I’m embarrassed to say that I have encountered this, this particular type of story on multiple occasions… So I got curious, is there a name to this trope?

  • @Archer@lemmy.world
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    Aladdin (1992). The Genie is the last survivor of the AI wars and has mental damage. The Cave of Wonders is another remnant. “Magic” is low level AI responding to human intent. Iago is an uplift. Agrabah is literally a generic Middle Eastern county because it was assembled from the fragmented records of what remained of the Middle East.

  • @Hobo@lemmy.world
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    I have no idea the answer to your question, but I now know like 99% of people on lemmy have shitty reading comprehension.

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      Seriously. There’s a dozen links to TvTropes and none of them match OP’s description, but they’re all upvoted to high heaven. Not to mention the unrelated replies talking about their favorite stories which don’t actually match the trope either.

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    The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is my personal favourite of Bruce Campbell’s work. Starts off as any ordinary western, before getting very, very weird.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/

    Come to think of it, Firefly might count, after watching Serenity at the end of the series.

    • Lupec
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      I knew a tvtropes link was going to be here as soon as I saw the question lol, here goes my next three hours I guess

  • FuglyDuck
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    Star Wars is fantasy, not sci-fi. (Technically it’s a space opera, it not at all about science or how that science might impact society.)

    Just because there’s technology, or it’s post apocalyptic doesn’t make it not fantasy.

    Shanara chronicles, too.

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    209 hours ago

    Not 100% sure, but these come to mind.

    • Science Fantasy
    • Dying Earth
    • Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
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      Dying earth isn’t really a genre, it’s series of books by Jack Vance that popularized this trope and was also a major inspiration for DnD

    • @cordlessmodem@lemmy.world
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      These sound right to me, especially Dying Earth - a podcast I listen to covered Gene Wolf’s Book of the New Sun trilogy and they described it as such. Wikipedia calls it Science Fantasy. Great books by the way

  • @Nikls94@lemmy.world
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    I don’t quite think that there’s a name for this genre (yet?) but I’ll take this opportunity to blast out my favorite story-focused game serieses

    Xenoblade is a nice fantasy RPG if you really like Storytelling! And all 3 core games are available on Switch!

    Generally speaking, Xenogears and Xenosaga have amazing stories too, but Xenoblade got translated and dubbed waaaay better

    Edit: just thought of this the last couple of minutes, and, if there was a name for this genre, it would spoil the whole game/movie/book for you! Imagine watching Planet of the Apes for the first time (it’s old by now and I hope there’s no one here who didn’t watch it already) and exactly knowing what planet it is

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      if there was a name for this genre, it would spoil the whole game/movie/book for you

      Not really. A work doesn’t have to be marketed as a specific trope, that doesn’t mean it isn’t categorised as such. There are entire categories on TvTropes that carry mass spoilers - looking at any of the examples will spoil that work for you. This is just one more such category.

    • @SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
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      For a pure magic example

      The Mistborn era 1 (books 1-3) are fantasty magic.

      Mistborn era 2 (books 4-7) occur hundreds of years later in that worlds “industrial/steam” age. Still, with magic.

      So, for example, some allomancers can push or pull on metals. In Era 1 that’s used for combat but also for rapid movement. An allomancer can fall from a wall, throw a coin and “push” off of it causing them to bounce forward and upwards. As they’re starting to reach the azimuth they “pull” the coin, catch it and repeat.

      They also in combat throw and then “push” coins or metal fragments like shrapnel.

      In Era 2. A sheriff (who’s an allomancer) leaps across a gully, aims and shoots a bullet into a wooden crate and then “pushes” on it to cross it.

      Another time during a shootout one “pushes” gunfire away so it deflects around him. Not guaranteed to get all of the bullets but useful in situations like that.

      There are other uses and other allomantic abilities but the entire shift of the format was just done phenomenally.

      Can’t recommend the Mistborn series enough

      • Mbourgon everywhere
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        Yeah, Sanderson earned the cred on the original trilogy. It’s a fantasy series, but the magicians are basically Jedi. Great stuff!

        • And the powers, as in all the cosmere series, has limits which balances it out.

          No endless pushes, flying, etc. every world has some resources or constraint so you’re not left with a “Superman” kind of scenario.

  • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    To clarify, are you asking if there’s a specific genre to Planet of the Apes where there’s a big reveal that this is actually just earth after some society ending disaster? (And similar stuff but that’s the first that came to mind).

  • @FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org
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    Hmm not sure. I guess I’d call it post-apocoliptic fantasy lol. But I know exaxctly what you mean and I love that genre. The Horizon games and even the Witcher books/games fit into this genre.