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I'm gonna go with Real Life.

We came back pretty strong after that apocalypse that wiped out all those giant lizards. Turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Locclo wrote:Oh, and hey, I'll go with the Magic: the Gathering worlds of Lorwynn/Shadowmoor. It was really kind of a shock seeing Lorwynn so full of life and goodness, then at the end of Morningtide the entire land is plunged into darkness.

Awesome example. That was a truly cool block, art-wise at least. I'm not MtG enough to rate it otherwise. Nice genre-bending usage of post-apocolyptic though.

I'd say Borderlands but it depends what you class as an apocalypse...

Mad Max probably.

Gamewise it would have to be the Fallout universe but for movie-wise it would have to be Mad Max and Planet of the Apes.

Well Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) is post apoc and I rather enjoy it. Mad Max and The Road Warrior are rather good also, although Mad Max is clearly superior

Appleseed is also a rather good post apoc show.

GalacticDefender wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Fallout: PRetty cool. I wish is had a bit less of the 50's(that decade scares me)
40k...Well technically it is. The Golden age of technology was brought down and never acheived agin. forcing others to scavenge it. If thats not a post-apoc i dont know what is.

Nah, i'd still consider 40k a space opera. A very dark, twisted space opera.

Fallout is a pretty awesome universe. And I really liked The Road but that isn't really a scifi universe.

Yanno, I ALMOST posted the road as well, but stopped for that reason. I love that movie. Its so....dark

Definitely MLP. That's about as gritty post-human as it gets
In truth, I would say fallout.

Now here is a question I have..

Would Firefly be considered post apoc? Earth did have too many to sustain so it kind fits the idea.

Also I did forget about the Half Life universe. That does seem to be post apoc for sure.

Firefly and Half-Life are, imo, not post-apocalyptic. They're dystopic. EDIT: Actually I'm iffy on if thats even opinion

The Stand, Planet of the Apes, Fallout, in that order.

Ooo, that stand, I'd forgotten about that one...wow...the TV series really aged badly...

Jihadnik wrote:Ooo, that stand, I'd forgotten about that one...wow...the TV series really aged badly...

I didn't see the series until about 3-4 years ago and I thought it was still fairly decent. The novel is timeless. My only complaint is that it lags at points and Flagg's characterization seems inconsistent.

Oh, almost forgot Walking Dead.

Locclo wrote:Well, Wikipedia says this about the matter:

"Although not explicitly stated, the setting of the "Land of Ooo" is a post-apocalyptic continent,[11] after the "Great Mushroom War." According to Ward, the show takes place "after the bombs have fallen and magic has come back into the world"."

Exactly. It is never actually addressed directly, but Finn mentions a "Great Mushroom War" and wastelands and destroyed cities are very frequent settings. Also the episode "Susan Strong" has mutants in it.
Oh and the "Great Mushroom War" is a subtle hint at mushroom clouds most likely. Also the episode with young Marceline and the one where Ice King bought the the crown from the Norwegian dude before the apocalypse made me really realize that it was was post-apoc, but I had been somewhat expecting that.

T-T-T-TRIPLE EDIT: Also the episode where the Lich escaped and his lair was a trashed and abandoned old subway station littered with corpses.

Wall-E?

Amaya wrote:

Jihadnik wrote:Ooo, that stand, I'd forgotten about that one...wow...the TV series really aged badly...

I didn't see the series until about 3-4 years ago and I thought it was still fairly decent. The novel is timeless. My only complaint is that it lags at points and Flagg's characterization seems inconsistent.

I think its still pretty decent myself. Ill usually watch it when I see it on TV somewheres. But I agree, Flagg was all over the place in the show.

I like the Macrosse series after the Zentraedi destroy the Earth, I believe it is called Reconstruction Blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nucnyrJUMlo

I'm also a fan of the post-apoc depicted in "The Blood of Heros" or also "Salute to the Jugger" starring Rutger Haur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_of_Heroes

I also like the world of the "Six-String Samurai" as it is heavy on the 50's post-apoc, and has a guitar wielding, top hat wearing, version of Death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-String_Samurai

Finally, I kind of like the version portrayed in "A Boy and His Dog". This is a film featuring Don Johnson and a talking dog.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog

Waterworld

/leaves room

Waterworld was a funny one

The best around.

Ahtman wrote:

The best around.

I remember that one.

killykavekommando wrote:Oh, almost forgot Walking Dead.

I'm really liking that show.

mainly because its a classic and no one has mentioned it yet "Logans Run"

Logan's run is a dystopic not post-apocalyptic.

Random Factoid of the Day Yall

Dystopia: A society that exists in a totalitarian or socially regressive state under the guise of utopia.

Post-Apocalypse: A society that exists in a world that openly sucks as a result of large scale disaster.

LordofHats wrote:Logan's run is a dystopic not post-apocalyptic.

Random Factoid of the Day Yall

Dystopia: A society that exists in a totalitarian or socially regressive state under the guise of utopia.

Post-Apocalypse: A society that exists in a world that openly sucks as a result of large scale disaster.

Unless I'm mistaken, it's kinda both. It's a dystopian city set inside of a post-apocalyptic world. Granted, I haven't seen the movie nor read the book (read all that on Wikipedia's synopsis of both) but if it's right, then the city is set smack in the middle of an abandoned, destroyed Earth.

LordofHats wrote:Logan's run is a dystopic not post-apocalyptic

New movie idea:

Hogan's Run

Hogan's Heroes meets Logan's Run, but Schultz is the Runner.

There are often overlaps but typically speaking the themes and archetypes of the genre's are wholestically different from one another, i.e. why many dystopic stories take place after apocalyptic disasters, they are not post-apocalyptic due to lacking requisite themes and ideas integral to the setting (nominally that societies in dystopic settings are much more ordered and less desperate than is typical of a post-apocalyptic one). EDIT: I suppose though this is me talking in generalities about something that is really quite subjective, I do do that alot XD

Hogan's Run

Hogan's Heroes meets Logan's Run, but Schultz is the Runner.

I'd watch that.

Panzer Dragoon, but only if I get a dragon or weird airship - the wildlife would otherwise be intolerable.

Anyone mention 1984 yet?

killykavekommando wrote:Anyone mention 1984 yet?

Dystopic not post-apoc.