History Main / WorldOfChaos

** This is what Equestria becomes under Discord's influence, he being the embodiment of strife and disharmony. Features include cotton candy clouds that rain chocolate, corn popping while still on the plant, and the rabbits that feed on the giant apples fed by the rain growing long deer legs. And that's just after the ''opening credits''. Soon enough he's got day and night switching every few minutes, chunks of land flying around upside-down, the sky turning green and then purple, flying earth ponies, giant houses of cards, roads turning into soap... [[spoiler: in the Season 5 finale, in one of the BadFuture alternate timelines, Discord has Equestria still under his rule, and has made Princess Celestia and Princess Luna into his personal clowns to torture for eternity in payback for their original defeat and imprisonment of him centuries prior]].

** For that matter, this is what being in the Warp is like. Except it's [[GeniusLoci sentient]]. And it [[EverythingTryingToKillYou wants you dead.]] [[FateWorseThanDeath Or worse]].

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* The final world of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' follows this trope. The world is made of bits and pieces of destroyed worlds mixed in with lots of darkness to hold things together.

* Many ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' animations take place in a WorldOfChaos.

* Parodies on the ''WebAnimation/NightmareCity'' flash movies made by a guy called Nch from Website/FourChan transform the setting from a furry sci-fi one into a WorldOfChaos composed of various {{Imageboard}} [[MemeticMutation memes]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4WzQ7KHak Links for those of you who haven't seen 4Chan City.]] Also note that Nightmare City was itself based on [[MemeticMutation characters]] from the japanese board 2ch.

* Dreams. You could be in the strangest, oddest, most bizarre circumstances of your entire life, and yet you just accept it all as completely normal. This can be played around with in [[DreamWeaver lucid dreaming]], where you're aware that you're in a dream, and [[RealityWarper shape it to your will]]. It's still a WorldOfChaos, but now you're in control.

* ''Videogame/FallenLondon'' plays this one for nightmares with the Iron Republic, Hell's embassy on the Neath. The only law here is that there are no laws, no tyrants. This includes the laws of chance and physics, and the tyrannies of nature and logic. The lunatics who actually enjoy the place can change what little order is there by protesting it. ''No one'' enters and leaves this place unscathed, but that doesn't stop people from coming and going anyways. Your possible stint in this literally hellish place is one of the scarier parts of the whole game.

* Daemon Worlds in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are literally worlds of Chaos, where the laws of nature do not apply and everything is governed by the will of the Chaos Gods and their daemons, which is VERY bad because the moods and desires of Daemons change more often than you would think possible.

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* ''Literature/{{Paprika}}''.

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* The realm of Dream in Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Comicbook/TheSandman'', being the world where dreams happen. His sister Delirium's realm, even more so.
** To elaborate, The Dreaming is where your mind goes every night when you fall asleep. It has a sort of logic of its own, but the laws of physics are more like guidelines. Delirium's realm is where your mind goes when you're ''crazy'', and what little is seen of it is pure stream-of-consciousness chaos.

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* ''Monkeybone''

** Natural law in the Courts is such that this could easily be implemented; it isn't - in fact, ongoing efforts are made to keep things sorted out - because people ''live there''. (Also why the Courts and Amber are sited some distance away from what they represent.) The Pit the Courts hover over, being a well of continual creation and its antithesis, comes closer to the trope. That said, most places too close to the Courts are too influenced by entropy to get a really satisfying level and form of continual change - it's real estate about a third of the way out towards Amber the trope seems to apply best to.

* Arcadia from ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' is so defined by chaos that [[TheFairFolk the True Fae]] stake their existence on ''constant conflict'' with one another for more glories and titles; if they don't, they fade away into the background and are eventually undone.
** The game book describes it something like this (paraphrasing): "Arcadia is a place where your wishes come true. In other words, it greatly resembles Hell."
*** The ''actual'' Hell may or may not qualify. Being composed of all the collected vice and depravity in the history of the world, it's described as being so hideous that [[BrownNote looking at it causes insanity,]] and even then human minds cannot fully grasp it, [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm instead turning the images into something they can understand]]. It's basically a FireAndBrimstoneHell UpToEleven.

* Parodies on the ''WebAnimation/NightmareCity'' flash movies made by a guy called Nch from Website/FourChan transform the setting from a furry sci-fi one into a WorldOfChaos composed of various {{Imageboard}} [[MemeticMutation memes]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4WzQ7KHak Links for those of you who haven't seen 4Chan City.]] Also note that Nightmare City was itself based on [[MemeticMutation characters]] from the japanese board 2ch.
* The three adventures at ''Website/{{Addventure}}'' degenerate into madness very quickly, considering that they're {{Round Robin}}s contributed to by thousands of various people.
* The "Sweet Cuppin' Cakes" ShowWithinAShow of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', first introduced in [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail72.html crazy cartoon]] as Strong Bad responding to a request to make a supreme example of DerangedAnimation, is rather surreal, even compared to the weird setting of the main ''Homestar Runner'' universe.

** In season 5 we see Discord's own PocketDimension where he's made his home, and no surprise, it's even more extreme. The AlienSky is a mix of constantly shifting blue and purple, the [[WorldInTheSky few pieces of land are floating in chunks]] and come in colors and patters than soil and grass have no business coming in, the gravity is largely optional and inconsistent, and some very weird fauna is seen flying around or lurking on the floating islands.

*** Discord's house reappears in Season 7, when he invites Fluttershy over for tea. Its weirdness has visibly gown, with the house now including features like an upside-down volcano on the ceiling and swirling purple portal to... somewhere in the center of the floor. In his rush to make everything more normal for her, he organizes the realm of chaos, and this starts to make him [[FadingAway disappear]], because a being and realm of chaos cannot survive with too much harmony. It takes Fluttershy re-disorganizing everything again to save him from vanishing out of existence.

* Any story and/or larger-scale art created by small children, as they understand some things (things fall, the sky is up, people meet etc.) but not larger-scale connections. If they attempt to create something big, they will inadvertently just throw in elements they know randomly... even if the world, stories, animals etc. don't work that way. This explains for example ''Webcomic/AxeCop''.

* Several cartoons by AleksandrTatarskiy, including

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' crosses over into this often, leaving the established D&D-inspired setting for places like Lumpy Space and the Crystal Dimension, often with little warning.

** This is what Equestria becomes under Discord's influence, he being the embodiment of strife and disharmony. Features include cotton candy clouds that rain chocolate, fresh corn being popped, and the animals that feed on the giant apples fed by the rain growing long deer legs. And that's just after the ''opening credits''. Soon enough he's got day and night switching every few minutes, chunks of land flying around upside-down, flying earth ponies, giant houses of cards, roads turning into soap... [[spoiler: In the Season 5 finale, in one of the BadFuture alternate timelines, Discord has Equestria back under his rule, and has made Princess Celestia and Princess Luna into his personal clowns to torture for eternity in payback for their original defeat and imprisonment of him centuries prior.]]
** In season 5 we see Discord's own PocketDimension where he's made his home, and no surprise, it's even more extreme. The AlienSky is a mix of constantly shifting blue and purple, the [[WorldInTheSky few pieces of lands are floating]], the gravity is largely optional and inconsistent, and some very weird fauna is seen flying around. Discord's house is rather tame in comparison, though it still has some weirdness, like furniture on the ceiling or upside-down stairs that lead to nowhere. It's also in the little details, like the window cleaner leaving wetness behind rather than removing it, or bunny-shaped dust bunnies sitting under the couch. When Discord washes dishes, he does it in reverse -- the dishes go into the sink clean and come out dirty.
*** We see more of it in Season 7, when he invites Fluttershy over for tea. In his rush to make everything more normal for her, he organizes a realm of chaos, and this starts to make him disappear, because a being and realm of chaos cannot survive with too much harmony. It takes Fluttershy re-disorganizing everything again to save him from vanishing out of existence.

* While the world of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' is more of a WorldOfWeirdness, The Radical Lands is a world that seems to abide primarily by a combination of RuleOfCool and TotallyRadical. As it turns out, [[spoiler:the radicalness of the Radical Lands is so powerful that some of it's energy bled into another universe. Specifically, the world of Dr. [=McNinja=], which lies right between the Radical Lands and our universe, thus explaining the mix of mundane and weirdness of the world.]]

* Creator/HieronymusBosch, dadaists, futurists, surrealists and many more [[MadArtist eccentric men of art]] loved this trope.

* Speaking of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', there also was an [[VideoGame/AliceInWonderland eponymous]] UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}} game which featured a world which was a mix of all the nonsense from both original books plus some extra nonsense added, like ''a house inside a chess board inside a house inside a bath machine inside a house inside another house which is located underground''. You may read a LetsPlay of this game [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Alice here]].

* In an old {{Macintosh}} children's game called ''VideoGame/TheManhole'', you could climb a beanstalk growing out of the titular manhole: at the very top, you find a forest at night, in the middle of which is a tower that's actually a chess piece sitting in the corner of a vast network of underground canals--which you only realise when you reach the top of the tower. With the aid of a gondola-rowing elephant, you can use the canals to pay a visit to a walrus captain who operates an elevator that somehow arrives in a sunken ship, or you can carry on rowing and find yourself in the teacup of a talking rabbit who lives inside a fire hydrant just across from the Manhole.

** Additionally, the [[spoiler: final boss is actually ''called'' "World of Chaos," [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope ButThisIsNotThatTrope]].]]

* Hyrule is turned into this after Cia opens the Gate of Souls in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors''. ''Legends'' takes it UpToEleven with Foresaken Fortress, which is several locations from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaWindWaker'' that were nowhere near each other unceremoniously mashed together, with the ocean in the background abruptly cutting off in random places.

** In season 5 we see Discord's own PocketDimension where he's made his home, and no surprise, it's even more extreme. The AlienSky is a mix of constantly shifting blue and purple, the [[WorldInTheSky few pieces of lands are floating]], the gravity is largely optional and insentient, and some very weird fauna is seen flying around. Discord's house is rather tame in comparison, though it still has some weirdness, like furniture on the ceiling or upside-down stairs that lead to nowhere. It's also in the little details, like the window cleaner leaving wetness behind rather than removing it, or bunny-shaped dust bunnies sitting under the couch. When Discord washes dishes, he does it in reverse -- the dishes go into the sink clean and come out dirty.

** This is what Equestria becomes under Discord's influence, he being the embodiment of strife and disharmony. Features include cotton candy clouds that rain chocolate, fresh corn being popped, and the animals that feed on the giant apples fed by the rain growing long deer legs. And that's just after the ''opening credits''. Soon enough he's got day and night switching every few minutes, chunks of land flying around upside-down, flying earth ponies, giant houses of cards, roads turning into soap...
** In season 5 we see Discord's own PocketDimension where he set his home, and no surprise, it's even worse. The AlienSky is a mix of blue and purple constantly shifting, the [[WorldInTheSky few pieces of lands are floating]], the gravity is nonsensical, and some very weird fauna are seen flying around. Discord's house is rather tame in comparison, though it still has some weirdness, like furniture on the ceiling or upside-down stairs. It's also in the little details, like the window cleaner leaving wetness behind rather than removing it, or bunny-shaped dust bunnies sitting under the couch. When Discord washes dishes, he does it in reverse -- the dishes go into the sink clean and come out dirty.
*** [[spoiler: In the Season 5 finale, in one of the BadFuture alternate timelines, Discord has Equestria back under his old rule, and has made Princess Celestia and Princess Luna into his personal clowns to torture for eternity in friendly payback for their original defeat and imprisonment of him centuries prior.]]

** Additionally, the [[spoiler: final boss is actually ''called'' "World of Chaos," ButThisIsNotThatTrope.]]

** Additionally, the [[spoiler: final boss is actually ''called'' "World of Chaos."]]

* Possibly the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series, as a spinoff of ''SuperMarioBros'' For example, the Big Board level, where every single thing that happens relies on the dice blocks found in the level, and getting certain numbers can result in anything from being struck by lightning to enemies appearing to being set on fire.

* Parodies on the ''WebAnimation/NightmareCity'' flash movies made by a guy called Nch from Website/FourChan transform the setting from a furry sci-fi one into a WorldOfChaos composed of various Website/{{Imageboard}} [[MemeticMutation memes]].

* Parodies on the ''WebAnimation/NightmareCity'' flash movies made by a guy called Nch from ''a certain {{Imageboard}}'' transform the setting from a furry sci-fi one into a WorldOfChaos composed of various {{Imageboard}} [[MemeticMutation memes]].

* While still ahering to the rules of physics, NASA and other agencies have found planets that are as close to this trope in RealLife as possible. One of them for example is so hot that its atmosphere contains liquid silicates and also has winds raging at over 500 kilometers per hour. In other words, on that planet it rains molten glass ''sideways''.