This is a list of depictions of dystopian themes in music, TV programmes and games, including computer games and role-playing games. Music
- 2112, an album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1976. The title track is about a man living in a dystopian society.
- "In the Year 2525," a song by Zager and Evans
- Time (1981) by ELO features tracks that may be considered dystopian or utopian depending on listener's point of view.
- OK Computer (1997) by the British band Radiohead.
- Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division views modern society through a glass, darkly.
- Replicas (1978) by Tubeway Army explores life in a devastated, robot-dominated world, with songs such as Down In The Park.
- Rock band Big Black with their stark portrayals of the underside of American culture
- The Pleasure Principle (1979) by Gary Numan, ex-leader of the Tubeway Army, continued his narratives of a robotic world in songs like Metal.
- Avenger (1999)? by Aska, about a world where humanity is crushed under the heel of alien oppression until the Age Of Light (perhaps a nuclear or antimatter weapons deployment?) reverses fortunes.
- Rock band Dystopia
- Deltron 3030 (2000) Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan the Automator, and Kid Koala work together on this Hip Hop CD about a future world of battle raps with aliens, government oppression, and space travel.
- Feel Good Inc. (2005) A single from Gorillaz album Demon Days, its music video features a dystopic setting.
- Machines Are Us by Norwegian EBM act Icon of Coil dwells on many dystopian and cyberpunk themes.
- Swedish rock band Freak Kitchen has a song named Dystopia.
- Obsolete (1998) by the American band Fear Factory. Each song on the album successively adds to an underlying dystopian storyline.
- "I Should Be Allowed to Think", a song by They Might Be Giants has fairly strong dystopian theme.
- "Eye in the Sky", a song by Alan Parsons Project has a strong dystopian theme.
Television
- Blake's 7, BBC, 1978-1981. An Orwellian space opera created by Terry Nation.
- Doctor Who, BBC, 1963-present. The series has featured many storylines set in dystopian times and places, ranging from the war-torn planet Skaro in Genesis of the Daleks (1975) to the world of Terra Alpha in The Happiness Patrol (1987) in which sadness is punishable by death, ironically by the ingestion of sweets so tasty they are deadly.
- Sliders, Fox, 1995-1997, Sci Fi Channel 1998-2000. Team of three or four people travel ("slide," hence the title) between dimensions, to alternate Earths, where history has taken a slightly different path. Most of these alternate Earths were, in one way or another, dystopian.
- The Prisoner A man attempts to escape his idealistic yet confining artificial town, while authorities attempt to hunt and recapture him.
- The Twilight Zone Many episodes are set in futuristic and dystopian settings, as a warning to viewers about the dangers of certain aspects of modern society or culture.
- Futurama This show created by Matt Groening, which takes place in the year 3000, does not feature a happy, efficient future; it features pretty much all of the problems that we face today (inflexible bureaucracy, and the internet is still slow). Its not a true dystopian society, unless you consider today's society dystopian.
- Dark Angel, Fox, 2000-2002. James Cameron and Charles Eglee create a dystopian world set in Seattle after terrorists have set off "The Pulse," an electromagnetic bomb which caused all electronic devices to stop working disrupting financial institutions, and so on, and life as we know it. There is a huge rift between the lives of the wealthy and the poor, and Seattle has been devided into "zones" which are carefully guarded by a militaristic police force. Jessica Alba plays Max. Max is a bike messenger in her day job at Jam Pony, but doubles as a super-soldier created by the government who escaped from a military training school ten years earlier. Together she works with a character named Logan Cale (Michael Weatherly.) Max and Logan do their best to correct the wrong doings in their society with varying degrees of success.
- Firefly, created by Joss Whedon takes place in a universe under the control of the Anglo-Sino Alliance. It follows the crew of a ship struggling to make a living on the very fringes of the galaxy, where lawlessness has a greater control over peoples' lives than the Alliance. In stark contrast to the central worlds of the Alliance, the outer rim of the galaxy lives in constant fear of a Reaver attack, cannibalistic sub-humans that no-one admits exist.
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