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[[File:nothip.jpg|link=Captain America|right|It ''has'' been [[Good Is Old -Fashioned|a long time]] since [[Cool People Rebel Against Authority|defending the establishment was cool]], hasn't it?]]
 
 
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[[Sliding Scale Long Name|Depending on]] [[Sliding Scale of Endings|the tone of the story]], the former popsicle might convince his new associates to lighten up a bit, or he might be dragged down by his bleak situation.
 
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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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* 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 [[Endofthe World As We Know It|total collapse]] of their civilization. When they finally manage to rebuild, they send spaceships (possibly [[Generation Ships]]) on sublight journeys to other stars on exploratory missions. However, the ship-bound Faata return decades (or centuries) later to find that the planet-bound Faata suffered the Second Eclipse and have been reduced to savages that barely survive. Disgusted, they resolve to remake the Faata society in such a way as to ensure the unending prosperity of their race and prevent the Third Eclipse. They use [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|genetic engineering]] to create a caste-based society with the smartest at the top, gifted with longevity and perfect health. The other castes (mostly made up of their savage brethren) would be considered non-sentient servants and remade to serve specific tasks. These would include soldiers, pilots, workers, etc. Most females were turned into breeders who are kept in a perpetually-vegetative state, "producing" new Faata as needed. A later discovery of a mind-reading biological computer would restrict the higher caste to only those with [[Psychic Powers]]. All alien races were to be conquered and adapted to serve the Faata.
** 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.
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