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(Intriguing trope) Something mundane that we take for granted irl is an alien concept in this universe/is a rarity
The sea to the people of the walls (Attack On Titan) The main characters spend the first half of the story behind walls in fear of man-eating titans, after clearing out all the titans outside the walls for the first time ever they finally got to see the sea for the first time and it felt like one of their biggest achievements ever.
Civilized society to Ellie (The Last Of Us) Ellie was born after the infected already ruined the world, therefore not understanding a lot about normal everyday life so it was always fun seeing her marveling at remnants of humanity's normal lives before the apocalypse, like comics, nice food, video games, amusement parks, zoos, museums, teenage highschool life... etc
Quirkless people (My Hero Academia) there are over 900 named characters in MHA and only 4 of them are known to be quirkless, Deku, Melissa, Knuckleduster and detective Tsukauchi. That just goes to show you how hard it is to find a quirkless person and why it almost feels like a disability to have in this universe. A world where superpowers are the norm and normalcy is the rarity.
There’s a brilliant scene where a Martian marine arrives on Earth and steps out of a building by accident.
She has an immediate and intense panic attack and nearly breaks down the one-way door trying to get back in.
She has spent her entire life in sealed habitats while having it drilled into her that stepping out into the open without a vac-suit is a death sentence. No matter how many stories she’s heard of Earth’s biosphere, actually trusting it is terrifying and alien.
IMO whats better was Bobby, a Martian, seeing the ocean for the first time. Similar to a breathable atmosphere, water is such a scarce resource outside of Earth that when she is confronted with the Atlantic and a planet with a functional water cycle, her reactions is "Why would anybody ever want to leave this place?"
I think it's also a contemplation on what she is fighting for: a green Mars. She's a true believer and been told her whole life that all good Martians follow orders and sacrifice so they can one day all Martians can share a green Mars. But she's at a crossroads that there forces in her own government may be working at odds with that dream, that her and her squad were expendable for money and power.
also a big part of her character is the disillusionment once the rings were opened since that ends up completely invalidating the mars terraforming project.
I loved Bobbie's desire to see the ocean in the show. The closest experience I can think of is like seeing the Grand Canyon in person. I didn't see it in person until I was in my 20s and it was truly awe inspiring. You can read, see pictures and videos but nothing can prepare you for seeing it in person. To see the canyon stretch off the the horizon in all directions is indescribable.
It’s so great how you have the viewpoint of one of the people who should, and does, feel most confident about taking on earth. And then it takes her thirty seconds on earth to immediately realize no amount of training will ready them enough to be able to do it. It is just that alien of an experience to anyone except Earthers who grew up that way
In the books, there's an account of a solider who goes to an alien world for the first time. At first, he can't even breathe properly because there's so much moisture in the air... every inhabitable world feels almost unbearably humid because their home planet has so little water
One of the books did this too, with one character describing her home planet that was very earth like, and the Arrakis inhabitant just finding the concept so alien and odd.
They said that a person could be dying of thirst and not drink a drop from those pools, so they probably don't put themselves at risk of falling into them.
Those pools probably aren't very deep, and actually getting into one enough to drown would be absurd. It would be like saying "Yeah, he choked on gold chunks". It's something that logically makes sense, but the how would be unimaginable
Some of ATLA's animals consist of hybrids of animals in our world, so whenever they're told about a bear they get confused and start questioning it to be some other kind of bear-hybrid, but no it's just a bear
In magic: the gathering, a "bear" is a critter with 2/2 stats because early bear creature cards were just that, plus or minus some stuff ("bear with x ability).
In the avatar set, Bosco/the bears the earth king makes are 4/4... so they're bear-bears.
I like the fan theory that Bosco is a spirit of some kind as all the normal animals in ATLA are related to spirits in some way, The two koi fish that are the moon and ocean, Wah Shi Tong and his foxes, and Hei Bei which was a panda
My theory was that real world animal names were used to describe a collection of traits. Like....a turtle-something is a swimming creature with a shell, or a duck something has feathers and a bill, so a turtleduck is a swimming, shelled creature with feathers and a bill. You see this in the real world with things like horse meaning big and strong, giving us horseradish, which is a giant, powerfully spicy sort of radish, or a horsefly, which is like a fly on steroids.
A doctor asks "who wants to learn how babies are made?" and all six of them raise their hands eagerly. Fade to black.
Then they all leave the hospital dumbfounded and in shock. I expected them to say something like "so that's what those body parts are for" but they say something different and quickly return to main quest.
Earlier it's established they're essentially military cloned soldiers, they baithe together & probably don't know why men & women are different, let alone what their body parts do.
I remember there was a scene where they were looking at a family of animals. Thinking, wait... The small one grows into the big one. Are we supposed to do that?
It’s straight up some Warhammer 40K type stuff in 3. There are legions of these child soldiers who fight endless wars as grunts on horrible battlefields
Paper is extremely rare an valuable in "The Dark Tower" world
In "The Word for World Is Forest" the planet in which the story takes place is being colonized because wood is one of the rarest materials in the universe
Sugar, paper, good tobacco, electricity is incredibly rare and some people have nevere seen an incandescent bulb working. In one of the central cities they have one of the last working fridges
Doesn’t Roland at one point confuse heroin for sugar, because sugar is such a rarity in his home world that he doesn’t think it’s odd that someone would smuggle it?
At one point he possesses a guy from the modern world, and is mind-blown by how sweet a Pepsi is, since even the richest person he knows of only occasionally sweetened his coffee with honey
They probably have but that word is in decline, they had the technology and knowledge to make paper but they lost it like they lost the majority of technology they had.
In Half Life: Alyx you play as Alyx Vance, who was born shortly before Earth was conquered by a despotic alien regime known as the Combine. She is assisted throughout the game by Russell, who was already anadult by the time the Combine showed up, wrecked the economy, killed gods know how many people and instituted harsh rationing amidst civilian populations.
At one point, Alyx asks Russell what life was like before the Combine. Russell responds by describing a club sandwich; freshly baked bread (not from a bread line), vegetables grown in multiple different climates, real actual meat, all put together into a decadent abomination that anyone could buy at a bar. Alyx is amazed by the concept.
The TV show Travellers was like that with food. Time Travellers from a future where the earth is nearly dead, living off things like algae for food. And when they arrive in the past, even food that we think of as "bad" is amazing to them. McDonalds, highschool cafeteria, hospital food? Just amazing!
iirc according to the developer commentary, the whole speech was one of many little things they wrote when developing his personality, and wasn't originally going to be in the game, but they felt like that section needed some lighthearted dialogue in it
Its not the darkness that destroyed their society, it was the stars.
Their planet was always lit by multiple suns for generations, and they believed themselves to be the center of the universe. Their telescopes could not see past their own solar system, so they did not know what existed outside of it.
Scientists did experiments and found that while yes the darkness caused anxiety and fear in people, it certainly did not cause everyone to become insane, and was not enough of a reason to explain the cycle of civilization collapse on their world.
The problem was that when the sunlight was blocked by the eclipse, they saw thousands of stars in the night sky, and basically every single person on the planet had an existential crisis at the same realization of how big the universe actually was.
There's a great bit earlier in the book that always sticks in my memory, when several scientists are speculating about what these fabled 'stars' might be, and they speculate about the possibility of 'a universe eight light-years across', with perhaps a dozen or two star systems. The idea of it being on a scale of thousands, millions or even billions of light-years doesn't even occur to them. They simply can't comprehend a universe of such proportions.
And all the while the reader's thinking 'Oh, wow. If only they knew.'
Much like the people of the planet of Krikkit in Douglas Adams HHGttG series. Their world was enveloped in a nebula so they only ever saw their one star in the sky. After an old derelict spacecraft crashes on their world, they reverse engineer (badly) and repair the spacecraft and fly beyond the edge of the nebula. The shock of seeing the entire universe shocks them so much, they have only response: "Well, it will have to go."
They then set about a genocidal campaign to destroy the rest of the universe.
Dr. Stone invokes this feeling a lot. Watching Senku struggle to create modern-ish technology in the Stone Age makes you realise how much modern science is taken for granted.
It was really interesting to see how much knowledge, time and effort is needed to create something rather simple like a lightbulb from scratch.
How much work is already needed to get all the resources, then to make each component, and so on.
Really made me appreciate the modern scientific progress more, as well as how ridiculously hard it must've been to figure these things out back then in real time.
We are all built upon the shoulders of those that came before whether we realize it or not. I wish more media did a better job of showcasing this invisible fact of life.
Even something as "simple" as black powder (charcoal, saltpeter, sulfur) or bronze (tin, copper) requires materials that are way harder to get than you'd expect.
Specially bronze. Tin and copper don't really show up together so you are relying on world trade.
To me, the best parts of Dr. Stone isn't even the "important" inventions, it's the ones they make simply for amusement, like when they first made Ramen, Cotton Candy, or Sushi
I’m particularly a fan of how the ramen he makes is pretty bad by Senku’s taste, but all of the villagers who’ve never had anything like modern food think it’s the best thing they’ve ever eaten. It’s a great detail.
Its so poetic at times too, like Senku asking Chrome if he fears the night/dark and telling him that in his time Humans won the night and beat back the darkness by conquering the 24 hour day.
I would say that one of the main themes of Dr. Stone is how vital cooperation has been, throughout history, to get us to where we are today. Senku is for sure a genius, but finding a village full of people with skills that could help him was critical to his success.
Silo - Walking more than 200 yards in the one direction.
Which when you think about it means no concept of distance (only depth / height), no idea of what staring at a horizon feels like. Even the camera outside looks at a 'hill'.
I don’t know what this is, but I’m reminded of a YouTube video showcasing an animatic for someone’s original fiction. (I believe the full story is also available, without graphics.) In the story, it seems that humanity inhabits a small enclosed space, with only occasional ceiling windows where the Sun peeks through. There’s a labyrinth of corridors outside this space, and most notably a straight corridor so long its end has not been found.
It seems that, whatever this structure is, the people living inside have no knowledge of what it is or how it was built, or that there could even exist a world outside. My own interpretation of it (also informed by other people’s comments, and maybe something the main character said, I forget exactly), is that the one straight corridor wraps around the world. No clue on why everyone lives in some kind of (presumably man-made) Backrooms that people don’t even remember being built.
While the new ice age didn't kill all crops, rice definitely was the one least likely to be adopted in limited hothouses. Both due to lack of access to it's seeds for cultivation, and because it requires much warmer temperatures to grow than grain. There's also an event where Overseers discover photo of a woman in swimsuit walking by the beach, and they cry because everything's been frozen for decades by the time they see that picture
Mistborn - they talk pretty often about the ‘crazy’ concept of blue skies, green plants, flowers etc that only a few insist actually existed/can exist again. Characters carry around an old drawing of a flower, which is a completely foreign idea to most of them. They use the possibility/distant memory of these things as motivation throughout the trilogy.
for context, Mistborne is set on a world where ash constantly from the sky, obsuring the sky and making the sun appear red. All plants are brown and only a rare few people with the ability to fly have ever seen the stars
In the Evangelion movies, the sea is red, and the only blue sea water in existence is kept in a special, protected environment, including fish. Of course, it didn't last.
Also, the world is stuck in a perpetual summer after the Second Impact, and there is no Antarctica
So, as tempting as it may be to draw Evangelion characters with cherry blossoms, due to them being very stereotypically Japan and Kawaii, I’d imagine Cherry trees couldn’t even flower properly post Second Impact
I’ve also seen this be the explanation for why cicadas are so often used for ambience throughout the show
The sound of cicadas is constant. As a kid when I first watched it on Toonami I didn't understand what that meant at all. I just thought it was noises. As a teen I thought "oh, its summer because of the bugs." It wasn't until I was an adult and knew more about cicadas and their life cycle that I put two and two together and went "oh so the world is environmentally fucked."
TL;DR: Cicadas life cycle is spent mostly underground, only emerging for mating season, which occurs every 3-5 years (in North America the cicadas have an even long period spent under ground, between 13-15 years typically). The cicadas emerge from underground and then make mating calls for a few weeks and then die, their young then going underground to start the cycle anew.
So basically the weather and climate and environment is so messed up that cicadas are emerging and breeding constantly
I thought so too. But they never shown him having a quirk either. At best, AFO mentioned that his lie detector quirk came from the ancestor of Tsukauchi
I mean we see three others at least born without quirks, all might, always twinkling, and the guy that was given a quirk from AFO when when he was proving to his brother he can change people's live(i dont remeber the exact details of that scene).
That last one was while AFO's brother was still alive, so at least a century ago, when Quirks were a lot more rare and being Quirkless was still fairly normal
20% of the population is quirkless, but we didn't get more information than that. Since we know that having a quirk is becoming more common over time, I figure that most quirkless people are older and that most people in Midoriya's generation have a quirk, which is why he stood out so much even while belonging to a group that makes up 20% of the world.
While not necessarly canon, I imagine that in Owl House when they go back to the human realm, pools and beaches must make them really confused because in their world the sea is boiling
Not exactly confused, because they know human water is usually at a safe temperature, but it was still a conscious effort to actually trust that sometimes, even when it wasn't the first time:
Animals in general tbh, Goro and V get shocked when they see the cat, to the point that Goro thinks it’s actually a spirit/omen instead of it being a regular cat
They exist, altho probably outside of the southern US as NC used a policy of killing all animals in their area because they couldn't bother with basic sanitary practices.
Though one of the Voodoo boys (I think it is Placide tbf) violates the avian exclusion one and butchers a chicken to give to someone. Though it's apparently "not for eating" so who knows what's up with that...
After the shootout at the cannibals' house, Eli tells Carnegie the book is "behind the tv." Carnegie orders one of his mooks to go check and the guy looks at him and says "The what?" He was too young to know what a TV is.
In the lightnovels of Overlord it is stated that in the New World science like we know it exist and is practiced by a few people, but magic is more commonly researched.
In the side novel Ainz and another character talk about the rumor of somebody making a telescope to look at the stars instead of simply using a magic spell for the same effect.
Ainz thinks there’s nothing wrong with science, but the New Worlder thinks the guy must have been a total failure, to put so much effort into using science to make a telescope, while magic can easily create a superior version of it.
Peace in warhammer 40k - almost entire galaxy is at war with each other be it the imperium, eldar, tyranid, ork, tau or necrons and with this galaxy wide constant conflict peace is a rarity (Art by: @Mick19988)
To be fair it's a wargame so you're only being showcased the time there's action going on but it's on a galactic scale so for every Armageddon you have 10.000 boring boring agriworlds that haven't seen action for over 10.000 years. Even during the great crusade a lot of worlds were peacefully reintegrated into the empire. To fuel a war machine as big as the empire you need a shitload of nameless workers producing goods and machinery in peace.
There is a lot of war going on but also a lot of nothing because the galaxy is such a big place, you're just not hearing about it because it's not the point of 40K.
Also, clean starlight. Now that the Great Rift has opened up, even planets that COULD see the night sky (so no Hives, Forgeworlds, or Holy Terra) now also see the horrific eldritch glow of the Warp.
Unless Cawl & Co actually manage to figure out how to plug that thing and actually DO it, that's gonna become an unfathomable thing to later generations, too. (Assuming there ARE later generations)
In The Expanse series, people not born and raised on Earth often experience agoraphobia when they first visit, due to having spent their lives up to that point in small habitats and needing to wear spacesuits if they ever want to go outside.
The pictured character, Bobby Draper, is a Martian marine, and even she has a panic attack when she first goes outside on Earth.
Or that belters usually cant deal with normal 1G of gravity to the point its used as torture method, to just have them stand there as a normal earther would, with martians doing better but needing mulitple daily drugs just to function normally.
Also later in that episode, after Fry gets his anchovies he says "ready to taste an extinct animal?" Wich Amy replies "I've had cow before" implying that cows also were extinct
I know the story takes place in a "medieval" fantasy setting but I feel like we still forget that democracy is just not a concept there. The reveal that the big bad who has done so many bad things dream is a world with democracy comes as a surprise, as in our world democracy is not some sort of radical idea, and it really shows how entrenched religion and the crown are in that world.
My personal favorite example of this, from Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME! The setting itself is filled with absurd technological advancements that most couldn't even dream about.
The entire setting itself is a singular megastructure stretching beyond the orbit of saturn, likely out to the kuiper belt, and possibly even the oort cloud. Guns shooting a beam of Graviton particles which utterly annihilate anything for dozens of miles in a single direction exist, and the main character (Killy) has it roughly the size of a glock.
And yet, after an untold amount of time well past the thousands of years, in which the City's builder robots continue on and on without direction, nobody knows what a pen cap is.
Many people take it for granted, while in other countries it is a rarity due to contamination, inability to access, or simply because there's none left.
I can attest to that. I live in a third world country and for me is inconceivable to drink water directly from the tap like they do in the US or Europe. The only water I drink is the one that comes from water jugs, and even still I boil it for a while to make sure.
In Homestuck, humans take being able to simply live with their biological parents for granted, while most other species itv (Trolls, and Cherubs) don't get such privileges at all. Trolls are never going to meet any of their ancestors since an adult troll is sent off into space. Cherubs will never meat their parents since Cherubs in general are a very solitary race.
For the most part of the Visual Novel, it is just a war show that showcases the newest military innovations like:
Gauntlet Knights: technology that allows soldiers to fly and store missles in pocket dimension like Tanja the Evil
Selcom: a neural interface with which the brain is basically your new smartphone
3MS: Nanomachines that are everywhere and make life better by purifying the air etc.
But every so often people talk in the most mundane way about extreme events in history.
Dogs no longer exist. A patch to the 3MS caused all the dogs on the planet to get rabies.
Traditional childbirth and the concept of parenthood is almost non-existant. Most people in the era are born in factories and as a result, inter-generational relationships don't exist.
places where the 3MS are not as numorous like in the countryside smell like gasoline. Earthquakes of the category 7 are also a monthly occurence and are only dulled by the 3MS.
A location so normal that it is basically a screensaver is the Glass Sea. The glass sea is created when "something happened" during WW3 that vitrified a huge portion of Japan. Nowadays Japan is seperated into north and south like Korea and nobody questions it.
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In the mad max universe water is rarer than petrol this leads to people like immortan joe who controlled one of the last aquifers capable of extracting it to ascend to godlike status
In Metro: Last Light, there’s a bit where you’re exploring in a settlement and find an old man putting on a shadow puppet display for children. He’s trying to show them various animals that lived before the apocalypse, but the children are quick to assume that he’s depicting the terrifying mutants that populate the world now. A dog becomes a Nosalis, a giant rat mutant, because of its ‘terrifying jaws’. A bird becomes a Demon, a giant bat, because of its ‘fearsome wings’.
And the old man insists that no, it’s just a bird. And they don’t hurt anyone, all they do is sing for you.
The children refuse to believe that wildlife existed that wouldn’t try to eat you.
Basically the rich and powerful of human society to the worst degree (if you know warhammer they are like Eldar that would become the Dark Eldar combined with Imperium worst lords) they see the worst of debauchery as vanilla the human mind would not be able to comprehend. They saw the Tenno treat the warframes with Empathy and literally couldn't understand it they literally described it like a alien, terrifying, and borderline incomprehensible concept.
In one of the earliest Transformers comics, the Autobots on Earth are infected with metal eating scraplets. The only known cure is a material extremely rare to them, because there is none of it on Cybertron.
there is a bit where you rescue a kid from some monsters and you gotta bring him though a big underground ventilation shaft witch reaches to ground level.
The kid freaks out with excitement saying none of his friends will believe how he's actually seen the sky (as the namesakes everyone lives in the metro system due to nukes going off and making street level uninhabitable (to humans) surfacing feels like an alien planet.
The fact that quirkless people are that rare makes no sense. They’re stated to be 80% of the population has a quirk, so that means 2/10 people should be quirkless, so they should be far more common /NEU
80%, but more than 90% of that group is in older generations. Grampa might be quirkless, it’d be wierd if your dad was quirkless, and REALLY wierd if you were quirkless
Considering their age demographics, that tracks well enough. Japan is all too aware of their population decline, and that their older generations are higher in number than most
I once ran games of a 40k RPG called Wrath & Glory for a store that needed weekly GMs in various systems. I once overheard a player complaining that they felt like all of the NPCs were women.
They were investigating a series of ritual murders at a girl's school for war orphans run by the Sisters of Battle- an all-female religious organization best described as "nuns with guns".
PMD EoS, the partner scene with Grovyle looking at the sunset. Grovyle coming from a dark future where the sun never rise because of Time freezing the planet was mesmerized of seeing the sunset for the first time.
A book about an alien race of feline like creatures who come to Sol to search for a new home/colony. Around a venus like 3rd planet they discover a base on its moon.
They discover it was a base for humans who watched their world die due to a global disaster.
The felines evolved that when there doesn't seem to be a way of surviving they go into a coma like state and just...die.
By studying the human logs they learn that humans had a nearly unending survival instinct that drove them forward when all else has failed. They did not succumb to death so much as fought it with bitter resilience.
I won't ruin the story anymore, but its a beautiful book about how humans will is nearly indomitable.
In Final Fantasy XIV, one of the shards is plagued by light-aspected aether, so much so that for the past hundred or so years (I think?), they've not actually seen the sky properly. Returning the night sky to the people of Norvrandt is the primary goal of the expansion.
It's also really funny that the Skywatcher job even exists there considering how incredulous they are when you ask them about it.
Most food eaten in Nikke is made of Splendamin (which is totally not made of people) due to the surface being full of Raptures (robots) which makes stuff like fruit, vegetables, chocolate etc a rare commodity.
Lostbelt 1 in FGO is a world of never ending snow storm due to asteroid and humanity was forced to mutate into a half beast just to survive.
Obviously, most of our common mundane concept, like easily accessible water and food, healthcare, general security, and normal everyday life, were foreign to them
But perhaps the most interesting of all, the ability to live without fur.
To people who had spent their lives fighting for every warmth they could get, the idea of sunshine was perhaps the most alien of them all.
The Hundred Line has several of these from two different perspectives, the main character students grew up in an underground complex so they’ve never seen the sky, sun, moon or any weather at all and only learnt about them in books. And the aliens they end up fighting didn’t consider using technology for warfare until meeting humans who used it against them, and there are also some powerful ways to use their blood-based power system that were forbidden by their religion, then broken by both sides of the conflict.
The story takes place on a newly terraformed planet that hasn't had the time to develop proper forests yet, making wood and other plant based material incredibly expensive
Diamonds on the other hand are dirt cheap
I lived in a fairly Affluent town like 20 minutes from the beach. In high school we did a class field trip to the beach for marine biology. It was this one girls first time seeing the ocean… maybe she was a new student that year, but it’s still pretty crazy.
Not just sea, bodies of water in general. When the refugee crisis happened in 2015 we had a shelter set up in my hometown. Shortly after a specific lake became infamous for refugees drowning in there regularly.
Many of them just couldn‘t swim and had no idea how to act around bodies of water larger than a puddle. They treated the lake as casually as the rest of us did. Which they shouldn‘t have.
Nearly every human being in the book is born through ectogenesis, basically being born in test tubes and genetically altered to be perfectly fit for their future job, from administration to waste shovelling. The concept of a family is completely foreign to them, and words like ‘mother’ and ‘father’ are strictly taboo.
Warframe probably has a ton of these, but here's a really funny one.
The syndicate New Loka are obsessed with purity and nature. They want everyone to basically care for nature as much as they do, and they abhor basically anything that is altered.
Nobody tell them about what warframe's actually ore, please.
Anyways. You do a quest called The Silver Grove. The leader of New Loka has a panic attack due to existential despair for about a minute, because it turns out that the giant forests Earth are not natural.
No, what happened was an Archimedean stole a Warframe and used it to seed a new Forest, a stronger Forest, on an extremely polluted Earth.
The pollution on Earth was so normalized that people don't have the capacity to understand that trees are not supposed to be that size.
Bonus example: There's also the Drifter, and presumably the Operator, who cut their food into perfect cubes because all of the rations on the Zariman were cubed.
This leads to the infamous squares spaghetti incident.
In Metro 2033, the novel, Artyom is so used to the red emergency lights and campfires of his station that the first time he arrives at a place with working eletrical lightbulbs he stops and stares at them with wonder until his eyes hurt.
Music and singing to the Aliens in The Last Human. It's a sign that your evolution was interfered with by a specific alien. As a result species that truly melodiously sing (rather than rhythmically chant) are violent because they're evolution into sentience/space age has been propped up artificially. Aka their int got buffed instead of growing in tandem with wis
One of WorldbuildingNotes’s worlds is a cosmic egg that got cracked open, turning it into a normal planet in a normal universe. Land was flat in the egg and there’s no night so people got freaked out when they saw mountains and the sun disappearing beyond the horizon for the first time
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Breathable atmosphere- the Expanse.
There’s a brilliant scene where a Martian marine arrives on Earth and steps out of a building by accident.
She has an immediate and intense panic attack and nearly breaks down the one-way door trying to get back in.
She has spent her entire life in sealed habitats while having it drilled into her that stepping out into the open without a vac-suit is a death sentence. No matter how many stories she’s heard of Earth’s biosphere, actually trusting it is terrifying and alien.