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** One Klutz activity book for kids jokingly interprets this to say that wearing a sandwich board reading “Center of the Universe” is completely accurate— you have just as as much claim to being the center of the universe as anywhere else in space, so boasting about it isn’t ''technically'' wrong.
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* Not only is "The Engine" people who believe in Engine Theory talk about in ''Literature/TheLastAdventureOfConstanceVerity'' a real, physical machine that exists and not just a metaphor for the universe itself, it can be found at the center of the universe and can be accessed through spontaneously manifesting doorways. The last person to ever see it in person was Ada Lovelace, but she only had three minutes before she was ejected from its location, and scientists, spellcasters and other believers of Engine Theory have tried finding it ever since.
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SuperTrope of DangerInTheGalacticCore. SubTrope of ArtisticLicenseSpace. See also CosmicKeystone, EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse and EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy.
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SuperTrope of DangerInTheGalacticCore. SubTrope of ArtisticLicenseSpace. See also CosmicKeystone, EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse and EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy. Might overlap HeavenlyConcentricCircles, when {{heaven}}ly planes or beings that are depicted as concentric circles in the sky have their big prize at the innermost sphere.
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Some think of it as the cosmic equivalent of a heart or an engine; a perpetuating natural phenomena that keeps the universe running. Those with a more esoteric frame of reference think that it's where {{God}} lives. If there's a planet there, expect the lifeforms that came from it to be really smug about it. What exactly ''is'' there at the center [[MacGuffinLocation is irrelevant]]; the point of going to the center is [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts that everyone wants to go there]].
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Some think of it as the cosmic equivalent of a heart or an engine; a perpetuating natural phenomena that keeps the universe running. Those with a more esoteric frame of reference think that it's where {{God}} lives.lives, or that the AxisMundi is there. If there's a planet there, expect the lifeforms that came from it to be really smug about it. What exactly ''is'' there at the center may even [[MacGuffinLocation is be irrelevant]]; the point of going to the center is [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts that everyone wants to go there]].
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* In the CradleSeries, the universe Oversight and its main planet were built at the center of the multiverse so that its creator could keep track of fate in the entire multiverse.
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* In a deleted chapter of ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'', the cursed spiral that leads into the center of Kurozu-cho [[CosmicHorrorStory is implied to spread out on a cosmic scale]], the spiral making up the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy, if not the rest of the universe.
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* ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'': In a deleted chapter of ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'', chapter, the cursed spiral that leads into the center of Kurozu-cho [[CosmicHorrorStory is implied to spread out on a cosmic scale]], the spiral making up the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy, if not the rest of the universe.
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* In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', Spock's long-lost half-brother Sybok commandeers the Enterprise and makes the crew set a course for the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, where Sybok believes God is waiting.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' extended canon, the Galactic Core is a supermassive black hole that renders the center of the galaxy uninhabitable. No living person has ever seen it, droids being sent to observe it being the ones to confirm its existence.
* In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', it's revealed that the center of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is the Gates of Eternity, a temple that houses the titular Eternity. Anyone that can unlock the Gates of Eternity are given one wish by the titular being, [[BigBad Gorr the God-Butcher]] intending on [[KillTheGod wishing for the death of all gods in the universe]].
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' extended canon, the Galactic Core is a supermassive black hole that renders the center of the galaxy uninhabitable. No living person has ever seen it, droids being sent to observe it being the ones to confirm its existence.
* In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', it's revealed that the center of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is the Gates of Eternity, a temple that houses the titular Eternity. Anyone that can unlock the Gates of Eternity are given one wish by the titular being, [[BigBad Gorr the God-Butcher]] intending on [[KillTheGod wishing for the death of all gods in the universe]].
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* In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'': Spock's long-lost half-brother Sybok commandeers the Enterprise and makes the crew set a course for the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, where Sybok believes God is waiting.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In the''Franchise/StarWars'' extended canon, the Galactic Core is a supermassive black hole that renders the center of the galaxy uninhabitable. No living person has ever seen it, droids being sent to observe it being the ones to confirm its existence.
*In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', it's ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'': It's revealed that the center of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is the Gates of Eternity, a temple that houses the titular Eternity. Anyone that can unlock the Gates of Eternity are given one wish by the titular being, [[BigBad Gorr the God-Butcher]] intending on [[KillTheGod wishing for the death of all gods in the universe]].
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* In the last book of the ''Literature/CitiesInFlight'', series, the Universe is about to be destroyed by collision with its antimatter counterpart, after which a new Big Bang will create a new Universe. The protagonists discover a way that they can influence the creation of the new Universe, but it has to be performed at the centre of the current Universe. So they set out for it, racing against time and an enigmatic and hostile alien civilisation.
* In the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, the PrimordialChaos Azathoth nominally [[TopGod rules all of time and space]] from the center of the universe. He's [[AlmightyIdiot totally mindless]] and is kept in eternal slumber by his attendants, so his court isn't a popular destination.
* In the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, the PrimordialChaos Azathoth nominally [[TopGod rules all of time and space]] from the center of the universe. He's [[AlmightyIdiot totally mindless]] and is kept in eternal slumber by his attendants, so his court isn't a popular destination.
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* ''Literature/CitiesInFlight'': In the last book of the ''Literature/CitiesInFlight'', series, the Universe is about to be destroyed by collision with its antimatter counterpart, after which a new Big Bang will create a new Universe. The protagonists discover a way that they can influence the creation of the new Universe, but it has to be performed at the centre of the current Universe. So they set out for it, racing against time and an enigmatic and hostile alien civilisation.
*In the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': The PrimordialChaos Azathoth nominally [[TopGod rules all of time and space]] from the center of the universe. He's [[AlmightyIdiot totally mindless]] and is kept in eternal slumber by his attendants, so his court isn't a popular destination.
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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]", the titular BigDumbObject is at the exact centre of the universe. It's a derelict spaceship created by an unknown, super-advanced, ancient alien species that may be from another universe before the Big Bang, and a leak from its fuel tanks might actually have ''caused'' the Big Bang. When the Fifth Doctor visited, it was being used as an underfunded and squalid hospital for victims of an intergalactic disease epidemic.
* This was the focus of one episode of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV.'' The antagonist of the week abducts Darwin the dolphin because he's convinced that the hyperintelligent creature can tell him how to reach the center of the universe. He's apprehended at the end, but allowed to ask the dolphin for the answer to his question. Where does Darwin say the center of the universe is? [[spoiler:"In you."]]
* This was the focus of one episode of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV.'' The antagonist of the week abducts Darwin the dolphin because he's convinced that the hyperintelligent creature can tell him how to reach the center of the universe. He's apprehended at the end, but allowed to ask the dolphin for the answer to his question. Where does Darwin say the center of the universe is? [[spoiler:"In you."]]
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]", the titular BigDumbObject is at the exact centre of the universe. It's a derelict spaceship created by an unknown, super-advanced, ancient alien species that may be from another universe before the Big Bang, and a leak from its fuel tanks might actually have ''caused'' the Big Bang. When the Fifth Doctor visited, it was being used as an underfunded and squalid hospital for victims of an intergalactic disease epidemic.
* ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'': Thiswas is the focus of one episode of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV.'' episode. The antagonist of the week abducts Darwin the dolphin because he's convinced that the hyperintelligent creature can tell him how to reach the center of the universe. He's apprehended at the end, but allowed to ask the dolphin for the answer to his question. Where does Darwin say the center of the universe is? [[spoiler:"In you."]]
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* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Ancient Greek religion referred to this concept as the ''omphalos'', a distant linguistic cousin to the Latin ''umbilicus'', referring to a location held to be the center of the world. Traditionally, this was considered to be Delphis. This location was considered to be the reason why the gods chose it to be the location of the Oracle.
* In Medieval Christianity, the center of the world was Jerusalem -- or, more specifically, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the area traditionally believed to hold the site of the Crucifixion and the tomb in which Christ was interred. Medieval world maps, which tended to be highly allegorical, depicted the known continents as forming a circular shape centered on the spot of the sacred city.
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* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Ancient Greek religion referred to this concept as the ''omphalos'', a distant linguistic cousin to the Latin ''umbilicus'', referring to a location held to be the center of the world. Traditionally, this was considered to be Delphis. This location was considered to be the reason why the gods chose it to be the location of the Oracle.
* In Medieval Christianity, the center of the world was Jerusalem -- or, more specifically, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the area traditionally believed to hold the site of the Crucifixion and the tomb in which Christ was interred. Medieval world maps, which tended to be highly allegorical, depicted the known continents as forming a circular shape centered on the spot of the sacred city.
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* The ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' ''AD&D'' campaign setting has the Outlands, the plane of true neutrality around which all the other outer planes revolve, and at its center an infinitely tall spire atop which is placed the city of Sigil, considered by many to be the center of the multiverse. The notion of planes which are ostensibly infinite having a 'center', or a spire which is ostensibly infinite having a top, is just part of the MindScrew nature of the setting.
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* The ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' ''AD&D'' campaign setting has the Outlands, the plane of true neutrality around which all the other outer planes revolve, and at its center an infinitely tall spire atop which is placed the city of Sigil, considered by many to be the center of the multiverse. The notion of planes which are ostensibly infinite having a 'center', or a spire which is ostensibly infinite having a top, is just part of the MindScrew nature of the setting.
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* In ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'', the Galactic Centre is the exact center of the galaxy. The Galactic Centre contains [[spoiler:a wormhole that can take the player to a different galaxy, starting the game all over again]].
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', it's revealed that after Fongoids misused the ability to time-travel given to them by the [[AngelicAliens Zoni]], the Zoni created [[CosmicKeystone The Great Clock]] to prevent a RealityBreakingParadox from destroying the universe, giving it a "heart-transplant." The Great Clock was constructed and is maintained in the center of the universe (give or take 50-feet).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'', Skylands is a magical realm stationed at the center of the universe, connected to all worlds in the cosmos.
* In ''VideoGame/SpaceEngine'', the simulated universe expands for several (accurately-scaled!) gigaparsecs in six directions to form a cube, in which the game stores your position as XYZ coordinates. And at the center of it all, in Coordinate 0,0,0 is... the Sun. Granted, this is purely for practical reasons; ''Space Engine'' is more a simulator than a game and, as such, has [[NoPlotNoProblem no story]], but the procedural generation needed some kind of objective anchor.
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', it's revealed that after Fongoids misused the ability to time-travel given to them by the [[AngelicAliens Zoni]], the Zoni created [[CosmicKeystone The Great Clock]] to prevent a RealityBreakingParadox from destroying the universe, giving it a "heart-transplant." The Great Clock was constructed and is maintained in the center of the universe (give or take 50-feet).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'', Skylands is a magical realm stationed at the center of the universe, connected to all worlds in the cosmos.
* In ''VideoGame/SpaceEngine'', the simulated universe expands for several (accurately-scaled!) gigaparsecs in six directions to form a cube, in which the game stores your position as XYZ coordinates. And at the center of it all, in Coordinate 0,0,0 is... the Sun. Granted, this is purely for practical reasons; ''Space Engine'' is more a simulator than a game and, as such, has [[NoPlotNoProblem no story]], but the procedural generation needed some kind of objective anchor.
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* In ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'', the ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'': The Galactic Centre is the exact center of the galaxy. The Galactic Centre contains [[spoiler:a wormhole that can take the player to a different galaxy, starting the game all over again]].
*In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', it's ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'': It's revealed that that, after Fongoids misused the ability to time-travel given to them by the [[AngelicAliens Zoni]], the Zoni created [[CosmicKeystone The the Great Clock]] to prevent a RealityBreakingParadox from destroying the universe, giving it a "heart-transplant." The Great Clock was constructed and is maintained in the center of the universe (give or take 50-feet).
*In ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': Skylands is a magical realm stationed at the center of the universe, connected to all worlds in the cosmos.
*In ''VideoGame/SpaceEngine'', the ''VideoGame/SpaceEngine'': The simulated universe expands for several (accurately-scaled!) gigaparsecs in six directions to form a cube, in which the game stores your position as XYZ coordinates. And at the center of it all, in Coordinate 0,0,0 is... the Sun. Granted, this is purely for practical reasons; ''Space Engine'' is more a simulator than a game and, as such, has [[NoPlotNoProblem no story]], but the procedural generation needed some kind of objective anchor.
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* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal:'' In ''[[https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2302 Eff]]'', it's shown the Zorblaxians really ''weren't'' mistaken (like humans and other aliens once were) when they say their world is the center of the universe. It's just one more piece that convinced them, if it wasn't outright proof, that they are [[TheChosenPeople the creator's chosen race]]... [[spoiler:directly leading to said world getting blown up by [[ScrewYouElves resentful humans]]]].
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* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal:'' ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': In ''[[https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2302 Eff]]'', it's shown the Zorblaxians really ''weren't'' mistaken (like humans and other aliens once were) when they say their world is the center of the universe. It's just one more piece that convinced them, if it wasn't outright proof, that they are [[TheChosenPeople the creator's chosen race]]... [[spoiler:directly leading to said world getting blown up by [[ScrewYouElves resentful humans]]]].
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** In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', Eternia is the location where the Big Bang occurred. As a result, it still contains part of its power in the form of the Starseed, an artifact granting omnipotence to its holder.
** In ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'', it's revealed that Eternia left the center of the universe due to its rotation. [[WhenThePlanetsAlign The Celestial Apex]] is when Eternia will be in the physical center once again. As the CosmicKeystone for all magic in the universe, the Celestial Apex will infuse anyone wielding the Power of Grayskull with so much power that they will become a RealityWarping PhysicalGod.
** In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'', the Heart of the Universe becomes the setting for the final conflict with Skeletor [[spoiler:as he uses the [[YinYangBomb Powers of Grayskull and Havoc]] to remake the universe InTheirOwnImage and the Masters of the Universe fight to stop him]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'', it's revealed that Eternia left the center of the universe due to its rotation. [[WhenThePlanetsAlign The Celestial Apex]] is when Eternia will be in the physical center once again. As the CosmicKeystone for all magic in the universe, the Celestial Apex will infuse anyone wielding the Power of Grayskull with so much power that they will become a RealityWarping PhysicalGod.
** In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'', the Heart of the Universe becomes the setting for the final conflict with Skeletor [[spoiler:as he uses the [[YinYangBomb Powers of Grayskull and Havoc]] to remake the universe InTheirOwnImage and the Masters of the Universe fight to stop him]].
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** In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'': Eternia is the location where the Big Bang occurred. As a result, it still contains part of its power in the form of the Starseed, an artifact granting omnipotence to its holder.
**In ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'', it's ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'': It's revealed that Eternia left the center of the universe due to its rotation. [[WhenThePlanetsAlign The Celestial Apex]] is when Eternia will be in the physical center once again. As the CosmicKeystone for all magic in the universe, the Celestial Apex will infuse anyone wielding the Power of Grayskull with so much power that they will become a RealityWarping PhysicalGod.
**In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'', the ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'': The Heart of the Universe becomes the setting for the final conflict with Skeletor [[spoiler:as he uses the [[YinYangBomb Powers of Grayskull and Havoc]] to remake the universe InTheirOwnImage and the Masters of the Universe fight to stop him]].
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SuperTrope of DangerInTheGalacticCore. SubTrope of ArtisticLicenseSpace. See also EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse and EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'', the Heart of the Universe becomes the setting for the final conflict with Skeletor [[spoiler:as he uses the [[YinYangBomb Powers of Grayskull and Havoc]] to remake the universe InTheirOwnImage and the Masters of the Universe fight to stop him]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', Eternia is the location where the Big Bang occurred. As a result, it still contains part of its power in the form of the Starseed, an artifact granting omnipotence to its holder.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', Eternia is the location where the Big Bang occurred. As a result, it still contains part of its power in the form of the Starseed, an artifact granting omnipotence to itsholder.holder.
** In ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'', it's revealed that Eternia left the center of the universe due to its rotation. [[WhenThePlanetsAlign The Celestial Apex]] is when Eternia will be in the physical center once again. As the CosmicKeystone for all magic in the universe, the Celestial Apex will infuse anyone wielding the Power of Grayskull with so much power that they will become a RealityWarping PhysicalGod.
** In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', Eternia is the location where the Big Bang occurred. As a result, it still contains part of its power in the form of the Starseed, an artifact granting omnipotence to its
** In ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevelation'', it's revealed that Eternia left the center of the universe due to its rotation. [[WhenThePlanetsAlign The Celestial Apex]] is when Eternia will be in the physical center once again. As the CosmicKeystone for all magic in the universe, the Celestial Apex will infuse anyone wielding the Power of Grayskull with so much power that they will become a RealityWarping PhysicalGod.
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* In ''VideoGame/SpaceEngine'', the simulated universe expands for several (accurately-scaled!) gigaparsecs in six directions to form a cube, in which the game stores your position as XYZ coordinates. And at the center of it all, in Coordinate 0,0,0 is... the Sun. Granted, this is purely for practical reasons; ''Space Engine'' is more a simulator than a game and, as such, has [[NoPlotNoProblem no story, but the procedural generation needed some kind of objective anchor.
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* In ''VideoGame/SpaceEngine'', the simulated universe expands for several (accurately-scaled!) gigaparsecs in six directions to form a cube, in which the game stores your position as XYZ coordinates. And at the center of it all, in Coordinate 0,0,0 is... the Sun. Granted, this is purely for practical reasons; ''Space Engine'' is more a simulator than a game and, as such, has [[NoPlotNoProblem no story, story]], but the procedural generation needed some kind of objective anchor.
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Prime Timeline is the super trope for "the first universe all other universes derive from". The Earth Prime Theory is an (older) subtrope specifically about how destroying that universe will retroactively destroy every other universe.
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* '''[[TheMultiverse Multiverse]]''': Well, now things are getting audacious. The center of the universe of universes could just be yet another universe; the [[TheEarthPrimeTheory Prime-Universe]] where all other universes are funhouse-mirror reflections of. Or perhaps it could be the work-station of an Almighty Bastard that created all universes as prototypes or rejects for whatever grand design they're trying to perfect.
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* '''[[TheMultiverse Multiverse]]''': Well, now things are getting audacious. The center of the universe of universes could just be yet another universe; the [[TheEarthPrimeTheory [[PrimeTimeline Prime-Universe]] where all other universes are funhouse-mirror reflections of. Or perhaps it could be the work-station of an Almighty Bastard that created all universes as prototypes or rejects for whatever grand design they're trying to perfect.
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* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Oa, the home planet of the Green Lantern Corps, is located in the center of the universe. In the Anti-Matter universe, that position is taken by the planet Qward.
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* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Oa, the home planet of the Green Lantern Corps, is located in the center of the universe. In the Anti-Matter universe, that position is taken by the planet Qward. This would later be shown as a lie by the Guardians to protect the real location, [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Earth]], as it's where the Life Entity that's the wellspring of all life in the universe was born and rests.
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Some think of it as the cosmic equivalent of a heart or an engine; a perpetuating natural phenomena that keeps the universe running. Those with a more esoteric frame of reference think that it's where {{God}} lives. If there's a planet there, expect the lifeforms that came from it to be really smug about it. What exactly ''is'' there at the center is irrelevant; the point of going to the center is [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts that everyone wants to go there]].
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Some think of it as the cosmic equivalent of a heart or an engine; a perpetuating natural phenomena that keeps the universe running. Those with a more esoteric frame of reference think that it's where {{God}} lives. If there's a planet there, expect the lifeforms that came from it to be really smug about it. What exactly ''is'' there at the center [[MacGuffinLocation is irrelevant; irrelevant]]; the point of going to the center is [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts that everyone wants to go there]].
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* In the last book of the ''Literature/CitiesInFlight'', series, the Universe is about to be destroyed by collision with its antimatter counterpart, after which a new Big Bang will create a new Universe. The protagonists discover a way that they can influence the creation of the new Universe, but it has to be performed at the centre of the current Universe. So they set out for it, racing against time and an enigmatic and hostile alien civilisation.
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* ''Manga/SailorMoon'': The Galaxy Cauldron lies at the center of the Milky Way. It is where Star Seeds are born, which then sent out into the galaxy to become people, then return to the Cauldron when they die. [[spoiler: After [[GreaterScopeVillain Chaos]] is absorbed into the Cauldron, Sailor Moon talks her future self, Sailor Cosmos, out of the destroying the Cauldron to allow the galaxy a slow but gentle death in favor of continuing to fight so that life can continue]].
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* ''Manga/SailorMoon'': The Galaxy Cauldron lies at the center of the Milky Way. It is where Star Seeds are born, which then sent out into the galaxy to become people, then return to the Cauldron when they die. [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After [[GreaterScopeVillain Chaos]] is absorbed into the Cauldron, Sailor Moon talks her future self, Sailor Cosmos, out of the destroying the Cauldron to allow the galaxy a slow but gentle death in favor of continuing to fight so that life can continue]].
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* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries'' the capital planet of the Galactic Empire is the CityPlanet of Trantor, which in [[Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy the original works of the series]] was simply declared to be at "the center of the Galaxy". This was later {{Retcon}}ned a bit to say that Trantor is somewhat off to the side from the actual center--as close to the center as a human-habitable planet can be--as [[ScienceMarchesOn it was realized just how violent and inhospitable a place the center of a galaxy actually is]].
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* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries'' the capital planet of the Galactic Empire is the CityPlanet of Trantor, which in [[Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy the original works of the series]] was simply declared to be at "the center of the Galaxy". This was later {{Retcon}}ned a bit to say that Trantor is somewhat off to the side from the actual center--as center -- as close to the center as a human-habitable planet can be--as be -- as [[ScienceMarchesOn it was realized just how violent and inhospitable a place the center of a galaxy actually is]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As shown in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E7TheDayTheEarthStoodStupid The Day Earth Stood Stupid]]", at the very centre of the universe lies Planet Eternium, home-world of the oldest race of aliens in the universe, the Nibblonians.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As shown in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E7TheDayTheEarthStoodStupid The Day Earth Stood Stupid]]", at the very centre of the universe lies Planet Eternium, home-world homeworld of the oldest race of aliens in the universe, the Nibblonians.
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* In ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'', the Galactic Centre is the exact center of the galaxy. The Galactic Centre contains a wormhole that can take the player to a different galaxy, starting the game all over again.
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* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': The final mission of the game, Bowser's headquarters, is stationed in the center of the universe.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As shown in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E7TheDayTheEarthStoodStupid The Day Earth Stood Stupid]]", at the very centre of the universe lies Planet Eternium, home-world of the oldest race of aliens in the universe in the Nibblonians.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As shown in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E7TheDayTheEarthStoodStupid The Day Earth Stood Stupid]]", at the very centre of the universe lies Planet Eternium, home-world of the oldest race of aliens in the universe in universe, the Nibblonians.
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* ''Manga/SailorMoon'': The Galaxy Cauldron lies at the center of the Milky Way. It is where Star Seeds are born, which then sent out into the galaxy to become people, then return to the Cauldron when they die. [[spoiler: After [[GreaterScopeVillain Chaos]] is absorbed into the Cauldron, Sailor Moon talks her future self, Sailor Cosmos, out of the destroying the Cauldron to allow the galaxy a slow but gentle death in favor of continuing to fight so that life can continue]].
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* ''Manga/SailorMoon'': The Galaxy Cauldron lies at the center of the Milky Way. It is where Star Seeds are born, which then sent out into the galaxy to become people, then return to the Cauldron when they die. [[spoiler: After [[GreaterScopeVillain Chaos]] is absorbed into the Cauldron, Sailor Moon talks her future self, Sailor Cosmos, out of the destroying the Cauldron to allow the galaxy a slow but gentle death in favor of continuing to fight so that life can continue]].
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* The ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' [=AD&D=] campaign setting has the Outlands, the plane of true neutrality around which all the other outer planes revolve, and at its center an infinitely tall spire atop which is placed the city of Sigil, considered by many to be the center of the multiverse. The notion of planes which are ostensibly infinite having a 'center', or a spire which is ostensibly infinite having a top, is just part of the MindScrew nature of the setting.
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* The ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' [=AD&D=] ''AD&D'' campaign setting has the Outlands, the plane of true neutrality around which all the other outer planes revolve, and at its center an infinitely tall spire atop which is placed the city of Sigil, considered by many to be the center of the multiverse. The notion of planes which are ostensibly infinite having a 'center', or a spire which is ostensibly infinite having a top, is just part of the MindScrew nature of the setting.
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* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries'' the capital planet of the Galactic Empire is the CityPlanet of Trantor, which in [[Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy the original works of the series]] was simply declared to be at "the center of the Galaxy". This was later {{Retcon}}ned a bit to say that Trantor is somewhat off to the side from the actual center--as close to the center as a human-habitable planet can be--as [[ScienceMarchesOn it was realized just how violent and inhospitable a place the center of a galaxy actually is]].
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* In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', Spock's long lost half-brother Sybok commandeers the Enterprise and makes the crew set a course for the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, where Sybok believes God is waiting.
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->''"The Great Clock! A marvel of science and sorcery, engineered by the brightest Zoni in all of existence, and constructed... in the EXACT center of the UNIVERSE! ...Give or take fifty feet."''
-->--'''Dr. Nefarious''', ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime''
The Big Bang isn't so much an "explosion" as a continuously expanding sphere of space and matter, this unquantifiably vast inflating balloon of creation being the universe. Fiction likes to think that at the very center of that balloon is something really special.
This is born from a heliocentric worldview; if planets all revolve around the sun -- this incredible, live-giving force beyond our comprehension that [[{{Pun}} eclipses]] everything that orbits it -- just imagine how awesome the thing the sun orbits must be. Or how awesome the thing ''that'' thing orbits must be. And so on.
Some think of it as the cosmic equivalent of a heart or an engine; a perpetuating natural phenomena that keeps the universe running. Those with a more esoteric frame of reference think that it's where {{God}} lives. If there's a planet there, expect the lifeforms that came from it to be really smug about it. What exactly ''is'' there at the center is irrelevant; the point of going to the center is [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts that everyone wants to go there]].
While the sheer immensity of outer space makes the distinction mostly irrelevant, the "center" comes in one of three variations:
* '''Galaxy''': In a story set [[WhatOtherGalaxies within the limits of a single galaxy]], the center of that galaxy acts as the focal point both in the story and in a meta-sense. If there's a GalacticSuperpower, expect it to have either made the center its headquarters, or have surrounded it with an armada to keep everyone away from it, either because there's something important to their authority or because [[DangerInTheGalacticCore there's something horrible there waiting]] and [[SealedEvilInACan they don't want it spreading outward]].
* '''[[TheVerse Universe]]''': The heart of (known) creation must hold something especially impressive. More often than not, it's what CausedTheBigBang, though whether that thing was a natural force or something built by aliens depends on what kind of story you're getting yourself into.
* '''[[TheMultiverse Multiverse]]''': Well, now things are getting audacious. The center of the universe of universes could just be yet another universe; the [[TheEarthPrimeTheory Prime-Universe]] where all other universes are funhouse-mirror reflections of. Or perhaps it could be the work-station of an Almighty Bastard that created all universes as prototypes or rejects for whatever grand design they're trying to perfect.
SuperTrope of DangerInTheGalacticCore. SubTrope of ArtisticLicenseSpace. See also EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse and EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy.
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* In a deleted chapter of ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'', the cursed spiral that leads into the center of Kurozu-cho [[CosmicHorrorStory is implied to spread out on a cosmic scale]], the spiral making up the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy, if not the rest of the universe.
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* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Oa, the home planet of the Green Lantern Corps, is located in the center of the universe. In the Anti-Matter universe, that position is taken by the planet Qward.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', Spock's long lost half-brother Sybok commandeers the Enterprise and makes the crew set a course for the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, where Sybok believes God is waiting.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' extended canon, the Galactic Core is a supermassive black hole that renders the center of the galaxy uninhabitable. No living person has ever seen it, droids being sent to observe it being the ones to confirm its existence.
* In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', it's revealed that the center of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is the Gates of Eternity, a temple that houses the titular Eternity. Anyone that can unlock the Gates of Eternity are given one wish by the titular being, [[BigBad Gorr the God-Butcher]] intending on [[KillTheGod wishing for the death of all gods in the universe]].
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* In the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, the PrimordialChaos Azathoth nominally [[TopGod rules all of time and space]] from the center of the universe. He's [[AlmightyIdiot totally mindless]] and is kept in eternal slumber by his attendants, so his court isn't a popular destination.
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' is based on a Christian take on Ptolemy's geocentric model of the Universe. {{Heaven}} is set beyond the physical world and it surrounds the latter from all directions. One step below, the Sun, the planets and all stars orbit Earth, the hemispheres of which are entirely covered by the known landmasses (Northern Emisphere) und a single ocean (Southern Empisphere) surrounding the mountain of Purgatory. This description sounds like an ode to the physical world, but in reality it would be more correct to say that, according to Dante, Earth is the least clean place in existence ''because'' it is the center of the physical world. The farther a soul is from the grace of {{God}} (who, again, surrounds the physical world), the more impure it becomes. This is taken to its logical extreme in the case of {{Satan}}, who is eternally trapped at the very center of the deepest circle of Hell (and yes, that also means his crotch marks the center of ''everything''). This is also the reason why the repented souls of Purgatory are allowed to climb up the mountain only after completing their penitence in each of the seven circles: the less sins they're carrying, the purer they are and the closer they can get to God, until they eventually enter the Garden of Even and ascend to Heaven, leaving the physical sphere for good.
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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]", the titular BigDumbObject is at the exact centre of the universe. It's a derelict spaceship created by an unknown, super-advanced, ancient alien species that may be from another universe before the Big Bang, and a leak from its fuel tanks might actually have ''caused'' the Big Bang. When the Fifth Doctor visited, it was being used as an underfunded and squalid hospital for victims of an intergalactic disease epidemic.
* This was the focus of one episode of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV.'' The antagonist of the week abducts Darwin the dolphin because he's convinced that the hyperintelligent creature can tell him how to reach the center of the universe. He's apprehended at the end, but allowed to ask the dolphin for the answer to his question. Where does Darwin say the center of the universe is? [[spoiler:"In you."]]
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* In ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'', the Galactic Centre is the exact center of the galaxy. The Galactic Centre contains a wormhole that can take the player to a different galaxy, starting the game all over again.
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', it's revealed that after Fongoids misused the ability to time-travel given to them by the [[AngelicAliens Zoni]], the Zoni created [[CosmicKeystone The Great Clock]] to prevent a RealityBreakingParadox from destroying the universe, giving it a "heart-transplant." The Great Clock was constructed and is maintained in the center of the universe (give or take 50-feet).
* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'': Upon reaching the Galactic Core, you'll encounter a {{Precursor}} alien named Steve who awards you with the Staff of Life. The staff is a powerful {{terraforming}} tool that instantly makes any planet habitable.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': The final mission of the game, Bowser's headquarters, is stationed in the center of the universe.
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* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal:'' In ''[[https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2302 Eff]]'', it's shown the Zorblaxians really ''weren't'' mistaken (like humans and other aliens once were) when they say their world is the center of the universe. It's just one more piece that convinced them, if it wasn't outright proof, that they are [[TheChosenPeople the creator's chosen race]]... [[spoiler:directly leading to said world getting blown up by [[ScrewYouElves resentful humans]]]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As shown in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E7TheDayTheEarthStoodStupid The Day Earth Stood Stupid]]", at the very centre of the universe lies Planet Eternium, home-world of the oldest race of aliens in the universe in the Nibblonians.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', Eternia is the location where the Big Bang occurred. As a result, it still contains part of its power in the form of the Starseed, an artifact granting omnipotence to its holder.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Many galaxies in the universe are confirmed to have Supermassive Black Holes in their galactic cores, and they're believed to be the progenitor seeds that kickstarted galaxy formation back in the universe's early years. The two most well-known Supermassive Black Holes are Sagittarius [=A*=] ([[ViewerPronunciationConfusion pronounced "A-star"]]) in our Milky Way Galaxy and the M87 black hole in the galaxy named Messier 87, particularly because these two black holes are the only ones that have been directly imaged from Earth.
* As far as the laws of physics are concerned, there's no true center of the universe in RealLife. Instead, the "center" is all relative based on perspective of the object, so any point in space (yes, even [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Earth]]) can be considered the "center of the universe".
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-->--'''Dr. Nefarious''', ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime''
The Big Bang isn't so much an "explosion" as a continuously expanding sphere of space and matter, this unquantifiably vast inflating balloon of creation being the universe. Fiction likes to think that at the very center of that balloon is something really special.
This is born from a heliocentric worldview; if planets all revolve around the sun -- this incredible, live-giving force beyond our comprehension that [[{{Pun}} eclipses]] everything that orbits it -- just imagine how awesome the thing the sun orbits must be. Or how awesome the thing ''that'' thing orbits must be. And so on.
Some think of it as the cosmic equivalent of a heart or an engine; a perpetuating natural phenomena that keeps the universe running. Those with a more esoteric frame of reference think that it's where {{God}} lives. If there's a planet there, expect the lifeforms that came from it to be really smug about it. What exactly ''is'' there at the center is irrelevant; the point of going to the center is [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts that everyone wants to go there]].
While the sheer immensity of outer space makes the distinction mostly irrelevant, the "center" comes in one of three variations:
* '''Galaxy''': In a story set [[WhatOtherGalaxies within the limits of a single galaxy]], the center of that galaxy acts as the focal point both in the story and in a meta-sense. If there's a GalacticSuperpower, expect it to have either made the center its headquarters, or have surrounded it with an armada to keep everyone away from it, either because there's something important to their authority or because [[DangerInTheGalacticCore there's something horrible there waiting]] and [[SealedEvilInACan they don't want it spreading outward]].
* '''[[TheVerse Universe]]''': The heart of (known) creation must hold something especially impressive. More often than not, it's what CausedTheBigBang, though whether that thing was a natural force or something built by aliens depends on what kind of story you're getting yourself into.
* '''[[TheMultiverse Multiverse]]''': Well, now things are getting audacious. The center of the universe of universes could just be yet another universe; the [[TheEarthPrimeTheory Prime-Universe]] where all other universes are funhouse-mirror reflections of. Or perhaps it could be the work-station of an Almighty Bastard that created all universes as prototypes or rejects for whatever grand design they're trying to perfect.
SuperTrope of DangerInTheGalacticCore. SubTrope of ArtisticLicenseSpace. See also EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse and EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In a deleted chapter of ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'', the cursed spiral that leads into the center of Kurozu-cho [[CosmicHorrorStory is implied to spread out on a cosmic scale]], the spiral making up the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy, if not the rest of the universe.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Oa, the home planet of the Green Lantern Corps, is located in the center of the universe. In the Anti-Matter universe, that position is taken by the planet Qward.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', Spock's long lost half-brother Sybok commandeers the Enterprise and makes the crew set a course for the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, where Sybok believes God is waiting.
* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' extended canon, the Galactic Core is a supermassive black hole that renders the center of the galaxy uninhabitable. No living person has ever seen it, droids being sent to observe it being the ones to confirm its existence.
* In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', it's revealed that the center of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse is the Gates of Eternity, a temple that houses the titular Eternity. Anyone that can unlock the Gates of Eternity are given one wish by the titular being, [[BigBad Gorr the God-Butcher]] intending on [[KillTheGod wishing for the death of all gods in the universe]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, the PrimordialChaos Azathoth nominally [[TopGod rules all of time and space]] from the center of the universe. He's [[AlmightyIdiot totally mindless]] and is kept in eternal slumber by his attendants, so his court isn't a popular destination.
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' is based on a Christian take on Ptolemy's geocentric model of the Universe. {{Heaven}} is set beyond the physical world and it surrounds the latter from all directions. One step below, the Sun, the planets and all stars orbit Earth, the hemispheres of which are entirely covered by the known landmasses (Northern Emisphere) und a single ocean (Southern Empisphere) surrounding the mountain of Purgatory. This description sounds like an ode to the physical world, but in reality it would be more correct to say that, according to Dante, Earth is the least clean place in existence ''because'' it is the center of the physical world. The farther a soul is from the grace of {{God}} (who, again, surrounds the physical world), the more impure it becomes. This is taken to its logical extreme in the case of {{Satan}}, who is eternally trapped at the very center of the deepest circle of Hell (and yes, that also means his crotch marks the center of ''everything''). This is also the reason why the repented souls of Purgatory are allowed to climb up the mountain only after completing their penitence in each of the seven circles: the less sins they're carrying, the purer they are and the closer they can get to God, until they eventually enter the Garden of Even and ascend to Heaven, leaving the physical sphere for good.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]", the titular BigDumbObject is at the exact centre of the universe. It's a derelict spaceship created by an unknown, super-advanced, ancient alien species that may be from another universe before the Big Bang, and a leak from its fuel tanks might actually have ''caused'' the Big Bang. When the Fifth Doctor visited, it was being used as an underfunded and squalid hospital for victims of an intergalactic disease epidemic.
* This was the focus of one episode of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV.'' The antagonist of the week abducts Darwin the dolphin because he's convinced that the hyperintelligent creature can tell him how to reach the center of the universe. He's apprehended at the end, but allowed to ask the dolphin for the answer to his question. Where does Darwin say the center of the universe is? [[spoiler:"In you."]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'', the Galactic Centre is the exact center of the galaxy. The Galactic Centre contains a wormhole that can take the player to a different galaxy, starting the game all over again.
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'', it's revealed that after Fongoids misused the ability to time-travel given to them by the [[AngelicAliens Zoni]], the Zoni created [[CosmicKeystone The Great Clock]] to prevent a RealityBreakingParadox from destroying the universe, giving it a "heart-transplant." The Great Clock was constructed and is maintained in the center of the universe (give or take 50-feet).
* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'': Upon reaching the Galactic Core, you'll encounter a {{Precursor}} alien named Steve who awards you with the Staff of Life. The staff is a powerful {{terraforming}} tool that instantly makes any planet habitable.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': The final mission of the game, Bowser's headquarters, is stationed in the center of the universe.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Webcomic]]
* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal:'' In ''[[https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=2302 Eff]]'', it's shown the Zorblaxians really ''weren't'' mistaken (like humans and other aliens once were) when they say their world is the center of the universe. It's just one more piece that convinced them, if it wasn't outright proof, that they are [[TheChosenPeople the creator's chosen race]]... [[spoiler:directly leading to said world getting blown up by [[ScrewYouElves resentful humans]]]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As shown in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E7TheDayTheEarthStoodStupid The Day Earth Stood Stupid]]", at the very centre of the universe lies Planet Eternium, home-world of the oldest race of aliens in the universe in the Nibblonians.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', Eternia is the location where the Big Bang occurred. As a result, it still contains part of its power in the form of the Starseed, an artifact granting omnipotence to its holder.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* Many galaxies in the universe are confirmed to have Supermassive Black Holes in their galactic cores, and they're believed to be the progenitor seeds that kickstarted galaxy formation back in the universe's early years. The two most well-known Supermassive Black Holes are Sagittarius [=A*=] ([[ViewerPronunciationConfusion pronounced "A-star"]]) in our Milky Way Galaxy and the M87 black hole in the galaxy named Messier 87, particularly because these two black holes are the only ones that have been directly imaged from Earth.
* As far as the laws of physics are concerned, there's no true center of the universe in RealLife. Instead, the "center" is all relative based on perspective of the object, so any point in space (yes, even [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Earth]]) can be considered the "center of the universe".
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