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[[File:wonderland 6325.jpg|link=Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)|frame|Well, things work differently around here.]]
Most fantasy worlds are unrealistic in some way or another, but at least they are reasonable. Wonderland is... [[Absurdity Ascendant|different]]. The details vary, of course, but they are invariably strange places filled with strange phenomena and populated by strange people. But they are not [[World of Chaos|so far gone as to permit absolutely anything]] - Wonderland still makes sense, but ''not that kind of sense''.
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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Kamichu!]]'': A
* [[Digimon Adventure|The]] [[Digimon Tamers|Digital]] [[Digimon Frontier|World]] [[Digimon Savers|drifts]] [[Digimon Xros Wars|into]] this on occasion, depending on the ''[[Digimon]]'' continuity and location.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* The Dreaming from ''[[Sandman]]''
* The 1950s strip from the [[Anthology Comic]] ''[[The Beano]]'' Pansy Potter in Wonderland.
* The [[Franco-Belgian Comics | B.D.]] Philemon has Le Monde du Lettres (The World of Letters), a chain of islands which is shaped like the letters of "ATLANTIC OCEAN" that you'd see on a map or globe, which technically doesn't exist, and is inhabited by everything from people with butterfly wings to centaurs.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'': Although only Halloween Town and Christmas Town are shown, presumably each of the holiday towns are a themed wonderland following their own logic.
** One episode of ''[[The Critic]]'' expands the theme with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLPW_qJN9p8 Hanukkah Town.]
== [[Literature]] ==
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* The Lands Beyond, of ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]''.
* ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'': The inside of the factory is essentially a candy-themed wonderland.
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* ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'': So your house falls down onto a witch, and you meet a talking scarecrow, robot, and lion... the entire [[Land of Oz]] is a strange wonderland.
** The author of the Oz books, [[L. Frank Baum]], felt it made perfect sense, and was offended that it was compared to ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''!
* Venus in the [[Robert Rankin]] book "The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age".
== [[Video Games]] ==
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