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These often connect to a AlternateUniverse, InnBetweenTheWorlds, or the VoidBetweenTheWorlds. May also be a PlaceOfPower because of supernatural forces being more concentrated there. Compare and contrast PortalDoor and PortalPool, when the threshold between worlds is much more discrete. If the dimensional barrier is completely breached in a area, then see WhenDimensionsCollide.
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These often connect to a AlternateUniverse, InnBetweenTheWorlds, or the VoidBetweenTheWorlds. May also be a PlaceOfPower because of supernatural forces being more concentrated there. Compare and contrast PortalDoor and PortalPool, when the threshold between worlds is much more discrete. If the dimensional barrier is completely breached in a an area, then see WhenDimensionsCollide.
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** The vicinity of a Charter Stone monolith is usually an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion as it reinforces the BackgroundMagicField and its natural laws. However, if the Stone is broken with a ritual HumanSacrifice, it becomes much easier to reach Death there.
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** The vicinity of When a Charter Stone monolith is usually an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion as it reinforces the BackgroundMagicField and its natural laws. However, if the Stone is broken with a ritual HumanSacrifice, it becomes much easier especially easy to reach Death there.nearby. Charter stones are normally an InvertedTrope as they reinforce the BackgroundMagicField and its natural laws, holding Death at bay.
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** The vicinity of a Charter Stone monolith is usually an {{inversion|Trope}} as it reinforces the BackgroundMagicField and its natural laws. However, if the Stone is broken with a ritual HumanSacrifice, it becomes much easier to reach Death there.
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** The vicinity of a Charter Stone monolith is usually an {{inversion|Trope}} {{inver|tedTrope}}sion as it reinforces the BackgroundMagicField and its natural laws. However, if the Stone is broken with a ritual HumanSacrifice, it becomes much easier to reach Death there.
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* ''Literature/OldKingdom'':
** It's easiest to cross between Life and [[AfterlifeAntechamber the river of Death]] in places that are marked by death, either through someone [[LiminalTime dying recently]] or through [[EvilTaintedThePlace large-scale bloodshed]].
** The vicinity of a Charter Stone monolith is usually an {{inversion|Trope}} as it reinforces the BackgroundMagicField and its natural laws. However, if the Stone is broken with a ritual HumanSacrifice, it becomes much easier to reach Death there.
** It's easiest to cross between Life and [[AfterlifeAntechamber the river of Death]] in places that are marked by death, either through someone [[LiminalTime dying recently]] or through [[EvilTaintedThePlace large-scale bloodshed]].
** The vicinity of a Charter Stone monolith is usually an {{inversion|Trope}} as it reinforces the BackgroundMagicField and its natural laws. However, if the Stone is broken with a ritual HumanSacrifice, it becomes much easier to reach Death there.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', Verges are sites where the barrier between the physical world and [[SpiritWorld Shadow Realm]] has been worn away completely. Some only open when a particular condition is met; others allow anyone to wander between worlds, usually with very bad results.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', Verges are sites where the barrier between the physical world and the [[SpiritWorld Shadow Realm]] has been worn away completely. Some only open when a particular condition is met; others allow anyone to wander between worlds, usually with very bad results.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' the Jump Drives of younger races tend to create such places. If the barrier actually rips,[[spoiler: the Unbidden can enter and turn liveforms into energy]].
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' the Jump Drives of younger races tend to create such places. If the barrier actually rips,[[spoiler: the Unbidden can enter and turn liveforms lifeforms into energy]].
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* "Thinnies" show up throughout the works of Creator/StephenKing. In his Franchise/TheDarkTower [[{{Doorstopper}} Saga]], they're explained to be a symptom of the ongoing collapse of the multiverse. Also can be seen in short stories such as "Crouch End" in ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes''.
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* "Thinnies" show up throughout the works of Creator/StephenKing. In his Franchise/TheDarkTower [[{{Doorstopper}} Saga]], they're explained to be a symptom of the ongoing collapse of the multiverse. They give off an unsettling keening noise, compared vividly to the sound of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_saw musical saw]]. Also can be seen in short stories such as "Crouch End" in ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes''.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}:''
** The Chaos Wastes at the planet's poles were created when an ancient PortalNetwork built by the setting's {{Precursors}} broke, allowing WildMagic from the Realm of Chaos to bleed into the world. Everywhere else, the magic "merely" forms a dangerous BackgroundMagicField, but the landscape around the ruined portals has become a hellscape where [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons]] walk among men and the laws of reality no longer fully apply.
** The Chaos Wastes at the planet's poles were created when an ancient PortalNetwork built by the setting's {{Precursors}} broke, allowing WildMagic from the Realm of Chaos to bleed into the world. Everywhere else, the magic "merely" forms a dangerous BackgroundMagicField, but the landscape around the ruined portals has become a hellscape where [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons]] walk among men and the laws of reality no longer fully apply.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' the Jump Drives of younger races tend to create such places. If the barrier actually rips, the Unbidden can enter and turn liveforms into energy.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' the Jump Drives of younger races tend to create such places. If the barrier actually rips, rips,[[spoiler: the Unbidden can enter and turn liveforms into energy.energy]].
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* ''Literature/StarTrekDepartmentOfTemporalInvestigations:'' Anywhere suffering from interphase. Firing phasers or torpedoes in these places is a bad idea, as it makes things worse. At one point in the second novel, the ''Enterprise'' tries warning an Andorian-Klingon ship from another universe about this, but they don't care and keep blasting.
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* In ''Series/StrangerThings,'' when [[spoiler:Eleven opens a portal into the [[DarkWorld Upside Down]],]] several of these are created elsewhere, such as in the Byers' house.
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** When [[spoiler:Eleven opens a portal into the [[DarkWorld Upside Down]],]] several of these are created elsewhere, such as in the Byers'house.house.
** In Season 3, it is revealed that only Hawkins has a barrier weak enough to easily open without supernatural aid.
** When [[spoiler:Eleven opens a portal into the [[DarkWorld Upside Down]],]] several of these are created elsewhere, such as in the Byers'
** In Season 3, it is revealed that only Hawkins has a barrier weak enough to easily open without supernatural aid.
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->''There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs for ever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real. And when once people have found one of the little weak spots in that curtain which are marked by magic rings, and amulets, and the like, almost anything may happen.''
-->'''Creator/ENesbit''', "The Enchanted Castle".
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', "soft places" are spots where reality is weak leading to easier inter-dimensional travel, and time working oddly. There is one in the Desert of Lop in China (a real place).
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* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', "soft places" are spots where reality is weak weak, leading to easier inter-dimensional travel, travel and time working oddly. There is one in the Desert of Lop in China (a real place).
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* Creator/RalphBakshi's MediumBlending feature ''Film/CoolWorld'' has Doctor Whiskers create the Spike, which tears a hole in reality that allows Doctor Whiskers to venture into the "noid" world (ours) and draws Frank Harris into the cartoony Cool World (theirs). TheVillain is TheVamp Holli Would, who wants to venture into the "noid" world herself, in order to experience a real orgasm, among other things. She succeeds in capturing the Spike, which causes the ToonPhysics of Cool World to flood into the Noid World and ''vice versa''.
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* Creator/RalphBakshi's MediumBlending feature ''Film/CoolWorld'' has Doctor Whiskers create the Spike, which tears a hole in reality that allows Doctor Whiskers to venture into the "noid" world (ours) and draws Frank Harris into the cartoony Cool World (theirs). TheVillain The villain is TheVamp Holli Would, who wants to venture into the "noid" world herself, in order to experience a real orgasm, among other things. She succeeds in capturing the Spike, which causes the ToonPhysics of Cool World to flood into the Noid World and ''vice versa''.
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the Moperville area is one of the spots where magic [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2016-03-18 flows]] from one side of the world to the other.
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the Moperville area is one of the spots where magic [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2016-03-18 flows]] from one side of the world to the other.
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* In a crossover story arc of Spider-Gwen and Miles Morales Spider-Man, it's established that thin barriers pepper the Marvel Universe and they can be crossed entirely by accident under specific circumstances. In one of the universe's greatest ironies, one thin spot was at the base of the [[Comic book/TheNightGwenStacyDied George Washington Bridge]], just above the water. If Peter hadn't tried to rescue Gwen Stacy, she would have traveled to a parallel universe safely and survived the fall. Spider-Gwen, a Gwen Stacy that's constantly confronted by the fact that she died in that reality, has to use it to travel back to her home reality.
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* In a crossover story arc of Spider-Gwen and Miles Morales Spider-Man, it's established that thin barriers pepper the Marvel Universe and they can be crossed entirely by accident under specific circumstances. In one of the universe's greatest ironies, one thin spot was at the base of the [[Comic book/TheNightGwenStacyDied [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied George Washington Bridge]], just above the water. If Peter hadn't tried to rescue Gwen Stacy, she would have traveled to a parallel universe safely and survived the fall. Spider-Gwen, a Gwen Stacy that's constantly confronted by the fact that she died in that reality, has to use it to travel back to her home reality.
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* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' has soft spots, areas where the constants of the universe (the speed of light, the mass of a proton, etc.) have begun to decay. These areas are where travel between the Prime and AlternateUniverse are easiest; on the other side, the soft spots are far more unstable and have a tendency to collapse into destructive vortexes, which can only be sealed using amber. [[spoiler: All of these were the product of Walter traveling between worlds back in 1985, to bring a young alternate Peter over to cure his illness.]]
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* In a crossover story arc of Spider-Gwen and Miles Morales Spider-Man, it's established that thin barriers pepper the Marvel Universe and they can be crossed entirely by accident under specific circumstances. In one of the universe's greatest ironies, one thin spot was at the base of the [[Comic book/TheNightGwenStacyDied George Washington Bridge]], just above the water. If Peter hadn't tried to rescue Gwen Stacy, she would have traveled to a parallel universe safely and survived the fall. Spider-Gwen, a Gwen Stacy that's constantly confronted by the fact that she died in that reality, has to use it to travel back to her home reality.
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* ''FanFic/AChanceMeetingOfTwoMoons'': The Door to the Realms In Between, which draconequui can open to allow them to visit alternate realms, including the dream world. [[spoiler:''A Chance Meeting of Two Moons'' marks its first appearance in Evilhumour's works; it's [[ContinuityNod later mentioned]] in ''[[FanFic/EscapeFromTheMoon The Mare From the Moon]]'' as a sign that more worlds than these are connected.]]
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* ''FanFic/AChanceMeetingOfTwoMoons'': ''Fanfic/AChanceMeetingOfTwoMoons'': The Door to the Realms In Between, which draconequui can open to allow them to visit alternate realms, including the dream world. [[spoiler:''A Chance Meeting of Two Moons'' marks its first appearance in Evilhumour's works; it's [[ContinuityNod later mentioned]] in ''[[FanFic/EscapeFromTheMoon The Mare From the Moon]]'' as a sign that more worlds than these are connected.]]
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* In the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' series, the Road of Reconsideration and Muenzuka are places where the Great Hakurei Barrier between Gensokyo and the Outside World is particularly weak, and youkai take advantage of this in order to prey on the hapless Outside World humans who get brought to Gensokyo by barrier fluctuations.
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* In the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' series, the Road of Reconsideration and Muenzuka are places where the Great Hakurei Barrier between Gensokyo and the Outside World is particularly weak, and youkai take advantage of this in order to prey on the hapless Outside World humans who get brought to Gensokyo by barrier fluctuations.
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* ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' has the Digital Shifts, {{Eldritch Locations}}s all over Tokyo where [[EldritchAbomination Eaters]] have punched through from {{Cyberspace}} into the real world, corrupting the places in question and blending them with cyberspace itself. [[spoiler:This is because rather than being TheMetaverse, EDEN was created in cyberspace and cyberspace itself is AnotherDimension in between Earth and the Digital World. EDEN's creation further weakened the dimensional barriers, allowing the Eaters to enter and start corrupting the Digital World long before they ever got to the human world.]]
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* ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' has the Digital Shifts, {{Eldritch Locations}}s Location}}s all over Tokyo where [[EldritchAbomination Eaters]] have punched through from {{Cyberspace}} into the real world, corrupting the places in question and blending them with cyberspace itself. [[spoiler:This is because rather than being TheMetaverse, EDEN was created in cyberspace and cyberspace itself is AnotherDimension in between Earth and the Digital World. EDEN's creation further weakened the dimensional barriers, allowing the Eaters to enter and start corrupting the Digital World long before they ever got to the human world.]]
