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{{quote|- "No questions asked. Up we get and off at a gallop, fearful lest we come too late!"<br />
- "Too late for what?"<br />
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Big O|The Big O]]''
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''
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* ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]'' has two plotlines that eventually merge. The "inner" plotline suffers heavily from World Limited to the Plot, but the "outer" plotline reveals that this is caused by [[The Masquerade|manipulation]] rather than bad storytelling.
* Deliberately invoked in the ''[[Cube]]'' series. The inconsistent internal logic from movie to movie is designed to eliminate the possibility of a wider world beyond the Cube.
** Averted in ''Cube Zero'', where it's shown to basically be a last-chance experimentation chamber for death-row prisoners. {{spoiler|At least until one of the operators helps someone escape and ends up with a forged "confession" and a lobotomy before getting thrown in himself, with heavy hints throughout that that's basically how ''everyone'' ended up in there. Then we find out that what we see in the prequel is basically a first generation prototype compared to the later Cubes, which seem to have less and less of a plausible reason to exist.}}
* Played straight to [[Beyond the Impossible]] levels in ''[[Cemetery Man]]'' at the end. {{spoiler|Francesco tries to leave town, only to discover that the rest of the world doesn't exist.}}
* ''[[Pleasantville]]'' shows what happens to such a world when the outside does manifest itself in a meaningful way.
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* One of the favorite tropes of the [[Absurdism|Theatre of the Absurd]] in general. In addition to the aforementioned Stoppard and Beckett plays, Ionesco comes to mind, especially ''The Bald Soprano''.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' is set in an unnamed city where, aside from the eponymous superheroes and the supervillains they fight, the population consists entirely of unnamed people who exist solely to be terrorized by the villains and rescued by the heroes. Averted in Season 5 when the Teen Titans turn into [[Heroes Unlimited]] and start [[Walking the Earth|traveling the world]].
** We also meet the Titans East, who set up shop on the other side of the country, there's
** Even so, we meet the ''teen superheroes'' of the world while they're traveling, and little else. We also get nothing of the teams' non-spandex lives. [[The Powers That Be]] were deliberate about this.
* ''[[Total Drama Island]]''. Justified in the first two seasons, where the whole thing was a [[Show Within a Show]] trapping the teens in an island and a film lot, but even in the third season, where they're in a different country each week, they still run into no one except those that work on the show, even in the middle of New York (except for ''one'' woman sitting on a bench and her baby).
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