This may be due to the sheer amount of damage caused lowering the standard of living, or it may be a result of people being forced to adapt to the new threat(s) they face.
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* '''Societal Disruption:''' Civilization survives intact, but is forever altered. This may be due to the sheer amount of damage caused lowering the standard of living, or it may be a result of people being forced to adapt to the new threat(s) they face.
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Just Fo Pun has been moved to Justfor Fun/ and renamed to JustForFun.Punny Trope Names. Per TRS.
Moving any humorous potholes to Pun or its subtropes.
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Not to be confused with [[Film/ApocalypseNow the movie]] on whose title this trope is [[JustForPun a pun.]]
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Not to be confused with [[Film/ApocalypseNow the movie]] on whose title this trope is [[JustForPun [[{{Pun}} a pun.]]
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* '''Societal Collapse:''' Humanity backslides within the affected area, regressing to pre-industrial levels[[note]]most people are forced to be subsistence farmers[[/note]] at best and pre-agricultural[[note]]most people are forced to be ''hunter-gatherers''[[/note]] at worst. Civilization may recover on its own [[ApocalypseNot eventually]], but not for centuries at the least.
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* '''Societal Collapse:''' Humanity backslides within the affected area, regressing to pre-industrial levels[[note]]most people are forced to be subsistence farmers[[/note]] levels at best and pre-agricultural[[note]]most people are forced to be ''hunter-gatherers''[[/note]] pre-agricultural at worst. Civilization may recover on its own [[ApocalypseNot eventually]], but not for centuries at the least.
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!!Examples by franchise:
* ApocalypseHow/MarvelCinematicUniverse
!!Examples by franchise:
* ApocalypseHow/MarvelCinematicUniverse
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This one may be a bit drastic - I moved the Severity folder above the Scope folder because, in writing examples of this trope on other pages, I found writing with severity before scope to be easier to do (see Battle For Wenoth and Jets N Guns for examples).
[[AC:Severity]]
* '''Societal Disruption:''' Civilization survives intact, but is forever altered. This may be due to the sheer amount of damage caused lowering the standard of living, or it may be a result of people being forced to adapt to the new threat(s) they face.
* '''Societal Collapse:''' Humanity backslides within the affected area, regressing to pre-industrial levels[[note]]most people are forced to be subsistence farmers[[/note]] at best and pre-agricultural[[note]]most people are forced to be ''hunter-gatherers''[[/note]] at worst. Civilization may recover on its own [[ApocalypseNot eventually]], but not for centuries at the least.
* '''Species Extinction:''' A dominant or major species is either wiped out completely or reduced to such a low population level that its recovery is virtually impossible barring intervention by an outside force.
* '''Total Extinction:''' Life itself ends. No living organism of any kind exists within the affected area.
* '''Physical Annihilation:''' The affected area physically ceases to exist as it did before, but remnants of it can still be found. It is [[AtomicHate nuked into glass]], [[{{Atlantis}} sunk into the ocean]], or [[EarthShatteringKaboom blasted into asteroids]].
* '''Metaphysical Annihilation:''' The affected area ceases to exist totally, without remainder, or perhaps even to have ''ever'' existed. This usually involves [[RetGone erasing it from time]]. This may go up to the elimination of even the ''possibility'' of the existence of anything like the affected area, if for instance the basic system of reality is changed or wiped out. This may get highly abstract, depending on how fundamental the metaphysical destruction is.
* '''Societal Disruption:''' Civilization survives intact, but is forever altered. This may be due to the sheer amount of damage caused lowering the standard of living, or it may be a result of people being forced to adapt to the new threat(s) they face.
* '''Societal Collapse:''' Humanity backslides within the affected area, regressing to pre-industrial levels[[note]]most people are forced to be subsistence farmers[[/note]] at best and pre-agricultural[[note]]most people are forced to be ''hunter-gatherers''[[/note]] at worst. Civilization may recover on its own [[ApocalypseNot eventually]], but not for centuries at the least.
* '''Species Extinction:''' A dominant or major species is either wiped out completely or reduced to such a low population level that its recovery is virtually impossible barring intervention by an outside force.
* '''Total Extinction:''' Life itself ends. No living organism of any kind exists within the affected area.
* '''Physical Annihilation:''' The affected area physically ceases to exist as it did before, but remnants of it can still be found. It is [[AtomicHate nuked into glass]], [[{{Atlantis}} sunk into the ocean]], or [[EarthShatteringKaboom blasted into asteroids]].
* '''Metaphysical Annihilation:''' The affected area ceases to exist totally, without remainder, or perhaps even to have ''ever'' existed. This usually involves [[RetGone erasing it from time]]. This may go up to the elimination of even the ''possibility'' of the existence of anything like the affected area, if for instance the basic system of reality is changed or wiped out. This may get highly abstract, depending on how fundamental the metaphysical destruction is.
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[[AC:Severity]]
* '''Societal Disruption:''' Civilization survives intact, but is forever altered. This may be due to the sheer amount of damage caused lowering the standard of living, or it may be a result of people being forced to adapt to the new threat(s) they face.
* '''Societal Collapse:''' Humanity backslides within the affected area, regressing to pre-industrial levels[[note]]most people are forced to be subsistence farmers[[/note]] at best and pre-agricultural[[note]]most people are forced to be ''hunter-gatherers''[[/note]] at worst. Civilization may recover on its own [[ApocalypseNot eventually]], but not for centuries at the least.
* '''Species Extinction:''' A dominant or major species is either wiped out completely or reduced to such a low population level that its recovery is virtually impossible barring intervention by an outside force.
* '''Total Extinction:''' Life itself ends. No living organism of any kind exists within the affected area.
* '''Physical Annihilation:''' The affected area physically ceases to exist as it did before, but remnants of it can still be found. It is [[AtomicHate nuked into glass]], [[{{Atlantis}} sunk into the ocean]], or [[EarthShatteringKaboom blasted into asteroids]].
* '''Metaphysical Annihilation:''' The affected area ceases to exist totally, without remainder, or perhaps even to have ''ever'' existed. This usually involves [[RetGone erasing it from time]]. This may go up to the elimination of even the ''possibility'' of the existence of anything like the affected area, if for instance the basic system of reality is changed or wiped out. This may get highly abstract, depending on how fundamental the metaphysical destruction is.
* '''Societal Disruption:''' Civilization survives intact, but is forever altered. This may be due to the sheer amount of damage caused lowering the standard of living, or it may be a result of people being forced to adapt to the new threat(s) they face.
* '''Societal Collapse:''' Humanity backslides within the affected area, regressing to pre-industrial levels[[note]]most people are forced to be subsistence farmers[[/note]] at best and pre-agricultural[[note]]most people are forced to be ''hunter-gatherers''[[/note]] at worst. Civilization may recover on its own [[ApocalypseNot eventually]], but not for centuries at the least.
* '''Species Extinction:''' A dominant or major species is either wiped out completely or reduced to such a low population level that its recovery is virtually impossible barring intervention by an outside force.
* '''Total Extinction:''' Life itself ends. No living organism of any kind exists within the affected area.
* '''Physical Annihilation:''' The affected area physically ceases to exist as it did before, but remnants of it can still be found. It is [[AtomicHate nuked into glass]], [[{{Atlantis}} sunk into the ocean]], or [[EarthShatteringKaboom blasted into asteroids]].
* '''Metaphysical Annihilation:''' The affected area ceases to exist totally, without remainder, or perhaps even to have ''ever'' existed. This usually involves [[RetGone erasing it from time]]. This may go up to the elimination of even the ''possibility'' of the existence of anything like the affected area, if for instance the basic system of reality is changed or wiped out. This may get highly abstract, depending on how fundamental the metaphysical destruction is.
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-->-- "Mary, Don't You Weep," author unknown, but [[OlderThanRadio known to be]] of [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar antebellum]] origin
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-->-- "Mary, Don't You Weep," author unknown, but [[OlderThanRadio known to be]] of [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar [[UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica antebellum]] origin
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* '''Societal Collapse:''' Humanity backslides within the affected area, regressing to pre-industrial levels[[note]]most people are forced to be subsistence farmers[[/note]] at best and pre-agricultural[[note]]most people are forced to be ''hunter-gatherers''[[/note]] at worst. Civilization may recover on its own, but not for centuries at the least.
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* '''Societal Collapse:''' Humanity backslides within the affected area, regressing to pre-industrial levels[[note]]most people are forced to be subsistence farmers[[/note]] at best and pre-agricultural[[note]]most people are forced to be ''hunter-gatherers''[[/note]] at worst. Civilization may recover on its own, own [[ApocalypseNot eventually]], but not for centuries at the least.
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* '''Local Area:''' a small localized area undergoes a species-level or higher apocalypse. The rest of the world at large is totally unaffected, maybe not even knowing of the events happening in the affected area. Still, you wouldn't want to be there.
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* '''Local Area:''' a small localized area undergoes a species-level or higher apocalypse. The rest of the world at large is totally unaffected, maybe not even knowing of the events happening in the affected area.area unless someone managed to record or document its destruction. Still, you wouldn't want to be there.
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-->-- "Mary, Don't You Weep," by anon., but [[OlderThanRadio known to be]] of [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar antebellum]] origin
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-->-- "Mary, Don't You Weep," by anon., author unknown, but [[OlderThanRadio known to be]] of [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar antebellum]] origin
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Not to be confused with the comedy survival guide by [[http://www.apocalypsehowthebook.com/ Rob Kutner,]] which gives advice for surviving the relatively low-severity events. Or the Discovery Channel series by the same name which explores various scenarios in which this could play out.
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Not to be confused with the comedy survival guide by [[http://www.apocalypsehowthebook.com/ Rob Kutner,]] Kutner, which gives advice for surviving the relatively low-severity events. Or events, or the Discovery Channel series by the same name which explores various scenarios in which this could play out.
