List of dystopian comics

List of dystopian comics

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*"20th Century Boys" by Naoki Urasawa the second half of the story is set in Japan after a former cult leader known only as "Friend" controls the entire world.
* The Age of Apocalypse is an alternate reality of the X-Men. Attempting to kill the mutant Magneto in the past, before he can become a threat, the time-traveler Legion killed instead his own father, Charles Xavier, who took the shot to save his friend of that time. In this timeline, Magneto took the dream of Xavier for himself and started the X-Men, while the mutant Apocalypse created a dystopia where humans were destroyed. This dystopia would be erased from existence by a second time travel by Bishop, who prevented Legion from killing either Xavier or Magneto and so restored the usual Marvel continuity.
*"", a non-continuity tale by Frank Miller, portrays an aged Batman returning to fight crime in a dystopian Gotham City.
*"Akira", also set in a post-nuclear Tokyo, touches themes like youth alienation and government corruption.
*"Appleseed" by Masamune Shirow is a science fiction manga created by Masamune Shirow which merges elements of the cyberpunk and mecha genres with a heavy dosage of politics, philosophy, and sociology.
*"Battle Angel Alita" by Yukito Kishiro
*The recent events in the Marvel Universe with the Civil War (comics) storyline dealing with the Superhuman Registration Act could be seen as dystopian.
*"Days of Future Past" is a dystopian future of the X-Men, in which the Sentinels, robots entrusted with protecting the human race from the mutants, take control of all human society. This dystopia is erased by a time-traveler Kitty Pryde, who goes back to the present and prevent the events that would lead to the dystopia.
*"Fist of the North Star", also known as "Hokuto no Ken", shows a post-nuclear society where people are threatened by gangs of bikers and violent martial art killers.
*"Ghost in the Shell"
*"Wanted" by Mark Millar depicts a world ruled by supervillains.
*"The Incal" by Moebius and Alexandro Jodorowsky starts in a dystopian futuristic city populated largely by apathethic "TV junkies".
*Judge Dredd is set in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by Mega Cities policed by ruthless lawmen called Judges.
*Marvel 2099 by various authors. The story spans several different books, taking place in a society ruled by a small group of Megacorporations and a corrupt reiligion known as the Church of Thor.
* Nikopol Trilogy by Enki Bilal, consisting of La Foire aux Immortels (The Carnival of Immortals), La Femme Piège (The Woman Trap) and Froid Équateur (Cold Equator) tells of dystopian future Paris ruled by fascist dictatorship.
*"Ruins" by Warren Ellis is the Marvel Universe in which the myriad experiments and accidents which led to the creation of superheroes in the mainstream world instead resulted in more realistic consequences: horrible deformities and painful deaths.
*"The Walking Dead" depicts the story of a group of people trying to survive in a world stricken by a "zombie apocalypse". Influenced by "George A. Romero"'s zombie movies and other works in zombie fiction.
*"Transmetropolitan" by Warren Ellis concerns a partially dystopian, postcyberpunk take on our world in some unspecified time from now. Nearly everyone lives in "The City," which is overunning with pollution and chaos.
*"V for Vendetta" by Alan Moore follows the exploits of the terrorist V and his struggle in a Britain ruled by a far-right fascist party.
*"Watchmen", also by Alan Moore, depicts the events leading to the destruction of New York City. The book is marked by a strong sense of alienation in a hostile society.
*"" where almost all male mammals in the world have died except for lead character Yorick and his male monkey Ampersand.


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