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Monkey God: OK, my turn? Ninjas. Goddess: What? Hey, we all agreed on this medieval knights-and-wizards theme! Monkey God: So? It's my turn, my choice, I say: NINJAS!
What happens when All Myths Are True goes to the logical extreme? You get a Fantasy Kitchen Sink! Everything is true, but comes from vastly different origins. So not only are there really fairies, there are ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, sea monsters, superhuman mutants, angels, demons, aliens, Eldritch Abominations, giant worms, magic, psi, chi, and so on. Generally a sure sign of it is when creatures from typically different genres (aliens, vampires, fairies) all exist within the same world with individual origins of their own, each implausible in their own way — leading up to a long series of suspensions of disbelief rather than just one.
In general when you have a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, the premise is only used for Monster Of The Week plots — where there's one Myth Arc that focuses on a fantastic element and a bunch of totally unrelated sub-arcs about various lesser creatures or beings. There's no overlap between the different genre creatures. The alien bounty hunters do not run into the vampires, the angels, or the superhuman (non-alien involvement) mutants; only the main characters. It's as if there are a bunch of disconnected secret worlds lurking under and above the surface of the real world and the heroes are the only ones who go between them. Occasionally, they do interact in the form of a Monster Mash. The Ancient Conspiracy really are behind everything... but so are The Fair Folk, the Body Snatchers, and the Time Travelers and their plans don't have any connection with each other. For example, the Witch Species never accidentally erase the memories of the supernatural of, say, someone who's secretly a Ninja or vice versa; no matter how indiscriminating either are at enforcing the Masquerade.
Compare this to, for instance, the various Star Trek series, Stargate SG-1 or Babylon 5, where the "magical" aspects are Applied Phlebotinum or the Sufficiently Advanced Alien. They aren't "real" magic. There are Psychic Powers, but they are given a pseudoscientific Technobabble explanation.
The opposite of Meta Origin, in which all of the supernatural elements of a setting come from the same single origin or event. Inevitably results in at least one character who's Seen It All.
Compare Crossover Cosmology, Planet Eris. If Jesus Then Aliens is the logic used creating this world. Of course, tends to result in Pals With Jesus after a while.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- In Mahou Sensei Negima, Negi Springfield slowly discovers that his class of 31 "ordinary" middle-school girls includes a robot, a ghost, a vampire/wizardess, a Sorceress-in-training or three, a Ninja, a martial arts master, a lesbian albino half-Tengu samurai, two Mad Scientists (one of whom is a Time Traveler from another planet), a half-Puertorican marksman for hire/Miko, a Nun/Wizardess, a potential healer Oujo-sama and Zazie Rainyday (whatever she is) — plus the secrets Asuna's forgotten history holds ( specifically, magical princess in exile). Just to add some spice, at least two of the girls have connections to his long-missing father, and unknown to him another is a relative! Not to mention Negi himself, a pre-teen prodigy wizard, who knows kung fu (and is a prince), who's in the process of essentially training himself up to be an Epic Hero. That's not even counting the other characters in this series like a famous gladiator, and a dog hanyou.
- Plus whatever the deal with Ako (scar), Akira (super abilities), and Sakurako (unnatural luck).
- In a possible subversion, the title character of Suzumiya Haruhi may well have reformatted her universe in order to make a Fantasy Kitchen Sink possible, because she considered any other kind of world too boring.
- And somewhat also the current world.
- Honorable Mention: In Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni a ghost using Time Travel is trying to stop a Mad Scientist who wants to be a god and her Evil Army from activating Through The Eyes Of Madness to justify killing off a village while the local Yakuza and people's belief in local mythology unwittingly takes the credit. Because this is a combination of various elements each with their own Masquerade; the Muggles have absolutely no idea what's going on for most of the plot; and most of their theories are wrong.
- Magical Pokaan is a Fantasy Kitchen Sink from the get-go - a werewolf, a vampire, an android and a witch (all of them Cute Monster Girls, of course) living together in one house. The show then goes on to throw in tanuki, aliens, snow people, and anything else for the sake of comedy.
- Hayate The Combat Butler has ;et's see...super-human butlers, Robots, Talking Animals, Time Travel, Miko, Vampire Mikos, ghosts, demons, demonic snakes, aliens, and whatever the heck Athena is.
- Rosario+Vampire has main character Tsukune attending a school with, amongst others, vampires, witches, succubi, and emo ice-women—all of whom seem to want him.
- Judging by the shared characters, Kon Kon Kokon, Kamichama Karin, and Doki-doki Tama-tan all take place in the same universe/timeline. Which is odd, because Kokon has obake, Kamikarin has magical Greek God rings and human cloning, and Tama-tan is something to do with alien Moon Rabbits and magical princess school.
Card Games
- Magic The Gathering. With some 10,000 different cards, it's hard to think of any fantasy concepts that aren't represented.
- The Yugioh! Card Game also has this. It features cards based on different folklores and myths from different cultures such as Japanese, Greek, European, Celtic, Nordic, etc. And the list only grows at each new edition.
Comic Book
- Runaways has particular fun with this, with the original main villain group consisting of two wizards, two mutants, two aliens, two time travelers, two mad scientists, and two Badass Normal crime bosses. By design.
- Marvel is undoubtedly a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, and is quite happy to have Iron Man beat up on Loki if it feels it'll make a good story. Conan The Barbarian, Transformers, and Zoids all used to be part of the Marvel Universe and elements from those series are still floating around occasionally bumping into The Hulk, Ghost Rider or The Fantastic Four. Marvel's very first character was Namor, the New York-hating king of Atlantis, and his nemesis was a fire shooting android. While characters from completely different genres usually don't mix, and usually lighter series don't cross with the grimmer ones, nothing is ever off limits.
- DC, of course, is not much different. It has Greek and Roman gods, wizards, Faeries, aliens, Dinosaur Island, sword & sorcery tales, Doc Savage, the guy from Gladiator (the superhuman novel, not the anachronistic movie), The Shadow, ten different versions of Atlantis, mind-controlling worms, prehuman civilizations, sentient robots, Ancient Astronauts, Ambush Bug, Flex Mentallo, metafiction, the Green Lantern Corps, normal guys with arrows and boomerangs who can defeat Superman and The Flash, and on and on and on.
- The Whateley Universe. Mutants, Functional Magic, super-science, demons, Cosmic Horror backstory, and some of the more experienced characters have mentioned aliens too.
- The Sandman universe, from the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman. But it works, simply by the Rule Of Cool. It helps that it's split off from (and may be part of, depending on how convenient it is for a given storyline) The DCU.
- The comic Gold Digger is a great example of this trope, with a few flavors of aliens, werecreatures, dragons, leprechauns, elves, trolls, genetically engineered races, races decended from advanced robots, a time travelling superintelligent dog, and a dozen other things. Quite often their origins are related but it never nears the level of a Meta Origin.
- Fables draws upon this, however averts it with the different fables being able to interact with each other.
- Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics stitch together Nazis, mad scientists, mythical monsters and folklore from all over the world (not to mention he used to be part of the Legend-verse, which included Frank Miller's Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot, Art Adams' Monkeyman And O'Brien, John Byrne's Next Men, and Mike Allred's Madman.)
- Carla Speed-McNeil describes her Finder series as "aboriginal sci-fi", set in a world of feathered dinosaurs, genetically engineered centaurs, a race of anthropomorphic lionesses that "crowns" their kings with a metamorphic virus, schools where you can major in prostitution, domed cities based on lost technology, a blind archaeology professor who wears prosthetic legs similar to an ostrich's, mechanical television kudzu, and a clan that appears to be all female and resembles Marlene Dietrich. Oh, and magic is real (albeit not as glamorous as in other worlds.) The whole thing may or may not be set on an Earth of the far-flung future, as archaeologists have dug up films like "Night Of The Hunter" and "The Producers".
- One character from Chaos comics starts off as a human angel hybrid living in ancient Egypt who gets bit by a vampire and becomes...something not a vampire. She meets demons, monster clowns, death spirits, and the devil, all to be expected but not next to Norse gods.
- No matter what the incarnation, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lives and breathes this trope. During its formative period, the original Mirage Comic had already established a universe with ninjas, aliens, mutants, time travel, demons, and super-heroes. While they were initially kept somewhat separate, they began interacting following a Broken Masquerade moment in the fourth volume of the comic book. The current cartoon is no different: the fifth season finale, for example involved superheroes, government agents and ninjas fighting against ancient Japanese demons and their zombie army.
- The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novels incorporate absolutely anything Alan Moore can cram into a panel and not get sued over.
- Astro City, unsurprisingly for a superhero reconstruction, has time travellers, vampires, ghosts, robots, living cartoon characters, reptilian monsters, aliens, storm elementals and gorillas with the heads of ants.
Film
- The Chronicles of Riddick is borderline, combining some fantasy elements (Elementals, the Underverse) with a sci-fi setting.
- The Matrix Reloaded sets the stage for a fantasy kitchen sink, but does not develop it.
Literature
- Justified and subverted in K.A. Applegate's Everworld; five high school kids enter a different dimension cobbled together by all of the world's gods and goddesses (and thus all their respective mythologies; there's also the whole thing about "aliens," creatures from other dimensions and their own gods who have also wound up in Everworld); however characters associated with these different mythologies frequently interact. Two notable examples from the series come to mind: a plot arc from the first book has the kids find themselves amongst Vikings preparing to attack the Aztecs; the other is a scene from the ninth in which dwarves have dammed up Everworld's version of the Nile (oh, and Everworld-Egypt has been conquered by Amazons). Add to this the fact that the gods are very present (one can climb Mt. Olympus and meet them, for example), and things can get very complicated.
- Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files has wizards, faeries, three kinds of vampires, demons, ghouls, four types of werewolves, numerous Christian/Biblical references.... Mostly in the stories, they stick to European mythology, although other creatures from other myths have been mentioned to exist. However, the different races do interact in alliances and power struggles (in the books, at least).
- Yeah, but it's only fantasy (occasionally non-western) stuff. You don't have Aliens or giant robots or any of the non-fantasy jazz. More Mundane Fantastic than anything else.
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman involves gods and goddesses from several real-world mythologies fighting with various new deities born out of modern-day obsessions.
- Simon R Green's Deathstalker series is a Science Fiction Kitchen Sink. Clones, telepaths, aliens, rogue artificial intelligences, "Wampyr", Wolflings, cyborgs, a Deadly Decadent Court with intrigue to match, bounty hunters, smugglers, ancient technology, professional rebels, genetic engineering, super drugs, Bread And Circuses, and a Romeo And Juliet couple all appear in the first half of the first book.
- Tom Holt lives on this trope. The same character, Lin Cortright appears in both a book devoted to a Darker And Edgier Valhalla and one dedicated to a revisionist St. George and the Dragon. And the J.W.Wells&Co novels are even more extreme, throwing in mermaids, living swords, goblins, dragons, the Fey, the Bank of the Dead, a lich, giants, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Riders of Rohan, God, and a living stapler.
- Mercedes Lackey is in love with this trope. All of her Urban Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, and her recent 500 Kingdoms series are one big melting pot for everything from Japanese to Russian myths. Kitsune will exist next to katschei, and sidhe will exist with vampires.
- At the time C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, mixing fantasy creatures from different mythologies was not common practice, and raised many eyebrows.
- Not to mention Jesus, Father Christmas, and regular talking animals.
- Harry Potter features witches, wizards, warlocks, hags, ghosts, banshees, broomsticks, giant spiders, magic carpets, werewolves, vampires, various mythical creatures, giants and fairies; JK Rowling once insisted that the series wasn't fantasy. Right...
- Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Norville. What starts off with just werewolves and vampires has to date come to include The Fair Folk, psychics, skinwalkers, real magicians, demons, chaos cults, ghosts, and more. Combine this with the fact All Myths Are True weaves the supernatural into well-known tales of literature and religion, as well as there being an Ancient Conspiracy behind everything, and you're all set.
- Discworld: Among other things it has wizards, witches, dwarves, trolls (sentient beings made of rock), golems, elves, gnomes, phoenixes, vampires, werewolves, zombies, Igors, time traveling monks, dragons, a magical computer, Death, an orangutan librarian, Eldritch Abominations, gods, bureaucratic demons, Nobby Nobbs, sentient luggage, Rock Music, heroes, and kangaroos.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy fits this trope. Arthur enjoins a Norse God to a fight, suggesting they take it outside, whereupon Thor falls from the flying party. The prophet Zarquon makes an appearance at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Elvis Presley hangs out at a desert bar. Robots. Spare Body Parts. The Guide also speaks of Dragons (extinct), Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts of Traal, and other assorted monsters. let's not forget the Perfectly Normal Beasts? Throw in a subverted Adam and Eve Plot a spaceship full of societal rejects crashes to Earth where they proceed to wipe out the emergent indigenous sapient lifeforms, and reincarnation notably into thinking bowls of petunia. Did I mention Arthur Dent discovers how to fly? the trick, the knack really, is simply to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- To be fair, in an infinite universe with access to vast time and space travel the opposite would be far stranger.
- Done by Delia Sherman in Changeling and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, set in New York Between, where Folk (supernatural creatures) from many different myth and fairy tale cycles live side by side and frequently interact. Logical, because of New York's multicultural immigrant population.
- Justified in the Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny, which span a multiverse in which literally everything can be found. The first five books focus mostly on fantasy (but include machine guns), whereas the second five contain, among others, a sentient magical supercomputer.
- Elizabeth Bear's New Amsterdam mixes Alternate History(The American colonies still belong to Britain in the early 20th century), Steam Punk (zepellins) and Weird Science (Nicola Tesla's broadcast energy and death ray) with Functional Magic, vampires, werecreatures and ghosts.
- In Garth Nix's The Keys to the Kingdom, elements of Christian Theology, Ancient Greek Myth, and European folklore are all present in the House (the 'epicentre of creation' wherein the bulk of the story takes place). The protagonist actually meets the Pied Piper, the Mariner (who is awesome), and an towering old man who is suspiciously similar to Prometheus.These are all seamlessly blended in with the mythos of the story, and often given and interesting twist.
- Eric Flint's Pyramid series has a pocket dimension which combines the Greek and Egyptian mythos which is the product of the title piece of technology which is the product of a race of what are either Sufficiently Advanced Aliens and/or Cosmic Horrors. Adding to the mess is that at the end of the first book some of the mythological creatures wind up in our world.
Live Action TV
- Big Wolf on Campus was a kid/teen show on the ABC Family Channel in the early 2000s that featured a high schooler who was secretly a werewolf, who fought evil creatures along with his friends. They met just about everything you can think of: vampires, aliens, ghosts, mummies, the devil, the grim reaper, and even Santa Claus. This is due to the fact that just about every episode was based on an old classic monster movie.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, where in addition to the magical baddies, she had to deal with science fictional intelligent androids.
- Several exceptions ran through Buffy on the 'not interacting with each other.' Most notably a werewolf hunter was eaten by a vampire, a demon-god was attacked by an android, and the military organization were combining cybernetics with demon body parts (although they still did not believe in magic, which was irksome. This lessened slightly once they saw the Slayer was real, but did not impact them or their research, and they continued to act as if she were the only case.)
- Killer snot monster from outer space.
- Doctor Who averts this; while it has witches, werewolves, a couple of variations on vampires etc., pretty much all of them are explained as actually just being different types of aliens.
- The Munsters is a comedic version of this, with the Frankenstein monster, vampires, and a werewolf all in the same family.
- Power Rangers is built on this trope. From the first episode, we have an interdimensional wizard with a Buck Rogers-esque robot assistant who gives superpowers and dinosaur-themed Humongous Mecha to teenagers with attitude so they can fight Evil Space Aliens led by an Asian-looking space witch. Due to its length, the show has added more and more weirdness as it goes on; one season can focus on high-tech alien police, the next, a pocket dimension inhabited by fantasy creatures.
- Special Unit 2 was basically a lighter, fluffier version of Supernatural. It had everything except vampires. Because the thought that vampires exist is preposterous.
- Supernatural has ghosts, demons, angels, zombies, vampires, wendigo, possessed trucks, a Frankenstein-style mad scientist who is effectively immortal through the theft of new organs, etc. So far no aliens, though. This was also lampshaded a bit recently when one of the brothers said that everyone knew there was no such thing as Bigfoot.
- Don't forget the celtic gods from the christmas special! Where the hell they fit on the now established christian based cosmology beats me
- The X Files is perhaps the best example for television where because one paranormal thing is true, all (or at least many) paranormal things are true even when they come from different origins. To the point where they could have filmed an X-Files episode where the aliens do arrive for colonization only to get wailed on by the assorted other monsters of the week who get annoyed about the people coming into their turf.
- The inspiration for X-Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, incorporated both standard-issue horror monsters (vampires, werewolves, headless bikers) and mythological entities (rakshasa, a Greek immortal), sci-fi critters sprung from laboratories or the depths of the earth, or psychic phenomena (e.g. a dream-monster that manifests in the real world).
- Poltergeist the Legacy was all about this trope. Various episodes featured ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, mummies and genies.
- Possibly the Ur-example of this trope in television, Dark Shadows started out as a mundane soap opera, but became a Fantasy Kitchen Sink with vampires, ghosts, witchcraft, mad scientists, time travel, alternate realities and many, many cases of reincarnation.
Tabletop Games
- The original edition of Dungeons & Dragons cites John Carter of Mars (as well as Conan, and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) in its Forward, despite being for "medieval wargames campaigns" according to the cover. It suggests robots and androids as examples of 'other monsters' which could be used in the game.
- The Back Story and premise for the various game lines in the original World of Darkness detailed how werewolves, mages, wraiths, mummies, demons, vampires and fairies all existed and controlled or influenced the world. Rarely did any game line reference important events or characters in the other, except for two specifically designed cross company events. Despite inhabiting the same world and preying on/eating/controlling the same humans, all of these creatures were very insular in their scope.
- In the name of simplification, the New World of Darkness seems to be going with the idea, "The supernaturals know about each other, but mostly only care if their goals clash", and leave the details for the Storytellers to work out.
- Exalted is one big Fantasy Kitchen Sink which includes magitek, kung fu, adventurer archaeologists, scheming bureaucratic gods, goth princesses, heroin-pissing dinosaurs, BFS's, manga aesthetics, mythological/biblical inspirations, and anthropomorphic animals, plus the usual vanilla blend of fantasy elements. It should be a trainwreck, yet it all works because of how awesome it is.
- The Tabletop RPG Rifts has Nazi-equivalents in power armor, dinosaurs in the swampified remnants of the American South, insect aliens from another dimension, psychics and Functional Magic, Atlantis has risen from the ocean, Mexico and the surrounding areas are overrun, and ruled, by Vampires... You get the idea. In this case it's more fantasy roach motel, as things from strange other worlds seem to rift but they don't rift out. Weirdness diffusion, maybe?
- Warhammer 40000 takes the fantasy kitchen sink, flings it into the future, arms it to the teeth, changes any morals to fit a Black and Grey Morality, dumps crap all over it, and ramps up the violence quotient to eleven.
- Warhammer does pretty much the same thing, except without the "IN SPACE" factor.
- In fact Warhammer is far, far more subdued than Warhammer 40000. While it maintains the Crapsack World element, the more ridiculous elements of 40K background are omitted. It nevertheless evokes this trope pretty hard, with vampires, daemons and the undead butting heads with dwarfs, elves and Lizard people.
- For a Tabletop RPG example, check out World Of Synnibarr. On second thought, don't.
- Deadlands has a vast array of supernatural creatures running around the Weird West. The After The End spinoff Hell On Earth goes one better, with a Kitchen Sink Apocalypse, that includes nuclear devastation, zombies, and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
- The Pirates Constructable Strategy Game by Wizkids is a naval combat game set sometime before, during, and after the American Revolution/War of 1812 era. When the first set came out, things were fine, but with each new expansion, they seem to be intent on adding a new crazy mechanic. They get alright justifications or are Hand Waved most of the time, but it is still silly. They are currently halfway between this and Anachronism Stew. Some of these include:
- Sea Monsters/Titans
- Cursed pirates
- Submarines (based off Jules Verne)
- Vikings (Hand Waved as being northerners who believe Norse Mythology)
- Bombardiers (Ships with long-range and flame cannons attached to their decks)
- Turtle ships (which at least existed around the time)
- "Switchblades" (metal ships with giant pincers attached to the sides)
- There's also a Pirates of the Caribbean expansion.
- Pretty much the point of TORG, which is about various realities invading each other. So, indeed, we can have a monster from a horror reality meet up with heroes from a technocratic reality, and so forth. In a twist, stuff from one "paradigm" tends to malfunction in others, so don't expect ray guns to work in a stone age world.
- Mutants And Masterminds is designed to allow for this. The flexible point buy system and the distinction between "effect" (mechanics) and descriptors (flavor text with some extra meaning attached) allows characters to be built based on any comic book/fantasy/myth/sci-fi concept they can imagine in order to accommodate the Fantasy Kitchen Sink aspects of the two major comic book companies.
- Brik Wars has spaceships, pirates, dragons, T-Rexes, Roman bikers, helicopters, pyramids, skyscrapers, knights, tanks... and that's just one page of the rulebook.
Video Games
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance lets you have a party consisting of Doctor Strange, the half-vampire Blade, Iron Man, and one of the X-Men fight Dr. Doom, Galactus, and Loki.
- The Sims 2, quite notoriously for a simulation game (albeit one that doesn't take itself very seriously), does feature this trope! Your Sims can plead with The Grim Reaper for the life of another household member, get abducted by aliens (and get a Face Full Of Alien Wing Wong, if they're male), get bitten by a wolf and become a werewolf, become a vampire, come back as a zombie, get eaten by a Man Eating Plant, become a plant-like being themselves, live with Bigfoot... the list goes on.
- Net Hack is probably the biggest offender, because the monsters and items are all pieced together from bunches and bunches of completely unrelated books. It can include grid bugs from Tron and goblins from Lord of the Rings on the same level, for example. (It also has actual kitchen sinks.)
- Not to mention "one-horned, one-eyed people eaters", "microscopic space fleets", "battlemechs", "The Luggage", "master lichens"(!) and various other weird critters shown instead of the real monsters when hallucinating.
- The Slash'EM variant throws in even more stuff, the best example probably being lightsabers.
- Castlevania uses undead, abomination, evil, and various other strange creatrues from lore from pretty much every culture and tradition these days. Heck, some of them aren't even from fiction, but from real life—dodo birds have been spotted in one game, and various games have variably-undead dinosaurs.
- Well, a lot of fantasy games draw their monsters from tons of different cultural traditions.
- The entire Final Fantasy series draws on this, with gods and goddesses from just about every culture in the world, as well as the run of the mill robots, mummies, vampires, etc.
- The Touhou Project features Gensokyo, an almost literal Fantasy Kitchen Sink. It's heavily implied that whatever becomes fantasy (magic, monsters, gods, near-extinct animals) is dumped there.
- Shin Megami Tensei. YHVH and Vishnu have a tenuous alliance. Lucifer is buddy-buddy with Surt. Lilith and her succubi keep trying to get into the hero's pants. Loki was last seen poking Taira no Masakado in the eye with a sword he stole when Athena wasn't looking. Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne stated unequivocally that one goddess wasn't real: the Christo-Roman-Wiccan goddess Aradia. Of course, it's more than she is from another world of The Mutliverse and has no physical presence because of it.
- Done in the early Ultima games, using any fantasy creature from D&D Richard Garriott could think of plus space ships and laser guns. Averted in sequels Ultima IV-VI as the number of monsters are narrowed down, and there are no elves, halflings, or orcs in sight, making the setting richer by showing less is more. Redone in Ultima Online, with elves, orcs, ninja, samurai, paladins, necromancers, cyborgs, and anything else the developers can think of, making the setting more generic (and sorely disappointing Lord British).
- The World Of Warcraft universe has at least four sets of Deities, all of which are real and influence their own little niche in the world. Due to the open nature of the game, players interact with and influence all four of these divine being.
- The Old Gods are a Lovecraftian group who either created the world, or are older than creation, depending on who you ask.
- There are the Titans who are largely credited with creating creation and subduing the Old Gods.
- The "Light" which is the closest thing to a Christian God in the universe. Naturally, Paladins and Priests get their power from this source. The world also has a race of beings called the Naaru who are more or less manifestations of the Light.
- Finally, the various troll tribes each have their own set of animal Gods. What's more, the Gods from different tribes interact with each other from time to time. So, although a given tribe will only worship one set of Animal Gods, their existence is not mutually exclusive. Also see All Trolls Are Different.
- The Light is more like a non-theistic philosophy. However, there is also Elune, the monotheistic goddess of the night-elves, and numerous demigods and Ancients.
- And of course werewolves, gargoyles, zombies, hydras, centaurs...For a long time, vampires were just about the only fantastic or mythical creatures not to be found in World Of Warcraft. Then the second expansion came out and introduced the darkfallen - blood-drinking undead elves.
- Vampires have been in Warcraft since the Nathrezim/Dreadlords appeared in Warcraft 3. They look less vampiric and more demonic in World of Warcraft though, especially since they're so large now.
- The Nasuverse gives us Vampires, magic Church Militants, demons, devils, dragons, Medusa, Medea, Hercules, Cuchulain etc. and all sorts of mythical beasts. Plus, reincarnation, zombies, a cosmic horror or two, more magic, japanese demons too... Most of this is merely mentioned in passing or a brief plot point, but bonus points for what is important overlapping ie. the Church deals with vampires, but they're also related to the Grail Wars (Archer also seems quite familiar with killing vampiric creatures like Zouken Matou) and Atlas Alchemists, who made a weapon that can kill the previously mentioned cosmic horrors. One of whom is a vampire, or something.
- Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier. The titular world, "Endless Frontier" is consist of several mini-dimensions with varies in theme. Result in world where Valkyries use Laser Blade, Elves give up bow in favor of sub-machinegun, geek ogre with magic tome, Cyber Punk cowboy and werewolf Samurai are common sight as well as some Eldritch Abomination.
- Fall From Heaven, a [[Game Mod]] for [[Civilization IV]], has every fantasy trope from orcs to dwarves to elves, with nations of wizards, vampires, ghosts, and pirates, a religion based on the worship of [[Eldritch Abominations]], with other random like werewolves and jinn thrown in for good measure.
- Another mod, Fictionalization IV, has a similar mishmash of things from various fantasy tropes as well as superheroes, mecha, and other tropes from sci-fi.
Web Comics
- Finder's Keepers puts it rather bluntly: "Every myth, every belief, every dream, every nightmare, they all are residents of this side. The Veil separates the Every-Day from the Every-Daydream. If Humanity has dreamt it up, you'll find it lurking around here somewhere."
- Sluggy Freelance in the biggest way. One story arc had a Demonic Invader hurled back in time by a Mad Scientist's ray gun. Another had a talking rabbit wage war on a mutated, alien Santa Claus, only to get hurled into another dimension where Time Stands Still and Space Pirates reign supreme. And another had the same Mad Scientist, a witch, and a Badass Normal with a talking sword break into a zombie lair to recover Government Conspiracy files on a Brainwashed, immortal assassin who has the potential to change or even destroy the Web of Fate. And that's not even getting into the satanic kittens.
- And don't forget the Sampire!
- By now it's less of a question of what kind of monster will show up in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja as it is which ones will not. So far we have ninjas, vampires, dinosaurs, zombies, robots, popular fast food mascots...
Western Animation
- Although Barbie And The Diamond Castle seems to take place in a standard Fairy Tale setting (dragons, trolls, girls who make their living selling flowers), it also throws Muses (who live in a castle) into the mix.
- Family Guy. The underlying reality of the show is deliberately tenuous anyway.
- Justified in Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends. The show takes place in a world where anything children believe in can come to life, which has obvious implications on the world's population...
- Gargoyles began with the titular characters being the lone survivors of a long-vanished race of semi-magical creatures. Over the seasons, it branched out to give us more gargoyles, fairies, witches, sorcerers, normal people cursed with immortality, living Native American spirits, Greek gods, The Loch Ness Monster, King Arthur, the list went on and on. That's not even counting the weirdness that was man-made, like the evil clones, cyborg mercenaries, nanomachines, sentient robots and the global-spanning conspiracies. (Although most of the supernatural creatures that they encountered were eventually given a Meta Origin as Oberon's children).
- Since the gargoyles were in the modern day because their castle's wizard used his book of spells to turn them all to stone, there were hints of this from the start.
- Subverted somewhat in that different continuities can interact—-for example, Xanatos wearing a robotic suit while fighting the leader of The Fair Folk. The creator was also once asked what would happen to the magical island of Avalon if aliens (yes, the show had those too!) managed to destroy the rest of the planet. (It would go too.)
- The Simpsons uses the Fantasy Kitchen Sink approach, with aliens, killer robots, zombies, supervillains, the Judeo-Christian God, Native American deities, and the Loch Ness Monster all apparently existing within the same universe. This is true even if you don't count the non-canonical "Halloween Specials" episodes.
- Don't forget Colonel Sanders sitting at God's right hand feeding him popcorn chicken. Oh, and the Dalai Lama can fly.
- Well, so can Lucy Lawless, apparently.
- And Alan Moore.
- Jokingly referenced in an episode of The Venture Brothers, where pirates board the Venture family’s ship.
Hank: Brock, if pirates really exist, then Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy could even be real, right?! It’s like all bets are off!
Brock: Hank, nobody ever said pirates don’t exist.
Hank: So you agree with me that this is impossible!
- Practically every children's adventure cartoon with a modern Earth setting and fantastic elements that does not use a Meta Origin (i.e. Danny Phantom = "everything's caused by ghosts" or American Dragon Jake Long = "everything's caused by magical creatures") will use a Fantasy Kitchen Sink approach, with the heroes encountering everything from aliens, robots, vampires, ninjas, and alien robot vampire ninjas. See Jonny Quest, Kim Possible, Ben 10, etc.
- Thundercats was made of this trope. It starts out with one feline humanoid alien race being chased by other mutant alien races after their planet's gyroscope blew up, introduced a ghost mentor... They all crashland on a planet called Third Earth, inhabited by android robot bears, an evil mummy that transforms into an evil flying supermummy with the help of ancient demonic spirits, with an enemy of the week that is either a Nazi starship captain (Shiner), cybernetic killer pirates (Hammerhand), a sort of yeti king who rides a giant snowcat (Snowman), a timetravelling samurai (Hachiman) or an egyptian prince with a magic mindcontrol helmet who was trapped by the sphinx in an alternate dimension... And of course merchandising on steroids: the Thundertank, Cat's Lair, and various other massive metal machines. Oh, there was a female space cop as well. And hydras. And Grune the Destroyer appears to be an undead villian from the dawn of time. And volcano gods. And amazonian girl-ninjas of the treetops. And unicorns. And the Dobermen (aargh, aargh). And dead parents, telepathy and addiction. This troper thinks the entire thing was written on crack.
Other
- A mainstay of Weekly World News - aliens advise the president, Congress is full of zombies (sure that's not made up?), Dick Cheney is a robot, Satan was captured by American soldiers in Iraq, mermen have been found in the South Pacific and Bigfoot is advertising his crash diet.
Real Life
- Many Neo-Pagan Religions hold a view point similar to this. Believing elves, dwarfs, fairies and other supernatural beings exist.
- Much more likely to be the modern "nice" versions than the original pagan fair folk.
- Halloween. Things like vampires, witches, and Frankenstein's monster, which are associated with Halloween, come from different sources.
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