History Main / TheWonderland

* ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Although only Halloween Town and Christmas Town are shown, presumably each of the holiday towns are a themed wonderland following their own logic.

* ''KatamariDamacy'': the sky broke, and it can be fixed by rolling a sticky ball around earth to create replacement stars. Rolling around the world, seeing a child riding a panda bear motorcycle is not unusual.

* The Fairy land of Neirutvena in ''VideoGame/ChainsOfSatinav'' is one of these. Among other oddities, the season is determined by the orientation of a painting in the royal art gallery, the direction of the wind is determined by the large-nosed crab creature that acts as a weather vane, and the time is determined by a large peacock who lights up his plumage based on the season and the direction of the wind.

* In ''{{Superman}}'', Htrae is a Bizarro Earth, a cubic planet where things are the opposite of earth. It's also very inconsistent due to the fact that various authors chose to focus on different aspects and also had different ideas of "opposite."

* The Lands Beyond, of ''ThePhantomTollbooth''.

* Although logic as it appears dreams tends to shift erratically from moment to moment; in any given moment there is usually some underlying logical structure that the narrative of the dream is following.

* ''Labyrinth'': The Goblin king's kingdom has a structure (both physically and politically). Reason and logic still work there (assuming your are willing to take nothing for granted and take everything literally). everything that appears in that world also has a 'real-world' reference. And there are rules (read 'laws'), although those rules are -to a certain extent- set by and subject to the moods and whims of the king.

* ''Labyrinth'': The Goblin king's kingdom has a structure, reason and logic still work there (assuming your are willing to take nothing for granted and take everything literally), and there are rules, although those rules are -to a certain extent- set by and subject to the moods and whims of the king.

* HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy. After hitching a ride off Earth, every place just gets weirder and weirder. Then there's the Infinite Improbability Drive, which is capable of [[RealityIsOutToLunch making reality leave the building]].

* The Fairy land of Neirutvena in ''VideoGame/TheChainsOfSatinav'' is one of these. Among other oddities, the season is determined by the orientation of a painting in the royal art gallery, the direction of the wind is determined by the large-nosed crab creature that acts as a weather vane, and the time is determined by a large peacock who lights up his plumage based on the season and the direction of the wind.

* [[DigimonAdventure The]] [[DigimonTamers Digital]] [[DigimonFrontier World]] [[DigimonSavers drifts]] [[DigimonXrosWars into]] this on occasion, depending on the continuity and location.

* [[DigimonAdventure The]] [[DigimonTamers Digital]] [[DigimonFrontier World]] [[DigimonSavers drifts]] [[DigimonXrosWars into]] this on occasion, depending on the continuity and location.

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* The Dreaming from ''{{Sandman}}''
* The 1950s strip from the AnthologyComic ''TheBeano'' Pansy Potter in Wonderland.

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[[Film/AliceInWonderland http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wonderland_6325.jpg]]
[[caption-width:550:Well, things work differently around here.]]

* ''AliceInWonderland'': TropeNamer, though it's debatable whether it's better described as a WorldOfChaos.

** The author of the Oz books, LFrankBaum, felt it made perfect sense, and was offended that it was compared to ''AliceInWonderland''!

Many fictional worlds, even in {{science fiction}} and {{fantasy}} works, still have some basis in reality. If people live underwater, they use scuba gear to breathe, or grow gills. If you need to travel between planets, you can take a magical portal or FTL spaceship. Even if things are unrealistic, at least they're ''reasonable''. However, sometimes authors deliberately make something so absurd it draws the viewer's attention, generally a combination of [[AbsurdityAscendant weirdness]]. What the world is exactly will vary greatly from work to work, but will often combine a [[AnotherDimension strange place]], [[ToonPhysics strange physics]], and [[CloudCuckooLand strange people]]. If the story is AnAesop, you can expect the world itself to be a metaphor for something. Even without being AnAesop, some wonderlands may still have a theme.

Many ancient stories, including a huge chunk of OlderThanDirt and OlderThanFeudalism myths, will fall into this trope. These include various religions' versions of heaven and hell, all of which are more or less metaphors for "totally better than reality" and "totally worse than reality."

Compare ItRunsOnNonsensoleum, where a joke is based on its absurdity; and BizarroUniverse, where everything is deliberately the opposite of reality, and WorldOfChaos, where everything is brightly coloured and there isn't any underlying logic or explanation for most anything;

A type of EldritchLocation. Contrast AcceptableBreaksFromReality, where the breaks from reality are made for practical purposes and meant to be ignored, whereas in TheWonderland the breaks are the focus. The MentalWorld, DreamLand, and AnotherDimension, are sometimes Wonderlands.

** The "real" world seems weirder when you think about how nobody ever acts like a teenager becoming a goddess is even out of the ordinary.

* in ''{{Superman}}'', Htrae is a Bizarro Earth, a cubic planet where things are the opposite of earth. It's also very inconsistent due to the fact that various authors chose to focus on different aspects and also had different ideas of "opposite."

* ''FLCL''. You have to see it to be confused by it.

* ''{{Discworld}}'': Everything. Deliberately mixes a lot of mythology, historically bad science, and humor to create a flat and round world on the backs of four elephants on a turtle flying through space. It only gets weirder from there.

Many ancient stories, including a huge chunk of OlderThanDirt myths, will fall into this trope. These include various religions' versions of heaven and hell, all of which are more or less metaphors for "totally better than reality" and "totally worse than reality."

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* [[SuperMarioBros The Mushroom Kingdom!]] In a way, it is very similar to the trope namer. It's full of weird, biologically-impossible creatures with no rhyme or reason for being, it violates every natural law known to man when the {{rule of cool}} or {{rule of funny}} requires it, it's a geographic mish-mash of madness (ocean next to a desert next to a forest next to a snowy mountain...), and nothing about its nature or location is ever revealed.
* [[TheLegendOfZelda Hyrule]] may also count, especially since [[ChaosArchitecture the world's geography changes drastically with every game]]. Granted, the games supposedly take place several years apart from one another, but how does Lake Hylia go from the south to the southeast to the center of the land, or the Lost Woods go from the east to the northwest to the southwest?

Contrast AcceptableBreaksFromReality, where the breaks from reality are made for practical purposes and meant to be ignored, whereas in TheWonderland the breaks are the focus. The MentalWorld, DreamLand, and AnotherDimension, are sometimes Wonderlands.

* [[TheLegendOfZelda Hyrule]] may also count, especially since the world's geography changes drastically with every game. Granted, the games supposedly take place several years apart from one another, but how does Lake Hylia go from the south to the southeast to the center of the land, or the Lost Woods go from the east to the northwest to the southwest?

* ''TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'': So your house falls down onto a witch, and you meet a talking scarecrow, robot, and lion... the entire Literature/LandOfOz is a strange wonderland.

* ''TheWizardOfOz'': So your house falls down onto a witch, and you meet a talking scarecrow, robot, and lion... the entire land of Oz is a strange wonderland.
** The author of the Oz books, LFrankBaum, felt it made perfect sense, and was offended that it was compared to ''AliceInWonderland''!

** The author of the Oz books, LFrankBaum, felt it made perfect sense, and was offended that it was compared to Alice in Wonderland!
** To be fair, Oz makes sense in its own context. Alice's Wonderland does not.
** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint That's the entire point of Wonderland in the first place.]] It was meant as a story to entertain little children Carroll knew. It was never supposed to be logical.

* ''FLCL''. You have to see it to be confused by it. [[spoiler:I've been told after watching it that it was a metaphor for puberty.]]

** The author of the Oz books, L. Frank Baum, felt it made perfect sense, and was offended that it was compared to Alice in Wonderland!