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vitorgas
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04:12:28 PM Aug 2nd 2010
I don't know how to edit, and really ain't in the mood, but in the "Comic Book" examples page, there isn't V for Vendetta.

Sory for the bad english, not my native language
Camacan
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04:36:24 AM Mar 15th 2011
This is probably not an example — the too-nice town the Simpsons move to is not a parody dystopia. If anything it would be a parody utopia.

  • Parodied in "You Only Move Twice" from The Simpsons, where the family moves to a new town, only to find that everything goes wrong.
    • There is really nothing wrong with the town. The town is nice, clean, and there is no oppression or anything, it's just a cleaner version of any small mountain town in America. The Simpsons just don't adapt to change very well. And the work environment is fine (you even get hammocks!)...Although working for a supervillian might cause some pesky moral issues when he starts trying to blow up France (nobody ever goes for Italy).
124.150.35.59
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09:34:43 AM Apr 21st 2011
It can be argued that we are already living in a Dystopia, so why no Real Life examples.
TiggersAreGreat
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04:15:15 PM Nov 21st 2011
So, what's the difference between Dystopia and Crapsack World? The two seem to be very similar!
Gemmifer
09:44:41 PM Dec 6th 2011
edited by Gemmifer
As I see it, both a horrible places to live for at least a part of the population.

Dystopia is a civilisation with one or a multitude of fatal flaws build into the system of society. From Powered By A Forsaken Child over Happiness Is Mandatory to official Klingon Promotion its a place with a twisted, twisted idea of how human beings should organize their living together (or a writer who likes the thought experiment).

Crapsack world is unpleasant for a variety of reasons from war to bad weather to zombie plague. It can and often does also include one or several varieties of Dystopia. Basically its reality itself that seems to reject human beings/and or happiness (or a writer who loves to torture their characters).

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