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The World Is Not Ready

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The World Is Not Ready	comment	This is the perennial excuse used by leaders of world-altering secret subcultures, and people with Secret Identities alike. It's a fairly reliable way for writers to engage Willing Suspension of Disbelief and to ensure Plausible Deniability. The technologically-advanced global defense organization of the series won't have a massive impact on the day-to-day lives of all the mundanes, because they refuse to release any of their technology to the general public. They think people are bastards who will abuse the technology for war and profit once given access, or Luddites who will riot as soon as their incredible technology is unveiled, or just selfish pigs who all want to get their grubby hands on the shiny new tech (often to the exclusion of others). And of course, the very idea of letting the government get its hands on it is unthinkable. One possible reason for a hero to maintain a Secret Identity or to ensure that everything remains Invisible to Normals (Other reasons include protecting the hero's family and that Celebrity Is Overrated). At any rate, the show acknowledges that the fact that there's an alien invasion going on, a demon subculture, or Imported Alien Phlebotinum that should radically change the entire world. But folks with the power to keep this under wraps don't want the world to be radically changed, so they keep everything a secret. Can lead to a Useless Superpowers scenario, where the heroes are hamstrung by the fact that they can't risk a crowd or Intrepid Reporter seeing them in action. Increasingly subverted when it turns out that "The world is not ready" is just the official line — really, the people making the call just don't want to share... and will kill to keep their toys. Fridge Logic suggests that by just sitting on their knowledge, even well-intentioned secret keepers ultimately work to prevent the world from ever becoming ready. This idea will usually either never occur to anybody or else be brought up once, handwaved away, and then never mentioned again. As for the Doylist reasons behind this trope, it may be required to avoid changing society into a level which is hard to imagine for an audience, or to reduce the required amount of special effects. Also, there's little drama from story perspective if everyone is well-equipped to defend themselves from an alien menace. If you can instead put the safety of the entire world in the hands of one secret, tiny and underfunded hero team, the stakes get much higher. However, the trope is not automatically unreasonable. It is possible to conceive of specific situations where the genie, in whatever form, could be put back into the bottle, and under the current circumstances such would be wise. The secret keepers may in fact be right all along, with disastrous consequences ensuing if the knowledge becomes common. If the people who get their hands on use the knowledge use it for violence, crime or conquest, then the supposed jerkasses who were keeping the secret actually had a point. Even if it isn't actively abused, advanced knowledge without a proper understanding of its background concepts or the infrastructure to properly apply it can be a dangerous thing. For example: if you got the plans for a rocket and tried to build it without the right tools, materials, training, and study, you'll learn the hard way that the line between "rocket to the moon" and "giant bomb" is very thin. See also Masquerade, which covers the overall secret-keeping operation. Compare You Are Not Ready, where it's the protagonist trying to acquire something that can help them and only to be denied access for this reason. See also Science Is Bad where new technology is held back out of fear of misuse. See also Reed Richards Is Useless where the world remains unaffected for no apparent reason. Contrast with Just Think of the Potential! when someone wants to expose what they've seen for the benefit of the world (and perhaps, naively failing to think of malicious potentials). Supertrope to Alien Non-Interference Clause.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_133e5ceb	comment	Ultraviolet (1998). The main protagonist Mike is a policeman who discovers that vampires exist and is therefore recruited into a covert government agency to fight them.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_13be67c	comment	The Last Son: The first two books have this as a main theme, with Superman and the X-Men attempting to keep the existence of mutants under the radar, until the climax of Book Two forces them to come clean about it. From Book Three onwards, this is also the reason why Superman refuses to share Kryptonian technology, adding also that, given that it runs on a different power source that's not readily available on Earth, it would drain the whole planet's power grid and render it unusable.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_1484a16e	comment	In the first book, Hagrid answers Harry's question about this with: "Everyone'd be wantin' magic solutions to their problems." (Hmm, is it still okay for wizards to acquire those magic solutions from other wizards? Right then.) The question is never raised again for the rest of the books. It is worth noting that magic is the only real defense against supernatural predators, some of which prey on humans (an entire branch of the Ministry is devoting to keeping said predators from breaking the Masquerade)... and it makes the housework a lot easier.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_1670bd19	comment	In STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, this is the reason that you are given for the true origin of the Zone being kept a secret by the C-Consciousness.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_1c7b6907	comment	In The Dragon Doctors —a world where magic is already known to exist— a spy on an exploration team tries to sabotage the discovery of the fountain of youth, fearing it will change the world for the worse. It doesn't, as we have seen already (this is a Backstory chapter).
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The World Is Not Ready / int_1f30cee7	comment	Becomes a major plot point in the My Teacher Is an Alien series. A vast alliance of aliens is terrified of earth because we are advancing quickly enough to soon discover interstellar travel, but still primitive enough to engage in war, meaning that when we learn the existence of the other races there could be trouble. Some aliens want to destroy us, some want to ignore us in the hope that we'll destroy ourselves, some want to sabotage our advance into space, and some want to take over the planet. In the end, the human Secret Keepers convince them to take a fifth option by sending alien teachers in disguise to peacefully guide humanity away from our savage behavior, so that someday we will be ready.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_23185c00	comment	Taken: In the final episode "Taken", Dr. Wakeman simply wants to be a spectator to the culmination of the aliens' plan as he does not believe that humanity is ready for the knowledge that they possess. Mary ultimately comes to agree with him but not until after she has already killed him. To that end, when Allie leaves with the aliens, she does not object to them taking the artifact, which contains a complete account of their Super Breeding Program, with them.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_26698c5a	comment	Mentioned in The Name of the Rose, when William of Baskerville is talking with another monk about someone in China inventing a powder that can blow up large amounts of rock, and therefore can probably blow up large amounts of people. The monk asks about using it against God's enemies, William asks which of the Emperor or the Pope is the greatest of God's enemies at the moment. The monk concedes he wouldn't want to be the one to answer that question.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_2ba1d958	comment	Morpheus in The Matrix explains that most people are not ready to be freed, as they've become dependent on the system. He goes on to explain that some are "so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."
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The World Is Not Ready / int_32c541e6	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist, Berthold Hawkeye developed perfect flame alchemy, but was afraid of it being misused, thus he did not want to teach it to any of his students, such as Roy Mustang. He even refused to keep notes, instead tatooing all the knowledge on his daughter's back instead. Riza would eventually reveal the secret to Roy, but after the Ishvalan Civil War, both came to agree with Berthold and burned the knowledge from her back to ensure it could not be passed on.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_343830b9	comment	In The Night Unfurls, this trope is Kyril's justification for concealing the Old Blood, plus anything related to the Great Ones. Initially, he is also reluctant to interfere in Eostian affairs, because he doesn't wish for the madness and depravity that arises from the Eldritch Truth he holds. His words carry a lot of weight when readers who played Bloodborne before know how Yharnam was ruined beyond repair as a result of people misusing and exploiting the gifts of the Great Ones (and later on in the main story, Shamuhaza's actions would prove him correct). This makes his goal to prevent history from repeating itself a more noble one than other instances of this trope in fiction.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: In the first book, Hagrid answers Harry's question about this with: "Everyone'd be wantin' magic solutions to their problems." (Hmm, is it still okay for wizards to acquire those magic solutions from other wizards? Right then.) The question is never raised again for the rest of the books. It is worth noting that magic is the only real defense against supernatural predators, some of which prey on humans (an entire branch of the Ministry is devoting to keeping said predators from breaking the Masquerade)... and it makes the housework a lot easier. Some have suggested, inferring from the implications of some Word of God statements, that the real reason is that the Ministry is terrified of what would happen if the Muggles ever did find out. Just imagine the practicality of modern technology enhanced to an unlimited degree with magic, Muggles would be unstoppable. So the wizarding world has cultivated condescending paternalism towards Muggles in their culture to conceal this underlying fear. The fearful reactions of the Muggles are justified and demonstrated in the fifth book when Dudley, a Muggle teenager, gets attacked by a Dementor, the Harry Potter equivalent of a soul eater. Dudley is predictably mentally scarred by this and does a turnabout in treating Harry and accepting the existence of wizards... but only after being brought home from the attack in a shell-shocked-like state... and if Harry hadn't saved him, he flat-out would have died. The sixth book clearly states that the English Prime Minister, for one, has had The Masquerade revealed to him. This implies that other world leaders are also kept informed of the wizarding world.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_44127c7c	comment	Sometimes the reason that the Power Rangers must keep their identities a secret, even though the villains always know who they are.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_452f8509	comment	At the conclusion of the Laff-A-Lympics special "The Man Who Stole Thursday," Professor Gizmo dismantles his chronocycle (a device that the villain Mastermind had Ranger Smith steal to wipe out Thursdays from the calendar), saying the world is better off without it.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Leonard of Quirm (the Leonardo da Vinci expy) is kept in a locked room in the Patrician's palace, regularly brought food, ink and drawing paper. He's not locked to keep him imprisoned but to keep people away (he designed the locks himself) and to prevent them from applying his inventions for evil purposes (Leonard just can't help himself from designing things like explosives that could remove mountains or submarines that can cut through hulls alongside flying machines and a more efficient tea stirrer).
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The World Is Not Ready / int_4737c653	comment	In Elementary episode "Solve for X", the Victim of the Week had been working on P versus NP, one of the biggest unsolved mathematical problems in the world. Statement "If the solution to a problem can be quickly verified by a computer (NP), can the computer also solve that problem quickly (P)?" As one of the seven Millenium Problems, it has a $1,000,000 prize attached. Another mathematician later proved that P = NP, a world-shaking result which would (among other things) invalidate most existing cryptography. They're promptly silenced and the results confiscated by the FBI. The fact that the FBI can now blow up the Internet at will goes unmentioned.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_48c2633f	comment	A comparable discovery (broadcast power) is concealed by the heroes in Legacies, a Repairman Jack novel. Averted in that it's covered up because the late inventor's daughter, whom he'd molested, didn't want a bastard like him to be remembered as a great genius.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_49a88442	comment	In Final Fantasy XIV, this is how the Crystal Tower storyline concludes during A Realm Reborn. The storyline revolves around exploring an ancient tower left behind by the long-dead Allagan empire. After defeating the guardians of the ancient tower and thwarting the Deal with the Devil that Allag's last emperor began, it's decided that the tower's Lost Technology is too advanced and dangerous for the world to handle as it is now. And so G'raha Tia, the last descendant of the ancient bloodline that can control the tower, chooses to seal himself away inside it, until such a time as the outside world has become advanced enough to unseal the tower and use its powers wisely. Towards the end of the Shadowbringers storyline, it's revealed that the tower was eventually opened again in the timeline marked by the Eighth Umbral Calamity. It took generations of tireless effort to do so.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_49ff762	comment	Often mentioned in Torchwood as a justification for having to hide the existence of aliens or alien technology.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_4c06d071	comment	In X-Men: Evolution, the existence of the mutants is hidden because Professor X believes humans are unready to accept the mutants. When Magneto releases a Sentinel in public at the end of the second season, thus forcing the X-Men to use their powers out in public, the Professor's theory that mutants will not be accepted is proven right.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_4dd54482	comment	Also shown in the premiere of Ben 10: Alien Force when Magister Labrid tried to stop the Forever Knights from obtaining alien laser lances which were above Earth's technology level. His reasons are shown when one knight attempted to use a damaged lance on Labrid and Kevin, only to be vaporized when the lance explodes.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_4fd9904a	comment	The fearful reactions of the Muggles are justified and demonstrated in the fifth book when Dudley, a Muggle teenager, gets attacked by a Dementor, the Harry Potter equivalent of a soul eater. Dudley is predictably mentally scarred by this and does a turnabout in treating Harry and accepting the existence of wizards... but only after being brought home from the attack in a shell-shocked-like state... and if Harry hadn't saved him, he flat-out would have died.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_5163162b	comment	Unnatural History Episode 4 introduces the origins of the Fountain of Youth: A plant that produces berries filled with a highly-addictive steroid that turned normal people into Super Soldiers, however it came at the cost of lowering intelligence and running the risk of cardiac arrest. Henry who was given the plant by his Godfather Dante before his passing told him to not let the seeds fall into the wrong hands: including that of Dantes' son. So after seeing how dangerous the plant really is when an Intern decided to use it on the highschools' basketball team, Henry resolves to burn it. Secretly, Henry managed to pocket away one of the seeds before burning the plant; vowing to Dante that science will one day become responsible enough to use the plant responsibly.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_517380f	comment	Terra Ignota: The adults of Bridger's bash' keep Bridger and the fact that he can work miracles very secret. Part of this is because Bridger is still a child, but they also want to map out his ability and develop his personality as much as possible before revealing him to the world. Not only is his ability exceptionally dangerous — there's nothing preventing Bridger from taking a vial that says "world-ending plague" and making it real —, but they know people won't believe it even if they see it with their own eyes. The fact that Mycroft Canner is still alive and mostly at large (though under supervision) is also something everyone in the know is sworn to keep a secret, considering the terror everyone was experiencing all over the world during the two weeks of his murder rampage. Nobody quite knows what would happen should the public find out that Mycroft was not, in fact, executed on the spot. As story progress shows, the fears of the world's leaders are not unreasonable: Once Mycroft's situation becomes knows, riots break out in the streets worldwide and random Servicers are lynched by mobs because from afar they vaguely look like Mycroft Canner. Another instance of this trope concerns the true reason why Mycroft and Saladin murdered the entire Mardi 'bash. The official version Mycroft keeps repeating is that he wanted to prove that evil for evil's sake exists because he believes the world is not ready to face the fact that the Mardi 'bash was collectively planning to start a world war. They had come to the conclusion that it's better to have one now instead of in the future where it may be that much more destructive. There is a lot of debate throughout the series about whether the world is ready for a worldwide war or not, especially considering that after a couple hundred years of worldwide peace nobody knows anything about how to deal with it. Also debated throughout the series at length is wether the world is ready to know what Martin Guildbreaker has found out during his investigation into the theft of the Seven-Ten list, namely that a secret organization has been murdering people on behalf of the world's leaders under the pretense of the bigger picture of keeping the world at peace. What makes it worse is that they were using the Flying Car system used by almost everyone on the planet to do the deeds. While Martin acknowledges that the public has a right to know what has been going on, he also is acutely aware that the public is in no way, shape or form ready to calmly receive this information and understand it's implications. It is highly implied that he would've kept his discoveries a secret and dealt with it only among the higher echelons of power had the only person on the planet incapable of lying and deceiving the public not been listening in. The result, predictably, is a world war and public demand for dissolving the entire Hive system.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_51ef8ae4	comment	The Garfield Show: After his invention opens a gateway between the fictional world of Television and the real world causing hilarity to ensue, Professor Bonkers feels this way about his own genius.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Valley of the Shadow", the alien scientist who provided the people of Peaceful Valley, New Mexico with the equations to create Applied Phlebotinum in 1859 instructed them not to share their technology with the outside world until mankind learns the ways of peace.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_59402950	comment	In Quozl by Alan Dean Foster, stranded alien rabbit-people conclude that The World Is Not Ready for them to reveal their presence, so set about getting the world ready by working with human Secret Keepers to produce a children's television series about stranded (and harmless!) alien rabbit-people. Subverted in that the Quozl are far more frightened of humans than humans have reason to be from them; the first encounter between a human and a Quozl resulted in the Quozl dying from a shotgun blast to the chest, while the aliens' own ray guns took multiple shots to put him down; they were designed for handling hostile fauna, and the Quozl never thought they'd face anything that could fire back. In fact, they were utterly shocked to discover that other sentient beings exist, considering the odds to be impossible. Despite being more primitive, humanity has frequently speculated about intelligent aliens; it never even occurred to Quozl, so they were less ready for us than we were for them.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_5ab7e095	comment	At the beginning of Ready Player Two, Wade discovers the ONI, a neural interface for the OASIS that James Halliday developed but never released for precisely this reason. Part of why the world was not ready for the ONI is revealed at the end of the novel - since the device maps the brain of each user, it can be used to create an AI copy of any person who has ever put one on - even the deceased. Wade and company ultimately decide that while the cat may be out of the bag as far as the ONI is concerned, the world is still not ready to confront AI versions of themselves and their lost loved ones.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_5d020c4a	comment	The whole reason the Strategic Prevention, Extraction, and Ablation Regiment (with their Weaponized Extraction Teams) exists in the Heroes of the Storm fanfic Heroes of the Desk. There are allusions to the supernatural in the past that were successfully covered up (feudalism, whaling, the Salem Witch Trials, something involving the Catholic Church), and then the Cryptic Background Reference of the Roman Empire—which is why all those covers were necessary. It hasn't been explained exactly what happened however.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_5f0bc344	comment	Isaac Arthur considers this a Kick the Dog moment for Sufficiently Advanced Aliens, especially if they say it after criticizing humans for hurting their environment. He compares it to western person going to a poor sub-Saharan village, criticizing them for drinking contaminated water, and refusing to share filtration technology with them. He even refers to species that act like this as "Smug Aliens."
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The World Is Not Ready / int_5f76cba1	comment	Note that even in those universes most people still won't believe in magic, even with magic-using heroes operating openly; they are considered metahumans and liars. This is best known with Doctor Thirteen of DC Comics. Originally a skeptic from the Golden Age who would debunk so-called magicians, he is now portrayed as a skeptic whose disbelief of magic is so strong that he actively causes magic around him to not work (ironically enough, his own daughter, Traci Thirteen is a magic user while the Doctor actualy dated Zatanna for a while, simply thinking she was just a very good magician). As of New 52, he's more of a scientist trying to study magic analytically, but the skeptic role has gone to his dad, the original Doctor.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_610cbf88	comment	The Pirate's Soldier: After Heero's initial encounter with Ayeka and Ryoko reveals the existence of alien life beyond the Sol system, the Preventers assign him to supervise them and ensure their origins don't get revealed to the public. Later on, he also uses this trope to stop Kiyone from reporting her findings to her superiors, arguing that, given that Earth is barely starting space colonization, it'd be a major shock if the Galaxy Police comes with a full fleet, which would compromise Earth's stability and security.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_61d236b7	comment	InCryptid: The reason for maintaining the masquerade about the existence of cryptids is what happened when humans did know about them: they formed the Covenant of St. George and tried to drive any non-human sapient species (and plenty of non-sapients) extinct. The Covenant is still out there, so cryptids and their allies (like the Price-Healy family) work hard to keep their world secret and not attract attention.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_62f94c6	comment	Batman comes to this conclusion several times in The Dark Knight Trilogy. In the third movie, Alfred calls him out on the fact that he seems to apply this to everything. Sure, we can understand the world not being ready for a super-advanced sonar spy system or a fusion reactor that can be turned into a multi-megaton bomb, but you're not willing to give the police a wi-fi hacking device?
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The World Is Not Ready / int_67f55317	comment	Actual real lightsabers, in the YouTube series Three In The Afternoon, and its sequel Six In The Morning. As Travis warns Jonathan and Corey, if they are spread throughout the world, people (especially children) cutting each other in half will become a regular occurrence, and much of the story is spent trying to stop renegade Lucasfilm execs from ruining civilization for a buck. After they seemingly succeed, George Lucas of course begins mass-marketing them anyway.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_699c1e80	comment	One She-Hulk story from the '90s was based on the idea that the existence of aliens was not public knowledge, even after several alien invasions, Galactus standing on the Baxter Building more than once, Skrulls on TV, etc., etc.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Played straight by almost any hero with proprietary technology. Iron Man in particular is perpetually concerned about his technology falling into the wrong hands. In fact, this has happened several times.. This has led to multiple "Armor Wars" and other miscellanous incidents in the canon and alternate universes, such as suicide bombers detonating themselves with Arc Reactors. The amount of times Tony's fears of his tech being abused is confirmed a startingly number of times.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_6c1d09b1	comment	This is the justification the Brotherhood of Steel gives for their hoarding of pre-War tech in Fallout and Fallout: New Vegas as well. Since mankind had already nuked the planet halfway to oblivion once already, the Brotherhood fears something similar happening down the road. Interestingly, this is deconstructed in New Vegas: technology has been marching along quite nicely since the end of the first Fallout, and the NCR has access to all sorts of useful tech and is still developing more. However, the West-Coast Brotherhood of Steel still refuses to share theirs, still thinking that the people (read: anyone who's not them) are not ready to handle any sort of technology. Their dogma in this has gotten so bad that they even waged war on the NCR several times to take back or hold technology they want, like at the Battle of Helios. Unfortunately for the Brotherhood, while they do have power armor and nifty laser weapons, they don't have the numbers that the NCR army has, leading to many losses on their side.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_6c5a9849	comment	In Shadow of the Conqueror, Daylen knows how to create plenty of technological wonders that would change the world, but refuses to share them for fear that they'd just lead to even more war and death. Besides, he's not about to let anyone else lay a hand on Imperious.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_6e1d5f36	comment	A major plot point on Farscape. The Ancient Crichton calls "Jack" (because he takes the appearance of his father) leaves hidden information on wormholes in Crichton's brain as a guide to help him find a way home, but doesn't outright tell him how to access it, specifically invoking this trope if Crichton is unable to figure it out on his own. The wormhole knowledge is soon hunted by both Scorpius and the Scarrans, who will stop at nothing to obtain it to use as a weapon. Later in the series, the Ancient named "Einstein" shows Crichton more overtly why wormhole technology should not be taken lightly. Finally Crichton himself demonstrates to Scorpius and Emperor Staleek in Peacekeeper Wars exactly why a species gaining access to wormhole technology before they're ready to use it responsibly is a very, very bad thing.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_6f734712	comment	In a Series 8 episode of Smallville, Clark publicly reveals himself to be "The Blur". After things initially go well for him, eventually however, his inability to be everywhere causes the public to descend upon him in an angry mob, blaming him for deaths he's failed to prevent. He retreats back to the farm, only for the military to arrive, attempting to apprehend him for study and experimentation. Clark is eventually forced to use a Legion Ring to go back in time to avert that reality, deciding that the world clearly wasn't ready for him just yet.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_70814599	comment	Justifies the secrecy of the SGC in Stargate SG-1 though it turns out that a lot of this is being enforced by non-NATO allies (oh hi, Russia) and international businessmen who want to use Imported Alien Phlebotinum to dominate the tech industry. There exists a healthy dollup of realpolitik on the U.S. government's side, too. There's been times when The Masquerade only hurt Earth's defense, as seen already in the first season when one Obstructive Bureaucrat was enough to get the Stargate program shut down because they couldn't go through proper channels to appeal. For all its levity, SG-1 poses a real philosophical dilemma over free exchange of information vs. national security. And we did see the consequences of ending the Masquerade on a parallel Earth - mass panic, and the apparent transformation of the US into a dictatorship. Whether or not the world actually is ready is not as open to discussion as it should have been, given that in the Aschen timeline in "2010", the Stargate's existence was publicly revealed and people just treated it as another form of public transport. But the main-timeline SGC never learned anything about that timeline other than that they must not go to the Aschen homeworld, so they had no way of knowing this. One late episode had a particularly interesting use of this trope: SG-1 visit another planet where they encounter a man who they end up telling that the Stargate (which was just a museum piece there, no-one knew that it did anything) can transport you to other planets. At the end of the episode, the alien government finds out about this, and, to the horror of SG-1's ally, declares that the world is not ready and begins their own Masquerade. Alien technology is being slowly allowed to filter out into public use, however, "laundered" through various labs. Medical nanotechnology, for example, is more advanced in the Stargate verse than in real life due to things that have been learned from alien sources.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_755d59cb	comment	In God of War RagnarÃ¶k, this is Deconstructed in a side-quest. A lineage of Light Elves hid away a library in Alfheim containing secrets from the elves' past, before their separation into light and darkness, under the justification of protecting their kind of what that information would bring, which only helped to perpetuate their Forever War. After defeating and sparing the life of the Maven who tried to stop him from taking a book from there, Kratos lectures her about how to believe that such knowledge would destroy the Light Elves from within is to lack faith in the people who would most benefit from it.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_7668653a	comment	Retroactively inverted in Mass Effect 2. Mordin will explain that this is what should have been done with the krogan when the salarians found them. Instead, they gave the krogans (who had achieved nuclear technology only to blast themselves back to the stone age) spacecraft and advanced weaponry, the reason being that krogan toughness, aggressiveness and sheer numbers were needed to combat the rachni. As a result of this "uplifting", the krogan expanded explosively with nothing to check their numbers or their aggression, necessitating a Depopulation Bomb that meant that only one out of every thousand pregnancies was born. Had the krogan naturally developed beyond their aggression, Mordin explains, this may not have been the case, and the krogan could have been prosperous. This is a common theme in Mass Effect 2. Legion states this as the reason why the majority of the geth did not follow Sovereign. The Reaper was offering what they wanted - true unity - but they preferred to reach it on their own. Also invoked when discussing the fate of the Collector Base. To say nothing of the Reapers, of course; one of the big reasons the Council denies their existence is to prevent the galaxy from descending into panic. Not that they'd need to cover it up in Mass Effect 3, of course...
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The World Is Not Ready / int_7668653b	comment	To say nothing of the Reapers, of course; one of the big reasons the Council denies their existence is to prevent the galaxy from descending into panic. Not that they'd need to cover it up in Mass Effect 3, of course...
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The World Is Not Ready / int_7de09a4a	comment	Major plot point of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as Hank tries to introduce 19th-Century technology and democracy into the medieval era. It works for a time but only when he's there to teach them. The moment he has to leave the country for a family emergency, everything falls to pieces leading to a full blown war.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_7f49dfdb	comment	Devil Survivor and Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey both present this as a possibility in both cases and the equal possibility to avert it in the first case. Considering these games relate the story of massive demonic infestations and the horrifying depths humankind can sink to when backed into a corner, the protagonists for both games have fairly good cases going for them.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_7fc78282	comment	Hinted at in The Lord of the Rings, in which Gandalf observes that any device of an art deeper than one's own is dangerous. This doesn't go all the way to saying such devices should not be used, it's more like an observation and a call for caution, the reality of the risk is displayed by Denethor and Saruman.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_7fcddc41	comment	The Journeyman Project has a race of aliens send a message to Earth saying that in 10 years, they will arrive and have them join an intergalactic society where all races unite in peace. Due to the Big Bad messing with the timeline, the event is changed by having the aliens declaring that humanity is not yet ready to be integrated with alien society due to humans causing violence towards others and themselves (related to the altered events that you have to fix).
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The World Is Not Ready / int_83d41855	comment	After admitting to her partner Matt that the Gargoyles exist, Elisa says that part of the reason she never told anyone was because she wanted to feel special as their Secret-Keeper. Later events in the series would demonstrate the world probably wasn't ready after all.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_86814cd0	comment	This trope inadvertently led to some of the conflicts of Final Fantasy IV. Some Lunarians wanted to simply observe the planet and leave humans alone; others, like KluYa, wanted to grant them the gift of advanced technology, producing the Tower of Babil, the Devil Road, and airships, but didn't take it further lest they adversely affect existing human civilizations. Dissidents like Zemus wanted to take over the planet wholesale, and giving the Puny Earthlings mechs and tanks puts a crimp in those plans.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_8a339030	comment	This happens in every Indiana Jones film, and its video game counterparts Tomb Raider and Uncharted.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_8bf307b3	comment	The trope is used from time to time in the Disney Mouse and Duck Comics to justify why all their genius inventors haven't already changed the world: The first use of this trope is in "Island in the Sky", published in 1936: for the whole story professor Einmug, whose technology allowed him to have a whole island floating in the sky and other marvelous inventions, had considered sharing, but in the end, after a bad run-in with Pete, he decides not to because even if his technology ended in the hands of good people they would eventually have to use for war to keep it from villains, and tells Mickey and captain Doberman he'll bring his lab on another world (later revealed to be the Delta Dimension). Doberman quietly concedes the point... And considering Einmug's inventions are all based on incredibly advanced nuclear technology, when he returns in the 1959 story "The Delta Dimension" he wastes no time to allude to certain events that proved him right. He's also Genre Savvy enough to know the world will be ready one day... And takes active part in accelerating the process, helping other scientists, sharing some of his less dangerous inventions, and keeping contact with Mickey to recover whatever gets stolen (possibly because he's not paranoid enough), the latter being the very reason he came back in "The Delta Dimension". The same reasoning as Einmug is applied by professor Spike Marlin for his Time Machine. He and the archaeologist Zachary Zapotec only use it to send Mickey and Goofy to solve historical mysteries, but are extremely aware someone could try and change the past... So they keep around a forgetfulness potion, and the only time they broke their vow was when they knew there was a time loop and not allowing Mickey to go in the past to deal with Pete there would have broken the timeline. Marlin would later create the Disney Universe' Time Police to insure his technology is not abused. At one point Marlin tried to branch out by adapting the time machine technology into a teleportation device, reasoning that his time machine already moves people in space and by setting the temporal shift to zero it would be simple teleportation (how time travelers in Paperinik New Adventures achieve teleportation). After his first experiment goes awry in a way he can't even understand, he agrees to suspend the experiments because not only the world but he himself isn't ready. Gyro Gearloose makes many more inventions than people know. People don't know because if he thinks they're dangerous he'll destroy the prototype and destroy the blueprints. He originally dealt with the blueprints by throwing them in the trash, as pretty much nobody can understand them, but after a case of a Mad Scientist being smart enough to do just that fished one of his dangerous blueprints from the trash... Paperinik New Adventures has multiple examples: Everett Ducklair shares most of his inventions-in fact, he built up a massive economic empire out of it. His weaponry, however, is kept secret for the most part, and the one he sells to the US Army is tighly controlled because he knows very well the damage even the lesser things could do if they ended in the wrong hands. This trope, combined with preserving the timeline as much as possible, is part of why the Time Police sabotages Seamus Hogg's cold fusion experiment to not make it work. As before his intervention to change the timeline the experiment would have nuked Duckburg, Paperinik concedes the point - and is in fact happy when the events of the story get Hogg fired from his job. This is also why Paperinik and the US government are keeping the existence of the Evronians secret-what would be the reaction if the public learned there's a Horde of Alien Locusts posed to invade Earth? Indeed, when the Evronians are exposed in "Might and Power" there's immediate panic, at least until that invasion force is defeated. "The Banks of Time" ends with Paperinik, Lyla and the Raider sabotaging an Artificial Gravity experiment... Because the events of the story proved how apocalyptic it can be if done unproperly. Fittingly, the one who screwed up was Seamus Hogg, inspired by a disguised Raider's mention of said technology in an attempt of making his cold fusion experiment work without exploding.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_8e8ed866	comment	Knight Rider: The technology controlled by Knight Industries is kept a guarded secret lest it be used for ignoble purposes.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_8eda89ef	comment	This is the government's supposed view of the Contractors in Darker than Black. Ryuusei no Gemini showed that the world could be made ready relatively painlessly; the government agencies simply liked keeping their secret weapons.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_90c73dda	comment	Subverted in the Animorphs series. The Yeerks needed to keep their invasion secret because if humanity knew about it, they would overwhelm the invasion by sheer numbers. As Visser One once put it, "6 billion humans, all firing one bullet, missing almost 100 percent of the time, would wipe out the entire invasion." The Animorphs needed to keep their identities secret because if the Yeerks knew they were human, they could find them. Averted at the end of the series when the Big Bad of the series becomes Visser One and does take the invasion public—and almost wins. Played straight in that the Andalites have their own version of the Prime Directive, "The Law of Seerow's Kindness", enacted when Prince Seerow tried to help another species, the Yeerks, out of their And I Must Scream existence. This bit the galaxy in the ass, big time. Resubverted when the only way to fix the mess is to break the rule. The Animorphs wonder whether humanity will be able to live peacefully with aliens, like the Hork-Bajir: And then subverted again in the final book according to Marco, who says that humanity doesn't panic at the revelation of extraterrestrial life. Or at least the side that wasn't trying to pull a mass Grand Theft Me invasion.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_91c0049a	comment	This is the main premise of a short story called "The Sack", about an alien creature found on an asteroid, who can answer lots of questions on all kind of topics. As the creature remarks to a human guarding him, it knows that the humanity isn't ready for the answers, and that it's likely to wreak havoc (it's quite noticeable by the end - both researchers and politicians are asking The Sack instead of thinking, and in the latter case, it's Scry vs. Scry). However, it's the only thing that gives it some pleasure in his loneliness after (the rest of its race has been destroyed by meteoroids). Fortunately, at the end of the story, The Sack is kidnapped by a group of criminals, and once these fall victim to Gold Fever, the alien is lost.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_924bb56e	comment	In Dollhouse, this is the reason given for why their technology is so very misused. Not that, frankly, they seem particularly ready for the tech themselves. As it turns out in "Epitaph One", they're absolutely right, and the widespread use of their technology destroyed civilization. As Echo puts it:
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The World Is Not Ready / int_945f2d42	comment	In Wapsi Square, Monica is quite convinced that the world is not ready for the paranormal things that she deals with on a daily basis. The line itself first comes up after Shelly suggests using the Aztec god of alcohol to open a bar.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_9472b00d	comment	After the events of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, this is the train of thought concerning the power of the Psycho-Frame, given that the Unicorn Gundam itself proved itself so powerful at the end that it began messing with reality. Following the events of that series (and of Mobile Suit Gundam Narrative), Psycho-Frame technology is sealed and outlawed by all factions, and all Gundam entries that take place afterward in the timeline have no mention of it.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_95f7353a	comment	Played straight in The Lone Gunmen episode "Like Water For Octane" with the car that runs on water. The heroes themselves decide to suppress the technology because they felt humanity would make so many cars that engine oil would cause a greater environmental threat than gasoline usage would and that mankind wouldn't figure a way around that problem (besides, you know, recycling the stuff, like we do nowadays). I thought it was to save the US economy from the collapse of the gasoline-based automotive industry. A comparable discovery (broadcast power) is concealed by the heroes in Legacies, a Repairman Jack novel. Averted in that it's covered up because the late inventor's daughter, whom he'd molested, didn't want a bastard like him to be remembered as a great genius.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_976efc02	comment	In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Avalanche", Jonah and the Bots buy out so many names for Sharknado-type movie title for the sole reason of preventing their usage in making crappy movies.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_9b7e31d	comment	This is the justification for International Rescue keeping their technology to themselves, at least if it has direct military applications: Jeff Tracy has no issue with his on-call Gadgeteer Genius making money on the side selling new aviation safety systems, as seen in "Alias Mr Hackenbacker".
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The World Is Not Ready / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls series, the Psijic Order is a powerful Magical Society and the oldest monastic order in Tamriel. Initially, after their founding, they had this belief toward magic in general, believing that the world must learn magic slowly, at a safe rate. Thousands of years later, they still maintain this attitude toward certain magical artifacts, as seen in Skyrim's College of Winterhold questline, where they decide that Ancano's attempt to destroy the world with the Eye of Magnus (which is actually the true mission of the insane Aldmeri Dominion ruling class) is proof that world is not ready for it.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_9fa5fb48	comment	In the Schooled in Magic series, Emily is always introducing new ideas and technology to the medieval world she finds herself in. Yet, she hardly shares all that she knows, such as the effect of splitting an atom or basic understanding of chemistry, for she believes that this power would be used for terrible destruction. Even so, she does use a nuclear bomb spell of her own making at one point.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_a4274674	comment	In Man of Steel, Clark starts off believing this as a result of Jonathan's advice.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_a5791fe6	comment	In Death Note: The Last Name and it's Interquel, L: change the WorLd, L burns the two notebooks that once belonged to Ryuk and Rem. He knows that man cannot handle the power, even while knowing a Shinigami could bring a new one every time.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_a82f2d59	comment	In What You Already Know: Resolutions, Daniel's new psychic abilities allow him to confirm that Earth isn't ready to learn the truth about the Stargate Program when his precognitive abilities give him a vision of what would happen if billionaire Alec Colson exposed the existence of the SGC. Based on Daniel's vision (past visions have always been accurate unless Daniel and his allies take action to avert what he sees), riots would break out as people blamed the government for bringing alien threats to Earth, resulting in martial law being declared, the SGC itself being destroyed under unclear circumstances, and the Replicators overrunning the entire galaxy.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_ac7adc37	comment	It's for this reason that Forbidden Planet's Dr. Morbius doesn't release Krell technology to the rest of humanity. Commander Adams accuses him of wanting to horde the technology for himself. As it turns out, Morbius was righter than he knew— nobody could control the Krell device: not humanity, not the Krell themselves... and not Morbius.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_af566418	comment	In Ben 10: Ultimate Alien "The Flame-keeper's Circle", Julie tries to convince Ben that wide-spread alien technology could benefit the Earth. Ben warns her that it could destroy Earth instead. It's happened before to other planets, and one of the reasons the Plumbers exist is to prevent it from happening again. Also shown in the premiere of Ben 10: Alien Force when Magister Labrid tried to stop the Forever Knights from obtaining alien laser lances which were above Earth's technology level. His reasons are shown when one knight attempted to use a damaged lance on Labrid and Kevin, only to be vaporized when the lance explodes.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Danger Mouse: "The Return of Count Duckula" uses scenes from "The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse" in flashback to recount DM's meeting with the vampire duck. Duckula, who wants his own TV show, doesn't impress DM who tells him "The world isn't quite ready for you yet."
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The World Is Not Ready / int_b31b332f	comment	Used in the Transformers Film Series. After the resident Obstructive Bureaucrat demands to know why the Autobots have not shared their technology with the world, Optimus reasons that humanity would abuse it. See also You Are Not Ready, since it's used in the context of the humans wanting new weapons to help fight the bad guys. Funny enough, in the sequel, Sam has a sizable chunk of Cybertronian science uploaded into his brain. Besides being laughed at for saying that Einstein was wrong, he can't even seem to find words for what he knows, lapsing into what sounds like a fax machine having a seizure, just when he's about to correct something.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_b3266cf1	comment	In Secret Headquarters, the Source and the tech it creates are only given to the Guard to use. Indeed, much of the plot centers around keeping it away from the world at large. Exactly why is never quite explained, but the Source certainly seems to think only widespread destruction will occur if the wider world gets access to it.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_bd310eaa	comment	Played for laughs in El Goonish Shive when aliens show up at Tedd's house. Also given more seriously as the reason why the heroes keep magic under wraps. The nature of the setting's magic is such that anyone can "awaken" with sufficient study and practice once they know magic exists. And once you awaken, you'll continue to get new spells you can cast, customized to your personality, as long as you continue to use magic, and those spells require no components, incantations, or props to cast. In short, once magic becomes public knowledge, every psychopath, pervert, or criminal in the world will have potential access to spells to kill, enslave, or whatever else they desire. Tedd wants to make the world ready.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_bdc321e2	comment	The reason for the secrecy of the Blackwood Project in War of the Worlds (1988).
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The World Is Not Ready / int_c2273334	comment	Deconstructed in the comic series Planetary, in which an evil version of the Fantastic Four shows what happens when less than noble people use this excuse. They only claim the world isn't ready for technology so they can keep it all to themselves. They also actively kill and suppress anyone who tries to oust their secrets and take any super discoveries for "safe keeping".
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The World Is Not Ready / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor once told the tale of the planet Minos. The Time Lords of Gallifrey, being a young race then, decided to help out the primitive planet Minos by instructing them in science and technology. The Minosans responded by kicking the Time Lords out at gunpoint then engaging in a nuclear war that reduced their homeworld to an asteroid belt. After that the Time Lords put their Prime Directive in place. In the Series 5 two-parter "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood", a plan for the Silurians, the original reptilian inhabitants of the Earth, to re-emerge gets postponed for this reason. Considering that peace talks between them and the humans had broken down because of the murder of POWs and both sides claim equal right to ownership of the surface, this is probably one of the more justified examples. The Doctor also puts into motion a plan to make the world ready, by asking the humans to spread the message of the Silurians' return in 1,000 years. In a more mundane example, the two-parter "The Impossible Astronaut"/"Day of the Moon", which is set in 1969, features an FBI agent thrown out of the service because of who he wants to marry. After he helps save the world, President Nixon concludes that she must be black and says he might be able to help with the legal issue, since the US seems to be ready for mixed-race marriage. The ex-agent then corrects him, saying he is black. Nixon decides that landing on the moon is far enough.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_c487221e	comment	The main premise behind the Men in Black films (and animated series) is the world not being ready to accept the existence of alien species, let alone be trusted with any of said aliens' advanced technology. Left unspoken is the issue that Earth is the galactic Truce Zone; it's important that we be ready because if we aren't ready for the responsibility when the public learns, we'll probably cause a major galactic war or twelve.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_c4fe195d	comment	Some episodes of the Super Mario World cartoon have the Marios try to introduce modern inventions and ideas to the local cave people. Depending on what it was, this trope would be in effect; For example, Mario gives them the wheel, but goes too far and builds them cars from Bamboo Technology. The resulting mess makes no one happy. Invoked in another episode where King Koopa introduces television (actually Magikoopas in boxes) to brainwash the people.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_c72021c5	comment	Present in one of the endings to Deus Ex, and heavily implied throughout the game. Everett literally asks - "Do you think they`re ready for this? After everything you`ve seen? Everything you`ve done?" That question gives JC pause, and he answers - "No. Not yet."
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The World Is Not Ready / int_c75ae76b	comment	In recent Dick Tracy comics, Diet Smith tells Tracy that he has become more and more reticent over the years to share his biggest scientific discoveries, because criminals have stolen his inventions and used them for evil purposes so many times over course of the comic. In particular, this is Diet's (in-universe) excuse for mothballing all the Moon technology. In Real Life, the reason these elements were removed from the strip was that Chester Gould's successor as writer, Max Allen Collins, considered the strip's Moon Period a massive Audience-Alienating Era and preferred to ignore it. The current writer, Mike Curtis, is a fan of the Moon Period and has brought some of the Moon stuff back, but also gave Diet the above-mentioned explanation for his previous behavior.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_c7fe972d	comment	TRON 2.0 implies this trope at the end. Laser technology that can open up a whole new dimension? An entire civilization of artificial life forms? Human "Users" becoming Physical Gods worshiped by those life forms? Unfortunately, Thorne and F-Con exploited all of it in the worst way possible, trying to enslave the Programs and have unlimited access to state secrets, global finance, and media to rule both worlds. Jet and Alan lock down the laser and the necessary algorithms to run it very tightly after they return to analog.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_cb6abef3	comment	Why the Tesseract is returned to Asgard at the end of The Avengers. The events of the film demonstrate that humans would misuse the Tesseract's power, but on top of that, the Earth simply can't deal with the kind of attention it would bring if it became widely known that humanity possessed the Tesseract. The fact that the most immediate use for it by SHIELD was to create weaponry didn't help either.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_cd21bddf	comment	Altair: A Record of Battles: Guns, since it's set in the 15th century. Prince Beyazit brings back some firearms from the Orient which he uses to end the Turkish civil war, but later destroys them because he's afraid of the fact that they will change warfare forever. Prince Ismail points out, however, that he's merely delaying the inevitable.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_cef724a1	comment	In Concrete, the title character is abducted by mysterious aliens who transplant his brain into a 1200-pound stone-like body. When Concrete insists on living outside the confines of a government laboratory, The CIA concocts a story that he is the sole survivor of a failed super-soldier program, rather than admit to the existense of extra-terrestrials. Concrete agrees to play along, in exchange for his freedom.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_d3c800ed	comment	Episode 75 Sonic X: Dark Chaos reveals that this is the primary motivation for Maledict trying to rule the entire universe. He believes that sentient mortal beings are not ready for freedom to make their own decisions, and must be controlled (freely or by enslavement) for their own good.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_dcc5706e	comment	Racer and the Geek inverts the trope. The world was not yet ready for firearms, or any of the other instruments of modern war. The results are not pretty.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_dd3fe595	comment	A major theme of Atlas Shrugged, though used unconventionally. First seen when a technology that allows electricity to be gathered from the atmosphere without any adverse side effects, pollution, or factories, lightweight and apparently easy to construct, is hidden by its inventor out of fear that the setting's collectivist governments would exploit that inventor and people like him. Later the same principle is applied to innovation and skilled labor in general, to greatly destructive effect.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_ddad77ae	comment	In Astro City, this is the reason that the Astro-Naut gave for not sharing his technological discoveries with the United States government — he had battled enough Planet Looters before that he feared humans would do the same thing to other worlds.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_e081af79	comment	In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, when Jean takes offense at the alien Princess Voluptua's referring to the human race as "wildlife," Volly responds, "Jean, don't take it personally. Until you start interstellar space travel, everybody's wildlife."
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The World Is Not Ready / int_e2cb4c1	comment	Subverted in the comic book Doctor Strange: The Oath. Doctor Strange has brought back Otkid's Elixir, a magic potion that can cure any disease, from another dimension. The main antagonist, Nicodemus West, tells him that humanity isn't ready to include magic as part of modern medicine. Strange points out all the inventions, like artificial hearts and CAT scans, that seemed like magic when they first appeared, and claims this would be no different.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_e7a9c06c	comment	Paperinik New Adventures has multiple examples: Everett Ducklair shares most of his inventions-in fact, he built up a massive economic empire out of it. His weaponry, however, is kept secret for the most part, and the one he sells to the US Army is tighly controlled because he knows very well the damage even the lesser things could do if they ended in the wrong hands. This trope, combined with preserving the timeline as much as possible, is part of why the Time Police sabotages Seamus Hogg's cold fusion experiment to not make it work. As before his intervention to change the timeline the experiment would have nuked Duckburg, Paperinik concedes the point - and is in fact happy when the events of the story get Hogg fired from his job. This is also why Paperinik and the US government are keeping the existence of the Evronians secret-what would be the reaction if the public learned there's a Horde of Alien Locusts posed to invade Earth? Indeed, when the Evronians are exposed in "Might and Power" there's immediate panic, at least until that invasion force is defeated. "The Banks of Time" ends with Paperinik, Lyla and the Raider sabotaging an Artificial Gravity experiment... Because the events of the story proved how apocalyptic it can be if done unproperly. Fittingly, the one who screwed up was Seamus Hogg, inspired by a disguised Raider's mention of said technology in an attempt of making his cold fusion experiment work without exploding.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_eef69f10	comment	In "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", Sherlock Holmes makes brief mention of a case which involved "the Giant Rat of Sumatra", and adds the world isn't ready for that story. Attempting to thwart this trope, numerous later authors have written fan-fic about the Rat.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_ef9246b4	comment	The main reason why The Rite of Spring caused such a riot was because it was meant for the ears of 1940 rather than those of 1913. Interestingly, it also appeared somewhere else in 1940...
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The World Is Not Ready / int_f404be35	comment	The Invasion of monsters in the webcomic Parallel Dementia is kept secret, because the more people know the nightmares exist, the more there will appear.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_f4efded0	comment	In Chain Reaction, the Big Bad's justification for murderously suppressing the existence of clean fusion power is that the world economy would collapse. Unfortunately for him, the hero faxed copies of the blueprints to every conceivable location.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_f5d2ead0	comment	Subverted in Transformers: Cybertron. Optimus Prime refuses to throw off the masquerade and have the Autobots attempt to join with the humans in an alliance, even in the midst of a full-out Decepticon attack on Earth, thinking that humanity would feel betrayed when they found out alien robots had been hiding among them. Not so, it turns out. The Men in Black types that had earlier seemed threatening turn out to be a force for good, and play a role in turning the tide. It's a warm fuzzy moment for everyone but the Decepticons.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_f6c05e8e	comment	In Friends to avoid hurting Joey's feelings, Rachel tells him that the world is not ready for him and his unisex bag.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: In "Deathwalker", a notorious Dilgar war criminal has a medication that will give a person immortality. She later sadistically reveals that the essential components come from other beings of sapient species. Thus she intends to throw the various civilizations into murderous chaos in revenge. However, just as she is transported to Earth to give her medication and carry out her revenge, a Vorlon ship suddenly appears and destroys her ship, her and her medication. When the Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, is asked why that was done, he simply responds "You are not ready for immortality". Of course, it also denied everyone the opportunity to study the process and do research that could have eliminated that flaw. And considering how the Vorlons ended up treating the younger races, it could be a case of "we don't want you to have what makes us special." Also the common excuse for those Minbari in the know not to reveal why they surrendered at the Battle of the Line. Or that Valen was in fact Jeffrey Sinclair. Humans would have dismissed the revelation as meaningless Minbari mysticism. It was the devastating consequences for the insular (and frankly quite racist) Minbari society that the Gray Council was worried about.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_f7558a18	comment	In Men in Black: The Series, the above explanation is the reason MIB stores so much alien hardware: the public is just not ready for it. They even date each item down to the year for when the world will be ready. The series makes a point that Earth is protected from being targeted by vastly more powerful alien governments in part thanks to its status as a primitive world making it a valuable neutral territory for alien species. If it becomes too technologically advanced too quickly, especially when using known alien technology, that legal protection stops applying and the planet becomes fair game for the more aggressive alien governments. Since it will take centuries at minimum for humanity to naturally develop into a society capable of defending itself on the galactic stage, MIB is very careful to keep alien technology off the streets.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_f7d93e4a	comment	This trope is used profusely by the Knights Templar/Abstergo Industries in Assassin's Creed. They believe that if humans ever found out the truth about the Isu AKA Those Who Came Before, there will be world wide panic.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_f91de837	comment	The sixth book clearly states that the English Prime Minister, for one, has had The Masquerade revealed to him. This implies that other world leaders are also kept informed of the wizarding world.
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The World Is Not Ready / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: When Dipper takes it upon himself to show the tourists of Gravity Falls some real magic, they end up traumatized by the Deadly Gaze of a massive Gremlobin showing them their worst nightmares.
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