History Main / NegativeSpaceWedgie

** The frequency with which the protagonists encounter them is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in a [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse ''Star Trek'' Expanded Universe]] novel dealing with the [[StarTrekDepartmentOfTemporalInvestigations Department of Temporal Investigations]]; apparently exposure to a Negative Space Wedgie alters probability around you due to {{Technobabble}}, making future encounters dramatically more likely (retroactively if need be). The DTI is understandably miffed, given that every time this happens their workload increases.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' has Sentinel Prime fly his ship through an "energy cloud" while rushing from Earth to Cybertron. While it does not hurt the ship or the crew, it does wind up freeing the ship's dangerous prisoners.

-->-- '''Mr. Schlock''', ''Stardrek''

* The electromagnetic storm from the 2001 ''PlanetOfTheApes''.

* ''VorTheMaelstrom'' takes place entirely ''inside'' the titular Maelstrom. Earth has been swallowed by a hole in the fabric of the universe, and trapped in an faux solar system orbiting a black hole... or something like that. Over the course of the next few decades or so it will tumble to its center, where it will be destroyed. Luckily, there are plenty of other planets plunging to their doom, many in orbits that will take centuries or even millennia to decay. Catch is there are '''''LOTS''''' of other lifeforms trapped in the Maelstrom as well, all fighting for possession of the safest worlds - and more appearing all the time. If there's a way out, none of those who have escaped have been able(or ''willing'') to return to share the secret. Enjoy TheEternalChurchill.

* The Nothing in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' is basically a Negative Space Wedgie that devours Fantasia. This is pretty the basis of the movie and the first half of the novel. Consequently, it's the "forgivable" or {{Justified}} version.
** Yeah, the author of that story had a real lack of imagination. ([[IncrediblyLamePun Hah! Get it?]])

* The Nothing in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' is basically a Negative Space Wedgie that devours Fantasia. This is pretty the basis of the first half of the novel. Consequently, it's the "forgivable" or {{Justified}} version.

Not necessarily this trope - or at least forgiveable - where the phenomenon is the premise of movie or series. In the case of a series, it must be the same phenomenon at the beginning of each episode rather than same-but-different variations. For stand-alone works, they can occur once to set the plot in motion, and perhaps a second time to conclude the story; additional appearances to create additional plot points are more a manifestation of this trope.

* The Nothing in ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' is basically a Negative Space Wedgie that devours Fantasia.

* In ''CthulhuTech'' there is the Zone, which is what happens when you try to compress infinite dimensions into just three. As it turns out, it doesn't work out well at all.
* In ''{{GURPS}} {{Banestorm}}'', the epynomous Banestorm is a probably-magical tear in time and space that kidnaps individuals, groups, and entire chunks of terrain from the history of Earth (and [[AnotherDimension other dimensions]]) and scatters them all over [[MagicalLand Yrth]].
* In ''BattleTech'' this can happen to Jumpships if something bad happens during their jump, they either disappear for and jump hundreds of years to the future, or create a mini black hole sucking in it and anything else near it.

-->'''Doctor:''' [[spoiler:Bodies are boring. I've had loads of them.]]

* ''FreeSpace2'' introduces a new nebula environment that is plagued with intense electromagnetic storms. On most missions, the lightning only obscures your vision, but there's one mission where it is so strong that it [[InterfaceScrew scrambles your HUD and messes with communications and targeting.]]

* The excession in, well, ''TheCulture/Excession''.

* The premise of the Russian multiple-writer series ''DeathZone'' is the sudden formation of a negative space wedgie in five cities of the former [=USSR=] (three in Russia and two in Ukraine) that obliterate the cities (including Saint-Petersburg) and create anomalous zones full of bio-mechanical monsters, gravity anomalies, toxic atmosphere, ever-present nanites that infect any exposed body part, and an enormous tornado at the center of each zone that links all five with another dimension. If you survive several days in the Zones, you're already elite. If not, then you're likely walking around as a mechanical zombie.

* ''{{Futurama}}'' has had its share of {{Negative Space Wedgie}}s:

* Given a ShoutOut on ''RockosModernLife'' in the episode "A Sucker for the Suck-O-Matic". A pink ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]]'' is vacuumed up.

* In the [[TheSimpsons ''Simpsons'']] episode "Homer at the Bat," there is the "The Springfield Mystery Spot," a shack attraction ("Where logic takes a holiday and all laws of nature are meaningless"). Ozzie Smith goes into it and....

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' has Sentinel Prime fly his ship through an "energy cloud" while rushing from Earth to Cybertron. While it does not hurt the ship or the crew, but does wind up freeing the ships dangerous prisoners.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' has Sentinel Prime his ship through an "energy cloud" while rushing from Earth to Cybertron. While it does not hurt the ship or the crew, but does wind up freeing the ships dangerous prisoners.

* A terrestrial version[[hottip:* :A Negative Space Wedgie, [[InvertedTrope but]] [[RecycledInSpace ON EARTH!!!]] teleports the USS ''Nimitz'' back to WorldWarII in ''TheFinalCountdown''.

* In ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion 2'', some of the one-time random events screw with hyperspace to impair or outright deny[[hottip:*:save for races with the Transdimensional trait]] space travel.