Pocket Dimension: Difference between revisions

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[[Another Dimension]] that is not so "other". '''Pocket Dimensions''' are spaces that are too small or too easily accessible to be truly considered a separate dimension and are referred to as a small extra pocket of space that is attached to our own. Much like an actual pocket, they are often used for some extra space where you can get things [[Bigger on the Inside]]. A [[Speculative Fiction]] favourite, the uses are plentifold. Storage for a [[Bag of Holding]], hiding places, transportation, an explanation for physics defying superpower: a '''Pocket Dimension''' can do them all. Can't make [[Aladdin (Disney film)|julienne fries]] though.

 

 

See also [[Just One Second Out of Sync]] which is often exactly the same but explained in terms of a temporal fashion than a spatial one. [[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with a Palm OS game of the same name]].

 

* In addition to [[Doraemon]]'s [[Bag of Holding]] pouch on his stomach, his time machine is also parked in a pocket dimension accessed from Nobita's desk.

* [[Negima]] has a number of Pocket Dimensions around; Kaede's magic cape contains one, and Mana uses one to store her ammunition.

* ''[[Star Driver]]'' has Zero Time.

* In [[Saint Seiya]] Gemini Saga {{spoiler|and later Gemini Kanon}}'s trademark attack "Another Dimension" warps you into one of these. The [[Large Ham|really overblown delivery]] has reached [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pnl_-KeXa4 massive memetic mutation] status.

 

== Comic Books ==

* An apparently commonplace practice for [[Green Lantern]] officers is to place their [[Captain Obvious|lantern]]-shaped power battery (which they must use to recharge their rings periodically) inside a pocket dimension, so as to have easy access to it in the field. Kyle Rayner keeps his in his apartment, which has more than once worried him while off on another planet, since he might not have enough juice in the ring to get home.

* The Time Trapper created a pocket universe which events from the Pre-Crisis/Silver Age Superboy stories took place. Anytime the Legion of Super-Heroes travel back to meet their inspiration Superboy, the Time Trapper diverts them to there. The only inhabitable planet is Earth (and so was Krypton). It has become a dead world after Zod, Faora, and Quex-Ul killed everyone on Earth, following Superboy's death by the Time Trapper. It's apparently destroyed during [[Zero Hour]].

 

== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', the original bodies of the four, and later their cloned bodies, are stored in a pocket dimension, a private stasis pocket.

 

== Literature ==

** Death's Domain exists in a similar world.

* In ''[[Dark Lord of Derkholm]],'' Mara's specialty is making these. {{spoiler|She uses them to hide away the people of cities about to be ransacked.}}

* The Room Of Requirement in [[Harry Potter]]

* The Other World in ''[[Coraline (novel)|Coraline]]''. She even comments about it : "Small world", indicating it's not really another dimension.

 

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' (classic series) had a trilogy of stories near Tom Baker's departure set in E-Space which is described as "a smaller universe existing alongside the prime universe". [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/E-Space Click for more.]

** The last E-Space story, "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S18/E05 Warriors Gate|Warriors Gate]]", is set inside an even smaller pocket dimension—small enough to cross ''on foot''—on the border between E-Space and N-Space.

* In ''[[Land of the Lost (TV series)|Land of the Lost]]'', they can stand on a hilltop and look through binoculars... and see the backs of their own heads.

* In ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'': "The Tale of the Super Specs", the protagonists end up trapped in one when the [[Alternate Universe]] overtakes the normal universe's space. In "The Tale of the Doll Maker", Susan is trapped in [[Creepy Doll]] form in a dollhouse accessed by a one-way portal in the attic of the normal-sized house. In "The Tale of the Pinball Wizard", Ross ends up trapped in a replica of the mall inside the pinball machine in Mr. Olson's shop.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Exalted]]'' has the aptly-named Elsewhere. Things stored in it are "safe enough", in that it can't be taken back except by the person storing it, and things stored by different person won't interact with each others. It has been used to store weapons, souls (in an [[And I Must Scream]] fashion), and ''a frickin' Primordial'' that is a world in itself.

** You can ''become'' one, if you're a Green Sun Prince. It's a world defined as you like it, you can invite others to live in it, and it grows as you feed it [[Mana|Essence]].

 

== Video Games ==

* There are Pocket Dimension portals in [[RuneScape]]... [[Mundane Utility|Used for holding PC houses.]]

* In [[The Elder Scrolls Four|Oblivion]], you go inside a painting for the quest "A Brush with Death." {{spoiler|Mankar Camoran's Paradise}} may count, as well.

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'' has Bardos—pocket worlds made of concepts [[Science Marches On|disproved by science]]. The more prominent ones include an alien-inhabited Mars, the [[Hollow World]] (home to [[Prehistoria|dinosaurs]] and [[Anachronism Stew|cavemen]] and [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Nazis]]), and the Seattle of Tomorrow, which [[Ancient Conspiracy|Lemuria]] tried to bring into this world [[Gone Horribly Wrong|with disastrous consequences]].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

== Real Life ==