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* The world of ''[[Futurama]]'' has many attractions to it, but at base it's stereotypical American trailer park expanded to world size: nearly everyone is annoyed, annoying, credulous, stupid, bigoted, and rude; vital human organs are removed from unwilling donators on the city streets, at-least moderately-intelligent animals, including humans, dolphins, and whales are killed for food or fuel; it is implied that there will be no qualms about synthesizing a needed oil in the cells of gene-spliced third-world orphans who would then presumably be violently harvested. The Earth's most looked-up-to figure is a megalomaniacal, genocidal (of both aliens and his own troops), jerk [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|who's lousy in bed]]. And [[Richard Nixon]], or at least his head, rules the whole lot, his tyranny (as before) limited only by his incompetence and self-hatred. Even [[Santa Claus]] is a totally postal invincible psycho who has turned Xmas into a night of terror and despair, where the populace huddle in military-grade bunkers and hope to survive his brutal rampage. ''Now'' do you want your flying car?

** This is somewhat unintentional, as [[Word of God]] states that the world of Futurama was ment to basically ment to be now, except with more stuff. [[Fridge Horror|Does that mean our life]] [[Crap Saccharine World|is dystopian too?!]]

* Hill Valley in ''[[The Oblongs]]'', where the wealthy residents of the Hills [[Karma Houdini|never receive any comeuppance for their treatment of the Valley people]].

* The world of ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' is a grim, dystopian place plagued by violence, diseases, and jerks.

** Earth often isn't much better after the Transformers show up. Two armies of sentient [[Humongous Mecha]] that have been fighting for probably longer than the human race has ''existed'' have chosen our planet for their latest battleground. Oh, and for extra [[Paranoia Fuel]], those giant robots can disguise themselves as anything even vaguely mechanical, including ''[[Genius Loci|buildings]]''.

 

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