History Main / SmallSecludedWorld

* In {{ptitlex7dt39fg ''Life, the Universe, and Everything''}}, the planet of Krikkit has a thick haze covering the outer atmosphere, so it's inhabitants can't even see the stars.

* In ''{{Beetlejuice}}'', the main characters are stuck in their house, unable to have any contact with the surrounding world. At first, they do not realize that they are dead and haunting the house in which they lived.

* In [[ptitlex7dt39fg ''Life, the Universe, and Everything'']], the planet of Krikkit has a thick haze covering the outer atmosphere, so it's inhabitants can't even see the stars.

* In [[ptitlegvx5tm34k7kq]], the planet of Krikkit has a thick haze covering the outer atmosphere, so it's inhabitants can't even see the stars.

When there doesn't seem to ''be'' any world outside the SmallSecludedWorld, then this trope overlaps with WorldLimitedToThePlot. If there ''is'' an outside world, characters who grew up secluded from it are very likely to be naive to it. They might mistakenly believe themselves to understand their world -- be IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance. Alternatively, the characters are ''completely unaware'' that there exist an outside world at all there's only the CityInABottle.

The character(s) live in a small secluded world. It could be a PocketDimension, a [[island without communication]] [[HiddenElfVillage with the outside world]], a spaceship lost on the void, a special kind of prison, or something else that has the same effect. If there is any contact at all with an outside world, then this contact is very limited.

When there doesn't seem to ''be'' any world outside the SmallSecludedWorld, then this trope overlaps with WorldLimitedToThePlot. If there ''is'' an outside world, characters who grew up secluded from it are very likely to be naive to it. They might mistakenly believe themselves to understand their world -- be IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance. Alternatively, the characters are unaware that their house or city or whatever is secluded from the surrounding world.

The character(s) live in a small secluded world. It could be a PocketDimension, a [[CityInABottle island without communication]] [[HiddenElfVillage with the outside world]], a spaceship lost on the void, a special kind of prison, or something else that has the same effect. If there is any contact at all with an outside world, then this contact is very limited.

Any HiddenElfVillage or OminousFloatingCastle is likely to qualify for this trope if the characters are forced to live there for a while. Also, any case of OntologicalMystery is likely to also be a case of SmallSecludedWorld or WorldLimitedToThePlot, or both.

* Cocoon from ''FinalFantasyXIII''. It's "only" the size of North America. Most, if not all, of the people of Cocoon have never even glimpsed the world of Gran Pulse below [[spoiler: until the ending]] and have been raised to believe that it's hell. [[DeathWorld Given all of the horrible monsters that live there]], they're not entirely wrong.

* In one episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', USS Enterprise fits in a very disturbing way. Dr Crusher has started noticing that people and places are disappearing, without anyone but her even remembering them. After a while, the starship is all that's left of the universe, and the few crewmen who are left still treat her like The Don Quixote for believing that a universe outside the ship ever existed. [[spoiler: and in this case, it is NOT that DonQuixoteWasRight. It turns out that Dr. Crusher was TheDonQuixote after all... but the misguided kind, not the insane kind. Eventually she realizes: "If there's nothing wrong with me, then there has to be something wrong with the universe.]]

* In ''ABlastFromThePast'', the main character is born and lives the first 35 years of his life in a underground bomb shelter. He is raised by his parents, who incorrectly believe that there has been a nuclear war and that the surface has been rendered uninhabitable.

* Most all Harry Potter fanfics portray the wizarding world as such. ''Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality'' is a notable example.

* In one episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', USS Enterprise fits in a vey disturbing way. Dr Crusher has started noticing that people and places are disappearing, without anyone but her even remembering them. After a while, the starship is all that's left of the universe, and the few crewmen who are left still treat her like The Don Quixote for believing that a universe outside the ship ever existed. [[spoiler: and in this case, it is NOT that DonQuixoteWasRight. It turns out that Dr. Crusher was TheDonQuixote after all... but the misguided kind, not the insane kind. Eventually she realizes: "If there's nothing wrong with me, then there has to be something wrong with the universe.]]
* In ''{{LOST}}'', the island usually works so that noone gets in and noone gets out. [[spoiler: This is because Jacob said so. In the final episode, Hugo takes over as the guardian of the island and changes the rules.]]

* The coffin in {{Buried}}

The character(s) live in a small secluded world. It could be a PocketDimension, a island without communication with the outside world, a spaceship lost on the void, a special kind of prison, or something else that has the same effect. If there is any contact at all with an outside world, then this contact is very limited.

When there doesn't seem to ''be'' any world outside the SmallSecludedWorld, then this trope overlaps with WorldLimitedToThePlot. If there ''is'' an outside world, characters who grew up secluded from it are very likely to be naive to it. They might [[KingOfPointland mistakenly believe themselves to understand their world]]. Alternatively, the characters are unaware that their house or city or whatever is secluded from the surrounding world.

* In ''Film/TheOthers'', the main character keeps her children locked in the house. And they don't grow up either, being her little children forever...

* These days, we have space stations instead. :-)