# What fictional disasters are still upcoming? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209 "2019-08-25T12:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/21 "2019-08-30T03:33:18Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I am apposed to the death penalty. > Except for punsters. > I believe it should be mandatory. That wasn’t a pun. It was a double entendre. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/22 "2019-08-30T12:19:44Z")
[In A.D. 2101, war was beginning.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQE66WA2s-A) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/23 "2019-08-30T12:58:41Z")
William Mandella and his fellow soldiers won’t return from their second encounter with the Taurans until 2024. It didn’t go well. The war continues for another eleven centuries, Earth time. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/24 "2019-08-30T14:16:03Z")
In the backstory of the anime series _Yuki Yuna is a Hero_, the goddess Amaterasu turns the entire world outside of Shikoku into a fiery hellscape in the year 2019. However, we may have dodged this bullet already given that I don’t recall human society being largely destroyed by an onslaught of divine monsters in the year 2015. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/25 "2019-08-30T14:35:18Z")
Too late. The Earth was already ravaged by the end of the Mayan calendar in _2012_. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/26 "2019-08-30T20:06:25Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > According to the Firesign Theatre, it is estimated that no underwear will be worn by the year 2020. That’s soon! > > Does that count as a disaster? Depends. Wait, I think I see what you did there… ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/27 "2019-08-30T21:07:20Z")
According to Babylon 5, San Diego will be destroyed by a nuclear weapon in an act of terrorism in 2157. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/28 "2019-08-30T22:53:10Z")
We got a long ways to go to see if man is still alive in the year 2525 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209/29 "2021-03-14T20:03:42Z")
In his 1976 sf novel _Imperial Earth_, which I just reread (set in 2276), Arthur C. Clarke wrote that the Gondwana reactor was destroyed due to sabotage “in the early twenty-first century.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-disasters-are-still-upcoming/839209.md?page=1)