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* ''WesternAnimation/StarchaserTheLegendOfOrin'' is a fairly standard example with humans.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' is set on the planet Etheria, though [[TheStarsAreGoingOut strange circumstances]] mean it's not initially obvious if other planets ''exist'', much less would be relevant to the plot. Unlike the original series (see next section), there's no mention of Earth whatsoever, though Eternia ''might'' still be a place considering it was used as a special passphrase.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'':

** The parallel universes from ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'' all have their own sets of planets and aliens. The only one that has an Earth is our twin universe, Universe 6.

* [[Creator/MasamuneShirow Masamune Shirow's]] ''Orion'' is set in the fictional Orion Galaxy.

* ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'' is set in a region of space inhabited by {{FunnyAnimal}}s with no knowledge of their origins. At one point a derelict spaceship is found with a human corpse on it, implying it's set in a distant future inhabited by [[UpliftedAnimal Uplifted Animals]].

* ''{{Videogame/Z}}'' follows the war between two intergalactic robots [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots that look and act a lot like humans]]. No mention is ever made to who, when, why or where they were made. Ditto that any organic people where ever around.

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* Although Earth appears in [[Creator/MarkMillar Mark Millar's]] ''Empress'', it's set 65 million years in the past and inhabited by HumanAliens that run a major space empire.
* Don Lawrence's ''[[ComicBook/StormDonLawrence Storm]]'' was originally set on a post-apocalyptic Earth but the protagonists were later moved to the Pandarve multiverse, a bubble of breathable air containing Pandarve and thousands of other planets.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' is set on the planet Etheria, though [[TheStarsAreGoingOut strange circumstances]] mean it's not initially obvious if other planets ''exist'', much less would be relevant to the point. Unlike the original series (see next section), there's no mention of Earth whatsoever, though Eternia ''might'' still be a place considering it was used as a special passphrase.

* ''VideoGame/Privateer2TheDarkening'' is set in a region of space called the Tri-System and focuses on an AmbiguouslyHuman race called Anhurans. It's unrelated to the rest of the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series that follows Earth descended humans. It was originally an unrelated game called ''Fhe Darkening'' before ExecutiveMeddling turned it into a DolledUpInstallment.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Farzar}}'' is a parody of ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' mostly set on the titular planet. Several TheGenieKnowsJackNicholson references are made to Earth culture for the sake of comedy but isn't not clear if the planet actually exists in the setting. The creators have teased the idea of a crossover with their other two shows, ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/ParadisePD'' which are set on Earth.

* ''TabletopGame/StarFrontiers'' is set "near the center of a great spiral galaxy, where stars are much closer together than Earth's sun and its neighbors". Humans are explicitly not Earth humans but are extremely similar.

* ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' is set a thousand years ago on the planet Thra.

* Mamoru Nagano and Creator/YoshiyukiTomino's ''Anime/HeavyMetalLGaim'' and Nagano's later {{Spiritual Successor}} ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories'' do this with the Pentagona Solar System and the Joker Star Cluster (or galaxy, or multiple star system depending on the translator) respectively. In addition to being populated entirely by humans or genetically engineered variants thereof, nearly all the plants and wildlife appear to be ordinary things like cranes, antelopes, lilies of the valley, etc. (with a few dinosaurs and fantasy creatures like dragons and fairies and the occasional god thrown in). And yet Earth is never mentioned. In ''The Five Star Stories'', the human race is believed to have originated on one of two planets, but it's not confirmed. Further complicating things is the fact that a planned future storyline involves a major character travelling through time and space to the last days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

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* Creator/MarkTwain's unfinished work ''Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven'' is an OlderThanTheyThink use of this trope. {{Heaven}} is [[PhysicalHeaven a region far, far out in space]], vaster than any planet since it has to have room for every generation, past and future, of every sentient race in the universe. Captain Stormfield arrives at the wrong planet's 'arrival gate' in Heaven and has a very rough time finding anybody who's even ''heard'' of the Earth. Eventually somebody narrows it down when he mentions that it's in the same [[UsefulNotes/TheSolarSystem solar system]] as UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}}.
--> "Oh, yes! We do know of your planet. We call it the Wart."
* Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos is a direct invocation of the dark side of this trope; in the far, cold depths of the universe, anything can happen, and anything can be found, even your worst nightmare.

* ''VideoGame/Privateer2TheDarkening'' is set in a region of space called the Tri-System and focuses on an AmbiguouslyHuman race called Anhurans. It's unrelated to the rest of the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series that follows Earth descended humans. It was originally an unrelated game called ''Fhe Darkening'' before ExecutiveMedling turned it into a DolledUpInstallment.

* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' was set on a world inhabited by anthropomorphic cats. The aliens from the episode "When Strikes Mutilor" were originally going to be revealed to be humans, complete with an American flag, but Creator/HannaBarbera executives found this confusing and [[ExecutiveMedling made the writers replace them with cat aliens]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' was set on a world inhabited by anthropomorphic cats. The aliens from the episode "When Strikes Mutilor" were originally going to be revealed to be humans, complete with an American flag, but Creator/HannaBarbera executives found this confusing and [[ExecutiveMeddling made the writers replace them with cat aliens]].

* ''VideoGame/Privateer2TheDarkening'' is set in a region of space called the Tri-System and focuses on an AmbiguouslyHuman race called Anhurans. It's unrelated to the rest of the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series that follows Earth descended humans. It was originally an unrelated game called ''Fhe Darkening'' before ExecutiveMedalling turned it into a DolledUpInstallment.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal2000'' doesn't mention Earth and seems to be completely unrelated to the continuity of the original ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' movie.

* Based on their language (English) and dating system (24 hour days, 365 day years) it is strongly implied that the humans of the Three Galaxies setting in ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' came from an Earth, either in their own dimension or an [[AlternateUniverse alternate one]]. However, since they have lived in the Three Galaxies for thousands of years as compared to the present date on Rifts Earth, they must have been displaced in both space ''and'' time.

* ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' is set across 255 fictional galaxies with no Earth or humans. The ''Waking Titan'' AlternateRealityGame reveals [[spoiler:it's set in as computer simulation being run on Earth.]]

* ''[[Anime/{{Photon}} Photon: The Idiot Adventures]]'' mostly plays it straight apart from having Sandy Planet look like Earth at the end after it's terraformed. WordOfGod says it goes on to become the titular world of ''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'' which would make it AnotherDimension to ''[[Anime/TenchiMuyoRyoOhki TenchinMuyo]]'''s Earth.

* ''[[Anime/{{Photon}} Photon: The Idiot Adventures]]'' mostly plays it straight apart from having Sandy Planet look like Earth at the end after it's terraformed. WordOfGod says it goes on to become the titular world of ''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'' which would make it AnotherDimension to ''[[Anime/TenchiMuyoRyoOhki TenchinMuyo's]] Earth.

* The setting of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' franchise has more or less become this thanks to EarthDrift.

* ''VideoGame/TheOuterWilds'' is set in a fictional solar system just referred to as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Solar System]] or [[TitleDrop the Outer Wilds]] with no mention of Earth.