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* ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'' lived by this trope until the foreshadowing at the end of book one. ([http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0120.html Strip 120] in the online version.) Only then, when the dungeon in which the entire plot has taken place is destroyed, do the plot and the dungeon turn out to have some relevance outside of itself.
** Later, it turns out that characters who aren't relevant enough to the plot to be named actually don't even ''[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0703.html have]'' names... at least not until they [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0472.html become relevant] to the plot.
* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'': the world outside of the main characters' lives appears almost desolate. None of them seem to have any other friends apart from themselves and characters on the periphery of their interpersonal interactions (their guardians) appear almost vacant and robotic. And they're not really [[Angst? What Angst?|very affected]] by {{spoiler|Earth's imminent and unavoidable destruction}} either.
** On the other hand, there are cases where we do have a glimpse outside the plot, with current events like how [[Barack Obama]] is the president, and other people completely irrelevant to the plot, like the [[Twitter|Serious Business]] and [[Game FAQs]] users, are still shown to actually exist, even if they are never shown. We also see maps of the entire planet, and the plot does, in fact, make an [[Stealth Pun|impact]] in places irrelevant to the main characters.
** At one point Jade is shown browsing a real artist's gallery on [[Furry Fandom|Fur Affinity]].
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** 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).
* ''[[The Bremen Avenue Experience (Animation)|The Bremen Avenue Experience]]'' is a short-lived series about a [[Funny Animal]] [[Garage Band]]. The entire series is set in the suburban living room where the group rehearses, and the only character besides the band members is the drummer's father, who [[One
* ''[[Ed Edd and Eddy]]'' takes place in the Cul-de-Sac they live in with the other neighbouring kids and noone else. Later on in the 5th and last season, they all go back to school once the summer ends, but even then it's just them ...{{spoiler|except for the movie where Eddy's big brother appeared}}.
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