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[[File:Sweet and Sour Grapes city ruins 5516.png|link=Sweet and Sour Grapes (webcomic)|frame|Built to last (mostly).]]
{{quote|''We've gone from bashing our information into ''rock'', where it will last a billion years, to putting the sum-total of the knowledge of the universe on - a chip you can destroy with a fridge magnet.''
|'''Glen Foster'''}}
▲{{quote|''We've gone from bashing our information into ''rock'', where it will last a billion years, to putting the sum-total of the knowledge of the universe on - a chip you can destroy with a fridge magnet.''|'''Glen Foster'''}}
It is, understandably, common in post-apocalyptic fiction [[Ruins of the Modern Age|to show the ruins of society]]. However, many are set several decades, or even centuries or millennia [[After the End]], and the remains of [[The Beforetimes|the pre-cataclysm society]] are in remarkable condition. Buildings and objects will never fall apart due to neglect, and any [[Lost Technology|pre-cataclysm devices or vehicles]] that the characters find will work just fine.
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▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* Played straight & subverted in the Sankei Newspaper ''[[Astro Boy]]'' serial. When he [[Time Travel|travels back in time]] to the era of [[The Vietnam War]] he eventually shuts down due to the fuel he runs on not having been invented yet. He winds up at the bottom of the Mekong river & isn't found for decades, but a quick refill has him up & about again with no difficulty (though he was in a box at the time). When he runs out of fuel a second time due to its prohibitive cost, though, he falls down on a mountain & by the time his "birth" comes around again he is nothing more than a rusted-out shell.
* The eponymous mecha of ''[[Cannon God Exaxxion]]'' lay buried on Earth for over 2000 years before being excavated by the hero's father. Perhaps justified, in that it was kept in a giant space-packing crate and the mech itself is practically indestructible.
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* Humorously averted in ''[[Slayers]]''. In her first appearance, Martina reactivates a war golem made by her ancestors during the last great Mazoku War, which took place 1,500 years previous. As she gloats over its immense power, the golem starts malfunctioning, due to the fact that its 1,500 years old and hasn't been maintained in at least 1,000.
== Fan
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' the SOS Brigade uses a lost dimensional anchor created millions of years ago. It works perfectly fine.
* Used to a degree in the ''[[1983 Doomsday Stories]].'' A number of places are described in varying stages of decay. Abandoned ruins and wasteland settings, naturally, suffer the worst of it though even the relatively unharmed areas such as the [[The Federation|Alpine Confederation]] show signs of neglect. Though the flashbacks show at least one particular ruin in better condition.
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