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* The Multiverse plays an important part in [http://alaxr274.deviantart.com/gallery/33810717 Super Milestone Wars] and it's sequel.
* ''[[The Open Door]]'' is centered around the concept of the so-called heroes exploring the [[Mega Crossover]] multiverse in search of ways to improve themselves in preparation to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Punch Out their enemies]]. Universes are sorted according to an "energy gradient", which roughly serves as a [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]] by paralleling each universe's capacity for technology, magic and psychic power. Parts of it have been sealed off and can only be accessed from other parts of the multiverse through "hub universes", with that of ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' serving as one of these. Interestingly, it also has [[Alternate Universe]]s; the second chapter shows that at least one version of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' different from the native ''[[Thousand Shinji]]'' one exists, while later chapters also show that {{spoiler|[[Warhammer
* JLA Watchtower and [[DC Nation]] laughed off "52 Pick Up" (as referenced above), going with the older concept of Hypertime.
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3990441/1/Chance_Encounter_III_Return_to_Middle_Earth The Chance Encounter crossover series] Uses this as a plot device, with the main characters hopping around a collection of universes (LOTR verse, Kingdom of Heaven verse, POTC universe and the Troy universe), mostly by means of shipwreck.
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* Stephen King's ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series and the numerous books that feed into it (or got sucked into it) is based on the notion that all of the weird alternate realities visited by the Gunslinger, plus all of the alternate continuities of King's earlier books are part of a Multiverse that are all connected by the titular tower. All these worlds are apparently subservient to the world in which the fictionalized version of [[Author Insertion|King]] lives, and the characters discover that they are all in fact being channeled by King the novelist, a la ''Stranger Than Fiction.''
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has recently been indulging in a "Myriad Universes" series of books and comics which explores countless other realities throughout every ''Star Trek'' series, based on various differences in their timelines. Some of them [[Alternate Universe|vary hugely from the original]] while others vary in [[In Spite of a Nail|slightly simpler ways]]. There's also the original [[Mirror Universe]].
** One notable example of the Alternate Universe series is the ''Last Generation'' comic. Set in a universe ruled by the Klingon empire after a plot change during ''The Undiscovered Country'' (i.e. Kirk wasn't [[For Want of a Nail|fast enough to save the president]], {{spoiler|and it's all Captain Braxton's fault}}). In this Dystopian version of the Trekverse, Sulu captains the last remaining Star Fleet vessel as a [[Mysterious Protector]], Tasha lives, Jean-Luc Picard [[La Résistance|leads a Resistance movement]], [[Creator's Pet|Wesley]] took [[Took a Level
* [[Kim Newman]]'s novels are set in a multiverse, with different versions of the same characters showing up in ''[[Anno Dracula]]'', ''[[Diogenes Club|The Diogenes Club]]'', his ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' work etc. The ''Diogenes'' story "Cold Snap", which [[Canon Welding|ties together several of his books]], describes Keith Marion as being able to "shift" his mind between alternate histories (Marion's previous appearance had been in ''Life's Lottery'' a [[Choose Your Own Adventure]]-style book). The Cold, the [[Big Bad]] of the story, had previously appeared in Newman's ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novella ''Time And Relative'', which makes the [[Whoniverse]] part of the Newman Multiverse.
* ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'' is explicitly set in a multiverse, but deliberate travel between different universes isn't easy or necessarily safe. Problems involve the (at Galactic tech levels) largely unsolved issue of trans-universal navigation and the problem of adapting to the new physical laws of the destination, which has resulted in "strangeness shock" rendering entire starship crews comatose for months on arrival in the past. The focus of the action thus remains on the default 'main' universe, though interaction with others (including one in which time runs much more slowly, one that consists entirely of antimatter, and one that was and presumably still is heading for an artificially accelerated 'big crunch') has occurred in the past.
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* The [[Tabletop Games]] ''[[Rifts]]'' is part of Palladium Books' "Megaverse", which includes all of its other games (naturally), plus a number of other realms with some of the games.
* The [[Tabletop Games]] ''[[Planescape]]'', and by extension, the computer game ''[[Planescape: Torment]]''.
** And, through further extension, the whole of ''[[Dungeons
*** ''[[Spelljammer]]'' originally combined ''Greyhawk, [[Dragonlance]],'' and ''Forgotten Realms,'' though like ''[[Planescape]]'' it can be extended to other settings that don't explicitly say their world isn't in a crystal sphere. (And of course, there's nothing that says ''Planescape'' and ''Spelljammer'' can't coexist.)
**** ''Planescape'' in fact explicitly includes the ''Spelljammer'' setting as part of its multiverse, along with all the aforementioned settings, as well as ''Birthright'', ''Dark Sun'', ''Ravenloft'' and implicitly every D&D setting ever devised, including contradictory ones.
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== Toys ==
* ''[[Transformers]]'' has a whole pile of alternate universes which sometimes cross over, and which [[Word of God|Hasbro and Takara]] disagree over which are actually separate and which simply occur to the side of other stories. The Transformers of the [[Transformers:
** It should be noted that this is [[All There in the Manual]]. There's no sign in any of the televised series or available-at-your-comics-shop comic books <ref>Aside from Fun Publications' ''[[Transformers Timelines]]'', which do receive limited direct market print runs</ref> - that is, any canonical stories - that you could "[[Sliders|slide]]" from ''[[Transformers Armada]]'' into ''[[Transformers Animated]],'' despite years of "collector's club" and convention exclusive materials that suggest you can. Fingers are still crossed around the fandom for a ''[[Turtles Forever]]'' sort of project someday, somehow.
** The [[Transformers Aligned Universe]], which includes ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', the ''[[Transformers War For Cypertron|War for Cybertron]]'' video game series and the novels retelling the narrative of the games, are apparently considered to be outside the multiverse.
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* ''[[Dominion and Duchy]]'' is explicitly described as taking place in a multiverse. Which is at the centre of multiple multiverses held together by something called the Framework of Reality. The universe the story takes place in holds the object that all the different multiverses orbit around.
** It also implies that there is trade, as in the epilogue, a huge corporation makes a "Dimensional Elevator".
* A staple of [[
* The ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' / ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'' amalgam seems to have this property, most easily accessed by forcing someone to review some part of the Ultimate Warrior series of comics, which are so awful they break reality. In the course of both sets of reviews, Linkara and Dr. Insano flash through a long series of alternate universes, depicted as female/hippy/plushie/reversed versions of themselves/bad actors/etc. Dr. ''Link''sano purposefully uses this to {{spoiler|gather an army of Insanos -- and it works. Unfortunately they all start fighting each other afterwards.}}
* ''[[Little Lenny Penguin And The Great Red Flood]]'' references a multiverse frequently. [[Word of God]] says that this multiverse is "anywhere where space and time exists", which is 99% of pretty much ''everywhere'', broadening the concept to disturbingly confusing new heights.
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*** [[Word of God]] claims in the [[DVD Commentary]] that the cowboy one was a parallel universe (thus they're always the same distance from each other but never accessible to each other), the others are ''[[Shown Their Work|perpendicular]]'' universes (which means they're accessible to each other but only for a limited amount of time).
* ''[[Family Guy]]'', "Road to the Multiverse". Another Brian and Stewie [[Road Trip]] episode, this time going through a Sliders-inspired adventure. Some universes were an [[Alternate History]] (where Japanese never surrendered in WWII, the Cuban missile crisis, etc.), while others were the characters done in different art styles (the Disney universe, Robot Chicken universe, political cartoon universe, blocky universe, etc.). There was even a short trip to the real world.
* The TV movie ''[[Turtles Forever]]'' establishes that every single version of the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (i.e. every single comic, TV, and film series) all exist simultaneously as separate universes in a multiverse. [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|The Shredder]] [[Go Mad
** The Battle Nexus fighting tournament draws in combatants from all over a multiverse that appears to be a sort of different multiverse concept. [[Usagi Yojimbo]]'s world is one of them.
* ''[[Justice League: Crisis
* Video Land in ''[[Captain N]]'' is basically a universe for each video game plus the Real World.
* The end of ''Spider-Man: TAS'' featured a team-up of several Spider-Men to prevent [[Omnicidal Maniac|Spider-Carnage from destroying a multiverse]]. One of them didn't have any powers and was really an actor playing Spider-Man in a movie. [[Hilarious in Hindsight|His universe was strongly implied to be "ours"]].
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