History Main / WorldGoneMad

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* The sections of ''Series/TheDailyShow'' where Jon Stewart talks to a "correspondent on the scene" are often like this, where the correspondent pretends to be a government shill and gives {{Cloudcuckoolander}} justifications for stupid or criminal government programs. It's eerily possible to say that ''Series/TheDailyShow'' and ''Series/TheColbertReport'' both point out the absurdities of government in the World Gone Mad perspective. Eerie because, well, ''it's the real world''. Truth IS sometimes stranger than fiction.

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* According to some sources, the British army thought this was the case after their surrender at [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Yorktown]], with their band playing "The World Turned Upside-down" as they marched out under a white flag.
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%%* ''Manga/SoulEater''. Nuff said.

* This trope pretty much sums up the entire world of ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' series thank to both the unending government atrocities and the psychopaths that want to kill you, aside from it being also a CrapsackWorld.

** And all of that COMBINED is acceptably sane compared to the final chapter and spinoff, ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV''. After Cyrus goes insane from being exiled from America and tries to nuke the White House, the boss thwarts his plans only to crash into the president's office and GET ELECTED AS PRESIDENT. After five years of making the world a better place and throwing their polls in the trash, the White House is interrupted by an ALIEN INVASION. The boss is kidnapped, breaks out, yadda yadda yadda, only to find out that [[spoiler:the Earth EXPLODED]]. Yup, 90 percent of humanity go boom. Finally, the boss uses a computer simulation that gives hackers superpowers to assassinate the emperor of the aliens and [[spoiler:take HIS place, thereby becoming the "President and God Emperor of the Universe for Life]]. With limited time travel abilities. And the friendship of THE Santa Claus.

* The Rook Islands in ''VideoGame/FarCry3''. Two islands dominated by RuthlessModernPirates and a full-fledged private army respectively working for a slave and drug trafficking operation. Pretty much anyone you meet apart from your captured friends is insane in someway, whether by drug addiction, the violence in the area having gotten to them or just pure evil. Even the animals are insane, and most of them will attack you on sight. There's [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane implications]] that there's something fundementally ''[[EldritchLocation wrong]]'' with the islands and anyone there will go nuts eventually. [[spoiler:By the end, the player character is one step away from madness, and it's left to the player to choose whether to give in completely or turn back at the last second.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'': Played for all the drama a Nazi victory in World War II is worth. It leads to a CrapsackWorld where fascist ideology is validated even beyond the borders of Germany, and the NonStandardGameOver where the world is destroyed in a thermonuclear conflict is actually presented as a ''BittersweetEnding'' because humanity survives and eventually develops a new, advanced civilization based on peace and understanding, after only the end of the world was able to wash away all the toxic hatred in place. Nowhere is this more apparent than the defeated remnants of Soviet Russia, which is split into multiple warlord states including fascists, ultranationalists and all sorts of other bizarre ideologues (including a mad colonel who [[NapoleonDelusion believes he is the reincarnation of an ancient Varangian prince]]) trying to reunite the shattered nation. [[spoiler:And the [[AfterTheEnd After Midnight]] scenario takes this even further: [[TheCaligula Sergey Taboritsky's]] insanity has left Russia back at square one, but the anarchy is even more violent, radical and desperate. The remaining democrats, socialists and despots must compete with Burgundian System proponents still calling for Taboritsky's last murderous orders to be fulfilled, {{General Ripper}}s who believe Russians outside their bunkers must be violently subjugated under their jackboots just like the Germans they plan on destroying, to ''[[HollywoodSatanism genuine mass-enslaving, human-sacrificing Satanists]]''.]]
* ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'' turns the Mushroom Kingdom into this -- while things can be weird, the Rabbids' [[OutsideGenreFoe sudden invasion]] crank the insanity up to eleven, and things quickly escalate; it soon emerges that an EldritchAbomination is behind the chaos...and [[DemonicPossession then decides to possess]] [[HijackedByGanon Bowser]] ([[LockedOutOfTheLoop who had been on vacation for most of the game]]).

Compare CosmicPlaything, FinaglesLaw. May leave the reader saying "WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs" May be a result of stepping into a {{Cloudcuckooland}} or CrapsaccharineWorld, or of a MadGod or RealityWarper taking over. Compare and contrast WorldOfChaos, which is chaotic, disorganized and unpredictable, but not necessarily hellish or a torment to live in (although the two tropes can certainly overlap).

* Creator/WarrenEllis likes to combine this trope with CrapsackWorld and WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs

-->-- '''Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'''

* According to some sources, the British army thought this was the case after their surrender at Yorktown, with their band playing "The World turned Upside-down" as they marched out under a white flag.

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