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This Mophie Super Bowl commercial treats a dying phone battery like the end of the world

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Bill Hanstock
Bill Hanstock is a writer, author and Emmy Award-winning producer. He began writing for SB Nation in 2011.

If you don’t know what Mophie is, you’re not alone. But this commercial will likely do a whole lot to make people aware of the company, which makes smartphone cases that double as battery packs -- or emergency chargers, if you also happen to feel like a dead battery is a complete disaster.

This clever ad envisions the end of the world, which is helpful! Now we know exactly what the end of the world will look like. The coming apocalypse will feature:

- Blizzards in Africa
- Inversion of polarity
- Rain of fish
- Hurricane in Nebraska
- Spontaneous combustion
- Floating cars
- FLYING PENGUINS
- Dudes getting hit by vans
- Tilting bars
- Hyenas in television studios
- A rooster standing on top of a goat standing on top of a donkey
- A dog walking a man
- Priests looting stores
- OUT OF CONTROL FERRIS WHEEL

Seems like a pretty bad time. Well, except for the rooster/goat/donkey thing. I guess we should all charge our phones immediately.

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