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A [[Ten-Minute Retirement]] often brings the character to Arcadia. A character - perhaps a [[City Mouse]] who's learned [[An Aesop|his lesson]], or someone [[Easy Amnesia|who lost his memory]] - may settle down here for a peaceful life and a [[Girl Next Door|quiet romance]]. The pursuits of Arcadia are often portrayed as bringing life into the world, and are more productive than the destructive pursuits of heroes and villains. Depending on how it is depicted, this can range from idyllic leisure, to unending and hard work -- which, nevertheless, keeps the character from boredom and is always useful, thus fulfilling the character who was [[Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life]]. (Plus, of course, all that hard work gives you a good appetite, so you also don't need all the fancy dishes to tempt your stomach, unlike the city.)
The [[Country Mouse]] or the [[Farm Boy]] often come from a (more or less idealized) Arcadia. It often features as [[Home, Sweet Home]] for an adventurer. Many a [[Retired Badass]] and [[Old Master]] live here full time, having jumped at the [[Call to Agriculture]]. If the question of social relations comes up, it will always turn out to be a [[Close
A brief visit there is an [[Arcadian Interlude]].
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* In the new ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s second season finale, the Doctor alludes to "the Fall of Arcadia", a battle during the Time War.
** This Arcadia was a pastoral human colony planet, introduced in a [[Television Tie in Novel]].
** In ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S9
* Ironic usage on ''[[The X-Files]]'', with a planned community ''called'' Arcadia that's really a [[Town with a Dark Secret]].
* ''[[Doc Martin]]'' takes place in an idyllic rural fishing village.
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** Agate Village, the only beautiful place in the [[Crapsack World|hellhole]] that is [[Pokémon Colosseum|Orre.]]
* In [[Fire Emblem]], there was a village named Arcadia where humans and dragons lived in peace (when everywhere else, dragons were made extinct by humans). However, its giant libraries were also the place where the [[Big Bad]] obtained his ability to drain and consume [[Life Energy]].
* In [[
** It was originally planned for [[Andrew Ryan]] to use the line "even in Arcadia, I exist", before he gasses all the vegetation in Rapture.
* Present-day Winhill in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''. It's the only town where the primary party does not engage in combat, the townspeople are mostly friendly, and is the site of two of the relatively few peacefully-resolved sidequests.
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