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{{trope}}
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Whenever a [[Human Popsicle]] shows up in a story, there's a 50/50 chance you'll get this as well.
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To put it simply, its a [[Fish Out of Water]] story without the [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensuing]]. For a better explanation, when a cryonics patient wakes up, most everyone in the future tends to be dour, pessimistic, cynical, or any resulting combination thereof. The [[Good Old Ways]] have been forgotten. Even the group's designated humorous guy tends to either be a [[Deadpan Snarker]] or a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] [[Homage]] to somebody like George Carlin or Bill Hicks. The formerly frozen character may or may not fit in (mostly [[Fish Out of Water|the latter]] happens).
[[Sliding Scale
The reason for this universal (or at least planetary) viewing of the glass as half-empty varies. Either [[After the End|something very bad happened to the world]], or the story is a satire on [[Accentuate the Negative|society's becoming more cynical]]. Compare [[Crapsack World]] (this may be a futuristic version), or in extreme cases, [[World Half Empty]]. See also [[Good Is Old-Fashioned]]. [[Rip Van Winkle]] is the slightly shorter sister version of this trope.
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* In ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'', cryonically preserved humans are known as "Revivals" and have become their own caste of unwanted social misfits, revived more out of a begrudged sense of duty than any real desire to have yesterday's people cluttering up today's world. Revivals almost inevitably become depressed, insane and suicidal as a result of the social neglect they face from a future that doesn't care for them, as well as a frankly schizophrenic future (think all the vices of the internet, writ large by hipsters and vomited out into the street).
** This takes minutes: we follow one Revival who collapses from sensory overload as soon as she walks out onto the street. She gets better, though.
* Normally [[Captain America (comics)]], frozen anywhere from twenty to fifty years thanks to the [[Sliding Time Scale]], is pretty well adjusted to the modern world. Now and again - mostly when he was newly introduced - he does angst about values shifting and morality becoming looser. Notably in [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/461981.html "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes"] he was shocked by the world he's woken up in (and by what was on the TV) and ashamed that he wasn't there to fight for it.
** Ultimate [[Captain America (comics)]], a different character then the classic, also went through the refreezing. He associates better with his few surviving friends and is very stuck in the past. When he learns Hank Pym beat up his wife -years- ago, he storms off and kicks Hank's sixty-foot tall (naked!) rear end. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]?
== [[Film]] ==
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*** [[Truth in Television]], there are people who talk that way ''now'' about those with outdated values that were once common within their lifetimes.
*** And of course, John Spartan's methods were considered overly violent and neanderthalic even in the time period he was from. That's what got him frozen himself. At least, when he's on the job. When it comes to personal hygiene and interpersonal relationships, not so much.
* ''[[Blast
* ''[[Idiocracy]]'', Mike Judge's homage (and update) of Woody Allen's similar but far less pessimistic ''Sleeper'', may be the ultimate example of the [[Crapsack World]] subtrope. The hero actually spends most of the movie having to make everyone realize they're living in a Crapsack World.
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] by ''[[Alien (
* In the first version of [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s ''Genesis II'' (1973), Dylan Hunt wakes up from a 160 year nap to discover that while he was in suspended animation there had been a nuclear war and that mutants fought with humans for survival in a [[After the End|post-apocalyptic]] world.
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* Inverted in Dan Simmons' ''[[Hyperion]]'': when Martin Silenus comes out of cryo he has so much brain damage that the only words he can speak or write are curses, and not many of them. Also his entire family is dead and he's been saddled with all of their debts. He's unhappy.
** Made even worse by the fact that Silenus was an award-winning poet before going into cryo, so his best (actually, his only) means of clearing those debts is effectively eliminated.
* [[
* In Joe Haldeman's ''[[The Forever War]]'', it's time dilation that causes the veterans of the first campaign of the interstellar war to arrive in a [[Crapsack World]]. These jumps in time occur every time they go on a mission, but only the first time is described in detail.
* Philip Francis Nowlan's novella ''[
* The title character of Dani and Eytan Kollin's ''The Unincorporated Man'' wakes up in a future where people can buy shares in each other - and even people who aspire to become majority owners of themselves someday don't understand why he refuses to sell.
* Multiple different aspects of this are seen in the [[Vorkosigan Saga]] novel, ''Cryoburn''. Yani was dying of old age before he was frozen, but could only afford to pay to be frozen for a hundred years or until a cure for old age was found, whichever came first, so a century later he was thawed out, and dumped on the street: old and broke. Others are more fortunate: being revived when a cure was found for what was killing them, and still having money. They tend to isolate themselves in enclaves of people from their own time, so they can live among people who get the same jokes, and with whom they have other things in common.
* In Mikhail Akhmanov's ''[[Arrivals From the Dark]]'' series, this is pretty much the history of the [[Human Aliens|Faata]]. Their original civilization (as glimpsed by their [[Half-Human Hybrid]] offspring in his [[Genetic Memory]]) was not very different from human. However, an unknown cataclysm known as an Eclypse results in [[
** After the four devastating wars with humanity (they attacked first, by the way), the Faata expended so many resources (in terms of materiel and personnel), that their culture was thrown in disarray and collapsed. In essence, their expansionist ways result in the exact outcome they desperately wanted to avoid. On the other hand, humanity ended up with new colonies and a vastly higher technology level than before the first encounter with the Faata.
* Happens to the protagonist of [[Frederik Pohl]]'s novel ''The World at the End of Time''. After the failed attempt to find what's happening on the planet Nebo, he and his wife are put on suspended animation to be thawed out 400 years later in a very different -and [[Crapsack World|far more hostile]]- world than that they knew.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Buck Rogers in
* Somewhat similar: ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[
== Music ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* ''[[Half Life]]'' 2. While not necessarily involving cold sleep (more a form of time travel) it still fits most of this trope.
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*** Various earlier drafts for the show and the pilot show a much more dystopian future. These various aspects were dropped as the series continued, and the world of ''[[Futurama]]'' has about the same amount of pros and cons as modern-day living, albeit with a lot more convenient technology and [[Planet Eris|general weirdness.]]
**** The Dystopia may be just offscreen. Note comments like, "If you don't want to pay your taxes, you're free to spend a week with the Pain Monster!"
***** Okay, so we still have taxes, but that doesn't make it ''worse'' than the present. At least now there are options!
***** Also the Pain Monster is much better then getting Auditted by the IRS. At least it ends in a week.
**** Also consider "You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do" and [[I Am a Humanitarian|Soylent Cola]], although that varies from person to person.
* ''[[
** When he first comes out, Aang also experiences a bit of this problem with his friends Katara and Sokka. All Aang wants to do is play- but the Water Tribe cities have lived in a war their whole life, and are more used to hunting and working than goofing off like kids should.
* ''[[
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