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KaiYves Since: Jul, 2010
2025-05-01 19:17:45

This is usually a feature of a Big Labyrinthine Building or Building of Adventure with Oh Look, More Rooms!, yes, but I’m talking about the specific case of such a building containing different simulated biomes or environment.

FerrousFaucet Since: Feb, 2014
2025-05-01 20:19:37

I've seen this used in Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Other M. The closest tropes I've found are Patchwork Map (which isn't specific to either indoor or artificially maintained biomes) and Planet Spaceship (which is just a spaceship the size of a planet and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with having many different biomes as you described).

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tropematter Since: Aug, 2020
2025-05-03 13:49:32

An example which really needs a trope like this is The Crystal Maze, with its four zones (Aztec, Futuristic, Medieval, Industrial), and this was lampshaded by presenter Ed Tudor-Pole who said things like "by a process of trignification, we shall travel from the fifteenth century to the twenty-fourth century".

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