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Related, if not quite the same, [[Dark Age Europe|is the period immediately after the fall of Rome]]; most [[Film]] and TV set in this time tend to depict it as a time of post-apocalyptic savagery. Thus, expect parallels with humanity's decay into [[Medieval Morons]] [[The Dung Ages|wallowing in filth]]. In fact, while there was a significant increase in banditry and piracy, most areas were peaceful most of the time.
If you're really lucky, you may get a [[
Compare [[Just Before the End]], [[End of an Age]], [[And Man Grew Proud]].
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* ''[[Blue Gender]]''
* ''[[Blue Submarine No. 6]]''
* ''[[Now and Then, Here and There]]''
* ''[[Neo-Human Casshern]]'' takes place in a time when Androids have taken over and a man who placed his mind in a superior android fight back against the androids with the help of his dog, Friender.
** The Series ''[[Casshern Sins]]'' that aired well over thirty years after the original is after the end -- ''of the end'', as now the androids society that conquered humanity is crumbling because of a disaster caused by this version of Casshern, who lost his memories and wanders the ruined Earth searching for answers to questions he doesn't know.
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** A tsunami, that's what!
* ''Future Boy Conan'' by Miyazaki who was well familiar with this trope.
* In [[Gundam]], both ''[[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]]'' and {{spoiler|''[[Turn A Gundam
* ''[[Gun X Sword]]'' takes place on the {{spoiler|prison}} planet of Endless Illusion {{spoiler|after Earth has been destroyed.}}
* ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]''
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* ''[[Robotech]]'', ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', and ''[[Genesis Climber Mospeada]]'' - In Macross especially, where the remnants of humanity and Zentradi eventually manage to rebuild civilization after the planet suffered nuking. Macross City is the capital, built around the SDF-1, with homes, shops, schools and offices, and situated in a barren Alaska, with other cities miles away (possibly around Canada and some of the USA, although it's not specified where each city is located). The creators of the franchise eventually wanted to show a much cheerier image of the post-apocalypse after the big victory, however, the capture of a Zentradi satellite factory helps humanity to colonize the stars, meaning of course that there is a happy ending for most.
* ''[[Scrapped Princess]]''
* ''[[Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou]]'' - whether or not humanity gets better is up for debate, but it [[
* ''[[Simoun]]'' (After the End on a different planet)
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' takes place After the End (in fact, [[Epileptic Trees|some people]] think it happens centuries after the [[End of the World Special|conclusion]] of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''). Humanity gets better.
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== Fan Fic ==
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7233104/1/The_10th_Level The 10th Level] nicely covers the fridge logic of the Code Geass ending.
* The ''[[
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4797162/1/The_Faceless The Faceless]'' is a ''[[Death Note]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic|AU]] which explores the [[Fridge Horror]] of having an entire realm of Death Gods that only need your name and face to kill you and [[Dying Like Animals|what would happen]] once the [[Broken Masquerade|Masquerade Broke]].
* Part of the premise of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] fanfic, [[End of Ponies]].
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** Kamandi's world later became the setting for a bevy of other post-apocalyptic DC comics that got lumped in with it when they were incorporated into [[The DCU]], including the Atomic Knights, Hercules Unbound, and Hex.
* ''[[The End League]]'' Post apocalyptic superheros who suck really hard at what they do.
* ''[[Killraven]]'' was set in a world where the Martians from ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' came back in the '90s and won this time. It focused on one of the few free human rebels and his attempts to overthrow the alien scourge.
* The [[Esperanto, the Universal Language|Esperanto]] comic book ''[[Ten Jarojn Poste|10 Jarojn Poste]]'' ("10 Years After") is set after a devastating nuclear war; the subsequent plague of male sterility, from which only a few men are immune, threatens humanity with extinction.
* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' is set After the End where outside of a few giant city-states (and a Lunar colony, for some reason), the entire world is a barren radioactive desert filled with bizarre mutants.
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* ''The Quiet Earth'', in which an attempt at building a global energy grid reduces the population of the world to three New Zealanders, who only survived because they were on the brink of death at the time. For a while, [[Mayor of a Ghost Town|the survivors enjoy everything the abandoned world has to offer]] while trying to work out what happened: then the disaster happens again, and [[Gainax Ending|the movie ends with only one protagonist left, staring up at an]] [[Alien Sky]].
* ''[[Sky Blue]]''
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Logan's Run]]'' is set on a post-apocalyptic Earth where the only survivors live in a hermetically-sealed domed city—except for one crazy old man who lives in the U.S. House of Representatives with his cats.
* Taken to an extreme in ''The Time Machine'' where Alexander travels to the year 802701, where humanity has started over and split into the normal-looking Eloi and the savage Morloks, and then again to the year 635,427,810, where the latter has taken over the planet.
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* ''[[The Starlost]]'' takes place on a generation ship launched from an Earth that was destroyed by some unspecified disaster shortly afterward.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' creator Gene Roddenberry made together three separate pilot movies for essentially the same series premise: ''[[Genesis II]]'', ''[[Planet Earth]]'', and ''[[Strange New World]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' itself could be considered an "After The After The End" story - centuries before the show, humans almost destroyed themselves in a nuclear war, but then climbed their way back up to become greater than they were before. The After the End stage, known as the Postatomic Horror, is seen in "[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Encounter at Farpoint]]" and ''[[Star Trek:
** Likewise, it is stated that the Vulcans fought a similar world war which left their planet in ruins (and may explain the desert-like state of the planet). However, they learned to embrace logic and became a major power in the Galaxy.
** More than one episode involved the Enterprise or Voyager discovering a planet or civilization in this trope.
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** REMAIN INDOORS
* The Australian TV series ''[[Spellbinder]]'' is partly set in an alternate, rustic universe where a reasonably-sized pre-industrial society exists in the midst of an incalculably-large wasteland. It's eventually determined that the Wasteland was created by the Darkness, a nuclear winter created by the Spellbinders' failed attempt at increasing power. As a result, though the Spellbinders have electromagnetic capability in the "Power Stones", they've forgotten how it works, and only really know how to use the stones to power the flying ships and powersuits.
* ''[[The Tribe]]'' has a selective [[Depopulation Bomb]] called [[The Virus]], [[Only Fatal to Adults|which has wiped out all the adults]], [[Teenage Wasteland|leaving kids and teenagers]] in a [[
* ''[[Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future]]'' is set after the invention of robotic soldiers has resulted in decades of unending war. And that's how things were ''before'' the [[Big Bad]] Lord Dredd came to power and started digitizing humanity en masse.
* ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' takes place in the third and final year of a [[Robot War]] which had, in the earlier years, gone nuclear. The city the series takes place in is explicitly stated to be ''the only one left on Earth'' due to its protective shield.
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* The History Channel's [[Speculative Documentary]] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r97xoSOEjM&feature=related After Armageddon]''.
* In ''[[Community]]'' epsiode [[Community/Recap/S1/E23 Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare]] invokes this trope (and related tropes) [[For Laughs]]. After Dean Pelton announced the prize to the school's paintball competition (priority scheduling), almost all of the students destroy each other and their school almost immediately.
* Happens in ''[[Aftermath:
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* ''[[Gamma World]]'' is set on an Earth which, centuries after some ill-defined global catastrophe, is populated with mutants of every mental and physical stripe, sentient animals and plants, insane malfunctioning robots and even humans. The players are strongly encouraged to not take this very seriously. The RPG credits Lanier's ''Hiero'' books, Aldiss' ''[[Hothouse]]'', and [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Star Man's Son'' as influences (see [[Literature]]).
** As for how the apocalypse happened, it varies with each edition. Earlier ones used nuclear war, the previous one used Nanotechnology combined with a heaping helping of [[And Man Grew Proud]], and the current one involves [[Reality Is Out to Lunch|every timeline getting smushed into one]] due to a [[Magical Particle Accelerator]]
* In the backstory of ''[[Warhammer
** Humanity's golden age was brought to an end by the [[Horus Heresy]], where fully half of the human race turned to worshiping demons and wiping out the other half. The God-Emperor was permanently injured in a lethal duel with their leader, Horus (in a way, the Emperor's son), to the point that he is only kept alive by an extremely complex life support device. Since then, it has stood on the brink of destruction for 15,000 years... and considering that it has been said there are flaws in the device beyond repair, it may be coming soon.
*** For the majority of humanity, the "Dark Age of Technology" was a greater golden age than the height of the Imperium, but the attitudes and lifestyles of that era are not well regarded by the Imperium. The [[Horus Heresy]] occurred 5,000 years later, in A.D. 30,000, and some, including Tzeentch, one of the four main Chaos Gods, theorize that if the Emperor dies, [[A God Am I|he will be reborn as a full-blown god, destroy the Chaos Gods, and lead humanity to eternal victory]].
*** To elaborate, in 40K, where all emotions are shadowed in the Warp, faith is ''literally'' power - and the Emperor is the object of worship for an unbelievably huge and ridiculously fanatical state-enforced cult.
** Known apocalypses in the ''[[Warhammer
*** Now, now people, let's not be humano-centric here. There have been at least several other apocalypses involving other races going on, the most recent and significant must be the fall of the Eldar, although there is of course the apocalypse that wiped out the Old Ones as well. In fact look at any race (bar the Tau) and you'll find an apocalypse or two somewhere in their background (though with Chaos they were usually CAUSING them).
**** With the exception of the Eldar's apocalypse, which is widely believed to have caused Slaneesh, rather than the other way around.
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* ''[[Exalted]]'' takes place after 3 different Ends, and is set at [[End of an Age]]. First was the Primordial War (named after the Primordials, the creators of the universe, who lose), involving the extinction of scores of civilizations and races; most of Creation was burned up by a sore loser's last act before surrendering. Then the [[Atlantis|First Age]], was ended by the Usurpation. Lastly, a plague made by a ghost of a Solar killed in the Usurpation, and powered by the corpse/ghost of a killed Primordial, killed 90% of the population, and was followed by a invasion of [[The Fair Folk]], who succeeded in unmaking half of Creation (by area).
** The good news? You play EXALTS. They can do just about anything, including flattening the Fae Folk and pushing them back to reclaim parts of Creation from the Wyld and in the past they beat down the creators of the Gods themselves...Problem is the forces of the Underworld have Exalts too, and then there's that [[It Got Worse|Great Curse]]. The Potential to fix the world is there, it'll just take a lot of work, and the Exalts overcoming the effects of the Great Curse along with every possible threat to Creation...But hey, if anyone can pull it off, its the [[Memetic Badass|Exalted]]
* The Dark Sun campaign setting for ''[[Dungeons
** Game designers' early descriptions of what [[Dark Sun]] would be like actually referred to it as "the Forgotten Realms after they dropped the Bomb".
* Palladium's ''[[After The Bomb]]'' setting (originally a spin-off of their ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' RPG, now separate) takes place in a post-apocalyptic world populated by both human survivors and [[Funny Animal|mutant animals]] as a result of a virus followed by a grand nuking of the population. (They assumed the virus was a bio-weapon, it was just a prank. Oops.)
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* ''Mutant Future'' is a close-as-you-can-get-it retroclone of post-apoc RPGs such as Gamma World using the Labyrinth Lord rules.
* ''Aftermath!'' is an old [[Scavenger World]] game, and it's slim pickings since it's a few generations after the end. There's lots of scenarios for the setting, lots of little rules systems for simulating special cases, lots of genetically engineered life forms and [[Schizo-Tech]] and you are as likely to die of [[Wizard Needs Food Badly|starvation and exposure]] as violence.
* ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' is by default [[Hit So Hard the Calendar Felt It|set ten years after]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|the Fall]], in which [[
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* In ''[[Legacy of Kain]]: Soul Reaver'', Raziel is thrown into the abyss at the height of his empire's power and comes back 1,000 or 10,000 years (or more) later to find it a crumbling, decaying wasteland. Although in this case, there was no cataclysm, just a gradual downward spiral.
* In ''Rayforce'', Earth has been overtaken and transformed by the supercomputer-turned-[[Eldritch Abomination]] "Con Human". The game, of course, ends with an [[Earthshattering Kaboom]].
* ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha|Super. Robot. Wars. Alpha. Gaiden.]]'' Starting with chapter 10, it's a future that had, as part of it's backstory, the backstories of [[Xabungle]], [[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]], and [[Turn A Gundam
** It's actually ''worse'' : {{spoiler|Alpha Gaiden is set after ''three'' ends. THREE. The gravitational shockwave the heroes were trying to prevent before the time travel, a massive attack by the underground forces (aka [[Getter Robo|the Dinosaur Empire]] and [[Great Mazinger|the Mycenae civilisation]]), and the aforementioned fusion of ''[[After War Gundam X|Gundam X]]'''s massive [[Colony Drop]] and [[Turn A Gundam
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'', the entire world had been flooded, and only the Chosen people survived; the rest were killed off. The [[Cel Shading|graphics]] are so light-hearted that it might never dawn on the player that ''over 90% of the population of the planet was drowned.''
* In ''[[In the Hunt]]'', the game takes place after most of the world is submerged underwater via an evil organization's [[Doomsday Device]].
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* ''[[Mutant Rampage Body Slam]]'' takes place after many wars and ecologic disasters ruined the world's cities.
* This may be a stretch, but ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' may apply, in a sense. Wander travels around the Forbidden Lands, which is devoid of human life, save for Wander himself. However, if one looks carefully (and does a lot of riding), traces of a prior civilization can be found, namely at the altar area in the desert that triggers the 13th colossus, and the "closed off city" that the 14th colossus resides in. Certainly not an end of all humanity or life, but an end to a civilization [[Wild Mass Guessing|(maybe?)]], nonetheless.
* ''Lethal Skies'' is an [[Ocean Punk]] [[Simulation Game|flight sim]] taking place after runaway [[Hollywood Global Warming]].
* The world in ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' turns out to be this, with a past [[Lost Technology|technologically advanced]] [[Abusive Precursors|world civilization]] having long since been wiped out [[And Man Grew Proud|by harnessing]] the [[Lost Superweapon|Mana Fortress]]. Considering this was caused by abusing Mana to power the Fortress, this is also a [[Green Aesop]] for our world's abuse of natural resources.
* The in-game setting for [[.hack GU Games|The World R:2]] is set after a huge war where humanity kills most of the gods from R:1's backstory.
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* ''[[The Wager]]'' takes place after an event known only as "the Shattering," which was powerful enough to permanently alter the world's geography but left humanity seemingly intact.
* Subverted in ''[[The Reconstruction]]''. {{spoiler|The game doesn't start out like this, but an apocalypse happens towards the end that turns the final chapter into an After the End scenario.}}
* Crisis City in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006
* The [[Roguelike]] ''[[Caves of Qud]]'', set in a world of ruins, mutants, and remnant killer robots.
* ''[[Guns of Icarus]]'' is set in a post-apocalyptic world where [[Sky Pirates]] rule the air in [[Zeppelins from Another World]].
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