Archived Discussion Main / DarkWorld

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The Final Fantasy: Spirits within example is more of an After the End example than an evil version of New York.

Does the Dark World of Yugioh Gx's third season count for this trope? —unknown

No idea, but I have the same question about the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks. —Document N

BritBllt: The idea seems to be dark, twisted versions of reality, and a lot of the tropes listed now aren't really good examples (Chrono Trigger's 2300 AD is a Bad Future, not a Dark World, and Final Fantasy XI just seems to be straight-up time travel). I'd say the Black Lodge doesn't count (I'm not sure what the heck it is, but it's not expansive enough to be a Dark World). Never seen GX's third season, but if it's an alien world, it's probably more of Another Dimension. But if it has an evil mirror version of the academy, maybe...

BritBllt: I'm trying to clean up the page and remove all the flanderized "worlds that are dark" examples. If I delete anything that actually does fit the "dark mirror image of reality" theme, though, feel free to add it back. I'll try to give anything I'm not sure about the benefit of the doubt, and only remove what absolutely doesn't fit. In the longer run, I might try to find another pic that'll get the parallel aspect of the trope across better: the pic set right now probably only conveys the idea to Silent Hill fans, since they already know what they're looking at.

Earnest: Here's the old pic and caption, hopefully the Gunnerkrigg Court one is more illustrative.

BritBllt: That works! I was considering maybe creating a pic from Eversion that mixes the light and dark worlds together, but... hmm, wait, that does give me another idea. Anyway, I like the new pic. :)

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BritBllt: I'm reluctantly rmoving the Real Life entry below...

• Many places in real life are spooky and decayed enough that they could very well be Dark World settings:
  • Centralia, Pennsylvania the town on which the Silent Hill movie was based on. A coal mine fire's been raging in the town for 45+ years, and it is but an abandoned ghost town.
    • Not even, now. These days it's little more than two or three (inhabited) homes, some sidewalks to nowhere, and a cracked highway separated from the main roads by a dirt barrier.
  • The Carpathian Mountains, from where the fictional Dracula hails, is a spooky, fog-covered range of craggy, unforgiving peaks.
  • Auschwitz. I don't really have to say more, do I?
    • I think you just Godwinned the whole page.

...it's getting kinda natterish, and the trope doesn't exactly work for any of them. The Dark World's not just a scary place, it's a twisted mirror of reality: that aspect seems to defy real-life examples, and listing places that just look the part might add to the "dark world = bad place" trope confusion.

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BritBllt: There still seems to be some trope confusion, so swapping with the Mortal Kombat pic. But I'm keeping the Gunnerkrigg Court pic here too, since it's a good one.

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