History Main / BizarroUniverse

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7737244/1/Mirror Mirror]]'' is about an accident with a portal sending Zim, GIR, Dib, and Gaz being sent to a universe where everyone's personalities are the opposite of the main universe. Here, Irkens are a peaceful race, Dib is a MadScientist who wants to rule the world, Gaz is a [[TastesLikeDiabetes sickeningly-sweet]] girl, and Professor Membrane is an idiot.

* The TropeNameris from Creator/DCComics: [[TropeNamers Bizarro World]].

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' had the main characters go to another school for a kickball game. Gus takes notice of the similarities to their school before they face their opponents. Which are near clear cut copies of themselves--except a majority of the counterparts are a [[RaceLift different race]] and [[DistaffCounterpart TJ's a girl]].

* In Episode 658 of ''[[WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld Stampy's Lovely World]]'', "Mirror World", Stampy is sent to an alternate version of his Lovely World which, geographically, is a LevelInReverse to his home world. [[spoiler:It also replaces the Love Garden with the "Potato Garden", exchanges the lava in the mob trap/grinder with water, gives the wolf pack different names, and is complete with alternate Helpers — Gillian Capybara, Peggy Reindeer and Dizzy Narwhal.]]

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the "[=AF04=]" universe has personality-reversed versions of all the main characters - except Elliot, where the only difference is that he's wearing a white T-shirt.

* ''VideoGame/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.

* Praetorian Earth in ''VideoGame/{{City of Heroes}}'' started out as a MirrorUniverse, but in the ''Going Rogue'' expansion, the story characters were {{Retcon}}ned slightly: rather than "all the good guys are evil," it's more along the lines of "All the nice guys are ruthless". Where Statesman is the selfless hero of the world (but mostly America), Emperor Cole is the man who "grudgingly ascended to the throne" and quickly turned Praetoria - the last standing metropolis in the world - into a [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans very pretty but VERY sternly run dictatorship]]. He also killed his best friend before they drank from the Well of the Furies, so Lord Recluse just doesn't have an alternate any more. The rest of the world is pretty damn inhospitable, what with a series of minor nuclear wars making the Devouring Earth rise up to destroy humanity, only getting pushed back by MORE nukes which, of course, made them angrier... It's [[CrapsackWorld not as nice a place as the shiny capital city seems]].

* Sketches set in "The Bizarro World" - done with a jerky low-frame-rate camera effect and funky audio filtering - were a frequent feature on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' during the early 1980s.

* The Other World in ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'' initially appears to be this, except in this case it's the ''regular'' world that sucks and the Other World that's a perfect paradise. [[spoiler:It's all an elaborate trap laid by [[BigBad the Other Mother]] - ultimately, the Other World turns out to be infinitely worse than the real world.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' has an issue where a malfunctioning invention of Professor Frink's turns the Simpson-verse bizarro- Sideshow Bob is principal of Springfield Elementary, with Milhouse as the top prankster, Bart as the nervous side character, and Lisa, bored with school and unhappy with her good grades. Krusty is an ex-clown sidekick in jail for framing his boss, Mr. Burns is not a rich businessman (With Smithers as his dog), Homer is a single dad raising Bart and Maggie who works for Comic Book Guy's mafia, Marge is a single mom who acts as Springfield's mayor, and most shocking over all, Homer and Marge never met! In fact, the only unchanged person is Moe the Bartender, still running his tavern- though he now has a glass eye. In trying to get back home, Frink ends up causing a series of events that makes the bizarroverse more like the real one.

** In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Supergirl meets her own Bizarro version, Bizarro-Girl (who insists on being the original deal and calling Supergirl "Bizarro-Me"). Bizarro-Girl [[BlueAndOrangeMorality keeps a very weird moral code for human standards]] and her powers are opposite to Supergirl's: she has fire breath, freezing vision and petrifying vision (which is unique to her). Both girls fight to save Bizarro World, which in this story is a cubic planet. Bizarro's "Fortress of Togertheness'' is located in the "Anti-Antartic" -a volcanic area-. Bizarro Jimmy wants to "draw" pictures of destroyed cities, and their greatest champion is a coward and a liar.

* In episode 132 of ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', Lovelitchi and several of her friends find a secret village in the forest called Tamagotchi Village, where all of the inhabitants are the same as Tamagotchi Village but with their personalities reversed (for example, the normal version of the main character Mametchi is a smart GadgeteerGenius, whereas his Tamagotchi Village counterpart, Mamesaku, is a nerd who doesn't invent anything).

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]]. 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).

Compare OppositeDay, a similar idea on a much smaller scale. Compare MirrorUniverse, which sometimes has some Bizarro elements to mix things up.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' episode "The Dark Side of the SWAT Kats", Razor and T-Bone are transported to a world where their counterparts work for Dark Kat, and Callie Briggs is a CorruptPolitician who, it's implied, killed the Mayor.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' has a magic mirror bring The Mondays, their [[EvilCounterpart evil counterparts]] from a MirrorUniverse, into their world. Each of them has their personalities reversed ''and'' some physical difference to tell them apart. In addition, they are supposed to be made of Anti-Matter, which causes reality to go crazy every time one of the characters approached his or her counterpart ([[ArtisticLicensePhysics Actually, if they were made of antimatter they would have exploded like nuclear bombs the moment they entered the positive universe]]... which is [[spoiler: exactly what happens when Argost tries to absorb both Zak Saturday and Zak Monday's powers in the series finale]]).

** Another one is introduced for real in "Let's Play Interdimensional Hide-and-Seek", referred to as the world of Let's Learn whereas the regular setting is, naturally, called Let's Play. Here, not only do our heroes have completely different colour schemes, but most of them have the opposite personality: Mr Cat is a book-eating simpleton and the only one who doesn't engage in evil plots, while Kaeloo's buff form is a sensitive crybaby, transformed by affection rather than frustration, and their smaller form is a SadistTeacher.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. [[EvilCounterpart Negaduck]] uses one as his "hideout" from [[TitleCharacter Darkwing Duck]] until Darkwing gets tossed in there by his RoguesGallery. Darkwing discovers, to his horror, that everyone in this alternate universe is the exact opposite of the people he knows.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' episode "Transfer Point" had Leader-1 and Scooter end up in a parallel universe where the Guardians were evil and the Renegades were good.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Dr. Beetle and Mr. Juice", the titular ghost invents a cologne that makes anyone exposed to it behave in a manner opposite to how they usually would. It hits Lydia, and she becomes a prank-playing biker.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' saw Joey and AP fight evil versions of themselves from one such universe. The bizarro Atomic Puppet also switches roles, with Joey as the puppet and AP as the wielder. Later, they meet the bizarro version of [[BigBadWannabe Mookie]], who is the greatest superhero in his world and has a mustache for some reason.

* The Mirror of Mystery bonus level in ''[[VideoGame/{{Skylanders}} Skylanders: Trap Team]]'' takes place in one of these. The player's Skylanders and Glumshanks go to a world where Kaos is a good guy and Eon is a villain named Evilon. Mabu, Flynn, and Persephone are also evil while Trolls are friendly.

* Praetorian Earth in ''VideoGame/{{City of Heroes}}'', which is the standard good to evil switch. Statesman becomes Tyrant, Ms. Liberty becomes Dominatrix, Manticore becomes Chimera, et cetera. Ever since the ''Going Rogue'' expansion, players could visit the place as well as execute a FaceHeelTurn or HeelFaceTurn through it.
** The story characters were {{Retcon}}ned slightly for the expansion: rather than "all the good guys are evil," it's more along the lines of "All the nice guys are ruthless". Where Statesman is the selfless hero of the world (but mostly America), Emperor Cole is the man who "grudgingly ascended to the throne" and quickly turned Praetoria - the last standing metropolis in the world - into a [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans very pretty but VERY sternly run dictatorship]]. He also killed his best friend before they drank from the Well of the Furies, so Lord Recluse just doesn't have an alternate any more. The rest of the world is pretty damn inhospitable, what with a series of minor nuclear wars making the Devouring Earth rise up to destroy humanity, only getting pushed back by MORE nukes which, of course, made them angrier... It's [[CrapsackWorld not as nice a place as the shiny capital city seems]].

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' an episode entitled "Mirror, Mirror", a transporter malfunction causes Kirk and some of his crew to be transported to a Bizarro World, where the Federation was a cruel, [[ANaziByAnyOtherName racist empire]] (complete with the [[strike:Nazi]] ancient Roman salute), and where ''[[BeardOfEvil Spock had a beard]]''.
** The Mirror Universe was later revisited in a series of episodes on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' to show how Kirk and company's interaction affected things. Now, the human race is enslaved by a Klingon/Cardassian alliance, with Kira their Intendant and Worf their Regent. Sisko was a JerkWithAHeartOfGold that became a rebel leader, Jadzia his mistress and O'Brien a timid tinkerer. Interestingly, mirror-[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Tuvok]] appeared in one of these episodes, but was very much like his normal universe counterpart.
** UpToEleven when after discussing this trope, a holodeck character appears as a real person, who then gets killed. The characters agree that the Mirror Universe is just plain weird (albeit with good lesbian fanservice).
** Later ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' did a two-parter showing the Terran Empire in the 22nd century. Archer was a commander prone to ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, Reed a sadistic security officer, Phlox loose with medical ethics and Trip a bitter engineer suffering from radiation poisoning among other differences. In the end, [[spoiler: Hoshi betrays Archer, steals the ship lost from the TOS era, and according to the ExpandedUniverse, becomes Empress.]]
** Most recently, ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' expanded upon the 23rd century of the Mirror Universe. Philippa Georgiou is now a ruthless tyrant, her adopted daughter Michael is a traitor, and meek Cadet Tilly is now a cruel captain with the unimaginative nickname "Captain Killy".

* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' had an episode with a universe where the Charmed Ones are evil and demons are good. It also turned out that the "Power of Three" which normally requires three sisters could be used by combining the normal and reversed universe characters' powers as the Power of Four.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' features the "[[ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass Shattered Glass]]" universe, where heroic Decepticons fight evil Autobots.

* 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.
* The two most famous are from Creator/DCComics: [[TropeNamers Bizarro World]] and the Crime Syndicate of America (or sometimes Amerika).

*** What's weird about it too was, Bizarro was supposed to have originated because the duplicator ray just couldn't handle duplicating Superman, but later this was changed so that everything duplicated was a Bizarro style duplicate. Remember, Lex Luthor built the original.
*** That's the ComicBook/PostCrisis explanation. The pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}} duplicator ray ''always'' made Bizarro copies. Luthor wasn't even the inventor (the inventor considered the gizmo a failure), but he co-opted the design because he figured a Bizarro Superman might side with him. He was wrong, and Bizarro quickly flew off to pursue his own wacky agendas, regardless of what Luthor wanted.
** On the CSA's parallel world of "Earth-3" (later rewritten during DC's ComicBook/PostCrisis period to be in Qward the anti-matter universe), Earth history is reversed (Britain fought the Revolutionary war to gain independence from America, President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by Abraham Lincoln, and so on) and everyone generally acts the opposite of their counterparts in the "normal" universe (i.e., all heroes are villains and vice versa). Also (ComicBook/PostCrisis) the laws of physics are changed so that evil always wins.
*** Another version of this morality-swapped universe is the post-ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis Earth-3, featuring the Crime Society of America, which differs slightly from the antimatter version. It's supposed to be the morality-swapped version of Earth-2, while the antimatter universe is the morality-swapped version of the main Earth.
** Following the New 52 relaunch, Earth-3 is the moral inverse of the main Earth (retconning the plan to have Earth-3 be an inverted Earth-2), while Earth-29 is a Bizarro universe where everything's the opposite of the main DCU and Bizarro is the main (sort of) hero.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pandemonium}} 2'' has this towards the final levels.

* Moonside in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'', where everything is black with neon outlines and people say things like "Hey! Parking meters! And you're walking around! Ha ha ha... that's so funny!" and "Mani Mani is always Mani Mani at Mani Mani with all Mani Mani Mani". Furthermore, "Yes" and "No" choices are switched (for, to name a few examples, when shopkeepers ask if you want to buy anything, or the innkeeper asks if you want to spend the night).

** Another one is introduced for real in "Let's Play Interdimensional Hide-and-Seek", referred to as the world of Let's Learn whereas the regular setting is, naturally, called Let's Play. Here, not only do our heroes have completely different colour schemes, but most of them have the opposite personality- Mr Cat is a book-eating simpleton and the only one who doesn't engage in evil plots, while Kaeloo's buff form is a sensitive crybaby, transformed by affection rather than frustration, and their smaller form is a SadistTeacher.

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* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' saw Joey and AP fight evil versions of themselves from one such universe. The bizarro Atomic Puppet also switches roles, with Joey as the puppet and AP as the wielder. Later, they meet the bizarro version of [[BigBadWannabe Mookie]], who is the greatest superhero in his world and has a BadassMustache for some reason.

-->--'''Tom Servo''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ''(Film/{{Laserblast}})''

* This is the basic premise of the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' fanfic ''Zelda and the Manacle of Cahla.'' Zelda is the hero of humble origins saving the world, Link is the prince and heir to the throne, Ganondorf is the royal family’s advisor, and Hyrule is a Steampunk-y {{Magitek}} empire instead of a medieval kingdom. However, it is revealed everything is a lot more complicated: [[spoiler:This universe was created by Ganondorf mucking with time travel, and Zelda is Link's long lost big sister and therefore ''still'' a princess.]]

* ''FanFic/TalesFromTheOtherRailway'' takes place on the "Other Railway" from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'', and all installments in and stories inspired by the fanfic series are adaptations of old ''Thomas'' and ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' stories, but starring the evil diesel characters instead of the "good" steamies.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' volume ''A Game of You'', the character Wanda was supposed to be a (DC Comics) Bizarro fan (significant since she is a [[{{Transgender}} trans woman]] 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 DC 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.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' had the heroes travel through a mirror to a place where all the heroes were villains. We never see the mirror universe counterparts of the villains, though other things are backwards. For example: a woman doing laundry takes her clean clothes and throws them into a mud puddle to make them dirty.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', the KND discovered a world where kids were slaves to adults, and the villainous organization DNK helped to keep them in place. Not only were all the inhabitants the opposite of their regular world counterparts, but all names and acronyms were backwards (Lizzie became Eizzil, etc.).
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'' episode "Bizarro" had the Sealab being taken over by bizarro versions of the crew who wanted diamonds.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Dr. Beetle and Mr. Juice", the titular ghost invents a cologne that makes anyone exposed to it behave in a manner opposite to how they usually would. It hits Lydia, and she becomes a prank-playing biker.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' has a magic mirror bring The Mondays, their [[EvilCounterpart evil counterparts]] from a MirrorUniverse, into their world. Each of them has their personalities reversed ''and'' some physical difference to tell them apart. In addition, they are supposed to be made of Anti-Matter, which causes reality to go crazy every time one of the characters approached his or her counterpart ([[ArtisticLicensePhysics Actually, if they were made of antimatter they would have exploded like nuclear bombs the moment they entered the positive universe]]... which is [[spoiler: exactly what happens when Argost tries to absorb both Zak Saturday and Zak Monday's powers in the series finale]]).

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' had the main characters go to another school for a kickball game. Gus takes notices of the similarities to their school before they face their opponents. Which are near clear cut copies of themselves--except a majority of the counterparts are a [[RaceLift different race]] and [[DistaffCounterpart TJ's a girl]].
* Orko's home world in ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' was like this. Because everything, including the laws of magic were screwed up, Prince Adam had to say [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull "Grayskull of power the by!"]] in order to transform into He Man.
** Which is why Orko's magic is messed up on Eternia. It's the magical equivalent of Engrish.
* The ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' episode "Transfer Point" had Leader-1 and Scooter end up in a parallel universe where the Guardians were evil and the Renegades were good.

* The Anti-Fairies from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' are dark, bat-winged fairies whose purpose is to cause bad luck. They tend to be the opposite of the normal fairies: Anti-Cosmo is a very smart and classy villain while Anti-Wanda is dumb and eats with her feet. Later on, they have a son, Foop, who is cube-shaped as oppossed to the round Poof.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': The episode "Let's Play Astronauts" had the main four go to an alternate universe [[ArtisticLicensePhysics through a black hole in space]]. There, Kaeloo's [[HulkingOut transformation]] works in reverse, [[TheWoobie Quack Quack]] and [[VillainProtagonist Mr. Cat]] (known as Meow Meow and Mr. Duck) had each other's personalities and traits, and [[TheDitz Stumpy]] was a genius who loved physics and hated comic books. [[spoiler: It turns out [[AllJustADream Stumpy dreamed this all up]].]]
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' saw Joey and AP fight evil versions of themselves from one such universe. The bizarro Atomic Puppet also switches roles, with Joey as the puppet and AP as the wielder. Later, they meet the bizarro version of [[BigBadWannabe Mookie]], who is the greatest superhero in his world and has a BadassMustache for some reason.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' episode "Billy Gets an 'A'", Grim accidentally creates one of these when he magically alters Billy's test mark. However, Mandy remains the exact same in the new universe.

* A segment from ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' featured Mickey and Minnie Mouse ending up in Topsy-Turvy Town, where everything was backwards. People wear pants and shirts on the opposite side of their bodies, mice chase cats, and people that buy things keep the money. Mickey is arrested for cleaning someone's clothes while Minnie was for insisted on giving her money to a clothes merchant. It ends with them going to jail [[spoiler: where everything is pleasant.]]

* ''WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd'': He presents himself as the exact inverse of AVGN; not only does he review retro games positively, but he drinks red wine instead of beer (at one point getting confused when someone replaced his wineglass with a beer bottle).
** In his reenactment of the Bugs Bunny AVGN episode with Nightshade, at the point in the dialogue where AVGN punched Bugs, instead Nightshade punches HVGN.
** They are also mirror images of each other in RealLife professional choices, with Creator/JamesRolfe being a filmmaker and Derek being a musician.

* ''Website/{{YTMND}}'' has a bizarro universe called "[[Film/FindingForrester Punch The Keys For God's Sake]]", where every meme is slightly changed [[note]]For example, "O RLY?" becomes "R U SHUR?"[[/note]]. Things get even more bizarre in other universes such as "YES YES", "Heh", "[[Film/{{Highlander}} You Have the Manners of a Goat]]" and "Typing noises".
* In WebAnimation/MidnightMares the worlds of Terra Steed and Nod are this to each other.
* Main/CreepyPasta has the [=Happypasta=] parody universe, home to characters such as [=Splendorman=]. Jeff the Hugger, the [=Happypasta=] version of Jeff the Killer, has occasionally been depicted as the "real" Jeff's adversary.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the "[=AF04=]" universe has personality-reversed versions of all the main characters - except Elliot, where the only difference is that he's wearing a white T-shirt.

* ''Webcomic/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, Creator/{{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 VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog. Then the crew from ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' randomly shows up. The strip is appropriately titled [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=243 "Bizzaro!"]].
** ... and there was a sequel to ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}''!
* ''Webcomic/MountainTime'' turned its logo upside-down, and suddenly everything changed. It was [[http://mountaincomics.com/2012/07/23/mountain-time-375/ River Valley Time.]]

* Website/GaiaOnline released the Dark Reflection item, which is a minigame where the player searches for a lost NPC who went [[ShoutOut through the looking glass]] into a bizarro-Gaia. Among other things, the oily con man is now a priest who's good with kids, and the neighborhood playa is now a trampy woman.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Termina is this to Hyrule in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. While Hyrule is the home of the Triforce and watched over by 3 goddesses, Termina is watched over by 4 male giants.
** And more fittingly, many of the inhabitants are the counterparts of characters from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', but with radically different names, occupations and/or personalities. The stuck-up princess is in a rock band, the same girl at two different ages is now a pair of sisters, etc.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pandemonium}} 2'' has this towards the final levels.
* The Mirror of Mystery bonus level in ''[[VideoGame/{{Skylanders}} Skylanders: Trap Team]]'' takes place in one of these. The player's Skylanders and Glumshanks go to a world where Kaos is a good guy and Eon is a villain named Evilon. Mabu, Flynn, and Persephone are also evil while Trolls are friendly.
* ''VideoGame/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.
* Beating ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' unlocks Another Day, a side-story set in an alternate universe Shibuya where the Tin Pin minigame is SeriousBusiness and everybody's 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.
* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' has the twin cities of Flipside and Flopside which are opposite counterparts to each other. The two cities look mostly the same, except all of the buildings are reversed and look more run down, and the background music is more depressing. The residents of the two cities each look similar to their counterparts but have opposite personalities and differently colored skin, and residents of Flipside have square noses while residents of Flopside have triangular noses. Flipside has a white tower with seven doors leading to colorful worlds, while Flopside has an ominous black tower with a single large door lead to the villain's fortress in the void. And there are a few other differences. Most of the people of the two cities are unaware that the other city exists although one pair of counterparts decide to switch places with each other when they are unhappy with their lives.

* Sketches set in "The Bizarro World" - done with a jerky low-frame-rate camera effect and funky audio filtering - were a frequent feature on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' during the early 1980s.
** "NBC am in third place! This am great!"
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** The Wishverse is not a Bizarro world, despite Cordelia's remark "I wish us all to Bizarro World", but a combination of ForWantOfANail and a variation of ItsAWonderfulPlot (Cordy wished somebody ''else'' had never come to Sunnydale).
** In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', in Cordelia's final episode after a long absence, she returns, and upon finding that Angel is working with their main enemies and an old villain has switched sides, asks "What Bizarro world did I wake up in?", referencing both the Wishverse and the trope itself.
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'''s Framework in Season 4 is a mix of this with LotusEaterMachine.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' had an episode with a universe where the Charmed Ones are evil and demons are good. It also turned out that the "Power of Three" which normally requires three sisters could be used by combining the normal and reversed universe characters' powers as the Power of Four.
* ''Series/FatherTed'', where Rugged Island has another set of three priests with the same dynamic as the regulars on Craggy Island. Although Father Dick Byrne is more manipulative and evil than his counterpart, the "comparatively" good Father Ted Crilly. As for Cyril [=McDuff=], he's such an eejit even Dougal knows it.

* On ''Series/TheDailyShow'', John Oliver referred to "Bizarro Hitler", who spent his time hugging Jews and got his ass handed to him by France. Also, his face was all moustache except above his lip. When Jon Stewart said he imagined Bizarro Hitler would be a black man with blond hair and a pencil beard, Oliver told him he was thinking of Dennis Rodman.
** In another episode, Stewart's Bizarro version is mentioned: the "ruggedly handsome, non-neurotic" Jon Leibowitz, who pretends to be independent, but actually is a "right-wing nutcase."
*** And with the February, 2011 strike in Wisconsin, the Union strikers are apparently the Bizarro Tea Party.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' an episode entitled "Mirror, Mirror", a transporter malfunction causes Kirk and some of his crew to be transported to a Bizarro World, where the Federation was a cruel, [[ANaziByAnyOtherName racist empire]] (complete with the [[strike:Nazi]] ancient Roman salute), and where ''[[BeardOfEvil Spock had a beard]]''.
** The Mirror Universe was later revisited in a series of episodes on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' to show how Kirk and company's interaction affected things. Now, the human race is enslaved by a Klingon/Cardassian alliance, with Kira their Intendant and Worf their Regent. Sisko was a JerkWithAHeartOfGold that became a rebel leader, Jadzia his mistress and O'Brien a timid tinkerer. Interestingly, mirror-[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Tuvok]] appeared in one of these episodes, but was very much like his normal universe counterpart.
** UpToEleven when after discussing this trope, a holodeck character appears as a real person, who then gets killed. The characters agree that the Mirror Universe is just plain weird (albeit with good lesbian fanservice).
** Later ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' did a two-parter showing the Terran Empire in the 22nd century. Archer was a commander prone to ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, Reed a sadistic security officer, Phlox loose with medical ethics and Trip a bitter engineer suffering from radiation poisoning among other differences. In the end, [[spoiler: Hoshi betrays Archer, steals the ship lost from the TOS era, and according to the ExpandedUniverse, becomes Empress.]]
** Most recently, ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' expanded upon the 23rd century of the Mirror Universe. Philippa Georgiou is now a ruthless tyrant, her adopted daughter Michael is a traitor, and meek Cadet Tilly is now a cruel captain with the unimaginative nickname "Captain Killy".
* The old Canadian kid's show ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' had every so often their "Opposite Sketches", featuring this.

* In the ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' Season 3 Christmas Special, the family and some servants travel to Duneagle Castle, which is basically Bizarro Downton in Scotland. Duneagle's family is somehow even more dysfunctional than the Crawleys, and Bizarro O'Brien is even more conniving than regular O'Brien.
* In ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Mexico is apparently this. It's home to Mexican versions of Earl and Randy, who have a list of bad things that they're going to do to people, versus the American Earl and Randy and their list of good things. One of the things on Mexican Earl's list is kidnapping and tying up a woman and forcing her to smoke cigarettes, a direct reversal of something the American Earl did: kidnapping and tying up a woman to help her quit smoking.

* The old ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]'' saw the Doctor accidentally transported to an alternate universe where Britain had become a fascist, militant country. While he's able to redeem a few of the alternate characters, he's unable to save them and winds up traumatized as he's forced to watch them being killed by the volcanic eruption that was set off by their experiment before he escapes. ExpendableAlternateUniverse is very much not at play: his failure to stop its destruction haunts him for some time after this.

* ''Literature/WeCantRewind'' has one of these on the other side of TheBermudaTriangle. [[spoiler: It's a lot like our universe, except that time flows backward there, such that Earth there turns on its axis and orbits the sun in the opposite directions from here. (So do all the other planets, presumably, though the book doesn't actually say so.) Its inhabitants, all refugees from our world, have accordingly taken to counting time down rather than up to synchronize their timeline with ours.]]

* Similarly, ''Fanfic/TheRainsverse'' is set in a world where the Mane Six fell into darkness, and where Chrysalis and Sombra are the {{BigGood}}s. Moreover, the six Rainsverse Bearers are all ponies who, in the Celestiaverse, were villains (Lightning Dust as the Bearer of Laughter, Aria Blaze as the Bearer of Honesty, Suri Polomare as the Bearer of Loyalty, Starlight Glimmer as the Bearer of Generosity, Sonata Dusk as the Bearer of Kindness, and Adagio Dazzle as the Bearer of Magic).

* ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGateLies'': Harry refers to the ''LightNovel/HighschoolDxD'' universe as this, and it fits the profile. In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', devils and angels (both regular and Fallen) are pillars of creation, have nigh-infinite power, can only be created by god, and are almost as hard to kill. Magic functions on willpower and emotion. And the wizard never gets the girls. In ''LightNovel/HighschoolDxD'', most devils aren't much stronger than humans, they can reproduce normally or turn humans into devils, and can be killed almost as easily. And magic is performed with complex math.

* Another IZ story, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7737244/1/Mirror Mirror]]'', is about an accident with a portal sending Zim, GIR, Dib, and Gaz being sent to a universe where everyone's personalities are the opposite of the main universe. Here, Irkens are a peaceful race, Dib is a MadScientist who wants to rule the world, Gaz is a [[TastesLikeDiabetes sickeningly-sweet]] girl, and Professor Membrane is an idiot.
* This is the basic premise of the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' fanfic "Zelda and the Manacle of Cahla." Zelda is the hero of humble origins saving the world, Link is the prince and heir to the throne, Ganondorf is the royal family’s advisor, and Hyrule is a Steampunk-y {{Magitek}} empire instead of a medieval kingdom. However, it is revealed everything is a lot more complicated: [[spoiler:This universe was created by Ganondorf mucking with time travel, and Zelda is Link's long lost big sister and therefore ''still'' a princess.]]
* A ''Series/{{Glee}}'' story, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9109281/1/Opposites-Attract Opposites Attract]]'', follows Kurt hitting his head and being launched into an alternate reality where all of his teammates have not only had their personalities twisted but even the [[CampGay gay]] [[StraightGay characters]] have [[IncompatibleOrientation become straight]].

* Bizarro World is the setting of ''Fanfic/TheUnfantasticAdventuresOfBizarroNo1''. Htrae is a square world, the law prohibits adults from watching porno movies, husbands are trialed and condemned for to not killing their wives, men complain about the women's liberation movement demanding males join the army, children receive gifts of their fathers on Father's Day, Bizarros want their partners to cheat on them, conservatives wear Mohawks and nose rings…
* ''FanFic/TalesFromTheOtherRailway'' takes place on the "Other Railway" from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'', and all installments in and stories inspired by the fanfic series are adaptations of old ''Thomas'' and ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' stories, but starring the evil diesel characters instead of the "good" steamies.
* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' has Naruto and Fu having to enter the ''Road to Ninja'' (see below) universe as the first stage to control their Tailed Beasts in the Waterfall of Truth.

* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'' takes it to its most [[AHellOfATime hellish]] extreme: Where the sea was on Earth there is now land, and likewise for the oceans. Instead of growing older people regress in age, until they turn into foetuses and are then entirely forgotten, and most integrally to the plot, the more cruel a person was in life, the better they are rewarded in death...
* The MirrorUniverse of Moebius in the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' series also has some Bizarro elements, besides the morality flip. A pacifist, Irish-accented Knuckles guards the Sunken Island, and instead of the rare and powerful [[MineralMacGuffin Chaos Emeralds]] there is a bountiful supply of Anarchy Beryl, which gives PowerAtAPrice (Sonic figures this out in an impressive moment of smartness).
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' features the "[[ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass Shattered Glass]]" universe, where heroic Decepticons fight evil Autobots.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' volume ''A Game of You'', the character Wanda was supposed to be a (DC Comics) Bizarro fan (significant since she is a [[{{Transgender}} trans woman]] 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 DC 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.
* 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.
* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' has an issue where a malfunctioning invention of Professor Frink's turns the Simpson-verse bizarro- Sideshow Bob is principal of Springfield Elementary, with Milhouse as the top prankster, Bart as the nervous side character, and Lisa, bored with school and unhappy with her good grades. Krusty is an ex-clown sidekick in jail for framing his boss, Mr. Burns is not a rich businessman (With Smithers as his dog), Homer is a single dad raising Bart and Maggie who works for Comic Book Guy's mafia, Marge is a single mom who acts as Springfield's mayor, and most shocking over all, Homer and Marge never met! In fact, the only unchanged person is Moe the Bartender, still running his tavern- though he now has a glass eye. In trying to get back home, Frink ends up causing a series of events that makes the bizarroverse more like the real one.

* ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', the 7th installment of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is entirely based on an alternate universe than the original setting. Some sections of the plot, as well as the characters, are basically the same, such as Diego Brando, Gyro Zeppeli and Johnny Joestar. These three were the main characters of the original setting.
* The ''Manga/{{Naruto}} [[Anime/NarutoTheMovieRoadToNinja 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.

* In episode 132 of ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', Lovelitchi and several of her friends friends find a secret village in the forest called Tamagotchi Village, where all of the inhabitants are the same as Tamagotchi Village but with their personalities reversed (for example, the normal version of the main character Mametchi is a smart GadgeteerGenius, whereas his Tamagotchi Village counterpart, Mamesaku, is a nerd who doesn't invent anything).

** The Wishverse is not a Bizarro world, despite Cordelia's remark "I wish us all to Bizarro World", but a combination of ForWantOfANail and a subversion of [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Wonderful Life]] (Cordy wished somebody ''else'' had never come to Sunnydale).

* Praetorian Earth in ''VideoGame/{{City of Heroes}}'', which is the standard good to evil switch. Statesman becomes Tyrant, Ms. Liberty becomes Dominatrix, Manticore becomes Chimera, et cetera.
** Interesting use in that players will be able to play in it in the upcoming Expansion, as well as execute a FaceHeelTurn or HeelFaceTurn through it.
*** Turns out they did a bit of a Retcon for the release; rather than "all the good guys are evil," it's more along the lines of "All the nice guys are ruthless". Where Statesman is the selfless hero of the world (but mostly America), Emperor Cole is the man who "grudgingly ascended to the throne" and quickly turned Praetoria - the last standing metropolis in the world - into a [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans very pretty but VERY sternly run dictatorship]]. He also killed his best friend before they drank from the Well of the Furies, so Lord Recluse just doesn't have an alternate any more. The rest of the world is pretty damn inhospitable, what with a series of minor nuclear wars making the Devouring Earth rise up to destroy humanity, only getting pushed back by MORE nukes which, of course, made them angrier... It's [[CrapsackWorld not as nice a place as the shiny capital city seems]].

* The MirrorUniverse of Moebius in the ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' series also has some Bizarro elements, besides the morality flip. A pacifist, Irish-accented Knuckles guards the Sunken Island, and instead of the rare and powerful [[MineralMacGuffin Chaos Emeralds]] there is a bountiful supply of Anarchy Beryl, which gives PowerAtAPrice (Sonic figures this out in an impressive moment of smartness).

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' has a magic mirror bring The Mondays, their [[EvilCounterpart evil counterparts]] from a MirrorUniverse, into their world. Each of them has their personalities reversed ''and'' some physical difference to tell them apart. In addition, they are supposed to be made of Anti-Matter, which causes reality to go crazy every time one of the characters approached his or her counterpart. ([[ArtisticLicensePhysics Actually, if they were made of antimatter they would have exploded like nuclear bombs the moment they entered the positive universe]].)

* A segment from ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' featured Mickey and Minnie Mouse ending up in Topsy-Turvy Town, where everything was backwards. People wear pants and shirts on the opposite side of their bodies, mice chase cats, and people that buy things keep the money. Mickey is arrested for cleaning a someone's clothes while Minnie was for insisted on giving her money to a clothes merchant. It ends with them going to jail [[spoiler: where everything is pleasant.]]
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' had the villain of a story arc go back in time and tamper with the past, with only Archie [[RippleEffectProofMemory being unaffected.]] As the changes build up, they start to reshape Riverdale into one of these. Big Ethel is now Dilton's AbhorrentAdmirer instead of Jugheads', Jughead himself is a health food nut instead of a junk food enthusiast, BettyAndVeronica's roles are reversed, portly balding Principal Wetherby is now a trim, full-maned coach, no-nonsense teacher Miss Grundy is now the glamorous owner of a successful disco, and to top it all off, a local library is now a Starbucks while reading in public is an arrest-able offence.

* In one episode of ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'', Doraemon and Nobita land on a planet where the sun rises from the west, the continents, buildings and writings are mirror images of those on Earth, and the social roles and stereotypes of males and females get switched. Nobita is quite unhappy to learn that this planet's version of himself is a genius, who he will perform a TwinSwitch with later.

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', ''Shadowmoor'' is effectively a BizarroUniverse of the previous block's setting, ''Lorwyn''. A magical incident known as "the Aurora" causes the bright and light-hearted world of Lorwyn to become the [[{{Grimmification}} dark and sinister]] Shadowmoor. The personalities of its inhabitants are likewise warped: the clannish kithkin are now xenophobic and paranoid, the mischievous and energetic boggarts are warlike berserkers, and the proud and domineering elves have become beleaguered preservers of beauty in a dark and ugly world (they're [[CantArgueWithElves only slightly less smug,]] though).
** Except for faeries, they're pricks in both worlds.
** And it's rather neat that the races don't simply become opposite, but remphasize their core identity to fit the darker world (causing only one of their two colors to shift). Boggarts were always mass breeding, hostile to the outside, and crazy, but now they've traded in pranks for full out violence. Kithkin always lived in tight knit communities, but drew even tighter together when the outside world became dark. Elves still based everything around the importance of beauty, except now that there was so little they became valiant protectors of it rather than facist enforcers. The merfolk's focus on wealth and secrets quickly reverts to hording and theft rather than mutual trade. The giants surrender their noble side to their barbaric simplicity. The treefolk still defend the woodlands, but the woodlands are so fetid and diseased that they must be protected with greater savagery.
*** The faeries, however, remain pricks.
*** From where they were in Lorwyn, they really didn't have anywhere lower to go.
*** More importantly, the faeries mostly live in Glen Elendra, which, thanks to it being partially removed from the rest of the world by Oona's power, doesn't actually change with the rest of the world. Their world isn't any darker, except when they decide to leave it.

* A segment from ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' featured Mickey and Minnie Mouse ending up in Topsy-Turvy Town, where everything was backwards. People wear pants and shirts on the opposite side of their bodies, mice chase cats, and people that buy things keep the money. It ends with Mickey and Minnie going to jail [[spoiler: where everything is pleasant.]]

* Orko's home world in ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' 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.

** Gene, in addition to his polite Bizarro George personality, is always over-dressed. A sharp contrast to his rival, who would "drape [himself] in velvet [jumpsuits] if it were socially acceptable" (and in fact, eventually does). He's morally scrupulous to the point where his reaction to finding a payphone that has free long-distance is to call the phone company to report the problem.

** Gene, in addition to his polite Bizarro George personality, is always over-dressed. A sharp contrast to his rival, who would "drape [himself] in velvet [jumpsuits] if it were socially acceptable" (and in fact, eventually does).

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', the KND discovered a world where kids were slaves to adults, and and the villainous organization DNK helped to keep them in place. Not only were all the inhabitants the opposite of their regular world counterparts, but all names and acronyms were backwards (Lizzie became Eizzil, etc.).