Crapsack World: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears it is true.''|'''James Branch Cabell''', ''The Silver Stallion'', [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|misattributed to]] '''Robert Oppenheimer''' }}

 

 

Although there are countless ways Crapsack Worlds can be depicted (often with [[Scenery Gorn]]), it is usually [[Darker and Edgier|dark]] and on the [[Cynicism Tropes|cynical end]] of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]], so it will have either [[Grey and Gray Morality]] or [[Black and Grey Morality]], if not outright [[Evil Versus Evil]] in the worst of cases (beware of [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]] if you decide to go this route though). Settings like these are not kind at all to [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|idealists]], who usually get traumatized and/or die horribly when their attempts to change the world through idealistic means [[Deconstruction|meet up with cold hard reality]].

 

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[[Category:Civil Unrest Tropes]]

[[Category:Cyberpunk Tropes]]

[[Category:The Great Depression]]

[[Category:Plots]]