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Some psychologists believe Humans Are Warriors and naturally predisposed towards violence. For almost the entire 20th century, it seemed like humanity was teetering on the brink of self-destruction: both World Wars, the Cold War, and then the threat of terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and biological warfare... and all that after World War I was going to be "The War to End All Wars". Luckily for humanity, World War III has been in Development Hell for more than half a century now — and long may it stay there (indeed, it's not a sequel anyone is looking forward to, we hope). So it's probably only natural that the next great global conflict is a popular subject in Speculative Fiction. Weapons of Mass Destruction are probably going to get used, often recklessly, causing massive casualties.note In fiction, anyway; in Real Life, it's possible that it might just be another very destructive conventional war, if it ever happens, due to the sheer suicidal nature of the usage of nuclear weapons. Then again, if a conventional war is actually fought, escalation to nuclear war is quite likely. A commonly used Gallows Humor joke is about this war's length; somewhere around an hour. If the destruction gets too out of hand it might result in The End of the World as We Know It, causing an After the End situation set on a Scavenger World. If not, the winner might set up a One World Order, in which our heroes fight against The Government in a dystopian Cyberpunk type environment. Of course, it's entirely possible for the war to kill everybody, and have it center on the attendees to Humanity's Wake. If the show was made before Christmas 1991, Communists are involved, even if the war is supposedly set years after 1991. A more modern take on WWIII is that it begins somewhere in The Middle East; Israel, Iran, India and Pakistan may be involved. Other times, it involves a resurgent Russia and more recently, North Korea. China also gets used when the work's creator isn't so worried about the consequences for that. Scenarios which have China, North Korea and/or Middle Eastern powers as the antagonists may actually involve Russia joining the Western side. It's rare to find a piece of fiction set 20 Minutes into the Future that could resist the temptation to slap a global war into the middle of the twenty minutes. Wiping out a third of humanity must just be too much for writers to resist. (Though since the end of the Cold War, this has lessened; writers wanting to do away with a third of humanity usually go for a plague or Global Warming-related chaos.) A common way to establish the otherness of a future or Alternate History setting is to have a throwaway remark about World War III having occurred in the past. For numbers greater than III, see World War Whatever. For stories about stopping this from coming to pass, see Prevent the War. Compare and contrast to Avoiding the Great War. |
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World War III is the setup for the Terminator series of films, in the form of a Robot War: it was Skynet that started it. Kyle Reese says that nobody even knew who'd started it (i.e. at the time the bombs began falling), then reveals that "the machines" were to blame. | |
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Now expanded to the Scandinavian front in Wargame: AirLand Battle, and then into the Far East in Wargame: Red Dragon. Unlike the other two games, were each campaign is set in its own timeline, all four of the campaigns in Airland Battle depict parts of the same war. Scenarios in Red Dragon include a Soviet invasion of Japan in 1984, a Sino-Soviet conflict in 1979, and a Second Korean war in the 1992, featuring South Korea, NATO, Japan, and Australia versus North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union, in a timeline where the attempted coup against Gorbachev and Yeltsin succeedednote There is another Second Korean War campaign set in 1987, but it is limited to the US and South Korea versus North Korea. There is also a campaign featuring the British Commonwealth defending Hong Kong from the PRC, but doesn't really fit this trope due to it being completely regional. |
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In Wonder Woman (1987) Wonder Woman was first sent to Man's World to stop Ares, the God of War, from igniting a third World War. | |
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The Fallout series itself is set between 25 to 210 years after the nuclear exchange depending on which game you are playing. The post-war United States is a Polluted Wasteland populated with roving gangs of raiders, malfunctioning military robots, mutated animals and honest folk trying to get by scavenging for food and technology. Amazingly, if what the little insights you gain about the pre-war United States are true, the pre-war world was actually worse. For example, the United States forcibly annexed Canada to access better pathways to Alaska and engaged in a bloody war with every other country to secure the last oil field in the Pacific. The world itself was embroiled in the Resource Wars, a series of conflicts over shrinking oil fields that left Europe and the Middle East in ruin as the oil fields dried up and left the U.S. and China as the remaining powers. | |
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The Tex Murphy games are set after World War III. Things are kind of crummy, but life goes on, and in a fairly acceptable way. The Pandora Directive reveals that the war was a pretty short nuclear exchange with a bunch of countries in Middle East, when the U.S. military decided to test their new anti-matter missiles against them. The geniuses didn't consider the ramifications of blasting bombs this powerful in a region known to dabble in bio- and chemical weapons. Much of that stuff, not to mention all the radiation, got spread throughout the world. Your goal in the game is to stop the NSA from getting their hands on an even bigger supply of anti-matter from an alien mothership. |
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Logan's Run: Earth was devastated by a nuclear war in 2119. In "Man Out of Time", it was revealed to have started as a result of the Eastern Bloc launching a preemptive strike on the United States out of fear that it would use its newfound access to time travel as a weapon of war and alter the past. The US responded in kind. | |
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Battlefield 2 has World War III between the US, the European Union, China, and the fictional Middle Eastern Coalition. The cause of the war is never explicitly stated, but one map description hints that it was over oil. Russia was originally going to be a faction too, but they were downgraded to a spec-ops faction in the expansion pack. The Bad Company subseries depicts what is most likely the same war, with the focus shifted towards fighting between the U.S. and the Russian Federation, who is allied with the MEC. By the time of Bad Company 2, Russia has taken over vast swathes of Europe and South America, and is advancing on the U.S. from the north and south. Battlefield 3 appears to show what might be the beginning of that World War occurring on the Iran-Iraq border. Battlefield 4 depicts the same war in Battlefield 3 after an indeterminate amount of time. China has entered the war. In the campaign, they're mostly allied with Russia, but the multiplayer suggests that it broke down and became a Mêlée à Trois between three of them. 2142 has World War IV (assuming nothing happened between Battlefield 2 and 2142) between a futuristic European Union and the Pan-Asian Collation. No word on what the rest of the world is doing. Supposedly, the whole conflict is over a dwindling number of global resources and the two hemispheres are vying for whatever's left. One of the expansion packs also adds a third wheel to the war, meaning it truly is a new World War. |
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In Chrononauts, you can alter the time line so that the Cuban Missile Crisis went hot, destroying all civilization. A couple of cards actually require this as part of a secret win condition. Notably, World War III has an extra effect: once someone plays that patch, everything after it on the timeline effectively ceases to exist until it's undone. | |
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Testament is another example from the same era. Unlike other examples, the film is set on the outskirts of a nuclear war, with the drama stemming from the influx of fallout and the collapse of outside society, showcasing how Mutually Assured Destruction impacts everyone, not just the people in the superpowers' crosshairs. | |
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In Rainbow, World War III acts as the most major historical event which forms the backstory of the setting. The "International Revolution" is a worldwide conflict that occurred over one thousand years before the events of the novel. It was initiated by a coalition called the "Atheistic State," who were reportedly Well-Intentioned Extremists who believed that they must impose enforced atheism on all civilization before religion could cause humanity to destroy itself. The Atheistic State easily won, established the World Hegemony, and has since maintained an uncontested rule over the entire Earth since then until the events of the novel. | |
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Inside Job (2021): Among the many screwed-up things Cognito is up to is planning out and casting for World War III, where the Americans will be the villains. | |
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In Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja , World War III is waged by the United States and China against Russia after a powerful Reality Warper neutralizes the world's entire nuclear arsenal. | |
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William Golding's Lord of the Flies: It is mentioned that Britain is at war with Russia and London is destroyed by an atomic bomb. | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Fiamma of the Right engineers World War III by getting Russia to declare war against Academy City, leading to a twelve-day conflict between the magic and science factions. Strangely enough, it's not the conflict itself that matters (other than powering himself up with the malice of the combatants), he's just doing it so that he can draw out the people he needs, namely Touma (or more specifically, his Imagine Breaker), Index, and Sasha Croitsef. Other nations involved were the Elizalina Alliance (a group of secessionist states from Russia, whom Russia was just dying to have an excuse to invade), England (AC side) and France (Catholic side), and it is briefly mentioned that China and India are supporting Academy City, though their armies never make a direct appearance. The only world power to sit the war out is, ironically, the United States. |
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: World War III broke out on November 22, 1987, only six months after Buck was frozen, when the Soviet Union launched an all-out nuclear attack on the United States, destroying all of its major cities. The US counterattacked, devastating the Soviet Union, and a second wave of missiles was launched against it. Millions of people were killed in the war and millions more died of radiation poisoning in the coming months. Many humans and animals were mutated by the radiation. Society very quickly broke down. The only man made structures to survive the nuclear holocaust were the Egyptian pyramids, various Aztec ruins in Mexico and Mount Rushmore. | |
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The war featured genetic engineering and genocide on a massive scale. Star Trek: Enterprise establishes that Colonel Phillip Green was involved in this. | |
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Ralph Peters's Red Army depicts World War III from the perspective of several Soviet soldiers and officers, the novel notable for being a more grounded approach to the war as opposed to being a dramatic political thriller as was common in the eighties (we never even find out what caused the war) and a Soviet victory. | |
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"Spell My Name with an S": Humanity is on course to destroy themselves with nuclear war, when a pair of Energy Beings get involved to prove they can avert worldwide nuclear holocaust by simply changing one person's name. The second one points out that yes, the first one won the bet... but they're both going to be in trouble when their boss comes back and the humans are still around. They immediately triple the bet, and the first one goes back to recreate the nuclear war with another subtle change. | |
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Part of the backstory of Ghost in the Shell includes WWIII in the mid-1990s, followed by WWIV in 2019. | |
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Delete: The US plan risks this, since China says it will regard any nuclear blasts above them as an act of war. | |
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Multiple James Bond villains have conspired to provoke this. Ernst Stavro Blofeld's Evil Plan in You Only Live Twice is to spark a world war between America and the Soviet Union by stealing their spacecrafts and tricking them into thinking the other side is doing it, all for his own material gains. Karl Stromberg (who was originally supposed to be Blofeld) in The Spy Who Loved Me attempts to provoke a civilization-destroying war between America and the Soviets so he can restart human civilization in the ocean. Elliot Carver's evil scheme in Tomorrow Never Dies is to cause a world war by kickstarting a conflict between Britain and China, with the intention of it toppling the government of the latter. His reason? So he can get broadcasting rights from the new government of China. |
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Part of Between Planets takes place in New Chicago since Old Chicago was destroyed during a limited nuclear war. | |
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The Simpsons: In the 1995 episode "Lisa's Wedding", set in 2010, Moe says to Lisa's English fiancé "You know, we saved your ass in World War Two!". He responds "Yeah, well, we saved your arse in World War Three!". Moe concedes the point. | |
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Blake and Mortimer: The Secret of The Swordfish (and its animated adaptation) starts off as a repeat of World War II: An Asian empire (the fictional Yellow Thibet, headed by Basam Damdu) launches a simultaneous raid on just about every world capital (and Pearl Harbor) including Washington and Moscow. Fortunately, the British have an Elaborate Underground Base from which they can launch nuclear powered superplanes (the titular swordfish), and as things get worse for Damdu he decides to fire off all his nukes before an entire squadron of Swordfish blows them up before they can launch. | |
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Battlefield 3 appears to show what might be the beginning of that World War occurring on the Iran-Iraq border. | |
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Battlefield 4 depicts the same war in Battlefield 3 after an indeterminate amount of time. China has entered the war. In the campaign, they're mostly allied with Russia, but the multiplayer suggests that it broke down and became a Mêlée à Trois between three of them. | |
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The Day After depicts World War III as the result of a Warsaw Pact blockade of West Germany that quickly escalates over the course of a few days, but is ambiguous regarding which superpower launches the nukes first. This ambiguity was put in by Nicholas Meyer, the director and writer of the movie, on the belief that assigning blame to either side was pointless — millions would be dead no matter who struck the first blow. This cost the movie a chance to be Backed by the Pentagon, as the Air Force was fine with lending resources to film the movie only as long as it was made clear that the first strike was a Soviet strike. | |
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The exact scope is never delved on, but Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri has the Crusader Wars, the Twelve Minute War and the Indian Border Wars, all of which were nuclear. At least one of these might have been World War III. Then there is the nuclear holocaust that happened some time after Unity left for the eponymous star system. |
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Team Yankee features a Warsaw Pact invasion of West Germany in 1985, under the premise of a Stalinist hardliner becoming the Soviet premier instead of Gorbachev, and a naval skirmish in the Middle East providing the pretext to war. The sourcebook Oil War explores how the Iran-Iraq War would've developed if NATO and the Warsaw Pact got more heavily involved. | |
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Ocelot and Rahmat from Expend4bles try to start World War III by stealing a nuclear weapon and then loading it onto their ship to detonate it off the coast of Russia in an attempt to get America and Russia to fight and so Ocelot and Rahmat can gain profit from the war. | |
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Missile Command was all about stopping (and eventually failing) nuclear missiles from hitting your cities. An unofficial Japanese port of the game to the Sharp X68000 computer was even subtitled The World War III. |
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Countdown to Looking Glass is another '80s World War III movie, told as a series of breaking news stories. | |
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There's also the world the Justice League is pulled into in Legends where it seems World War III happened and killed the Justice Guild of America. | |
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World War III basically happens in Command & Conquer: Generals expansion Zero Hour, but is downplayed. In the original game, an N.G.O. Superpower known as the GLA (Global Liberation Army) takes control of most of Central Asia, the eastern half of the Middle East, and parts of North Africa, including Somalia. The People's Republic of China takes over the the parts of Central Asia that aren't GLA-occupied (including a lot of Kazakhstan). Apparently in retaliation to Chinese and American imperialism, the GLA nukes Beijing (using a nuke they stole from China), establishes a presence in western China, and attacks American-held Iraq. This leads to a a struggle across Central Asia, the Middle East, and Western China, with the GLA and a faction of Chinese military defectors on one side and China and America on the other. Eventually, American and Chinese forces decimate the GLA and capture their capital. Then Zero Hour happens, where the GLA is revealed to be Not Quite Dead, and the game becomes this proper, featuring major battles across Central Asia, the Middle East, West China, North Africa, the Eastern United States, and Europe. The United States is forced to withdraw, leaving the nations of the world to turn to China for help. They eventually drive the GLA out of Europe and become the new world superpower. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Resurrection", humanity was wiped out in a biological war on July 24, 1997. In "Bits of Love", billions of people were killed in a nuclear war on November 3, 2046. Aidan Hunter managed to survive in a special bunker. He believes that he may be the last living person. In "Lithia", the Great War, which began in or before 2015, killed seven billion people (99% of the population). In "Final Appeal, Part One", a nuclear war, known as the War of 2059 or the New Holocaust, killed 80% of the world's population (6.8 million people). In "The Human Factor", everyone on Earth, with the exception of several high-profile political figures and their families, is killed in the war between the Free Alliance and the Coalition of Middle Eastern and Pacific States on April 23, 2084. |
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It's all but stated that a nuclear war happened in the not too distant past of Fist of the North Star due to the presence of radiation and part of Toki's backstory involving saving people from a nuclear strike by closing them into a fallout shelter. There's also the Colonel, one of Kenshiro's foes, whose superiors are implied to have started the nuclear war. It's never explicitly called a World War, but the implication is that the whole world is an After the End-type Scavenger World wasteland as is seen during the show and manga, so if it wasn't a full blown World War, it's a civilization-ending nuclear war that manages to come pretty close. | |
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Paranoia might be set after World War III: the historical files are too messed up to really know, and you don't have clearance for them anyway. While the truth may not be known, the rulebook does give a "suggested" history that could be used, or at least subverted to surprise those people who already know it. Of course, the rulebook is ULTRAVIOLET clearance, so if you aren't ULTRAVIOLET clearance, don't highlight this spoiler:After the end of World War III, the 'Polity' (a One World Order) was formed. Many Alpha Complexes were built in that time period, including one located in the city of San Francisco, controlled by The Computer. Everything was fine and dandy, until an asteroid the size of Sheboygan made its way to Earth, causing the Big Whoops. A Russian missile silo mistook the asteroid for a nuclear attack, and The Computer mistook that counter-nuclear attack as an attack by Communists (its information records were damaged, and it could only retrieve 1950's cold war propaganda at the time). The San Franciscan Computer challenged the Polity and the rest of the Alpha Complexes, declaring them all traitors working with the Communists...and the resulting confusion and chaos caused all the other Complexes to view themselves as the 'one true Complex' and every other Complex as being subverted by traitors. So, technically, PARANOIA takes place during World War IV... |
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The Last Ship is set after a very brief World War III that consisted of nukes wiping out most of humanity. | |
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Lingers as a background threat in both Escape from New York, and Escape from L.A.. In the former, there was a conflict between the USA and the USSR-China that already became hot—Snake Plissken is mentioned to be a veteran of the "Leningrad and Siberia campaigns". In the latter, a coalition of Latin American countries led by the Shining Path are poised to invade the United States. Notably, at the end of the latter film the Anti-Hero averts it by EMP-bombing the entire world in a classic Omnicidal Neutral scene. | |
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The backstory of the Shannara series always alluded to "The Great Wars" which brought our civilization to an end and then the magic comes back and the high fantasy setting unfolded. After a Retcon and Canon Welding with Brooks' Word and Void series, this was shown to be World War III, taking place sometime in the early 22nd century. Although supernatural forces were pulling the strings, nuclear and chemical weapons, deployed in several steps, were responsible for wiping out the vast majority of humanity. | |
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In Outcasts the colonisation project is to escape the destruction of Earth by World War III. Not much detail is given, but there is a reference to tension over Taiwan, suggesting that the war may have been primarily between the USA and China. | |
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World War III broke out in an arc in Conchy. Being on a remote island, the characters only learn about from television. However, the war ends almost as soon as it begins when the supercomputers in charge of launching the missiles put them in orbit around Pluto instead of launching them at enemy powers. | |
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Modern Warfare: A variant occurs in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The Big Bad orchestrates a fake US-sponsored terrorist attack on a Russian airport, which leads to Russia declaring war on the U.S. and managing to invade the East Coast. Russia isn't the USSR at the time in the game, but it is controlled by Ultranationalists, who are essentially militant Soviet supporters. However, tie-in materials state that this was not WWIII proper, but simply the Russo-America War — it didn't involve enough countries to truly count as a World War. The events of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (appropriately enough) put World War III into overdrive, with Ultranationalist maverick Vladimir Makarov taking over Russia in a coup and proceeding to launch a full-scale invasion of Europe, made possible by simultaneous chemical attacks on all major European capitals carried out by his terrorist cronies. Interestingly, it never becomes a full-blown nuclear war, most likely because all sides know that crossing that line would effectively end the world. Makarov wanted to get control of Russia's nuclear arsenal from the President, but was unable to extract it from him before he was rescued. |
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"We Will All Go Together When We Go", from An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, offers the mock-optimistic consolation that if World War III wipes the entire human race out in one go, nobody will have to deal with grief or go to the trouble of rebuilding civilization. | |
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The 100 has a nuclear war in its backstory to set up the After the End situation, though who fought war and why is not delved into until the Season 2 finale, when an artificial intelligence called ALIE is implied have been involved. It is eventually revealed that ALIE was programmed to save humanity/the world, and decided the problem was "too many people". Her solution was to launch nuclear missiles at everyone, triggering a counterattack to reduce the number of people on the planet. | |
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It is mentioned that when using SCP-2000, which can reset humanity to a certain time in the event of a Apocalypse How, one can't set it any further back than twenty years, or they'd be liable to trigger this. After all, that's how World War 2 happened. Another interpretation is that the SCP Foundation fabricated World War 2 to explain away the massive destruction and loss of life caused by whatever incident led to the activation of SCP-2000. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion blends this with a conventional After the End scenario for its Backstory, with the combination of the Second Impact and a nuclear war killing half the world's population. | |
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The "Wet Firecracker War" is alluded to in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Judging from the name, it wasn't quite as devastating as some other versions of WWIII, though it evidently went nuclear. ("Sovunion" used megaton nukes, but seems to have lost anyway; while America was hit badly and ended up becoming a "directorate" of the subsequent world government, of which "Great China" seems to be the hegemon, with India a close second.) | |
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24 loves teasing the idea of World War III whenever Jack Bauer or the President has to make a decision or causes a situation that could threaten America's shaky relations with other countries such as Russia and China. | |
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Cold Waters: Command a U.S. submarine during the Second Battle of the Atlantic as war breaks out in Europe in either 1967 or 1984, or in the South China Sea in 2000. | |
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Metalocalypse: Dethklok nearly starts this when they double-book a gig on the same day with Israel and Syria. The two countries threaten to start a third global war and the only way to stop it is to put on a giant holographic show that can be seen in space over the two countries and snow cones. | |
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In Future War 198X, World War III starts after A Nuclear Error made by Americans. | |
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Sebastian Shaw in the film X-Men: First Class intended to provoke both superpowers into causing World War III via the Cuban Missile Crisis, in order to wipe out humanity and allow Mutants to reign supreme over the planet. | |
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Appleseed from the creator of Ghost in the Shell also features a World War III in its Back Story. Notably, it also includes a World War IV, which was said to be conventional (after WWIII exchanged a number of cities for suspiciously round lakes). | |
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The Robert McCammon book Swan Song opens just before World War III causes Class 1 Apocalypse How, thanks to lots of deadly mushrooms. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Time Enough at Last", a nuclear war breaks out. Henry Bemis survived as he was reading in the bank vault when the H-Bomb that destroyed his city was detonated. In "Elegy", Professor Kurt Meyers tells Jeremy Wickwire that Earth was devastated by a nuclear war in 1985 and it has taken 200 years for humanity to rebuild. Played with in "Two". The man and woman appear to be American and Soviet soldiers respectively who are still alive five years after the war devastated the world but Rod Serling's opening narration leaves the time period vague, even stating that the story could have taken place two million years ago. In "The Old Man in the Cave", a nuclear war devastated Earth in 1964. Millions of people were killed and the world is contaminated with radiation. |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "A Little Peace and Quiet", a nuclear war breaks out between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1985. In "Quarantine", 80% of the world's population was wiped out in a nuclear war in 2043. The authorities of the time considered it a limited engagement as only six missiles were fired by each side. In "Profile in Silver", John F. Kennedy's assassination is averted by Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, a time traveling historian from 2172 and one of Kennedy's descendants. This creates an Alternate Timeline in which Soviet troops invade West Berlin, resulting in World War III. In order to restore the proper timeline, Fitzgerald takes Kennedy's place and allows himself to be killed. Kennedy is transported forward in time to 2172. In "Shelter Skelter", Harry Dobbs and Nick Gatlin see and hear reports about an escalating crisis in the Middle East and the US preparing to take any means necessary to defend itself. Harry witnesses an immense explosion and concludes that the nearby Wakefield Air Force Base has been destroyed and World War III has begun. They enter the fallout shelter in Harry's basement to protect themselves from the high levels of radiation. It turns out that a nuclear cruise missile detonated while a B-1 bomber was preparing to take off from the base, destroying much of the surrounding area. The outbreak of nuclear war was avoided as the destruction of Dunston, Kansas illustrated the folly of war to the entire world. |
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The Sprawl Trilogy several times mentions "The War", which is implied to have been WWIII, although it was only a few weeks long. | |
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A variant occurs in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The Big Bad orchestrates a fake US-sponsored terrorist attack on a Russian airport, which leads to Russia declaring war on the U.S. and managing to invade the East Coast. Russia isn't the USSR at the time in the game, but it is controlled by Ultranationalists, who are essentially militant Soviet supporters. However, tie-in materials state that this was not WWIII proper, but simply the Russo-America War — it didn't involve enough countries to truly count as a World War. | |
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The events of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (appropriately enough) put World War III into overdrive, with Ultranationalist maverick Vladimir Makarov taking over Russia in a coup and proceeding to launch a full-scale invasion of Europe, made possible by simultaneous chemical attacks on all major European capitals carried out by his terrorist cronies. Interestingly, it never becomes a full-blown nuclear war, most likely because all sides know that crossing that line would effectively end the world. Makarov wanted to get control of Russia's nuclear arsenal from the President, but was unable to extract it from him before he was rescued. | |
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Mazinger Z: In the New Mazinger spin-off, the action begins one hundred fifty years after World War Three between USA and Soviet Union at the start of twenty-first century. Nuclear weapons and nuclear winter wiped out ninety percent of humankind turned the planet into a radioactive, barren wasteland, and the survivors realigned in northern and southern superpowers and kept fighting. One century and half later, they are still fighting over whatever is left of Earth. | |
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In the Civilization Series, the AI is coded to declare war on the perpetrator of the First Strike with Nuclear Weapons on any other Civilization. When getting into a late game war with India, Ghandi will nuke you, no questions asked. | |
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The Irregular at Magic High School has WW3 break out after an unexpected drop in global temperatures from 2030 triggered a global food crisis, and in turn led to a subsequent dispute between Russia and China over the former's forceful deportation of refugees from the latter, escalating to worldwide conflicts over resources erupting in 2045 and lasting until 2064. In the aftermath, the world population was reduced from approx. 9 billion to less than 3 billion, much of Africa and South America suffered extensive balkanization (with only Brazil remaining more or less intact from the latter), the European Union splitting into Western and Eastern blocs along the Franco-German border, much of the rest of the world conglomerated into sprawling superstates (the major ones being the United States of North America, the New Soviet Union, the Great Asian Union, and the Indo-Persian Federation), and most importantly the ascension of Magicians as a potent political, military, and economical force in world affairs. | |
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Metal Gear series: Volgin, Gene, and Coldman each nearly caused World War III to occur, with Coldman being the one who came the closest to succeeding in achieving it. | |
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In The War Game, World War III occurs when the United States authorizes the use of nuclear weapons against China when they invade South Vietnam, resulting in the Soviet Union invading West Berlin in retaliation. America launches its nukes against China and the Soviets, the latter of whom nuke Britain in response. | |
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Book 4 of Harry Potter Comics takes place during World War III. Besides nuclear weapons, magic is also involved, as well as hybrid tech (including invisible missiles and beam-spamming wand/guns that even muggles can use.) | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four's unnamed Forever War between three mercilessly totalitarian and nuclear-armed Space-Filling Empires, oddly enough, seems to be waged mostly with conventional weapons similar to those used in World War II, and conditions in London evoke that time with rationing, bombing raids, "Victory"-themed propaganda, and Russia (now Eurasia) suddenly becoming an ally instead of the enemy. Though it's implied that the wars are deliberately kept limited, both to give the population a foreign enemy to hate instead of their own leadership, and as a justification for the crapsackworld the rulers have created. |
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The Barrier: In the series, it started in 2020 and ended in 2025. It's already going on in the Distant Prologue set twenty-five years prior to the proper beginning of the plot, while announcement made in the present day mentions it ending twenty years prior. | |
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Jour J: In "Texan Apocalypse", World War III happened when the Cuban Missile Crisis went nuclear. Unfortunately, the Soviets were unaware the US had something like three times as many nukes as them, so while parts of what's left of the U.S. are still inhabitable (if split into multiple autonomous regions), the U.S.S.R. is completely destroyed (and Japan isn't doing too well, what with receiving a lot of fallout), leaving France and the UK as the only nuclear powers left. Oddly enough, averted in "Red Dragon", where nuking the Vietnamese forces when they were still only fighting the French doesn't trigger a world war. That said, the U.S still gets its land war in Asia- against China this time. |
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In Star Trek: First Contact, the Enterprise travels back in time to a period shortly after World War III. See the Star Trek entry under the "Live-Action TV" tab for more information. | |
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Macross has the "Unification Wars" (which we get to see a bit of in Macross Zero), a series of conflicts between a strengthened, militarized United Nations and anybody who didn't want to join together with them to fight the coming Zentraedi invasion. It's mostly settled by the time the aliens arrive in that version, though. The sides are not well-defined: it's known that the USA, Japan, most of Europe, and at least part of Russia were on the UN side, but the composition of the Anti-UN forces is mostly unknown (and the side material actively wonders just how the last remnant of the Anti-UN got their hands on cutting-edge Russian-made mecha, as the Russian government was on the UN side). | |
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Twilight: 2000 is set in the aftermath of a limited nuclear World War III between NATO and the Soviet Union. It started in 1995 with a war between the Soviets and China. When Soviet forces were transferred out of eastern Europe to support the Chinese war in '96 West Germany decided it was time to re-unify, opening the war in Europe. By '97 the Soviets started using tactical nukes, which escalated to using enough strategic strikes to destroy the world's infrastructure. The second edition written after Soviet collapse changed this to something much less plausible; suffice it to say the action that triggered World War III was not dissimilar to World War II. | |
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Wasteland features this as well. Nukes do fly, too. You're in a bit that didn't get worked over too much, although fallout radiation still hangs out in a few spots. | |
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In Letter 44, World War III resulted from the US President revealing the existence of the "Builders" that was kept secret by America. | |
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In the Crosstime Traffic series by Harry Turtledove, the titular organization is aware of alternate universes where China and Nazi Germany started World War III, which destroyed human civilization. The sixth book is set in an After the End LA where the Soviets and Americans nuked each other in the 1960s. | |
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While the opposing force in the backstory of Fallout was China, not the Soviet Union, the same principles apply. By all accounts, there were technically two wars, the "Sino-American War" started in 2066 by a Chinese invasion of Alaska, which lasted for almost eleven years before nuclear weapons were exchanged in the "Great War" in 2077, which lasted for about two hours. No one knew which of the sides fired the first warhead (one log you can find, in a place that means it won't be known to anyone else, says China shot first, but Word of God deems it non-canon), and at the end of the day no one really cared. From what history you can learn, the Americans took back Alaska and were pretty much on Beijing's doorstep. It's possible that the Chinese fired first, knowing that they were screwed and intending to bring the Americans down with them. In Fallout 2 the leader of the Enclave, a faction made up of the descendants of high-ranking government officials, outright states this was the case with later games corroborating this claim at various points. The Fallout series itself is set between 25 to 210 years after the nuclear exchange depending on which game you are playing. The post-war United States is a Polluted Wasteland populated with roving gangs of raiders, malfunctioning military robots, mutated animals and honest folk trying to get by scavenging for food and technology. Amazingly, if what the little insights you gain about the pre-war United States are true, the pre-war world was actually worse. For example, the United States forcibly annexed Canada to access better pathways to Alaska and engaged in a bloody war with every other country to secure the last oil field in the Pacific. The world itself was embroiled in the Resource Wars, a series of conflicts over shrinking oil fields that left Europe and the Middle East in ruin as the oil fields dried up and left the U.S. and China as the remaining powers. |
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In Asimov's The Stars, Like Dust (written after Pebble in the Sky but a very distant prequel, set thousands of years earlier) the numerous radioactive areas of Earth's crust (which literally glow in the dark) are explicitly said to be the places where nuclear weapons had been detonated "a full generation before the force-field defense against nuclear explosions had been developed so that no other could commit suicide in just that fashion again". | |
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The Steins;Gate 0 covers the World War III part. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: "Brain of the Future" involved a possible future where the United States ends up in a nuclear war against not Russia, not China, but against.... Canada in 3502. The war begins with an argument between the Canadian Prime Minister Warren Mapleleaf (who wears a space helmet with the Canadian maple leaf painted on it, apparently because this is how Canadian leaders dress in the far future) and the President of the United States: Bill Clinton, who is still alive thanks to being preserved as a head in a jar Futurama-style and is somehow still President. He is described as the United States' first 377 term President. | |
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1983: Doomsday is located at the Alternate History Wiki and involves a world where a worldwide nuclear exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States happens on September 26th, 1983. The USA has been succeeded by a much smaller rump nation and a host of small states, the USSR is a rump state in Siberia, the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand is the most influential nation on Earth and South America is an economic powerhouse. Most of Europe has had its population numbers knocked down to Dark Age levels and the only European nations that aren't broken up into collections of mini-nations (some little more then city states) and empty wasteland are the Nordic Union (all the Nordic Nations, plus a couple of others) and the Alpine Confederation (Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Austria), thanks to them having been neutral in 1983. | |
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WarGames features WOPR, a highly-advanced missile control computer which cannot distinguish reality from simulationnote David: Is this a game, or is it real? / "Joshua" (Professor Falken's name for the computer): What's the difference?, leading to it attempt to cause World War III with a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The climax of the movie shows WOPR going crazy with nuclear attack pattern simulations running across the Ominous Multiple Screens in Cheyenne mountain, all with the same result. WINNER: NONE An earlier scene refers to World War III directly. When McKittrick tells David what his playing with their computer nearly did, McKittrick mentions that if they hadn't caught him, DEFCON 1 would have been declared. An even earlier scene has Paul Richter directly referring to the WOPR as "spend[ing] all of its time thinking about World War III." |
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Implied: in an episode of The Flintstones, a member of the loyal order of Water Buffaloes suggests staging a beauty contest for their wives: | |
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Wargame: European Escalation has four different World War III scenarios from 1975 to 1985 depicted mainly at the conventional level. Although there is speculation that one of the four scenarios takes place in a post-nuclear exchange Europe. The scenarios are based around real incidents (the defection of NVA soldier Werner Weinhold in 1975, Solidarity and Martial law in Poland, the Able Archer incident and the last one, which does indeed feature a nuclear-ravaged wasteland and is obviously fictional. Now expanded to the Scandinavian front in Wargame: AirLand Battle, and then into the Far East in Wargame: Red Dragon. Unlike the other two games, were each campaign is set in its own timeline, all four of the campaigns in Airland Battle depict parts of the same war. Scenarios in Red Dragon include a Soviet invasion of Japan in 1984, a Sino-Soviet conflict in 1979, and a Second Korean war in the 1992, featuring South Korea, NATO, Japan, and Australia versus North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union, in a timeline where the attempted coup against Gorbachev and Yeltsin succeedednote There is another Second Korean War campaign set in 1987, but it is limited to the US and South Korea versus North Korea. There is also a campaign featuring the British Commonwealth defending Hong Kong from the PRC, but doesn't really fit this trope due to it being completely regional. |
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In We Are Legion (We Are Bob), World War Three technically happens in the 117 years since Bob was hit by a car, although it's pointed out that it was more of a series of brushfire wars, most evidently in the Middle East, in large part caused by the development of controlled nuclear fusion, instantly devaluing the main Middle East commodity. The latter has turned that entire region into a nuclear wasteland. A more proper global conflict happens shortly after the Von Neumann probes are launched by the superpowers. It's "civil" at first, with only tactical nukes employed against military targets, but quickly devolves into all-out chaos when China decides to nuke all of Brazil, signaling that cities are now fair game. The remains of the Brazilian Space Navy obliterates all Solar System objects and then starts dropping asteroids on Earth as part of a scorched earth tactic. By the time two of the Bobs return three decades later, there are about 15 million people left alive on the planet out of over ten billion. The planet is rapidly cooling and will become uninhabitable for millennia. | |
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Protect and Survive: A Timeline: A Spiritual Successor of sorts to Threads. Detailing the geopolitical effects of a nuclear war on the world. | |
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The DCAU made reference to "the near apocalypse of '09" headed by Ra's al Ghul, took the entire Justice League to stop and implied that Batman was instrumental in stopping it. Whether or not that is an example of this trope is unclear. 2009 has passed, so it looks like we'll never know what happened. There's also the world the Justice League is pulled into in Legends where it seems World War III happened and killed the Justice Guild of America. |
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The Star Trek franchise is infamous for frequently referencing a World War III, but giving very vague details about it. Here is what we do know about the World War III of the Trek Verse: Star Trek: The Original Series equated World War III with the Eugenics Wars, which supposedly took place during the 1990s. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, a Retcon moved the setting of World War III to sometime in the mid-21st century. Thus, the Eugenics Wars and World War III became separate conflicts, even though the Eugenics Wars apparently took place on a global scale. Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds pushed the Eugenics Wars into at least the 2020s, essentially retconning the Eugenics Wars back into being the same conflict as World War III. They also established that they were spun off by the Second American Civil War. Ultimately, it’s revealed that meddling time travelers lead to the timeline and events being altered so that certain events still happen, but are pushed up further and further. World War III was incredibly devastating, with a death toll higher than that of World War II (according to SNW, a third of the world's population was wiped out). Nuclear weapons were used and most governments did not survive the war, leading to an After the End Dystopia described as "the post-atomic horror". In Star Trek: First Contact, the Enterprise crew travels back in time to this "post-atomic horror" period in order to ensure that humankind's First Contact with aliens takes place. The movie explains that it was this first contact which caused the Earth to rise from the ashes of World War III and become a Utopia. The war featured genetic engineering and genocide on a massive scale. Star Trek: Enterprise establishes that Colonel Phillip Green was involved in this. Information about the factions involved is extremely scanty. From First Contact, we know that something called the "Eastern Coalition" was an enemy of the United States, vaguely suggesting that the war was fought between the West and an alliance of Asian countries. (Early scripts for First Contact explicitly said "China", but later drafts replaced "China" with "Eastern Coalition".) According to the EU novel Star Trek: Federation, the war happened largely due to a fascist movement called the Optimum gaining control over much of the planet. Much of the novel was later Jossed by Star Trek: First Contact, however. During the war, a small group of civilians and soldiers hiding out in a church was rescued by a strange angelic figure that transported them to a habitable planet 51,000 light years away. The planet (Terralysium) wouldn't be visited again until the 23rd century, when the USS Discovery used the spore drive to cross the distance. Even though its inhabitants are human, Captain Pike insists on invoking General Order 1 (the term Prime Directive wasn't invented yet) since they have no knowledge of the warp drive. |
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Grupa Operacyjna: "Trzecia Wojna Åšwiatowa", as the name implies. It is described as a war to survive, a war on the streets and in homes, between everything and everyone. But when you look deeper into the song's lyrics, it actually describes a crappy everyday scenario. | |
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The Death Note tie-in novel L: change the WorLd mentions that L's first solved case was that of the Winchester Bombings, the solving of which averted World War III. He solved it at 8 years old and met Watari shortly afterwards. The date is unclear, but is unarguably between 1987 and 1988. | |
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Farnham's Freehold takes place in the aftermath of a version of World War III which utterly wrecks Western civilization. | |
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Red Dawn (1984) has World War III break out between a rudimentary alliance between America, Britain, and China vs. The Soviet Union, Nicaragua, and Cuba. By the time lines have stabilized, The Reds control Texas, a frontline covering an undefined portion of the Mississippi River, and most of the Rocky Mountains at least up to Denver, as well as Alaska and possibly a part of western Canada. Additionally, it's mentioned that the Americans were unable to use nuclear retaliation as the Russians used tactical nuclear strikes to destroy their silos in the Dakotas and Wyoming. The only cities mentioned to have been nuked are Washington, Omaha, and Kansas City.note Washington is obvious, and Omaha makes sense because the Strategic Air Command headquarters was at nearby Offutt AFB. Kansas City is close to Whiteman AFB, which used to be a major SAC Base and is home to the B2 stealth bomber fleet, and Central-West and South-West Missouri are home to 165 old Minuteman II Silos. It's implied that areas of China were nuked as well after China allied with the U.S. and Britain. | |
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Whether the Mad Max series takes place after World War III, and if so, what type of war it was, depends on which movie in that series you're watching. | |
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Animorphs has the Yeerks attempt to start WWIII between the U.S. and China. They get pretty damn close before the Animorphs stop it. | |
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In Blast from the Past the main character and his parents spend decades in a subterranean fallout shelter because his paranoic father though that a minor exchange between the US and the USSR caused World War III, and when the father goes outside after confuses 90s society with a post-apocalyptic world. | |
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In Heat Guy J, humans appropriated the technology of the resident Superior Species (which sounds an awful lot like nuclear power the way it's described). Originally, they used it for peaceful purposes like energy production, but eventually started using it as a weapon of war. Although the war is long since over by the time the series begins, most of humanity has been obliterated, except for seven city-states (with a few small villages/towns clustered around them). Some people still mistrust the Celestials and their technology, and/or mistrust other people. | |
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Deadliest Warrior showed a highly likely 'what if scenario' of North Korea and South Korea redeclaring war in the episode US Rangers vs NKSOF. The allies of both nations would most likely assist them, causing this trope. United States of America, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, France, Great Britain, and South Korea vs China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. And these are only the most likely ones to join the war, more nations could join most likely. | |
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"The Gentle Vultures": Since the Hurrians first built ships capable of Faster-Than-Light Travel, the races they've encountered have always engaged in a world war with nuclear weapons. They've made it their duty to wait until the end of the war and then "rescue" the survivors. | |
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Tunnel in the Sky makes reference to World War III having happened, but the world seems largely to have recovered. The narration does specify that the war was fought out of necessity for resources due to overpopulation, rather than any ideoligical motivations. China is stated to have taken over Australia, but it's unclear if that was part of the war or a separate action. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series equated World War III with the Eugenics Wars, which supposedly took place during the 1990s. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, a Retcon moved the setting of World War III to sometime in the mid-21st century. Thus, the Eugenics Wars and World War III became separate conflicts, even though the Eugenics Wars apparently took place on a global scale. Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds pushed the Eugenics Wars into at least the 2020s, essentially retconning the Eugenics Wars back into being the same conflict as World War III. They also established that they were spun off by the Second American Civil War. Ultimately, it’s revealed that meddling time travelers lead to the timeline and events being altered so that certain events still happen, but are pushed up further and further. | |
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In New Deal Coalition Retained, the Cold War starts to heat back in the 80s after hardliners seize control from reformers throughout the Warsaw Pact, straining relationships with the West, with both sides spreading alliance networks around most of the world. Finally, in 1988, a Pretext for War comes after a brief firefight on the inter-German border triggers a series of events that leads to the outbreak of war — the Soviets and Warsaw Pact invade Western Europe, their Latin American allies tie up the US and their own allies in that part of the world, and pro- and anti-Communist nations in Africa and the Middle East begin invading each other. The only exemption is Asia, where Moscow's allies (like China and India) choose instead to declare neutrality. | |
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Maggie Beckett's world in Sliders is a dystopian nightmare where the Cold War got hot. If atomic bombs were used, however, a nuclear holocaust did not result. | |
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The later games in the Tekken series are set against a massive global war between the Mishima Zaibatsu and G Corporation, which Jin Kazama instigates after taking control of the Zaibatsu. The war, in essence, is an evolution of the long-raging family feud within the Mishima family, with Kazuya Mishima, Jin's father, siding with G Corp, while Heihachi, the Mishima patriarch, fighting to regain control of the Zaibatsu. The characters in the series consist of those aligned with the Zaibatsu or G Corp, in addition to those caught in the middle. | |
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The DCU: In a case of them using this for a title twice, there for two stories titled World War III: the first being the finale to Grant Morrison's time on JLA (1997) (which the entire population of the Earth got superpowers to battle the ancient weapon of the Old Gods, Mageddon) and the second was a tie-in series for 52 (detailing a week-long war fought against a single person, Black Adam). In Wonder Woman (1987) Wonder Woman was first sent to Man's World to stop Ares, the God of War, from igniting a third World War. |
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A sight gag in Futurama references the page quote when the characters visit a war museum and pass by a spear in a display case. It's noted to come from the 22nd century. | |
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Frontlines: Fuel of War takes place in 2024 and has the Western Coalition, composed of the NATO countries and a few nations taken into the European Union, against the Red Star Alliance, mostly composed of former Warsaw Pact members. | |
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The Final War in the Drakaverse is that setting's World War III. It goes badly for the good guys. It turns out later that the name is a bit of a misnomer. | |
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The Giver, Gathering Blue, and The Messenger are set in some time after what is only known as The Ruin. Little is known about it, but Gathering implies it was a combination of warfare and environmental disasters. | |
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The backstory of how the world got the be in the state it is in 2062 in Girls' Frontline involves a stated World War III. It takes place after a semi-apocalyptic event, where an alien chemical cloud was released from a Precursor facility, contaminating and rendering uninhabitable most of the world around the equator. In the massive humanitarian crisis and rush to evacuate the affected areas, old political and military borders dissolved, and a new world with new superpowers and a drastically reduced population emerged. The major players in the Third World War are never made clear, as the political landscape is alien to our modern one, but the stated reason for the war was tension over control of uncontaminated land. | |
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When the Wind Blows features an elderly couple preparing for the war. They believe that it will be like World War II (i.e., survivable). They are wrong. Also adapted for film and radio. | |
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Star Ocean: The Last Hope kicks off with the clash between the World Republic Federation and its foes causing this. The conflict quickly resulted in WMDs launching and the eventual devastation leads to the search for a new home planet in space. | |
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Kiwi Blitz takes place after World War III, though things have largely settled down by the time of the story. The Frohlich family originally made its fortune building war machines. | |
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In Robotech, the Global Civil War is raging in the 1990s, basically a non-nuclear WW III, though everyone expects it to escalate, when the arrival of Zor's starship puts a sudden stop to it. | |
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"So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)", from That Was the Year That Was is a parody of a jingoistic "soldier off to war" song from World War I, updated for changing circumstances and featuring the stinger "I'll look for you when the war is over ... an hour and a half from now". | |
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Pumzi is set 35 years after World War III, which started because of water conflicts. | |
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Threads is an interesting twist to the "Soviets Started It" scenario: the conflict kicks off when the US backs a coup in Iran against supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini (whose politics were both anti-American and anti-Soviet), leading the USSR to invade in an attempt to install a pro-Soviet regime. The two superpowers can't come to an agreement over the country, leading to conventional military attacks that quickly escalate into nuclear war. The narrative is deliberately vague as to which side used nukes first (a Soviet base was destroyed by a US nuke and US carrier group in the Persian Gulf is destroyed by Soviet nuclear weapons), but the timing of the all-out attack in the wee hours of the morning Washington DC time (when the President will most likely be asleep and NATO response will be slowest) suggests that the Soviets launched their ICBMs first. | |
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52 has the World War III incident which pit Black Adam against the remaining heroes following Infinite Crisis, who went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge when his wife and her brother are killed. | |
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In In the Presence of Mine Enemies by Harry Turtledove, Nazi Germany and Japan defeated the United States and Canada in World War III in the 1970s. Nuclear weapons were extensively used with Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia being completely destroyed. Before its defeat, however, the US inflicted significant damage on Germany. After the war, millions of Jewish-Americans and African-Americans were murdered in concentration camps, reducing the United States population by one third from its pre-war levels. In the 2010s, the US still had to pay war reparations to Germany on an annual basis. | |
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The Shadowrun universe has the planet on the brink of a nuclear war in the 2010s, but it is averted by the advent (or return) of magic. In the following decades, there is no direct World War, but we get the Eurowars in the 2030s, including an Islamic Jihad 32-37, so History Repeats as the Turks once more stand before the gates of Vienna. Two cities get nuked: Damascus and Tripolis (if memory serves). | |
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Red Eyes: The Third World War is fought against the USA after they managed to effectively conquer the world. The war starts when the US Kill Sat network are set to only intercept ICBMs and unable to attack strategic targets like cities. | |
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In the Left Behind series, World War III is triggered by the former heads of world powers who, eighteen months after the formation of the One World Order called the Global Community, decide to rebel against the authority of that order's supreme leader Nicolae Carpathia to regain their own national autonomy. This results in major cities such as London, New York City, and Washington, DC being destroyed in the process, and Carpathia setting up economic sanctions against the global regions responsible to punish its citizens for the rebellion of the former heads. | |
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One episode of Phantom 2040 makes a reference to "World War IV" suggesting that World War III had already happened. | |
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The 1998 mockumentary World War III, made by German broadcaster ZDF, recounts a classic Gorbachev Must Die scenario in which fictional hardliner General Soshkin seizes power in 1989 and the Soviet military brutally suppresses the Autumn of Nations, escalating into the eponymous military conflict when East German border troops fire on West Berliners across the Wall. | |
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General Sir John Hackett's The Third World War: August 1985. Birmingham (UK) is nuked, Minsk is nuked back and that leads to the collapse of the USSR in a very violent manner. This is a two-book series, written in a mock-history book style. The first was written in 1978, with the second in 1982 making additions and changes to the story to reflect RL developments (especially in Iran, where the Shah's regime had fallen in 1979). | |
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The Book of Eli is set in the aftermath of a nuclear war that, at the very least, brought about the collapse of the United States. | |
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Judge Dredd had nuclear war in the Backstory, which was essentially America vs everyone else. This had severe ramifications, including the abolition of democracy. Then there was the Apocalypse War between Mega City One and East Meg One (a Soviet Mega City) that was actually depicted in the comic. This has also been referred to as World War 4 on certain occasions, though the fighting only involved two Mega Cities—even the other American and Soviet city states were neutral. There's also the events of "Judgement Day", a global Zombie Apocalypse that resulted in several overrun Mega-Cities being nuked off the map to deny Sabbat more zombie soldiers. | |
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The Fall in Eclipse Phase was a combination of this and Robot War, resulting in the sterilization of Earth. | |
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Doctor Who: "World War Three" actually depicts a near miss. As part of a cosmic business venture, the Slitheen plan to bait humanity into waging WW3 to reduce the Earth to ruin so they can sell the remains for fuel. "Dalek" mentions another, as former child genius Adam boasts about how at age eight he breached the U.S. Defence System. Implied by the Doctor mentioning World Wars Five and Six (in "The Unquiet Dead" and "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", respectively). Subverted in "The Pyramid at the End of the World". An expected alien invasion begins in the fictional Central Asian country of "Turmezistan", where American, Russian, and Chinese forces are confronting each other, and it's assumed that the aliens are intending to take advantage of the imminent World War III to invade while human civilisation is being trashed. It's then revealed that the location is a distraction, and the real threat to human civilisation that the aliens have foreseen and want to take advantage of is the accidental creation and release of a Synthetic Plague. |
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DEFCON is basically a World War III simulator. Typical games last about two or three hours in real time. | |
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According to the EU novel Star Trek: Federation, the war happened largely due to a fascist movement called the Optimum gaining control over much of the planet. Much of the novel was later Jossed by Star Trek: First Contact, however. | |
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Singularity is one where the USSR wins hands down, by dropping what amounts to a continent-buggering 'roided-up nuke on America, after assimilating all of Europe with the help of their E-99 weapons. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 would probably count as World War III, in spirit if not in name; due to Einstein's meddling, "World War II" as we know it was replaced with "The Great War" (with the Soviet Union as the agressor against an Allied alliance in place of Germany). The next war is the Soviet Union versus everyone else, with the United States as their primary target this time instead of Europe. However, add to that Red Alert 3 (where the Soviets remove Einstein but only succeed in removing their own nuclear technology and allowing Imperial Japan to become a rival superpower along with the Soviets and Allies) and the entire Tiberium series (which, maybe chronologically takes place after one or more of the Red Alert games), and the idea of a "World War" kinda loses its impact. Red Alert 3's Challenge mini-campaign pits you as working for Private Military Contractors Future Tech, pitting you against commanders from all three factions all over the world. |
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Timeline-191: After the End: After Timeline-191 ended WWII with the US, Germany, and Japan as the major superpowers of the world, Japan and the US enter an extremely destructive Fourth Pacific War in the 1960s. | |
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Tom Clancy's EndWar is based on World War III where the United States, European Federation, and Russia go at each others' throats for what appears to be a European Kill Sat shooting down a US spacecraft carrying the final components for a US military space station without warning. This provokes the US into declaring war on the Federation, shortly followed by Russia declaring war on the Federation as well to "liberate the oppressed states of Eastern Europe"... only for the US to declare war on them as well in response to their sudden expansionism. What actually happened is that when the US and Europe jointly created an orbital missile shield that automatically eliminates any and all ICBMs in flight (thus making a nuclear war kinda problematic), Russia perceived it was only a matter of time until the two superpowers team up to get Russia's oil and natural gas supplies. Therefore, they hired a bunch of terrorists to attack all three factions and planted false evidence that the Federation did it. The US bought the bait alright and the last spark was provided by Spetznaz commandoes disguised as terrorists uploading a virus into the missile shield that made it mistake the US spacecraft as an ICBM targeting Paris. The rest is history - and logically, neither side wanted to needlessly escalate the situation so the missile shield was left in place to make sure no one nukes the others. The whole game is fought with conventional warfare. | |
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This is what the main villains, the Sinister 7 want to achieve in Mission: Impossible (Konami). They programmed a supercomputer to launch nuclear weapons, aiming for a short but quick World War III which will herald The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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All Flesh Must Be Eaten, the zombie tabletop rpg system, features a splatbook so that you can set your campaign in the middle of WWIII (where zombies want to Take Over the World) as well as post-apocalyptic settings. | |
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While he did write some more apocalyptic or even full-on "The End of the World As We Know It" stories featuring a nuclear war, Heinlein often included some version of World War III merely as part of the backdrop of his stories, where the war did involve the use of nuclear weapons but was evidently relatively mild (as nuclear wars go), with Western civilization carrying on and only a few mentions of New Chicago or of all the futuristic new buildings in Washington, D.C. "off to the east, where the Bomb had landed" (The Puppet Masters—in that one, both the United States and the Communist bloc survive the war). Such a limited World War III (which the U.S. won) is a major part of the backdrop to The Door into Summer—on the one hand, the U.S. capital is now in Denver, but on the other hand, Los Angeles apparently came through unscathed. There's a brief mention of the Fourth World War in The Star Beast. | |
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This is the theme of the "Ruiner" table in Ruiner Pinball; the player must raise the threat level to DEFCON 1 and start a nuclear war. | |
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The "Thirteen Day War" happened in 2039 in Legend of the Galactic Heroes, well over 1,000 years before the start of the series. However, its effects are still felt in the form of a very strong taboo against the use of nuclear weapons against planets. | |
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In the Grand Finale of The New Universe titled The War, tensions between the US and the Soviets, thanks to no one knowing who caused the events of The Pitt, come to blows. They try to use nukes to destroy each other, only for The Starchild, the main holder of The Star Brand, to deactivate them. When they decide to use conventional weaponry, he steps in again, revealing its power was behind both the Mass Empowering Event known as the White Event and the destruction of Pittsburg, the so-called Black Event. It also urges them to stop fighting and live in peace and if they don't, he's not saving them a third time. Thankfully, that one sticks. | |
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Car Wars has this in the background, too. ABM is a bit more successful here; the only actual cities hit in the U.S. were Poughkeepsie, New York and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (home of Steve Jackson Games' competitor TSR). | |
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World War III breaking out in 1989 forms the backstory for the scenarios in Flashpoint Campaigns. | |
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Ketsui is set in 2054 after World War III is started due to climate change — global warming in particular — causing the polar ice caps to melt, leading to rising sea levels, an increased rate of natural disasters, and nations going to war over increasingly scarce resources. EVAC Industry is found to be supplying weapons to all sides of the war to line their pockets, but they are impossible to negotiate with as they're wealthy enough to even maintain a standing army of their own, and it takes a covert operation by the United Nations disguised as a rebellion within the company to stop them from maintaining the war with their constant arms dealing. | |
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Marvel 2099 didn't feature World War III, but did include the line "Minor disturbance? What's major, World War IV?", suggesting it had happened. | |
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A non-Earth version is prevented in the classic Battlestar Galactica. There are two superpowers on Planet Terra (which isn't Earth): the fascist-like Eastern Coalition and the democratic Western Coalition. Despite signing a peace treaty with the Coalition, the Alliance launches an all-out nuclear strike, trying to kill two birds with one stone: wipe out their hated enemy and alleviate their overpopulation problem by not warning their citizens about the retaliatory strike. The Coalition launches its own missiles in return. Fortunately, the Galactica arrives and intercepts all missiles in the air. The Alliance assumes it's a secret Coalition defense system and decides to sue for peace. | |
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World War III occurs a year before the setting of Z for Zachariah, causing a Class 2/borderline Class 3 Apocalypse How. | |
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In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, a nuclear war was fought... somewhere... Tokyo was leveled again, and America has split into at least two nations, but the Japanese managed to save the world by inventing machines that could could remove radiation from the environment. The series also contained World War IV a series of several guerrilla conflicts and minor land wars six years before the start of the series around 2030. As in Nuclear World War III, World War II, but not World War I, Berlin was leveled over the course of the conflict, but has since been rebuilt. | |
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Many of the Steel Panthers games typically include a number of scenarios revolving around NATO vs. the Warsaw Pact. Since they're tactical wargames, nukes almost never come into play, being outside of the games' scope. | |
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Tokyo was wiped out in 1988 as part of the backstory to AKIRA, inciting World War III. | |
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Warday (1984) by Whitley Streiber and James Kunetka was somewhat unusual in that it depicted the resulting world after a "limited" nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the USSR. | |
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The Books of Ember are set 200 years after World Wars III, IV, V, and VI. If The Prophet of Yonwood is anything to go by, the first of "The 4 Wars" was between the USA and a group called the Phalanx Nations, and went nuclear pretty fast. These wars, combined with The 3 Plagues, are what knocked civilization back to pre-industrial levels. | |
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Team Yankee The story is centered around an American tank platoon in the Battle for Germany. The Soviets Start It. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds (dub version only), when Bommer summons his Flying Fortress SKY FIRE, Crow quips, "That's not a monster, that's World War IV!", suggesting World War III has already happened by that point (set decades after the events of the original and GX series, which were mostly set in and around modern times). Given the dialogue, it was likely not fought with card games. | |
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The eponymous World War 3, made by The Farm 51. It's set Next Sunday A.D., focusing on a European war between NATO and Russia. Interestingly, they avert the usual focus on the US vs. Russia or the US and Western Europe vs. Russia, not just in having the war set almost exclusively in Central and Eastern Europenote Though other locations are coming, with a map set in the Arctic Circle coming soon. Currently, Berlin is the farthest west the maps go, but also by having the initial three armies in the game be the Heer, the Polish Army, and the Russian Army, with the options of playing Russian Partisans actually being added one update before they added the ability to play the USMC Expeditionary Force, and plans to add non-Russian Partisans before they add the British and the French. In addition, Year One Roadmap also hints for further plans to implement Chinese, South Korean, Japanese and Turkish factions, maps and weapons in the future. | |
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In David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series, this is how China conquered the world. | |
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In the backstory to the Star Carrier series by Ian Douglas, prior to the creation of the Terran Confederation, there were two Sino-Western Wars. It's not clear if nuclear weapons were employed. If there were, they were likely of the tactical variety, as most cities remain intact. However, at the end of the second war, a Chinese spaceship maneuvers three asteroids to Colony Drop the Atlantic in order to devastate the coastal Western powers. Two of them are destroyed in Earth's orbit, but one (dubbed "Wormwood") splashes down in the Atlantic and devastates a number of American, European, and African coastal cities. China disavows ordering the attack, claiming the captain went rogue. However, they were never admitted to the Confederation, despite sending their ships to assist the Confederate Space Navy in a number of engagements against the Sh'daar Masters. In the fourth novel, another global conflict happens when the (European-controlled) Confederation attempts to force the United States of North America in line. However, the Confederate use of illegal weapons (and then, of course, disavowing giving any such orders) and the unprovoked destruction of the North American capital causes Russia and North India to secede from the Confederation and ally with the USNA. The Chinese Hegemony and the Islamic Theocracy (both non-members) offer to ally with the USNA if the latter supports their petition to join the Confederation after the war. At the same time, Mexico and Honduras secede from the USNA to ally with the Confederation. |
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In Rifts, World War III started with nukes being hurled at each other. It ended shortly afterwards. Not because of the nukes themselves, but because they happened to land during a total summer eclipse, on a solstice, during a planetary alignment. The Ley Lines flared up and everything went to hell. | |
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Averted in Star Control, where the closest thing is the Small War Of 2015, a short nuclear exchange in the Middle East which killed 1 million people and led to the world's nuclear weapons being sealed in the Peace Vaults. | |
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The Chaos Timeline has one, appropriately at the end of the story. It doesn't last long (less than one day, in fact), but afterwards, the world will never be again as it was before. | |
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In the short story "Time and Time Again" by H. Beam Piper, the Third World War began in or before 1975. A transpolar invasion of Canada led to the fall of Ottawa. As such, the US forces in Canada were forced to retreat but they made their stand at Buffalo, where Allan Hartley was killed. It is never specifically stated what country or countries the United States and Canada were fighting. | |
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BattleTanx features a massive nuclear war which was actually precipitated by something more horrible, a plague which wiped out 99.9% of the female population, with the war being caused by the fight over the surviving women. Predictably, the majority of the surviving women were killed in the conventional/nuclear conflicts that followed. | |
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Dimension X: In "episode eight", an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The Fox And The Forest", a devastating atomic / bacteriological war is being waged in 2155. William Travis says that half the world is dead and the other half is dying. | |
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The original Harpoon game and expansion packs focused on the naval theater of a NATO-Warsaw Pact war. | |
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Twilight Struggle features World War III as a Nonstandard Game Over: Trigger it, and your superpower loses immediately. | |
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Saikano takes place during what is eventually revealed to be a global war. Though it is never called "World War III", Chise states that Japan is actually better off compared to all other countries—and Japan has lost all of its cities to firebombings, communications have been cut off, hospitals are no longer able to adequately treat the wounded, civilians are starving, and the SDF is reduced to drafting teenagers and old men, to say nothing of turning an innocent schoolgirl into the ultimate weapon. The action never leaves Japan, but it's clear that there are no alliances or neutral countries. It all ends with the extinction of the human race, after Chise finds out that the governments of the world did something just before the war started that made the planet no longer able to support life, making the whole thing even more pointless. | |
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Jonathan Irons of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare instigates a world war against his own Private Military Contractor organization "Atlas Corporation" by openly threatening the UN with a superweapon. As he already controls the world's global security infrastructure through some manipulation of world events, the other nations struggle to match him. Even by the end of the game, the only goal that gets accomplished is the death of Irons himself. Everyone knows that Atlas's efforts will continue with or without Irons in command and the war isn't over. | |
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In The Bottom of the Well, the start of a nuclear war (apparently between the United States and Russia) is the cause of the story. The city in which the protagonist lives is hit by nuclear detonations, and she needs to survive both these and the aftermath — radioactive ash, looters, and such. There's no background as to how it happened — there's brief early warning of the attack, but no explanation of it. | |
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The Time Machine (1960): George arrives in London on August 19, 1966 immediately before the city is struck by a nuclear bomb. He later learns from one of the Talking Rings that this marked the beginning of the war between the East and West which lasted for 326 years. After the last remaining factory for the production of oxygen was destroyed, the survivors split into two factions with one living underground and the other taking their chances on the surface. This eventually gave rise to the world of the Eloi and the Morlocks. | |
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In World in Conflict, the setting is a conventional conflict in 1989. Missions largely take part in the US, where the Soviets have landed in Washington State. Some missions do take place in Europe though (Southern France and the Kola peninsula for NATO, and the capture of West Berlin for the Soviets). | |
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Phoenix Point: In this universe, World War III began (around 2032) because China and the USA were unhappy that they were crossing each others territory while researching the Pandoravirus. The exact details of the war are not covered, but the aftermath is clear in-game and side-stories: the USA divided due to economic collapse, cities around the world damaged from the war, and the whole world left venerable to the Pandoravirus onslaught. | |
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The HBO movie By Dawn's Early Light from The '90s isn't exactly a cheerful story, either. | |
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Heinlein was fond of this scenario: Sixth Column was set in the United States conquered by the Yellow Peril in the war (and we're actually treated to the radio announcing that the States couldn't fight any longer), while Starship Troopers has the war happening in 1987 between the Chinese Hegemony and the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance, causing the collapse of the previous nations and paving the way to the Terran Federation to replace it. | |
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Reversed in The Matrix movies, where it was the humans using nukes against the machines in an effort to stop them. | |
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Dolphin Trilogy: In Destiny and the Dolphins, China and India engage in increasingly violent border disputes while Russia eggs China on. Then, while China is occupied with the fighting in India, Russia invades China. The war gradually spreads across the whole world. Unlike most examples, the war never turns nuclear - everyone worries it will, but the real devastation turns out to come from biological warfare. Someone releases genetically modified strains of typhoid fever and bubonic plague, which wipe out most of humanity. | |
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Babylon 5 had a nuclear one in its Backstory, though not much is known about it other than that the United Nations was dissolved afterwards. The RPG gives more information. It started as a war between Pakistan and India, escalated when both sides' allies tried to break the stalemate, went nuclear when Pakistan nuked advancing Chinese troops, and became a World War after China's collapse and the invasion of Russia from some of the Chinese warlords, at which point US, NATO and the European Union stepped in to try and stop the fighting. Amazingly, widespread devastation was avoided: the US had in place Earthshield, a network of satellites equipped with lasers to shoot down missiles, so only tactical nukes were exchanged. At the end of the war the political situation had returned to pre-war status quo (except for a divided China occupying North Korea), and the US called for disbanding the United Nations and the creation of what would become Earth Alliance, including a military capable to enforce its decision (to which they pledged both Earthshield and the national military forces). |
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Mortal Engines is set after WWIII...and IV...and V...and VI... It is implied that the war that really destroyed civilization, however, occurred when an "American Empire" fought a thermonuclear war with "Greater China", and that most of the world except for Africa was involved. | |
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The "Eye in the Sky" story from the Transformers Mirror Universe of Shattered Glass mentioned a World War III as having occured in the 1980s. | |
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Rock and Rule ended up having this in the Backstory. Mok specifically cited it in his Theme Song ('I'm the biggest thing since World War Three!'). | |
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In Grendel, World War III is ignited in 2120 when the US President and the Premier of the USSR are simultaneously assassinated at a summit. It ends up causing permanent damage to human civilisation. | |
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