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A World Half Full	comment	A World Half Full is the other half of the unambiguously awful Crapsack World (formerly known as World Half Empty). It is usually featured in a similar condition to the above, a place where the world is in an extremely broken state. In fact, it is almost the same hellhole as it was when it was more depressing. However, it can be saved, sort of... In this world, The Protagonist is only one individual; they can't bring life instantly to an abandoned village, but they can find the materials needed to bring upon the seeds of growth that will bring life back to the once-desolate town. However, such changes are not overnight miracles, and many of them will not be noticed in their lifetime. They are also quite tempted to exploit the wasteland and will have to resist such urges. More Anti-Heroic characters may not even bother holding back on allowing themself an indulgence or two even if their ultimate goal is benevolent. Just as before, the forces of darkness run through relatively unmolested and it is ill-advised for characters to confront them head-on. Most of the time, the protagonist will skirt around the major sources of power and just go for the source of ills itself and it will rarely result in the total destruction of the enemy, especially if the problem is Inherent in the System and the Big Bad is, for all their current importance, ultimately replaceable. However, victory is often a minor one as it is only a small portion of a constantly decaying world that has been fixed. While you may change life for the better for your people and solve today's ills, everyone else could potentially suffer whether or not you are deliberately or accidentally causing it through false progress or is still suffering as usual, unaffected by the hero's successes. Nevertheless, it's still better than waiting for the end to come, as any Knight in Sour Armor will tell you. Besides, there's always the possibility that things are Crapsack Only by Comparison. Has been referred to as "NobleDark", derived from the term "GrimDark" and its inverse "NobleBright": the world is a dark, horrible place, but change is not impossible if it is strived for. note "Grimbright" settings — worlds of wonder and amazement, but where ultimately no one has any real ability to change things — are rare, for obvious reasons. The Sandman (1989) is the most notable example. Compare Scenery Dissonance.
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A World Half Full / int_12300cc3	comment	The ending of Watchmen, possibly. It's a Crapsack World prior to the "villain's" Utopia Justifies the Means gambit, which may or may not be successful. Cruelly subverted in Doomsday Clock. The world has completely gone to shit after the exposure of said â€œvillainâ€™sâ€� actions, with nations at each otherâ€™s throats, riots in the streets, and nuclear war impending. Thankfully, it gets better, becoming double-subverted.
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A World Half Full / int_12fd8e7f	comment	This is a core theme of Destiny: that despite the destruction of humanity's Golden Age, reduced to a single City, the silence of the Traveler, and surrounded by ruin and horrifying alien threats that want to wipe out humankind, there remains hope. And that bit by bit, humanity and its allies are taking back their lost homeworlds and glory.
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A World Half Full / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm starts off as a Crapsack World. Due to the way powers manifest, villains outnumber heroes two to one, The Endbringers are slowly destroying the world piece by piece (leveling cities, sinking islands, killing heroes, devastating nations beyond repair), a group of serial killers is causing mass violence across North America purely For the Evulz, the world's most powerful hero is simple-minded and never guaranteed to show up where he's needed most, and mass violence is so common as to be an accepted part of life. However, Skitter and her friends seek to improve the situation. By doing the wrong things for the right reasons.
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A World Half Full / int_13d39329	comment	"Land of Confusion" by Genesis is all about this trope:
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A World Half Full / int_169f043b	comment	The StarCraft universe, after being a Crapsack World in the original opus, is slowly heading toward this in StarCraft II. By the end of Brood War, Terrans were now mostly under the Dictatorship of Arcturus Mengsk, the Protoss were on the verge of extinction with most of their heroes killed off and separated, the only decent Terran hero at this point, Jim Raynor, has been reduced to a powerless rebel leader, and the Zerg are stronger than ever, led by Sarah Kerrigan, who has at that point been Brainwashed and Crazy into becoming the vilest character in the whole franchise. And Duran is plotting to create Zerg/Protoss Hybrids (as well as, as later revealed, revive an Evil God and wipe out the Universe), which he succeeded by manipulating everybody. However, in StarCraft II, Raynor is able to bring Kerrigan back to her original personality, and she goes to redeem herself as well as the whole Zerg species, Mensgk is killed and his son and heir Valerian shows promise as a more benevolent ruler, and Duran / Narud is killed. By the end of Legacy of the Void, things have genuinely turned out better, with the above mentioned Evil God dead, Kerrigan having become a benevolent Xel'Naga, the Terran Dominion being ruled by Arcturus' son (who actually is a good person) and the Protoss having rebuilt their civilization.
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A World Half Full / int_17bdfffe	comment	In This Immortal, most of Earth is a nuclear wasteland inhabited by half-human mutants and without a proper government, dependent on help from and trade with the Vegan Combine, with babies being born deformed even in the civilized areas. Yet Radpol and the Returnist movement work toward making it a better place to live again and towards inciting more humans to come back to Earth.
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A World Half Full / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Mobius gets increasingly crapsack as the story goes. Not only Robotnik/Eggman restlessly tries to Take Over the World, but the increasing civilization of the Funny Animal arguably corrupts them and causes them to constantly fight each other for trivial reasons; on the other hand, most conflicts are solved with the existence of Knothole Freedom Fighters, and the series marks it that no matter how dire the situations get, Sonic will win in the end.
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A World Half Full / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack takes place hundreds of years in the future, where an all-powerful embodiment of evil runs his Villain World without anyone being able to oppose him. His only weakness is a single magical sword that can be lost, stolen, or otherwise rendered useless. However, this sword is wielded by an Experienced Protagonist who can take down literal armies by himself, defeat five highly trained assassins in the time it takes for a drop of water to fall, jump so high that other characters mistake it for flying, all while being an Embodiment of Virtue. Yeah, Aku doesn't stand a chance. The half-fullness of the world is aptly spelled out in the episode where Aku infects Jack with a piece of himself and even Jack begins to give up hope: The speech became a Heartwarming in Hindsight during the final season. When Samurai Jack became hopeless after wandering the world for fifty years without his sword, his heroic efforts were not in vain throughout the years. Many kingdoms and characters that Jack had helped formed a formidable fighting force, who managed to launch an ill-fated first assault on Aku that also symbolized how far the victims began to stand up to him rather than cower in fear. When Jack began to suffer from depression that almost made him Driven to Suicide, it took Ashi's words based on her observations from the improved lives of many people that Jack saved to snap him out of it. When he finally found the sword from his renewed vigor and faced Aku, his friends performed both Gondor Calls for Aid and Heroic Sacrifice just to buy enough time to go back in time and finally vanquish Aku.
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A World Half Full / int_18d2338d	comment	A Scanner Darkly: The hero's brain is fried from Substance D but that allows him to infiltrate the drug manufacturing facility the rehab clinic he was taken to and gather the evidence needed to destroy the syndicate making the drug.
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A World Half Full / int_190c6ef5	comment	Doctor Zhivago: A bourgeois doctor (Omar Sharif) chases the love of his life through Russia after the Revolution and nearly freezes to death in the process, in this David Lean film based on the book by Boris Pasternak.
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A World Half Full / int_1bdeba5a	comment	Arguably, from the point of view of mutants if nothing else, the future the X-Man Bishop came from would be a World Half Full contrasted against the Crapsack World future of Days of Future Past. Both look like post-apocalyptic urban hellscapes whenever we see them, but Bishop's future features a mutant police force trying to put the world back together while Days of Future Past has mutants hunted almost to extinction.
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A World Half Full / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach, Soul Society is becoming this, thanks to Ichigo. In chapter 461, we've learned that the influence of Ichigo Kurosaki has changed General Yamamoto so thoroughly that the previously Lawful Neutral commander of the Gotei 13 gave a direct order to all Gotei Captains to restore Ichigo's powers. Captain Hitsugaya comments that before Ichigo came along, the General never would have given any such order.
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A World Half Full / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild takes place After the End: Hyrule's capital has been left in ruins, and Calamity Ganon is slowly regaining its power in Hyrule Castle. Nonetheless, there is a functioning society that persists in spite of the destruction Ganon wrought: towns and settlements dot Hyrule, and people seem to be getting by fairly well, even with the threat of Ganon looming over the realm.
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A World Half Full / int_2250e67e	comment	When humanity entered the galactic stage in 2151, as seen in Enterprise, the political landscape was dominated by a centuries-long Space Cold War between the Vulcans, the Andorians, and the Tellarites, and more active threats like the Klingons, the Suliban, and the Xindi operated with impunity. But Humans Are Diplomats, and once Earth established itself they were able to negotiate an end to these hostilities one by one, culminating in a coalition against the Romulan Star Empire and the formation of The Federation in 2161. And more often than not, it was one ship (the titular Enterprise NX-01) and her crew that made all the difference.
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A World Half Full / int_234035fa	comment	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar appears to be taking a more direct go at this. Chaos has returned, indomitable as ever, and more than a few forces seeking to save the world are doing so only to rule whatever remains. However, the good gods have true power against Chaos, the various factions are more integrated and more willing to work together, and the Elves managed to imprison Slaanesh.
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A World Half Full / int_23529ef4	comment	Motorcity: Old Detroit is covered on top by Abraham Kane's futuristic Detroit Deluxe. As a consequence, there's no sunlight, and most of it appears a dirty, dingy slum, cut off from the rest of the world, and it is constantly under attack (either by force or brainwashing) from Kane's forces. However, they also have a lot of fun and freedom, they own cars, they have a wider choice of fashion, and even have theme parks and festivals.
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A World Half Full / int_237cec74	comment	This is the ending of Battleborn storyline, especially the Heliophage mission where Solus system may finally have a breather if not victory with the death of Lothar Rendain that crippled the momentum of Valresi onslaught. While the universe would still end from Valresi assault or reaching its lifespan, people like Battleborn chose to fight together rather than dying alone.
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A World Half Full / int_24d7f3e3	comment	The world of Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities is a dark and miserable one, and the protagonists (Nailer and Mahlia respectively) can't do much about that. But as of the end of his book, Nailer has managed to rid the world of his father and has a grateful Nita's promise that she will fix the Wretched Hive he lives in. Similarly, Mahlia can't stop all of the warlords from tearing the Drowned Cities apart — or even save her best friend Mouse. Yet through her efforts, the United Patriotic Front is destroyed and she leads a small band of soldier boys out of the cities and towards a hopefully brighter future.
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A World Half Full / int_2594ce60	comment	The endings of Deus Ex: Invisible War, the Helios endings has the minds of humanity united in one electronic link providing a perfect democracy. Or Illuminati wins and their vision of a perfect world really does work. In the Omar ending, everyone is wiped out but the Omar survive and are able to rebuild humanity their way. As for the Templars, all biomodificatons are purged, and they rule the world in a new Theocracy.
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A World Half Full / int_29c8e564	comment	The cast of Stray Bullets is filled with liars, thieves, and murderers. Nearly all of them are Jerkasses and those who aren't are still horribly flawed. You can count on your fingers the characters in the series who may qualify as being genuinely good people. But in spite of all that, certain moments will still make you smile, and the main characters never lose hope.
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A World Half Full / int_2b70efd4	comment	Old World of Darkness Mage: The Ascension was a World Half Full which could have a Bittersweet Ending in its canonical metaplot. Mages could and would often make notable progress. Changeling: The Dreaming offered an Earn Your Happy Ending for every Hope Spot and sign that the end was nigh. They were both dark settings, but unlike the relentless progression of evil in the other lines, there was something worth fighting for. Hunter: The Reckoning was unusually brutal, with only a few signs things might get better, by contrast to its successor game. Unfortunately for Mage: The Ascension and Changeling: The Dreaming, they appeared at a time when faux despair as an excuse to play barbaric PCs was what most players wanted from a WoD campaign.
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A World Half Full / int_2ddf611	comment	Dark Sun is a Death World where the halflings will eat you, magic drains the world of its life, and having enough water to drink is a sign of power. Neutral characters are kind of the norm, but good characters frequently have the chance to affect some small change for the better. Players familiar with the Fallout series would understand.
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A World Half Full / int_2f203125	comment	In a franchise where God is almost always evil or out of the picture, and the heroes never save the day without a huge sacrifice on their part, Persona 4 stands out by having this type of message at the end. It basically boils down to "Humans can act like assholes, but we can change for the better if we have the courage to accept that fact first." Devil Survivor also qualifies. God is actually good and will accept whatever future you build, even if you mess up big time! That's right. God basically trusts you to govern the entire planet, in spite of all the horrible things human beings are capable of. Then it's revealed in Overclocked that he is responsible for the Cain and Abel happening because he wanted a Martyr and Murderer while also wanting Cain to atone to him when he manipulated him into killing the brother he loved. He's perfectly willing to have his Angels threaten to murder innocents in order to get them to attack the Overlord as well, or just giving up cause humanity won't do what he wants and leave for good.
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A World Half Full / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto, the world was a war-torn Crapsack World before Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha made peace between their clans, jump-starting the Hidden Village system that somewhat limited the bloodshed. The world's still far from perfect, but good people can and do make a difference. Ironically, the main villains of the series are people who believe the world is still a Crapsack one and they are willing to do anything to make their ideal world a reality.
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A World Half Full / int_32c541e6	comment	The first arc of Fullmetal Alchemist involves the protagonists Edward and Alphonse Elric exposing and bringing down the false prophet ruling the town of Liore/Reole (spelling depends on translation). While they dismantle the religion that had given the people a false sense of hope and security, Ed leaves Rose with a message about them carrying on with their own strength; by the time the Van Hohenheim arrives in the town later in the manga, it is seen to be recovering quite nicely and the people are genuinely happier than they were before. This is just a microcosm of the Elric Brothers' actions: over the course of the manga, their actions expose the State's true intentions to a number of high-ranking officers unwilling to allow it to happen, make inroads with foreigners who happen to practice the perfect counter to Father's alchemy, and redeem one of their greatest foes, all leading to the creation of a coalition capable of thwarting the Big Bad's plan to sacrifice the entire country to usurp God. By the end of the manga, the different members of that coalition then set about righting the wrongs of their predecessors, working to make the world a better place.
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A World Half Full / int_32fb0c3a	comment	Avenue Q is a truly terrible place to live — but everyone makes the best of it and keeps on keeping on, knowing they at least have each other. After all, "everything in life is only for now."
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A World Half Full / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Remnant is a Death World, swarming with mysterious monsters whose sole purpose appears to be the destruction of humanity. Civilization clings to existence with the aid of powerful fortifications, natural barriers and Dust, relying on four safe havens and specially trained Huntsmen to hold back the tide; it's implied that this is unprecedented protection compared to most of humanity's known history. Attempts to expand often fail, and both violent prejudice and criminal conspiracies are additional threats to humanity's survival. However, this doesn't stop dedicated heroes from finding solutions that first begin with a positive outlook. Volume 3 kicks the villains' plan into high gear, sending the storyline into much darker territory where the fight between hope and despair is revealed to be the primary battleground between the Big Good and Big Bad. The Atlas Arc explores the relationship between trust and fear as the villains gain the upper hand and the heroes themselves succumb to despair; at the heroes' lowest point, their leader Ruby Rose is Driven to Suicide by the weight of her burdens before she comes through the other side renewed and more determined than ever.
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A World Half Full / int_3653b976	comment	The Metro franchise is an incredibly bleak post-apocalypticÂ world. Yet the games still fit this trope (the books... don't). The first game, through great struggles, has the player end the threat of the Dark Ones with nuclear bombs, saving the metro as a whole. Except the Dark Ones aren't actually hostile and wish to understand humanity, but their Psychic Powers inevitably destroy the mind of those they come in contact with, with ArtyomÂ being the only known person resistant to their powers. By exploring the game world, acting charitably, avoiding killing as much as possible, and listening to what others have to say, you gain morality points, symbolizing a more spiritual quest for understanding that leads to the realization that the Dark Ones want peace, and aborting the missile launch at the last minute, thus unlocking the secret ending where Artyom contemplates the possibility of entering dialogue with the Dark Ones and how they can offer hope for the future. The sequel follows up on the atomic destruction of the Dark Ones with rumours of a Sole Survivor baby Dark One and the need to destroy it to finish the job. The game follows up on the Bad Ending of the first game. Once again, Artyom can try to gain a better understanding of the world to finally communicate with the baby Dark One and learn of more Dark Ones hibernating in secret vaults in the metro, and they pull off a Big Damn Heroes at the Final Battle of the game, saving Artyom and the Rangers against overwhelming odds and promising to return one day to rebuild alongside humanity. According to Khan, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory were atomized by the apocalypse, and with no afterlife the restless ghosts must haunt the metro tunnels forever. However, it's implied that through spiritual atonement and striving to do better, things may improve.
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A World Half Full / int_366a284d	comment	Fist of the North Star exemplifies this: just because the world is torn by nuclear fire doesn't mean it can't be rebuilt, and just because violence can be used to oppress the weak doesn't mean you can't use it to protect the weak and make the world a better place either.
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A World Half Full / int_38304f1d	comment	Phantasy Star II is known more for a dark interpretation of the plot, where you destroy your homeland's AI to prevent it from prolonging the False Utopia, and less known for being a tale that runs on strict Black-and-White Morality. Your quest is to prevent a series of immediate disasters, which is ultimately for Algo system's greater good. The known bystanders never stop supporting you, and the only parties that oppose you are berserk biomonsters and robots and Obviously Evil human aliens.
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A World Half Full / int_38304f2a	comment	Phantasy Star IV takes place After the End on a desert planet, a typical setup of an angsty tale, but turns out to play the heroic anime tropes straighter than ever. It is the most hilarious and lighthearted game of the entire franchise.
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A World Half Full / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron. One continent is recovering from a major war that wasn't so much won as called off for fear of more nations being utterly destroyed by dead-grey mist, one is ruled by mind-controlling dream demons, most of the world is a succession of cans for sealing evil, Khorvaire is dominated by what amount to corporations so powerful it's unclear if the Five Nations can control them without the power of a united Galifar, and so on. Per Word of God, the universe has a bit of a metaphysical bias towards evil...but mortal will and mortal heroism can make up the difference, as shown by things like the sacrifice of Tira Miron to bind the Overlord Bel Shalor and create the Silver Flame. Indeed, the point of it being kind of sucky in so many ways is to give mortal heroes (read: player characters) a selection of evils to fight.
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A World Half Full / int_38ecf7	comment	DC: The New Frontier plays this idea to the hilt. The world the series occupies has all the problems our world did in the late 50s and early 60s: the aftermath of the Korean War, the legalized segregation of the American South, the Red Scare, and so on. Over the course of the story, quite a few characters die and holes are repeatedly punched into the society they uphold. Yet the heroes of the book, though troubled, are no less heroic than they were in the Silver Age, and the ending is unambiguously happy and hopeful.
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A World Half Full / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: While Harry might have been the one destined to defeat Voldemort, it's pointed out time and time again that he couldn't have done it without friends. And even if they've defeated the Big Bad, the world will need lots of support to reduce the power of pure-bloods, limit Wizards-First prejudice, reform the extremely screwed-up Ministry of Magic, and make a more peaceful place altogether.
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A World Half Full / int_3bce4381	comment	Trigun fits this trope to a T. Vash spends the whole anime trying to defuse bad situations in a world that is running out of resources and is functionally lawless despite the best efforts of authorities. It's not all bad though, and a lot of the world's inhabitants seem relatively content until Vash shows up and often as not makes everything worse.
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A World Half Full / int_3d13b9a1	comment	The Riordanverse series — The Camp Half-Blood Series, The Kane Chronicles, and most especially Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard — are all this. While there are plenty of monsters out there, the world is also full of heroes, magical and mundane, who will step up to fight the forces of darkness, even when it seems impossible — and while the Norse prophecy of Ragnarok will come true one day, it can be delayed, and life can be lived and enjoyed in the meantime.
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A World Half Full / int_3d22c14b	comment	Gundam 00 and Gundam SEED are also like this. This is the reason that, respectively, Marina Ismail & Celestial Being and Lacus Clyne & the Three-Ship Alliance are here, to make sure their worlds don't become true crapsack ones.
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A World Half Full / int_3e8c09b9	comment	The world of Attack on Titan may be a brutal place to live, but hope still exists. For one thing, if it weren't for Eren and his friends, then humanity would've never earned its first victory against the Titans. Though things outside the walls aren't much better. Turned out that the humans are alive and well, except for the fact that it has been engaged in an on-and-off world war with Morley trying to remedy their military shortfalls by trying to secure the Reiss family from the "Walls", which turned out to be a remnant of an old empire that once used Titans to rule the world until Morley turned against them.
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A World Half Full / int_4139b0e7	comment	Unforgiven: The Wild West in general is a Crapsack World where killing is an everyday occurrence. Surprisingly enough, this movie seems to be just another example... until we realize that Claudia has been dead for years and she still has influence over Munny... it could be said that the movie is her tale... how she still manages to be the only light in all the darkness that is The Western.
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A World Half Full / int_41b0198a	comment	Surprisingly enough, The Dresden Files. At first, it may seem like a Crapsack World, full of monsters who prey on the unsuspecting and do terrible things, not to mention hefty doses of Grey-and-Gray Morality. However, real heroes like Knight in Shining Armor Michael Carpenter do exist and give others an ideal to strive towards. Even Harry, Knight in Sour Armor that he is, serves as The Paragon to all of the many people he's inspired to do good. When he is killed temporarily after Changes, his friends create the "Justice League of Chicago," and even Marcone builds a monument to everything Harry stood for on the ruins of his old boardinghouse. Every book, no matter how dark it gets, ends on an uplifting note and is full of Heartwarming Moments. In one of the short stories, Uriel lists all of the many actions Harry performed that would save lives and inspire others, over the course of just a few days. While these all seemed like small things, they had an incredible impact, which would echo for generations. The message is clear: No matter how bad things get, every person (whether they be a rebellious teen, a polkaphile ME, or a beat cop) can be a hero and stand up against the darkness.
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A World Half Full / int_45599333	comment	Tower of God: The Tower might be too large and diverse to generalise, but it keeps turning up nasty places and sides. The rulers and ruling class seem to be largely corrupt and abusive; King Jahad manipulates his subjects to fight and kill each other to maintain his own power, while the members of the Ten Great Families are often abusive and callous towards people of lesser status. On the other hand, the rebellious FUG organisation opposed to them is no better and maybe worse — destructive, coercive, and manipulative. The Regulars desperately trying to reach the top of the Tower are in a constant and sometimes deadly competition against each other that encourages an attitude of caring about nothing but your own advancement. In addition, they are taken advantage of by others, like the loan sharks on the 20th floor. Other individual places in the Tower show examples of abusive power structures too. The Name Hunt Station is built around a system of slavery and is used to get rid of people the ruling class finds inconvenient, and in the virtual world of the Hidden Floor, the Big Breeders have been known to have their minions beat up the data humans and then wipe out the memory of the incident. And this is to say nothing of the two kingdoms whom a certain monster set up to wage war indefinitely so that he could harvest billions of souls over generations — although that was a bit too much even by the Tower's standards, and the powers that be put an end to it. Yet individual people can be noble, and many are motivated to change the Tower (although in this world, they really need to be careful of the He Who Fights Monsters trope). Bam typically impresses people with his simple benevolent attitude and desire to help everyone, and he's managed to make a concrete change now and then, as with redeeming the ruler of the Name Hunt Station. And he's pretty clearly The Chosen One destined to change the Tower forever.
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A World Half Full / int_464a2270	comment	In Epic Mickey, after Mickey Mouse accidentally creates him, the Phantom Blot turns the Cartoon Wasteland into a twisted, Disney Theme Park themed Crapsack World. Part of the game's main plot is that Mickey must stop the Blot and restore the world to its former self.
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A World Half Full / int_46aac2a3	comment	The world of Elden Ring is very dark and depressing: the World Tree is dying, the rules of nature have been broken, The Shattering has torn the land itself and left it littered with corpses, unspeakable monstrosities roam the world and the demigods who were supposed to rule justly have turned into tyrants and madmen... But it can be fixed, and you have the power and tenacity to repair the titular Elden Ring and bring peace to the Lands Between. Melina even spells this out should the player character start approaching the Frenzied Flame, an alien power with the capacity to bring ruin and death to the entire world.
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A World Half Full / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft: Starting off with the awful: The world of Azeroth is inherently hostile: Because of a slumbering Titan World Soul inside the planet's core, elemental forces which are supposed to cooperate instead of fight each other, since the elements make up all reality, this means the world itself trends towards conflict, often resulting in local wildlife that is more hostile than it really should be - which in turn means that even something as commonplace as forest wolves often need the aid of trained warriors and magicians to quell the numbers of. Aside from the elemental reality, the Warcraft universe is home to six semi-Sentient Cosmic Forces. None of them are particularly good, ranging from the Nature Is Not Nice of 'Life', to the Lovecraft Lite of the 'Void'. These background forces manifest as magic in the warcraft universe and using said magic inadvertently brings you further into that Sentient Cosmic Force's alignment, making magic in general addictive to various extents. Because of this, Azeroth has seen no shortage of irradiated monsters, oozes, corrupt nobles, rampant racism, magical addiction, eldritch abominations, the list goes on and on, and there is never a shortage of problems to be fixed... Now for the hopeful: The world is a vibrant Science Fantasy setting where limits are constantly pushed; whether it be through technology, science, or magic, new discoveries are constantly made and few problems exist that can't be found a solution for. The monsters are generally killed off and the really nasty characters are decreasing more rapidly than they appear, and though the Hour of Twilight can never be truly prevented, it can be postponed through blood, sweat, and tears again, and again, and again. As the old guard grow old or die on the battlefield, new blood is ready to step up to the plate simply because the constant threats of the world have ensured a World of Badass more than capable to deal with what emerges. It's telling that when Cthulhu needs to be punched, it is done not by armies, but by Taught by Experience adventurers who had their start by being the Right Man in the Wrong Place when shit hit the fan. While there are occasions where the world is irrevocably changed, change is not necessarily bad; When the Dragon Aspect Deathwing broke free and reshaped the world, much of the world was damaged. When Deathwing was dealt with, the world had scars, yes, but even those scars quickly became another feature of the world - and some of the areas are distinctly better off than they were before. In general, you can always count on things getting worse before they get better, but they will get better.
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A World Half Full / int_4afb0af3	comment	In World's End Harem billions of men died due to the virus, and society collapsed because of it, but while they couldnâ€™t salvage everything yet the remaining women could keep some areas functioning to a decent state, theyâ€™ve studied the five remaining men and reached the conclusion children born from their genes are immune to what killed the previous men, thereâ€™s a light at the end of the tunnel.
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A World Half Full / int_4b4a9fd6	comment	Slumdog Millionaire: Sometimes, in spite of all the impossible obstacles, even you get a Happily Ever After.
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A World Half Full / int_4d9653ef	comment	Planescape has seven independent hells, each infinite, and seven heavens all of which are rather terrifying in their own way. Good is downright terrifying when it isn't pants-on-head stupid. The central City of Adventure is a dystopian blend of Charles Dickens and Dungeon Punk. Completely incompatible ideological groups have taken over vast aspects of public life and so are always a hair's breadth from civil war. Most of the planes are Death Worlds whose (mortal) inhabitants have come up with ways to survive the various demons and Eldritch Abominations. Yet in just the published adventures, players can cripple the demons and devils forever, prevent the return of a massive Big Bad (the trope-naming Orcus), and help free Sigil from its unending strife all before 12th level.
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A World Half Full / int_4f821ec8	comment	Most of Driftless Wormhole is set during a brutal war, and even though the main characters are outside of the combat zones, there's always the fear of the fighting overwhelming them, and they're suffering from all kinds of shortages. Even the good guys sometimes surrender to the pressure, decide that Good is Impotent and opt for tactics that are anti-heroic at best and Stupid Evil at worst. Time Travel means that there's proof that terrible things will happen in the future as well. However, there's also beauty, The Power of Friendship, smart people working hard to make things better, one genuine misunderstanding that's resolved by simply figuring out what's going on, a lot of funny moments, and a flawed but better future.
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A World Half Full / int_50613c2	comment	Cormorant seem to exemplify this trope in lyrical form; shifting from Horrible History Metal and ones that have Downer Endings to songs that are about being peaceful with death and that the world at large would flourish, in one way or another, with or without humanity. Perhaps why the band goes with a more triumphant and at worst melancholy sound as opposed to a darker, bleaker one that their genres are known for.
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A World Half Full / int_51b94c97	comment	AT-43 is far more optimistic than WH40k, every faction has some positive motives with them. The U.N.A. are a democratic government fighting for humanity's survival. The Red Blok are fighting for their independence. The Therians want to conquer the universe in order to preserve it from its inevitable destruction and were responsible for the creation of the humans on Ava. The Karmans are fighting for the balance of the universe.
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A World Half Full / int_52f6626	comment	The climax of Jak II has the Metal Heads invade Haven City after Kor disables the shield walls. Ashelin is convinced that the war cannot be won and tells Jak and Daxter to leave the Bad Future and return to their own time. Jak refuses, citing that Haven City is worth fighting for, and manages to temporary stop the war by destroying the Metal Head nest and killing the leader.
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A World Half Full / int_5423040c	comment	Ã–verenskommelser shows us that 1880s Sweden was this. There were still many injustices to fight against, and yeah, the protagonists have to deal with three different villains — but still, things will eventually get better...
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A World Half Full / int_5666e22b	comment	Deptford Mice resembles a Crapsack Mouse World at first, with evil gods easily overpowering good, Ax-Crazy worshipers roaming the countryside to murder and devour anyone they see, death on a massive scale, and a villain who resurrects himself into a god right after his first defeat. Even the few "good" societies are either extremely insular and intolerant or on the brink of extinction. However, despite all of this, good always endures, and The Final Reckoning ends on a bittersweet note.
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A World Half Full / int_5694548d	comment	The Sharing Knife: There are life-sucking demons that surface with some frequency and can only be killed with human sacrifice; the Lakewalkers, who fight the demons, don't respect the farmers and the farmers don't trust the Lakewalkers. The heroes of the story don't believe they can eliminate the demons or even make the fight against them substantially easier, but they work to foster greater understanding between the farmer and Lakewalker populations so their society isn't undone by avoidable ignorance and mistrust.
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A World Half Full / int_56e10d85	comment	"Arda Marred", i.e. the fallen world in which most of the works of Tolkien's Legendarium take place. This is especially notable in The Silmarillion, a long series of defeats and bloody infighting with some rare uplifting moments and a Bittersweet Ending.
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A World Half Full / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas depicts a world in the Southwest that is steadily recovering and may not be that bad to live in. In the Mojave Wasteland, you'll find functional civilizations every several miles, working electricity and plumbing, food and fresh water that won't give you a dose of rads with every bite, and even green trees and plants appear. Also the Mojave Wasteland is set in between NCR and Caesar's Legion, both of which are implied to be bigger and more well-populated than the Mojave. The Lonesome Road DLC has this at its end. Ulysses wants to rain destruction on everything because he thinks the Bear (NCR) is diseased, the Bull (Caesar's Legion) will feed on itself, and Vegas has too many ghosts of the past to ever let go. You can however convince him that the world can be saved and civilization built anew - after all, you did it before.
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A World Half Full / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted is this trope. Sure, the entire world is filled with monsters and divided between varyingly unpleasant nations, (some of) the heroes are cursed and being hunted as anathema, there are several different forces trying to conquer/destroy the world, and the gods are busy playing games...but you are Exalted, you have the powers of a god and were created specifically to be a badass hero. The entire point of the game is to beat the shit out of the various world-destroying cosmic forces, preferably in the most spectacularly epic way physically possible. You can, and indeed are encouraged to, solve at least most of the world's problems, but you're going to have to work your ass off to do it.
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A World Half Full / int_6196490	comment	Ghost in the Shell is a world half full for most of the main characters. They frequently expose corruption and conspiracies, and stop terrorists from killing more innocents, but at the end of the day, their actions don't do anything to change the corrupt and uncaring system of Japanese society. Still, they feel pretty good about what little good they can do.
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A World Half Full / int_62aa95a6	comment	The Lost Fleet: After John Geary is recovered from a century in cryo-stasis, he discovers the war that began with the attack that put him in that situation is still ongoing, the war between the Alliance and the Syndics has devolved into mutual atrocities and Zerg Rush tactics, professionalism has been lost, the Alliance's economy is on the verge of collapse, politicians are terrified of a military coup, and he's been rescued by a fleet that's been lured into an ambush and he suddenly finds himself in charge of it far from home and all by themselves, all while dealing with a mythical reputation he never earned and finds embarrassing. By pure guts, determination, moral courage, Geary begins the process of making things right eventually ending the war, inspiring a revolution within the Syndic Worlds that begins to reform their corrupt system, returning the concept of honor to the fleet, beginning to restore their professionalism, starting to mend the distrust between politicians and the military, and justly earning that legendary reputation. And he gets the girl.
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A World Half Full / int_62f94c6	comment	The Dark Knight Trilogy. Gotham is a horrible city to live in with violent criminals, corruption everywhere, and it's on the verge of economic collapse. But throughout the trilogy, it's shown that one man can truly make a difference and the average person will strive to do the right thing at the end of the day.
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A World Half Full / int_650dd6b1	comment	Ruby Quest. The Metal Glen facility is infested with horrible zombie creatures that used to be patients, insanity is rampant, and the whole place is one huge puzzle. It's evil, crazy, and a whole lot of other horrible things, but there's one thing it's not: inescapable.
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A World Half Full / int_6735aef4	comment	Gundam AGE starts off as this. In spite of the Earth Federation being rotten and incompetent in handling the problem of the Ax-Crazy UE murdering colonies mercilessly, Flit Asuno and Grodek were dedicated to saving humanity from the UE's vile clutches and promoting peace and harmony. That is, until the Diva's crew realize that the UE are human soldiers for Veigan and Grodek shows that his true goal was revenge against the man who killed his family, not to save humanity. Worst of all, Flit Asuno refuses to accept that the Veigan soldiers are human and prefers to continue viewing himself as a savior... for the corrupt Earth Federation. And he's more than willing to take Veigan lives to become this. The war's only going to get worse from there...
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A World Half Full / int_68a8d1da	comment	The sequel follows up on the atomic destruction of the Dark Ones with rumours of a Sole Survivor baby Dark One and the need to destroy it to finish the job. The game follows up on the Bad Ending of the first game. Once again, Artyom can try to gain a better understanding of the world to finally communicate with the baby Dark One and learn of more Dark Ones hibernating in secret vaults in the metro, and they pull off a Big Damn Heroes at the Final Battle of the game, saving Artyom and the Rangers against overwhelming odds and promising to return one day to rebuild alongside humanity. According to Khan, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory were atomized by the apocalypse, and with no afterlife the restless ghosts must haunt the metro tunnels forever. However, it's implied that through spiritual atonement and striving to do better, things may improve.
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A World Half Full / int_69e44909	comment	American Cyborg: Steel Warrior: A nuclear war has rendered everybody infertile, and everybody is stuck in settlements controlled by AIs. Humanity is slowly circling the drain till extinction, and cyborgs working for the robot overlords enforce their totalitarian will. Also there's cannibal raiders. However, a resistance is burgeoning in Europe, and scientists have perfected artificial insemination.
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A World Half Full / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Quite a few Dungeons & Dragons settings: Ravenloft, often thought of as the Crapsack World of the game line, turned out to be a World Half Full. Yes, it's a hellish place, but because it's explicitly stated to be Gothic Horror, it is never "Evil triumphs." The game line ever since its 2nd Edition forms explicitly states evil is being punished and justice may be delayed, but it is not denied. Player characters are often the Spanner in the Works which can bring about that justice and make some small part of the world better. The 3rd Edition White Wolf version even digressed for a few pages about how in early Gothic Horror literature, evil may seem overwhelming, but there was always God or some cosmic force that saw it foiled and punished. Innocents would suffer, but the guilty were damned and would know it. Dark Sun is a Death World where the halflings will eat you, magic drains the world of its life, and having enough water to drink is a sign of power. Neutral characters are kind of the norm, but good characters frequently have the chance to affect some small change for the better. Players familiar with the Fallout series would understand. Forgotten Realms in its earliest incarnations fit this trope. The world had been ruled and toyed with by one species of Eldritch Abomination after another, and there were whole empires of twisted races as well as cruel empires. However, there were places like Cormyr and the Dales which were the proverbial candles in the dark, the good gods schemed as hard as the evil ones, and most adventures featured chances to save something of value. 4th Edition made it a lot darker, possibly pushing it straight into Crapsack World... then 5th Edition turned back the clock. Dragonlance has whole races of evil and orders of evil knights. The Big Good has to die to stop the Big Bad and the gods remove their support from mortals for a while. It's still a High Fantasy world where some hero has always stepped up in the Darkest Hour. Latter adaptations written by other writers tended to miss this element. Planescape has seven independent hells, each infinite, and seven heavens all of which are rather terrifying in their own way. Good is downright terrifying when it isn't pants-on-head stupid. The central City of Adventure is a dystopian blend of Charles Dickens and Dungeon Punk. Completely incompatible ideological groups have taken over vast aspects of public life and so are always a hair's breadth from civil war. Most of the planes are Death Worlds whose (mortal) inhabitants have come up with ways to survive the various demons and Eldritch Abominations. Yet in just the published adventures, players can cripple the demons and devils forever, prevent the return of a massive Big Bad (the trope-naming Orcus), and help free Sigil from its unending strife all before 12th level. The old granddad of the settings, Greyhawk, is another fine example. It's so full of evil forces that they tend to war amongst themselves and suffer Gambit Pileup, but the heroes' efforts can heal some of these woes and make a difference - at least to the extent of overthrowing a few tyrants and preventing a few demons from running amok. White Wolf's Scarred Lands setting. The entire world has been torn apart by a Divine Conflict between the Titans and their offspring, the Gods. Although the Gods won, much of the world remains devastated, and still overrun by the Titans' creations. Many of the new nations struggle constantly just to survive, Ghelspad is tormented by the seemingly unstoppable advance of the tyrannical Calastia nation, the Titans' remains corrupt the land, the dark gods scheme, and there are many horrors who owe allegiance to neither the Titans nor the Gods just waiting to be unleashed. And yet, the good gods are just as active as the evil ones, and for every source of evil in the setting, there are individuals and organizations ready to fight it. It's clear that even in places where evil is powerful, it is never unopposed. It's suggested that in the long run, the land can be healed, the titanspawn can be beaten and the divine races can prosper. Additionally, a trilogy of novels written for the setting ends with the resurrection of an important good-aligned demigod. Eberron. One continent is recovering from a major war that wasn't so much won as called off for fear of more nations being utterly destroyed by dead-grey mist, one is ruled by mind-controlling dream demons, most of the world is a succession of cans for sealing evil, Khorvaire is dominated by what amount to corporations so powerful it's unclear if the Five Nations can control them without the power of a united Galifar, and so on. Per Word of God, the universe has a bit of a metaphysical bias towards evil...but mortal will and mortal heroism can make up the difference, as shown by things like the sacrifice of Tira Miron to bind the Overlord Bel Shalor and create the Silver Flame. Indeed, the point of it being kind of sucky in so many ways is to give mortal heroes (read: player characters) a selection of evils to fight.
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A World Half Full / int_6c1d09b2	comment	Fallout 2: Each town has their own ending upon the hero defeating the Enclave. The best route of options to save the Wasteland will involve Modoc being able to feed the people surrounding them with the Slags, The Den becoming a tough-but-honest bar, turning New Reno into a center of education, Redding becoming a mining town with its own say in their affairs, and NCR and Vault 15 beginning their path to rebuild civilization. This is of course the most morally correct answer, and naturally screwing up is always possible in Fallout no matter what situation you are in.
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A World Half Full / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3, however, is a pure Crapsack World. You are raised in a Vault that has a despotic authority over its people, a hotel tower housing a snooty man who views the survivors of the Wasteland as entertainment, Ghouls who will use you left and right for their own aims, towns that condone slavery, and our favorite untrusted government remnant come back to purge the Wasteland of all mutation - which, at this point, is all life that isn't still locked up in a Vault. Yet in spite of that, you have a father who has an ambitious dream to bring water to the Wasteland ( it's a pity he gets killed for his dream), a radio station that preaches the hopes of the good fight and the freedom fighters who risk their safety to allow an outsider to free slaves, and for the first time in 200 years, a piece of sanctuary (Oasis) that won't get purged by the Enclave and hopefully not by you (compare that to Vault 13 in Fallout 2, where the last of the intelligent Deathclaws were killed off along with others). Arguably, the good ending of Fallout 3 fits pretty well with A World Half Full. Despite the player character's father and, without Broken Steel, the player character themselves getting killed, the Capital Wasteland finally has clean water dispersed to the masses, making life easier for everyone involved. The bad ending averts this and the world becomes even more crapsack as a result. If you choose to poison the same water supply by the request of President Eden, you doom everybody, including yourself. Also, there's Moira Brown, the cheery and at times naive scientist who outright states that the best way for humanity to survive is to move on from the past and try to pick up the shattered pieces back together. She also says that the world will never be the same as before, but that doesn't mean we can't make the world a better place.
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A World Half Full / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 continues the trend from New Vegas. Compared to D.C. in Fallout 3, the Commonwealth of Boston is much more hospitable. Pretty successful settlements have appeared, and while it is more barren than the Mojave Wasteland, filled with rampaging marauders and mutants, and less organized (at first), it's not a war zone like it was in D.C. In fact, one particular faction's main goal is to do exactly what the above description of this Trope describes: To slowly, but steadily rebuild settlements all over the Commonwealth and help them survive... And you can help them achieve this. While it'll suck time and resources like no other questchain in the game, the end result will be a wasteland slowly reaching the levels of civilization only previously seen in the NCR and New Vegas.
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A World Half Full / int_6dbe6646	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): A sadist Big Bad Dr. Robotnik takes over the world, turns most of it into polluted ruins, and captures innocents to turn them into robotic slaves, so the people pretty much struggle days in and out from being hunted. The show's premise is as much dark as what the early 90s Funny Animal shows can get. Then comes the heroes, who are bright and competent enough to screw the bad guy's plans continuously and spectacularly.
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A World Half Full / int_6e6c209c	comment	The world of the Reboot XCOM has had it rough. First, it was invaded, then taken over, and went through 20 years as Vichy Earth to Alien Overlords using Industrialized Evil to further their goals before it was liberated. Five years after liberation humanity and the alien invaders' alien slave races are attempting to rebuild the world. The world bears many scars from the biological and chemical weaponry used during the Alien Invasion and the subsequent 20 years, with detritus of the invasion and wars littering the ruins of pre-invasion civilisation and having left much of the world a Polluted Wasteland (There's even a non-virulent Zombie Apocalypse going on in what used to be major city centers) - but all isn't lost, and five years after the liberation, real progress is being made - humans and aliens show they can live together and rebuild, and while the transition hasn't been smooth, the world is recovering - in part because of all the futuristic technology that the invading aliens utilized.
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A World Half Full / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: War, genocide, death, a cast of Child Soldiers on both sides...but that just makes any success by the Gaang all the sweeter. The sequel to Avatar, The Legend of Korra definitely showed the results of their works. While crises like Equalists and Kuvira's attempt at conquering the United Republic do occur, the entire world has shown to have improved after Firelord Ozai and Azula were defeated with Zuko as the new Firelord. Unlike the original, the series' tone for the society showed technological advancement and improved living standards in a cosmopolitan city rather than a war-torn landscape. In contrast to harmony based on separations between four cultures before Hundred Year War, the world of Korra had been globalized to the point where multi-ethnic families had become a common sight in places like Republic City. While problems like income inequality and initial discrimination against non-benders do arise, the world of Korra had shown to be a paradise compared to Aang's world with the said issues being addressed later on.
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A World Half Full / int_72b0df53	comment	Punishing: Gray Raven is actually quite optimistic about human nature compared to other post-apocalyptic stories, choosing to portray the people of Babylonia and those on Earth as flawed but ultimately willing and able to make both pragmatic and moral choices, and whose soldiers are loyal and true to one another. The story also averts the status quo, choosing not to continually regress humanity's accomplishments to reclaim Earth, with every rediscovery and victory made contributing to the unfolding narrative. While the war continues to grind on, hope remains strong.
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A World Half Full / int_74c659e6	comment	Rocket Age is a surprisingly dark setting given the idealistic tone of the writing. Set in an alternate 1938, the great powers of Earth have conquered great swathes of the solar system while Earth itself is under constant threat of annihilation from the Europans, who have already done horrible, nearly genocidal things to two other species. Despite this, the moment you drop a group of player-controlled heroes into the mix, the dark gets pushed back very quickly.
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A World Half Full / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild takes place After the End: Hyrule's capital has been left in ruins, and Calamity Ganon is slowly regaining its power in Hyrule Castle. Nonetheless, there is a functioning society that persists in spite of the destruction Ganon wrought: towns and settlements dot Hyrule, and people seem to be getting by fairly well, even with the threat of Ganon looming over the realm. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the direct sequel to Breath of the Wild, opens with a Happy Ending Override. Demon King Ganondorf, the original source of Calamity Ganon, awakens from eons of being sealed in the Depths of Hyrule. He proceeds to cripple Link's arm, destroy the Master Sword, send Princess Zelda tumbling down a pit, raise Hyrule Castle into the air, and cause havoc in the four corners of the land. Yet Hyrule still comes across as better off than it was in the previous game, even taking into account the aforementioned catastrophe. Zelda has worked to reestablish a central government in Hyrule, squadrons of Hylian soldiers strive to fight back the monsters that once had free reign over the ruined kingdom, the Hudson Construction Company offers its services to rebuild civilization, and the various races of Hyrule more actively cooperate with each other.
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A World Half Full / int_76376304	comment	The first game, through great struggles, has the player end the threat of the Dark Ones with nuclear bombs, saving the metro as a whole. Except the Dark Ones aren't actually hostile and wish to understand humanity, but their Psychic Powers inevitably destroy the mind of those they come in contact with, with ArtyomÂ being the only known person resistant to their powers. By exploring the game world, acting charitably, avoiding killing as much as possible, and listening to what others have to say, you gain morality points, symbolizing a more spiritual quest for understanding that leads to the realization that the Dark Ones want peace, and aborting the missile launch at the last minute, thus unlocking the secret ending where Artyom contemplates the possibility of entering dialogue with the Dark Ones and how they can offer hope for the future.
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A World Half Full / int_76b8cb10	comment	Fallout. For a series of games set after a nuclear holocaust in the blasted, irradiated ruins of the U.S., infested with monsters and raiders and mutants and worse, it takes a surprisingly optimistic view of human nature and people's ability to stick together and make things better, especially taking the games' canon endings into account, where No Canon for the Wicked generally hold true. Fallout 2: Each town has their own ending upon the hero defeating the Enclave. The best route of options to save the Wasteland will involve Modoc being able to feed the people surrounding them with the Slags, The Den becoming a tough-but-honest bar, turning New Reno into a center of education, Redding becoming a mining town with its own say in their affairs, and NCR and Vault 15 beginning their path to rebuild civilization. This is of course the most morally correct answer, and naturally screwing up is always possible in Fallout no matter what situation you are in. Fallout 3, however, is a pure Crapsack World. You are raised in a Vault that has a despotic authority over its people, a hotel tower housing a snooty man who views the survivors of the Wasteland as entertainment, Ghouls who will use you left and right for their own aims, towns that condone slavery, and our favorite untrusted government remnant come back to purge the Wasteland of all mutation - which, at this point, is all life that isn't still locked up in a Vault. Yet in spite of that, you have a father who has an ambitious dream to bring water to the Wasteland ( it's a pity he gets killed for his dream), a radio station that preaches the hopes of the good fight and the freedom fighters who risk their safety to allow an outsider to free slaves, and for the first time in 200 years, a piece of sanctuary (Oasis) that won't get purged by the Enclave and hopefully not by you (compare that to Vault 13 in Fallout 2, where the last of the intelligent Deathclaws were killed off along with others). Arguably, the good ending of Fallout 3 fits pretty well with A World Half Full. Despite the player character's father and, without Broken Steel, the player character themselves getting killed, the Capital Wasteland finally has clean water dispersed to the masses, making life easier for everyone involved. The bad ending averts this and the world becomes even more crapsack as a result. If you choose to poison the same water supply by the request of President Eden, you doom everybody, including yourself. Also, there's Moira Brown, the cheery and at times naive scientist who outright states that the best way for humanity to survive is to move on from the past and try to pick up the shattered pieces back together. She also says that the world will never be the same as before, but that doesn't mean we can't make the world a better place. Fallout: New Vegas depicts a world in the Southwest that is steadily recovering and may not be that bad to live in. In the Mojave Wasteland, you'll find functional civilizations every several miles, working electricity and plumbing, food and fresh water that won't give you a dose of rads with every bite, and even green trees and plants appear. Also the Mojave Wasteland is set in between NCR and Caesar's Legion, both of which are implied to be bigger and more well-populated than the Mojave. The Lonesome Road DLC has this at its end. Ulysses wants to rain destruction on everything because he thinks the Bear (NCR) is diseased, the Bull (Caesar's Legion) will feed on itself, and Vegas has too many ghosts of the past to ever let go. You can however convince him that the world can be saved and civilization built anew - after all, you did it before. Fallout 4 continues the trend from New Vegas. Compared to D.C. in Fallout 3, the Commonwealth of Boston is much more hospitable. Pretty successful settlements have appeared, and while it is more barren than the Mojave Wasteland, filled with rampaging marauders and mutants, and less organized (at first), it's not a war zone like it was in D.C. In fact, one particular faction's main goal is to do exactly what the above description of this Trope describes: To slowly, but steadily rebuild settlements all over the Commonwealth and help them survive... And you can help them achieve this. While it'll suck time and resources like no other questchain in the game, the end result will be a wasteland slowly reaching the levels of civilization only previously seen in the NCR and New Vegas.
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A World Half Full / int_76c01b30	comment	V for Vendetta: Britain is a harsh, oppressive dictatorship, ruled by the fascist-in-anything-but-name Norsefire Party after World War III. However, it gets better thanks to V and Evey... likely. (In the 2006 film version, more likely.)
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A World Half Full / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms in its earliest incarnations fit this trope. The world had been ruled and toyed with by one species of Eldritch Abomination after another, and there were whole empires of twisted races as well as cruel empires. However, there were places like Cormyr and the Dales which were the proverbial candles in the dark, the good gods schemed as hard as the evil ones, and most adventures featured chances to save something of value. 4th Edition made it a lot darker, possibly pushing it straight into Crapsack World... then 5th Edition turned back the clock.
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A World Half Full / int_78fe4d55	comment	Promethean: The Created: You are a monster. Your existence is pain. And if you're playing the game as it's meant to be played, you will grow past all of that, past the slings and arrows of misfortune, To Become Human, and know the fruits of the soul.
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A World Half Full / int_7988cb68	comment	The Milky Way in Mass Effect is a dangerous and brutal place to live. Filled with monstrous aliens, pirate fleets, amoral mercenaries, and cruel slavers, with the largest civilized government hamstrung by red tape and millennia of tradition and unwillingness to budge, an entire species has been driven from their homeworld and is locked in a 300-year-long Hopeless War with their mechanical creations, and every 50,000-odd years, all technologically advanced sapient life is purged and consumed by Eldritch Abominations. Yet in spite of this, one person can make an incredible difference, galactic peace can be attained, pirates can be brought to justice, slaves can be freed, the aforementioned Hopeless War between the exiled species and their creations can be negotiated to a possible reconciliation, and you can punch out Cthulhu. Stopping the Reapers takes immense sacrifice, but provided you didn't fail to sufficiently unite the galaxy, the overall picture is hopeful: Galactic civilization survived and is already rebuilding, potentially with the aid of the Reapers or the evolution from Synthesis.note This is with the Extended Cut changes. The controversy over the original endings was due in part to their much bleaker tone. Even in the Refusal ending, the cycle of destruction is eventually stopped, in part thanks to what Shepard and their allies did in their cycle and the crucial information they made sure to leave behind. Looking at Paragon versus Renegade effects on the galaxy, when Shepard goes Renegade, it's darker and more of a Crapsack Galaxy, but the Paragon route is immensely idealistic. A Paragon Shepard is constantly appealing to people's better natures, urging them to forget their bad blood, giving second and third chances, extensively helping people in exchange for promises and trusting that they will do as they've promised... and almost every time, it works. There are maybe four or five points in the whole crowded, sprawling trilogy where a hard-working Paragon Shepard's trust and faith are betrayed. Everyone else, to paraphrase King Jonathan - "If you keep faith with me, I will keep faith with you."
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A World Half Full / int_7a22e4e9	comment	The default assumptions of Ironsworn: Starforged, on one hand, is that it's set in a future that's perilous, lonely, and unjust. On the other end, it's "a hopeful future," with that hope fulfilled through the vows that the players and other Ironsworn forge.
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A World Half Full / int_7af252ef	comment	For All Mankind — an Alternate History series in which the Soviets beat NASA to the Moon and The Space Race continued into the '90s — doesn't shy away from depicting the realpolitik that went on during the Cold War on both sides, and the racial divisions, gender politics, and homophobia of the era are very much Played for Drama. Despite this, the series takes a mostly optimistic, hopeful view of things, presenting space travel as a grand adventure that forces cooperation even in the face of rivalries or bigotry, and one that can help to drive positive change on Earth. And while the series mostly focuses on NASA's side of the story, the Soviet Union's own space program is generally treated as the Hero of Another Story rather than a malevolent antagonist.
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A World Half Full / int_7f49dfdb	comment	Devil Survivor also qualifies. God is actually good and will accept whatever future you build, even if you mess up big time! That's right. God basically trusts you to govern the entire planet, in spite of all the horrible things human beings are capable of. Then it's revealed in Overclocked that he is responsible for the Cain and Abel happening because he wanted a Martyr and Murderer while also wanting Cain to atone to him when he manipulated him into killing the brother he loved. He's perfectly willing to have his Angels threaten to murder innocents in order to get them to attack the Overlord as well, or just giving up cause humanity won't do what he wants and leave for good.
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A World Half Full / int_816181cb	comment	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: In the first five paragraphs of the novel, the great Kansas prairies is established as a place where the sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. The house, Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had been made as gray as the prairie by the unforgiving sun, they never laughed, and they lived in a house with only a room, in Perpetual Poverty. However, It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose. Toto played all day long, and Dorothy played with him, and loved him dearly.. Itâ€™s those words that transform Kansas from a Crapsack World into A World Half Full, and that establish the true reason Dorothy needs to return to Kansas: She is the only thing between two persons and despair. This idea, that the only thing human beings truly need is each other (or a dog) is the Central Theme of the book.
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A World Half Full / int_81692f99	comment	While the Star Trek universe is famously idealistic and hopeful, it's been made increasingly clear in more modern entries to the franchise (particularly First Contact and Picard) that this status quo is a major case of Earn Your Happy Ending. In the 21st century, hundreds of millions of people died in the Eugenics Wars and World War III, and by all accounts, the Earth had already declined into an apathetic Crapsack World by that point. It took decades of blood, sweat, and tears for the survivors to turn things around and rebuild human civilization After the End. But rebuild they did, and the whole galaxy is grateful for it. When humanity entered the galactic stage in 2151, as seen in Enterprise, the political landscape was dominated by a centuries-long Space Cold War between the Vulcans, the Andorians, and the Tellarites, and more active threats like the Klingons, the Suliban, and the Xindi operated with impunity. But Humans Are Diplomats, and once Earth established itself they were able to negotiate an end to these hostilities one by one, culminating in a coalition against the Romulan Star Empire and the formation of The Federation in 2161. And more often than not, it was one ship (the titular Enterprise NX-01) and her crew that made all the difference.
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A World Half Full / int_841e72e9	comment	A Man of Iron: As Tony said in his suit-up montage, Westeros has become a terrible hell hole with the apathetic lords and the supernatural evils growing in the world. But into this world, another force is rising. A world of heroes. Those who care about the smallfolk, the realm, honor, and making the best of their lots in life. So yes, it might be hard to save Westeros and Essos, but at the very least, they will all avenge the victims.
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A World Half Full / int_864a7357	comment	Surprisingly, Total War: Warhammer has this feel. Yes, you are in a world where there are vampires, hordes of marauding goblins and orcs, torture happy elves, slaughtering rat men, and literal daemons who want to kill you, to say nothing of how much Humans Are Bastards is in effect, but despite all this, there's plenty of hope left in this world, and if you choose to play as one of the order factions, you can make the world a better place. Notably, the Apocalypse that destroyed the Warhammer World? Not only can you stop it, but doing so is required for some factions. Total War: Warhammer III takes this even further, with two of the human nations deciding they've had enough and making expeditions into the Chaos Wastes to take the fight to the Dark Gods themselves. Let me say that again: The Forces of Order are Invading Hell!
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A World Half Full / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius presents a world half-full Played for Laughs. Mad Scientist overlords rampage through a Europe that now consists mostly of monster-haunted wilderness: walled and well-armed city-states compete to overthrow their neighbors. Within living memory the Baron's Pax Transylvania - a tense forced truce - is the closest thing anybody has known to peace. The Heterodyne Boys were hailed as Big Damn Heroes not because they ended the Long War or anything grand like that, but because they worked relentlessly to save the day, over and over, for whoever was in peril. The protagonist Agatha is eager to follow in her father and uncle's footsteps, but there have been many, many, many complications.
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A World Half Full / int_88383ee7	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) fanfic build your wings on the way down Edward thought the military was a horrible place where alchemy is abused to its darkest uses and the likes of Shou Tucker are condoned. Only to find that the military does have some good people in it like Maes Hughes or Roy Mustang who oppose such actions and he does manage to save Nina and reverse her chimera transformation.
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A World Half Full / int_88b580f0	comment	Werewolf: The Apocalypse: When the eponymous Apocalypse rolls around, the grey guys will probably lose to the black. But probably =/= definitely.
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A World Half Full / int_89f3fbc6	comment	Godzilla Minus One: Post-War Japan has been reduced to a Scavenger World, and Godzilla's arrival only makes things even worse, bringing the country down from zero to minus. Yet the protagonists still try to rebuild their lives, their homes, and their entire nation; the survivors of the war pull together, and Dr. Noda vows that their country will not repeat the mistakes of Imperial Japan.
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A World Half Full / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Gundam X was all about this, taking place After the End. We would expect a Mad Max or Fist of the North Star world where the entire earth was an unsafe place where slavers took anyone they like, Raider left behind huge examples of their brutality and the government purging and reclaiming what is theirs. Instead, humanity continues to move on. The world isn't some sort of badly irradiated earth despite its share of Colony Drop and humanity has begun its path towards civilization. Sure, we got a few hiccups like the Frost Brothers and remnant of Earth and Space's army wanting to continue the war. But the setting is notably light for a supposedly Crapsack World. Gundam 00 and Gundam SEED are also like this. This is the reason that, respectively, Marina Ismail & Celestial Being and Lacus Clyne & the Three-Ship Alliance are here, to make sure their worlds don't become true crapsack ones. Gundam AGE starts off as this. In spite of the Earth Federation being rotten and incompetent in handling the problem of the Ax-Crazy UE murdering colonies mercilessly, Flit Asuno and Grodek were dedicated to saving humanity from the UE's vile clutches and promoting peace and harmony. That is, until the Diva's crew realize that the UE are human soldiers for Veigan and Grodek shows that his true goal was revenge against the man who killed his family, not to save humanity. Worst of all, Flit Asuno refuses to accept that the Veigan soldiers are human and prefers to continue viewing himself as a savior... for the corrupt Earth Federation. And he's more than willing to take Veigan lives to become this. The war's only going to get worse from there... G Gundam, once Domon finds out just how the Gundam Fights have destroyed Earth and the Devil Gundam's true programming and Master Asia's intentions. He finds out that everyone he thought was a villain was really trying to restore Earth and protect it from the real bad guys.
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A World Half Full / int_8bd22b6a	comment	The Schlockniverse is a vast, dangerous, weird place, full of hostile alien races, tin-pot dictators ruling backwater colonies, and a central Human government so corrupt that plutocracy is actually an integral institution in its proper function. And then there are Rogue AIs, Mad Scientists, and Eldritch Abominations to deal with to boot. And yet, there are good people to be found in the most unlikely places, and they always try to do the right thing. Our protagonists are nominally mercenaries and do nasty things for money, but they're fiercely loyal to each other and always strive to do those nasty things for the right - or at least, the least morally objectionable - reasons. They have made powerful friends and allies who do want to make the galaxy a better place, including a functionally immortal race who want to share their gifts with everyone, and one of those Rogue A.I.s who has ascended to godhood and is doing his best to protect the galaxy from the monsters from beyond.
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A World Half Full / int_8d7e861e	comment	GARO: Horrors will still arise and plague humanity on a weekly basis, but at least the heroes managed to defeat one major menace.
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A World Half Full / int_8e93a13d	comment	Phantasy Star series: Phantasy Star II is known more for a dark interpretation of the plot, where you destroy your homeland's AI to prevent it from prolonging the False Utopia, and less known for being a tale that runs on strict Black-and-White Morality. Your quest is to prevent a series of immediate disasters, which is ultimately for Algo system's greater good. The known bystanders never stop supporting you, and the only parties that oppose you are berserk biomonsters and robots and Obviously Evil human aliens. Phantasy Star IV takes place After the End on a desert planet, a typical setup of an angsty tale, but turns out to play the heroic anime tropes straighter than ever. It is the most hilarious and lighthearted game of the entire franchise.
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A World Half Full / int_8eda89ef	comment	Darker than Black is a Darker and Edgier deconstruction of superhumans, whose protagonist is a mass-murdering assassin who's basically just working for The Syndicate for lack of other options. The world is full of superpowered sociopaths, and the governmental agencies and criminal groups that employ them are locked in a pretty much constant underground struggle to control both the Contractors and the Imported Alien Phlebotinum from the Gate. Nevertheless, over the course of the show, it becomes clear that Contractors can have feelings and morals, and that it's possible for things to improve; several mini-arcs end relatively happily, and in the end Hei manages to Take a Third Option when forced to choose between allowing a genocide of all Contractors and wiping Japan off the map, and the end of the first season shows that the broken Masquerade will help prevent rogue Contractors from running wild. Still a Bittersweet Ending, and things haven't improved too much by the second season, but there's hope.
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A World Half Full / int_91bfc484	comment	For those who place the ultra-dark, ultra-depressing The Road on the idealistic end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism, the characters of the novel move the world to this category. The victories they win are small and moral in nature, and tend to be along the lines of "not eating people." But the strength of spirit in the two protagonists is enough to keep a spark of genuine humanity alive.
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A World Half Full / int_91e55472	comment	Total War: Warhammer III takes this even further, with two of the human nations deciding they've had enough and making expeditions into the Chaos Wastes to take the fight to the Dark Gods themselves. Let me say that again: The Forces of Order are Invading Hell!
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A World Half Full / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Dishonored: The world becomes this in the Good Ending. Evil men are brought to justice, your name is cleared, Emily is put on the throne, the plague is cured, and the nation enters what the Outsider calls a "Golden Age." The city's still half-overrun with zombies and there is still a Cosmic Horror Story going on in the universe at large, but you've made your corner of existence just a little bit brighter.
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A World Half Full / int_9994a14f	comment	WALLâ€¢E: The eponymous character's job is to clean up the Earth so people can live there again. It gets delayed a bit. The Humans aboard the Axiom are a better example, even if it's done for comedy. WALLâ€¢E is just following his Directive, the Captain making the decision to return to Earth is this trope. The film ends without directly answering whether the Earth can actually sustain life, although the credits show the restoration was successful.
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A World Half Full / int_9ddb7233	comment	The Maze Runner series features an After the End world in which everyone, sans a few hundred, are susceptible to a virus that breaks their mind while they undergo a slow death. To find a cure, some scientists put a few dozen teenagers who are immune to the virus so they can study their genes, while the outer world continues to crumble. At the end, it's certain that all of these experiments are very much egotistical, uncaring, and ultimately a futile one, and the elders, instead of continuing to torture these immune youngsters, have to entrust the Earth to them.
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A World Half Full / int_9e3b12d2	comment	The backstory of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door shows that the Shadow Queen gained power by extinguishing Hope as a concept with a dark curse of Despair, and further goes into detail with the Three Heroes, a small group who, a thousand years ago rekindled a small mote of Hope that grew into a blazing fire. In the present day, the Queen seeks to extinguish it completely and gain complete freedom, only to start the process all over again.
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A World Half Full / int_a03824e8	comment	The DC Universe and Marvel Universe (the mainstream ones anyway) arguably fit this description. Both of them are full of terrible beasts from beyond the veil, ruthless alien conquerors, cunning and vicious demons out for souls and blood, charismatic and savvy villains who look cool even when they make life worse for everybody else, masters of dark magic, scientists with absolutely no regard for ethics or safety, insane and insanely powerful machine gods, multiple crime syndicates with access to any combination of the above, and plenty of good ol' fashioned human evil. But even at their lowest points, the heroes of both universes never stop fighting evil, the occasional Heroic BSoD aside. And despite the prevailing All of the Other Reindeer attitude the people of both universes (especially Marvel) display most of the time, plenty of people (not just humans) are decent enough to justify the heroes' efforts to defend them. A brief dialogue from Superman: The Animated Series sums it up (paraphrased): Both universes (especially the DC universe) are subversions though: the people are totally happy and just as well-off (if not even more so, considering their excellent role models/guardians and superior technology and possibilities) as people are in Real Life because they've been dealing with that sort of thing on an everyday basis for decades, and don't consider the danger and destruction to be anything out of the ordinary, nor does this Seen It All mentality make them cynical or depressed. Arguably, from the point of view of mutants if nothing else, the future the X-Man Bishop came from would be a World Half Full contrasted against the Crapsack World future of Days of Future Past. Both look like post-apocalyptic urban hellscapes whenever we see them, but Bishop's future features a mutant police force trying to put the world back together while Days of Future Past has mutants hunted almost to extinction. DC: The New Frontier plays this idea to the hilt. The world the series occupies has all the problems our world did in the late 50s and early 60s: the aftermath of the Korean War, the legalized segregation of the American South, the Red Scare, and so on. Over the course of the story, quite a few characters die and holes are repeatedly punched into the society they uphold. Yet the heroes of the book, though troubled, are no less heroic than they were in the Silver Age, and the ending is unambiguously happy and hopeful.
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A World Half Full / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: It's legal to eat human meat, but protecting the environment is a crime, Richard Nixon is once again president, and this time of the entire world, suicide booths are commonplace, the world's military is controlled by an incompetent, amoral, womanizing buffoon, there is no ozone layer, and crack is readily available in vending machines. However, several episodes show that the planet's inhabitants can band together and make significant and positive changes, such as "Proposition Infinity", "Crimes of the Hot", and "The Mutants are Revolting".
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A World Half Full / int_a2c37f38	comment	Planescape: Torment: Sigil is filled with criminals and poverty, the multiverse is a dangerous place where bad things happen to good people, and the protagonist deserves to die for his crimes. But the overwhelming majority of characters are simply good people in desperate situations, and the game is famous for allowing multiple ways to resolve conflict- often before conflict even occurs. There are still happy families, freedom of expression, genuine heroism, and wondrous art- just less of these things.
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A World Half Full / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: A third of the world is ruled by an insane Straw Nihilist. Another third is ruled by the corrupt advisors of a pre-teen child empress. They are locked into a state of perpetual war, while we never see the other third. The hero is an incredibly flawed, cynical teenager who pursues justice via morally questionable acts with frightening regularity, and the most idealistic character in the series is a self-deluded Knight Templar who is complicit in genocide. However, the ending does provide some measure of hope that things will get better, with most of the surviving characters shown to be relatively happy, although it's a Bittersweet Ending for all of the major protagonists.
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A World Half Full / int_a6492af2	comment	In The Stand, almost everyone on the planet dies, including the main characters, yet it has a happy ending, and the planet got better in the absence of all those humans. As for the survivors, they find hope in humanity's continued survival with the birth of Peter, and his immunity to the Superflu. In a sense, any ending survival or not is preferable to the consequences of Flagg's victory, which is heavily implied (and, if The Stand is looked at as a prequel to The Dark Tower, confirmed) to be Cessation of Existence. After all, a world in tatters is at least a world that still exists.
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A World Half Full / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering preaches that while some characters and planes are doomed to being Killed Off for Real or to be overturned into a Crapsack World, a glimmer of hope in the form of small victories exists to show that The Multiverse has a fighting chance to whatever awaits it.
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A World Half Full / int_a892109f	comment	The Whoniverse, composed of the series Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, could probably be best described as this. On one hand, you have the Torchwood crew, who at best are able to fight aliens and threats, but find themselves weak when having to fight injustices committed by their own governments. On the other hand, you've got characters like the Doctor who swoop in and save the day- but can't (or don't) remain to help deal with the fallout. And on the more idealistic end, you have Sarah Jane and her gang, who save the world from their attic without needing to use weapons. In the end, the show is about people, as a whole, deciding to do what's right- whether that's fighting for Ood rights, overcoming corrupt governments, making peace between two races, or something else entirely. While the Doctor can save the day, it's up to the 'normal' people to keep it safe. And, most of the time, they do a pretty good job.
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A World Half Full / int_a949e666	comment	Elysium: Max's Heroic Sacrifice grants everyone on Earth citizenry of Elysium, and Med-Pods are flown out to Earth, providing everyone proper and adequate enough health care service.
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A World Half Full / int_a993be1f	comment	The Light Side path of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is this. Despite how, in the main plot, Kreia is pretty much manipulating everyone all the time, the Exile's actions throughout the Galaxy can drastically improve life for both individuals and for entire planets (though, this being an Obsidian game, a lot of the 'good' decisions can end up having sizable downsides as well).
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A World Half Full / int_a9cb14fc	comment	Ravenloft, often thought of as the Crapsack World of the game line, turned out to be a World Half Full. Yes, it's a hellish place, but because it's explicitly stated to be Gothic Horror, it is never "Evil triumphs." The game line ever since its 2nd Edition forms explicitly states evil is being punished and justice may be delayed, but it is not denied. Player characters are often the Spanner in the Works which can bring about that justice and make some small part of the world better. The 3rd Edition White Wolf version even digressed for a few pages about how in early Gothic Horror literature, evil may seem overwhelming, but there was always God or some cosmic force that saw it foiled and punished. Innocents would suffer, but the guilty were damned and would know it.
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A World Half Full / int_aa954170	comment	Gundam X was all about this, taking place After the End. We would expect a Mad Max or Fist of the North Star world where the entire earth was an unsafe place where slavers took anyone they like, Raider left behind huge examples of their brutality and the government purging and reclaiming what is theirs. Instead, humanity continues to move on. The world isn't some sort of badly irradiated earth despite its share of Colony Drop and humanity has begun its path towards civilization. Sure, we got a few hiccups like the Frost Brothers and remnant of Earth and Space's army wanting to continue the war. But the setting is notably light for a supposedly Crapsack World.
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A World Half Full / int_aabf6d1d	comment	With the use of in-game commentary, Darkest Dungeon relieves the stress of the player by giving a certain amount of flair to every victory (and some retreats) to give hope that they will prevail in a Random Number God-based Nintendo Hard game. The more you upgrade the town of Hamlet, the more that the game notes that its inhabitants are given hope for the first time. The ending plays with this trope, if not outright subverting it. Then again, there is The Light, the deity worshipped by characters like the Vestal and the Crusader. Religious characters regularly perform miracles, holy water is actually holy, and the Crusader even deals more damage to the undead. The Light is definitely a real power in the world, and it is opposed to the Heart. Word of God states that the Light is humanity's combined faith in good, justice, and the Divine. Humanity lived in a world without God, so they made one.
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A World Half Full / int_ac18cb12	comment	Baroque is set in an After the End world where humanity has been reduced to a handful of mutated freaks whose forms are based on their own individual psychoses. At the end, you don't fix the world. But you do make it so that the world has a chance.
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A World Half Full / int_ac8b90f5	comment	Unfortunately for Mage: The Ascension and Changeling: The Dreaming, they appeared at a time when faux despair as an excuse to play barbaric PCs was what most players wanted from a WoD campaign.
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A World Half Full / int_aca7b22d	comment	Surprisingly, The Amazing World of Gumball often leans towards this, with its bright and wacky cartoon world often proven to be a lot more cynical, harsh, unfair, and even downright cruel than it would appear on the surface, but never entirely bleak or hopeless. The Wattersons are a heavily flawed and dysfunctional family, but they still love each other. Most people have serious issues that can make life hell for those around them, but with few exceptions, they are still decent people at heart. Things rarely work out too well for the characters, but they can still Earn Their Happy Ending, even if it's still not perfect. Probably best shown in "The Faith", when Alan, the biggest Nice Guy and most optimistic character in all of Elmore, loses his faith in the world and quits doing everything he can to help others, literally causing the world to start to lose its color in the process, until Gumball and Darwin sing him a song that starts out about all the things for him to be pessimistic about and how hard it can be to look towards the future with any optimism with the world in such a miserable state and little to suggest things will get better anytime soon, which unsurprisingly, only makes Alan feel worse, leading into this moment:
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A World Half Full / int_ad6a095e	comment	Fan-made Princess: The Hopeful is all about this trope. The Princesses are trying to be genuine heroes and make their Crapsack World a better place. It's an uphill struggle, to say the least, but they refuse to give up, and the whole point of the game is about proving it's still possible.
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A World Half Full / int_af29aaec	comment	Jessica Darling tends to conclude that she lives in a world like this, at least during the end of each book when she's calmed down from whatever drama it was about. Life Isn't Fair, death is at once inevitable and random, nothing ever goes as planned and nothing quite lives up to the hype. At the same time, supposed disasters usually turn out to not be as disastrous as all that, people frequently turn out to have unexpected redeeming features, and there's some fun to be had in between the bummers.
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A World Half Full / int_b06c754e	comment	The world of JAGS Wonderland has a lower plane of reality called Wonderland that is divided into layers called chessboards, with reality getting more and more warped the further you go. People all over the world randomly fall into Wonderland and itâ€™s full of eldritch abominations who want to drag all of humanity down into Wonderland. However, it is a mathematically proven inevitably that humanity will one day fight their way down to the lowest chessboard and destroy Wonderland, at which point they will become the true masters of everything and nothing.
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A World Half Full / int_b27fdd6d	comment	Over the course of Catch-22, the entire supporting cast dies meaningless deaths, scheming bureaucrats sacrifice lives like pawns in chess while incompetent commanders vie to outdo one another in how many casualties they can rack up, and the only person who has the balls to do anything about it is a self-confessed madman. But at the end, the protagonist has the following revelation: his superiors are literally too incompetent to stop him from deserting, meaning that he could have left anytime he wanted to; the only thing stopping him was his own inaction. He does so, and the story is given at least some semblance of a Happy Ending.
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A World Half Full / int_b39f5bf3	comment	In After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America, the former United States are doing reasonably well seven centuries after the Event. Either the Unspecified Apocalypse didn't seriously harm the environment, or it's recovered; the land is fertile enough to support medieval-level civilizations and, Video Game Cruelty Potential aside, the world seems to be heading towards a renaissance.
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A World Half Full / int_b40c60f6	comment	The final issue of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel) has Snake-Eyes write a letter to an acquaintance who asks him about joining the military. After laying out numerous horror stories about war and the treatment of veterans, Snake-Eyes says that he had no regrets about serving his country or fighting alongside the other members of Joe.
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A World Half Full / int_b8afa5db	comment	Tower of Babel takes place in the Crapsack World of NieR, but the main characters are determined to fix things. The solution they find is nowhere near perfect, but it is a solution and it does prevent the End of the World.
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A World Half Full / int_b9821fa9	comment	By the ending of The Dark Crystal the Crystal is healed, the urSkeks are restored and the land becomes green and good again, but the Gelfling race is still all but extinct with seemingly only two left, not to mention the decimation of the Podling racenote well, not really, since there are shots of the zombie Podlings being restored by the healing of the Crystal. There's a feeling that while things are much better, they aren't as good as the time before all the strife began; much like the scarring of Mordor and its surrounding lands in The Lord of the Rings, the mistakes of the urSkeks and the evils of the Skeksis can never be completely undone.
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A World Half Full / int_ba45ed89	comment	Things are actually worse at the end of Terminal World than at the beginning, but the characters now know not only how to fix things, but also how to make the whole world better than before. It's a very long road, but they've taken the first steps.
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A World Half Full / int_baf3bcd7	comment	Promethean took after Wraith: The Oblivion: as a wraith, you're faced with enemies within and without, the perpetual danger - and temptation - of falling to the dark side, or simply ceasing to exist altogether... but there is a way out. If you can hold on, if you can resolve everything anchoring you to the world, if you can come to terms with your inner darkness, then maybe you can Transcend.
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A World Half Full / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 is a heavily downplayed example of this: It is set in a Crapsack Galaxy. A galaxy where it is entirely justified to be an Absolute Xenophobe because, yes, everyone that isn't your own kind is absolutely out for their own gains - and often not even your own kind is safe. It is a galaxy where billions of people of all kinds of species are fed to the Forever War daily, feeding a God of Evil - and any hope for change inevitably feeds a different God of Evil whose schemes work to ensure that everything stays in this horrible nightmare forever. But while the galaxy as a whole is thoroughly fucked barring some Reality Warper intervention of the highest degreenote Which isn't out of the question given the kind of setting it is, there are a lot of worlds that aren't irreversibly screwed. The galaxy is a big place, and while a single mortal cannot make a difference on the galaxy as a whole, they can affect change locally. Perhaps the largest contrast between Warhammer 40,000 and its fantasy counterpart is that despite being arguably a far worse place to live in as a whole, it's hinted that the 40k universe still has a chance at reaching a non-terrible ending. Somehow. The 8th Edition of the game is shaping up to be this trope. While the Chaos has succeeded in breaching the Cadian Gate, which the fortress world of Cadia exploded from the destruction of its pylons keeping the Chaos at bay, and caused larger numbers of warp storms that eventually formed itself as The Great Rift, Roboute Guilliman woke up and held the Imperium with the assistance of Eldar under an uneasy alliance. Much to Guilliman's disgust over the current state of the Imperium, he set out to reform by having Bellisarius Cawl innovate without obstructions and reorganize the obstructive High Lords of Terra. Though he left the Ecclesiarchy alone out of pragmatism, he made sure that much of its worst aspects are controlled. Unlike his "father", the Emperor of Mankind, Guilliman is shown to care for individual humans without any form of callous nature or disconnection
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A World Half Full / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer is very much like this, if you ignore the fact that it's already doomed. The world is threatened constantly by all kinds of dark forces - Daemons, the Warriors of Chaos gathering in the north, the machinations of Vampires and Necromancers, Dark Elf slavers, the Skaven burrowing beneath the earth, and corrupt cultists within civilized society. But it's also a world full of heroes, with hope for better days, and they sure as hell aren't going to go down without a fight. The history of the Warhammer World is riddled with great heroes turning back the tide: Lord Kroak fought off the daemons for a thousand years at the dawn of history. Caledor's great vortex drained away the world's raw magic and saved it from destruction. Sigmar founded an Empire, and Karl Franz leads it into a new age of progress and prosperity. Tyrion and Teclis turned back the Dark Elves on Finuval Plain and taught the ways of magic to men to aid in their defence against the ruinous powers.
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A World Half Full / int_c0fa6de5	comment	Warhammer Fantasy Divided Loyalties: Taking place many years before "canon" Warhammer Fantasy, Sylvania has been largely conquered by the Empire and with the reconquest of Karak Eight Peaks, reconnecting of Karak Azul, and return of Karak Vlag, the Karaz Ankor is the strongest its been since the Great War Against Chaos. The world is still a place of great danger and evil, and by Word of God the Gods of Chaos are in the process of determining who will be their 13th Everchosen, canonically won by Archaon, but every little bit helps. Perhaps the greatest impact so far, however, has been the fact that the success of Eight Peaks, Azul, and Vlag have broken Thorgrimm Grudgebearer out of his belief that the Karaz Ankor is doomed to fall, and given him hope for the future.
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A World Half Full / int_c13792a1	comment	God of War III is this at the end. The world has gone straight to hell due to Kratos killing damn near every Olympian there is. However, Kratos, in one of his rare acts of selflessness, decides in the end to restore Hope back to the world by sacrificing himself rather than simply handing the power back to Athena. It's still more like "A World Millionth Full", though, when you consider just how many people and creatures he killed For the Evulz.
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A World Half Full / int_c399cd39	comment	Eclipse Phase: Extinction is approaching. Fight it.
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A World Half Full / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has a downplayed version in "The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone". Griffonstone is a miserable and depressing place full of cynical inhabitants. The heroes can't just find a MacGuffin to create one big revelation about The Power of Friendship and convince everyone to be better (though one of them tries to do just this). Instead, what they end up doing is getting through to one of the griffons and planting a seed of hope with potential to grow. Oh, and advising her to use baking soda so that there are non-horrible cupcakes available. Every little bit helps.
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A World Half Full / int_c6dbe98e	comment	Monster is a bleak world where lots of violence and death happen. The villain, Johan, is a heavy contender for the most evil bastard ever written into existence. But it's shown that he and his supporters are the exception. Most of the people in the series are decent to really good people who just want to help others succeed or atone for past misdeeds. And those who go through horrific trauma can put the pieces back together and enjoy life. It's never too late to start anew. Accentuated by Nina who after the terrible things she goes through and coming so close to suicide goes on to live a normal and happy life afterwards.
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A World Half Full / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex, depending on your personal beliefs, any of the endings can fall under this. The endings of Deus Ex: Invisible War, the Helios endings has the minds of humanity united in one electronic link providing a perfect democracy. Or Illuminati wins and their vision of a perfect world really does work. In the Omar ending, everyone is wiped out but the Omar survive and are able to rebuild humanity their way. As for the Templars, all biomodificatons are purged, and they rule the world in a new Theocracy.
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A World Half Full / int_c8353ba1	comment	Snow White and Seven Dwarfs takes place in a post-apocalyptic Japan run by a dictatorship government, leaving most of its people in despair and without hope for a better future. That said, you can bet the heroes—either people who haven't given up or who regain faith—work like hell to earn their 'happily ever after.' While Tokyo is still in shambles by the end, the worst is over and it's rebuilding from there on.
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A World Half Full / int_c984bdb	comment	Midgar and the Planet by the end of The Fifth Act. Yes, Shinra still controls the world and is draining the Lifestream. But the terrible tragedy and huge death tolls from Meteor, Geostigma, and Deepground never happened, Midgar isn't as bad as Cloud remembers it, Wutai retains a large amount of its autonomy and there's plenty of high-ranking employees willing to change Shinra. As Aerith says "The Planet's stronger than you think."
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A World Half Full / int_cd9ec312	comment	House of the Scorpion: The United States and Mexico are both Crapsack World societies, but Matt, now in charge of the nation of Opium, may be able to right many of the problems that have befallen them.
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A World Half Full / int_ce2cf80	comment	The Arts of Dark and Light and its world Selenoth can often seem fairly grim, due to the series' relatively "realistic" portrayal of medieval conditions of life and of politics and human nature in general, from the flaws of the stolidly conservative Amorran Republic and the decadent liberalism of Elebrion to the brutal totalitarianism of Savondir. At the same time, however, the books go out of their way to show that even in the evilest states, most people are not monsters, but simply trying to carry on with their lives as best they can — and that moreover, there are also many true idealists working hard to make their dark world a better place. Sometimes they can even succeed, in great things or small, perhaps by staving off a war or even saving just one innocent life. And should they fail, there is still the comfort that they tried.
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A World Half Full / int_d31cdea	comment	The world of The Hunger Games series is extremely crapsack and cynical; Panem is what would happen when a real-life dictatorship made a sport out of kids killing one another, especially since it seems to be the only state left in Earth (basically, if V4V-verse UK met Battle Royale-verse Japan... in America). However, there is a saying: a dictator suppresses the people not because they are intimidating and brave, but because they are scared that the people would assemble and topple them in a rebellion. When Katniss decides to spare herself and Peeta from the Hunger Games, a flame of hope is ignited in the people, and, though it goes through an extremely complicated and screwed-up process showing the best way to completely break the mind of a 16-year-old teenager, both the dictator and ''potential'' dictator are toppled, and Panem manages to finally rebuild in the end.
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A World Half Full / int_d3cc40b5	comment	Embers in the Dusk. The Imperium fell and most of its remnants now are worshipping the Abomination, the fifth god of Chaos, uncorrupted human realms fall like ripe fruits to numerous enemies. But being more progressive and less dogmatic and xenophobic, the Imperial Trust is much more sympathetic than the old Imperium. Also, unlike in The Shape of the Nightmare to Come, the Abomination and the Emperor are different entities. Fifteen centuries in, the Sane powers are barely holding one-twentieth of the galaxy. But they are holding it, while the remaining sides are squabbling too much to take over.
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A World Half Full / int_d3cc710e	comment	Blue Rose has drifted from a borderline utopia in its infamous First Edition into this trope's territory in the new Second Edition. The kingdom and its society are still clearly fundamentally good, but the players have to fight harder than ever to keep it from collapsing in the face of demonic cults, foreign invasions, religious unrest, greedy merchants, and political intrigue.
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A World Half Full / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	Deadlands. The setting is an Alternate History Wild West. After the Europeans settled the whole country, a group of Native Americans decided to get revenge, by releasing some Sealed Evil in a Can. Needless to say, the evil is rather indiscriminate. Horrifying monsters lurk in the shadows spreading fear, and a new source of energy, Ghost Rock, has literally fueled a new technological dawn. Of course, it also has the side effect of driving those that work with it absolutely insane as demons haunt their mind. Still, the heroes can, if they so choose (specifically if they are heroes and not merely protagonists), fight back and make the world just a little bit of a better place and less welcome for the antagonists.
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A World Half Full / int_d63bb8d1	comment	The setting of Beware of Chicken is your typical Xianxia nightmare: they're stuck at the technology level of classical China, but with all the plagues amped up on Qi; the world is ruled by amoral cultivators who can get away with anything as long as they are strong; there's always an army of demons trying to come in and destroy the world, and relations between humans and spirit beasts are generally violent. However, Jin with his modern and good-natured sensibilities, small but still advanced farming knowledge, ability to make friends with anybody, and surprisingly strong Qi, is able to make his own little slice of heaven instead of trying to ascend to the heavens. And his influence is spreading.
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A World Half Full / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door takes place in a World Gone Mad where many adults are evil villains bent on enslaving or abusing children. Still, the eponymous organization fights this tyranny at every turn, the point driven home unsubtly in the movie, where it is stated that Hope as a concept is the Greater-Scope Villain's Weaksauce Weakness. Also of note, despite the KND operatives' antagonistic relationship with most of adult kind, most of the parents shown are presented as decent, if often oblivious people, generally trying to do their best for their children.
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A World Half Full / int_d6ed834e	comment	Die Anstalt is crapsacky with the poor stuffed animals driven insane by their owners' abuse, but it takes on a more optimistic view if you can cure them. Also, Humans Are Flawed because they're products of a consumerist culture (rather than flat-out monsters).
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A World Half Full / int_db96ded4	comment	The sequel to Avatar, The Legend of Korra definitely showed the results of their works. While crises like Equalists and Kuvira's attempt at conquering the United Republic do occur, the entire world has shown to have improved after Firelord Ozai and Azula were defeated with Zuko as the new Firelord. Unlike the original, the series' tone for the society showed technological advancement and improved living standards in a cosmopolitan city rather than a war-torn landscape. In contrast to harmony based on separations between four cultures before Hundred Year War, the world of Korra had been globalized to the point where multi-ethnic families had become a common sight in places like Republic City. While problems like income inequality and initial discrimination against non-benders do arise, the world of Korra had shown to be a paradise compared to Aang's world with the said issues being addressed later on.
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A World Half Full / int_dca64adc	comment	The Word and the Void: The war between The Word and The Void will never end, the feeders and the demons will always be trying to corrupt people, and there's no real way for the Knights of the Word to do anything more than stave off Armageddon. Yet in the end, they can save a few people, and that's what really matters.
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A World Half Full / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: In the backstories told, not every storybook character who was meant to get a happy ending got one. There were evil manipulators, savage beast armies, human evil, and general misery in all corners of the Once Multiverse. But at the same time, several characters did get their happy endings at least for a while in the past, and in the present, there are all-new opportunities to get them as well. Even as evil rises to corrupt, kill and steal, good people are still there to oppose them, and even some villains start finding redemption as well.
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A World Half Full / int_e235270c	comment	Every game of Stellaris starts with a galaxy that's full of dead worlds, tragedies, monuments to past glories, and ancient horrors. But half the fun of Stellaris is to subvert all that and create a galactic community that would surpass even the golden age of old, leading to everlasting peace and cooperation. Of course, the other half is to throw what's left in the glass and subjugate the galaxy under your rule.
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A World Half Full / int_e293455a	comment	The Buffyverse, especially Angel, tend to bounce back and forth on whether they live in a half full or half empty world. Angel himself expresses an existential take on the whole matter; striving for a living in-the-moment application of Good Feels Good despite the bleakness of the big picture.
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A World Half Full / int_e6267766	comment	The galaxy shown in the Star Wars Legends varies wildly Depending on the Writer, but in all of Matt Stover's books — Shatterpoint, the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, Traitor — it's this. The galaxy is corrupt and messy and hostile, people are ungrateful, not everyone can be saved and those who were will die soon enough anyway, nothing will ever last — but it's still worth fighting for a better day, and a difference can be made.
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A World Half Full / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly/Serenity: The series starts with the protagonist powerless to prevent the destruction of his homeworld by the Lawful Evil Alliance and the final defeat of the Independents at Serenity Valley. His faith in humanity and God shattered, he abandons his cause and flees to the edge of colonized space, where begins life anew as an outlaw space pirate/mercenary. Over the course of the series, The heroes face many hardships, and even their few victories cost them dearly, but ultimately, they are able to find it in themselves to carry on. And when the dust clears, they're still flying. They may not be able to save the galaxy, but they can at least save themselves. And that's a start. By the end of the movie, they've actually unveiled and broken a government human-experiment conspiracy, unlocked River Tam's hidden Badass, inadvertently brought about the decimation of the Reavers, and given the tyrannical government two black eyes and a bloody nose. Dozens of their friends and two of their crew have died, and they're now on the run for their lives from the government's vengeance, but that wasn't much different from what they had before so it's all good. It is indicated that any government vengeance may very well be passive at worst. From the Alliance's point of view, the crew of Serenity has done all the damage they possibly could. Indeed, their (implied) victory over the Reavers' fleet could even let them spin this into a huge victory and come out in an even better position than before. It looks like they even helped repair Mal's ship, though that might have just been the Operative using his unquestionable authority to pull strings. That's not to say they probably aren't still wanted criminals, with a number of enemies even amongst the outlaws, but they're still flying. Which is enough.
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A World Half Full / int_e8327120	comment	Cruelly subverted in Doomsday Clock. The world has completely gone to shit after the exposure of said â€œvillainâ€™sâ€� actions, with nations at each otherâ€™s throats, riots in the streets, and nuclear war impending. Thankfully, it gets better, becoming double-subverted.
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A World Half Full / int_e85e05b5	comment	In the Divergent series, though the world is admittedly less bleaker than Panem. The society conforms you to living in one of the five factions; if you don't fit, you're either expelled and forced to live in the streets, or worse, being outright killed. The same is true outside this society, except that it's reversed: if you only have one "inherent" personality corresponding to the faction, then you're flawed and have to prepare for a heavy discrimination that screws your mind enough into planning a deadly coup. Tris, one of those people who can't conform to one of the factions, proceeds to Screw Destiny and goes through a process to end this Fantastic Racism, while her faction-fitting friends attempt to stop people from killing each other, especially due to the situation outside the society mentioned above. Both succeed, but Tris has to lose her life.
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A World Half Full / int_e9cb2780	comment	Sera in Gears of War becomes this after Adam Fenix's Heroic Sacrifice. The Locust and Lambent are wiped out and the Imulsion is destroyed, but Humanity finally has its future. In the second trilogy, the original, even more badass locust emerge and the world is plagued by firestorm hurricanes, but humanity finally developed advanced killer robots and nanomachine fabricators, so it's an even fight.
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A World Half Full / int_eaacc946	comment	Brennus takes place in a world where Supervillains outnumber the heroes three-to-one, the Cold War is ongoing and about to heat up, most of Africa is controlled by a megalomaniac Mad Scientist, and cities are regularly wiped out by things like the Savage Six and Desolation-In-Light. Yet the story retains an optimistic tone: in spite of everything that says it shouldn't be, the world is still here, thanks to the heroes, and even some of the more noble-minded villains like The Dark. And of course, the story kicks off with Basil and his True Companions starting what are looking to be very promising careers as Superheroes.
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A World Half Full / int_ec2a1c9e	comment	9: Everyone on the planet is dead, except for some little robots and a giant war machine that killed all the people. And in the end, life is back - in the form of bacteria, meaning that evolution might evolve intelligence again in a couple billion years.
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A World Half Full / int_edbc9738	comment	Transmetropolitan. The world has a lot of problems, but people fighting for the truth can and does make it better.
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A World Half Full / int_f0d57197	comment	The Dark Forest ends on this note after Earth and Trisolaris make peace. Although the universe is still a terrifying hellhole where millions of space-faring civilizations prey on each other on sight, Ji Luo and his family get to live Happily Ever After, and it's implied that the two worlds will one day work to broker peace with the rest of the galaxy.
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A World Half Full / int_f1360d68	comment	G Gundam, once Domon finds out just how the Gundam Fights have destroyed Earth and the Devil Gundam's true programming and Master Asia's intentions. He finds out that everyone he thought was a villain was really trying to restore Earth and protect it from the real bad guys.
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A World Half Full / int_f186f924	comment	Depending on interpretation, especially Sylus' dialogue about Faro's "saving" humanity by deleting APOLLO that caused the revived humanity descended into a primitive lifestyle that included the worst aspects like Carja's Red Raids, where a mad Carja king launched slave raids across the lands to sacrifice to his god in an ill-thought attempt to stop the machine derangement, Horizon Zero Dawn may have a future after the complete erasure of Old Earth—which itself was suffering from ecological catastrophe and constant wars conducted through unmanned drones—by Faro Plague. While the current status of humanity after Zero Dawn's restoration of Earth's ecosystem may still be a troubled world where tribalism and harsh laws are common, there are many people are attempting to connect with each other and reform their society. This can be seen with Carja under King Avad, who overthrew his tyrannical father to stop his Red Raids and began dismantling social discrimination within his society upon his reign. Even the Nora, a generally isolationist tribe, are willing to accept a Carja Sun Priest as a guest of honor and cultural ambassador. As Aloy insisted based on her journey across the lands, there are good people attempting to make the world a better place in spite of the cruel people and culture surrounding them.
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A World Half Full / int_f349915b	comment	Dragonlance has whole races of evil and orders of evil knights. The Big Good has to die to stop the Big Bad and the gods remove their support from mortals for a while. It's still a High Fantasy world where some hero has always stepped up in the Darkest Hour. Latter adaptations written by other writers tended to miss this element.
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A World Half Full / int_f42ccd4f	comment	The Rimworld 'verse, ultimately. Your characters are stranded in the wilderness on a barely-civilised planet with dangerous wildlife, roving gangs of bandits and slavers, and the occasional horde of homicidal war-robots to contend with, you've got nothing to work with but the clothes you stand up in and a very small quantity of emergency supplies from the Escape Pods... And yet with enough determination, cleverness, and patience -and a bit of luck- they can eventually turn even the most barren and unwelcoming spot into a thriving community.
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A World Half Full / int_f5855286	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the direct sequel to Breath of the Wild, opens with a Happy Ending Override. Demon King Ganondorf, the original source of Calamity Ganon, awakens from eons of being sealed in the Depths of Hyrule. He proceeds to cripple Link's arm, destroy the Master Sword, send Princess Zelda tumbling down a pit, raise Hyrule Castle into the air, and cause havoc in the four corners of the land. Yet Hyrule still comes across as better off than it was in the previous game, even taking into account the aforementioned catastrophe. Zelda has worked to reestablish a central government in Hyrule, squadrons of Hylian soldiers strive to fight back the monsters that once had free reign over the ruined kingdom, the Hudson Construction Company offers its services to rebuild civilization, and the various races of Hyrule more actively cooperate with each other.
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A World Half Full / int_f7e45c31	comment	Life Is Beautiful. A cheerful and whimsical film set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
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A World Half Full / int_f8391add	comment	Moonshadow by Cat Stevens is one long list of this trope.
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A World Half Full / int_f8bd2d94	comment	In the Wild ARMs series a common theme is how the environment will only last a couple more years, so obviously the main characters save it. Of course, if the manual is correct, and all the games take place on the same planet, there's an invasion/war/disaster scheduled for a century or two after they do save it, and it's going to set everything back to ruined square one... but a new bunch of heroes always end up fixing things a couple thousand years later. It isn't very fun for the people in the intervening years, but things do get fixed eventually each time.
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A World Half Full / int_f9d47037	comment	Zombies and Shit ends with Wayne having the zombie-killing device snuck on set within a lawn gnome meant as a zombie-repellant weapon where Scavy and Mr. T plan on amplifying the device's signal, ending the zombie menace once and for all and bringing down the corrupt regime of the Platinum Quadrant in the process.
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A World Half Full / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes, heavily inspired by both Marvel and DC, sets out its world like this. The world is filled with criminals, monsters, and Supervillains of every imaginable kind, is recovering from an Alien Invasion that's not quite over, and looking at The Multiverse, this is one of the best options. So what stands in the way of evil? Superheroes. Lots and lots of superheroes. (and even the villains can help out a bit)
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A World Half Full / int_fab472d2	comment	While Dark Souls and III are rather on the Crapsack World end, Dark Souls II surprisingly takes this approach: While the game takes place in a kingdom brought to ruin by the undead curse, there are still thriving lands outside of that, with several characters talking fondly of their homeland. The only nation to reappear from the first game is even Catarina, the land of the jovial onion knights. Majula, the Hub World, is far different from either Firelink Shrines. Majula is a Ghost Town that slowly comes back to life as you meet up with merchants, bathed in warm sunlight, and featuring friendly and helpful NPCs. Speaking of the NPC merchants, most of them survive past the end of the game, and none of them are truly terrible people. Even the ones that actively lie and deceive you, like Licia the miracle merchant, is more of a scammer than truly malicious. However, she does invade you a couple of times as the Nameless Usurper. Several characters start out as rather depressed and doubtful of your odds of survival when you first meet them, then slowly warm up to you and gain hope as you go on. The Emerald Herald grows more affectionate as the game goes on, one of the old Fire Keepers in Things Betwixt gains some respect for your progress, and even the game's crestfallen character gets happier as more people move to Majula.
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A World Half Full / int_fb0b1c34	comment	The Anderssons has a good balance between realism and optimism. The message is basically "Things might look hard now, but if you work hard and don't give up, your dreams will come true".
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A World Half Full / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers: The Crown Empire may be crumbling, but it's still powerful. The Queen herself is a bloodthirsty, genocidal megalomaniac. The jail system is about as good as Arkham Asylum. Tortuna is a Wretched Hive, and some other planets aren't much better. Earth's politicians are often questionable or worse, as are the business-beings. One of the Rangers is essentially a slave. A quarter of the episodes are Bittersweet Endings. A few are Downer Endings. Oh, and Eliza is never rescuednote Or rather, that part of the plot never gets resolved either way. Still, sometimes the "villains" are merely misguided. There are also Honest Corporate Executives, benevolent scientists, competent military personnel, friendly alien factions, and sometimes the townsfolk have a change of heart and show up to help.
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A World Half Full / int_fe6dcd31	comment	The old granddad of the settings, Greyhawk, is another fine example. It's so full of evil forces that they tend to war amongst themselves and suffer Gambit Pileup, but the heroes' efforts can heal some of these woes and make a difference - at least to the extent of overthrowing a few tyrants and preventing a few demons from running amok.
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A World Half Full / int_ff22ba03	comment	The Postman: The world as we know it was destroyed in an apocalypse. The United States no longer exists. Yet Kevin Costner, in an accidental act of heroism, reignites the U.S. Postal Service, bringing hope to the hopeless and hap to the hapless.
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Zombies and Shit / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Machinima) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
BoyceAvenue	seeAlso	A World Half Full
Asura (Manga) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Bloody Monday (Manga) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Chainsaw Man (Manga) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Fire Punch (Manga) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Galaxy Express 999 (Manga) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Kurosagi (Manga) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Snow White and Seven Dwarfs (Manga) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Tokyo Ghoul (Manga) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
World's End Harem (Manga) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
BTS Universe (Music) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Cormorant (Music) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Genesis (Band) (Music) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Songs from a Room (Music) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Sound Horizon (Music) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Stratovarius (Music) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Todd Rundgren (Music) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Endgame (Roleplay) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Eurth (Roleplay) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
The Worst Pantheon (Roleplay) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Dark Angel / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
For All Mankind / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Jericho (2006) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Joy of Life / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Russian Doll / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Æon (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Dark Sun (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Ironsworn: Starforged (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Twilight: 2000 (Tabletop Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Avenue Q (Theatre) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Dracula, Entre l'Amour et la Mort (Theatre) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Heathers (Theatre) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Heathers: The Musical (Theatre) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
All Points Bulletin (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Avalon (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Bastion (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Battle Brothers (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Chicken Police (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Darkest Dungeon (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Darkest Dungeon II (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Destiny (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Disco Elysium (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Dishonored (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Fallout 2 (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Final Fantasy XV (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Girls' Frontline (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Medieval Dynasty (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Metro: Last Light (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
OneShot (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Pathologic 2 (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
PokÃ©mon Reborn (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Punishing: Gray Raven (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Rain World (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Sim Settlements 2 (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Skautfold (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Tales of Innocence (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Thousand-Week Reich (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Total War: Warhammer (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Underrail (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Wild ARMs (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
XCOM: Chimera Squad (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Continue/Stop/Rise / Videogame / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante (Video Game) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Lovebrush Chronicles (Visual Novel) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Your Turn to Die (Visual Novel) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Diamond in the Rough (Touhou) (Web Animation) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Animation) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Kurzgesagt (Web Animation) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
BritMonkey (Web Video) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
CDTV Productions (Web Video) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Isaac Arthur (Web Video) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Pirates SMP (Web Video) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Genocide Man (Webcomic) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Octopus Pie (Webcomic) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Project Future (Webcomic) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Something*Positive (Webcomic) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
The Descended (Webcomic) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Tower of God (Webcomic) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Vast Error (Webcomic) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Motorcity / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Peace on Earth / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Smiling Friends / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Sonic SatAM / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Titan A.E. / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Blindness / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Atlas Shrugged / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
World Made by Hand / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Jericho / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full

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