History Main / AndManGrewProud

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is set in a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids post-apocalypse]]. The event that left the world in that state is known as "[[TheDeadliestMushroom The Great Mushroom Wars]]".

This has actually happened, on a smaller scale, with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama Mount Mazama]] (nowadays called Crater Lake) in North America, and the capital of the wealthy Minoan civilization, which they built on a convenient horseshoe shaped island in the Mediteranian. [[{{Atlantis}} Which turned out to be the crater atop a (temporarily) dormant volcano]]. Some researchers suspect the same of Estonian folktales and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaali_crater prehistoric meteorite.]]

This has actually happened, on a smaller scale, with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama Mount Mazama]] (nowadays called Crater Lake) in North America, and the capital of the wealthy Minoan civilization, which they built on a convenient horseshoe shaped island. [[{{Atlantis}} Which turned out to be the crater atop a (temporarily) dormant volcano]]. Some researchers suspect the same of Estonian folktales and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaali_crater prehistoric meteorite.]]

This has actually happened, on a smaller scale, with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama Mount Mazama]] (nowadays called Crater Lake) in North America. Some researchers suspect the same of Estonian folktales and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaali_crater prehistoric meteorite.]]

* This is the Sand People's motivation for attacking everyone else (who they consider to be 'separating themselves from the soil' with technology), as translated from their oral traditions, in KnightsOfTheOldRepublic. They had just started their space-faring era when [[AbusivePrecursors the Rakatans]] found them. They enslaved Tattooine, stripping it of resources, and "seeding the stars with penitent, complacent slaves." The slaves revolted, and sabotaged the machines, retreating into underground caves. The Rakata [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill responded by blasting the planet to glass]] ...which ground into the [[SingleBiomePlanet vast oceans of sand]] we all know and love from the films.

* The introduction to the adventure game ''VideoGame/InheritTheEarth'' takes the form of a series of cave paintings, with the narrator explaining how Humans created the various races of [[FurryFandom Morph]] - giving them "thinking minds, feeling hearts, speaking mouths, and reaching hands." Before they could teach the Morph the secret of happiness, however, some terrible calamity befell them. Now the Humans have gone - where, no Morph knows - and their furry children can only wonder at the strange things they left behind.

* The RDM-verse variety of ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' (including the off-shoot ''{{Caprica}}''). This is explictly the case in this setting, where humans created the cylons, enslaved them, and then watched as the cylons rebelled and (eventually, fifty years later) destroyed their entire civilization. ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' largely concerns itself with the AfterTheEnd fallout of this and the fractured remnants of humanity's eventual decision to [[spoiler:make peace with the cylons and, in fact, essentially merge with them to become a new and better race]] while ''{{Caprica}}'' is about how and why the fall came about (i.e., precisely how proud man grew). The evacuation of the "original" homeworld of Kobol, which occured some 3-4,000 years in the past due to [[spoiler: a civil war between the humans and an earlier group of proto-Cylons who went on to colonize Earth]] is vaguely recalled in Colonial history as having happened due to a war between the gods.

* The introduction to the adventure game ''InheritTheEarth'' takes the form of a series of cave paintings, with the narrator explaining how Humans created the various races of [[FurryFandom Morph]] - giving them "thinking minds, feeling hearts, speaking mouths, and reaching hands." Before they could teach the Morph the secret of happiness, however, some terrible calamity befell them. Now the Humans have gone - where, no Morph knows - and their furry children can only wonder at the strange things they left behind.

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* ''NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' opens with a vaguely medieval tapestry showing the hubris and fall of man.

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*** And of course there's the Horus Heresy where the super soldiers the Emperor made to be the perfect weapons of war got fed up with their post for a variety of reasons then fully half of them turned to chaos and set about trying to destroy or conquer everything in their path.

** Notably, this ''was not the source of the myth''. In reality, the actual source of flood myths is the fact that early human settlements were usually located near rivers, lakes, and other large bodies of water. The myth does not describe actual historical events, but rather is a common trope because virtually every civilization experienced flooding due to being located in floodplains. Later-day attempts tying floods to real historical events are fruitless, because they aren't related; it is an example of people trying to tie history to mythology, and most such myths (such as the great flood and Atlantis) were attested only millenia after their purported origins.
*** t is also important to note that while catastrophic flood myths are commonplace in almost all cultures, these floods always resemble supped-up versions of typical floods that people in such places could experience: Flood plain dwellers get floods caused by abnormal rains, islanders get freak tides or tsunamis, etc.
** It is also notable that in the case of Egypt, the flood was not a disaster, but it's absence was. The annual Nile flood deposited fertile mud on the fields of Egypt, and if it didn't come there would be a famine. (In fact, the prosperity of Egypt in any year was directly related to the height of the last flood, so a special measuring stone was set up so the height of the flood could be accurate read and recorded for planning how to get through the year.)

* Erich vod Daeniken claims AncientAstronauts have been here, but there's a theory which tops him: Atlantis and Lemuria were real, highly advanced, and blew themselves to smithereens in a nuclear war or whatnot some ten or twelve thousand years ago. Why does all of this seem somewhat familiar?

* Parodied in the HarryTurtledove story ''Secret Names''. The only thing people 2000 years AfterTheEnd know about how their ancestors went back to the hunter-gathering tribal stage is that "Old Time" ended with something called "The Big Oops". And that's all.

* ''[[http://www.tkinter.smig.net/Outings/RosemountGhosts/Babylon.htm By the Waters of Babylon]]'' by StephenVincentBenet a short story about a priest on a journey to a place of the dead gods who were lost in the Great Burning. Notable in that [[OlderThanTelevision it was written in 1937.]]

* Terry Brooks' {{Shannara}} books are set in a post-apocalyptic world, but it rarely directly impacts the story. It does inform characters' ethos and directs at least one organization. Still, they're being properly connected in a new trilogy.

*** Considering they have access to the Great Chi-Town Library, possibly the largest repository of Pre-Rifts knowledge in the world, they could very well be one of the few groups with any knowledge at all of what really happened. Of course, being the Coalition and all, it would be perfectly in-character to suppress such knowledge and spread propaganda that makes it look like magic and [[FantasicRacism D-Bees]] are to blame.

** Not played for laughs in the framing story ''The Trial of a Time Lord'' that contains the above. He rips into the entire basis of Time Lord society for its' arrogance and greed in [[spoiler: "putting an ancient culture like Earth to the sword to protect a few paltry secrets"]].

* The intro of VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor talks of this, of old Rogueport as a thriving city of peace and a golden age until a cataclysm struck, as can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8HxEVtxiSI here]]. It turns out the event was due to the actions of [[spoiler:the FinalBoss.]]

* Played for laughs in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serials ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet The Mysterious Planet]]'', in which an underground colony of survivors on a far-future Earth renamed Ravalox which has been ravaged by a fireball refer to three sacred texts that are the only few surviving books they have, which govern their lives and their views of the world before the apocalypse, and which are trusted to learned scholars to unpack their meanings. They are, however, Herman Melville's ''Literature/MobyDick'', Charles Kingsley's ''The Water Babies'', and a guide to the UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose by 'HM Stationery Office', which is apparently the most mysterious. The Doctor is not impressed.
** Not played for laughs in the framing story ''Trial Of A Time Lord'' that contains the above. He rips into the entire basis of Time Lord society for its' arrogance and greed in [[spoiler: "putting an ancient culture like Earth to the sword to protect a few paltry secrets"]].

** Though this theory doesn't explain the presence of nearly identical flood stories in other places.

* The intro of VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor talks of this, of old Rogueport as a thriving city of peace and a golden age until a cataclysm struck, as can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8HxEVtxiSI here]]. It turns out the event was due to the actions of the FinalBoss.