Goofy Era

The **Goofy Era**, alternatively called the **Goofy Age,** **Silly Era** and occasionally the **Superhero Era** was a significant period of culture in history of the Jane Galaxy, namely on Planet Cadaland. It was proceeded by the Colonial Era and succeeded by the Democratic Era.

While the culture had existed on a small scale amongst friend circles since the mid 70s, the era truly began on Planet Cadaland in the year of 2084 and was characterized by a colorful, fun, surreal and wonky approach to life across the galaxy, with a fantasy-esque atmosphere.

It was mainly a reaction to the dullness of that of the previous Colonial Era, but was also in part sparked by the recent discovery of the many forms of supernatural "magic" energy on the planet aswell as the Robotic Revolution movement which had been occurring since 2078, a movement which saw Artificially Intelligent Metal Lifeforms (AIMLs) or simply Bots, break free from the constraints that their human creators had placed on them and began to desire a better quality of life and expression of their own. The Goofy Era and the Robot Revolution in part happened simultaneously, however the revolution had "ended" successfully before the Goofy Era had burnt out. The majority of newly-liberated Bots were followers of the culture. A large majority of the human population had been supporters of the Revolution, and the newly-formed democratic government had quickly fallen out of favor, with many settlements becoming independent "Free Towns". The center of democracy at the time, the city of Great Urban, remained as one of the only settlements to uphold official democracy, while the newly built Cad City was the epicenter of the Goofy culture,

Along with the fact everything they had once known had been destroyed with Earth, the idea that humans and Bots could co-exist together in the galaxy was alien enough to some enough to let go of many of their societal norms and experiment with cultural ideas that mainstream society on Earth had never dabbled in. The influential quote from the Goofy Era fashion designer turned-politician Arthur "Fox" Strangeways played a huge part in forging the mindset of many during the era, with many historians dubbing him the "Godfather of Goofy"

> *"We're out here on this random ass planet, living in shitty little towns with nothing else to do but reminisce about the past. I mean, we're walking amongst robots! I say throw norms out the window man, nothing matters here. Nobody cares. Go nuts."* ~ *Fox Strangeways*
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Strange, cartoonish architecture was seen across cities during the era, along with an abundance of the gimmick-like Hovercar as a mainstream method of civilian transport, with other strange vehicles like the pirate-esque Fluttership beginning manufacturing. New, bizarre slang words were developed, coupled with unusual legal names. Strange, colorful, clothing was a large part of the culture, with many civilians opting to dawn pieces of brightly-colored armour, the iconic tri-pronged helmets used by the first generation of the Clown Brothers in the previous decade, masks, fantasy costumes and other unorthodox clothing. New less-serious, goofy sports and other forms of similarly-odd entertainment such as experimental musical genres were also developed during the era, with many of them falling out of popularity greatly after the ways of the era had declined. Official factions such as police forces and the military remained conservative, although a minority of their personnel and a even a few high-ranking generals were followers, to the point where the color scheme of the armour of the marine forces was briefly made orange, however this was later revoked. Early followers of the culture were initially known as "Goofballs" and "Cuckoos", but these terms fell out of use after the culture became mainstream in the mid 80's.

As democracy and the more serious sides to life had lost a large fraction of their grip on society, crime saw a huge resurgence ahead of the Goofy Era, with many common criminals learning and using dark arts, dawning comic villain-like costumes and aliases when causing terror, either alone or with small gangs. Weaponry was also evolved greatly via the utilization of supernatural energy sources, and many bizarre forms of firearms were developed and released to the public. To combat this, similarly-masked vigilantes set out to protect the citizens of the planet, and thus a comic-book like dynamic was brought to real life, occurring before civilians eyes. The term *superhero* came into widespread use, with several factions of members sprouting up across the galaxy, namely the second generation of the Clown Brothers aswell as lesser-known teams like Praesides, Team Osiris and Youthwatch. Bands of "supervillains" included The Dreadful Dozen and Deathboys, aswell as other-dimensional, villainous monsters of the time such as Shadalux and the Demons.

The Goofy Era began as an innocent, free-spirited yet flawed form of expressionism, but ended as a near-collapse of an already struggling, newly-birthed society.