Aladdin: The Series: villain Abis Mal goes back in time, teams up with his own ancestor Abnor Mal, and tries to replace the current Sultan's family as founders of Agrabah.The artists loved BadFuture!Agrabah, but the Timey-Wimey Ball was too much for the writers to get around. An abandoned concept in Aladdin featured Jafar wishing that he " always was Sultan", resulting in a Bad Present for Agrabah.
If a series gives only a brief glimpse of the Bad Future instead of actually going there, it may be Storyboarding the Apocalypse. It's a good (or cheap, depending on the execution) way of becoming Darker and Edgier and adding tension while working under Status Quo Is God. Technically Dystopian, but doesn't fit that trope description well as it's usually ascribable to a single villain-related event. Thus all the heroes have to do to fix things is return to the present. Typically they go back in time to Set Right What Once Went Wrong.Ĭonveniently, in many cases the catalyst that ruined the world was the absence of whoever was sent to the future.
90% of the time the hero(es) will meet La Résistance and/or Future Badass versions of his friends who were left in the past. The heroes are sent into the near future (common intervals are 5, 10, and 20 years), and discover a Crapsack World. A Bad Future is one of the most common Alternate Timelines and one, who if Time Travel exist in their universe, any stars of a long-running series will surely visit.