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* The Galactic Leyline in ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' is a Promised Land.

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'': The Golden Land can act like this, depending on which EP. The catch: resurrecting Beatrice, done by having about a dozen people killed in as horrific a manner as possible.

* Paradise (Rakuen) in ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' is apparently real. Nobody seems to know what it's like, only that it's desirable to get there.

 

* ''[[The Island]]'' is named for its Type A Promised Land which people can "win" a one-way trip to - in reality, {{spoiler|they're clones being harvested for parts}}.

* ''[[Logan's Run]]'' features a Promised Land by the name of Sanctuary.

* ''[[A Boy and His Dog]]'' has the title characters searching for "Over the Hill" (which, when you think about it, would be a more appropriate destination for the escapees from ''[[Logan's Run]]'', but we digress...)

* The lost kids in ''[[Mad Max|Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome]]'' think that Max is the [[Second Coming]] of Captain Walker, who will take them to "Tomorrow-morrow Land".

* Dry Land in ''[[Waterworld]]''.

* The Nesting Grounds in ''[[Dinosaur]]''. Although according to the viewers of the film, the Herd is going there because it's the only part of prehistoric Earth that was not destroyed by the meteorite, [[All There in the Manual|according to the book ''Dinosaur: The Essential Guide'',]] the main reason the Herd was going there is because of the fact that during the winter, the Nesting Grounds actually becomes too cold and infertile for the dinosaurs to lay their eggs, and as a result they were all evicted into the desert where they all remained for days until springtime. The film's events actually take place in the spring since that is when the Herd is supposed to return to the Nesting Grounds.

* Pacific Playland fits the No Promised Land description in ''[[Zombieland]]''.

** "Out west, we hear it's back east. Back east, they hear it's out west. It's all just nonsense. You know, you're like a penguin on the North Pole who hears the South Pole is really nice this time of the year"

 

* ''[[House of the Scorpion]]'': The boys under control of the Keepers in Aztlán (Mexico) view the United States as this, and one boy mentions that his father is probably currently living it up in California as a movie actor. This fact was subverted earlier in the book when El Patrón mentions that when he captures illegal immigrants for his work force, he catches them not just coming in from Aztlán, but ''from the United States,'' saying that America has seen better economic times.

** When life on Animal Farm worsens, Napoleon invites Moses the Raven back, so that Moses will keep the others happy with his tales of the promised land. It is never clarified if this land exists, but it is clear that Napoleon doesn't believe it does. So, Cynical flavor A, at least from Napoleon's point of view.

* ''[[Deathlands]]''. Earth has become a [[Death World]] after [[WW 3]]. A popular myth is that a gateway to a better world lies in the Darks (Glacier National Park in Montana). {{spoiler|Turns out the 'gateway' does exist -- to a [[Lost Technology]] [[Portal Network]] which takes the protagonists from one part of [[Deathlands]] to another, which is not exactly an improvement.}}

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, the Clans are forced to leave their home, though Midnight promises them that there's a place for them to live with oak forests and streams and plenty of prey. When they leave on their journey, their ancestors give them a sign to show them which way to go. The land ''does'' end up being very good - there's perfect territory for each Clan - but it is still susceptible to natural disasters such as drought, and it's not free of predators.

 

* Myth-shrouded Utopia in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode of the same name.

** Another ''[[Doctor Who]]'' example from the first season of the new series, The Long Game: the workers on the TV satellite talk about the legendary "Floor 500", which is described as a promised land. Falls under a mix of Cynical A and B, in that there is a 500th floor of the satellite, but it's {{spoiler|full of corpses being used by the station's abominable alien overlord.}}

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has an episode where Maybourne learns of a [[Promised Land]] and tricks SG-1 in to taking him to the gate that sends you there. Jack follows him through. Unfortunately for him, the message pointing him to the planet was millions of years old, and the [[Promised Land]] stopped existing at some point in the intervening millenia.

 

* The Big Rock Candy Mountain from the American Hobo's Vision Of Utopia.

* The Seekers, "I'll Never Find Another You"

And I'll be there someday if you will hold my hand }}

 

 

* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. It contains "the promised land, a land which promises supreme happiness". The Shinra company whishes to find it and extract the allegedly abundant Mako in order to build Neo-Midgar. {{spoiler|It turns out to be mostly metaphorical... not that that stops anyone fighting over it.}}

** The [[Expanded Universe]] indicates that the Promised Land is {{spoiler|the collection of souls that makes up the Mako Stream, essentially being the setting's version of the afterlife.}}

* The titular land of ''[[Ys]]'' was this until it was brought to ruin by [[Artifact of Doom|the very artifact]] that drove it to prosperity.

* Erinn, the setting of ''[[Mabinogi]]'', is seen as one of these in the [[Darker and Edgier]] prequel, ''[[Vindictus]]'', and is very much the Type C variety, what with the war against the Fomors in order to reach it.

* In the ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' add-on, ''Honest Hearts'', [[The Atoner|Joshua Graham]] refers to Zion Nation Park as the Idealistic Version. [[Scenery Porn|It's hard to argue with him]]. The player's actions can have Joshua and the tribals leave Zion for another Promised Land (which leads to Zion being polluted and despoiled by the White Legs), or fight off the White Legs to preserve Zion's natural beauty at the cost of introducing war to its (innocent) local population.

* ''Nirvana'' from [[Digital Devil Saga]] is [[There Will Be Cake|promised]] to be a Type A Promised land. {{spoiler|Cue the sequel to find out it's actually Type B.}}

* Satellite in ''[[Phantasy Star III]]'', where Ayn's generation go to resettle after Shushoran and Cille are attacked by cyborg armies. {{spoiler|Type B. It's the headquarters of the chapter's [[Big Bad]]. Ayn can settle his people there afterwards and remain as their leader, but if he does, Siren will attack and destroy it 17 years later, killing all the survivors who went with him.}}

 

* The Great Valley in ''[[The Land Before Time]]''

* The Land of Milk and Honey in ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]''

* Toad Hollow in ''[[Toad Patrol]]''.

 

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