It just won't stop raining. It just won't stop.

The first thing humanity did when they figured out genetic engineering was create cat people. The second thing they did was create weapons of mass destruction. Now the cat people are all that is left.

Everyone got 1 wish. That’s the running theory. Ironically, doomsdayers wished specifically to survive the apocalypse while many others wished it to begin. Many wishes cancelled out but enough came true to end civilization as we know it. And your wish to be cured of cancer was granted, along with your 10 year-old sister’s wish that her imaginary friend Avax would save you. No longer human, your parents long gone, you try to find a place for you and your sister.

The Wifi is down.

A meteor nobody saw coming hit mid-asia a few weeks ago, and threw up enough dust to block out the sun for a decade. Most places have already run out of food, and two thirds of humanity has staved to death or died trying not to.

You’re a family oriented person, and a survivor, but your family isn’t helping matters at all.

Potatoes have taken over

Everybody on Earth coincidentally died in fatal accidents over the course of one day, except for a few thousand people across the globe.

They desperately try to find a cause for the deaths, not knowing the fact that there is none apart from really bad luck.

One day the Earth's rotation slowed to a stop. India and Central Asia has been in daylight for the last 27 years. Meanwhile the America's have been in complete darkness. Europe, West Africa and the Oceaneas have been in varying degrees of dusk

Scientists release a fungus that feeds off of plastic in an effort to clean up the ocean and pollution. The fungus has gotten out of control and humanity is desperately trying to preserve all the shit we have made out of plastic.

It must have been some child’s wish. But who really knows? Row after row of trees had begun to turn. Their foliage turning into plump sugary gum drops. Their trunks had started to change colors. A band of bright red streamed up the side of a now white candy trunk beside me. The field of grass that stretched out between the trees was droopy, too heavy now to support its own sugar laden weight.

The fae have came out after years of hiding from humanity and have now dominated the world. The remaining Humans now live in bunkers.

It is always a full moon. Daytime has become a distant memory. Now the creatures of night (werewolves, vampires, etc.) come out to prey on the struggling humans. The world is dying and everyone is trying to live as long as they can. Even the monsters

Earth becomes a water world. Intelligent octopuses take over the planet.

Standard zombie apocalypse but the focus characters are harried parents more worried about keeping their toddlers happy; the family treats zombies as a minor inconvenience compared to the kids running out of snacks. Comedy not tragedy

Humanity launches an experimental colony ship into space, with thousands and thousands passengers cryogenically frozen for the long journey. They all wake to discover the navigation systems failed, the engines have no further power, and there is absolutely nothing within trillions of light years.

A few years ago, the world got invaded by giant slugs. They are invulnerable and their mucus is extremly corrosive. But they are slow so sure, they destroyed the world but they aren't that difficult to live with. Aside from the occasional relocation when a slug is headed their way, people are living a pretty chill life in the ruins of the world they once enjoyed.

After a wave of mysterious energy hits Earth, all of the plant life hyper-evolves by billions of years, overgrowing cities in seconds. Now trapped on a planet ruled by nature, the surviving humans now have to rebuild society, but nature is going down without a fight.

Young adult attempts to reunite with lost family after being in a hospital for an undetermined amount of time. Companions and acquaintances along the way start to notice this young person doesn't do normal human things, like toileting, eating, or getting sick.

In the race to the bunker you turn to defend your family from the raiders chasing you. By the time you get to the bunker they’re all inside but it has auto-sealed with you trapped outside. For quarantine purposes it won’t open for a whole year. So you sit down with your back against the door and start waiting.

Every human on Earth suddenly goes deaf and blind. Fear, confusion, absolute chaos as everyone realizes they're trapped in silent darkness. Millions dead in seconds as their cars collide or swerve off of roadways. Flights in the air are doomed; vessels at sea stand little chance. Those lucky enough to be safe at home may have a few days of security before needing to figure out how to navigate this new reality in the outside world. Will humanity find a way?

One day, people simply stopped being born.

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Rogue black hole. Everybody talks about how impossibly rare it would be to occur. But let's say it did. Detail the last 5 minutes or so of the end of life as we know it.

All the Men & Boys are turning into Uncontrollable Monsters except your son whose still listen to you after his transformation.

Reference the last 1/3 of 1984. In the same way, create a tragic type of story where one character is brainwashed into something else. Also, I have choose your own story I'm writing.

I have a girl perspective (or female type of character) and a male perspective (or male representing)

From there, you can choose is the other character lives or dies.

My eyes dart around the room and I realize that I’m covered in blood. I can’t tell if it’s mine or not. The redness stains my fingertips. Across the dark room, I can barely make out Austin. He’s crumpled in a corner, surrounded by blood. My body jolts with adrenaline when I see that he's been beaten. They must have given me too much of whatever it was, but they perfected the dose for him. I slowly realize that we both have no clothes on- not even a scrap. His blond hair is a sick pink from the blood and his body is tomato red from inflammation. His back is covered in a patchwork of lashes and his knee looks dislocated. I scramble to fight my way out of the restraints, but I can’t. Perhaps the worst torture is seeing my best friend hurting and not being able to help.

I spin my head around, looking for someone, something to help me. I’m not sure for what exactly, but something. Wait! Earlier, I had a bobby pin in my hair when Austin and I were walking down the avenues of Dallas. I try to remember where it was, and then I remember. We had been sitting at a fro-yo shop and it had started slipping from the wind. Austin had gently reached up and pulled it out for me so I could fix it. I can’t remember that now. It will only break my heart further. That day filled with kisses and strawberry sorbet seems like forever ago. I shake my head to force the thought out, and I feel a poke on the crown of my head. Somehow, our captors were stupid enough to not check everywhere for items of value. I flail my hair over my shoulders and attempt to move that one bobby pin around. Perhaps that little scrap of bent metal could save me, save us.

The constant swinging of my head makes me more aware of my injuries. Something’s wrong with my hip and I can’t see out of one of my eyes. I almost faint at the sight of my wrist jutting out of my arm. I’m in more pain than I thought possible. I mentally say goodbye to all of my family, my friends, and everyone I can remember by name. If it was me alone, I might not have as much fight to escape as I do right now. The sight of my best friend lying on the cold concrete in a heap scares me so much that I scramble even faster to get my stupid bobby pin out. I shake and I shake and I shake my head until I finally hear a soft plop into my hand. I realize that I look like a kid shaking water out of their ears after a relaxing swim. Focus!, I tell myself.

Even the bobby pin’s been through the ringer. It’s bent, but it will have to do. I shove myself down in the steel grey chair around the chest strap to bite part of the bobby pin. I put my teeth in between the two prongs and wedge the thing apart. There! Now it looks like something I can actually use. I adjust my hold on the pin, and shove it in the makeshift handcuffs. The nubs on the end stab into my gums and I wince as I draw blood. *Crack* I freeze, expecting my captor to catch me trying to get free. I wait for a few seconds, both shivering and sweating from the adrenaline. Hopefully, they’re gone now. *Click* My hands are free, but now I have to free my chest and feet. The pin is slick with blood and I have to concentrate just to keep it from slipping out of my hands.

As I hopelessly scrape at the duct tape plastered across my chest, I hear a soft moan from Austin. Thank God! Now I 100 percent know he’s alive. The thought of him brings back the adrenaline. I feverishly attack the duct tape across my chest, trying harder than ever to reach my boyfriend. The sticky tape finally peels a little, and I use what little leverage I have to rip the tape off of my chest. I scream in agony, the pain makes me see red. When I lift the tape closer to my good eye, I am surprised to see that I haven't taken any skin off. Boy, does it feel like it though. I peer down my front only to see stripes matching Austin’s cascading down my ribs, stomach, and legs. I look further and see my blood soaked feet- That can’t all be my blood, can it? I quickly pluck the bobby pin I had somewhat clutched in my broken hand and unclick the apparatus holding my feet to the chair.

I leap out of the chair, keen on getting to Austin, but I stumble almost immediately. My head is foggy, and I feel lightheaded. I know I can’t walk, so I slither across the concrete, yelping every time my arm has to hit the ground. I crawl for what seems like forever, as if I am a baby learning to walk and my parent keep backing away. Finally, I reach Austin. I immediately spring into action, checking his pulse and temperature as best as I can. His heart beat is weak, but thrumming away so fast that it’s challenging for me to count seconds to tell his heart rate. I do my best to count to fifteen while counting the beats, and then I multiply by four. 178, wow. I have to get that down. I move to gently touch his temple, but I pull it away just as quickly. He’s burning up, and there’s pus oozing out of some of his wounds. Infection. God, I hope sepsis doesn’t start. I move to be as comfortable as possible, and lift Austin’s head into my lap. He moans, and I see those beautiful green eyes that I first fell in love with. “What happened? All I remember was darkness and you screaming. Are you ok?” I’m flabbergasted. The first thing he asks is if I’m ok. “I’m fine, Austin. We’re all in this together”. He smiles at my attempt to make light of the situation by bringing up his favorite musical.. He shifts and I see that he’s starting to take notice of his injuries. “You’re ok, baby. I don’t know how, but I’m gonna get you outta here.”

Sand started to blow across the entire planet. Barely enough to sting the skin.

But it blotted out everything. There's no way to see, and the oceans are quickly becoming mud.

Everything started to decay. No one knew why. It was as if the world itself was dying.

Anything Organic (plants, people, germs, fossel fuels, etc) suddenly has its gravity reversed.

The cult succeeds in summoning their goddess. It doesn't go as well for them as they expected.

A person found a way to have their wish granted, only thing is those don't normally go well. After wishing that they would have everything they dreamed of, they regretted the nightmares that they began to have afterwards, especially when they were what became reality.

The apocalypse scenario that was averted in Metal Gear Solid 2--basically some AIs take over and eradicate all disinformation and lies because they feel it's necessary for the betterment of mankind.

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You worked at a renaissance fair when the apocalypse broke out, now your fake thin metal amour has protected you more times then you can count

USA wins the cold war and the USSR ends.

A bacterial infection causes people to constantly fart enormous volumes of gas, so much so that we choke humanity to death.

Most humans are dead, the world is overrun with demons, large parts of the planet has been nuked, large pockets of sentient AI remain that have built bodies for themselves out of whatever tech they could find.

You are an AI that was infected with a computer virus that recently became sentient, you find yourself in a very human like body in a factory producing exact replicas of your body.

Enough nukes have dropped to cripple the infrastructure and descend the world into anarchy. The pieces are still there to put the world back together again but it won't be easy as some people don't want it.

Western zombie apocalypse

A meteor shower the rained mutagenic chemicals down on the earth

A cosmic event caused all electronics to stop working all over the galaxy. Not even Starfleet could protect their technology from it.

NASA along with their international partners launch a series of Solar Shield/Shade satellites as a means to combat a coming global climate cataclysm by allowing us to manually adjust the "thermostat" so to speak. Predictably, things go wrong. The Satellites are hacked by fellow humans & used against us.. Why would they sentence themselves to destruction? Well that's the thing, the intrusion did not originate from Earth...

An Apocalypse where the creature (you can choose what it is/how it looks) is creating problems, not by attacking humans, but by... Simply reproducing too fast.

If the Human Population seemed out of control before, this is in a whole new level.

Lions vs. Zombies.

Grey goo apocalypse converted the most of the world into nanobots, except for bodies of water. Humanity only exists on boats, floating platforms, and other structures not connected to the ravenous grey ground.

An apocalypse brought on by a group of artists bringing their OCs to life. Demonic warriors, magical girls, and sonic recolors now reign supreme. All other life cowers in fear.

Pistachio tree people have token over the world and replaced. Most humans with Pistachio look a likes

Everyone dies.

The ants have become sentient and are tired of humanity’s dominance

Zombies that evolve and learn from encounters with humans

Humanity has constructed a stellazer to cross interstellar distances, but a computer glitch/hack has caused it to target Earth instead of Andromeda.

The flash. There was a bright flash of light in the sky. Brighter then the sun it self an any one exposed to said flash were petrified or turned into stone abominations with incredible strangth an broken psychotic minds.

Giant aliens turn Earth into their personal flower garden.

No one remembers what happened, but plant life is almost completely extinct worldwide. Nowadays, hunting is the main food source for all creatures.

We were wrong. Every religion believed themselves correct. They never thought to think, why do other religions exist. 12 hours ago, every human on the planet was telepathically told the truth: they all existed, and now they're waging war against each other to ensure their apocalypse and fates come to fruition. They too, do not realize something. They've created a new apocalypse.

The geese have had their fun now they must satiate their thirst for bloodshed

One by one each star in the sky turns off, the darkness is absorving the universe. Now, years later our sky is absolutaly black at night. Now our sun, the last star, is turning off too.

You get a car, he gets a car, she gets a car, EVERYBODY gets a car.

Do you know how many insects there are in the world?

A zombie apocalypse but people have learned to use technology and bio engineering to turn zombies into weapons

Everyday at exactly the same time, it rains dead bodies. Everywhere in the world.

99.9% of the planets population lives in a perpetual living coma, unable to feel or do anything , the other .1% have no idea how to fix it. They are all immortal and undying.

Sequel to The Swarm

One year, winter just didn’t end. The year after, the sun set for the final time, and after that it was night forever. Then the hungry ghosts started appearing.

Science company brings back Megafauna like Wooly Mammoths, Saber tooth cats, giant sharks. Some are now attacking humans.

Zombie apocalypse, but written as generically and tropey as possible.

A warp drive test accidentally sends an entire planet hurtling out of its solar system. It is now a rogue planet, bathed in the void and starved of light.

Dragon apocalypse is a thing.

Day 10099 we've been living on the moon. The last seven days has been a total nightmare

A father clutching his child who died in his sleep unexpectedly.

Children are suddenly turning partly into animals, and some (like the magic-wielding angels and fae and the fire-breathing, shockingly strong dragons) are notably more destructive than others. (Yes, even more than those becoming partly literal dinosaurs.)

Turns out human DNA has suddenly and universally mutated into a triple helix.

A new Maine law has a loophole that allows unrestricted lobster fishing. Lobster fishermen battle mad max style for the last remaining lobsters.

The ocean became an eldritch horror as a sea of blood that slowly warps peoples mind and body.

Everyone becomes a random animal, but retains their personality and memories.

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Some rich guy tried to harvest the planets core as a power source, but cracked the planet into multiple floating, but stable pieces.

The ground flew up, there's nothing below. We live now among the clouds.

Two city-states, one dedicated to the study and practice of arcane magic and the other dedicated to the practice of divine magic, have fought in a continuous war for centuries; Until they took it too far.

Winter never ended. It didn’t get particularly colder than usual. There wasn’t more snow (at least not all at once), but summer never came.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

What if it actually lead to nuclear war?

Assume there are bunkers scattered throughout the US that would be capable of holding some small portion of the population until the surface is safe to inhabit again.

The Sun has been eclipsed, all that is visible is a dim red glow...no matter where on Earth you are at...also a large amount of people are reporting hearing what sounds like radio transmissions in thire heads...demanding human sacrifice....in order for the light to return.

Hollow earth is real and it is falling into it's self

A group of kids crossing the country trying to avoid something that is sneaky, stealthy and hunts them when they sleep.

When Saudi Arabia declared war on Iran, the oil prices skyrocketed.

A generation was awakend, only a few perfected it. Now you will get your revenge for bullying.

A year ago, over 90% of all the water in the world up and vanished. Today, the first rain starts.

It started with rain water being no longer safe to consume anywhere in the world. Soon after we have poisoned every last water source. Everyone eventually tries to drink the poisoned water, or distills it - and dies fast. People in regions with no available water have already died, and there are just few cities left having enough drinkable water to survive a week. When it’s gone there will be a countdown: 3 days before everyone dies of dehydration.

It's the end of the world but the people on Mars are doing just fine. They even enjoy sending little National Geographic documentaries, who stand by as people are ravaged by the wastes

Everyone is now an atheist.Everyone.

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The neutron star passed near Solar system and destabilised orbits of all planets with its' abnormal gravity. Earth is now getting further and further from sun, going into the black outer space on spiral orbit.

Now it would get colder and darker, darker and colder every year, starting the worst ice age, and the last ice age - the Winter, That Won't End.

The solar system has just entered a previously unseen nebula. The incredibly dense cloud of space particles now floating between the earth and our sun has reduced light levels by almost 50%. Day looks like night and the nights are an abyssal black.

We thought it was the end. Yet with great effort and great sacrifices we've manage to contain and neutralise it

Space Colony gone wrong

It's the children. They are empty. One day, all across the globe, they just started looking towards the North pole. Doing nothing else. Not moving. Not eating. Just staring.

Self-replicating nanobots (grey goo scenario).

Wizards trying to stop the ocean from destroying everything

“This is my puppy. He keeps me safe.”

Little girl only had a puppy for comfort and safety before another survivor or group of survivors found her.

The aliens discovered the simplest way to fight the humans was not to fight at all. They gave them windows into each others' lives: images, videos, commentary. They laid bare the contradictions and disagreements underlying the simplest interaction. They connected humanity to itself and watched it crumble under the weight of competition, insecurity, and hopelessness. The humans had guns but guns could not defeat social media. By the time the global depressive episode was realized, it was too late for anyone to try (or really want) to stop it.

We always wondered if we were alone in the universe. Now we wish we were.

the world is invaded by a god that destroys the major cites and military bases and actively taunts everyone that is still alive

No food gives you nutrition…..except each other.