Trapped In Another World / Film

• Adventures in Dinosaur City, a group of three kids are transported to the titular city.
• TRON: In an attempt to recover evidence that proves Corrupt Corporate Executive / Cracker Ed Dillinger stole his promotion-worthy ideas for video games, Playful Hacker Kevin Flynn ends up physically digitized into Cyberspace by the Deus Est Machina Master Control Program.
  • This has become the franchise staple, as no protagonist gets digitized voluntarily. In Tron 2.0 Jet Bradley gets digitized by Benevolent A.I. Ma3a in a desperate act of self-preservation. Later, The F-Con thugs forcibly shoot Alan in there, too. The rival company exploit and deconstruct the trope by planning to upload an army of mercenaries into that world to steal and control everything from weapons systems and state secrets to the global finance markets and media.

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  • In TRON: Legacy Sam learns the hard way that you shouldn't press "yes" at every pop-up dialog on a somebody else's system. He looks at the last command given to the computer before him (i.e. Flynn's last command) and then tells the computer to run it again. Then again, he apparently did inherit his old man's copious forethought...
• Enchanted: Characters from an animated film appear in live-action New York City.
• The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy from Kansas gets trapped in Oz after being swept away by a tornado. Subverted as it ends up being All Just a Dream, unlike the book. See the Literature section for the book.
• The Chronicles of Narnia: See Literature section.
• The Neverending Story Downplayed in that Bastian isn't physically trapped there, but reading the book and identifying with Atraeu's adventures builds a Psychic Link of sorts.

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• In Cool World, both Frank and Jack are transported to the titular world.
• In the sci-fi thriller Coherence, once characters pass the dark area they are randomly transported into Alternate Timelines with little hope of returning to their homeworld.
• In Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the characters are sucked into the Jumanji world once they start the game. Averted with the original movie, however - that only happened if the player landed on a certain square.
• At the end of Avengers Grimm, the heroes are trapped on Earth.
• Ant-Man: Dr. Hank Pym warns Scott Lang not to mess with the regulator on his suit that grants him his Sizeshifter abilities. If the regulator is turned off, the wearer will shrink down to a quantum level, forever trapped in the Acid-Trip Dimension between molecules. How does Hank know this? It’s how his wife, a fellow size-changing hero, disappeared, and the sequel revolves around Scott working with the Pym family to bring her back.
  • In The Stinger for the sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scott finds himself in this predicament. Now equipped with a better understanding of the realm, Scott goes subatomic while the Pyms stay behind as Mission Control. However, seconds before they can bring him back to normal, they are all killed by Thanos, due to the events of Avengers: Infinity War.

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• Planet of the Apes (1968), with the famous twist that it's actually our world after all, just many centuries in the future. Its sequel, Beneath The Planet Of The Earth, follows in the same vein, while the third movie, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, inverts this by taking two of the chimpanzee characters from the scifi world of the previous films and pulling them back in time to the 20th Century.
• In the beginning of Warriors of Virtue, Ryan is thrown into the world of Tao.

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