The end of the world is a scary idea , but the way the human race end is n’t always so terrific . As it turns out , guild could collapse or the major planet could get destroyed in a variety of dumb and/or ludicrous elbow room . Here are 10 doomsday scenarios we hope will kill us , if only so we do n’t have to die of embarrassment .
1 ) Traffic Construction
Let ’s go ahead and get this out of the way . In Douglas Adams ’ seminal The Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy , Earth is destroyed by aliens nominate the Vogons to make a “ hyperspace ringway . ” This was apparently supposed to be ridiculous , especially since what kind of interstellar route would need to go though Earth ’s celestial orbit and Earth ’s orbit alone . It ’s not like there is n’t plenty of way out there .
2 ) An Air Show Mishap
accord to Kurt Vonnegut ’s 1963 novel Cat ’s Cradle , Ice-9 is a seed crystal that causes all liquid water it comes in contact with to rearrange itself into methamphetamine hydrochloride . Papa Monzano is the dictator of the tiny island of San Lorenzo , who take in Ice-9 to commit self-annihilation when his Crab becomes inoperable . During his very public , very lavish funeral , his body is put on display and an air show is perform … but a jet crashed into the presidential castle , pink Monzano ’s organic structure into the sea . It freezes , along with every connecting organic structure of water , killing fairly much everybody .
3 ) Bomb - Based Religion
The humans of the original Planet of the Apes movies were ignorant savages who could n’t speak . In the sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes , there are some human beings who flee underground and keep their society and ability to speak — and they ’re even dazed than the humans on the control surface . Their biggest problem is that they ’ve decide to worship a atomic bomb , precipitate an all - out war between the apes and the mutated humans . The mutant are wipe out , but a hurt Charlton Heston fall on the bomb calorimeter ’s button and kills everybody anyways .
4 ) Half - Assed Climate Control
Bong Joon - Ho ’s approaching moving-picture show Snowpiercer is set in the future where a failed attempt to halt worldwide warming has leave in a new ice age , and the last oddment of humanity are on boards the titular train which circles the entire planet . peradventure mankind should have spent less time construct a giant train set and a little more time testing out their anti - global warming plans before enact them .
5 ) A Handshake
Pretty much nothing about Richard Kelly ’s follow - up to Donnie Darko , Southland Tales , make any sense , but most critics agree that when Roland and Ronald Taverner shake hired hand , not only does the world end but the entire universe does . When the two — who are n’t Twin Falls , but copies of the same person after a sentence locomotion incident — and also they ’re the Messiah or something — adjoin each other , the textile of quad - time begin to bankrupt down , an ice rink cream motortruck floats , and plainly Roland has n’t pooped for six days , which may also figure in . I do n’t know . This movie is insane .
6 ) imitator - Bullying
Hey , Draco Malfoy . If you could only get your stone off by shooting a monkey with a firehose in Rise of the Planet of the Apes , maybe you should not find fault the hyper - intelligent ape with the power to free himself , take hold of a clustering of super - smart gas canisters , use them on his fellow ape , and then lead a simian rotation that results in the end of humanity . Because if you ’re going to piss off an ape , it should not be the one most fitted out to do a catastrophic retaliation . Just a backsheesh from me to you .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfDNRBnTgNE
7 ) A Single Martial Arts Move
Dragonball Z is known for its ludicrous martial artistic creation moves , but none are more idiotic than Majin Buu ’s “ Human Extinction Attack , ” which , as its name implies , bolt down every single goddamned mortal on the planet . He does n’t even have to motion or anything ; he just raises his branch in the atmosphere and seven billion or energy eruption come out and wipe out literally every human being on the major planet . Even by DBZ ’s standards , this is ridiculous , and this was an anime that feature a small , sentient piece of music of candy beating up the same hombre .
- Poor Waste Management
Not that Pixar ’s Wall - E is n’t a good flick , but there would have to be some life-threatening stupidity to cover the entire planet with that much garbage wilfully . I mean , certain , mankind are dumb and wasteful and our current waste disposal systems are grossly unequal , but I have to think that at some point before the entire surface of Earth was covered in muckle of refuse we ’d stop and reckon something out beyond “ Enh , let ’s just keeping putting shit in piles and then we ’ll leave when we run out of surface area . ” I intend , at a certain stage someone would notice Utah is completely covered in trash and we ’d start brainstorming , right ? Right ?
9 ) Magic Cellphone Voodoo
Sorry , I do n’t make love what else to call it . In Stephen King ’s recent horror novel Cell , someone — or something — sends some kind of a “ pulse ” through all cellphones , driving everyone who was using them at the time batshit crazy . A silly conceit that results in a good repulsion story ? Sure . A reasonable way for the guild to give and the reality to end ? Not so much . candidly , not that many hoi polloi are on their sound at any given moment , and if people were sending texts of make for Crush Candy Saga — much more likely than calling somebody — they ’d be fine , so at max maybe 8 % of the world ’s population would be affected , which would be bothersome but not unmanageable . Oh , but then the Pulse apply people psychic power , so whatever .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6DnSj9XLjk
10 ) A Pouty Teenage Boy
The actual end of the anime Evangelion is up for debate , between the old movie , the novel motion picture , and whatever the heck occur in the final two episodes of the original TV serial ( you get laid , besides the producers running out of money to make the show ) . However , The ending of Evangelion movie itself is passably clear how the world ends : A jumbo naked adolescent girl who is also Lillith , the first wife of Adam ( of Adam and Eve ) , grants the wish of Shinji , an emotionally crazy and implausibly whiny 14 - class - old boy , to kill everybody on the planet . To do this , everyone is turned into the primordial soup of life , from which Shinji — with the staunchness of any stripling — determine he wants to live , and he wants the female child he has a calf love on to live too , even though she hates him . Everyone else stays stagnant so Shinji can run Blue Lagoon with his would - be girl . Thanks for nothing , kid .
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