| abstract | - Sometimes, it's enough to just say "The World Is In Danger!" and hope the hero (and the audience) may understand the urgency and risk and answer The Call. Sometimes, though, a little more is in order. Story-Boarding the Apocalypse is a disturbingly detailed narrated account of the impending Gotterdammerung and rise of the ultimate evil, accompanied by a montage to give plenty of Nightmare Fuel inducing visions of the end to all parties involved. Story-Boarding the Apocalypse is used on a few different occasions: The hero might refuse the call, forcing his Mentor to show him how the Big Bad can hurt him, by turning his secluded hometown into a Doomed Hometown. Or the Big Bad might give a Motive Rant and expound at length on how they'll turn the world into Mordor, or bring about a new Eden via utter destruction because Utopia Justifies the Means. Especially detail oriented villains will have prepared dioramas, movies, and even commission an Earth-Shattering Poster or two to help hammer it in. Or they might just beam it into the hero's skull with a laser. Occasionally this is given as a warning by less direct conventional methods; Cassandra Truth can deliver it, or via Psychic Dreams for Everyone, or Time Travel in the hope of driving the point home to the hero and the audience. Compare Just Between You and Me, Villain World and Bad Future, which can be the Storyboarded Apocalypse given form. See also Unspoken Plan Guarantee. Contrast Apocalypse Wow, which is also a narrative depiction of the apocalypse, only used for very different dramatic goals. Examples of Story-Boarding the Apocalypse include:
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