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->'''Jerry:''' Like Bizarro Superman ... who lives in the backwards bizarro world. Up is down, down is up. He says "Hello" when he leaves, "Goodbye" when he arrives.\\
'''Elaine:''' Shouldn't he say "''bad''bye?"\\
'''Jerry:''' No, it's still goodbye.\\
'''Elaine:''' Does he live underwater?\\
'''Jerry:''' No.\\
'''Elaine:''' Is he black?\\
'''Jerry:''' Look, just forget the whole thing.
-->-- ''{{Seinfeld}}'', "The Bizarro Jerry" (1996)

->''"Inverted world, where the spazzes make fun of the cool guys!"''
-->-- '''Tom Servo''', ''{{MST3K}}''

An AlternateUniverse where everything is the same... but different. Superman originated this, and it has been parodied by a number of shows.

A bizarro world is distinct from a normal AlternateUniverse in that a bizarro world has everything "reversed" in some way. Heroes are villains and vice versa; beauty is hated and ugliness embraced; whatever the author decides to do. A [[MirrorUniverse good/evil flip]] is the usual trope, allowing the heroes to work together with the bizarro version of their enemies (who are, of course, heroes in bizarro world).

Recent examples of bizarro universes have reduced the use of good and evil in favor of other reversals, such as who is the 'smart one' in a group of friends or who are the 'cool kids' at school.

A bizarro universe need not be a literal "other universe"; sometimes it is simply another city/country/planet or a counterpart organisation that has strangely familiar elements, but with some sort of reversals present.

Compare OppositeDay, a similar idea on a much smaller scale. Compare MirrorUniverse, which sometimes has some Bizarro elements to mix things up.
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'''Examples''':

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* The two most famous are from {{DC Comics}}: [[TropeNamers Bizarro World]] and the Crime Syndicate of America (or sometimes Amerika).
** Bizarro World is a planet (or sometimes a universe) that works on Bizarro logic, where everything is opposite (the planet itself is actually a cube and named "Htrae"). Bizarro world in the GoldenAge had a law stating it was a crime to do anything good or make anything pretty or to do things correctly. This was instituted by Bizarro #1 after Lois Lane called him a hideous, and backwards "Bizzaro" {{Superman}}. The inhabitants actually rejected the first Bizarro baby because it was perfect by human standards, then had tried to get it back when they found out it would turn Bizarro three days after it was born. ''[[AllStarDCComics All-Star Superman]]'' introduced "Zibarro," who was like a Bizarro on Bizarro world. That is, he was a normal person.
** On the CSA's parallel world of "Earth-3" (later rewritten during DC's PostCrisis period to be in Qward the anti-matter universe), Earth history is reversed (Britain fought the Revolutionary war to gain independence from America, President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by Abraham Lincoln, and so on) and everyone generally acts the opposite of their counterparts in the "normal" universe (i.e., all heroes are villains and vice versa). Also, the laws of physics are changed so that evil always wins.
*** Another version of this morality-swapped universe is the post-InfiniteCrisis Earth-3, featuring the Crime Society of America, which differs slightly from the antimatter version. It's supposed to be the morality-swapped version of Earth-2, while the antimatter universe is the morality-swapped version of the main Earth.
* The MirrorUniverse of Moebius in the ArchieComics SonicTheHedgehog series also has some Bizarro elements, besides the morality flip. A pacifist, Irish-accented Knuckles guards the Sunken Island, and instead of the rare and powerful [[MineralMacGuffin Chaos Emeralds]] there is a bountiful supply of Anarchy Beryl, which gives PowerAtAPrice (Sonic figures this out in an impressive moment of GenreSavvy).
* {{Transformers}} features the "Shattered Glass" universe, where heroic Decepticons fight evil Autobots.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* Sketches set in "The Bizarro World" - done with a jerky low-frame-rate camera effect and funky audio filtering - were a frequent feature on ''SaturdayNightLive'' during the early 1980s.
** "NBC am in third place! This am great!"
* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'''s Wishverse is not a Bizarro world, despite Cordelia's remark "I wish us all to Bizarro World", but a combination of ForWantOfANail and a subversion of WonderfulLife (Cordy wished somebody ''else'' had never come to Sunnydale).
** In ''{{Angel}}'', in Cordelia's final episode after a long absence, she returns, and upon finding that Angel is working with their main enemies and an old villain has switched sides, asks "What Bizarro world did I wake up in?", referencing both the Wishverse and the trope itself.
* ''{{Charmed}}'' had an episode with a universe where the Charmed Ones are evil and demons are good. It also turned out that the "Power of Three" which normally requires three sisters could be used by combining the normal and reversed universe characters' powers as the Power of Four.
* ''FatherTed'', where Rugged Island has another set of three priests with the same dynamic as the regulars on Craggy Island.
* ''{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Bizarro Jerry" (1996) posits Elaine as the focal point between two universes: Jerry, George, and Kramer being their juvenile, petty, and doofy (respectively) selves are contrasted with Kevin, Gene, and Feldman who are mature, considerate, and clever. The episode goes to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bizarro_Jerry#Bizarro_Counterparts great lengths]] to provide all the show's constants with bizarro versions. Some stuff TheOtherWiki misses:
** Kevin's apartment is a literal mirror image of Jerry's, built from the same set. The paint scheme is reversed as well, as are the camera angles.
** At the Bizarro Coffee Shop (i.e., Reggie's), the Bizarro Gang sits in a booth by the window, which the normal gang does but rarely (and often to their consternation).
** Gene, in addition to his polite Bizarro George personality, is always over-dressed. A sharp contrast to his rival, who would "drape [himself] in velvet [jumpsuits] if it were socially acceptable" (and in fact, eventually does).
** Feldman apparently has several ideas for inventions that are both new and useful, but dismisses them as "not practical", whereas Kramer's ideas fall into two categories: bad ideas, and good ideas he claims were stolen from him.
* On ''TheDailyShow'', John Oliver referred to "Bizarro Hitler", who spent his time hugging Jews and got his ass handed to him by France. Also, his face was all moustache except above his lip- when Jon Stewart said he imagined Bizarro Hitler would be a black man with blond hair and a pencil beard, John Oliver told him he was thinking of Dennis Rodman.
** In another episode, Jon Stewart's Bizarro version is mentioned: the "ruggedly handsome, non-neurotic" Jon Leibowitz, who pretends to be independent, but actually is a "right-wing nutcase."
* In a ''Red Dwarf'' episode, the boys visit an alternate universe with an alternate Red Dwarf, and meet female counterparts of Lister and Rimmer and even the computer Holly (it's a world with a female-dominated history). The Cat runs off eagerly and lustfully to find his female counterpart, and she-Lister says, "He's going to be disappointed." "Why?" "His opposite isn't a female. It's a dog."
* In ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' an episode entitled "Mirror, Mirror", a transporter malfunction causes Kirk and some of his crew to be transported to a Bizarro World, where the Federation was a cruel empire, and where Spock had a beard.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''HeyArnold!'', "Arnold Visits Arnie", where (for example) Stumpy is the smart kid and Fifi is the idiot, as opposed to Stinky being the idiot and Phoebe being the smart kid.
** Wasn't that [[spoiler: entire sequence AllJustADream anyway?]]
* TheSimpsons' hometown of Springfield has a bizarro neighbor, Shelbyville. Despite longstanding hatred between the two towns, the differences between them are negligible:
** Shelbyville also has a nuclear power plant, but run by flamboyant billionaire Aristotle Amadopoulos. That suburban towns the size of Springfield and Shelbyville can't share a single plant speaks to the depth of their rivalry.
** Shelbyville stores do not stock Springfield-made products. The ''Speed''-E-Mart and ''Joe's'' Tavern prefer Fudd Beer to Duff, despite Fudd's connection to hillbilly blindness. Krusty Burger doesn't seem to exist, replaced with [[PaintingTheFourthWall some weird place]] called [=McDonalds=] A later episode reveals fat tony is paid by krusty to keep out mcdonald's, burger king etc. etc. for the price of 50 dollars a month.
** All the fire hydrants in Shelbyville are yellow, as opposed to Springfield's, which are universally red.
** Some characters in Springfield have Shelbyville counterparts, such as a female version of Groundskeeper Willie, and the East Asian proprietor of Speed-E-Mart. There's also a Milhouse ("Your name is Milhouse? I thought I was the only one!")
*** Interestingly, Milhouse's mother Luann (who looks strikingly like her husband Kirk) is from Shelbyville, possibly making herself her own (now ex)-husband's Bizarro counterpart!
* In one episode of ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'', the KND discovered a world where adults were slaves to kids, and a group of despotic kids ruled over the others. Not only were all the inhabitants the opposite of their regular world counterparts, but all names and acronyms were backwards (Lizzie became Eizzil, etc.).
* The {{Sealab 2021}} episode "Bizarro" had the titular underwater research lab being taken over by bizarro versions of the crew who wanted diamonds.
** Don't you mean '''BIZARRO''' diamonds?????
* In an episode of the the ''{{Beetlejuice}}'' cartoon called ''Dr. Beetle and Mr. Juice'', the titular ghost invents a cologne that makes anyone exposed to it behave in a manner opposite to how they usually would.
* An episode of TheSecretSaturdays has a magic mirror bring The Mondays, their {{evilcounterpart}}s from a MirrorUniverse, into their world. Each of them has their personalities reversed ''and'' some physical difference to tell them apart. In addition, they are supposed to be made of Anti-Matter, which causes reality t go crazy every time one of the characters approached his or her counterpart. (Actually, if they were made of antimatter [[DidNotDoTheResearch they would have exploded like nuclear bombs the moment they entered the positive universe]].)
** they more or less get turned into postive atoms coming through or back into the mirror portal and operate under standard two people can't exist in the same space rules.
* A {{Futurama}} episode "The Farnsworth Parabox" features a Bizarro univere where the cast's counterparts have identical personalities but most have a different color scheme.
** There is a difference, the results of coin flips are opposite of the other universe which create new scenarios if the coin flip leads to an important event. Bizarro Fry and Leela got married, while the Professor has a scar from removing his own brain.
** The characters (of both worlds!) [[WrongGenreSavvy originally assume]] that the other world is a MirrorUniverse and begin fighting. ([[FearfulSymmetry hilariously]])

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[[folder: Webcomics ]]

* In ''[[http://www.egscomics.com/ El Goonish Shive]]'', the "[=AF04=]" universe has personality-reversed versions of all the main characters - except Elliot, where the the only difference is that he's wearing a white T-shirt.
* ''TerrorIsland'' [[http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/040.html theorem 040]]: panel 1 shows the logical problems with DC's Bizarro universe.
*In ''{{Shortpacked}}'', [=McAwesome's=] Parasailing and Chocolate Bakery (the place Ethan ''nearly'' went to work) is the Bizarro version of Shortpacked. As well as Ethan's counterpart Evan (who's dating That Guy) there's a BenevolentBoss (Bizarro Galasso), a fairly sensible ex-SEMME agent (Bizarro Robin), an employee who's obsessed with pirates (Bizarro Ninja Rick) and Franklin Roosevelt (Bizarro Reagan). There are also versions of Amber (Rose) and Faz (Zaph).
** And now that things finally seem to be going right for Ethan, Evan's in a coma.
** Doesn't NiceDrunk!Mike secretly work there as well?
* ''SluggyFreelance'' appeared to have one of these when the Dimension of Lame first appeared, where Riff, Zoe, and Bun-Bun were all incredibly nice and polite to Torg, while the normally sweet Kiki was rude and vicious. It was later revealed that the Dimension of Lame was actually populated entirely by absurdly kind and innocent versions of people from the main universe. The only reason the Kiki there was so evil was because she originally came from a dimension populated only by extremely Jerkass versions of main universe characters.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* Moonside in ''{{Earthbound}}'', where everything is black with neon outlines and people say things like "Hey! Parking meters! And you're walking around! Ha ha ha... that's so funny!" and "Mani Mani is always Mani Mani at Mani Mani with all Mani Mani Mani". Furthermore, "Yes" and "No" choices are switched (for, to name a few examples, when shopkeepers ask if you want to buy anything, or the innkeeper asks if you want to spend the night).
* Praetorian Earth in ''{{City of Heroes}}'', which is the standard good to evil switch. Statesman becomes Tyrant, Ms. Liberty becomes Dominatrix, Manticore becomes Chimera, et cetera.
** Interesting use in that players will be able to play in it in the upcoming Expansion, as well as execute a FaceHeelTurn or HeelFaceTurn through it.
* GaiaOnline has released the Dark Reflection item, which is a minigame where the player searches for a lost NPC who went [[ShoutOut through the looking glass]] into a bizarro-Gaia. Among other things, the oily con man is now a priest who's good with kids, and the neighborhood playa is now a trampy woman.

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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* ''Zoku SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' had a segment on dreams where everyone but Nozomu had a reversed version of the traits that defined them. CuteMute Meru was talkative, {{Hikikomori}} Komori was outside, and so on.
* Chapter 16 of the ''GirlsBravo'' manga has Kirie walking through a magic mirror. On the other side, Yukinari and Fukuyama have each other's personalities, and Koyomi is in love with Fukuyama. She eventually returns to the normal world, but some of them ''follow her back''.

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[[folder: Card Games ]]

* In ''MagicTheGathering'', ''Shadowmoor'' is effectively a BizarroUniverse of the previous block's setting, ''Lorwyn''. A magical incident known as "the Aurora" causes the bright and light-hearted world of Lorwyn to become the [[DarkerAndEdgier dark and sinister]] Shadowmoor. The personalities of its inhabitants are likewise warped: the clannish kithkin are now xenophobic and paranoid, the mischievous and energetic boggarts are warlike berserkers, and the proud and domineering elves have become beleaguered preservers of beauty in a dark and ugly world (they're [[CantArgueWithElves only slightly less smug,]] though).
** Except for faeries, they're pricks in both worlds.
** And it's rather neat that the races don't simply become opposite, but remphasize their core identity to fit the darker world (causing only one of their two colors to shift). Boggarts were always mass breeding, hostile to the outside, and crazy, but now they've traded in pranks for full out violence. Kithkin always lived in tight knit communities, but drew even tighter together when the outside world became dark. Elves still based everything around the importance of beauty, except now that there was so little they became valiant protectors of it rather than facist enforcers. The merfolk's focus on wealth and secrets quickly reverts to hording and theft rather than mutual trade. The giants surrender their noble side to their barbaric simplicity. The treefolk still defend the woodlands, but the woodlands are so fetid and diseased that they must be protected with greater savagery.
*** The faeries, however, remain pricks.
**** From where they were in Lorwyn, they really didn't have anywhere lower to go.
*** More importantly, the faeries mostly live in Glen Elendra, which, thanks to it being partially removed from the rest of the world by Oona's power, doesn't actually change with the rest of the world. Their world isn't any darker, except when they decide to leave it.

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[[folder: Sketch Comedy Show ]]

* ''{{The History of the World Backwards}}'' takes place in a parallel world where history flows backwards. So Nelson Mandela started life as a popular politician, then went to the prison and became a terrorist, the United States fought to join Great Britain and Christopher Columbus loses the Americas and proves the world is flat.

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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

* ''{{GURPS}} Alternate Earths'' has Bizarro Earth, where doing things backwards started as a harmless fashion in the early 19th century that quickly grew out of control. On this Earth, Kennedy was deposed for shooting at a book depository worker named Lee Harvey Oswald from his presidential car.
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