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, started by DragonQuestZ on Jul 26th 2011 at 10:11:53 PM
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Subpage for RPGs?, started by Koveras on Jun 1st 2011 at 8:29:09 PM
Does Dragon Ball really count as a constructed world? It's referred to as Earth, its geography resembles Afro-Eurasia, and real world locations are mentioned.
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Yeah, as un-Earth-like as it is, I do believe it's quite explicitly called Earth.
Might be a retcon, because I don't think it ever came up in the original Dragon Ball, but when it goes cosmic in DBZ, they start throwing around "Earthlings" and "Earth" all the time.
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Was Pokemon removed from the Video Games section or was it never there at all? I know its entry in Anime and Manga states it's more vaugely such than the anime series or Pokemon Special, but I've seen Word of God that Gamefreak doesn't think of the world as Earth (I can get a link when not on mobile), and it seems diffrent 'enough from Earth that it could at least be noted as a possible contender?
EDIT: And the Science Fantasy page outright calls the games a Constructed World, so I'll probably revise the Anime and Manga entry and add one for the series under Video Games unless there are any major objections.
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Does Lord of the Rings really count? It's set on Earth during a mythical time in the past.
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Maybe? Arda was not always Earth as we know it but eventually became Earth. Further discussion?
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As I just replied to a troper above: Tolkien dropped some ambiguous hints that Middle-Earth could be Earth "a very long time ago", but it's hardly an established fact in the Tolkien universe. I'm pretty sure that's more a fan theory.
Let's just say and leave it at that.
Pratchett was actually mistaken—while the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy isn't connected to Earth, Tolkien's other stories explicitly explained how Middle Earth was magically transformed into our world, complete with a character called (I think) Aethel of England, a lost Saxon warrior.
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I guess you mean 'Aelfwine of England', a character who was at one time planned to be the protagonist of The Book of Lost Tales.
Book of Lost Tales took place (partially) on Earth, but was never finished. The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion no longer postulate the identitiy of Middle-Earth, respectively Arda, with Earth. I know that "Middle-Earth transformed into our world" is a popular fan theory, but while Tolkien dropped some ambiguous hints that it could be so, it's hardly an established fact in-universe.
Let's just say and leave it at that.
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Pulled this:
- Actually we never thought it was flat, that's based on a fictitious scene in a fake biography of Christopher Columbus written a couple hundred years after his life in which the previously mentioned scene was admittedly only put in to make it interesting.
Actually lots of cultures thought the world was flat, this being the most obvious conclusion to draw if your only measuring instruments are your eyes. It's true that 15th century Spain wasn't one of them, but the entry never said it was.
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Uh, what's with the moon example on the Avatar example? I looked at the pictures and...they're both round, shiny, and moonlike. I'm not really sure what point the poster was trying to make.
Not necessarily. A lot of them take place in our world, whether it be in the future or past. This describes purely fictional locales.
I think Fairy Tail counts.