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12->''"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."''
13-->-- '''Dorothy Gale''', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''
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15A standard plot/MythArc for SpeculativeFiction: The OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, frequently their friends, and sometimes their enemies are all transported (often [[SummonEverymanHero summoned]]) to another world — [[PlanetaryRomance distant planet,]] a MagicalLand, AlternateUniverse, [[TheTimeOfMyths the]] [[TrappedInThePast past]], TheFuture — where they find they have an important role to play in Events of Significance that are occurring at the same time as (or sometimes because of) their arrival. Usually there is no hope of their [[ClosedCircle finding a means to return home]] until after the great threat facing them has been defeated. Occasionally, they will then [[IChooseToStay question if they even want to leave]], especially when there is an ongoing FantasticRomance. These stories often feature alternate methods of bringing the protagonist to the new world, such as [[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld Reincarnation]], [[FreakyFridayFlip swapping bodies with an inhabitant of the new world]], or [[MediaTransmigration becoming their own video game avatar]], though simple bodily transport is still common.
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17In Japanese media, this genre is known as "Isekai" [[note]]Literally means "Another World"[[/note]], with such protagonists typically fitting 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). Although this sort of plot was introduced in popular media long before the term was coined, the majority of modern isekai stories 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 Platform/ShousetsukaNiNarou, a popular online fiction website where many of these stories were originally hosted[[/note]] A lot of these are also [[HaremGenre harem series]], 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 grew so popular thanks to Japanese publishing companies like Creator/{{Alphapolis}} and Media Factory that, by the end of the decade, it would become an UndeadHorseTrope, with audiences welcoming stories parodying or subverting the premise while straight-forward examples still retained their popularity.
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19In {{Literature}}, this is often referred to as a "Portal Fantasy". This plot device is also extremely popular in {{Crossover}} events, as it's a good way of bringing together disparate settings in a semi-logical manner.
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21If it's the hero's job to bring back a trapped person, it can become RescuedFromTheUnderworld; while if someone else turns up to bring back the hero, it's WeirdnessSearchAndRescue.
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23The inversion of this, where a person from the other world comes to ours, often inverts the premise along with it: Whereas an Earth hero usually gets called over to where the action is, the Otherworldly hero is usually transported where the action isn't, or [[WeirdnessMagnet becomes]] [[WhenDimensionsCollide the]] [[MageInManhattan action]] when they get there.
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25SuperTrope 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. Alternatively, this problem may be avoided with IChooseToStay. This trope is the [[InvertedTrope inverse]] of AlienAmongUs.
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27Compare with KidnappedByTheCall. Contrast with ConstructedWorld, which doesn't involve present-day Earth at all. For generic types of other dimensions, see AnotherDimension. When it's the bad guy sent to another world, see SealedEvilInAnotherWorld. 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.
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32[[index]]
33* TrappedInAnotherWorld/AnimeAndManga
34* TrappedInAnotherWorld/FanWorks
35* TrappedInAnotherWorld/{{Literature}}
36* TrappedInAnotherWorld/LiveActionTV
37* TrappedInAnotherWorld/VideoGames
38* TrappedInAnotherWorld/{{Webcomics}}
39* TrappedInAnotherWorld/WebOriginal
40* TrappedInAnotherWorld/WesternAnimation
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43!!Other Examples:
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47[[folder:Comic Books]]
48* ''ComicBook/AdamStrange'': 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.
49* ''ComicBook/{{Birthright}}'' deconstructs this premise with the typical teenager from Earth thrown into a fantasy land ruled by the BigBad whom he must defeat. And to do that, he is [[TrainingFromHell put through the grinder]], forced to become a ChildSoldier and [[HarmfulToMinors see things first hand]] what [[WarIsHell no one else should see]]. The end result? [[spoiler:He pulls a FaceHeelTurn, joins the BigBad because he offered to return him home in exchange of becoming his enforcer and leaves the fantasy world to rot]].
50* [[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 [[{{Whateversaurus}} dinosaurs.]] It's an odd little comic.
51* ''ComicBook/{{DIE}}'': In 1991, a group of teenagers is sucked into the world of a new RPG that one of them created. It takes two years for them to learn that all they need to do to leave is unanimously agree to do so -- unfortunately, as they do so, one of them is grabbed by [[BigBad the Grandmaster]] and left behind, eventually [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing the Grandmaster and taking his place]]. 25 years after the others returned home, he drags them back into the game and forces them to play again, refusing to agree to leave unless they win. [[spoiler: Eventually he's killed, but by this point two of the others have decided to stay for their own reasons, leaving the other three trapped by default.]]
52%%* ''ComicBook/{{Dragonlords}}'': It happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, his nephews and Uncle Scrooge.
53* ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' revolves around superpowered beings lost from their dimension, world-hopping until they get to go home.
54* The tag line of the late Steve Gerber's [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel comic]] ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' was "Trapped in a world he never made!" A native of a TalkingAnimal world of anthropomorphic ducks, Howard fell through a portal and wound up in AnotherDimension -- namely, the Franchise/MarvelUniverse version of Cleveland, Ohio.
55* In ''ComicBook/IHateFairyland'', Gertrude has been stuck in Fairyland for 27 years, and hasn't aged in all that time. To say she's not happy about it would be an {{Understatement}}.
56* The premise of the ''ComicBook/{{Jinty}}'' story "Worlds Apart" -- six schoolgirls find themselves in a series of strange worlds governed by their main characteristics. There's ''one'' way out, but it's not a pleasant one...the creator of that particular world has to die.
57* ''[[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 accompanied by retainers to carry out a quest.
58* Creator/CrossGen's ''Negation'' featured a RagtagBunchOfMisfits trapped in an alternate universe that did not obey the laws of physics. At least one character started out convinced that it was AllJustADream.
59* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
60** ComicBook/PowerGirl was the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} of Earth-2, but, after the first Crisis, Earth-2 didn't exist anymore, and Kara was trapped into the single surviving universe.
61** In ''ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone'', a dimensional vortex throws Supergirl, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} and a friend of theirs into a parallel dimension, leaving them with no apparent way to return.
62** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot'', the titular heroines spend several days trapped in a pocket dimension, fighting an eldritch abomination, until they manage to break through.
63** ''ComicBook/TheOtherSideOfDoomsday'': Linda Danvers, Iris West and Jean Loring are abducted into another dimension by T.O. Morrow to lure Flash and Atom into a trap.
64** "ComicBook/ThePhantomSuperboy": After learning about the existence of the Phantom Zone, Clark Kent becomes trapped in that parallel dimension when a lizard accidentally pokes the Projector switch on right when Clark is standing in front of the device.
65* WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls gets sucked into a vortex in their vanity mirror and are transposed into an alternate version of Townsville, called Viletown where their villains, the Powerpunk Girls, are now in Townsville wreaking havoc. Viletown's hero is the noble chimp Jomo Momo. This was DC issue #50, "Deja View" and was intended to be a TV episode.
66* ''ComicBook/ResidentAlien'' features an alien protagonist stranded on Earth with little chance of ever returning to his home planet.
67* Sonic is trapped in the Special Zone for about fifteen issues in ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic.''
68* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
69** In ''ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass'', Cliffjumper finds himself trapped in the titular universe after traveling through a mysterious portal.
70** The plot of ''King Grimlock'' sees [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Grimlock of the Dinobots]] transported to a fantasy world where a group of humans call on his help. Grimlock, being Grimlock, isn't exactly thrilled about it.
71* ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'' stars [[PunnyName Gwen Poole]], a young Marvel Comics fangirl from what is either ''our'' reality or a world very similar to it, who through a NoodleIncident that she doesn't like to talk about [[spoiler:and is apparently subject to numerous {{Cosmic Retcon}}s,]] winds up on Earth-616, Marvel's "prime" universe. Using her encyclopedic knowledge of the franchise, she sets out to become a mercenary superhero in the hopes that it'll keep her from getting unceremoniously killed off.
72* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'', a deliberate homage to ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'' (in setting) and ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' (in tone).
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76* ''ComicStrip/BuckRogers'' is about the titular hero who goes into [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] and wakes up [[FishOutOfTemporalWater in the 25th century.]] It was based on the novel ''Armageddon 2419,'' by the same author and with the same premise.
77* ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' is about the titular hero and his friends getting [[PlanetaryRomance stranded on the planet Mongo.]] In the original comic strip, they do eventually escape Mongo, return to Earth, and engage in still more voyages to other worlds, but the Mongo arc is the one everyone remembers and on which most subsequent adaptations have been based. The [[LongRunners long-running]] comic eventually brought them back to Mongo and found an excuse to bring back the supposedly-dead Ming because, well, ''Flash Gordon'' didn't quite feel like ''Flash Gordon'' without them.
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81* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted when it turns out to be AllJustADream.]]
82* Manolo's predicament in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' once he gets to the Land of the Remembered. Because he's dead, he is unable to return to among the living to find Maria, unless he gets help from La Muerte.
83* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' runs with Brooklyn residents Mario and Luigi accidentally being sent to different fantasy worlds - Mario to the Mushroom Kingdom and Luigi to the Dark Lands. This is a MythologyGag that references early ''Mario'' adaptations like ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' and [[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 the live-action film]], which also had Mario trapped in the Mushroom Kingdom.
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86[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
87* ''Film/AdventuresInDinosaurCity'', a group of three kids are transported to the titular city.
88%%* At the end of ''Film/AvengersGrimm'', the heroes are trapped on Earth.
89* The French-Canadian film ''Alice's Odyssey'' (AKA ''L'Odyssée d'Alice Tremblay'') involves the eponymous Alice, a single mother who gets transported into a fairy tale world while telling a story to her daughter.
90* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': See Literature section.
91* In the sci-fi thriller ''Film/{{Coherence}}'', once characters pass the dark area they are randomly transported into {{Alternate Timeline}}s with little hope of returning to their homeworld.
92* In ''Film/CoolWorld'', both Frank and Jack are transported to the titular world.
93* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'': Characters from an animated film appear in live-action New York City.
94* In the first ''[[Film/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfILoveWolffy I Love Wolffy]]'' movie in the ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' franchise, Wolffy, Wolnie, and Paddi are trapped in real life and must seek the toy robot that got them there in the first place to return. The second one doesn't count because Wolffy and Wilie go to the real world willingly.
95* In ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'', the characters are sucked into the Jumanji world once they start the game. Averted with [[Film/{{Jumanji}} the original movie]], however -- that only happened if the player landed on a certain square.
96* ''Film/AKidInKingArthursCourt'' is a time-travel variant, based on the book ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court''. This time it's a [=90's=] kid being sent to the past.
97* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
98** ''Film/AntMan1'': Dr. Hank Pym warns Scott Lang not to mess with the regulator on his suit that grants him his SizeShifter abilities. If the regulator is turned off, the wearer will shrink down to a quantum level, forever trapped in the AcidTripDimension between molecules. How does Hank know this? [[spoiler:It's how his wife, a fellow size-changing hero, disappeared, and the sequel revolves around Scott working with the Pym family to bring her back.]]
99** In TheStinger for the sequel, ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', [[spoiler:Scott finds himself in this predicament. Now equipped with a better understanding of the realm, Scott goes subatomic while the Pyms stay behind as MissionControl. However, seconds before they can bring him back to normal, they are all killed by Thanos, due to [[TheBadGuyWins the events]] of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.]]
100** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' features this twice. The first time was when Doctor Strange and America Chavez accidentally stumbled into Earth-838, a {{Techno Dystopia}}, where they are drugged and arrested by {{the Illuminati}}, with Strange standing trial for his 838 counterpart's crimes against the multiverse. Strange, America and 838 scientist Christine Palmer manage to escape after the Scarlet Witch broke in and massacred the Illuminati, but she ends up abducting America and sending Strange and Palmer to a destroyed and ruined universe, where Strange is forced to Dreamwalk in order to escape.
101* ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'': {{Downplayed}} in that Bastian isn't physically trapped there, but reading the book and identifying with Atraeu's adventures builds a PsychicLink of sorts.
102* ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'', with the famous twist that [[EarthAllAlong it's actually our world after all, just many centuries in the future]]. Its sequel, ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'', follows in the same vein, while the third movie, ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'', inverts this by taking two of the chimpanzee characters from the scifi world of the previous films and pulling them back in time to the 20th Century.
103* ''Film/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfILoveWolffy'':
104** Wolffy, Wolnie, and Paddi are trapped in the real world and must seek Wolffy's Bye-Bye Machine to return.
105** At the end, [[spoiler:Pi Zong is sent to Jupiter by the Bye-Bye machine and is visibly not happy about it]].
106* Technically ''Film/SpaceJam'', in which UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan gets lassoed down a golf hall into the cartoon world.
107* ''Film/{{Tron}}'':
108** In an attempt to recover evidence that proves CorruptCorporateExecutive / [[TheCracker Cracker]] Ed Dillinger stole his promotion-worthy ideas for video games, PlayfulHacker Kevin Flynn ends up [[DigitizedHacker physically]] [[BodyUploading digitized]] into {{Cyberspace}} by the DeusEstMachina Master Control Program.
109** This has become the franchise staple, as no protagonist gets digitized voluntarily. In ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Tron 2.0]]'' Jet Bradley gets digitized by BenevolentAI [=Ma3a=] in a desperate act of self-preservation. Later, [[spoiler: The F-Con thugs forcibly shoot Alan in there, too]]. The rival company [[{{Exploited}} exploit]] and [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstruct]] the trope by planning to upload an army of mercenaries into that world to steal and control everything from weapons systems and state secrets to the global finance markets and media.
110** 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 tells the computer to run it again. Then again, he apparently ''did'' [[SarcasmMode inherit his old man's copious forethought]]...
111* In the beginning of ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'', Ryan is thrown into the world of Tao.
112* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': Dorothy from Kansas gets trapped in Oz after being swept away by a tornado. [[spoiler: Subverted as it ends up being AllJustADream, unlike the book. See the Literature section for the book.]]
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116* 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.
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120* ''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.
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124* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Persephone was [[AbductionIsLove kidnapped by love-struck Hades]] and spent an unspecified period of time in the Underworld as his captive bride. Even after Demeter finally got her released, she ate several pomegranate seeds that [[FoodChains bound her to the Underworld forever and forced her to periodically return there.]] This was actually a JustSoStory to explain why we have seasons: Demeter, the harvest goddess, is too depressed for any crops to grow during the months that Persephone is trapped in the Underworld.
125* Many early legends describe accidentally entering a fairy realm, often falling victim to the FairFolk or arriving back home years in the future after spending only days in the other realm.
126* The [[UrExample first Japanese isekai]] ''Urashima Tarō'' dates back to 8th century folklore. The titular character saves a turtle, who turns out to be the Otohime, daughter of the sea god Ryūjin. To reward his daughter's savior, Ryūjin invites Tarō to Ryūjin's underwater kingdom. Tarō stays for three days but gets homesick, so he asks to leave. Tarō returns to his home, only to realize that [[YearOutsideHourInside three hundred years has passed]] in his absence.
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130* ''Podcast/BinaryBreak'', being a ''Digimon'' podcast, naturally begins with Penny, Sophie, and Cate finding themselves trapped in the Digital World alongside some Digimon Partners.
131* This happened to Arnie in ''Podcast/HelloFromTheMagicTavern'', who fell through a magical dimensional portal behind a Burger King in Chicago and found himself in the fantastical, magical land of Foon. Luckily, he's still getting a wi-fi signal from the Burger King through the dimensional rift and so he hosts a weekly podcast from the tavern the Vermilion Minotaur in the town of Hogsface, in the land of Foon.
132* ''Podcast/DungeonsAndDaddies'' begins with four dads, their sons, and their minivan being pulled into the Forgotten Realms.
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136* At a book signing, Sam from ''Radio/ElvenQuest'' is dragged into [=LowerEarth=] when a group of heroes kidnap TheChosenOne, aka. Sam's dog, and he wouldn't get them go. Naturally the only way to get back is to go on their quest to get the Sword of Asnagar, which will (a) defeat the Lord Of Darkness and (b) let Sam go back home).
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140* ''Roleplay/FireEmblemOnForums'':
141** ''[[Roleplay/FireEmblemOnForumsWonderfulBlessing Wonderful Blessing]]'': Parodied with the Revivians, humans taken from Earth by the Goddess Dragons. So many of them have arrived in Generia and been trapped that they have their own nation, Kaisei, with its own, weird culture. Their national stereotype is acting as if they are the ''isekai'' protagonist of their own story....while so many others of their kind exist that they're no longer considered even special.
142* This setting is currently the most popular for [[{{crossover}} multifandom]] JournalRoleplay Games. The community has even coined a phrase for games based around this setting--"spooky jamjar". Which has now come full circle- meet Roleplay/{{Roleplayedingly}}. A roleplay where the characters are sent to a new world every week- and every world is an ''existing Website/LiveJournal roleplay''.
143* After Meowfurryon was killed on ''Roleplay/NoPixel'', he showed up in the ''NP Public'' AlternateContinuity and mentioned that his death in the main universe had "isekai'd" him to the new universe.
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147* 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 Creator/{{Leonardo|DaVinci}}'s Sixth Codex in his backpack that his summoners needed...]]
148* The original module of ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has 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.
149* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'':
150** A short supplement, ''[[http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/portalrealms/ GURPS Fantasy: Portal Realms]]'', covers this topic in detail.
151** An even shorter supplement, ''TabletopGame/GURPSSteampunkSettingTheBrokenClockworkWorld'', describes a specific portal fantasy setting.
152** This is also how the world of ''TabletopGame/GURPSBanestorm'' came to be, with medieval and Renaissance humans (along with races from many other worlds) dragged into the fantasy world of Yrth. It's specifically mentioned that the Banestorm is still active and can grab player characters from modern Earth in order to kick off a fantasy campaign.
153* ''TabletopGame/{{Heroine}}'' always starts off with the eponymous protagonist's ordinary life in the real world, before quickly bringing her over to the MagicalLand, which she can only leave after overcoming her personal flaws and completing an arduous quest.
154* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': This is part of the process of planeswalker sparks igniting. If a person with a dormant spark faces certain death, experiences a strong emotion (such as betrayal, rage, or elation), or encounters a major revelation, there's a chance that their spark will ignite and allow them to awaken to their abiity to transverse planes, which comes with flinging them to another, random plane. Unlike most examples of this trope, they can easily return home once they figure out what happened, but often they'll become curious as to what other planes lie out there...
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158* Most of the Music/{{Tsukiuta}} stage plays feature original stories where the idol characters are trapped in another world. The worlds will have a different theme each time, and different [[CostumePorn fantasy costumes]]. So far, there have been multiple [[{{Wutai}} ''wa-fuu'']] worlds, an Alice-in-Wonderland-inspired [[LittleBitBeastly Rabbits Kingdom]], and an upcoming CyperPunk world.
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162* ''VisualNovel/NUCarnival'': The protagonist, Eiden, is warped from his homeworld into the fantastical Klein Continent after coming into contact with a mysterious gemstone. Given that the Klein Continent has plenty of good-looking men around, he's not complaining about his ordeal one bit.
163* ''VisualNovel/YuNo'': The Isekai plot twist that precluded the second act of the visual novel was genuinely revolutionary in 1996. The second act of ''YU-NO'' was a TropeCodifier of the Isekai genre.
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167* 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.
168* Discussed in the "Isekai" episode of ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', which lampshades the naked power fantasy aspects of the genre such as female characters being standard harem archetypes, the fact that most protagonists of the genre [[VanillaProtagonist tend to have generic personalities for the audience to better project themselves onto]] as well as the hero [[HerosSlaveHarem getting slave girls as part of said harem]].
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172* ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'' is a BlackComedy take on ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'', revolving around a group of humans trapped in {{cyberspace}} with a RepulsiveRingmaster AI [[NameOfCain named Caine]] who [[ObliviouslyEvil wants to show them a good time but just ends up traumatizing them further]].
173* ''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, [[spoiler:they use the story to help them understand the world and travel to the large tree in its middle in order to find their way back to Remnant.]]
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