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* Several at [[Marvel Comics]].
** A Counter-Earth created by the Earth scientist, The High Evolutionary used to be there. He wanted it to be ''better'' than the real Earth, but one of his earlier creations, the Man-Beast, corrupted it. The evolutionary almost destroyed it in his disappointment, but the space hero [[Adam Warlock]] asked for the chance to save it, and was granted it. (If that sounds like a [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|Christ analogy]], it's because it ''was''). The planet was eventually removed from the Solar system by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] and placed in a museum.
*** The ''[[Spider
** One was briefly created in ''[[Infinity Crusade]]'': Paradise Omega, created by The Goddess (Adam Warlock's [[Light Is Not Good|"good" side]].)
** The Earth of ''[[The New Universe]]'' was placed here.
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* ''Doppelgänger'' (also known as ''Journey to the Far Side of the Sun'' in America): Astronauts discover such a world that not only looks like Earth, but ''everything that happens on Earth also happens there'', like mirror images. This includes the astronauts' landing!
** If ''everything'' that happens there is a mirror image, this doesn't explain why its orbital trajectory isn't!
* The ''[[
* ''[[Gamera]] Versus Guiron'' had this as a plot device. The inhabitants were not friendly. Cue Gamera destroying stuff.
* In ''[[Warning From Space]]'' (a.k.a. ''Mysterious Satellite''), "Planet 'R'" is on a collision course with Earth. One-eyed, starfish-shaped aliens from the counter-Earth Paira take on human forms to warn the earth about the impending disaster.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Melancholia]]'', the counter-earth planet Melancholia in on collision course with Earth, but is first believed to be simply passing by.
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* In ''[[The Illuminatus Trilogy]]'', the leaders of the Illuminati may have originated on a counter-Earth named Vulcan and come to Earth on flying saucers from Mars via Saturn.
* The ''X12'' series of books by Olof Möller prominently features a counter-Earth called Anti-Tellus.
* Zillikian is a counter-Earth featured in the ''Bunduki'' series by [[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[Space: 1999]]'' used a variation on this one. The planets Beta and Delta were technically at war, but being on opposite sides of their sun they couldn't actually shoot at each other. Until the itinerant moon wandered along, that is, and the Betans and Deltans started using it, much to the annoyance of the Moonbase Alpha crew, as a missile base from which to attack each other. Which doesn't explain how or why the two planets were at war in the first place....
** Or if they'd ever heard of non-line-of-sight weapons, or orbital mechanics for that matter... (answer: [[Did Not Do the Research|probably not]]).
* The Cybermen in ''[[
* In a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, a character mentions, apropos of nothing, his firm belief in the Counter-Earth.
** The character was Father Guido Sarducci, and he described the planet as nearly entirely Earth-like down to the civilizations; amongst the few differences described was the practice of eating corn on the cob vertically, instead of horizontally.
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== [[Radio]] ==
* On ''[[The Adventures of Superman (
* The ''[[Two Thousand Plus|2000 Plus]]'' episode “Worlds Apart” involves a planet “exactly opposite the Earth, on the other side of the sun” (but, inexplicably, slightly closer) named Vesta.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== Webcomics ==
* It is suggested in ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' that the planet which the story takes place on was in the same orbit as a different planet on the other side of the sun, where giant lizards were<ref> to be precise, were until Black Mage rolled a Nat 1 on his hit roll with a Hadoken</ref> the most prominent life-form. Evidently, it is Earth in the Mesozoic Era. [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/06/17/episode-430-very-long-range/ Here is the comic in question.]
* ''[[Fansadox]]'' issue [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orc]] [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Tom the Dancing Bug]]'' has a Counter-Earth that is "not quite the opposite of our own...but somewhat dissimilar in certain ways!"
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Sport Billy]]'', the eponymous hero is from the counter-Earth Olympus, populated by athletic god-like beings.
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