History Main / AstralCheckerboardDecor

[[caption-width-right:300:Taking [[VariantChess 3-D Chess]] to a completely different level.]]

* In a similar vein, the Collective Unconscious in the {{VideoGame/Persona}} series.

* VideoGame/YumeNikki has a checkered pattern on Madotsuki's shirt. The Fangames took that and carried on with it, ending up with this trope.

* The ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' game cultimates in a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with Gideon on a checkerboard floor.

* Interestingly, quite a bit on the {{Mario}} games, such as certain fortresses in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''. Given the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' roots, little wonder.

* All over ''Film/TheMatrix''; one example is when Neo goes to meet Morpheus (and first enters "the Real World.") The movie is pretty blatant with the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' refs in that scene.

* Chessboard patterns appear throughout the ''[[Creator/ThisIsIt Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]]'' series: the dining room floor in ''DHMIS 1'', the bathroom floor in ''2'', the picnic mat in ''3'', the digital world in ''4'', and the kitchen tiles in ''5''. It foreshadows [[spoiler:the LotusEaterMachine nature of the world they live in; the world's control room in ''6'' also has chessboard flooring]].

* The black and white checkerboard floor found in all Masonic lodges.

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* All over ''Film/TheMatrix''; one example is when Neo goes to meet Morpheus (and first enters "the Real World.") The movie is pretty blatant with the ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' refs in that scene.
* ''Film/PansLabyrinth''
* The Devil's office in ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate''.
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' has dream locations like this.
* The longest and most memorable of The Dude's dream sequences in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' features the checkerboard flooring he saw earlier at the eponymous Big Lebowski's house.
* Notably the afterlife hallways in ''{{Film/Beetlejuice}}'', but shows up other places as well. Combines with stripes and other bold patterns, as well as {{Bizarrchitecture}}.

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* TomPetty's video for "Don't Come Around Here No More".
* AyumiHamasaki's "Song 4 u".

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': there's a notable creepy checkerboard ground in the scenes where the mane cast confront the villain Discord on his throne during part two of the season 2 premiere. Because of [[RealityWarper Discord]], all of Ponyville had effectively been turned into an EldritchLocation.
** In the comics, a map included in one issue has a similar design for the site of where a battle with Discord was once held long ago.

* The [[http://i51.tinypic.com/nl2wih.jpg C.I.D. ceiling]] in ''AshesToAshes''. Even used in the [[http://i51.tinypic.com/6ymq93.jpg promo pictures.]]
* ''TwinPeaks'' has a variation: the [[http://serialconsign.com/images/2007/08/red-room.jpg black-and-white chevrons on the floor]] of the [[EldritchLocation Black Lodge]].

* Gideon Gordon Graves' battlefield in Ramona's mind in the ''ScottPilgrim'' graphic novels has a checkered floor.

* The [[http://i51.tinypic.com/nl2wih.jpg C.I.D. ceiling]] in ''AshesToAshes''. Even used in the [[http://i51.tinypic.com/6ymq93.jpg promo pictures]].

** When Homura fights [[spoiler:the demons]] at the end of the manga, the fight takes place [[http://www.mangareader.net/mahou-shoujo-madoka-magica/12/39 in a dungeon with a checkered floor]].

* The ''[[VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld]]'' game cultimates in a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with Gideon on a checkerboard floor.

* Seen in [[spoiler: Nightmare's lair]] in ''KirbyOfTheStars''.

* ''PansLabyrinth''

* ''{{Inception}}'' has dream locations like this.
* The longest and most memorable of The Dude's dream sequences in ''TheBigLebowski'' features the checkerboard flooring he saw earlier at the eponymous Big Lebowski's house.

* The {{Bizarrchitecture}} in Constantine's mansion in ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}: The Dark Project'' includes checkerboard floors (and walls and ceilings in such places as the floor ceases to be a floor).

* The Temple of Time in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]''.
** The Forest Temple has rooms with this pattern as well.

* Checkeboard surfaces are all over the place in the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' GameMod ''Void'', which is set in an EldritchLocation.

[[caption-width-right:300:Taking [[VariantChess 3-D Chess]] to a whole new level.]]

* Tartarus in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''

* VideoGame/DragonsLair has Dirk jumping from square to square on a chessboard to keep the bad knight from electrocuting him.