History Main / NoFEMAResponse

* There is a FEMA in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' series... it just doesn't do what people expect them to do. Mainly, they maintain the fictional equivalent of CIA black sites.

* Averted hard in the Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Fangame ''Pokemon Uranium''; whenever a meltdown threatens the well-being of citizens, the Rangers immediately leap into action to evacuate the area.

* Averted in NightOfTheLivingDead. Government establishes safe havens and rescue operations almost immediately, but the characters are trapped in a remote area and cannot initially agree on whether to take the risk of traveling to the nearest shelter.

* ''Film/{{Outbreak}}'': The city was quarantined, and they the plan was to Fuel Air Bomb it to stop the infection from spreading.

* The government tries to do this in Arnette, Texas in Stephen King's ''TheStand''. However, due to the communicable nature of the superflu, they realize that containment became impossible "as soon as Campion bought his first take-out hamburger."

* Slightly justified in ''DevilSurvivor2'', where the government has much bigger things to worry about than an earthquake, such as an invasion of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.

** ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater'' reveals that there were a large number of refugee camps in Europe, so at the very least Britain's nearest neighbours were probably pulling uninfected civilians out of the ports or off the beaches.

** Justified seeing as how quickly the virus spreads, is incurable, and turns everyone infected into a vicious killing machine.

* In ''SCryEd'', the Lost Ground has been placed under the jurisdiction of HOLY, which doesn't seem to care about civilizing the area in any way other than getting Alter Users under their control.

* The combination of an earthquake and a surge in demonic activity causes a large chunk of Tokyo to become a lawless danger zone in ''DemonCityShinjuku''.

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* ''TokyoMagnitude8'' is an {{Aversion}}. The anime is about how to deal with a post-earthquake condition.

* Averted in the ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' series. There ''was'' a governmental response called CEDA, but the infection grew out of hand far too quickly for them to handle, and thus the military began to resort to more... extreme measures.

* This sums up a lot of what happened after Hurricane Katrina hit UsefulNotes/NewOrleans. In that case, the lack of a FEMA response became a national scandal.

* This sums up a lot of what happened after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. In that case it was literally the lack of a FEMA response.

Not so in fiction, where earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and stranger events are ''avoided'' or outright cordoned off by the outside world and the survivors are left to fend for themselves. This seems especially prevalent in Japanese fiction, as it appears that nation has ''zero'' confidence in the stability of the social order -- the slightest accident on the street will inevitably lead to [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons people cracking each others' skulls open to feast on the goo within]]. This goes double if it's a Creator/GoNagai production.

* Averted in the ''Left4Dead'' series. There ''was'' a governmental response called CEDA, but the infection grew out of hand far too quickly for them to handle, and thus the military began to resort to more... extreme measures.

* The original premise of ''IAmAlive'' was that massive earthquake in Chicago coincides with mass water shortages worldwide, so no early rescue teams arrived at the city.

* Justified in ''{{Prototype}}''. Blackwatch places the entire island of Manhattan under strict quarantine and will destroy anyone attempting to leave the island; in this situation, it's unlikely they would allow humanitarian aid to enter.

* In the early ''ResidentEvil'' games, Raccoon City was cordoned off by the military and basically left to fend for itself until the government finally went ahead and [[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure cratered the place with high-yield warheads]].

* In the 2008 version of ''Film/DayOfTheDead'' the Army cordons off the town, and all phone and cellphone service is cut off.

Not so in fiction, where earthquakes, terrorist attacks, and stranger events are ''avoided'' or outright cordoned off by the outside world and the survivors are left to fend for themselves. This seems especially prevalent in Japanese fiction, as it appears that nation has ''zero'' confidence in the stability of the social order -- the slightest accident on the street will inevitably lead to [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons people cracking each others' skulls open to feast on the goo within]]. This goes double if it's a GoNagai production.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'': After two outbreaks of a horrific genetically engineered plague virus are followed by a devastating earthquake that smashes [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Gotham City]] flat, the government (influenced by covert supervillain activity) decides that any further aid and reconstruction would just be throwing good money after bad and orders the city evacuated and left to rot. Anyone refusing to leave is no longer their problem. Gotham is left to the mercies of the Arkham inmates, criminal organizations, and street gangs for over a year.
** The government actually declared Gotham to no longer be part of the American territory (something that's not possible under the US Constitution) and shot down any attempts to bring relief aid to the people who insisted on staying!
*** And Metropolis, a city that had similarly been extensively damaged by Lex Luthor shortly before, was fixed magically (by GOTHAM NATIVE Zatanna the Magician) but nothing was done to restore Gotham (until, ironically, Luthor paid for the repairs to get the publicity that got him elected President.)

* This sums up a lot of what happened after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. In that case it was literally the lack of a FEMA response.

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* ''{{Outbreak}}'': The city was quarantined, and they the plan was to Fuel Air Bomb it to stop the infection from spreading.
* ''TheCrazies'': TheRemake has the first city cordoned off and Fuel Air Bombed. Worse, they made everybody think they were evac'ing, when they really [[spoiler: were just herding them into trucks to burn them alive]]. Survivors made it to another city which was then targeted for the same treatment.
* In the 2008 version of ''DayOfTheDead'' the Army cordons off the town, and all phone and cellphone service is cut off.

* ''SuperEight'': [[spoiler: An alien has gotten loose in a town. Rather than try for a covert operation or even "try" to save any of the several people who have already been kidnapped by it, the government evacuates the town and initiates " Walking Distance ", a.k.a., "burning the town to the ground". They don't check if everyone is out, or even try to stop people coming back in.]]

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