History Main / CounterEarth

** A Counter-Earth created by the Earth scientist, The High Evolutionary used to be there. He wanted it to be ''better'' than the real Earth, but one of his earlier creations, the Man-Beast, corrupted it. The High Evolutionary almost destroyed it in his disappointment, but the space hero AdamWarlock asked for the chance to save it, and was granted it. (If that sounds like a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Christ analogy]], it's because it ''was''). The planet was eventually removed from the Solar system by SufficientlyAdvancedAliens and placed in a museum.

* The ''MST3K'' movie ''StrandedInSpace'' a.k.a. ''The Stranger'' (the failed pilot for a TV series based on ''Doppelgänger'') featured this premise; an astronaut crash-lands on the counter-earth, the government of which tries to study him and prevent him from learning this. After figuring out that he's not on the planet Earth he left (despite the similarity of technology, architecture, human physiology and the general aesthetic of the world at large) he spends the rest of the film trying to sneak onto a space shuttle so he can commandeer it and return home. He doesn't make it and the premise of the show would have been his adventures [[WalkingTheEarth Walking the Counter-Earth]] as he tried to get home.

* In ''WarningFromSpace'' (a.k.a. ''Mysterious Satellite''), "Planet 'R'" is on a collision course with Earth. One-eyed, starfish-shaped aliens from the counter-Earth Paira take on human forms to warn the earth about the impending disaster.

* In ''{{Melancholia}}'', the counter-earth planet Melancholia in on collision course with Earth, but is first believed to be simply passing by.

* In ''{{Lexx}}'', a pair of planets orbit both each other impossibly close and our sun on the opposite side as Earth. This is actually part of the [[TheReveal reveal]] at the end of the third season; these planets are [[spoiler: the afterlife. The Lexx blows them up.]]
* In a ''SaturdayNightLive'' sketch, a character mentions, apropos of nothing, his firm belief in the Counter-Earth.

* In ''TheIlluminatusTrilogy'', the leaders of the Illuminati may have originated on a counter-Earth named Vulcan and come to Earth on flying saucers from Mars via Saturn.

* Recently, {{Superman}}'s ComicBook/NewKrypton positioned itself directly opposite Earth.

** Most recently, the ''HeroesReborn'' Earth was moved from its PocketDimension and put in this position by Doctor Doom.

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* The Discworld fic ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/SlippingBetweenWorlds Slipping Between Worlds]]'' exploits the ideas expressed in ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'' and ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' that the Discworld and Earth are intimately connected, share many things in common ,and ideas, emotions and people may at times pass between them.

* The "Roundworld" created accidentally by the Wizards in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' is to all effects and purposes a Counter-Earth -or perhaps a Counter-Disc, except for the fact it simultaneously occupies a position in a separate self-contained universe, or it is to be found on top of Rincewind's wardrobe, or it is an unguessable distance away in the infinite universe. It is possible that all three are true at once.

** Most recently the ''HeroesReborn'' Earth was put in this position. Though it's more of a PocketDimension than an actual planet but it's still on the other side of the sun.

*** The ''SpiderManUnlimited'' TV series and the associated comic book took place on that one. The comic was not in-continuity with the rest of Marvel's comics however.

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In RealLife this idea has been proven false, even before the space age. A counter-earth's gravity would affect the motion of other planets, and other planets' gravity would cause it to drift out of its position, the final blow was when probes actually went the other side of the sun from us and didn't see any counter-earths. [[TropesAreTools It's still an exciting idea for fiction, though.]]

In RealLife this idea has been proven false, even before the space age. A counter-earth's gravity would affect the motion of other planets, and other planets' gravity would cause it to drift out of its position, and finally probes have actually been on the other side of the sun from us and didn't see any counter-earths. [[TropesAreTools It's still an exciting idea for fiction, though.]]

** A Counter-Earth created by the Earth scientist, The High Evolutionary used to be there. He wanted it to be ''better'' than the real Earth, but one of his earlier creations, the Man-Beast, corrupted it. The evolutionary almost destroyed it in his disappointment, but the space hero AdamWarlock asked for the chance to save it, and was granted it. (If that sounds like a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Christ analogy]], it's because it ''was''). The planet was eventually removed from the Solar system by SufficientlyAdvancedAliens and placed in a museum.

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In RealLife this idea has been proven false, even before the space age. A counter-earth's gravity would affect the motion of other planets, and other planets' gravity would cause it to drift out of its position, and finally probes have actually been on the other side of the sun from us and didn't see any counter-earths. It's still an exciting idea for fiction, though.

In RealLife this idea has been discredited because its gravity would affect the motion of other planets, and other planets' gravity would cause it to drift out of its position, and probes have actually been on the other side of the sun from us and didn't see any counter-earths.

A hypothetical planet on the other side of the sun from the Earth which is like the Earth, but hidden. This idea has been discredited because its gravity would affect the motion of other planets, and other planets' gravity would cause it to drift out of its position, and probes have actually been on the other side of the sun from us and didn't see any counter-earths. The idea still was popular in old science fiction, and continues to appear in sci-fi that is not [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness very hard]].

* ''SeraMyu'': A planet called Vulcan is said to be on the other side of the sun.

* Creator/RobertHeinlein's novella "Gulf" (1949). In the BackStory, an asteroid called "Earth-Anti" which is always on the other side of the Sun from Earth is destroyed by the "nova effect", a type of hydrogen bomb that can [[ArtisticLicensePhysics turn a planet into a nova]].

* Creator/RobertHeinlein's novella "Gulf" (1949). In the BackStory, an asteroid called "Earth-Anti" which is always on the other side of the Sun from Earth is destroyed by the "nova effect", a type of hydrogen bomb that can [[ArtisticLicencePhysics turn a planet into a nova]].

A hypothetical planet on the other side of the sun from the Earth which is like the Earth, but hidden. This idea has been discredited because its gravity would affect the motion of other planets, and other planets' gravity would cause it to drift out of its position, and probes have actually been on the other side of the sun from us and didn't see any counter-earths. The idea still was popular in old science fiction, and continues to appear in sci-fi which is not [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness very hard]].

* In ''Film/AnotherEarth'' a second earth appears in the solar system, drifting towards ours. [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Any actual physics is ignored]] as [[TropesAreTools this movie is about grief and second chances]], not science.

* ''Film/AnotherEarth''

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