Grimdark

Quick meaning: Grimdark is an adjective meaning (fandom slang) Of a film, television programme, video game, written work, etc.: having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere.

Meaning

(fandom slang) Of a film, television programme, video game, written work, etc.: having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere.

More Meanings

1. (literature) The literary genre of speculative fiction that is amoral, dystopian, or violent.

Example Sentences

It shows you piles of corpses, then revels in its mechs and future-war grimdark.

Most original. Brilliantly so! What's not to like? "Jarringly non-grimdark," carpers will sneer. Oh, yeah? What's not Grimdark about – / * Droids? / * Vagina heads? / * Gundam suits (desu)?

If your character is a more-or-less ordinary little girl fighting for her life as a usual thing, that's a fairly GRIMDARK setting; it implies that there isn't any Good authority with both the power and the will to protect them.

The thought once occur[r]ed to me, that for a while they had the silver age Legion as the actual past of a grimdark iron age Legion. Which meant that in theory the grimdark adult legion could have traveled back to silver age Smallville, or the silver age Legion could have travelled back to the iron age DC "present" of the 90s.

Antonyms for grimdark

Common opposites include noblebright, hopepunk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grim, darksome, gloomy, murky, sombre, guttery.

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