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[[File:tyrannosaur in f-14.jpg|link=Calvin and Hobbes|frame|''"[[Cool but Stupid|Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!]]"'']] |
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{{quote|"''Spare me your space-age [[Techno Babble]], [[Attila the Hun]]!''"|'''Zapp Brannigan''', ''[[Futurama]]''}} |
{{quote|"''Spare me your space-age [[Techno Babble]], [[Attila the Hun]]!''"|'''Zapp Brannigan''', ''[[Futurama]]''}} |
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Compare [[Popular History]], [[Purely Aesthetic Era]], and [[Present Day Past]]. When it's the people of the future doing this with the present, it's [[Future Imperfect]]. If the era depicted comes off as ridiculously advanced sociologically rather than technologically, that's [[Politically-Correct History]]. If it's not a specific "real" time and place but rather an invented [[The Verse|Verse]], you're looking at [[Schizo-Tech]]. Compare also [[Reality Is Unrealistic]], when the producers get everything right... but because it's not what the audience was expecting, they're criticized for getting it ''wrong'' (which prompts them to not bother next time). [[Fantasy]] works set in secondary worlds are not examples of this, since their histories and geographies relate to those of the real world vaguely at best (through the use of [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]s). |
Compare [[Popular History]], [[Purely Aesthetic Era]], and [[Present Day Past]]. When it's the people of the future doing this with the present, it's [[Future Imperfect]]. If the era depicted comes off as ridiculously advanced sociologically rather than technologically, that's [[Politically-Correct History]]. If it's not a specific "real" time and place but rather an invented [[The Verse|Verse]], you're looking at [[Schizo-Tech]]. Compare also [[Reality Is Unrealistic]], when the producers get everything right... but because it's not what the audience was expecting, they're criticized for getting it ''wrong'' (which prompts them to not bother next time). [[Fantasy]] works set in secondary worlds are not examples of this, since their histories and geographies relate to those of the real world vaguely at best (through the use of [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]s). |
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| ⚫ | [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]] is a related [[Trope]] on a much larger scale; [[Steam Never Dies]] is this trope on a very specific smaller scale.<ref>[[Rimshot|4' 8.5", in most cases.]]</ref> Contrast [[Low Culture, High Tech]], where a similar anachronism happens with a low tech culture using far advanced technologies it doesn't understand. |
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| ⚫ | [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]] is a related [[Trope]] on a much larger scale; [[Steam Never Dies]] is this trope on a very specific smaller scale.<ref>4' 8.5", in most cases</ref> Contrast [[Low Culture, High Tech]], where a similar anachronism happens with a low tech culture using far advanced technologies it doesn't understand. |
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== Anime & Manga == |
== Anime & Manga == |
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* ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' opens the series with a title card declaring that it is not a historical document. It then gleefully throws everything it can get its hands on (from hip-hop to baseball) into the Edo period of Japan. Doubly amusing because baseball is a ''hugely'' popular sport in modern Japan. |
* ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' opens the series with a title card declaring that it is not a historical document. It then gleefully throws everything it can get its hands on (from hip-hop to baseball) into the Edo period of Japan. Doubly amusing because baseball is a ''hugely'' popular sport in modern Japan. |
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