Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?

zlatiah@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?

davidgro@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Assuming it’s a surprise, this is Earth All Along. Genre Shift is similar, but that’s more about tone than plot

xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

You maniacs, you blew it all up!

Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 months ago

Specifically the After the End variant

Omniraptor@lemm.ee · 2 months ago

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TomatoSurprise is the wider trope

somethingsnappy@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Flintsonian/Jetson

zlatiah@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Thanks! I think this is it… because I guess the more important part to this trope is that “hehe this is actually the world that you - dear viewer - lives in”… the high-fantasy part is secondary and depends on the genre I guess.

uid0gid0@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

I think the trope From Cataclysm to Myth actually fits better. It even says in the description "Cousin to Earth All Along, but a premise or a plot twist rather than a Twist Ending. "

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 2 months ago

What happens when the story is not set on Earth?