# Which Fictional Universe Do You Want To Live In? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390 "2005-03-20T04:11:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iggy\_popov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@iggy\_popov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iggy_popov)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/1 "2005-03-20T04:11:47Z")
Whilst at work today I did my usual mind wandering bit and put some serious thought into which fictional universe I would want to live in. I came up with the following ones and a list of pros and cons for each. The Tarintinoverse Pros Get to wear cool suits get to be a badass cool BMF criminal get to smoke red apples and carry a gun get to hang out with Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi and Sam Jackson Finally get to have a really good soundtrack wherever I go Cons Zed and the pawn shop guy whose name I can’t remember Mr. Orange John Travolta Probably would end up getting killed. Cowboy Bebop universe Pros Really really cool personal space ship get to carry a gun also again I finally get the soundtrack I deserve And again I get to wear a really cool suit Cons People shooting at me all the time Minor characters tend to die at the end of each episode Dammit I like Earth! Star Wars Universe Lightsabers and blasters,need I say more. Yes X-wings,Millenium Falcon and a thousand other ships The Force Again, a great soundtrack On the upside, minor characters in the SW universe tend to live on forever Cons The Empire, Vader and the Emperor, and the Dark Side A plethora of planet destroying super weapons Probably end up getting killed really really fast So which fictional universe would you rather be in? ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/2 "2005-03-20T04:22:51Z")
I want to live at Hogwarts. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/3 "2005-03-20T04:32:11Z")
Hmmm…I guess the default answer would be the Star Trek Federation, circa the 24th century. Mostly because of the effective utopia, easy access to holodecks, etc. The _Bubblegum Crisis 2040_ universe, as anime realities go, actually seemed like an OK enough place to live. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/4 "2005-03-20T04:35:38Z")
Larry Niven’s “Known Space” seems like an interesting place. I wouldn’t want to live near the Kzinti hangouts, though, or I’d be Kzin Chow for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/5 "2005-03-20T04:37:45Z")
Start Trek: I’d immediately take up residency on Risa… ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/6 "2005-03-20T04:44:24Z")
The future earth of Transmetropolitan, in The City Pros: Makers Sex Clones Cool Weaponry Anti-Cancer Trait and other genetic fun Cons: High Crime Incredibly Corrupt Government A new religion founded every hour “Remember, kids, never let a Huffalo Monster have an orgasm without a garbage sack!” ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/7 "2005-03-20T04:52:12Z")
I actually wouldn’t mind living in [Walden Two](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/002411510X/002-0308353-5492000). Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/8 "2005-03-20T07:14:11Z")
I want to live in _Little House on the Prairie_ or _Sex and the City._ Or perhaps each for six months at a time, just for some variety? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/9 "2005-03-20T07:31:38Z")
Damar, but only if I have a decent amount of _kelar._ Not as thrilled about the idea of being an ordinary Damarian. Or maybe Narnia. I always liked Narnia. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/10 "2005-03-20T08:30:21Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Damar, but only if I have a decent amount of _kelar._ Not as thrilled about the idea of being an ordinary Damarian. > > Or maybe Narnia. I always liked Narnia. Another vote for Narnia Or Hobbiton. ---
**Author:** ![Skellington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Skellington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skellington)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/11 "2005-03-20T08:50:51Z")
Halloween Town of The Nightmare Before Christmas - I would fit in perfectly (and the music is brilliant). Ok, Pros and cons: Pros: The entire population is sick, twisted and slightly odd looking. The sun looks like a pumpkin lantern. The music is very clever (and full of quotes). The architecture is beautiful (if a little wonky). There is very wide cultural diversity. No one sings off key. No one keeps a grudge (well almost no one). It dosn’t matter what you look like. No one puts you down for being dead, slime covered, hairy, smelly, blood sucking, see-through, rotting, pumpkin shaped, winged or dressed like a clown. Everyone is materially close to equal. Respect is earned only through work and intelligence. Cons: Hmmmmm… well… I’m sure there’s something… Of corse!: Ignorance - it’s everywhere in almost everyone. But it’s a far more innocent and forgivable than the type in our world. And the world of P.G. Wodehouse is also tempting… ---
**Author:** ![Skellington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Skellington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skellington)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/12 "2005-03-20T08:54:22Z")
I can’t be bothered correcting those mistakes, I’m just pointing them out 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/13 "2005-03-20T09:13:28Z")
**Potterville** ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/14 "2005-03-20T09:54:44Z")
**HitchHikers Guide** Pros: Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters Excitement, adventure & really wild things. Extremely long, flying parties. Custom designed and built planets Eccentrica Gallumbits The Guide I already own a towel Cons: Vogons Pan-dimensional beings masquerading as Mice War robots of Krikket Alternate: **Futurama** ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/15 "2005-03-20T15:07:12Z")
London in the 30s with the Saint’s unofficial gang. Pros: -Out dancing all night then bacon and eggs for breakfast -Boodle -Fabulous clothes, cars, and booze -Smiting the Ungodly in hilarious and suave ways -Teal-baiting Cons: -Getting hit over the head frequently enough to end up a drooling vegetable eventually -Random imperialist/racist outbursts from one’s chums -The likelihood that I’d have to be the klutzy comic relief in the gang. OR The Kamiya Kasshin dojo in Meiji Era Tokyo (from the Rurouni Kenshin series.) Pros: -Master an exciting fighting style with umbrella-like wooden swords -Surrounded by gorgeous and dangerous young men who do some fabulous amounts of brooding -Travel the countryside of Japan saving it from unscrupulous revolutionaries Cons: -Bad food -Yahiko won’t shut up -The gorgeous young men are all spoken for -The likelihood that I’d have to the be the klutzy comic relief in the gang. Sigh, my lack of manual dexterity really puts a damper on the universes I’d like to hang out in! ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/16 "2005-03-20T15:13:47Z")
I’ll have to second Transmetropolitan and add Firefly. Pros: It’s freakin’ space Legalized…companionship Smuggling is easy enough, as long as you know how to stay out of everyone’s way Kaylee! Cons: Nasty evil empire ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/17 "2005-03-20T15:54:52Z")
The North American Union of ‘The Two Georges.’ Pros: I get to speak in my beddy beddy best Sherlock Holmes accent. Bowlers never go out of fashion. Zeppelins! Lots of them! Few wars. Cons: Englishmen who are unnaturally number one in the pecking order. Englishmen. A very straight-laced Victorian society. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/18 "2005-03-20T17:08:19Z")
> [@xgxlx](#): > > Smuggling is easy enough, as long as you know how to stay out of everyone’s way That’s the whole key to smuggling in any universe! ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/19 "2005-03-20T19:34:19Z")
I’d have to say “The Shire”. Seems like the perfect place. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390/20 "2005-03-20T19:56:26Z")
In Gondor during the reign of Elessar Telcontar. That way I’d get to hang out with the elves who moved with Legolas to Ithilien, visit the Glittering Caves to say “hi” to Gimli and his folk, plus get the chance to get to know Arwen’s daughters! Merry and Pippin would drop in occasionally, and so would Sam and family. So, all the benefits of the Fourth Age, along with the chance to hob-nob the remaining “end of the third age big wheels”, and also meet races who will be exiting the stage permanently. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-fictional-universe-do-you-want-to-live-in/295390.md?page=2)