No Bikes in the Apocalypse: Difference between revisions

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This odd anomaly in transportation availability seems to manifest in many stories where it logically shouldn't. Sure, of ''course'' Frodo can't [[Walk Into Mordor|mountainbike his way into Mordor]], and his pal Aragorn can't grab a BMX to reach Gondor with some fancy wheelies. But that doesn't stop [[Actor Allusion|Viggo Mortensen]] from somehow forgetting that bikes exist in ''[[The Road]]''. Whether you're watching ''[[Twenty Eight Days Later|28 Days Later]]'' or ''[[Mad Max]]'', the problem remains. Fantasy and Sci-fi works involving post-apocalyptic worlds all have [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|selective amnesia]] when it comes to the world-changing invention of the bicycle. Maybe it's because horses are just [[Rule of Cool|cooler than bikes]], or maybe it's because all the [[Idiot Plot|idiots in the plot]] don't know how to pedal, or maybe it's because those [[Grey Goo|world-destroying nanobots have a specific affinity for aluminum frames]].

At some point, the [[Fridge Logic|fridge logic]] sets in and viewers start wondering just what's wrong with post-apocalyptic humanity for them to completely ignore the world's most popular form of mechanical transportation.

Now, if the ancient technology is randomly picked at and put together improperly, you've got yourself a [[Scavenger World]], and it might at least make a bit of sense not to have ''too'' many bikes. That's at least a bit excusable. But if you're watching or reading a story where gas-powered vehicles exist and foot-powered ones mysteriously don't, then there are [['''No Bikes in Thethe Apocalypse]]'''.

=== Film ===

* ''[[Dawn of the Dead (Filmfilm)|Dawn of the Dead]]''

* Lampshaded in ''[[Zombieland (Film)|Zombieland]]'', when the main character remarks on the useful attributes of a bike during a zombie apocalypse. Notably, the main cast ''still'' doesn't bother using any of them. Justified in that abandoned cars with at least partially full gas tanks are everywhere.

* ''[[28 Days Later (Film)|Twenty Eight Days Later]]''. Pretty ironic, since Jim's character was a bicycle courier before the accident that got him into a coma in the first place.

* The four main characters in ''[[Carriers]]'' are perfectly willing to shoot innocent people for their gas, even though the world is almost entirely intact. The idea of getting gas from other cars or finding bikes never comes up. The only justified instance is with the father and his sick daughter because he needs to get her to medical attention ASAP.

=== VideoLive GamesAction TV ===

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