History Main / HarbingerOfImpendingDoom

* Pariah from Creator/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.

* 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. [[spoiler: He's right on the money, as Columbia is in tattered ruins and Elizabeth is suicidal by the end of the game, and then ''wiped from existence'' via a TimeParadox]].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' Absol has the ability to foretell natural disasters, and whenever one comes down from its natural habitat, it's trying to warn the humans that a disaster is coming. Unfortunately since it can't communicate with humans beyond that, they have made the connection that natural disasters follow after the appearance of Absol, therefore many think CassandraDidIt and it's referred to in the Pokédex as the Disaster Pokémon.

* ''Film/TheTenCommandments'': Played with. The prediction at the beginning by the High Priest of Egypt is taken seriously enough by his Pharoah to call forth a decree to kill all Hebrew male babies to prevent one from growing up to lead his people to freedom. It doesn't work however...

* The blog "Random Acts Of Reality", written by an emergency medical technician working for the London Ambulance Service and notable for being the inspiration for ''Series/{{Sirens}}'', muses on the fact that he and his colleagues are often this trope: Even if people are glad to see them, the fact they and their ambulance are here at all means something terrible has happened to someone.

* The Weather Channel has riffed on this trope in promotional materials featuring their most famous correspondent, Jim Cantore, who they generally send to the most truly spectacular extreme weather events. Generally, if he's in your neighbourhood and talking to a camera, it's a good time to be somewhere else.

* Kotaro's return in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''.

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* In the ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' series, the entire enemy armada thinks [[PlayerCharacter YOU]] are this, so much that in [[VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar some]] [[Videogame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar 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 ''VideoGame/{{Dota 2}}'', this trope is Outworld Devourer's role, as his very presence is an omen of doom. Bonus points for his real name being Harbinger.

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

->''"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 [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse a pale horse]]: and his name that sat on him was [[TheGrimReaper Death]], and [[TheLegionsOfHell Hell followed with him]]."''

* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978''. 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...

There's a group of people held up in a building or house somewhere partying, shopping, or just minding their own business, when all of a sudden, there's some random injured and bloody guy/girl who [[BringNewsBack shows]] up giving [[BearerOfBadNews an ominous message]] that someone/something's trying to kill them, and that it's following them. Sometimes the bloody stranger [[AlmostDeadGuy dies before they can be specific about the threat]]. Thus the group of friends/family starts to argue and debate among themselves about what he or she could have been running from. And of course, the threat eventually shows up...

* ''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 [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments speakerphone scene]]. During which, ironically, he warns those laughing at him of their own fate, which they choose to ignore.]]

* In ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon'', Captain Jacobi shows up at Spade's office, having been shot multiple times but still carrying the Falcon, and he is only able to mumble a vague explanation before dying. It isn't long before his killer and the men for whom he is working catch up with Spade.

* ''Film/TheTenCommandments'' : Played with. The prediction at the beginning by the High Priest of Egypt is taken seriously enough by his Pharoah to call forth a decree to kill all Hebrew male babies to prevent one from growing up to lead his people to freedom. It doesn't work however...

* ''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]]. During which, ironically, he warns those laughing at him of their own fate, which they choose to ignore.]]