We're a grimdark world telling noblebright stories about ourselves.
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Grimdark
//ˈɡɹɪmdɑːk//
Synonyms for "grimdark"
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Translations
4 translations across 2 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- synkkä adj (of a film, television programme, video game, written work, etc.: having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere)
- synkkä fantasia noun (literary genre of speculative fiction that is amoral, dystopian, or violent)
Spanish
2 entries- distópico adj (of a film, television programme, video game, written work, etc.: having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere)
- distopía noun (literary genre of speculative fiction that is amoral, dystopian, or violent)
Sample sentences
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If your character is a more-or-less ordinary little girl fighting for her life as a usual thing, that's a fairly GRIMDARK setting; it implies that there isn't any Good authority with both the power and the will to protect them.
Source: wiktionary
Most original. Brilliantly so! What's not to like? "Jarringly non-grimdark," carpers will sneer. Oh, yeah? What's not Grimdark about – / * Droids? / * Vagina heads? / * Gundam suits (desu)?
Source: wiktionary
The thought once occur[r]ed to me, that for a while they had the silver age Legion as the actual past of a grimdark iron age Legion. Which meant that in theory the grimdark adult legion could have traveled back to silver age Smallville, or the silver age Legion could have travelled back to the iron age DC "present" of the 90s.
Source: wiktionary
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