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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty

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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty	comment	The setting, costumes, lighting, and sound of a production are critical in setting its tone and mood. One of the most fundamental stylistic choices is where to position these production values on the sliding scale of shiny vs gritty. Stereotypically "shiny" elements include reflective plastic, chrome, stainless steel, precious metals, gems, glass, light, fine woods, fine fabrics, bright colors, pastels, pop music, Classical Music, and ballads (power, or otherwise). "Gritty" elements include dirt, rust, dust, blood, iron, broken glass, darkness, rough plywood, concrete, Abandoned Areas, burlap, items that are scratched, pockmarked or damaged, scrapyards, deliberate monochrome, sepia, hard rock, punk rock, and heavy metal. But context is everything. Many choices fall somewhere in between the gritty and shiny extremes; hence, the "sliding scale". Indeed, some works may blend shiny and gritty aesthetics. This is one of those scales where productions tend to be uniform throughout rather than varying from scene to scene. Furthermore, there is a tendency for a work to head toward one end of the scale or the other to take advantage of the evocative power of shiny or gritty. The occasional contrasting scene is used just to highlight the overall tone. A contrasting tone may be used to emphasize a position on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism. Some Shoujo Manga have immaculate settings inhabited by The Beautiful Elite but are very cynical. Gritty tones are in general easier and cheaper to produce in live-action than shiny ones, so low-budget or quickly-made films are more often in a gritty style. Examples include low-budget horror films, action shows, and dystopian series. A dystopian sci-fi series set in a post-apocalyptic US may be less expensive to produce than a Space Opera set in a distant planet's royal court, because the dystopian series can be set in an Abandoned Area where the survivors have erected crude structures from scrap. In contrast, the Space Opera will need costly sets for the Blue Blood character's gleaming spaceship interiors, royal halls, and lavish ballrooms. Big budget films, especially escapist films about beautiful people (Millionaire Playboy, Socialite) in Big Fancy Houses with luxury cars, who have huge designer wardrobes and seem to travel internationally to exotic locations every week tend to go for shiny as it makes for beautiful "eye candy" visuals. Gritty Animation and Video Games tend to be high-budget, since that's a lot of detail to draw and render. This is one reason Real Is Brown. Less "realistic" games and ones for less powerful systems tend to be either mid-scale or shiny; people who like shiny often like games that are retro or Retraux. Compare with Slobs Versus Snobs.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_11e6bf74	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog CD has this as its theme. The present day levels for the most part are usually in the middle when it is bright and shiny. The past levels are the same way, just more primitive. If you're playing the good future levels, they are really bright and shiny. Though if you're playing in the bad future (the one ruled by Dr. Robotnik/Eggman), it is total hell. Everything's got a dark brown, rusty and muddy look, the skies have a crimson/purple look, the oceans are polluted, and so on. Those futures are so bad that even the Doc's robots are miserable and broken down. Yes it's just that bad.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY's Very Special Episode "Indelible" aired on Sept 23, 2011 as a 10th anniversary tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The present-day scenes are filmed as usual, whereas the many flashbacks to that fateful day are shown in dark, gritty hues, complete with all the dust and debris that were everywhere in reality. Writers and crewmembers who were living in NYC at the time described the end product as eerily real; writer John Dove, who had been an NYPD officer then, even said "too real."
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry juxtaposes a very shiny wealthy family and very shiny inhuman witches with horrific, gritty murders full of Gorn. However, the shiny aspects definitely win out for the overall production.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men: The Sterling Cooper offices are elegant examples of the International Style, the brand-new SCDP offices—particularly Roger's office—are enthusiastically Mid-Century Modern (i.e. That Style You See And Immediately Think "Sixties" No Not Hippie Stuff The Other Thing, Yes, Like JFK Airport), the Draper house is well-furnished (though not expensively so), even Peggy's small Brooklyn apartment is well-kept (well-worn, but hardly "gritty"...unless you would describe a well-maintained kitchen as "gritty"...), and the hotels and restaurants we see are mostly top-hole. Plus the Gorgeous Period Dress. The series follows ad executives in the early Sixties (i.e. the era of the Three Martini Lunch and other such examples of excess), and additionally borrows heavily from the "visual vocabulary" of the era, so it's hardly surprising that despite the lean towards cynicism, the show is on the shiny end. The occasional bit of dirt shows up, but it's not terribly common.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_35f5d687	comment	The film versions of Henry V. Olivier's version was very shiny, especially considering that the film was a piece of propaganda to rally the English people during WWII. Branagh's version is much grittier. Olivier's Battle of Agincourt is most memorable for the charge of the French cavalry on a nice, sunny day with shiny armor and colorful pennants. Branagh's Battle of Agincourt is most memorable for the mud. Olivier's priest talking about Salic law and such speaks pompously and tosses aside cartoonishly-large pieces of paper; Branagh's mumbles through the lines quickly. When Olivier's says "It's as clear as the day!", it's still buffoonish; when Branagh's says it, he says it sarcastically with a wry smile, which is greeted with a few muffled snickers (the joke in either case is that it isn't clear at all).
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_3b73c4a0	comment	The grittiness of the series is highlighted every time the "modern", shiny city of Caprica is shown in flashback, and the Caprica highlights that further, showing futuristic technology from fifty years ago that no one uses in Galactica, such as electronic touch screen paper and holograms. 50 years previous would have been some time before the first war with the Cylons, and given those things capacity at electronic warfare, is it any wonder that a lot of mod-cons have been traded in for something a bit less vulnerable (in the hacking sense)?
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion: Oblivion falls very much into the Shiny spectrum of this trope, with its vibrant High Fantasy setting. Both the architecture and fashion suggest this game takes place at the heart of a mighty empire not yet in decline. The Shivering Isles expansion takes place in the Daedric realm of the Mad God Sheogorath. It intentionally invokes this trope. This realm is split into two major areas, named Mania and Dementia, who fall into the Shiny and Gritty ends of this trope, respectively. Mania is filled with vibrant colors and nice weather, while the architecture and fashion is really neat and inviting. Dementia is filled with subdued earthly colors, has a very dreary climate and it's settlements more or less look like slums. This is done to represent the dual nature of Sheogorath's madness.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII. Any town that wasn't razed to the ground during the course of the game or Crisis Core is choked with dust, crime, urban decay, and rusting technology.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_49ad83ee	comment	The settings in World of Warcraft run the gamut of shininess, ranging from the vibrant Eversong Woods to the gray and gritty Blackwing Lair. Some places combine both, like Deepholm and the recovering Western Plaguelands.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_4b4a9fd6	comment	Slumdog Millionaire is gritty for the majority of the flashbacks depicting Jamal's childhood in the slums, which starkly contrasts with the sleek, stylized look of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_4e433e78	comment	Monty Python and the Holy Grail, although plenty of historical films at the time were made in reaction to Gorgeous Period Dress. Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky is, if anything, even grittier.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_4f82fde6	comment	Eversion - Visits the both ends of the scale and everything in between, though it's more like the Sliding Scale of Sweet Dreams Fuel and Nightmare Fuel. And that is some sliding scale.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_4fc1c922	comment	The musical Wicked manages to combine both aspects with Shiz and the Emerald City being fairly shiny, but the Witchunters and Kiamo Ko being pretty gritty.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek (2009), on the other hand, has some very, very shiny parts (where all the iPod-esque walls and screens appear to be scrubbed by red shirts armed with with Federation-issue general-purpose cleaning solution every hour on the hour) contrasted with some grittier parts (grittier for the series, anyhow; busier, messier crowd scenes than anything previously seen in Trek, the outsides of the ships are clearly not scrubbed with the same rigor as the insides, child Kirk speeds in a jalopy whose only really shiny parts are the electronics, industrial-grade rails and plastic curtains abound, and Vulcan is made of dust storms even before it gets turned to dust entirely).
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: Skyrim generally falls on the Gritty end spectrum. This is in no small part due to the fact that half of Skyrim is a frigid, barren wasteland and the primary culture resembling that of Horny Vikings. The game taking place 35 years after the highly destructive Great War and during a Civil War also plays a big part. The Dragonborn DLC returns to the aforementioned island of Solstheim, which has managed to get even grittier. The eruption of Red Mountain has blasted the southern coast of the island with ash, while its small settlements have been flooded with Dunmer refugees eking out an existence in the wake of the Red Year and subsequent Argonian invasion of Morrowind.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_5ada53ed	comment	The James Bond films can tend towards either end of the scale.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_5cd1aa89	comment	Nineteen Eighty-Four, especially the 1984 (yes!) film version. Though the Ministry of Love ("the place where there is no darkness") is considerably cleaner and better kept-up. The Party knows where to spend its money.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight opts for a shiner aesthetic, now that Batman has turned the tables on organized crime - putting the police and municipal officials back in control of a city no longer bogged down by the Mob's fear and misery. Gotham's transformation after just a year of order is stunning. As a cinematographic design choice, the film opts for cooler colors over the first film's desolate dirt toanes.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_5dcdb826	comment	Certain anime such as Texhnolyze, MD Geist, Attack on Titan, and Violence Jack tend to really push the envelope for grittiness.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_5e91c7d	comment	Resident Evil 4's famous art direction included a huge amount of detail in how the places looked, including the decaying village and military base, contrasted with the ornate castle.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_62f94c6	comment	Used to great effect in The Dark Knight Trilogy. Batman Begins contrasts the shining Gotham of Bruce Wayne's childhood with the derelict, crime and poverty ridden Hellhole in the aftermath of an economic depression - almost entirely controlled by the mob, and their mysterious backers. Look no further than the Wayne Industries-built elevated rail lines' state of disrepair, for a sense of how far things have come since the time of Thomas and Martha Wayne. The Dark Knight opts for a shiner aesthetic, now that Batman has turned the tables on organized crime - putting the police and municipal officials back in control of a city no longer bogged down by the Mob's fear and misery. Gotham's transformation after just a year of order is stunning. As a cinematographic design choice, the film opts for cooler colors over the first film's desolate dirt toanes. The Dark Knight Rises brings Gotham full circle - at first shiny like the second film, turned gritty again after Bane and company rise up and place the city under siege.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_64dd58b2	comment	The films of Harry Potter: Magic is sparkly; ancient castles are not; the vague Steampunk vibe is somewhere in the middle. Although the 6th film is very washed out and bleak. The scene where Harry uses sectumsempra on Malfoy is so desaturated it is practically in black and white save for Malfoy's blood.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_64ddf294	comment	EVE Online has shiny Amarr ships versus "flying junkyard" Minmatar ships. Conversely, Gallente ships have shiny, smooth, almost organic curves while Caldari ships are angular and much more utilitarian.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	Pacific Rim, saturated with the rainy-atmosphere battle on the ocean, though some high-tech Jaegers such as Striker Eureka are possibly the few shiny exception.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_6bc0f10a	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) manages to hit every point in the spectrum. Arthur even points it out. "Well, it's a whole lot better than that dingy Vogon crate! This is my idea of a spaceship, all gleaming metal, flashing lights, everything."
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_6c4031ea	comment	Snow White has the least gritty mine and miners ever, at least for the purposes of illustration.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk, taking place in The Dung Ages and having mercenaries as the primary characters, is predominantly gritty, though the scenes taking place in Midland's royal court involved a good amount of Gorgeous Period Dress. Later episodes of the manga push the shiny end to a whole new level, though, as Griffith has just pulled a shiny new capital straight from the ground using Ganishka as a power source.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_7559ae0b	comment	Most adaptations of Dune: Caladan is natural and shiny, Giedi Prime is dark and dirty.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_755b343f	comment	Halo - The Covenant is all shiny purple, and everything is sleek and rounded. UNSC equipment is blocky and gray/tan/dull green. The Forerunner creations are shiny metallic silver-gray, and everything is angular and/or ornately segmented.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe has lots of light colors and shininess, especially since much of the cast are gems. Homeworld takes it to another level.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_791fca44	comment	BioShock is an interesting example: Rapture was once very shiny, but it was made gritty by a civil war, and even afterwards there's still a few vaguely-glitzy areas. Places like the blood-streaked Medical Pavilion, the run-down docklands area of Port Poseidon and Hephaestus' grimy geothermal power-plant are ultimately contrasted with places like Fort Frolic, Rapture's neon-lit entertainment district - which is actually still pretty ritzy despite the disrepair. BioShock 2 continues this, with a major influence on gritty: as it's set at least eight years after the events of the first game, it's in a much greater state of disrepair than before, and most of the game takes place in abandoned facilities or slums. Over the course of the story, you visit a ruined luxury resort, a defunct train station, a shantytown on the Wrong Side of the Tracks, a Red Light District, a sunken art gallery, a secret lab overgrown with sea life, and a penal colony dangling over the edge of an undersea trench. At first, it seems like the old Fontaine Futuristics building is the only place that looks even vaguely shiny, given that it still sports some of the old corporate glitz... and then you get to see what Rapture looks like through the eyes of a Little Sister. Crapsaccharine World doesn't even begin to describe it.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_791fca45	comment	BioShock 2 continues this, with a major influence on gritty: as it's set at least eight years after the events of the first game, it's in a much greater state of disrepair than before, and most of the game takes place in abandoned facilities or slums. Over the course of the story, you visit a ruined luxury resort, a defunct train station, a shantytown on the Wrong Side of the Tracks, a Red Light District, a sunken art gallery, a secret lab overgrown with sea life, and a penal colony dangling over the edge of an undersea trench. At first, it seems like the old Fontaine Futuristics building is the only place that looks even vaguely shiny, given that it still sports some of the old corporate glitz... and then you get to see what Rapture looks like through the eyes of a Little Sister. Crapsaccharine World doesn't even begin to describe it.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect, being an extremely developed 'verse, has both ends of the spectrum. The Normandy, Ilium, Noveria and rich, developed worlds tend toward the shiny, while Tuchanka, Feros, Omega and poorer colonies get pretty gritty. The Citadel itself is fairly shiny as a rule, but it has its share of contrast between the uber-shiny Presidium and the grittier Wards.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_7b6c4921	comment	Degrassi: The Next Generation is more gritty than most teen dramas, but it can still be pretty shiny at times.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout contrasts the shininess of the Vaults and Brotherhood of Steel-related locations with the ultra-gritty Wasteland. In the first game it is worth noting that the shinier a location, the more likely it was to be ultimately evil, while the gritter-looking places and people were usually mostly harmless. Fallout 2 is much shinier than the original, with far more built-up cities and far more slick gangsters in the form of mafia-style families and a porn cinema, while Fallout 3 is more gritty, like the first game. Fallout 4 mostly maintains a level of grittiness slightly lower than that of Fallout 3, but the Institute is so far on the shiny end that it makes the Brotherhood of Steel and the Vaults look dirty in comparison.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_81692f99	comment	The various Star Trek series. Even Deep Space Nine mostly had sets that looked neat and tidy. Perhaps that's just an unspoken credo of the Federation. Star Trek (2009), on the other hand, has some very, very shiny parts (where all the iPod-esque walls and screens appear to be scrubbed by red shirts armed with with Federation-issue general-purpose cleaning solution every hour on the hour) contrasted with some grittier parts (grittier for the series, anyhow; busier, messier crowd scenes than anything previously seen in Trek, the outsides of the ships are clearly not scrubbed with the same rigor as the insides, child Kirk speeds in a jalopy whose only really shiny parts are the electronics, industrial-grade rails and plastic curtains abound, and Vulcan is made of dust storms even before it gets turned to dust entirely). This end was the only end they could have reasonably used for the Federation given that the Star Trek universe is not only set in the future, but in an optimistic and (usually) idealistic version of it. Since conflict is necessary for a story, there are more problematic aspects to other races the Federation encounters, and those sometimes lead Federation actions into gray areas. However, if one imagines civilian life on Earth during peacetime, it would be close to utopia (though that part is hardly shown as it would make for boring TV).
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_8258e260	comment	The Super Mario Bros. franchise as a whole.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_82a3b84e	comment	Orre in PokÃ©mon Colosseum is a Desert Punk world, where Phenac City, the Shadow PokÃ©mon Lab, and Realgam Tower are shiny, while everywhere else is very gritty. Its somewhat Lighter and Softer sequel PokÃ©mon XD: Gale of Darkness adds more shiny areas like the PokÃ©mon HQ Lab and Gateon Port, and replaces the Abandoned Warehouse used by Miror B. in Colosseum with the shiny new ONBS news station headquarters.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI. Oddly, the towns are just as shiny after the Apocalypse as before. Except for Tzen and Mobliz.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_89fa77a	comment	British soaps are the absolute champions of gritty (e.g., Coronation Street, Eastenders, Emmerdale, Shameless (UK).)
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	Leia's ship that gets captured at the beginning of A New Hope is also a good example. While the hallway is very smooth and shiny, the utility corridor she hides in with R2 is much more gritty. Also the insides of Star Destroyers, parts of Death Star II, Home One, and at times, Darth Vader's suit. Mostly, it's a divide on socio-economic status. Civilized worlds like Naboo, Kamino, and the upper levels of Coruscant are bright and pristine, while Wretched Hives and out-of-the-way places like Tattooine, Hoth, and Coruscant's lower levels are gritty and used.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_8db36f7	comment	RoboCop takes place in gritty Old Detroit, but the evil and shiny OCP corporation plans to develop a cleaner and shinier Delta City "where Old Detroit now stands".
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_996a1020	comment	The Disney princesses. Snow White has the least gritty mine and miners ever, at least for the purposes of illustration.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_9994a14f	comment	WALLâ€¢E consciously hits both extremes: it has a very dirty setting (the ruins of Earth) and a very clean setting (the spaceship). WALLâ€¢E himself is filthy and made up of spare parts, and EVE is shiny, sleek and streamlined.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_9c8829df	comment	Falling Skies starts out World War II gritty and gets worse, so that by the middle of the second season you wonder if anyone on the show can even remember what soap and running water look like. The obligatory "it was all a dream" episode is confusing because everyone is so clean they're largely unrecognisable.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls series tends to switch between the two from game to game, and even between expansions/DLCs within the same game. To note: Morrowind: Morrowind falls on the Gritty end of the scale. It takes place in the most backwater district (Vvardenfell) of the most backwater province (Morrowind) in the Empire, which is also the province with the least direct Imperial oversight as part of the terms of its Voluntary Vassal status. A good 2/3 of the island is covered by dark, ashy lava scathes which emanate from Red Mountain, the island's central volcano, which has been enveloped for centuries in a constant blight storm. Vvardenfell is also dotted with ancient Daedric ruins, bronzy Steampunk Dwemer ruins, Chimeri strongholds, and Dunmeri ancestral tombs. Until about 20 years before the game takes place, Vvardenfell was a Tribunal Temple preserve, open only to Temple servants and pilgrims. It remains sparsely populated and even it's largest cities feel small in comparison to those found in the rest of the series. The "alienness" of the setting also gives the game a very New Weird feel. The Tribunal expansion is set in Mournhold, the mainland capital city of Morrowind, which is also known as the "city of light, city of magic". It shifts toward the "Shiny" end of the spectrum, with grander buildings, more greenery, and a greater color palette in general. That is, at least on the surface... Beneath the city are the ruins of "Old Mournhold" which serve as the new city's sewers, and, as discovered part way through the expansion's main quest, a massive Dwemer city with numerous "gritty" secrets within... The Bloodmoon expansion takes place on the snowy and grim island of Solstheim, populated by numerous types of deadly critter, the Noble Savage Skaal people, and little else. It shifts back toward the Gritty end of the spectrum. Oblivion: Oblivion falls very much into the Shiny spectrum of this trope, with its vibrant High Fantasy setting. Both the architecture and fashion suggest this game takes place at the heart of a mighty empire not yet in decline. The Shivering Isles expansion takes place in the Daedric realm of the Mad God Sheogorath. It intentionally invokes this trope. This realm is split into two major areas, named Mania and Dementia, who fall into the Shiny and Gritty ends of this trope, respectively. Mania is filled with vibrant colors and nice weather, while the architecture and fashion is really neat and inviting. Dementia is filled with subdued earthly colors, has a very dreary climate and it's settlements more or less look like slums. This is done to represent the dual nature of Sheogorath's madness. Skyrim: Skyrim generally falls on the Gritty end spectrum. This is in no small part due to the fact that half of Skyrim is a frigid, barren wasteland and the primary culture resembling that of Horny Vikings. The game taking place 35 years after the highly destructive Great War and during a Civil War also plays a big part. The Dragonborn DLC returns to the aforementioned island of Solstheim, which has managed to get even grittier. The eruption of Red Mountain has blasted the southern coast of the island with ash, while its small settlements have been flooded with Dunmer refugees eking out an existence in the wake of the Red Year and subsequent Argonian invasion of Morrowind.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_9d7264f	comment	CSI: Miami; in addition to the exotic, fashionable city its set in, the actors have said it takes place in "a comic book world."
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_9e1e1954	comment	morphE is a horror story which contrasts between the terror of the dark caverns the seedlings escaped from and the rich, plush manor that they become captive within.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_9e52d282	comment	Taken to extremes in Dystopia where Cyberspace lies on the extreme end of shiny, and meatspace is on the medium-high part of gritty. This is especially noticeable in areas where cyberspace is shaped the same as meatspace. Punk architecture is usually more gritty than Corp architecture.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_9f997b2b	comment	Quantum of Solace is James Bond-movie shiny, until James Bond begins to run out of money. The poorer he gets, the grittier everything gets, until the third act gets shiny again.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_a14e5771	comment	28 Days Later takes a somewhat unorthodox approach to mixing the two. The look of the film overall is gritty (they shot it on digital camcorders for this reason), but a lot of the locations are of typically shiny and clean places (hospitals, a castle, convenience store etc). The look of the film and the locations eventually converge as the story progresses.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass, most notably how the shiny Imperial Enclave of Tokyo and the run-down Shinjuku ghetto, practically opposites on the scale, are separated only by a railway.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_a895e9d2	comment	Portal is shiny in the test chambers of the game's first half (and there are broken parts) and gritty after the Wham Level partway through. The sequel varies even more, starting in deteriorating and reclaimed chambers, getting shinier as GLaDOS repairs the facility, going back to gritty after Wheatley takes control and drops you into the now-ancient original test chambers of the 50's, and finally strikes a balance back in the modern chambers, which are shiny, but being torn apart and smashed back together.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_a949e666	comment	Elysium gets the shiny, Earth gets the sh- I mean gritty.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_ab9ec4d0	comment	Orphan Black portrays a number of clones with vastly different lifestyles. Former criminal Sarah Manning and religious fundamentalist serial killer Helena fall on the gritty end of the scale, whereas wealthy suburban Alison Hendrix and corporate mogul Rachel Duncan are shiny. Beth's life is sort of in the middle, as her lifestyle is more or less upper middle class (shiny) but she's also often shown in her job as a detective (gritty). Cosima's is neither, and Krystal's would be shiny if she appeared more often in the show.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_ae050a9f	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Adult Zelda is shown wearing a much more elaborate dress than her younger counterpart is, even though by that point she had no home, no possessions, her kingdom is in ruins, and she has been on the run for seven years, posing as a Sheikah.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_aeaf3d1b	comment	Life on Mars (2006): 2006 is portrayed as a dull, sterile environment, while 1973 is more gritty but shot in warmer tones.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_af6a4464	comment	The Secret World demonstrates quite a lot of this, particularly when it comes to the faction hubs: London has the polished marble halls and richly-decorated offices of Temple Hall deliberately contrasted by the dingy pubs and shops of Eldwyck and the monster-infested markets of Darkside; Brooklyn is predominantly gritty, with gloomy streets, filthy laundromats, sewer labyrinths and a Back-Alley Doctor's shop situated in an abandoned abattoir, and even the Illuminati HQ's concourse looks pretty grungy - all contrasted with the gleaming Illuminati command center and Kirsten Geary's modern-art office; Seoul starts you off in the shiny, chintzy Kumiho Hotel, before sending you into the dark, rainy streets to the Dragon's HQ. More of this crops up once you head out into the field, where the giant biotech World Tree and vivid golden light of Agartha form a contrast to literally all the areas it allows you to visit: a New England fishing village beset by a Zombie Apocalypse and Lovecraftian Fish Men; a dusty Egyptian hamlet and the nearby Atenist ruins, all overrun by corpse-burning cultists and putrid ghouls; a stretch of Transylvanian countryside polluted by wrecked cars, giant fungi, dilapidated serial-killer homesteads, and the war machines of the invading vampire army; and of course, Kaidan District Tokyo, which is currently infested by the Filth.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_b51b368d	comment	Ergo Proxy has the painstaking cleanliness and sleekness of the City of Romdeau... And then there's the outside world...
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind: Morrowind falls on the Gritty end of the scale. It takes place in the most backwater district (Vvardenfell) of the most backwater province (Morrowind) in the Empire, which is also the province with the least direct Imperial oversight as part of the terms of its Voluntary Vassal status. A good 2/3 of the island is covered by dark, ashy lava scathes which emanate from Red Mountain, the island's central volcano, which has been enveloped for centuries in a constant blight storm. Vvardenfell is also dotted with ancient Daedric ruins, bronzy Steampunk Dwemer ruins, Chimeri strongholds, and Dunmeri ancestral tombs. Until about 20 years before the game takes place, Vvardenfell was a Tribunal Temple preserve, open only to Temple servants and pilgrims. It remains sparsely populated and even it's largest cities feel small in comparison to those found in the rest of the series. The "alienness" of the setting also gives the game a very New Weird feel. The Tribunal expansion is set in Mournhold, the mainland capital city of Morrowind, which is also known as the "city of light, city of magic". It shifts toward the "Shiny" end of the spectrum, with grander buildings, more greenery, and a greater color palette in general. That is, at least on the surface... Beneath the city are the ruins of "Old Mournhold" which serve as the new city's sewers, and, as discovered part way through the expansion's main quest, a massive Dwemer city with numerous "gritty" secrets within... The Bloodmoon expansion takes place on the snowy and grim island of Solstheim, populated by numerous types of deadly critter, the Noble Savage Skaal people, and little else. It shifts back toward the Gritty end of the spectrum.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_b8e28f2e	comment	In Good Omens (2019), Heaven is depicted as pristine to the point of Creepy Cleanliness — the polar opposite of Hell's grimy Scenery Gorn. This visual contrast highlights the Order Versus Chaos struggle at the heart of the conflict between the angels and demons.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_b9783b14	comment	Knights of Sidonia: Sidonia has a clean white aesthetic. But hundreds of years in space have left their toll, and you don't even have to go to the shantytowns to see the wear and tear. The clearest example is the countless micrometeorite craters on the octagon cylinder-shaped outer hull.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Metropolis and Gotham are often compared in the DCU, with the former being the shinier (at one point, Catwoman wonders if they ever turn off the lights at night) while the latter is normally very bleak. (In The DCAU, the writers admitted to being freaked out by Gotham during a clear sunny day whenever they drew it, and only did so once due to the alternate universe setting it was being presented in.) Considering the types of heroes who operate in this city, it seems the city adapted to them instead of the other way around. Metropolis adapted to Superman, Gotham made Batman. This divide can even be seen with their supervillains: Metropolis has an nice sleek Evil MegaCorp, highly illegal, dangerous lab projects financed by said MegaCorp, power-grabbing conspiracies involving said MegaCorp, flashy massive disasters caused by the machinations of said MegaCorp, a gang weaponized by Apokalips, alien invasions, rampages by giant robots, sentient computer viruses, time-traveling neo-nazis with jetpacks, and random military attacks from rich, supervillain third-world dictators. Gotham on the other hand, has filthy, slum-level street crime, mafia bosses, drug trafficking, warring organized crime rings comprised of supervillains, senseless mass murder, police corruption, and loads and loads of clinically-insane psychopaths and freaks trying to make a name for themselves.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_d109f322	comment	In Andromeda the titular ship is very shiny (and the remnant of a shinier age) while everything else is gritty.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_d2f4b8ae	comment	Battle Angel Alita contrasts the dirty, chaotic world of the Scrapyard with the sleek and clean Tiphares. Last Order doubly contrasts the shiny appearances of the techno totalitarian empires of Venus, Jupiter and the Orbitals with their rotten undersides on the one side, with the often dirt-poor and thus Used Future based, but very noble and idealistic heroes on the other. And then there's Chaotic Neutral characters like Zekka, who doesn't fit in any classification.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_d31cdea	comment	Played up in The Hunger Games where a very gritty, dystopian Real World in the satellite states, where most people are starving/worked to death and are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of the people living in the shiny city in the centre. And it is really very shiny. Think random tech that doesn't even exist in real life and fashion obsessions.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003): the eponymous ship is rather grubby and unglamorous even before the Cylons start shooting at it: it's 50 years old and obsolete when the Cylons wipe out the Colonies, and looks even more beaten-up after soaking up everything the Cylons have thrown at it during the course of the show. It's beginning to fall apart, and its useful days are numbered. Contrast with the Cylon basestars, which are immaculate and extremely shiny both inside and out. Even the battlestar Pegasus, which shows up half-way through Season 2, is rather clean and shiny - but then, it is a much more modern battlestar design. The grittiness of the series is highlighted every time the "modern", shiny city of Caprica is shown in flashback, and the Caprica highlights that further, showing futuristic technology from fifty years ago that no one uses in Galactica, such as electronic touch screen paper and holograms. 50 years previous would have been some time before the first war with the Cylons, and given those things capacity at electronic warfare, is it any wonder that a lot of mod-cons have been traded in for something a bit less vulnerable (in the hacking sense)?
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_d716d915	comment	Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto takes place in Renaissance Italy, a Crapsack World, but a very shiny one. Even its obligatory beggars scene is full of beautiful, though dark, music. One theme of the play is that beautiful art is a necessary refuge for the soul.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_df76da7e	comment	Mirror's Edge is very high on the shiny scale, with lots of clean white and bright sunlight, yet it feels also very oppressive and gloomy.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_e5d7194a	comment	Gish. First 3 worlds are very gritty, taking place in sewers, caves and hell. Last two are shinier though since they take place in sandstone-colored Egyptian level and church.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_e75c6d45	comment	Goblins stays on the Shiny end nearly all the time, especially for characters wearing metal armor. It only moves towards Gritty when blood is involved.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_eb6719f6	comment	Final Fantasy VIII, for the most part. There are places like Winhill and the Horizon Bridge that are (or were) wrecked up, but other locations in the game and generally kept up and shiny (and in Esthar, Crystal Spires and Togas is in full effect.)
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_ec3007ac	comment	La Reine Margot made even the gorgeous period dresses look gritty.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 does this a fair amount. Most areas on the station are crowded, but nice enough; the command staff quarters are nice, if sometimes a bit Spartan; the ambassadorial wing is VERY shiny (or its equivalent; it's implied that for Narns, at least, "shiny" still involves furniture of rough-hewn stone); and Downbelow is just a hell-hole.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed series varies its locales quite a bit, from elaborately modeled palaces, churches, mosques and temples all the way to the run-down and dirty districts of the poor. In the second game, the protagonist can lift the town of Monteriggioni from The Dung Ages by investing in renovations and art. However, the shiniest and prettiest parts are invariably the "temples" and vaults of Those Who Came Before.
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Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty / int_fdedbbb5	comment	Andi Mack tries to look realer than a typical Disnick Kid Com with almost everything done outdoors or on location, but it's still a well-scrubbed, bright look with a new school inhabited by stylishly-dressed kids, a picture-perfect house and street, and even the funky urban spaces the kids and younger adults inhabit by choice exhibit a very...Utah Mormon version of a hipster aesthetic, further cleaned up by Disney (the show has earned a reputation for leaving locations cleaner than they found them).
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