History Main / HarbingerOfImpendingDoom

** The Vision plays this role in ComicBook/UltimateMarvel, both for Gah Lak Toos, and the actual Galactus.

* This is pretty much the entire plot of the short film ''The Chubbchubbs''.

* JohnWoo's ''Film/TheKiller'' had this as the prelude to the [[BloodstainedGlassWindows big church shootout]] that would end the movie. [[spoiler:Sidney returns to the church with Ah Jong's money, and he's all bloody because he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown got the living shit kicked out of him]] by Johnny and his men, who followed Sidney to the church following his escape, and when he gets shot, he has to ask Ah Jong to finish him because he didn't save his last bullet for himself and doesn't want to die like a dog. Then all hell breaks loose]].

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'':

** Although the above spoiler sounds stupid, the movie is much worse than that.
*** Oh, [[NarmCharm but]] [[HoYay delightfully]] [[SoBadItsGood so]].

* Pariah from DCComics whole gimmick is this. His main trick is popping up, stating "I'm Pariah and I'm doomed to go from world to world to see them get destroyed!", ad nauseum.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Prey}}'', a ''Coast to Coast AM'' listener calls Art Bell and frantically tries to explain the proof he collected about regular alien abductions since 1995. Before he can calm down, the aliens abduct him.

* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' has the bluntly named "Harbinger" ([[spoiler:real name Mordecai]]) who gives the typical warning about the area and cabin to the teens. [[spoiler:Since the movie lives, breathes, and parodies every single horror trope, this was intentional. That said, he's totally PlayedForLaughs during the infamous [[CrowningMomentOfFunny speakerphone scene]].]]
* Gaunt from ''Film/{{Oblivion 1994}}'' is notorious in-univetse for this. He has PsychicPowers that tell him when and where a death will occur and give him a compulsion to go there. He has no idea how or to whom the death will occur, so he's not in a position to really do anything about it.

* "There's something in ''TheMist'' and it took John Lee." The panicked man is too busy making a TitleDrop to mind his profusely bleeding nose.

* In the Creator/StephenKing story and film ''TheMist'', a bleeding man runs into a grocery store and warns people about the monsters that are in the titular mist.

* Booker [=DeWitt=] in ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' is feared as the "[[AntiChrist False Shepherd]]" by the people of Columbia, having been prophesied by Comstock as the one who will lead Elizabeth astray and bring destruction to Columbia.

* From ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' "The Desolation has come. Oh, God...it has come. And I have failed." quoth Talanel'Elin the Lost Herald after stumbling into Kholinar and immediately before collapsing. Although [[{{Cliffhanger}} he might not be dead.]]

* In the slasher parody "KITTEN II" in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', a dying soldier staggers into a building and warns the people inside about the monsters after him. Not many seconds after that all but one of them have been slaughtered by a, uh, kitten.

** It happens too in TheStand. At the beginning of the novel, the first infected almost blows up the gas station where one the main character is spending the day with some friends when he loses control of his car.

* Booker [=DeWitt=] in ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' is feared as the "False Shepard" by the people of Columbia, having been prophesied by Comstock as the one who will lead Elizabeth astray and bring destruction to Columbia.

* This is the plot of ''TheSecretOfKells'': Aidan of Iona shows up with the [[IAmDyingPleaseTakeMyMacguffin Book of Kells]] and [[HornyVikings Vikings]] on his tail. The rest of the film is about how to finish the book before the Vikings burn the abbey.

* In ''TheRiftwarCycle'': ''Literally''. When the last city of their once multi-planet empire is close to falling, the taredhel retreat to Midkemia, their ancestral home - and the horde of demons pursuing them means to follow.

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* The priestesses in ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' are regarded as this, particularly in ''FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden''.

* In the "Zodd The Immortal" episode of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'', a badly wounded Hawk Raider escapes the castle and only has enough time to choke out the name of the demon in question before dying, prompting Guts to enter the castle and take him on alone.
** In the manga version of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'', Guts is perpetually enacting this trope, due to the brand on his neck that attracts demons.
* In Nico Robin's backstory from ''OnePiece'', she is finally reunited with her mother after a traumatic childhood raised by abusive relatives. However, her mother is on the run from the Marines for the dangerous knowledge she, and her entire civilization possesses. Guess who followed her...
* Kotaro's return in ''MahouSenseiNegima''.
* In episode 19 of ''{{Heroman}}'', the government scientist who shows up just minutes ahead of the [[spoiler:tentacle monster]].
* The priestesses in ''FushigiYuugi'' are regarded as this, particularly in ''FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden''.
* In ''BarefootGen'', the day before the atomic bomb is dropped, several characters are at a restaurant discussing the tough times they are going through, and one person has his chopsticks standing up in the middle of his rice bowl. (A big taboo at a Japanese dinner table, because of its resemblance to the incense burners used in funerary rites.)

* NeilGaiman's ''Series/{{Neverwhere}}'' introduced Door this way. Richard thinks, "Oh, a bleeding and wounded girl; I'd better help her." His [[RichBitch girlfriend]] thinks, "I'm going to be late for my meeting and she's probably drunk."

* Arguably, ''InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''. The last not-a-pod-person in a small town gets to the city going on about the invasion, trying to get people to act. He gets locked up right around the time that we hear about a truck with these great big pods that somebody found on the highway...

* In ''{{Prey}}'', a ''Coast to Coast AM'' listener calls Art Bell and frantically tries to explain the proof he collected about regular alien abductions since 1995. Before he can calm down, the aliens abduct him.

* In the ''AceCombat'' series, the entire enemy armada thinks [[PlayerCharacter YOU]] are this, so much that in [[VideoGame/AceCombat5 some]] [[Videogame/AceCombatZero games]] they think you are, respectively, possessed by a demon (and later, they think you are Razgriz himself) or a LITERAL demon lord. [[HopeBringer For your allies, though...]]

* In ''ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib070.html their watches all announce, and Mac arrives with news, that the town in under attack.]] [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib071.html Dara and Caspian lead the charge to find out what it is,]] [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib072.html it's bad]], and [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib073.html fortunately Dara can]] [[YouAreInCommandNow take command]].

* In the "Zodd The Immortal" episode of ''{{Berserk}}'', a badly wounded Hawk Raider escapes the castle and only has enough time to choke out the name of the demon in question before dying, prompting Guts to enter the castle and take him on alone.
** In the manga version of ''{{Berserk}}'', Guts is perpetually enacting this trope, due to the brand on his neck that attracts demons.

* A majority of ''DocSavage'' novels begin this way outside Doc's reception room. The cleaning costs must be enormous...