Happy Place: Difference between revisions

Some characters are lucky and have their trip to the '''Happy Place''' happen outside of a show's real time, making their time and exposition there happen "instantly". A [[Cloudcuckoolander]] is seldom so lucky. They may enter a fugue state or literally go [[Convenient Coma|catatonic]] while visiting their '''Happy Place''', though this may sometimes be for the best if it's induced by emotional or physical trauma. Usually this depends on the nature of the '''Happy Place'''. Then again, the reason the [[Cloudcuckoolander]] is so strange might be because they live ''there'' and visit real life.

 

 

Kinds of '''Happy Place''':

** {{spoiler|Actually, turns out Shiki got hit by a car. No, wait, he DODGED a car and hit his head on the curb...Either way, Aruceid/Len panicked, and sent his mind there to make sure he was okay...but then things get bad.}}

* In ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|Project Origin]]'', one of the recurring visions Becket keeps experiencing from [[The Woobie|Alma]] is of a hilltop amidst tall, waving grass with a single swingset hanging from the tree. The signifigance of this scene doesn't become apparent until the end of the game, when you reach Still Island. {{spoiler|The tree and the swingset ''were'' real, but sandwiched into a muddy corner of the nuclear power plant's sewer system, and the place you ended up visiting is what she kept trying to imagine it as: the only Happy Place she had amidst all the experimentation and misery she experienced as a child.}}

* Subverted. Wonderland used to be this, in ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''.

** Also subverted in the sequel, ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]''. Wonderland [[Yank the Dog's Chain|initially looks like it will be a happy place]] for [[The Woobie|Ali]][[The Ophelia|ce]], and that her [[Bedlam House|therapy]] has paid off, but [[It Got Worse|it gets much worse]] [[Battle in the Center of the Mind|soon]] [[Creepy Doll|after]] [[Eldritch Abomination|she]] [[Body Horror|arri]][[Go Among Mad People|ves]].

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' webcomic ''[[UG Madness]]'', R&D director Mark Rosewater's happy place is inhabitted by talking consumer products, three post-mortem samurai, and a giant red hairball named Thomas.

* A ''[[Megatokyo]]'' guest comic done by the guys at ''[[Mac Hall]]'' showed Piro at a convention attempting to commit seppuku. As they're trying to wrestle the blade out of his hands, someone yells out, "Go to your happy place, Piro! Sad girl in snow!"

* When [[The Woobie|Fumbles]] is tortured in [[Goblins]], he suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]]. However, it's shown that he's actually in his Happy Place, having [[Monty Haul]] adventures as Senor Vorpal Kickass'O.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In one episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', Billy goes to his "happy place" to get away from Grim and Mandy, who are trying to force him to face his fear of clowns. There, he has a conversation with his "inner frat boy", who convinces him to face his fears... by beating the crap out of any clown he sees.

** Also:

{{quote|'''Freakazoid''':NOOO! GET OUTTA HERE WITH THAT WATCH!!! [[It Makes Sense in Context|LAY OFF THE POOR BEAVERS, WILLYA?!!!]] SHEEEEEZ!!! YOU'RE A CREEP!!!! GO AWAY!!!! WE WERE HAVING A GOOD TIME UNTIL YOU SHOWED UP, JEEPERS!!! UNGGGGH! GO HAVE SOME COFFEE WITH CREAM OR SOMETHING, BECAUSE I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING,THIS IS A HAPPY PLACE! }}

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