Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?

davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Specifically the After the End variant

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• Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/…/TomatoSurprise is the wider trope

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You maniacs, you blew it all up!

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• somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Flintsonian/Jetson

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• zlatiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thanks! I think this is it… because I guess the more important part to this trope is that “hehe this is actually the world that you - dear viewer - lives in”… the high-fantasy part is secondary and depends on the genre I guess.

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  • uid0gid0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the trope From Cataclysm to Myth actually fits better. It even says in the description "Cousin to Earth All Along, but a premise or a plot twist rather than a Twist Ending. "

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What happens when the story is not set on Earth?

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