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{{quote|''"Wa..war....warning. Warning, destination universe imposing critical changes to basic structure of both organic and inorganic systems. Changes occurring primarily in hardware, minor changes detected in data... physical change is resulting in... oh you’ve
|'''[[Portal (series)|GLaDOS]]''', ''[[Better Living Through Science and Ponies]]''}}
The places we live, work and play in have an effect on us. Usually it's subtle, and in fact it's far likelier that we end up changing the environment to suit our own needs. Not in this place, though. Maybe it's deeply infused with magic, or perhaps the universe itself has a different set of natural laws. Either way, the place changes you, and
There are three kinds of '''Fisher Kingdom''', at times overlapping.
# Mental Warping: This place changes you. It may be anything from a [[Sugar Bowl]] to a [[Crapsack World]], but it has the power to re-mold your brain into that of a typical denizen. Any visitors from [[Real Life]] or a neighboring (but different) country will slowly have their personality changed into one of a "normal" person for that world, be they sugary sweet and nice or hard-boiled and jaded. There's a limited [[Truth in Television]] to this part, as living in one place for an extended period does have ''some'' effect in you, but in fiction this goes well beyond the usual spoken accents and behavioral customs.
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* This very wiki has this trope invoked in the [[Self-Demonstrating Article]] for [[Sugar Bowl]].
** [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]].
* Due to its [[Genre Roulette]] nature, the Book in [[The Book of Stories
* If you walk into the valley of ''[[Metamor Keep]]'', if you stay for about a week or so, you'll start [[Baleful Polymorph|changing into an animal]], [[Fountain of Youth|get younger]], or [[Gender Bender|gender-swap]].
* [[Cyanide & Happiness]] Show, Season 1 episode 3, a scientist is thrown back in time and his clothing changes.
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== Real Life ==
* Places with high radioactive contamination exists in the world, with unpleasant mental and physical effect.
* Jerusalem is known to affect susceptible visitors on a regular basis. Details on [[wikipedia:Jerusalem syndrome|the other wiki]]. Also mentions of similar observations in other places, including [[w:Paris syndrome|Paris syndrome]] as a non-religious version.
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