{{Rik}}: Is this not the same as FishOutOfWater?

KendraKirai: The FishOutOfWater isn' ''trapped''. They're merely out of their element. A city slicker in the country, a country boy in the city, a StrangerInAStrangeLand.

MorganWick: Problem is, a lot of substantially FishOutOfWater shows contain TrappedInAnotherWorld elements, and I dare you to prove that TrappedInAnotherWorld is, at some time, ''not'' coinciding with (and thus a subtrope of) FishOutOfWater. In fact, this may well simply be FishOutOfWater + FailureIsTheOnlyOption.

{{Robert}}: You could equally well call TrappedInAnotherWorld a subtrope of FailureIsTheOnlyOption. Fold this page into FishOutOfWater and you'd need to duplicate it under FailureIsTheOnlyOption, hardly desirable.

There's also a third important ingredient to the trope: heroism. Compare it with the inverse trope, AlienAmongUs, where the alien is trapped in our world. We humans seem to end up playing Superman far more often than we end up as Mork.

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{{Seth}}: How did this page go so long without AliceInWonderland? I added it to the top for emphasis.

{{Lale}}: Would that be the "Ur-Example"? What exactly does "Ur-Example" mean, anyway? Oldest? Best? Most famous? Defining?

FastEddie: Ur- is a German prefix that has slipped into English slang. It means "prot(o)-", "first", "oldest", "original" ... but you knew that. I think "defining" is a good sense of the way it used the most around here.

{{Lale}}: That's what I figured- just wanted a second opinion. Thanx.

{{Seth}}: I honestly didn't know what that meant.

Removed example, as actually being an AlienAmongUs:
* In ''AmericanDad'' Roger the Alien is stranded on Earth. (And Klaus is trapped in the body of a fish.)
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So here's where you guys put this thing. I was about to start a YKTTW called "High School Girls From Another Dimension" wondering how we could have missed it. :(