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{{trope}}
[[File:bending destiny 4603.jpg|link=Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game|frame|A bending road, a tiny raincloud, a city in the middle of space, and a sun and starry night right next to each other. All seems pretty normal to me.]]
{{quote|''"...Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain''
''Where rocking-horse people eat marshmallow pies...''
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Paprika]]''.
* The place things (and people) go when [[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu|Guu]] swallows them certainly seems to qualify.
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== Literature ==
* Several works by [[Lewis Carroll]]:
** ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''
** ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass]]''
** ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]]''
* Nonsense folk songs and rhymes in various cultures (in Russian folklore they're called ''nebylitsy'') are often based on this trope.
* Chaos in the [[The Elric Saga|Elric of Melnibone]] series.
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== Music ==
* Some songs by [[The Beatles]] are set in such a world:
** "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", quoted in this article.
** "I Am The Walrus"
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Daemon Worlds in ''[[Warhammer
** For that matter, this is what being in the Warp is like. Except it's [[Genius Loci|sentient]]. And it [[Everything Trying to Kill You|wants you dead.]]
* As you might expect, the lower levels of Wonderland in ''[[JAGS Wonderland]]''.
* Limbo in ''[[Planescape]]'' is another literal chaos world, a roiling mixture of all the elements that forms a vast primordial soup out of which emerge the strangest damn things. Order can be imposed temporarily by the willpower and imagination of sentient beings—but that just means that you really need to pay attention.
* And while on the subject of ''[[Dungeons
* The Wyld of ''[[Exalted]]''.
* Arcadia from ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' is so defined by chaos that [[The Fair Folk|the True Fae]] stake their existence on ''constant conflict'' with one another for more glories and titles; if they don't, they fade away into the background and are eventually undone.
** The game book describes it something like this (paraphrasing): "Arcadia is a place where your wishes come true. In other words, it greatly resembles Hell."
*** The ''actual'' Hell may or may not qualify. Being composed of all the collected vice and depravity in the history of the world, it's described as being so hideous that [[Brown Note|looking at it causes insanity,]] and even then human minds cannot fully grasp it, [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|instead turning the images into something they can understand]]. It's basically a [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] [[Turned Up to Eleven]] [[Beyond the Impossible]].
** Perhaps even more fitting to this trope is the Umbral Realm known as Flux from ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' and ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]''. It's a sub-dimension of uncontrolled, chaotic creation.
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* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Chaosrrealm]] in [[Mortal Kombat]].
** Inverted with Seido, which still has [[Alien Geometries|bizarre alien geometry]]. (It's torus-shaped and made of floating rectangles connected by bridges which make perfect lines.)
* In an old Macintosh children's game called ''[[The Manhole]]'', you could climb a beanstalk growing out of the titular manhole: at the very top, you find a forest at night, in the middle of which is a tower that's actually a chess piece sitting in the corner of a vast network of underground canals- which you only realise when you reach the top of the tower. With the aid of a gondola-rowing elephant, you can use the canals to pay a visit to a walrus captain who operates an elevator that somehow arrives in a sunken ship, or you can carry on rowing and find yourself in the teacup of a talking rabbit who lives inside a fire hydrant just across from the Manhole.
** Said sunken ship can also be reached by climbing ''down'' the beanstalk, thereby making the whole thing circular. And there's a door on the sunken ship that takes you into a room full of flowers. Plus if you go inside the fire hydrant house, you can use a copy of ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' to go back up to the tower.
** ''[[Cosmic Osmo]]'', by the same developers, is built on the same trope (but [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]). Said developers were later responsible for the ''[[Myst]]'' series. This explains a lot.
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* ''[[Yume Nikki]]''. Somewhat justified in that it's a dream, but even as far as dreams go it's weird.
* This is the schtick of Mira, the 'continent of illusions' from ''[[Baten Kaitos]]''.
* The "End of the World" stage in [[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'' lives in such a <s>world</s> universe.
* Several cartoons by [[Aleksandr Tatarskiy]], especially ''[[Last Years Snow Was Falling|The Last Year's Snow Was Falling]]'', which gained a cult status in the USSR.
* The cartoon ''Porky in Wackyland'' and its spinoffs.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]''
** "The Magicks of Megas-Tu''. The planet Megas-Tu is totally chaotic, and the only order is that imposed by its residents, the Magicks. Because of the time they spent on Earth, the things they create resemble those from Earth's past.
** The so-called "Mad Planet" in "The Jihad" ''may'' not technically violate any physical laws, but it undergoes constant radical geophysical changes combined with unpredictable weather.
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' crosses over into this often, leaving the established D&D-inspired setting for places like Lumpy Space and the Crystal Dimension, often with little warning.
** The Nightosphere, a hellish world where Marceline's [[Eldritch Abomination]] father resides, is explicitly stated to thrive off chaos. Most of Marceline's dad's job (which also became Marceline's job when she briefly wore his evil amulet) involved ruling over their realm like an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]], dishing out pointless rules and cruel tricks on apathetic and confused demons.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': This is what Equestria becomes under [[Manipulative Bastard|Discord's]] influence, he being the embodiment of strife and disharmony. Features include cotton candy clouds that rain chocolate, fresh corn being popped, and the animals that feed on the giant apples fed by the rain growing long deer legs. And that's just after the ''opening credits''.
** Soon enough he's got day and night switching every few minutes, chunks of land flying around upside-down, flying earth ponies, giant houses of cards, roads turning into soap...
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Dreams.
** And drug-induced hallucinations.
* Turbulence. Many cases where a simple equilibrium solution is unstable. In fact, classical mechanics got a renewal in physics research a few decades ago, in the study of chaos.
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