Dystopia: Difference between revisions

== Live Action TV ==

* The first season of ''[[Viper]]'' takes place in a dystopian [[The Future Is Noir|tech noir]] setting. [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|The day after tomorrow]], society benefits from advanced communication technology and medical achievements such as fully artificial heart transplants. However, this comes at the cost of being constantly terrorized by the organized [[Cyberpunk|techno-mafia]] that closely runs the city behind the scenes. The police are often as corrupt as the criminals they're supposedly trying to stop, forcing the lead character to take the vigilante path in the hope of restoring the city to a brighter state. Throw in the fact the local government [[Big Brother Is Watching|may rob you of your own thoughts and memories if they decide they have a better use for you]], and you start to see how bleak it really is.

* ''[[Max Headroom]]''.

* The [[Alternate Universe]] in the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Back to Reality".

* The series ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' features several levels of Dystopia: [[Alien Invasion]] (a result of [[New Technology Is Evil]]), also featuring a variation on the [[No Sex Allowed]] rule: No More Children.

** ''[[Dystopia (video game)|Dystopia]]''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|...]] yeah.

* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' and its sequel. The United States' economy is failing and is rampant with [[La Résistance]] forces, Europe is under a dictatorship-like rule thanks to MJ12 having enough power to work in the open, the majority of food that you find is either [[Future Food Is Artificial|artificial]] or candy bars that mention they are made from [[Human Resources|"recycled material"]]. All of this is happening while a pandemic is bringing the human race to its knees.

* ''[[Iron Storm]]'' is ''made of this trope''. [[World War One]] has been dragging on for a horrifying 50 years and has become a [[Forever War]]. Everything is saturated with industrial grimness and in general decay. The global economy has become dominated by greedy and ignorant [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]] and completely dependent on [[War for Fun and Profit|keeping the war running]]. As if that wasn't bad enough, humans in general have become militaristic [[Crazy Survivalist|Crazy Survivalists]]. There's an opressive new Eurasian empire, which is ruled by a completely insane quasi-religous zealot, who claims to be the new Genghis Khan. And if you think the supposed good guy countries of the setting are any better, think again : They're pretty much militaristic jingoists and crumbling democracies masquerading as brave saviours of civilization. Seriously, it's as if someone did a [[Spiritual Licensee]] shooter game adaptation of ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''...