I have no idea the answer to your question, but I now know like 99% of people on lemmy have shitty reading comprehension.
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Assuming it's a surprise, this is Earth All Along. Genre Shift is similar, but that's more about tone than plot
You maniacs, you blew it all up!
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Movies like
My Name is Bruce.
The Thirteenth Floor
Hmm not sure. I guess I'd call it post-apocoliptic fantasy lol. But I know exaxctly what you mean and I love that genre. The Horizon games and even the Witcher books/games fit into this genre.
Yeah, Adventure Time
Star Wars is fantasy, not sci-fi. (Technically it’s a space opera, it not at all about science or how that science might impact society.)
Just because there’s technology, or it’s post apocalyptic doesn’t make it not fantasy.
Shanara chronicles, too.
I really like the term "Science Fantasy". It acknowledges the parallels with Science Fiction but respects how they differ as well.
Shanara chronicles, too.
Yep, they visit ruins in one series that is pretty clearly the ruins of Tacoma or some place like it.
Terry Brooks happens to live in that area. Coincidence? :)
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The Elder Scrolls. It's not explicitly stated, but iirc it's highly suggested it's post-apocalyptic. That said, it's still fantasy, there's still magic, spellcasting and so forth (there's no indication that the magic is the result of lost tech becoming indistinguishable from magic); it's just that the lore highly suggests it may be post-apocalyptic.
Sauce? It's not even on TVTropes
There is a fan theory that Fallout lead to TES because of radiation. It holds about as much water as a sieve, but its fun.
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Oh man, you have no idea how deep the Elder Scrolls lore hole goes.
Can't find anything on this specifically though
Oh wait, do you mean on the post apocalypse idea? Ehhhh I'm not certain it is. There is a creation story, and then a "do over" in the lore. But nothing like our civ level in the past for it.
There's probably a lore video about it on YouTube somewhere though.
EDIT: Found a video, and it's a short one.
https://youtu.be/7MrAWS-MiMU?si=qvRmLC5IP0d-FpPH
I'd recommend YouTube for easy to find lore breakdowns. For text stuff look up Michael Kirkbride.
Here's a bunch of his stuff:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/General:Michael_Kirkbride%27s_Texts
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Where have you seen this? I've been looking for some stories like it
The YA book series The Tripods, is medieval dystopian.
Shanara chronicles are set after humanity fucked everything up, demons came and fucked more shit and got sealed away and are now coming back.
It’s otherwise your sword and horse fantasy, though.
The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein, though sadly she never finished it.
OG Planet of the Apes, Horizon Zero Dawn is too in a way
I've never actually seen, just the references. Guess it's worth a go
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You mean like Adventure Time?
They are pretty obvious about it being a post nuclear war reality.
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is my personal favourite of Bruce Campbell's work. Starts off as any ordinary western, before getting very, very weird.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/
Come to think of it, Firefly might count, after watching Serenity at the end of the series.
Good shit.
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Post Apocalyptic Fantasy and Post Apocalyptical High Fantasy are two phrases I keep seeing.
Star Trek comes to mind unless you disallow scifi (as high fantasy usually would iirc, though notably "space operas" really do seem to blur the line).
LOTR could be argued as such - there was an earlier age of beings from which only remnants survived, and then we also watch live as a second epochal transition takes place, where the likes of elves disappear. I mean, either way it's not "our reality" type of age - but then again you couldn't ask for that from "high fantasy" by definition :-).
And it's a very common trope in video games - e.g. Chrono Trigger that is arguably the best RPG of all time (shitty graphics, even for its time, but hands-down the best story I've ever seen, made btw by the creators of Final Fantasy who were given the freedom to do whatever they wanted for it). Edit: another one like that is Lufia - not a ground-breaking game but highly regarded for doing what it did so very well, at its time mind you.
And I've seen some others where like basically Earth is implied to have been destroyed (or at least it is unclear whether it survived a world-ending event), but the singular human remaining lives on, in space, but in something like a series of interconnected "worlds", some having higher levels of technology than Earth ever managed to reach while others are set in earlier timeframes. And dealing with noncorporeal beings from like higher dimensions, and entities like a god inside the machine - so definitely once again mixing up heavy elements of "high fantasy" (with the likes of swords and magic) and sci-fi.
If you can dream it, someone has likely written it. Books are freaking awesome! 😎 So too are other mediums, when profits are not the exclusive focus.
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NK Jemison's Broken Earth trilogy comes to mind, fantastic series it that's your thing
Shan ara chronicles has just that and I searched it in tvtropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheShannaraChronicles#:~:text=The%20Shannara%20Chronicles%20is%20an%20American%20post-apocalyptic%20fantasy%20drama%20television
The Reveal: Not that the characters particularly care, but Safehold turns out to be the 3000 year old remains of San Francisco
I knew a tvtropes link was going to be here as soon as I saw the question lol, here goes my next three hours I guess
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I wonder who did this first? Didn't ultima have a storyline like this, or am I misremembering a game from before I was born
i think pops up in early computer rpgs like ultima a lot because the original Dungeons and Dragons was full of that kind of anachronistic stuff. TSR probably didn't intentionally make it post-apocalypse though. they were just cramming whatever they thought was cool at the moment into their game, which is why you're just as likely to find a downed spaceship as a dinosaur in Blackmoore. the post-apocalypse angle probably game to be when early crpgs wanted to ape that but wanted give it a proper story justification
i've also heard people say that the silmarillion has scifi elements, but i'm not sure how much of that is what tolkien intended versus what people read into it. i've also heard that the trope originates from medieval people coming across ruins of ancient roman architecture, but no examples were given- although it's funny to think we have robots in The Legend of Zelda because aquaducts
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Planet of the apes
Exactly what I was thinking, I'm not sure of any example coming before the original Charlton Heston version.
Don't have a name for the trope tho
Not 100% sure, but these come to mind.
- Science Fantasy
- Dying Earth
- Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
These sound right to me, especially Dying Earth - a podcast I listen to covered Gene Wolf's Book of the New Sun trilogy and they described it as such. Wikipedia calls it Science Fantasy. Great books by the way
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You mean like “dwarves and elves are GMO humans” and “magic is actually tech gadgets” ?
For a pure magic example
The Mistborn era 1 (books 1-3) are fantasty magic.
Mistborn era 2 (books 4-7) occur hundreds of years later in that worlds “industrial/steam” age. Still, with magic.
So, for example, some allomancers can push or pull on metals. In Era 1 that’s used for combat but also for rapid movement. An allomancer can fall from a wall, throw a coin and “push” off of it causing them to bounce forward and upwards. As they’re starting to reach the azimuth they “pull” the coin, catch it and repeat.
They also in combat throw and then “push” coins or metal fragments like shrapnel.
In Era 2. A sheriff (who’s an allomancer) leaps across a gully, aims and shoots a bullet into a wooden crate and then “pushes” on it to cross it.
Another time during a shootout one “pushes” gunfire away so it deflects around him. Not guaranteed to get all of the bullets but useful in situations like that.
There are other uses and other allomantic abilities but the entire shift of the format was just done phenomenally.
Can’t recommend the Mistborn series enough
Yeah, Sanderson earned the cred on the original trilogy. It’s a fantasy series, but the magicians are basically Jedi. Great stuff!
And the powers, as in all the Cosmere, has limits which balances it out.
No endless pushes, flying, etc. every world has some resources or constraint so you’re not left with a “Superman” kind of scenario.
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To clarify, are you asking if there's a specific genre to Planet of the Apes where there's a big reveal that this is actually just earth after some society ending disaster? (And similar stuff but that's the first that came to mind).