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* '''Regional:''' a part of a continent or landmass, be it a province/state, geographical region, or sub-continent (e.g. "California"/"Uganda", "Sub-Saharan Africa", "India", etc).

* '''City:''' a city or the vast majority of one, or an area of equivalent size is pretty much vaped.

* HordeOfAlienLocusts

* NukeEm / NuclearOption

* '''Regional:''' a part of a continent or landmass, be it a province/state, geographical region, or sub-continent (eg. "California"/"Uganda", "Sub-Saharan Africa", "India", etc).

%%[[Administrivia/TypeLabelsAreNotExamples Please don't identify by the numbers anymore]] - they are only there for older users of this site to compare the new scale to.

* '''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.

* '''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.
* '''City:''' a city or the vast majority of one, or an area of equivalent size.

** [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 3A}} Class 3a — cause engineered]]
** [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 3B}} Class 3b — cause natural]]

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.

See also: SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat, EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce and JustForFun/WhyYouShouldDestroyThePlanetEarth. If they actually show it, then you have an ApocalypseWow.

See also: SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat, EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce and WhyYouShouldDestroyThePlanetEarth. If they actually show it, then you have an ApocalypseWow.

* '''Omniversal:''' the totality of {{The Verse}}/{{Series Franchise}} (if said totality exists beyond a Multiverse), containing all alternate dimensions, planes of existence, parallel universes, possible universes, timelines, alternate continuities, realities, Multiverses, and sets beyond Multiverses. This goes up to some abstract ontological limit if the setting includes explicit metaphysical stipulations.

* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX2 Class X-2: Star System Scale, Physical Annihilation]]

* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 0}} Class 0: Regional Catastrophe]] Now "Regional[=/=]Societal Disruption" or "Regional[=/=]Societal Collapse".
* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 1}} Class 1: Human Die-Back]] Now "Planetary[=/=]Societal Disruption"
* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 2}} Class 2: Civilization Extinction]] Now "Planetary[=/=]Societal Collapse"
* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 3A}} Class 3a: Engineered Human Extinction]] Now "Planetary[=/=]Species Extinction" (dominant species, engineered)
* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 3B}} Class 3b: Natural Human Extinction]] Now "Planetary[=/=]Species Extinction" (dominant species, natural)
* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 4}} Class 4: Biosphere Extinction]] Now "Planetary[=/=]Species Extinction" (several species)
* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 5}} Class 5: Planetary Extinction]] Now "Planetary[=/=]Species Extinction" (all multicellular life)
* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 6}} Class 6: Planetary Desolation]] Now "Planetary[=/=]Total Extinction"
* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX Class X: Planetary Annihilation]] Now "Planetary[=/=]Physical Annihilation"
* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX2 Class X-2: Stellar Destruction]] Now "Stellar[=/=]Physical Annihilation"
* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX3 Class X-3: Galactic Destruction]] Now "Galactic[=/=]Physical Annihilation"
* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 Class X-4: Universal Destruction]] Now "Universal[=/=]Physical Annihilation"
* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 Class X-5: Multiversal Destruction]] Now "Multiversal[=/=]Physical Annihilation"
* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ Class Z: Total Destruction Of All Of Reality]] Now "Omniversal[=/=]Physical Annihilation" and "Omniversal[=/=]Metaphysical Annihilation."

* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 0}} Class 0: Regional Catastrophe]] Now "Regional[=/=]Societal Disruption" or "Regional[=/=]Societal Collapse". A baby apocalypse that can wipe out multiple countries.

* '''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.
* '''City:''' A city or the vast majority of one, or an area of equivalent size.

* '''Focused Destruction:''' 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.

* '''Omniversal:''' the totality of {{The Verse}}/{{Series Franchise}} (if said totality exists beyond a Multiverse), containing all alternate dimensions, planes of existence, parallel universes, possible universes, timelines, alternate continuities, realities, and Multiverses. This goes up to some abstract ontological limit if the setting includes explicit metaphysical stipulations.

* '''Focused Destruction:''' 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. The damage could well escalate in the sequel...

* '''Multiversal:''' multiple universes, or whatever that exists outside of the setting's native universe (includes whichever flavour of AnotherDimension is on offer).
* '''Omniversal:''' all universes or all possible universes, everything that exists, or reality itself; up to some abstract ontological limit if the setting includes explicit metaphysical stipulations.

* '''Physical Annihilation:''' The affected area physically ceases to exist as it did before, but remnants of it can still be found; it's [[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 negation is.

* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX3 Class X-3: Galactic Scale Destruction]] Now "Galactic[=/=]Physical Annihilation"

* [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX5 Class X-5: Multi-universal Destruction]] Now "Multiversal[=/=]Physical Annihilation"

* '''Focused Destruction:''' 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.

[[caption-width-right:248:[[Creator/RobertFrost Fire, ice,]] [[ColonyDrop asteroid]]... [[SwirlyEnergyThingy gamma rays - ]] There are just so many ways!]]

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'''Related Tropes''' (ways this can be brought about):

[[caption-width-right:248:[[Creator/RobertFrost Fire, ice,]] [[ColonyDrop asteroid]]... [[SwirlyEnergyThingy gamma burst - ]] There are just so many ways!]]

* '''Continental:''' an entire continent or landmass ("Oceania", "The Americas", "Eurasia", etc).

* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 0}} Class 0: Regional Catastrophe]] Now "Regional[=/=]Societal Disruption" or "Regional[=/=]Societal Collapse". A baby apocalypse that can wipe out multiple countries. [[SarcasmMode Hardly worth worrying about ''at all''.]]

* [[ApocalypseHow/{{Class 0}} Class 0: Regional Catastrophe]] Now "Regional[=/=]Societal Disruption" or "Regional[=/=]Societal Collapse". A baby apocalypse that can wipe out the best part of a country.