History Main / WorldOfWeirdness

* The original run of ''Manga/DragonBall'' was this, albeit set in a fantasy universe. Beyond walking, talking {{Funny Animal}}s, magic and shape-shifting was considered usual. Even in ''Z'', this was present (although less obvious).

* [[http://www.notmadcomic.com I'm Not Mad]] appears to take place on World, especially in the revamped second season.

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

* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': '''All''' the non-gray zones.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'': Besides the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of countries walking around, 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.

** This does not hold for ''Anime/MahouSenseiNegima'', the semi-sequel set in the same universe, where [[TheMasquerade a masquerade]] is clearly shown to be upheld.

* The ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' movies has the main cast encountering dinosaurs, giant robots, aliens, evolved animals, wizards, dragons, merpeople, etc. The whole series, for a start, has a robotic cat from the future as the main character.

* The original ''WesternAnimation/{{Babar}}'' show was very much granted on reality (aside from the {{Talking Animal}}s, of course) but the 2000's reboot turn the setting straight-up World of Weirdness with Babar and family traveling to very strange magical lands of things like living toys, sentient games, giants, fairies and the like. The SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/BabarAndTheAdventuresOfBadou'' staring Babar's grandson disregards completely the 2000's reboot and get things back to the more relatively realistic setting. It even may be ''more'' realistic as it shows some non-civilized animals.
* The world of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is home to all sorts of supernatural oddities; most of it just happens to be concentrated in [[WeirdnessMagnet the eponymous town]]. The main characters encounter gnomes, unicorns, ghosts, macho minotaurs, living video game characters, a monster made from unwanted Halloween candy, the long-lost eighth-and-a-half President of the United States, and more.

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* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' seemed like a simple cartoony gorefest... at first. But in recent years, the continuity was expanded. Now, the canon of the game includes ghosts, magicians, [[TimeTravel time travel,]] [[FrickingLaserBeams laser guns]] from [[AnotherDimension other dimensions,]] transformative elements that give people incredible strength, heightened intelligence and superb mustaches (yes, even the women), [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant floating eyeball monsters that open portals to the Underworld,]] [[TheGrays and quite possibly, aliens...]]

* 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 [[WesternAnimation/TitanAE alien kangaroos]] whose planet was consumed by a HordeOfAlienLocusts, refugees from a starship infested with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s 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 comics in Magazine/TopSecret seem to take place in a world made from all the video game settings mushed together, thus allowing the heroes to go on wacky hijinx [[VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis with Indiana Jones]] or [[Franchise/StarWars having their office attacked by the Death Star]].

** And Creator/StanLee, who may or may not have once transformed himself into WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk.

* The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games are almost certainly set on World Of Weirdness. 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]].]]

** ''Shin Megami Tensei'' is really a Multiverse of Weirdness, as most games take place in alternate Earths that each undergo their own little apocalypses and then have to deal with the aftermath. The ''Persona'' subseries is the least applicable to this trope with hints that TheMasquerade is enforced by a mix of government and corporate cover-ups and willful disbelief. However, ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}''' were more willing to do things that couldn't just be covered up or written off as mass hysteria, and ''everyone'' seemed to already know when someone else might, say, be a demon summoner. ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' were more bent on preserving TheMasquerade, disqualifying them from this trope.

* ''LetsPlay/VenturianTale'' The world of the Venturian Tale roleplay is rediculous.It has a man who teleports using toilets, a planet where all gingers are from, people being haunted by Mario and Elsa, a paranormal investigation team lead by a man named Johnny Ghost who has a serial killer alternate personality named Jimmy Casket, Dinosaurs, Dragons, a ton of paranormal entities, other dimensions, aliens, Sith lords and Jedi, Creapypasta characters going to high school, dating humans, and getting normal jobs, Five Nights at Freddy's characters walking around as if they were normal people, several memes existing as people, characters being turned into watermelons, a microwave that opens portals, and the main character, Papa Acachalla is a vampire hunting Indian Chief Timelord who was born in Zimbabwe thousands of years ago and turns a Hispanic man named Jose Jose Jose Jose every Monday at midnight, his kids are also weird, his daughter Sally turns into an Eldritch Abomination Waffle Demon when she doesn't get waffles and is also dating Slenderman, his adoptive son Billy is a Sith spy who was brainwashed by a watermelon to kill his real father, his other son Spencer is an Eldritch Abomination obsessed with all things nerdy possessing the body of a cult leader, the only slightly normal child ,Sue, is a man who was accidentally registered as a daughter rather than a son when being adopted, Papa Acachalla's wife Gertrude is a actually an interdimensional super hero known as The Crowbar and is also an alien from Gingeria, the planet of the Gingers who once sent him into the world of Dark Souls by hitting him with her crowbar.

* ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}''. {{Kaiju}}, {{Ninja}}, ZombieApocalypse, HumongousMecha, {{Magical Girl}}s, etc. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Nobody seems surprised]], though - it's [[ThirtySecondsOverTokyo Tokyo]].
** Parts of it are [[CrazyAwesome Largo]]'s imagination, though.

* The ''Franchise/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]].]]

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' casually features everything from [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], {{Cyborg}}s and [[HumanAliens aliens]] to PsychicPowers, [[UpliftedAnimal intelligent orangutans]] and [[MixAndMatchCritters man-headed dogs]] without much - if any - explanation or fanfare. It eventually gets to the point where being attacked by [[FightingSpirit enemy stand users]] is not only accepted as normal by the characters, it's downright expected.

* The world of ''Podcast/TheHiddenAlmanac'', an impression conveyed not only by the events Reverend Mord describes, but implicitly by the matter-of-fact way in which he describes them. An account of an incident in which a man spontaneously transformed into a cloud of butterflies features the phrase "Spontaneous butterfly explosions were nearly unknown at that time". Within that world, the oft-mentioned Echo Harbor is a CityOfWeirdos where strange happenings are so much more common that nothing that happens there is a surprise. No, not even shutting out the Fathers with a wall made of live dolphins that whistle hostile sonnets. The only event ever mentioned to terrify its citizens is that time [[http://thehiddenalmanac.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_for_2015-10-14 a little old lady]] came through striking up conversation and being unperturbed by the clouds performing unspeakable rites on each other.

* ''WebVideo/ShinyObjectsVideos'', according to WordOfGod, is "everyday scenes from a world utterly unbound by the rules of reality as we know them."

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' lives and breathes this trope. MagicAIsMagicA is in full effect, but along comes an earth pony who can seemingly break the laws of physics and reality on a whim? It's just [[CloudCuckooLander Pinkie Pie]] [[WeirdnessCoupon being Pinkie Pie]]. The once world-conquering and feared Spirit of Chaos is now reformed and dropping by your Gala to do stand-up? Yeah, he's not that funny so let's heckle him! Two fiercely-powerful wizards are having a duel? Cool, let's go watch! A monster is invading the town? Meh, wedding preparations are more important. Cerberus escaped from Tartarus (yes, that Cerberus and ''THAT'' Tartarus)? Good thing he's rather tame and the gates of Hell are less than a day's walk away! Literally every episode could add a bullet-point to this paragraph.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' lives and breathes this trope. MagicAIsMagicA is in full effect, but along comes an earth pony who can seemingly break the laws of physics and reality on a whim? It's just [[CloudCuckooLander Pinkie Pie]] [[WeirdnessCoupon being Pinkie Pie]]. The once world-conquering and feared Spirit of Chaos is now reformed and dropping by your Gala to do stand-up? Yeah, he's not that funny so let's heckle him! Two fiercely-powerful wizards are having a duel? Cool, let's go watch! A monster is invading the town? Ugh, is it Tuesday already? Cerberus escaped from Tartarus (yes, that Cerberus and ''THAT'' Tartarus)? Good thing he's rather tame and the gates of Hell are less than a day's walk away! Literally every episode could add a bullet-point to this paragraph.

** Then there was the time Nina [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/real_evil got pulled into the cursed mirror]] and was replaced by [[EvilTwin the Nina-ganger.]] But since it was influenced by aspects of her personality, it was [[ScrewySquirrel a tad less "evil"]] [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/less_abominable than it should've been.]] Tiffany and the others eventually [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/hunk_of_a_man lured it back into the mirror]] and saved Nina.

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* In its early years, ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' had strips involving dinosaurs, aliens, trolls, people stowing away inside Dilbert's torso, and an arc where Dilbert is killed by Mother Nature and is brought BackFromTheDead. There's much less of that stuff now, though it's not completely diminished, what with consultants who dig into your flesh just to get at your wallet, the ruler of Heck (titled "Prince of Insufficient Light") showing up every now and again, talking animals who function as {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s and Indians apparently being taught telekinesis in college.
-->(Asok [[YourHeadASplode blows up some guy's head with his mind]])\\
'''Dilbert:''' They taught you some good stuff.\\
'''Asok:''' Nah, they don't even let you in unless you can do that.
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* The world of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is home to all sorts of supernatural oddities; most of it just happens to be concentrated in [[WeirdnessMagnet the eponymous town]]. The main characters encounter gnomes, unicorns, ghosts, macho minotaurs, living video game characters, a monster made from unwanted Halloween candy, the long-lost eight-and-a-half President of the United States, and more.

* ''Videogame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' takes place within 'The Nexus', a conflux of time and space where heroes and worlds clash[[labelnote:*]]And yes, ''several'' characters [[SelfDeprecation comment on how lazy this concept]] is in StopPokingMe Quotes[[/labelnote]], this nexus draws in characters and realms from all over Creator/BlizzardEntertainment's franchises to do endless MOBA -- [[InsistentTerminology Hero Brawler!]] -- battle, and given that those franchises take place in ''wildly'' different universes with their own MagicAIsMagicA, TechnologyLevels, etc, the Nexus invariably becomes a World Of Weirdness where lasers are shot from sun-powered obelisks right next to {{Steampunk}} turrets, necromancy raises undead right next to a tank, and there's a trio of vikings running around with MediumAwareness of their situation.