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New Eden
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Long before the start of the story, ecological disaster drove humanity to an Underwater City, or underground, or into space, away from a ravaged Earth. After living for quite a while in a City in a Bottle, it's a safe bet that someone will eventually find the way out and discover that the Earth has cleaned itself up nicely and now looks like the pristine Ghibli Hills, or why not, the Yosemite National Park. Often used to make the point that the Earth would be a so much better place if it weren't for all the people, or more succinctly, that Ludd Was Right. If a group of survivors in space is smaller and not planning on a disaster, that's But What About the Astronauts?. Naturally, this is the perfect setting for an Adam and Eve Plot. May evoke the original Garden of Eden story as well. Compare Reclaimed by Nature. May overlap with Pastoral Science Fiction. |
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Adventure Time could be an example of this considering that it is after the apocalypse. A lot of places are pretty lush and colorful but some are in pretty bad shape. | |
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The Civilization: Call to Power games allows you to CAUSE this, just faster. By completing the Eden Project, switching to a Ecotopian government and churning out Eco Ranger units, you can systematically wipe out every sprawling, polluting city in the world, replacing them (and the surrounding area) with pristine wilderness. | |
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In the Justice League episode "Hearts And Minds" the planet Kalanor is a barren desert world that used to be a paradise. Its lifeforce, the Py'tar, was trapped inside it and needed someone to act as its conduit to heal Kalanor. Unfortunately, the chosen conduit Despero abused the Py'tar's power, using it as a tool of galactic conquest in the mistaken belief that this is what would turn Kalanor into a paradise again. The Martian Manhunter's Psychic Powers allow him to become another conduit and the Py'tar entreats the people of Kalanor to reject Despero's warmongering ways and embrace peace. The moment they do, the Py'tar changes its true form, a World Tree, and covers Kalanor in lush greenery again. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Inverted because the trio escape to the surface only to find a dangerous land of Beastmen causing trouble with their Ganmen. It has something to do with Lordgenome wiping all spiral life off the surface of the planet and repopulating it with less capable non-spiral lifeforms. Beastmen CAN'T evolve since they're sterile which is also literally why they can't use Spiral Power. Except for Viral, who becomes badass enough to use spiral power anyways. Played straight for Kamina personally because a dangerous frontier is exactly the kind of world he wanted to live in. |
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The Machine Stops is a science fiction novella by E. M. Forster set in a dystopian future where humanity lives in cubicles, communicating only via technology and experiencing everything second-hand. Outside the planet is livable but the titular Machine has rendered humanity dependent on it. Written in 1909. | |
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In the Emberverse, the total collapse of all modern technology means that things like bison and prairies make a hefty comeback, and wolves come back to the U.S. in force (also, lions and tigers. Blame soft-hearted zookeepers). | |
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In fact, New Eden is the goal of the entire series. The ending of Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel shows that Hope Sprouts Eternal and the entire planet slowly turning from dead brown and red into blue and green. | |
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Tokyo Mew Mew: The ancestors of the Big Bad and his followers were originally from Earth, and fled into space after it seemed like they were about to die off. They ended up on a very harsh planet, and upon finally returning to Earth, it looks perfect in comparison. Then they notice that humans are taking this paradise for granted, littering and polluting. This starts their initial desire to Kill All Humans. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Voices in the Earth", the ghosts of the dead Earth tell Professor Donald Knowles that they have the power to restore Earth's biosphere. However, they are reluctant to do so as the process requires a great deal of energy and could destroy what is left of their consciousness. Knowles accuses them of being cowards, just like the people who made Earth uninhabitable in the first place. This appears to shame the ghosts into doing the right thing as the biosphere is restored and the first signs of life are detected in the oceans. As the ghosts were able to accelerate evolution, Earth will soon be teeming with life again. | |
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A recent television program was aired on the History Channel called Life After People which explored, in vivid CGI, what would happen to the world we leave behind if every human on earth disappeared. | |
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In Last Exile, The show is set in an hourglass shaped space station (which is why the Eye Catch says "Last Exile In the Bottle"), and Last Exile is a transport ship to take anyone who wants back to Earth. | |
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The Cult in the Silent Hill series of games wants to institute this; their ultimate goal is to facilitate the incarnation of God, who will wipe away the sins of the world and create a literal New Eden, a paradise for the faithful. Unfortunately, their belief system is some kind of twisted amalgamation of Native American spirituality, fanatical (and heretical) Christian ideology and some sort of general occultism. Everything non-indoctrinated people witness shows that the "cleansing fire" would definitely NOT pave the way to paradise. In fact, very few members of the Cult even stop to ask the question why a beneficent God would need to be born via a human sacrifice that would lead not to death but to years of physical and psychological torture, or why the "Paradise" its nascent presence begins to create is a rusty, burnt-out parody of the real world full of nightmarish creatures literally spawned from peoples' psychosis... | |
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2000 AD: When Durham Red emerged from stasis, Earth was considered lost by the humans and mutants of the future. How did they lose it? Turns out that it was teleported to the far reaches of the galaxy to act as a prison for the most powerful mutant ever. In the meantime, the world recovered and became a lush paradise. Predictably, it did not stay this way. | |
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Ironically subverted in EVE Online - the New Eden system was initially a paradise, but was destroyed by the catastrophic collapse of the EVE wormhole. It is now a Crapsack Galaxy. | |
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Far Cry: New Dawn: Barring the faction that is actually called New Eden which was formed from the Project at Eden's Gate cult from the previous game, the game takes place after 5's Resist ending, which culminated in Hope County being nuked. Despite this, the world recovered very well with nature regrowing and society trying to rebuild and find peace. The Highwayman, on the other hand, had other plans in mind. | |
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In One Step From Eden, you are traveling towards Eden, presumably the only place with real civilization left among the stretches of ruins or unclaimed lands you traverse through. Not that the game can really confirm that. | |
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Megazone 23 Part 3 has one city in the whole world, unsurprisingly named Eden. Though after meeting the computer A.I.s Eve and Adam in the first two parts, it's hardly surprising. | |
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Radio announcements in Fallout 3 mention rumors that there is a tree growing somewhere in the Capital Wasteland. Following up on this, the Vault Dweller discovers a hidden grove of lush vegetation inhabited by a group of druids who worship a sentient tree, the result of an FEV accident. The player's actions affect whether the glade is left in peace, destroyed, or allowed to spread across the Wasteland as a New Eden. | |
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Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars subverts it slightly. The first Blue Zone (think the First world) to be converted from a Yellow Zone (think Mogadishu with Toxic Phlebotinum added to the mix) is given the name New Eden. It is a subversion because it was a result of human (or more specifically, GDI) efforts and because it gets wrecked and is implied to revert to a Yellow Zone thanks to the Scrin blowing up Tiberium Deposits and using Tiberium-based weapons. | |
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The Stargate SG-1 episode "The Gamekeeper" begins with this revelation, and the rest of the episode is dedicated (among other things) to SG-1's attempts to convince the locals stuck in a virtual reality that the planet did indeed repair itself, even though said locals believe otherwise. The Keeper is hellbent on convincing them otherwise. | |
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Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica: Finally happens to Metafalss after a long, tragic, desperate struggle; by way of the elusive Metafalica that everyone is after. Considering that this game can be described as it got worse: The JRPG, it's one of the most triumphant example of Earn Your Happy Ending. In fact, New Eden is the goal of the entire series. The ending of Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel shows that Hope Sprouts Eternal and the entire planet slowly turning from dead brown and red into blue and green. |
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Pale Cocoon: Implied. Humans escaped to the Moon to avoid environmental destruction, but somehow lost their written history, and started to believe they were living underneath the destroyed Earth. In the end the protagonist as the first person to go to the upper layers of the colony in centuries sees a blue, pristine Earth up in the sky, implying that the planet was healed long ago, but no-one thought to look. | |
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In Mass Effect 2, the homeworld of the quarians is becoming this, after they all basically got kicked off their planet in a war with their creations, the geth, which also severely damaged the planet. Legion reveals that the geth don't even use the planet, but help heal it instead, as a sort of monument to their creators, and a present, if the quarians ever announced a truce the geth could accept. | |
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Batman villain Ra's al Ghul is an international criminal mastermind whose ultimate goal is a world in perfect environmental balance. He believes that the best way to achieve this balance is to eliminate most of humanity. | |
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In Eureka Seven, humans fled the earth and returned years later. | |
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The shadow elves of Mystara, a D&D game setting, retreated underground to escape the Great Rain of Fire. Hundreds of years later, when the planet had recovered, their scouts rediscovered a path to the surface ... and ran smack into a subversion: rather than a paradise, the tunnel led to the Broken Lands, one of the few places on the planet that still looked like a radioactive wasteland. They went back underground and stayed put for another thousand years. | |
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West: A large portion of the game takes place in breathtaking ruins of cities so post-apocalyptic that they're covered in lush greenery. | |
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In The World and Thorinn, Thorinn learns that the robot overlords are maintaining a number of small "worlds" in layers to conserve life on Earth. It's left ambiguous as to whether there still exists a habitable outer shell, or if that's the one that Thorinn started at. | |
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In the series finale of Beast Machines, Optimus Primal's Heroic Sacrifice foils Megatron's plan to become Cybertron's Genius Loci and reformats Cybertron into a technorganic paradise. Notably, their conflict had originally been framed as heroic nature vs. villainous technology, only for the second and final season to reveal Cybertron could only flourish with the synthesis of both. | |
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Ponyo's father in Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea hopes for a New Eden after humanity has died out (he's a merman). | |
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The end of WALL•E is all over this trope. At least in the credits. When the movie was first shown to test audiences before Pixar made the "humanity restoring Earth" montage, about half the audience walked away with the rather realistic assumption that humanity died less than a week after they returned to Earth. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: In "The Way to Eden", also known as "The One with the Space Hippies", a group of free-thinking individuals, one who was a former Starfleet Academy student, seek out the supposedly mythical planet Eden. After hijacking the Enterprise, they find Eden in the Romulan Neutral Zone. Unfortunately for them, the plant life is full of acid, making it uninhabitable by humans. | |
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In We Are All Pokémon Trainers, during the course of Team Earthbound, Nova, and other's adventures in PMD-B, a post-apocalyptic version of the Alternate Timeline, they find that many of the old cities have gotten a new coating of green. Azalea for instance was completely swallowed by Ilex Forest. | |
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In The Stand by Stephen King,note partially inspired by Earth Abides the characters watch America being reclaimed by nature, which seems to bounce back nicely in the absence of humans, despite The Antichrist lurking about ready to bring about the Apocalypse. In particular, The Professor Glen Bateman spends a large portion of time talking about how everything has changed, possibly for the better without all those people. On the other hand, The Plague killed almost all the domestic animals, too, and left the rats and such. | |
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Mega Man X5 had the crash of the Eurasia colony as the ecological disaster. Flashforward to Mega Man Zero 4, and with Dr. Weil now ruling Neo Arcadia with an iron fist, the dissenters are fleeing to Area Zero, where nature has started to thrive again thanks to Eurasia's environmental control system somehow still being intact. Area Zero is the hope of the people for a life free from Weil's reign. Weil deploys the Neo Arcadian military to raze the area, up to and including building the Ragnarok Satellite for just that end; needless to say the whole point of the game is to prevent Area Zero's destruction. | |
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Earth Abides (1949) is possibly an Ur Example, although it is mixed in with a healthy amount of Fridge Horror as the single family that repopulates Northern California gradually loses the ability to count or write down anything since they are too busy learning how to live off the land with copper arrowheads made out of pennies. | |
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Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter is set in an underground realm rife with pollution and monsters. The object of the game is to get a certain character, who was genetically engineered into a walking pollution purification plant, up to the nature-y and now-pristine-and-human-free surface world, as the pollution will slowly kill her otherwise. Notably, no one knows that the surface is pollution-free: the reason humans are underground at all is because the surface was ravaged and made exceedingly dangerous by some unspecified event in the past. The only things Ryu knows is that a) Nina can't survive in the pollution underground and b) the pollution gets significantly lower the closer to the surface you get. It's not until the very end of the game that people discover the surface is not just livable, but beautiful. |
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The Conversion Bureau stories often suggest this by contrasting Equestria with our world. Chatoyence's works openly state that all human beings should die if it would make the world a prettier place. | |
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In the film adaptation of Hellboy, this is Grigori Rasputin's motivation for trying to release the Ogdru Jahad. He's deluded of course, seeing as an actual vision of their return reveals a fiery wasteland. This is actually more or less true in the comics. The Ogdru Jahad's ultimate goal is, more or less, to return Earth to the way it was in prehistoric times, before God selected humans to be His chosen people. While visions of the immediate aftermath of an Ogdru Jahad victory show grey, ruined, smoking wastelands full of ash and collapsed buildings, their long term plan is to cover the world in lush, mesozoic jungles populated by reptiles, amphibians and crustaceans. |
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Doctor Who serial "The Sontaran Experiment", only now Earth (or at least the greater London area) looks like the Devonshire moors. | |
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The Living Legends Of Superman: In the far future, the human race has commited a collective heroic sacrifice to save the cosmos, and the last two humans, Superman's descendant A'dam'mkent and an unnamed woman, find themselves alone on a beautiful tropical planet. | |
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Subverted in Battlestar Galactica, in which they arrive at Earth only to find that it was thoroughly nuked two thousand years ago, and is still an uninhabitable wasteland. Kobol arguably plays it straight. It is implied that the war that broke out on Kobol ~3,600 years ago, and may or may not have been nuclear as well. By the time the Colonials arrive, the planet is lush and teeming with life. However, traces of the catastrophe and ruins of major cities are still present. And it is also cursed. |
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The ultimate destination for the main characters of The Books of Ember: their city is dying, so they're trying to find a way for everyone to leave it and go somewhere where they can all survive. | |
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Horizon Zero Dawn: Centuries after the Old Ones were wiped out by a mysterious catastrophe, Earth has recovered to the point that lush forests and grasslands now dominate the landscape and have reclaimed the crumbling remains of civilization, playing this trope very straight. In fact, it's actually a subversion. Earth's biosphere was ravaged by an army of self-replicating war machines that could convert biomass into fuel. All multicellular life on the planet was killed. What life that exists in the game is actually the result of the Zero Dawn project, an AI that was created to hack the warbot army and deactivate it, then fix the damage to the atmosphere and oceans before reintroducing plants and animals who's seeds and embryos had been stored in underground vaults. Once Earth's biosphere was sufficiently recovered, humans were cloned using stored genetic material and artificial wombs. Earth only lush and prosperous because of technology. | |
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In Cleopatra 2525, a man-made ecological catastrophe has driven humanity underground at some point between now and the 26th century. They left behind machines called Baileys to repair the damage. And they do. The surface now looks like a lush paradise. But the Baileys have no desire for humans to return and wreck the place again. Only a few tribes are kept, as long as they worship the Baileys and occasionally sacrifice some of their number to make more Baileys. It turns out that the Baileys were created by the series' Big Bad Creegan, whose real name is George Bailey. While he didn't program the Baileys to rebel, he doesn't disagree with their reasoning. | |
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City of Heroes and its "expansionalone", City of Villains has a few zones that fit this trope. One example is the area previously named "Woodvale", but referred to in-game almost exclusively as "Eden". Here, the player can find many vistas of pristine wilderness trying to crawl its way back across a previously urban landscape. In a twist, all the nature hates humanity. Not so much nature as a scientifically created Virus created by a Mad Scientist environmentalist. There's the spirit of a true nature guardian killed by them that helps heroes. |
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The core McGuffin, though it looks less like a national park and more like a surreal, magical realm. The manga also has the caveat that since modern humans have adapted to their polluted After the End environment, they literally wouldn't be able to survive in a purified world. Old humanity (the one that destroyed the environment to begin with) engineered the Sea of Corruption to purify the world, so that, once the process was complete, it would emerge from its cocoons and take over once more. On learning this, Nausicaa destroys their Crypt, and hopes that her current mankind, instead of being replaced by its Abusive Precursors, will adapt on its own just like it did before. | |
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