History Main / SmallUniverseAfterAll

* {{Interstella5555}}: The aliens come to Earth from another galaxy via a [[OurWormholesAreDifferent wormhole.]]

* ''GalaxyQuest'': According to the {{Novelization}}, the events in outer space are happening in another galaxy.

* In the SectorGeneral books, a stricken ship from a newly discovered race (called, oddly, the Ians) is discovered to be from another galaxy.
* The original book of ''ThisIslandEarth'' had the friendly aliens decide to pull their forces back "out of this galaxy".

If an entire civilization is capable of this, expect them to be pretty high up on the [[AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit Kardashev scale]].

** When Hedonia brings Dale an alcoholic drink, she says "Many brave men died to bring it here from the the [[PleasurePlanet galaxy of pleasure]]".

* ''GalaxyQuest'': The {{Novelization}} the events in outer space are happening in another galaxy.

** ''HawkMan'': Hawkman's home planet Thanagar used to orbit the real life star, Polaris. But it has since been retconned into the fictional Polaris Galaxy.

* The movie tagline and the {{novelization}} say that ''ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' is 3 million light years from home, so he must be from another galaxy.

* ''MarvelComics'': Most of the major [[TheEmpire space empires]] have their own galaxy. The Skrulls have Andromeda, the Kree have the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Shi'Ar have their own fictional galaxy.

* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ming The Merciless]] from ''Film/FlashGordon'' is implied to rule the entire universe. Every thousand years, he test every inhabited planet with natural disasters and wipes them out if they recognize that an alien is causing them. This would explain why the only planets we see besides Earth are Mongo and its [[BabyPlanet various moons]].

** A ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' 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.

* ''ComicBook/AlienLegion: [[TheFederation Tophan Galactic Union]] is spread across three galaxies, others are sometimes visited.

* ''{{Dracula 3000}}'' is set in a region of space [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance inconsistently referred to]] as the Carpathian System and the Carpathian Galaxy.

* AlienLegion: [[TheFederation Tophan Galactic Union]] is spread across three galaxies, others are sometimes visited.

* [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ming The Merciless]] from [[Film/FlashGordon Flash Gordon]] is implied to rule the entire universe. Every thousand years, he test every inhabited planet with natural disasters and wipes them out if they recognize that an alien is causing them. This would explain why the only planets we see besides Earth are Mongo and its [[BabyPlanet various moons]].

* The ''MoronsFromOuterSpace'' [[CasualInterstellarTravel vacation]] from the planet Blob, 14 million light years away.

* ''StrontiumDog'' mostly refers to the universe as "The Galaxy" but some planets are quoted as being millions of light years away from each other. The Walrog invaders are said to be from the Isthman Galaxy.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} 3'', the opening states that the Koppaites travelled 279,000 light years to reach PNF-404 (heavily hinted to be the Earth at some point in the distant future). While the exact size of the Milky Way is not precisely known, the largest estimates only put it at 180,000 light years in diameter, meaning that the planet Koppai must be located in another galaxy.

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

* ''DCComics''

* IsaacAsimov has a short story called The Last Question, which goes far enough into the future to see intergalatic travel.

** ''Series/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.

** ''{{Superman}}'': Most continuities put his home planet Krypton in our galaxy but in ''ComicBook/SupermanBirthright'', it's in the Andromeda Galaxy.

** ''DCOneMillion'': The [[TheFederation United Planets]] government from the LegionOfSuperheroes has been replaced by the United Galaxies.

* The Transylvanians from The RockyHorrorPictureShow don't come from the Romanian province, they're from [[spoiler: the galaxy of Transylvania.]]

* ''MarvelComics'': Most of the major [[TheEmpire space empires]] have their own galaxy. The Skrulls have Andromeda, the Kree have the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Rigellians control most of our own galaxy.

* The ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' could scoot around the galaxies with little effort.

** ''DCOneMillion'': The [[The Federation United Planets]] government from the LegionOfSuperheroes has been replaced by the United Galaxies.

** ''HawkMan'': Hawk Man's home planet Thanagar used to orbit the real life star, Polaris. But it has since been retconned into the fictional Polaris Galaxy.

* Each individual ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' is in charge of policing 1/3600 of the universe. By modern estimates, that would include tens of millions of galaxies.
* AlienLegion: [[TheFederation Tophan Galactic Union]] is spread across three galaxies, others are sometimes visited.
* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' Is all [[TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay set within one galaxy]] but Alana suggests fleeing to another galaxy to avoid the war, as other people have done.

* ''DCUninverse''
** ''{{Superman}}'': Most continuities put his home planet Krypton in our galaxy but in ''[[ComicBook/SupermanBirthright]]'', it's in the Andromeda Galaxy.