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** And where exactly did Komui get his hands on modern clothes while everyone else wears 19th century clothing?
*** This is actually pretty much commonplace for the entire tech division. One can only wonder why a 19th century religious organization working under the Vatican would have a tech division in the first place...
* The places that the cast of ''[[Soul Eater]]'' go to are... varied. Medieval Japanese villages with [[Ninja|Assassin]] problems, Polish villages who specialize in Golem manufacture, mixed with modern depictions of [["London, England" Syndrome|Venice, Italy]] and an apparently modern [[Eagle Land|American neighborhood.]], and London (well, Tower Bridge, at least). Also, the [[Grim Reaper]] and his students all live in a city in ''Nevada.''
* In ''[[Gintama]]'', aliens (known as Amanto) forcibly opened up Japan instead of Commodore Perry and crew, bringing all sorts of new-fangled technology to Edo (space travel, electric fans, bazookas, etc). And since ''[[Gintama]]'' is ''supposed'' to be a [[Gag Series]], you get things like the main character being a big fan of Weekly Shonen Jump (most notably ''[[Bleach]]'', since he uses a sword too), [[Idol Singer|idol singers]], and countless references to modern pop culture mixed in with more traditional fare, like [[The Shinsengumi]], the Jooi resistance, and the Oniwabanshu (though disbanded in the series).
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', [[Moe Anthropomorphism|the Roman Empire and Germania]] are occasionally seen interacting with characters during the first half of the twentieth century.
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** Similarly, the song "A Guy Like You" from the earlier animated Disney film ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' also featured a piano in the Middle Ages.
*** Also, ''poledancing'' during the "Topsy-Turvy" number.
* Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' toys with this during "A Whole New World", where classic era Roman columns are spied by Jasmine and Aladdin. Not in ruins, either. Someone at Disney must have taken it literally, because the Disney TV series had a [[Crossover]] episode with [[Hercules (
** There's also the Sphinx being chiselled out of stone. Estimates of its age cover a huge range, but it's definitely much older than Islam.
** The Genie's gags are 90% anachronistic in all the movies as well as the [[Animated Series]]. But it can be [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] by "near omnipotency". [[Word of God]] (in the DVD commentary) is that the Genie can and ''has'' time-travelled.
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* ''[[Mulan]]'', despite taking place in Imperial China, portrayed ''all'' of the male soldiers fighting for the Imperial Army as wearing boxer shorts under their armor! (one of which has [[Goofy Print Underwear|the iconic red heart pattern]], which is then flung at Mushu's face during the scene where Mulan and her friends Yao, Ling, and Chien-Po go skinny dipping in the lake) However, for some reason, they never show what Mulan's own underwear actually looks like (she may either be wearing traditional Chinese undergarments that are completely relevant to the film's setting and time period, or she may be wearing a bra and panties under all of her outfits to complement the aforementioned boxers).
** Actually, they do show Mulan in her underwear at one point: About halfway through the song "Honor To Us All", Mulan can be seen wearing a white dress underneath her iconic pink one, which can be seen completely (although she was sitting) when she is having her hair done. What appears to be her pajamas at the very beginning of the film may also serve as her undergarments as well.
* The opening of ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' features [[The Hero|Sheriff Woody]] vs. [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|One-Eyed Bart]] in what appears to be a homage to classic spaghetti western [[film]]s. And right about after [[Affirmative Action Girl|Jessie]] and Bullseye show up, it also features a remote control device, a pink Corvette, everybody's favorite Space Ranger, [[Call Back|a forcefield dog, a force field dog-eating dinosaur]], and a zeppelin complete with energy weapons and a ''[[Star Trek]]'' transporter. Justified in that [[Fake Action Prologue|this is all an improvised story by a six-year old]].
* [[I Can Do Bad All By Myself]]: When Madea is trying to explain the account of Peter walking on the water, somehow Moses, Eve, Sigmund and Freud, and even Jonah end up in the mix. Yeah they all were in the New Testament apparently.
* Becomes extremely evident in [[Pixar]]'s ''[[Cars|Cars 2]]'' where all of the famous world landmarks are given car motifs to fit the fact that everyone in the ''Cars'' universe is a talking vehicle. The problem is, however, that most of these landmarks are actually more than a century old, long before ''any'' cars were even invented!
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* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|TMNT]]'', four Aztec generals from over 2000 years ago are named with Spanish names. Not only did the Spanish language not exist back then, but it would not arrive to Mexico till after 1492 AD. Also includes [[Spexico]].
** The presence of Aztec generals is a major case of [[Newer Than They Think]], too. The Aztec empire was created in the fourteenth century, and the ethnic group first came into the area around 6th century AD at the earliest.
* Completely averted in the upcoming Pixar film ''[[Brave]]'', which takes place in medieval Scotland... ...until [[Toy Story (franchise)||the Pizza Planet truck]] shows up there for no reason.
** Its worth noting that the appearance of the Pizza Planet truck is a recurring in-joke in Pixar films, arguably justifying this presence. It's supposed to be hidden in the Witch's hut somewhere.
** Also worth noting is that the exact time period was made intentionally unclear (between the 8th and 12th centuries). And they also have corsets, which weren't invented until centuries later.
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* ''[[The Brothers Bloom]]'' features costumes and props ranging from the 1930's to modern times, giving the world a charmingly timeless look and feel. People dress like it's the 1930's, dance like it's the 60's, but then use cell-phones and perform gangster rap.
* ''[[Schindler's List]]'', a film about the Holocaust, features the famous "Jerusalem of Gold" by Naomi Shemer...Which wasn't written until the 60s in modern Israel.
* ''[[King Arthur (film)|King Arthur]]'' (2004) does not contain really blatant anachronistic cross-overs with other time-periods, but it mashes together kings and invasions from several Dark Age centuries... and Guinevere is a bow-wielding woad-covered warrior princess, clad in a leather bra and leather outfit more suitable as a ''[[Dungeons
** Also, England is apparently ruled by [[The Empire]], based in Rome and run by ''the Church.''
** Meanwhile, Tristan's carrying a Chinese dao(maybe it was meant to be a falchion?) but wields it kenjutsu-style.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' gets pretty insane with the sheer weirdness of how they reconcile most of [[Schizo-Tech]], though usually the base level of technology (at least for humanity) is about on par with that of ''[[Zeta Gundam]]''. However, past that bare minimum the mecha range anywhere from uber futuristic to looking like an escapee from a museum, and even their fuel sources range anywhere from plain gasoline to fusion engines to outright [[Applied Phlebotinum]]. It also kinda helps that in the case of series with a definite anachronistic touch, like ''[[The Big O]]'', ''[[Turn A Gundam
* In ''[[Out Run]] 2006'', one of the last tracks is located in some ancient Mexican ruins. However, these ruins are more of [[Mayincatec|a mishmash of all the ancient ruins in Mexico]]. In this track, you can see the big Olmec stone heads from when Egypt was still ruled by the pharaohs; the big Pyramid of the Sun from when the Roman Empire was about to conquer pretty much all Europe; human-sized columns, known as ''atlantes'', built by the Toltecs when Europe was waging the Crusades; and big Aztec and Mayan temples made shortly before the Spanish conquistadores came to kick some butt. However, since the ruins do look like ancient Mexican ruins, a trained eye might as well not care much about that, maybe finding it rather amusing.
* ''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]'' features cyborg monsters, futuristic heavy weapons (even by today's technology) such as the Venom (a hand-held minigun) and Tesla Cannon (which appears to cast [[Dungeons
** This is more of an example of [[Schizo-Tech]] or [[Mad Science]]. The Venom Gun is a [[Gatling Good]] weapon that would have to be mounted on a vehicle to be used today, and the [[Shock and Awe|Tesla Gun]] is just plain impossible. Most of the [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Nazi science]] in the game is as fantastic as the zombies and undead knights.
* ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: From The New World'' causes problems with its attempt to jump on the "What really happened in Roswell" bandwagon... as the game is set in 1929, 18 years before the Roswell incident. Not that this is anything ''new'' for ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'', or that the series has ever tried for historical accuracy in the first place. Let us put it this way: one of the people in the crashed vehicle is a [[Magical Girl]] vampire.
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** And in Cliffport, there's a ''municipal park''. Amid ''high-rise buildings''.
{{quote|'''Vaarsuvius''': I'm simply saying that the architectural motifs found here in the city of Cliffport are inconsistent with the presumed medieval time period.
'''Durkon''': [[A Wizard Did It|It be magic]].
'''Vaarsuvius''': Yes, fine, I grasp the premise that [[Clarke's Third Law|any sufficiently advanced - and in particular, reliable - magic would be indistinguishable from technology]], I merely find the implementation here haphazard, at best.
'''Durkon''': Meh. It could be worse, ye know.
'''Vaarsuvius''': Oh?
'''Durkon''': They could have [[Eberron|magic trains]].
'''Vaarsuvius''': Point taken. }}
*** And is then played straighter by Redcloak [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0543.html here].
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** The C.C.P.D., complete with sirens (on the horses), sketch artist and mayor yelling at [[Da Chief]] for failing to catch the murderer when elections are coming up, and underlings being yelled at by said cigar-smoking, coffee downing chief. One double serving of Anachronism Stew, coming right up.
** It's subtle, but look at [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0692.html this comic.] Where did Hayley get a metal detector? And more importantly, where the hell was she keeping it? (Same questions apply to Roy and his [[Newer Than They Think|sextant]]...)
*** Being set in the world of [[Dungeons
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Ms. Jones' students watch [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=582 a documentary hologram] about the founding of the Court. The characters in the hologram include a guy who looks like he stepped out of [[The Cavalier Years]] or [[The American Revolution]], and another fellow wearing a modern trench coat, an article of clothing which wasn't introduced until [[World War
** Although she said that in regards to an indistinct glow, represented as such because they didn't know what it was. And present was also the man who designed robots. Maybe the others just liked to dress that way.
* The idea of anachronism stew was theorized, later [[Defictionalization|defictionalized]], and generally slammed in [http://xkcd.com/239/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' comic.
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** And then there's ''[[King Arthur And The Square Knights Of The Round Table]]'', a British animated series that takes this trope and wry it dry. Seriously, Merlin invented the movie camera and film projector?
* ''[[Dino Riders]]'' also had wildly anachronistic dinosaurs living next to one another (''T. rex'' is closer to us in time than to ''Apatosaurus''), and threw in a ''Dimetrodon'' for good measure.
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' when the family watches ''The Poke of Zorro'' in which [[Zorro]] fights [[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]] and [[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]] before challenging [[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]] [[Glove Slap|to a duel]]. When the Pimpernel [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|runs away]], [[King Arthur]] crowns Zorro the King of England.
{{quote|'''Bart:''' It's like a history lesson come to life!
'''Lisa:''' No it's not, it's entirely inacc-
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