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* VGCats features a strip in which Aeris and Leo envision a world in which Brawl has all you "favorite character and no...ice climbers". Cue cut to VG Dogs, the bizarro equivalent of VG Cats in which the Leo analog is the smart one and the Aeris analog is the stupid one. In this world, {{Sega}} appears to have won out in the console wars over Creator/{{Nintendo}}, and the Brawl equivalent, Sonic Heroes, has included Mario as a [[{{Fanservice}} fanservice]]. Bizzaro Aeris mentions liking a game called "Yoshi the Dinosaur", an apparent analog to ShadowTheHedgehog. Then the crew from {{Sliders}} randomly shows up. The strip is appropriately titled [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=243 "Bizzaro!"]].

* It's more of an EasterEgg, but the commentary for DarthsAndDroids [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0050.html Episode 50]] not only gives some details of the universe the comic is set in (itself somewhat of a Bizarro World), but also begins a long chain of twenty-odd links to additional Bizarro World webcomics, each one a little different than the last, and each through the lens of whichever screencap webcomic the Comic Irregulars are creating in that world (the first few links include pages of HarryPotter, TheSoundOfMusic, and XMen webcomics).

* Issues #17-20 of ''ComicBook/MylittleponyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' features a magic mirror that takes explorers to various {{Alternate Universe}}s. The focus of the arc is on a Bizarro Universe with evil versions of the good characters and vice-versa.

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* Termina is this to Hyrule in ''TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. While Hyrule is the home of the [=TRIforce=] and watched over by 3 goddesses, [=TER=]mina is watched over by 4 male giants.

-->'''Farnsworth:''' [[FearfulSymmetry Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything!]]"

* The ''manga/{{Naruto}} Road to Ninja'' movie is set in [[AlternateUniverse some sort]] [[LotusEaterMachine of reality]] where Naruto's parents are alive and Sakura's parents are dead. What makes this a full on Bizarro Universe is that several other characters have backward personalities, such as a flirtatious Sasuke and an aggressive Hinata.

* Beating TheWorldEndsWithYou unlocks Another Day, a side-story set in an alternate universe Shibuya where the Tin Pin minigame is SeriousBusiness and everybodys' personalities are changed. Most notable is EmoTeen Neku suddenly becoming chipper and positive while trying to fight off his "emo urges," and Joshua becoming (even more) AmbiguouslyGay and transparently flirting with Neku.

* Termina is this to Hyrule in TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask. While Hyrule is the home of the [=TRIforce=] and watched over by 3 goddesses, [=TER=]mina is watched over by 4 male giants.

* VideoGame/{{Pandemonium}} 2 has this towards the final levels.
* NeverwinterNights: Hordes of the Underdark has a quest where you deal with a town the queen of which tried to spy on an archmage. As a result of a PokeInTheThirdEye, the town was transformed into that. Results include (aside from the town - inhabited by winged elves - transferred underground and liking it) a librarian's beautiful wife transformed into a gorgon and burning books, a merchant only selling at a loss to himself, and a wizard giving the tower to his apprentice. Oh, and the queen became evil.

* 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?
** "How come my guy is an egg? OH GOD!" "BIZARRO BIZARRO I LOVE YOU BIZARRO"
** I thought they wanted a laser beam.
*** They eventually decided they wanted diamonds ''and'' the Destructo-Beam. '''''BIZARRO!'''''

->''"Inverted world, where the spazzes make fun of the cool guys!"''
-->-- '''Tom Servo''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ''({{Laserblast}})''

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

** An issue of ''CartoonNetworkPresents'' featured a tribute to Bizarro World in the form of a story where Peter Potamus visits a pyramid-shaped version of it, inhabited by Bizarro versions of HannaBarbera cartoon characters (among them: WesternAnimation/YogiBear would rather clean up Jellystone Park than steal picnic baskets, Mr. Peebles does not want to sell MagillaGorilla, and WallyGator wants to stay at the zoo).

* The ''{{Naruto}} Road to Ninja'' movie is set in [[AlternateUniverse some sort]] [[LotusEaterMachine of reality]] where Naruto's parents are alive and Sakura's parents are dead. What makes this a full on Bizarro Universe is that several other characters have backward personalities, such as a flirtatious Sasuke and an aggressive Hinata.

-->'''[[TheStinger Waldorf]]''': I wonder what this show would be like in Bizarro World? \\

'''[[StatlerAndWaldorf Both]]''': Do-ho-ho-ho-ho!

* Beating TheWorldEndsWithYou unlocks Another Day, a side-story set in an alternate universe Shibuya where the Tin Pin minigame is SeriousBusiness and everybodys' personalities are changed. Most notable is EmoTeen Neku suddenly becoming chipper and positive while trying to fight off his "emo urges," and Joshua becoming (even more) AmbiguouslyGay and transparently flirting with Neku.

*** In fact, it was implied that coin-tosses were the ''only'' differences between the universes. Which doesn't explain how [[AlienSky the sky was a different color]]....
*** After the episode comes back from a commercial, the screen pans in from a galaxy view down to the Earth, and a big pink and purple and yellow cloud can be seen over New New York--allow me to posit its origin as relating to the events of "A Big Ball of Garbage": Farnsworth was busy removing his own brain, and didn't stop the garbage-ball from colliding with the city, polluting it horribly. Just a thought.
** The characters (of both worlds!) [[WrongGenreSavvy originally assume]] that the other world is a MirrorUniverse and begin fighting ([[FearfulSymmetry hilariously]]).
*** [[FearfulSymmetry Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything!]]

-->-- '''Tom Servo''', ''{{MST3K}}'' ''({{Laserblast}})''

* Orko's home world in ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'' was like this. Because everything, including the laws of magic were screwed up, Prince Adam had to say [[ByThePowerOfGreyskull "Greyskull of power the by!"]] in order to transform into He Man.

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* ''{{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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* ''SaturdayNightLive'' during NBC's ratings woes in the early 1980s had "BizzaroUniverse" sketches. One had a group of NBC executives overjoyed that the network was last in the ratings.

* In ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' volume ''A Game of You'', the character Wanda was supposed to be a Bizarro fan (significant since she is a [[TransSexual transwoman]] and had to deal with feeling very out of place growing up in the Bible Belt). However, Gaiman wasn't allowed to use the Bizarro name[[note]]it is left unstated whether the problem was with making Bizarro comics a part of the Sandman universe or if it was with a trans character liking the comics[[/note]], and instead had to invent an ersatz "Weirdzo" comic series for Wanda to like. This sadly interferes somewhat with her characterization as readers would have been more able to connect and sympathize with a Bizarro-reading Wanda.

* Pandemonium 2 has this towards the final levels.

* 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). When the Cat runs off eagerly and lustfully to find his female counterpart:

** Bizarro has been around long enough (and had enough different people writing him) that in any given story it's possible for him to be embracing nearly any variation on this trope. Occasionally he's treated as a villain (actually evil) but usually he's portrayed as more of a hindrance (he tries to be helpful but is really bad at it, or perhaps he just has a decidedly twisted notion of what "helpful" means). He is, however, nearly ''always'' dumber than the box of rocks he appears to be made of.

-->'''[[TheStinger Waldorf]]''': I wonder what this show would be like in Bizarro World? \\
'''[[TheMuppetShow Statler]]''': Hm... Entertaining!?! \\
'''[[StatlerAndWaldorf Both]]''': Do-ho-ho-ho-ho!
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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; [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad 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).

** Bizarro World is a planet (or sometimes a universe) that works on Bizarro logic, where everything is opposite of Earthly ways (the planet itself is actually a cube and named "Htrae"). Bizarro World in the SilverAge 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. ''AllStarSuperman'' introduced "Zibarro," who was like a Bizarro on Bizarro World. That is, he was a normal person.

* Apparently [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou Soviet Russia]] is like this.