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While Rome Burns

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While Rome Burns	comment	Something awful is happening. The world is ending, the economy collapsed, there's an earthquake, and rioting in the streets is commonplace. Everyone's in a panic — except this person. They're still reading a book, listening to music, browsing this site, whatever. Maybe they just don't care. They might have seen the disaster coming, and having taken every precaution and preparation beforehand, can now relax while everyone who put it off runs around like headless chickens. Perhaps they approve of what's going on, or even masterminded it and are letting their Evil Plan come to fruition. On the other hand, maybe they figure that if they're going to die, they might as well go out with quiet dignity rather than in a panic or with Rage Against the Heavens. If combined with Dissonant Serenity it might have heroic or stoic overtones. The trope is named after Roman Emperor Nero, who is purported to have been singing and playing his lyre (not what we call the "fiddle" despite Pop-Cultural Osmosis) while Rome was ravaged by a massive fire (though there are no detailed accounts of the fire from contemporary historians, thus there is debate about how true that is), and as such implies an authority ignoring the pleas of its subjects, or simply not caring enough, although it has broadened to mean simply carrying on as normal when the whole world falls to pieces around you. Compare with Holding Out for a Hero, Refusal of the Call, Achilles in His Tent, Cosy Catastrophe, Slept Through the Apocalypse, and Strolling Through the Chaos. If the survivor seems to be actively enjoying the destruction, see Dancin' in the Ruins and Conducting the Carnage. If it's more an example of heroically attempting to avoid letting nasty situations get you down, it's probably Screw the War, We're Partying. If someone tells them This Is No Time for Knitting, whatever they're doing is likely an attempt to save the day. Not to be confused with Stiff Upper Lip, where people aren't in denial of the problems around them. Opposite of sorts of Watching Troy Burn. Contrast Crying Wolf and Mistaken for Apocalypse. See Watch the World Die, while this is about not caring the world is ending, that trope is watching it from a safe vantage point. Compare Last Day to Live.
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While Rome Burns / int_10d303a2	comment	In Shin Megami Tensei IV's Chaos Ending, Flynn and Lucifer sit at Mikado Castle's battlements as the kingdom burns around them, with Tokyo's survivors and the imprisoned demons rapidly escaping their hellhole. Knowing this will result in a Social Darwinist populace, hardened by war, Lucifer all but assures Flynn that, as the strongest, he will be crowned king of the new humanity. Given Flynn's a Heroic Mime, it's a bit hard to see if this falls here or in Dancin' in the Ruins.
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While Rome Burns / int_119a1cc9	comment	The Team Fortress 2 "Meet the Team" videos have a few. In "Meet the Engineer", the Engineer is casually strumming his guitar and drinking beer while his turrets do all his fighting for him. In "Meet the Heavy", there is a scene of the Heavy on Dustbowl loudly yelling and laughing as he fires his minigun at the enemy team. This same scene is also in "Meet the Sandvich", only this time the Heavy just stands there munching on his Sandvich while the fighting happens around him. The first half of the Meet the Medic video is like this. While most of the team is getting utterly owned, the Medic and the Heavy are back in the clinic cracking jokes and making comically bad medical decisions. Promptly subverted in the second half of the video, in which the result of those comically bad medical decisions solves the crisis rather handily. Done very weirdly in the Meet the Pyro video. The Pyro is constantly in a self-inflicted oblivious state of this, so while in real life he's slaughtering people by the dozens and razing entire villages to the ground on his own, in his mind he's giving children lollipops and blowing bubbles and making rainbows.
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While Rome Burns / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: While millions of people are dying from a monster in downtown New York, Ozymandias, its creator, enjoys a nice dinner. The arrival of the heroes hardly deters him.
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While Rome Burns / int_135e90ef	comment	Cell has the 'Sprinters', people who steal the most expensive/fast-looking vehicles they can find and drive them down the street after the Zombie Apocalypse renders their owners either dead or insane. On the two occasions when specific Sprinters are mentioned, they manage to get themselves either injured or killed spectacularly.
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While Rome Burns / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, while whole worlds are falling apart, Khepri is gathering all remotely useful powered people and sees The Sleeper... sitting on a lawn chair idly reading a book. The fact that she thought he was more trouble than he was worth has spawned endless theories.
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While Rome Burns / int_16cfb2e5	comment	In The Witchlands, Merik notes sourly that while there's a new superpower rising right in the middle of the continent, the politicians at the Truce Summit prefer gossip and merry dancing to any serious discussion.
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While Rome Burns / int_17fa5f0a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, during the climatic fight with Voldemort's forces, Ron's concern for the house elves in the Hogwarts' kitchen ends up being the catalyst for him and Hermonione to complete their Relationship Upgrade and they have a Now or Never Kiss, even as the castle shakes and rumbles around them and Harry looks on with a deadpan expression. Eventually, he has to shout at them that they're still in the middle of a battle.
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While Rome Burns / int_1a1bd616	comment	The Chaotic Masters: The Monkey King at one point reminisces about how he and Sonata shared their first kiss while dancing in the ashes of the Forbidden City as the Huns sacked it.
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While Rome Burns / int_1b386512	comment	Kasumi Tendo, of Ranma Â½, is known for doing this as various crazy things happen in her house. Honestly, who can blame her? Considering the commonplace shenaigans of their lives, she may well have reached the point where the stability of getting dinner ready after the rampaging Interpretive Dance Ninja is dealt with was comforting. Or she's just cool like that.
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While Rome Burns / int_1be9854a	comment	Sound of the Sky: Imagine you are Second Lieutenant Filicia Heidemann. You just found out that your superior officer, whom you held hostage at gunpoint after he found an enemy soldier you were sheltering, has escaped and plans to assault your fortress in ten minutes to execute said soldier in a big display so the ongoing peace talks are ruined. What to do? Think it over a cup of tea and cake.
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While Rome Burns / int_1dbe1afe	comment	This is an ongoing theme in Watchers of the Throne — the High Lords current and previous keep trying to play political games and jockeying for power while the Imperium is burning down around them.
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While Rome Burns / int_1dd9862b	comment	In Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, at the end of the Despair Arc, a prequel for Danganronpa. The Tragedy is set into motion, causing worldwide devastation, and all members of the Reserve Course are brainwashed into commuting suicide, all while the ones responsible watch from afar and deem it be a pleasurable experience.
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While Rome Burns / int_2268de37	comment	In Grimm, according to a secret histories grimoire, Nero hired a specialized were-elemental to burn out the Christian district. Unfortunately for everyone involved, said were-elementals are pathological sadists and the arsonist wanted a burn for the history books. The Grimm who was recording and hunting him down failed to stop him before he could move on to the rest of the city.
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While Rome Burns / int_26674ed5	comment	Near the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, there's a soldier patrolling and listening to his Walkman, totally oblivious to the fact that the entire facility he's in is getting destroyed in six minutes, give or take.
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While Rome Burns / int_28724fb2	comment	Titanic (1997): The ship's architect Thomas Andrews, bandleader Wallace Hartley, and Captain Edward John Smith. Andrews stands in the first class lounge, calmly watching the clock tick away, Hartley and his band are playing a hymn, and Captain Smith remains at his post on the bridge all the while the ship sinks.
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While Rome Burns / int_2a5145ed	comment	In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the world is thirteen days away from being destroyed by Primordial Chaos. The leader of the last major city in the world hosts a continuous celebration to encourage everyone to have fun and live up their final moments since there's no stopping the comming end.
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While Rome Burns / int_2dfaf313	comment	The original has another great example with the "Hunting Parties". While in its predecessor, they are doing an effective, if indiscriminate job of clearing the countryside, by this point it is evident that they are likely going to fail, so what we see is a bunch of soldiers, cops, and assorted rednecks grilling, getting drunk, and doing their damnedest to enjoy their last hours of life.
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While Rome Burns / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Played for laughs in an episode of Justice League. While the rest of the population of Las Vegas has fled because of Joker's bomb threats, a single old lady continues feeding coins into a slot machine.
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While Rome Burns / int_2f88cb05	comment	Quo Vadis: Pictured above is a poster from the 1913 Italian Film of the Book. In the more recent 2001 Polish version, Nero is an Extra Large Ham.
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While Rome Burns / int_30c65459	comment	Tocotronic "Gesang des Tyrannen" (Song of the Tyrant) references the Trope Namer incident, although heavily metaphorically.
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While Rome Burns / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: Emil's recurring dream, the full narrative of which has yet to be revealed, apparently involves him having dinner while buildings in his town are burning, with the fire being visible from a window of the room in which he's eating. At some point, he mentions that the fire eventually spreads to his house.
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While Rome Burns / int_31a48eed	comment	In The Outer Limits (1995) episode "The Human Factor", commander Ellis Grover sabotages the colonization project he was in charge of after finding out his superiors started a nuclear war that killed off most of humanity, including his family. This is after he spent the entire episode trying to stop his Robot Buddy Link from doing the exact same thing out of the belief that Humans Are Bastards. Having come to agree with Link in the end, he reactivates him. When Link notes that Grover's sabotage leaves them with about two hours before the base is destroyed, Grover decides they might as well play one last game of chess. They spend the last scene setting up the chessboard while the base and all hopes of humanity's survival fall apart around them.
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While Rome Burns / int_34a70b48	comment	Batman Forever: Considering that Edward Nygma hasn't been publicly exposed as the Riddler, there's the appearance that he's doing this when his launch party is invaded by Two-Face and his goons.
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While Rome Burns / int_34d050c6	comment	In one episode of Darkwing Duck, Negaduck used a magical artifact to steal the powers of the other four members of the Fearsome Five, which made him grow to giant size; he then proceeded to flood St. Canard and use electricity to heat the water to the boiling point. As Darkwing wracked his mind to think of a way to bring him down, the four powerless villains were doing nothing but sitting down and sadly drinking weak tea. (Of course, this is a Zigzagged Trope, because they were doing it because they were too depressed over the loss of their powers at the moment to help.) This also leads to a "Eureka!" Moment when they realize that Negaduck had their weaknesses along with their powers.
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While Rome Burns / int_34f93608	comment	DJ Earworm's "United State of Pop 2011 (World Go Boom)" is about throwing a party and not caring about anything during an apocalypse.
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While Rome Burns / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: While Vale descends into chaos, Cinder Fall and Mercury Black are watching and taping the whole thing. Emerald seems at least regretful, but Mercury and Cinder are enjoying it.
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While Rome Burns / int_3953baf0	comment	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney) has an almost literal version of this; "while Paris burns" to be precise. Frollo threatens to burn down all of Paris and manages to burn down a considerable portion of it, but while Quasimodo and the gargoyles are looking out at the fire, they're discussing (and eventually singing about) whether or not Quasimodo might have a chance with Esmeralda after all.
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While Rome Burns / int_3b72d0a5	comment	In The Weaver Option, as the Imperium and daemons devastate Commorragh, a heavily injured Asbrudael Vect climbs the tallest tower still standing and enjoys a bottle of wine while watching the destruction.
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While Rome Burns / int_3c1f955d	comment	A few days after Krexa, a former voice actress for Yandere Simulator, posted evidence accusing the game's composer CameronF305 of sexual harassment and assault of both herself and another accuser at the beginning of February 2024, one of the many controversies having affected the game's development and reputation, developer YandereDev was spotted playing Persona 3 Reload on the streaming platform Kick.
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While Rome Burns / int_3ccfa555	comment	In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Trials and Tribulations, Larry Butz sees a bridge burning, and instead of running for help, he sketches the scene. Larry's like that.
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While Rome Burns / int_3d6e4e50	comment	The Day the Earth Caught Fire: Water rationing is imposed as the Earth hurls toward the Sun. At one point, the protagonist has to fight his way through a street full of teenagers high on drugs having a water fight. He eventually makes his way to the apartment of his Love Interest, and they spend more quiet time together.
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While Rome Burns / int_3e0b28b6	comment	Teddy Lagerfeld, one of the bosses "fought" in Dead Rising 3, is an incredible lazy man who's locked himself up in the safety of his basement while Los Perdidos is in the middle of a zombie outbreak. Teddy is completely content sitting around playing video games while everyone else is trying to survive. Fittingly, he evokes the sin of sloth.
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While Rome Burns / int_41cc1c3a	comment	In the Sadie's Story extras in Halo 3: ODST, an overweight butcher stays in his store, happily trying to sell or outright give away his meat to refugees fleeing New Mombasa, though he's doing this so that people can have food while getting out of the city, and you can hear a woman thanking him profusely for giving her a number of kabobs. He also admits that he is extremely fat and would take up space on a bus or train that would be better spent on multiple thinner people.
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While Rome Burns / int_4272dc3e	comment	The Australians in On the Beach while expecting the lethal radioactive clouds to arrive.
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While Rome Burns / int_438b63e4	comment	Halo: Reach's "New Alexandria" level has, as an Easter Egg activated by a switch on another building, a dance club where a Brute DJ is spinning "Never Surrender" from Halo 2 (and "Siege of Madrigal" if you hit another switch on the roof) while the city burns. The Grunts even dance to the music.
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While Rome Burns / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: As the latest powerful Angel draws close to bringing about the Third Impact and the annihilation of humanity, Kaji Ryoji is found watering his watermelon garden. He explains that since he can't pilot an Eva, there's nothing he can do to make a difference, so he might as well spend his final moments calmly doing something he enjoys. In Rebuild 2.22, in the end, while Shinji is causing Near-Third Impact, Kaji and Mari just take it easy while everyone else is scared out of their minds. Later, at the end of Rebuild 3.33, Mari is sitting around in Unit-08's entry plug, drinking tea while Unit-13 is causing the Fourth Impact.
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While Rome Burns / int_4962e658	comment	In Mean Girls, after the female population of the school has descended into madness over the Burn Book, Regina George stands at the top of the stairs and admires her handiwork as people run past and debris flies through the shot.
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While Rome Burns / int_499a0e5e	comment	While roaming around Endercon in Minecraft: Story Mode, you can find an oddly nonchalant NPC hopping on a slime block. Later, when the game's Eldritch Abomination shows up and everyone begins to flee in terror, you can see the NPC continuing to hop amidst the chaos until he gets picked up by the monster's tractor beam.
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While Rome Burns / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII: President Shinra looks calmly out of his window at the destruction of a whole sector of the city, a Haydn piece playing in the background. When the giant monster known as Weapon fires on Midgar, Rufus Shinra just stands and watches the energy beams heading right for the Shinra building before they blow out the entire floor he's on in a massive firestorm. He does duck at the last second. Somehow, that seems to have helped him, since he got better.
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While Rome Burns / int_49a88442	comment	In the Final Fantasy XIV expansion Shadowbringers, the nation of Eulmore was once at the forefront on the First in fighting the sin eaters so what's left of the world can try and carve out a future. But when Vauthry took power and showed the mysterious power to control the sin eaters to keep people safe, they gave up the fight. Now the rich and prosperous flock to Eulmore to indulge in hedonistic luxury while calmly waiting for the world to come to a complete end, to enjoy today rather than futilely fight for a tomorrow that will never be.
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While Rome Burns / int_4a74fd1a	comment	Nicholas and Alexandra: Prince Yusupov sees more clearly than most people in Tsarist Russia that the good times (for nobles, anyway) are going to end real soon, but that's not going to stop him from partying.
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While Rome Burns / int_4cc7ca61	comment	In Future War 198X, Laura still sits behind the piano at the underground jazz bar in Tokyo after hearing that enemy jets are inbound, playing a mournful tune while thinking of Wataru. Michael heartbrokenly sings "Eidelweiss" to himself while looking at the white flower his dead girlfriend once wore in her hair after blasting the nuclear warhead and shaking the whole war.
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While Rome Burns / int_4e73fd00	comment	Orphans of the Storm: The Chevalier, being the Only Sane Man in the French aristocracy, is well aware that The French Revolution is coming, and makes remarks to that effect at a debauched upper-class party.
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While Rome Burns / int_4f99c8b3	comment	Gears of War 3: All of the government officials and "important" scientists went to Azura, an island that has very lavish buildings the likes of which aren't seen anywhere else on Sera. The soldiers, on the other hand, are forced to fight in a Hopeless Forever War against the Locust. When Delta Squad finds out, they're suitably disgusted.
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While Rome Burns / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck, Rose has roughly two minutes to save John from being killed by an incoming meteor. She spends the first forty seconds playing a violin refrain. The game sarcastically compliments the player's time management skills. More figurative use of the trope would be when Dave and his Bro battle it out on the rooftop, with Houston being obliterated in the background. The battle itself is completely pointless. Dave also seems perfectly fine continuing to update his absolutely awful webcomic, Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, even though the world is ending.
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While Rome Burns / int_52071c09	comment	Carry On Up the Khyber: When the Governor learns that the Residency is about to be attacked, he resolves to do nothing and instead holds a black-tie dinner. The officers and ladies sit down to a fine dinner as the Residency is being shelled around them, completely ignoring the chaos going on. Only the chaplain Brother Belcher, who is the Only Sane Man, comments on the destruction or takes any precautions.
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While Rome Burns / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Marvel: The Ultimates (2002): Earth is about to be blown up, and indeed the entire solar system with it, but Herr Kleiser doesn't care. All he wants, all he's wanted since WWII, is to best Captain America and have him say "I surrender, Herr Kleiser. Make it quick". Good luck with that. Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: Gah Lak Tus may have fired a missile at 99% of light speed directly at Earth, but all Tony cares about is whether anyone remembered his vodka.
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While Rome Burns / int_5307b01d	comment	In Penny Arcade, Tycho and Gabe are so addicted to Titanfall that Gabe thinks that the game crashing is a good thing since he'd never be able to stop playing otherwise. Tycho's house is burning down around him and he still won't stop playing, though he hopes the game crashes soon. He is already on fire too.
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While Rome Burns / int_546f4d9a	comment	In the penultimate two episodes of Power Rangers Dino Charge, the newly-reformed but largely de-powered Heckyl realizes that the Earth is doomed thanks to an inevitable kaiju invasion, and spurred by depression and self-pity, he spends what he believes is his last day alive treating himself to junk food, skydiving, and rollercoasters. It's not until the chaos begins and he helps a little girl reunite with her mother that he decides to get back in action with the heroes to try and save the world.
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While Rome Burns / int_57430640	comment	Toward the end of Speed Grapher, Suitengu seals up a majority of members into the Roppongi club with intent to demolish it, if the JSDF doesn't do it first. Relatively few of them are shaking at the barred entrance in panic while most continue indulging in Hookers and Blow.
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While Rome Burns / int_5957104c	comment	Jenny from Deep Impact ends up spending her time at home with her dad as a huge comet approaches the Earth. A minute later, as a huge wave is destroying New York, we see a man on a park bench quietly reading a newspaper just before he's swept away. One wonders what could have possibly been in the newspaper.
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While Rome Burns / int_5c07d6ab	comment	In Saints Row: The Third, the antagonist Killbane, upon being humiliated on live television, (either by de-masking him or by defeating him) actually quotes the origin of the trope itself...
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While Rome Burns / int_5c208620	comment	In the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Solar Power", Luminous hijacked LexCorp's communication satellites to block off the sun's yellow radiation and cripple Superman. Despite the fact that Luthor's denial of wrongdoing was hard to believe (even though he wasn't involved) and the crisis was costing his company millions in revenue, he spent at least part of the time calmly practicing archery.
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While Rome Burns / int_5f8df2d	comment	The Ultimates (2002): Earth is about to be blown up, and indeed the entire solar system with it, but Herr Kleiser doesn't care. All he wants, all he's wanted since WWII, is to best Captain America and have him say "I surrender, Herr Kleiser. Make it quick". Good luck with that.
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While Rome Burns / int_64224104	comment	Averted in The Roman Mysteries: Rome literally burns, but the characters are certainly not indifferent or distracted by irrelevancies.
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While Rome Burns / int_64a41059	comment	During the sequence in Superman II when Superman and the Kryptonian villains are destroying half of Metropolis in the wake of their fight there is a crazed hobo in a telephone booth who laughs and talks to no one on the other end while the booth gets blown sideways down the street by super breath.
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While Rome Burns / int_64bdc2ed	comment	The first act of You Can't Take It With You ends with a lot of fireworks exploding offstage and a lot of people wildly shouting and rushing about onstage. The imperturbable Grandpa, however, just says "Well, well, well!" and sits down. "If a lot of people weren't in the way," the script suggests, "you feel he'd like to throw some darts."
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While Rome Burns / int_67cc40be	comment	Referenced in Mr. Robot by Whiterose during the post-credits sequence of the first season.
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While Rome Burns / int_6a5cadf7	comment	Foyle's War: One Body of the Week takes Detective Foyle to a resort where English Idle Rich are riding out World War 2 in leisure, with plenty of luxury food that contravenes rationing rules. Foyle, a WWI veteran whose son is an enlisted pilot, is deeply unimpressed with the frivolity.
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While Rome Burns / int_6bc0f10a	comment	In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), there is an old lady sitting at the street side table oblivious to or uninterested in what's going on around her while the world is being destroyed. This is Douglas Adams's mother. The director didn't give any acting directions to her or anybody else in the scene for what they were supposed to do, to simulate chaos, so she just sat there reading a newspaper.
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While Rome Burns / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress: Yet another display of dwarven stupidity. When civilian alerts are called in zones, usually due to hazardous anything, they will still wander over to grab a drink, or take a break in a rock garden or waterfall, while their fellow dwarves are dying splattery limb-flinging deaths to murderous abominations. In later updates, they will cancel tasks that take them outside the safe zone... but they won't go back into the safe zone, just mill around outside randomly self-assigning and canceling tasks because they're outside and too dumb to go inside.
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While Rome Burns / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, you can stumble upon a bizarre building owned by a Russian ex-mercenary named Dukov. All he does all day is party, drink, get high, and have sex with his two "party girls". He seems completely ambivalent to the fact that they are in the middle of a hilariously dangerous city full of mutants, and the only reason his whores stick around and put up with him in the first place is for self-preservation, though one of them asks you for a safe escort out. Of course, Dukov is old, and likely both out of practice and drunk off his ass, so he's easy enough for you to kill. It helps that he wears pajamas.
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While Rome Burns / int_6f76d71a	comment	You can probably find countless examples from The Sims. One sim decided to take a bath while the kitchen was burning wildly and killing the sim's poor family members. At least it's impossible to catch fire in the bath...
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While Rome Burns / int_7164f636	comment	Goodbye Volcano High: In the last days of the dinosaurs, a group of students who had hoped to become a famous band in the now non-existent future decide to put on one last concert, just before the meteor hits and wipes them out.
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While Rome Burns / int_7485e16e	comment	Animaniacs (2020): In the first episode of season 2 Nero plays an anachronistic fiddle while singing a Major General Song about himself. Meanwhile, as the Warners point out after hijacking the song halfway through, Rome is on fire.
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While Rome Burns / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: After finally reuniting Anju and Kafei and obtaining the Couple's Mask, they remain in their room while encouraging Link to seek refuge, apparently aware and accepting of the fact that the moon is about to crash into the town. On the eve of the final day, the good ending for the Romani/Cremia sidequests has the two sisters tending to their cow. Romani seems oblivious to the danger of the moon, but Creamia ignores mentioning it in front of her sister and handles their impending doom with calm acceptance. In South Clock Town, the carpenters will continue to build their scaffolding even as the moon comes closer and closer. Subverted on the third night, as all of the carpenters except the boss flee the city, leaving the boss to scream in disgust. If the player speaks to him as Deku Link, he apologizes for being unable to finish work and wishes he could make the moon go away. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: This is how the Kinstone subquests can come across. Monsters to defeat? Dungeons to explore? Not now, there are Kinstones to be fused! Link can even do one with the King, as Zelda is frozen as a statue and Vaati is on the loose, and all the King says is "You want to fuse Kinstones at a grave time like this? Very well!"
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While Rome Burns / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: In the Sadie's Story extras in Halo 3: ODST, an overweight butcher stays in his store, happily trying to sell or outright give away his meat to refugees fleeing New Mombasa, though he's doing this so that people can have food while getting out of the city, and you can hear a woman thanking him profusely for giving her a number of kabobs. He also admits that he is extremely fat and would take up space on a bus or train that would be better spent on multiple thinner people. Halo: Reach's "New Alexandria" level has, as an Easter Egg activated by a switch on another building, a dance club where a Brute DJ is spinning "Never Surrender" from Halo 2 (and "Siege of Madrigal" if you hit another switch on the roof) while the city burns. The Grunts even dance to the music.
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While Rome Burns / int_75e925d7	comment	In "The Masque of the Red Death", Prince Propero and his nobles shut themselves in a tower and hold a party in order to ride out the plague devastating their land. The whole point of the story is to give them a massively karmic death, a red death. The source tale, The Decameron, did not kill off the characters. It's just an excuse for a frame tale that shuts people in a room so they'll tell stories to pass the time.
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While Rome Burns / int_761813a6	comment	Band of Brothers had an interesting example that happened after the disaster. The opening of one of the episodes showed a quartet of German violinists playing somber music as their fellow villagers were working to clean up the rubble from their ruined town.
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While Rome Burns / int_76535257	comment	In Dead Set, since the cast was originally supposed to be for Big Brother before the Zombie Apocalypse broke out, there's an element of this to the setting as a whole. More specifically, there's Marky's constantly obsessing about what the papers are saying about him (completing ignoring that most of civilisation is, y'know, collapsing) and Pippa ignoring the way a zombie is banging on the door between them to read a magazine.
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While Rome Burns / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3: The Reapers are overrunning the galaxy, worlds are falling left and right, and the remaining military powers in the galaxy are desperately throwing together a plan to try and stop or at least delay the onslaught. Meanwhile, various characters and NPCs get into romances, focus on their own small-time ambitions, and at least a couple of businessmen figure out a way to make a modest profit helping the war effort. Joker and Shepard can have a conversation where they discuss this sort of thing and why it can happen. An asari aligned with Matriarch Aethyta has this view of her own people The Citadel DLC is about Shepard's crew being ordered to take some time off for R&R while the Normandy is undergoing needed maintenance and repairs. You can go to a casino, hit an arcade, compete in an American Gladiators-esque game show, and throw one last glorious party with your crew. You actually get two sets of War Assets for it, one since the Normandy is now functioning better than ever (it was just repaired) and two the party solidified you all as True Companions.
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While Rome Burns / int_7676c24d	comment	Sentinel Prime is guilty of this in Transformers: Exodus. As Cybertron descends into chaos and civil war, he goes to attend a comedy show under the protection of his armed guards... one of whom happens to be Starscream. Tired of Sentinel's apathy, Starscream and his fellows Skywarp and Thundercracker kidnap him in order to buy their way into the Decepticons.
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While Rome Burns / int_78640f76	comment	In Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, Marcus does this a LOT. He actually nearly replicates the Nero myth in one flashback as he's painting a landscape of Rome... While the barbarians are in the middle of sacking it. He actually justifies his dissonance to Colin, who joined the barbarians for revenge: to Marcus, an experienced Immortal, it doesn't matter if his current empire fails. To him, the real Rome is an ideal in his head, and as long as he's alive, he has plenty of time to join one autocracy or another until he can fashion his utopian empire.
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While Rome Burns / int_78cbedd9	comment	Downfall (2004) features quite a few scenes of drunken revelry as high-ranking members of the Nazi party await the inevitable as the Allies close in on Berlin. In one scene, a dance party comes to a halt when an artillery shell blasts down a wall and fills the room with dust and smoke.
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While Rome Burns / int_791fca44	comment	Near the end of the second act of BioShock, Andrew Ryan activates the Self-Destruct Mechanism of his underwater city. When you finally reach his office, he is calmly playing Office Golf. Things get worse from there.
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While Rome Burns / int_7c0f1317	comment	Subverted in the Diogenes Club story "Soho Golem", in which an investigation into a supernatural gangland murder takes the heroes to a very decadent party being held by a local porn baron. However, while there's certainly plenty of hedonistic fun being had, it's not being had by any of the people who are potentially involved or are potential future victims of the killer — all of whom, the heroes note, look very, very worried.
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While Rome Burns / int_7c2beaaf	comment	"Death Stranding" by Chvrches (the Ending Theme for the game of the same name) is about finding hope and togetherness "at the end of the scene"
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While Rome Burns / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court has a flashback to the great fire of Rome. The entity who will eventually be known as Jones is there, watching, completely unconcerned. Not even her dress catching fire can make her act.
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While Rome Burns / int_7d8c61a2	comment	During the Agent's Corellia storyline in Star Wars: The Old Republic, the wealthy elites have gathered for a nihilistic "Apocalypse Party" on an airship as the planet burns down around them. Hunter brought them there specifically to keep them from using their resources and influence to minimize the bloodshed. If brought along for the mission Doctor Lokin will mention something similar having happened when Coruscant was sacked in the previous war.
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While Rome Burns / int_7e0fd062	comment	Con Air depicts the increasingly chaotic results of a bunch of convicts hijacking a prison transport plane. Toward the climax, while the plane is rapidly descending on the improvised landing strip in Las Vegas and the surviving passengers flail about in a state of panic, Garland Greene sits unperturbed in his usual seat, cradling a Ken doll and singing "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands".
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While Rome Burns / int_8022008b	comment	In Red River (1995), one of Nakia's plans to discredit Yuri involved hiring a pretty peasant girl to pretend to be her. Said peasant girl proceeded to lounge around in luxurious clothing, demand high-class foods and constant entertainment, and basically make life hell for everyone waiting on her, causing them to think "Ishtar" was just another spoiled noblewoman. As she performed this charade, meanwhile, most of the people outside her palace were dying of a plague. In a later chapter, Yuri is none too impressed to find a fortress she broke into was basically having an orgy while they were being invaded.
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While Rome Burns / int_83cfdf5	comment	The Purple Cloud: Most of the people killed by the titular Fog of Doom died in a state of panic, but a few died partying or writing poetry. Adam finds one pair of corpses locked in a passionate kiss.
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While Rome Burns / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI. When Emperor Gestahl (pretends to) repent for the evil he's done and pledges to restore peace, balance, and harmony, he invites the heroes to dine at a truly lush and expensive banquet. Meanwhile, his Empire is in ruins, his soldiers are restless and skittish, his people are dying, and his capital is burning to the ground.
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While Rome Burns / int_89a9b743	comment	In Fish Story, a comet is on a direct collision course with earth. The full effect is somewhere from Societal Collapse to Total Extinction on a planetary scale. The streets are abandoned, people having fled to higher ground. On the other hand, there's a record store that isn't going to open itself, and so the proprietor goes about business as usual, insistent that everything will be fine. He's right.
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While Rome Burns / int_8aa7c509	comment	In Star vs. the Forces of Evil, thanks to the mind-altering properties in the Realm of Magic, Star pretty much abandons Marco to his luck, despite her best efforts to remain grounded.
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While Rome Burns / int_8cd21c8e	comment	The song "Dancing With Tears in My Eyes" by Ultravox is about a man driving home from work and hearing that a catastrophe (presumably a nuclear war) is on its way. He then goes home to his wife, they get drunk, make love to their favorite music and the last verse ends with "it's time, and I don't think we really care." In the video, the catastrophe turns out to be a nuclear power plant Going Critical.
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While Rome Burns / int_8d84363c	comment	While Rome doesn't burn, there's an orgy in Cleopatra's throne room as the army of Octavian closes in, and an emissary demands unconditional surrender. Cleopatra pleads with Antony to flee or come up with some clever military trick.
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While Rome Burns / int_8f8df73b	comment	The Lion King (1994): Under Scar's terrible reign, the Pridelands become a barren hellhole and everyone under his command is facing starvation. Even Scar's hyena minions grudgingly acknowledge that while Mufasa didn't like them, at least he was a far more competent ruler than his younger brother. Scar is fully prepared to let everyone drop dead instead of allowing them to leave all for the sake of preserving his hold on power, and if that weren't enough, the Pridelands actually do burn as a violent storm sets fire to the long-dead savannah surrounding his domain, and he isn't the least bit fazed by it as he prepares to murder Simba. In a nutshell, this trope essentially deconstructs Scar's bratty "I'm the king, I can do whatever I want" attitude, as he proved to be an incompetent king, and he even refuses to acknowledge for his disastrous reign out of pride. As a result, all of his subjects, including his hyena lackeys, despise him for this reason.
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While Rome Burns / int_904f4984	comment	As depicted in A Tale of Two Cities, Madam Defarge and the rest of the tricoteuses sit beside the guillotine and knit furiously while people are executed to show support for the Revolution and its Reign of Terror.
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While Rome Burns / int_90e2f673	comment	The BattleTech sourcebook Jihad: Final Reckoning features The Master on a balcony, laughing maniacly as the city in the background is being nuked from orbit.
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While Rome Burns / int_93221cce	comment	In the final episode of Kamen Rider OOO, Kosei Kougami indulges in his hobby of singing "Happy Birthday" and baking birthday cakes while the city outside is gradually being devoured by a monstrous construct out to absorb everything, and the building he's in grows increasingly damaged.
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While Rome Burns / int_9ab064e6	comment	In Les MisÃ©rables, as Paris recovers from the tragic deaths of the students and soldiers who fought on the barricades, Thenardier and his gang cheerfully go about grave robbing the corpses.
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While Rome Burns / int_9ae0c2a8	comment	During the battle against the Colossus of Rhodes in God of War II, Kratos ends up crashing through the ceiling of a bathhouse, where he finds two nameless, topless ladies who act notoriously nonchalant about the fact there is a raging battle on their city with a giant statue destroying everything on its wake. They also have no issue having a threesome with Kratos (the guy leading the invasion on their city) right there.
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While Rome Burns / int_9cff8e37	comment	Bastille has "Doom Days", about dancing while the world has problems like climate change and internet addiction.
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While Rome Burns / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Played straight in One Piece. Sabo hears a rumor that the slums of his city will burn from a planned arson fire and thousands of citizens will burn. Sabo decides to go around the upper-class area of the city to investigate. He sees that the rich nobles are calm and happy, so concludes that the fire won't be happening, until the nobles calmly mention it. Sabo is confused, wondering why no one is in a panic like he is. He talks with a wealthy elder, who confirms that the slums will burn and people will die, but the nobles don't care. In fact, some nobles want the poor to die because 'they don't deserve to live if they aren't rich'. The old man actually warns Sabo not to save the citizens.
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While Rome Burns / int_9e84c324	comment	Batman Returns has a few instances: When the Red Triangle gang is doing their initial rage of terror, Batman is quite calm walking through the carnage, as are some of the people in the background. As his Red Triangle Gang riots in the streets mere blocks away, Gotham City mayoral candidate Oswald Cobblepot (a.k.a. the Penguin) goes for a stroll in Gotham Plaza. Batman eventually makes his way to the plaza and demands to know what Oswald is up to. "Touring the riot scene. Gravely assessing the devastation," Oswald replies with mock seriousness. Batman trying to appeal to Catwoman to put down the taser at the end of the film has this effect, considering that radioactive waste is spewing all around the sewer, mayhem is going on outside, and the Penguin is about to croak.
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While Rome Burns / int_9f900207	comment	At the end of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, there are alot of guards still hanging around while Fort Schmerzen burns and collapses.
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While Rome Burns / int_9fa025d	comment	Mother 3: Porky's ultimate motivation for reuniting most of the human population of the Nowhere Islands in New Pork City is to see everything being destroyed by the Dark Dragon. Simply because he was bored.
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While Rome Burns / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama episode "Parasites Lost," Scruffy the Janitor continues reading a porno mag while Fry and Bender's botched repairs cause the boiler next to him to overheat and explode.
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While Rome Burns / int_a389475f	comment	In Eclipse (2007), Edward reads a newspaper article about how countless people are dying and disappearing in Seattle. He notes that it's the work of a newborn vampire... and then helps Bella fill out college applications. Later, when Alice finds out that an entire army of newborns is coming to kill Bella, she insists that they still go ahead with the graduation party she planned for Bella. It's arguable whether either of these were meant to be examples, however.
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While Rome Burns / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order: Everyone at the end of the first Lostbelt. The protagonists have left, and the Lostbelt is about to be erased from existence by the next dawn, leaving the Yaga at a loss. However, the clouds at the sky have cleared for the first time in centuries, and Antonio Salieri starts playing music for them, which they had never heard before. The world dies with its residents experiencing true beauty and peace for the first and last time.
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While Rome Burns / int_a5549ed0	comment	The feast of Belshazzar in The Bible, right before his reign violently ends at the hands of Darius the Mede.
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While Rome Burns / int_a57cf54d	comment	Alluded to in Darths & Droids when Palpatine complains about the Galaxy burning down around him, to which Luke responds by asking him if he ever considered taking up the fiddle.
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While Rome Burns / int_a5f98cbf	comment	In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, there is a scene where British officers calmly go about their business as African aboriginal warriors brutally slaughter the troops in camp.
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While Rome Burns / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy VI. When Emperor Gestahl (pretends to) repent for the evil he's done and pledges to restore peace, balance, and harmony, he invites the heroes to dine at a truly lush and expensive banquet. Meanwhile, his Empire is in ruins, his soldiers are restless and skittish, his people are dying, and his capital is burning to the ground. Final Fantasy VII: President Shinra looks calmly out of his window at the destruction of a whole sector of the city, a Haydn piece playing in the background. When the giant monster known as Weapon fires on Midgar, Rufus Shinra just stands and watches the energy beams heading right for the Shinra building before they blow out the entire floor he's on in a massive firestorm. He does duck at the last second. Somehow, that seems to have helped him, since he got better. In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the world is thirteen days away from being destroyed by Primordial Chaos. The leader of the last major city in the world hosts a continuous celebration to encourage everyone to have fun and live up their final moments since there's no stopping the comming end. In the Final Fantasy XIV expansion Shadowbringers, the nation of Eulmore was once at the forefront on the First in fighting the sin eaters so what's left of the world can try and carve out a future. But when Vauthry took power and showed the mysterious power to control the sin eaters to keep people safe, they gave up the fight. Now the rich and prosperous flock to Eulmore to indulge in hedonistic luxury while calmly waiting for the world to come to a complete end, to enjoy today rather than futilely fight for a tomorrow that will never be.
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While Rome Burns / int_aaa65d7e	comment	In Rebuild 2.22, in the end, while Shinji is causing Near-Third Impact, Kaji and Mari just take it easy while everyone else is scared out of their minds. Later, at the end of Rebuild 3.33, Mari is sitting around in Unit-08's entry plug, drinking tea while Unit-13 is causing the Fourth Impact.
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While Rome Burns / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Cioccolata uses his Stand, Green Day, to unleash a deadly mold all over the city of Rome, killing a handful of civilians. Amidst the ensuring chaos, all he does is casually talk about how the night is a perfect time for a date at the coliseum. JoJolion: Tooru cheerfully listens to music while he sends Wonder of U to the Higashikata estate to attack the family with the flow of Calamity. Even while Yasuho is crawling in the yard begging for someone to help her.
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While Rome Burns / int_b0ec45b8	comment	Metropolis: The False Maria/Machine Woman eggs on the partygoers of Yoshiwara to take their revelry out into the streets after the power to the city goes out, and all of them blindly follow along, unaware their idol also just staged a workers' revolt underneath the city, and destroyed the power generators to begin with.
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While Rome Burns / int_b30ae4db	comment	The villainy of a couple of characters in Game of Thrones is highlighted by acting this way while witnessing the atrocities they perpetrate: Walder Frey gleefully slurps down his wine during the Red Wedding where he has the King in the North and his bannermen slaughtered in a horrific violation of Guest Right. Cersei Lannister smiles and triumphantly sips a glass of wine as she watches the wildfire cache burn down the Great Sept of Baelor, along with all of her rivals in it, in the distance. She's clearly enjoying the awful spectacle.
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While Rome Burns / int_b54c2be	comment	In Wolverines, upon finding out that plan she was following from her dead lover Destiny was supposed to revive Wolverine, and not Destiny herself, Mystique throws a fit and refuses to complete the plan, deciding she would rather let the entire universe be destroyed if it meant reviving Wolverine instead of Destiny.
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While Rome Burns / int_b65416b9	comment	Both Dawn of the Dead (1978) and its 2004 remake deal with this, as the protagonists hide away in their own little paradise while the rest of the world is destroyed by the zombies. The original has another great example with the "Hunting Parties". While in its predecessor, they are doing an effective, if indiscriminate job of clearing the countryside, by this point it is evident that they are likely going to fail, so what we see is a bunch of soldiers, cops, and assorted rednecks grilling, getting drunk, and doing their damnedest to enjoy their last hours of life. In the remake, a man starves to death just across the road while they're making lattes. They do try to send him food, they just fail miserably and eventually the entire mall is overrun with zombies.
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While Rome Burns / int_bc810180	comment	A rather chilling scene in 52: In Superman's absence (due to power failure), Lex Luthor has started a program to give ordinary people superpowers, and soon Metropolis is swarming with self-styled superheroes. However, Luthor becomes obsessed with a new hero, Supernova, and to call him out, on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, during a huge rally for the new "heroes", he switches their powers off. Luthor spends the next few moments waiting for Supernova's arrival chatting casually on a cell phone as hundreds of helpless people fall out of the sky and onto the pavement. The funniest part is when one of them is about to fall on top of him while he's on the phone. He excuses himself, walks out of the spot and continues talking as the guy plummets just behind him.
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While Rome Burns / int_bd41836e	comment	StarCraft: Brood War: The opening cutscene features a marine who is saved by another marine with a rocket launcher. The rocket launcher marine is black, wears sunglasses, has football face-stripes on and is rocking back and forth to rock music. When the marine he saved asks where the air support is, he calmly points to the battlecruiser hovering overhead (which the other dude somehow missed). At the end of the scene, the battlecruiser takes off, and the marine seals his suit with a reflective gold face-covering. The scene ends with a pull back from the two marines as an impossible number of Zerg units overruns them. This cutscene is given a Call-Back during a Flash Back scene in StarCraft II, when Raynor remembers the day Sarah Kerrigan was abandoned. Faintly audible for a few seconds, Arcturus Mengsk is listening to the same record that the admirals were listening to when they gave the order for their ship to leave. After the marine notices the battlecruiser hovering overhead, the camera jumps to the ship's observation lounge for a conversation between its two admirals about the attack below and their upcoming evil scheme. The scene is backed by a quiet vinyl record sung in latin, and ends in the admiral giving the order for his ship to just leave. It gets a second Call-Back later on, when Raynor boards Valerian Mengsk's ship, and Valerian is listening to a cover of that record while Raynor tears through his ship and busts into his cabin. However, this time it's subverted, as the ship isn't hovering over a colony being eaten by the Zerg and Valerian manages to de-escalate and negotiate Raynor into not shooting anyone else.
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While Rome Burns / int_bdb1fb9a	comment	Batman Film Series: Batman Returns has a few instances: When the Red Triangle gang is doing their initial rage of terror, Batman is quite calm walking through the carnage, as are some of the people in the background. As his Red Triangle Gang riots in the streets mere blocks away, Gotham City mayoral candidate Oswald Cobblepot (a.k.a. the Penguin) goes for a stroll in Gotham Plaza. Batman eventually makes his way to the plaza and demands to know what Oswald is up to. "Touring the riot scene. Gravely assessing the devastation," Oswald replies with mock seriousness. Batman trying to appeal to Catwoman to put down the taser at the end of the film has this effect, considering that radioactive waste is spewing all around the sewer, mayhem is going on outside, and the Penguin is about to croak. Batman Forever: Considering that Edward Nygma hasn't been publicly exposed as the Riddler, there's the appearance that he's doing this when his launch party is invaded by Two-Face and his goons.
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While Rome Burns / int_beac6ffb	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: After finally reuniting Anju and Kafei and obtaining the Couple's Mask, they remain in their room while encouraging Link to seek refuge, apparently aware and accepting of the fact that the moon is about to crash into the town. On the eve of the final day, the good ending for the Romani/Cremia sidequests has the two sisters tending to their cow. Romani seems oblivious to the danger of the moon, but Creamia ignores mentioning it in front of her sister and handles their impending doom with calm acceptance. In South Clock Town, the carpenters will continue to build their scaffolding even as the moon comes closer and closer. Subverted on the third night, as all of the carpenters except the boss flee the city, leaving the boss to scream in disgust. If the player speaks to him as Deku Link, he apologizes for being unable to finish work and wishes he could make the moon go away.
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While Rome Burns / int_c0da5437	comment	In The Punisher: Last Days, during the Final Incursion, the Kingpin decides to invite a bunch of other supervillains to drink with him and quietly watch all their various enemies die on the frontlines of the cosmic war before they themselves are wiped from existence. Given the comic book that this happens in, no prize for guessing that Frank Castle ruins the party by killing the attendees.
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While Rome Burns / int_c1a18b95	comment	In Altina the Sword Princess, Johaprecia had the Emperor host a party with wild abandon while a war was going on just outside, and convinced the Emperor and a second concubine of indeterminate gender to simply not care. It gets her killed.
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While Rome Burns / int_c2cc8a7c	comment	The Day of the Triffids: A man is shown playing the violin while panicked policemen who've lost their sight gun down civilians. After he's finished playing, the man calmly walks to the balcony and throws himself off.
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While Rome Burns / int_c313a769	comment	Episode 24 of the Jandrew Edits, "Flaunting danger", sees Picard deciding to learn to play the flute in the middle of what appears to be the Federation's desperate war against a Borg-Klingon alliance. He is greatly annoyed by his subordinates' attempts to get him to care about said war.
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While Rome Burns / int_c4282b71	comment	Subverted in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Swarm of the Century". Pinkie takes one look at the crisis of the day and rushes off in search of a tuba. Everyone dismisses it as Pinkie's usual harmless psychosis and sets about trying to get the parasprites out of town, while Pinkie passes through periodically asking if anyone's seen yet another piece of the polka ensemble she's been diligently assembling. Just when it looks like all hope is lost and the parasprites are going to be the end of civilization, Pinkie marches by strapped into a one-pony band, and the parasprites follow her in Pied Piper fashion. It's implied throughout the episode that Pinkie's dealt with parasprites before, but couldn't communicate this fact to the others because they have trouble with the idea that Pinkie is capable of lucidity.
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While Rome Burns / int_c4a7b5d3	comment	Shaun of the Dead plays this for laughs. The protagonists are too inattentive to notice the zombie apocalypse has already started around them.
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While Rome Burns / int_c78aeb5	comment	Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: Gah Lak Tus may have fired a missile at 99% of light speed directly at Earth, but all Tony cares about is whether anyone remembered his vodka.
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While Rome Burns / int_c832776	comment	Happens in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny as fragments of Junius Seven bombard the Earth and massive destruction is being shown, Lacus Clyne sings a gentle song to calm some kids in her shelter, also providing epic Soundtrack Dissonance.
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While Rome Burns / int_c97b59d9	comment	Has shown up in several of the tie-in comics to Secret Wars (2015): In The Punisher: Last Days, during the Final Incursion, the Kingpin decides to invite a bunch of other supervillains to drink with him and quietly watch all their various enemies die on the frontlines of the cosmic war before they themselves are wiped from existence. Given the comic book that this happens in, no prize for guessing that Frank Castle ruins the party by killing the attendees. In Wolverines, upon finding out that plan she was following from her dead lover Destiny was supposed to revive Wolverine, and not Destiny herself, Mystique throws a fit and refuses to complete the plan, deciding she would rather let the entire universe be destroyed if it meant reviving Wolverine instead of Destiny.
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While Rome Burns / int_cba3559b	comment	Survival of the Fittest v3: A particularly notable version occurs where Carson Baye plays on his DS while a gunfight is starting around him.
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While Rome Burns / int_cd2a0a83	comment	At the end of Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, The Tallest's words are of premature and stubbornly placed celebration as they fly headlong into the Florpus hole, dooming their entire race and them for presumably eternity.
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While Rome Burns / int_d14bb14a	comment	It gets a second Call-Back later on, when Raynor boards Valerian Mengsk's ship, and Valerian is listening to a cover of that record while Raynor tears through his ship and busts into his cabin. However, this time it's subverted, as the ship isn't hovering over a colony being eaten by the Zerg and Valerian manages to de-escalate and negotiate Raynor into not shooting anyone else.
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While Rome Burns / int_d38fe19f	comment	Played with in Star Wars: Clone Wars. As the Confederacy attacks Coruscant, Chancellor Palpatine remains in his office, sipping tea and ignoring the Jedi's encouragement to take shelter. And when the Jedi-killer General Grievous smashes through the window, Palpatine reacts by scolding Grievous. But this is all for show: unknown to anyone present, Palpatine is also Darth Sidious, the shadowy leader of the Confederacy. He makes no effort to protect himself because had arranged his own kidnapping.
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While Rome Burns / int_d461a59f	comment	In Battlestar Galactica (1978), with the refugee fleet facing food shortages to the point of starvation, Captain Apollo investigates a report that food is being hoarded on the luxury ship, The Rising Star. Sure enough, Apollo and Boomer discover Sire Uri and his cronies gorging on an abundant supply heedless of the starvation looming amongst the fleet. Captain Apollo is not having any of that and instantly orders all the munchies confiscated for redistribution as far as they will go.
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While Rome Burns / int_d80eb75d	comment	Zigzagged in Shadowchasers (Cyber Commander). The fic takes place in Neo Domino City, chronologically at the same time the Dark Signer Arc of the canon series. Right after the Arcadia Building is destroyed by the Earthbound Gods, Mistle and all the Neo Domino Shadowchasers except Shichiro are watching old episodes of The Three Stooges on basic cable. (And when Shichiro tells them how foolish it is, Ember says, "Not only that, it's an episode with Shemp in it." However, it quickly made apparent that they're all very frightened and are doing it to stay calm.
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While Rome Burns / int_d8bda674	comment	In X/1999, Seishiro and Fuuma stroll through Nakano Sun Plaza eating ice cream and chatting amiably. It all seems well and good until you realize that as they're doing this they're actively destroying the place.
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While Rome Burns / int_dd261527	comment	Referenced in The Trials of Apollo, wherein Emperor Nero himself appears, and promptly points out how false this was, even saying "Fiddles weren't even invented yet!" Apollo notes that while that might be true and he might not have started said fire, he certainly didn't hesitate to take advantage of it.
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While Rome Burns / int_ddeddf10	comment	In War of the Worlds (2005), Ray's neighborhood mechanic ignores all the ominous signs of the impending alien invasion in order to rush-fix a Dodge minivan. He keeps ignoring the aliens while Ray steals that same minivan, up until they shoot him in the back with the death ray.
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While Rome Burns / int_df7a30e1	comment	The Addams Family: At the start of the Mamushka scene, Gomez proudly announces, among other things, "we danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled".
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While Rome Burns / int_e247f391	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: This is how the Kinstone subquests can come across. Monsters to defeat? Dungeons to explore? Not now, there are Kinstones to be fused! Link can even do one with the King, as Zelda is frozen as a statue and Vaati is on the loose, and all the King says is "You want to fuse Kinstones at a grave time like this? Very well!"
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While Rome Burns / int_e2b3cc8a	comment	The song "Distraction" from TGWTG film To Boldly Flee is all about this. In-universe, it was written by the Kryptonians after learning that their planet was coming apart, basically using this song to enjoy their lives a little longer, ignoring the imminent disaster until it actually comes. Granted, this doesn't play any part in the film other than as a nod to how one of Doug Walker's characters that play a part in it is a parody of General Zod, and the lyrics serve as a perfect lampshade to how the characters who are singing it are doing so as part of a distraction.
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While Rome Burns / int_e365af07	comment	In Dino Attack RPG, there's a mass evacuation of LEGO City just before the Final Battle, which absolutely reduces the city to ruins and ashes as the Dino Attack Team and their allies battle the largest army of Mutant Dinos they've ever faced... while Walter, Dude, and Donnie decide to go bowling in one of the city's abandoned bowling alleys.
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While Rome Burns / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z: Frieza's destruction of Planet Vegeta, laughing maniacally and declaring it a great fireworks show.
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While Rome Burns / int_ee985816	comment	Near the end of Mahoromatic, it's quite clear that something calamitous is going to happen to the planet. However, most people just calmly go throughout their day, with one woman proclaiming happily she's getting the ingredients to cook her husband's favorite dinner.
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While Rome Burns / int_f1aaf408	comment	Young Marble Giants' "Eating Noddemix" is about a wealthy socialite who engages in leisurely and vain activites such as gazing in her bathroom mirror, putting on her makeup, painting her nails, drinking wine, watching television, and nibbling the titular Swiss candy bar while at the same time enough people are dying in a train-car collision for it to be an "all-night job" for the city workers.
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While Rome Burns / int_f2da188a	comment	In the season 4 finale of The Batman, Alfred and Lucius Fox watch helplessly from a balcony on Bruce's mansion while an alien invasion ravages Gotham City, drinking tea as ash falls like snow around them, before deciding that they're not that helpless. It's possibly the best scene in the entire series.
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While Rome Burns / int_f301fd1a	comment	Sekirei has Natsuo Ichinomia, who is the Ashikabi of the feared Disciplinary Squad, combine this trope with Dissonant Serenity as he explains key info to Minato while a battle rages around them. They are almost killed and he resumes the conversation as if nothing is happening. None of the chaos caused by Sekirei Plan bothers him because he no longer cares what happens to him or the world.
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While Rome Burns / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): In the Season 2 First Look Scene, Armand and Louis are casually flirting while there's carnage and property destruction nearby. It was Armand who unleashed his coven of vampires on the de la Croix family and their guests, and since he doesn't partake in the feeding frenzy (his reply to a curious Louis is "I am now where I most want to be"), it seems Armand selected the large estate as a hunting site to distract his coven and Claudia so that he can have some private time with his new Love Interest.
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While Rome Burns / int_fd8ef85e	comment	Francis in Left 4 Dead sees the Zombie Apocalypse as a giant bar brawl and sometimes asks during a horde wave if the other survivors are having as much fun as he is. The comic backstory shows Francis looting a store during the outbreak and then going to the roof of a bar with his friends (while also dragging up a jukebox) and picking off zombies down below for a night of fun. Francis is also the only player character that doesn't show any fear of the zombies unless he gets pinned by a Hunter or Smoker or is being beaten to death by a Tank.
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Let the Galaxy Burn (Fanfic) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Shadowchasers (Cyber Commander) (Fanfic) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Lament Series (ChaoticNeutral) (Fanfic) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Things Involving Shipgirls That Are No Longer Allowed (Fanfic) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Ant-Man and the Wasp / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Batman Forever / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Batman Returns / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Buffy the Vampire Slayer / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Carry On Up the Khyber / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Dawn of the Dead (1978) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Dawn of the Dead (2004) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Deep Impact / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
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Downfall (2004) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Greenland / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Heart of Darkness (1958) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Hemingway & Gellhorn / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Invasion U.S.A. (1952) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
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Nicholas and Alexandra / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Nosferatu the Vampyre / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Silent Night (2021) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Superman II / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Celebration / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Day of the Beast / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Day the Earth Caught Fire / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Firemen's Ball / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Hindenburg (1975) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Menu / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Pianist / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Quiet Man / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Triangle of Sadness / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Yongary: Monster from the Deep / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Again, Dangerous Visions / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Carrie / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Changes / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Darkness Visible / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Death on the Nile / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Diogenes Club / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Heart of a Dog / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Invasion! / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Julian Comstock / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Medallion / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Quo Vadis / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Reaper's Gale / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Seveneves / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
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The Tale of Genji / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Tales Of Ensign Stål / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Witchlands / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Wolf Den Trilogy / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Them or Us / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Trapped in a Dating Sim: Otome Games Are Tough For Us, Too! / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
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Team Fortress 2 (Machinima) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
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RedWren	seeAlso	While Rome Burns
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Bone Machine (Music) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
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DJ Earworm (Music) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Deceit (Music) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Frankenchrist (Music) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Franz Ferdinand (2004) (Music) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Humanz (Music) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Macabre (Music) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Vox Humana (Music) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Young Marble Giants (Music) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Fear the Walking Dead / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Forever Knight / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Interview with the Vampire (2022) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Majisuka Gakuen / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Preacher (2016) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Day of the Triffids (2009) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Dropout / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Last Czars / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Umbrella Academy (2019) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Y: The Last Man (2021) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Neuroshima (Tabletop Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Space 1889 (Tabletop Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Apocalypse Stone (Tabletop Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
You Can't Take It With You (Theatre) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
God of War II (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
LEGO Harry Potter (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Minecraft: Story Mode (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Princess & Conquest (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Resident Evil 3 (Remake) (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Surge 2 (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Tiny Tank (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Umurangi Generation (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Urban Dead (Video Game) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Team Fortress 2 (Web Animation) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
history of japan (Web Video) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Internet Historian (Web Video) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Magic Gum Civilization Experiments (Web Video) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
To Boldly Flee (Web Video) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Darths & Droids (Webcomic) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Supernormal Step (Webcomic) / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Justice League Ã— RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Meet the Robinsons / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Ralph Breaks the Internet / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Star Wars: Clone Wars / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Batman / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Yellow Submarine / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
Burning Black / Fan Fic / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns
The Roman Mysteries / int_a8f905e3	type	While Rome Burns

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