Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?

zlatiah@lemmy.world · 29 days ago

Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?

Ogmios@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 29 days ago

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is my personal favourite of Bruce Campbell’s work. Starts off as any ordinary western, before getting very, very weird.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/

Come to think of it, Firefly might count, after watching Serenity at the end of the series.

watson387@sopuli.xyz · 29 days ago

Good shit.

paddirn@lemmy.world · 27 days ago

I just saw a video on the show on the youtube channel Secret Galaxy, pretty interesting, as I remembered the show, but never knew what happened to it:

https://youtu.be/YEQP40VJLEY?si=T_PAmH8ONZKgHR3f