History Main / HarbingerOfImpendingDoom

-->--[[TheBible Revelation 6:7-8]]

* Lampshaded in ''Far North'', by Marcel Theroux. A ragged, starved woman drags herself into the extreemly isolated frontier town and dies in front of the grocery store. [[TheSheriff Makepeace]] reflects that they should have known she wouldn't be the last.

* In ''TheMalteseFalcon'', the badly shot and wounded Captain Jacobi manages to stumble into Sam Spade's office and press the eponymous MacGuffin into Sam's hands before expiring on the office floor. Trouble quickly follows.

* In the remake of ''TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', the protagonists pick up a bloody female straggler who appears to be in shock. She warns them that they're going the wrong way (the route she was fleeing from). But they ignore her ramblings and try to calm her down. She then proceeds to shoot herself in the mouth, rather then go back to where she came from.

* Both Emil and a Man of the Mask from Facade engage in this, warning about an [[spoiler: attack by Shades and the Knave of Hearts/a wolf attack during the King and Freya's wedding respectively.]] In both cases they're too late.

* More of a Heck's Comin' With Me: on ''BenTen'', a young camper is found frightened and babbling on the road after fleeing an alien mushroom-monster in "Camp Fear".

* ''TheInvisibleMan'' has a disturbing moment where someone that Dr. Griffith has tried to utilize runs screaming into a small town: ''"The invisible man is coming!"''

Can also involve when said threat doesn't even leave time for the heroes to debate what they are up against and attacks immediately. When this occurs you've found yourself a DeadlyGuest.

* In episode 19 of ''{{Heroman}}'', the government scientist who shows up just minutes ahead of the DeadlyGuest [[spoiler:tentacle monster]].

* ''FistOfTheNorthStar'': "Where Hokuto appears, chaos follows." That fits Kenshiro pretty well.

* In ''{{Zombieland}}'': the initial girl from Apartment 406 that comes to Columbus's apartment after being attacked by a "homeless person". Somewhat different by the fact that technically hell really didn't come with her. But instead [[spoiler: [[ZombieInfectee ''She'' will be the Hell in a few minutes]].]]

* "[[Literature/TheStormlightArchive The Desolation has come. Oh, God...it has come. And I have failed.]]"

* "[[TheStormlightArchive The Desolation has come. Oh, God...it has come. And I have failed.]]"

* The western film, ''PaleRider'' uses the page quote as part of its narration. A subplot of the movie is whether or not the pale rider is actually a live person or a walking dead man who has come to exact his vengeance.

A side note for authors to avoid a RougeAnglesOfSatin situation, there is only one "r" in harbinger. "Harbringer" is not a word.

Subtrope of {{Herald}}.

* [[FistOfTheNorthStar "Where Hokuto appears, chaos follows."]] That fits Kenshiro pretty well.

-->''And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.''

** This troper: Where? I don't see him. [[IDidWhatIHadToDo It had to be said]].

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