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In [[Fan Fiction]] this is known as an Alternate Universe (or AU), where the characters generally remain the same but the setting changes. [[High School AU|High school AUs]] are very popular, probably because many of the writers are themselves in high school.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* ''[[One Piece]]'' uses Elseworld stories featuring the characters in historical Japan as [[Filler]] when the anime threatens to [[Overtook the Manga|get too far ahead of the manga]].
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' spinoff manga ''Strange Tales of the Bakumatsu'' shifts the setting to the end of the shogunate, with [[La Résistance]] hiding their identities as [[The Shinsengumi]] and opposing the Westernization brought on by [[The Empire|Britannia]] - and it still retains the [[Humongous Mecha]].
* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] had the Parallel Works videos, which were Music Videos that mostly took place in alternate continuities, like one where the characters are in Medieval Europe, [[Serious Business|play Pachinko Games with Giant Robots]], a Samurai Epic, A [[Steampunk]] Western [[Mirror Universe]], and a universe bearing suspicious resemblance to [[
* [[Mai-Otome]] to [[
== Comic Books ==
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* Back in the [[Silver Age]], DC published "Impossible Tales" for [[Wonder Woman]], in which she teams up with her [[Spinoff Babies|Spinoff Baby]] selves (the Wonder Girl featured here is her teenage self, not Donna Troy who was introduced later) and Queen Hippolyta.
* Keith Giffen wrote one ''[[The Authority]]'' spin-off story with Midnighter and Apollo as samauri.
* ''[[2000 AD]]'' ran two "Alternity" specials in the 90s featuring reimagined characters such as "[[Judge Dredd (comics)|Dredd]] [[Dixon of Dock Green|of Dock Green]]".
* The ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip for Christmas 2010 was "The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop", a version of ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' (with elements of ''[[The Magician's Nephew]]'') with Amelia and Rory as Lucy and Edmund/Polly and Digory, the Doctor as Professor Kirke/Aslan, the Rani as the White Witch (although her [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] form is a Weeping Angel), Azal the Daemon as Mr Tumnus, and the Talking Animals represented by Judoon, Cheetah People, Nimons, Hath and Silurians. At the end, it turns out to be a tale [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] is spinning to the Inklings, the Doctor and Amy. The Doctor suggests it would work better with a wardrobe.
* ''[[The Beano]] Book 2010'' had a strip called ''William the Cat'', starring a Victorian version of their superhero Billy the Cat. It turns out to be [[All Just a Dream]] of the modern day Billy.
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* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' (and later, ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'') did episodes like this; [[Fan Community Nicknames|Xenites]] refer to Elseworlds as "Uber" stories, especially ones featuring [[Identical Grandson|descendants]] or just spiritual equivalents of characters in the future.
* An episode of ''[[The Prisoner]]'' ("Living In Harmony") has Number Six up as a retired US Marshal in [[The Wild West]], where a crooked judge tried to force him to become sheriff. (Of course, it eventually turned out that {{spoiler|it was [[All Just a Dream]]}}.)
* The "Benny Russell" episodes of ''[[Star Trek:
** The idea is played with that Benny's is the real world and that the [[Star Trek]] universe was [[All Just a Dream]].
* ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' did a two-part episode in which the aliens entered an [[Alternate Universe]] where they lived hugely successful lives in New York City.
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