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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a one year old who built a functional time machine that led to the creation of the universe, a talking dog that has long term relationships with human women without anyone commenting, Bonnie's many year pregnancy, the Kool-Aid Man, numerous anthropomorphic talking animals and inanimate objects, the evil monkey, the giant unkillable chicken, God's roommate Chuggs, the time Peter (and later, Quagmire) was somebody's glass eye, Ben Stiller flying with his ears, MC Escher's rap video where he defies the laws of physics by "going up the sideway stairs", a bunch of wheelchair-bound people forming a HumongousMecha, Peter's Mexican farts taking corporeal form and shooting up the house, a mentally-handicapped rooster screaming "GOOD NIGHT EVERYBODY!" at the crack of dawn, Stewie being used as a football, Goofy going to Hell for being somehow involved in 9/11, a high-powered toilet sucking all of Peter's clothes off the second he flushes it, the Pink Panther showing up and telling Brian "WelcomeToHell" after he gets spray-painted pink, a story about a wolf being tricked into saying "Cock-a-doodle-doo" that ends with him turning to prostitution, Peter's head exploding after he ate half a popsicle in one bite... it never ever ends.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a one year old who built a functional time machine that led to the creation of the universe, a talking dog that has long term relationships with human women without anyone commenting, Bonnie's many year pregnancy, the Kool-Aid Man, numerous anthropomorphic talking animals and inanimate objects, the evil monkey, the giant unkillable chicken, God's roommate Chuggs, the time Peter was somebody's glass eye, Ben Stiller flying with his ears... it never ever ends.

->'''Clone of Creator/BenjaminFranklin:''' Why do you [[CrazyPrepared have your barber on emergency speed dial]]?\\

Guess what? Remember last week when [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] possessed our [[MonsterRoommate resident]] [[AlienAmongUs alien]] when we killed that vampire? Well, this week we've got {{time travel}}ing [[BlackMagic wizards]] on our tail! Good thing we acquired those PsychicPowers from that [[TheMonolith black monolith]] two weeks ago, eh?

Distinguished from [[SuperheroPrevalenceStages comic book]] [[StandardSuperheroSetting settings]] in that in comics, the unusual is used as a plot device ("This guy comes from space, and that's why he has powers!"), whereas World Of Weirdness uses it as a plot enabler ("This guy went to space on his vacation, and all he got was this stupid T-shirt!").

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Alien invasions, {{Timey Wimey Ball}}s including a double-subverted grandfather paradox, brains that make people dumb and plan to destroy the universe once they're omniscient (leading to yet ''another'' TimeyWimeyBall), time is both a straight line and a circle, [[LadyLand Amazon planets]], [[FantasyCounterpartCulture native Martians]], amoral robots that want to [[OmnicidalNeutral kill all humans]], robots insisting they evolved when they were created by man, celebrity heads in jars, suicide booths, a zombie that represents the spirit of Chanukah, a spaceship that became omnipotent when it crashed into God, rape tentacles from another universe, French-accented gargoyles, parallel universes inhabited by pirates, hippies, and people with no faces, believing you've ended up in a post-apocalypse 41st century only to learn that you just accidentally ended up in Los Angeles... Yeah. The future sure is wacky.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Alien invasions, {{Timey Wimey Ball}}s including a double-subverted grandfather paradox, brains that make people dumb and plan to destroy the universe once they're omniscient (leading to yet ''another'' TimeyWimeyBall), time is both a straight line and a circle, [[AuthorAppeal Amazon planets]], [[FantasyCounterpartCulture native Martians]], amoral robots that want to [[OmnicidalNeutral kill all humans]], robots insisting they evolved when they were created by man, celebrity heads in jars, suicide booths, a zombie that represents the spirit of Chanukah, a spaceship that became omnipotent when it crashed into God, rape tentacles from another universe, French-accented gargoyles, parallel universes inhabited by pirates, hippies, and people with no faces, believing you've ended up in a post-apocalypse 41st century only to learn that you just accidentally ended up in Los Angeles... Yeah. The future sure is wacky.

* Ah, ''VideoGame/PunchOut''. A boxing game that includes, among others, a German who [[ShellShockedVeteran developed PTSD from being beaten by his child students]], an Indian who [[MysticalIndia utilizes illusionary powers]], a Russian who [[DrunkOnMilk becomes intoxicated via soda]], and an African-American who [[PersonOfMassDestruction can level a building with his bare hands]].

** And there was [[GenderBender the Tiresias Orb incident]], thanks to [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/the_wrong_hands Blair getting his hands on it]] and using it to turn almost everyone at the school into his idea of the [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/boing ideal woman]] (BuxomBeautyStandard + DumbBlumb). And the less said about how they got outta ''[[BrainBleach that one]]''... [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/boobs_go_away! the better.]]

** And there was [[GenderBender the Tiresias Orb incident]], thanks to [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/the_wrong_hands Blair getting his hands on it]] and using it to turn almost everyone at the school into [[BuxomIsBetter his idea]] [[DumbBlonde of the]] [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/boing ideal woman.]] And the less said about how they got outta ''[[BrainBleach that one]]''... [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/boobs_go_away! the better.]]

* An ambiguous case in ''Series/BoredToDeath''; George jokingly asks his driver if being Asian gives him amazing martial arts prowess. The driver indignantly responds that he is Indian, not Chinese, but that he does have the ability to change his body temperature at will. It's never stated whether this is true or not, but the character's seriousness implies it might be.

** Such as the time [[{{succubus}} Chloe's]] [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/gesundheit! pheromones flooded the entire school]], turning all the boys into [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/it_is_making_blair_cry! Chloe-obsessed "zombies".]] Though they went after any girls who were covered in her pheromones too. The situation wound up being resolved by Nina hitting the fire alarm ([[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/short_girls with help from Blair]]).

->'''Clone of Creator/BenjaminFranklin:''' Why do you have your barber on emergency speed dial?\\

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': in the windows games: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Vampires]], [[CuteGhostGirl Ghosts and]] [[RealityWarper a reality warper]], MagiTek [[HumanAliens moon people and]] [[LittleBitBeastly bunny girls]], [[PalsWithJesus rival Goddesses]] [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly set up shop down the street]], [[ApocalypseHow World domination/destruction by]] [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear-powered]] [[FeatheredFiend Hell Crow]], and [=UFOs=], all while [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]] and FanFic portray liberal SchizoTech, especially at the hands of the {{kappa}} and {{tengu}}, or whenever "[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve technology becomes mythical]]" enough for it [[TheMagicGoesAway to disappear into Gensokyo]]. [[GoodAllAlong While they may fight for no reason at first,]] [[MonsterOfTheWeek the various monsters or spacemen]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship make up]], [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu and drink tea with all the other freaks afterwards]].

* The tie-in comics for ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' go into some detail about what it's like to live in a town where all the inhabitants are cartoon characters. It's... chaotic, verging on a WorldGoneMad (the first issue involves a safe falling from nowhere, a pair of DancingPants that talks like a gangster, and evil flying pizzas that are ultimately defeated by a pack of dogs).

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* The premise of ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}''. Every single character from history and fiction that the author [[PublicDomainCharacter won't be sued for using]] is fair game as a character.

* Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' is this, especially if you read the text chapters and not just the comics. Not surprising, since the main premise of the books is that all written fiction is true.

* ''FanFic/Flashpoint2AdventSolaris'', this is basically how all of the DC characters from the DCAMU react to seeing the anthro Sonic characters for the first time, and it's questionable if they ever truly get used to it or not.

* Collectible trading card game TabletopGame/{{Magic The Gathering}} lives this trope. The game universe encompasses mermaids, vampires, dragons, goblins, wizards, zombies, golems, killer robots, trans-dimensional Eldritch horrors, and several special monster types specific to the game universe besides. A typical game in Commander format might see you getting attacked by all of the above in one charge.

* ''Videogame/{{Touhou}}'': in the windows games: [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Vampires]], [[CuteGhostGirl Ghosts and]] [[RealityWarper a reality warper]], MagiTek [[HumanAliens moon people and]] [[LittleBitBeastly bunny girls]], [[PalsWithJesus rival Goddesses]] [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly set up shop down the street]], [[ApocalypseHow World domination/destruction by]] [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear-powered]] [[FeatheredFiend Hell Crow]], and [=UFOs=], all while [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental materials]] and FanFic portray liberal SchizoTech, especially at the hands of the {{kappa}} and {{tengu}}, or whenever "[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve technology becomes mythical]]" enough for it [[TheMagicGoesAway to disappear into Gensokyo]]. [[GoodAllAlong While they may fight for no reason at first,]] [[MonsterOfTheWeek the various monsters or spacemen]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship make up]], [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu and drink tea with all the other freaks afterwards]].

* [[VideoGame/GearsOfWar Planet Sera]] is relatively normal on the surface. Sure, they've got some pretty advanced tech such as [[DoAnythingRobot Do-Anything Robots]] and {{Kill Sat}}s even though all their buildings look pretty old-fashioned, but that's just because most of the money gets pumped into the military. When you go underground however, you start finding the weird shit, like an entire race of BeePeople, a '''GIANT WORM!''', and a miracle fuel [[spoiler:that is actually a parasitic organism]].

** 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.)

* ''WebComic/AxeCop'' is pretty much a league of its own when it comes to this trope. Being conceived 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.

* VideoGame/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.

* The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games are almost certainly set on World Of Weirdness. Oh sure, it looks like ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'' 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]].]]

* ''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,]] [[EnergyWeapon 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...]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' series. In any given game you can expect to find some combination of psychic powers, [=UFOs=], cybernetic and/or tentacled aliens, cultists/fanatics, EverythingTryingToKillYou, hippies, jazz clubs, improbable animals and plants (obviously trying to kill you), ancient civilizations, alien abductions, alternate realities, MushroomSamba, abandoned children, teleportation, talking monkeys, breaking the fourth wall, levitation, prophecy, time travel, a quest for music, bottle rockets, clueless adults, a needlessly detailed system of food and condiments, and zombies. Maybe your quest starts because a bee hitched a ride to your time on a meteorite just to share a prophecy with you, maybe it starts because a lamp and a doll come to life and try killing your sister and your dad thinks your grandfather's abduction by aliens is probably involved. It's that kind of game.

* Webcomic/AntiBunny: Magic exists. A superhero battled an army of evil robots, and ordinary life goes on. Pooky writes for a Weekly World News type rag, and every bit of it is true. That's not even getting into what goes on in haunted junction.
* Webcomic/TemplarArizona is set in a largely realistic but subtly different world, where there are, among other things, fast-food restaurants serving fried guinea pig, and one of the largest immigrant factions of the eponymous city is composed of people who are both ethnically and culturally ''Ancient Egyptian''. There's also a huge black man named Scipio who is a professional bodyguard and who dresses pretty much like a Roman gladiator, and no one who meets him finds anything even slightly remarkable about this.

--> '''Torg''': With my secretary encased in a cocoon, I can't get a lot done.
--> '''Riff''': And I don't have to worry about saving the world from an alien invasion for now.
--> '''Zoë''': And with the prophesy fulfilled, the comets won't destroy the Earth for weeks.
--> '''Torg, Riff, and Zoë''': IT'S SUMMER VACATION TIME!
--> '''Torg and Riff''': ''...Comets?''
--> '''Zoë''': School is out and the office is closed, but that just sounded too dull compared to you guys. You really know how to make a girl sound boring.
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': features a downplayed version of this combined with more advanced technology. The result is [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1557 flying]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1594 Roomba]] [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1643 babies]]. Other things include a character being born, and raised pretty much by robots, on a space station. Also, arbitrary action movie scenes [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=696 just]] [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=697 happen]].
* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': Whether it's simply a fact of life [[AllGhoulsSchool at Charybdis Heights]], or if it's limited to Nina and her friends, one thing is clear: [[WeirdnessMagnet weird things happen. A lot.]]

*** [[spoiler: It's later revealed that the reason the world is so strange is because of a leaking dimensional rift; it's right between the Radical Lands and another [[RealLife similar yet exceptionally more boring dimension]].]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' (and presumably its SpiritualSuccessor ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'') take place in a world where mad science in particular is pretty rampant. The existence of demons, Hell, and ghosts is confirmed, and aliens have been mentioned in throwaway. Human magic, as well as Earthly supernatural creatures, hasn't been shown yet, but mad science can replicate those pretty well (a newly-mad mad scientist has an almost magical field of entropic chaos around them, and ''Skin Horse'' feature [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent science-created werewolves]] complete with infectiousness and regeneration) in one storyline.

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

---->[[http://forums.megatokyo.com/index.php?showtopic=1736148&view=findpost&p=5037822 Did it ever occur to you guys that this plethora of widely varying perceptions is exactly the device I am applying in MT for a specific effect?]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Nukees}}'' is careful to paint its protagonist's encounters with the Egyptian Gods as delusions (or at least plausibly deniable) ... but the killer AI/giant robot ant/velociraptor is ''perfectly normal''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Khatru}}'' has MadScience, FunctionalMagic, super-powered [[PlayingWithFire college]] [[HealingFactor students]], and more.

* [[UnluckyEverydude Sam]] in ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'' is often bewildered by strangeness, and seems to be a [[WeirdnessMagnet magnet]] for it. 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 ''Webcomic/{{The-FAN}}'', many supernatural concepts are mentioned in casual conversation. People with psychic powers or magical abilities (the latter 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 a master of disguises would be.
* ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'': the central cast consists of a woman who can see ghosts, a cyborg federal agent, the ghost of Creator/BenjaminFranklin, and a genetically engineered neocon koala supergenius. Then things get a little weird.

* ''Webcomic/VoodooWalrus'' has a long history of [[http://voodoo-walrus.com/?p=43 baby powered dommcano based publishing houses]], [[http://voodoo-walrus.com/?p=699 sentient cacti instigating catsplosions]], and [[http://voodoo-walrus.com/?p=1729 day trips to future dystopias.]]

* The world shared by Webcomic/AdventureDennis and Webcomic/HoverHead qualifies, given that it includes super heroes, demons, ghosts, yetis, living snowmen, aliens, wizards, and more.
* {{Justified}} in ''Webcomic/{{minus}}'', where everything imaginable exists, because the main character is [[TheOmnipotent omnipotent]].
* ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' seems to have a world that's MOSTLY just normal, boring human stuff, with handfuls of BeastFolk mixed in... it's just that every [[GovernmentConspiracy weird, government experiment]] to clone {{ADHD}}-ridden GeniusDitz squirrel-girls, every AlienInvasion, every [[Film/TheyLive 80's sci-fi plot come true]], all wind up somehow involving a certain down-on-his-luck graphic designer and his housemates. Oh, and apparently, birds can talk and carry grudges, though whether this reduces their airspeed velocity remains unexplored.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': A battleship AI in charge of a ship that may have haunted plumbing. A former bounty hunter that can now 'excrete' shaped charges.[[note]]"You trust me not to drop my pants." "I ''used'' to..."[[/note]] A 'fast-food' worker charge with running a think tank to save the galaxy. And when a group of mercenaries find out just who's controlling an exo-galactic worldship...
-->"Don't tell me Captain Tagon saved the dinosaurs."
-->"... No. But I wouldn't put it past him."

This trope was originally named "Planet Eris" after 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 [[AppleOfDiscord 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.

* ''Pandemonium!: Adventures in Tabloid World'' is a comedy RPG which takes place in a world where all the stuff you read in "weird but true" tabloids like the ''Weekly World News'' (reincarnation, Fortean phenomena, psychic powers, aliens, and so on) really is true.

* Steve Jackson Games' ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Illuminati University'' gives every appearance of being created specifically to be the setting for pretty much any webcomic you care to name. The Phil Foglio art doesn't hurt that at all...
** ''GURPS [[TheIlluminati Illuminati]]'' also has this quality, but less light-hearted.

* ''Webcomic/VoodooWalrus'' has a long history of [[http://voodoo-walrus.com/?p=43 baby powered dommcano based publishing houses]], [[http://voodoo-walrus.com/?p=699 sentient cacti instigating catsplosions]], and [[http://voodoo-walrus.com/?p=1729 day trips to future dystopias]].

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': A battleship AI in charge of a ship that may have haunted plumbing. A former bounty hunter that can now 'excrete' shaped charges[[note]]"You trust me not to drop my pants." "I ''used'' to..."[[/note]]. A 'fast-food' worker charge with running a think tank to save the galaxy. And when a group of mercenaries find out just who's controlling an exo-galactic worldship...

* ''Videogame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' takes place within 'The Nexus', a conflux of time and space where heroes and worlds clash[[labelnote:*]]And yes, ''several'' characters [[LampshadeHanging comment]] on how [[SelfDeprecation creatively underwhelming 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.

[[caption-width-right:283:And the bidding war for that script was [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys bananas]]!]]