History Main / ThePromisedLand

* Dry Land in ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''. It exists, and is actually the highest area of Mt. Everest, which somehow has fertile ground, forests and ''horses'' on it. Don't think about it too hard.

* In one three-part episode set in the future a mutagen bomb has gone off mutating everyone and making the world a ''Film/MadMax'' homage. The turtles, and many other factions, are searching for a promised land where water is in abundance. [[spoiler:The third episode ends with the turtles finding it.]]

* Dry Land in ''Film/WaterWorld''. It exists, and is actually the highest area of Mt. Everest, which somehow has fertile ground, forests and ''horses'' on it. Don't think about it too hard.

* The ''Series/FraggleRock'' [[Recap/FraggleRockS2E15MannysLandOfCarpets episode "Manny's Land of Carpets"]] implies this trope to the Fraggles. They think radio commercials for stores like Manny's Land of Carpets and Bubba's Burger Barn are heavenly places to go, saying statements like "all you can eat" and "your happiness is guaranteed". In the end, they choose not to go after Gobo convinces them.

* In 5th edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' it turns out that elves have a paradise they can reach as they near the end of their lifespan. In the Forgotten Realms, the elves actually pull a fragment of their heavenly afterlife into Toril so they can actually sail to their PromisedLand.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'' has a species of evolved cats who believe in a Promised Land known as Fushal. It is, in fact, Fiji, where Lister, who they worship as a God, planned on settling down with a farm. In the 90-minute special called The Promised Land, [[spoiler: Lister reveals that he's not their God and that Fiji probably doesn't exist anymore. The cat people respond by telling him that they now believe that the promised land isn't a place, but within you.]]

*** It is an Idealistic Promised Land to most Elves. Although they are immortal, they will eventually grow tired of Arda unless they settle Valinor.[[note]]It won't give them ''complete'' bliss, however, because not even Arda will last forever.[[/note]]

** Beleriand to the Noldor Elves. At least at first; it proved to be a Crappy Promised Land.

** Beleriand to the Noldor Elves in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. It proved to be a Crappy Promised Land.

*** It is an Idealistic Promised Land to most Elves. Although they are immortal, they will eventually grow tired of Arda unless they settle Valinor.[[note]]It won't give them ''complete'' bliss, however, because nothing, not even Arda, will last forever.[[/note]]

* Beleriand to the Noldor Elves in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. It proved to be a Crappy Promised Land.
** Likewise, Númenor to the Dúnedain. It became a lost paradise.
** Valinor itself to the Elves, as Unreachable Promised Land. Sure, they could reach it by the Elven ships, but going there would be an one-way journey, leaving everything behind with no chances of return... ''ever''.

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** An''Series/DoctorWho'' example from the first season of the new series, The Long Game: the workers on the TV satellite talk about the legendary "Floor 500", which is described as a promised land. Falls under a mix of No Promised Land and Crappy Promised Land, in that there is a 500th floor of the satellite, but it's [[spoiler:full of corpses being used by the station's abominable alien overlord.]]

* ''Film/FutureWorld2018'': In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the film, the Prince is convinced that Paradise Beach holds cures for any disease, which can help his sick mother. He also was told there people can live forever. So he heads out for there, though he's warned it isn't all he dreams. [[spoiler:It turns out to just be a pipe dream.]]

** Myth-shrouded Utopia in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode of the same name from Series 3, which the last remaining people in the year 100 trillion seek in a dying universe, having heard a beacon beckoning all to come to Utopia said in legend to be created thousands of years ago as a way to survive the collapse of reality. [[spoiler:It's a mix between No Promised Land and Unreachable Promised Land as it's ambiguous whether it actually existed; Yana/TheMaster deliberately sabotages the rocket heading there by removing a piece of its navigational system and the Doctor never sticks around to find out whether it did or not.]] Two episodes later state [[spoiler:there was nothing the people in the rocket could find, only the dark and the cold at the end of everything and the last of humanity ended up transforming themselves into the [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul horrifying psychopathic Toclafane cyborgs]] in order to survive. The Master uses them as his flunkies in the season finale to taunt the Doctor this is what humanity will become at the very end in their search for salvation.]]

* Myth-shrouded Utopia in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode of the same name.
** Another ''Series/DoctorWho'' example from the first season of the new series, The Long Game: the workers on the TV satellite talk about the legendary "Floor 500", which is described as a promised land. Falls under a mix of No Promised Land and Crappy Promised Land, in that there is a 500th floor of the satellite, but it's [[spoiler:full of corpses being used by the station's abominable alien overlord.]]

* Chicago in UptonSinclair's ''Literature/TheJungle''. It turns out to be a Crappy Promised Land.

-->--'''[[Literature/TheBible Deuteronomy 27:3]]''' (NIV)

* ''Literature/TheVoyageOfStBrendan'' recounts St. Brendan's search for the "Land of Promise of the Saints", a paradisal island in the Atlantic which God will give to "His elect" when the entire world will be subject to God and "days of tribulation may come upon the people of Christ" (this refers probably to the beginning of the end times as described in the Literature/BookOfRevelation). St. Brendan finds the Land of Promise, but is sent back by an angel because the time is not yet ripe to reveal the Land of Promise to mankind.

** This may have something to do with the Soviet Union being {{Totalitarian Utilitarian}} ''at best'', or at worst, [[BananaRepublic a totalitarian nation with a sham ideology]] [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans designed to support more totalitarianism]]. A "worker's paradise" would only be a good description if you believe that certain government provisions outweigh the {{Long List}} of horrors including the omnipresent {{Propaganda Machine}}, lack of opposition parties, threat of going to {{The Gulag}}, threatening {{secret police}}, [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar constant threat of war]] and the [[DeadlyEuphemism threat of "disappearing"]].

* Elysium in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', a rumored lush land where the creator of the world lives atop the World Tree. Given that the entire world lives on floating, living beings who are prone to [[SinkingShipScenario dying of old age and sinking,]] the concept of an actual permanent piece of land where people can live is pretty appealing. [[spoiler:It ends up being a ruined habitat in an eons-old space station located in orbit above the World Tree (a Crappy Promised Land), but then the Titans end up forming a true one at the end of the game. Said space station also turns out to be the same one seen in the end of the [[VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}} first game]].]]