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Schizo Tech
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The setting and timeline may seem at first to be The Middle Ages, The Colonial Period, or some Fantasy Counterpart Culture thereof, but when you look closer, you find polyester, robots, or other high-tech toys in between the horse-drawn wagons and wattle-and-daub buildings. There's generally no rhyme or reason for which technologies are anachronistically present besides the Rule of Cool. Sometimes these may be leftovers from a lost technological civilization, or perhaps it could be that science developed along a different path than ours, allowing for more advanced technology in one field, while stagnating in others, but most of the time there is no explanation whatsoever for the bizarre mix of medieval and futuristic. Schizo Tech is a key component of Punk Punk. It's also the foundation for Fantasy Gun Control. Compare Decade Dissonance for when one side has all the cool toys. When a story nominally set in a real-life historical period has this problem, you've got yourself some tasty Anachronism Stew. It may be because an isolated branch of mankind created an Advanced Ancient Acropolis. After the End is normally a good justification of this; often resulting in Scavenger World, especially when you have a faction with Low Culture, High Tech. When evaluating a candidate for this trope, try not to confuse anachronisms with non-western-isms. For example, a kimono can be just as modern as a three-piece suit, if not more so. Likewise, do not confuse anachronism for cosmetic purposes with anachronism of technological capability. For example, though you will see lots of Zeppelins from Another World at work in Schizo Tech, Airships themselves are not more or less advanced than airplanes or helicopters, just suited to different situations—namely, ones that value endurance, payload and fuel efficiency over speed and maneuverability. Alternatively, a judge wearing an eighteenth century robe and wig while judging cybercrime cases is not schizo tech, but simply a remnant of the Good Old Ways. And again, Tropes Are Still Not Bad. It's also worth noting that in the alternate history of a candidate, the culture and style may simply be different, so while their older architecture may seem to jar with their higher levels of technology, it may be that that style of architecture is just "in" at that time. In dealing with other cultures, also remember that the concept of Technology Levels is flawed, and that real societies are not obliged to all invent the same things in the same order, and may miss some inventions entirely. Most comic book universes have this trope as a natural consequence: the wondrous science held by the heroes and villains would, if even partially distributed, violate the surprisingly mundane world that divides the superhero genre from outright Speculative Fiction. Examples and subversions are noted below. This trope has frequently been Truth in Television depending on the circumstances, with historical works involving World War I and other major events that were technological 'kitchen sink' like affairs (with cavalry charges co-existing with airplane bombing runs) one hundred percent qualifying. Beware: Many sci-fi settings that aren't harder than diamond can become this constantly if you think about it too hard. Compare Adventure-Friendly World, Anachronism Stew, Culture Chop Suey, Sufficiently Advanced Bamboo Technology, Weapons Kitchen Sink, and Fantasy Kitchen Sink. Technology Levels is what this trope averts. As well as Medieval European Fantasy, of course. If the old stuff proves as effective as the new stuff, you've also got an Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age. It may also be the byproduct of a Retro Universe. Contrast Days of Future Past. Not to be confused with tech used by schizophrenics. |
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In Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan and others actually invent a ton of things that change the world. Cars are now electric, eliminating the need for gasoline powered vehicles, and among other things Rorschach's constantly shifting mask is an invention of Dr. Manhattan's designed originally as just an ornate dress. | |
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Sleepless Domain: The City's technology seems to be at an unspecified point behind the real-world present day — they have a tram system but no cars, personal computers don't seem to exist, and characters call each other on corded landline phones. The most advanced technology seen in the setting are the magitek items produced by a magical girl named Techno Blitz with her powers, including a Surveillance Drone and a prosthetic arm. | |
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Nikolai Dante features this as part of its aesthetic. Swords and axes still have their place on the battlefield alongside highly advanced rifles with Bottomless Magazines, hover tanks, and gargantuan flying palaces bristling with gargantuan fusion cannons. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift infamously introduced entirely generic-looking modern forklifts that clash rather jarringly with the setting's otherwise Steampunk aesthetic. | |
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Sonic X: Dark Chaos: Technology is all over the place, depending on the planet and aliens involved. The Demons (minus Astorath and the Nephilim) and Angels are consistently portrayed as Sufficiently Advanced Aliens, but the Jewish forces range from flying pieces of welded scrap with machine guns to secret tech so advanced that it cannot be physically understood. Some races that Sonic and his friends encounter have little to no technology at all, using old wooden sailing ships (the Zeko natives) or straight up satanic Black Magic (the Marmolims). The Muslims may be the king of this trope, combining fanatical spearmen and suicide bombers with golden nuke-flinging battleships and Body Horror-filled genetic engineering. It helps that its a totalitarian theocracy that considers many common pieces of technology to be haraam. | |
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Post-Crisis stories like The Third Kryptonian often explain this as a cultural shift; Kryptonians did at some point attempt to develop space travel, and even had a short-lived intergalactic colonial empire, but abandoned it as the people became more xenophobic. The same was true of on of their colonies, Daxam. In both cases the influence of a device intended to preserve Kryptonian cultural purity messing with their genetics was used to provide an explanation. The reason Jor-El and Zor-El could conceive of a way to leave Krypton was because their house originally built said device and they knew how to undo its effects. | |
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Dominic Deegan, set in a medieval-type world of magic, has plenty of modern-day luxuries. Casting a lighting bolt onto a guitar will make it an "electric guitar", a voice-amplifying spell on a crystal turns it into a microphone ... yeah, they had a full-fledged rock concert. They also have newspapers. And comic-book superheroes. | |
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Cucumber Quest: "Well, the people of Dreamside have television, electric lighting and space travel, but they're still fighting with swords. I probably decided on this because I've always liked cartoons and comics that blend old-timey fantasy stuff with modern technology for the sake of humor or whimsy or whatever." | |
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In Atop the Fourth Wall, Linkara lives in a typical 21st century home. He also has a Robot Buddy, working tricorders, sonic screwdrivers, cybermats, and power morphers. He also has a spaceship so advanced that sometimes the government asks HIM to check things out. Most of the devices are actually replicas he's made work via magic, while the ship was taken from an interdimensional villain. His other tech is provided by a Mad Scientist version of himself from a Alternate Universe. | |
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In Endstone, Rosie's Beauty Salon and Blacksmith is perhaps the clearest example of how this is a Sword and Sorcery United States of America. | |
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RWBY: Remnant is a world where fantasy monster-slayers and sword-wielding nobility co-exist with portable music players and tablets with holographic displays. At least one country has developed humanoid combat robots, tiltjet aircraft and a Humongous Mecha. It's mentioned that, even though Remnant's level of technology is far beyond that of our world, they have never developed a space program because Dust doesn't work the moment it leaves the planet, and the people of Remnant have never bothered to look for an alternative fuel source. While they have an Internet on Remnant, it's not based on satellites and instead is based on four massive terrestrial communications towers. This eventually bites everyone in the ass: when one of these towers is knocked out in the finale of Volume 3, the resulting communications blackout combined with the last images being relayed from Vale being those of Beacon's Huntresses inflicting grave harm on their fellows and Atlesian robots attacking innocent people, it's enough to discredit both Beacon and Atlas in one swoop and drive the Kingdoms to the brink of war. Just as Cinder planned. During Volume 7, General James Ironwood comes up with a plan to restore communications and warn the world about Cinder's boss Salem. However, he abandons this plan and turns against the heroes before it can be completed and forces them to finish it in Volume 8. | |
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Wakanda, home of the Black Panther, goes even beyond Latveria in some versions. Someone might stumble on what looks like a harmless and primitive—at best Bronze Age—African village on the edge of the country and mistake it for an easy target only to discover the apparently decorative stone statues are shooting plasma bolts, armed flying drones are being launched from a wooden hut, and the spears those loincloth-wearing warriors are tossing? Rocket-boosted self-guided smart missiles with high explosive armour-piercing warheads. And in the late 2010s, it turns out that Wakanda has an interstellar empire on top of everything else. | |
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Though mostly sticking to its mid 17th-century flavor, Open Blue has the occasional incendiary bullet (WWI), Minie-Ball (19th century), and swords coated with diamond (???) to make cutting easier. This of course, does not count the myriad of weird things left behind by the precursors. | |
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The Discworld, in the city of Ankh-Morpork as seen by the visiting Californians in crossover fic with The Big Bang Theory, The Many Worlds Interpretation. It has a supercomputer (HEX) way in advance of anything on Earth but no electricity, TV, petrol engines... meanwhile visiting Discworlders in Pasadena/Los Angeles find technological sophistication - but no awareness of magic. The visiting Assassin realises how reliance on machinery to do the work has rendered the people largely less muscular and physically able than on her own world. | |
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Guilded Age: When the Champions are attacked by the corrupting beast, several of the Peacemakers have just tracked it to them. They find themselves up on a cliff overlooking Penk and Magda's attempts to fight it. Sundar is all for leaving them for it, but everyone else insists on intervening. Even Frigg points out that no one deserves that fate. | |
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Days of Future Past: At one point in the Sentinel run Bad Future, we see a bus being pulled by horses. It helps indicate that everyone's suffering under their rule, not just Mutants. | |
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Sarilho: some people use regular guns and there's these guys with Microwave Guns. | |
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How to Train Your Dragon is apparently set in The Low Middle Ages, but due to Serial Escalation more and more advanced tech shows up: The first movie has the Mangler - essentially a humongous shnappernote An arbalet with a barrel to shoot bullets instead of arrows that shoots bolas. Dragons: Riders of Berk: Hiccup creates a shield-bow-harpoon, a flaming sword, a flight suit and some diving equipment including a helmet. Also there are a lot of arbalets (while there was not even a simple bow in the movie) and Dagur's mooks wear helmets that look like great helms from The High Middle Ages. How to Train Your Dragon 2: There are very complicated traps and some things on Berk like giant metal gates for the dragon stables. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: While the Berkians' equipment becomes more and more advanced to the point of gas grenades, the antagonists have a dragon-propelled quadrocopter. |
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C'hou is loaded with this in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, as the G'heddi'onians use both magic and technology, and the outworlders have brought in a huge variety of stuff. The four immediately note the wide variety of styles and materials used in clothing stores, and how unlikely it would be for everything to be produced locally. When George asks a salesperson where all the stuff comes from, the woman handwaves it by saying that “The gods lined up various suppliers.� Ringo notes that the civilians of the Guardians-run Central City are essentially peasants who sell heavy ordnance from what look like fruit stands and ox carts. The G'heddi'onians are divided into the urbanized “Urb Geddies� and the Luddite “Nat Geddies,� who eschew both technology and most magic. However, the Urb Geddies use both happily, though at least one (Lotisa) was very startled by John's touch-telepathy because she “grew up with tech.� |
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In Inhuman, the technology level of the planet Hekshano is that of 1970s Earth - but with spaceships. | |
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In Homestuck we see the warring kingdoms, who both have lots of crazy gadgets like flying warships, giant mechas, and high-tech facilities for genetic manipulation. However, right next to a squad of soldiers wielding assault rifles, we see soldiers wielding swords and bows. Doc Scratch uses a typewriter to communicate with the trolls' instant messenger client through a time gap of almost a thousand years. There is also ancient Alternia, which features sailing ships, swords, bows, cybernetics, and interstellar travel. Modern Alternia, meanwhile, has mastered robotics and biotechnology, but has yet to invent the airplane. |
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Flash Gordon joyously lives on this trope. Mongo has swords and rayguns and riding beasts and rocket ships and anything that would be cool. | |
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The Order of the Stick is set in a Medieval European Fantasy setting much like a typical campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons. However, in various strips it has featured coffee machines, indoor plumbing, stethoscopes, bug zappers, cell phones, and even a desktop computer (the last one was admittedly owned by an angel). The Technology Levels appears to be whatever inspires the best jokes. V calls the strip out on it once: In a later strip, Redcloak mentions that magical, lightning-powered trains actually do exist in the OOTS-verse (and complains that he's the one who has to make sure they run on time). |
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Darkseid's world of Apokolips has space ships, teleportation technology, and many advanced weapons, while making the slaves use wooden pulleys, carts, and hand labor to build stone castles. Most likely, this is all intentional. | |
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In Of Monsters and Men's music video for "King and Lionheart", the airships and war machines don't seem too out of place in the fantasy setting, but the stone temple that launches into the air like a spacecraft comes as a surprise. | |
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My Little Pony: A New Generation: Friendship is Magic tends to rely mainly on the ponies using steampunk or non-electronic technologies. However, the centuries that passed between the series and the movie have seen considerable, but uneven, advances. The biggest business in Maretime Bay is CanterLogic, an electronics company similar to Apple. Meanwhile, giant plasma screens adorn the walls of buildings in Zephyr Heights and nearly every pegasus owns smartphones. However, in Bridlewood, the unicorns still rely on the steampunk hoof-cranked or even literally Hamster-Wheel Power tech. | |
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Rusty and Co.: Electric guitars and soda machines accompany your traditional fantasy fare. | |
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Gaia: what starts out looking like a standard Renaissance-stasis swords-and-sorcery fantasy setting is soon revealed to have most of the trappings of a modern industrial society, like spiral-bound notebooks, electricity, and modern clothes and fabrics. We later see a Hidden Elf Village that displays a science-fiction level of MagiTek, which may explain why a society that can produce indoor plumbing, fountain pens, light bulbs, zippers and brassieres can't also make firearms, telephones or automobiles. | |
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Analog: One very representative example is a short story in an issue of Analog, in which the most advanced two species in the universe can use black holes as a source of energy and have more Wave Motion Guns than you can imagine, but are surprised and, for one of the two species (both flew around in gigantic spaceships), destroyed by a lucky shot from a device consisting of a long tube, a titanium coated projectile, and an explosive, i.e., a gun. Apparently, only humans are brutish enough to come up with the idea. | |
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In TwoKinds, a character orders a pizza. This seemingly innocuous act soon becomes Fridge Logic when one realizes that the setting doesn't have the communications, rapid non-magical transport, or agricultural tech for food delivery, being just into Iron Age. Could just be a throwaway joke by way of anachronism. | |
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2000 AD strip Nemesis the Warlock, intergalactic spacecraft, Humongous Mecha and swords and battle axes. | |
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In Worldwar: War of Equals, Humans are actually surprised that the aliens have tanks, aircraft, and technology that are somewhat weaker than theirs but yet they have starships and have cold sleep tech. | |
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Blade of Toshubi: While the setting is mainly feudal Japanese, there have been instances of higher level technology, such as Reiko's training taking place in a chamber with nuclear waste barrels. | |
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Nävis, the protagonist of the French comic series Sillage, lives in a treehouse inside a sort of biosphere spaceship, presumably because she grew up in a jungle and likes her home feeling close to nature. | |
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Neopets: The world of Neopia is based in a "pre-industrial period", where this trope is dependent on region. There's sticks and stones in Tyrannia, the various Fantasy Counterpart Cultures have the tech level you'd expect, Moltara is Steampunk, while Neopia Central is closest to real life but has nothing like computers, cars, or any sort of electronic technology. And orbiting the planet, there's the Virtupets Space Station and moon colony on Kreludor, although they were created by a scientist from outer space. | |
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DMFA has everyone using swords yet guns also apparently exist. Modern appliances and things like video games exist but the only known transportation is gryphon drawn carts. Also Giant Robots. Granted most of the tech is credited to be invented by the same character and some, like the guns, aren't in the hands of the general public and magical versions seemed to be the standard until recently Lampshaded by the world description, which states that it's not uncommon for 21st century cities to exist a short walk away from medieval villages in Furrae. With the world dominated by magic creatures with scrying orbs, teleportation, and pocket dimensions; it never occured to Dragon Lord Hizell that Cyra was hiding on a space station. |
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Lampshaded in Starman, when Jack Knight tells his father that when he invented an unlimited, clean source of power in the 1940s, he should have used it to make cosmic-powered cars instead of flying around fighting crime. Jack's father actually goes on to construct a cosmic power plant big enough to power the entire county, which hasn't been seen since in the DCU. | |
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Batman: Lampshaded in the first Superman/Batman comic. Alfred is guarding the sewer entrance to the Batcave with a shotgun. Superman remarks on it, telling Batman "You didn't have an extra freeze ray gun you could've given him?" Batgirl tried to justify it back when she was the crippled hero Oracle. In theory, she could have the use of her legs back instantly with the tech that the JLA and Batman have available. She refuses to use it, however, until it is available to everyone. |
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How to Train Your Dragon 2: There are very complicated traps and some things on Berk like giant metal gates for the dragon stables. | |
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Girl Genius has numerous instances of technological disconnects, mainly because mad scientists have specialized talents and are more inclined to fight each other than to build something profitable. They have autonomous robots with advanced AI but no computers. Airships the size of cities cruise the skies, but no fixed or rotary wing aircraft. Energy weapons abound but no radio or telephonic communications. Probably because lighter-than-air crafts rarely crash on their own. For that matter, instead of parachutes they have "lifegliders"—hang-gliders looking like a bastard child of blimp and bat. Prototypes are more advanced than mass-produced stuff, though. Gilgamesh Wulfenbach actually does invent a gas powered fixed-wing aircraft early in the comic archive (Hilarity Ensues). The chapter is aptly called "The Infamous Falling Machine!". There's a jetpack jetsuit—Mk II, of course ("dangerous, but amusing"). Castle Heterodyne has a holographic map updated in real time. The Master of Paris built a city-wide telepresence system, and keeps the Autonomous Library, based on a scribing engine made by Voltaire. |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance: Magic can explain its use to some extent, but the setting is somewhat medieval but includes elevators, steam trains, spacecraft, powerful computers, and styrofoam. And despite all that, apparently a safe method of curdling milk to make cheese hasn't been discovered at the beginning of the game. | |
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Aecast: The setting looks like somewhere in medieval India or the Middle East, yet humanity clearly has access to things like teleporters, holograms, and proximity sensors. | |
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In Lilith the alterations to the timeline caused by the protagonist's actions eventually start having this effect. Most notably, in the altered timeline Japanese small arms in 1783 were noted to have twice the range of their British equivalents, and a couple pages later it's shown they're breech-loading bolt action guns with rifled barrels, and their munitions are paper cartridges with spitzer bullets. | |
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The Fourth is mostly a Zelda-esque fantasy world, but the authors are not afraid to throw in a Victorian-era haunted house, or phone when the plot beckons. | |
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The Trigan Empire has supersonic planes, Hover Tank and heat guns (a hybrid projectile/energy weapon) that wouldn't be out of place from Buck Rogers, but due to tradition - the Trigan Empire (which was initially made mostly from the Barbarian Hero Vorg tribe plus refugees of the highly advanced Tharv people) - they also use Ancient Grome technology like horse-drawn carts, cavalry, spatha short swords and spears. While there are other advanced civilizations, there are also people who are at Stone Age tech level and anywhere between. | |
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The world of Blonde Sunrise is a downplayed example. Creston and its surrounding environs have a tech level mostly comparable to the modern day, but they appear to lack computers or the Internet, and melee weapons are used alongside modern firearms by hunters. | |
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In Wonder Woman, Paradise Island is an interesting case. In Pre-Crisis, despite a love of ancient Greek aesthetics, the Amazons had both magic and advanced technology — for instance, they built the Purple Healing Ray and the Invisible Jet. Since they had a magic scrying device that let them observe developments on the outside world at will, and they were a scholarly culture with nothing but time on their hands to invent things, this actually makes perfect sense. However, Post-Crisis, this was deemed confusing, and the Amazons were cast solidly back into the Bronze Age. | |
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Fire Emblem on Forums has a few examples dotted about the roleplays: Wonderful Blessing: While castles still are the largest buildings and horseback is still a major form of transport, a tram system exists in Ishim, the capital of Midgardia, gacha games exist on the crystal tablets (which operate as a magical equivalent to a smartphone and a television), while firearms are still being created. And that's not even getting into the oddness of Kaisei, which has a culture and aesthetic influenced by a combination of Generia and the half-remembered dreams of Revivians, who are almost exclusively drawn from Otaku from modern Japan. Solrise Academy: While Parvain is mentioned to have tech roughly equivalent to the 1930s, the protagonists still prefer to use swords and bows, with firearms absent from the setting. Cars are mentioned and the characters board a bus to ride into the city, but horses are still heavily used in battle. Justified to some extent, as some areas are very rural, with Mordecai in particular coming from a rural area where most of the urban technological advances are uncommon. |
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The Emperor's New Groove is largely set in an ancient Incan kingdom, although a floor waxer inexplicably appears for a one-shot gag. | |
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Even before the Civil War, Tony Stark tried letting the U.S. government use some low-powered suits of Powered Armor a few times. Inevitably, the armor ended up getting used for purposes that were evil or stupid and Tony ended up regretting the decision. That said, the U.S. government has Mandroids, note (one of the above-mentioned evil-and-stupid uses of Stark Tech; have we ever seen the Mandroids used for anything good?) Sentinels, portable energy weapons and all kinds of other ridiculous tech — none of which they even bother to keep secret! Bizarrely, the general public never seems to question any of this, not even when 50 foot tall killer robots are standing guard at the White House! | |
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Cwynhild's Loom: The small mining settlement of Prosperity resembles a Wild West town in look and feel, however robots, aircraft, high-speed maglev trains and powered land vehicles are all seen. | |
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Questionable Content is set in Present Day western Massachusetts, but features sentient robots sold at retail, various Transformer-style mecha (Vespa-Bot FTW), and a major character spent her childhood on a space station. This seems to go forgotten for large stretches of time. Also note that every indie pop and post-rock album since 2003 seems to have come out within a span of under two years. And in early 2010, The Singularity occurred; apart from the existence of strong AI (which is only even commented on once), everything seems to be the same as it was before. |
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Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): Hector made an electric chair during what appears to be somewhere in the 1300's or earlier, and he also made a foot-powered generator (think a bicycle) to power it. In the same era, Isaac was the proud owner of, and we quote: "anachronistic laser cannon". The Belmont family had arguments over whether or not they should install an elevator in their house during the Renaincance. |
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Audience! They have a feudalistic monarchy complete with peasants and castles in one location and space traveling robot engineers in the next. Not to mention magic. | |
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Dragon Hill is mostly set in a medieval setting, with a character trying to improve technological advance (such as the use of television); in the end, it turns out that dragons have developed a supercomputer. | |
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Beetle Bailey's been going since The '50s and the Korean War, so Beetle and his unit wear Korea-era uniforms, drive Jeeps, and use old-fashioned rifles. In more recent strips, there are computers, microphone headsets, modern-style golf, and other modern technology, but the 50s tech has never gone away. | |
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The first movie has the Mangler - essentially a humongous shnappernote An arbalet with a barrel to shoot bullets instead of arrows that shoots bolas. | |
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The Way of the Metagamer is set in the Medieval time period of Dungeons & Dragons. There are skyscrapers in towns. With elevators. | |
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Tellurion, for the most part, takes place in something like an Iron-Age Caribbean adventurer's fantasy world. That is, if you look past the fact that the sun and moon are giant mechanical apparatuses, and one of the Heroes is a robot. | |
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In Adam Ant's video for "Stand and Delver", supposedly set in 18th century England one of the "dandy highwayman's" victims is listening to a Walkman. | |
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Vaguely Recalling JoJo: Jonathan uses a laser blaster (Metal Silver Overdrive) during the 19th century. Straizo uses a pineapple grenade as an attack. Kakyoin carries around a PSP and DS during the 1980s. They both break. Cursed Devo uses a clamshell phone during the 1980s. |
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Superman: Pre-Crisis Krypton had all manner of advanced tech, with the single, sometimes-lampshaded exception of a space program. Krypton only started developing space flight within a single generation before its destruction, and largely abandoned it after a catastrophe destroyed one of their moons (oops! This is what got Jax-Ur exiled to the Phantom Zone). But the reason for this lack of space tech is simple: In Pre-Crisis days, Krypton was freaking huge, with monstrous gravity that any rocket would have to fight. The breakthrough that finally allowed them to have spaceflight at all was Jor-El's invention of antigravity. All this meant that Jor-El was never able to build the evacuation fleet he wanted, and only had one little home-made rocket for baby Kal-El. This mostly just justifies why the Kryptonians didn't travel the galaxy as Supermen once they escaped the light of their red sun. In theory, if they had gotten far enough away, they could simply continue travelling without the need for spaceships. Post-Crisis stories like The Third Kryptonian often explain this as a cultural shift; Kryptonians did at some point attempt to develop space travel, and even had a short-lived intergalactic colonial empire, but abandoned it as the people became more xenophobic. The same was true of on of their colonies, Daxam. In both cases the influence of a device intended to preserve Kryptonian cultural purity messing with their genetics was used to provide an explanation. The reason Jor-El and Zor-El could conceive of a way to leave Krypton was because their house originally built said device and they knew how to undo its effects. |
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Batgirl tried to justify it back when she was the crippled hero Oracle. In theory, she could have the use of her legs back instantly with the tech that the JLA and Batman have available. She refuses to use it, however, until it is available to everyone. | |
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In Incompatible System, one of the main reasons humanity initially assumed that the Mass Relay had to be meant as a bomb was that any real research into the properties of planium would inevitably lead to WIMP theory, which would both let you realize how horrifically dangerous planium is and let you do anything planium can do (other than make stupidly big explosions) much more effectively and safely. So the only way a species could end up using planium for non-destructive purposes would be if they were given planium-based tech as a Black Box from some other race, and then never did more than the most cursory research into what it was or how it worked. | |
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Starslip Crisis' Show Within a Show Concrete Jungle (supposedly an accurate portrayal of the early 21st century) has, well, just look at it. | |
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Bruno the Bandit is set in a basic "middle ages" fantasy setting, but still has vacuum cleaners, television (complete with every TV trope in the book) and cellphones. The author Ian McDonald has said he originally intended the Schizo Tech to be the main source of humour in the comic, but soon realised it couldn't carry jokes by itself and it was left as The Artifact. There are still occasional gags such as their version of Youtube being called "Thoutube". | |
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Dragons: Riders of Berk: Hiccup creates a shield-bow-harpoon, a flaming sword, a flight suit and some diving equipment including a helmet. Also there are a lot of arbalets (while there was not even a simple bow in the movie) and Dagur's mooks wear helmets that look like great helms from The High Middle Ages. | |
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The Tieke from Prophecy of the Circle possess a number of hi-tech devices which were granted to them by a being known as Teyka, along with the means of replicating them. In all other aspects, their own technology is early iron age at best. | |
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MegaTokyo appears to take place in a normal analog of the modern world. Except when the Tokyo PD breaks out the giant mecha. | |
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Tech level in White Sand is pretty hard to nail down. On one hand, Darksiders have flintlocks and dynamite, while Daysiders seem to be more on spears-and-swords level of technology - yet there's something akin to a radio or DVD player visible behind Kenton in one panel. | |
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Dino Attack RPG: The entire LEGO Universe. We have knights and pirates shooting crossbows and flintlock pistols alongside astronauts and cyborgs shooting lasers and sonic weapons as all sorts of technology levels coexist in this world. The Space Knights are a specific example, since their entire culture is based on Medieval Stasis enhanced by futuristic technology. | |
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NIMONA (2023): The film's world is initially presented as a classic fairytale kingdom with princesses and knights, but it also has more contemporary and futuristic elements such as lasers, flying vehicles, holographic displays, television sets, and wireless headphones. | |
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Zork contains mostly World War 2ish-era technology that is augmented by magic, some of which uses devices that strike accord with pre-industrial paradigms. | |
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The Mercury Men's story is set in the mid-Seventies. But the lighting — and the monsters — looks like The Outer Limits (1963), Edward's and Grace's outfits look Fifties-ish, and Jack's outfit evokes The '30s. And it mixes Dieselpunk, Raygun Gothic, Atomic Punk, horror and other genres seamlessly. | |
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In The Rifters, modern combat fatigues and plate armor are worn by two different main characters, and no one thinks this odd. Then again, the other main characters are wearing modern clothes, a martial arts gi, or no shirt at all. | |
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Ryan George's "The First Guy to Ever" videos take place in a world where many modern things exist, but other things both new and ancient are being created for the first time. For example, in this video restaurants (albeit by the name "food place" as a result of having been invented in a previous video) and Yelp are both established, but eating eggs is a new idea. | |
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Demon's Mirror has swords, cyborgs, and carriages pulled by robots. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: The After the End setting has this. For starters, the five nations of the Known World have lost their infrastructure to different extents. Mechanical vehicles are still around, but have become very expensive to use and maintain compared to horse-drawn carriages, thus making their use mostly military. Those that do exist are however more advanced than in present times. An Icelandic genetics program intended to boost the country's immunity rate hints that they at the very least have sperm and ovum preservation, as well as artificial insemination equipment up and running. By contrast, a Swedish character, whose country is just getting around having public radio again and has a few trains built specifically to go through Plague Zombie territory, genuinely believed that Finland didn't have electricity at all (they do, "but not very much" according to an actual Finn). | |
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Wonderful Blessing: While castles still are the largest buildings and horseback is still a major form of transport, a tram system exists in Ishim, the capital of Midgardia, gacha games exist on the crystal tablets (which operate as a magical equivalent to a smartphone and a television), while firearms are still being created. And that's not even getting into the oddness of Kaisei, which has a culture and aesthetic influenced by a combination of Generia and the half-remembered dreams of Revivians, who are almost exclusively drawn from Otaku from modern Japan. | |
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: While the Berkians' equipment becomes more and more advanced to the point of gas grenades, the antagonists have a dragon-propelled quadrocopter. | |
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Happy Heroes: In Season 6, planet Guling is entirely prehistoric in nature, complete with a lack of modern technology... save for the presence of Sad S., Sick S., and Oversensitive S., who are all robots like the main characters. | |
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