History Main / SlidingScaleOfRealisticVersusFantastic

Not to be confused with MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness - a time-travel story with [[MinovskyPhysics rigorous rules]] can be fairly Hard but decidedly Fantastic, for example. SlidingScaleOfLikeRealityUnlessNoted charts the degree to which a work of fiction set in what is ostensibly a "modern", Earthly environment departs from RealLife.

* {{Horror}}, LowFantasy, MagicRealism, [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness "Hard"]] ScienceFiction ("Softer" science fiction with only a few unrealistic elements may also qualify.).

** ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' is pure cartoon surrealism, sometimes going into outright fantasy, and is very stream of conscious and bizarre in story and tone, especially in the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatClassic Silent shorts]] and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat Twisted Tales]]'' series.

%% ** ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''

%% ** ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' is somewhere between unrealistic and surreal. Somewhere.

** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' straddles the line between Fantastic and Surreal, where [[SuperSpeed fast-as-light]] [[FunnyAnimal hedgehogs]], [[LivingBattery animal-powered]] robots, HumongousMecha, [[GreenRocks magical gemstones]] capable of bending {{time|Master}} and {{space|Master}}, a deity cracking the Earth into pieces, {{alternate dimension}}s, TimeTravel, [[GeneticEngineering artificially-created]] organisms, PsychicPowers, aliens, and [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy-like creatures]] whose physical states can be influenced by animals, fruits, and robot batteries are just a day in life, but still are bounded in some logic ([[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 mostly]]).

%% ** ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}''

** ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' focuses on the titular duo travelling to bizarre alternate universes and planets using unrealistic, ambiguous science, but the show's internal logic generally remains consistent.

** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' straddles the line between Fantastic and Surreal, where fast-as-light hedgehogs, animal-powered robots, HumongousMecha, magical gemstones capable of bending time and space, a deity cracking the Earth into pieces, alternate dimensions, time travel, artificially-created organisms, psychic powers, aliens, and fairy-like creatures who can copy animals are just a day in life, but still are bounded in some logic ([[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 mostly]]).

%% ** ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', though the Da Rules keep the series from being too Surreal

** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' straddles the line between Fantastic and Surreal, where fast-as-light hedgehogs, animal-powered robots, HumongousMecha, magical gemstones capable of bending time and space, a deity cracking the Earth into pieces, alternate dimensions, time travel, and artificially-created organisms are just a day in life, but still are bounded in some logic ([[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 mostly]]).

** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' straddles the line between Fantastic and Surreal, where fast-as-light hedgehogs, animal-powered robots, HumongousMecha, magical gemstones capable of bending time and space, deities cracking the Earth into pieces, alternate dimensions, time travel, and artificially-created organisms are just a day in life, but still are bounded in some logic ([[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 mostly]]).

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' tends to be perfectly realistic about early teen life except almost everyone is AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, which is purely a stylistic choice that isn't seen as fantastic in-universe, and Porkchop (and sometimes Stinky) are bipedal animals. There are still a few fantastic elements, such as the Lucky Duck Lake monster in ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie''.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' tends to be perfectly realistic about early teen life except almost everyone is AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, which is purely a stylistic choice that isn't seen as fantastic in-universe. There are still a few fantastic elements, such as the Lucky Duck Lake monster in ''WesternAnimation/Dougs1stMovie''.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' is perfectly realistic about early teen life except almost everyone is AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, which is purely a stylistic choice that isn't seen as fantastic in-universe. There are still a few fantastic elements, such as the Lake Monster in ''WesternAnimation/DougsFirstMovie''.

* Works set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals or LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy world usually are Unusual if the only fantastic element is that everyone (or a good portion of the popolution) is an anthropomorphic animal and everything else is relatively Mundane or Unrealistic.

* Works set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals or LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy world usually are unusual if the only fantastic element is that everyone (or half of the population) is an anthropomorphic animals and everything else is relatively mundane or unrealistic.

** ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'' is down-to-Earth and brutally honest about UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. The depiction of characters as FunnyAnimals would've been unusual if it weren't for the FurryLens.

** ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', where anything can and will rip those cartoon animals into piles of blood, flesh, and organs, no matter how implausible it seems to be. ([[https://happytreefriends.fandom.com/wiki/Happy_Tree_Friends_and_Real_Life The wiki keeps track of these instances.]]) And [[TheyKilledKennyAgain they come back to life the next episode]].

** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' lies far on the fantastic end of the scale, where fast-as-light hedgehogs, animal-powered robots, HumongousMecha, magical gemstones capable of bending time and space, deities cracking the Earth into pieces, alternate dimensions, time travel, and artificially-created organisms are just a day in life, but still are bounded in some logic.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' is perfectly realistic about early teen life except almost everyone is AmazingTechnicolorPopulation, which is purely a stylistic choice that isn't seen as fantastic in-universe.

%% ** ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''

** ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', where anything can and will rip those cartoon animals into piles of blood, flesh, and organs, no matter how harmless or impossible it seems to be. ([[https://happytreefriends.fandom.com/wiki/Happy_Tree_Friends_and_Real_Life The wiki keeps track of these instances.]]) And [[TheyKilledKennyAgain they come back to life the next episode]].

** ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', where anything can and will rip those cartoon animals into piles of blood, flesh, and organs, no matter how harmless it seems to be. ([[https://happytreefriends.fandom.com/wiki/Happy_Tree_Friends_and_Real_Life The wiki keeps track of these instances.]]) And [[TheyKilledKennyAgain they come back to life the next episode]].

** ''WebAnimation/{{asdfmovie}}'', where AnthropomorphicFood, a kid who can summon killer trains, talking turtle bombs[[note]]created from "drunk science"[[/note]], a magical flying pony, a cow pretending to be a man, floating buttocks, and [[SurrealHumor very random moments]] simply happen without explanation

** ''WebAnimation/{{asdfmovie}}'', where AnthropomorphicFood, a kid who can summon killer trains, talking turtle bombs[[note]]created from "drunk science"[[/note]], a cow pretending to be a man, floating buttocks, and [[SurrealHumor very random moments]] simply happen without explanation

%% ** ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''

** ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', where anything can and will rip those cartoon animals with piles of blood, flesh, and organs, no matter how harmless it seems to be. ([[https://happytreefriends.fandom.com/wiki/Happy_Tree_Friends_and_Real_Life The wiki keeps track of these instances.]]) And [[TheyKilledKennyAgain they come back to life the next episode]].