Most Messed-up World

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2003-01-29 10:46am

What world, from Sci-Fi, Anime, or whatever, is really messed up when you stop to think about it?

My vote would have to go for Pokemon.

Think about it:

"Son, you're ten years old today. Here's some money and a small animal. Go out in the world, and don't come back until that thing is powerful enough to destroy the house!"

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-01-29 10:48am

Remeber that all animals are Pokemon...so when they are eating hot dogs and hamburgers...those are Pokemon.

And I say Warhammer 40K...for right now...until something else pops into my head.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-29 12:56pm

Rifts Earth...where a mutant dog wearing body armor can be hit by a tank gun and take no damage.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-01-29 01:28pm

Maxine McArthur's Time series. Two books long, all of which is about a single temperoal loop.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-01-29 01:39pm

Hmm... are you referring to sci-fi I have seen/watched/read or sci-fi I've heard about?

The most fucked-up sci-fi/fantasy society I've heard about is Gor from the Gor novels. It seems like the author, John Norman, envisioned the most wretched, screwed-up society possible, and then presented it as an utopia.

Fortunately, I've never had the misfortune of reading any of Norman's novels, and I'll keep myself a good mile away from them.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-01-29 01:46pm

The Red Dwarf universe. The last human in the universe billions of light years from home and your only companions are an evolved kat, a dead mans hologram, a bog bot, and a senile computer.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-01-29 02:02pm

*Innocently whistles theme from Red Dwarf* I wonder where B+B got the idea for the Doctor on Voyager from

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2003-01-29 02:04pm

Typhonis 1 wrote:*Innocently whistles theme from Red Dwarf* I wonder where B+B got the idea for the Doctor on Voyager from

Actually, the pere planning to use Professor Monterary at first, then realized that there was really no good reason why the Voyager crew would bring that guy along.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-01-29 02:12pm

The Dune universe. It's a seriously fucked up universe.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-29 02:13pm

Hitchhikers?

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2003-01-29 02:15pm

Ghost Rider wrote:Remeber that all animals are Pokemon...so when they are eating hot dogs and hamburgers...those are Pokemon.

That's true, actually. Some Pokemon, like Farfetch'd, are getting rare because they also happen to be delicious.

Ash has about 20 Tauros. If Pokemon Training fails to pan out for some reason, he can always open a Steakhouse.

Sektor31 · Post by **Sektor31** » 2003-01-29 02:58pm

Anyone remember the movie "Soldier"?

I thought it was fucked up to just take an inhabited world and turn it into a junkyard.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-01-29 03:34pm

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is definitely messed up.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-01-29 04:03pm

Sektor31 wrote:Anyone remember the movie "Soldier"?

I thought it was fucked up to just take an inhabited world and turn it into a junkyard.

Uh, I'm pretty sure that it wasn't inhabited until after it had been used as a junkyard. And then, nobody really knew about the people there.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-01-29 04:23pm

Red Dwarf or H2G2 (Hitchhikers).

I saw ep 3 of RD today on DVD as well at sci-fi club.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-01-29 06:24pm

No planet, will ever be weirder, than the earth we live in

But heres a few close ones:

The robotic Planet in Galaxy Express 999 where they manufactured robotic bodies.

Zonama Sekot (SW EU) seems rather fudged up

The post apocalyptic far future worlds of bastard! and Vampire Hunter D.

if theres anything else I can think of maybe i'll remember them later

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-01-29 06:29pm

i was going to say the same thing darth: earth as it is now is far more fucked up and insane then anything imagined in science fiction

Malecoda · Post by **Malecoda** » 2003-01-29 06:35pm

Blarg homeworld

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-01-29 06:39pm

The 40K universe is pretty bleak. The world of Wastland (the computer game) is pretty jacked. But at least my best hand-to-hand guy could kill a tank with an axe by the end of the game.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-01-29 06:53pm

Futurama's universe is pretty strange...

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-01-29 07:21pm

1984
Farenheit 451
Babylon 5
Star Trek
Damn near everything written by Greg Bear
Handmaid's Tale

Not necessarily in that order.

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2003-01-30 11:53am

The Simpsons

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-01-30 12:00pm

Our own World, for we as humans thought up all this shit do remember

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-01-30 01:03pm

I dunno, I've seen a few 'chick-flicks' that make me glad I don't live in a world where there is no truth and happiness is a lie.

Or at least that I live in a world where I can stay the fuck away from chick-flicks and their denizens.