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A variation of the [[Bad Future]] trope in which the present ''IS'' the future for someone. This is distinct from [[After the End|stories set in a Bad Future]] because the status quo is [[Like Reality Unless Noted]]. [[Alternate Timeline
As an example, let's say that we have a story with a Japanese [[Samurai]] that [[Fish Out of Water|arrives in the present from 200 years in the past]]. He'd probably be shocked to learn that Japanese culture has largely been replaced by Westernization, and that Japan surrendered to the United States after [[World War 2]]. Modern citizens of Japan have largely moved on, but someone from an earlier era might see this as their [[Bad Future]].
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* In his title series, [[Nova]] meets his ex-lover Namorita, who is dead in the present, while the two of them are ripped through time. Namorita is blissfully unaware of anything that happens in the future, including the fact that she and Nova were no long a couple long before her death, and that she is one of the parties blamed for the deaths of hundreds of innocents.
* [[X-Men|Magik]] discovered that she would die from the Legacy Virus when she and her team time-traveled to the present. Sadly, if she hadn't time-traveled in the first place, she wouldn't have died, as it was in the present that she was infected with the Virus {{spoiler|by her brother Rasputin}}.
* In the [[Intercontinuity Crossover]] ''[[JLA-Avengers]]'' when they discover their [[Silver Age
* In ''[[The Twelve]]'', a bunch of [[World War 2]] superheroes get put in statis as they're trying to prevent a Nazi operation. When they wake up (in 2009), they're very disoriented to say the least: one guy can't understand the concept of mixed-race marriages, another tries a career as a humorist relying on offensive stereotypes seventy years out of date, one tries to get to his old job as a journalist (and has never heard of the Internet), one who has [[Super Senses|Super Hearing]] now has to deal with all the wireless broadcasts (phones, TV, radio...), etc.
* Another example from ''DC 2000,'' wherein a villain shows the 1940s era Justice Society members the present day in order to convince them everything's gone horribly wrong.
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