History Main / TrappedInAnotherWorld

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Volume 8 ends with the implication that certain characters get trapped in another world. [[spoiler:Team RWBY, Jaune and Neo fall into the VoidBetweenTheWorlds, ending up trapped in the Ever After from the In-Universe fairy tale "The Girl Who Fell Through the World". During Volume 9, they use the story to help them understand the world and travel to the large tree in it's middle in order to find their way back to Remnant.]]

Compare with KidnappedByTheCall. Contrast with ConstructedWorld, which doesn't involve present-day Earth at all. For generic types of other dimensions, see AnotherDimension. See also TheHomewardJourney. For the reincarnation flavor of this plot, see ReincarnateInAnotherWorld or if the new world was [[ShowWithinAShow fictional in universe]] MediaTransmigration. If the protagonist is lucky, it comes with a NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus.

* The frame story of ''TabletopGame/CastleFalkenstein'' involves computer game artist Tom Olam being [[SummonEverymanHero magically summoned]] into the Victorian-fantasy world of the game. [[spoiler:Though as it turns out, it was actually the copy of UsefulNotes/{{Leonardo|DaVinci}}'s Sixth Codex in his backpack that his summoners needed...]]

* Mike Grell's DCU comic ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'', a deliberate homage to ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'' (in setting) and ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' (in tone).

If it's the hero's job to bring back a trapped person, it can become an OrpheanRescue; while if someone else turns up to bring back the hero, it's WeirdnessSearchAndRescue.

* ''[[VideoGame/RavingRabbids The Lapins Crétins]]: Luminys Quest'' is a particularly absurd case, as it involves the eponymous Rabbids suddenly being summoned into a fantasy world, believed to be the prophesized guardians who will save the source of its magic from the ambitions of a sorcerer, and are assigned some retainers to carry out a quest.

* This was ComicBook/AdamStrange's origin in Creator/DCComics. An archeologist who accidentally discovered an alien transport system, Adam became the number one hero of the planet Rann. His problem was that the Zeta beams which teleport him are only temporary and he has started a family on Rann. He has since been able to stay there permanently, but on occasion he finds himself on Earth and this trope applies there.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

SuperTrope to PortalBook, PortalPicture, SummonEverymanHero, FourthWallShutInStory and TrappedInTVLand. Often overlaps with DownTheRabbitHole, FishOutOfWater, and YouCantGoHomeAgain. But if returning home is a goal, then there's overlap with TheresNoPlaceLikeHome. When returning home proves to be [[http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction/relentlessly-mundane/ relentlessly mundane]] and you wish you'd stayed in the magic world, it's SoWhatDoWeDoNow. This trope is the [[InvertedTrope inverse]] of AlienAmongUs.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld/LightNovels

* ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}} revolves around superpowered beings lost from their dimension, world-hopping until they get to go home.

-->-- '''I'm Alive''', Music/ElectricLightOrchestra, ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}''

-->-- '''I'm Alive''', ''Music/ElectricLightOrchestra'', ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}''

* [[Creator/GoldKeyComics Whitman Comics]] produced the official ComicBookAdaptation of the film ''Film/TheBlackHole'' and actually continued the series for a few more issues past the end of the film's story, depicting the new universe the heroes wind up in after passing through [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the weirdness inside the black hole.]] It contains a parallel counterpart of Reinhardt, Maximilian, and the ''Cygnus.'' Reinhardt is a GalacticConqueror there, persecuting a planet inhabited by HumanAliens and alien wildlife that happens to look like [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs.]] It's an odd little comic.

SuperTrope to PortalBook, PortalPicture, SummonEverymanHero, FourthWallShutInStory and TrappedInTVLand. Often overlaps with DownTheRabbitHole, FishOutOfWater, and YouCantGoHomeAgain. (When returning home proves to be [[http://www.strangehorizons.com/fiction/relentlessly-mundane/ relentlessly mundane]] and you wish you'd stayed in the magic world, it's SoWhatDoWeDoNow.) The [[InvertedTrope inverse]] of AlienAmongUs.

%%* Happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, his nephews and Uncle Scrooge in ''ComicBook/{{Dragonlords}}''.
* This is the raison d'être for the Marvel comic series ''[[ComicBook/{{Exiles}} The Exiles]]''. Superpowered beings lost from their dimension, world hop until they get to go home.

** In ''Film/TronLegacy'' Sam learns the hard way that you shouldn't press "yes" at every pop-up dialog on somebody else's system. He looks at the last command given to the computer before him (i.e. Flynn's last command) and then [[WhatAnIdiot tells the computer to run it again]]. Then again, he apparently ''did'' [[SarcasmMode inherit his old man's copious forethought]]...

!!Example subpages:

* TrappedInAnotherWorld/ComicBooks

* [[TrappedInAnotherWorld/{{Film}} Film - Live-Action]]

!!Other examples:

[[folder:Manhua and Manhwa]]
* ''Manhwa/IChooseTheEmperorEnding'': Marina develops a revolutionary VR device that can bring fictional worlds to life and transports herself to Lasnorok, the setting of a novel she wrote, then finds herself unable to get back out. Disguised as a runaway slave boy named Rino, she comes face-to-face with the main character she created, the ambitious Edward Allen Dihas, and now has to help him overthrow the emperor.
* In ''Manhua/InfinityGame'', a slacker high-school student gets pulled into a world where he is named the "Dungeon Master" and creates a new game world to escape his boring school life. The cast end up trapped in the world after a ComputerVirus stops them from escaping.
* ''Manhwa/TheReasonWhyRaelianaEndedUpAtTheDukesMansion'' has the protagonist pushed off a bridge and reincarnated into the world of a murder mystery she read as Raeliana, the dead centerpiece of said mystery.

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* The original module for {{TabletopGame/Ravenloft}} for [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] had characters pulled from other D&D settings to face The Devil Strahd. This has since become such a traditional setup for adventures in that setting that it took ''thirteen years'' for them to write up information as to creating characters who were native to the setting.

* The Mother's Basement's [[FauxDocumentary PSA]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2DzAQYw68 Isekai Anime Survival Guide]] is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin -- a survival guide for people who get teleported to another world.

In Japanese media, this is known as "Isekai",[[note]]Literally "Another World"[[/note]] with such protagonists typically being their local demographic's flavor of hero, [[note]]{{Stock Light Novel Hero}}es are common, though their [[StockShonenHero Shonen]] and [[StockShoujoHeroine Shoujo]] counterparts are just as prominent[[/note]] and usually involves said character gaining [[RPGMechanicsVerse RPG-like powers]] on arrival (or at the very least, is set in a RolePlayingGameVerse). Expect TheProtagonist to possess some form of NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus. Though it's been around in many forms of media long before the term was coined, the majority of isekai stories as we know it are derived from {{Web Serial Novel}}s or old stories reworked into LightNovels, with their premises and writing style even being noted as a subgenre: Narou Isekai.[[note]]From ''Shosetsuka ni Narou'', a popular online fiction website[[/note]] A lot of these are also HaremSeries, to the extent that a party of sexy heroines (or heroes) who are attracted to the protagonist has become part of the standard formula. During the 2010s, these types of stories became so popular thanks to Japanese publishing companies like Creator/{{Alphapolis}} and Media Factory that, by the end of the decade, it had become an UndeadHorseTrope: being parodied, subverted and even ridiculed to hell and back, while straight-forward examples still remain very much present.

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-->-- '''I'm Alive''', ''Music/ElectricLightOrchestra'', ''Film/{{Xanadu}}''

* TrappedInAnotherWorld/LightNovel