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Just as the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism determines the 'mood' of a series, this scale determines how much a particular series is unlike reality in relation to the natural laws, general conditions, and probabilities of Real Life. There are different factors that determine how much (or little) a work adheres to "reality": Stringent, minute, naturalistic sensibility is necessary for a work to be Mundane. Without such strict parameters, a work is considerably Unrealistic. Without even superficial elements of realism, a work's setting is Unusual compared to real life. If normalcy isn't widespread within a setting, the work is outright Fantastic. Should the setting be devoid of internal consistency, the work is decidedly Surreal. There are cases where the writers believe in something which most of the audience consider unrealistic; these should be judged according to the audience' standards, for no one knows exactly what a writer believes. There are cases where they got their facts wrong. If it's obviously deliberate laziness, the work deserves a place at the fantastic end, even if it's unintended. There are also stories in which the precise cause of things is never delineated: both a naturalistic (positivist) and a supernatural explanation is possible. Not to be confused with Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness - a time-travel story with rigorous rules can be fairly Hard but decidedly Fantastic, for example. Sliding Scale of Like Reality Unless Noted charts the degree to which a work of fiction set in what is ostensibly a "modern", Earthly environment departs from Real Life. A story's way of dealing with Back from the Dead can often be a very good - but not the sole or final - indicator: Mundane: Death is final. No one returns from the dead. Ever. Unrealistic: If anyone comes back, they either improbably survived events that should have killed them, or show up as ambiguously hallucinatory apparitions. Unusual: People can outright come Back from the Dead, but it's a very rare occurrence that practically no one knows well. Fantastic: It's difficult to come Back from the Dead, because of set-in-stone requirements. Surreal: Death lasts about a minute. The existence or non-existence of sentient extra-terrestrial life is another indicator of where a work might belong on the scale: Mundane: Since there's no evidence of actual extra-terrestrial life, any issues related to them are wholly irrelevant in this work. Unrealistic: Works in this category mimic real-life as we know it, and any indication on the existence of extra-terrestrial life is deliberatively left vague. Unusual: Sentient extra-terrestrial life can decidedly exist, but such is not common knowledge. Fantastic: The presence of sentient extra-terrestrial life, and the far-ranging implications it brings with it, can be a center pillar of the work. Surreal: For no real reason, non-undercover aliens often spend your work shift across from you, and you sometimes turn into one and back. Some works can rank one or two steps up or down this basic scale. |
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Watchmen: Almost anything fantastic, futuristic or supernatural, can be (directly or not) brought down to Dr. Manhattan's powers - though they're huge. The rest is slightly unrealistic Alternate History. | |
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Ranma ½ is in-between Unusual and Fantastic (and sometimes arguably ventures into the Surreal as well): the existence of the supernatural doesn't seem to be common knowledge, except most characters seem only mildly surprised when weird things happen, and don't react as if they were exceptional, paradigm-shattering events. And there are definitely creatures that shouldn't exist in real-life. | |
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Maus is down-to-Earth and brutally honest about The Holocaust. The depiction of characters as Funny Animals would've been Unusual if they didn't treat each other as completely normal humans. | |
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PAW Patrol started out as Unusual, with Unrealistic premises which happen to involve talking dogs, then progressed to this territory when it became Denser and Wackier, such as aliens and a golden meteor which grants superpowers. | |
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BoJack Horseman generally portrays a realistic world and character dramas, except for the fact that most of the population are sapient humanoid animals living alongside humans. This leads to several story elements that would otherwise seem fantastical, such as an underwater city for Sea-dwelling people, a chicken farm that grooms several of their own species for consumption, and a colony of giant ants living under California. | |
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Most of the Disney Animated Canon. Beauty and the Beast is a (if not the) prime example of internal consistency in a fantastic story where the background and the basic rules concerning the magic spell which transformed the prince to a beast (and his servants to house objects), and how it can be undone are disclosed in the opening narration. | |
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Karlsson on the Roof is another Astrid Lindgren character who should fall into to this category as well. Much like Pippi, he lives in a mundane world where his ability to fly thanks to a propeller on his back is about the only unusual thing occurring. | |
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The Simpsons has a lot of bizarre gags that seemingly break the show's reality, but these rarely affect the episode plots, which tend to stay based in reality. Treehouse of Horror segments, however, can reach fantastic or surreal territory. | |
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Kotoura-san is very realistic except that Psychic Powers actually exist, but they are so rare that they are not recognized as scientific fact within the setting. While the culture itself is mundane, the narrative does follow the life and hardships of a Telepathic main character thus putting the story at this level. | |
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The Harry Potter series, being entirely about wizardy. The tale of the three brothers, with Death itself acting as a character, takes it a little further into surreal, and is implied to be mythical even in the context of the series. | |
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Rick and Morty focuses on the titular duo traveling to bizarre alternate universes and planets using unrealistic, ambiguous science, but the show's internal logic generally remains consistent. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin has an anthropomorphic tiger friend who is seen by others as an inanimate stuffed tiger, and often imagines himself on fantastic adventures in Fantasy Sequences. Outside of his imagination realm, life is pretty realistic. However, there are some Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane situations that would land the strip in Unusual if they weren't ambiguous, such as the Calvin clones interacting with his parents and ambiguity of Hobbes' realness. | |
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Geronimo Stilton takes place in a World of Funny Mice, and the plots are fairly Unrealistic, abeilt with a few fantastic elements. The Spin-Off series, especially Spacemice, Kingdom of Fantasy, and several Thea Stilton spinoffs, do outright extend to Fantastic. | |
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Supernatural: The Winchester brothers face various monsters of the week including ghosts, vampires, and werewolves as well as more cosmic entities such as demons, angels, and even God himself. Yet, they still must deal with everyday realities such as finding money, food, and places to sleep. Death Is Cheap for them and their closest allies thanks to their destinies, but for most people in their universe it is final. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion. 20 Minutes into the Future plus forty meter tall Eldritch Abomination clones disguised as Humongous Mecha fit this category rather snugly. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Of course, the Toon World is mostly surreal, but there are rules regarding the interactions of the "real" and toon worlds. | |
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This is Spın̈al Tap, to the extent that several famous metal musicians (including Ozzy Osbourne) mistook the film for a real life documentary, as almost everything that happened within it had actually happened to them at some point. | |
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Lackadaisy, whose depiction of The Roaring '20s is spot-on and the only major inaccuracy is a World of Funny Cats. | |
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Grave of the Fireflies, narrated by a dead character. Take out the narrator, and the film would have been in the Mundane territory instead. | |
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While the broad story arc of Saints Row: The Third mostly skews towards unrealistic, it features a number of sci-fi elements and set-pieces like a TRON-esq computer world, laser weapons, hover bikes, and zombies. | |
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The Marvel Universe and The DCU. In fact, most superhero comics (and other superhero fiction, such as TV and films) where the hero and villain are explicitly powered. | |
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The Dark Knight Trilogy fits here because of some slightly futuristic technology and being explicitly not set in our world. But save for a very few elements, The Dark Knight would have been unrealistic instead. | |
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Archer usually sticks closer to unrealistic, and is notable for averting several action tropes (such as Steel Ear Drums and Bottomless Magazines) but includes just enough sci-fi elements (such as robot imposters, clones, mind-control chips, and futuristic space stations) to sit here comfortably. | |
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The Cars franchise takes place in a world where everyone (and animal) are Sentient Vehicles, which would be too much to be rated Unusual. The settings and plots are merely Unrealistic (with the exception of the Cars Toon, "Unidentified Flying Mater"). | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya: Haruhi's powers are borderline surreal, but it's at least based on Haruhi's mood so it's not completely rule-less; Nagato, Asahina's and Koizumi's are Fantastic; and Kyon is Mundane. | |
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Steven Universe is set in a mostly normal world, with the exception of the Gems. However, because the show focuses on a race of creatures that don't exist in real life, it qualifies as fantastic, though definitely leans closely towards unusual. | |
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The Lord of the Rings and other works by J. R. R. Tolkien, which are set in a vaguely defined mythical past include (relatively uncommon) magic and fantastic creatures. | |
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asdfmovie, where very random moments, such as Anthropomorphic Food, a kid who can summon killer trains, talking turtle bombsnote created from "drunk science", a magical flying pony, a cow pretending to be a man, and floating disembodied buttocks, simply happen without explanation | |
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Medieval Times Dinner And Tournament, after Doing In the Wizard from earlier shows, falls squarely into this category. While the setting is based on 11th-century Spain, the story uses Artistic License – History to make the show as fun and family-friendly as possible. Even the Stock Medieval Meal includes foods that, at the time, were only found in the Americas. | |
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Red Dead Redemption, aside from the DLC Undead Nightmare, which moves straight into fantastic, is realistic enough storyline-wise (Unless you think there's no possible way so much crap can happen in one guy's life.) Dead-Eye may be explained away as John Marston just being a damn good shot, but what can't be explained are such things that are optional encounters, like carrying a rabbit's paw to increase the amount of loot gotten off of killed enemies, a possible blessed object reducing the chance of enemies shooting at you, and of course The Strange Man, who only responds to questions with answers that provide more questions. | |
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Roommates It's weird enough to be Surreal but has a defined rule-set (meaning it runs on story, trope and belief) to bind it all together. | |
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The Good Place is in this category, unusually for a show set in the afterlife. There are rigid rules in place, and how the show expands and subverts them is central to the plot and humor. | |
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Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches: The witch powers are an important part of the story, but they're a hidden part of the daily life on an otherwise mundane high school, and the story generally relies on Slice of Life humor and conflicts even though a lot of the characters use magic. Furthermore, magic only seems to exist on this specific high school - the rest of the world is completely normal. The college preparation arc as well as the epilogue are on the "unrealistic" end of the scale instead of "unusual" as they don't involve witch powers, but still has some over-the-top humor and a couple of cases of cartoon physics (such as Yamada lifting a gigantic boulder effortlessly) | |
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The West Wing, although it has mundane plots and settings, and thus is borderline realistic, the main characters are portrayed as over-the-top know-it-alls and the processes in which the federal government works is extremely simplified for dramatic purposes. | |
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Scooby-Doo, for the first ten years of the series, anyway, where the only fantastic elements were Scooby and his relatives (the only animals that could talk). From 1980 onwards, any movie or series became fair game for Unusual (What's New?, Be Cool!), Fantastic (Mystery Incorporated, Zombie Island, etc.) or entirely Surreal (The 13 Ghosts, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo's Three Shorts). | |
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The Seventh Seal, is set in an otherwise realistic medeival Crapsack World of Black-and-Gray Morality haunted by the plague, and in which Death is personified. | |
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Pippi Longstocking, only the title character (save her father to a lesser extent) does possess any fantastic abilities while the rest of the characters and the world in which they inhabit seem to be rather mundane. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog straddles the line between Fantastic and Surreal, where fast-as-light hedgehogs, animal-powered robots, Humongous Mecha, magical gemstones capable of bending time and space, a deity cracking the Earth into pieces, alternate dimensions, Time Travel, artificially-created organisms, Psychic Powers, aliens, and fairy-like creatures whose physical states can be influenced by animals, fruits, and robot batteries are just a day in life, but still are bounded in some logic (mostly). | |
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Tenet fits here (though, depending on the extent the main concept breaks your Willing Suspension of Disbelief, it could be seen as Fantastic or even Surreal). | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean takes place in the real setting of The Golden Age of Piracy, but incorporates a number of decidedly unreal elements. Over the course of the series, Pirates of the Caribbean drifted into the next category down as the supernatural elements became more prominent and turned the movies into a Fantasy Kitchen Sink. | |
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Jurassic Park and its sequels: Would obviously be Unrealistic if it weren't for its core premise of scientists extracting dinosaur DNA from amber and thus the ability to clone dinosaurs, which is clearly super-science in real-life. | |
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Doctor Who is probably between Unusual and Fantastic on the definition, because while some stuff is semi-realistic in a few episodes, the effects of half the alien technology and generally setting may as well be magic as explained by Techno Babble. | |
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Pushing Daisies may fit here since aside from the protagonist's power to bring people Back from the Dead, the world is generally realistic. | |
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OMORI's Headspace is a vibrant dreamscape that runs on an Excuse Plot and has almost no cohesion in its "story". Omori's main companions are repeatedly replaced with carbon copies in the process of creating an Eternal Recurrence to distract Sunny from the most painful elements of his reality. | |
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Warrior Cats focuses on Partially Civilized feral cats who are capable of running a Mouse World-type society. While there are several fantastic elements such as leaders having nine lives, they are kept to the cats themselves, not affecting most of the other species. | |
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Happy Tree Friends, where anything can and will rip those cartoon animals into piles of blood, flesh, and organs, no matter how implausible it seems to be. (The wiki keeps track of these instances.) And they come back to life the next episode. | |
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Felix the Cat is pure cartoon surrealism, sometimes going into outright fantasy, and is very stream of conscious and bizarre in story and tone, especially in the Silent shorts and Twisted Tales series. | |
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Ace Attorney (because of spirit mediums, channeling and the like) | |
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Doug tends to be perfectly realistic about early teen life except almost everyone is Amazing Technicolor Population, which is purely a stylistic choice that isn't seen as fantastic in-universe, and Porkchop (and sometimes Stinky) is a bipedal animal. There are still a few fantastic elements, such as the Lucky Duck Lake monster in Doug's 1st Movie. | |
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Happy Heroes takes place in outer space, usually on the futuristic Planet Xing which is inhabited by Human Aliens, Ridiculously Human Robots, anthropomorphic cows, and nonanthropomorphic dinosaurs. It's primarily science fiction with lots of comedy, but in one season those two elements are brought along to a medieval fantasy world, complete with a wizard as an Arc Villain. | |
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