History Main / EndOfAnAge

* ''OnePiece'' is starting to look very much like this as of recent events, with the romantic "Great Pirate Era" coming crashing down, as Portgas D. Ace, [[spoiler:who was revealed as the son of Gold Roger, the legendary "Pirate King", is killed by Admiral Akainu, providing the first death of a major character]], and Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate, who held the title of the "World's Strongest Man", [[spoiler:meeting his end shortly afterward, with the almost certainly series BigBad Blackbeard and his crew killing him, and stealing his devil fruit power]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Both of these could serve as symbolic sacrifices]] [[GrowingTheBeard of an innocent age gone]], ushering in the [[DarkerAndEdgier chaotic new age of pirates]] [[spoiler:with Blackbeard, at the epicenter]].

* RedDeadRedemption takes place in 1911, in the final years of the Wild West. The enroaching Federal control is a major theme in the third act.

* The era after the fall of Communism in Europe (E Germany, etc) and friendship between the reforming USSR and America was called The New World Order by Bush 41. [[ConspiracyTheorist some took it another (facepalming) way.]]

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* The capture of Constantinople by the Turks 1453 marked the end of TheMiddleAges, and it was also the final defeat of the Roman Empire that had been in existence for almost two thousand years. By then, the Empire was just TheRemnant, but the defeat sent shockwaves through Christendom. The fifteenth century also brought the flowering of the Italian Renaissance, and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation that ended the religious dominance of the Catholic Church in Western Europe.
** 1453 also signaled the end of [[HundredYearsWar the Hundred Years War]], which meant the end of the English dream of taking the French throne (and uniting both crowns).

* Much of the nostalgia surrounding both New York World's Fairs (1939-40 and 1964-65) focuses around the former being held just before WorldWarTwo and the latter being one of the last straight examples of the [[IWantMyJetpack shiny jetpack future]] prior to the VietnamWar and TheSixties ' back-to-nature movement.

* Really each decade is an age unto of itself in terms of popular culture. The 1990s marked the end of the 80s camp and excess, ushering in a new dark age of irony and ''{{Wangst}}''.
** The 00's ended that age and started a new age of mediocrity, self-entitlement and narcissism.
*** Clearly still kept the Wangst, though.

* ''TheElderScrolls: Oblivion'' takes place at the end of the Third Age and start of the Fourth. Background revealed of the years following the game shows that the end of the Septim line and the death of the Tribunal in the earlier ''Morrowind'' made way for a time of increased strife and the collapse of the Empire.

* ''TheElderScrolls: Oblivion'' takes place at the end of the third age/start of the fourth age.

* Behind the cheery cartoony graphics, this was the theme of TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker- the end of the era of the war between Hyrule and Ganondorf, with both of them in the end lying crumbling and forgotten, slowly eroding to nothing by the unending force of the waves, all their magic departed and memory forgotten.

* The capture of Constantinople by the Turks 1453 marked the end of the Roman Empire that had been in existence for almost two thousand years. By then, the Empire was just TheRemnant, but the defeat sent shockwaves through Christendom. The fifteenth century also brought the flowering of the Italian Renaissance, and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation that ended the religious dominance of the Catholic Church in Western Europe.

* The capture of Constantinople by the Turks 1453 marked the end of TheMiddleAges, and it was also the final defeat of the Roman Empire that had been in existence for almost two thousand years. By then, the Empire was just TheRemnant, but the defeat sent shockwaves through Christendom. The fifteenth century also brought the flowering of the Italian Renaissance, and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation that ended the religious dominance of the Catholic Church in Western Europe.

* The capture of Constantinople by the Turks 1453 marked the end of TheMiddleAges, and it was also the final defeat of the Roman Empire that had begun almost a thousand years earlier. By then, the Empire was just TheRemnant, but the defeat sent shockwaves through Christendom. The fifteenth century also brought the flowering of the Italian Renaissance, and the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation that ended the religious dominance of the Catholic Church in Western Europe.

* ''{{Babylon 5}}'' uses this lightly at the end of the Shadow War. While it emphasizes the new beginning for the younger races there are mentions that with the passing of the Old Ones the universe has lost some of it's mystery and wonder.

* ''OnePiece'' is starting to look very much like this as of recent events, with the romantic "Great Pirate Era" coming crashing down, as Portgas D. Ace, [[spoiler:who was revealed as the son of Gol D. Roger, the legendary "Pirate King", is killed by Admiral Akainu, providing the first death of a major character]], and Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate, who held the title of the "World's Strongest Man", [[spoiler:meeting his end shortly afterwards, with the almost certainly series BigBad Blackbeard and his crew killing him, and stealing his devil fruit power]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Both of these could serve as symbolic sacrifices]] [[GrowingTheBeard of an innocent age gone]], ushering in the [[DarkerAndEdgier chaotic new age of pirates]] [[spoiler:with Blackbeard, at the epicenter]].

* Alan Moore's {{Superman}} story "WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow" is about the end of the SilverAge Superman legend and all the myth surrounding him.

** Actually, "The Undiscovered Country" is from ''{{Hamlet}}'' and it means death. SoYeah.