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When I was a freshly graduated paramedic I responded to a attempted mass suicide of a cult.(Around 15 people)

They thought the apocalypse would be coming... By inciting, well, basically an orgy,with all sexual inhibitions falling and humans sinning beyond belief. While some of their fears were at least somewhat relatable (like fathers laying their hand on their daughters) most of it was batshit crazy. They believed they need to kill themself before that happens so they would still get into heaven.

...they fucked that up,massively,as well. None died.

Vacuum Decay bubble sweeping over our solar system. That sould be straight tits. Its like the "Irish Goodbye" of reality itself. Just poof! And ya outta heeeeeeere!

Solar-Punk apocalypse. All plastic gone. All oil gone.

The Mayan one in 2012 was pretty good, I really enjoyed it. It ended with the masterpiece that is Gangnam Style.

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman is a great contender for an end of the world scenario.

Tl;dr: aliens set loose a super intelligent AI on the planet as the gameshow host to the elimination of nigh all life on Earth, as part of a running Survivor-esque intergalactic production.

I'm honestly super down for the Rapture. All the Christians getting beamed up to infini-church while the rest of us finally get to live without them

Not religious, but my favorite is the Gamma Ray Burst.

Totally invisible until it hits and BOOM, everything is dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst

Ragnarök is quite cool, first there is huge battle between giants, gods and mortals. Then at the end when mostly all noteworthy characters are dead, surtur burns the whole mess down and sun turns black, stars fall and everything falls into boiling sea. And after all that world is reborn and there will be no more evil.

Guy had amazing lines

Dual-vector foil from the Three Body Problem series. Everything just gets lethally downgraded from three-dimensional to two-dimensional.

Personally I'm a big fan of the Hadron Collider accidentally creating a black hole.

If you've read or seen The Road, whatever that was. because it was complete and total. none of this half measures, pockets of safety and free cities bull shit

Flip the switch, and the virtual simulation we're in shuts down.

TWD zombies ofcourse.

A virus that makes 9/10 of humanity infertile.

Metalocalypse

I'd have to go with Virus.

Wipes out enough people to give humanity a chance to at least try something new from the ashes of the old world, but doesn't leave a lingering threat like Zombies or Aliens or something like that. The survivors (ostensibly those immune to the virus) have struggles, for sure, but at least can rebuild without worrying about a constant existential threat.

In my case, nuclear annihilation. I'm in an area where there's a pretty good chance when the clock strikes midnight, my city will absolutely be obliterated and hopefully I will disintegrate with it.

It'll suck for any survivors, but I have a good change of not having to live through it. I'd be dead weight because of being on life saving meds, so you don't want me in an apocalypse.

Hyperspace bypass.

The best apocalypse is the one you already have. There's no need to go out get a new apocalypse when your old one is dooming people just fine, that's how you start a climate apocalypse.

Global basilisk hack. Everyone staring at a screen has a fatal seizure and tips over. Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon basin inherit the Earth.

Recently PLUR1BUS seems alright, one of the characters in the show even argues that things are better