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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Giant Robo]]:'' The Shizuma Drive (Explained in that it's pretty much free unlimited cheap power and it's totally scalable, subverted in that it shows you shouldn't put all your eggs in one Phlebasket.)
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Everything in the [[Stargate Verse]] runs on Naquadah or Naquadriah (which is really just a more potent variety of the former.) The gates are made out of it, bombs, the starships run on it, it's the core element in the Replicators... If what you want to do can't be done with Naquadriah, the you don't have enough of it. ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' kicks off the plot by using ''[[Up to Eleven|a planet which has its entire core]]'' made up of Naquadriah to reach the Destiny.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [[Truth in Television]]: back in the 1950s they thought everything in the future would be nuclear. Cars, planes, toasters, the ''water in your house''. [[Fallout|All improved thanks to the power of your friend, the atom!]]▼
* ...but in actual reality, most everything seems to depend on oil :(▼
** We're not in the future yet.▼
*** Not until we have flying cars and personal jetpacks. Also flying skateboards.▼
**** [http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81028358/ Wait...][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-wwPpU5BI what?]▼
* Blake Snyder's Save the Cat book on screenwriting specifically advises authors to do this under his Double Mumbo Jumbo theory. According to him, if you try to make the audience buy two separate supramundane elements it stretches the film's credibility to the breaking point. He pointed out a flop like [[Signs]] which asked the audience to juggle a debate over whether or not God exists ''and'' one over whether or not evil space aliens exist.<ref>*According to the author: "And if you don't believe me, try substituting the word "Allah" for the word "God" and see if your brain doesn't melt."</ref>▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'', making fun of ''[[Mass Effect]]'': [http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=082211 everything is... mass effect!] Except [[Translator Microbes|translation]] - that's [[A Wizard Did It|magic]].
** And [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|bureaucracy]]. "[http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=051214 I'm pretty sure] even mass effect can't explain a bureaucratic process [[Ridiculously-Fast Construction|getting instantaneous, tangible results]]."
== [[Web Original]]s ==
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* ''[[Bionicle]]'': Protodermis in the Matoran Universe.
* Pretty much everything in the [[Transformers]] [[Verse]] runs on Energon. The earliest [[Marvel Comics]] stories avert this, having them use a liquid fuel that can be derived from oil, but the writers quickly adopted energon [[Canon Immigrant|from the TV series]] and never looked back.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[Truth in Television]]: back in the 1950s they thought everything in the future would be nuclear. Cars, planes, toasters, the ''water in your house''. [[Fallout|All improved thanks to the power of your friend, the atom!]]
▲* ...but in actual reality, most everything seems to depend on oil :(
▲** We're not in the future yet.
▲*** Not until we have flying cars and personal jetpacks. Also flying skateboards.
▲**** [http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81028358/ Wait...][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-wwPpU5BI what?]
▲* Blake Snyder's Save the Cat book on screenwriting specifically advises authors to do this under his Double Mumbo Jumbo theory. According to him, if you try to make the audience buy two separate supramundane elements it stretches the film's credibility to the breaking point. He pointed out a flop like [[Signs]] which asked the audience to juggle a debate over whether or not God exists ''and'' one over whether or not evil space aliens exist.<ref>*According to the author: "And if you don't believe me, try substituting the word "Allah" for the word "God" and see if your brain doesn't melt."</ref>
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