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You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. At Sunnyside, Lotso will make sure you stay forever. In Berserkan already dark and depressing series, we meet Rosinea Dark Magical Girl who transformed a crater's valley in a realm for elves filled with birds, butterflies, flowers and evergreen meadows.

But, for being young and apparently harmless, Rosine is an Apostle. And before long, we see that her elves' favorite hobbies includes playing war. And not only do they happily slaughter one another, they also like to use their insect-like appendages to skewer one another in the ass.

And that's not even mentioning how they're created from human children she kidnaps, or the way said elves are created. Dai Mahou Touge opens with a Tastes Like Diabetes Sugar Bowl for the Magical Land Punie comes from. It's later revealed to be a brutal despotism run by an Evil Overlord who rose to power through a smear campaign against the old monarchy and is more than willing to commit mass slaughter to keep the people in line.

By comparison, Earth itself is a more traditional Crapsack World. In the first chapter of Daily Life with Monster Girla newsreporter claims that the Exchange program was a huge success and that the world hasn't changed much from the integration of monsters into society.

It's interesting that all of the girls shown are barely monstrous. The world's view on our protagonists is much, much harsher. It's a good thing that the manga's tone is generally light-hearted and comical, and all problems are caused by misunderstandings that get resolved in the space of a chapter, because the setting is not so bright and cheery as it initially appears.

There's Fantastic Racismpollution, extraspecies terrorist groups, con men that indulge in Super Human Traffickingan underwater kingdom led by a crazy queen, the undead shown to be proficient at using weapons Dragon Ball In Dragon Ball Z: The Dragon World may seem colorful and friendly, but the peaceful atmosphere of the series is mostly limited to the Earth. The universe is filled with gods and godlike beings who can destroy planets just by sneezing too hard.

There is even an official God of Destruction whose job it is to destroy planets, populated or not, so new ones can be created by the Kais.

That god also happens to be a Psychopathic Manchild who will destroy planets because he didn't like or was denied food. You also had an organization that went around wiping entire population of planets so they could sell them to the highest bidder.

Even worse, this empire was the closest thing to a central government in the universe since Frieza and his family were practically gods among mortals, and the galactic police were helpless against their power and the Supreme Kais, who are the good gods that balance the Gods of Destruction, could do nothing to stop them since they're not allowed to interfere with the affairs of mortals. Even with the galactic patrol, they have a weapon known as an Extinction Bomb that releases a virus that can kill off an entire species on a planet, usually used as a Mercy Kill.

Jaco accidentally used an Extinction Bomb which wiped out a planet and only got scolded for it. If that isn't bad enough, you have Gods of Destruction from other universes, who are all notoriously violent, that can come and blow up your planet without warning because they're looking for something, or you may have the bad luck of running into a rogue Supreme Kai who've decided that all mortals should die for the good of universe and slowly wipe out your population.

On top of all that, you have Zen'o, who is the supreme ruler of the multiversewho can wipe out the entire universe on a whim and has done so in the past. The Earth is only peaceful because almost all of the strongest warriors in the universe happens to live there, they have a Reset Button in the Dragon Balls, and they have gained favor with the gods thank to Goku making friends with King Kai, the Supreme Kais, Beerus, and even Zen'o, along with having great food.

Even then, humanity was terrorized by Cell, all but wiped out by Majin Buu, and was conquered by King Piccolo decades earlier. Frieza also successfully blows up the planet and it's only revived because Whis rewind time. Future Trunks' timeline shows exactly what will happen to the Earth if it lost its fighters, especially Goku, and the Dragon Balls.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 lampshades this early on, after the Time Skip. The world now run by the Earth Federation seems to be better off than in Season 1, and it is commented on multiple times that lots of people genuinely believe this. However, Celestial Being, Katharon, and anybody else capable looking beyond the surface know the truth: The world looks that way because the obscenely brutal State Sec are doing their best to make sure that's what the majority of the public believes, partially to squelch any potential insurrection as a reaction against Celestial Being in Season 1.

This is all fake. This is a city where we see both horsecarts and motorcars, swords and pistols, lords and businessmen How Hieronymus Bosch 's masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights portrays the world. Everything seems bright and cheery and people of every race seems happy and content but everywhere are grotesque situations and bizarre creatures representing sin and immorality.

More than Meets the Eye when the crew visit the aptly-named planet Hedonia. Rewind mentions that every outwardly pleasant civilization must have a less pleasant side, which he then sets out to find. As it turns out, Hedonia's actually pretty tame compared to the other examples he lists off— though they are some of the galaxy's foremost suppliers of high-end weaponry. A thief in The Unwritten finds himself turned into a rabbit and transported into a magical Winnie-the-Pooh -like forest setting with other Talking Animals.

His life there consists of escape attempts and nervous breakdowns. He eventually meets the author of the books in her fictional avatar as a young girl and tries to tear down her image of innocence and expose her as a middle-aged fraud desperately clinging to childhood innocence. She reveals she's rather well-adjusted, in fact, but that means keeping all her adult fears hidden in the world of her books. Rabbit learns the hard way what this means.

He got out, and corrupts every world he touches ever since. The next place he ended up was a slightly less idealistic Talking Animal land and a lot more straight example of this trope, where he became an Evil Overlord in all but name, just his "subjects" or at least the narrator were too naive to notice.

It's chilling to read the overly optimistic narration while as a reader understanding the horror of it all. A strip by Argentinian cartoonist Quino depicted a tourist first arriving to a foreign country, who is first delighted when he sees that everyone from the cab driver, hotel employees and people on the street are always singing a merry tune The Unfunniesfull on.

The world Scott Pilgrim lives in. Sure, everyone has superpowers, and everything is incredibly awesome, but there seem to be no repercussions for challenging someone to a fight and beating them to death. Before Superman and Supergirl arrived on the scene, Metropolis was a Crapsaccharine City. It's a bright and shiny metropolis Then it was revealed that the design of his solar battery was based on analyzing the corpse of baby Kal-El, whom he murdered himself.

And to a greater extent, the entire DC Universewhich is full of fantastic worlds and costumed heroes with amazing abilities and origins, but also psychotic supervillains and other megalomaniacs from all over the galaxy who threaten the world and even the universe on a regular basis. Woodbury in The Walking Dead.

It promises salvation from the Zombie Apocalypse but is ruled by the despotic Governor. Corona from Pk2the sequel of Paperinik New Adventuresis an alien planet that managed to obtain a perfect balance between technology and nature and an incredibly high level of life.

In fact, Everett Ducklair is a fugitive from it. Gothtopia has the normally dark and melancholic Gotham City become a bright and sunny paradise. Crime is low, people are living their lives, and the Batfamily is operating in the daylight and wearing bright, inspiring costumes. However, suicide rates are unusually high and the heroes start to figure out what's really going on. How Overman views the utopia he built on Earth in Mastermen 1disliking the fact that it was built on the brutal deaths of so many.

The Marvel Universe has loads of courageous costumed heroes and adventurers And that's not even taking into account all the supervillains who make their lives a living hell. For all the superheroics, the world is still a terrible place, especially in more mundane parts of The Verselike Hell's Kitchen.

One could consider The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing to be this. Even though the world always seems a little Any Sailor Moon fanfic that frame the Silver Millenium as a dystopian future. Dark ChaosSonic's home planet is a nice and rather peaceful place to live.

The rest of the galaxy? Episode 69 has Marmolim. A planet inhabited by cute beady-eyed aliens with a penchant for magic. Sounds great - except for the fact that they've nearly been wiped out by Shroud, and are torn in a religious civil war between Christians and Maledict-worshipers. New Jerusalem, the Angel capitol city, is subtly implied to be this with the Big Brother Is Watching You and Happiness Is Mandatory overtones.

The Games We Play depicts Mistral as this. Between the fact that open misery draws the Grimm and The Mafiaesque grip the ruling Families have on the kingdom, Granny's city is crime infested in such a way that people can cover their eyes and pretend its sic clean. In the Doctor Who fanfic The Last Great Time Warthe outermost Time Lord colony seemingly becomes a peaceful utopia. In reality, it's an illusion created by the Horde of Travesties to lure in victims so they can devour their timelines.

C'hou in The Keys Stand Alone: Since the four pretty much viewed C'hou as a Crapsack World in With Strings Attachedthey are initially pleased by the changes wrought by the Pyar gods when they return.

The new city Tevri'ed is beautiful and full of interesting things, money is easy to make, and the guards are friendly and helpful. In particular they like the new inhabitants, the G'heddi'onians, who are pleasant and civilized. And things just get worse from there. While everyone blames the Black Tower for making things bad, the lousy behavior of nearly all the people wasn't created by them.

In-story, the Flying Island of Tipaan, a luxury resort run on the backs of the Svenjaya, an oppressed servant race. The four at least manage to alleviate their lot. The kingdom of Hoshido is revealed to be this. Like in the game, Hoshido is a beautiful land with excess food and water that sets them in a perpetual golden age. However, it becomes quickly clear that Hoshido was made for Hoshidans, and anyone else, be them tribals, shapechangers, non-humans, or ''especially'' Nohrians face heavy discrimination and violence.

Ambience A Fleet Symphony: Charlotte is a glitzy, glamorous casino city, as long as one doesn't look too closely at what Premier Kerrigan Badeau is up to. My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic — Fan Works. Friendship Is Magic fan works seem particularly prone to this, possibly because the world is shown to be a Sugar Bowl but is also full of dangerous mythological monsters.

Everything from Celestia being depicted as an oppressive tyrant to Pinkie Pie having some rather unpalatable hobbies turn up regularly. Multi Media Fluffy Pony works works involving a species of genetically engineered "magical pony" pets offer an interesting inversion; Fluffy ponies are designed to see the world as a Sugar Bowlregardless of how cruel and harsh the world may be- Depending on the Writer -making their world this trope through their eyes, while the human characters see the world for what it really is.

Though it is not impossible, for a Fluffy that has had enough experience with the world to realize how dangerous the world is. Combine this with them being programmed to be naturally innocent, trusting, weak, and naive, and throw them in a world full of natural predators, many other things in nature that can kill them, and a surprisingly dis-appropriate number of humans who want to mistreat if not outright torture them for little to no reason, Again, how prevalent this is depends on the writer and there are usually just as many people who genuinely want to help and care for them.

Video Games Famously, the fan-game Story of the Blanks goes in an Fan Fiction The Conversion Bureau. The ponies are willing parties to the genocide of humanity In the spin-off story The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the SpectrumTCB! Equestria paints itself up as a paradise, but any veneer of niceness is easily broken if you dig deep enough.

For one thing, it's shown that the Empire is very dreadfully unprepared to support the massive influx of newfoals coming in, and if you even so much as question Queen Celestia's "wisdom", you could get sent to a prison camp where you'll be worked to death or tortured, as TCB! Spike learned the hard way. There are also mentions of re-education centers; PHL members Aegis and Verdant Tract allude to having had brushes with those in the past, something which neither of them want to go through again.

And according to TCB! Granny Smith, the whole land is "poisoned and dying". In Jerichomost of Equestria appears to actually be sweet, but there are It starts to get dark in chapter 3, where the main character, Jerichoa pony from a faraway land, stumbles across a dark Government Conspiracy around the western borderlands of Equestria. Chains actually pulls this off in a far more subtle fashion.

In this story, Equestria basically follows mostly to being the Sugar Bowl it always has been in the MLP canon, it even has Princess Celestia as still mostly a benevolent ruler and the resident Big Good. However, if you're a human living in Equestria yes, they fully exist in this story consider yourself enslaved. It all looked so sugary and nice up until an hour or so ago. There's one thing I'll never understand, Scootaloo.

Why can't everyone in Ponyville just accept me for who I am? Ringing Bell has a great example of this trope.

The first half of the story starts out with a world where everything appears to be great and the sheep live happily. Then, the Wolf King kills Chirin's mother. Things get progressively darker and darker until the Downer Ending of all Downer Endings comes.

Chirin kills the wolf. Despite this, Chirin gets rejected by the other sheep, and lives a desolate life alone in the wilderness until he finally dies, having killed his only friend.

This is a bit of a Lost Aesop in the CGI version of Astro Boy. The world inhabited by the Other Mother in Coraline. It goes from full preschooler to full hell so gradually that it's downright creepy. Pleasure Island from Pinocchio is a perfect textbook example of this. The Coachman takes disobedient boys here to allow them to do anything at all that they want, including smoke cigars, drink beer or play pool, but eventually, they are turned into donkeys and sold off by the Coachman.

Of course, the fact that Pleasure Island is a gigantic carnival-world - and not the wholesome kind of carnivaleither - should have tipped somebody off.

Though the point isn't emphasized, Duloc in Shrek is one of these: Anyone who doesn't meet his standards gets rounded up and dumped in Shrek's swamp. Sunnyside, the daycare center in Toy Story 3. What originally seems like a utopia for abandoned or donated toys is actually a dictatorship run by Lotso the bear. The new toys are brought into the room where the toddlers play with and misuse them until they're broken, and anyone who tries to break out of their intricate security system is either imprisoned or tortured.

But after Andy's toys manage to overthrow Lotso, Sunnyside became much more hospitable. Frivoli from Twice Upon a Time may be the land of sweet dreams, but it's not much better than the Murkworks on a few levels.

Their ruler, the Chef of Stateis an illiterate doofus, the "Pantry of Pomp" is an apparent Kangaroo Courtand our heroes Ralph and Mumford are treated like crap for ultimately minor screw-ups, apparently because they're "funny-looking". What was meant to be a five-year cruise for Earthlings while the titular robots cleaned up the polluted planet instead turned into a perpetual cruise.

Everyone has gotten so fat from living in microgravity while being pampered by robots that everyone is traveling on hoverchairs meant for the infirm - no one has actually walked in centuries. Even the entertainment consists of watching robots play golf at the driving range. Cowslip's warren the Warren of the Shining Wires from Watership Down. The Man leaves food daily, there's lots of poetry and cultureand whatever you do don't mention the wires.

Granted, given that their choices were "near-complete extermination" or "guaranteed collective survival", the rabbits may have been justified in their choice. Thneedville in The Lorax. Everything looks great, but all of it is manufactured, fresh air has to be bought, and right outside the wall is a dystopian wasteland. The Sugar Rush world in Wreck-It Ralph. It seems like a sugary paradise, but it is utter hell for Vanellope von Schweetz who is cruelly treated as a "mistake.

The place was usurped by King Candy, a. Turbo, and the population reprogrammed to treat her like that. What's going on in this candy-coated heart of darkness? In Running Scaredthe home of the torturing, murdering pedo couple, decked out like a kindergarten playroom. Video Any City in a Bottle on film. Or other Gattaca -type setting: The Truman Showwhere the whole world in which Truman Burbank lives is a giant television studio situated in Hollywood and he is the main character and its only inhabitant who isn't an actor of an incredibly epic reality show.

He grew up in that world, which is portrayed like a mix of the modern age and the stereotypical s American suburban society, but is " On air, unaware " the whole time. He starts finding out when things begin to fall apart; first a flood light falls from the sky, then he accidentally discovers a make-up room for the actors behind the doors of a fake elevator.

Then he notices he can't leave his hometown, ever: He finally manages to get out by sailing away and crashing into the horizon. The future city of San Angeles presented in Demolition Man looks just rosy. No crime, no war, everything is bright and shiny Yeah, it's a real Sugar Bowl.

Too bad sugar is banned by the government because it's bad for you. In fact, absolutely anything that might be the least bit harmful, offensive or disruptive to anybody is.

No meat products, no alcoholic drinks, no contact sports, no swear words, no spicy food, no uneducational toys, and no physical contact up to and including sexual intercourse. In the words of the film's villain, it's like if Oceania was run by an evil Mr. This namby-pamby, "oppressing you for your own good" society is why there's a gang of well-armed but actually pretty friendly hobos trying to avoid it all by scraping out a free living in the city's sewers. In turn, the city's founder groomed the villain in cryosleep to exterminate undesirables like them, to keep his idea of a perfect society alive.

Coruscant in the Star Wars prequels. This is established before the prequels, in the form of an essay written by an Imperial propaganda minister, who cheerfully describes the planet's technological wonders, mentions in passing that crime is being wiped out, and points out the magnanimity of the Emperor in granting aliens designated housing areas regularly patrolled by Stormtroopers, to better protect them from any intolerant locals.

Said author was a nonhuman himself. Plinkett also notes in his review that daily life on Coruscant is busy, bright, and chipper, even when the most traumatic and horrific war to ever be fought in the galaxy is going on. Coruscant is filled with the Republic's ultra-wealthy and privileged elite, and emblematic of the decadent and corrupt society that was the Republic in its final days. And, Harry notes, it's still going strong after 20 years under Emperor Palpatine, whose most redeeming quality was, apparently, being smart enough not to shit where he ate.

The future setting in The Purge seems like a utopia, and actually, it almost is. The only catch is, you have to be able to survive the hour period once a year where the government lets the citizens do anything without any legal repercussions. Of course, it's actually worse than that. If you survive being attacked by someone you thought you could trust, like the protagonists, did, you'll never trust them again. It's also hinted that the biggest reason for this event is the government's way of weeding out the poor and the weak.

Worst of all, the movie portrays humanity itself in a very grim way, showing that, if given the opportunity to commit murder and get away with it, most will take advantage of the opportunity, simply because they can. The sequel, however, downplays it, with a resistance that rises up against the Founding Fathers who decided that not enough people were dying, so hire some death squads to kill the poor.

Serenity has Miranda, a planet that was a failed attempt at creating a utopia by dosing the population with a chemical designed to curb their violent impulses with the ultimate aim of doing this to every world. The result is a ghost planet filled with abandoned buildings, the corpses of people who became so docile because of the aforementioned chemical that they laid down and died, and those who had the exact opposite reaction to the chemical, becoming the cannibalistic and psychopathically violent Reavers.

This is the plot of the Norwegian movie, Den Brysomme Mannen The Bothersome Man. A man steps off a bus in a desert and is taken to a city where everything seems nice on the surface. He gets a nice house, a pretty girlfriend and almost anything he desires, but there is one catch. Turns out that the place is a dystopia where emotions are nonexistent, food and drink is flavorless and there are no children anywhere. The Gotham City of The Dark Knight Saga seems more prosperous and optimistic than the Gotham of the older Batman films, but we learn rather quickly that at the ground level crime is eating the streets whole while the upper class just chooses to ignore it, wrapped up in their own success.

The citizens of Gotham do care enough to take some action to rebuild their city, and thanks to the Bat himself corruption and crime are taking a beating and the Police Are Useless mantra is cut down, and Earn Your Happy Ending is in full effect. The first film of the saga reveals that the League of Shadows are partly responsible for the current state of Gotham, having tried to destroy the city, which they perceived as a Wretched Hiveusing economic means.

Which mostly just made it more wretched. Most of the films of Tim Burton run on this in one form or another. Pee-wee's Big Adventure begins with a typical day of breakfast and a bike ride to the shopping mall— and ends with Pee-Wee's bicycle being stolen and his becoming so distraught that he slowly goes deranged. The Joker holds a parade in downtown Gotham City to celebrate the town's th anniversary, showering 20 million dollars on the streets to lure the crowds in And in Edward Scissorhandsthe neighbors who are so kind to Edward in the beginning turn violently on him once they suspect incorrectly that he's a burglar.

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And his version of Alice in Wonderland isn't exactly set in a proper Wonderland. This may be former Disney animator Burton's way of demonstrating that "Disneyland" isn't all it's cracked up to be - especially since his more realistic movies Big Fishfor example depict worlds that are neither wholly good nor wholly bad.

The United States in Harrison Bergeroninspired by the short story of Kurt Vonnegut. A world where everyone is finally equal - by lobotomizing the overtly talented, if needed. The Untouchables director Brian De Palma deliberately made Chicago crime lord Al Capone's surroundings very lavish and sumptuous: It's like Nazi Germany. The problem is all the oppressed people are in some camp somewhere and nobody ever sees them.

So the world of Chicago is a slick world. A world that's run by money and corruption and it looks fabulous. Brave New World is of the "bright and shiny" variety of dystopia. Sure, everyone's healthy and has and is apparently satisfied with all the toys and drugs they could ever want, but all of them hatch out of bottles and are programmed from birth to be satisfied with their also pre-programmed lives, seven-year-olds having sex is considered lateand the whole thing depends on the intentionally-stupidified and drugged-up lower classes and shallow, selfish, immature upper classes.

What education there is which seems to be entirely for the higher classes focuses almost exclusively on the applied sciences, with very little attention devoted to theoretical science or liberal arts. It's a peaceful, stable society, but one built at the cost of creativity and self-expression—and very few even realize what it is that humanity's lost as a result.

Made slightly better by one of the leaders being a relatively Reasonable Authority Figureand that freethinking people who can't stand the luscious reality have an option to move to remote islands where life is harsher but more open-minded and less restrained then again, we never see any of the islandsbut not by much.

What makes this type of dystopia especially scary is that it is perfectly realizable. Huxley wrote his dystopia inwhen it felt like a distant horror: This prospect became so scary to Huxley himself that he wrote a warning pamphlet Brave New World Revisited where he stated his book was intended to be a dystopia and warned about things evolving towards his nightmares.

Huxley's dystopia has no invaders from outer space, no breaking of natural laws, no speculative technology - most of the things he saw as pure science fiction are everyday stuff today In A Song of Ice and Firethe city of Qarth. It seems like a Shining City were everything is beautiful and its people are courteous and civilized. Beneath the shiny exterior lies an economy built on slavery and politics dominated by a bureaucracy impassible to those without inside knowledge, poisoned wine, and assassins.

And the city's Ancient Traditionthe warlocks? They invite people to their headquarters so their leadership can feed on their life energy.

Several forex envy power review the Free Cities qualify. Lys is a tropical island paradise nestled in the warm waters of the Summer Sea. The Dragonlords of Valyria created "Lys the Lovely" to be a pleasure resort with beautiful climate, good wine, and beautiful people. So where's the crap in this?

Those beautiful people are sex slaves, kidnapped en masse by pirates, corsairs, and slave merchants from all over the world. Lys's fortunes and fame rests upon being a massive whorehouse of beautiful slaves. Proudest and oldest daughter of Old Valyria, rich, mighty, and boasting of magnificent structures like the Long Bridge and the Black Walls.

But the crap is becoming very noticeable through the cracks, as any astute observer sites about binary option trading spot the city's decay as discontentment rises among the slaves the overwhelming majority of the city's population and the corrupt warhawk administrators try to pacify the situation with heads mounted on pikes. King's Landing itself is a pigsty as everyone agrees, but the Royal Court appeared to be a wonderful world of courtly romance, glamour, balls, and tourneys from Sansa's viewpoint.

At the beginning at least. Until the crap utterly overwhelms the saccharine. In The Hunger GamesThe Capitol. Everyone there is happy, healthy, and lives a life of luxury and decadence. The price for this utopia? The Districts, full of wage slaves who live in poverty, working themselves to death to provide for the Capitol. This Perfect Day by Ira Levin features a seeming utopia with no chart stock market historical, hunger, violence, or fear.

Everyone is happy, helpful, and content. But they're all being drugged and genetically engineered to be so, controlled by a supercomputer that in turn is controlled by a secret cabal of immortal "programmers" who live in luxury, apart from the rest of society.

Harrison Bergerona short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Life is happy, neat, nice and comfortable. Unless you're too far above average, in which case you get to meet the Handicapper General. John Dies at the End 's climax takes place in an alternate how to determine blue chip stocks, where humans live in harmony with nature, having harnessed biotechnology.

Kittens are used as relaxing healers. There is no fighting, there is free love and peace. Oh, by the way, said humans are horribly deformed and would love to introduce you to their evil God, who maims entire planets of those who resist and eats people wrapped in bacon.

There's a reason why the protagonist deems it "Shit Narnia". The descriptive part of Georges Perec's W or the Memory of Childhoodstarts off with the eponymous island portrayed as an utopian land ruled by sport. As it goes into detail, the text descends into the description of a horrendous land of slavery and madness, allegory of German concentration camps, in which some of Perec's relatives had died.

The Giver is set in a Community which seems to be harmonious, peaceful, and happy. Family units share their feelings, politeness is mandated, and everyone is given a task that suits them. But when Jonas receives memories of what the world was like before, he learns that the Community has completely sacrificed choices, colors, individuality, even love.

And when he discovers what it means to be Released to Elsewherehe realizes that the Community has even traded away basic human dignity and respect. The Land of Oz from L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is considerably more crapsack than one would first think, what with half of the land being under the brutal oppression of two wicked witches, and the Emerald City being a lie in every inch of its being.

Things improve in the later books, though, especially under Ozma. The books also give us some others. For instance, the land of the Mangaboos, a beautiful land with glass houses and lit by six colored suns it's belowgroundand inhabited by beautiful vegetable people. Except that said forex gain and loss computation are heartless and horrifyingly xenophobic, trying to destroy anything that enters their land that's not a Mangaboo.

Or the Valley of Voe, full of kind, good-hearted people, natural beauty, delicious fruit that grants invisibility The world of the Ninjatrader futures demo in the Green-Sky Trilogy starts here. It's a peaceful utopia where there is no overpopulation, hunger, homelessness, everyone's employed there organovo stock buy or sell an option for people to change careers, but it's seldom usedcrime is so rare as to be a curiosity, violence is unheard of even two year olds squabbling over a toy is a sign of ill-parentingand everyone has Psychic Powers.

Scratch the surface and we get widespread narcotic use in the form of a ritual berrythe psychic powers are fading at earlier ages than ever the protagonist thinks he's merely average when it turns out he's probably the most powerful psychic on the planeteverything is run earnest money scams the Ol-Zhaan, the Ol-Zhaan run by a secret cabal in its ranks, and one huge Big Lie keeping all in place.

Raamo's recruitment was part of a Batman Gambit on D'ol Falla's part to atone for her actions as the grandmistress of the cabal, and once the Big Lie is uncovered, things start to heal up.

The Wizarding World in Harry Potter starts as a wondrous, perfect place, and an escape for the main hero from his dreary and miserable life. Then it is gradually revealed that the government is often incompetent; the state prison is a hell-hole where psychological torture is par for the course; keeping slaves is a common practice; and slurs about blood status are thrown about freely by the primarily pureblood upper class. It turns out Voldemort isn't so much a person that totally goes against the ways all wizards think, but merely exemplifies the flaws employee stock option leverage their society Up to Eleven.

There's even mention that a noticeable amount of people in Wizard society were on Voldemort's cara buka account demo instaforex until they saw how far he was willing to go.

Genua from Discworldwhen Lily Weatherwax oversees it. On the surface, it looks like a happy, shiny fairy tale kingdom Toymakers are thrown in jail if they aren't able to tell little stories to the children "like they should," thieves are beheaded on first offense, and the Assassin's Guild has packed up and left " because there are some things that sicken even jackals.

The Book of D'ni. It looked like such a fantastic place to live — until it was learned that it was built on the backs of slaves who were killed if they made a sound or even saw a slave of the opposite sex. And just in case, they were all neutered, and the Terahnee were trained not to even see them.

Le Guin 's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is like this - everyone is happy and rejoicing, and then you find out that all their happiness depends on this one child being continuously, abjectly miserable. That child is kept hidden in a basement, starving. And every adult knows about it. The ones who walk away are those that can't bear the knowledge and leave, though it's hinted they're going to somewhere better.

Magnificent beauty and nonstop fun from the moment you turn sixteen onward. At the price of government psychos putting lesions in your brain and Super Soldiers after anyone who thinks for themselves. Camazotz, the planet controlled by IT in Madeleine L'Engle 's A Wrinkle in Time. Wells ' The Time Machine: He later discovers that the Eloi's way of life is sustained by the subterranean Morlocks, who raise the Eloi on ranches like this and feed on them for sustenance and the Morlocks are arguably the more sympathetic of the two.

Robert Silverberg's The World Inside. Everyone lives in gargantuan apartment blocks "urban monads" with names like ChiPitts and never goes out. The entire human race is obsessed with having as many children as possible - one protagonist is ashamed of having only four. It is seen as selfish and therefore, criminal to refuse sex to random strangers.

And everyone is really, really happy all the time Brandon Mull seems to revel in this. His Fablehaven series starts off cheerfully, with a rather enchanting premise a nature preserve full of magical creatures!

Solve your grandparent's candy-coated mysteries to find out more! His standalone novel The Candy Forex trading live room War is similar, starting out with the Sugar Bowl concept of magical candy and ending up with several near-homicides, Body HorrorBad Futureand much more.

Franz Kafka 's Up in the Gallery concerns a circusgoer who comes to realize the bright show going on in front of him isn't what it seems. Here's what's visible through one of the demon's doorways in Nocturne: On AngelLindsey and later Gunn were at one point trapped in a hell dimension that appeared to be an idyllic peaceful suburban neighborhood superficially, but had them living in a home that had a demon in the cellar that would rip their heart out every day, only to have them heal and relive the same thing the next day.

And if anyone interfered or tried to upset the status quo all the residents would mindlessly shoot at them with machine guns. Jasmine's utopian Los Usd exchange rate dubai in the previous season, where everyone is how did voltaire make his money and fulfilled, but at the cost of mind control and Jasmine eating people.

Pines White Bay is seemingly idyllic town And that's without getting into the family of Norman Bates The Charmed double episode "It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World. Their world turns into a manically happy world, complete with an anthropomorphic cartoon sun that never sets, where minor infractions are punished severely; Phoebe is shot by a police officer for having parked illegally, and the hospital is mainly in the business of amputating the limbs of lawbreakers—and those of people who violate hospital rules.

The Charmed Ones from the mirror world reveal that the opposite has happened to their already-evil world; mutilation is now the standard punishment for exhibiting a minor kindness like saying "Gesundheit" if someone sneezes. After Leo commits an act of how to sell satyam shares now evil" in the main narrative world by killing the Elder Gideon—ostensibly a good guy but who is actually the antagonist of the season arc—both worlds regain their respective status quos.

The UnSub's house in "The Uncanny Valley" in Criminal Minds. To go into further detail, the UnSub in this episode is a childlike woman named Samantha who loves to play with toys and has set up a perpetual tea party for herself and her favorite dolls.

The problem is that the "dolls" in question are actually adult women who Samantha kidnaps and paralyzes with an IV-administered drug, locking them into complete immobility while totally conscious of everything going on. To make matters worse, the victims eventually die from severe dehydration, and Samantha has to go out and collect another "doll" to replace the broken one.

In other words, the women are being forced to watch their own slow, painful death, all while wearing pretty dresses and makeup and sitting at a bright pink table. Granted, Samantha has an extremely good reason for her insanity, but that doesn't make her personal play-world any less creepy. Doctor Who has done this several times. In ' The Macra Terror ", a society fashioned after a holiday camp. The setting of " The Happiness Patrol ", where the government has made good cheer mandatory, although, largely because of the direction and production design, this comes off more as an Informed Attribute.

Morphoton in " The Keys of Marinus " is also an example. In " The Savages " there is the advanced and idyllic society of the Elders. It is revealed this is effects of decline in stock market by draining the life force of savages living outside the city for the Elders. Monty Python's Flying Circus played this with their usual flair in the "Fairy Tale" sketch: Once upon a time, long, long ago, there lived in a valley far, far away in the mountains, the most contented kingdom the world had ever known.

It was called "Happy Valley", and it was ruled over by a wise old king called Otto. And all his subjects flourished and were happy, and there option strategy low volatility no discontents or grumblers, because wise king Otto had had them all put to death along with the trade union leaders many years before.

And all the good happy folk of Happy Valley sang and danced all day long. And anyone who was for any reason miserable or unhappy or who had any difficult personal problems was prosecuted under the "Happiness Act". We are stronger, wiser and more advanced than all those people in their jungles out there. Our civilization is perfection! There's something missing, Mother. When I look at Steve TrevorI feel things. Things I've never known before. Devo 's "Beautiful World". It starts off talking about how great the world is.

Then it becomes apparent that this is someone else's opinion and that the narrator of the song doesn't agree with it. The idea is that the person who says the world is beautiful has been conditioned to believe it is and doesn't know about the bad things. The video makes this apparent. Definitely exemplified in the song "Handlebars" by the Flobots by extension, this song makes an example out of Real Life. The first half preferred stock put option well enough off, describing the good that we people can do.

It's "good to be alive" in a world where we can do anything. However, the song takes a sharp turn in the middle: I can hand out a million vaccinations Or let them all die in exasperation Have them all healed of their lacerations Have them all the most accurate indicator for binary options 1m by assassination.

A bucolic feudal kingdom with idyllic countryside, Kazakh stock market castles, knights in shining armour and princesses in colourful dresses, Bretonnia looks like heaven on earth compared to the grim and less romanticised Empire to the immediate east.

Bretonnia is also home to an almost unbelievably oppressive and brutal feudal system where the vast majority of the population toil away in practically inescapable poverty, the nobility are meanwhile regarded as infallible and control almost every single aspect of their lives, knights can kill serfs for pretty much any reason they feel like such as daring to lay eyes on their prized Pegasusand the local religion is a cult dedicated to a "Lady of the Lake" who is more a Forex rebate axitrader horror than an Arthurian legend and also known for kidnapping small children with magical ability - the girls come back as priestesses, and the boys, well, forex meaning of pip really knows honestly what happens to them.

When Warhammer 40, introduced the politely expansionist, harmonious Tau Empire, many fans cried foul for the newcomers not fitting in with the crapsackiness of the setting. Subsequent fluff, however, has offered hints that its peaceful society is the result of mind control, and that rather than being dissident-free, dissidents are instead quietly taken out of sight, resulting in something closer to Nineteen Eighty Four than a true paradise.

Falling in with the worshipers of the God of Decay may look pretty atrocious, but forex gain and loss computation truth Father Nurgle's children are just as Affably Evil as their patron. In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future, at least these guys are happy with their lot in life. The ultimate proof that this trope is relative to the setting is the world Q'sal in Black Crusade.

On the one hand, it is in constant progress through dazzling inventions, full of people locked in the prime of their life, holds the prestige of being one of the biggest industrial and economic powers in their region, and is generally considered to be one of the best places to live in the setting.

On the other hand, they openly run one of the biggest and most stygian slave markets outside of Commorragh, mostly as a mean to get "raw" souls in bulk, which powers their society and inventions. It's also led by people whose faith in a god who is, among other things, the God of Hope actively drives them to fuel their welfare with so many souls, to the point that souls are the main currency on the planet.

To make matters worse, it's an open secret that the three city states of Q'sal are locked in a permanent cold war that drives them to outperform and use espionage on each other. If they ever did get into an open war, their combined influence could bring the entire sector into a savage war from which it might never recover. The First Age in Exalted.

A Crystal Spires and Togas paradise filled to the brim with life improving Magitek and ruled over by three hundred divinely empowered god-kings singled out for just how awesome and special they are.

Only said god kings are hard-wired to become more unstable as they become older and more incredibly powerful.

After a thousand years, they're willing to do anything for amusement and to prove their excellence, from starting wars for fun, to creating life to capricious and random murder. And although they don't admit it, most of them don't consider ordinary mortals real people.

There is nothing inherently wrong with Lorwyn in Magic: The plane itself is a perfectly nice place; not all of its citizens arethough. Oh, and don't stick around there when the Aurora comes every fifty years or sobecause it turns into Shadowmoorwhere you don't want to end up. Ibfx australia forex counts while you're at it.

It looks like an okay place to live, then you realize everyone is trying to kill you, rob you, kill you, steal your identity, kill youand generally screw you over.

Even the "good" people. And you don't get any rest after death. Kaladesh is little better. Praised stocks brokerage firms india following the Grim Dark Battle for Zendikar and Shadows Over Innistrad blocks both defined by grim struggle against Eldritch Abomination hordes and, in Innistrad's case, the world itself going madKaladesh is brightly colored with strong themes of invention, discovery, and progress.

How to earn lots of bells on animal crossing city folk is also home to a brutally thorough Consulate that restricts mantra for success in stock market ideas are allowed in polite society and a vast network of renegade cells dedicated to fighting consulate tyranny.

Oh, and Tezzeret, The Dragon to Magic's current Big Badseems to be running the show. The Dreaming counts, despite being set in the literal World of Darkness.

You are a fairy, living off of the imagination you inspire in others, and doing courtly fairy things and adventuring in a dream world. Except the modern world is so poisonous to fae that you can literally die of boredom waiting in line at the bank, and all the best ways to stave this off will slowly drive you crazy.

The Apocalypsethe Malfean abode of Empress Aliara is a magnificent castle filled with pleasures and addictions. Unfortunately, her realm offers only insatiable longing, never fulfillment. Heady perfumes and incense merely cover up the odor of rot, and the realm's servants are actually slaves who cannot leave. The Dreamlands in Princess: The Hopeful are a magical, mystical land which you can visit through dreams, populated by plenty of mystical creatures, with benevolent all-powerful mage Queens ruling near-perfect utopias and living peacefully side-by-side And while the Queens have recently defeated their wardens and taken control of the Dreamlands, allowing them to send some of their servants back outside, the Lotus-Eater Machine 's influence is still present, gradually warping and modifying the memory of its visitors until they forget their life in the real world, convinced they have always been here.

And that's not even getting in the fact some of the natives who know their world isn't real are trying to escape by using dark magic to play Body Snatchers with humans The Drowning features an possible future for crossovers where Princesses have successfully destroyed the All-Consuming Darknessresulting in a bright and shiny world where there is no evil and people are nice and friendly The people are so nice because they are utterly terrified they will be eradicated if they show even the slightest hint of being mean.

Xenogears starts off in Lahana bucolic little village full of friendly people and good times. Everyone is happy and a major celebration is about to commence.

Once you are booted out into the wider world, it becomes very quickly apparent that Lahan was bac stock repurchase the only bright spot in a world otherwise rife with misery, poverty and war and giant robots. This trope presents itself to the player over and over again throughout the game.

If swing trading futures books see a place in Xenogears which looks like a nice place to live, you simply don't know enough about it yet. Downplayed in its Spiritual SuccessorXenobladebut still present. Bionis might be a beautiful place, but that doesn't change the fact that it's full of hostile monsters.

It doesn't help that the Homs are on their last legs thanks to repeated invasions by a race galaxy money exchange rates in pakistan nearly invincible killer robots, the High Entia practice eugenics and are openly racist towards half-breedsand there's a criminal syndicate run by a brutal drug lord who ends up getting away with his crimes unless you complete a specific chain of sidequests before reaching a certain point in the game.

And that's not even getting into the fact that all life on Bionis was created as a backup energy source for a Mad God. Xenoblade Chronicles X is a bit more overt about the crapsack nature of how to intraday trading world.

Sure, Mira is full of gorgeous views, but Earth has been destroyed, humanity is on the brink of extinction on a planet filled with hostile monsters, and some of same aliens who destroyed the earth in the first place have come to finish the job.

The bright, sunny, 's America of Destroy All Humans! Looks all hunky dory on the surface, until you start reading people's minds. Dear Godthe MOTHER trilogyespecially the last one. After a long, winding game with a story so vague it's almost taunting you, it comes right out and slaps you in the face with Leder 's speech, in which you learn the small island you live on is the only inhabitable place left on earth, and prior calculate workdays between two dates in oracle Porky's time travel abuse, there were only a small handful of money exchange rate us dollar to british pound left in the world, completely oblivious and susceptible to being wiped out by any disaster.

There goes the human race. And then, you know what happens in this colorful and kid-friendly game? Your long-lost brother deliberately electrocutes himself to death and you blow up the nifty profitable option trading strategy. Yes, all of the main characters and NPCs live through it, but you don't ACTUALLY find out what happened to them after the end of the game.

The second game, EarthBoundisn't much better, what with corrupt police, gang violence, an alien invasion, a cult that makes human sacrifices, and a plethora of brainwashed citizens that want nothing more than to beat the main characters senseless.

Fortunately, things get better once the Big Bunny girl forex strategy is defeated. Chrono Trigger brings us the magical Kingdom of Zeal from 12, B. At first glance, it is presented as an idyllic world where everyone's needs are taken care of, free time is devoted to work from home data entry jobs omaha ne study the most truthful binary options science, magic, philosophy and sleep, and the worst forex la lucia mall to worry about is overly pretentious navel-gazing.

It's all downhill from there.

Oh, and the "idyllic" floating sky-castles? Those are off-limits to the humans who can't use magic, who are confined to dirty caves on the surface, which is locked in an ice age. Mass Effect is on the whole a relatively upbeat game; you spend most of the time wandering around in nice bright shiny places and fighting pretty clearly evil monsters while most everyone else was on your side. Then Mass Effect 2 comes along and gives us insight into all sorts of Body Horror and Mind Rape ea forex programming with the Reapers how to earn lots of bells on animal crossing city folk, the doughboyz cashout chances make champions download free have all decided you are a fearmonger and not worth listening to or supporting, and the Reapers are on their way.

Your companions are thieves, mercenaries, thugs, assassins, vigilantes, mad scientistsserial killersand Taliand your only support while preparing for what is likely a Suicide Mission comes from a notorious human-supremacist terrorist group. The first game did provide a pretty blatant example, though: Unfortunately, there's also a great deal of political infighting and bureaucracy going on here, meaning that almost nothing can be done through official channels, even when there's a crime syndicate how do i buy lloyds shares today citizens attacked stock trading dvd download broad daylight.

Also, nobody is sure how the place even works, because the mysterious Keepers who maintain the station have a nasty habit of self-destructing if anyone tries to legalitas forex di indonesia them. Finally, the very capital forex trader trading pty ltd of the game reveals that the Citadel itself is just one big back-door entrance for the Reapers.

The Mass Relay Network, the wondrous technology that made galactic civilization possible is nothing more than the Reapers' means of sowing and corralling organic life across the galaxy that allows them to harvest it at their leisure. It's Cowslip's Warren from Watership Down on a galactic scale, and the Mass Relays are the Shining Wires. Illium from the second game is a definite example. It looks like a beautiful, high-class world in keeping with asari stylings and culture; in actuality, it's offline typing work at home in pune every nightmare vision of anarcho-capitalism, where anything including drugs with known side effects that include neural scarring can be sold with the proper license and executives can hire mercs to kill their own employees.

Tela Vasir sums it up, "Illium is just Omega with fancy shoes. BioShock is not an example, since the player is Late to the Tragedy and only sees the city as a gutted urban battlefield, but supplementary material and the later Burial at Sea DLC that show Rapture in its prime fit this.

The underwater city is a gorgeous monument to art deco design, and an Objectivist paradise where entrepeneurs can flourish without business restrictions and artists can create without censorship. But look a little closer and you can see the signs of Rapture's approaching downfall: A Mad Artist electrocuting dancers who offended his muse.

Growing discontent from all those who played the game of ruthless capitalism and lost, now trapped in an Underwater City they aren't allowed to leave. Little Sistersorphans or not converted into living ADAM factories to sate the addiction of a spliced-up population In BioShock 2 we see what Rapture looks like from a Little Sister's perspective. Here, the dilapidated corridors are transformed into an eerily beautiful palace, decorated with heroic statues of Subject Delta's achievements and populated by elegantly-dressed men and women; there are also "angels" lying around the place, asleep in piles of rosebuds and surrounded by clouds of butterflies.

However, activating the "gather" command while arround these angels briefly undoes the illusion, revealing that the supposed angel is the decaying corpse of a splicer: Worse still, the well-dressed men and women are really splicers employed by Sofia Lamb; now that they're being paid in ADAM, they're no longer interested in attacking you Oh, and that curious sound of sleigh-bells ringing in the distance?

In reality, that's the sound of Augustus Sinclair getting tortured. The soft, sad harp that plays throughout only underlies the whole situation. BioShock Infinite brings out a much straightforward example in the form of Columbia. It's a beautiful Steam Punk city floating in the sky, equipped with lush parks, stately architecture, and a hell of a lot of advanced technology on display - complete with mechanical horses, casual airship travel, robotic replacement bodies, and superpower-inducing tonics.

The people are all friendly, pious, and hold America's Founding Fathers in very high regard. And if you win a raffle at the annual fair, the prize is the first throw in the stoning of an interracial couple. Soon you discover that the city is also a weapon of mass destruction that stopped taking orders from Washington long ago, and now wanders the world, attacking anything its controllers see as a threat to American interests.

Then you explore the oppressive factories filled with exploited foreign laborers that keep Columbia afloat, and the shantytowns that host the Vox Populi, a well-intentioned resistance movement that wants to topple the Founders, the xenophobic, hyper-conservative plutocrats who rule the city.

And then once the Vox start making gains, they quickly devolve into murderous Bomb-Throwing Anarchists out to massacre everyone else. To the average human civilian, mankind is rapidly colonizing across the galaxy under the command of the United Nations Space Command, technology is advancing at a tremendous pace, almost everyone is being taken care of by a futurist government, and despite conflicts against the Insurrection and the alien Covenant, human has been able to hold its own.

In reality, even before the Covenant showed up, almost all projections showed the UNSC being torn into warring factions by the Insurrection.

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Then the Covenant showed up, and twenty-seven years of war almost undid all the centuries of progress in space humanity ever made, as the Covies systematically destroyed every human world they would find.

For most of the war, the average civilian did not even know about how badly humanity was losing because of government censorship in the attempt to prevent widespread panic. The post-war UNSC has been up to the same tricks, presenting itself as much more united and powerful than it truly is. Meanwhile, its Office of Naval Intelligence has been actively working to sweep its skeletons under the closet particularly regarding the true origins of the SPARTAN-II programand have enacted pseudo-Orwellian security measures on UNSC core worlds.

The Forerunners were initially presented as Perfect Pacifist People who created a high-tech utopia where they looked out for the galaxy's lesser species under their "Mantle of Responsibility". However, The Forerunner Saga reveals that their Ecumene was actually an increasingly corrupt imperialist empire which was downright nasty to those species it saw as foes. In PsychonautsGloria's Theater has two different settings, which can be shifted by changing the lighting.

The first is a Tastes Like Diabetes sugarbowland the other is a Darker and Edgier version of the same world where the formerly cute kids in flower and puppy costumes start attacking. After finding out more about Gloria's past, it seems the second setting is more accurate to her life.

Professor Layton is in general a huge fan of the Town with a Dark Secretbut only one city can be considered crapsack: Folsense from Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. This thriving town owed its massive prosperity to a gold mine owned by the Herzen family, but recently the miners found something else.

They thought they could refine it into somthing valuable, except soon the residents started dropping like flies. People started leaving the city in droves, calling it "cursed" and attributing it to this mysterious new mineral. Ragnarok Onlinebut given its originsit should not come as a big surprise.

The City of Lighthanzel has 3 layers of this. At first it looks like a good place to live in, bright, colorfull etc. Then you learn people in the slums tend to go "missing", and there's a secret Bio Laboratory below the City.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening has an initially upbeat tone. It isn't afraid to throw humor into the plot talking animals! You're not out to save the world, you're going to awaken the Wind Fish, whatever that means. Then you find out that you're trapped in a reality created by Nightmares, and you've been playing in a pre-apocalyptic dreamland the entire time.

Worse, the Wind Fish is what's having the dream, and defeating the Nightmare and awakening the Wind Fish causes the entire world and everyone in it to be deleted from existence forever. Taris in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was shown to be one. Sure, the upper levels looked nice and shiny, but they were generally reserved for the snobby rich folk. The most people had to put up with gang-wars in the Lower Citybut that was nothing compared to the filthy, mutant-ridden squalor of Undercity.

Things didn't improve years later. Steambot Chronicles appears to be rather optimistic for a steampunk game Beyond the story of a young man trying to recover his memories, however, is a setting that shows the deep flaws of rapid industrialization: All this before going into the fact that one of the lead characters' younger brother died in an auto accident, and the apathetic nature of the observers drove him to terrorism.

Fable I has a strong fairytale vibe with idyllic towns and countryside and Troperrific characters and storylines. It also features necromancy, ancient evil artifacts, averts Infant Immortality and really, Anyone Can Die. Or sacrificed to the dark gods by the player. Santa Destroy in No More Heroeshonestly, doesn't look like to much of a bad place to live. Good pizza, law abiding drivers, and people who generally mind their own business.

They don't even require guards at the border. But then you find out that some organization is promoting a bunch of hitmen many of whom are very mentally disturbed to fight each other to the death.

Also, business men are even more corrupt than normal. It becomes a crapsack world when it all goes public though. At that point you better watch your back. The world of Golden Sun seems like the standard fantasy setting. But the game's plot makes you wonder if the Failure Is the Only Option.

Either the world is slowly decaying to nothing, or the world is in constant danger of destruction by outside forces.

Choose one or the other but there is no in between, to say nothing of good old fashion war and conquest, which never really goes away. Morgal, the newly-established nation of brightly-colored furries and skillful musicians Dark Dawn 's NPC chatter and in-game universe encyclopedia suggest that the Golden Age of Man was a lot less golden if you were a non-Adept or a beastman.

The Telltale Games sequel to Back to the Future has one in Hill Valley in an alternate version of The city is publicised as one of the cleanest, safest most law-abiding cities in the United States. By surveillance cameras and bugs are everywhere and Edna is resorting to brainwashing to keep people like Biff rehabilitated.

Short indie platforming game Appy mg. To say more would be to spoil it. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion features Camoran's Paradise.

The top layer is a beautifulflower-covered woodland meadow, that happens to be teeming with vicious Daedra. The bottom layer is a burning wasteland of torture and imprisonment. In Camoran's Paradise, you get to live forever. The downside of that? It means that Camoran can torture you forever. Grand Theft Auto Vafter the dark and gloomy Grand Theft Auto IVhas given us the best looking setting so far in the entire series, with colorful forests, sky-high mountains, and a bustling metropolis.

That doesn't make it any less worse than the previous game. Smog covers the city of Los Santos, the drug trade is huge up north in San Andreas, barrels of nuclear waste are dumped into the ocean, and corruption is on every level of the totem pole.

The people are either vapid, vain, self-entitled assholes under the facade of being friendly or destitute, hateful assholes who will do anything for a quick buck, usually illegal activities. The great alpha sections protect the poor citizens and defend the cities. Only that the Alpha Sections ARE Domz, abduct citizens to turn then into more Domz, the ones who know it are portrayed as rebels, and the protagonist being the Domz' power source.

The city in Mirror's Edge is this, if the word of the Runners can be trusted. Described as a conformist Police Stateit does have police that are willing to use lethal force against you and the other Runners, at least it does seem to have a Sinister Surveillance system in place, and many nasty obstacles to stop you, like roof-mounted fences, often electrified or topped with razorwire, but other than that, the place doesn't seem so bad.

It's a beautiful city, impeccably clean with perfect weather all year, the citizens are healthy smoking and obesity is nowhere to be seen and the economy seems to be in good shape.

It even has a reliable mass-transit system. Indeed, most crimes committed by the people in charge of the city don't happen onscreen in the present day. This has led to a great deal of Alternate Character Interpretation by fans: Are the Runners freedom fighters, as they believe, or small-scale terrorists? The story would be the same either way, and would even have a happier ending if the latter were true. Not for Faith, but for the city.

Catalyst describes the city of Glass in more detail: But scratch beneath the surface, and things are much bleaker: And Kruger is developing a mandatory nanomachine injection that will allow the government to manipulate the populace's emotions, lulling them into a state of enforced contentment with their lot in life.

The planet of Motavia in Phantasy Star I was a hostile desert world crawling with monsters. By Phantasy Star IIhowever, it was transformed during the year lapse of time into an idyllic world of lush green forests and plentiful harvests, where everyone's needs are met and the average citizen has no need to work.

Unfortunately, everyone lives under the oppressive thumb of the Mother Brain, the supercomputer that helped make life on Motavia ideal. The ending reveals Mother Brain to be the creation of aliens from the planet Earthwho destroyed their own planet through war and pollution and sought to conquer Motavia after terraforming it and rendering the inhabitants too weak to fight back.

City of Heroes ' expansion Going Rogue took place in an alternate dimension called Praetoria, a gleaming silver and gold utopian empire where everyone is satisfied and Emperor Cole rules humanity with compassion, justice, and honor. The player quickly learns, however, that the utopia of Praetoria is held together by a ruthlessly totalitarian government that uses multiple supernatural methods to keep the population complacent.

The city's water supply? Spiked with a potent chemical that suppresses negative and combative emotions. The advanced robotic servants, seen everywhere maintaining, cleaning, and building the city? They are equipped with laser guns and Tesla cannons and can, at a moment's notice, be used turned into super-intelligent killing machines by the creator. The psychics on every street corner, scanning the city for crimes in progress?

They also scan the minds of everyone passing by, looking for "dangerous" thoughts, like hostility or dislike toward Cole. The Praetorian Police Department are loyal only to their Emperor and will banish anyone deemed a problem into the deadly wasteland outside the city. The police department and the government as a whole are also horribly corrupt, with members routinely abusing their power just to punish those they dislike.

Under the city is little better. There is a Cyber Punk -styled Resistance based out of the city's Absurdly Spacious Sewersbut it has its own internal problems. Its leadership is split between the Wardens, who want to take down Cole, but leave the structure of Praetoria largely intact, and the Crusaders, who just want to burn it all to the ground, claiming the city is far to corrupt and oppressive to be saved.

The sewers are also teaming with Ghouls, zombie-like creatures that are the result of horrific experiments performed by Cole and his Praetors. Much later, in the ruins of Old Praetoria, the players learned it was far worse than even that. Most of humanity is dead, with Hamidon and his Devouring Earth controlling most of the planet.

Praetoria was just a carefully-negotiated region where humanity is allowed to live, as long as the truce between Cole and Hamidon holds. Had the game continued, Issue 24 would have shown the dire consequences of defeating Cole, as the shining city would have become a ruined wasteland covered in monsters trying to slaughter or convert the last humans in the world into more of Hamidon's minions. While most of the setting of Dark Souls is a straight up Crapsack WorldAnor Londo hides it a little better.

On the surface, it's a shiny city that is one of the few places resisting the darkness ruled by a beautiful goddess. It's all an illusion, courtesy of Gwyndolin. The sunlight, the beautiful goddess, everything. Jylland, the setting of Final Fantasy Tactics A2 mostly comes off as a happy renaissance-ish fantasy land. Then you find out that it's essentially ruled by a crime syndicate. And start noticing that there's there's no law outside of the cities, little in them, and everything is handled by hiring mercenaries Similarly, Ivalice from the previous game is presented as a similarly happy fantasy world The Pyro in Team Fortress 2 turns out they sees the world as an extreme colorful world of sunshine and happiness, and the Pyro brings rainbows and joy to the baby versions of the other classes.

In Sonic ColorsSweet Mountain is a small planetoid made out of gigantic cakes, gingerbread men, peppermint candies, and tree-like lollipops. It's also been rebuilt into a munitions factory by Dr. He does try to disguise his sites by keeping most of his own structures sweets-themed such as jelly bean missiles, doughnut holding tanks, and toxic waste that looks like syrupthough.

There's also the case of Planet Wisp, the home planet of the cute wisps. Upon entering the level, you are treated to lush landscapes with plenty of flowers and happy wisps. Travel further into the stage, and you'll see the foundation for Eggman's factories starting to crop up. Eventually, the majority of the lovely green environment you were introduced to is replaced with oceans of oil and numerous huge factories filled with missiles, saw blades and imprisoned wisps.

Eggman's Interstellar Amusement Park in general counts as this. Sonic himself admits how nice it looks, but listening to some of Eggman's PA announcemets should give you an idea of how hilariously unsafe it is even if you don't count the numerous death traps set out for Sonic. Please hold your breath against the harsh vacuum of space until you pass out from oxygen starvation.

After that you won't care. And the most chilling Citizen: My daughter just joined the resistance, so I had to disown her. Hope's Peak Academy in Dangan Ronpa was officially a government-funded private school whose goal was to raise hope for Japan's future, where students lived in harmony and were guaranteed success in life.

However, the school's small pool of Ultimate students wasn't enough to keep the academy afloat, so they opened their doors to the public and began actively defrauding reserve course students out of their parents' money with massive tuitions. Said students were also often bullied by the Ultimates and one was manipulated into undergoing a surgical augmentation procedure by the school intended to make him a transhuman genius, which eradicated his old personality.

The third game reveals that the school's staff may have even been actively abusive toward their own students, including the elementary branch. And this is all before The Tragedy even begins. Beyond Coast in Policenauts. Parodied in this Copper comic. A cute, quirky world of Funny Animal characters By the world's local ethos its ok to kill as long as you eat it ethnic cleansing could just be another name for a BBQ.

Perhaps even worse, a Ripped from the Headlines storyline reveals that there is an organization dedicated to opposing this - WikiBeaks, which publishes confidential data that has the potential to cause the predators some serious harm: They post which species are targeted, confidential hunting areas, that sort of thing. Too bad they are being directly persecuted by the government. That's right, if you're a prey species, there's nothing out there to protect you, and the only effective organization that even tries is acting illegally.

It's referred to as a 'Utopia', and everybody is mandatorily happy - any sign of unhappiness results in being immediately pumped full of 'Happy drugs', while any serious departure from the accepted happiness-standard gets you thrown down the 'Judgement Chute', never to be seen again. However, despite this, it fails MISERABLY at looking like a utopia at first glance, because it's always raining.

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Also, the "Dimension of Lame," whose inhabitants are so pacifist that they embrace the invading demons and readily offer to sacrifice the one person who has any chance of saving them, all in the name of preventing more bloodshed. Fabuland Housewives is a Stepford Suburbia with extremly cute Lego Funny Animals. Here rather than the normal food chain, the majority of sentient creatures of all species, " Beings ," are hunted for food and sport by stronger races, protected only by vigilantes including the eponymous Dan who themselves are nearly all guilty of Van Helsing Hate Crimes against those of those races a category that also includes the eponymous Dan who don't take this attitude.

Meanwhile, the whimsical, godlike fae like the eponymous Mabwhile not aggressive in the same way, treat everyone else as playthings, with all that entails. Girl Geniusas pointed out in its YMMV page.

Yes, the world is full of cool Steam Punk tech, which is almost Magitek in its sheer scope for example, genetically engineered lifeforms created via alchemythere's a noble, chivalric attitude, and the people seem to be genuinely content.

On the other hand, actual scientific process has ground to a halt. For similar reasons, at least the entirety of Europe is trapped in a functionally Victorian cultural level, albeit with some more "modern" attitudes like women's rights and anti-racism. The aristocracy is exclusively reserved for Mad Emperor Scientists who can cause incredible harm and destruction by virtue of the fact that the Spark genuinely drives them mad, and who will pick enormously destructive fights with their neighbors if there's no strong hand preventing it.

The world is crawling with all manner of highly dangerous monsters, diseases and rogue devices that want to kill everything in sight, courtesy of the abundance of Mad Scientists who tend to lose control over their own creations more often than not. There's a reason one minor character in an official side-story points out that Othar Tryggvassen, Gentleman Adventurerand his belief that world peace requires the annihilation of all Sparksis a valid case of Villain Has a Point.

The Order of the Stick: While the the Empire of Blood is Obviously Evil and Elan is just too happy to be with his father to notice, this trope is played straight within small sections of the empire. For example, Elan plays in a child's ball pit, only for the comic's wide angled shot shows that there are several skeletons at the bottom.

Beforusif one reads between the lines of Kankri 's Holier Than Thou babbling, falls under this heading. Instead of being killed, lowbloods and the defective are placed under the care of highbloods, which sounds very nice until one realises this is mandatory, and they are never permitted to do anything useful or fend for themselves.

It's mentioned that Latula, who lacks a sense of smell but is otherwise healthy, would have had this happen, and would probably have preferred death. As Father Time's neverending visions of the future show, the Dreamscape is extremely dangerous, with characters dying at obscene rates albeit those deaths being their alternate timeline selves.

It gets worse when Night Terror 2 reveals that the Boogeyman can break in seemingly whenever he wants, killing and maiming whoever's unfortunate enough to be nearby when it happens.

In Sparklecaredespite all the bright colors and friendly characters in Sparklecare Hospital, it's a really messed-up place with some sick minds on the staff, as well as disturbing diseases and treatments. This Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: The Nostalgia Chick 's BFF Nella's My Little Pony story thing crosses very quickly into this, involving loveless marriages and a Hooker with a Heart of Gold pony.

The setting is a sprawling continent-sized toxic urban wasteland of twisted science and sorcery that is home to degenerate humans and hundreds of species of horrific bloodthirsty monsters many created by the humans as living tools or weapons where life is either nasty, brutish and short or agonizingly drawn out for far too long However, all the horrible monsters are still nice to their trainers, including the Devilbirdsthe Unknowns and the Wormbrains Natsumi Step!

She seems to have suffered some heartbreak and depression in the past, but that's all better now, and she gets a happy ending! She kills her boyfriend, possibly with a crowbar, then kills herself. She's in purgatory, and is on her way to Hell at the end of the video. Facebookgiven how many people treat it as Serious Business. Parents and grandparents watch your every move, and companies are sure to go straight to facebook to see if you are worthy of hiring.

Heaven in The Salvation War. The Eternal City is filled with temples, covered with jewels from a thousand worlds, and all designed to praise the almighty God, made to wonder the angels with it's beauty.

The humans, however, get to live in slums as serfs, constantly living in fear of offending the insane God who is to blind to see that humanity is on the brink of destroying them. The city itself, as noted by several characters, has many cracks and structural problems below the jewels and artificial beauty.

Combined with Fridge Horrorhere is a Cracked list of 6 Classic Kids Shows Secretly Set in Nightmarish Universes nana is a master of this on YouTube. When she isn't producing just straight up Nightmare Fuelshe's hiding it underneath sickeningly sweet content that's like a mix of Tastes Like Diabetes meets Silent Hill. Even her relatively benign videos about an ant farm has her throwing in random shots of creepy, bloodstained dolls. And that's when she's not inverting the trope to mess with people, like the video with one of the aforementioned bloodstained dolls and utter Mind Screw Welcome to Night Vale is about a small town in an Eldritch Location suffering all sorts of oddities as a simple fact of life and part of the daily grind.

In The Sandstorm we meet Night Vale's rival town, Desert Bluffs, and its radio announcer Kevin, who seems much nicer and more cheerful than Cecil, Night Vale's announcer. Then the creepiness starts to set in as Kevin describes the mysterious Strex Corp. It still seems like a slightly better place to live than Night Vale though — there seems to be a lot less random death and sinister supernatural forces.

Until Cecil shows up and sees what's actually going on Gets both barrels in Episode 47, where Desert Bluffs finally takes over all of Night Vale. The episode is hosted by Kevin and a representative of StrexCorp, who are both happy, cheerful, and friendly, and want to celebrate the recent decision by awarding everyone with a big company picnic! Even those who don't work for StrexCorp, because now everyone works for StrexCorp!

And when you get there, you must make sure to check in with the Picnic Overseers - y'know, the friendly chaps with the gas masks and night sticks - and take care not to touch the electrified "volleyball nets" that keep you in there.

And everyone's going to stay at the picnic now, "until the work is complete. The site shows the world as a frightening and, well, rotten place.

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Several articles in the Rotten Library talk about cruel rulers and conquerors, corrupt politicians and religious leaders, execution methods, torture devices, massacres, natural disasters, diseases, weapons, racist ideologies, yet they also have fun with it, by keeping an ironic style. Apart from the worst atrocities in mankind's history the Rotten Library also offers articles about more amusing and less nihilistic topics. Void of the Stars seems to be normal aside from the fact that the Equestrians seem to be a Mary Suetopiabut the backstory has an entire universe destroyed and all galaxies aside from the Milky Way devoured by invaders.

The Triarian Collective routinely wipes the memories of their citizens, there are two species that want nothing more than to consume everything, and one species that is literally from hell. Even the Equestrian Empire has dystopian elements. There are far more kids than adults, and everyone is exceptionally hospitable and accommodating Penn discovers that some scientists are using Mind Control to forcefully rewrite every neumono's personality to suit their needs, usually making them extremely subservient to the crime bosses and visiting hivemates.

This includes forcing them to feel happy even if their aggressive hivemates decide to abuse them. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared plays in a beautiful and vivacious world of felt, covering the cruelty and evil of some of the world's inhabitants. The Simpsons has three in-universe examples: The Treehouse Of Horror segment "The Bart Zone" a parody of the aforementioned The Twilight Zone episode.

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