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This setting is a bizarre mixture of elements from our world thrown into a blender, with a few squirts of lemon and a pinch of LSD. Everything comes together in outlandish and unpredictable combinations. Bright colors, strange creatures, and total disregard for logic are all in play. Anything can and will happen.

[[Alien Geometries]] may be commonplace. Not to be confused with [[Planet Eris]], which is a more mundane world with some fantastic elements. Worlds inhabited by [[Starfish Aliens]] may not qualify, as they may have a little more internal consistency even if they're beyond our comprehension, plus [[Uncanny Valley|the inclusion of recognizable elements is what gives this setting much of its edge]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

 

 

== Comic Books ==

** To elaborate, The Dreaming is where your mind goes every night when you fall asleep. It has a sort of logic of its own, but the laws of physics are more like guidelines. Delirium's realm is where your mind goes when you're ''crazy'', and what little is seen of it is pure stream-of-consciousness chaos.

* [[Jack Kirby]], [[Steve Ditko]] and Jim Steranko, among many others, were highly adept at depicting these.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Cool World]]''

 

 

== Literature ==

* Nonsense folk songs and rhymes in various cultures (in Russian folklore they're called ''nebylitsy'') are often based on this trope.

* Chaos in the [[The Elric Saga|Elric of Melnibone]] series.

* Many of the works of [[Bruno Schulz]].

* Ironically, the Courts of Chaos in the ''[[Chronicles of Amber]]'' are NOT this. Sure, maybe the sun and moon circle each other in the sky, casting night and day on opposite sides of a band of twilight, but that doesn't mean it's not consistent.

* ''More Minds'' demonstrates what happens when absolutely everyone gains the power of [[Reality Warping]]. It's almost impossible to die, and you'll always have everything you want and need. This is ''not'' a good thing.

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

 

 

== Music ==

** "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", quoted in this article.

** "I Am The Walrus"

** "Glass Onion"

* Music videos by Chad van Gaalen.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** For that matter, this is what being in the Warp is like. Except it's [[Genius Loci|sentient]]. And it [[Everything Trying to Kill You|wants you dead.]]

* As you might expect, the lower levels of Wonderland in ''[[JAGS Wonderland]]''.

*** The ''actual'' Hell may or may not qualify. Being composed of all the collected vice and depravity in the history of the world, it's described as being so hideous that [[Brown Note|looking at it causes insanity,]] and even then human minds cannot fully grasp it, [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|instead turning the images into something they can understand]]. It's basically a [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] [[Turned Up to Eleven]] [[Beyond the Impossible]].

 

 

* While the later ''[[Super Mario]]'' games tried to establish a viable, somewhat consistent [[The Wonderland|Wonderland]], the first one just plunged you right into a world where you were a plumber of Italian descent who must rescue a "princess Toadstool" by defeating a turtle-dragon while killing evil walking mushrooms with eyes, turtles with wings, carnivore plants growing out of green pipes and other similar enemies. Oh, and if you eat a mushroom which comes out of a shining floating block with a question sign, you grow bigger, and if you pick a flower, you can shoot bouncing fireballs. Jumping stars, climbable beanstalks, walking on clouds and jumping several times your height ensue.

** In fact, one could say that the series has used this as a "spring off point", so to speak; ''because'' it makes little sense, anyway, Mario can go anywhere-[[Space Does Not Work That Way|Space]], [[Womb Level|inside other characters]], and [[Timey-Wimey Ball|the past]] are some examples.

** Inverted with Seido, which still has [[Alien Geometries|bizarre alien geometry]]. (It's torus-shaped and made of floating rectangles connected by bridges which make perfect lines.)

** Said sunken ship can also be reached by climbing ''down'' the beanstalk, thereby making the whole thing circular. And there's a door on the sunken ship that takes you into a room full of flowers. Plus if you go inside the fire hydrant house, you can use a copy of ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' to go back up to the tower.

** ''[[Cosmic Osmo]]'', by the same developers, is built on the same trope (but [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]). Said developers were later responsible for the ''[[Myst]]'' series. This explains a lot.

* Speaking of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', there also was an [[Alice in Wonderland|eponymous]] [[Commodore 64]] game which featured a world which was a mix of all the nonsense from both original books plus some extra nonsense added, like ''a house inside a chess board inside a house inside a bath machine inside a house inside another house which is located underground''. You may read a [[Let's Play]] of this game [http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Alice here].

* And [[American McGee's Alice]], which is a darker version of this.

* Endermen in ''[[Minecraft]]'', given enough time, will inevitably turn the world into something along these lines with their block moving abilities. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJpGolhjwyE&feature=related See this video] for the damage endermen can cause over a period of 3 years on a server.

* ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' has "Memoria", a mindscape created above the Iifa tree where Zidane and his party face off against Kuja in the final disc; it's a jumble of scenes and buildings gathered from the collective memory of the entire planet, where it's possible to walk through a giant, city-destroying eyeball into the ruins of a town it just attacked, walk up a staircase leading into space, pass through a waterfall and find yourself swimming through an ancient coral reef, or climb a ladder that overlooks the birth of the planet itself. Thankfully, {{spoiler|Garland's around to explain what's happening.}}

** Additionally, the {{spoiler|final boss is actually ''called'' "World of Chaos."}}

* ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''.

* ''[[Yume Nikki]]''. Somewhat justified in that it's a dream, but even as far as dreams go it's weird.

* This is the schtick of Mira, the 'continent of illusions' from ''[[Baten Kaitos]]''.

 

 

== Web Comics ==

* Someone in the cast of ''[[Dominic Deegan Oracle For Hire]]'' has found themselves in one of these at least once per story-arc.

 

 

== Web Original ==

* Possibly, the ''[[Grow]]'' series of flash games.

* The forum adventure ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' is set mostly in one, only accessible through the forts the main characters make from their desks.

** Links for those of you who haven't seen 4Chan City: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[Ar 4 Wz Q 7 K Hak]] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[Ar 4 Wz Q 7 K Hak]]. Also note that Nightmare City was itself based on [[Memetic Mutation|characters]] from the japanese board 2ch.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* The cartoon ''Porky in Wackyland'' and its spinoffs.

** "The Magicks of Megas-Tu''. The planet Megas-Tu is totally chaotic, and the only order is that imposed by its residents, the Magicks. Because of the time they spent on Earth, the things they create resemble those from Earth's past.

** Soon enough he's got day and night switching every few minutes, chunks of land flying around upside-down, flying earth ponies, giant houses of cards, roads turning into soap...

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Dreams.

* Turbulence. Many cases where a simple equilibrium solution is unstable. In fact, classical mechanics got a renewal in physics research a few decades ago, in the study of chaos.

 

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