Tatsumi: I just wanted to go to the Capital, make a name for myself, and earn enough money to save my poor village. But even the Capital is rotten...
Bulat: The countryside is poor because the Capital is rotten. Would it be best to just uproot the rot?
— Akame ga Kill!, about the situation of The Empire
"Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter. In his absence things are usually quiet on the island. The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend to their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other. But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are under way again: if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life."
— Peter & Wendy, Chapter 5: The Island Come True
"There can be no health in us, nor any good thing grow, for the land is one with the Dragon Reborn, and he one with the land."
— The Wheel of Time, Book VII, A Crown of Swords, Prologue
"You will be the land, and the land will be you. If you fail, the land will perish. As you thrive, the land will blossom."
"There's being incompetent, and then there's being so incompetent that you cause the rain to stop and all the rivers and lakes to dry up."
— Cracked on Scar's rule, The Lion King (1994)
David: Gotham City LOOKS great – great enough that it really changed the way Gotham was portrayed in comics. It’s this neo-gothic aesthetic made up half of the gothic imagery that informs Batman and half of the chemical/pipeline/thing that informs the Joker. Like, even Vicki’s apartment has an exposed pipe.
Chris: Yeah! Even the fancy art museum looks like it was riveted together from scrap metal and bulkhead. I remember reading that Tim Burton’s vision of Gotham was a city from Hell that burst through the crust of the Earth, and he really captures that.
Chris: Yeah! Even the fancy art museum looks like it was riveted together from scrap metal and bulkhead. I remember reading that Tim Burton’s vision of Gotham was a city from Hell that burst through the crust of the Earth, and he really captures that.
— Chris Sims and David Uzumeri on
Batman (1989)
Batman (1989)That was always an interesting thing in Disney movies — and The Last Unicorn did it too — like, when a bad guy takes over a land, and his influence just — like, he's so shitty that the world around him becomes shitty by proxy.
— Danny Sexbang, on the land of Hyrule in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time when Ganondorf takes it over
The very fabric of Khorne's kingdom is tied to his mood which, while never good, ranges between simmering rage and epoch-ending fury. The ground tremors and shakes as the Blood God's thunderous bellows echo throughout eternity. Lakes of blood boil, and the very sky screams. Clouds of choking black ash belch forth from hidden geysers, incinerating milling combatants, propelling great boulders into the sky, only for them to smash back into the ground with crushing force.
—Warhammer: Chaos Demons Army Book (7th Edition)
Note that many Kings have a curious relationship with the patch of land they happen to be entitled to rule. If they are absent too long or failing in their duties, crops will not grow, cattle will die, and there will be general bad luck. COUNTRIES where a formerly good King develops a serious personality problem will in sympathy evolve a malign micro-climate, entailing drought in winter, snow in summer, and rain during the harvest. This may be one reason why the choice of FOOD in Fantasyland is so limited.
