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* Played straight for a sequence in the final episode of ''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]''.
* Rika in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'''s "Saikoroshi-hen" wakes up in a new world after a [[Near-Death Experience]], in which none of the tragedies involving Oyashiro's curse happened. Her parents are alive, Satoko's parents are alive, Satoshi is still around, and Rena's parents never divorced. {{spoiler|However, as a result, Keiichi never came to Hinamizawa, Satoko and her other classmates bully Rika, Hanyuu is absent, and the town will soon be flooded due to the dam project never being stopped.}}
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* [[End of Evangelion]] was once meant to contain a much longer Live Action scene. It was eventually cut, but versions of it are still floating around on the Internet - {{spoiler|In contrast to the Shojo-esque alternate reality from episode 26, it shows a world where Shinji never existed. Contrary to [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|what he expected]], the world is not much better without him - In fact, it's much worse: Asuka is living a bleak, mediocre life and is in a purely physical relationship with TOUJI of all people, the unsually optimistic Misato is resigned and hopeless, and Rei could give Gendo lessons on being bitter and pessimistic.}}
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* The basic plotline of the [[LeapFrog]] educational release ''A Tad of Christmas Cheer'' has Tad thinking that his family doesn't care about him anymore, so a "fairy godbug" transports him to an alternate reality in which he never existed.
* Used in a 13th season episode of ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' called "Silent Treatment." George feels that his friends are ignoring him and decides to stop speaking. His dummy, Wally, then shows him a world without him in a fantasy sequence. George even [[Lampshades]] it, noting that there's a movie like it.
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' uses the subversion in which Helga dreams of what the world would be like if she disappeared. Everybody celebrates that she is gone; Arnold, who caused her to disappear with a magic trick, is famous for it; and her parents' lives are much better. Eventually she wakes up and tries to fix all the bad things she did in that episode before falling asleep.
* In an episode of ''[[The Emperor's New School|The Emperors New School]]'', Kuzco realizes he makes everyone miserable as he is and wishes [[I Just Want to Be Normal|he were never emperor in order to fit in]]. Without him, Yzma has taken over the empire, and everyone is even more miserable.
* A particularly awesome example in the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Over The Edge": {{spoiler|because of a Scarecrow-induced nightmare, Batgirl actually dreams she gets killed during costumed adventuring. Commissioner Gordon discovers then that Batgirl was his daughter Barbara, and actually orders a manhunt on Batman. [[It Got Worse|Things go downhill from there]]. Gordon goes so far as to enlist BANE to help him hunt Batman.}} A surprisingly dark episode, and probably one of the best of an already excellent series.
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