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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Digital World in ''[[Digimon]]'', as described by the human protagonists.
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* This is also Marvel's favourite [[Hand Wave]] whenever something requires physics-breaking power; the Hulk's extra mass is taken from one, Nightcrawler travels through one when teleporting, and Cyclops gets his eyebeams from one where relativity works differently.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* C'hou in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' is explicitly set in another dimension; the other planets that the four visit are also in other dimensions. In fact, “universe” and “dimension” are synonymous in this work.
* Termina in ''[[The Blue Blur of Termina]]'' is this to Sonic's Earth, accessible only via a portal deep within the jungles of Adabat.
* Ranma in the [[Mega Crossover]] ''[[Ranma and Akane: A Love Story]]'' has a pendant that lets him/her visit different worlds and timelines, and spends a considerable amount of time before the story starts in places like the universe of ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]''.
== [[Film]] ==
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* [[Ultraviolet (film)|Ultraviolet]] has this as a [[Hand Wave]] for Violet's [[Hammerspace]] weapons.
* ''[[From Beyond]]'' has another dimension that's [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|a scary place.]]
* Most of the adventures in the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' series take place on the world of Magnamund in the plane of Ao. There are other planes of existence such as the Daziarn, a strange dimension divided into mini-dimensions that have almost nothing in common, and the Plane of Darkness, which is basically Hell and the hometurf of Naar the King of the Darkness.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Narnia]] is another dimension in [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''Chronicles of Narnia'' series of books, with specific rules about [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|time]]. Indeed, the sixth book, ''The Magician's Nephew'' provides a very good fantasy description of dimensional travel, likening the space between worlds to the rafters in a block of townhouses. The titular magician also makes it clear that Narnia, Charn, and similar worlds have no geographical relationship to our world at all.
* [[Peter F. Hamilton]]'s [[The
** The Dark Continuum is as close to an actual Hell as it gets. This is a dimension of near-absolute entropy, where the souls of whoever ends up there are compressed into a zero-Kelvin mass of writhing agony called the Melange. In case you are wondering, yes, they are also fully aware.
** There are also various "pocket universes", not much bigger in volume than a planet, where the Possessed transport the worlds that they steal.
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* In [[Jack Vance]]'s ''[[Lyonesse]]'' trilogy, there is a long section set in Tanjecterly. It's a strange place where trees are different colors, and the heroine is menaced by grotesque, slime-eating creatures called Progressive Eels.
== [[Live
* The demons of ''[[Angel]]'' and ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' often hailed from some hell dimension or another; our heroes on ''Angel'' have visited at least three of them. Most of them have different rules on time. For example, on ''Buffy'' a demon continuously captured teens to use as slaves, working them until they're in their old age, then finally dumping them crazed and confused back into our world—all of which happened in a matter of a day or two, Earth-time. Also, Connor was sent to the worst dimension imaginable as a child, and came out a couple weeks later as a teenager.
** There is a running joke about shrimp entirely based on this premise, which has been liberally and enthusiastically embraced by online fandom at large: In "Superstar", when explaining the concept of alternate dimensions, Anya says: "You could have, like, a world with no shrimp. Or with, you know, nothing but shrimp."
*** In "Triangle", after Olaf was banished she said that he could have been sent to "the world without shrimp."
*** In the ''Angel'' episode "Underneath", Illyria talks about moving between dimensions, she said that she went to "a world with nothing but shrimp" but "tired of it quickly."
** The episode "The Wish" introduces an alternate continuity timeline caused by Anyanka, which was supposedly destroyed when her demonic power source was destroyed. But it gets confusing because this alternate timeline is actually
* Fluidic space, the area inhabited by Species 8472 in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. It's an alternate dimension, only accessed through portals established in the region itself.
* ''[[Sliders]]'' is built on this trope, with the first season showing different Another Dimensions each episode.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' used this trope liberally in its 2005–present series, introducing "Pete's world," an alternate dimension with [[Zeppelins from Another World|zeppelins]] but no Time Lords (who only exist in one dimension due to their wibbly wobbly Time Lord-y-ness), where Rose was never born and her father, Pete Tyler, never died. The show visits this dimension 3 times so far, twice in the 2006 season {{spoiler|with Rose and her family being stranded there, separated forever from the Doctor}} and again at the end of the 2008 season {{spoiler|when the Doctor abandons her and his regenerated half-human self on the same freaking beach in Alternate Norway}}.
** Another use came in the 2011 episode "The Curse of the Black Spot" where {{spoiler|a spaceship from one dimension was lodged in a pirate ship in ours}}.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
=== Game Books ===
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' (most notably ''Forgotten Realms'') features planar travel, based on moral alignments, classical elements and various other things. Of course, the world that most of the action takes place in is the "middle ground". Or so all the Clueless berks think 'till they reach the [[Planescape|Cage]].▼
▲* Most of the adventures in the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' series take place on the world of Magnamund in the plane of Ao. There are other planes of existence such as the Daziarn, a strange dimension divided into mini-dimensions that have almost nothing in common, and the Plane of Darkness, which is basically Hell and the hometurf of Naar the King of the Darkness.
=== Tabletop RPG ===
▲* ''[[Dungeons
** Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion!
* White Wolf's ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' games featured another set of dimensions called the Umbra, which was based very strongly on [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|human perception]], to the point where a shaman and a scientist in the same part of the deep umbra would see it as a surreal swirling nexus of spirit energy populated with arcane ghosts and a section of interstellar space populated by aliens, respectively.
** The New World of Darkness has its own
** ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'' has smaller Bardos—pocket worlds made of concepts [[Science Marches On|disproved by science]]. The more prominent ones include an alien-inhabited Mars, the [[
* In Atlas Games' ''[[Feng Shui]]'', players can [[Time Travel|travel through time]] by means of "The Netherworld", an alternate dimension made up of gray tunnels which lead to [[Portal Network|portals]] which allow access to and from our world at fixed points in time and space. The Netherworld is home to refugees from alternate timelines that have been erased from reality, including four siblings who ruled the earth in an [[Alternate History]].
* The Astral Planes of ''[[Shadowrun]]''.▼
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'''s [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|Warp]] is Another Dimension... [[Cosmic Horror Story|40k style.]] In essence, ''[[Hell]]''. They use it for [[FTL]] travel. It doesn't always ''work''. The ship might disappear then reappear, with everyone inside turned to dust from age. Or it might reappear hundreds to thousands of years later. Or appear at it's destination before it left. "Time" is a funny thing in the Warp. Not funny Ha-Ha.▼
▲* The Astral Planes of [[Shadowrun]].
* The world of ''[[The Dark Eye]]'' consist of seven planes, generally imagined as concentric spheres. The first is unaccessible and "only" a core. The second is a place of raw elemental powers. The third is the one where all the mortal life happens. The fourth is where the souls of the dead rest. The fifth is where the gods dwell, and cosists the paradises particularly worthy mortal souls may be eccepted into. The sixth is the sky with its stars, and some lesser gods can be found here. The seventh sphere is hell, a realm of chaos and infernal cold (ice/cold being the opposite of life in this world's elemental philosophy). In effect, the entire world, from the gods down, is just a relatively insignificant speck in a universe that wants to destroy it.
* ''[[In Nomine]]'' is a natural for this trope, possessing not only a [[Heaven]] and [[Hell]], but also a [[Dream Land
=== War Games ===
▲* ''[[Warhammer
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' [[Game Mod|ROM Hack]] series ''[[The Second Reality Project]]'' features the titular Second Reality. The remake of the first game introduces Thirdspace into the plot.
* DOOM
* ''[[
* [[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]] has one that serves as an [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]] for the [[Big Bad]] of the game. It even uses the Trope Name.
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