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That wouldn’t fall under a single trope, but would be a combination of several tropes. After The End would be a requirement, and for technology that is like magic to those who live in the world would be Lost Technology.
Nice, I think yours is the most relevant so far.
Aladdin (1992). The Genie is the last survivor of the AI wars and has mental damage. The Cave of Wonders is another remnant. “Magic” is low level AI responding to human intent. Iago is an uplift. Agrabah is literally a generic Middle Eastern county because it was assembled from the fragmented records of what remained of the Middle East.
Do you think the genie got it from twitter war brainrot or just did too much of the sensory content back in his skibidi days?
You know, the modern remake of The Time Machine shares some of these elements. Orlando Jones was the broken AI lol
I don't think there's a trope name for it, since the trope itself would spoil the story since this is often a twist.
Tap for spoiler
Like Etrian Odyssey 3
Do you often go into a book or movie knowing all the tropes that exist within that story? I don't even understand the logic here.
I have no idea the answer to your question, but I now know like 99% of people on lemmy have shitty reading comprehension.
I... agree. Did get a lot of great recommendations tho!
Pity, 'cause it's a great question, and a great trope. I can think of a few good examples. Maybe it's time to start a TVTropes account and get editing.
Seriously. There's a dozen links to TvTropes and almost none of them match OP's description, but they're all upvoted to high heaven. Not to mention the unrelated replies talking about their favorite stories which don't actually match the trope either.
The TvTropes links are mostly right though? It matches the third variation of Earth All Along. The linked examples match what OP is describing except not being restricted to Fantasy.
Well OP didn't specify Earth. I can think of some stories where it transitions from high fantasy into sci-fi but is not set on Earth, which is definitely not under the 'Earth All Along' trope.
Spoiler:
The Gods are Bastards is the first one that comes to mind, where it turns out the planet is a colony in an unstable part of space that's been quarantined by the original science team who have ascended.
People on here seem to not know what a trope is. Holy hell.
Browsing responses here, you aren't wrong.
Assuming it's a surprise, this is Earth All Along. Genre Shift is similar, but that's more about tone than plot
Thanks! I think this is it... because I guess the more important part to this trope is that "hehe this is actually the world that you - dear viewer - lives in"... the high-fantasy part is secondary and depends on the genre I guess.
I think the trope From Cataclysm to Myth actually fits better. It even says in the description "Cousin to Earth All Along, but a premise or a plot twist rather than a Twist Ending. "
What happens when the story is not set on Earth?
Flintsonian/Jetson
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Yeah, Adventure Time
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is my personal favourite of Bruce Campbell's work. Starts off as any ordinary western, before getting very, very weird.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/
Come to think of it, Firefly might count, after watching Serenity at the end of the series.
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Not 100% sure, but these come to mind.
- Science Fantasy
- Dying Earth
- Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
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Star Wars is fantasy, not sci-fi. (Technically it’s a space opera, it not at all about science or how that science might impact society.)
Just because there’s technology, or it’s post apocalyptic doesn’t make it not fantasy.
Shanara chronicles, too.
I really like the term "Science Fantasy". It acknowledges the parallels with Science Fiction but respects how they differ as well.
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