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* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike
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* AlternateTooniverse
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* BazaarOfTheBizarre
* BeneathTheEarth
* BinarySuns
* BizarroUniverse
* BrownNoteBeing
* ColonizedSolarSystem
* ConstructedWorld
* CrystalLandscape
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* DaydreamBeliever
* DepartureMeansDeath
* DifferentWorldDifferentMovies
* DimensionalTraveler
* DreamLand
* DreamPeople
* ADungeonIsYou
* TheEarthPrimeTheory
* EasilyConqueredWorld
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse
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* GrimUpNorth
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* InexplicableCulturalTies
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* InterdimensionalTravelDevice
* InTheDoldrums
* IntrepidFictioneer
* LandOfFaerie
* LayeredWorld
* LevelAte
* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway
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* MageInManhattan
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* TheManBehindTheMonsters
* MediaTransmigration
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* MirrorUniverse
* ModernMayincatecEmpire
* MulticulturalAlienPlanet
* MultipurposeMonoculturedCrop
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* MushroomHouse
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* NeverWasThisUniverse
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* APlanetNamedZok
* PlanetOfCopyhats
* PlanetOfHats
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* PortalPool
* PsychologicalTormentZone
* RealWorldEpisode
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* RefugeeFromTVLand
* ReincarnateInAnotherWorld
* RetroUniverse
* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman
* TheSavageSouth
* SaveBothWorlds
* TheSeriesHasLeftReality
* SingleBiomePlanet
* SpaceFillingEmpire
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT
* SuddenLackOfSignal
* ThinDimensionalBarrier
* TidallyLockedPlanet
* TheTimeOfMyths
* ToonTown
* TrappedInAnotherWorld
* TrappedInTVLand
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* UpTheRealRabbitHole
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* WinToExit
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* DreamPeople
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* AgriWorld
AgriWorld: A world dedicated primarily or entirely to agriculture.
*AlienLandmass
AlienLandmass: Using unusual or exotic landscapes to signify that the setting is alien and unlike the mundane world.
*AlienSea
AlienSea: Making the ocean strangely colored or otherwise weird to signify that the setting is alien and unlike the mundane world.
*AlienSky
AlienSky: Using a weird or exotic sky to signify that the setting is alien and unlike the mundane world.
*AllPlanetsAreEarthLike
AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: The climate, habitability and other details of every world you come across are conveniently like good ol' Terra's.
*AlternateHistory
AlternateHistory: A world fundamentally like ours, but whose history took some weird turns.
*AlternateTooniverse
AlternateTooniverse: A parallel dimension where everything's a cartoon.
*BalkanizeMe
BalkanizeMe: Alternate history where large real-life nations fragment into lots of smaller ones.
*BazaarOfTheBizarre
BazaarOfTheBizarre: A marketplace where you can buy weird, magical or just very exotic stuff.
*BeneathTheEarth
BeneathTheEarth: Large, far-reaching cavern systems extending beneath other settings.
*BinarySuns
BinarySuns: There are two suns in the sky.
*BizarroUniverse
BizarroUniverse: A parallel dimension where everything is ''weird''.
*BrownNoteBeing
BrownNoteBeing: An entity whose mere presence is enough to harm others.
*ColonizedSolarSystem
ColonizedSolarSystem: After humanity leaves Earth, it builds homes on Mars, Venus, the Moon, Jupiter and the rest.
*ConstructedWorld
ConstructedWorld: A setting ideated and designed by a story's writer.
*CrystalLandscape
CrystalLandscape: A setting made of or filled with crystals, gemstones and jewels.
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{{Cyberspace}}: TheInternet as an alternate dimension.
*DarkWorld
DarkWorld: A world that serves as a ruined or pessimistic parody of another.
*DaydreamBeliever
DaydreamBeliever: Someone believes their daydreams are the world's objective truth.
*DepartureMeansDeath
DepartureMeansDeath: Someone cannot leave a certain area or they will die.
*DifferentWorldDifferentMovies
DifferentWorldDifferentMovies: When you go to a parallel dimension, famous media will be subtly, glaringly or comically different.
*DimensionalTraveler
DimensionalTraveler: Someone who journeys from alternate dimension to alternate dimension.
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DreamLand: Dreams as an alternate dimension.
*DreamPeople
DreamPeople: Self-aware beings who live in other people's dreams.
*ADungeonIsYou
ADungeonIsYou: Someone becomes the GeniusLoci of a complex, probably underground, building full of monsters.
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TheEarthPrimeTheory: In the multiverse, one universe existed first, is at the center, or is a keystone for the existence of all the others.
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EasilyConqueredWorld: A world that is very easily taken over by the bad guys.
*{{Elseworld}}
{{Elseworld}}: Already-established characters are put into a different continuity.
*ExpendableAlternateUniverse
ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Universes besides the story's primary one can be ruined or destroyed with little fuss.
*ExtradimensionalShortcut
ExtradimensionalShortcut: Going faster than light by popping over into a dimension where that's a thing you can do.
*FantasyAmericana
FantasyAmericana: The wilderness of North America as a fantasy setting.
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FictionalEarth: It's got one sun, one Moon, the same weather and climate and flora and fauna, it's probably still called Earth, but it's a different world.
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GenderBentAlternateUniverse: An alternate dimension where everyone's sexes and/or genders are switched around.
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GeniusLoci: A place that's also a person.
*{{Hellgate}}
GrimUpNorth: The northern lands of fantasy settings -- expect cold, barbarism, and lots of dangerous monsters.
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{{Hellgate}}: A gate that leads to Hell.
* InexplicableCulturalTies: The natives of distant planets develop suspicious similarities to Earth's own cultures.
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SpaceRomans: Aliens who behave like Ancient Rome at its imperial, militaristic height.
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InnBetweenTheWorlds: A pub, inn, bar or other watering hole that serves as a travel hub between dimensions.
*InterdimensionalTravelDevice
InterdimensionalTravelDevice: A gadget that lets you travel between universes.
*InTheDoldrums
InTheDoldrums: A place that is actively dull, featureless and dead, and takes steps to keep itself that way.
*IntrepidFictioneer
IntrepidFictioneer: A character who travels into in-universe fictional settings.
*LandOfFaerie
LandOfFaerie: A magic-filled dimension where the fairies live.
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LayeredWorld: A world built in layers, which are either metaphorically above and below one another or physically so.
*LevelAte
LevelAte: A place made out of food.
*ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway
ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: An interplanetary setting far removed from Earth and humanity as we know it.
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LostWorld: A place somehow isolated from the wider world, where unusual things and creatures or ones from the past still exist.
*MageInManhattan
MageInManhattan: A villain from a MagicalLand comes to our world to cause havoc.
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MagicalLand: A fantasy world with magic that is accessible from the "real" world.
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MediaTransmigration: A character's soul is transferred from their current body into that of a fictional character.
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MergedReality: Two or more timelines/dimensions/realities are merged into one.
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TheMetaverse: An internet-like system represented as a place where people can walk around like in the physical world.
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MirrorUniverse" An alternate dimension where the good guys are bad and the bad guys are good.
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ModernMayincatecEmpire: A mesoamerican nation, or one inspired by mesoamerican culture, existing in a present-day or future setting.
*ModernMayincatecEmpire
MulticulturalAlienPlanet: An alien planet home to multiple independent cultures and/or nations.
*MulticulturalAlienPlanet
MultipurposeMonoculturedCrop: A single farmed crop that can be used for everything.
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TheMultiverse: Many universes existing alongside each other. Travel between them may be possible.
*TheMultiverse
MushroomHouse: Houses built within giant mushrooms.
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MutuallyFictional: The natives of two different dimensions/universes know of each other as characters from works of fiction.
*MutuallyFictional
NeverWasThisUniverse: An alternate history without a specific point of divergence from real life.
*NeverWasThisUniverse
NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus: If you end up trapped in another world, you also get skills or powers to go with your new life.
*NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus
PlatonicCave: The world is not as it seems, and a deception keeps you from seeing it.
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APlanetNamedZok: Alien planets' names tend to be heavy on the z's, x's, k's and the like.
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PlanetOfCopyhats: A planetary race with very specific, similar traits.
*PlanetOfCopyhats
PlanetOfHats: A planetary race defined by a specific quirk, habit or value.
*PlanetOfHats
{{Planetville}}: Planets are treated as culturally uniform throughout -- essentially like big towns or cities.
*{{Planetville}}
PortalPool: A pool that serves as a portal between places or universes.
*PortalPool
PsychologicalTormentZone: A location that preys upon your deepest, darkest fears and secrets.
*PsychologicalTormentZone
RealWorldEpisode: Fictional characters visit the real world.
*RealWorldEpisode
RecursiveReality: Reality exists infinitely within itself.
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RefugeeFromTVLand: Fictional characters escape to or become trapped in the real world.
*RefugeeFromTVLand
ReincarnateInAnotherWorld: You die, and are reborn in another universe.
*ReincarnateInAnotherWorld
RetroUniverse: An alternate universe where retro, vintage or antiquated technology, styles and aesthetics are still used.
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RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: A historical figure who, in an alternate universe or history, holds a vastly different job.
*RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman
TheSavageSouth: The distant south of pulp or fantasy settings. Expect jungles, stifling humidity, hostile wildlife and hostile natives.
*TheSavageSouth
SaveBothWorlds: Protagonists who need to save AnotherDimension find their original one endangered as well.
*SaveBothWorlds
TheSeriesHasLeftReality: A previously more grounded or realistic series gains more fanciful elements as it goes on.
*TheSeriesHasLeftReality
SingleBiomePlanet: A planet improbably covered in a single biome -- all swamp, all desert, all rainforest, all constantly-erupting volcanoes, etc.
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SpaceFillingEmpire: Alternate history where one or a few sprawling nations cover most of the world.
*SpaceFillingEmpire
SpeculativeFictionLGBT: Fantasy and science fiction with a heavy emphasis on LGBT themes.
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SuddenLackOfSignal: When you find yourself somewhere weird, you will also find yourself without wi-fi or phone reception.
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ThinDimensionalBarrier: Location where whatever keeps dimensions separate can be easily passed through.
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TidallyLockedPlanet: A natural satellite that has one side always facing the body it orbits and the other always facing away.
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TheTimeOfMyths: The often-vague period in the ancient past when gods, heroes and monsters walked, often with little emphasis on hard chronology.
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ToonTown: A place where cartoon characters live in an otherwise normal world.
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TrappedInAnotherWorld: Characters from one world are left stranded in another.
*TrappedInAnotherWorld
TrappedInTVLand: Characters are left stranded in an in-universe work of fiction.
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UnitedEurope: Europe unites under a single government that supersedes or supplants the traditional national governments.
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UpTheRealRabbitHole: Fantasy worlds and their inhabitants are of no consequence because they're not really "real".
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VisionQuest: A character goes on a spiritual journey of self-discovery.
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WeirdWest: The Wild West with supernatural elements.
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WinToExit: Characters trapped in a virtual reality must win a game to exit it.
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TheWorldAsMyth: All fictional universes are real and accessible to one another and the real world.
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WorldBuilding: The process of filling out and expanding a fictional world's lore and setting.
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WorldPillars: A world, or a part of it, held up by literal pillars.
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WorldShapes: Worlds with unusual shapes -- flat, cubical, ring-shaped, etc.
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WorldSundering: A world is physically broken into pieces.
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WorldTree: A tree that hold up one or more worlds.
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