History Main / RealityIsOutToLunch

-->'''[[spoiler: Bill Cipher:]]''' It's time we do a little redecorating -- I could really use a ''[[PyramidPower castle]]'' of some kind! And how about some bubbles of ''[[MindRape pure madness?!]]'' [[PsychopathicManChild This party never stops!]] [[TimeCrash Time is dead]] and [[MindScrew meaning has no meaning!]] [[WorldGoneMad Existence is upside down]] and [[NewEraSpeech I reign supreme!]] Welcome, one and all, to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Weirdmageddon!]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E18Weirdmageddon Weirdmageddon]]", [[spoiler: Bill Cipher finally escapes to Earth and turns Gravity Falls into his own personal playground, unleashing all sorts of bizarre and horrifying transformations on the townsfolk and the town itself and partying it up with his fellow {{Eldritch Abomination}}s from his previous home dimension]].

* In ''VideoGame/LoopHero'' after the world's end all that remains is a loop of road floating in a black void. The Hero is able to remember things from before the world's destruction and temporarily bring them back into existence as floating chunks of land surround the road.

-->An earlier, unused version of this sequence featured a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5sZPPF9ao song]] written by NeilCicierega. It is arguably even weirder.

** In the series' backstory, during the 1st Era, the Marukhati Selectives, an elite group within the rabidly [[FantasticRacism anti-Elven]] [[TheTheocracy Alessian Order]], carried out a ritual in an attempt to purge Akatosh, the [[DragonsAreDivine draconic]] God of Time, of the elven aspects of his mythological basis -- the [[OurElvesAreBetter Aldmeri]] [[NobleBirdOfPrey golden eagle]] god Auri-El. This proceeded to [[TimeCrash break time]] and reality for a period of a 1008 years, an event that came to be known as the Middle Dawn. During the Middle Dawn, reality didn't just go out for lunch, it went out for supper with friends, got wasted, passed out, and then woke up the next morning butt-naked in a dumpster on the other side of town with no wallet. Bizarre and impossible events occurred during this time; people gave birth to their own parents, some sources mention wars and major events which never happened according to other sources, the sun changed color depending on the witness, and the gods either walked among the mortals or they didn't. How could they measure that period of time? They used the phases of Nirn's moons, said to be [[GodIsDead Lorkhan]]'s decaying "flesh divinity", to measure time as they were not affected by the event. Even the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Elder Scrolls]] themselves cannot rationalize the events of the Middle Dawn. When the Scrolls are attuned to that time period, their glyphs disappear.

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', there is the phenomenon known as the Pale. It is basically a collection of strange enormous patches of anti-reality where all human history and memory of the past collects. The Pale separate the world's continents and covers most of the planet. While just being in the Pale may not immediately kill you, the longer you stay and deeper you go, the more the laws of physics stop working, and the laws of nature such as distance, time, gravity, and even mathematics themselves eventually break down, and you find yourself going increasingly insane as you lose the ability to separate present and past, and terms like "sky" and "ground" stop having any meaning. The only way civilization has found to reliably navigate them is to plot a precise course with as little exposure as possible and shoot straight through as fast as they can with specially designed airships.

* RealityWarper supervillain Proteus from ComicBook/XMen comics, particularly "The Day Reality Went Wild". His powers are especially traumatizing for Wolverine, whose heightened senses give him a greater awareness of reality, and a consequently greater awareness of reality being distorted.

** The fun thing about mathematics is that it doesn't have to reflect reality at all; it only usually does so because that's more convenient for most things. Want to redefine "continuity", make a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_line_%28topology%29 longer-than-infinite line]], work in fractional or infinitely many dimensions, or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach-Tarski_paradox split a sphere into two copies of itself]]? As long as you can formally define it and prove it works, there's no problem.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', in the episode ''Trinity''. The crew comes across an Ancient outpost that was working on a limitless energy source that the Ancients died trying to make it work. Rodney McKay egotistically believes he can correct the problem, only to find out that the very nature of the power source causes local reality failure. The laws of physics cease to apply in the chamber, that unleashes exotic particles impossible to block. He fails to stop the generator from overloading, it blows up and annihilates 85% of the solar system the outpost was built in.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' in the episode ''Trinity'' comes across an Ancient outpost that was working on a gigantic energy source, with a weapon attached to the top. The Ancients killed themselves trying to make the power source work. Rodney McKay egotistically believes he can correct the problem, only to find out that the very nature of the power source generates exotic particles that are impossible to block. He fails to stop the generator from overloading, and it subsequently annihilates 85% of the solar system the outpost was built in.

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', there is the phenomenon known as the Pale. It is basically a collection of strange enormous patches of anti-reality where all human history and memory of the past collects. The Pale separate the world's continents and covers most of the planet. While just being in the Pale may not immediately kill you, the longer you stay and deeper you go, the more the laws of physics stop working, such as distance, time, gravity, and even mathematics themselves eventually break down, and you find yourself going increasingly insane as you lose the ability to separate present and past, and terms like "sky" and "ground" stop having any meaning. The only way civilization has found to reliably navigate them is to plot a precise course with as little exposure as possible and shoot straight through as fast as they can with specially designed airships.

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', there is the phenomenon known as the Pale. It is basically a collection of strange enormous patches of anti-reality where all human history and memory of the past collects. The Pale separate the world's continents and covers most of the planet. While just being in the Pale may not immediately kill you, the longer you stay and deeper you go, the more the laws of physics stop working, such as distance, time, gravity, and even mathematics themselves eventually break down, and you find yourself going increasingly insane as you lose the ability to separate present and past. The only way civilization has found to reliably navigate them is to plot a precise course with as little exposure as possible and shoot straight through as fast as they can with specially designed airships.

** The VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, End of the World, created from the remains of worlds consumed by TheHeartless. The phenomena there includes: small islands floating in a purple void with spheres of darkness (which contain snowy canyons filled with treasure chests) constantly dropping on them; towers of rock that contain purple flames that can transport someone to other worlds (or [[spoiler:[[Disney/{{Fantasia}} Bald Mountain]]]]); an ornate door at the bottom of a cavern that opens up to [[spoiler: [[DoomedHometown Destiny Islands]], which splits open to reveal a valley made of purple rock]]; and a lot of [[WombLevel organic-looking structures]].

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', there is the phenomenon known as the Pale. It is basically a collection of strange enormous patches of anti-reality where all human history and memory of the past collects. The Pale separate the world's continents and covers most of the planet. While just being in the Pale may not immediately kill you, the longer you stay and deeper you go, the more the laws of physics stop working, such as distance, time, and you find yourself going increasingly insane as you lose the ability to separate present and past. The only way civilization has found to reliably navigate them is to plot a precise course with as little exposure as possible and shoot straight through as fast as they can with specially designed airships.

** From the magical battle during ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'': "[[TastesLikePurple It looked like a piano sounds after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and felt paisley. It smelled like a total eclipse of the moon]]. Of course, closer to the tower, it got ''really'' weird."

** The Ramtops in general are known for harboring high levels of ambient magic, even by Discworld standards. Rains of fish and two-headed calves are so commonplace that locals [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight dismiss them with]] "Oh, bother, ''another'' bloody portent!" As seen in ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'', it's only when the portents ''stop'' happening that they get worried.