All The Tropes

No FEMA Response: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

No FEMA Response (view source)

Revision as of 04:56, 8 April 2014

83 bytes removed ,  10 years ago
m
Mass update links
VisualWikitext
m (categories and general cleanup)
m (Mass update links)
Line 13:
 
== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Somewhat justified in ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'' (manga version), as by the time major humanitarian aid efforts are on their way to Neo-Tokyo, Tetsuo and his followers have already organized the survivors into a militantly isolationist nut cult who ''attack'' the relief workers.
* In ''[[ScryedS-Cry-ed]]'', the Lost Ground has been placed under the jurisdiction of HOLY, which doesn't seem to care about civilizing the area in any way other than getting Alter Users under their control.
* The combination of an earthquake and a surge in demonic activity causes a large chunk of Tokyo to become a lawless danger zone in ''[[Demon City Shinjuku]]''.
* ''[[Tokyo Magnitude 8.0]]'' is an [[Aversion]]. The anime is about how to deal with a post-earthquake condition.
* Averted in ''[[Uzumaki]]'', where relief is quick to come in once news about the weird shit going on in town reaches the outside world. The problem comes when whirlpools form in the harbor and sink all the ships, and any attempts to get into or out of town run headlong into [[Alien Geometries|the roads following entirely different paths]].
 
Line 25:
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Film)|Resident Evil Apocalypse]]''. Raccoon City is sealed off and the inhabitants left to die to prevent the T-Virus from escaping.
* ''[[Outbreak]]'': The city was quarantined, and they the plan was to Fuel Air Bomb it to stop the infection from spreading.
* ''[[The Crazies]]'': [[The Remake]] has the first city cordoned off and Fuel Air Bombed. Worse, they made everybody think they were evac'ing, when they really {{spoiler|were just herding them into trucks to burn them alive}}. Survivors made it to another city which was then targeted for the same treatment.
* In the remake of ''[[Dawn of the Dead]],'' there ''was'' an effort by the US Government to stop the zombie apocalypse, from mass quarantines to military safe zones. But in barely a ''few days,'' it becomes clear to the protagonists that all of it failed.
* In the 2008 version of ''[[Day of the Dead]]'' the Army cordons off the town, and all phone and [[Cell Phone]] service is cut off.
* ''[[Twenty Eight28 Days Later]]'': While society has pretty much entirely collapsed in Great Britain, the outbreak had not spread outside of the British Isles due to the very short period between infection and full on Rage. Granted, it has only been less than a month, and other governments may have still been trying to figure out how to help, [[Fridge Brilliance|assuming that their first aid missions weren't overrun or driven out by the spreading outbreak]].
** ''[[Twenty Eight28 Weeks Later]]'' reveals that there were a large number of refugee camps in Europe, so at the very least Britain's nearest neighbours were probably pulling uninfected civilians out of the ports or off the beaches.
* [[Super Eight8]]: {{spoiler|An alien has gotten loose in a town. Rather than try for a covert operation or even "try" to save any of the several people who have already been kidnapped by it, the government evacuates the town and initiates " Walking Distance ", a.k.a., "burning the town to the ground". They don't check if everyone is out, or even try to stop people coming back in.}}
 
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
Line 38:
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Devil Survivor (Video Game)|Devil Survivor]]'' features the Yamanote Circle, a vast swathe of Tokyo's shopping district, cordoned off by military forces ordered to ''kill'' anyone trying to escape the blackout zone. [[Justified Trope|Partly justified]] by the government's advance knowledge of events that are soon to take place and their attempts to keep the released demon-summoning technology from spreading to the rest of the world, {{spoiler|and then FULLY jusitfied when it's revealed that the angels were the ones who told them to lock down the circle, and have them under threat of heavenly retribution if they refuse.}}
* After the opening destruction in the video game ''[[In FamousInfamous (Videovideo game Gameseries)|In Famous]]'' the government occasionally drops food and medical supplies, but no personnel enter the area, and there are groups of soldiers with authorization to use deadly force on anyone attempting to leave the city. Partially justified in that some unknown and deadly plague has infected a goodly amount of the citizenry.
* In ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' and its sequel, [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|CEDA]] ''tried'' to respond to the "Green Flu", but got overwhelmed. Inevitably, every time the Survivors try to get to a CEDA evacuation point, it'll be destroyed with nothing but corpses to show for it, and will end up having to escape another way.
* There is a FEMA in ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'' series... it just doesn't do what people expect them to do. Mainly, they maintain the fictional equivalent of CIA black sites.
* The original premise of ''[[I Am Alive]]'' was that massive earthquake in Chicago coincides with mass water shortages worldwide, so no early rescue teams arrived at the city.
** Subverted in the finished game with the Event, a cataclysmic series of disasters so widespread and destructive that it not only hindered relief efforts but also effectively ''destroyed'' almost all semblance of civilized order within a year after it began. This in turn left the survivors to fend for themselves...[[Humans Are Bastards|against other survivors]].
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/882898"