It's Always Spring: Difference between revisions

 

[[Do They Know It's Christmas Time?]] episodes almost invariably shift the setting to winter.

 

* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', where Second Impact shifted the axis of the Earth such that there are no longer seasons in the modern sense. This is subtly hinted at by the constant droning of summer cicadas in background scenes where the kids are nonetheless attending the normal school year, and more humorously by Pen-Pen being a variety of penguin who've adapted to a warmer climate.

** This may be best illustrated by the expression "... and tomorrow it will snow", which has apparently taken on the same meaning as "when pigs fly" in Japan.

 

 

* An interesting example is the ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' plane Lorwyn, in which it is ''literally'' always spring.

** For some long period of time, at some point it turns into a dark always fall/winter and is known as Shadowmoor.

 

 

* Justified in [[Peter S. Beagle]]'s ''[[The Last Unicorn (novel)|The Last Unicorn]]'' book and movie, since it is eternally spring in any forest where a unicorn lives. When the eponymous unicorn leaves her forest to travel, however, she has to endure changing seasons just like any mortal.

* Justified in ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'', where it is explained that the History Monks have frozen their monastery grounds in time during the season when the cherry blossoms are falling, because they believe that to be the most beautiful time of year.

 

 

* An odd live-action example: in the Australian soap ''[[Home and Away]]'', it's always summer in Summer Bay. Even when the actors are filming in the middle of winter next to the strong cold winds of the ocean, their wardrobe reflects a summer climate. No wonder they have trouble emoting—they're too busy trying not to shiver. This is justified only by the nature of filming: episodes filmed in winter won't air until mid-spring.

* A live-action [[Did Not Do the Research]]-y example in ''[[Greek]]''. The show is set in a college in Ohio. The second part began after winter break. The finale was spring break. In between, [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|Not. One. Snowflake.]] Not even a heavy coat. In ''Ohio''. Where winters are known to ''kill people''.

 

 

* This is the reason the songs "Winter Wonderland", "Let It Snow", "Baby, It's Cold Outside", "Sleigh Ride" and, hell, even ''"Jingle Bells"'' are considered Christmas songs, despite not mentioning Christmas at all. On the other hand, it's also probably the only reason anybody still remembers them at all.

** It's also weird considering that winter doesn't officially start until the 21st or 22 December (depending on the Solstice). Therefore, most the Christmas season is actually in the fall.

* Olivia the Band, a rock group from Hawaii, has an album called ''Where We Come From It Never Snows''. Which is true of Oahu, but not the entire state of Hawaii - Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the Big Island see snow most winters, and even Haleakala on Maui can get it on rare occasions.

 

 

* In outside dungeons in ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2''/''Dark Chronicle'', it sometimes rains at different frequencies, but it never snows. And it never even rains anywhere else except in the opening movie.

* The ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' series has this problem, although it is averted in ''Vice City'' and ''San Andreas'', which are set much closer to the equator than ''GTA3''. The fictionalized New York of ''GTA3'' never changes climactically despite the significant amounts of time that can pass in game (it is actually possible to check how many days have passed in game from the menu).

* In the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' series the seasons never change regardless of how many times the [[In-Universe Game Clock]] cycles from day to night.

** Despite the name, Neverwinter ''does'' get snow in the pen-and-paper game. Its name comes partly from the fact that the river never freezes, due to being warmed by a dormant volcano upstream inhabited by fire elementals.

 

 

* After several years of sunny summer weather, ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' announced it would be introducing seasons, inaugurating it by having a [[Humongous Mecha]] [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090811.html knock over Bob's freshly raked pile of leaves.]

* Not only is it always spring in [http://revfitz.com "Mr. Square"] but they never seem to leave the same field of grass.

 

 

* In ''[[South Park]]'', it is always winter, even when it's not (during baseball season, or while school is out). In the original short films that preceded the series proper, the creators figured characters in snowy landscapes would be easier to animate since their feet would be obscured by the snow.

** As Cartman puts it in "Jakovasaur", "There are two seasons in South Park: winter and July."

 

 

 

* Averted in ''[[Aria]]'', where Akari mentions the changing of the seasons in her letters, which is reflected in the art for the episode. The manga volumes are actually seasonally themed, with the first being fall, the second being winter, the third being spring, and so on. That 2–3 years pass and nobody seems to get any older is not mentioned.

** Note: 2-3 ''Mars'' year, which means roughly 4-6 Earth years.

 

 

* Averted by... well, probably most newspaper comics, and they have plenty of good reasons to. Most cartoonists don't live in California, and most of their comics take place in the present day in the creator's own country. They also have plenty of time to waste on strictly winter-related strips and storylines, being not confined to the 22-episode limit that most TV shows have, and most strips are guaranteed to only run once, during the appropriate season (reruns take up a maximum of four weeks a year and can be culled from any point in the series' run).

** ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' in particular had some epic winter strips over the years, including his famous <s>demented snowmen</s> deranged mutant killer monster snow goons.

 

 

* Averted in the various versions of ''[[Law and Order]]'', where, due to filming in New York City and the production's shooting schedule, it seems to be mostly winter.

** Look at the clothes worn by people in the background, fall episodes are filmed in summer. Spring episodes are shot in winter. The amount of sunlight is also a giveaway.

 

 

* Averted somewhat in ''[[Persona 3]]'', the game takes place over the course of nearly an entire year. As the seasons change, the trees lose their leaves and they eventually grow back... but that's about it.

** Your party members will change clothing depending on the season [[Limited Wardrobe|(and little else)]], and school goes in and out of session as expected.

 

 

* Averted by ''[http://epparker.com/tallcomics/ Unwinder's Tall Comics]'', which not only changes seasons, it maintains the seasons for multiple comics (none of which are actually related to the plot or [[Dreaming of a White Christmas|Christmas]]), and characters' clothing changes appropriately.

* Played with in ''[[Our Little Adventure]]''. The seasons do change but since the [[Flat World|world is flat]], they logically ''shouldn't.'' There are also places in Manjulias where it's always summer or always winter. This like many other things in the comic [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0222.html get lampshaded.]

 

 

* Despite the quote at the top of the page, ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' averts this for the most part, especially in season one, which features a trip from the south pole to the north pole, with the weather and outfits notably changing to being appropriate equatorially and back over time. Sure, you'd think that there would be different seasons in the north and south hemisphere, but let's just go with the [[Fanon]] that the ''Avatar'' globe doesn't have a tilt.

** One episode did seem to explicitly take place in Autumn.