History TrappedInAnotherWorld / ComicBooks

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* This was ComicBook/AdamStrange's origin in Creator/DCComics. An archeologist who accidentally discovered an alien transport system, Adam became the number one hero of the planet Rann. His problem was that the Zeta beams which teleport him are only temporary and he has started a family on Rann. He has since been able to stay there permanently, but on occasion he finds himself on Earth and this trope applies there.
* ''ComicBook/{{Birthright}}'' deconstructs this premise with the typical teenager from Earth thrown into a fantasy land ruled by the BigBad whom he must defeat. And to do that, he is [[TrainingFromHell put through the grinder]], forced to become a ChildSoldier and [[HarmfulToMinors see things first hand]] what [[WarIsHell no one else should see]]. The end result? [[spoiler:He pulls a FaceHeelTurn, joins the BigBad because he offered to return him home in exchange of becoming his enforcer and leaves the fantasy world to rot]].
* [[Creator/GoldKeyComics Whitman Comics]] produced the official ComicBookAdaptation of the film ''Film/TheBlackHole'' and actually continued the series for a few more issues past the end of the film's story, depicting the new universe the heroes wind up in after passing through [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the weirdness inside the black hole.]] It contains a parallel counterpart of Reinhardt, Maximilian, and the ''Cygnus.'' Reinhardt is a GalacticConqueror there, persecuting a planet inhabited by HumanAliens and alien wildlife that happens to look like [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs.]] It's an odd little comic.
* ''ComicBook/{{DIE}}'': In 1991, a group of teenagers is sucked into the world of a new RPG that one of them created. It takes two years for them to learn that all they need to do to leave is unanimously agree to do so -- unfortunately, as they do so, one of them is grabbed by [[BigBad the Grandmaster]] and left behind, eventually [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing the Grandmaster and taking his place]]. 25 years after the others returned home, he drags them back into the game and forces them to play again, refusing to agree to leave unless they win. [[spoiler: Eventually he's killed, but by this point two of the others have decided to stay for their own reasons, leaving the other three trapped by default.]]
* Happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, his nephews and Uncle Scrooge in ''ComicBook/{{Dragonlords}}''.
* This is the raison d'être for the Marvel comic series ''[[ComicBook/{{Exiles}} The Exiles]]''. Superpowered beings lost from their dimension, world hop until they get to go home.
* The tag line of the late Steve Gerber's [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel comic]] ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'' was "Trapped in a world he never made!" A native of a TalkingAnimal world of anthropomorphic ducks, Howard fell through a portal and wound up in AnotherDimension--namely, the Franchise/MarvelUniverse version of Cleveland, Ohio.
* In ''ComicBook/IHateFairyland'', Gertrude has been stuck in Fairyland for 27 years, and hasn't aged in all that time. To say she's not happy about it would be an {{Understatement}}.
* The premise of the ''ComicBook/{{Jinty}}'' story "Worlds Apart" -- six schoolgirls find themselves in a series of strange worlds governed by their main characteristics. There's ''one'' way out, but it's not a pleasant one...the creator of that particular world has to die.
* Creator/CrossGen's ''Negation'' featured a RagtagBunchOfMisfits trapped in an alternate universe that did not obey the laws of physics. At least one character started out convinced that it was AllJustADream.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** ComicBook/PowerGirl was the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} of Earth-2, but, after the first Crisis, Earth-2 didn't exist anymore, and Kara was trapped into the single surviving universe.
** In ''ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone'', a dimensional vortex throws Supergirl, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} and a friend of theirs into a parallel dimension, leaving them with no apparent way to return.
* ''ComicBook/ResidentAlien'' features an alien protagonist stranded on Earth with little chance of ever returning to his home planet.
* Sonic is trapped in the Special Zone for about fifteen issues in ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic.''
* In ''ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass'', Cliffjumper finds himself trapped in the titular universe after traveling through a mysterious portal.
* ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'' stars [[PunnyName Gwen Poole]], a young Marvel Comics fangirl from what is either ''our'' reality or a world very similar to it, who through a NoodleIncident that she doesn't like to talk about [[spoiler:and is apparently subject to numerous {{Cosmic Retcon}}s]] winds up on Earth-616, Marvel's "prime" universe. Using her encyclopedic knowledge of the franchise, she sets out to become a mercenary superhero in the hopes that it'll keep her from getting unceremoniously killed off.
* Mike Grell's DCU comic ''Comicbook/TheWarlord'', a deliberate homage to ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'' (in setting) and ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' (in tone).
* The plot of ''King Grimlock'' sees [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Grimlock of the Dinobots]] transported to a fantasy world where a group of humans call on his help. Grimlock, being Grimlock, isn't exactly thrilled about it.

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* ''{{ComicBook/Birthright}}'' deconstructs this premise with the typical teenager from Earth thrown into a fantasy land ruled by the BigBad whom he must defeat. And to do that, he is [[TrainingFromHell put through the grinder]], forced to become a ChildSoldier and [[HarmfulToMinors see things first hand]] what [[WarIsHell no one else should see]]. The end result? [[spoiler:He pulls a FaceHeelTurn, joins the BigBad because he offered to return him home in exchange of becoming his enforcer and leaves the fantasy world to rot]].

* ''ComicBook/PowerGirl''. She was the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} of Earth-2, but, after the first Crisis, Earth-2 didn't exist anymore, and Kara was trapped into the single surviving universe.

* The plot of ''King Grimlock'' sees [[/Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Grimlock of the Dinobots]] transported to a fantasy world where a group of humans call on his help. Grimlock, being Grimlock, isn't exactly thrilled about it.

* Happens to DonaldDuck, his nephews and Uncle Scrooge in ''ComicBook/{{Dragonlords}}''.

* The tag line of the late Steve Gerber's [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel comic]] ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'' was "Trapped in a world he never made!" A native of a TalkingAnimal world of anthropomorphic ducks, Howard fell through a portal and wound up in AnotherDimension--namely, the Franchise/MarvelUniverse version of Cleveland, Ohio.
* Creator/CrossGen's ''Negation'' featured a RagtagBunchOfMisfits trapped in an alternate universe that did not obey the laws of physics. At least one character started out convinced that it was AllJustADream.
* This is the raison d'être for the Marvel comic series ''[[ComicBook/{{Exiles}} The Exiles]]''. Superpowered beings lost from their dimension, world hop until they get to go home.

* ''ComicBook/ResidentAlien'' features an alien protagonist stranded on Earth with little chance of ever returning to his home planet.
* Mike Grell's DCU comic ''Comicbook/TheWarlord'', a deliberate homage to ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'' (in setting) and ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' (in tone).

* Sonic is trapped in the Special Zone for about fifteen issues in ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic.''
* The premise of the ''ComicBook/{{Jinty}}'' story "Worlds Apart" -- six schoolgirls find themselves in a series of strange worlds governed by their main characteristics. There's ''one'' way out, but it's not a pleasant one...the creator of that particular world has to die.
* ''ComicBook/PowerGirl''. She was the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} of Earth-2, but, after the first Crisis, Earth-2 didn't exist anymore, and Kara was trapped into the single surviving universe.
* ''{{ComicBook/Birthright}}'' deconstructs this premise with the typical teenager from Earth thrown into a fantasy land ruled by the BigBad whom he must defeat. And to do that, he is [[TrainingFromHell put through the grinder]], forced to become a ChildSoldier and [[HarmfulToMinors see things first hand]] what [[WarIsHell no one else should see]]. The end result? [[spoiler:He pulls a FaceHeelTurn, joins the BigBad because he offered to return him home in exchange of becoming his enforcer and leaves the fantasy world to rot]].

* [[Creator/GoldKeyComics Whitman Comics]] produced the official ComicBookAdaptation of the film ''Film/TheBlackHole'' and actually continued the series for a few more issues past the end of the film's story, depicting the new universe the heroes wind up in after passing through [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the weirdness inside the black hole.]] It contains a parallel counterpart of Reinhardt, Maximilian, and the ''Cygnus.'' Reinhardt is a GalacticConqueror there, persecuting a planet inhabited by HumanAliens and alien wildlife that happens to look like [[EverythingIsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs.]] It's an odd little comic.
* ''ComicBook/{{DIE}}'': In 1991, a group of teenagers is sucked into the world of a new RPG that one of them created. It takes two years for them to learn that all they need to do to leave is unanimously agree to do so -- unfortunately, as they do so, one of them is grabbed by [[BigBad the Grandmaster]] and left behind, eventually [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing the Grandmaster and taking his place]]. 25 years after the others returned home, he drags them back into the game and forces them to play again, refusing to agree to leave unless they win. [[spoiler: Eventually he's killed, but by this point two of the others have decided to stay for their own reasons, leaving the other three trapped by default.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{DIE}}'': In 1991, a group of teenagers in sucked into the world of a new RPG that one of them created. It takes two years for them to learn that all they need to do to leave is unanimously agree to do so -- unfortunately, as they do so, one of them is grabbed by [[BigBad the Grandmaster]] and left behind, eventually [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killing the Grandmaster and taking his place]]. 25 years after the others returned home, he drags them back into the game and forces them to play again, refusing to agree to leave unless they win. [[spoiler: Eventually he's killed, but by this point two of the others have decided to stay for their own reasons, leaving the other three trapped by default.]]