Culture Chop Suey: Difference between revisions

** Maybe the Russian Federation conquered the United States in Wolf's Rain? Wolf's Rain is set [[After the End]].

* An early episode of ''[[One Piece]]'' had Rice Balls (edited out by 4Kids to be cookies), even through the pirates are somewhat based on Western fictional depictions of pirates. The characters also drink sake, wield katanas, make Japanese-language puns, etc.

* ''[[The Five Star Stories]]'' practically runs on this trope. Most of the countries have some level of Japanese styling, even if it's just their samurai-inspired sword designs, but beyond that, it's completely all over the place. Colus, for instance, has castles designed to look like techno versions of Mayan pyramids, military uniforms based on post-WWII West Germany, hovertanks based on the Swedish S-Tank, & insignias based on Viking runes.

* ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', with its rapping samurai (and graffiti ninja, and marijuana monks, and...), is more an example of [[Anachronism Stew]], but also worth mentioning in as the title's "champloo" refers to a dish not unlike chop suey, and is used in the same sense as the trope title.

* ''[[Naruto]]'' has the Land of Iron, which is Switzerland with samurai.

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** The Agatean Empire, as featured in ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', is itself a mixture of various [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] elements, borrowed mainly from Japanese and Chinese history: We have both samurai and a thinly-veiled Terracotta Army taking part in the climactic battle. Needless to say, as this is [[Discworld]] we're talking about, [[Rule of Funny|Funny reigns supreme]].

** [[Word of God]] describes Ankh-Morpork as a cross between Renaissance Florence, 18th century London, 19th century Seattle and 20th century New York. (This is a simplification - it also has elements of 19th and 20th century London, post-Imperial Rome, medieval Prague, and pretty much any other city with some interesting stories attached to it.)

* All over the place in the [[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]], but [[Justified]] by the peculiarities of a humanity's Diaspora to the stars.

** Drizad is mostly farms on the surface, and a combination of [[Commie Land]] and [[Mordor]] underneath.

** Markerterion is definitely [[Spexico|California meets Spain]], with a pinch of New Orleans and Kalamazoo.

* ''[[Dune]]'' is a completely justified example - while it is less chop suey and more cultural broth, it is reasonable to assume that after so long in the stars, all the cultures that have been subsumed into the Sublime Padishah Empire will mingle - although there is a heavily pronounced islamic strain, suggesting some sort of Islamic or neo-Islamic period.

* The civilization of the Masters from ''[[The Stone Dance of the Chameleon]]'' comes across as a mixture between [[Ancient Grome|ancient Rome]] and [[Mayincatec|indigenous South American people]].

== Tabletop Games ==

** Hey, [[Medieval European Fantasy|the European areas are usually no exception either]].

* ''[[Big Eyes, Small Mouth]]'' actually spells this out for the world of Ikaris: the Seven Stars are described as a fusion of ancient Greece and samurai-era Japan.

* The whole ''[[Iron Grip]]'' series lives and breathes this trope, in addition to being chock-full of [[Punk Punk]] [[Schizo-Tech]]. Example : The Fahrongi are a nation that has many similarities to the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the Byzantine empire ''and Napoleonic France''. As if this wasn't enough, they have an [[Up to Eleven]] [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] [[Church Militant]] with [[Knight Templar]] attitudes and [[Achey Scars|medieval-esque flagellants...]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|who serve as volunteer suicide bombers...]] The ruler of the country is something like a cross between a [[wikipedia:Caesaropapism#Caesaropapism in the Eastern Church|Byzantine emperor]] and an Islamic calif.

* The ruins of ''[[La-Mulana]]'' have design motifs that echo those of numerous ancient real-world cultures.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' gives us Antiva, a land of olive-skinned macho men with Spanish accents, the culture of which is otherwise based on medieval Venice.

* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'', Academy/Wizard faction at different points has Greek [[Shock and Awe|Titans]], Indian [[Petting Zoo People|Rakshasa]] and [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|Nagas]], Middle-Eastern [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Djinns/Jinni]], European [[Our Gargoyles Rock|gargoyles]], English [[Griping About Gremlins|gremlins]], and Jewish [[Golem]]s. ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] V'' also gives them an [[Arabian Nights Days]] style.

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