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Earth Drift

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Earth Drift	comment	A work or series that starts out with many more ties to the real world than it later has. This is especially jarring if it is set in another world or universe. As the series goes on, re-viewing/reading/playing the oldest installments becomes disconcerting (if the reader is more familiar with the more recent installments) as a result of similarities to the real world being more frequent. Usually happens as a result of the work's mythology not being fully defined, or a SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun that left a few traces of the original plan. May not necessarily require the real-world references being in older works. This trope can still apply when you find a real-world reference in a newer installment and find it odd. A Sub-Trope of Early-Installment Weirdness and typically a result of Continuity Drift. Related to Art Evolution and Characterization Marches On. It may also be quite deliberate, as an aversion of Reed Richards Is Useless. Will sometimes invoke the Celebrity Paradox, which is when the popular culture of our world does not exist in the fictional world (because that world is itself part of our pop culture). Contrast Fictional Earth, when a world remains identified as Earth, but is otherwise very different. See also Doing in the Scientist, which is when a previously "realistic" work becomes fantasy-based.
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Earth Drift / int_15a26aad	comment	Arena and Daggerfall are basically standard Medieval European Fantasy RPGs set in the developer's homebrew Dungeons & Dragons world, with a few quirks.
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Earth Drift / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Inverted, as originally the series had no ties to Earth but, this was later retconned. Mobius is actually Earth thousands of years in the future. Aliens forced animals to evolve into Funny Animals while most humans "de-evolved" into four-fingered Overlanders.
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Earth Drift / int_19d09126	comment	The Spirit: The comic was originally set in New York City, but the location soon became Central City (ironically, at about the same time the less realistic objects like flying cars were removed).
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Earth Drift / int_1d43953c	comment	Usagi Yojimbo: Inverted, as though the setting is obviously Japan and Japanese folklore, the comic carefully refrained from mentioning any real places until one story brought in the Battle of Dan-no-Ura as backstory.
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Earth Drift / int_20eec977	comment	Story of Seasons: In Harvest Moon 3, the local Harvest Goddess-worshipping priest Cain wore a cross. Starting with Alisa and Nathan from Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness,the equivalent to a rosary has been a yellow medallion with a red symbol.
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Earth Drift / int_210767ac	comment	Crusader Kings 2 games tend to end up like this as a result of Emergent Narrative. Since you can start your game at any point in time between 769 and 1337, everything will be pretty much historically accurate for about the first year (to the point where the majority of characters have links to their wikipedia pages in their profiles), after which you enter a sort of alternate continuity where England is absorbed into Scandinavia, the Holy Roman Empire disbands about six centuries too early, Jerusalem has become part of Ireland, and there's inexplicably been 26 popes in a row called Pascal. In fact, this tends to happen in pretty much any of Paradox Interactive's Grand Strategy games can easily end up like this; both Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron are notorious for having players Take Over the World with improbable nations (a resurgent Byzantine empire seems to be a favorite).
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Earth Drift / int_22d74b2e	comment	The first Redwall book has horses, dogs, references to most likely human harbors, a church, and Portugal. All of those are gone in the subsequent books, in favor of a world inhabited only by Talking Animals. As the series' character page demonstrates well, even the animals' names quickly drift from human-sounding — at least, in the case of the mice and other 'good' characters — to an entirely invented idiom. Those in the first book include Matthias, Mortimer, Methusaleh, Constance, Jess, Basil Stag Hare (who also, uniquely, seems to have his species as a 'surname'), and the legend of the great mouse hero Martin the Warrior (son of Luke) is introduced. Half a dozen books later, when the Warrior's own backstory is finally explored the name Martin now stands out incongruously amid the likes of Laterose, Grumm Trencher, Brome, Felldoh, Keyla, Druwp, Pallum and Bï»¿allaw de Quincewold.
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Earth Drift / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: The franchise experienced an Earth Drift of sorts post-G1. While the series has never really taken place on Earth, the original G1 series contained rainbows acting as portals from Ponyland to Earth and vice-versa. The follow-up series, My Little Pony Tales, would ditch all mention of humans, but bring in real-world technology such as cars and television, while the G3 series also has an actual Christmas special, and a few other hints at real world locations and stories (Spike makes references to various Fairy Tales and Pinkie Pie mentions Paris in a Core 7 short). Earth does again exist in the G4 series, but more so in the context of a mirror universe that's only seen and mentioned in the Equestria Girls side-series. Meanwhile, G5 is a Distant Sequel to G4, meaning Earth presumably does still exist there as well, but it remains to be seen if it will be depicted in any way. An early episode of Friendship Is Magic has Fluttershy mention something is "French" in passing, suggesting there is a land in their universe simply called "France". Future episodes avert this, and when countries other than Equestria are mentioned and discussed later on, they're Fantasy Counterpart Cultures like Saddle Arabia, which is populated by more realistic-looking Arabian horses, or the Duchy of Maretonia, a Babylonian analogue. In one instance, this was Played With. Discord asking for "pastries from Abyssinia" in his song "A Glass of Water". Abyssinia is an old name for what is now Ethiopia. Later, however, Abyssinia was established to be to be a kingdom of Cat Folk.
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Earth Drift / int_3167d0b9	comment	The 2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe never mentioned Earth, however, if you look closely, some wall monitors in Randor's castle display maps of Earth.
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Earth Drift / int_37ee9dd3	comment	Doonesbury originally was set at Yale, but this was moved to the fictional Walden College shortly into the run.
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Earth Drift / int_390e5c71	comment	Inverted with Shannara. Per Word of God, Terry Brooks was initially rather wishy-washy if the post-apocalyptic countries of the plot were on earth or not. By the time of The Genesis of Shannara, the planet definitely is earth. This detail is mostly relegated to the prequels, as by the centuries that pass between them and The Sword of Shannara, most signs of the planet that would be recognizable to the reader have long since faded from memory.
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Earth Drift / int_3e8c09b9	comment	An interesting case happens with Attack on Titan, where it's played straight and inverted. Initially, it was generally assumed that the setting is more or less like our world, presumed to take place somewhere likely in Central Europe given the Germanic flavor. Although the setting uses a fictional calendar, the connection was supported with some vague references to our world's past. However, it is later revealed that humanity is not extinct outside of the walls, and subsequently the story shifts towards the long-standing conflict between the nations of Eldia and Marley, and the latter's conquest of the world. It is revealed that the world's geography is quite different from our own, mostly resembling our Earth but vertically mirrored, the entire story prior to that taking place on an island resembling Madagascar. However, at the same time we also start seeing people of different ethnicities and cultures that strikingly resemble those from our world in the early 20th century, and one panel showing the Rumbling even features a city that highly resembles London.
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Earth Drift / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion swings back to the standard "medieval Europe" setting, with realistic deer and wolves bounding across meadows filled with real-world plants.
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Earth Drift / int_444f7f18	comment	The first two books in the Kushiel's Legacy series are basically political thrillers with a bunch of Historical In Jokes and bondage sex. Gods are an acknowledged presence throughout, but until the third book, they aren't much more than flavor to the Backstory. This escalates, however, through the second trilogy, culminating with the heroes of that trilogy founding a university to study magic, and the heroine of the third trilogy being quite explicitly magical.
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Earth Drift / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield was originally a very "contemporary" comic strip, with liberal references to late 1970s/early 1980s pop culture: disco dancing, punk rock, even a mention of John Travolta (in his first wave of fame, before declining and coming back after Pulp Fiction in 1994). When Jim Davis retooled the strip in the late '80s to make it more "whimsical" and kid-oriented, the "relevant" references abruptly dropped off and the tone of the strip became more surreal...sometimes much more surreal. The one main exception to this real-world avoidance is the frequent Continuity Nods to Jon Arbuckle's former love affair with disco music, which everyone except Jon now considers an Old Shame.
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Earth Drift / int_49aa2aa4	comment	Ace Combat: In Air Combat, the vague location could have been on Earth. By Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies it was established that the series had taken place entirely on a fictional continent of Usea (which stood for "United States of Euro-Asia" in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, but wasn't used afterwards), which based on an image from an official guidebook, was located in the North Pacific on an Earth with distorted versions of real-life continents. Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War and onwards establishes the Strangereal setting, an Earth-like planet with landmasses of hardly any resemblance to the real world's.note With the exceptions of Antarctica and a landmass the exact shape of Greenland. There are definite cultural and sociopolitical analogues to real-world nations, but you wind up with the USA's analogue on the same continent as a cross between Britain and Germany. Some spinoff games take place in the real world.
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Earth Drift / int_4a510504	comment	Sonic mentions Axl Rose in the pilot of Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM). This is a case of Early-Installment Weirdness and these are averted for the rest of the show's run. However, if the show hadn't been cancelled, it would have been revealed that Mobius is Earth All Along, thus averting the trope.
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Earth Drift / int_536a5cc9	comment	Around the release of Sonic Colors, Sonic Team declared that the human-populated Earth and the anthropomorphic-animal-populated "Sonic's World" are two different worlds, which the plot sometimes moves between. This was further clarified in an official YouTube series, TailsTube, where Tails explains that humans and animals live on the same planet, but humans live on the large continents visible from orbit, while animals live on small islands dotted around those continents.
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Earth Drift / int_5400d19	comment	The first season of The Raccoons had the talking animals living in secret from a human family. Season 2 onward was set in an otherwise realistic world full of anthropomorphic animals and no humans.
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Earth Drift / int_5425ce75	comment	Grand Theft Auto. The "3D Universe" of the series — Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, and Vice City Stories — saw this happen slowly over the course of its run. III had a reference to the city of Miami and to the then-newly elected president George W. Bush, while later installments swapped Miami out for Vice City, its No Communities Were Harmed parody, and had almost no real life persons (barring historical figures like Ronald Reagan that are intrinsically tied to the setting, and Phil Collins' cameo in Vice City Stories). Liberty City also started out in III as being based on any number of cities in the Northeastern US, New York just one among them, but by Liberty City Stories it was clearly meant to be the GTA universe's version of the Big Applesauce. It's especially jarring in San Andreas, where a radio song and its host explicitly mention New York City in a setting in which it was already replaced with Liberty City. Grand Theft Auto IV marks the beginning of an Alternate Continuity called the "HD Universe", where the Earth Drift continued. The FBI is replaced with the FIB, SWAT is replaced with NOOSE (which is also based on the Department of Homeland Security), all guns are A.K.A.-47s now, and the president in 2008 was Joe Lawton, who is stated to be a buffoon whose father was also president several decades prior. Grand Theft Auto V states that Lawton is still in office circa 2013 instead of being replaced by a Barack Obama expy, indicating that America in the GTA universe either never passed term limits for Presidents,note The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution barred Presidents from serving more than two terms in office. abolished them by Lawton's time, or has elections run on a different schedule from our own (as in The West Wing, where Presidential elections are in 2002 and 2006). Grand Theft Auto VI continues this by replacing Florida with its fictional counterpart Leonida, even though Florida had been mentioned not only in the 3D Universe but also in GTA IV.
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Earth Drift / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim splits the difference between its two predecessors, being a "Northern Medieval European Fantasy" setting with plenty of familiar Earth elements, but still feeling otherworldly with the rampaging dragons, giants and mammoths walking the tundra, and ancient monolithic structures dotting the landscape.
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Earth Drift / int_5b95bc94	comment	The "3D Universe" of the series — Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, and Vice City Stories — saw this happen slowly over the course of its run. III had a reference to the city of Miami and to the then-newly elected president George W. Bush, while later installments swapped Miami out for Vice City, its No Communities Were Harmed parody, and had almost no real life persons (barring historical figures like Ronald Reagan that are intrinsically tied to the setting, and Phil Collins' cameo in Vice City Stories). Liberty City also started out in III as being based on any number of cities in the Northeastern US, New York just one among them, but by Liberty City Stories it was clearly meant to be the GTA universe's version of the Big Applesauce. It's especially jarring in San Andreas, where a radio song and its host explicitly mention New York City in a setting in which it was already replaced with Liberty City.
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Earth Drift / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted was originally the prehistory of the Old World of Darkness. Second Edition suggested it was the prehistory of our world.
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Earth Drift / int_5e583e60	comment	PokÃ©mon Red and Blue: A model of Space Shuttle Columbia and an NPC who discusses travels to the moon (even citing the "July 20, 1969" date) are present. Lt. Surge is referred to as the "Lightning American". A Silph scientist mentions being transferred to a branch in Tiksi as his reason for defecting to Team Rocket. Mew is said to have been discovered in the jungles of Guyana. In FireRed, which features translated PokÃ©dex entries from the Japanese Red/Green, Raichu and Gastly's PokÃ©dex entries state that they can knock out an Indian elephant. While the original PokÃ©dex was made before the Generation 2 PokÃ©mon Donphan, it's still bizarre that this specific animal is mentioned at all. Later PokÃ©dex entries remove references to the animal and instead mention that they can knock out foes several times their size. Raichu's entry in PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus has a Mythology Gag to the older entries, as Professor Laventon comments that its shocks can knock out a Copperajah, an elephant PokÃ©mon from Galar. The Kanto region is named after the actual Kanto region of Japan. Later regions are also based on real locations, like other areas of Japan or of the U.S and Europe, but are given made-up names and many liberties on their depiction are given (like random deserts or volcanoes). Most such real-world references are retained in the FireRed/LeafGreen remakes, though the Columbia becomes an unnamed spaceship in the English localization, likely in response to its destruction in 2003, about one year prior to their release. PokÃ©mon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, meanwhile, cuts out all of them: the spaceship is replaced entirely with a model of an Aerodactyl, Lt. Surge's title is changed to the "Lightning Lieutenant", "the Guyana jungle" is abridged to just "the jungle", and Tiksi is replaced with "the boondocks".
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Earth Drift / int_6059ad6b	comment	Also, as xkcd once pointed out, the Millenium Falcon is the only ship in the franchise to be somehow named after a real animal which exists on real Earth, but which has never been seen as existing in-universe.
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Earth Drift / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Marvel Comics originally claimed that their stories were taking place in the real world, with the only difference being the existence of superheroes. This quickly disappeared as soon as they ventured outside of the USA and fictional countries a plenty started appearing. Now the Marvel Universe bears only a passing resemblance to the real world.
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Earth Drift / int_633bef5e	comment	The Space Trilogy: Outside of all the aliens, the history of Earth is basically the same as any Christian would expect, angels and demons included. That Hideous Strength delves straight into fantasy and mythology by confirming that the pagan gods all existed,note With the (implied) understanding that they were "Eldil"s (read: Angels; Messengers) that had lost their way, especially since they were stuck on Earth with 'the Dark Eldil' (Lucifer). Merlin was a true wizard who began a millennia long-legacy of Arthurian successors, and that a transhumanist conspiracy controlled the course of post-war Britain only to be covered-up by the media.
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Earth Drift / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The game borrows plenty of monsters from across mythology. The 1st Edition Monster Manual mentions some of these with more direct ties to Earth than later editions. The giant rat was listed as Rat (Giant Sumatran), doubling as a Shout-Out to Sherlock Holmes. The Ogre Mage was subtitled "Japanese Ogre" - a tip of that hat to the Oni which inspired it. And the Rakshasa entry explicitly said that the monsters were "known first in India". Up to 2nd Edition, the Player's Handbook references items and vehicles in relation to the real world frequently, for instance explaining that the knarr (a type of ship) was used by the Vikings. Later games remove these mentions. St. Cuthbert, a deity from Greyhawk, was strongly implied to be the real life St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne. Here, he didn't die of illness, but instead was brought to Oerth by the good gods, and eventually attained godhood. One early adventure even involved the characters crossing dimensions to recover his mace from a London museum. (His logic was that the best place to hide it was in a realm with no magic, where it'd never be suspected as anything other than a piece of history.) While this was never retconned, it has rarely been mentioned at all outside of some vague mentions of St. Cuthbert's origins being from another world, noting he has no cultural ties to any other human on Oerth. Forgotten Realms was originally called that because the concept was that Earth and Abeir-Toril (The world the setting is based on) were once much more closely connected, but the connections have long since been forgotten. This was meant as a nice Hand Wave to justify why so much of the setting seems directly inspired by real world cultures. While never directly retconned, this connection has been deprecated as the years went on, and the history of the Forgotten Realms expanded massively into the past, beyond the need for any connection to Earth.
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Earth Drift / int_6d8311c4	comment	In PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver, a Team Rocket grunt in Azalea Town refers to himself as a Good Samaritan; later games establish the the PokÃ©mon world has its own religion and PokÃ©mon deities.
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Earth Drift / int_6f734712	comment	Smallville; Early seasons implied that Earth was realistic before alien baby Clark landed in a shower of Magic Meteors, barring an America having a few fictional towns like Smallville and Metropolis. A newspaper headline in "Asylum" says "Themyscirian Queen Addresses the Vatican" meaning that the hidden island of Amazon women that Wonder Woman comes from is a known country. "Absolute Justice" shows that Justice Society of America Super Team was active in the 1970s.
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Earth Drift / int_6f76d71a	comment	The Sims: The first game, The Sims, is far more grounded in our reality than the later ones, even if it still featured aliens and later, magic. Many in-game items' descriptions would make references to our world rather than exclusively featuring made-up locations, even making references to real-life history and trends throughout the decades (which makes things even more confusing, as The Sims 3 is a Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel set 25 years earlier).
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Earth Drift / int_72c7235	comment	The Star Wars Holiday Special (which didn't directly reference Christmas, unlike the non-canon Christmas in the Stars album) had many examples of 20th-century Earth technology, ranging from eyeglasses, which are usually a rarity in the Star Wars Expanded Universe, to what appears to be a commercially available personal computer from the late 1970s. The eponymous holiday, Life Day, is itself a secular equivalent to Christmas, which later material has actually retained as canon.
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Earth Drift / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: In the original The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Link has a cross on his shield, which according to Word of God was added because the series was originally going to be based on Christianity rather than the three goddesses in later games. A Christian-esque sanctuary appears in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the NES original features the Bible ("Book Of Magic" in the English translation) as an obtainable item, and a cross appears as a magical artifact in Zelda II. And as late as A Link to the Past, there is artwork of Link bowing down before a crucifix and a statue of the Virgin Mary (especially weird because that's the game that introduced the Golden Goddesses in the first place). Though such real world links were generally done away with by the time The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came around (barring a few loose archetypal parallels), that game still features one notable example: the use of the star and crescent as the symbol of the desert-based Gerudo. Both newer versions of Ocarina of Time and subsequent games replaced the symbol with an original one that resembles Japanese dogÅ«. This was mildly and briefly reversed with the Ancient Cistern dungeon of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, where the big central statue is very clearly modeled on Buddha (though it is never identified as such). The part of the dungeon where Link must climb a spider thread to escape from the crypt-like lower level with its undead Bokoblins is also based directly on a short story that featured Buddha.
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Earth Drift / int_76e7de99	comment	Forgotten Realms was originally called that because the concept was that Earth and Abeir-Toril (The world the setting is based on) were once much more closely connected, but the connections have long since been forgotten. This was meant as a nice Hand Wave to justify why so much of the setting seems directly inspired by real world cultures. While never directly retconned, this connection has been deprecated as the years went on, and the history of the Forgotten Realms expanded massively into the past, beyond the need for any connection to Earth.
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Earth Drift / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: The early comics were set in New York before changing it to the fictional Gotham City.
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Earth Drift / int_81341360	comment	In the original Ice Age, the animals lived in a very realistic world. Humans (Neanderthals) were present, and the animals were just animals to Neanderthal eyes. The entire plot involved a trio of animals saving a baby human named Roshan from a pack of hungry smilodons and returning him to his family (one of the trio being a smilodon himself, attempting to lure the other two and the baby to his pack). The second film does not contain humans, and the animals are a little more humany. By the time of the third film, animals use weapons, wear some degree of clothes, and are the main inhabitants of the world. However, a modern human appears in the Christmas special.
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Earth Drift / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek started out based on Real Life history, but The Original Series made some predictions about the then-future which did not come to pass (for one, human spaceflight hasn't advanced nearly as far as expected, but neither was there a nuclear holocaust killing over 600 million, so it's probably for the best). While the series continues to be Like Reality, Unless Noted, further divergences from real history have unavoidably grown over the franchise's history. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally came up with a canon explanation by calling back to the Temporal Cold War from Star Trek: Enterprise, saying that multiple competing factions have thrown Earth's history out of whack.
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Earth Drift / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros. The series ended up losing many connections to Earth or Earth-like locations as the series went on. Note the 'realistic in comparison' settings of the original arcade Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. games, then those of the later platform game series; then note how, after Yoshi's Island established Mario was born in the Mushroom Kingdom, the whole fanon/cartoon/manual-led Brooklyn thing got slowly pushed into obscurity and almost entirely ignored until The Super Mario Bros. Movie brought it back. Super Mario Odyssey sets the series on a Fictional Earth, by establishing the Mushroom Kingdom as one of many kingdoms, some of which are inspired by Mexico, Japan, London, and France among others, and Retcons the New York-styled city where Donkey Kong and such took place as one of these kingdoms. It seems the franchise drifts back and forth with Earth, as Mario Kart Tour includes real-world cities (Paris, New York, Tokyo, etc.) among the usual racing venues.
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Earth Drift / int_83ad4daa	comment	In PokÃ©mon: The First Movie, Mew is explicitly said to have been found in the rainforests of Guyana. Ash also mentions the U.S. state of Minnesota as part of a one-off gag about the Minnesota Vikings in the English dub.
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Earth Drift / int_85b855e2	comment	Timothy Zahn's The Thrawn Trilogy has two instances of Luke drinking a hot beverage that Lando introduced to him. It's called "hot chocolate". The second instance is with "mint".
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Earth Drift / int_87056d17	comment	By the time of the two Adventure games, the franchise underwent a Soft Reboot to homogenize the separate continuities. While this wasn't much different from a Japanese perspective, from a western lens, it was a drastic departure from the previous games. Suddenly they were on Earth, and the setting now featured realistic cities and humans other than Eggman. Then in Heroes, they're suddenly back to the fantastic-looking world of the classic games, with Continuity Nods to the Adventure games but no other humans or realistic cities in sight. Then back to what is definitely Earth in Shadow, '06 and Unleashed, and then back again to the fantastic world starting with Colors, where the games remained through Sonic Forces.
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Earth Drift / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	In the original A New Hope novelization (written before the movie was released), Obi-Wan explains to Luke why he needs to be trained in the Force, saying "Even a duck has to learn how to swim." In this case, however, this trope is subverted when Luke, puzzled, asks "What's a duck?" The Phantom Menace later establishes ducks to be native to Naboo, where Obi-Wan has been, but Luke obviously hasn't — and for that matter, being aquatic animals, they're not something you'd see on a wholly desert planet. Some of them are pretty weird-looking "ducks", though, with four legs called Quadducks but others look like normal ducks. The same novel also mentions a dog Luke had once owned. In this case, however, it's eventually confirmed (though no longer canon) that yes, it was a normal dog.
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Earth Drift / int_8bf307b3	comment	Disney Mouse and Duck Comics: Oddly enough, Disney Comics followed a sort of cycle with it. They started following closely on the Silly Symphonies cartoons' footsteps and took place in a childish fairy tale land. Then, when the more grounded adventure of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse became prevalent, it was established that they lived in a world Like Reality, Unless Noted (the main noted feature being the existence of anthropomorphic animals as a legitimate species alongside humans). This was never repealed as such, but over the decades, so many things (from magical elements to fictional foreign countries to Disneyfied history to phasing out humans in favor of Dogfaces) had changed that the Duckverse only superficially resembled the real world anymore. (This started with Donald's home being relocated from Burbank to the fictional Duckburg.) In the 1990's, some writers like Don Rosa tried to undo part of this by reintroducing carefully-researched elements of real-life history and geography, which reset the counters somewhat, but no true Retcon was involved so it didn't stick.
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Earth Drift / int_8c87469c	comment	This was mildly and briefly reversed with the Ancient Cistern dungeon of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, where the big central statue is very clearly modeled on Buddha (though it is never identified as such). The part of the dungeon where Link must climb a spider thread to escape from the crypt-like lower level with its undead Bokoblins is also based directly on a short story that featured Buddha.
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Earth Drift / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: The earliest stories had him living in Cleveland, Ohio (the hometown of his creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster). This disappeared within a few stories, and later stories had him resident in Metropolis ever since he came of age.
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Earth Drift / int_961eeacc	comment	The series ended up losing many connections to Earth or Earth-like locations as the series went on. Note the 'realistic in comparison' settings of the original arcade Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. games, then those of the later platform game series; then note how, after Yoshi's Island established Mario was born in the Mushroom Kingdom, the whole fanon/cartoon/manual-led Brooklyn thing got slowly pushed into obscurity and almost entirely ignored until The Super Mario Bros. Movie brought it back.
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Earth Drift / int_980a4d78	comment	The early Bomberman games are set on Earth, complete with humans being the dominant species and a real world setting with fantasy elements. However, when Bomberman '94 was released in 1993, Planet Bomber was established as the main setting. While Super Bomberman 2 and Panic Bomber W would revert the setting to Earthnote with the latter game being a World Tour involving real world locations, by 1997 the setting would permanently become Planet Bomber with humans no longer being the dominant species. The Continuity Reboot Super Bomberman R would take this even further as all of the characters are now Bombermen, with Buggler being the sole human in the cast.
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Earth Drift / int_987ae286	comment	The teaser trailer for Cars actually showed Mater accidentally running over a bumblebee. Not a car colored to resemble a bumblebee, an actual bumblebee. In the final film, all animals in the Cars universe (except birds, for some reason) are also portrayed as vehicles.
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Earth Drift / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls series has this as a Cyclic Trope. To note: Arena and Daggerfall are basically standard Medieval European Fantasy RPGs set in the developer's homebrew Dungeons & Dragons world, with a few quirks. Morrowind then swings to a very unconventional and alien setting. The wildlife has few real-life analogues and the land itself is primarily blasted ashlands, lava scathes, disease-ridden swamps, and tons of small islands. Oblivion swings back to the standard "medieval Europe" setting, with realistic deer and wolves bounding across meadows filled with real-world plants. Skyrim splits the difference between its two predecessors, being a "Northern Medieval European Fantasy" setting with plenty of familiar Earth elements, but still feeling otherworldly with the rampaging dragons, giants and mammoths walking the tundra, and ancient monolithic structures dotting the landscape.
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Earth Drift / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Real world locations and events are mentioned in the first generation games and anime with some frequency, but fade from prominence in later installments. PokÃ©mon Red and Blue: A model of Space Shuttle Columbia and an NPC who discusses travels to the moon (even citing the "July 20, 1969" date) are present. Lt. Surge is referred to as the "Lightning American". A Silph scientist mentions being transferred to a branch in Tiksi as his reason for defecting to Team Rocket. Mew is said to have been discovered in the jungles of Guyana. In FireRed, which features translated PokÃ©dex entries from the Japanese Red/Green, Raichu and Gastly's PokÃ©dex entries state that they can knock out an Indian elephant. While the original PokÃ©dex was made before the Generation 2 PokÃ©mon Donphan, it's still bizarre that this specific animal is mentioned at all. Later PokÃ©dex entries remove references to the animal and instead mention that they can knock out foes several times their size. Raichu's entry in PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus has a Mythology Gag to the older entries, as Professor Laventon comments that its shocks can knock out a Copperajah, an elephant PokÃ©mon from Galar. The Kanto region is named after the actual Kanto region of Japan. Later regions are also based on real locations, like other areas of Japan or of the U.S and Europe, but are given made-up names and many liberties on their depiction are given (like random deserts or volcanoes). Most such real-world references are retained in the FireRed/LeafGreen remakes, though the Columbia becomes an unnamed spaceship in the English localization, likely in response to its destruction in 2003, about one year prior to their release. PokÃ©mon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, meanwhile, cuts out all of them: the spaceship is replaced entirely with a model of an Aerodactyl, Lt. Surge's title is changed to the "Lightning Lieutenant", "the Guyana jungle" is abridged to just "the jungle", and Tiksi is replaced with "the boondocks". In PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver, a Team Rocket grunt in Azalea Town refers to himself as a Good Samaritan; later games establish the the PokÃ©mon world has its own religion and PokÃ©mon deities. The games have begun to emphasize the cultural difference between their world and ours, such as making more PokÃ©mon-related puns or changing context of fictional works (for example Beauty and the Beast is about a man who turned into a PokÃ©mon, not a random monster). The PokÃ©mon games have since turned this trend back around again in regards to geography, explicitly mentioning real-world locations and having characters who speak real-life foreign languages. The general implication seems to be that the PokÃ©mon world is an alternate version of our world, with various places having different geography and names. This is all but explicit in Generation 6, which goes out of its way to state that Kalos is the PokÃ©verse version of France; Generation 5 does something similar, though to a lesser degree, with Unova and New York City. In PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon, the protagonist's room has a globe on which Africa and Europe are plainly visible, revealing the PokÃ©mon world to have the same continental layout as Earth.note Despite the geometric rotation of Kyushu->Hoenn and Great Britain->Galar respectively. In PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, sandwich ingredients and other foods have simple real-world names, like tomatoes, onions, cheese, and ham, rather than them being derived from Berries (like the Tamato Berry) or from PokÃ©mon (like Miltank Cheese), the way they were in PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl through PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon. In regards to non-PokÃ©mon animals, they used to be referenced from time to time in the Gen I games (PokÃ©dex entries and the S.S. Anne's menu) and early anime (non-PokÃ©mon fish, worms, and a cartoon mongoose conjured up by a talking Gastly), but these have largely been phased out as more PokÃ©mon species were introduced. Fruit is in a bit of a gray area as regular fruit (like apples) were common until Gen III introduced Berries (fruits with PokÃ©mon-like properties and naming). Now both these Berries and regular fruit co-exist within the same continuities. Detective Pikachu and the Alola games muddle this up further, with lemonade and ketchup made of berries instead of lemons and tomatoes, yet PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield features vegetables such as potatoes, and the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series traditionally uses regular apples for food. Real-world locations are also mentioned only in the anime' first season: Episode 9, "The School of Hard Knocks"note Infamous for a bunch of Early-Installment Weirdness has Misty mentioning Paris — there is a PokÃ©-France, which was introduced many years later with the Kalos region in PokÃ©mon X and Y, but its Paris equivalent is called Lumiose City. Las Vegas is mentioned in "The March of the Exeggutor Squad". In the Japanese version it's Broadway, but the point stands. This change was likely done given how Broadway isn't known for magic shows the way Las Vegas is. In one episode, the characters go see a premiere of a movie filmed in the previous episode. When they get their invitations Ash's mom specifically states it's being held in Hollywood, California. This is likely a different Hollywood because there's no sign in the episode of the characters ever leaving Kanto.note In Gen 5, PokÃ©wood Studios is located in effectively New Jersey (where America's first film studio was located) and the closest region to southern California to date doesn't look like it would support a thriving metropolis... In PokÃ©mon: The First Movie, Mew is explicitly said to have been found in the rainforests of Guyana. Ash also mentions the U.S. state of Minnesota as part of a one-off gag about the Minnesota Vikings in the English dub. Jessie's Missing Mom Miyamoto is explicitly have mentioned to have gotten lost in the Andes mountains according to The Birth Of Mewtwo audio drama. Several first season episodes also have Japanese festivals such as Princess Day.note There was even a New Year's Episode planned prior to the Porygon incident, which would've aired about two weeks after that episode. Apart from a local festival in Pastoria City celebrating Croagunk which could be placed anywhere on the calendar and one relating to the Coumarine Gym tree which had the major trappings of (commercial) Christmas but definitely didn't happen in winter, there have not been any references to holidays in post-Johto seasons outside of PokÃ©mon-featured shorts. This is Enforced by both Ash being Not Allowed to Grow Up and an emphasis on "Cultural Neutrality" levied by Nintendo.note This neutrality extended to Best Wishes and XY, which take place in the equivalents to New York and France respectively. The anime originally used kanji with the occasional bits of English for their in-series text. However, 4kids edited it out with a fictional language. The Japanese anime eventually began using this alphabet as well, followed by the games themselves in PokÃ©mon X and Y. A few Kanto episodes have references to Christianity, such as James' parents' supposed coffins bearing crosses, Misty holding up a cross to ward off a ghost, and Brock referencing the Biblical story of Noah. Since then, religion is sparingly mentioned in the games and never in the anime. The Sinnoh games contain an unspecified church in Hearthome but it isn't Christian. Inverted in the Alternate Continuity anime film Pokémon: The Power of Us. One of the major characters is a teenage girl who goes to a normal high school, not a PokÃ©mon Trainer school. Real-world fruits are also referred to as such.
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Earth Drift / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering currently has a defined multiverse setting, but it originally didn't. The first sets took place in Dominaria, but then there was an Arabian Nights-themed set, which was later retconned as taking place on the world of Rabiah. Also, older cards were more likely to have quotes from real-world sources such as William Shakespeare for their flavor text. Later this was only done in core sets, which didn't have a storyline of their own. With the discontinuation of core sets, this practice has died out entirely. The Dark has a card called Frankenstein's Monster. When Magic took on Gothic horror tropes in Innistrad block nearly two decades later, they had similar creatures, but did not explicitly refer to Frankenstein.
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Earth Drift / int_a90d239a	comment	Psychonauts took place in the real world, seen with the Campster profiles of the kids setting their hometowns as real-world locations. Psychonauts 2 introduces Grulovia, a fictional Eastern European-like country. A digital map seen in the Motherlobe also shows that the geography of the Psychonauts world does not resemble our own.
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Earth Drift / int_ab39667a	comment	The original version of The Gunslinger by Stephen King contains numerous hints that the book is set on Earth After the End, but later books in The Dark Tower series established that Roland's world was distinct from ours, and most of these hints were removed in the revised edition.
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Earth Drift / int_ae050a9f	comment	Though such real world links were generally done away with by the time The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came around (barring a few loose archetypal parallels), that game still features one notable example: the use of the star and crescent as the symbol of the desert-based Gerudo. Both newer versions of Ocarina of Time and subsequent games replaced the symbol with an original one that resembles Japanese dogÅ«.
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Earth Drift / int_af60702d	comment	In the original The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Link has a cross on his shield, which according to Word of God was added because the series was originally going to be based on Christianity rather than the three goddesses in later games. A Christian-esque sanctuary appears in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the NES original features the Bible ("Book Of Magic" in the English translation) as an obtainable item, and a cross appears as a magical artifact in Zelda II. And as late as A Link to the Past, there is artwork of Link bowing down before a crucifix and a statue of the Virgin Mary (especially weird because that's the game that introduced the Golden Goddesses in the first place).
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Earth Drift / int_b47b8c74	comment	World's Greatest Adventures started out with the unspoken assumption that Rufus was from the real world, and all the outlandish things he raves about are fake. However, starting with Episode 4, and culminating with Gordon's Living Hat status in Episode 10, it gradually became clear that Rufus's world is a bona fide World of Weirdness â€” which doesn't mean Rufus doesn't make his tall tales up, but they're not as implausible as they sound in our universe.
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Earth Drift / int_b4967d43	comment	For the longest time, the Sonic the Hedgehog games were maddeningly inconsistent with their setting. Some games explicitly did take place on Earth, and other games were ambiguous as to whether they took place on Earth or not. The classic games never clarified the setting in-story, but supplementary Japanese sources regularly establish it as Earth. South Island (the first game's setting) was stated to be in the Pacific, Sonic's birthplace is given as Christmas Island (a real life location), and humans besides Dr. Eggman were seen infrequently. Meanwhile, western sources had a totally different setting, describing Sonic's world as a distant planet named Mobius where Dr. Robotnik is the only human for some unexplained reason. Other western adaptations took this lore as their basis, resulting in a disparate continuity used in cartoons like Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) and the Sonic comics by Archie and Fleetway. By the time of the two Adventure games, the franchise underwent a Soft Reboot to homogenize the separate continuities. While this wasn't much different from a Japanese perspective, from a western lens, it was a drastic departure from the previous games. Suddenly they were on Earth, and the setting now featured realistic cities and humans other than Eggman. Then in Heroes, they're suddenly back to the fantastic-looking world of the classic games, with Continuity Nods to the Adventure games but no other humans or realistic cities in sight. Then back to what is definitely Earth in Shadow, '06 and Unleashed, and then back again to the fantastic world starting with Colors, where the games remained through Sonic Forces. Around the release of Sonic Colors, Sonic Team declared that the human-populated Earth and the anthropomorphic-animal-populated "Sonic's World" are two different worlds, which the plot sometimes moves between. This was further clarified in an official YouTube series, TailsTube, where Tails explains that humans and animals live on the same planet, but humans live on the large continents visible from orbit, while animals live on small islands dotted around those continents.
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Earth Drift / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind then swings to a very unconventional and alien setting. The wildlife has few real-life analogues and the land itself is primarily blasted ashlands, lava scathes, disease-ridden swamps, and tons of small islands.
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Earth Drift / int_b6e12f99	comment	Pitch Black mentions Earth a lot, but follow-up movies The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) and Riddick don't mention the planet. If you hadn't seen the first movie, you would think it was an A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away... setting.
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Earth Drift / int_bdc49dbe	comment	Happens over the course of The Laundry Files as a consequence of literal Earth drift — the planet's path through the galaxy is taking it through a region of space where normal rules donâ€™t necessarily apply. As a result, the first couple of novels are mostly like the Earth we know, but with some hushed up supernatural elements. Over the course of the series, however, there are increasing mass casualty incidents, followed by alien invasions and people openly developing superhuman powers, then horrors from beyond space manifesting in person and claiming territory.
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Earth Drift / int_c0d295c4	comment	Downplayed with Team Fortress 2. Around the time of release, promotional materials implied that the game was set in a realistic (albeit retro and stylised) world. Everybody came from a real-world country and the game's absurdist leanings came exclusively from its eccentric characters. However, as time went on, a series of in-game updates, animated shorts and tie-in comics would expand the world substantially, developing it into an utterly insane alternate history. This is a downplayed variation since the new information doesn't actively contradict much of what was established before and later material continued to liberally reference real figures, events and places, but the exact details began differing from real life in conspicuous (and absurd) ways. For instance, on this version of Earth, Australia is a hyper-advanced nation populated by superhumans, New Zealand is a sunken landmass with a lost civilization conspicuously similar to Krypton, supernatural beings wreak havoc every October, the entire world is controlled by two competing corporations secretly overseen by the same person and Abraham Lincoln was an arsonist who invented stairs.
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Earth Drift / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: The first story was set in New York, as opposed to Mega City One. Then again, the first story also included regular police within the justice department.
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Earth Drift / int_c35ec21c	comment	Super Mario Odyssey sets the series on a Fictional Earth, by establishing the Mushroom Kingdom as one of many kingdoms, some of which are inspired by Mexico, Japan, London, and France among others, and Retcons the New York-styled city where Donkey Kong and such took place as one of these kingdoms.
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Earth Drift / int_c501b586	comment	The first Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber took place on Earth, before the world of Nehwon was written into the series, with the result that when collected, some lines had to be added explaining why they were on Earth.
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Earth Drift / int_c68c0000	comment	The original Star Wars (Marvel 1977) tie-in comic run had many of these, with mentions of "Sunday school" by Han Solo, Jaxxon talking about "space carrots" (implying that there are places not considered to be from space — which would be assumed to be Earth), and so on.
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Earth Drift / int_c75ae76b	comment	Despite being a basically realistic police procedural in its early run, Dick Tracy began introducing more and more devices out of Speculative Fiction after World War II ended, starting with the two-way wrist radio. Eventually, the strip got so far into science fiction that an Audience-Alienating Era ensued, and it was later brought back to Earth. Many of the gadgets stayed ahead of real-world technology, though with the heroes having miniature, internet-capable wrist computers decades before Blackberries and iPhones became commonplace.
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Earth Drift / int_cb2d2a81	comment	It seems the franchise drifts back and forth with Earth, as Mario Kart Tour includes real-world cities (Paris, New York, Tokyo, etc.) among the usual racing venues.
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Earth Drift / int_cd63e81d	comment	In the Ace Attorney franchise, the religion practiced by the Fey Clan and associated with spirit channeling was heavily implied to be Pure Land Buddhism, complete with Buddhist nuns and the founder Ami Fey being named after AmitÄ�bha Buddha. In Japanese, this is so prevalent a sect that no explanation would have been necessary, and the English version let it be inferred, stating that it came over from Japan. Then, six games (minus spinoffs) into the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice suddenly revealed it to be "Khura'inism", an Interfaith Smoothie from not-Tibet/Nepal that worships the "Holy Mother".
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Earth Drift / int_d1702e57	comment	In FireRed, which features translated PokÃ©dex entries from the Japanese Red/Green, Raichu and Gastly's PokÃ©dex entries state that they can knock out an Indian elephant. While the original PokÃ©dex was made before the Generation 2 PokÃ©mon Donphan, it's still bizarre that this specific animal is mentioned at all. Later PokÃ©dex entries remove references to the animal and instead mention that they can knock out foes several times their size. Raichu's entry in PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus has a Mythology Gag to the older entries, as Professor Laventon comments that its shocks can knock out a Copperajah, an elephant PokÃ©mon from Galar.
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Earth Drift / int_d3e3e38a	comment	The She-Ra and the Princesses of Power reboot wasn't allowed mention much from He-Man for copyright reasons so doesn't mention she and He-Man's mother or the planet Earth.
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Earth Drift / int_d7081096	comment	Mother: EarthBound Beginnings explicitly takes place in America, although all the towns and landmarks visited are fictional. EarthBound (1994) continues the Americana setting, but takes place in an ersatz nation called Eagleland, on a planet whose continental outlines generally resemble the real world's, similar to the PokÃ©mon and Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies cases. Whether America and Eagleland are two separate countries on the same planet, or the first game's America has been retconned to have always been Eagleland, is not clarified, yet the presence of Giygas implies that the two are supposed to be in the same continuity.
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Earth Drift / int_dc58e164	comment	In Ratchet & Clank, Captain Qwark becomes a bizarre holdover, being the only human-like character in any of the games.
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Earth Drift / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II, drakestone was pretty clearly supposed to be sulfur with a fancy name, called that simply to disguise the fact that Anders is building a bomb, and that's one of the ingredients. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, it's an entirely different type of stone, red and crystalline and found in the mountains, that can be made into armor. (Incidentally, using sulfur in armor is a terrible idea, as it makes steel brittle in large quantities.)
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Earth Drift / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Grand Theft Auto IV marks the beginning of an Alternate Continuity called the "HD Universe", where the Earth Drift continued. The FBI is replaced with the FIB, SWAT is replaced with NOOSE (which is also based on the Department of Homeland Security), all guns are A.K.A.-47s now, and the president in 2008 was Joe Lawton, who is stated to be a buffoon whose father was also president several decades prior. Grand Theft Auto V states that Lawton is still in office circa 2013 instead of being replaced by a Barack Obama expy, indicating that America in the GTA universe either never passed term limits for Presidents,note The 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution barred Presidents from serving more than two terms in office. abolished them by Lawton's time, or has elections run on a different schedule from our own (as in The West Wing, where Presidential elections are in 2002 and 2006). Grand Theft Auto VI continues this by replacing Florida with its fictional counterpart Leonida, even though Florida had been mentioned not only in the 3D Universe but also in GTA IV.
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Earth Drift / int_e23ff2b1	comment	Some Masters of the Universe continuities don't bother mentioning that He-Man's mother, Marlena is a stranded astronaut from Earth like in the original series. The 2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe never mentioned Earth, however, if you look closely, some wall monitors in Randor's castle display maps of Earth. The She-Ra and the Princesses of Power reboot wasn't allowed mention much from He-Man for copyright reasons so doesn't mention she and He-Man's mother or the planet Earth. So far Marlena is an Ambiguously Absent Parent in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021).
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Earth Drift / int_e2d67fdc	comment	The games have begun to emphasize the cultural difference between their world and ours, such as making more PokÃ©mon-related puns or changing context of fictional works (for example Beauty and the Beast is about a man who turned into a PokÃ©mon, not a random monster).
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Earth Drift / int_e5dfd2c1	comment	The first game in the Zork trilogy features such things as Poseidon's trident and the coffin of Ramses II. Later installments in the Zork 'verse are plainly in a different reality to our own.
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Earth Drift / int_e7522689	comment	The original premise of DM of the Rings was that the DM was using a Dungeons & Dragons campaign to introduce The Lord of the Rings to friends who had never heard of it. This premise gradually changed to the idea that they live in a universe where Tolkien's works never existed, but somehow high fantasy and D&D do, and the DM invented the story and setting wholesale. The alternate universe angle is now considered a given in all works in the "Campaign Comic based on popular media" genre that DM of the Rings launched.
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Earth Drift / int_e863cc41	comment	Mega Man Battle Network: In the first game the WWW lab has a screen◊ of the world map that indicates the series takes place basically on Earth (in keeping with its connections to the Classic series). Electopia's name in the Japanese version of each game is also just "Japan." Battle Network 2 shows a world map◊ that looks nothing like Earth, but it's only in one scene. When other countries start being introduced, they're all Fantasy Counterpart Cultures based on real places instead of actually being said places (e.g. Netopia is a combination of North America and Western Europe), though languages like English and Spanish are explicitly mentioned by name even if their associated countries likely don't exist. Battle Network 4 burns that bridge with a vengeance by introducing an all-new globe◊, bringing the series into Fictional Earth.
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Earth Drift / int_f04d0f2b	comment	The manual for Heretic states many times that the game is set on Earth. Heretic II later retconned the setting into a world called Parthoris.
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Earth Drift / int_f81101f2	comment	In regards to non-PokÃ©mon animals, they used to be referenced from time to time in the Gen I games (PokÃ©dex entries and the S.S. Anne's menu) and early anime (non-PokÃ©mon fish, worms, and a cartoon mongoose conjured up by a talking Gastly), but these have largely been phased out as more PokÃ©mon species were introduced. Fruit is in a bit of a gray area as regular fruit (like apples) were common until Gen III introduced Berries (fruits with PokÃ©mon-like properties and naming). Now both these Berries and regular fruit co-exist within the same continuities. Detective Pikachu and the Alola games muddle this up further, with lemonade and ketchup made of berries instead of lemons and tomatoes, yet PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield features vegetables such as potatoes, and the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series traditionally uses regular apples for food.
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Earth Drift / int_fa5dc503	comment	Minilife TV initially seemed to take place on Earth, albeit a LEGOified fantasy version of it, but starting with Season 4, the setting was retconned into a fictional planet known as Legondo.
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Earth Drift / int_fd0b756	comment	Early drafts and editions of The Hobbit included references to policemen, lampposts, and China, which were eventually removed. The Hobbit still, however, includes a clock on Bilbo's mantlepiece; clockwork seems increasingly out of place as The Lord of the Rings progresses.note The lamppost in The Chronicles of Narnia was added by C. S. Lewis as a jab at his friend Tolkien's comment that "no fantasy should have a lamppost". Golf, at least, is given an explanation: at the Battle of Greenfields, Bullroarer Took killed the goblin leader Golfimbul by using a club to send his head flying off and down a rabbit hole.
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Earth Drift / int_fe6dcd31	comment	St. Cuthbert, a deity from Greyhawk, was strongly implied to be the real life St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne. Here, he didn't die of illness, but instead was brought to Oerth by the good gods, and eventually attained godhood. One early adventure even involved the characters crossing dimensions to recover his mace from a London museum. (His logic was that the best place to hide it was in a realm with no magic, where it'd never be suspected as anything other than a piece of history.) While this was never retconned, it has rarely been mentioned at all outside of some vague mentions of St. Cuthbert's origins being from another world, noting he has no cultural ties to any other human on Oerth.
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