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* The age 1000 of ''Videogame/DragonBallOnline'' is a bad present for the Future Trunks from [[Franchise/DragonBall the main series]] due to the Earth being overrun by monsters, two separate factions trying to TakeOverTheWorld and an ever present threat of invasion by remnants of Freeza's planet trade federation and King Kold's empire. On the other hand, the future isn't any better due to it being inhabited by the Time Breakers who want to make ''everything'' worse by [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight making wrong what once went right]].
* [[LivingRelic Javik]] from ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' might consider himself in one, despite coming from a time when things were arguably just as bad, if not even worse. He wakes up in the present day to find that the galaxy is still threatened by the same enemy his people fought 50,000 years ago, only now he is quite literally TheLastOfHisKind, and surrounded by primitives.

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* The age 1000 ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'': A demon [[spoiler:named [[PredecessorVillain Succoria]]]] travels from an ancient past full of ''Videogame/DragonBallOnline'' is a bad magic where humans and demons are fighting to an industrialized present for the Future Trunks from [[Franchise/DragonBall the main series]] due to the Earth being overrun by monsters, two separate factions trying to TakeOverTheWorld where demons are gone and an ever humanity thrives on technology. From this demon's perspective, this human-run present threat of invasion by remnants of Freeza's planet trade federation and King Kold's empire. On the other hand, the future isn't any better due to it being inhabited by the Time Breakers who want to make ''everything'' worse by [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight making wrong what once went right]].
* [[LivingRelic Javik]] from ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' might consider himself in one, despite coming from a time when things were arguably just as bad, if not even worse. He wakes up in the present day to find that the galaxy
is still threatened by the same enemy his people fought 50,000 years ago, only now he is quite literally TheLastOfHisKind, and surrounded by primitives. a ''very'' [[DespairEventHorizon depressingly bad present]].



* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'': A demon [[spoiler: named Succoria]] travels from an ancient past full of magic where humans and demons are fighting to an industrialized present where demons are gone and humanity thrives on technology. From this demon's perspective, this human-run present is a ''very'' [[DespairEventHorizon depressingly bad present]].

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* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'': A demon [[spoiler: named Succoria]] travels from an ancient past full The age 1000 of magic where humans and demons are fighting to an industrialized ''Videogame/DragonBallOnline'' is a bad present where demons are gone for the Future Trunks from [[Franchise/DragonBall the main series]] due to the Earth being overrun by monsters, two separate factions trying to TakeOverTheWorld and humanity thrives on technology. From this demon's perspective, this human-run an ever present is a ''very'' [[DespairEventHorizon depressingly bad present]].threat of invasion by remnants of Freeza's planet trade federation and King Kold's empire. On the other hand, the future isn't any better due to it being inhabited by the Time Breakers who want to make ''everything'' worse by [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight making wrong what once went right]].


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* [[LivingRelic Javik]] from ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' might consider himself in one, despite coming from a time when things were arguably just as bad, if not even worse. He wakes up in the present day to find that the galaxy is still threatened by the same enemy his people fought 50,000 years ago, only now he is quite literally TheLastOfHisKind, and surrounded by primitives.
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Usually, to prevent [[StatusQuoIsGod changes to the status quo]], there'll be a YouCantFightFate {{Aesop}} and actions to the contrary will result in [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight Setting Wrong What Once Went Right]], possibly resulting in a TerminatorTwosome.

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Usually, to prevent [[StatusQuoIsGod changes to the status quo]], there'll be a lesson on how YouCantFightFate {{Aesop}} and actions to the contrary will result in [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight Setting Wrong What Once Went Right]], possibly resulting in a TerminatorTwosome.
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-->'''Dangly Deever:''' Has everyone forgotten about niceness and caring?
-->'''Sam:''' I'm afraid they went out of fashion, right along poodle skirts and funding for the arts.

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-->'''Dangly Deever:''' Has everyone forgotten about niceness and caring?
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caring?\\
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I'm afraid they went out of fashion, right along poodle skirts and funding for the arts.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': A Series/HowdyDoody {{Expy}} named Dangly Deever ends up being pulled out of his old TV show and into the present by Sam and Max and is depressed how abysmal the world has become.
-->'''Dangly Deever:''' Has everyone forgotten about niceness and caring?
-->'''Sam:''' I'm afraid they went out of fashion, right along poodle skirts and funding for the arts.
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* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''. Every incarnation uses this trope to some degree or another, but [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Cap]] is probably the most apparent. At the same time, however, Steve will be the first to admit if something's improved.

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* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''. ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': Every incarnation uses this trope to some degree or another, but [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Cap]] is probably the most apparent. At the same time, however, Steve will be the first to admit if something's improved.



* In one arc in the ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' comic, Hal Jordan is brought to the present era and learns that not only has Coast City been destroyed, not only is the Corps dead, but the latter was his own doing as part of a massive FaceHeelTurn.

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* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': In one arc in the ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' comic, arc, Hal Jordan is brought to the present era and learns that not only has Coast City been destroyed, not only is the Corps dead, but the latter was his own doing as part of a massive FaceHeelTurn.



* In his title series, Comicbook/{{Nova}} meets his ex-lover Namorita, who is dead in the present, while the two of them are ripped through time. Namorita is blissfully unaware of anything that happens in the future, including the fact that she and Nova were no long a couple long before her death, and that she is one of the parties blamed for the deaths of hundreds of innocents.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Nova}}'': In his title series, Comicbook/{{Nova}} ''ComicBook/Nova2007'' #32, Nova meets his ex-lover Namorita, who is dead in the present, while the two of them are ripped through time. Namorita is blissfully unaware of anything that happens in the future, including the fact that she and Nova were no long a couple long before her death, and that she is one of the parties blamed for the deaths of hundreds of innocents.



* In ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', when the Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes visits Franchise/{{Superman}} just before what is likely to be his last battle, they bring ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} with them. Since the story is set post-Crisis (but before the new continuity kicked in), Supergirl is dead in the "present", and Superman tells this version of Supergirl that his Supergirl "is in the past," without specifying that it's not on a mission as the visitor thinks.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}: The Adventures of Superman'', Superman and Supergirl are (like several other groups from different eras) trapped [[Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} in a domed city]] and trying to escape. However, the two of them learn that even if they do escape, Supergirl is fated to die in ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths.

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* In ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'', when the Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes visits Franchise/{{Superman}} ComicBook/{{Superman}} just before what is likely to be his last battle, they bring ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} with them. Since the story is set post-Crisis (but before the new continuity kicked in), Supergirl is dead in the "present", and Superman tells this version of Supergirl that his Supergirl "is in the past," without specifying that it's not on a mission as the visitor thinks.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}: The Adventures of Superman'', Superman and Supergirl are (like several other groups from different eras) trapped [[Comicbook/{{Brainiac}} [[ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} in a domed city]] and trying to escape. However, the two of them learn that even if they do escape, Supergirl is fated to die in ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths.



** The central point of Creator/BrianMichaelBendis's ''All-New X-Men'': the original X-Men team are taken to a nightmarish future where mutant relations are at an all time low, Jean's dead, Beast's dying and Scott is [[spoiler: a villain]]. It's the present day, post ''Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen'' Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

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** The central point of Creator/BrianMichaelBendis's ''All-New X-Men'': ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' is that the original X-Men team are taken to a nightmarish future where mutant relations are at an all time low, Jean's dead, Beast's dying and Scott is [[spoiler: a villain]]. It's the present day, post ''Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen'' ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' Franchise/MarvelUniverse.



* This is the premise of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. Unlike the [[Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast original comic book story]], the "BadFuture" is actually the present day timeline and Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} is sent into the past to avert it.

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* This is the premise of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. Unlike the [[Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast original comic book story]], the "BadFuture" is actually the present day timeline and Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is sent into the past to avert it.
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* Similarly, the 1940s Creator/MarvelComics heroes in ''ComicBook/AvengersInvaders'' arrive in the aftermath of ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' and briefly think that the Germans won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII as a result.

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* Similarly, the 1940s Creator/MarvelComics heroes in ''ComicBook/AvengersInvaders'' arrive in the aftermath of ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' and briefly think that the Germans won UsefulNotes/WorldWarII as a result.
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* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'': A demon [[spoiler: named Succoria]] travels from an ancient past full of magic where humans and demons are fighting to an industrialized present where demons are gone and humanity thrives on technology. From this demon's perspective, this human-run present is a ''very'' depressingly bad present.

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* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'': A demon [[spoiler: named Succoria]] travels from an ancient past full of magic where humans and demons are fighting to an industrialized present where demons are gone and humanity thrives on technology. From this demon's perspective, this human-run present is a ''very'' [[DespairEventHorizon depressingly bad present.present]].

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