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* This is the premise of ''Film/BlastFromThePast''. The protagonist and his family, who retreated into a fallout shelter in 1962 and stayed there for 35 years, are so shocked by how much society has changed that they assume civilization was destroyed by a nuclear war.

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* This is the premise of ''Film/BlastFromThePast''. The protagonist and his family, who retreated into a fallout shelter during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and stayed there for 35 years, are so shocked by how much society has changed that they assume civilization was destroyed by a nuclear war.
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E59AHundredYardsOverTheRim A Hundred Yards over the Rim]]", after arriving in 1961, Chris Horn is shocked by the sight of a truck, which almost runs him over. He thinks that it is a monster.

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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E59AHundredYardsOverTheRim "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E23AHundredYardsOverTheRim A Hundred Yards over the Rim]]", after arriving in 1961, Chris Horn is shocked by the sight of a truck, which almost runs him over. He thinks that it is a monster.
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* In his essay [[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hQSaMafoizBSa3gFR/eutopia-is-scary “Eutopia is Scary”]], Creator/EliezerYudkowsky argues that [[NecessaryWeasel this is inevitable]], since even an intelligent and progressive person prepared for ValuesDissonance wouldn’t be able to handle all the changes at once, even the objectively good ones. He compared it to trying to imagine a better world that [[NoPlaceForMeThere has left you behind]] like how modern America has left Benjamin Franklin behind.
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Unnecessary Anglo-centrism, there is no reason to assume all time-traveling characters speak English and even if they did plenty of stories use Eternal English and ignore the logical implications of time travel and language.


John Smith is a goodhearted farm boy from sometime in the past - but not earlier than the 13th century [[EternalEnglish (as modern English would be near-totally incomprehensible to a speaker of that time or earlier.)]] But then he foolishly plays with the [[OurTimeMachineIsDifferent mystic Nazi time portal]] or there's a temporal equivalent of the TeleporterAccident, and ZAP!, he falls, screaming, into the PresentDay (whenever that happens to be).

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John Smith is a goodhearted farm boy from sometime in the past - but not earlier than the 13th century [[EternalEnglish (as modern English would be near-totally incomprehensible to a speaker of that time or earlier.)]] past. But then he foolishly plays with the [[OurTimeMachineIsDifferent mystic Nazi time portal]] or there's a temporal equivalent of the TeleporterAccident, and ZAP!, he falls, screaming, into the PresentDay (whenever that happens to be).
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* Subverted in a DeletedScene from ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. 1955 Doc goes through 1985 Doc's luggage, finds a copy of ''{{Magazine/Playboy}}'', and pulls out the centerfold. He looks impressed and declares, [[CovertPervert "Suddenly the future's looking a whole lot better!"]] (Possibly a research goof. As of 1955, ''Playboy'' had been publishing pictures of naked women for two years.)

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* Subverted in a DeletedScene from ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.''Film/BackToTheFuture1''. 1955 Doc goes through 1985 Doc's luggage, finds a copy of ''{{Magazine/Playboy}}'', and pulls out the centerfold. He looks impressed and declares, [[CovertPervert "Suddenly the future's looking a whole lot better!"]] (Possibly a research goof. As of 1955, ''Playboy'' had been publishing pictures of naked women for two years.)

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