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Author: elwoz

Jan 16th 2013 at 7:48:42 AM

Here's another few subtropes:

* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Fashionable hairstyles, clothing, architecture, and so on fail to change as rapidly as they do in RealLife.
 * {{Zeerust}}: Attempts to imagine how fashionable hairstyles, clothing, architecture, and so on might change in the future are almost always wrong.
 * SpaceClothes, FutureSpandex, CrystalSpiresAndTogas: These continue not to be remotely as popular as predicted.

If the writers predict a major historical event (other than TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt) that then ''doesn't'' happen, does that go under TheGreatPoliticsMessUp?  Such as StarTrek's Eugenics Wars (which despite the time frame somehow managed ''not'' to be TEOTWAWKI as far as I know -- usually a Cold-War era WWIII is apocalyptic, because it was hard to imagine how the nukes could possibly ''not'' get used once people started shooting at each other).

New York City getting turned into a giant prison in ''EscapeFromNewYork'' doesn't seem like a sufficiently major historical event to qualify, although the context (the USA turning into a theocratic, totalitarian state) might.  But I don't know where else to put it.