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The laws of physics may not apply in this space, and characters might have powers they wouldn't normally possess.
Hurling a bad guy into an alternate dimension is a great way to provide a bloodless "death" for a [[Big Bad]], or just set up his return because you never know when he might pop back out of that alternate dimension to ruin your day. If animated shows for young kids ever require a villain to be [[Killed Off for Real]], they'll usually throw him in a
The name comes from an alternate dimension in [[The DCU]], where Krypton sent its condemned criminals; they didn't die, but they were almost completely unable to influence the world outside.
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* The Kekkai Fields in ''[[X 1999]]''. An interesting thing about this example is that if a "good" character wins a battle in a Kekkai, all the destruction is undone...but if the "evil" character wins, the destruction becomes reality.
** Wasn't it if the field's ''creator'' (who tended to be the good guy anyway)was killed the damage became real?
* Similarly, the Barriers in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', which works by displacing magic users into a contained Phantom Zone, though damages to the environment are still retained and need to be fixed by [[The Federation]] afterwards. Useful in the first two seasons where the setting was the non-magical earth, so only the magical heroes would be trapped with the current threat. Nigh useless in the third season and beyond, where the setting is Mid-Childa [[Everyone Is a Super|where everyone is a magic-user]], including the [[Innocent Bystander
* Timestop Barriers (Fuzetsu) from ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]''.
* Minor example in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'': Rika's Renamon had the ability to talk to her in a pocket dimension where no time passed in the outside world. They could even enter it in a crowd of people, and when they got out again, nobody noticed.
* ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'''s Dividing Driver created a pocket dimension where the [[Humongous Mecha]] could fight the [[Monster of the Week]] without the property damage usually associated.
* Aversion: The dream world of ''[[Yumeria]]'' looks like a
* Closed Space in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', where giant ethereal beings known as Celestials rampage about destroying everything. No damage is reflected in the real world, but the Celestials still need to be destroyed in order to destroy the Closed Space and prevent [[The End of the World as We Know It]].
* In one episode of the OVER arc in ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'', Bo-bobo, Don Patchi, and Tokoro Tennosuke [[Biological Mashup|combine]] into "Bobopatchnosuke" to defeat a trio of oddball ninjas. He does so by pulling them into an alternate dimension called "Majide Time" ("Maji de?" roughly translates as "seriously?" in Japanese), where he performs attacks that are even more bizarre than normal, growing more powerful as his thoroughly confused opponents repeatedly shout "Maji de?!"
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== Literature ==
* The Dreamlands in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s stories are a subversion of
* The Twilight in ''[[Night Watch]]''.
* The [[Never Never]] in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''
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* The ''Distortion World'' in ''[[Pokémon]]''. You can ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|fight]]'' a giant, ultra powerful, legendary Pokemon, [[Olympus Mons|capture]] it, and make it [[Kid With the Remote Control|fight]]. Nothing else really, except run around.
** Subverted in the anime equivalent,the ''Reverse World''. Whatever you destroy in this world, affects the "real world" [[Endofthe World As We Know It|greatly]].
* The Bydo home dimension in [[R-Type]] is a
* The Midnight Channel in [[Persona 4]] is a spooky, fog-filled dimension that exists inside televisions. [[Persona 3]] has a Phantom ''Time'' in the form of the Dark Hour, 60 extra minutes between one day and the next that most people can't perceive.
* Purgatorio in ''[[Bayonetta]]'' has some elements of this. Anyone in it is [[Invisible to Normals]], but it ''does'' allow people in it (such as the title character) to interact with the real world to some degree. In fact, it's the only place where the demons of Inferno and the angels of Paradiso can interact with the mortal world.
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