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When World War III is not far enough into the future, writers tend to make mention of later World Wars. This is often used to show how mankind is doomed to repeat its past mistakes. Generally, they will be the explanation for a Crapsack World/After the End setting, or just a nasty blot in human history. A Sub-Trope to In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves. Examples |
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The Mighty Thor #371-372 features a time traveller from the future trying to prevent a chain of events that will result in World War VII. | |
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eRepublik has World Wars I to V, completely unrelated to historical ones. | |
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Mount & Blade: Warband: Invoked by the creator of the mod Europe In Flames 1, who refers to the Thirty Years' War (the mod's setting) as "The real first WW". | |
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The Day After has Professor Huxley (John Lithgow) quoting Einstein regarding World War IV (see Real Life below). | |
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Genocide Online: As we learn from Rena's father Naoshi, the story takes place after World War IV, consequences of which he wants to resolve by his bill to the government. Since that bill relies on long term profits instead of short, it is denied by most of the votes. | |
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In Cross Ange, thanks to World War VII, the entire civilization of Earth is destroyed, prompting Embryo to attempt to make another world; one with no wars, discrimination, and where everyone can get whatever they want. Unfortunately, he opened a new can of problems with that: The mankind he created became overly decadent and slothful. In the meantime, human remnants of the old World War VII ended up having to evolve to be like dragons in order to survive, creating the DRAGON race. | |
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Last Man Standing: Main character Gabriel was originally the only Paladin WWXIII]] (which involved a conflict with Mars to survive). | |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is set in the aftermath of World War Terminus, an apocalyptic war that left civilization clinging to life in overcrowded pockets. | |
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World War IV starts in the first book of the Galactic Marines series. World Wars V and VI occur in the background later in the series. | |
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A Boy and His Dog: World War IV is the apocalyptic conflict. World War III is identified as an alternate name for the Cold War. | |
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Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex have both a World War III and a World War IV in their shared Back Story. WWIV is always said to be "conventional" or "Non-Nuclear" (after WWIII exchanged a number of cities for suspiciously round lakes), and comprised several guerrilla conflicts and minor land wars before the start of either series. | |
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The xkcd strip World War III+ makes fun of Einstein's (or whoever's) famous quote. It continues past World War IV though XIV, and tells us the exact kind of weapons used in those wars. | |
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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon makes constant referrals to a second Vietnam War (protagonist Rex Power Colt is a veteran of it). Considering it escalated all the way to worldwide nuclear annihilation, it may as well have been a World War. | |
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Milo Murphy's Law: Played for Laughs in a discussion between time travelers. | |
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Battlefield 2142 had World War IV (assuming nothing happened between Battlefield 2 and 2142) between a futuristic European Union and the Pan-Asian Collation. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who: In "Frostfire", Vicki Pallister says that St. Paul's Cathedral still stood in the 25th century, having survived four world wars. In "Singularity", the Fifth Doctor mentions that World War V was fought in the 49th century. |
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In the Crosstime Traffic novel Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove, there is mention of an Alternate Universe in which nuclear weapons were never invented. The United States and the Soviet Union are fighting World War VI in the 2090s. | |
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A Red Letter Day: At one point, Shepard fears accidentally starting World War Six. | |
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In World War Z, it's right there in the title, with "World War" being used to demonstrate the wide-reaching nature of the zombie outbreak (as opposed to the "first two" World Wars, which involved multiple nations fighting each other). Alternate in-universe names include "Zombie World War" and "Zombie War I" (the narrator dislikes the latter because it implies more zombie "wars" to come). | |
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In The History of the Galaxy, World War IV is briefly mentioned to have been brewing around the time the first extrasolar colony ships began to set off for other stars. On the other hand, the name is an artifact, as the war would involve all the Solar System. | |
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World War IV is mentioned in Futurama by Professor Fansworth without giving much context. Also the Second Coming of Jesus apparently was a global conflict, some fans speculate that the two are related or are the same event. | |
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Ender's Game: One of the sequels references at least one additional World War that ended with Mecca getting nuked. | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: By the 30th Century, there had been a number of world wars. In Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #228, one Legionnaire, Chemical King, died to prevent World War VII in 2977. It is also mentioned that World War VI was fought in the 28th Century. | |
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The backstory of the Splatoon series involves not just a third World War, but World War IV and V. It is during World War V that one of two global factions launched a warhead at Antarctica, causing much of the continent to melt, which didn't really help with the whole "rising sea levels from global warming" crisis that was still going on. Cue mass extinction of almost every mammal on Earth, paving the way for various sea-life to evolve and become the new dominant species on the planet. Most of this information comes from supplemental material, with the games themselves having the characters attribute the extinction of our race to global warming alone. | |
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In Judge Dredd the last president of the United States kicks off World War III in the 2070s, which is responsible for the Crapsack World outside of the Mega Cities. After a few decades of cold war Mega-City One and the Soviet East Meg One then engage in the Apocalypse War, which has been referred to as World War IV on a number of occasions in the years since. | |
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Lloyd in Space takes place shortly after World War Nine as per marketing, not that said war ever appears, gets mentioned or implied in the show proper. It was likely a justification as to why alien races are constantly at each other's throats in order to teach the show's many lessons on hate. | |
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Doctor Who: The villain of "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", Magnus Greel, is a 51st Century war criminal from World War VI, leader of the Supreme Alliance. He was known as the Butcher of Brisbane, triggered the war by asassinating the leader of the Icelandic Alliance, and was eventually defeated by the Fillipino army when they marched on Reykjavik. "The Unquiet Dead": The Ninth Doctor mentions having seen World War V. |
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According to Uncyclopedia, we've had enough World Wars to require a Collector's Boxset. Note that there used to be articles on nearly forty different World Wars. | |
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The Lunar Chronicles: Throughout the series, several characters make offhand references to World War IV, which appears to have been the last global conflict before the Earthen Union was established and world peace was achieved between its six Space-Filling Empires. | |
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The Selection is set many years after World War IV. | |
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In the dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds Crow calls "Flying Fortress SKY-FIRE" World War IV. | |
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In the backstory to the Star Carrier series World War III was set off after Islamic terrorists nuked several major cities around the world. Then there were two Sino-Western Wars against the Chinese Hegemony, which ended with China setting three asteroids on collision courses with Earth. One, dubbed Wormwood, got through and killed half a billion people when it struck the Atlantic. As a result the Islamic states are barely tolerated by the Terran Confederation of States and China is denied representation altogether. World War VI starts in the fourth book of the series between the United States of North America and some of the other Confederation members, but is interrupted when the Sh'daar Masters break their armistice with Earth and attack. | |
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Family Guy: In "Stew-Roids", Stewie is beaten up by a girl, an event so terrible to Peter as a father he's afraid it will cause "World War 5", which apparently is so intense it skips right over 3 & 4. | |
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Babylon 5: Subverted twice in the backstory: in 2156 the inner tensions between Earth Alliance members were getting dangerously close to cause a new World War when the sudden First Contact with the Centauri scared everyone into wiping all the troubles under the mat to make a show of unity in the face of the Centauri; by 2212 World War IV actually happens... But by this time Earth Alliance is much stronger, politically and militarily, than all its members put together, and it ends very quickly. The two Earth Alliance Civil Wars can be considered this. |
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Eden: A newspaper that Zero shows from humanity's history reads of a World War VII. | |
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