History Main / HellishLA

* ''Literature/You2015'':

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has had Los Angeles ''go through it'' over the editions. At first, when California split off from the US, the damage was limited, with race riots in the lower-income neighborhoods of Compton, Gardena, and Hawthorne resulting in the city going "Screw this" and walling them off as the heavily-guarded "El Infierno." Decades later, an offshore reactor explodes and floods the city with a toxic wave; El Infierno gets no help, which leads to a group of local hackers getting revenge the next year by wiping the results of the California Free State's gubernatorial election. This leads to the California Free State government sending in the army; a massacre occurs, and the city is basically written off by the state for years until another earthquake hits, with the Pueblo Corporate Council finally stepping in to annex it. And if ''that'' weren't enough, the city then gets hit with a massive earthquake and ensuing tidal wave that sees vast chunks south of the 101 still flooded years later (in part because it also revealed magical tunnels under the city that literally seem to have appeared out of nowhere). On top of all of that, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the city is so obsessed with fame and social media that most runners effectively livestream their criminal activities under false identities]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has had Los Angeles ''go through it'' over the editions. At first, when California split off from the US, the damage was limited, with race riots in the lower-income neighborhoods of Compton, Gardena, and Hawthorne resulting in the city going "Screw this" and walling them off as the heavily-guarded "El Infierno." Decades later, an offshore reactor explodes and floods the city with a toxic wave; El Infierno gets no help, which leads to a group of local hackers getting revenge the next year by wiping the results of the California Free State's gubernatorial election. This leads to the CFS sending in the army; a massacre occurs, and the city is basically written off by the state for years until another earthquake hits, with the Pueblo Corporate Council finally stepping in to annex it. And if ''that'' weren't enough, the city then gets hit with a massive earthquake and ensuing tidal wave that sees vast chunks south of the 101 still flooded years later (in part because it also revealed magical tunnels under the city that literally seem to have appeared out of nowhere). On top of all of that, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the city is so obsessed with fame and social media that most runners effectively livestream their criminal activities under false identities]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has had Los Angeles ''go through it'' over the editions. At first, when California split off from the US, the damage was limited, with race riots in the lower-income neighborhoods of Compton, Gardena, and Hawthorne resulting in the city going "Screw this" and walling them off as the heavily-guarded "El Infierno." Decades later, an offshore reactor explodes and floods the city with a toxic wave; El Infierno gets no help, which leads to a group of local hackers getting revenge the next year by wiping the results of the California Free State's gubernatorial election. This leads to the CFS sending in the army; a massacre occurs, and the city is basically written off by the state for years until another earthquake hits, with the Pueblo Corporate Council finally stepping in to annex it. And if ''that'' weren't enough, the city then gets hit with a massive earthquake and ensuing tidal wave that sees vast chunks south of the 101 still flooded years later (in part because it also revealed magical tunnels under the city that literally seem to have appeared out of nowhere). If that weren't enough, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the city is so obsessed with fame and social media that most runners effectively livestream their criminal activities under false identities]].

* As mentioned under Video Games, ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' made LA the seat of the Anarch Free States, with Anarch leader Jeremy [=MacNeil=] deposing Camarilla prince Don Sebastian after one too many abuses. However, [=MacNeil=] is ''such'' an Anarch that the city has no real body of government beyond a Revolutionary Council, meaning it's mainly a free-for-all between various Anarch gangs. If that's not enough, the founding of the city is tied to an extremely powerful 13-year-old Toreador who was laughed out of Boston for being an artless poseur; not only is he the reason Hollywood became the entertainment capital of the world, but it's strongly implied he decides the course of LA's greater political body based on who's the subject of his latest daddy crush (this element has been downplayed in later editions because the idea of a vampire in eternal puberty has gone from "disturbing" to "uncomfortably icky").

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has had Los Angeles ''go through it'' over the editions. At first, when California split off from the US, the damage was limited, with race riots in the lower-income neighborhoods of Compton, Gardena, and Hawthorne resulting in the city going "Screw this" and walling them off as the heavily-guarded "El Infierno." Decades later, an offshore reactor explodes and floods the city with a toxic wave; El Infierno gets no help, which leads to a group of local hackers getting revenge the next year by wiping the results of the California Free State's gubernatorial election. This leads to the CFS sending in the army; a massacre occurs, and the city is basically written off by the state for years until another earthquake hits, with the Pueblo Corporate Council finally stepping in to annex it. And if ''that'' weren't enough, the city then gets hit with a massive earthquake and ensuing tidal wave that sees vast chunks south of the 101 still flooded years later. If that weren't enough, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the city is so obsessed with fame and social media that most runners effectively livestream their criminal activities under false identities]].