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An technologically-advanced area in a place where it's more advanced than its surroundings -- for example, a far-flung ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetsons]]''-esque metropolis in a game set during the modern day; or an advanced techno-dungeon in the middle of your MedievalEuropeanFantasy. Either way, expect to run through streets and buildings high in the sky, and to dodge cars -- of either the mundane or the flying variety.

* The Alaborn cards from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s ''Portal Second Age'' expansion have guns. Given that Magic features numerous different worlds, it wouldn't be a problem...but supposedly, they really do come from Dominaria, the same world as most other sets released prior to 2003. Where exactly they were during ''[[CrisisCrossover Invasion]]'' has never been answered, although it's debatable whether the guns would have been of much use.
** Although card art during the ''Invasion'' block did feature {{Magitek}} laser guns, planes, and HumongousMecha. Not everyone was happy.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': There are its fair share of tongue-in-cheek SchizoTech, but [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0964.html Tinkertown]] stands out as a SteamPunk [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnome]] city-state with advanced technology like LightningGun artillery, in a word that's basically MedievalStasis.

An inexplicably technologically-advanced area in a place where it obviously doesn't belong -- for example, a far-flung ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons Jetsons]]''-esque metropolis in a game set during the modern day; or an advanced techno-dungeon in the middle of your MedievalEuropeanFantasy. Either way, expect to run through streets and buildings high in the sky, and to dodge cars -- of either the mundane or the flying variety.

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* The "dungeon" beneath the Barrier Peaks in the world of ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'' is actually a crashed spaceship with {{Robot}}s, keycards, {{Ray Gun}}s and PoweredArmor, as seen in ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks''.
* The Alaborn cards from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s ''Portal Second Age'' expansion have guns. Given that Magic features numerous different worlds, it wouldn't be a problem...but supposedly, they really do come from Dominaria, the same world as most other sets released prior to 2003. Where exactly they were during ''[[CrisisCrossover Invasion]]'' has never been answered, although it's debatable whether the guns would have been of much use.
** Although card art during the ''Invasion'' block did feature {{Magitek}} laser guns, planes, and HumongousMecha. Not everyone was happy.

* Unusual for a sports game, Quantum Field of ''[[VideoGame/BackyardSports Backyard Baseball]]''.

* Esthar of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. The tech difference can be partially justified in that they're also very isolationist, so their advancements wouldn't have spread to the other nations - yet even so, said isolationism is less than twenty years old, and Esthar is full-on CrystalSpiresAndTogas while the rest of the world is early 20th century. Not to mention that isolationist cultures are typically ''less'' advanced, due to the lack of external competition.

-->--'''Creator/WaltDisney''' dedicating the TropeNamer at Disneyland, July 17th, 1955

* Robotica Farms from ''[[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Spyro]] 2: Ripto's Rage''. Another example is from a level not too far from Robotica Farms: Metropolis. It's an even bigger example of this trope because it's a domed robot city, perhaps the urban counterpart to Robotica Farms.

* Future Fuckballs 2010 in ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures''.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has the Great Bay Temple, an underwater factory of sorts with a very complex pipe and drain system.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' has the Lanayru Mining Facility, with what seems like the only place in all of Hyrule history so far to have electricity.
* Gnomeregan (and anything gnomish) in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.

* ''Website/CollegeHumor'': [[LampshadeHanding Lampshaded]] in the [[AffectionateParody parody]] short ''[[https://youtu.be/IptvSQY9Qa8?t=1m4s Every JRPG Ever]]'' right before the "weirdly high tech [[EvilEmpire empire]] from one town over" destroys the hero's hometown.

* A staple of the ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' series, where each game (except the ninth)) has some sort of sci-fi location, most often the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.

* The Dwarves from ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' have been extinct for over 3,000 years, but were several centuries more technologically advanced than any other modern-day civilization in the {{Verse}}. WordOfGod says this is because their alien belief system forbid them from using proper magic.

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* [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Metropolis Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Scrap Brain Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicRiders Metal City]], [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Grand Metropolis, Power Plant]], [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Eggmanland]], and many more all from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that they are presumably the work of [[MadScientist Robotnik/Eggman]], except for Grand Metropolis. The ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' subseries will have a level of technology far above the rest of the Sonic games. ''Zero Gravity'' has a pair of courses set in what looks like modern-day Japan, but the game explains that this is an artificial construct.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoII'': The Industrial District is a stark change to what has come before. Loads and loads of mazelike, mile-high catwalks; a strange power plant which wouldn't look out of place in ''Sonic the Hedgehog''; a Ripley Scott aesthetic in the Russian-owned factories, etc.

* The "dungeon" beneath the Barrier Peaks in the world of ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'' is actually a crashed spaceship with {{Robots}}, keycards, {{Ray Gun}}s and PoweredArmor, as seen in ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks''.

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* [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Metropolis Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Scrap Brain Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicRiders Metal City]], [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Grand Metropolis, Power Plant]], [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Eggmanland]], and many more all from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that they are presumably the work of [[MadScientist Robotnik/Eggman]], except for Grand Metropolis. The ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' subseries will have a level of technology far above the rest of the Sonic games. ''Zero Gravity'' has a pair of courses set in what looks like modern-day Japan, but the game explains that this is an artificial construct.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has the Great Bay Temple, an underwater factory of sorts with a very complex pipe and drain system.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' has the Lanayru Mining Facility, with what seems like the only place in all of Hyrule history so far to have electricity.
* Robotica Farms from ''[[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Spyro]] 2: Ripto's Rage''. Another example is from a level not too far from Robotica Farms: Metropolis. It's an even bigger example of this trope because it's a domed robot city, perhaps the urban counterpart to Robotica Farms.
* Any of the "future" stages in ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'', though there it's justified -- the game's major theme is TimeTravel.

* Cliffport City in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. The characters even lampshade the fact.
* A lot of levels in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' are like this, since the game takes place in [[SpaceZone outer space]].

* The Dwarves from ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' have been extinct for over 3,000 years, but were several centuries more technologically advanced than any other modern-day civilization in the {{Verse}}. WordOfGod says this is because their alien belief system forbid them from using proper magic.

* Area 66 from ''VideoGame/MadWorld''.

* Unusual for a sports game, Quantum Field of ''[[VideoGame/BackyardSports Backyard Baseball]]''.
* [[Disney/LiloAndStitch Deep Space]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep''. Somewhat justified, as it's a galactic spaceship that merely happens to be crossing through TheMultiverse back to its proper dimension... a fantasy-dominant multiverse.
* The Alaborn cards from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s ''Portal Second Age'' expansion have guns. Given that Magic features numerous different worlds, it wouldn't be a problem...but supposedly, they really do come from Dominaria, the same world as most other sets released prior to 2003. Where exactly they were during ''[[CrisisCrossover Invasion]]'' has never been answered, although it's debatable whether the guns would have been of much use.
** Although card art during the ''Invasion'' block did feature {{Magitek}} laser guns, planes, and HumongousMecha. Not everyone was happy.
* Most of ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' is ancient ruins. Then comes the Tower of the Goddess, a ''spaceship'', complete with futuristic lighting, mysterious monitors, and scaffolding.
* A staple of the ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' series, where each game (except the ninth)) has some sort of sci-fi location, most often the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.

* Most of ''VideoGame/{{Elona}}'' is set in a vaguely Medieval-ish setting ([[DecadeDissonance though it is hinted that Yerles and possibly the other continents are more advanced]]), but then you come across a town called the Cyberdome filled with computers and high technology.
* Future Fuckballs 2010 in ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures''
* The "dungeon" beneath the Barrier Peaks in the world of TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}} is actually a crashed spaceship with {{Robots}}, keycards, {{Ray Gun}}s and PoweredArmor, as seen in ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks''.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoII'': The Industrial District is a stark change to what has come before. Loads and loads of mazelike, mile-high catwalks; a strange power plant which wouldn't look out of place in ''Sonic the Hedgehog''; a Ripley Scott aesthetic in the Russian-owned factories, etc.

For the upcoming 2015 film, see [[Film/{{Tomorrowland}} here]].

Named after the section of several DisneyThemeParks dedicated to such things.

For the upcoming 2015 film, see [[Film/Tomorrowland here]].

* Most of ''VideoGame/{{Elona}}'' is set in a vaguely Medieval-ish setting, but then you come across a town called the Cyberdome filled with computers and high technology.

* The Dwarves from ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' have been extinct for over 3,000 years, but were several centuries more technologically advanced than any other modern-day civilization in the {{Verse}}. WordOfGod says this is because their alien belief system forbid them from using proper magic, the implication being that magic is superior somehow. The backstory and the accomplishments of some of the other characters help reinforce the idea somewhat, but it's still by and large an InformedAttribute.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has an underwater factory of sorts with a very complex pipe and drain system.

* Future Fuckballs 2010 in VideoGame/{{Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures}}

* The Dwarves from ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' have been extinct for over 3,000 years, but were several centuries more technologically advanced than any other modern-day civilization in the {{Verse}}. WordOfGod has this justified by their alien belief system forbidding them from using proper magic. Since the other races use magic, they apparently don't need all this technology. Because why would you want a weather machine or army of robots when you can shoot a magic fireball instead? Naturally.
** While the fireballs are [[RPGsEqualCombat all you can use in the games]], it's made pretty clear through backstory and the accomplishments of other characters that magic is the cornerstone of Tamrielic society and economy, and there are plenty of important uses for it that rival or exceed what the Dwemer achieved with technology.

* Esthar of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII''. The tech difference can be partially justified in that they're also very isolationist, so their advancements wouldn't have spread to the other nations - yet even so, said isolationism is less than twenty years old, and Esthar is full-on CrystalSpiresAndTogas while the rest of the world is early 20th century.

* [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Metropolis Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Scrap Brain Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicRiders Metal City]], [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Grand Metropolis, Power Plant]], [[VideoGame/SonicUnleashed Eggmanland]], and many more all from the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that they are presumably the work of [[MadScientist Robotnik/Eggman]]. 'Cept for Grand Metropolis.
** The ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' subseries, if it's somewhere you can expect to find people, will have a level of technology far above the rest of the Sonic games. ''Zero Gravity'' has a pair of courses set in what looks like modern-day Japan, but the game explains that this is an artificial construct.

->"A vista into a world of wondrous ideas, signifying man's achievements.... A step into the future with predictions of constructive things to come. Tomorrow offers new frontiers in science, adventure and ideals: the atomic age, the challenge of outer space and the hope for a peaceful and unified world."
-->Walt Disney dedicating the TropeNamer at Disneyland, July 17th, 1955

An inexplicably technologically-advanced area in a place where it obviously doesn't belong -- for example, a far-flung ''[[TheJetsons Jetsons]]''-esque metropolis in a game set during the modern day; or an advanced techno-dungeon in the middle of your MedievalEuropeanFantasy. Either way, expect to run through streets and buildings high in the sky, and to dodge cars -- of either the mundane or the flying variety.

* 2010's release, Disney and Junction Point's ''EpicMickey'', has this has one of its early levels. Including TronLines everywhere in the latter half of the level, including the boss, the walking ''{{Tron}}'' homage Petetronic.
* [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Metropolis Zone]], [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Scrap Brain Zone]], [[SonicRiders Metal City]], [[VideoGame/SonicHeroes Grand Metropolis, Power Plant]], [[SonicUnleashed Eggmanland]], and many more all from the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' series.

** The ''SonicRiders'' subseries, if it's somewhere you can expect to find people, will have a level of technology far above the rest of the Sonic games. ''Zero Gravity'' has a pair of courses set in what looks like modern-day Japan, but the game explains that this is an artificial construct.

* Robotica Farms from ''[[SpyroTheDragon Spyro]] 2: Ripto's Rage''. Another example is from a level not too far from Robotica Farms: Metropolis. It's an even bigger example of this trope because it's a domed robot city, perhaps the urban counterpart to Robotica Farms.

* Esthar of ''FinalFantasyVIII''. The tech difference can be partially justified in that they're also very isolationist, so their advancements wouldn't have spread to the other nations - yet even so, said isolationism is less than twenty years old, and Esthar is full-on CrystalSpiresAndTogas while the rest of the world is early 20th century.

* Sanctuary Fortress in ''MetroidPrime 2: Echoes''. After having just beaten the quiet, tropical [[BubblegloopSwamp Torvus Bog]], the Sanctuary Fortress, which is about as technological as possible, snuck up on players.

* Omnitopia from ''SecretOfEvermore''.
* Area 66 from ''MadWorld''
* Gnomeregan (and anything gnomish) in ''WorldOfWarcraft''.

* Unusual for a sports game, Quantum Field of ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Baseball]]''.
* [[LiloAndStitch Deep Space]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep''. Somewhat justified, as it's a galactic spaceship that merely happens to be crossing through TheMultiverse back to its proper dimension... a fantasy-dominant multiverse.
* The Alaborn cards from MagicTheGathering's ''Portal Second Age'' expansion have guns. Given that Magic features numerous different worlds, it wouldn't be a problem...but supposedly, they really do come from Dominaria, the same world as most other sets released prior to 2003. Where exactly they were during ''[[CrisisCrossover Invasion]]'' has never been answered, although it's debatable whether the guns would have been of much use.

* Most of ''{{La-Mulana}}'' is ancient ruins. Then comes the Tower of the Goddess, a ''spaceship'', complete with futuristic lighting, mysterious monitors, and scaffolding.
* A staple of the ''MightAndMagic'' series, where each game (except the ninth)) has some sort of sci-fi location, most often the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.

* Most of {{Elona}} is set in a vaguely Medieval-ish setting, but then you come across a town called the Cyberdome filled with computers and high technology.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' had an underwater factory of sorts with a very complex pipe and drain system
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' had a ''Mining Facility'' with what seems like the only place in all of Hyrule history so far to have electricity.
* Robotica Farms from ''[[SpyroTheDragon Spyro]] 2: Ripto's Rage''.
** Another example is from a level not too far from Robotica Farms: Metropolis. It's an even bigger example of this trope because it's a domed robot city, perhaps the urban counterpart to Robotica Farms.
* Any of the "future" stages in ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'', though there it's justified -- the game's gimmick is TimeTravel.

** Esthar was possibly using the advanced technological remnants of the Centra civilisation, had their technological level forced upwards by the tyrannical Sorceress in charge or it was the presence of the great scientist Dr. Odine. The game never makes it clear, however.