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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 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]]''
* Averted in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', where the characters are brought to Edolas and can't use magic unless they use specific equipment
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** There is also Ren Hinaki
* Played
* ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World]]'', one of the earlier Isekai licensed for release in North America, has four people gain powers when they are transported from Earth to El-Hazard. (Which powers they get depends on which continuity they are in.) At the end, at least one of the people returns to Earth.
* There's no evidence that the main characters of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' get to keep their
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* In ''[[The Devil is a Part-timer]]'', magic on Earth is very limited
* ''[[Flip Flappers]]'' has
* In ''[[Yuki Yuna is a Hero]]'',
▲* ''[[Flip Flappers]]'' has the world of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt Pure Illusion] where those who can synchronize with a crystal called an Amorphous Piece to gain the power to [[Magical Girl|Flip Flap]]. [[Transformation Sequence|This process]] gives the [[Title Drop|Flip Flappers]] magical powers with a transformed state that provides access to superhuman abilities along with weapons.
* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]''
▲* ''[[Yuki Yuna is a Hero]]'' has the members of the use the Hero System go into another realm called the Jukai in order to defend the [[Cosmic Keystone|Shinju]] from the Vertex. When they are in this other reality, they gain superhuman strength, speed, stamina, eyesight, armor, and a Fairy. Theses Fairies support their heroes by giving them weapons and other powers to fight the Vertex.
* ''[[Corrector Yui]]''
▲* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' have Espers that cannot access their [[Psychic Powers|powers]] unless in a Closed Space or a similar dimension. The only powers they have in the real world are sensing the Closed Spaces and entering them.
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▲* ''[[Corrector Yui]]'' have people called Correctors who use a ComCon to go into the [[Cyberspace|ComNet]] without a VR unit. As a Corrector in the ComNet, they can use Element Suits that are given by Corrector AIs.
* ''[[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.
▲* An interesting example from ''[[Infinite Dendrogram]]'' {{Spoiler|where the players aren't playing a VRMMO but an actual world with living people and monsters where their avatars having actual powers.}}
* 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
* Downplayed in ''[[Kinnikuman]]'': By invoking Bergmann's Rule, Lunaight can tower over his opponent. This ability can best be used on
▲* In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', the Tamers and their Digimon partners can Biomerge in the Digital World to reach their Mega levels. In the real world, they cannot Biomerge like in the Digital World due to not being made of data. There are alternatives in the real world but only work in limited instances or within the quantum bubble of the D-Reaper.
▲* Downplayed in ''[[Kinnikuman]]'': By invoking Bergmann's Rule, Lunaight can tower over his opponent. This ability can best be used on the Planet Earth, as his ancestors originally came from there. He can't use this ability in the Omega Cluster at all because that won't awaken his ancestors' genetics. Still, he's a powerful Chojin, so he doesn't need to rely upon Bergmann's Rule.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* The original series ''[[Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld]]''
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Space Jam]]'' has any person who enters the
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'', the Pevensies are just normal British kids living in the 1940s on Earth, but in Narnia, they're powerful kings and queens with reputations similar to
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* The colonists of the world Pyrrus in [[Harry Harrison]]'s 1960 SF novel ''[[Deathworld]]'' are [[Heavyworlder]]s because Pyrrus has
* ''[[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]] ==
* In ''[[Denkou Choujin Gridman]]'', Naoto uses his [[Transformation Trinket|Acceptor]] to fuse with the Hyper Police, Gridman, to fight [[Monster of the Week|Kaiju]] in the [[Cyberspace|Computer World]].
** '' [[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
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* An inverted example from ''[[d20 Modern]]''{{'}}s "Urban Arcana" setting: monsters from ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' fall to Earth as "Shadowkind". Monsters,
== [[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]].
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* ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' has the two worlds of Stark and Arcadia that each society is based on science or magic, respectively. A shifter can go between the two and have access to magic while in Arcadia. Stark favors science and technology compared to the use of magic in the Arcadia.▼
** ''[[Persona 5]]''{{'}}s Metaverse can change the clothes of Persona users that have awakened to their potential. These outfits are related to their personality, much like their Personas. Model weapons can become actual weapons while in the Metaverse, too.
* In ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'', the V-Watch cannot be used in the Real World and only in Movieland. The V-Camera, introduced in ''Double Trouble'', is used to circumvent this limitation, by filming Joe to transform into his alter ego.▼
▲* ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' has the two worlds of Stark and Arcadia
* The Mario Bros., in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]'', are as strong as they normally are in the rest of the ''[[Mario & Luigi]]'' series. But in the Dream World, Mario gains a mild boost to his stats, and his regular attacks are turned into crowd-clearing AoE moves.▼
▲* In ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'', the V-Watch cannot be used in the Real World
* The Holy Instruments, from ''[[Dual Hearts]]'', can only take form in the Dream World, which can be by used Rumble.▼
▲* The Mario Bros.
* In ''[[Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE]]'', there is the Idolasphere where monsters called Mirages resides and feast on people's Performa. Performa is the creative energy people have, when drained by a Mirage, leaves a sense of despair. There are certain people called Mirage Masters who bond with a Mirage by giving their Performa willingly to the monster. These Mirage Master have an extraordinary Performa, and their Mirage grants them powers along with an appearance similar to the monster's form when in the Idolasphere.▼
▲* The Holy Instruments, from ''[[Dual Hearts]]'', can only take a tangible form in the Dream World
* In ''[[Mega Man Star Force]] series'', a compatible human and EM Wave being can perform an [[Fusion Dance|EM Wave Change]] that allows access to the Wave World. The human can interact with devices, access to the powers of the EM Wave being, and can use Battle Cards as weapons.▼
▲* In ''[[Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE]]'', there is the Idolasphere where monsters called [[The Heartless|Mirages]]
▲* In the ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]
* 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]] ==
* In
* In ''[[Her Summon]]''
* ''[[Hardcore Leveling Warrior]]'' has
* In ''[[the Dreamland Chronicles]]'', Alex, when in Dreamland, has the [[Empathic Weapon|Sword of Kings]] when he
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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*
* In ''[[Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero]]'', Penn, Boone, and Sashi take over heroes in another dimension
* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', whenever a person gets Virtualized into [[Cyberspace|Lyoko]]
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* Played with in ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'':
▲* ''[[Space Jam]]'' has any person who enters the Loony Tunes World gain the same attributes of a cartoon character such a being inflated like a balloon to stretching their arm.
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'', [[Geometric Magic|Glyph magic]] is granted from a [[Phlebotinum|powerful substance]] known as Titan's Blood. In the Boiling Isles, Luz is able to cast this magic as it absorbs the magic around them. In season one, Luz and Lilith briefly fight in the human world, and Luz's glyphs do not work because there is no Titan's Blood. However, the first episode of season three, ''Thanks to Them'', has Luz and her friends hunting for the substance, and thus the glyph magic works again near a bottle of it. Witches from the Boiling Isles, who have bile sacs which enable them to cast magic, are exempt from this effect, and can cast magic in the human world.
▲* ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'': Averted, in Orko's home dimension, he's a very good mage and enough to challenge the [[The Lord of the Rings|Istari]]. Whereas Eternia's magic environment crippled him so much that he comes across an [[Inept Mage|inept]]. Even though he is weakened, he has been learning how to use magic from scratch in Eternia, which gained Adam's respect.
* ''[[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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