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Beware: Many sci-fi settings that aren't [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|harder than diamond]] can become this if you think about it too hard.
Compare [[Adventure-Friendly World]], [[Anachronism Stew]], [[Culture Chop Suey]], [[Urban Fantasy]], and [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]. [[Technology Levels]] is what this trope averts. As well as [[Medieval European Fantasy]], of course.
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** Similarly, while BattleMechs have supposedly made [[Tank Goodness|tanks]]—not necessarily combat vehicles in general, just the old twentieth-century style armored boxes with a turret—essentially obsolete centuries ago in-universe, everybody still uses them anyway. Some handwaving about how they're supposedly cheaper and easier to produce is basically canon, and of course weapons and armor have kept up with the times, but it's still like keeping prop fighters in production and actual military use long after everybody already knows how to make perfectly good ''jets''...
** Schizo-Tech comes up a lot when dealing with backwater colony worlds. A hunter might use a black powder pistol to kill a deer for dinner, then come home and cook it in a microwave.
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' trading card game world is full of this, possibly because nobody's ever bothered to explain any of it. We are talking about a world where [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/DR04-EN242 a medieval knight] can do battle with [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/DR04-EN241 a low-orbit ion cannon] and win. That same ion cannon also greatly fears [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/SRL-EN064 duct tape.] Kaiba even demonstrated this in the anime during the Virtual Nightmare Arc, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|his Blue-Eyes White Dragon flying into space to shoot down Lecter's Satellite Cannon.]]
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has their share. As usual.
** [[Gary Gygax]] played around with this trope a ''lot'' in his original ''[[Greyhawk]]'' home games, although most of them (mostly imported from Earth or found in crashed spaceships) got left out in later releases for that campaign setting.
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