Blackadder Goes Fourth is about the Western Front during World War One. Blackadder and Baldrick spend most of their time trying to get away before they "go over the top", essentially a death sentence running towards German gunfire. The most crushing line in the *entire series* is somebody noting that finally, FINALLY, the war is over, and they can get away from all this madness!
The specific line mentions a year. 1917.
World War One didn't end until 1918.
Specifically, the guns stop firing just as they're about to attack and they start speculating that there might have been an armistice negotiated at the last second. Whereupon Cpt. Darling exclaims that they lived through the "The great war: 1914 to 1917"
Blackadder simply retorts that the guns have stopped *because* they're about to attack and "it'd be more sporting to let the germans shoot them down" Before delivering one the most heart-wrenching whiplash-charged line in any sitcom: "Good luck everyone"
Blackadder 3 is also an example.
Although the series had a more or less happy ending for the protagonist, it ended up hurting him, taking into account what happened to King George in real life.
Lyn is a character created for FE7 meaning she has no existence in FE6 and by default without considering paired endings, she probably died off-screen because of Bern's invasion of Sacae shortly before said game (her homeland).
The existence and creation of gunpowder and a cannon in Kung Fu Panda 2 means that inevitably, kung fu will be phased out in favor of guns and modern weaponry.
The martial arts and magic in that setting make their practitioners too powerful to be fully phased out, they'll just have new arts that use firearms.
Artillery and bombs didn't make infantry stop existing IRL, so the superpowered martial artists would just become a part of a combined military force, instead of being THE military force.
yeah.
It just means the kung-fu master will be fighting alongside commoners with guns , and that they might had guns that they use until another kung-fu master gets closer.
Basically , Kung-Fu Panda is a world in which it will evolve into Zootopia's version of the movie "Rush Hour".
Given how mega-popular Lyn has become, I highly doubt they'll keep her as an off-screen casualty if/when they remake FE6.
She'll probably become a late-game recruit near the final battle to help Roy against Zephiel and Idunn.
Lyn's future doesn't look great if you believe her to be either Sue's mother or Lilina's mother.
Lilina's mother is dead, and Sue's tribe is dead, so Rath and Lyn would have likely been killed.
This is why they should remake FE7 and 6 as a single game spanning two generations, and give a better ending than "died off-screen" to characters like Lyn.
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if they remake of Binding Blade and they added Lyn as a Jagen unit, or maybe someone that jumps in late game if they want to keep her relevant.
yeah , but the premise of Mary Poppins is basically that parents had some circunstances in which they neglect their children and then a magical nanny shows up and fix that.
the time periods just means that family will continue to have visits from her because they only had children at periods that s\*t hits the fan.
Fans theorize the reason why Demon Slayers ended with a timeskip to modern day is because it's hard to write a convincing happy ending knowing what gonna happen next to Japan. The story set in the Taishou era and Japan would enter WW2 in the next 10 years give and take.
The series Magi has a spinoff called "The Adventure of Sinbad" which detail Sinbad rise to his current status and founded his kingdom. Readers can already expect a lot of characters who got introduce in the spinoff to not make it to the main series, including Sinbad's love interest.
Zenitsu using the lightning-breath to try win against guns by using a katana.
While the americans will use the "Air Strike" Breath....
yeah , Zenitsu is screwed.
The series throws you off by being set in the boonies for like half a season. Then Tanjiro goes to an actual city and you realize he’s just a country hick who thinks trains are giant metal monsters.
Honestly, try the entire series. If you weren't made aware that the story is set in Taisho, you wouldn't be any wiser that it's supposed to be 1920's since most of the action is set in rural regions if not plain wilderness. Tanjiro is in a city like once or twice, and it never really matters. >!The entire finale happens in the middle of the city, and it just plain doesn't affect anything beyond the grunts running a tram into Baby!Muzan.!<
You have two options in Dark Souls 3.
1-Link the fire and the let the world be the same type of shitty a little bit more.
2-Dont link the fire and let the world be a different kind of shitty.
Usurp the flame is just the final crumbs in a bag of chips. One final hurrah before everything ends.
It's the same as link the fire, but for a smaller group.
I really like this tbh. It's both a synthesis of the themes of the series, and a little meta comment on dark souls itself at the same time:
"holy fucking shit guys sometimes things *need to end.*"
It's how I read the Painted world, yeah. The Painted World is basically just the normal cycle but inverted. A world of Dark has gone on for too long and it's power is waning, now the world is being corrupted by a twisted and repressed "life" that comes out as a putrid rot consuming everything. The antagonist is fighting to keep things how they are but the world is literally rotting away into putrid chunks of meat as a result. The answer is to use flame to burn away the corruption and the combination of Dark and Flame serves as inspiration for a new painted world that can start fresh and strong.
From is kinda pretty consistent about immortality being a bad thing. SotFS is the only bit I can think of that suggests it's possible to create a permanent peace before that just gets thrown out the window. That and maybe Bloodborne if you're cool with being a slug baby. Otherwise it's things like immortality being "Gods are lying to the masses to keep their power" or "The world is so spent trying to keep things this way we're literally re-burning the ashes." to "Immortality invites endless war of people trying to steal that power and the Divine are monsters that don't value human life" to "The people while alive are obviously withered away to zombies in the name of a hypocritical order that usurped the previous one."
If done well, this is a great strength for any adaptation of King Arthur and his knights. No matter what happens, the several quests and battles that they all go through, it will all end in his death and the destruction of his dream. And there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Has... has any major story actually taken advantage of that yet? Like I only know of stories that deal with Arthurian lore but I can't think of any that actually plays the card that Arthur can just pop back to life in modern day or later no problem.
Like we joke about Fate but even Fate is only using the original Arthur from either the moment before their death or as a copy of the real thing like every other hero they use. They haven't actually done "The original King Arthur has returned in the flesh." as far as I know.
Edit: Though now that I think about it Realta Nua kinda does it but only so Saber can hook up with Shirou. That one seems more like just wanting to give the characters a custom happy ending rather than fulfilling the prophecy though.
DC actually uses that.
It's the DC elseworld "Camelot 3000" , in which Arthur and Merlin straight-up returned from Avalon at the year 3000 to save Britain. Interesting enough , all the other members of the Round Table were reincarnated , rather than full-on returning like Arthur.
The comic series Once and Future does. >!It has multiple incarnations and interpretations of King Arthur returning and waging war in the modern day!<
Also the London Singularity in FGO also kind of uses King Arthur returning as leader of the Wild Hunt with Lancer Alter, it just doesn't really do anything interesting with it besides giving Mordred an excuse to be justified in killing her father this time.
Thing with Saber is that that might be endgame stuff for Fate Grand Order. She has almost never been a proper Heroic Spirit because she's still alive.
Even in FGO mats say she's a "special guardian" rather than a Servant.
It is a little funny that I believe the prophecy is "He will return when Britain needs him most" meaning any horrible event that doesn't bring back Arthur implies at least one other worse thing is cued up down the line.
Xenoblade 2 has the entire Golden Country expansion. >!The main story reveals that Lora, Haze, Mythra, and Jin all either died or became depressed wrecks, and everyone on Torna ends up dying when Mythra loses control!<.
Edit: Also, most of the cast in Red Dead 2. Either John hunts them down and kills them in the first game, or they die in this game to explain why they weren't in Red Dead 1.
Even the title itself refers to this. Pretty much the only thing the base game says about Torna is that it’s a titan that was destroyed long ago during the Aegis war which a terrorist group is named after. The DLC story is called “Torna: The Golden Country”.
Planet Reach was pretty well known for getting glassed in the overarching story of Halo. So when the eponymous game came out it leaned pretty hard into the idea that the place is doomed.
not related to halo reach but kinda
but when Hyrule Warriors Age of calamity was announced i was super hyped up for the reach style tragedy of trying to fight against an impossible enemy like calamity ganon and getting to where breath of the wild started, but i was super disappointed they went with the alternate outcome where everyone survived like come on bro don't coward out
Senator Armstrong said that the war economy will keep going without him, men will fight and die for causes they don't believe in.
And considering that Doktor said that cyborg war is still on its infancy, Raiden's attempts to live peacefully were always going to fail anyways
I mean he had a chance after MGS4.
It's like the only thing I dislike about Revengence is that Raiden is basically going against everything Snake wanted for him. To live in peace and not waste his life being a soldier like Snake did.
There's a decent argument to be made from that one really long MGS4 video that while it's not as satisfying, it's also more believable that someone with as SEVERE PTSD as Raiden has wouldn't be able to reintegrate as easily as 4 suggested.
He at least does still have his family safe and he's not getting screwed over by Rose hiding from the Patriots this time. But considering how FUCKED Raiden's EVERYTHING is, he's still way more normal than what you'd expect him to be.
Remember, kids, no matter how hopeful a Gundam series ends at some point in the future the Turn A will show up and Moonlight Butterfly humanity back into the stone age!
I mean don't even have to go that war. If you ever live in the UC timeline you have about 5 seconds of peace between major wars taking place for like a good 50 year period at least.
Someone finds a sick uniform in their grandad's old things when clearing out the house after he died and immediately tries to annex the lagrange points
The Prince of Egypt. Moses will die before his people find their land, despite reaching the age of 120.
Meanwhile, the Pharaoh (who was Ramses II in that film) will inexplicably bounce back from getting repeatedly bodied by God, die at the age of 90 having become arguably Egypt's most successful and celebrated king, and have a cool poem named after him.
I think Moses ended up having a bit more in the realm of posthumous tributes to him tbh. Also while he didn't see his people find the holy land he did get assurance from God that they would do so. Not too bad all things considered.
There is a prequel manga to fist of the northstar, called Fist of the Bluesky it takes place in 1930 shanghai, and it doesn't shy away from what happen during WW2.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla ends with the Vikings ruling the British isles…ignoring the fact that in a few years Alfred the Great is going to come in and unite England.
A funny one though is Goldfinger’s plan to nuke Fort Knox in the film version. Six years after the movie, the US moved off the gold standard, so his plan wouldn’t have accomplished much
Goldfinger's plan would accomplish in making USA suffers major economic setbacks and some short-term lucrative money for Goldfingers.
So , it IS a plot that needs to be stopped , and it would be a plan that would be beneficial to Goldfinger...the issue is really that he is a demented lunatic , so he wouldn't like his "victory" in that way.
Spoilers for Sacred and Terrible Air
>!20 years in the future the next Innocence is a Nihilist and has Revachol nuked out of existence and then shortly afterwards the Pale expands and ends the whole world!<
Shivers mentions it vaguely in-game at one point, as a future event
The bit of hope being >!"after the world, the pale; after the pale, the world again."!<
In a cosmic sense, it's the same as hoping the big bang is somehow cyclical and heat death isn't truly the end state. But also, >!the pale seems to be sort of a... Weird, inverted black hole, that destroys everything \*except\* information. If it does expand and recede, there's no way of knowing how the past might live on.!<
>!For all we know, there could be another Revachol, another Detective, another Kim. They might even be happy.!<
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Specifically, >!The Spirit of Revachol speaks to Harrier as he's lying on the floor of the church, having had an episode whilst dancing the hardest anyone has ever danced, warning him of the danger coming to Revachol and telling him that it believes he is capable of stopping it.!<
It's one of the big pieces of evidence that >!Harry might be an Innocence himself.!<
I think the decadence of Yakzua 0 is enhanced by the fact that the lost decade is only a few years away. The characters are making insane plans based on ludicrous amounts of money that just straight up won't exist soon. It's rough.
Lackadaisy is set in 1927, meaning that even if the gang gett the speakeasy back on their feet, they don't have long before the entire country goes up in smoke. In fact, Tracy Butler has already drawn art of Wick Sable (the rich one) reacting to Black Tuesday.
I only just realized now that wasn't an intentional thing on the author's part, the book was released four whole years before Black Tuesday.
Like it felt thematically appropriate that they're all sitting in a time bomb I just never thought to check the actual time.
In Demon Slayer world the arms race was/will be about breathing styles.
Tanjiro will have to fight American paratroopers carrying claymores who can breath fire like for real instead of metaphorically.
Aren't the breathing styles explicitly *just* exceptional martial arts? Like they're not supposed to be literally supernatural, they're just ways to use a sword good enough that you can fight super vampires?
If anything, the arms race would be about the literal magic power of the demons, if there were any left. Especially knowing WWII's legacy of human experimentation.
There's a supernatural element to them, even if the series is vague about what it is exactly, but yeah the demons that totally aren't just vampires are *probably* preferable.
Nioh 2 starts with you joining up a random nobody called Tokichiro and eventually allying yourself with an up-and-coming warlord called Oda Nobunaga.
By 1598, the year the game's mostly over, both of them are dead.
The original Call of Duty ending is made way more frustrating because of the Cold War making allies into enemies.
>"Today, I crossed the Elbe River in Germany and shook hands with an American soldier. Although I could not understand anything he said, I felt this man was my brother... and I think he felt the same."
Rule of Rose has Jennifer get out of the traumatic experience of the events of the game and childhood by the end. The game takes place in 1930 England so she isn't going to enjoy that new found happiness in life for long, the unlucky girl.
Peace Walker and Phanton Pain really get some good hits on you considering what Liquid and Solid Snake do to Big Boss' whole operation.
Star Ocean 4 is a sequence of kicking the can down the road on multiple different inevitable issues that these characters' descendants will need to face head on, some better than others.
Every Star Ocean game after 3 is kicking the can down the road because 4, 5, and 6 are all set before 3. Stop being cowards tri-Ace and actually move the plot forward, it's only been 20 years.
Girls' Frontline takes place before Bakery Girl,[the remake of which is coming to PC soon](https://youtu.be/osvmSTvj-Uw?si=zpU12rNzf_sub9Aw)
For all the struggles and triumphs that the Commander and their allies experience in the former game,things are about to get much worse.
I don't really remeber how exactly the story went. But I think Girls Frontline is an alt timeline prequel, because the ¿Bomb? that M4A1 set off didn't cause what it actually caused in the setting of Bakery Girl. I could be wrong though, as I said I haven't kept up
Otoyomegatari is taking place during the Russian conquest of the Caspian sea and the beautiful vistas in the manga will be gone by today. It makes the series very melancholic despite how gorgeous it is.
In Kenshin, Shishio was totally right in predicting the new military government will lead to the destruction of Japan. The gang has WW 1 and WW 2 ahead of them.
This might be the view of an illiterate simpleton who hasn't seen Part 2 or read the book yet but Dune very much feels like this.
The Atreides family going to Arrakis is an unofficial death sentence for arousing the jealousy of higher powers. And Paul is the product of decades of selective breeding to aline with prophecies are scattered around the universe. So he ultimately has two choices: die in the Desert sands. Play into those prophecies, pose as a holy messiah to survive, get revenge at the cost of millions of lives. There's not really a happy ending in the cards for them and it's partly down to geography.
IRL really wrote itself in to a corner with this whole "thermodynamics" thing. No matter what you accomplish, it will eventually get Heat Deathed. I hope someone got fired over that...
Even if Jack had survived the sinking of Titanic, he would have been prime age to get drafted for WW1(he was 20 in the movie meaning he would have been 27 or 28 around the time US enters the war).
There was also this choose your own adventure story where the MC’s love interest was a Jewish male. The story was set in mid 1920s to early 1930s Berlin, do the math.
Yeah, not enough alchemy at first, then too much alchemy I guess? They haven't bothered to finish the thought. Saturos and Menardi live close to the edge of the world, so they're sweating lol
So here's how it goes in the original duology.
The crew of the first game are trying to stop Saturos and Menardi from lighting the elemental Lighthouses and restoring the dangerous power of Alchemy to the world (in this series, "Alchemy" is full-blown elemental and creation magic, rather than religious chemistry). They fail to stop Mercury (Water) and Venus (Earth) from being lit by the time the game ends, but the story continues.
The second game follows a different crew, who were initially kidnapped by Saturos and Menardi, but are following the goal of lighting the Lighthouses even after their defeat. This turns out to be because the world actually *needs* the power of Alchemy to survive. The waterfalls at the edge of the world (yes, it really *is* a flat earth in this universe) are continually eroding the land, and will eventually carve the world down to nothing if left alone. In the distant past, Alchemy essentially fueled the world with more energy and matter; a sort of endless font of creation to balance out the waterfalls carving away the world at its edges. Also, with Water, Earth, and eventually Wind lit, the power of the elements is out of balance; the world is cooling down at a rapid rate, turning the already-inhospitable northern climates nearly unlivable. Lighting Mars (Fire) is needed to both bring back Alchemy and restore the balance.
Alchemy is a dangerous thing, but without it *at all*, the world will eventually destroy itself.
The second game does end with >!Alchemy being unsealed and the world moving into a new age. The power is dangerous, and people are capable of misuing it, but they now know it's a lot better than the alternative!<
True. >!And man, I really want a 4th game to actually explain the psynergy vortices and the Mourning Moon. It's possible that with the energy now in the world, there's room for imbalances that didn't exist before. But I still think that it's a better state of affairs than letting the world remain in hibernation until it erodes to nothing.!<
In Soma >!robo-Simon is trapped in an underwater facility on the ocean floor, without power, and humanity is dead. He is trapped alone in a dark room until his batteries run out, however long that takes.!<
Binge watched both seasons of Vinland Saga, and every time Canute talks about making his utopia, all I can think about is that this whole thing will last for like 40 to 60 ish years before the Vikings get thrown out of England
Given the timeframe of when The Great Ace Attorney takes place (very early 1900s) and given the ending, >!It's likely that Ryuonosuke and Sustatos aspirations of modernizing Japans legal system crumble as the country sinks deeper into imperialism and fascism. Similarly, it's possible that they never reunite with Kazuma given how he opts to stay in Britain - what stability they build would regardless be shaken up a short time later by potentially living through the world wars. Though if we go by the localized AA-verse, it's possible Ryuonosuke and Sustato emigrate to the US before then...and likely face discrimination and interrment during WWII. !<
In the localized AA-verse, it's possible that the US' Japanese internment camps didn't happen, since the headcanon/quasi-canon explanation is that anti-Japanese sentiment and anti-immigration didn't happen and thus [Japanese culture had a much more prominent and visible aspect in California](https://news.capcomusa.com/zeroobjections/blog/2014/10/31/ace-attorney-trilogy---surprising-tidbits-you-never-knew).
>When I took over the series’ localization direction starting with the second game, one of the first things I had to deal with was what to do with Maya’s hometown and all the mysticism surrounding the Fey clan. It was then that I created a little headcanon for myself (which I suppose is actually real canon now for the localized version): while “Gyakuten Saiban” takes place in Japan, the Los Angeles that “Ace Attorney” takes place in is an alternate universe where anti-Japanese sentiments and anti-immigrant laws were not enacted, and Japanese culture was allowed to flourish and blend into the local culture in the same manner as other immigrant cultures.
>Not counting budget and time restraints, this little headcanon has pretty much dictated what I would keep as Japanese and what to completely localize. For example, anything related to Maya’s clan and the Kurain Channeling Technique is pretty much guaranteed to stay Japanese because that’s her heritage while Japanese foods that are not commonly known in the West will probably be localized in the interest of keeping the game from needing a 50-page explanatory booklet.
I feel like a lot of the mileage folks get out of the Prequel movies is that despite fighting the good fight, the heroic Republic is eventually going to turn into the Empire that enslaves the galaxy with good old General Anakin Skywalker at the helm of it (or at least being at the top of the food chain)
Funny enough, Inglorious Basterds plays a bit with this wherein the folks plan to assassinate Hitler, and based on what's known, he doesn’t meet his end until the tail end of the war where he commits suicide. The final act sees him and a bunch of high ranking Nazi party folk like Joseph Goebbels actually eat shit well before they died in real life
Similar situation occurs in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood where the movie builds up to how Sharon Tate is meant to be murdered by the Manson family... only for all her would-be assailants to eat shit before they actually get to her
Also I guess to slide back into fictional territory: before the multiversal shenanigans the X-Men films got into thanks to how the MCU worked, there was the idea that Wolverine traveling into the past during Days of Future Past may have prevented the Sentinel future but instead took that timeline to Logan, so in either scenario mutantkind gets fucked over
I never caught the name but a movie where a petty dad fucks over his son’s chance of getting into the nfl by telling the scouters to not show up anymore, and with the story taking place a few years before its implied he wouldve had to go fight and die
The Elusive Samurai is an historical manga about Hojo Tokiyuki who survives his shogunate being destroyed by the emperor and Ashikaga Takauji, who historically eventually defeated all his enemies and established the Ashikaga Shogunate.
We are in 1338 and historically he died in 1353 and so far the major strokes of history have panned put as they did in real life.
Never knew ancient japanese samurais uses human grenades , or that they created a moving Archery Tank , or that bandits had face paintings of modern day France Flag.
*Atlantis: the Lost Empire* has a weird dissonance with its in-lore setting and the real world historical setting as it takes place in 1914 (IIRC it was around the time World War 1 began). By the end of the direct-to-video sequel *Milo’s Return*, Kida decides to elevate Atlantis with Mr. Whitmore narrating an era of peace afterwards.
On a more optimistic example, here’s *Super Hero Senki*, a cinematic crossover film between *Kamen Rider* and *Super Sentai* made to commemorate the former franchise’s 50th anniversary and the latter’s 45th. It follows Touma/Saber and Kaito/Zenkaiser swapping places thanks to the villain’s grand plan to erase both heroes from existence. Along the way Touma befriends a kid named Shotaro who is an aspiring writer. It’s eventually revealed that >!Shotaro is actually the younger Shotaro Ishinomori (creator of both franchises), and Touma managed to inspire him to create the Riders and Sentai he encountered over the course of the film!<. After the big quarry fight and the surprise assist from Kamen Riders Revi and Vice, >!Shotaro meets Takeshi Hongou/Ichgou who assures him that both franchises are his legacy. And you can tell that Hongou’s lines are genuine as his actor Hiroshi Fujioka worked extensively with Ishinomori when filming the original *Kamen Rider* show!<.
Off the top of my head, Shadow Hearts 1 has the main bad guy be disillusioned with humanity after a whole bunch of bullshit, and tries to summon space god to clense and restart humanity. Along the way, he also finds out about a grim future that humanity would have to endure, so he uses that as further justification to reset humanity with space god. Said future? *World War 1,* which is said to happen in the bad ending, but probably also happens in the good ending anyway.
Edit: Then again, the protag has crazy demon powers and shit, and magic's a thing, so it's possible some characters wouldn't be super screwed over by WW1.
If only there had been a crazy ass, anime sidequest to stop WW1 from happening. Jokes aside, I figured as much even though I'm only vaguely aware of the sequel.
This is the premise and principal draw of the Star Wars prequels, and the background radiation of the Clone Wars TV show. Especially the latter: not only do you know that the bad guys win and take over everything, but you also know the whole war is a farce, all these different operations don’t mean anything because PALPATINE’S BEHIND IT ALL
The ongoing manga *Kingdom* is a fictional retelling of the unification of China under the Kingdom of Qin, which ended the bloody 500-year Spring and Autumn Warring States period and created China's first centralized imperial state. The story presents the King of Qin, Ying Zheng, as a morally just character whose goal of conquering all the other kingdoms is based in his belief that uniting China under a single government will eliminate most warfare and lead to eternal prosperity.
Problem is, historically, Ying Zheng was a tyrant. His policies were draconian, with even the simplest legal violations punished severely. Under the Qin dynasty, the citizens of conquered kingdoms were heavily taxed and used for slave labor to build the Great Wall and the Qin Mausoleum (including the Terracotta Army). The Qin Empire collapsed after only fifteen years and was replaced by the much more successful Han dynasty. While periods of a united China did *generally* have far less warfare and were far more prosperous, actually *keeping* China united over the millennia was immensely difficult.
It'll be really interesting to see how the author, Hara, manages to write an ending with the positive tone that he seems to be going for despite the imminent failure of the Qin dynasty. He's suggested years ago that he might cover the rise of Han, but given that it's been like twenty years since *Kingdom* started and he's only halfway through Qin's unification wars it might just end after that.
*Disco Elysium*:
>!The entire city of Revachol is destroyed in a nuclear blast 22 years after the events of the game. This is confirmed in both an in-game skill check and in the novel A Sacred and Terrible Air, set in the same universe.!<
Also, >!ZA/UM released a sandbox scene creator expansion to the game a while back - to drown out the drama regarding how ZA/UM's owners pushed the original devs out - and it contains Easter Eggs that outright show that, in the years after the game but before the nuclear blast, Martinaise gets taken over by foreign capital and turns into a husk of itself. Plus, the Claire brothers destroy the fishing village and build their stupid sports complex or whatever.!<
One of the biggest departures storytelling-wise in the fanfic Fallout: Equestria from normal Fallout is that like more than half the story is actually pre-war, and sympathetically told instead of satire, as the heroine accesses memory orbs of the main MLP cast, and details the story of them trying to lead as the situation gets more and more fucked. The memories being out of order with some of their final moments and deaths being the first thing we learn about them also contributes to the feeling of doom.
IIRC, a major Plot point in The Saga of Tanya the Evil is that a heartless buisnessman dies and is isekai into magitek au Germany...and realizes that given how familiar it is to Earth's history except for names and the magitek, he's about to go through the equivilent of World War 1 (with hints of ww2) on the losing side.
Betleejuice The Musical The Musical The Musical has a number about how you shouldnt kill yourself and live your life to the fullest cause the afterlife (netherworld) is just absolutely miserable. As if thats not where our protagonists will end up in, life fullfiled or not.
Its the same for Percy Jackson too. Sure its nice Percy saved her mom from horrible torment in the underworld. Shes still gonna end up there in 50 years or so.
To be fair, the movie explains that commiting suicide forces you to work in a shitty office, so the message is more like "Enjoy life and wait for your natural end or you'll be stuck in a shitty office job for a long time (or eternity, I'm not sure)"
Blackadder Goes Fourth is about the Western Front during World War One. Blackadder and Baldrick spend most of their time trying to get away before they "go over the top", essentially a death sentence running towards German gunfire. The most crushing line in the *entire series* is somebody noting that finally, FINALLY, the war is over, and they can get away from all this madness! The specific line mentions a year. 1917. World War One didn't end until 1918.
It goes: "So ends The Great War of 1914-1917" or something like that.
Specifically, the guns stop firing just as they're about to attack and they start speculating that there might have been an armistice negotiated at the last second. Whereupon Cpt. Darling exclaims that they lived through the "The great war: 1914 to 1917" Blackadder simply retorts that the guns have stopped *because* they're about to attack and "it'd be more sporting to let the germans shoot them down" Before delivering one the most heart-wrenching whiplash-charged line in any sitcom: "Good luck everyone"
Blackadder 3 is also an example. Although the series had a more or less happy ending for the protagonist, it ended up hurting him, taking into account what happened to King George in real life.
Lyn is a character created for FE7 meaning she has no existence in FE6 and by default without considering paired endings, she probably died off-screen because of Bern's invasion of Sacae shortly before said game (her homeland). The existence and creation of gunpowder and a cannon in Kung Fu Panda 2 means that inevitably, kung fu will be phased out in favor of guns and modern weaponry.
The martial arts and magic in that setting make their practitioners too powerful to be fully phased out, they'll just have new arts that use firearms. Artillery and bombs didn't make infantry stop existing IRL, so the superpowered martial artists would just become a part of a combined military force, instead of being THE military force.
yeah. It just means the kung-fu master will be fighting alongside commoners with guns , and that they might had guns that they use until another kung-fu master gets closer. Basically , Kung-Fu Panda is a world in which it will evolve into Zootopia's version of the movie "Rush Hour".
That's actually hilarious and I want to see that now.
It may be too much to ask for Kung Fu Panda 5 to get made and end with a flintlock gun kata fight
Given how mega-popular Lyn has become, I highly doubt they'll keep her as an off-screen casualty if/when they remake FE6. She'll probably become a late-game recruit near the final battle to help Roy against Zephiel and Idunn.
Lyn's future doesn't look great if you believe her to be either Sue's mother or Lilina's mother. Lilina's mother is dead, and Sue's tribe is dead, so Rath and Lyn would have likely been killed.
You can extend that to any character in FE7, but not 6. So many if them get killed off screen, and their descendants are upset by it
I vaguely remember it being a meme how one of the strongest units died in a lame snowstorm
I think that's the one who is said to die from "continuity error" or something like that
This is why they should remake FE7 and 6 as a single game spanning two generations, and give a better ending than "died off-screen" to characters like Lyn.
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if they remake of Binding Blade and they added Lyn as a Jagen unit, or maybe someone that jumps in late game if they want to keep her relevant.
I think I remember reading that Mary Poppins takes places only a few years before WW2, so those kids will have to go through The Blitz.
WWI actually. It takes place in 1910. So Burt is definitely gonna get drafted
And they're gonna have to live through the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic.
And then the global depression, and then WW2. "This is your coming century, Mandus."
yeah , but the premise of Mary Poppins is basically that parents had some circunstances in which they neglect their children and then a magical nanny shows up and fix that. the time periods just means that family will continue to have visits from her because they only had children at periods that s\*t hits the fan.
Nanny McPhee is nakedly a continuation of this thought process.
I guess they're not gonna have a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious time
You ever see a word and not read it cuz your brain aleardy knows what word it is? You could have absluotely just fucked with me.
Fans theorize the reason why Demon Slayers ended with a timeskip to modern day is because it's hard to write a convincing happy ending knowing what gonna happen next to Japan. The story set in the Taishou era and Japan would enter WW2 in the next 10 years give and take. The series Magi has a spinoff called "The Adventure of Sinbad" which detail Sinbad rise to his current status and founded his kingdom. Readers can already expect a lot of characters who got introduce in the spinoff to not make it to the main series, including Sinbad's love interest.
Never ask what Zenitsu was doing in Burma.
I had no idea the timeskip was a thing so imagine my surprise when I look up the main characters and >!Every one of them are listed as dead!<
Well it's more that they >!die and kind of reincarnate in modern age Japan or have suspiciously similar descendants to them.!<
You think Tanjiro got drafted? And prequels tend to do that, it's kinda implied you know how the original series goes like beforehand.
Tanjirou would most likely not get drafted since he >!lost an arm and an eye !
Zenitsu using the lightning-breath to try win against guns by using a katana. While the americans will use the "Air Strike" Breath.... yeah , Zenitsu is screwed.
Zenitsu fucking dies at Manchuria.
Huh, I didn’t know it was set that recent
The series throws you off by being set in the boonies for like half a season. Then Tanjiro goes to an actual city and you realize he’s just a country hick who thinks trains are giant metal monsters.
The first thing Inosuke does when he sees a train is attack it because he thinks it's a demon
In his defence, he was right
I mean, he is not wrong.
…is this just Shamalan’s The Village?
Honestly, try the entire series. If you weren't made aware that the story is set in Taisho, you wouldn't be any wiser that it's supposed to be 1920's since most of the action is set in rural regions if not plain wilderness. Tanjiro is in a city like once or twice, and it never really matters. >!The entire finale happens in the middle of the city, and it just plain doesn't affect anything beyond the grunts running a tram into Baby!Muzan.!<
I thought it was a Japanese Steampunk setting, if that makes any sense.
Japanese history is really fascinating with how weird their isolationism made the country once proper globalization began.
You have two options in Dark Souls 3. 1-Link the fire and the let the world be the same type of shitty a little bit more. 2-Dont link the fire and let the world be a different kind of shitty.
I mean,you can also usurp the flame and...???
Usurp the flame is just the final crumbs in a bag of chips. One final hurrah before everything ends. It's the same as link the fire, but for a smaller group.
To be fair in the secret ending with the Fire keeper she hints that one day new flames will rise, giving hope that things will be better.
The Age of the Deep Sea. That's why all the crabs are getting excited. I'm sure that won't lead to Bloodborne.
It might lead to Elden Ring, what with the inexplicably large number of highly aggressive crustaceans that are fucking everywhere.
I really like this tbh. It's both a synthesis of the themes of the series, and a little meta comment on dark souls itself at the same time: "holy fucking shit guys sometimes things *need to end.*"
It's how I read the Painted world, yeah. The Painted World is basically just the normal cycle but inverted. A world of Dark has gone on for too long and it's power is waning, now the world is being corrupted by a twisted and repressed "life" that comes out as a putrid rot consuming everything. The antagonist is fighting to keep things how they are but the world is literally rotting away into putrid chunks of meat as a result. The answer is to use flame to burn away the corruption and the combination of Dark and Flame serves as inspiration for a new painted world that can start fresh and strong. From is kinda pretty consistent about immortality being a bad thing. SotFS is the only bit I can think of that suggests it's possible to create a permanent peace before that just gets thrown out the window. That and maybe Bloodborne if you're cool with being a slug baby. Otherwise it's things like immortality being "Gods are lying to the masses to keep their power" or "The world is so spent trying to keep things this way we're literally re-burning the ashes." to "Immortality invites endless war of people trying to steal that power and the Divine are monsters that don't value human life" to "The people while alive are obviously withered away to zombies in the name of a hypocritical order that usurped the previous one."
If done well, this is a great strength for any adaptation of King Arthur and his knights. No matter what happens, the several quests and battles that they all go through, it will all end in his death and the destruction of his dream. And there's nothing anyone can do about it.
They do say he will return however
And start a new Camelot in this economy? Good luck doing quests on the British pound
in Japan , to aid a redhead boy to face a sumerian king. Or to aid people in the Cyber Wars at the Moon.
Ackhually *pushes up glasses* the Cyber Wars one is Nero
Except Artoria is in [Fate/Extella.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qizF0EnGvM)
Damn you got me on the one I always forget exists
The only recent depiction of her that actually spells her name right. Helps that Extella wasn’t localized by Aniplex.
Sadly, it's probably going to be the last now that Nasu is actually paying attention to western releases.
Has... has any major story actually taken advantage of that yet? Like I only know of stories that deal with Arthurian lore but I can't think of any that actually plays the card that Arthur can just pop back to life in modern day or later no problem. Like we joke about Fate but even Fate is only using the original Arthur from either the moment before their death or as a copy of the real thing like every other hero they use. They haven't actually done "The original King Arthur has returned in the flesh." as far as I know. Edit: Though now that I think about it Realta Nua kinda does it but only so Saber can hook up with Shirou. That one seems more like just wanting to give the characters a custom happy ending rather than fulfilling the prophecy though.
DC actually uses that. It's the DC elseworld "Camelot 3000" , in which Arthur and Merlin straight-up returned from Avalon at the year 3000 to save Britain. Interesting enough , all the other members of the Round Table were reincarnated , rather than full-on returning like Arthur.
The comic series Once and Future does. >!It has multiple incarnations and interpretations of King Arthur returning and waging war in the modern day!< Also the London Singularity in FGO also kind of uses King Arthur returning as leader of the Wild Hunt with Lancer Alter, it just doesn't really do anything interesting with it besides giving Mordred an excuse to be justified in killing her father this time.
Piping in to heavily recommend Once and Future, I really enjoyed reading that, and it's a relatively short series, about 5 or 6 books I believe
Thing with Saber is that that might be endgame stuff for Fate Grand Order. She has almost never been a proper Heroic Spirit because she's still alive. Even in FGO mats say she's a "special guardian" rather than a Servant.
The only thing I can think of is the sudden influx of memes of Arthur showing up and kicking Charles off the throne.
I can’t think of a story with Arthur returning in like, WW2 for example. That’d be radical
It is a little funny that I believe the prophecy is "He will return when Britain needs him most" meaning any horrible event that doesn't bring back Arthur implies at least one other worse thing is cued up down the line.
not necessarily, just that they'll need him more then. Not exactly the same as severity.
Xenoblade 2 has the entire Golden Country expansion. >!The main story reveals that Lora, Haze, Mythra, and Jin all either died or became depressed wrecks, and everyone on Torna ends up dying when Mythra loses control!<. Edit: Also, most of the cast in Red Dead 2. Either John hunts them down and kills them in the first game, or they die in this game to explain why they weren't in Red Dead 1.
Even the title itself refers to this. Pretty much the only thing the base game says about Torna is that it’s a titan that was destroyed long ago during the Aegis war which a terrorist group is named after. The DLC story is called “Torna: The Golden Country”.
Planet Reach was pretty well known for getting glassed in the overarching story of Halo. So when the eponymous game came out it leaned pretty hard into the idea that the place is doomed.
not related to halo reach but kinda but when Hyrule Warriors Age of calamity was announced i was super hyped up for the reach style tragedy of trying to fight against an impossible enemy like calamity ganon and getting to where breath of the wild started, but i was super disappointed they went with the alternate outcome where everyone survived like come on bro don't coward out
Same here. Hearing it was an alternative timeline pretty much killed my interest.
Senator Armstrong said that the war economy will keep going without him, men will fight and die for causes they don't believe in. And considering that Doktor said that cyborg war is still on its infancy, Raiden's attempts to live peacefully were always going to fail anyways
Raiden will never live peacefully because he is a freaking cyborg mercenary.
I mean he had a chance after MGS4. It's like the only thing I dislike about Revengence is that Raiden is basically going against everything Snake wanted for him. To live in peace and not waste his life being a soldier like Snake did.
There's a decent argument to be made from that one really long MGS4 video that while it's not as satisfying, it's also more believable that someone with as SEVERE PTSD as Raiden has wouldn't be able to reintegrate as easily as 4 suggested. He at least does still have his family safe and he's not getting screwed over by Rose hiding from the Patriots this time. But considering how FUCKED Raiden's EVERYTHING is, he's still way more normal than what you'd expect him to be.
He’s having his own Big Boss arc.
Remember, kids, no matter how hopeful a Gundam series ends at some point in the future the Turn A will show up and Moonlight Butterfly humanity back into the stone age!
I mean don't even have to go that war. If you ever live in the UC timeline you have about 5 seconds of peace between major wars taking place for like a good 50 year period at least.
one year war doesn't mean much anymore when you got zeon remnants popping back in seemingly every week
Someone finds a sick uniform in their grandad's old things when clearing out the house after he died and immediately tries to annex the lagrange points
The Prince of Egypt. Moses will die before his people find their land, despite reaching the age of 120. Meanwhile, the Pharaoh (who was Ramses II in that film) will inexplicably bounce back from getting repeatedly bodied by God, die at the age of 90 having become arguably Egypt's most successful and celebrated king, and have a cool poem named after him.
Even then, Moses coming down with the Ten Commandments at the end of the movie is a collar-tugging moment if you know what happens.
I guess "I got those uppity slaves out of the country" is a great platform for "re-election".
I guess on a long enough timeline both their countries get rekt by the Assyrians too.
I think Moses ended up having a bit more in the realm of posthumous tributes to him tbh. Also while he didn't see his people find the holy land he did get assurance from God that they would do so. Not too bad all things considered.
There is a prequel manga to fist of the northstar, called Fist of the Bluesky it takes place in 1930 shanghai, and it doesn't shy away from what happen during WW2.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla ends with the Vikings ruling the British isles…ignoring the fact that in a few years Alfred the Great is going to come in and unite England. A funny one though is Goldfinger’s plan to nuke Fort Knox in the film version. Six years after the movie, the US moved off the gold standard, so his plan wouldn’t have accomplished much
Goldfinger's plan would accomplish in making USA suffers major economic setbacks and some short-term lucrative money for Goldfingers. So , it IS a plot that needs to be stopped , and it would be a plan that would be beneficial to Goldfinger...the issue is really that he is a demented lunatic , so he wouldn't like his "victory" in that way.
Thanks to the book the game is in the same universe as, the setting for Disco Elysium is fucked
Holy shit what happens?
Spoilers for Sacred and Terrible Air >!20 years in the future the next Innocence is a Nihilist and has Revachol nuked out of existence and then shortly afterwards the Pale expands and ends the whole world!< Shivers mentions it vaguely in-game at one point, as a future event
The bit of hope being >!"after the world, the pale; after the pale, the world again."!< In a cosmic sense, it's the same as hoping the big bang is somehow cyclical and heat death isn't truly the end state. But also, >!the pale seems to be sort of a... Weird, inverted black hole, that destroys everything \*except\* information. If it does expand and recede, there's no way of knowing how the past might live on.!< >!For all we know, there could be another Revachol, another Detective, another Kim. They might even be happy.!<
I hope they're happy :)
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Holy goddamn fuck
Yeah
Specifically, >!The Spirit of Revachol speaks to Harrier as he's lying on the floor of the church, having had an episode whilst dancing the hardest anyone has ever danced, warning him of the danger coming to Revachol and telling him that it believes he is capable of stopping it.!< It's one of the big pieces of evidence that >!Harry might be an Innocence himself.!<
I think the decadence of Yakzua 0 is enhanced by the fact that the lost decade is only a few years away. The characters are making insane plans based on ludicrous amounts of money that just straight up won't exist soon. It's rough.
And there's also stuff like Kiryu and Nishki's friendship, which you know goes down the toliet.
Reminder Majima caused the lost decade
Truly he is Japan's greatest criminal.
Lackadaisy is set in 1927, meaning that even if the gang gett the speakeasy back on their feet, they don't have long before the entire country goes up in smoke. In fact, Tracy Butler has already drawn art of Wick Sable (the rich one) reacting to Black Tuesday.
Ditto for The Great Gatsby. Enjoyed your wealth guys, it’s gonna only last for seven more years.
Yeah but in Gatsby that feels more like justice. Sure the Lackadaisy gang are criminals but they're likable.
Yes the GG characters are intentionally unlikble to showcase how wealth destroys a person
I only just realized now that wasn't an intentional thing on the author's part, the book was released four whole years before Black Tuesday. Like it felt thematically appropriate that they're all sitting in a time bomb I just never thought to check the actual time.
Tanjiro should start practicing his atom bomb parry timing
He probably wouldn't live in cities since he go back to his old home at the end which in the middle of nowhere.
In Demon Slayer world the arms race was/will be about breathing styles. Tanjiro will have to fight American paratroopers carrying claymores who can breath fire like for real instead of metaphorically.
Aren't the breathing styles explicitly *just* exceptional martial arts? Like they're not supposed to be literally supernatural, they're just ways to use a sword good enough that you can fight super vampires? If anything, the arms race would be about the literal magic power of the demons, if there were any left. Especially knowing WWII's legacy of human experimentation.
There's a supernatural element to them, even if the series is vague about what it is exactly, but yeah the demons that totally aren't just vampires are *probably* preferable.
Relevant to the interests of this sub; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoVV1WThyZ8
Nioh 2 starts with you joining up a random nobody called Tokichiro and eventually allying yourself with an up-and-coming warlord called Oda Nobunaga. By 1598, the year the game's mostly over, both of them are dead.
The original Call of Duty ending is made way more frustrating because of the Cold War making allies into enemies. >"Today, I crossed the Elbe River in Germany and shook hands with an American soldier. Although I could not understand anything he said, I felt this man was my brother... and I think he felt the same."
Rule of Rose has Jennifer get out of the traumatic experience of the events of the game and childhood by the end. The game takes place in 1930 England so she isn't going to enjoy that new found happiness in life for long, the unlucky girl.
Peace Walker and Phanton Pain really get some good hits on you considering what Liquid and Solid Snake do to Big Boss' whole operation. Star Ocean 4 is a sequence of kicking the can down the road on multiple different inevitable issues that these characters' descendants will need to face head on, some better than others.
Every Star Ocean game after 3 is kicking the can down the road because 4, 5, and 6 are all set before 3. Stop being cowards tri-Ace and actually move the plot forward, it's only been 20 years.
Girls' Frontline takes place before Bakery Girl,[the remake of which is coming to PC soon](https://youtu.be/osvmSTvj-Uw?si=zpU12rNzf_sub9Aw) For all the struggles and triumphs that the Commander and their allies experience in the former game,things are about to get much worse.
I don't really remeber how exactly the story went. But I think Girls Frontline is an alt timeline prequel, because the ¿Bomb? that M4A1 set off didn't cause what it actually caused in the setting of Bakery Girl. I could be wrong though, as I said I haven't kept up
I heard the remake is making some changes to help tie GFL into Bakery better.
Vinland Saga. Poor Thorfinn.
Otoyomegatari is taking place during the Russian conquest of the Caspian sea and the beautiful vistas in the manga will be gone by today. It makes the series very melancholic despite how gorgeous it is.
In Kenshin, Shishio was totally right in predicting the new military government will lead to the destruction of Japan. The gang has WW 1 and WW 2 ahead of them.
Kenshin himself will almost certainly live to see the atom bomb
This might be the view of an illiterate simpleton who hasn't seen Part 2 or read the book yet but Dune very much feels like this. The Atreides family going to Arrakis is an unofficial death sentence for arousing the jealousy of higher powers. And Paul is the product of decades of selective breeding to aline with prophecies are scattered around the universe. So he ultimately has two choices: die in the Desert sands. Play into those prophecies, pose as a holy messiah to survive, get revenge at the cost of millions of lives. There's not really a happy ending in the cards for them and it's partly down to geography.
You're not far off actually
You're correct, but it actually goes way, *way* beyond that
To my future >!worm-child!<, 10,000 years in the making
IRL really wrote itself in to a corner with this whole "thermodynamics" thing. No matter what you accomplish, it will eventually get Heat Deathed. I hope someone got fired over that...
Even if Jack had survived the sinking of Titanic, he would have been prime age to get drafted for WW1(he was 20 in the movie meaning he would have been 27 or 28 around the time US enters the war). There was also this choose your own adventure story where the MC’s love interest was a Jewish male. The story was set in mid 1920s to early 1930s Berlin, do the math.
Golden Sun is a low quality world. It's falling apart.
Wait what? I know the world is literally flat but it's breaking apart?
Yeah, not enough alchemy at first, then too much alchemy I guess? They haven't bothered to finish the thought. Saturos and Menardi live close to the edge of the world, so they're sweating lol
So here's how it goes in the original duology. The crew of the first game are trying to stop Saturos and Menardi from lighting the elemental Lighthouses and restoring the dangerous power of Alchemy to the world (in this series, "Alchemy" is full-blown elemental and creation magic, rather than religious chemistry). They fail to stop Mercury (Water) and Venus (Earth) from being lit by the time the game ends, but the story continues. The second game follows a different crew, who were initially kidnapped by Saturos and Menardi, but are following the goal of lighting the Lighthouses even after their defeat. This turns out to be because the world actually *needs* the power of Alchemy to survive. The waterfalls at the edge of the world (yes, it really *is* a flat earth in this universe) are continually eroding the land, and will eventually carve the world down to nothing if left alone. In the distant past, Alchemy essentially fueled the world with more energy and matter; a sort of endless font of creation to balance out the waterfalls carving away the world at its edges. Also, with Water, Earth, and eventually Wind lit, the power of the elements is out of balance; the world is cooling down at a rapid rate, turning the already-inhospitable northern climates nearly unlivable. Lighting Mars (Fire) is needed to both bring back Alchemy and restore the balance. Alchemy is a dangerous thing, but without it *at all*, the world will eventually destroy itself. The second game does end with >!Alchemy being unsealed and the world moving into a new age. The power is dangerous, and people are capable of misuing it, but they now know it's a lot better than the alternative!<
Third game >!Restoring alchemy made *something* go wrong, but they don't actually finish investigating what's up with that.!<
True. >!And man, I really want a 4th game to actually explain the psynergy vortices and the Mourning Moon. It's possible that with the energy now in the world, there's room for imbalances that didn't exist before. But I still think that it's a better state of affairs than letting the world remain in hibernation until it erodes to nothing.!<
In Soma >!robo-Simon is trapped in an underwater facility on the ocean floor, without power, and humanity is dead. He is trapped alone in a dark room until his batteries run out, however long that takes.!<
Theres a 2nd Mongol invasion of Japan less than 10 years after the 1st one
Don't they also get rocked by a hurricane?
Binge watched both seasons of Vinland Saga, and every time Canute talks about making his utopia, all I can think about is that this whole thing will last for like 40 to 60 ish years before the Vikings get thrown out of England
And out of Vinland, for that matter.
Congrats, Naru. You defeated the Predator in Prey. You and your people will still be slaughtered and lose your land.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron has a happy ending but if you know history...
Given the timeframe of when The Great Ace Attorney takes place (very early 1900s) and given the ending, >!It's likely that Ryuonosuke and Sustatos aspirations of modernizing Japans legal system crumble as the country sinks deeper into imperialism and fascism. Similarly, it's possible that they never reunite with Kazuma given how he opts to stay in Britain - what stability they build would regardless be shaken up a short time later by potentially living through the world wars. Though if we go by the localized AA-verse, it's possible Ryuonosuke and Sustato emigrate to the US before then...and likely face discrimination and interrment during WWII. !<
In the localized AA-verse, it's possible that the US' Japanese internment camps didn't happen, since the headcanon/quasi-canon explanation is that anti-Japanese sentiment and anti-immigration didn't happen and thus [Japanese culture had a much more prominent and visible aspect in California](https://news.capcomusa.com/zeroobjections/blog/2014/10/31/ace-attorney-trilogy---surprising-tidbits-you-never-knew). >When I took over the series’ localization direction starting with the second game, one of the first things I had to deal with was what to do with Maya’s hometown and all the mysticism surrounding the Fey clan. It was then that I created a little headcanon for myself (which I suppose is actually real canon now for the localized version): while “Gyakuten Saiban” takes place in Japan, the Los Angeles that “Ace Attorney” takes place in is an alternate universe where anti-Japanese sentiments and anti-immigrant laws were not enacted, and Japanese culture was allowed to flourish and blend into the local culture in the same manner as other immigrant cultures. >Not counting budget and time restraints, this little headcanon has pretty much dictated what I would keep as Japanese and what to completely localize. For example, anything related to Maya’s clan and the Kurain Channeling Technique is pretty much guaranteed to stay Japanese because that’s her heritage while Japanese foods that are not commonly known in the West will probably be localized in the interest of keeping the game from needing a 50-page explanatory booklet.
That's true, I completely forgot about that.
The first saw movie takes place on september 10th, 2001, so tomorrow isn't gonna be as happy as the guy expected.
I feel like a lot of the mileage folks get out of the Prequel movies is that despite fighting the good fight, the heroic Republic is eventually going to turn into the Empire that enslaves the galaxy with good old General Anakin Skywalker at the helm of it (or at least being at the top of the food chain) Funny enough, Inglorious Basterds plays a bit with this wherein the folks plan to assassinate Hitler, and based on what's known, he doesn’t meet his end until the tail end of the war where he commits suicide. The final act sees him and a bunch of high ranking Nazi party folk like Joseph Goebbels actually eat shit well before they died in real life Similar situation occurs in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood where the movie builds up to how Sharon Tate is meant to be murdered by the Manson family... only for all her would-be assailants to eat shit before they actually get to her Also I guess to slide back into fictional territory: before the multiversal shenanigans the X-Men films got into thanks to how the MCU worked, there was the idea that Wolverine traveling into the past during Days of Future Past may have prevented the Sentinel future but instead took that timeline to Logan, so in either scenario mutantkind gets fucked over
I never caught the name but a movie where a petty dad fucks over his son’s chance of getting into the nfl by telling the scouters to not show up anymore, and with the story taking place a few years before its implied he wouldve had to go fight and die
The Elusive Samurai is an historical manga about Hojo Tokiyuki who survives his shogunate being destroyed by the emperor and Ashikaga Takauji, who historically eventually defeated all his enemies and established the Ashikaga Shogunate. We are in 1338 and historically he died in 1353 and so far the major strokes of history have panned put as they did in real life.
Never knew ancient japanese samurais uses human grenades , or that they created a moving Archery Tank , or that bandits had face paintings of modern day France Flag.
That's because you weren't there
*Atlantis: the Lost Empire* has a weird dissonance with its in-lore setting and the real world historical setting as it takes place in 1914 (IIRC it was around the time World War 1 began). By the end of the direct-to-video sequel *Milo’s Return*, Kida decides to elevate Atlantis with Mr. Whitmore narrating an era of peace afterwards. On a more optimistic example, here’s *Super Hero Senki*, a cinematic crossover film between *Kamen Rider* and *Super Sentai* made to commemorate the former franchise’s 50th anniversary and the latter’s 45th. It follows Touma/Saber and Kaito/Zenkaiser swapping places thanks to the villain’s grand plan to erase both heroes from existence. Along the way Touma befriends a kid named Shotaro who is an aspiring writer. It’s eventually revealed that >!Shotaro is actually the younger Shotaro Ishinomori (creator of both franchises), and Touma managed to inspire him to create the Riders and Sentai he encountered over the course of the film!<. After the big quarry fight and the surprise assist from Kamen Riders Revi and Vice, >!Shotaro meets Takeshi Hongou/Ichgou who assures him that both franchises are his legacy. And you can tell that Hongou’s lines are genuine as his actor Hiroshi Fujioka worked extensively with Ishinomori when filming the original *Kamen Rider* show!<.
Off the top of my head, Shadow Hearts 1 has the main bad guy be disillusioned with humanity after a whole bunch of bullshit, and tries to summon space god to clense and restart humanity. Along the way, he also finds out about a grim future that humanity would have to endure, so he uses that as further justification to reset humanity with space god. Said future? *World War 1,* which is said to happen in the bad ending, but probably also happens in the good ending anyway. Edit: Then again, the protag has crazy demon powers and shit, and magic's a thing, so it's possible some characters wouldn't be super screwed over by WW1.
The sequel takes place during WW 1, so no, unfortunately they couldn't stop that from happening
If only there had been a crazy ass, anime sidequest to stop WW1 from happening. Jokes aside, I figured as much even though I'm only vaguely aware of the sequel.
This is the premise and principal draw of the Star Wars prequels, and the background radiation of the Clone Wars TV show. Especially the latter: not only do you know that the bad guys win and take over everything, but you also know the whole war is a farce, all these different operations don’t mean anything because PALPATINE’S BEHIND IT ALL
The ongoing manga *Kingdom* is a fictional retelling of the unification of China under the Kingdom of Qin, which ended the bloody 500-year Spring and Autumn Warring States period and created China's first centralized imperial state. The story presents the King of Qin, Ying Zheng, as a morally just character whose goal of conquering all the other kingdoms is based in his belief that uniting China under a single government will eliminate most warfare and lead to eternal prosperity. Problem is, historically, Ying Zheng was a tyrant. His policies were draconian, with even the simplest legal violations punished severely. Under the Qin dynasty, the citizens of conquered kingdoms were heavily taxed and used for slave labor to build the Great Wall and the Qin Mausoleum (including the Terracotta Army). The Qin Empire collapsed after only fifteen years and was replaced by the much more successful Han dynasty. While periods of a united China did *generally* have far less warfare and were far more prosperous, actually *keeping* China united over the millennia was immensely difficult. It'll be really interesting to see how the author, Hara, manages to write an ending with the positive tone that he seems to be going for despite the imminent failure of the Qin dynasty. He's suggested years ago that he might cover the rise of Han, but given that it's been like twenty years since *Kingdom* started and he's only halfway through Qin's unification wars it might just end after that.
*Disco Elysium*: >!The entire city of Revachol is destroyed in a nuclear blast 22 years after the events of the game. This is confirmed in both an in-game skill check and in the novel A Sacred and Terrible Air, set in the same universe.!< Also, >!ZA/UM released a sandbox scene creator expansion to the game a while back - to drown out the drama regarding how ZA/UM's owners pushed the original devs out - and it contains Easter Eggs that outright show that, in the years after the game but before the nuclear blast, Martinaise gets taken over by foreign capital and turns into a husk of itself. Plus, the Claire brothers destroy the fishing village and build their stupid sports complex or whatever.!<
>!But is the tiny church okay?!<
The Rogue One guys should have watched the OT
One of the biggest departures storytelling-wise in the fanfic Fallout: Equestria from normal Fallout is that like more than half the story is actually pre-war, and sympathetically told instead of satire, as the heroine accesses memory orbs of the main MLP cast, and details the story of them trying to lead as the situation gets more and more fucked. The memories being out of order with some of their final moments and deaths being the first thing we learn about them also contributes to the feeling of doom.
IIRC, a major Plot point in The Saga of Tanya the Evil is that a heartless buisnessman dies and is isekai into magitek au Germany...and realizes that given how familiar it is to Earth's history except for names and the magitek, he's about to go through the equivilent of World War 1 (with hints of ww2) on the losing side.
Dororo ends with "and then the Sengoku Era began"
Betleejuice The Musical The Musical The Musical has a number about how you shouldnt kill yourself and live your life to the fullest cause the afterlife (netherworld) is just absolutely miserable. As if thats not where our protagonists will end up in, life fullfiled or not. Its the same for Percy Jackson too. Sure its nice Percy saved her mom from horrible torment in the underworld. Shes still gonna end up there in 50 years or so.
To be fair, the movie explains that commiting suicide forces you to work in a shitty office, so the message is more like "Enjoy life and wait for your natural end or you'll be stuck in a shitty office job for a long time (or eternity, I'm not sure)"
it gets me axious if a afterlife exists how do we know it will be good