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* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out these kids were part of a primitive cave tribe the GAE has yet to contact and the rest of the nation is a technological powerhouse.
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** Turns out these kids were part of a primitive cave tribe the GAE has yet to contact and the rest of the nation is a technologicalpowerhouse. powerhouse.
** Relative to the Pan-Eurasian Union, but relative to us, it's still wealthy and technologically advanced.
** Turns out these kids were part of a primitive cave tribe the GAE has yet to contact and the rest of the nation is a technological
** Relative to the Pan-Eurasian Union, but relative to us, it's still wealthy and technologically advanced.
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* '''Downplayed''': The GAE is an ideal PostCyberpunk society that isn't any more advanced than the other great powers, but is still a great power and leading the world in one field.
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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** The GAE is an ideal PostCyberpunk society that isn't any more advanced than the other great powers, but is still a great power and leading the world in onefield.field.
** Africa is still divided into multiple states, though many of them have joined a political and economic bloc that collectively act as a major geopolitical, cultural, economic and technological power.
** The GAE is an ideal PostCyberpunk society that isn't any more advanced than the other great powers, but is still a great power and leading the world in one
** Africa is still divided into multiple states, though many of them have joined a political and economic bloc that collectively act as a major geopolitical, cultural, economic and technological power.
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* '''Reconstructed''': The GAE regime undergoes sweeping reforms that remove the oligarchs and military strongmen and replace them with a fairer, more just leadership that are better able to mediate ethnic disputes.
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* '''Played for Horror''': The GAE's great advancement compared to everyone else, combined with the wide networks of resource requirements to produce their advanced technologies, and they wind up themselves being [[EvilerThanThou eviler]][[Evil Colonialist colonialists]] who consider everyone else barbarians. This leads to an isolated and insular culture which has little resemblance to real world ones, let alone real world cultures surviving in modern times. For one [[AliensNeverInventedTheWheel they skipped several steps in technology]].
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* '''Played for Horror''': The GAE's great advancement compared to everyone else, combined with the wide networks of resource requirements to produce their advanced technologies, and they wind up themselves being [[EvilerThanThou eviler]][[Evil Colonialist colonialists]] Eviler]] [[EvilColonialist Colonialists]] who consider everyone else barbarians. This leads to an isolated and insular culture which has little resemblance to real world ones, let alone real world cultures surviving in modern times. For one [[AliensNeverInventedTheWheel they skipped several steps in technology]].
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Makes solar seem like nothing.
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* '''Straight''': A story features The Greater African Empire circa 3025, where scientists have mastered the use of solar energy and cybernetic enhancements. The GAE still has a distinctly African aura and culture however, not lost in the face of modernity.
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* '''Straight''': A story features The Greater African Empire circa 3025, where scientists have mastered the use of solar nuclear fusion energy and cybernetic enhancements. The GAE still has a distinctly African aura and culture however, not lost in the face of modernity.
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** A black world hopper with African stylings has highly advanced technology and remarks in Western cities that they "Still seem exotic to me after all of these years traveling."
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Huh, Africa as the center of world power and advancement. I wonder why we haven't seen ones like it more often when world hopping."
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* '''Played for Horror''': The GAE's great advancement compared to everyone else, combined with the wide networks of resource requirements to produce their advanced technologies, and they wind up themselves being [[EvilerThanThou eviler]][[Evil Colonialist colonialists]] who consider everyone else barbarians. This leads to an isolated and insular culture which has little resemblance to real world ones, let alone real world cultures surviving in modern times. For one [[AliensNeverInventedTheWheel they skipped several steps in technology]].
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is a corrupt regime where unity is threatened by conflict and rivalry between various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime where regime, and unity is threatened by conflict and rivalry between various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime. Unity is threatened by conflict and rivalry between various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime. Unity regime where unity is threatened by conflict and rivalry between various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime, and unity is threatened by conflict and rivalry between various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime, and unity regime. Unity is threatened by conflict and rivalry between various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime, and the political stability is threatened by conflict and rivalry between the various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime, and the political stability unity is threatened by conflict and rivalry between the various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime and is divided by conflict and rivalry between the various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime regime, and the political stability is divided threatened by conflict and rivalry between the various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Deconstructed''': The GAE, just like many real-life African countries, is ruled by a corrupt regime and is divided by conflict and rivalry between the various different African ethnic groups.
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* '''Invoked''': ???A time traveler gives African countries advanced technology with which to conquer the world.
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* '''Defied''': The work the GAE is set in is a realist novel to focus on down to Earth social commentary about African or Black society at large without any futuristic elements to detract from it. Any Afrofuturism is just a dream for the protagonists.
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* '''Defied''': The work When the GAE is set in is a realist novel comes into existence, world powers all crush it to focus on down dust as a threat to Earth social commentary about African or Black society at large without any futuristic elements to detract from it. Any Afrofuturism is just a dream for their place in the protagonists.world order.
* '''Implied''': A character living in a future dystopian America attempts to immigrate to Africa.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The citizens of the GAE play up the worst stereotypes of UncleTomfoolery and the {{Blaxploitation}} genre despite being an technologically-advanced utopia.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The citizens of the GAE play up the worst stereotypes of UncleTomfoolery and the {{Blaxploitation}} genre despite being an technologically-advanced utopia.
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* '''Justified''': The GAE was able to analyze what lead to the downfall of other African nations before it, tape into Africa's vast array of resources, and pursue an agenda focused on human and technological prosperity instead of enriching a few oligarchs and colonialists.
* '''Inverted''': The GAE is a prosperous ''Renissance'' or older era nation and the story is about the Black experience in an older era.
* '''Subverted''': The GAE in the future is a dirt poor and technologically primitive party.
* '''Inverted''': The GAE is a prosperous ''Renissance'' or older era nation and the story is about the Black experience in an older era.
* '''Subverted''': The GAE in the future is a dirt poor and technologically primitive party.
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* '''Justified''': The GAE was able to analyze what lead to the downfall of other African nations before it, tape tap into Africa's vast array of resources, and pursue an agenda focused on human and technological prosperity instead of enriching a few oligarchs and colonialists.
* '''Inverted''': The GAE is a prosperous''Renissance'' ''Renaissance'' or older era nation and the story is about the Black experience in an older era.
* '''Subverted''': The GAE in the future is a dirt poor and technologically primitiveparty.polity.
* '''Inverted''': The GAE is a prosperous
* '''Subverted''': The GAE in the future is a dirt poor and technologically primitive
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* '''Exploited''': The GAE uses its advanced technology to barter with the world at large and make favorable deals to it after years of having Africa exploited.
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* '''Exploited''': The GAE uses its advanced technology to barter with the world at large and make favorable deals to with it after years of having Africa exploited.
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In a work set in modern times, a black character, frustrated that he can't afford a better phone, quips "I wish I lived in [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Wakanda]]." The audience understands this as shorthand for wishing he lived in a technological utopia that was more accessible to black people.
* '''Conversed''':???In a work set in modern times, a black character says he doesn't much enjoy most sci-fi, finding not enough representation and a worldview too much based around European values and social ideals. Another black character suggests he check out Creator/OctaviaButler's books, and describes their more African-based vision of the future.
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I'm sure someone can do a better job with this trope, but I found this page just sitting mostly empty.
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* '''Straight''': The series ''Afro-Tropes'' takes place in the South African Empire, circa 2025, where scientists have mastered the use of solar energy and cybernetic enhancements. Among their many achievements, people who are able to afford nanomachines become effectively immortal and are immune to all disease. As a gesture of good will South African scientists enable the purchase of the technology overseas exclusively for businessmen, leaders, and blacks who can afford it.
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* '''Downplayed''': A dirt poor African country is depicted as a 1st world country
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out these kids were part of a primitive cave tribe the SAE has yet to contact
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': A dirt poor African country is depicted as a 1st world country
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* '''Subverted''': ???
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* '''Straight''': A story features The series ''Afro-Tropes'' takes place in the South Greater African Empire, Empire circa 2025, 3025, where scientists have mastered the use of solar energy and cybernetic enhancements. Among their many achievements, people who are able to afford nanomachines become effectively immortal and are immune to all disease. As The GAE still has a gesture of good will South distinctly African scientists enable aura and culture however, not lost in the purchase face of the technology overseas exclusively for businessmen, leaders, and blacks who can afford it.
modernity.
* '''Exaggerated''':???
The GAE is the most advanced nation on the planet and is on its way to colonizing the ''multiverse''.
* '''Downplayed''':A dirt poor African country The GAE is depicted as an ideal PostCyberpunk society that isn't any more advanced than the other great powers, but is still a 1st great power and leading the world country
in one field.
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The GAE was able to analyze what lead to the downfall of other African nations before it, tape into Africa's vast array of resources, and pursue an agenda focused on human and technological prosperity instead of enriching a few oligarchs and colonialists.
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The GAE is a prosperous ''Renissance'' or older era nation and the story is about the Black experience in an older era.
* '''Subverted''':???
The GAE in the future is a dirt poor and technologically primitive party.
* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out these kids were part of a primitive cave tribe theSAE GAE has yet to contactcontact and the rest of the nation is a technological powerhouse.
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* '''Inverted''':
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* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out these kids were part of a primitive cave tribe the
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???The GAE in the year 3025 is an advanced nation, but as is the rest of the world, but the nation does lead the world in certain technological innovations, but other nations are catching up to its advantage as well, while domestically poverty and crime are still major issues, but the GAE has been moving towards eradicating these issues as well via benevolent government policies.
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* '''Enforced''':
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The GAE uses its advanced technology to barter with the world at large and make favorable deals to it after years of having Africa exploited.
* '''Defied''':???The work the GAE is set in is a realist novel to focus on down to Earth social commentary about African or Black society at large without any futuristic elements to detract from it. Any Afrofuturism is just a dream for the protagonists.
* '''Defied''':
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** Triangular slave traders purchase a fresh batch of black slaves from a blind man claiming to be a chief. After a 3 month trip the surviving slaves are lead into a barn house to be auctioned, and are killed by lasers? 2 years later the same slaves, on airplanes, lead an assault on the American colonies along with the blind man who turned out to have been seeing through a surveillance drone one of the slaves hid in the barn.
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** Triangular slave traders purchase a fresh batch of black slaves from a blind man claiming to be a chief. After a 3 month trip the surviving slaves are lead into a barn house to be auctioned, and are killed by lasers? lasers. 2 years later the same slaves, on airplanes, lead an assault on the American colonies along with the blind man who turned out to have been seeing through a surveillance drone one of the slaves hid in the barn.
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'''Basic Trope''': Science fiction or fantasy setting revolving around Africans and black people
* '''Straight''': The series ''Afro-Tropes'' takes place in the South African Empire, circa 2025, where scientists have mastered the use of solar energy and cybernetic enhancements. Among their many achievements, people who are able to afford nanomachines become effectively immortal and are immune to all disease. As a gesture of good will South African scientists enable the purchase of the technology overseas exclusively for businessmen, leaders, and blacks who can afford it.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': A dirt poor African country is depicted as a 1st world country
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out these kids were part of a primitive cave tribe the SAE has yet to contact
'''Parodied''':
** The Roman army tries to stake a claim in Northern Africa, and are shocked to find it guarded by quantum aqua-distributors manned by cryokinetic blackhole powered machines.
** Triangular slave traders purchase a fresh batch of black slaves from a blind man claiming to be a chief. After a 3 month trip the surviving slaves are lead into a barn house to be auctioned, and are killed by lasers? 2 years later the same slaves, on airplanes, lead an assault on the American colonies along with the blind man who turned out to have been seeing through a surveillance drone one of the slaves hid in the barn.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Africa is equally or less advanced than the rest of the world
** Africa is advanced, but so is the rest of the world
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* '''Discussed''': ???
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* '''Straight''': The series ''Afro-Tropes'' takes place in the South African Empire, circa 2025, where scientists have mastered the use of solar energy and cybernetic enhancements. Among their many achievements, people who are able to afford nanomachines become effectively immortal and are immune to all disease. As a gesture of good will South African scientists enable the purchase of the technology overseas exclusively for businessmen, leaders, and blacks who can afford it.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': A dirt poor African country is depicted as a 1st world country
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': Turns out these kids were part of a primitive cave tribe the SAE has yet to contact
'''Parodied''':
** The Roman army tries to stake a claim in Northern Africa, and are shocked to find it guarded by quantum aqua-distributors manned by cryokinetic blackhole powered machines.
** Triangular slave traders purchase a fresh batch of black slaves from a blind man claiming to be a chief. After a 3 month trip the surviving slaves are lead into a barn house to be auctioned, and are killed by lasers? 2 years later the same slaves, on airplanes, lead an assault on the American colonies along with the blind man who turned out to have been seeing through a surveillance drone one of the slaves hid in the barn.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Africa is equally or less advanced than the rest of the world
** Africa is advanced, but so is the rest of the world
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
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