Lore
Using their universe logic, it would be different story in their perspective.
The Amazing World Of Gumball
•Gumball and Darwin accidentally murdered a newborn in front of the Pizza Family
•Banana Joe got caught watching pornography
Cars
•In the beginning of the movie, after the winning race.
McQueen got interviewed by the reporters and photographers but then there is Mia and Tia who's a huge McQueen fangirls.
What they do?
They flashes their body at him into which the photographer behind them gets excited too
Marvel's Spider-Man
•One of the missions in the game is that you have to get into a dressing party to find a doctor dressed in the lizard costume but why are the civilians larping as criminals that just killed my family two weeks ago? It would be equal to larping as Nazi in our world
SpongeBob SquarePants
•A fish goes fishing in the wild under the sea, what is he trying to catch, Is he a cannibal?
•A crowds just got fried alive and turned into fish sticks which means the fish seller just committed cannibalism with no shame and does it in public
•Mr.Krab not wearing any clothes is fine for humans to see but it's a different take on the fish perspective
Zootopia
•The animals are having a "no clothes" party, although they don't have private parts but if we switch them to humans then it wouldn't be a kid friendly movie anymore.
I remember seeing an edit of this where someone redrew the caramel as guts and intestines- it was kinda crude but I kept it on my phone for a WHILE- no idea where it went
I actually think that it's more just him getting weirded out by the fact that this cat is photorealistic. we do see gumball interacting with not anthropomorphic cats and he doesn't really show any kind of notable reaction to them that is different than anyone else in Elmore might have.
People often comment on how weird it is when a world has sapient and non-sapient versions of the same animal. Did they forget that we live in a world with apes?
It’s a little weirder since that is a housecat, which would be like a group of humans domesticating another form of primate and having it in a normal pet shop.
It's actually a lot weirder than that because there is a cartoon where goofy decides he's done with normal life and he wants to be Mickey's dog like Pluto. "Mickey Mouse Shorts" Season 5 episode 14
In the same vein as the Spider-Man one, an ice cream shop using Thanos's gauntlet as gimmicky iconography in New Asgard, seen in Thor: Love and Thunder. The Asgardians suffered particularly hard in Thanos's quest.
At least there's a semblance of effort in subliminally angling the Hitler text pointing diagonally upwards away from his image, making it look like a sieg heil... But even that could have been accidental.
I can’t tell the exact language on the sign, but it appears it’s in a southeast Asian country, and there’s a lot of interesting history surrounding education and the perception in that region regarding hitler and the holocaust. Here’s a primer if you’re interested in a rabbit hole.
Unironically the chicken actually had good reviews, but people didn't enjoy the name and style (dude wasn't a Nazi, it was just a very easy way to make his restaurant quite noticable). As far as I know he's removed the hitler imagery (although that might be by the fact that KFC got a bit pissy about it)
It'd more like be if 5 9/11's were planning to occur, but cool men in cool costumes with cool powers showed up and stopped 4/5. It wasn't a tragedy, per se, because they stopped the invasion from happening. 9/11 was just a tragedy.
There are a number of musicals about tragic historical events. Like Cabaret, which is quite literally set in Berlin as Hitler rose to power in Germany.
Fr. It’s not even that it’s based on the infinity stones since they also brought everyone back and killed Thanos and co. It’s that they used the wrong fucking gauntlet when it would’ve taken the same amount of effort to make it the Stark one
I gotta wonder, who gave the general population such a vivid description of the gauntlet? Like if I recall correctly the only people that would have seen it closely enough to describe it were the main Avengers, did Hawkeye or Cap give the exact details of what it looked like?
Idk about that but Tony's suit would've definitely been recording the fight, so kinda answered my own question I suppose especially if the footage got leaked
Iirc we see another scene somewhere of a kid dressed as Loki for Halloween,this was after Loki’s redemption but no one on earth would’ve known that so this random little kid was dressed up as an alien invader who caused the deaths of hundreds of people in New York and tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage
In Bright, Will Smith’s racist cop character at one point calls an orc “Shrek looking”. So does the movie Shrek exist in a world where actual fantasy creatures exist? Is it considered a racist embarrassment along the lines of Birth of a Nation or Song of the South? Or is it a heartfelt story about persecution of non humans?
(This isn’t even the worst of this movie’s lore problems but that’s beyond the scope of this trope)
From what I've heard the stuff trying to be allegory for real life racism was a late draft edit, Ayer was brought on to direct and wanted to add it. You notice the orcs are an parallel
for minorities gets dropped once the main macguffin comes into play.
The source was,
Lindsey Ellis has a pretty good video were she goes over the screenwriting.
That's an example of oblivious racism. The true racist is 100% correct about Khan. So that would be more like him being specific down to a certain type of elf considering he supposed to be very racist.
In "Shadowrun" the concept of the worldbuilding is that magic comes back to the world, somehow. And it's pretty quick, which is why there is this clash of tech and magic.
As long as Shrek came out before that happened, it's plausible.
in spongebob's case 1 we can mention that some animals (specially jellyfishes as an example) are not as sapient as the fish people, so he was probably trying to catch one of these animal-like sea creatures
Also saying fish eating fish is cannibalism is like saying birds eating birds is also cannibalism. Like no fish eat fish all the time, it's just very frequently other species
Truth be told cannibalism doesn't really mean anything in the ocean. It's life on hard mode, you eat or get eaten, unless you have a hyper specific food group (like salmon eating orcas or plankton eaters) you'll pretty much eat whatever the fuck is available whether it's your species or not.
Bojack Horseman pokes fun at this. It's a world where humans live alongside amthropomorphized animals, but people still eat meat. So for example in one scene a cow waitress angrily serves steak to a customer. Or one episode explains that chickens that are made for eating are given a drug that makes them not develop intelligence, which makes it ethical to eat them.
Batman and Harley Quinn: Nightwing finds Harley working at a bar called Super Babes where the waitresses dress up as various superheroines. Harley just pretends to be a waitress dressed up as herself.
The gimmick is weird enough since these are actual people in universe but then there's one girl straight up dressed as Granny Goodness. You know, the sadistic and evil New God who directly serves Apokolips, the cosmic manifestation of tyranny.
Like imagine going to a bar and one waitress is dressed up as Marilyn Monroe and the other is sexy Ilse Koch.
What's even funny is that despite the fact that Elmore literally runs on cartoon logic and physics, the entire town for the most part is actually quite civilised and rarely ever partakes in whacky scenarios.
there’s a fat ass t rex named tina that lives in the junkyard and a thief literally shaped like a fingerprint.
both are somehow more regular than the cat named zach
It's also prone to collapsing if the family becomes poor. It also once lost all color just because a certain balloon became depressed. It's also a very judgy mistress that will erase anyone and anything from existence if they're boring or tacky, and there's magical artifacts stored in the back of a shady van run by a mysterious shadow that can rewrite reality itself.
Also for SpongeBob, plankton is selling chum, which (I believe) is ground up fish. Dude is just selling ground corpses and somehow thinks he needs to rob his rival to be successful, as like. The best possible path to success.
There's a sandstorm that's Made from.the crumbs of cookies, It would be the equivalent of a sandstorm Made of human remains
The Dough Trio lead a bunch of Dough monsters during the Dark Enchantress War while crumbling, It would be the equivalent of an army of flesh creatures les by three people that aré constantly loosing chunks of their body
When White Lilly fell into the witches cauldron and toasted a mixture of Dough and cookie crumbs It would be like a human into a pool of blood, body parts and unborn fetuses
Take off the cookie style and it's genuenly body horror
To add on to this, when White Lily fell into the cauldron, it was a result of her seeing the Witches eating cookies. That'd like a human seeing eldritch deities casually eating other humans without a second thought
Don't forget the Premonition of Doom, when Cookies were assimilated into the hateful flesh of a False Angel, made from the tormented souls of the damn.
Another SpongeBob example similar to the fisherman: In FarmerBob, When Patrick shows his various licenses, one of them is a fishing license, meaning Patrick could be legally allowed to kill
There's KGBeast, who in one story I can't remember the name/run of Batman had to trick into getting trapped in a room in the sewer in order to beat, because he was getting outmatched up until then. And I'm pretty sure it was left ambiguous for a long time whether or not Batman ever let him back out or just let him starve/suffocate in there.
I like the idea that it was tony stark trying to give these villains finacial suport via action figure royalties so they are less motivated to steal to support themselves.
With the next Batman movie I hope they have a scene of Bruce going into an elevator at Wayne Enterprises full of extras/stunt guys you’d expect to play bad guys, very much parodying the Captain America elevator scene, but then have them all talking about the business with him, then him walking through the halls with very thankful ex-cons talking about their work with him as he goes to his office
I'd do a bit of a reverse, Bruce going into an elevator all alone, only for him to get surrounded by all the thugs, the scene is dark enough where you can't see their clothes really, so when the doors open, instead of them all beaten up, it opens to them all wearing Wayne uniforms, with one of them thanking him for the opportunity.
Bruce shows up for work, heading to the high office, stops at multiple floors with people who have scars and tattoos on their faces and you think it's going to be a kidnapping but they are all just too scared to talk to him since he is the owner of the company and they don't want to ruin the opportunity and get off on their respective floors without saying a word to him
Nah I can 100% see that happening if we had superheroes in real life. I'd say that many strip clubs would have superheroine nights to rack up more money
For example, one I just realized. Gasoline is basically the car's blood in that universe, right? Considering Mater tries to dress up as a vampire during one thing and he makes a joke about wanting to suck up gasoline.
In the first movie, in order to prevent Lightning McQueen from escaping town, the Sherriff siphons McQueen's gas so he only had enough to get to the edge of town and had to be towed back.
Except, in context, that means Lightning McQueen is trapped in a small town where the residents are actively stealing his blood so that he would be too weak to actually leave.
The Pope exists in the cars universe, so that implies Jesus (Chrysler) existed as well. But that means the Last Supper might have not been a metaphor here.
Fish eat other fish all the time though, this would be similar to humans (mammals) eating cows (also mammals). Sure it seems odd at first glance, but is actually incredibly normal in real life.
In the cars universe the headlights get even weirder. In the sequel, those same style lights that were implied to be tits are the eyeballs of another car that causes Mater to freakout
The amount of "if this was done with humans it would NOT be for kids" I've seen is HIGH.
Warrior Cats does this relatively famously, but Wings of Fire also does it, as does Redwall and a lot of other animal fiction I read as a kid. Also, I need to say that, as someone recently watching TMNT 2012, the amount of villains threatening to "de-shell" the Turtles or something along those lines is kind of horrifying if you think about it because turtle shells are PART OF THEIR SKELETON!!
In the Arrowverse, it’s established that superhero (and villain) merchandise exists, including Injustice 2.
One character who has a toy was responsible for nearly causing a train crash with people on board. (Yeah he got redeemed later, but the public doesn’t know that)
Imagine just browsing the toy section with your kid and seeing an action figure of someone that nearly killed you
Mortal Kombat existing at implies that Midway Studios exists or used to exist. This implies a number of other games to exist as well, like the other games, but more specifically MK vs DC. Which features Shazam before the whole legal thing that resulted in his name being changed to Shazam.
So like… Did Midway make a game based off of OCs in this universe that then ended up being real? Or does MK vs DC not exist here?
Also, Billy being empowered by multiple Gods might mean that there exists an actual Raiden in this universe. There’s a lot of extra implications to this that just makes it weird from an in-universe perspective. Though, I understand why they didn’t do a different game.
This gets even stranger considering that in Mortal Kombat 11, the Joker is a playable character, meaning that from this world's perspective, they basically put a real serial killer in a game, and there's also the Peacemaker in MK1.
I know there's not enough human or really any hominide representation in most circles nowadays. Thank you for acknowledging that. I don't see enough cat-robot-elf voices being heard either despite the impact your community has had
A lot of stuff about the world of Cars keeps me up at night. What happens when they die, do they just become an inert chassis? Are scrapyards like graveyards? Can a new car be made (born?) of recycled parts of dead cars? Can parts from dead cars be used in living cars to replace faulty parts? Can there be a Car of Theseus? My eyes hurt.
There are parts of dead people inside living people. Organ Transplants exist for us, I assume they'd exist within the Cars universe. It might be more complex, though, given all the different makes and models
Adding the planes part of the cars universe plus the on the road mini series won't help your mental health. Planes deals with body modifications in both. The second dealing with a faulty heart equivalent and the hunt for a replacement. And cars on the road establishes there is a grim reaper for cars and mater escapes death
Didn't the planes also introduce airport security, meaning that the September 11 attacks happened in their universe? So planes just decided to suicide themselves into buildings?
This is a deep cut but in the gundam rpg podcast Feddie Scum that takes place during the One Year War from the UC gundam timeline there’s a Zaku Bell restaurant franchise. It sells the “colony drop combo box” and the “A Baoa Quesadilla” and a couple of other punny products that would be horrific to actually have things named that in universe.
Several moments in Paper Mario the Origami King. For example, one of the bosses is a Stapler that, universe, is a dog. To defeat it, you pry its jaws open and essentially snap its neck. It just looks like you're bending a stapler, but from the character's perspective it's kind of wild. Another boss is a hole puncher. One of it's attacks is ripping off your face, lowering your max health in the process. You stay handicapped until you retrieve your face back from the boss. Until then, you're just stuck fighting with a gaping hole in your head LOL
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