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* Creator/GrantMorrison's 'ComicBook/'MarvelBoy'' series had the "pocket battlefield", a small cube that essentially does to physical space what the "incoming games" did to Mainframe on ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}''; impose a virtual yet tangible interactive environment on the local reality, but the twist being that said environment gives anyone in it ''except'' the designated user a major case of the heebie-jeebies, giving him an advantage over his foes.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's ''Marvel Boy'' series had the "pocket battlefield", a small cube that essentially does to physical space what the "incoming games" did to Mainframe on ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}''; impose a virtual yet tangible interactive environment on the local reality, but the twist being that said environment gives anyone in it ''except'' the designated user a major case of the heebie-jeebies, giving him an advantage over his foes.

* ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' shows the Mirror Dimension, which looks like the mortal world put through a kaleidoscope. Sorcerers can do pretty much anything there, but the normal world stays unaffected. The titular hero tries to take advantage of this at one point to trap his enemy- [[OhCrap only to realize that his enemy is far more powerful in the Mirror Dimension.]]

* The final track in ''VideoGame/FZero GX'''s Story Mode, as well as [[ThatOneLevel the final track in the Diamond Cup Grand Prix]] (same setting, different layout).

* ''Series/VRTroopers'' had the Battle Grid for when they wanted to deal with [[{{Mooks}} the Skugs]] in relative privacy. For the actual MonsterOfTheWeek, the usual MO was for JB to use the Vortex command to return them to {{Cyberspace}}, which had a suspicious resemblance to ''Franchise/SuperSentai's'' BBCQuarry (''every time''). Also, in the second season, new {{Dragon}} Despera had the ability to send the whole fight to another dimension where the monster was usually stronger with a lot of crazy powers it never had in the 'real' world. "[[OnceAnEpisode Escalate to the Indigo Sector]]!" (And when the hero got the upper hand ''there,'' it was time to do it ''again.'' "Escalate to the Fractal Zone!")

%%Belongs in PrisonDimension * The Phantom Zone makes an appearance in an episode of the ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' where a much younger Superman releases a Kryptonian boy born/created by some of his old enemies to, naturally, kill Superman. He should really stop messing with the Phantom Zone projector.

* ''ComicBook/RomSpaceKnight'' would send his enemies, the Dire Wraiths, into "Limbo".

* At the end of ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' story ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', the four villains are banished to the Phantom Zone.

* In ''Fanfic/DaughterOfFireAndSteel'', General Zod's partisans were frozen in suspended animation and sent into the Zone after their failed coup. Zod describes it as a "black hole".

%%Belongs in PrisonDimension * In ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'', General Zod, Ursa and Non are imprisoned in the Phantom Zone by Jor-El. In ''Film/SupermanII'', the Phantom Zone is shattered when Jor-El's son Kal-El (a.k.a. Superman) sends a terrorist hydrogen bomb into space (or one of Luthor's missiles in the Donner Cut) to explode harmlessly, and the three Kryptonian super-criminals are freed to wreak havoc upon Earth.

%%Belongs in PrisonDimension * Also referenced in ''Film/ManOfSteel'', in this story Zod and companions were on a ship intended for the Phantom Zone, but after the destruction of Krypton they were able to take the device designed to send them to the zone, and make it a hyperdrive.

* ''Literature/TheCloakSociety:'' The Gloom is a dimension accessed via shadows, which the villain Phantom can draw power from and control. [[LegionOfDoom Cloak]] uses it for {ExtradimensionalShortcut}s and, in an {{Inversion}} of the TropeNamer, manage to trap the ''heroes'' there using the Umbra Gun.