History Main / PatchworkWorld

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** The Battleworld from the first CrisisCrossover, ''ComicBook/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.

* The Anime series ''Anime/SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss'' takes place on a Patchwork World created from various alternate Earths after the explosion of a time-warping bomb.
* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure,'' Machinedramon's city is made up of parts of many major cities on Earth. Also, the Dark Masters arc turns the ''entire Digital World'' into a patchwork world of ''itself,'' with the world literally twisted, and separated into four zones that center on the aptly-named Spiral Mountain. Places that were once ''continents'' apart are now within walking distance of each other.

* The Battleworld from Marvel Comics' first CrisisCrossover, ''ComicBook/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 ''[[Franchise/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 Gordanian Knot from ''ComicBook/AstroCity''.
* The setting of the comic book ''Grimjack'' is Cynosure, the city at the center of the Multiverse. It is made of different dimensions so one can pass from one reality to another by crossing the street. The laws of physics are known to be different in different parts of the city. Magic works in some parts of the city. Technology others.

* The setting of the ''Literature/WellWorld'' series is a planet constructed by the {{Precursors}} as a testbed for the species they designed and spread through the universe. It's divided into thousands of sections that mimic the conditions of each target planet.

** In the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' prequel ''The Andalite Chronicles,'' Elfangor, Loren and the future Visser Three all try to use the Time Matrix at once, instructing it to transport them back to their respective home worlds. This results in it creating a small universe that's a patchwork of Earth, the Andalite home world (basically Earthlike) and the Yeerk home world ([[DeathWorld which is less pleasant]]).

* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's ''Literature/{{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.
* ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' is populated by people who were taken from Earth at different times in history - Romans, Norse, Native Americans, Africans, Gypsies Roma, etc.
* In Creator/StephenBaxter's ''A Time Odyssey'' trilogy, planets in pocket universe have mismatch of terrains brought from different times in the history as a museum.
* The main premise of [[Creator/AnneBishop Anne Bishop's]] ''Ephemera'' novels.

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* The Realm in ''TabletopGame/{{The Splinter}}'' to an insane degree. Adjacent areas can have wildly different environments and technology levels. They may not even appear to be from the same time period.
* The tabletop RPG ''TabletopGame/{{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 ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' is a demiplane made from pieces of different continuities of the Prime Material plane.
* The setting of the Alara block of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' was based on the idea: Five separate worlds ("shards" of one that was sundered in the distant past) reintegrate, causing considerable chaos.
** Dominaria after the Rathi overlay.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Fantasy'' was set in the world of Yrth, which had a variety of Earth cultures brought to the planet by magical Banestorms.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl: The Subspace Emissary'', the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Great Maze]] is made up of areas from the "normal" world that have been absorbed by [[SphereOfDestruction Subspace Bombs.]]
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'', Chairman Drek's villainout plot involves taking chunks of other planets to built a new home for the Blarg.[[spoiler:..and then run it into the ground, forcing them to move to the next planet to build, and so on]].

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' takes place in one of these, as a result of the events of the [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia first game]].
* ''[[VideoGame/GundamVsSeries Gundam vs. Gundam]]'', in order to emphasize the CrisisCrossover nature of the game, used a lesser version of this. Each series' respective stage consists of a primary location from the show with elements of other locations thrown in, and "ghost images" from the opening and ending themes visible in the sky. The best example is ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam''[='s=] stage, which consists of several world landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and the Diet Building all on a FloatingIsland surrounded by ringposts.
* Invoked in ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'', as the player is the one putting down the assorted locations. Every area has its own biome (and affects the mana levels of the surrounding areas), which means that yes, you can put that desert right next to that tundra.

* Hyrule is turned into one of these in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', with locations from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' all being haphazardly placed on top of it by Cia. ''Legends'' takes it even further when another force starts replacing parts of the ground with the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Great Sea]].

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, one of the more popular {{Creation Myth}}s states that this is the case for Nirn, the planet on which the series is set. [[GodOfGods Anu]] and [[TheAntiGod Padomay]] are the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification anthropomorphized]] primordial forces of [[OrderVersusChaos "stasis/order/light" and "change/chaos/darkness"]], respectively. Their interplay in the great "Void" led to Nir, "creation". Nir loved Anu, [[DrivenByEnvy which Padomay hated]]. Padomay killed Nir and the 12 worlds she gave birth to. Anu wounded Padomay, driving him off and presuming him dead. Anu salvaged the pieces of the 12 worlds to create one world: Nirn. Padomay returned and wounded Anu, seeking to destroy Nirn. Anu then [[TakingYouWithMe pulled Padomay and himself outside of time]], ending Padomay's threat to creation "forever". One of these 12 worlds was believed to have been Lyg, ruled by the [[FishPeople Dreugh]] in the name of [[GodOfEvil Molag]] [[TheCorrupter Bal]]. Another was the original world of the Hist, [[WiseTree sentient]] and possibly {{Omniscient}} trees now worshiped by the [[LizardFolk Argonians]] in Black Marsh.
* In ''VideoGame/DurangoWildLands'', the landscape is constantly shifting due to unstable time warps. Resources and [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs extinct animals]] appear and disappear at random, and many of the islands themselves are unstable and can disappear at any time.

* ''WesternAnimation/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.
* In the original art and storyboards for ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'', 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.

* Hyrule is turned into one of these in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', with locations from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' all being haphazardly placed on top of it by Cia. ''Legends'' takes it even further when another force starts replacing parts of the ground with the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaWindWaker Great Sea]].

* In ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank2002'', Chairman Drek's villainout plot involves taking chunks of other planets to built a new home for the Blarg.[[spoiler:..and then run it into the ground, forcing them to move to the next planet to build, and so on]].

** In ''Literature/{{Everworld}},'' the various mythological gods keep their domains in a seemingly random pattern, so that it's about a two-day sail from Viking country to an Aztec city, from which it's a short hike to Arthurian Britain. At one point the characters actually notice the environment transition between the Greek gods' Mediterranean climate and that of sub-Saharan Africa within a few feets. (While traveling to the Egyptian area, which should logically be between them.) This annoys [[TheSmartGuy Jalil]].

* In ''Literature/{{Everworld}},'' the various mythological gods keep their domains in a seemingly random pattern, so that it's about a two-day sail from Viking country to an Aztec city, from which it's a short hike to Arthurian Britain. At one point the characters actually notice the environment transition between the Greek gods' Mediterranean climate and that of sub-Saharan Africa within a few feets. (While traveling to the Egyptian area, which should logically be between them.) This annoys [[TheSmartGuy Jalil]].

* In the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' prequel ''The Andalite Chronicles,'' Elfangor, Loren and the future Visser Three all try to use the Time Matrix at once, instructing it to transport them back to their respective home worlds. This results in it creating a small universe that's a patchwork of Earth, the Andalite home world (basically Earthlike) and the Yeerk home world ([[DeathWorld which is less pleasant]]).

Not to be confused with PatchworkMap, although such a map is a likely outcome of a Patchwork World. It also doesn't necessarily involve actual patchwork.

* Done literally in ''Videogame/KirbysEpicYarn'', the majority of the game is spent trying to literally sew the world back together.
** At least they did NOT put the "Fire Zone" right next to the "Ice Zone"...

* ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' uses the word patchwork to describe itself, along with how it's easy to tell when they're passing from one deity's domain to another. This pisses off Jalil, the resident scientific-minded guy, to no end.

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', misuse of the Time Matrix creates a world made of pieces of homeworlds of the three characters trying to use it. It includes replicas of loved ones, presumably pulled out of their memories, who don't seem to think it's strange that the main characters are wandering around with aliens.

%%* ''Literature/WellWorld''.

%%* ''WellWorld''.
* ''{{Everworld}}'' uses the word patchwork to describe itself, along with how it's easy to tell when they're passing from one deity's domain to another. This pisses off Jalil, the resident scientific-minded guy, to no end.

* 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.

* ''WellWorld''.

* 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.

* In ''SuperSmashBrosBrawl: The Subspace Emissary'', the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Great Maze]] is made up of areas from the "normal" world that have been absorbed by [[SphereOfDestruction Subspace Bombs.]]

* Creator/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.

* 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 setting of the comic book ''Grimjack'' is Cynosure the city at the center of the Multiverse. It is made of different dimensions so one can pass from one reality to another by crossing the street. The laws of physics are known to be different in different parts of the city. Magic works in some parts of the city. Technology others.

[[ComicBook/SecretWars http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/battleworld.jpg]]
[[caption-width:300:The Beyonder puts the battleworld together like it was a {{Lego}} toy.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/GundamVsSeries Gundam vs. Gundam]]'', in order to emphasize the CrisisCrossover nature of the game, used a lesser version of this. Each series' respective stage consists of a primary location from the show with elements of other locations thrown in, and "ghost images" from the opening and ending themes visible in the sky. The best example is ''GGundam''[='s=] stage, which consists of several world landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and the Diet Building all on a FloatingIsland surrounded by ringposts.

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* The Anime series ''{{Orguss}}'' takes place on a Patchwork World created from various alternate Earths after the explosion of a time-warping bomb.

* ''[[GundamVsSeries Gundam vs. Gundam]]'', in order to emphasize the CrisisCrossover nature of the game, used a lesser version of this. Each series' respective stage consists of a primary location from the show with elements of other locations thrown in, and "ghost images" from the opening and ending themes visible in the sky. The best example is ''GGundam''[='s=] stage, which consists of several world landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and the Diet Building all on a FloatingIsland surrounded by ringposts.

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

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

* 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.

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

* In ''DigimonAdventure,'' Machinedramon's city is made up of parts of many major cities on Earth. Also, the Dark Masters arc turns the ''entire Digital World'' into a patchwork world of ''itself,'' with the world literally twisted, and separated into four zones that center on the aptly-named Spiral Mountain. Places that were once ''continents'' apart are now within walking distance of each other.