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The original was posted on /r/characterrant by /u/idonthaveanaccountA on 2023-10-06 07:57:41.

I read about Far Cry 6 somewhere and I was reminded of the disappointing reveal that it was going to be set in yet ANOTHER fictional modern day dictatorship in a developing island country somewhere in Latin America, complete with mostly old, decaying buildings, 60s (or older) cars and a lot of untouched nature. This is all well and good, and I would have enjoyed it if it hadn’t been done like a million times. It’s been done so many times, that it’s its own trope, and there’s even a specific go-to fictional country that has been used several times in different movies/shows/etc.

Like, how many times do we have to see this? I enjoy it when I do and for what it is, but there are other things out there too. There are many different kinds of very real dictatorships (which i’d rather not name) that have nothing to do with this trope. Seriously, it’s not that hard to shake it up a little bit. A nice fresh take on this was Madripoor in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, though it was more a lawless state, rather than a dictatorship, but you get the point. It’s time to see more metropolitan dystopias in place of tropical villages.

I don’t care about why they choose to keep doing the same thing over and over again, or why it makes sense for those states to be underdeveloped, or anything like that, because frankly, it doesn’t matter. I just want to stop seeing the same thing over and over again. And such a setting wouldn’t make less sense, it would not take any more suspension of disbelief than anything else, it just needs good, creative people to develop it, just like everything else. And it’d be far more interesting than doing the same thing for the millionth time.

Rant over.