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[[File:AiOWPiA.gif|thumb|350px|link=Deltarune|[[Dark World]], here we come!]]
The '''Realm Exclusive Effect''' is a phenomenon where a character's powers, magic, appearance, and other attributes change when going from one world or another. A common example is an [[Ordinary High School Student|average person]] finds themself in [[Otherworld|another world]] where they may have superpowers or an item that can grant them one. After being sent back to the real world, the person would have no powers. However, the nature of the other world would have an [[Super Empowering|empowering effect]] on people or certain items. Characters can use [[Phantom Zone|Phantom Zones]] in a world where their powers don't work, but this is temporary. This trope involves different worlds that characters can access through teleportation or portals. In the case of being [[Trapped in Another World]], characters may become normal when [[Closed Circle|they find a way back home]]; well, [[I Choose to Stay|if they even want to go home]]. Other attributes can change involving this effect, such as appearance, tangibility, mentality, etc.▼
▲The phenomenon where a character's powers, magic, appearance, and other attributes change when going from one world or another. A common example is an [[Ordinary High School Student|average person]] finds themself in [[Otherworld|another world]] where they may have superpowers or an item that can grant them one. After being sent back to the real world, the person would have no powers. However, the nature of the other world would have an [[Super Empowering|empowering effect]] on people or certain items. Characters can use [[Phantom Zone|Phantom Zones]] in a world where their powers don't work, but this is temporary. This trope involves different worlds that characters can access through teleportation or portals. In the case of being [[Trapped in Another World]], characters may become normal when [[Closed Circle|they find a way back home]]; well, [[I Choose to Stay|if they even want to go home]]. Other attributes can change involving this effect, such as appearance, tangibility, mentality, etc.
The purpose is to create contrast between the two worlds, making a more interesting dynamic for the audience. There are more things to think about when a character's powers can only work in one realm, developing the world.
[[Heavyworlder]] is a subtrope more common in [[Sci-Fi]]. See also [[HAD to Be Sharp]] for adaptations or training forced by harsh environment (natural or unnatural) on its inhabitants.
A staple trope of the [[Trapped in Another World|Portal Fantasy]] sub-genre. Contrast [[Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond]], where an average character's abilities don't change due to the transfer, but are regarded as stronger in the new world nevertheless due to its inferiority compared to the character's native realm.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Yumeria]]'', anyone who enters [[Dream World|Moera]] gains a colorful skin-tight outfit, including powers and weapons. Additionally, the main character can also give others a boost in power and [[Yin-Yang Bomb|combine their attacks]].
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* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' has Espers that cannot access their [[Psychic Powers|powers]] unless in a [[Dark World|Closed Space or a similar dimension]].
* ''[[Corrector Yui]]'' and other Correctors use a ComCon to go into the [[Cyberspace|ComNet]]. As a Corrector in the ComNet, they can use [[Elemental Powers|Element]] [[Multiform Balance|Suits]] that are given by Corrector AIs.
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* ''[[Fairy Tale Battle Royale]]'' has people who take the role of main characters in Fairy Tale settings. Depending on the character, they have the protagonists' powers if they had them in their story.
* In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', the Tamers and their Digimon partners can easily [[Fusion Dance|Biomerge]] in the Digital World to reach their Mega levels. In the real world, they cannot Biomerge due to Tamers not being made of data, so they have to do a workaround to invoke this ability.
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* People known as Travelers, ''[[Dreamland]]'', face their phobia and gain a superpower based on it.
* The original series ''[[Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld]]'' featured Amy Winston, an ordinary teenage girl who travels to the magic-ruled Gemworld and transforms into Princess Amethyst. While on Earth, she's a normal girl without any powers. On Gemworld, she possesses the magical powers of the House of Amethyst.
== [[Film]] ==
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* On Mars (or "Barsoom"),''[[John Carter of Mars]]'' gains superhuman strength and agility because of the planet's lower gravity.
* The colonists of the world Pyrrus in [[Harry Harrison]]'s 1960 SF novel ''[[Deathworld]]'' are [[Heavyworlder]]s because Pyrrus has gravity twice that of Earth, but that's not where it stops. The entire planet is actively hostile to the human colonists — [[Everything Trying to Kill You|''every single life form on it'', down to the plants, is trying to kill them]]. The colonists are trained from the moment they're in diapers to kill or be killed, just to survive. The few that leave Pyrrus are unstoppable juggernauts off-world.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'': Covenant's wedding ring gives him enormous power while he's in The Land. On Earth, it's just a metal ring.
** The Land's {{spoiler|[[Panacea|magic healing mud]] }} counts. It {{spoiler|easily cures Covenant's leprosy, but the disease returns as soon as he gets home}}.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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** '' [[Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad]]'''s Sam can use his [[Transformation Trinket|Samuraizer]] to transform into Servo and enter [[Cyberspace|Syberspace]] whenever [[Monster of the Week|Mega-Viruses]] attack the cyber world.
* In ''[[Zixx]]'', certain people can access another dimension known as the Keep, a pocket dimension made by an ancient race. When any person enters this realm, they become something like a video game character with abilities and tools in this dimension.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* An inverted example from ''[[d20 Modern]]''{{'}}s "Urban Arcana" setting: monsters from ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' fall to Earth as "Shadowkind". Monsters, who are large physical combatants, aren't special on their home world. They, however, pose the greatest danger in the "real" world due to the high density of civilians, weapon restrictions, and the lower power level of heroes (especially heroic magic users). This is especially true of anything with damage reduction that requires magic to bypass it — in ''D&D'' one is expected to have a magic weapon by about level 4 and can find ways to have one temporarily from the first level. Still, in ''Urban Arcana'' any kind of magic weapon is exceptionally rare and likely archaic even if you find one.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* As seen in the video above, ''[[Deltarune]]'''s [[Dark World|Dark Worlds]] can change Lightners' appearance with different clothes and give them magic and equipment. For Darkners, they turn into inanimate objects but can transform back when in another Dark World.
* ''[[Tokyo Xanadu]]'' has the Eclipse, an overlap of reality with the Spirit World where certain people can use armaments called Soul Devices to fight against creatures called [[The Heartless|Greed]].
* Played straight in ''[[Persona 4]]'' (as explained in canon with ''[[Persona 4 Arena]]''), where the characters can summon their Personas while in the TV World. The characters within the setting believe that they can only summon their Persona in that alternate dimension. After encountering the cast of ''[[Persona 3]]'' in the spin-off games, they discover that under heavy duress or using an Evoker they can summon their Personas in the real world too, albeit at a lower power level.
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* In ''[[Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE]]'', there is the Idolasphere where monsters called [[The Heartless|Mirages]] live and feast on people's Performa (creative energy from people). Certain people called Mirage Masters bond with a [[Guardian Entity|Mirage]] by giving their Performa willingly to the monster, granting them powers and appearance similar to Mirages while in the Idolasphere.
* In the ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'' series, a compatible human and [[Energy Beings|EM Wave Being]] can perform an [[Fusion Dance|EM Wave Change]] that allows access to the [[Layered World|Wave World]]. The human can interact with devices, access the powers of the EM Wave Being, and can use Battle Cards as weapons.
* Parodied In ''[[Palworld]]'' with "Reincarnation Guy", who can be found at a [https://mapgenie.io/palworld/maps/palpagos-islands?locationIds=319592 location along a shoreline on the lower right edge of the Palpagos Islands]. A level 50 character dressed like a motorcycle cop, he will tell you how he was [[Truck-kun|hit by a truck]] while on the job and woke up on the island. He'll then note that he's also acquired the power to create slices of pizza from thin air.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''[[Hardcore Leveling Warrior]]'' has the virtual reality game, Lucid Adventure,{{Spoiler|which turns out to be an actual world. It is contained within a sub-space that can connect to players' consciousness through their dreams, which they can play when they fall asleep.}}
* In ''[[the Dreamland Chronicles]]'', Alex, when in Dreamland, has the [[Empathic Weapon|Sword of Kings]] when he falls asleep. He also has [[Powered Armor|magic armor]] and the ability to fly. Later on, his fraternal twin brother, Dan, gains the ability to dream and can [[Imagination-Based Superpower|lucid dream, giving him complete control over his dream form]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Twelve Forever]]'' has three protagonists who can teleport themselves to Endless Island, where each has a unique power. Twelve get [[Super Strength|superhuman strength]], Esther can create constructs from light, and Todd is a [[Shapeshifting|shapeshifter]].
* In ''[[Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero]]'', Penn, Boone, and Sashi take over heroes in another dimension with superpowers or other abilities depending on the overshadowed hero. The villains, Rippen and Larry, much like the heroes may get powers, too.
* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', whenever a person gets Virtualized into [[Cyberspace|Lyoko]]
*From ''[[Chalk Zone]]'', Magic Chalk is seemingly ordinary chalk, that while in the real world
* Played with in ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'':
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* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (animation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'', the magical weapons given to the heroes by Dungeon Master only function in that realm. One episode where they actually make it back to their world, they find this out the hard way when Venger follows them, this condition ''not'' applying to ''his'' magic. They have to retreat back and goad him to follow, lest their world even survive for them to return to.
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