World Limited to the Plot: Difference between revisions

This is ''not'' when a story takes place in a [[Small Secluded World]] such as [[Lost|an island]] or [[The Cube (film)|a box]]: In those cases there ''is'' still a universe outside the place where the characters are [[The Wall Around the World|trapped]]. The characters are still connected to the outside world by their memories, and there are people in the outside world who could miss them.

Defying this trope is a common way to [[Deconstructed Trope]] or avert ''other'' tropes: It's easy to be [[The Omniscient]] when there is so little to know in the first place, just add more information and the character turns out to be [[Not So Omniscient After All]]. On the flipside of this coin, philosophical thought-experiments often ask us to accept a [['''World Limited to the Plot]]''', making the most outrageous oversimplifications look like valid [[An Aesop|Aesops]].

* In the ''Age of X'' storyline in the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] line, a clue that something is wrong with the alternate reality the characters find themselves in is that there ''is'' nothing outside the walls of their compound, and the soldiers that attack seem to only have a few names, repeated over and over.

* [[Ridley Scott]]'s ''[[Legend (film)|Legend]]'' takes place almost entirely within a magical forest and Darkness's palace. There's virtually no indication of what the world outside the forest is like.