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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''.

* 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.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** 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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