Alternate Universe: Difference between revisions

** Notably, Ryo only solidly connects the Adventure and Tamers universes. However since recently, Tai, Davis, Takato, Takuya, and Marcus all made a cameo in the third arc of the sixth series, and were described as ''heroes that saved their own worlds", it is confirmed (despite the existence of some continuity errors) that each anime series has it's own continuity.

* In the [[Kyoto Animation]] adaptation of [[Key Visual Arts|Key's]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Clannad]]'', Tomoyo's arc, which was never completed properly, was showcased in an AU OVA entitled ''Another World: Tomoyo Arc'', where Tomoya never met Nagisa and Tomoyo is the winning girl.

* A major plot twist in ''[[Rave Master]]'' involved this trope: {{spoiler|''the entire series'' exists within an [[Alternate Universe]], which was created when the last survivor of the original reality manipulated time in order to create a parallel world where [[The End of the World as We Know It]] didn't come to pass. The [[Omnicidal Maniac]] that was destroying this parallel world was in fact a balancing force created as a result of the unnatural divergence in the timestream}}.

* As it was written by the same mangaka as ''[[Rave Master]]'', ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' had to have one of these as well, in the form of [[Bizarro Universe|Edolas]]. It makes for an interesting plot twist, and despite its relative lack of plot significance, it doesn't feel tacked on at all. Although it does explain a good few things, like Happy and Carla's origin, and why {{spoiler|Jellal and Mystogan look identical to one another}}.

* Created by Hex the magic AI as an emergency dumping-ground for a thaumic overload, an orange-sized spherical universe is kept on Rincewind's desk at [[Discworld]]'s Unseen University. Most of the UU faculty think this narrativium-deprived alternate reality is a silly waste of time; even so, the Archchancellor occasionally (meaning, whenever a new ''Science of Discworld'' book is published) tasks his wizards to offset interlopers' tampering with the pocket universe's history. Silly or not, it ''is'' University property. {{spoiler|"Roundworld" is, of course, our own universe.}}

** [[Alternate Universe]] theory crops up elsewhere in Discworld, too, such as in ''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|Lords and Ladies]]'', where Ridcully, upon being told that there's a universe somewhere where he married his childhood sweetheart, gets annoyed that he wasn't invited to the wedding:

* In ''[[Dragonlance]]'', Raistlin succeeds in becoming a god and killing every other god as well as all life in Krynn. Then Caramon time travels back to prevent him from succeeding.

** The ''[[Alternate Universe]]'' part comes from the suggestion that there are universes where Caramon didn't succeed.