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Either way, you discover the two worlds you've been flitting about in have a strange connection. It doesn't matter what it is, but it let you into the other world, and it can let something else out into yours. Generally it's monsters roaming the streets, but there can be other effects. If the more mystical of the worlds is based in a computer realm, expect [[Everything Is Online|a deadly effect on your hometown hospitals and roads]].
The other world's still in danger, but now so is ''yours'', and the [[Muggles]] certainly can't do anything about it. What do you do? You grab your adventuring party and a couple of friends from your homeworld, and you go out to
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== The characters spend most of their time in one world ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* Roughly half the series of ''[[Digimon]]'' fall under this.
** ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' has the characters trapped in the Digital World in the first episode, return home for the Vamdemon arc, then go back to finish off the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]].
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* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''
* Several of the ''[[
* ''[[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual]]''
* In [[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* '[[Dragon Drive]]' - A video game leads to an virtual world that acts as a stepping stone to an alternate world. With Dragons.
* It turns out that [[Those Who Hunt Elves]] need to get back to their home dimension to prevent it from fatally merging with the one they've found themselves stuck in. So their quest to get sent back becomes all the more important.
=== Films ===
* The second half of ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' has Danny returning to the real world and bringing fictional action movie hero Jack Slater with him. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|Benedict is there as well, and he's got the ticket to travel between movies and the real world to bring through anything he wants.}}
=== Literature ===
* technically, the titular heroine from ''May Bird'' series has to save "only" the ''Ever After'' world, but since all humans (including herself) will inevitably go there after death, this affect everybody on Eart, as well. Not to mention that {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] is actively interfering with Earth, too, and it's only a questiopn of time whenhe wrecks the Earth directly}}
=== Video Games ===
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* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has this happen twice. Once in ''Sonic Rush'' Blaze is trapped on Sonic's world with the Sol Emeralds. If the Sol Emeralds arn't returned, both worlds will be destroyed. Again in ''Sonic Rush Adventure'', except {{spoiler|Sonic and Tails discover they are trapped in Blaze's world. Eggman and Eggman NEGA team up at the end of the game to steal the Jeweled Scepter, which keeps the two worlds separated.}}
* Marche in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' is sure that, when he destroy the world he claims to be a fantasy and restore the "real" world, he claims that the characters from Ivalice without "real world" counter parts will live on in a copy of the Ivalice after he destroys it. No wonder so many people consider him to be a villain.
* ''Outcast'': Opening the portal between the two worlds creates a black hole which will swallow up the Earth... unless you enter the alternate universe to figure out how to stop it. It turns out the alternate universe needs to be saved as well.
=== Live Action TV ===
* In ''[[Star Trek:
* This was spoofed in South Park where characters from the "evil universe" come through (easily identified by their goatees and bad split screen) except the "evil Cartman" was a good guy and not a jerk.
* In Stargate SG-1 they found themselves the central point for dozens of versions of themselves coming through from a seemingly limitless number of alternate universes. The only real differences (as they all had the same people in the same jobs and mostly the same as each other) was a reunion with a duplicate of a character killed off in our universe.
=== Web Original ===
* The heroes of ''[[The Dragon Wars Saga]]'' must save the magical world they're stuck in to save Earth.
=== Western Animation ===
* One episode of ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' brings Mario and Luigi back to Brooklyn, but also Bowser and company as well.
* Similarly, an episode of the ''[[Western Animatio/Dungeons And Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' cartoon had the kids finally get back to their own world, but Venger followed.
=== Anime & Manga ===▼
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* If a ''[[Digimon]]'' series doesn't play the [[Trapped in Another World]] variant of this trope, then they play this variant instead. ''Digimon'' is very big on this trope in general.
** ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' has the characters able to freely jump between the worlds.
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** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars:
* ''[[Maze Megaburst Space]]''
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* ''[[Kyou Kara Maou]]'': {{spoiler|When the "Mirror at the bottom of the ocean" is found to be in our world.}}
* ''[[Paprika]]'' has the protagonists trying to save both the real world and the [[Dream Land]].
* Manga example: ''Planet Ladder'' features a girl who discovers that there are nine dimensional Earths engaged in war and are moving towards collision with each other. She is [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|prophesied]] to be the "Girl of Anansi" who can save only one of these worlds, but journeys among all the worlds to search for a way to save them all.
* Occurs somewhat in ''[[Sonic X]]'' where Sonic's world is rather casually revealed to have originally been part of earth, but one world split into two as the result of some vaugely described phenomenon. Towards the end of the second series, the two worlds are revealed to be merging into each other again, with the catastrophic effect of cancelling out each others timelines and causing time to come to a stand still... The only solution is to send the Sonic characters home. Yeah, okay.
=== Films ===
* Sort of done in ''[[Mirror Mask]]''. By saving the dreamworld, Helena also saves, symbolically, at the very least, her mother's life, and stops "her world" from being shattered. It's not as [[Narm
* In [[Thor]], the eponymous hero saves Asgard (his world) and Juntenheim (the Frost Giants' world) from danger in the climax. One could even argue that he saved Earth as well since Loki was making plans to visit that realm when he was finished subjugating Asgard and blowing up Juntenheim.
=== Literature ===
* ''[[Narnia|The Magician's Nephew]]'', when Diggory lets Jadis loose in London and then in Narnia.
* ''[[The Neverending Story (
* ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', not just worlds that Will and Lyra come from, but [[Philip Pullman]]'s entire multiverse.
* The ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' series; Stile is a native of science-based Photon, but is brought to magical Phaze as part of a [[Gambit Roulette]] to correct an imbalance that would destroy both worlds.
* [[Aaron Allston]]'s ''[[Doc Sidhe]]'' and ''Sidhe-Devil'' both fight foes that could disturb both "the grim world" (ours) and "the fair world" (Faerie).
* In the ''[[Everworld]]'' books, it would be a bad thing if the gods crossed over into the world of our own, or if aggressive human men with guns crossed over into the world of Everworld. Both of these dangers threaten to happen over the course of the stories.
* ''[[Keys to
* Mark Anthony's ''[[The Last Rune]]'' series, which features characters spending time in, and crossing between, Earth and the otherworld of Eldh. These include multiple villains and world-threatening dangers.
* Extremely weird example in [[China Mieville]]'s novel ''[[The City
* [[Coraline (
* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[
* Most of ''[[Young Wizards|So You Want To Be A Wizard]]'' by [[Diane Duane]] is spent in an alternate universe where the [[Big Bad|Lone Power]] has already put out the sun. At the climax, the protagonists make it back into their own universe, but the Lone Power follows them through the worldgate and they have to stop it...
=== Live Action TV ===
* The cornerstone of ''[[Fringe]]'' and its mythology is an [[Alternate Universe]], and the protagonists of the show (from the prime universe) are using [[Mad Science]] in an attempt to
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series, with a plethora of worlds.
** Played with, in this case. The universe/ multiverse of [[Kingdom Hearts]] is literally called The World, which our protagonists do have a place in. Every part of The World is equally threatened during their adventures, at about the same time that the world hopping begins.
** A better example would be the storybook [[Winnie the Pooh]], which magically houses a portal to Pooh-bear's actual dimension, the Hundred-Acre Woods. The Woods are a haven from the Heartless for both the player and for Sora. However, as of [[
* ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' as well as its sequel ''Dreamfall''.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]'' has this with the light and shadow worlds. Most of the time spent in Twilight is actually the normal world just made over to ''look'' like the other one, but... {{spoiler|during the second-to-last dungeon you do set out to save the Twilight Realm.}}
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* ''[[Another
* ''[[Metroid Prime]] 2'': Light and Dark Aether.
** Except Dark Aether doesn't get saved as much as it gets utterly destroyed, ''[[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds|Samus.]]''
* ''Sudeki''. Much like the ''Final Fantasy V'' example, {{spoiler|both worlds get combined and you have to save them.}}
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** Also shows up in ''[[
* This seems the backbone of ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'' (it's even there in the subtitle!), in which all characters fight in sceneries from both Marvel-Earth and Capcom-Earth.
=== Web Original ===
* A key trope in the web fiction serial ''[[Dimension Heroes]]'', in which the Dimensional Guardians must find a way to stop two dimensions from colliding with one another.
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[WITCH (
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* The [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Danny Phantom]]''.
** And the episode "Livin' Large". "Reign Storm" might count as well.
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