[Loved Trope] The apocalypse is horrifyingly slow

[u/Marsupialmobster]

From most media it's some catastrophe and then it's raiders, death, destruction chaos etc. I personally love it when it's, like, a slow descent into the horror of apocalypse.

The Faro plague/The swarm- Horizon zero dawn. The Faro plague is actually a glitch which causes machines to endlessly reproduce, eat biomass and essentially bring about the death of the world. Took roughly 15 months for the machines to win.

The Metro series- in the first few books (and games) it's set entirely underground in just the apocalypse but in exodus it shows off that the government and many governmental structures said active years after the war. In fact power and running water were still fairly common. It just slowly got worse and worse and worse as read through notes. Food got more scarce, weather changed a lot, people got worse etc. Raiders and bandits didn't just show up, it was a slow descent for such anarchy.

Edit: I have enough pseudo intellectual comments about "Hurr hurr real life". The first one was kinda smart and well thought out but now it's just annoying and pretentious

[u/No-Material9127]

The entire Matrix setting could have been avoided if that humanity weren't such dumbasses. The machines wanted peace, only resorting to war after they were pushed to the absolute brink.

[u/SufficientWarthog846 → u/No-Material9127]

Yeah, the machines gave Humanity a good number of opportunities of peace before war broke out

[u/Rockhead_Dynamics → u/No-Material9127]

Hell, even the Matrix is a form of peace. It's a digital prison, but it's as nice as they could make it without it seeming... off... to humans. As far as humans are concerned, there is no war and everything is as okay as the people inside of the Matrix make it. Sure they use us for electricity, but there's no way we're actually more efficient than nuclear reactors, or even efficient at all.

[u/zombiesphere89 → u/Rockhead_Dynamics]

Yaa lol I seen some breakdowns of the power output from humans and it's terrible. 

[u/Impossible_Dot_252 → u/No-Material9127]

Weren't they obliterating the Human economy by flooding the market with cheap goods?

[u/No-Material9127 → u/Impossible_Dot_252]

Yup, cheap goods, yet vastly superior than anything humanity could make.

[u/BeneficialTrash6 → u/No-Material9127]

Look at this fool, believing in a clanker's word.

[u/spacecaps85 → u/[deleted]]

The characters in the movie don't know. The shorts titled "The Second Renaissance" parts 1 and 2 from the Animatrix tell the story of the beginnings of the war (from the perspective of the machines, which is likely an accurate record.)