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A world that would be utter hell to live in. But instead of everything just being depressingly rotten like in the Crapsack World, everything is depressingly ridiculous. Nothing in the world makes sense, and the very laws of physics seem to exist for the purpose of making things turn out unfairly. Any attempt to find meaning or validation is answered with an Anvil on Head. The protagonist is usually the Only Sane Man, who never comes out well and sometimes winds up Giving Up on Logic. For some reason, writers who work in this genre tend to only do this genre. This tends to be a specialty genre for its creator, who is usually very, very bitter, and almost always a Sadist Show (or Sadist Book, or whichever). Compare Cosmic Plaything, Finagle's Law. May be a result of stepping into a Cloudcuckooland or Crapsaccharine World, or of a Mad God or Reality Warper taking over. Compare and contrast World of Chaos, which is chaotic, disorganized and unpredictable, but not necessarily hellish or a torment to live in (although the two tropes can certainly overlap). |
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What time is it? Adventure Time! Constantly. This is evidently what happens when a nuclear war combines with ancient, forgotten magical artifacts. | |
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And finally in Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, the boss gets sent to hell. Not because they died, but because they became so notorious throughout the universe that Satan himself wants the boss AS HIS IN-LAW. Johnny Gat becomes the main character of this game and goes on a power ride to conquer Hell. | |
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Digimon: The Digital World in Digimon Adventure. The weather is forecast as: "Sunny with occasional ice cream". Sadly, it fails to actually rain ice-cream. Also, the scenery can be quite weird and random at times (like The Forest of Irrelevant Road-Signs). It's literally subconsciously pieced together by random crap the Digimon dig up on the internet. Take a moment to appreciate that Digimon is rated for younger audiences... Gennai says that anything weird (factories that don't produce anything, phone booths to nowhere) is the result of broken or missing data. Digimon Adventure, Digimon Frontier, and Digimon World all give us the wonder that is the meat plants: trees that grow apple lookalikes that taste like various kinds of meat, bushes that grow legs of lamb and chicken and sirloins that can be planted from seeds and grow in a garden. They all have to be cooked a little before they're eaten, but their very existence stuns Hiro into silence at one point. And the Digital World as presented in Digimon Adventure gets even weirder during the Dark Masters arc, when the entire thing (except for a few crumbling pieces of ground) gets twisted up into Spiral Mountain — which, when viewed externally, can be seen as mountains, cities, forests and oceans twisting around each other up into the sky. The Tamers version of the digital world was probably the single most surreal. It's comprised of numerous layers that shape themselves to the inhabitants (the newest layer being a barren wasteland because it hadn't been customized yet), the physical laws are completely subjective (i.e. you don't need to eat or even breathe if you don't think about it), raw data appears as pink tumbleweeds, gigantic data streams can randomly warp anything caught in them to any part of the world, day and night change instantly with no transition, and the physical world is visible in the sky of the lowest plane as a computerized graphic of a globe at all times. It's nowhere near as whimsical as the other series efforts, but every bit as strange. |
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Wellsville from The Adventures of Pete & Pete normally is just a slightly off-kilter suburb, but when a heat wave strikes in "The Call", practically everyone goes utterly nuts trying to deal with it. | |
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One Foot in the Grave. The Meldrews are afflicted by a constant barrage of cruel and surreal events at their expense. Nothing nice ever seems to happen to them, or indeed anyone in the Purgatory-like suburbia they live in. | |
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. As Hamlet puts it, "the time is out of joint." | |
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Bimbo's Initiation: The short is about a Funny Animal dog named Bimbo who falls into a strange underground realm home to a cult named Do-It-or-Die, which promptly forces him to undergo a series of ridiculous initiations to try to force him to join them. Bimbo spends the rest of the cartoon undergoing one surreal, terrifying trial after the other — blades cut off pieces of his shadow without harming him, flames and reflections take a life of their own, liquid water solidifies the moment he jumps into it and there is some new surreal phenomenon around every turn. Everything is constantly subverting expectations, offering false hope or just causing bewilderment or worsening Bimbo's situation, ensuring he remains as confused and terrified as possible throughout. | |
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Looney Tunes shorts drop into this occasionally; the word looney is in the title. (Grant Morrison's "The Coyote Gospels" deconstructed this in an issue of their run on Animal Man, described above in the comics folder.) | |
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The RPG Paranoia, where the heroes are secret Commie Mutant Traitors assigned to capture Commie Mutant Traitors, the Bond gadgets never work right, and Friend Computer executes anyone who leaves their color-coded zones. One adventure for the game has the "heroes" on their way to a briefing. Missing the briefing is punishable by death... but a badly programmed robot painted the hallway the wrong color, so walking to the briefing room is also punishable by death. The game does encourage Friend Gamemaster to let things work sort of right sometimes, especially if the players are ruthlessly clever, and/or can be set up for an even bigger fall. If you're not dying several times in the first hour or so, you're doing it wrong. | |
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The city of Stillwater in Saints Row is practically a playground for various gangs, criminals, and other forms of mayhem. Driving a septic truck around spraying sewage on people's houses to lower property values is pretty par for the course. The mixture of Surreal Humour and social commentary in the second game has drawn comparisons to Death Race 2000, and the rest of the series ups the ante each time. Steelport, of Saints Row: The Third is even worse. Aside from The Syndicate consisting of hackers and Luchadores, costumed mascots seem to be a sizable minority within the city and is also home to Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax (not to mention Professor Genki himself occasionally running around and killing civilians himself). As such, only a man such as Burt Reynolds is capable of being the mayor of such a city. And all of that combined is acceptably sane compared to the final chapter and spinoff, Saints Row IV. After Cyrus goes insane from being exiled from America and tries to nuke the White House, the boss thwarts his plans only to crash into the president's office and gets themselves elected President. After five years of making the world a better place and throwing their polls in the trash, the White House is interrupted by an alien invasion. The boss is kidnapped, breaks out, yadda yadda yadda, only to find out that the Earth exploded. Yup, 90 percent of humanity go boom. Finally, the boss uses a computer simulation that gives hackers superpowers to assassinate the emperor of the aliens and take his place, thereby becoming "God Emperor of the Universe for Life" despite the sheer stupidity of a complex intergalactic empire giving total power to a former slave. And then they meet Jane Austen and Santa Claus. And finally in Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, the boss gets sent to hell. Not because they died, but because they became so notorious throughout the universe that Satan himself wants the boss AS HIS IN-LAW. Johnny Gat becomes the main character of this game and goes on a power ride to conquer Hell. |
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The SCP Foundation has many examples, particularly regarding things with extradimensional origins\powers. Whoever the Foundation assigns to study them often struggle to explain what the hell is happening. SCP-1193 and SCP-1877 stand out because the writer intended them to be intersections of World Gone Mad with reality leading to "mudane is horrible, Mind Screw is normal": | |
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The Shivering Isles, in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, seem to fit in, particularly in the realm of Mania. It's the realm of the god of madness and he is, unsurprisingly, a Cloudcuckoolander. | |
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The Discworld sometimes verges on this, especially in the books that star Rincewind. Played with in Moving Pictures: when one man wonders why all of CMOT Dibbler's movies (or "clicks") are set in a "World Gone Mad", Dibbler's nephew comments "Because he is a very observant man." | |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: You can see a bunch of perfectly normal people degrading into this in the matter of minutes — and you'll be hard pressed to find a single unaffected character in the whole film. Bonus points for actually not breaking any laws of human psyche. | |
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GURPS Illuminati University is about a Extranormal Institute university where everyone has learned to adjust to an utterly futile universe. For instance, blood feuds between professors are fully regulated and organized by the school bureaucracy. You're not cleared to know what the O stands for. | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant must get himself back into the proper, insane frame of mind to be able to cope with Toon Town. | |
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Steelport, of Saints Row: The Third is even worse. Aside from The Syndicate consisting of hackers and Luchadores, costumed mascots seem to be a sizable minority within the city and is also home to Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax (not to mention Professor Genki himself occasionally running around and killing civilians himself). As such, only a man such as Burt Reynolds is capable of being the mayor of such a city. | |
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And the Digital World as presented in Digimon Adventure gets even weirder during the Dark Masters arc, when the entire thing (except for a few crumbling pieces of ground) gets twisted up into Spiral Mountain — which, when viewed externally, can be seen as mountains, cities, forests and oceans twisting around each other up into the sky. | |
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Soul Eater: The afterlife is ruled by gods that represent extreme aspects (Death being the Top God), and their world is wacky to reflect that. At the end of the show, the God of (Ordered) Madness inherits his father's empire, making the afterlife even more irrationally perfectionist. | |
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Red Dwarf, where the whole universe can be summed up in Rimmer's closing line for one episode: "It's a smegging garbage pod!" | |
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The world of Milo Murphy's Law (and, by extension, Phineas and Ferb) has its main character cursed with Murphy's Law, meaning that anything that can go wrong for Milo and those around him will go wrong. This can range from llama stampedes to sudden alien abductions. And that's to say nothing of the things that aren't a result of Milo, such as a underground society of trapped construction workers or time travelers that want to save pistachios from going extinct. | |
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Wonder Woman 1984 features one of these as more and more wishes are granted by the dreamstone via Max Lord. It starts off small and simple enough, but as time goes by and more people get in on it, especially the final act, when wishes are being made on the fly, reality simply checks out as bombs start to fly, people inexplicably drop dead, waitresses become celebrities, borders are being drawn and re-drawn, and cows start appearing on lawns. It's beautiful in a nightmarish sort of way, and it could have easily lead to the complete destruction of humanity (or even the Earth itself) if allowed to continue. | |
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The world of Brazil would be a good example... depending on how much of that is just in Sam's head. | |
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The Rook Islands in Far Cry 3. Two islands dominated by Ruthless Modern Pirates and a full-fledged private army working for a slave and drug trafficking operation. Pretty much anyone you meet apart from your captured friends is insane in some way, whether by drug addiction, the violence in the area having gotten to them, or just pure evil. Even the animals are insane, as most of them will defy their species' usual instincts and suicidally attack humans with guns. There's implications that there's something fundamentally wrong with the islands and anyone there will go nuts eventually. By the end, the player character is one step away from madness, and it's left to the player to choose whether to give in completely or turn back at the last second. | |
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In the Emperor Joker storyline in DC Comics, The Joker, having gained godlike powers, turns the entire world into a surreal hell. The world of the Joker's mind in Superman & Batman: Generations II is similar. | |
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The world of Teen Titans (2003) when some people get a hold of Larry the Titan's powers. | |
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Wonderland, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the Looking-Glass House from Through the Looking Glass read rather like this, more than once reducing Alice to tears of frustration at trying to deal with their nonsense. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Once, things were united behind VFD — then the schism happened, and everything went straight to hell. | |
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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle turns the Mushroom Kingdom into this — while things can be weird, the Rabbids' sudden invasion crank the insanity up to eleven, and things quickly escalate; it soon emerges that an Eldritch Abomination is behind the chaos... and then decides to possess Bowser (who had been on vacation for most of the game). | |
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On Regular Show, the characters are Funny Animals and Animate Inanimate Objects who live in a predominantly human world. But that's not the weird part; it's where mundane things escalate into something bizarre. For example, playing rock, paper, scissors. In the pilot episode, if you manage to tie 100 times in a row, you'll will summon an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei. Whatever topic Nozomu is ranting about for the chapter, there'll be some ridiculous thing going on nearby to provide examples, whether it's a relay race for people passing responsibility off on other people, an art gallery for "self-completing" artists who ignore criticism, or a literal battlefield in the middle of town full of battles where nobody wins. | |
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Weekend (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard. Everything is Serious Business, half the population are Cloudcuckoolanders, and everyone is constantly hyped up to his maximum. | |
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The Crucible definitely has this vibe, as is frequently pointed out by the few sane people, who also have to contend with people who have not fallen victim to the hysteria, but are just exploiting it for their own goals. The play is made all the more disturbing because a) it's based on real events, and b) one of Miller's motivations in writing it was to criticize Senator McCarthy, whose out-of-control hunts for communists were proving that modern people could be just as gullible and subject to hysteria as they had been at the Witch Trials (he himself became a victim when held in contempt for refusing to name others while questioned before Congress, although his conviction was overturned). | |
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JAGS Wonderland is a great one: Other realities are invading our world, and if you're not careful, you'll get infected by them and dragged away in the night. And it's all available for free download from the publishers. | |
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Adventurers! takes place in a console RPG. Needless to say, all the normally Acceptable Breaks from Reality instead become blatant absurdities, and the Only Sane Man is perpetually astonished and dismayed by how little sense everything makes. This gets deconstructed in the sequel, where the antagonist tried to alter the game's code and make their world slightly more realistic - and then the apocalypse happened without an Overlord and has been stuck in wasteland anarchy ever since. Turns out, if Insane Troll Logic is literally responsible for maintaining the ecosystem, you shouldn't poke it. |
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Warhammer 40,000 creeps into this territory at times. It's a Crapsack World taken up to such a ludicrous extreme (along with every other trope) that you can't help but think the setting has well and truly lost its marbles. The God-Emperor of humanity is a ten thousand-year-old husk in a life-support machine. Every day thousands of psychics are slowly sacrificed to him to provide a navigational space beacon, in the same way that you can see the burning bodies of a million people from quite far away. Once what's left of the emperor fails, all the ships will be lost in hyperspace and all the colonies will be cut off from each other. Also, there's probably a death god under Mars. There is some speculation that the Emperor will be reborn as a warp entity when he goes, which is not really worth looking forward to. The Eldar are cursed with enslavement to a god who will appear out of hyperspace and kill anyone who feels excesses of emotion. This means that procreation is at an all-time low. Also, the Eldar race is unimaginably old and is slowly dying off in an universe that no longer can sustain them. The best case scenario (as stated by their religious beliefs) is that they'll manage to raise a new god of their own to combat their old nemesis... after they're all dead. The Tyranids are an all-consuming race — killing the populations of entire planets, turning the remains into goo and then sucking it up into their giant organic spaceships so they can breed more terrifying engines of oozing death. The only option is to run away from them, and what's been seen so far looks like a "scouting" party. There's probably a bigger hive fleet moving towards our galaxy from what used to be another. There's been hints that the Tyranids are on the run, and are being chased by something even bigger and scarier. The Necrons are undead metal killing machines, created in concert with a race of star gods to kill one of the oldest races in the galaxy. They can't be killed, and when they are heavily damaged they simply teleport back to base to be repaired. They once attacked Sol, the most heavily guarded solar system in the Imperium, to get at the aforementioned death-god inside Mars. They were repelled only because the Necron force was a "scouting party" and the Imperium threw millions of soldiers at them before they escaped. The Tau are a race who have taken fascism/communism to the extreme, giving all discovered races a "submit to our happy collective or die" ultimatum under the name of the Greater Good. If anyone resists their benign takeovers, they blast their worlds into cinders and move on. They are the setting's fluffy liberals. The Orks are fungus-creatures with the ability to reproduce their entire biosphere anywhere they go thanks to the spores they shed when they are killed. To make up for their crazy breeding rates, they seek out battle constantly, 'cause it's fun. Personality-wise, the entire species resembles football hooligans who have been given guns and axes. These brutal planet-raiders are the setting's comedy relief. The forces of Chaos are empowered by warp entities to pursue their deepest desires. Unfortunately, they are shackled to those desires and are mostly twisted to the point that the terrible mutations induced by their patrons are of no concern to them. Also, their patrons are not exactly nice, at least in human terms. |
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Pretty much everything by Dave Stone, to a greater or lesser extent. Some of his most successful work has been for the Judge Dredd franchise, where it fits right in. Another example is his first Doctor Who New Adventures novel, Sky Pirates!, which is set in a pocket universe where everything veers between hilariously disturbing, disturbingly hilarious, and just plain disturbing; for instance, there's a snowbound Single-Biome Planet shaped like an enormous snowman, where the inhabitants live in dread of the fearsome Snata, which hunts people down in a sleigh drawn by reindeer with glowing noses. It eventually turns out that the universe was deliberately set up by an Eldritch Abomination to be hostile to all forms of life, and the inhabitants view it through a filter of bad jokes because it's the only way to retain some grasp on sanity. | |
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Sung word-for-word in Tom Petty's "Yer So Bad.": | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "The Return of Harmony", Equestria gets turned into this by Discord. Everything gets crazier and more chaotic as the episode goes along and almost everyone is driven insane in some way, with the main cast being turned into mockeries of their previous selves. The landscape is likewise warped — roads turned into soap, houses are turned into flat props, trees uprooted and floating, rapid cycling of day and night, etc. Twilight is one of the few characters left completely sane by the second half of the episode, forced to deal with one-dimensional parodies her friends and Discord’s constant mocking. | |
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Pretty much the entire setting of Pathologic, coupled with Just Before the End. | |
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The Wonderland of American McGee's Alice has gone from playful weirdness to cracked insanity. | |
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The world of Codename: Kids Next Door. Not only is there the titular organization of under-13-year-olds armed with advanced weapons and technology cobbled together from garbage and household items, but there are candy pirates who sail their ships on the streets (destroying whole neighborhoods in the process), living neck ties that are more like snakes, families of sharks that visit fast-food drive-thrus in minivans, and that is just scratching the surface. Each season seems dedicated to increasing the limit of how whacked-out the setting is. | |
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Dr. Strangelove is what happens when you give Cold War paranoia that last little nudge into the abyss, then watch it fall. | |
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The Tamers version of the digital world was probably the single most surreal. It's comprised of numerous layers that shape themselves to the inhabitants (the newest layer being a barren wasteland because it hadn't been customized yet), the physical laws are completely subjective (i.e. you don't need to eat or even breathe if you don't think about it), raw data appears as pink tumbleweeds, gigantic data streams can randomly warp anything caught in them to any part of the world, day and night change instantly with no transition, and the physical world is visible in the sky of the lowest plane as a computerized graphic of a globe at all times. It's nowhere near as whimsical as the other series efforts, but every bit as strange. | |
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Daten City from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is chock full of ghosts and demons, and every character seems to be a living embodiment of sex drive. | |
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Almost anything written by Alexis Gilliland. His cartoons for the old RPG GURPS Illuminati set the tone. ("It'll be tough to test my theory without destroying the universe... but what the heck... it's a really neat theory!" or "Paranoid police, sir. You're under arrest. Nobody could look that innocent unless they were plotting against the state.") | |
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The New Order Last Days Of Europe: Played for all the drama a Nazi victory in World War II is worth. It leads to a Crapsack World where fascist ideology is validated even beyond the borders of Germany, and the Non-Standard Game Over where the world is destroyed in a thermonuclear conflict is actually presented as a Bittersweet Ending because humanity survives and eventually develops a unified civilization based on peace and understanding, but only after the end of the world washed the toxicity out of human culture. Nowhere is this more apparent than the defeated remnants of Soviet Russia, which is split into multiple warlord states including fascists, ultranationalists and all sorts of other bizarre ideologues (including a mad colonel who believes he is the reincarnation of an ancient Varangian prince) trying to reunite the shattered nation. And the After Midnight scenario takes this even further: Sergey Taboritsky's insanity has left Russia back at square one, but the anarchy is even more violent, radical and desperate. The remaining democrats, socialists and despots must compete with Burgundian System proponents still calling for Taboritsky's last murderous orders to be fulfilled, General Rippers who believe Russians outside their bunkers must be violently subjugated under their jackboots just like the Germans they plan on destroying, to genuine mass-enslaving, human-sacrificing Satanists. | |
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Similarly, Red Flood is an alternate history mod where nobody won World War I. Because the Russians achieved a more favourable outcome in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, delicate geopolitical factors butterflied into a Great War that saw no US intervention, lasted years longer, killed far more people and ended in a stalemate but only after all combatants resorted to far more desperate measures to try and win it. This result leads to extremist ideology spreading across Europe: Russia fell into warlordism and eventual right-wing dictatorship (and has the potential get much, much worse), Germany and Japan turned to communism, France is governed by a severely schizophrenic Mad Artist who wants to conquer all Europe, the USA is deeply ideologically divided and on the verge of a second civil war that threatens to shatter the young nation into pieces, and the United Kingdom remains a stable constitutional monarchy - just don't look at what Winston Churchill's doing in India. | |
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Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware, where everyone except for Gordon is either an idiot, a total nutcase, or some combination of the two, the laws of physics are broken regularly, passports are Serious Business, science consists of the most deranged and ridiculous things imaginable, and everyone except Gordon seems to think this is all perfectly rational. | |
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And all of that combined is acceptably sane compared to the final chapter and spinoff, Saints Row IV. After Cyrus goes insane from being exiled from America and tries to nuke the White House, the boss thwarts his plans only to crash into the president's office and gets themselves elected President. After five years of making the world a better place and throwing their polls in the trash, the White House is interrupted by an alien invasion. The boss is kidnapped, breaks out, yadda yadda yadda, only to find out that the Earth exploded. Yup, 90 percent of humanity go boom. Finally, the boss uses a computer simulation that gives hackers superpowers to assassinate the emperor of the aliens and take his place, thereby becoming "God Emperor of the Universe for Life" despite the sheer stupidity of a complex intergalactic empire giving total power to a former slave. And then they meet Jane Austen and Santa Claus. | |
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This trope pretty much sums up the entire world of the Dead Rising series thanks to both the unending atrocities of the government and the wacky psychopaths that want to defile you before they kill you, making the rampant Zombie Apocalypse look tame in comparison. | |
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Tigtone takes place in a surreal world based on fantasy and video game logic where almost everybody is a Large Ham and can barely form coherent sentences. The world doesn't even have an Only Sane Man, everyone seem to be just as insane and stupid as Tigtone is. | |
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Gravity Falls has this be the ultimate goal of Bill Cipher, who wants to remake the universe in his own image, turning it into "a party that never ends with a host that never dies!" The fact that this means The End of the World as We Know It doesn't bother him at all. The end result is an apocalyptic wasteland full of monsters, burning ruins and "bubbles made of pure madness", all ruled by a horde of nightmare demons under Bill's command who look like something out of a psychedelic trip. The humans and "regular" supernatural creatures — those that haven't joined Bill or been trapped in Crapsaccharine dreamlands — are left to hide in the warped ruins of their world from the giant bat-winged eyeballs Bill sent to hunt them down. | |
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