Fictional Worlds You Probably Wouldn't Want to Live In - Part V

Written by Shae Rufe

I've done a lot of these in the past, because my brain goes to some really weird places, guys. Like seriously. My brain is like 'Hey! What if??? Nah. That's a bad idea!' Because while we all want to live in fictional worlds, they're bad ideas, always. I swear I will find a downside and ruin these things for you. Not because I want to. But because my brain demands I share.

The world of Inside Out looks really cool, doesn't it? Who wouldn't want to live inside the head of a kid, or anyone for that matter? Me. You know why? I saw that movie, that's why. If you happen to work in the brain in any part of it, your job is going to suck and be awful. If you're an imaginary friend? Chances are you're probably going to get forgotten at some point. And that's a fate worse than death. To be one of the leading emotions means you have to deal with a lot of things, minute by minute, and that gets hard. You're working with four other 'people' who are constantly there with you at all times and that's also really hard. Five different people with five distinct major personality traits can lead to a lot of fighting, and while Joy can be kind of overly happy all the time, even she gets frustrated...which, yeah, that says a lot, working on the dream side of things seems like an easy job, but things get really weird there really quick. All the other jobs, like say, being a cloud, well they seem dangerous. There's far better worlds to be than living inside the head of anyone.
 
Similarly, the world of Brave sounds utterly terrible. I mean, yes, it's technically Scotland, which is a genuinely gorgeous place to be, but at the same time, is the trouble worth the view? This world has magical spirits that can lead you to what you really want, but at what cost? The witch does whatever she wants. Like quite literally the witch just packs up and leaves seconds after meeting with Merida. She doesn't explain the rules of her magic either. She basically throws it all out there like 'Oh yeah, here, it's magic. Good luck.' Without explaining what the magic does. So, you have a land filled with legit bears and now magic psycho bears, that seems totally safe. What about the smell? I didn't see any indoor plumbing, or deodorant in that movie. With a ton of men running around in kilts, no toilets or showers, yeah...people probably smell pretty bad.

Paris, France, the city of Love. Also, the city where rats can totally cook and eat your food. Sure, they show Remy in Ratatouille being very clean, as rats actually are, but there's no way that this would be a world to live in. Imagine being a rat that knows Remy, since at the end of the film he has his rat clan come help in the kitchen. So, you're a friend of his now roped into helping with something you probably didn't want to do. And to make matters worse, humans hate you. Like, try to kill you whenever they see you. Humans haven't been fond of anything rodent since, ever, which makes being a rat chef pretty hard. Even if you're not part of Remy's crew this doesn't seem like a good world to live in. If you're a human and you're eating there, well, that's...your food was cooked by rats. It does not get weirder or grosser than that. Okay, no it does, but that's not the point.

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