I just recently found out about this trope, and decided to make a thread about it. For those who don't know, this is the trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InferredHolocaust
For the record this seems to mean that things like Attack on Titan are not allowed because they make no secret about the horrific results of Titan attacks. Mine is more because of recent memory: Godzilla 2014.
This movie made no secret that when 300 foot animals fight in a city, there are deaths. However, while there are on-screen deaths, the off-screen count is even higher. How much higher? In the Las Vegas attack, THERE WERE PEOPLE, PLAYING THE SLOTS, WHILE A NEWS REPORT WAS SAYING "GET THE FUCK OUT!" This shows us a few possibilities:
1. Honolulu at least could say that they didn't know about the monsters but everything after doesn't have that excuse.
2. If the people in the affected cities were preoccupied, they wouldn't get the warning.
3. This last one is truly scary. Remember that War of the Worlds radio drama that started a mass panic? Well, imagine something like that, only deadly serious, and no one believes it.
These are further shown by a moment in San Francisco where you see people in an office building as if there weren't three giant monsters in the city for a smackdown. That implies that for all the evacuation work you saw earlier, there was still a fucking ton of people in San Fran when the fight got wholly underway. THAT, is, scary.
What about you guys?
For the record this seems to mean that things like Attack on Titan are not allowed because they make no secret about the horrific results of Titan attacks. Mine is more because of recent memory: Godzilla 2014.
This movie made no secret that when 300 foot animals fight in a city, there are deaths. However, while there are on-screen deaths, the off-screen count is even higher. How much higher? In the Las Vegas attack, THERE WERE PEOPLE, PLAYING THE SLOTS, WHILE A NEWS REPORT WAS SAYING "GET THE FUCK OUT!" This shows us a few possibilities:
1. Honolulu at least could say that they didn't know about the monsters but everything after doesn't have that excuse.
2. If the people in the affected cities were preoccupied, they wouldn't get the warning.
3. This last one is truly scary. Remember that War of the Worlds radio drama that started a mass panic? Well, imagine something like that, only deadly serious, and no one believes it.
These are further shown by a moment in San Francisco where you see people in an office building as if there weren't three giant monsters in the city for a smackdown. That implies that for all the evacuation work you saw earlier, there was still a fucking ton of people in San Fran when the fight got wholly underway. THAT, is, scary.
What about you guys?