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== Anime & Manga ==
* The anime series ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'' has the same name as the play in the title and a world sort of similar to it. It also has [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot gunsword-slingers from another dimension]].
* The second ''[[Read or Die]]'' manga (''Read or Dream'') featured a ghost library that appeared to the living once every ten years. Of course, you could visit it all you liked after you were dead, as long as you brought your books back on time.
== Comic Books ==
* One issue of DC's post-Zero Hour ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' features the planet Steeple, which is somehow only accessible for a limited period of time every ten years due to a black hole. Legionnaire Karate Kid ends up missing the window out of reluctance to leave an injured teammate, although they both ended up getting rescued anyhow.
** Tyroc in the 1970's came from the island of Marzal, which had a similar problem, the name Brigadoon even being referenced in the story's title.
** Pre-Crisis Planet Rokyn had just such a relationship with the universe.
* Captain Marvel Jr. visited the "City in the Mirage," which appeared once every thousand years, in a 1975 ''[[Shazam]]'' comic that also saw his older counterpart visiting a future where giant rats have taken over the world.
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== Literature ==
* While it's never been relevent to the stories, ''The [[Discworld]] [[Universe Compendium|Companion]]'' claims the country of Chimeria (which gets referenced briefly in ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'', and never gets mentioned again) is a brigadoon, as is the Lost City of Ee (which is why so many adventurers have discovered it, only to lose it again almost immediately).
* ''[[Forever After]]'', an anthology with [[Roger Zelazny]]'s name on front, features an assassin on a quest to {{spoiler|take a magical artifact back to it's resting place, after the Big Bad has been defeated.}} This city comes and goes, and no one is sure if he'll make it out.
** {{spoiler|He doesn't. Also the Big Bad wasn't really dead, and it was ''his'' plan to send away the artifacts that could have defeated him--instead of being defeated, he had possessed the body of the hero and become King.}}
* In the [[Secrets of Droon]] book ''City In The Clouds'', the floating city of Ro only appears once in hundreds of years, and the heroes (and the villains) are in serious danger of getting stranded there.
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== Video Games ==
* In the ''[[Castlevania]]'' games, Dracula's castle (and the man himself) return every 100 years... in theory. In practice, various cults are always resurrecting them sooner.
* The city of Dawn in ''[[Ultima III]]''. "Dawn lasts for but a brief moment."
** Minus the "must escape or be trapped" part... the city's got a ''really'' favorable timeflow differential.
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