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** ''Flatland: The Movie'' has objects that don't make sense in a 2D world, such as pink unicorn dolls, a fishtank, and skateboards.
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** ''Flatland: The Movie'' has objects that don't make sense in a 2D world, such as pink unicorn dolls, a fishtank, and skateboards. The sequel ''Sphereland'' depicts two-dimensional ''dogs.''
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* AlternateUniverse: ''Sphereland'' reveals that Flatland is the surface of a sphere, and that many other such spheres exist all in the third dimension.
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* AlternateUniverse: ''Sphereland'' reveals that the two-dimensional universe of Flatland is the surface of a sphere, and that many other such spheres exist all in the third dimension.
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* TheBlank: The Oversphere is depicted without a face. Justified, as this is really but a 3D cross-section of her unseeable full 4D form. Spherius is likely depicted as such when he is seen as a 2D circle in Flatland. And of course the Kings of Pointland and Lineland don't really have enough dimensions to ''have a face''.
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* TheBlank: The Oversphere is depicted without a face. Justified, as this is really but a 3D cross-section of her unseeable full 4D form. Spherius is likely likewise depicted as such when he is seen as a 2D circle in Flatland. And of course the Kings of Pointland and Lineland don't really have enough dimensions to ''have a face''.
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* GenderFlip: Hex is female in ''Flatland: The Movie''.
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* GenderFlip: Hex is female in ''Flatland: The Movie''. It and its sequel ''Sphereland'' potray more female characters due to them being the same shape as the male ones.
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** Spherius is punished by the Oversphere for abandoning the Flatlanders by flipping his directions, forcing him to move in the ''opposite'' direction he wants to go.
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** Spherius is punished by the Oversphere for abandoning the Flatlanders by flipping his directions, directions in 3D, forcing him to move in the ''opposite'' direction he wants to go.
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* WhamLine: "The center of Flatland", as revealed by ''Sphereland''. It reveals that the vast 2D plane of Flatland was actually part of the surface of an immense sphere, and that many other Spherelands exist in the 3D plane.
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* AscendedExtra: In ''Flatland: The Movie,'' the King of Lineland only appears in one scene, but in the sequel ''Sphereland'', he plays amore prominent role in helping uncover the mystery of Flatland's shape.
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* AscendedExtra: In ''Flatland: The Movie,'' the King of Lineland only appears in one scene, but in the sequel ''Sphereland'', he plays amore a more prominent role in helping uncover the mystery of Flatland's shape.shape.
* AsteroidThicket: A two-dimensional variant in ''Sphereland'' that the space crew's ship must avoid.
* AsteroidThicket: A two-dimensional variant in ''Sphereland'' that the space crew's ship must avoid.
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* ValuesResonance: ''Sphereland'' depicts equality among the Flatlanders after the fall of the Circle Priests, with circles, squares, triangles and all other shapes in between now working together as the scientists of the space exploration base.
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* AKindOfOne: In ''Sphereland'', the protagonists discover that there are ''dozens'' of Pointlands, with each one having (and ''being'') a self-proclaimed King of Pointland all ignorantly unaware of each other.
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* Alternate Self: Near the end of ''Sphereland'', Hex sees multiple alternate versions of the ship, including one where her grandfather Arthur Square is still alive. Hex wonders aloud what that version of her did differently that mader her have a happier ending.
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* Alternate Self: AlternateSelf: Near the end of ''Sphereland'', Hex sees multiple alternate versions of the ship, including one where her grandfather Arthur Square is still alive. Hex wonders aloud what that version of her did differently that mader her have a happier ending.
* AscendedExtra: In ''Flatland: The Movie,'' the King of Lineland only appears in one scene, but in the sequel ''Sphereland'', he plays amore prominent role in helping uncover the mystery of Flatland's shape.
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** "Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe" by Dionys Burger. It features A. Square's grandson and tries to explain [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin curved spaces and expanding universes]] in the same way Flatland tried to explain dimensions.
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** "Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe" by Dionys Burger. It features A. Square's grandson and tries to explain [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin curved spaces and expanding universes]] in the same way Flatland tried to explain dimensions. It later gets an [[https://archive.org/details/flatland-2-sphereland-hd/Flatland+2+_+Sphereland+HD.mp4 animated adaptation]] as a direct sequel to ''Flatland: The Movie''.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Spherius is punished by the Oversphere for abandoning the Flatlanders and being himself closed-minded, with her forcing him to return to Flatland by reversing his directions and making the only remedy to find the center of Flatland where she awaits.
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* AlternateUniverse: ''Sphereland'' reveals that Flatland is the surface of a sphere, and that many other such spheres exist all in the third dimension.
* Alternate Self: Near the end of ''Sphereland'', Hex sees multiple alternate versions of the ship, including one where her grandfather Arthur Square is still alive. Hex wonders aloud what that version of her did differently that mader her have a happier ending.
* Alternate Self: Near the end of ''Sphereland'', Hex sees multiple alternate versions of the ship, including one where her grandfather Arthur Square is still alive. Hex wonders aloud what that version of her did differently that mader her have a happier ending.
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* BreakingOldTrends: ''Flatland: The Movie'' had a recurring theme of increasingly-higher-dimensional beings ignorant of a higher dimension than themselves, with the King of Pointland unable to percieve anything outside himself, the King of Lineland being unable to understand Arthur Square's talk of two dimensions, Arthur himself unable to percieve Spherius and even Spherius scoffing at the mere idea of a fourth dimension. The Oversphere breaks this pattern entirely: she fully accepts the potential existence of a fifth, and sixth, and maybe more dimensions, even scolding and punishing Spherius for being so closed-minded and calling the potential of higher dimensions "an infinite set of possibilities."
* ChekovsGunman: The King of Lineland in ''Sphereland''. While Hex and Puncto travel alongside Lineland they encounter him again, in which case they ask him if he's been following them. Only when he replies he hasn't the two hexagons realize that they went right back from where they started just by following Lineland: leading to their realization that Lineland is a circle, and Flatland is a sphere.
* ChekovsGunman: The King of Lineland in ''Sphereland''. While Hex and Puncto travel alongside Lineland they encounter him again, in which case they ask him if he's been following them. Only when he replies he hasn't the two hexagons realize that they went right back from where they started just by following Lineland: leading to their realization that Lineland is a circle, and Flatland is a sphere.
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* ReversePolarity: Happens in all three dimensions in ''Sphereland'':
** Spherius is punished by the Oversphere for abandoning the Flatlanders by flipping his directions, forcing him to move in the ''opposite'' direction he wants to go.
** The ship is accidentally flipped over in the second dimension by Spherius, causing their direction to reverse.
** Hex and Puncto accidentally pop the King of Lineland out of his line, and put him back backwards. The Queen of the Left and the Queen of the Right are thus offended and confused when he refers to them by the wrong names.
** Spherius is punished by the Oversphere for abandoning the Flatlanders by flipping his directions, forcing him to move in the ''opposite'' direction he wants to go.
** The ship is accidentally flipped over in the second dimension by Spherius, causing their direction to reverse.
** Hex and Puncto accidentally pop the King of Lineland out of his line, and put him back backwards. The Queen of the Left and the Queen of the Right are thus offended and confused when he refers to them by the wrong names.
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* DimensionalTraveler: The Oversphere from ''Sphereland'' moves through the fourth dimension and visits Spherius just as he visited Arthur Square in the first film.
* HappyEndingOverride: ''Flatland: The Movie'' ends on a high note, with Arthur Square and his proof of the third dimension seemingly having revolutionized Flatland. ''Sphereland'' reveals however that he was eventually ostracized for his inability to further explain his discoveries, and he later dies of grief.
* HappyEndingOverride: ''Flatland: The Movie'' ends on a high note, with Arthur Square and his proof of the third dimension seemingly having revolutionized Flatland. ''Sphereland'' reveals however that he was eventually ostracized for his inability to further explain his discoveries, and he later dies of grief.
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* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Aero the isoceles triangle in ''Sphereland'' vehemently denies the existence of the third dimension and is very dismissive of Hex and Puncto's claims.
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* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: ''Sphereland'' takes place 20 years after ''Flatland: The Movie''. By then, Arthur Square has since passed away.
* UglyCute: The guard dogs of the ruins site in ''Sphereland.'' Being two-dimensional, we can ''see their innards''. They're still kind of adorable though, as they play chase with Puncto.
* UglyCute: The guard dogs of the ruins site in ''Sphereland.'' Being two-dimensional, we can ''see their innards''. They're still kind of adorable though, as they play chase with Puncto.
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Adaptations include a 1965 animated short (''Flatland''), a 1982 stop-motion short [[NoExportForYou only available in Italian]] (''Flatlandia''), a 2007 animated feature film (''Flatland'', aka ''Flatland: The Film''), and, confusingly, another 2007 animated film, this one a short (''Flatland: TheMovie''). The story is also summarized by Carl Sagan as part of ''Cosmos''.
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Adaptations include a 1965 animated short (''Flatland''), a 1982 stop-motion short [[NoExportForYou only available in Italian]] (''Flatlandia''), a 2007 animated feature film (''Flatland'', aka ''Flatland: The Film''), and, confusingly, another 2007 animated film, this one a short (''Flatland: TheMovie'').TheMovie''), and its 2012 sequel, ''[[https://archive.org/details/flatland-2-sphereland-hd/Flatland+2+_+Sphereland+HD.mp4 Sphereland]]''. The story is also summarized by Carl Sagan as part of ''Cosmos''.
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* CallASmeerpARabbit: The {{Living Polyhedron}}s that inhabit Flatland are called "human beings."
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* CallASmeerpARabbit: The {{Living Polyhedron}}s that inhabit Flatland are called "human beings."beings".
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** Lineland is a very primitive monarchy, where all power and influence is determined by proximity to to an autocratic king--who is actually [[SmallNameBigEgo just a humble line on a line]]. Because he only exists in one dimension, the King of Lineland is [[AdiposeRex incapable of even basic movement]], but he's too drunk on his own ego to realize how little his "authority" really matters.
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** Lineland is a very primitive monarchy, where all power and influence is determined by proximity to to an autocratic king--who king -- who is actually [[SmallNameBigEgo just a humble line on a line]]. Because he only exists in one dimension, the King of Lineland is [[AdiposeRex incapable of even basic movement]], movement, since there's no way for anyone to move aside to permit someone else passage, but he's too drunk on his own ego to realize how little his "authority" really matters.
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* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: All the chapter titles. The second chapter is titled "Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland".
** Trope, in that the book is supposed to be the Square's description of his country and people.
** Trope, in that the book is supposed to be the Square's description of his country and people.
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* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: All the chapter titles. The second chapter chapter, for instance, is titled "Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland".
** Trope, in thatFlatland", since the book is supposed to be the Square's description of his country and people.
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* SinisterGeometry: Averted; Flatlanders value perfect geometric symmetry as a sign of high breeding and intelligence.
** From a spectator point of view, however, Flatlander society in the indie film is shown to be rather cruel and sinister.
** From a spectator point of view, however, Flatlander society in the indie film is shown to be rather cruel and sinister.
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* SinisterGeometry: Averted; Flatlanders value perfect geometric symmetry as a sign of high breeding and intelligence.
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* [[TheWarOnStraw Strawman]]: The Flatland priests and government officials' view of a world not being flat.
* TheWarOnStraw: The Flatland priests and government officials' view of a world not being flat.
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* WorldBuilding: Over half the book is this.
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* PoesLaw: Abbott's presentation of the sexism and classism of Flatland was intended to be satirical, but that can be lost on modern readers.
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''[[http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/ Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions]]'' is an 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbott. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world made up of polygons, and is narrated by a square. Named [[StevenUlyssesPerhero A. Square]][[note]]Originally "A Square", the indefinite article evolving to a first initial in later printings[[/note]]. It's also a scathing dissection of Victorian class structures, of biological racism and eugenics, and of misogyny.
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''[[http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/ Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions]]'' is an 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbott. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world made up of polygons, and is narrated by a square. Named square named [[StevenUlyssesPerhero A. Square]][[note]]Originally "A Square", the indefinite article evolving to a first initial in later printings[[/note]]. It's also a scathing dissection of Victorian class structures, of biological racism and eugenics, and of misogyny.
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''[[http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/ Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions]]'' is a 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbott. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world made up of polygons, and is narrated by a square. Named [[StevenUlyssesPerhero A. Square]][[note]]Originally "A Square", the indefinite article evolving to a first initial in later printings[[/note]]. It's also a scathing dissection of Victorian class structures, of biological racism and eugenics, and of misogyny.
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''[[http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/ Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions]]'' is a an 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbott. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world made up of polygons, and is narrated by a square. Named [[StevenUlyssesPerhero A. Square]][[note]]Originally "A Square", the indefinite article evolving to a first initial in later printings[[/note]]. It's also a scathing dissection of Victorian class structures, of biological racism and eugenics, and of misogyny.
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** ''An Episode on Flatland: Or How a Plain Folk Discovered the Third Dimension'' by Charles Howard Hinton. Published way back in 1907, it features a slightly more realistic take on a 2D universe (the Flatlanders in this version exist on the surface of a circular planet rather than just moving through empty space, for instance).
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** "The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World" by A. K. Dewdney. A SpiritualSequel that focuses on [[WorldBuilding creating a believable 2-D world with its own physics, biology and culture]].
** "Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So" by Ian Stewart. Follows another one of A Square's descendents and her ventures with an [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext interdimensional Space Hopper]]. Sacrifices plot and social commentary for higher math theories and {{pun}}s.
** "Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So" by Ian Stewart. Follows another one of A Square's descendents and her ventures with an [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext interdimensional Space Hopper]]. Sacrifices plot and social commentary for higher math theories and {{pun}}s.
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** "The Planiverse: ''Literature/ThePlaniverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World" World'' by A. K. Dewdney. A SpiritualSequel that focuses on [[WorldBuilding creating a believable 2-D world with its own physics, biology and culture]].
**"Flatterland: ''Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So" So'' by Ian Stewart. Follows another one of A Square's descendents and her ventures with an [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext interdimensional Space Hopper]]. Sacrifices plot and social commentary for higher math theories and {{pun}}s.
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Adaptations include a 1965 animated short (''Flatland''), a 1982 stop-motion short [[NoExportForYou only available in Italian]] (''Flatlandia''), a 2007 animated feature film (''Flatland'', aka ''Flatland: The Film''), and, confusingly, another 2007 animated film, this one a short (''Flatland: TheMovie''). The story is also summarized by Carl Sagan as part of ''Cosmos''.
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TheMovie''). The story is also summarized by Carl Sagan as part of ''Cosmos''.
