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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In Volume 9, Team RWBY accidentally end up in the Ever After, a strange location that functions on fairy tale logic instead of Remnant's logic. The landscape is split into hexagonal "acres", each linked by bridges that span abyssal gaps that descend into the VoidBetweenTheWorlds. Every acre has a different environment that are shaped to the needs of its denizes, which include talking animals and living toys. The Jungle Acre has golden skies and two suns while the Red Acre has red vegetation, green skies and one sun. At the centre of it all looms an enormous tree that sheds rainbow leaves across the entire realm, and all residents play "roles" that are determined by what they are.

* Most of the settings of the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series falls into this. As most are strange locales populated by strange people and creatures. The mushrooms that increase Mario's size are even a direct shout out to the mushrooms from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is about two brothers who get lost in a strange place simply called The Unknown. Sounds like some Wonderland business waiting to happen, and it does, with elements such as a town inhabited by living scarecrows [[spoiler:who are actually the skeletons of the forgotten dead]], a school for animals, and a manor complex inhabited by two eccentric millionaires who don't realize their vast, sprawling mansions abut with one another and spend years thinking the other is a ghost.

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* In ''{{Superman}}'', Htrae is a Bizarro Earth, a cubical planet where things are the opposite of Earth. It's also very inconsistent due to the fact that various authors chose to focus on different aspects and also had different ideas of "opposite" (which kind of works in a meta-sense since Earth is pretty ''consistent'')

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* The Dreaming from ''ComicBook/TheSandman''

[[caption-width-right:350:Well, things work differently around here.]]

* ''Literature/TheNutcracker'' is a classic example, as and its 1816 publishing date makes it significantly older than the TropeNamer. This is translated both the the Tchaikovsky ballet and its recent adaptation ''Film/TheNutcrackerAndTheFourRealms''.

* ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'': TropeNamer, though it's debatable whether it's better described as a WorldOfChaos. (Best summarized in the [[Film/AliceInWonderland1999 1999 Hallmark adaptation]], wherein the Caterpillar tells Alice that "everything has a purpose, even here.")

* The sourcebook [[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/141032/A-Red--Pleasant-Land A Red And Pleasant Land]] is a campaign setting for TabletopGame/LamentationsOfTheFlamePrincess, though it's designed to be adapted into other D20 systems. One could call it "Alice in Wonderland but with Vampires", but doing so severely short-sells it's strange and macabre world of eternal night, where OurVampiresAreDifferent is in full effect.

* Vornheim, from the sourcebook [[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/141032/A-Red--Pleasant-Land A Red And Pleasant Land]], is a campaign setting for TabletopGame/LamentationsOfTheFlamePrincess, though it's designed to be adapted into other D20 systems. One could call it "Alice in Wonderland but with Vampires", but doing so severely short-sells it's strange and macabre world of eternal night, where OurVampiresAreDifferent is in full effect.

Many will have a theme of some sort, especially if there is AnAesop. The MentalWorld and DreamLand are often wonderlands; there is also a certain amount of overlap with the WorldOfSymbolism or the LandOfFaerie. See also {{Cloudcuckooland}} and Wackyland.

Many will have a theme of some sort, especially if there is AnAesop. The MentalWorld and DreamLand are often wonderlands; there is also a certain amount of overlap with the WorldOfSymbolism or the LandOfFaerie. See also {{Cloudcuckooland}}.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "The [=ABCs'=] of Beth", has Beth recount how she and her childhood friend, Tommy, used to play in an imaginary place called [=Froopyland=] as a way to cope with him being murdered and eaten by his father. When he overhears her, Rick becomes indignant and takes her to [=Froopyland=] to brag about how good an inventor he is. In [=Froopyland,=] they discover that [[WentMadFromTheIsolation after decades of being left there, he went mad]] and became the de-facto [[TheCaligula incestous cannibalistic ruler.]] Rick and Beth fight over [=Froopyland,=] with Rick telling her that he created it because she wanted him to make weapons to terrorize, and murder, the neighborhood kids, and Beth snaps back that the reason she asked for those things is because knowing what [[MadScientist Rick's capable of,]] she wanted some attention from him, and the reason why she left Tommy in [=Froopyland=] is because she was jealous of the fact that Tommy had parents that loved him and paid attention to him. When she goes back for him, [[BackhandedApology she refuses to apologize for how he got stuck there,]] and [[spoiler: after killing him and his subjects, she asks Rick to clone him, and save his father's life.]]
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* To early people, any far away land or sea would be like this. Especially when they've only heard about them from others who managed to explore such places. An example would Australia for European explorers. To them, it was a strange place where there were giant rat-like animals that hopped on two legs and had pouches, beaver-like animals with duck bills and where the swans were black instead of white.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "The ABCs' of Beth", has Beth recount how she and her childhood friend, Tommy, used to play in an immaginary place called Froopyland as way to cope with him being murdered and eaten by his father. When he overhears her, Rick becomes indignant and takes her to Froopyland to brag about how good an inventor he is. In Froopyland, they discover that [[WentMadFromTheIsolation after decades of being left there, he went mad]] and became the de-facto [[TheCaligula incestous cannibalistic ruler.]] Rick and Beth fight over Froopyland, with Rick telling her that he created it because she wanted him to make weapons to terrorize, and murder, the neighborhood kids, and Beth snaps back that the reason she asked for those things is because knowing what [[MadScientist Rick's capable of,]] she wanted some attention from him, and the reason why she left Tommy in Froopyland is because she was jealous of the fact that Tommy had parents that loved him and paid attention to him. When she goes back for him, she refuses to apologize for how he got stuck there, and [[spoiler: after killing him and his subjects, she asks Rick to clone him, and save his father's life.]]

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Many will have a theme of some sort, especially if there is AnAesop. The MentalWorld and DreamLand are often wonderlands; there is also a certain amount of overlap with the WorldOfSymbolism or the LandOfFaerie.

* ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'': TropeNamer, though it's debatable whether it's better described as a WorldOfChaos. (Best summarized in the 1999 Hallmark adaptation, wherein the Caterpillar tells Alice that "everything has a purpose, even here.")

* ''[[ComicBook/DisneyKingdoms Figment]]'' (based on the ''Ride/JourneyIntoImagination'' ride) takes a journey into a world of imagination through a mentally projected portal. The Imaginary realm is divided into various provinces of creative expression such as the Color Wheel, [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuckInMathmagicland Mathmagicland]], the Audio Archipelago and the Nightmare Nation, though only the latter two are properly visited. As Blair was the one that created the portal with his mind, he has some influence over reality there and in time gains a full mastery of that gift and his "mental energy devices" to properly become the Dreamfinder.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is about two brothers who get lost in a strange place simply called The Unknown. Sounds like some Wonderland business waiting to happen, and it does, with elements such as a town inhabited by living scarecrows [[spoiler: who are actually the skeletons of the forgotten dead]], a school for animals, and a manor complex inhabited by two eccentric millionaires who don't realize their vast, sprawling mansions abut with one another and spend years thinking the other is a ghost.