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This is ''not'' when a story takes place in a [[Small Secluded World]] such as [[Lost|an island]] or [[The Cube|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
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