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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'' opens with a vaguely medieval tapestry showing the hubris and fall of man.
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* This happened twice in ''[[Divine Blood]]''. First was the tanar with the KT event being theorized by the silthine. Then it was the war between silthine and tanar that destroyed civilization a second time. Then humans develop and rename the two races Demons (tanar) and Gods (silthine). Current hopes include avoiding a third civilization
* In the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' storyline, the Thran peoples, the makers of many of the world's most powerful artifacts, were mere legend by the time Urza and Mishra showed up. And then Urza ''himself'' was a mere legend (though still alive as a planeswalker) by the time the Weatherlight Saga began.▼
** The storyline for the Zendikar block is much the same. In antiquity, the fearsome [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldrazi]] ravaged the plane, nearly ending it in the process, before being sealed away. Millenia later, the only remembrance that any of the citizens of Zendikar have of the Eldrazi is that they are the namesakes of the Kor and Merfolk pantheon of Gods, and are, ironically, worshiped, as lifegivers of the plane.▼
▲* This happened twice in [[Divine Blood]]. First was the tanar with the KT event being theorized by the silthine. Then it was the war between silthine and tanar that destroyed civilization a second time. Then humans develop and rename the two races Demons (tanar) and Gods (silthine). Current hopes include avoiding a third civilization ending event.
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{{quote|'''Host:''' Question one: Books say that the human body is 90% water. What ''was'' water?
'''Contestant:''' Was it an animal?|'''Host:''' Which of Shakespeare's ''three'' plays are now thought to be prophetic of ''The Event''?}}
* The RDM-verse variety of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
▲* The RDM-verse variety of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (including the off-shoot ''[[Caprica]]''). This is explictly the case in this setting, where humans created the cylons, enslaved them, and then watched as the cylons rebelled and (eventually, fifty years later) destroyed their entire civilization. ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' largely concerns itself with the [[After the End]] fallout of this and the fractured remnants of humanity's eventual decision to {{spoiler|make peace with the cylons and, in fact, essentially merge with them to become a new and better race}} while ''[[Caprica]]'' is about how and why the fall came about (i.e., precisely how proud man grew). The evacuation of the "original" homeworld of Kobol, which occured some 3-4,000 years in the past due to {{spoiler|a civil war between the humans and an earlier group of proto-Cylons who went on to colonize Earth}} is vaguely recalled in Colonial history as having happened due to a war between the gods.
* In the ''[[Flash Gordon (TV series)|Flash Gordon]]'' TV series, planet Mongo used to be a lush, Earth-like world. The current people of Mongo only have vague details of what caused the Sorrow. Their culture was advanced in those days, but they used up their natural resources. So they turned to their moon and found a large supply of a previously-unknown rich mineral. The supply was so vast, they built two new moons as processing stations. Then the mineral supply blew up, with all that stuff raining down on the planet, contaminating it. Only a few million people managed to survive by hiding on one of the artificial moons. After a century, they came down to find a toxic world. By chance, an underground water supply was found in one place, where they built their city.
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* The [[New World of Darkness]] RPG setting posits that an unknown number of thousands of years ago, the magic-wielding residents of Atlantis decided to build a ladder to heaven; their failure produced the new World of Darkness. Whether the fact that one of the "heroic" factions of mages (known as the ''Silver Ladder'') holds the whole concept of 'hubris' up as a ''false'' flaw is an aversion or subversion is left for the players to decide...
* ''[[Rifts]]'' takes place on Earth in the late 24th century, nearly [[After the End|300 years]] after an event known as The Great Cataclysm or The Coming of the Rifts. The Cataclysm occurred after a minor nuclear exchange in South America during a rare conjunction of supernatural events which caused a psychic backlash that nearly wiped out all humanity. During the period where the game is set, Humanity has only recently begun regaining a place for itself in the world, and the world before the apocalypse is almost entirely unknown, refered to as the Time Before Rifts, the Golden Age of Humanity, or simply the Time of Man.
▲* In the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' storyline, the Thran peoples, the makers of many of the world's most powerful artifacts, were mere legend by the time Urza and Mishra showed up. And then Urza ''himself'' was a mere legend (though still alive as a planeswalker) by the time the Weatherlight Saga began.
▲** The storyline for the Zendikar block is much the same. In antiquity, the fearsome [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldrazi]] ravaged the plane, nearly ending it in the process, before being sealed away. Millenia later, the only remembrance that any of the citizens of Zendikar have of the Eldrazi is that they are the namesakes of the Kor and Merfolk pantheon of Gods, and are, ironically, worshiped, as lifegivers of the plane.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Played with in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160308035743/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070611 these] [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070612 two] [[Sluggy Freelance]] strips.
* Averted in Nodwick. Some schmuck developed a time travel device to see how advanced society would come a few centuries later and inadvertently wound up destroying his high tech society. Only one person {{spoiler|one of the villains, who pulled a [[Face Heel Turn]] after the blast}} survived. Averted because no stories are told nor does anyone particularly care.
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