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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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{{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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