History AnachronismStew / WesternAnimation

** Nobody ever calls attention to the race of characters like ComicBook/{{Firestorm}}, ComicBook/{{Vixen}}, or ComicBook/TheAtom, which probably would've gone quite differently in the ''[[ValuesDissonance actual]]'' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]]. Similarly, nobody is surprised by the presence of female superheroes like ComicBook/BlackCanary.

* Both ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' and ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' portray Japan in a very bizarre light. They acknowledge that the country has modern technology and clothing, but feudalistic ninja are apparently everywhere, and everyone we see is obsessed with the Samurai code of honor.

** Parodied in "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" when the family watches ''The Poke of Zorro'' in which Franchise/{{Zorro}} fights Literature/TheThreeMusketeers and Film/TheManInTheIronMask before challenging Literature/TheScarletPimpernel [[GloveSlap to a duel]]. When the Pimpernel [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys runs away]], KingArthur crowns Zorro the King of England.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' features an in-universe example, when Gerald was telling the story of a legendary fish called "Big Caesar".

-->''Helga'': [[SarcasmMode Oh yeah, like]] [[LampshadeHanging Romans and dinosaurs occupied the same time period.]]

-->''Helga'': [[LampshadeHanging Oh yeah, like Romans and dinosaurs occupied the same time period.]]

* AnachronismStew/{{Archer}}
* AnachronismStew/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries

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* WesternAnimation/TheJetsons TV movie ''Rockin With Judy Jetson'' has 1980s fashion and music styles suddenly trendy in a world that supposedly takes place 100 years in the future.
* The miniseries LongLiveTheRoyals takes place in what appears to be the Middle Ages, but things like electric guitars and smartphones exist.

-->''Helga'': [[LampshadeHanging Oh yeah, like Romans and dinosaurs occupied at the same time period.]]

* Though (like its [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays source novel]]) ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'' is set in 1872, the Statue of Liberty (completed in 1886) can be seen in the opening titles. Also, at one point, Bully comments that Dix "thinks he's Sherlock Holmes", even though the first Sherlock Holmes story was not published until the 1890s.

** The series' FloatingTimeline in general tends to make every character's past an anachronism stew if viewed in total. Homer, for instance, is supposed to be in his late 30s, which by present-day standards would mean he grew up in the early 1980s. Yet past episodes have depicted him being alive during the Kennedy administration, interacting with record players and black and white [=TVs=], partying during the Moon Landing, etc.

* Simultaneously played straight and averted in ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain'' In terms of technology, this is played straight, because trains and other things used by humans obviously didn't exist in the Mezozoic Era, while the ability of time-travelling, via a train or not, isn't possible even in modern times. However, the dinosaurs themselves live at the correct time period and coexist with the right species for the most part. For example, ''Lambeosaurus'' coexist with ''Styracosaurus'' and ''Euplocephalus'', but not with ''T.rex'' and ''Triceratops'', which lived at a later point in the Cretaceous period.

* Despite ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' showing the world with otherwise modern vehicles, clothes, and technology, the [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops NYPD]] is shown as wearing 1960s-1970s style uniforms and the blue with white accents paint job on their cars from the 1970s-1990s.

* Despite ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' showing the world with otherwise modern vehicles, clothes, and technology, the [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops NYPD]] is shown as wearing 1960s-1970s style uniforms.

** The series' FloatingTimeline in general tends to make every character's past an anachronism stew if viewed in total. Homer, for instance, is supposed to be in his late 30s, which by present-day standards would mean he grew up in the early 1980s. Yet past episodes have depicted him being alive during the Kennedy administration, interacting with record players and black and white TVs, partying during the Moon Landing, etc.

** The series' FloatingTimeline in general tends to make every character's past an anachronism stew if viewed in total. For instance, child Homer is depicted as being alive during the Kennedy administration (1961-1963), Super Bowl III (1969), and the moon landing (1969), yet Homer was also somehow a young man in the mid-1990s working at a laser tag center (see above).

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'' features Selina singing "Can You Tame Wild Wimmen?", a song that wouldn't exist until the 1900s and Bruce mention learning an escape treat from Houdini when Houdini would've been a teenager in the Victorian era. On the commentary, writer Jim Krieg and producer Creator/BruceTimm freely admitted to do this, and using the {{Elseworlds}} AlternateHistory premise to justify it, saying in the universe of the film, the song came around earlier and Houdini was born earlier than in our world.