History Main / PatchworkWorld

* The main premise of Anne Bishop's Ephemera novels.

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* The Battleworld from Marvel Comics' first CrisisCrossover, ''SecretWars'', created by the omnipotent Beyonder from pieces of different worlds (including a town from Earth) to serve as the Arena for his superheroes vs villains battle.

* In the original art and storyboards for ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie Transformers: The Movie]]'', the Junkion's homeworld was intended to be something like this. A spherical planet with several rounded slabs seeming to rise off of its surface. In the end, only the "northernmost" rounded section of the planetoid was retained on film.

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', misuse of the Time Matrix, a device supposed to have been created by the godlike Ellimist(s) ([[MindScrew Please]] [[MultipleChoicePast don't ask]]) that can reshape, or simply allow a person to travel through, time and space at will created a world with parts of the homes of the three characters trying to control it.

* The Gordanian Knot from ''AstroCity''.

Compare PlanetEris, which could also be the justification for such a setting. May also justify the FantasyKitchenSink, AnachronismStew and so on.

* ''DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has this as a byproduct of the war of the gods Chaos and Cosmos.
* In ''FinalFantasyV'', the two worlds are eventually melded into one.

* ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Eye of the Beholder". The planet Lactra VII had a series of different environments right next to each other, such as a desert next to a forest, each with appropriate animal and plant life. The Enterprise crew eventually discovered that they were deliberately created as part of an open air zoo.

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* ''{{Gor}}'' is populated by people who were taken from Earth at different times in history - Romans, Norse, Native Americans, Africans, Gypsies Roma, etc.
* In StephenBaxter's ''A Time Odyssey'' trilogy, planets in pocket universe have mismatch of terrains brought from different times in the history as a museum.

* ''TheFantasticJourney'': An island in the Bermuda Triangle has a series of timezones, each with trapped groups of people from the past, present and future.

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* The tabletop RPG ''{{RIFTS}}'' takes place on a future Earth where dimensional warps (the rifts of the title) have not only brought creatures and civilizations from other dimensions to Earth, but also chunks of land and pieces of other dimensions as well.

* ''{{GURPS}} Fantasy'' was set in the world of Yrth, which had a variety of Earth cultures brought to the planet by magical Banestorms.

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* ''{{DissidiaFinalFantasy}}'' has this as a byproduct of the war of the gods Chaos and Cosmos.

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* ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Eye of the Beholder". The planet Lactra VII had a series of different environments right next to each other, such as a desert next to a forest, each with appropriate animal and plant life. The Enterprise crew eventually discovered that they were deliberately created as part of an open air zoo.

* PhilipJoseFarmer's ''{{Riverworld}}'' stories take place on a planet with a bewildering array of cultures from Earth's history resurrected on the banks of a world-spanning river.

Not to be confused with PatchworkMap, although such a map is a likely outcome of a Patchwork World.

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* PhilipJoseFarmer's ''{{Riverworld}}'' stories took place on a planet with a bewildering array of cultures from Earth's history resurrected on the banks of a world-spanning river.

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', misuse of the Time Matrix, a device supposedly created by the godlike Ellimist(s) ([[MindScrew Please]] [[MultipleChoicePast don't ask]]) that can reshape, or simply allow a person to travel through, time and space at will created a world with parts of the homes of the three characters trying to control it at once.

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* ''TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' takes place in one of these, as a result of the events of the [[TalesOfSymphonia first game]].

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[[caption-width:300:The Beyonder puts the battleworld together like it was a Lego toy]]

Not to be confused with PlanetEris, although it could justify such a setting. May also justify the FantasyKitchenSink, AnachronismStew and so on.

* In ''{{Animorphs}}'', misuse of the Time Matrix, a device supposedly created by the godlike Ellimist(s) ([[MindScrew Please]] [[MultipleChoicePast don't ask]]) that can reshape, or simply allow a person to travel through, time and space at will created a world with parts of the homes of the three characters trying to control it at once.

* ''StarTrek The Animated Series'' episode "The Eye of the Beholder". The planet Lactra VII had a series of different environments right next to each other, such as a desert next to a forest, each with appropriate animal and plant life. The Enterprise crew eventually discovered that they were deliberately created as part of an open air zoo.

* ''{{DissidiaFinalFantasy}}'' has this as av byproduct of the war of the gods Chaos and Cosmos.

* In ArthurCClarke's ''A Time Odyssey'' trilogy, planets in pocket universe have mismatch of terrains brought from different times in the history as a museum.

* Misuse of the Time Matrix, a device supposedly created by the godlike Ellimist(s) ([[MindScrew Please]] [[MultipleChoicePast don't ask]]) that can reshape, or simply allow a person to travel through, time and space at will created a world with parts of the homes of the three characters trying to control it at once.

Not to be confused with PlanetEris, although it could justify such a setting.

May (cause and) justify the FantasyKitchenSink, AnachronismStew and so on.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/battleworld.jpg

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* The Battleworld from Marvel Comics' first CrisisCrossover, ''SecretWars'', created by the omnipotent Beyonder from pieces of different worlds (including a town from Earth) to serve as the Arena for his superheroes vs villains battle.
* DC Comics used to have a series titled ''[[GreenLantern Green Lantern: Mosaic]]'', where a realm composed of pieces from various planets (again including an Earth town) was created by an insane Guardian of the Universe. Strangely, the other Guardians decided to keep it as it was (against the wishes of most of its inhabitants) as an experiment in interspecies coexistence.

* The tabletop RPG ''{{RIFTS}}'' takes place on a future Earth where dimensional warps (the rifts of the title) have not only brought creatures and civilizations from other dimensions to Earth, but also chunks of land and pieces of other dimensions as well.

* The DungeonsAndDragons setting ''{{Ravenloft}}'' is a demiplane made from pieces of different continuities of the Prime Material plane.
* The setting of the Alara block of ''MagicTheGathering'' was based on the idea: Five separate worlds ("shards" of one that was sundered in the distant past) reintegrate, causing considerable chaos.

* In ''RatchetAndClank'', Chairman Drek's villainout plot involves taking chunks of other planets to built a new home for the Blarg...and then run it into the ground, forcing them to move to the next planet be builds, and so on.

* ''StarTrek The Animated Series'' episode "The Eye of the Beholder". The planet Lactra VII had a series of different environments right next to each other, such as a desert next to a forest, each with appropriate animal and plant life. The Enterprise crew eventually discovered that they were deliberately created as part of an open air zoo.
* The Gordanian Knot from ''AstroCity''.
* ''{{Gor}}'' is populated by people who were taken from Earth at different times in history - Romans, Norse, Native Americans, Africans, Gypsies Roma, etc.
* [[MagicTheGathering Dominaria]] after the Rathi overlay.

* In ArthurCClarke's ''A Time Odyssey'' trilogy, planets in pocket universe have mismatch of terrains brought from different times in the history as a museum.

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