History Main / SmallUniverseAfterAll

* ''Dracula 3000'' is set in a region of space [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance inconsistently referred to]] as the Carpathian System and the Carpathian Galaxy.
* The ''Morons From Outer Space'' [[CasualInterstellarTravel vacation]] from the planet Blob, 14 million light years away.

* In the Rin True Ending of ''[[VideoGame/{{Catherine}} Catherine: Full Body]]'', Vincent says that their heading to Andromeda after Rin has a successful tour of the galaxy.

** ''Comicbook/{{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. Unless the Thanagarians have named the Milky Way Galaxy as well.

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* The Gem Homeworld in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is mentioned to be in a different galaxy than Earth. Despite this, they attempted to colonize Earth, and their [[AlcubierreDrive gravity-engine]] based ships can go from one to the other [[CasualInterstellarTravel in a few hours]]. However, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' treats [[WhatOtherGalaxies "the galaxy" and universe as pretty much interchangeable]].

* The Gem Homeworld in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is mentioned to be in a different galaxy than Earth. Despite this, they attempted to colonize Earth, and their [[AlcubierreDrive gravity-engine]] based ships can go from one to the other [[CasualInterstellarTravel in a few hours]].

** ''Comicbook/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 aliens in ''Series/RoswellHigh'' come from the planet Antar in the Whirlwind Galaxy.

** ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' starts with the Black Star Dragon Balls being scattered across the universe and the protagonist ls have a year to find them all to save Earth. Though the Funimation dub changes universe to galaxy.

* In ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' they travel to the planet Abydos in the Kaliem Galaxy which is on the other side of the known universe. The [[StargateSG1 TV show]] retcons Abydos as being in our galaxy but shows intergalactic travel as being difficult but possible.

* The original book of ''Literature/ThisIslandEarth'' had the friendly aliens decide to pull their forces back "out of this galaxy".

* Literal case in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' where the universe only has four galaxies. **It mostly takes place in the Northern Galaxy but the Southern is visited in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan Broly-The Legendary Super Saiyan]]'' but it's implied that Broly destroyed most of the inhabited planets.

* Literal case in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' where the universe only has four galaxies. It mostly takes place in the Northern Galaxy but the Southern is visited in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan Broly-The Legendary Super Saiyan]]'' but it's implied that Broly destroyed most of the inhabited planets.

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

* ''Franchise/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.
** ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'' has the Rangers searching for 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.
** A ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' episode, however, proves that SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale (or Kids' Show Writers 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.

* Since [[Series/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).
** Not just the TARDIS, either - the various incarnations of the 'Great and Bountiful Human Empire' cover multiple galaxies each.
* The ''Franchise/StargateVerse'' had extragalactic travel via Stargate established as possible fairly early on (it just needs eight chevrons and a ''lot'' of power), and ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' takes place almost entirely in a separate galaxy (the Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy, to be precise), with travel to and from Earth taking only a couple of weeks at worst. By the end of the series four separate galaxies (Milky Way, Pegasus, Ida, and the unnamed Ori home galaxy) were accessible. ''Series/StargateUniverse'', as the name implies, goes even further, with the ''Destiny'' traveling the universe dozens of galaxies away from the Milky Way.
* Aliens in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' tend to talk about the 28 known galaxies as a reference to Film/SupermanTheMovie.

* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'' apparently takes place on a multi-galaxy scale, as the protagonists' months-long voyage back to Earth is nearly complete when they ''enter'' the Milky Way.

* Downplayed in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. For example, while the Andromeda-based civilizations of ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' are capable of traveling to Earth if need be, it's implied to be rather inconvenient to actually do so. Also, while each of the Nine Realms from ''Film/{{Thor}}'' and its sequels are located in a different galaxy, convenient travel between them is only possible thanks to fixed portals connected by the cosmic nimbus Yggdrasil; when Asgard's portal is out of commission at the beginning of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Odin has to resort to a dangerous method involving dark energy to transport Thor to Earth.

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

** Due to the fact that some aliens that look like E.T. make a cameo in ThePhantomMenace and that the ExpandedUniverse said that they intended to make an expedition to another galaxy, popular {{Fanon}} has it that E.T. comes from the StarWars Galaxy.

* The [[spoiler: Kiint]] in the [[NightsDawn Night's Dawn trilogy]] reveal themselves to be of extragalactic origin (or at least to have an extragalactic presence, depending on if they were telling the whole truth). And eventually, [[spoiler: humanity moves outside of the galaxy too.]]