Great Offscreen War - TV Tropes. All around me were thousands of extras, killed in an exciting and protracted battle that we've neither the time nor the money to show.'. It happened years ago, maybe even thousands of years. Characters reference it, especially if they took a part in it: the Shell- Shocked Veteran never managed to get over what he experienced back then, while the Phony Veteran, on the other hand, will never shut up about how many brave things he did in it. The war happened, and it left its ugly mark on the world. But it's never shown to the audience - we never see a single flashback from the war, are never shown more than just a glimpse of what happened. The war will be referenced, but otherwise left mysterious, unexplained. Why it happened, how it ended, and what all the things that took place there (which people talk about like it should be obvious) actually were, are never explained. The war is only a mysterious event of the past, included mostly to add a bit of mystery and give people excuses for insane ideas. Needless to say, this trope can easily be processed into Fanfic Fuel. Stories set After the End have the tendency to do this with the war that caused the apocalypse. If the war never stopped, may be a Forever War. Compare also Cataclysm Backstory. We already have plenty amount of information on them. There also was an alternate version of the Napolean wars, where Napoleon conquered Great Britain, making all the British aristocracy run to America, creating the Britannia Empire. We have been told some general info about it, such as how it destroyed Old Belka and led to the current age where physical- based weapons were banned, but otherwise, it's a big question mark. These wars were not visually depicted until Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vi. Vid, which revolves around the Reincarnation of two prominent figures from that war. We get a few glimpses of it in flashbacks however. No main character ever gets to visit the mainland, and we only knows about it through descriptions, however it is revealed that one of these two nations is allied with the Dragon Descendants, powerful creatures much stronger than Humans, and that the nation opposed to the Dragon Descendants created the Organization to develop monsters and creatures able to fight the Dragons, the Organization took over the Island and created all the Yoma and Awakened Being using Dragon's flesh as part of a giant Research project, we know all this thanks to Rubel who's a spy of the Dragon Nation infiltrated within the Organization. Much of the action of this war takes place BEFORE the actual story, as a few episodes in we discover that one of the planets these factions live on is dying, essentially taking them out of the conflict for good. They're pretty much refugees after this point. In Blue Gender, we don't actually see humanity get overtaken by the Blues. The series itself is about a team working to help repair all the damage that was inflicted on their country during the war. Parallel Works #8 details this a little focusing on Lordgenome's involvement. We know nothing about these wars other than what's mentioned in Shinji's history textbook. The first is the original war between Yhwach and Yamamoto that occurred a thousand years ago and led to the creation of the Quincy Clan and the Gotei 1. The second is the Shinigami's attempted purge of the Quincies 2. Both wars significantly impact the present- day Quincies and Shinigami, including anyone they associate with, be they human or hollow. This also forms a big part of the plot in Macross 7, where we learn more about what the Supervision Army is and where it came from. The war is actually on- going, and has been for something like 2. Zentradi and Supervision Army having been almost exactly evenly matched from the start. Many Zentradi fleets are still actively engaged in battle against Supervision Army forces far outside of the Milky- Way galaxy, and are far too busy to take note of humanity's affairs. Fortunately for the humans, both groups seem to be largely fragmented, and haven't noticed humanity destroying/assimilating various Zentradi fleets as their civilization expands. The growing human- . Though the prequel Macross Zero covers some characters' actions in it, most of the factions and causes are kept vague. When Bommer summons his Flying Fortress SKY FIRE to use against Crow, Crow is naturally freaked out (as most of Bommer's opponents are when he summons it) and exclaims . Subverted in Space Dandy, where the war isn't so much off- screen as that the narrator completely forgets to mention it. It pops up now and again, but typically does not have much impact on the story until the last episode.
The Gundam franchise has used this setting in several of its Alternate Timelines. After War Gundam X: The Seventh Space War, which ended in a mass Colony Drop, devastating Earth, wiping out 9. We see a few scenes from it, and meet a few survivors of the war, though the focus is more on the characters trying to build a new world on the ashes of the old, and prevent an Eighth War from starting up in the meantime. There's very little known of it, except that it was apparently so nasty that all the space colonies pulled a Screw This, I'm Outta Here!, and the pilot of the Turn A Gundam felt the need to wipe out all civilization on Earth (though his/her reasons for doing so are never stated.. It was apparently fought between humanity and automated, self- repairing, and self- supplying drone superweapons called Mobile Armors, which killed a quarter of the human population at the time. The world falls into chaos as Nicolae Carpathia detonates nuclear devices across the globe and stages multiple devastating attacks against both the Tribulation Force. Check out Rolling Stone's latest political news and features covering today's hottest political topics and Matt Taibbi's take. This is how Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump could start World War III In the whole of human history there has never been a bigger powder keg. Nor men so strange playing. Why anyone would create the Mobile Armors has not been discussed. When the series begins, the three sides have struck an uneasy truce because the last bout of the war very nearly wiped out all three sides (and resulted in the deaths of both the four Demon Kings of Hell and God Himself!). Many of the series villains are members of one side or another who wish to continue the conflict, regardless of the potential extinction of their faction. Characters from Albion mention briefly that between that event and Albion's invasion on Earth, that world has seen eight other world wars. A world war that erupted there ended with armies of Adolf. X exterminating all non- black people on all of them. The Engineer finds the idea of sending a group of superpowered white supremacists there quite interesting. In the retroboot Legion, the backstory of the planet Durla (Chameleon Boy's home) is the Six Minute War, the nuclear fallout from which left the planet barely habitable and is the origin of their Voluntary Shapeshifting. We don't know much about it, but Nova Prime and his allies managed to bring it to a peaceful conclusion leading the Cybertronion Golden Age. Apparently it was caused by a guy called Magma. It's apparently ongoing, is older than all the other known galactic wars, and caused The Shattering, which eventually led to the formation of the Galactic Council. It was started when the Knight Templar Kodos killed two scouts from both sides and sent them too their respective sides, causing some seriously long- standing racial tensions to explode. It lasted for five years and ended when Dr. Robotnik (back when he was still called Kintobor) supposedly switched sides and gave the Mobians what they needed to drive back the Overlanders. Unfortunately, after the Mobians won, Robotnik promptly betrayed them too and overthrew the king with his badnik army. Many of the comic's older characters were in the war and there's still plenty of resentment and bigotry left over from the war. Eggman regain his power base and promptly retake Mobius after Sonic had been thought killed in battle. The gems, when combined with the Chaos energy, formed the legendary Chaos Emeralds. One of the world’s most famous psychics, Edgar Cayce, predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be a “force of light” in preventing World War III. World War 3 News: Russia Upset After 300 U.S. Marines Deployed To Norway. Two days before the war began, Pochacamac, leader of the Megopolis tribe, managed to steal the sacred Emeralds back from the Drakons, both to keep to return them to their true home and to prevent the Drakons from conquering the entire galaxy. Angered, the Drakons sent out a scout to examine the Echidna defenses before sending a full- scale invasion force to claim the Emeralds. A battle erupted inside Pochacmac's command room, with Drakon Prosecutors and Sentinels fighting against Sonic the Hedgehog and echidnas armed with Guardian Robots. The fight was briefly interrupted when a Prosecutor struck the Emeralds with his Dimensional Staff, causing a chain reaction that turned a fallen Drakon warrior into the mighty Chaos. The ensuing explosion weakened the gathered Drakon soldiers enough for Knuckles and the other tribesmen to fight back while Sonic and Pochacmac took care of Chaos. After a final push, the echidnas drove the Drakon invaders out of the city, but the war was far from over. Although no victor was ever declared, the failure of the Drakons to claim their intended prize suggests the Mobian defence held out, albeit at a great cost. However, nearly 3. Origins came along and averted this trope, giving a solid order to events and how they were seen through a long Joe Dredd's eyes. It ended when the Frost Giants invaded and an Enemy Mine ensued, but it's heavily implied that Asgard was winning and the Avalonians are still carrying a grudge. The Avalonians were swept aside early by the might of the Casket (something which Odin puts down to them having been weakened by fighting Asgard), the ancestors of the Founders rallied for the Last Stand, before Asgard played the role of Big Damn Heroes and saved the day. A long war ensured, a world war, and the allied forces won, the Frost Giants were stripped of the Casket of Ancient Winters and Loki was adopted by Odin. World War III may have already begun: U. S. Russia, China and North Korea. Natural. News) Military historians have said that the world stumbled into World War I, while it ran headlong into World War II. How will World War III begin? It may have started already. A few geopolitical observers think World War III began when the United States and much of the West launched military campaigns against militant Islam. Both President Bush and President Obama have warned the American people that the fight against radical Islam would take years to prosecute. But what of the great powers ostensibly aligned against the West - - Russia, China and, as Sony Pictures Entertainment saw in recent days, North Korea? Are they preparing to take on the old world order aligned by and under the ultimate victor in the last world war? Some people think so. A recent piece in The Week observed that, in recent months, the Chinese government has repeatedly appealed to the nation's military: . The question on everyone's mind: what is all this preparation for? Is the Chinese leadership preparing for something? Are they gearing up for a military operation, or merely the option to carry one out? Or is there a more innocent explanation for all of this? Big geopolitical changes occurring. The real quote by President Xi, as reported by The Times of India, was an appeal to his military to be ready to win . Not necessarily, but then again, a changing world order is necessary for one side to remain economically viable. This is the big picture. China is getting stronger and stronger. Russia is in trouble. In October, the countries agreed on a $2. The Week, in its assessment, noted that Xi's appeal to the military could just as easily be an anti- corruption campaign. He is the first Chinese president in modern history that has committed to combating what is rampant corruption throughout most Chinese government operations, and that includes the Chinese military. Two acts of war? But it's hard to tell. And clearly, the geopolitical balance is beginning to shift. European economies are stagnant or declining. Also, wage growth among American workers is certainly not keeping up with growth in the stock market. There are also concerns that North Korea, China or Russia could move to strike America's power, financial, communications and travel infrastructure - - all of which are controlled electronically. Talk host Dave Hodges notes that what is coming could simply be retaliation, considering that the U. S. Further, there is a direct attack upon the Ruble by the West as Russia's financial liquidity was terminated in Western banks and all positions which have invested in the Ruble are being terminated by Wall Street and other investment firms. Read his full assessment here. Sources: http: //www. World War III Movie - You. Tube. Published on Jan 5, 2. What would happen if a Third World War broke out? For Cade Ross, who was just an average 1. Iran triggered a global crisis, and a new World War. Having been thrown out of his cushy California lifestyle and into the front line of the new war, he experienced a dramatic side of life he could not of imagine existed. Experience this short film by a freelance filmmaker, and decide for yourself of just what is the most important thing, the political idealism, or peace.
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