![]() If you're creating a fantasy world with real-world cultural touchpoints, minor coincidences like these are bound to crop up. that's different!Įven a battle with a mysterious sword-wielding figure in a Noh-style demon-mask can be chalked up to parallel inspiration drawing from Samurai and other traditions. Unlike the earth kingdom (badgermoles), the fire nation (dragons), and the air nomads (sky bison), the water tribe attributes their power over the water to the moon spirit.who then transformed into a koi fish (before fusing with a teenage girl.), but it's not like water benders ever rode around on koi! And each of the four tribes in Raya clearly has a distinct animal they travel with, so. That's just sorely missed representation of a part of the world that is home to more than half the people on Earth.Īnd, actually, the water tribe never really had a clear animal companion in Avatar. ![]() Likewise with the fact that the two properties seem to take place in a version of Asia that draws elements including martial arts, clothing, and artwork from a variety of Asian cultures. The elemental magic, for instance, seems to play a much smaller role in the world of Raya. "Avatar: The Last Airbender" Theme Song (HQ) | Episode Opening Credits | Nick Animation While these parallels alone are edging toward suspicious, there's really not enough to call foul. Many of these elements are classic tropes of the fantasy genre and could just as easily be used to prove that Avatar is a ripoff of Pokemon or Naruto or Harry Potter. However, along her journey, she'll learn that it'll take more than a dragon to save the world-it's going to take trust and teamwork as well.īut that's not really enough to label Raya and the Last Dragon a ripoff. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it's up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. Even the new film's official synopsis sounds pretty close to that intro: If that sounds remarkably like the premise of Avatar: The Last Airbender, then congratulations on having seen that show's intro. ![]() While this is the third game on this list that might just be a reflection of wishing we could fly, the addition of paralysis suits to laser tag is a pretty fun/terrifying concept all on its own.ĭid we miss anything? Let us know your favorite fictional game on Facebook or Twitter. Designed to teach the kids how to strategize in 3D space, the battle rooms are massive zero-gravity environments full of floating "stars" they can use for cover in highly competitive games of laser tag - with the added feature that once you're hit, your suit freezes you in place. The titular game involves a training video game that turns out to have much higher stakes than the players realize.īut before Ender Wiggin and his friends get to that point, they must get through the rigors of Battle School - the most dramatic of which are the Battle Room games. ![]() If there was a way to play it without the near-certainty of breaking every bone in our bodies, we'd be first in line to sign up.Įnder's Game is the story of child soldiers being trained to defeat a highly sophisticated and coordinated alien military in space battles. It formed the inspiration for stories like The Hunger Games, Alita: Battle Angel, and the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger classic The Running Man - not to mention the Dean Cain, Wesley Snipes made-for-TV masterpiece Futuresport, which takes the concept and adds some extra dumb (if you hold the ball for more than 5 seconds, it starts to electrocute you, and you have to "ride the lightning").īut as much as the rampant death in Rollerball is meant to horrify us.it looks so fun! Motorcyclists and skaters speeding around the track together, smashing into each other and throwing around that giant metal ball. Life has little value, violence is glorified, and people zoom around an arena doing crazy acrobatic stunts and dodging explosions for a howling, blood-thirsty audience. An even more violent version of roller derby that includes people on motorcycles and a big metal ball, the game is used at once as a distraction for the general populace that keeps them from thinking about their own problems, and as a means of reinforcing the values of the society's corporate-fascist rulers. The 1975 film Rollerball - not to be confused with the 2002 remake starring LL Cool J - developed a concept that has gone on to be a staple of dystopian sci-fi.
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