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Baby Planet
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An inhabitable planet that is far smaller than astronomically possible, often less than a few functional miles in diameter. In Real Life, a body this small would be called an asteroid or be a natural satellite orbiting a planet; a body needs to be hundreds of kilometers across to be rounded under its own gravity, and even larger to support an atmosphere. But in fiction, these often sport an entire ecosystem awkwardly compressed into the minute available space. Although Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, they usually aren't this far off the mark on accident; this trope usually comes about either because of limitations in technology's ability to represent planets in a realistic scale or just for the sake of aesthetic. Perhaps, in enough stories featuring these planetoids, they hold gravity at such smaller sizes because A Wizard Did It. Often, this is used for purely aesthetic reasons, particularly on cover art for games and CDs. Just as often it's Art Major Physics. In photography, this effect is often created with very-wide angle (or fisheye) lenses. Bonus points if it's unusually shaped too. Related to Floating Continent and Space Compression. Not to be confused with LittleBigPlanet, It's a Small World, After All or Planetville. |
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The cover of Animal Crossing: Wild World, and in addition, in-game the ground curves downward into the distance. | |
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Populous: The Beginning: each level of the game takes place in a different small planet, which all form part of a small solar system. Though some of them seem to actually be moons, as they are orbiting around another of the planets (which isn't significantly bigger than them). | |
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Awkward Zombie: One strip shows why it would suck to live on one of these. When your planet is the size of a cottage and your food supplies consist of a single coconut, it's really easy for your ecosystem to be wrecked by a passing plumber deciding to use your planet's entire food supply as ammunition. | |
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Looney Tunes: In "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century", Planet X gets reduced down to a rock that's barely large enough for Dodgers and Marvin the Martian to both stand on. Nonetheless, it still has air and some weird kind of gravity that allows someone to fall off. | |
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The Clangers' The Clanger Planet. It has vaguely moonlike craters, and in one episode a Lunar Module lands and an astronaut plants a flag (which the Clangers adopt as a tablecloth,) but it's referred to by the narrator as a "star" and exists among other similar worldlets. But since the Clangers occasionally leave it for the space above without any breathing problems, it runs strictly on Cartoon Physics. | |
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"Asteroid B-612" from Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince may be the Trope Codifier, if not the Trope Maker. It's house-sized, which makes it bigger than most neighboring planets. And he keeps encountering new stuff on it every day, including baobab trees. | |
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The Transformers: Generation 1 portrayal of Cybertron. Curvature could often be seen, and buildings could be seen from space. When Cybertron was moved into Earth's orbit, it was shown to be smaller than the moon - close enough for a plane-bot to fly to in under a minute, and yet the entire planet could be easily seen whenever it was in frame. Asteroid-sized is generous, and yet it's shown to have gravity comparable to Earth. | |
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Mongo's moons in Flash Gordon. The ones we see aren't round, Arboria is bowl-shaped with everything on "top" of it and the Hawk Men live in a flying fortress. | |
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One of your party members in Anachronox is an entire miniaturized planet, Democratus. This is however not it's natural state, when first encountered it is normal size and also has to return to normal size in an emergency in a late section of the plot, scattering the rest of the party across the surface and sending them on short solo adventures. | |
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Rick and Morty: In the season 2 finale, the family try to avoid being captured by the Galactic Federation by hiding on Dwarf Terrace 9. It is humanly inhabitable, but its circumference is about the size of a normal neighborhood. Morty can throw a frisbee across the surface and catch it from the other side with some practice. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-756 is this trope up to eleven, with an entire solar system fitting inside a room. And there's life on a couple of the planets. No-one's allowed to stick glow-in-the-dark stars to the walls. | |
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Germination Both the campaign and endless mode take place on a planet the size of a large yard. | |
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Discworld: In The Light Fantastic, the great world turtle Great A'Tuin ushers eight eggs into the world, each hatching to reveal a perfectly formed baby turtle, each supporting on its back a group of elephant calves which on their back support a proto-Discworld. These then swim from the shores of harsh reality back into the depths of the improbable part of the universe that supports such things. | |
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In Nedroid, Reginald once demonstrated how small the planet Mercury was by holding his hand up, reaching out with his other, and giving himself a high five. He later ate part of Pluto. | |
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The Dutch comic Storm has this as a common sight in the solar system the later albums are set in. | |
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Exaggerated in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth with the Tiny Planet item, which consists of a baseball-sized planetoid embedded in Isaac's head. It even has its own gravitational field, making every tear Isaac shoots orbit him. | |
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In "Too High, Too Far, Too Soon", the Bravest Warriors come across a planet that is both this and has a case of Year Inside, Hour Outside. | |
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Brackenwood itself is not as small as many examples — you can't see its curvature from the surface, at least — but still small enough for Bitey to circumnavigate it in a few minutes of running and for individual mountains to visibly stick out from orbit; far smaller than should be able to support a vast, pole-to-pole forest. | |
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Homestuck: Prospit and Derse. If the size of the towers on their respective moons is any indication, they are smaller than a Death Star, though still quite big. This ultimately applies to almost every planet in the Incipisphere; the players' Lands are likely less than a hundred kilometers in diameter, small enough that at a fairly distant view the players' homes are still visible, giant tower status notwithstanding. Skaia and The Battlefield within it are large but still fairly small for a planet. | |
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In Goodnight Punpun, Punpun dreams up a small meteor that fits the bill, which he names Punpunia. It's really only big enough for his house, family, and a few stray animals. | |
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Several episodes of The Twilight Zone TOS had asteroids with normal Earth gravity and a breathable atmosphere. Lampshaded in "Elegy". The astronauts specifically mention that an asteroid shouldn't have Earth gravity and atmosphere. Subverted in "I Shot an Arrow into the Air". Some shipwrecked astronauts think they're on such an asteroid: they're actually on Earth! |
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In Sonic Adventure 2, Rouge has a large stage called Mad Space, which features tiny planetoids similar to those later seen in the Super Mario Galaxy series. They pull Rouge into their gravitational field if she jumps or glides too close. One of them is cylindrical in shape. Possibly justified, since the fact that they're near the space colony ARK suggests they may be artificial. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Ego the Living Planet in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is the size of Earth's moon with Earthlike air and gravity. Thor: Love and Thunder: The planet where the gang fight Gorr in the Shadow Realm is one of the larger examples, but you can still tell that it's spherical when they're on it. Mjölnir and the Thunderbolt are shown zipping around the whole planet multiple times. |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge comic "Island in the Sky" features a couple of asteroids that are somehow capable of supporting life. They also orbit each other closely enough to share an atmosphere. | |
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The Blue Sphere Special Stages of Sonic 3 & Knuckles take place on small, checkerboarded planetoids (they're actually donut-shaped, but visually spherical). | |
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Some planets in Bounty Hamster are small enough that a reasonably fast ground vehicle can generally go around one in about ten seconds. | |
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In the UK, British Gas have been running a series of rather fun adverts based on the idea that "your home is your world"; the person whose boiler is up the plonk lives on a tiny planet that is their house, drive, and garden!! And their cars and vans take them to other planets and some planets have theme parks... sounds like a cross between The Sims and Super Mario Galaxy in advert form. Some of them are gathered here. | |
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Molag spends most of Firebringer walking in a straight line, trying to reach the edge of the world. By the end of the play (which doesn't seem to be more than a few days or weeks), she's gone all the way around the world and come back to the tribe. | |
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Mildian in EDENS ZERO is a very tiny planet with a noticeable curvature from ground level, enough to make the main characters confident that the first building they come across on the planet is probably the only one. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Galaxy not only has baby planets; it has baby galaxies. As in, galaxies that're not much bigger than a large paddock. And with several galaxies, you can look off into the distance and see a single planet bigger than the entire galaxy. And don't forget the Lumas, who transform into these miniature planets and galaxies when they mature, making them literally baby planets. In Yoshi's Island, you fight Raphael the Raven on one of these. To be clear, it is the world's moon. |
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Lexx: Season 2 has something like this, a small planetoid with an artificial atmosphere that is a TV studio center. Our "heroes" wind up there and find that if their ratings slide they'll be in trouble. In one episode, a planetoid is so small you can see grazing sheep on its surface from orbit. For unexplained reasons, it has Earthlike gravity. |
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In Yoshi's Island, you fight Raphael the Raven on one of these. To be clear, it is the world's moon. | |
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Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime: The levels' planets are quite tiny, often being smaller than the players' spaceship and almost always much smaller than the random masses of rock also floating around, but nonetheless manage to have respectable gravitational pull nonetheless. In a more extreme example, stars are also the same general size. | |
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The backstory of House of Suns features a planetoid that held the Gentian household in the distant past. It had standard Earth gravity which was hinted to be due to a small black hole contained within the planetoid. | |
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Aversion: In the original Star Trek episode "That Which Survives", the fact that a Luna-sized world has Earthlike atmosphere is one of the clues that something's amiss. | |
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Ratchet & Clank has featured planets like this, usually as side levels, since Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando. The two in that game were both locations that Giant Clank flew to to fight enemies: the first saw him face the Thugs 4 Less leader in a mecha duel, while the second was a fight against a Flying Saucer that kept spawning tripod mechas. And its presence was not explained in any way. | |
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Futurama: Briefly alluded to in an episode where a planet implodes, leaving behind something the size of a large boulder with a few of its native animals pathetically hanging on. As far as the cast is concerned, this is an acceptable level of survival for them. "The Mutants Are Revolting" has Lady Astor's asteroid. It's got both an atmosphere and normal gravity, yet it's so small that when Bender backs up to take a running leap over a canyon, he accidentally walks past Lady Astor's mansion and over a rickety rope bridge without realizing it. Twice. Inverted in the Futurama game, when the Sun seems to have Earth gravity...and is a lava planet. "Fear of a Bot Planet" has Fry remarking on how small entire planets can appear when you're flying through space, at which point a Saturn-like planet that appeared to be off in the distance is revealed to actually be about the size of a large bug when it hits the ship's windshield like one. |
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The planet Auraxis in PlanetSide 1 has a tiny surface area, less than 1000 km, along with a thin atmosphere which cannot sustain air-breathing engines past 400m above sea level. Being heavily infused with Ancient Vanu technology, it has been theorized that the planet has a black hole in its core to provide gravity. The sequel has the same issue of tiny scale — in fact, it's even smaller - but almost triples the flight ceiling. | |
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Kerbal Space Program and its various analogues for various real-life Solar System bodies are scaled down from reality by a factor of ten. They still have approximately the same gravity, however, meaning either the planets are denser than any known substance, or that the Kerbal-verse has an increased constant of gravitation. Kerbin in particular, despite being only 600km in radius, still manages a very Earth-like 9.81 meters per second and a life-supporting atmosphere. For those that want additional challenge, Real Solar System scales the planets, moons, and star back up to real-world sizes. | |
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Alphabet Lore: The letter Z, in lowercase form, is this in a literal case, considering the lowercase letters are all childlike in nature. | |
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The CGI shots of the Earth in Zombieland (which are apparently the mental images of the narrator). | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic CD takes place on the appropriately named Little Planet, which appears over Never Lake once a year. It reappears in Sonic the Hedgehog 4 and Sonic Mania. The Blue Sphere Special Stages of Sonic 3 & Knuckles take place on small, checkerboarded planetoids (they're actually donut-shaped, but visually spherical). In Sonic Adventure 2, Rouge has a large stage called Mad Space, which features tiny planetoids similar to those later seen in the Super Mario Galaxy series. They pull Rouge into their gravitational field if she jumps or glides too close. One of them is cylindrical in shape. Possibly justified, since the fact that they're near the space colony ARK suggests they may be artificial. |
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The tiny moon that came to be known as LV-426 was just another dime-a-dozen planetoid barely 1,200 meters in diameter, so small that it's gravity is only 0.86 that of Earth's; another insignificant rock with a primordial and unbreathable atmosphere destined to be forgotten in the vastness of space... were it not for the ghost-ship of an unknown Alien civilization broadcasting a mysterious warning to not explore its cavernous innards... a warning unfortunately ignored by both the crew of the Weyland Yutani towing vehicle Nostromo, and the colonists of Hadley's Hope 57 years after the former mysteriously dissapeared... | |
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Angry Birds Space features many levels with small planetoids that have gravity bubbles that affect the birds' trajectories. | |
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Planets in Planetary Annihilation range between this and more reasonable sizes, depending on the settings used. Nevertheless, they're much closer than would really be possible, in order that interplanetary travel doesn't take ages. | |
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Aether: It takes about 12 seconds to traverse the circumference of most of the planets. The moons are even smaller. | |
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Albion. The titular planet is considerably smaller than Earth but is mostly made up of exceptionally heavy metal, making the planet's mass just slightly smaller than Earth's. | |
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Super Mario Galaxy not only has baby planets; it has baby galaxies. As in, galaxies that're not much bigger than a large paddock. And with several galaxies, you can look off into the distance and see a single planet bigger than the entire galaxy. | |
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Space Engineers finds itself somewhere in between. Planets are massive; their curvature is only visible from tens of thousands of meters up, but they're still small enough that the developers had to add special code to flatten out the terrain when at a distance so they actually look round. There are actual asteroids, which are fittingly atmosphere-less and gravity-less, but are unreasonably tiny, frequently no more than a few dozen meters in diameter. | |
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The Prince Planet in Katamari Damacy (very obviously based on The Little Prince's) as well as Earth itself if you get big enough to notice the curvature. | |
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Lorien Legacies: Lorien is one-tenth the size of Earth and Mogadore one fifth. | |
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Outer Wilds takes place in a baby solar system, with planets as small as 500 meters across separated by a few kilometers of empty space between them. Since the game models real-world astrophysics to these planetsnote Well, real-ish. Most of the different forces are there, but their magnitudes are exaggerated for the sake of keeping all the celestial bodies in their orbits despite how little mass they have, it gives an idea of what it might be like to actually be on one; For example, the gravitational pull of moon orbiting Timber Hearth is strong enough to be felt, making objects on level surfaces slowly roll in its direction and affecting the arc of jumps. | |
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Spore. The planets look regular-sized from close but appear increasingly tiny as you advance towards the Space Stage. To give you an idea of scale: You can find Earth. The UK is about the size of an average spaceship. | |
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Thor: Love and Thunder: The planet where the gang fight Gorr in the Shadow Realm is one of the larger examples, but you can still tell that it's spherical when they're on it. Mjölnir and the Thunderbolt are shown zipping around the whole planet multiple times. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, the planetoid of Fleen follows this trope, even to the point of depicting The Little Prince's asteroid floating nearby. | |
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Grow: Grow RPG takes place on a tiny planet that the hero can explore in less than 5 minutes. The red ball from Grow Ver 3 could count as one since every item and creatures are attracted by its gravitational center, even though the red ball itself is placed on a gray ground. If you are on the right path of Grow Ver 1 you make a little planet. In Grow Island you need a rocket-ship to pick up a blue potion on a planet that's even smaller than the examples above. |
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The official atlas for the Firefly verse says even the small moons, barely large enough to be balls (think Mimas or Enceladus), are terraformed using gravitic technology. | |
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Incoboto Mini has the main character running across several small planets as part of the gameplay. | |
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King Kai's planet in Dragon Ball Z. Despite being maybe fifty feet in diameter, it strangely has ten times earth's gravity. Based on King Kai's vague explanation, it apparently has the same mass as Earth, heavily compressed. This should technically make it a neutron star, but then, nobody ever accused Dragon Ball Z of realism. Even if they did, it's still the self-built home of a Physical God, and still set up in a corner of the afterlife, so it might as well be decorated with "A Wizard Did It" in 50-foot-high neon any way the audience looks at it. Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods explains that King Kai's planet was once larger, possibly realistically so, until Beerus destroyed most of it in retaliation for losing a game of Hide and Seek. This doesn't explain how it continues to be a planet now, of course. | |
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All the planets in Wander over Yonder are small enough for buildings, mountains, and other features around that size area to be visible from space. | |
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Spacebuild maps for Garry's Mod have very small planets generally no bigger than about the size of a football field, though largely due to the Source engine's max map size capping out under 1 kilometer^3. | |
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Kingdom Hearts. One of the unique artistic features in the first game was condensing of most of the Disney worlds into miniature planets, most of which could be seen from 'space'. The worlds themselves, while modeled after the various Disney worlds, tend to be as small as possible, no more than a few miles each. The residents don't seem to notice. | |
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An episode of Sgt. Frog had one of Keroro's last-ditch invasion schemes involve stealing garbage and water from Earth to create a mini-planet. We learn it was a "last-ditch" scheme because unauthorized planet creation is against the law, and when the planet creation goes out of control, it nearly becomes big enough to qualify as a full planet, leading to the Keronians nearly getting arrested by Space Police officer Poyon. | |
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Bee And Puppy Cat has several examples. Fish Bowl Space is seen in the pilot which is an entire planet made out of a fish bowl with one single resident named Wallace that takes up a large chunk of it. Jelly Cube Planet in episode 2 is a square planet made out of jello that can only fit a small number of residents. There is no way it would be big enough to have an atmosphere, but it seems no one needs one. Cat Head Planet is small enough that it only has one building that is visible from space. |
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Transformers: The Transformers: Generation 1 portrayal of Cybertron. Curvature could often be seen, and buildings could be seen from space. When Cybertron was moved into Earth's orbit, it was shown to be smaller than the moon - close enough for a plane-bot to fly to in under a minute, and yet the entire planet could be easily seen whenever it was in frame. Asteroid-sized is generous, and yet it's shown to have gravity comparable to Earth. And then in the comics it's the size of Saturn. Way too far the other way, guys. Arguably, that issue is justified by the fact that Cybertron itself is the body of Primus. Surely as a Physical God, he could whatever size he pleases, regardless of what the laws of physics say. |
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