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* Several at [[Marvel Comics]].
** A Counter-Earth created by the Earth scientist, The High Evolutionary used to be there. He wanted it to be ''better'' than the real Earth, but one of his earlier creations, the Man-Beast, corrupted it. The evolutionary almost destroyed it in his disappointment, but the space hero [[Adam Warlock]] asked for the chance to save it, and was granted it. (If that sounds like a [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Christ analogy]], it's because it ''was''). The planet was eventually removed from the Solar system by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] and placed in a museum.
*** The ''[[Spider -Man Unlimited]]'' TV series and the associated comic book took place on that one. The comic was not in-continuity with the rest of Marvel's comics however.
** One was briefly created in ''[[Infinity Crusade]]'': Paradise Omega, created by The Goddess (Adam Warlock's [[Light Is Not Good|"good" side]].)
** The Earth of ''[[The New Universe]]'' was placed here.
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* ''Doppelgänger'' (also known as ''Journey to the Far Side of the Sun'' in America): Astronauts discover such a world that not only looks like Earth, but ''everything that happens on Earth also happens there'', like mirror images. This includes the astronauts' landing!
** If ''everything'' that happens there is a mirror image, this doesn't explain why its orbital trajectory isn't!
* The ''[[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]]'' movie ''[[Stranded in Space]]'' a.k.a. ''The Stranger'' (the failed pilot for a TV series based on ''Doppelgänger'') featured this premise; an astronaut crash-lands on the counter-earth, the government of which tries to study him and prevent him from learning this. After figuring out that he's not on the planet Earth he left (despite the similarity of technology, architecture, human physiology and the general aesthetic of the world at large) he spends the rest of the film trying to sneak onto a space shuttle so he can commandeer it and return home. He doesn't make it and the premise of the show would have been his adventures [[Walking the Earth|Walking the Counter-Earth]] as he tried to get home.
* ''[[Gamera]] Versus Guiron'' had this as a plot device. The inhabitants were not friendly. Cue Gamera destroying stuff.
* In ''[[Warning From Space]]'' (a.k.a. ''Mysterious Satellite''), "Planet 'R'" is on a collision course with Earth. One-eyed, starfish-shaped aliens from the counter-Earth Paira take on human forms to warn the earth about the impending disaster.
* ''[[Another Earth (Film)|Another Earth]]''
* In ''[[Melancholia]]'', the counter-earth planet Melancholia in on collision course with Earth, but is first believed to be simply passing by.
 
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* In ''[[The Illuminatus Trilogy]]'', the leaders of the Illuminati may have originated on a counter-Earth named Vulcan and come to Earth on flying saucers from Mars via Saturn.
* The ''X12'' series of books by Olof Möller prominently features a counter-Earth called Anti-Tellus.
* Zillikian is a counter-Earth featured in the ''Bunduki'' series by [[JTJ. T. Edson]].
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[Space: 1999]]'' used a variation on this one. The planets Beta and Delta were technically at war, but being on opposite sides of their sun they couldn't actually shoot at each other. Until the itinerant moon wandered along, that is, and the Betans and Deltans started using it, much to the annoyance of the Moonbase Alpha crew, as a missile base from which to attack each other. Which doesn't explain how or why the two planets were at war in the first place....
** Or if they'd ever heard of non-line-of-sight weapons, or orbital mechanics for that matter... (answer: [[Did Not Do the Research|probably not]]).
* The Cybermen in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' came from Mondas, a double of Earth. It was not on the other side of the sun in the episode. It originally was in the same vicinity as Earth, until ''something'' happened, shoving Mondas out of its gravitational pull and hurtling it out towards the outskirts of the solar system (what today we would call the Kuiper Belt). The people there cyberized themselves to survive, and then tried to move their planet back into place in the solar system, which is where we see them in their first appearance.
* In a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, a character mentions, apropos of nothing, his firm belief in the Counter-Earth.
** The character was Father Guido Sarducci, and he described the planet as nearly entirely Earth-like down to the civilizations; amongst the few differences described was the practice of eating corn on the cob vertically, instead of horizontally.
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== [[Radio]] ==
* On ''[[The Adventures of Superman (Radioradio)|The Adventures of Superman]]'' radio series, the planet Krypton is said to be "situated on the other side of the Sun" from the Earth in the first episode.
* The ''[[Two Thousand Plus|2000 Plus]]'' episode “Worlds Apart” involves a planet “exactly opposite the Earth, on the other side of the sun” (but, inexplicably, slightly closer) named Vesta.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Ascension]]'': a planetoid called Autochthonia exists in the Counter-earth position in the game's cosmology. This is the location of The Computer which is central to Iteration X, the cybernetic convention of mages.
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== Webcomics ==
* It is suggested in ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' that the planet which the story takes place on was in the same orbit as a different planet on the other side of the sun, where giant lizards were<ref> to be precise, were until Black Mage rolled a Nat 1 on his hit roll with a Hadoken</ref> the most prominent life-form. Evidently, it is Earth in the Mesozoic Era. [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/06/17/episode-430-very-long-range/ Here is the comic in question.]
* ''[[Fansadox]]'' issue [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orc]] [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Counterpart Earth]], a parallel universe that can be entered into through either science, magic or a combination of the two.
* ''[[Tom the Dancing Bug]]'' has a Counter-Earth that is "not quite the opposite of our own...but somewhat dissimilar in certain ways!"
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Dinosaucers (Animation)|Dinosaucers]]'', the title characters and their enemies the Tyrannos came from a counter-Earth called Reptilon.
* In ''[[Sport Billy]]'', the eponymous hero is from the counter-Earth Olympus, populated by athletic god-like beings.
 
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