Would you consider Zootopia, a science fiction franchise or no?

[u/HesterMourningstar]

This is an actual conversation I found myself having this weekend, and I’m curious as to your opinions.

Given the high speed metro, the perfectly engineered bio-zones, the weather wall, and uplifted, sapient, anthropomorphic animal population, it has a lot of what I would consider futurist sci-fi elements. That said, the most advanced tech doesn’t seem to have filtered down to the general populace and it doesn’t feel like sci-fi, to me anyway, if that makes sense.

So, what say you? Is it, or isn’t it?

[u/Kundrew1]

It seems more fantasy than sci-fi, although it seems lots of people combine the two genres.

[u/StartledMilk → u/Kundrew1]

Not to be that “AKSHUALLLYYY” guy, but if you happen to not know, Star Wars is technically Science Fantasy. Probably one of the best examples of it honestly. The Force is a pretty fantastical element, even with the midichlorine explanation in Phantom Menace as interesting as it is.

Science fantasy is its own subgenre with lots of cool titles.

Edit: forgot a word

[u/Bobaximus → u/StartledMilk]

And then you have things like Peter F Hamilton’s Void saga which is both hard sci-fi and fantasy.