History Main / ArtificialOutdoorsDisplay

* The colony in ''Film/TheIsland2005'' has one projecting a scene of a mountain to the inhabitants, masking its [[PeopleFarm true purpose]]. [[spoiler:Lincoln Six Echo disables it at the end to reveal the truth to them.]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': The Terarium, the main location of the Indigo Disk DLC, is an underwater habitat for wild Pokemon. There are four biomes based on different climates[[note]]The springtime Canyon Biome, the summertime Coastal biome, the autumnal Savannah biome, and the winter Polar biome]] which are individually regulated. You are allowed to catch Pokemon, and there are even rewards for doing so.

* ''Videogame/{{ULTRAKILL}}:'' Limbo is artificial to the point of being maddening to its denizens. All the beautiful vistas are screens lining walls, the birdsong and wind come from speakers, everything is a clear manufacture of Heaven seemingly made to torment those within it with the idea they'll never reach a ''true'' Paradise.

* ''VideoGame/{{Stray}}'' has two examples:

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/SpaceCadet'', Hayworth Hall at [[SpaceCadetAcademy the academy]] has an enormous rotunda, with a midnight black ceiling with artificial stars in the actual constellations of the night sky, so that "the illusion of being outdoors at night was most persuasive". The illusion is further enhanced by the floor being a pit with a "bed of rock and sand", in which rests a crash-landed spaceship. (Another cadet does point out the ''KilroyWasHere'' didn't actually crash land at this spot; the remains of the ship were relocated for the display.)

* ''Anime/PatemaInverted'': About 2/3 into the film, Patema and [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Age/Eiji]] get swallowed up into the sky, seemingly to their deaths. It's only then that they realize that the "sky" is really [[spoiler: the underside of an abandoned facility]]. It illuminates during the night, while they're stranded there, revealing that the "stars" had only been lights.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Crocus the doctor decorates the giant whale Laboon's inside with paintings of the sky. How it seems to be just as ''bright'' as a sunny day is not explained however.

* ''Anime/{{Megazone 23}}'' [[spoiler: is set onboard a massive colony ship whose inhabitants believe themselves to be living in 1980s Japan]] has a fairly normal looking sky in the backgrounds.

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%% ** Another story has the Doctor and Martha arrive at an installation that they think is underwater, as they can see water and sealife outside the walls of the installation. They later discover that this is just a projection and that what can be seen outside the walls can be changed, which the Doctor demonstrates.

->"Home" consisted of a room on a subsurface level of a huge apartment building. Once, the Jiffi-View Company of greater Cleveland came by every six months and created a 3D projection, animated, of a view of Carmel, California. This "view" filled his room's "window," or ersatz window. However, of late, due to his bad financial situation he had given up trying to imagine that he lived on a great hill with a view of the sea and towering redwoods; he had become content -- or rather resigned -- to face blank, inert black glass.

* The colony in ''Film/TheIsland'' has one projecting a scene of a mountain to the inhabitants, masking its [[PeopleFarm true purpose]]. [[spoiler:Lincoln Six Echo disables it at the end to reveal the truth to them.]]

* The dome of the underground cavern over [[WizardingSchool Orthorbbae]] in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' has this, as does the Sullisin'rune dome. It's suggested that the Dark Elves made them to simulate the surface world after the loss of their homelands due to the war that ended the last age.
* ''Videogame/{{ULTRAKILL}}:'' Limbo is artificial to the point of being maddening to its denizens. All the beautiful vistas are screens lining walls, the birdsong and wind come from speakers, everything is a clear manufacture of Heaven seemingly made to torment those within it with the idea they'll never reach a ''true'' Paradise.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', when the Earth is stolen by the Planetjackers, they encase the planet in a giant dome, the inside of which is a giant television screen generating an artificial sky so no one notices.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In the episode "The Great Indoors", Phineas and Ferb construct a biodome that can simulate any environment, including a desert, a rainforest and a mountain.

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[[caption-width-right:350:All the experience of the great outdoors--except you're in a huge indoor hangar.]]

* In the fourth season of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Damien Darhk constructs the underground base of Tevat Noah in Star City, which replicates a typical suburban town. Tevat Noah was meant to be the only safe place on the entire planet, and was designed to survive the coming nuclear apocalypse. Unfortunately for Darhk, his former ally [[SpannerInTheWorks Lonnie Machin]] tricks Team Arrow into destroying the power source, resulting in the destruction of the entire facility.

* This is part of the CrapsaccharineWorld in ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax''. Thneedville run by O'Hare looks lush and clean... but then you see that the "trees" are all fakes, the "grass-filled ground" conceals actual soil beneath it, O'Hare selling air to the citizens, and most of all, the bright blue sky is just a painting on a giant wall. Which Ted, the hero of the story, later breaks, to reveal to the other citizens the real world out there: a desolate ground with gray cloudy sky with no signs of life in sight.

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[[caption-width-right:324:Typical night at the Great Hall.]]

* ''Literature/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'':
** In ''Literature/TheEighthDoctorAdventures'', the TARDIS has a "butterfly room", which is a meadow under a blue sky, filled with butterflies.
** The short story "[=uPVC=]" by Paul Farnsworth, in ''More Short Trips'' has the TARDIS somehow intercepted by an intergalactic double-glazing salesman, who sells windows with "your choice of view". The Doctor gets one with a view of Gallifrey, but many years (and several incarnations) later, can no longer bear to look at it.

** Another story has the Doctor and Martha arrive at an installation that they think is underwater, as they can see water and sealife outside the walls of the installation. They later discover that this is just a projection and that what can be seen outside the walls can be changed, which the Doctor demonstrates.

* ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'': The interior of the Harvester mothership contains an entire ecosystem, including an atmosphere and plant life. Justified, as the mothership is [[PlanetSpaceship larger than the moon]] itself, and must be able to support the Harvesters’ civilization.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'': While Inklings live above ground in the bright and colorful city of Inkopolis, their enemies, the Octarians, have been reduced to living in large underground domes following their loss in the [[GreatOffscreenWar Great Turf War]]. Accessed via a network of kettles, each dome has various artificial [[https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/splatoonwiki/images/0/02/Launchpad1.jpg skies]] [[https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/splatoonwiki/images/a/a1/Splatoon_2_Concert_Dome.jpeg and]] [[https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/splatoonwiki/images/5/57/Splatoon_2_Dome_2.jpeg landscapes]] haphazardly constructed in the background. According to ''The Art of Splatoon'', [[spoiler: these domes were actually built by humans prior to their extinction due to rising sea levels.]]