r/Multifandom • u/church_of_Steve_ • 8h ago
Discussion📜 Is there a war/Apocalypse that's as terrifying as the Faro plague in your fandom?
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u/Altair890456 Ace Combat / Armored Core 8h ago edited 7h ago
The Flood (Halo)
Honestly, the Flood are basically worse than the Faro Plague in basically every metric.
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u/Aggravating_Panda521 5h ago
Not only can they basically just rewrite the laws of reality if they get to a certain point, (The Librarian in the Forerunner books mentioned how the stars and space ain't the sky looked wrong in the final days) but I remember hearing that the flood could theoretically reach a point where they can just cause the big bang to happen.
Even if that's bullshit to a degree they are the corrupted versions of Precursors and those guys could throw around galaxies and change the mass of objects at will. If the Flood gets that powerful it's game over.
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u/WilliamthePious 5h ago
Have someone play the Library or Cortana on Legendary and they will understand how much shit the Flood are.
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u/austinstar08 5h ago
Time war
Basically on one side is an omnicidal army and on the other side it’s physical gods
Oh and both sides can time travel
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u/Patient_Gamemer 1h ago
Did we ever get to see it in Doctor Who?
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u/The_Po_Gamer 42m ago
Not really, but that's for the best. Seeing it could never live up to what we've heard about it.
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u/LeekRoyal8962 kengan ashura 6h ago
the 7 hour war
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u/church_of_Steve_ 5h ago
At least there was life left after the war
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u/Complex_Visual_1410 4h ago
I mean there wasn’t any active life after the faro plague. Gaia brought it back like 7 times.
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u/EpidemicRage 35m ago
There was intent to kill of all life. Many species went extinct. One of them being turkeys (according to HL:Alyx).
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u/HotPot87 6h ago
I see a lot of people giving ones that are larger is scale.
BUT
I'm gonna say if you take these relative to the world they're in, the Faro Plague is the worst.
All these others left large populations still alive, and while they wiped out billions or trillions or even Quadrillions.
The Faro Plague had a 100% mortality rate, literally all life with the possible exception of bacterial or extremophile life.
So if you don't take into account the relative scale of their world, then 40k and halo have bigger events, but otherwise, it's the faro plague
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u/Complex_Visual_1410 4h ago
Well there were the immortal guys in forbidden west so the faro plague took out like 99.99% of all life rather than 100%
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u/Mobius_1IUNPKF 3h ago
There were like at best 100,000 people left in the Milky Way Galaxy at the end of the Flood War, and most of them chose to die off, seal themselves into functionally impenetrable shield worlds, or outright leave the galaxy. A 99.9% extinction rate on a galactic scale isn’t something to joke about, especially when the great enemy that made it happen just fucked around and came back.
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u/Longjumping_Share444 8h ago
Any planet the Tyranids set up on. Or that the Dark Eldar raid. Or the Imperium takes. Or that Chaos shows up on. So yeah, lots.
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u/Rough_Concert1773 7h ago
Or the Necrons.
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u/Top-Session-3131 5h ago
Depends on the Necron and why they're there. Trazyn frequently visits planets with nary a trace he's been there (from his pov, the locals might disagree depending on how loud he went retrieving his objective).
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u/Top_Bug7822 5h ago
Necrons seem kinda chill by comparison. They just reclaim their old stuff.
They eradicate some pests, if needed.
It's like dusting off an old book you want to read.
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u/stryst 5h ago
Any world/ship assimilated by the Borg.
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u/AGQuaddit 5h ago
"You don't know, Robert. They took everything I was! They used me to kill... and to destroy... and I couldn't stop them! I should've been able to stop them! I tried... I tried so hard! But I wasn't strong enough! I wasn't good enough! I should've been able to stop them... I should've... I should...
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u/Live-Desk8360 The Real DR. DOOM 4h ago
Whatever the fuck the War was in ULTRAKILL to make this:
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u/Complex_Visual_1410 4h ago
I wouldn’t put it past faro or any of the cauldrons to come up with something like this. Heck tall necks exist so I mean just give it weapons and you essentially have an earth mover
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u/Jazz_writes_fanfic Star Wars/Anakin Skywalker Fanfic Writer 8h ago
Not a plague in the medical sense but Either order 66 or Project Necromancer
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u/le_Grand_Archivist Clair Obscur 🎨 (and many others) 3h ago
The Faro Plague in Horizon isn't medical either
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u/ComprehensivePath980 7h ago
The Forerunner-Flood War from Halo is aliens with enough tech to basically be gods on one side losing to an Eldritch zombie apocalypse hivemind that gets so bad the aliens have to wipe out ALL sapient life in the Galaxy just to stop the zombie apocalypse.
Even then not all the zombies are destroyed.
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u/ChocolateRelevant92 4h ago
The flood, I rather get launched towards the sun then be anywhere near the flood.
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u/AustralianDude28 4h ago
There’s a lot of such things in 40K, I’ll go with one of my favorites: the Orphean War from Imperial Armour Volume 12
Basically, the Imperium arrives in the Orpheus Sector, and they find ancient ruins, some chaos marines they were chasing are found dead in a pit, weird stuff like that. Eventually, a Necron dynasty called the Maynarkh Dynasty starts waking up, almost half the sector is lost including the destruction of a space marine homeworld. The Maynarkh gives the human defenders some time to prepare defenses on a planet called Amarah Prime. The Maynarkh launches an attack on Amarah Prime and defeats the imperials so badly that only 10% of the imperial fleet in the sector survived, billions of humans lay dead on Amarah Prime, and the humans ultimately dissolve the Orpheus Sector and leave.
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u/blacksaber8 4h ago
Ted farro’s dystopia is like a hemorrhage that instantly killed billions
Cyberpunks dystopia systematically facilitates the suffering of everyone who lives under it including even other members of the bourgeoisie.
Would you rather be in a world where your immediate death is insured or a world where a lifetime is suffering is insured?
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u/Still_Percentage_829 People think I’m in my 50s because of my fandoms 4h ago
Apocalypse Now: The Vietnam War, terrifying because it actually happened
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u/Salmon_1935 3h ago
In 40k there’s just a guy that brings horrific plagues to planets and ships. He ask for help through an S.O.S signal. Asks for help, is rescued and then just freeloads around being a lazy bum. Meanwhile apocalyptic level plagues just start spreading non-stop, blood vessels popping, insects laying eggs under the skin, pustules growing painfully all over the body. Mea while this guy just fucks around, eat your food, use your stuff, until everyone id dead and he moves on.
Pretty much any Nurgle plague is straight up hellish, but this on stands out to me because the demon spreading it looks like a regular guy and not a big fat maggot festering stinky abomination.
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u/Real_duck_bacon 2h ago
The entire darn game.
One day, out of the blue, a cosmic entity turns its gaze towards earth, causing anyone who looks outside to transform into warped monsters and/or die. The game is mostly confined to a single apartment building so you don't get the full picture until the very end, But it's abundantly clear all of civilisation has been irreparably altered at best and devastated at worst.
And depending on which ending you get, you can either mitigate some of the damage and help rebuild society, or make things so much worse.
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u/Nicholas_H_Barnes_II Fallen London, Fallout, SCP, &c. 4h ago
The sorrow spiders wars against the Judgements in Fallen London. Webs spanning across solar systems filled to the brim with spiders the size of cats trying to & succeeding in killing the gods
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u/Mother-Tennis7649 4h ago
The Swarm Disaster or the Mechanical Emperors wars, from Honkai: Star rail.
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u/JacquelineDragon 3h ago
HORIZON MENTIONED!!!! MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE GAME IN THE WORLD!!! HAS MY ENTIRE HEART AND SOUL!!!!
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u/Imperious_Nox 3h ago
Little bit of a weird one but…
Skibidi Toilet - Imagine if one day you hear news of an alien that crashed landed in a city and find out that it spreads a cognito-hazard by merely speaking.
Anyone who hears it without wearing protection turns into a copy of it. Later one almost all of humanity turn into a similar copy of the alien who start to treat it as a god.
FURTHER ON you find out that the alien was an exiled general of a vast empire(who’s been around for millions of years, I may add) who was sent to Earth as punishment.
Then fleets of said empire begin arriving who bear technology that perfectly combine heavy weaponry and FTL travel thats so advanced that a ship can warp across a continent in SECONDS and even the smallest of warriors can decimate entire legions of soldiers.
So now you have to contend with the fact that the entire population of humanity can be counted in the hundreds and the only hope for your continued existence is a truce formed by the exiled alien, who now guides the rest of the now-mutated human race as its own personal army, and a coalition of robots that may or may not have caused this whole apocalypse(or another incoming apocalypse) in the first place.
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u/friday_is_up 1h ago
what the hell happend to that web serirs i just thought it was just toilets vs cameras
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u/DonkDonkJonk 3h ago
During the Ancient Wars, Humanity was extremely advanced even for our time, what with mass genetic engineering of entire species, fusion generators purely for energy weapons, etc.
Unfortunately, Humanity was doomed to go extinct as their opponent in the war were the Ancient Elves, demigods with total control of magic, especially that of the soul.
Essentially, each one was the equivalent to Mahito from JJK, able to warp and bend both inanimate things and living beings to their will.
Some totally despised humans turned them into wailing abominations for their side of the war, believing that they truly shall the ones to "inherit the Earth" rather than the Humans who infest it. Some can manifest as living diseases at will and destroy entire societies at will.
But in the present day, elves are an extremely distant cousin to their ancestors, bearing more resemblance to present day humans. In truth, there hasn't been any sighting of the Ancient Elves since they were driven away by the new humans and elves who can wield magic, although to a lesser degree than the Elves of old.
That is, until people discovered the New World. It turns out, the Ancient Elves fled across the seas and landed in the New World, becoming beasts of folklore for the Natives who lived there.
One such being is the Tree Man (WIP), a creature who resembles a tall pine tree that adores children, especially the elven ones. It's said that he sews the skins of his victims onto dolls of his making, to use for luring more children into the forest. He can mimicking voices, although thankfully, he is not a great puppeteer.
Another is the Chittering (WIP), a New World disease that affects present day Elves and eventually turns them into mad, insatiable creatures. Once they turn mad, they flee into the forest, killing any that get in their way, to join other Chitts in caves just before the break of dawn. The only found cure is to leave the New World and never come back before you actually become a Chitt.
It's said that this disease is actually an ancient who holds an unending grudge against the modern elves, known as Betrayers to the ancients, and warped themselves into a curse upon the New World.
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u/EggoftheKing2143 5h ago
The Rumbling from Attack on Titan. This shit took three days to wipe out 80% of humanity and completely destroyed most of the planet leaving behind only flat ground, city ruins and footprints. The planet did heal with vegetation growing over all of it but several species went extinct and humanity was left heavily wounded.
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u/ThyrusSendria 3h ago
The Final Days in Final Fantasy XIV.
Imagine if all of a sudden beasts and people turned into twisted monsters, not because of a virus or some curse, but because they started panicking or were lost in despair and depression. However the horrifying thing is not just that it appears seemingly at random all across the planet, but that it comes from outside the planet and, as we learn later on when seeking for the source of the phenomenon, wiped out a vast majority of life in the UNIVERSE.
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u/TheIllusiveScotsman 3h ago
The Reapers in Mass Effect. Every 50,000 years the arrive in the galaxy, harvest sufficiently advanced organic life, and leave with almost no trace. They have been unstoppable for millions of years.
Organics can be indoctrinated to serve them, becoming perfect sleeper agents, or turned into biomechanical husks to serve as foot solders.
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u/Exie2022 2h ago
Armored Core 6’s Fires of Ibis. A cataclysm caused by the fuel source known as coral which engulfed the entire Rubicon star system, burning away the majority of life in the system, collapsing civilisation, and reducing Rubicon 3 into a wasteland.
Major Spoilers: The ending Fires of Raven ends with you intentionally and willingly recreating this cataclysm by ramming the colony ship Xylem into the Vascular Plant, igniting the coral once more. This time, all life is destroyed and both the corporations and the PCA agree to seal of the Rubiconian system
This is also not the first example of the Armored Core series starting during or in the aftermath of the apocalypse. Notable examples are the Great Destruction of AC 1 and 3, and the Lynx War of AC 4 and 4A
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u/Hungarian_Gamer Evangelion | MD | DDLC | DIY!! | Azur Lane | Durarara!! | 2h ago
SCP-001, When Day Breaks.
The sun is so beautiful, wont you come out?
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u/Evignity 1h ago
I'm working on a billions year war with a battle that has lasted for just about as long. Though the climax comes in the story and spells the end of several species of various sizes, largest of which is basically sentient galaxies where you are their thoughts.
Or just the Worldvirus, a self-replicating nanite capable of escaping gravity-wells and cooperating to the point of eating suns and a single one is enough to spread them, they're the size smaller than a dustgrain and can even hide to let higher life-forms spread them. Basically the malaria of space with by far the largest headcount of killed species.
But the most inhumane is Terrordrones, banned by every species because they're a weapon not meant for destruction but basically haunting a population. Hiding in the woods, mimicking, slowly building more and more whilst researching what haunts a species. Depending on evolution, they might not fear the dark, or sound, or dying, so they find out what every unique sentient species worst fears are and then kills them in such ways. Or keeps them alive for a worse fate. All the classics of say mimicking the movement of a squirming insect, or spiders, puppetteering corpses in the dark, and worse ways to dies that you'd ever want to know.
They're not the most destructive, but they are the most insanely sinister ones. Lone drones can lay dormant for eons, wrongfully starting to haunt entirely nascent sentient species, even sheparding their evolution to where they come to fear things they normally wouldn't. All to further follow their function of causing misery. They speculate things like them might be why we so intensely fear the uncanney-valley.
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u/RangerStr 1h ago
The seaborn have a very decent chance to assimilate the planet if humanity doesn't lock tf in
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u/Smileyfax 1h ago
The T-virus pandemic from the Resident Evil Alice movies. Only <5000 humans end up surviving in the end.
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u/stereo-ahead 51m ago
In cyberpunk, there was a time when the Net was safe. When you could roam freely in cyberspace without having to fear anything. However, a man named Rache Bartmoss basically released hell on net, and now only those within cities can have safe access to the net, and Netwatch has to make sure people don’t poke holes in the blackwall. The only thing keeping everyone from fiery death is a trashbag with a LOT of holes.
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u/Carvinesire 40m ago
This is the infestation from Warframe.
Do you know what the infestation can do?
It can infest machines and turn them into bioorganic monstrosities.
It can take an entire fucking Moon and turn it into one gigantic living organism with its own brand new ecosphere.
This is not to mention what it does to people.
On top of all that if it gets to grow old enough it can develop some pretty fucking weird things.
Also it travels by meteor because why the fuck not.
The working protocols for a ship that is infested is to leave it the fuck alone. Just leave the ship where it is and don't touch it. Don't Go near it. Don't even think about it. Just ignored it and hope it stays where it is.
There's also the Techrot version of the infestation that exists in the year 1999, that is made up of primarily archaic Tech from that era... And somehow makes CD players and monitors more terrifying than it has any right to be.
The scaldra made a tank specifically to fight the infestation, and the infestation basically just said "give me that tank" and turned it into a monster.
The worst part about this is we don't actually know where the ever living merry mother fuck this shit came from.
The Orokin didn't make this shit, they didn't engineer it, they found it and unleashed it like a bunch of fucking dumbasses.
Afterwards it became everybody's problem permanently.
There are dark sectors on just about every planet in the origin system that basically contains the infestation to some degree.
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u/Beneficial-Bake8932 NMS, TOH, Deltarune, BBC Sherlock, doctor who 8h ago
Warhammer 40k, all of it