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Do note that this doesn't really apply to aliens or deep sea denizens or the like. Those are issues of different atmospheres or pressure differences, whereas this is generally more supernatural in nature. This trope is not about humans being unable to live on Venus or polar bears dying in the desert.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Magic World natives in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' apparently cannot survive on Earth unless they are descended exclusively from Earth natives.▼
== Comics ==
* [[Warren Ellis]]' run on ''[[Stormwatch]]'' had a superhero whose [[Weaksauce Weakness]] was that he couldn't spend more than a few hours outside a city. It made all-hands meetings on the team's space station base awkward.
* In ''[[Thorgal]]'', the three sisters live in a secret valley inside a glacier. The valley is a time anomaly that has allowed them to live for centuries, but they cannot leave for fear of [[No Immortal Inertia|time "catching up to them"]].
* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebooks and associated novels, the Darklords of Helgedad cannot survive outside the polluted atmosphere of the Darklands without special apparati, which can be magical, but can also include special breathing tanks. Of course, they are attempting to expand the Darklands through conquest.▼
== Film ==
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* In Anne McCaffrey's ''[[Crystal Singer]]'' trilogy, once you've been infected with the symbiotic organism that allows you to live on the planet where they harvest crystals that allow warp-travel, you can't leave for more than a month or so, or you start going insane and then die.
== [[Live
* In ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' "bad things" happen to those who try to leave the town of Storybrooke due to the curse the Evil Queen put on
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▲* Magic World natives in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' apparently cannot survive on Earth unless they are descended exclusively from Earth natives.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''' dryads must stay within a limited radius of their tree. If they pass beyond that radius, they will weaken and die.
* A Spectral Hunter in ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' must stay within 1 mile of the doll that was used in its creation.
▲* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' gamebooks and associated novels, the Darklords of Helgedad cannot survive outside the polluted atmosphere of the Darklands without special apparati, which can be magical, but can also include special breathing tanks. Of course, they are attempting to expand the Darklands through conquest.
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* The townsfolk in ''[[Brigadoon]]'' are unable to cross the borders of their town, lest the entire village disappear.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* {{spoiler|Yoshiyuki}} in ''[[Da Capo II]]'' is an example of the artifact type and is unable to leave the island without either Sakura along or {{spoiler|a pendant she made that apparently houses the power of the cherry blossoms.}} Without them a slow fade into nonexistence would presumably occur {{spoiler|like it does when the great cherry tree dies.}}
* Angel trainees in ''[[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]]'' apparently don't have the strength to last long in the Netherworld by themselves, so Flonne carries a pendant that allows her to stay. Naturally, it's stolen at one point, making it an artifact type.
* The Kokiri in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' can't live outside of the Lost Woods. Ingame rumors suggest they turn into Stalchilds. This is played with when Link leaves the forest for the first time, because he is accepting death (both the Deku Tree's recent death and his own mortality) as part of his [[Coming of Age Story]].
** {{spoiler|That said, they seem perfectly fine during the big dance party at the end at Lon Lon Ranch, but that may have just been a special occasion. Another interpretation is that Kokiri lose their immortality when they leave the forest, or they quickly become weak and die in a period of weeks or months. Or that death comes in the form of ''monsters trying to eat you,'' no longer a problem now that Ganon is sealed away.}}
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