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-->'''Farnsworth:''' [[FearfulSymmetry Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything!]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Bye Bye Nerdy" Bloo THINKS he's entered an alternate reality believing it to be the only explanation for [[AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome Mac becoming cooler than him.]]
-->'''Bloo:''' Wait a minute, ''I'' know what's happened! Somehow I've accidentally entered a bizarro backward world. Quick! Which way is up!?
-->'''Eduardo:''' I don't know.
-->'''Bloo:''' And yet Eduardo remains completely unchanged... Interesting.

* In Episode 658 of ''[[WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld Stampy's Lovely World]]'', "Mirror World", Stampy is sent to an alternate version of his Lovely World which, geographically, is a LevelInReverse to his home world. [[spoiler:It also replaces the Love Garden with the 'Potato Garden', exchanges the lava in the mob trap/grinder with water, gives the wolf pack different names, and is complete with alternate Helpers -- Gillian Capybara, Peggy Reindeer and Dizzy Narwhal.]]

** The Wishverse is not a Bizarro world, despite Cordelia's remark "I wish[ed] us into Bizarro Land" and a musical track being named "Bizarro Sunnydale", but a combination of ForWantOfANail and a variation of ItsAWonderfulPlot (Cordy wished somebody ''else'' had never come to Sunnydale).

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/567bf6e68730c Bizarro World]], which is explicitly based on the originator for this trope. It's an artificial planetoid made entirely out of antimatter that serves as a tourist destination for people to act like superheroes or evil versions of superheroes. The local animals and plants are also artificial, and have been designed with complementary colours and unusual shapes to add to the theme. Because of the antimatter composition, tourists need to switch to antimatter bodies for the duration of their visit (they used to be able to visit in their original bodies by wearing special suits, but this was mostly forbidden after a serious matter-antimatter explosion).

* ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGateLies'': Harry refers to the ''LightNovel/HighschoolDXD'' universe as this, and it fits the profile. In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', devils and angels (both regular and Fallen) are pillars of creation, have nigh-infinite power, can only be created by god, and are almost as hard to kill. Magic functions on willpower and emotion. And the wizard never gets the girls. In ''LightNovel/HighschoolDxD'', most devils aren't much stronger than humans, they can reproduce normally or turn humans into devils, and can be killed almost as easily. And magic is performed with complex math.

* A segment from ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' featured Mickey and Minnie Mouse ending up in Topsy-Turvy Town, where everything was backwards. People wear pants and shirts on the opposite side of their bodies, mice chase cats, and people that buy things keep the money. Mickey is arrested for cleaning someone's clothes while Minnie was for insisted on giving her money to a clothes merchant. It ends with them going to jail [[spoiler: where everything is pleasant.]]

* WesternAnimation/BettyBoop and Bimbo once visited the titular "Crazy Town" where everyone does everthing backwards; fish fly while birds swim, banana peels are eaten, cutting your hair with scissors causes it to grow back, etc.

[[caption-width-right:350:It am awful place to visit, but me love to live here.]]

* ''WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd'': He presents himself as the exact inverse of WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd; not only does he review retro games positively, but he drinks red wine instead of beer (at one point getting confused when someone replaced his wineglass with a beer bottle).

-->-- '''Tom Servo''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' ''(Film/{{Laserblast}})''

* In Episode 658 of ''[[WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld Stampy's Lovely World]]'', "Mirror World", Stampy is sent to an alternate version of his Lovely World which, geographically, is a LevelInReverse to his home world. [[spoiler:It also replaces the Love Garden with the "Potato Garden", exchanges the lava in the mob trap/grinder with water, gives the wolf pack different names, and is complete with alternate Helpers -- Gillian Capybara, Peggy Reindeer and Dizzy Narwhal.]]

* ''Manga/FairyTail'' has the Edolas arc, and [[AuthorAppeal it's apparent the mangaka likes this trope]]. Among other things, [[FieryRedhead Natsu]] is an ExtremeDoormat, [[TheChick Lucy]] is a {{Delinquent}} {{Tsundere}}, [[WalkingShirtlessScene Gray]] wears multiple layers of clothing and fawns over Juvia, and [[KnightInShiningArmor Erza]] is a villain. It's also revealed that [[spoiler: Mystogan is actually that universe's counterpart to Jellal, who came over to the regular universe to stop his world from harvesting magic power that doesn't belong to it.]]

* In ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'', similar to the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesXY Kalos]] MirrorUniverse episode a two-parter concerns a reality where Ash is a meek ShrinkingViolet while his friends are the HotBlooded ones, and the [[TerribleTrio Team Rocket Trio]] is competent. The key difference here is while in the MirrorUniverse the Team Rocket Trio were competent ''good'' guys, here they're even more competent bad guys to the point that they threaten the entire multiverse and force both sets of kids to SaveBothWorlds.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Termina is this to Hyrule in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. While Hyrule is the home of the Triforce and watched over by 3 goddesses, Termina is watched over by 4 male giants.
** And more fittingly, many of the inhabitants are the counterparts of characters from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', but with radically different names, occupations and/or personalities. The stuck-up princess is in a rock band, the same girl at two different ages is now a pair of sisters, etc.

** From the same game, [[WackyLand Magicant]].

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' volume ''A Game of You'', the character Wanda was supposed to be a (DC Comics) Bizarro fan (significant since she is a trans woman and had to deal with feeling very out of place growing up in the Bible Belt). However, Gaiman wasn't allowed to use the Bizarro name[[note]]it is left unstated whether the problem was with making DC Bizarro comics a part of the Sandman universe or if it was with a trans character liking the comics[[/note]], and instead had to invent an ersatz "Weirdzo" comic series for Wanda to like. This sadly interferes somewhat with her characterization as readers would have been more able to connect and sympathize with a Bizarro-reading Wanda.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Bizarro Jerry" (1996) posits Elaine as the focal point between two universes: Jerry, George, and Kramer being their juvenile, petty, and doofy (respectively) selves are contrasted with Kevin, Gene, and Feldman who are mature, considerate, and clever. The episode goes to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bizarro_Jerry#Bizarro_Counterparts great lengths]] to provide all the show's constants with bizarro versions. Some stuff Wiki/TheOtherWiki misses:

* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', a hole in the wall of Stewie's room leads to "Bizarro Family Guy". The only apparent differences are that Bizarro Peter reads and that Bizarro Stewie, his room and all his possessions are [[WresthedInFlames constantly on fire]] without being harmed.

** At the Bizarro Coffee Shop (i.e. Reggie's), the Bizarro Gang sits in a booth by the window, which the normal gang does but rarely (and often to their consternation).
** Gene, in addition to his polite Bizarro George personality, is always over-dressed. A sharp contrast to his rival, who would "drape [himself] in velvet [jumpsuits] if it were socially acceptable" (and in fact, eventually does). He's scrupulously moral to the point where his reaction to finding a payphone that has free long-distance is to call the phone company to report the problem.

** Feldman knocks on the door to Kevin's apartment, rather than barging in as Kramer would, and actually brings Kevin groceries.

** Let us not forget Bizarro Newman (named Fargas). He and Bizarro Jerry are good friends, and Fargas is a [=FedEx=] delivery man.
** The last scene has the three hugging each other and Bizarro Jerry saying, "Me so happy. Me want to cry," Just as Bizarro in the comics would say.

* ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGateLies'': Harry refers to the ''LightNovel/HighschoolDxD'' universe as this, and it fits the profile. In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', devils and angels (both regular and Fallen) are pillars of creation, have nigh-infinite power, can only be created by god, and are almost as hard to kill. Magic functions on willpower and emotion. And the wizard never gets the girls. In ''LightNovel/HighschoolDxD'', most devils aren't much stronger than humans, they can reproduce normally or turn humans into devils, and can be killed almost as easily. And magic is performed with complex math.

** It's interesting to note that Mira is basically the same kind and sweet person in both universes, except that regular Mira, used to be kind of a jerk, and went through a serious personality shift after the death of her younger sister which didn't happen to Edolas Mira [[spoiler: except it did, and the regular universe version of her sister appeared in Edolas in her place.]]
** Later in a filler we see the regular universe versions of some of thus far Edolas only characters. Notably Coco is alot meaner in Earth-land (but still shown to care deep down), Byro is a good 30ish years younger, and Hughes is female.

** The Wishverse is not a Bizarro world, despite Cordelia's remark "I wish us all to Bizarro World", but a combination of ForWantOfANail and a variation of ItsAWonderfulPlot (Cordy wished somebody ''else'' had never come to Sunnydale).

* Moonside in ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', where everything is black with neon outlines and people say things like "Hey! Parking meters! And you're walking around! Ha ha ha... that's so funny!" and "Mani Mani is always Mani Mani at Mani Mani with all Mani Mani Mani". Furthermore, "Yes" and "No" choices are switched (for, to name a few examples, when shopkeepers ask if you want to buy anything, or the innkeeper asks if you want to spend the night).