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* In the ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' comic ''The Coyote Gospel'', a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] expy is banished to "the hell above" -- reality -- for daring to question why cartoon characters must live such painful, violent lives. He appears on Earth as a grotesque "realistic" incarnation of himself, and becomes a [[TheMessiah messianic figure]] by taking on all other Toons' pain as his own -- [[IronicHell by being killed in various ways and springing back to life, forever, on the same lonely desert road]].
* This is the explanation in some (but by no means all) ''Creator/DCComics Meet [[Comicbook/HannaBarberaBeyond Hanna Barbera]]'' and ''DC Comics Meet Comicbook/LooneyTunes'' oneshots.

* Film/MaryPoppins and company jump into a chalk painting and end up in a world like this.
** In the sequel ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'', they go into a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Doulton Royal Doulton bowl]] with the animal paintings coming to life. The sequence where Mary Poppins takes the children under the sea (inside their bathtub) for a bath is also animated.

* The series regulars of the CW's ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' get sucked into a cursed TV and into the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' episode 'A Night of Fright Is No Delight." They try to go through the motions with the Scooby gang as per the episode's normal continuity but that gets deep sixed as characters are killed off and painful real-life injuries are sustained. Once Sam, Dean and Castiel figure out what's really going on, they now have to establish the status quo of the standard ScoobyDooHoax.

* The same year as ''Toonstruck'', we also got ''VideoGame/StayTooned'' that had cartoon characters leaving the TV. The human protagonist becomes TrappedInTVLand at the end.

* The webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Hexenringe}}'' involves at least two dimensions - one like ours and one which is populated by comics characters and other fictional creations.

* The central plot of ''WesternAnimation/KiddVideo'': a band of rock musicians is taken into a Toon Universe made of what seem to be MTV's commercial breaks and abstract animated music videos.

* The ''WesternAnimation/BionicSix'' also have an episode were the main characters travel to a Toonverse were their normally realistic style of animation became cartoony as does the physics.
* The ''[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=JM3hjD_W0yI Neverwhere]]'' short that the ''ComicBook/{{Den}}'' comics were based on starts on Earth in live action but the fantasy world is animated.
* An [[https://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/showthread.php?253817-The-SDCC-reveal-nobody-expected-Son-of-He-Man-series-pitch! early concept]] for ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfHeMan'' would have been about He-Man and Skeletor sending their sons to the planet Primus in the future. The boys were going to be able to communicate with their fathers on Eternia over a video link but Eternia would have been in live-action. Occasionally the boys would summon their fathers to Primus who would ToonTransformation and help them win fights.

* While ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' is CGI, some dimensions are given heavy stylisation, making them read as "tooniverses" in comparison to the more "realistic" worlds of ComicBook/MilesMorales, [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter B. Parker]], and [[ComicBook/SpiderGwen Gwen Stacy]]; Peni Parker is an anime character complete with MouthFlaps that don't sync up with her actual speech, ComicBook/SpiderHam is a Creator/TexAvery cartoon character who can [[{{Hammerspace}} produce hammers and anvils from nowhere]], [[spoiler:and in TheStinger, [[ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 Miguel O'Hara]] finds himself visiting [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon]]]]. Scorpion even refers to Spider-Ham as a "cartoon" during the final battle.

* An [[https://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/showthread.php?253817-The-SDCC-reveal-nobody-expected-Son-of-He-Man-series-pitch! early concept]] for ''WesternAnimation TheNewAdventuresOfHeMan'' would have been about He-Man and Skeletor sending their sons to the planet Primus in the future. The boys were going to be able to communicate with their fathers on Eternia over a video link but Eternia would have been in live-action. Occasionally the boys would summon their fathers to Primus who would ToonTransformation and help them win fights.

** ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' retcons it to taking place in a {{Cyberspace}} full of planets dedicated to Creator/WarnerBrothers properties. The Looney Tunes live on Tune World. We pass other planets devoted to ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''.

* The ''[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=JM3hjD_W0yI Neverwhere]]'' shirt that the ''ComicBook/{{Den}}'' comics were based on starts on Earth in live action but the fantasy world is animated.

* ''VideoGame/ToonStruck'': The protagonist, a cartoon animator, ends up in a toon world.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' mostly has toons in the real world, except when Eddie chases Roger to Toon Town. There, cartoon physics take over and any human is subject to them: Eddie sneezes and his cartoon shadow turns with, "Gesundheit"; his toon bullets change direction mid-flight; Tweety pries his fingers off a flagpole and he falls a gazillion stories before being caught by Lena Hyena...

* ''VideoGame/ToonStruck'': The protagonist, a cartoon animator, ends up in his toon world.

* ''[[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Garfield Gets Real]]'', where both the "real world" and Garfield's world are CG animated.
* While ''WEsternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' is CGI, some dimensions are given heavy stylisation, making them read as "tooniverses" in comparison to the more "realistic" worlds of ComicBook/MilesMorales, [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter B. Parker]], and [[ComicBook/SpiderGwen Gwen Stacy]]; Peni Parker is an anime character complete with MouthFlaps that don't sync up with her actual speech, ComicBook/SpiderHam is a Creator/TexAvery cartoon character who can [[{{Hammerspace}} produce hammers and anvils from nowhere]], [[spoiler:and in TheStinger, [[ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 Miguel O'Hara]] finds himself visiting [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon]]]]. Scorpion even refers to Spider-Ham as a "cartoon" during the final battle.

* While ''WEsternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' is CGI, some dimensions are given heavy stylisation, making them read as "tooniverses" in comparison to the more "realistic" worlds of Miles Morales, Peter B. Parker, and Gwen Stacy; Peni Parker is an anime character complete with MouthFlaps that don't sync up with her actual speech, Spider-Ham is a Creator/TexAvery cartoon character who can [[{{Hammerspace}} produce hammers and anvils from nowhere]], [[spoiler:and in TheStinger, Miguel O'Hara finds himself visiting the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon]]. Scorpion even refers to Spider-Ham as a "cartoon" during the final battle.

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' mostly has toons in the real world, except when Eddie chases Roger to Toon Town. There, cartoon physics take over and any human is subject to them: Eddie sneezes and his cartoon shadow turns with, "Gesundheit"; his toon bullets change direction mid-flight; Tweety pries his fingers off a flagpole and he falls a gazillion stories before being caught be Lena Hyena...

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' mostly has toons in the real world, except when Eddie chases Roger to Toon Town. There, cartoon physics take over and any human is subject to them: Eddie sneezes and his cartoon shadow turns with, "Gesundheit;" his toon bullets change direction mid-flight; Tweety pries his fingers off a flagpole and he falls a gazillion stories before being caught be Lena Hyena;...

* While ''WEsternAnimation/IntoTheSpiderVerse'' is CGI, some dimensions are given heavy stylisation, making them read as "tooniverses" in comparison to the more "realistic" worlds of Miles Morales, Peter B. Parker, and Gwen Stacy; Peni Parker is an anime character complete with MouthFlaps that don't sync up with her actual speech, Spider-Ham is a Creator/TexAvery cartoon character who can [[{{Hammerspace}} produce hammers and anvils from nowhere]], [[spoiler:and in TheStinger, Miguel O'Hara finds himself visiting the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon]]. Scorpion even refers to Spider-Ham as a "cartoon" during the final battle.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' took place on an alternate Earth (Earth-C), which Franchise/{{Superman}} crossed over into once. They have their own alternate too, Earth C-Minus, where the events that Rodney Rabbit writes in comic books take place for real.
* ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' (IDW) establishes that there are two ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' universes: One in which ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', ''Film/GhostbustersII'', [[{{VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame}} the 2009 video game]], and the IDW series take place, and one in which the animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' and ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' take place, and the films are fictional. While there are some callbacks and references between the two (mostly in the form of background gags, although Janine's appearance in the comics is a hybrid between her cartoon and film appearances, and an alternate version of Kylie from ''Extreme Ghostbusters'' was part of the New Ghostbusters team), they remained mostly separate... until 2015, when IDW did a limited-miniseries crossover between both 'verses.

* In the ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' comic ''The Coyote Gospel'', a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] expy is banished to "the hell above"--reality--for daring to question why cartoon characters must live such painful, violent lives. He appears on Earth as a grotesque "realistic" incarnation of himself, and becomes a [[TheMessiah messianic figure]] by taking on all other Toons' pain as his own--[[IronicHell by being killed in various ways and springing back to life, forever, on the same lonely desert road]].

* This is the explanation in some (but by no means all) ''Comicbook/DCComics Meet [[Comicbook/HannaBarberaBeyond Hanna Barbera]]'' and ''DC Comics Meet Comicbook/LooneyTunes'' oneshots.

* ''Boonie Bears: Entangled Worlds'', based off the hit Chinese animated show, suggests that the ''Animation/BoonieBears'' universe is this trope, as the main antagonist is an intelligent businessman who lives in the live-action ScienceFiction-fueled universe, and sends a TerribleTrio of humans to raid powerful objects from animated universes. Interestingly, unlike most examples here, the humans from the live-action universe are animated in the "tooniverses".

* The central plot of ''WesternAnimation/KiddVideo'': a band of rock musicians is taken into a Toon Universe made of what seem to be MTV's comercial breaks and abstrac animated music videos.

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