History Main / WorldOfWeirdness

* [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer "Everything you've ever dreaded was under your bed but told yourself couldn't be by the light of day -]] ''[[AllMythsAreTrue they're all real."]]''

* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has aliens, all sorts of technology, [[MadScientist mad scientists]]...

** DavidBowie [[ItWasHisSled is the leader]] of a globally-recognized organization for the benefits of super villains, though according to the Season 5 finale [[spoiler: he's actually a shapeshifter who met Bowie once]].

** DavidBowie [[ItWasHisSled is the leader]] of a globally-recognized organization for the benefits of super villains. Nothing more needs to be said.
*** [[spoiler: he's actually a shapeshifter who met Bowie once.]]

* PowerRangers has ghosts, aliens, demons, ''alien'' demons, wizards, ''alien'' wizards, time-traveling mutants, at least one group of time-traveling mutant demons, ninjas, ''alien'' ninjas, sapient robots, ''alien'' sapient robots, and so on. Norse Mythology has also been shown to be at least partially true. Oddly, all of the disparate paranormal forces either produce Power Ranger teams or oddly similar [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]].
** Parent franchise ''SuperSentai'' wasn't quite on the same level, as the different teams only interacted in team-up films (generally treated as [[NonSerialMovie non-serial movies]]). Then ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' came along and treated the 34 previous years of insanity as a single shared universe.

...Basically, every concept or [[MonsterMash creature]] that was ever touched upon in popular culture is not only real, but has a vested interest in the main characters. However, despite the rampant weirdness, everything superficially ''appears'' to be [[InSpiteOfANail identical to the present day]].

* The world of {{KatamariDamacy}}, nonstop. Massive spirits, demons, monsters, and power ranger-expies wandering around; floating cities and giant mushrooms; and of course, the royal family itself.

* In the [[Roleplay/WALLEForumRoleplay WALL-E Forum Roleplay]], the Chicago Colony is inhabited by humans, [[HumanPopsicle human popsicles]], sapient animals, robots, robots that should have been part of a mass scrap years ago, an ousted robot spy, a robot based off an extremely destructive enemy automaton, a [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Turret]] rescued and given a robot body, a human robot sympathizer extremist, a human robot nonsympathizer, refugees from a nearly extinct race whose planet was blown up, refugees from a race of [[TitanAE alien kangeroos]] whose planet was consumed by a HordeOfAlienLocusts, refugees from a starship infested with EldritchAbominations and generally considered to be a BedlamHouse, a couple of immortal entities, and probably a few folks I haven't thought of. There's another faction located underground, they were until recently regularly attacked by a RealityWarper (who they finally killed), and some [[AncientConspiracy very old secrets]] have been discovered although there's probably some more. This is all considered to be completely normal.

** The weirdest part? The Timeless Space arc was cut short because Abrams felt it ''didn't fit into the theme of the series!''
*** Possibly he meant that he didn't think it was funny enough. Although considering the grim nature of the dimension and the occasionally brutal nature of the plot, he did pretty well at keeping up a laugh-a-day anyway. "What wizardry skips to the next bit?"

* Although it eschews magical explanations in favor of ''very'' soft science, DoctorWho could be said to exist in a ''Universe'' of Weirdness. On a regular basis the Doctor will encounter vampires, witches, angels, zombies, and yetis (all with the explanation "they're aliens"), travel to a parallel universe, hitch a ride on the space Titanic, meet half a dozen historical figures (all of whom wind up fighting aliens themselves), die and turn into a new person, and wind up [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol reenacting A Christmas Carol]]. In one episode alone he teams up with a Victorian lesbian lizard woman who killed JackTheRipper, a twelve year old cloned alien soldier who must work as a nurse as penance, a fat blue black market merchant hacker, and a two thousand year old Roman centurion who was made of plastic, in order to save a woman who remembered the Doctor back into existence and her half Time Lord baby (who is actually a remotely controlled "flesh avatar") from an evil religious order that employs headless zombies. That's one episode.
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' Those stories your nana told you? They're not stories.

* ''GaiaOnline'' features this, to an extreme, mostly due to its origins as a roleplaying community. They add a new canon race every year (or in the case of 2008 ''five''), not including various item based and user created races. Santa Claus has been killed, revived, then ''turned into a cow''. There have been two [[ZombieApocalypse zombie invasions]] and an alien invasion. The first shopkeeper you meet is a former vampire with a talking cat. There are at least three Mega Corps, one owned by Mrs. Claus, and the other two owned by resident Megalomaniac Johnny K. Gambino [[spoiler:and his clone]]. The Dark Elves run TheMafia. There is a city filled with Robots. Someone literally just ''found'' orcs in a cave. Centuar are bureaucratic environmentalists. There are Pirates, Ninjas, [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed "Otami" Spirits]], and TheMenInBlack. Oh, and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou random objects have been coming alive and attacking people]]. Strangely, {{NPC}}s only consider the last one weird.

** City of Heroes is actually rather internally consistent, although everything weird ''ever'' happens to be concentrated in the two faction cities. However, a lack of available lore leads to many players [[{{Fanon}} getting creative]]. This applies to any Superhero game, of course. Not many people want to conform to preset concepts and origins

* The ShinMegamiTensei games are almost certainly set on WorldOfWeirdness. Oh sure, it looks like ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' is set on Earth until you remember that the SEBEC Group built a machine that rewrites reality [[spoiler:[[PoweredByAForsakenChild based on the whims of a high school girl in a coma]] ]].

* ''CtrlAltDel'': In the beginning, the comic had many appearances of ninjas, an [[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/cad/20021025 ogre]], random arrows, one ''[[http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/cad/20021101 insistence]]" where Ethan kills a person before he can say all your base are belong to us. Now, the only "supernatural" things in the comic would have to be Zeke, Ted, Chef Brian, and any comic poking fun at a game, movie, etc.

** Also, arbitrary action movie [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=696 just]][[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=697 happens]].

* ''CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' [[strike: contains elements of this]] shamelessly lives and breathes this trope as well.

* ''DemonPlanet'' More of a DigDug vs. Lion planet destroyed by the machinations of Unholy Gorilla.

** No one, that is, except for King Radical, who thinks there isn't nearly enough of it, and hopes to pull beings from his home dimension, the Radical Lands, into Doc's world to turn it UpToEleven. (NB This is because his own world was poisoned by an evil unicorn overlord that later turns into a mind-controlling motorcycle.)

* ''BobAndGeorge'' is a notable example of this trope in action. It has everything from alternate dimensions, time travel and lots of breaking the fourth wall. Seemingly everyone in that comic seems to be in on the joke, though. If anything, it's almost ''too'' goofy.

* The world of the ''TheDragonDoctors'' is pretty much this; it's 2000 years in our future, after the world has been blown up four times, the fourth of which fused it with several other worlds. Most sociological and technological conventions ''resemble'' those of modern-day society, but magic is ever-present and allows people to do all sorts of interesting things. The Docs are just as likely to treat pinkeye one day and face a killer sentient cancer another, or turn a gorgon into a human at her request. As their leader says, "We don't live in a world where nothing is real. We live in a world where ''everything'' is real... though not all at once."
* While [[UnluckyEverydude Sam]] in ''SamAndFuzzy'' is often bewildered by strangeness, that he seems to be a [[WeirdnessMagnet magnet]] for it means that his life resembles WorldOfWeirdness. Demon-possessed refrigerators, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ninja mafia]], [[ElaborateUndergroundBase elaborate underground cities]]--all real, and all highly important to the plot.
* While everyday life mostly stays normal in ''{{The-FAN}}'', many supernatural concepts are mentioned in casual conversation. People with psychic powers or magical abilities (the later are referred to as Gifted) are no different from the rest of humanity. In fact, it would seem that humans are sharing the planet with other sentient creatures as well. Murke the shape-shifting imp is treated no differently than a human who's master of disguises would be.

* WebComic/AxeCop is pretty much a league of its own when it comes to this trope. Being concieved in the highly imaginative mind of a five-year-old might have something to do with that. Between hordes of dinosaurs, absurd superheroes, zombies, super-powered babies, ninjas, exploding telephones, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot sidekicks turned dinosaur turned avocado turned unicorn turned ghost turned ghostly dinosaur]], casual space travel, robots and out-of-the-blue transformations, all SerialEscalation, and resident {{Badass}} Axe Cop himself, the comic takes this trope UpToEleven.
* ''VoodooWalrus'' has a long history of [[http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=43 baby powered dommcano based publishing houses]], [[http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=699 sentient cacti instigating catspolsions]], and [[http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=1729 daytrips to future dystopias]].

* Arguably, ''AxisPowersHetalia'' could count. You have aliens, mythical creatures visible only to certain countries, and other sorts of weirdness. And yet life goes on as normal for most of the human race.

* EarthwormJim. Bosses include a bungee-jumping booger man, Professor Monkey-for-a-Head, fire-breathing snowmen, a fire-breathing steak, and Queen Bloated-Festering-Pus-Filled-Malformed-Slug-for-a-Butt.

Finally, note that this has nothing to do with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28dwarf_planet%29 the recently discovered dwarf planet Eris]], [[http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Eris_(planet)#The_Jake_that_Changed_the_World apart from the fact that Discordians did have a hand in suggesting the name]]. Also has nothing to do with [[Anime/{{Voltron}} Planet Arus]].

* Although it eschews magical explanations in favor of ''very'' soft science, DoctorWho could be said to exist in a ''Universe'' of Weirdness. On a regular basis the Doctor will encounter vampires, witches, angels, zombies, and yetis (all with the explanation "they're aliens"), travel to a parallel universe, hitch a ride on the space Titanic, meet half a dozen historical figures (all of whom wind up fighting aliens themselves), die and turn into a new person, and wind up [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol reenacting A Christmas Carol]]. In one episode alone he teams up with a Victorian lesbian lizard woman who killed JackTheRipper, a twelve year old cloned alien soldier who must work as a nurse as penance, a fat blue black market merchant hacker, and a two thousand year old Roman centurion who was made of plastic, in order to save a woman who remembered the Doctor back into existence and her half Time Lord baby (who is actually a remotely controlled "flesh avatar") from an evil religious order that employs headless zombies. One episode.

* The fanmade ''World of Darkness'' gameline ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' only continues the above trend.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' stars a six foot tall bluejay and a two foot tall raccoon, who work with an anthropomorphic lollipop, an albino gorilla and... I don't even know how to describe Muscle Man, for a walking, talking gumball machine in a world mostly populated by ordinary human beings, who don't consider this unusual. On their first day of work they tie at rock-paper-scissors a hundred times in a row, summoning an EldritchAbomination from a black hole, and then turn everything back to normal by breaking the tie. This is then shown to be par for the course.

Finally, note that this has nothing to do with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28dwarf_planet%29 the recently discovered dwarf planet Eris]], [[http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Eris_(planet)#The_Jake_that_Changed_the_World apart from the fact that Discordians did have a hand in suggesting the name]].

* ''Series/Grimm'' Those stories your nana told you? They're not stories.

* ''{{Sinfest}}'', except, of course, for the Reality Zone.

* ''AdventureTime'' has ghosts, trippy dimensions in space, soul-sucking demons from Hell, cyclopes whose tears heal wounds, tiny cat assassins, etc. Where do you think the 'Adventure' part comes from?

This trope was named after Eris, the goddess of Chaos in ''Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia'', the prime text of the UsefulNotes/{{Discordian|ism}} religion. Also relates to the original Ancient Greek mythology version of Eris as the goddess of discord, strife and quarrels. Look up the ''Literature/TheIliad'' (especially the Judgement of Paris scene) for one of her most famous roles therein, you know the Original Snub and 'For the Fairest' and the Golden Apple Corps. Not to be confused with Eros, god of sexual love and beauty, or Ares, god of war, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters or Chaos/Khaos/]]χάος, [[GeniusLoci who was the void before the creation of gods and earth]]. Yeah, Greek Myth was involved. Suffice to say Eris is the embodiment of the modern term chaos, discord and the fun stuff.

* One of the earliest examples, and arguably an inspiration for this trope's name: Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy was deliberately written to be the Planet Eris of conspiracy theories.

* Although it eschews magical explanations in favor of ''very'' soft science, DoctorWho could be said to exist in ''Universe'' Eris. On a regular basis the Doctor will encounter vampires, witches, angels, zombies, and yetis (all with the explanation "they're aliens"), travel to a parallel universe, hitch a ride on the space Titanic, meet half a dozen historical figures (all of whom wind up fighting aliens themselves), die and turn into a new person, and wind up [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol reenacting A Christmas Carol]]. In one episode alone he teams up with a Victorian lesbian lizard woman who killed JackTheRipper, a twelve year old cloned alien soldier who must work as a nurse as penance, a fat blue black market merchant hacker, and a two thousand year old Roman centurion who was made of plastic, in order to save a woman who remembered the Doctor back into existence and her half Time Lord baby (who is actually a remotely controlled "flesh avatar") from an evil religious order that employs headless zombies. One episode.

* ''TheSims'' and its sequels are basically set on Planet Eris. There's the obvious stuff, like the alien abductions, vampires, werewolves, [[FantasyKitchenSink and so forth]]; and then there are the subtler examples found in the buyable objects' descriptions, like the fact that there's apparently a government rehabilitation program in which actual bears make teddy bears.

** The "EGS Mayhem" forum is worse. As in, if the Eris Index of ''El Goonish Shive'' is x, then the Eris Index of EGS Mayhem is x^x, at least. There's a reason the forum tagline is ''It means "The Goonish Shive crippling of eye or limb".''

* ''Webcomic/EmergencyExit'' starts off completely normal (aside from the inexplicable insanity of Eddie), but soon drops into Planet Eris with the introduction of such things as Karl's apartment's alternate-reality portal, the talking cat Fred, witchcraft, curses, and shapeshifting villains competing in a quest to grab the pieces of some [[CosmicKeystone shattered artifact]]... ''ParallelDementia'', which EE crossed over with a couple times, starts looking normal by comparison, and that's a post-apocalyptic dark urban fantasy where nightmares and demons run rampant.

This trope is named after Eris, the goddess of Chaos in ''Literature/PrincipiaDiscordia'', the prime text of the UsefulNotes/{{Discordian|ism}} religion. Also relates to the original Ancient Greek mythology version of Eris as the goddess of discord, strife and quarrels. Look up the ''Literature/TheIliad'' (especially the Judgement of Paris scene) for one of her most famous roles therein, you know the Original Snub and 'For the Fairest' and the Golden Apple Corps. Not to be confused with Eros, god of sexual love and beauty, or Ares, god of war, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters or Chaos/Khaos/]]χάος, [[GeniusLoci who was the void before the creation of gods and earth]]. Yeah, Greek Myth was involved. Suffice to say Eris is the embodiment of the modern term chaos, discord and the fun stuff.

The implicit setting of a majority of web comics and roleplaying games. Especially those descended from ''SluggyFreelance'' and ''{{Goats}}''.