15 Wildest Ways Movies and Shows Have Pictured the Apocalypse
![15 Wildest Ways Movies and Shows Have Pictured the Apocalypse](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/4/834994_320x180.jpg)
Time for an apocalypse. But how? The apocalypse is a constant concern. Sometimes movies go, “Let's rock and roll.” Changing the entire world overnight isn’t an easy task, but someone has to do it – writers who want to explore a different or weirder world. Sometimes it’s done without explanation or cause as to why, you’re just suddenly in a new and different world where all the old rules have changed, because of The Cataclysm that happened in the Beforetimes.
That’s not to say that Hollywood doesn’t get things wrong about the Apocalypse, or that the Apocalypse wouldn’t be horrible, or a third thing about how the Apocalypse is bad so it doesn’t sound like we’re rooting for the end of the world, but goddamn, isn’t it fun to watch a whole new world being born, even if it’s a terrible one?
Here's some movies and TV shows that deal with a full apocalypse.
12 Monkeys
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? 12 MONKEYS A disease accidentally getting airborne, in a plot that has barely anything to do with Bruce Willis' main character in this twisty Terry Gilliam film. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/5/835005.jpg)
Source: Vulture
Zack Snyder's Justice League
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE Superman working alongside Darkseid as he destroys and conquers all of the world. So alien invasion +1. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/8/834998.jpg)
Source: Vulture
Watchmen
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? WATCHMEN While the film has a giant bomb go off, the comic has a giant squid whose psychic resonance continues hurting and scarring people even after the end of the event.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/4/835004.jpg)
Source: Monster Wiki
I Am Legend
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? I AM LEGEND The virus that turns people into vampire-like monsters starts out as a measles virus. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/0/835000.jpg)
Source: USA Today
The Matrix
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? THE MATRIX Machine VS. man leads to nuclear war, and then to keeping humans in weird a aquariums to feed off of their meat-juice. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/2/835002.jpg)
Source: The Matrix Wiki
Mad Max
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? MAD MAX World War III. Nuclear winter. Plus, a real downturn into terrible bondage fashion. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/7/835007.jpg)
Source: The Mad Max Wiki
Y: The Last Man
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? Y: THE LAST MAN Every person with a Y chromosomes disappears from the world. The comic suggests a few different reasons why -a release of gas designed to prevent women from giving birth; the removal of a sacred amulet; the Y chromosome destroying itself- but never answers any of them directly. H D - خ - H .. Apr - HC CH H H CH X HO-CHc CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/1/0/835010.jpg)
Source: Den of Geek
The Umbrella Academy
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY A violin. Just a violin. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/3/835003.jpg)
Source: Umbrella Academy Wiki
Waterworld
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? WATERWORLD The whole world drowns. After global warming melts the polar ice caps, the only dry ground is Mount Everest. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/9/835009.jpg)
Source: Film School Rejects
Stalker
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? STALKER The ZONE, set up in an unknown area, contains lands that do not obey the normal rules of Earth science, and possible extraterrestrial tech. Guides called Stalkers lead explorers throughout the ruins and dangers, hoping to find a wish-granting location. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/1/6/835016.jpg)
Source: Stalker
Revolution
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? REVOLUTION Nanites cause a global blackout in this hit show by Supernatural and Prime Video's The Boys creator Eric Kripke. It was an attack on the Taliban that got out of hand. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/6/835006.jpg)
Source: Revolution Wiki
Godzilla
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? GODZILLA PLANET OF THE MONSTERS Things go as it seems like they would, and Godzilla ends up overtaking and ruling the entire planet, even creating baby Godzillas for things to suck harder. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/1/835001.jpg)
Source: Gojipedia
The Floods
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? 2012, NOAH, EVAN ALMIGHTY... Whenever it needs to be at all biblical, grab a flood. In 2012, the only continent left is Africa. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/7/834997.jpg)
Sources: Binge Society, 2012 Film Wiki
Divergent
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? DIVERGENT The Purity War. No, not a war involving Christian father- daughter dances, but a civil war between everyone with pure genes, and those with damaged and mutated genes. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/9/834999.jpg)
Source: Divergent Wiki
Reign of Fire
![APOCALYPSE? HOW? REIGN OF FIRE Dragons, ain't it? In this Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale film, a dragon is awoken and it wakes all its smaller babies up to burn the world into ash. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/8/835008.jpg)
Source: The Reign of Fire Wiki