History Main / ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway

* ''Anime/SoukouNoStrain''.

* ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica''. In both versions, the characters are human spacefarers, but not from Earth even ancestrally. They are from the Twelve Colonies that were settled by humans from Kobol and are looking for Earth, which is mentioned in their sacred scrolls as the 13th colony of Kobol. [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic The original series]] was set in ThePresentDay, while the series finale of [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined the 2000s version]] ultimately reveals that (major spoiler) [[spoiler: this ''is'' a long time ago far, far away (although in the Milky Way galaxy) when the fleet finally arrives on Earth and it's still the prehistoric era. They leave their ships and become the ancestors of Earth humans.]]

* Parodied in ''[[Anime/ShinChan Shin Wars]]'' to describe Japan.

* Third Earth of ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'' was originally said to be post-apocalyptic Earth, but the show stopped mentioning it after the beginning. The 2000s comic book series, which included a crossover with [[BattleOfThePlanets G-Force]] from Earth, claimed that it was another planet after all.

* Elekton, home of TheTriganEmpire.

* Weirdly enough, ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' may qualify. The heroes' home is "Earth" InNameOnly. This has the potential to hold weight. All it takes is time and effort to find the info. Various supplemental materials put out by Akira Toriyama, as well as things throughout the run of the manga/anime, suggest that at the very least it's an alternate universe or timeline. Games such as ''Budokai 3'' and ''Legacy of Goku 2/Buu's Fury'' based the world map off of his official map and it looks NOTHING like our Earth. The advanced technology of the world, as well as other planets, humanoid animals, several humans living hundreds of years, etc. lean the series deeply in this area. The final kicker? ''Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z'' takes place in the mid- to late 8th CENTURY according to official timelines! According to Beerus, there are twelve universes and the Earth from the we see in the series is in universe seven. That could explain the differences.

* Weirdly enough, ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' may qualify. The heroes' home is "Earth" InNameOnly. This has the potential to hold weight. All it takes is time and effort to find the info. Various supplemental materials put out by Akira Toriyama, as well as things throughout the run of the manga/anime, suggest that at the very least it's an alternate universe or timeline. Games such as ''Budokai 3'' and ''Legacy of Goku 2/Buu's Fury'' based the world map off of his official map and it looks NOTHING like our Earth. The advanced technology of the world, as well as other planets, humanoid animals, several humans living hundreds of years, etc. lean the series deeply in this area. The final kicker? ''Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z'' takes place in the mid- to late 8th CENTURY according to official timelines!

* Mark Twain's unpublished works included the unfinished ''Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven,'' an OlderThanTheyThink use of this trope. Heaven is a region far, far out in space, more vast than any planet since it has to have room for every generation, past and future, of every sentient race in the universe - that's right, ''aliens in Mark Twain.'' Due to his own actions, Captain Stormfield arrives at the wrong entry gate in Heaven and has a very rough time finding anybody who's even ''heard'' of the Earth: eventually somebody narrows it down when he mentions that it's in the same solar system as Jupiter.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' invoke this trope, especailly since the D&D/FR campaigns aren't themselves necessarily a shared universe. Players and gamemasters are free (actually encouraged) to concoct their own backstory for the gaming world they create using D&D raw material. Most who do so feel no reason to arbitrarily connect their world to Earth.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' invoke this trope, especailly since the D&D/FR campaigns aren't themselves neccesarily a shared universe. Players and gamemasters are free (actually encouraged) to concoct their own backstory for the gaming world they create using D&D raw material. Most who do so feel no reason to arbitrarily connect their world to Earth.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' invoke this trope, especailly since the D&D/FR campaigns aren't themselves neccesarily a shared universe. Players and gamemasters are free (actually encouraged) to concoct their own backstory for the gaming world they create using D&D raw material. Most who do so, feel no reason to arbitrarily connect their world to Earth.

* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons and Dragons]]'' and ''[[ForgottenRealms Forgotten Realms]]'' invoke this trope, especailly since the D&D/FR campaigns aren't themselves neccesarily a shared universe. Players and gamemasters are free (actually encouraged) to concoct their own backstory for the gaming world they create using D&D raw material. Most who do so, feel no reason to arbitrarily connect their world to Earth.

The TropeNamer is, of course, ''Franchise/StarWars:'' ''Film/ANewHope'', although that movie was actually adapting an old fairy tale trope of setting story "in a far away land" to similar effect, making this trope OlderThanTheyThink.

* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' by BrianKVaughan, much like ''Franchise/StarWars'', is a science fiction/fantasy hybrid which does not take place in our Milky Way galaxy.

* Famously, ''BeastWars'' takes place on a strange, two-mooned planet with identical-to-Earth fauna, until one of the moons [[spoiler: is revealed as an alien superweapon. The ''other'' moon, which we never got a good look at until then, looks real familiar. EarthAllAlong; ''prehistoric'' Earth due to a time warp they ran into on the way.]] One of the bigger twists at first, ItWasHisSled by now.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' [[PanderingToTheBase has a mini-side-quest that semi-confirms a direct connection between it and]] VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII, [[PanderingToTheBase by implying that the Shinra in your group is the ancestor of those who will produce the technology to head to the stars and find a new planet thousands of years ago in the time-line of]] VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII. This doesn't have a 100% approval rating, and discussion of it is not advised. Everyone pretends it didn't happen, though technically acknowledging it's true. Like a lesson taught by Principal TAMZARIAN.

* ''Anime/RoyalSpaceForceTheWingsOfHonneamise'' is about the development of spaceflight by [[HumanAliens a people who look identical to humans]] [[DieselPunk with a 1950s level of technology]], but the geography of their planet doesn't resemeble that of Earth and their cultures don't exactly resemble any particular one from Earth's history either ([[CultureChopSuey beyond some mior mixing of elements]]).

* {{Videogame/Z}} follows the war between two intergalactic robots [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots that look and act a lot like humans]]. No mention is ever made to who, when, why or where they were made. Ditto that any organic people where ever around.

* Third Earth of ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats'' was originally said to be post-apocalyptic Earth, but the show stopped mentioning it after the beginning. The 2000's comic book series, which included a crossover with [[BattleOfThePlanets G-Force]] from Earth, claimed that it was another planet after all.

* ''Anime/RoyalSpaceForceTheWingsOfHonneamise'' is about the development of spaceflight by a people who look identical to humans with a 1950s level of technology, but their planet doesn't look like Earth and their culture doesn't exactly resemble any particular one in Earth history.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'' is set on the planet Eternia.

* Third Earth of ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'' was originally said to be post-apocalyptic Earth, but the show stopped mentioning it after the beginning. The 2000's comic book series, which included a crossover with [[BattleOfThePlanets G-Force]] from Earth, claimed that it was another planet after all.

* Tamriel, the continent in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' games, is located on a planet called Nirn, complete with two moons. One small one orbiting a larger one. Though some belief that the larger one is actually another planet.

One doesn't actually have to give too much detail about their corner of the void to invoke this trope. They don't even have to make direct reference to the Earth. If a story takes on a planet that's clearly not Earth, and Earth is never mentioned, it will usually just be assumed that the planet is question is so far away that they've never heard of Earth. If the writer feels a need to explain why most of the characters are human or everyone seems to speak English, they may include some vague reference to a "theoretical ancestor planet", or TranslationConvention may be invoked. If they don't even try to explain it, then it's probably an [[MST3KMantra unimportant coincidence]].

* ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica''. In both versions, the characters are human spacefarers, but not from Earth even ancestrally. They are from the Twelve Colonies that were settled by humans from Kobol and are looking for Earth, which is mentioned in their sacred scrolls as the 13th colony of Kobol. [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic The original series]] was set in ThePresentDay, while the series finale of [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined the 2000s version]] ultimately reveals that (major spoiler) [[spoiler: this ''is'' a long time ago far, far away (although in the Milky Way galaxy) when the fleet finally arrives on Earth and it's still the prehistoric era.]]

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' [[PanderingToTheBase has a mini-side-quest that semi-confirms a direct connection between it and]] VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII, [[PanderingToTheBase by implying that the Shinra in your group is the ancestor of those who will produce the technology to head to the stars and find a new planet thousands of years ago in the time-line of VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII.]] This doesn't have a 100% approval rating, and discussion of it is not advised. Everyone pretends it didn't happen, though technically acknowledging it's true. Like a lesson taught by Principal TAMZARIAN.