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* TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy, despite the name, hops merrily about the universe, skips cheerfully back and forth in time, and occasionally plays with pocket universes and multiple dimensions.

!!Examples:

* The ''SilverSurfer'' could scoot around the galaxies with little effort.
* Each individual GreenLantern is in charge of policing 1/3600 of the universe. By modern estimates, that would include tens of millions of galaxies.

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* ''{{Halo 3}}''. The Ark is located outside the Milky Way. The Flood are extragalactic in origin as well.

* ''{{Futurama}}'' travels all over, up to and including the edge of the universe.

* ''PowerRangers'' deals with multiple galaxies, referring to (inter)galactic tyrants as having conquered hundreds of the things. Speed is more or less never mentioned, as ships move at a Speed of Plot even more variable than usual, and magical teleportation is really handy in avoiding those annoying "laws of physics" things.
** ''PowerRangersInSpace'' has the Rangers searching for TheObiWan, Zordon, whom the LegionOfDoom made off with in the premiere. We get at least one instance of Andros saying something to the effect of "well, the scan's done and he's not in ''that'' galaxy; let's move on." It's said as casually as if they'd glanced into a room in a house and seen no sign of someone; "nobody in there, let's check the kitchen." The vastness of intergalactic space really is nothing to the Rangers.
** An MMPR episode, however, proves that SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale (or Kids' Show Writers [[TheyJustDidntCare Just Don't Care]] About Scale, anyway.) The Rangers are traveling at light speed to the Farthest Galaxy. Now, the distance to the farthest known is over '''thirteen billion light years.''' But wait, the place they ''named'' the Farthest Galaxy might actually not be that far, you say? Well, the ''nearest'' galaxy, good ol' Andromeda, would be a 2.5 million year trip at light speed. Worse, "light years" ''are'' mentioned. You'd think even if they didn't know the math, they'd know that light speed plus light years equals a team of octogenarians with attitudes.

* In the Creator/RobertAHeinlein novel ''HaveSpaceSuitWillTravel'', the Three Galaxies government covers three galaxies: the Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way. They have ships that can travel instantaneously between galaxies.

* EEDocSmith's ''{{Lensman}}'' series includes travel between the Milky Way and another galaxy using an inertialess drive (the Bergenholm).
** In this instance, intergalactic travel actually allows slightly higher speeds than normal- there's less matter in intergalactic space, so less friction.
** [[spoiler:It doesn't even limit itself to one universe. An accident in a hyperspatial tube sends some of the characters to another ''universe'' with a different set of physical laws.]]
*** [[LensmanArmsRace Which they promptly weaponize]].

* As you might expect from a show called ''{{Andromeda}}'', this isn't the case for Captain Dylan Hunt and his ragtag band of adventurers. They regularly travel between three galaxies, the Milky Way, Andromeda and Triangulum, and they only reason they don't go further is because those other galaxies haven't been colonized or contacted yet. It has been stated in the background material that the more well-traveled a slipstream route is, the easier it is to transverse.

* The original book of ''ThisIslandEarth'' had the friendly aliens decide to pull their forces back "out of this galaxy".
* In the RobertAHeinlein novel ''HaveSpaceSuitWillTravel'', the Three Galaxies government covers three galaxies: the Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way. They have ships that can travel instantaneously between galaxies.

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* Oddly enough, the Kelvans from ''StarTrek'' actually did bother to do the three hundred year journey from Andromeda to the Milky Way. They were quite prepared to spend another three hundred getting home once we were conquered, then ANOTHER three hundred coming back with a proper invasion force. All I can say is, if Kelvans can predict the extinction of their home that far in advance and can act to avoid it, they are people to be reckoned with. Oh, and remember that they don't use suspended animation, they lived and died and had children in deep space to replace themselves. With respect to the barrier, their leader says the barrier is the reason they lost their own ship and needed to steal the ''Enterprise''.

* In the ''{{Homeworld}}'' games, while it is impossible to travel to another galaxy in-game, the three Progenitor hyperspace cores are said to be powerful enough to be able to cross extragalactic distances. Also, the ''Naggarok'' was an experimental ship built by a race in another galaxy, which they tested by traveling to the ''Homeworld'' galaxy. Unfortunately, they picked up something while in hyperspace. Some sources suggest that, after the ''Naggarok'' destruction, its core was salvaged by the Vaygr, making it the Third Core that allowed them to move against the Hiigarans.

* Oddly enough, the Kelvans from ''StarTrek'' actually did bother to do the three hundred year journey from Andromeda to the Milky Way. They were quite prepared to spend another three hundred getting home once we were conquered, then ANOTHER three hundred coming back with a proper invasion force. All I can say is, if Kelvans can predict the extinction of their home that far in advance and can act to avoid it, they are people to be reckoned with. Oh, and remember that they don't use suspended animation, they lived and died and had children in deep space to replace themselves. [[FridgeLogic But how did they avoid the barrier?]]
** [[{{Two-D Space}} They went up!]]
** Answered in the episode itself: Their leader says the barrier is the reason they lost their own ship and needed to steal the ''Enterprise''.

* In ''SchlockMercenary'', Petey has no particular problems with waging an intergalactic war against some dark-matter entities from Andromeda, thanks to Teraport technology - that is, true Teleportation, instant movement [[{{Fictionary}} regardless]] of distance.

* Since [[DoctorWho the TARDIS]] can go anywhere in time and space, it should come as no surprise that, outside of [[MostWritersAreHuman a disproportionate fondness for Earth and humanity in general]], distance poses no obstacle to the Doctor. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]] Eleven and companions even go "outside" the universe (complete with a little bit of LampshadeHanging on the terminology).

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* ''{{Halo 3}}''. The Ark is located outside the Milky Way. The Flood are extragalactic in origin as well.
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* The ''Silver Surfer'' could scoot around the galaxies with little effort.

* {{Futurama}} travels all over, up to and including the edge of the universe.

* ''{{Halo}} 3''. The Ark is located outside the Milky Way. The Flood are extragalactic in origin as well.

* In the RobertAHeinlein novel ''Have Space Suit - Will Travel'', the Three Galaxies government covers three galaxies: the Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way. They have ships that can travel instantaneously between galaxies.

* E.E. "Doc" Smith's ''{{Lensman}}'' series includes travel between the Milky Way and another galaxy using an inertialess drive (the Bergenholm).

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* ''PowerRangers'' also deals with multiple galaxies, referring to (inter)galactic tyrants as having conquered hundreds of the things. Speed is more or less never mentioned, as ships move at a Speed of Plot even more variable than usual, and magical teleportation is really handy in avoiding those annoying "laws of physics" things.

* The StargateVerse features different galaxies: ''StargateAtlantis'' even takes place in one. They can open a wormhole between galaxies by adding an extra chevron into the stargate code and pumping in a lot more power. Ships can also go across the distance between galaxies by hyperspace, but it takes weeks.
** Most of their enemies, having [[TechnologyLevels inferior hyperdrives]], run into the problem of intergalactic travel taking too long, thus allowing neat compartmentalisation of {{Plot Arc}}s to one [[strike:show]] galaxy.

* Avoiding this, in ''DoctorWho'' there is a namedrop of the ten galaxies ruled by [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators the Dominators]], the "Nine Galaxies" in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]" and the multiple galaxies allied against the solar system in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Masterplan]]". There is also a progression of human civilisation from half of the Milky Way and parts of Andromeda and Sculptor by the year 5000, to the Milky Way, Andromeda, Sculptor and the Magellanic Clouds hundreds of thousands of years in to the future, to most of the Virgo Supercluster by millions of years hence.
** In "New Earth", the titular New Earth is said to be in the M2 galaxy. (This is contradicted by the distance from Earth given by the Doctor in "Gridlock", though maybe [[WritersCannotDoMath Russell T Davies Cannot Do Math]])
* ''{{Andromeda}}'' spanned three galaxies - the Milky Way, Andromeda and Triangulum.