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Recursive Reality

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Recursive Reality	comment	To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. Multiple worlds that exist side-by-side are fairly common in fantasy and speculative fiction, but sometimes things get more complicated than one dream world, Another Dimension, a simple Alternate Universe, or just one Show Within a Show. If the characters discover more layers within or without (or the layers are implied within the story), then you have a Recursive Reality. Recursion is a phenomenon in mathematics and computer science where an equation refers to itself, allowing a finite function to represent an infinite set of objects. In physical terms, it is similar in structure to Russian Matryoshka dolls, which are designed to nest one inside the other. The basic types: The "Russian Doll World" — the worlds are physically inside one another. The most common way to travel between them is changing size. This dates back to the sci-fi pulps of the 1930s, even though the atomic model that likely inspired this trope (where electrons orbited the nucleus like planets around a sun) had been superseded as early as 1925. The Nested Story — One of the oldest examples is The Arabian Nights. Scheherazade tells stories of people who tell stories about people who tell stories, and so on. This is basically a Story Within a Story or Framing Device. (Layers deep, that is.) The Recursive Simulacrum, or "Matrix Hypothesis" — Building a ship in a bottle, on a ship in a bottle, basically. Someone creates an artificial world, be it a computer simulation, virtual reality, pocket universe or a miniature planet. Then someone in that world creates another simulacrum. Bonus points if an inhabitant of the last simulacrum builds another one, or the original creator's world turns out to be a model itself. Game Within a Game and Reality-Changing Miniature are subtropes. The Dream Within a Dream — A character dreams of another world, is put into a Lotus-Eater Machine or starts hallucinating another life, and to emphasize the drama of the situation, the character's confusion and/or the depths of their madness, the character is pushed into a layer within or thinks they have escaped into the real world, only to find they are simply in an outer layer of the dream. Transfictionality — Suppose Recursive Canon (a copy of the work itself, or a related work by the same author) shows up within the work. Then it turns out to be real, because the author of the Story Within a Story (who may or may not be the author of the actual work) is, in fact, God of his own sub-created universe. May result in Fridge Horror (or regular horror if it's addressed by the plot) if the in-story author has a Creator Breakdown. See also Rage Against the Author. For extra headache-inducing potential, a creator might mix and match: Stable Fictional Loop - Similar to a Stable Time Loop but with narration instead of time travel, this can take any of the above forms and turn it into a paradox, such as a pair of Alternate Universes that reference each other through recursive fiction, usually with paradoxical event flags that prevent you from determining which version of the story is the "outer" story, or which is the "real" story. Compare Trapped in TV Land. Turtles All The Way Down - It's an infinite regress; there is no "reality". No matter how far up or down you go, you can't get out. Perhaps they Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence or they're in a Dying Dream. Perhaps they're simply insane. If lucky, it's a Multi User Shared Hallucination, not a Solipsistic Nightmare. (The name comes from a famous "argument" for the Turtle Island cosmology as an explanation for gravity.) Single reality - There is only one world, that is somehow enclosed inside itself. Possibly in several instances. A similar phenomenon in art and graphic design is the Droste effect, where a picture includes a smaller copy of itself, that copy has a smaller copy of itself, and so on. Note that there has to be more than two layers shown or implied, or a path inward must paradoxically lead to the outer world (which is closer to an actual recursive equation.) Otherwise it likely falls under one of the simpler Otherworld Tropes. Shrinking into a subatomic world, for instance, does not count as a Recursive Reality unless a character can shrink further and find an even smaller world within, or somehow end up back where they started. Recursive Canon is a specific subtrope where the work postulates its own existence in-story, or a fictional version of the author also exists in-story (allowing the characters to criticize it or the author or change it, of course.) Compare Mutually Fictional. Not to be confused with Direct Line to the Author, where the work postulates its own existence in real life, or the existence of a fictional author in real life (as "researched" by the real author, of course.) Compare Daydream Believer, Mythopoeia. Compare with most Otherworld Tropes, particularly Expendable Alternate Universe, where the importance of all these alternates is downplayed by the assertion of a "real world", Matrix Hypothesis (also known as Recursive Reality), and Up the Real Rabbit Hole, where the "prime" level of existence is called into question. The latter is often paired with Recursive Reality for its headache-inducing potential. See also Daydream Believer, Welcome to the Real World. Also, try to keep in mind the MST3K Mantra while reading any of the examples. Believe us, it's just not worth it to lose your sanity to these. Because a recursive reality is physically impossible and never will happen. Spoileriffic trope, as the layering is usually a major plot twist.
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Recursive Reality / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: "The Real You" has Finn put on some intelligence-boosting glasses, resulting in an Astronomic Zoom on him down to the atomic level, then down to the galactic level, and finally back down to the level of Finn and Jake themselves. It gets reversed when Finn's glasses are removed, ultimately zooming out on his keister. The season 6 episode "The Mountain", where Lemongrab and Finn are seen running on their own respective bodies. There is an in-universe Gender Bender fanfiction titled "Fiona and Cake", mostly written by Ice King, but other characters have added to it. Occasionally, there are episodes depicting this. According to the episode "Five Short Tables", the Ice Queen writes genderbending fanfiction called "Flint the Human and Jacques the Raccoon". In that fanfiction, the Ice President writes fanfiction about "Lynn the Person and Janet the Fox".
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Recursive Reality / int_1366b3fc	comment	In Ubik: The Stinger indicates that Runciter is in a deep-freeze afterlife just like the main cast was, and there's another version of Joe Chip feeding things down to him just like he fed things down to the "dead" Joe Chip. And Here We Go Again!...
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Recursive Reality / int_15d20024	comment	Rick and The Loud House Chapter 4 follows the same plot as "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!," with the only difference is that it combines the plot of "No Laughing Matter" in which Luan begins to acknowledge that her family finds her jokes annoying. Chapter 19 follows the plot of "The Ricks Must Be Crazy" where Rick must travel into the microverse battery of his car, combined with the plot of "Mall of Duty" where Lincoln must watch over Lily, Lisa, Lola, and Lana at the mall. With the exception of Lily, the siblings decide to join Rick on his adventure in the microverse. Unlike the original episode, where Zeep chooses to continue powering Rick's car so his universe won't be destroyed, Lisa convinces Rick to use Zeep's miniverse in exchange for the teenyverse so he wouldn't have to keep using Zeep's universe anymore.
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Recursive Reality / int_17a21982	comment	In Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, there is one room in the second mansion (don't forget, this is a Haunted House) with a dollhouse with windows you can look through. If you do so, you see the very room that contains the dollhouse, with Luigi looking through the window. The one difference is, one of the boxes in the scene you see is shaking. When you stop looking in the dollhouse, that box in the actual room is the one you have to look in to find the ghost that is hiding.
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Recursive Reality / int_193f1efe	comment	These days, there are many, many social networking websites. To get into it, you typically have to sign up. Those who don't sign up don't see what's happening in those websites. It's thus an internet inside the internet. This is a problem for search engines, who want as much information as possible from everywhere on the internet. Apparently, this "hidden web" phenomenon is disturbing enough for Google that it's criticizing Facebook for exactly that.
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Recursive Reality / int_1e511d6f	comment	America's Funniest Home Videos has a clip of a family's dog reacting to the show. Later, a different family sent in a clip of their dog reacting to that dog reacting to AFV. Even later, the family that sent in the first clip sent in a clip of their dog reacting to the other dog reacting to itself reacting to AFV.
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Recursive Reality / int_1f1826e5	comment	The Marvel Vs. DC crossover and the Amalgam Universe that resulted was explained by setting Marvel and DC continuities (each with their own fiction, past, present and future, parallel dimensions and alternate timelines) in discrete multiverses created by entities called "The Brothers". Those guys live in the "Omniverse", which supposedly contains every real and fictional universe ever. The Brothers are often interpreted by fans as being forms of Marvel's "The One Above All" and DC's "The Presence", each of which is God in their respective universe.
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Recursive Reality / int_1fcdbe32	comment	The Phantom Tollbooth has the location of the number Infinity.
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Recursive Reality / int_203fc617	comment	The Talos Principle: One terminal document is an e-mail from Alexandra Drennan explaining to the IAN team her idea of creating the simulation. This e-mail includes some hex codes, which when translated to ASCII indicate that the game engine the simulation is based upon is the "Serious Engine 7.5, which Croteam have kindly made available to us." The Talos Principle was made using Croteam's Serious Engine 4.
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Recursive Reality / int_22211d68	comment	Bones is loosely based on a series of novels by Kathy Reichs. The titular Dr. Brennan is loosely based on a younger version of Reichs herself. Both versions are forensic anthropologists, like Reichs, but only the TV version is the successful writer of a series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs. Instead of her the novels being loosely adapted into a television series on FOX, there's eventually a movie in the works (with an even younger, sexier, more action-oriented plot). No word yet on whether Reichs' Brennans' Reichs will have written any books.
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Recursive Reality / int_257a9881	comment	One of the Choose Your Own Adventure books did that too, but with quarks as universes.
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Recursive Reality / int_26674387	comment	Patrick's Parabox is based around block-pushing puzzles where the blocks themselves can be puzzles. It is possible, and well explored, to put a block inside itself, leading to a recursive puzzle.
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Recursive Reality / int_26674ed5	comment	External Gazer, one of the "Snake Tales" included as a bonus in Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance, revolves around the use of the virtual reality system that is the in-universe explanation of the "VR Missions". It turns out that not only does it work by locating a parallel universe matching the training scenario and projecting the user's consciousness into the appropriate inhabitant of that universe, it's also possible for the "simulations" to be nested. Plus, they're nested such that the player must exit the nested simulation as though exiting that component of the game itself. It pretty much bends the fourth wall into the shape of a Klein bottle.
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Recursive Reality / int_2a77a546	comment	The end of the Inside Out episode of How It Should Have Ended has Bing Bong ask Joy if she has little people inside her head (this is while she's crying over a fading memory while stuck in the Memory Pit). Cut to five Joy-shaped emotions inside her head, then cut back to her replying "It's better if you just don't think about that!".
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Recursive Reality / int_2a842e3a	comment	Lawrence Miles's Doctor Who Expanded Universe novels contain frequent references to the "bottle universes". The intent appears to be that the Doctor Who New Adventures universe exists in a bottle in the Eighth Doctor Adventures universe ... and vice versa. Mind Screwy enough on its own, other authors (who believed both book series were in continuity with each other) muddled things even further, eventually establishing it was a Klein bottle, and the universe was inside itself.
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Recursive Reality / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: Abed tries to do this via a film project. It doesn't work. In "History 101", Abed has trouble facing the last year of classes, so he retreats to his Happy Place, a stereotypical sitcom version of the show complete with Laugh Track. Then when things start changing there, he retreats to a second happy place, a cartoon called Greendale Babies. So to recap, Abed has a happy place within his happy place.
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Recursive Reality / int_38d8afa	comment	Experimental Soviet documentary film Man with a Movie Camera is all about this. The titular man with the camera is shown over and over again, filming the movie. At one point the film stops and reveals still images, because the editor is taking a break. Another sequence shows the editor cutting the footage together, with the resulting footage then playing. At the end an audience assembles in a theater and watches Man with a Movie Camera.
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Recursive Reality / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Atomia's "Atom World" can be accessed by being shrunk down to a minuscule microscopic size.
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Recursive Reality / int_3c95487b	comment	Toyed with in Diane Duane's The Book of Night with Moon. There's a Prime Reality, but it certainly isn't our Earth, and there's nothing better or worse about a given layer. Those layers closer to the prime reality have rippling effects on the surrounding realities, especially those further down the line, though. Taking a chunk of the biggest Russian doll is bad. Smudging the paint on the smallest might be universe-destroying for the bigger dolls.
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Recursive Reality / int_3dbe76e8	comment	Accounting, a virtual reality game for PC, begins with the player character starting a job as an accountant, and being instructed to put on an in-game VR helmet to access the accounting software. Doing so instead places the player in a simulation of a forest clearing containing, among other things, another VR helmet; it turns out to be the first of an entire series of nested VR environments, each of which contains a helmet that can be used to access the next (and none of which is the elusive accounting software). Accounting+, the Updated Re-release for Play Station 4, can take it even further if you enter a secret level: the VR helmet in that level leads you to a copy of the entire Accounting game, starting from the beginning.
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Recursive Reality / int_3e07528	comment	The Many Worlds Interpretation: The Caltech physicists, both theoretical and research, are keen to explore questions of how the Big Bang happened that created the Universe. Ponder Stibbons and Johanna Smith-Rhodes both know the secret. In fact, they've met the man who initiated the Big Bang - Dean Henry of Unseen University, who put his hand into raw firmament and "wiggled it about a bit just to see what happened". But as the Ultimate Truth is so embarrassing, both conspire not to let the Caltech gang, especially Sheldon, know the awful reality. The story also expands a scene from TBBT, where Leonard fires up a hologram of the world to delight Penny, and speculates it might all just be a gigantic hologram being monitored by beings standing outside our Universe, maybe a long-term experiment. Which is nearer to the truth than Leonard could imagine. especially when people from the society that created the Roundworld Universe, and keep it as a long-running experiment they monitor, drop in to check it out on the ground. Another recursive reality occurs when, for a brief period of objective time, two versions of Johanna Smith-Rhodes exist on the Discworld as the result of Sheldon Cooper's unwisely applied enthusiasm. Both go around the same time-loop together and this causes double-takes in Ankh-Morpork.
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Recursive Reality / int_3ec5b7a6	comment	House of Leaves is about Johnny Truant, who's editing ZampanÃ³'s manuscript about a documentary made by Will Navidson. Neither the documentary nor Will Navidson exist in Johnny's universe, and they may or may not exist in ZampanÃ³'s universe. This is the most simplified description possible.
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Recursive Reality / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: In "Lawnmower Dog", Rick and Morty enter the dreams of Morty's math teacher to incept the idea that Morty should get an A in the class. As they wind up in trouble, they escape to the dreams of people in the dreams until they hit "dream bedrock". In "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!", Rick, Morty and Jerry are captured by Zigerian scammers and placed in a simulation, inside a simulation, inside of another simulation. In "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", Rick builds a battery for his car that contains a tiny universe. In the universe, a sentient species evolves and Rick introduces them to electricity by doing an ancient aliens schtick, and then siphons off their grid to produce real-world electricity. The battery stops working when a Rick-like scientist from that world (played by Stephen Colbert) invents a similar sub-universe battery. There is another scientist in the sub-sub-universe that is working on his own sub-sub-sub-universe.
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Recursive Reality / int_3f445492	comment	The Arabian Nights is the Trope Maker for the metafictional version — For example, Scheherazade tells the story of The Fisherman and the Genie, where the fisherman keeps the genie from killing him by telling it The Tale of the Vizier and the Sage Duban, during which the evil vizier tells his king The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot. Spoofed by Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy who takes it to ridiculous levels. The 19th century novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa has a similar structure — Alphonse van Worden meets, imagines, or reads about a number of colorful characters in intertwining stories, in the course of his journey to Madrid.
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Recursive Reality / int_3f4a104b	comment	"Dilbert" sort of has a "Turtles All The Way Down" example.
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Recursive Reality / int_3fbd173e	comment	Briefly referenced in Freefall. Sam thinks he's found a way past his ship's idiot lock and gotten it flying, but in fact the ship had simply directed him to a flight sim. When he notices, he orders the ship to end all virtual reality simulations... and Helix promptly covers Sam's eyes, causing him to scream.
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Recursive Reality / int_400469e	comment	In a reversal of the He Who Shrank scenario, Calvin once grew to the size of a galaxy and finds a door that leads back to his own room.
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Recursive Reality / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: At one point, Harry made a scale replica of Chicago, with a powerful spell on it. When he uses it, he "enters" the model, and is able to move around it. And through it, he can observe things happening in the real Chicago. One unnerving aspect of the spell is that if he looks up at the sky, he sees the interior of his own basement, and a giant size version of himself concentrating intently on the spell.
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Recursive Reality / int_426a7572	comment	The song "Yakko's Universe" from Animaniacs had the entire universe turn out to be inside Yakko Warner's snowglobe twice.
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Recursive Reality / int_427c480e	comment	In Larp Trek, some of the characters in the RPG are future versions of people playing the game, in reference to characters crossing over between Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Recursive Reality / int_42ad7fd4	comment	This is the central point of eXistenZ - the protagonists are confused about how many levels of virtual reality Game Within A Game there are, and what they're supposed to do to win. And in the end, they still aren't sure if they're still in the game or not.
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Recursive Reality / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation has a page of This Very Wiki right here. One of the proposals of SCP-001 is an onyx locket that has intricate white patterns, up to the microscopic level, that resemble the pattern of microwaves mapped in the known universe. This had led the foundation to deduce that the locket somehow contains our very universe.
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Recursive Reality / int_43b1575d	comment	In the Earthworm Jim episode "The Great Secret of The Universe", the universe is inside a giant snow globe, which is owned by a child as a souvenir.
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Recursive Reality / int_4659b0d	comment	Mount Head: A man grows a cherry tree out of his head. The man eventually pulls the tree out of his head by the roots. Unfortunately for him this leaves a depression on the top of his head, which fills with water when it rains, forming a lake. A lake that crowds of people visit, just as they were visiting the cherry tree. The man then somehow visits the top of his own head, going to the lake. This is followed by a really trippy sequence in which the camera continually zooms in to the man on top of his head, visiting his lake...then zooming in to the top of his head, where of course there's a lake, which he is visiting...then zooming in to the top of his head again...
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Recursive Reality / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld In the Science Of Discworld novels, the wizards create a "model universe" they christen Roundworld. Roundworld is, of course, our world - which implies that eventually Roundworld will contain an author named Terry Pratchett who will write stories about a Discworld in which wizards create a Roundworld, etc. At the end of the first Science of Discworld, Hex actually states (er, writes) definitively that recursion has in fact occurred. In Sourcery, the main characters have to travel across the Circle Sea, and do so in the djinn's lamp being carried by one of the characters, which they still have in their hands inside the lamp. This only works because one of them is carrying the lamp and is moving... because they are inside the lamp being carried. It stops working when the universe realizes what's going on, so they are told not to think it through, leading to one of them doing exactly that... And in Equal Rites, Esk stands between two mirrors and marvels at her reflections stretching to infinity... and one of them waves at her. This becomes a plot point in Witches Abroad.
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Recursive Reality / int_491987a9	comment	One Cyanide and Happiness short involves a couple attending marriage counseling. The counselor suggests using hand puppets for role-playing, and the puppets role-play going to marriage counseling, where they role-play using puppets for role-playing who role-play going to marriage counseling... it ends up many, many layers deep, but this turns out to be an effective way to work through their issues.
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Recursive Reality / int_492d7923	comment	Cloud Atlas is a series of nested stories, told in different stories, through different mediums (a log book, a screenplay, a spoken story, etc) which abruptly end part way through as the next story begins. Each of the main characters will at some point actually find the previous story, get to the point where it was cut off, and for one reason or another be unable to finish it either. Only the "center" story is unbroken, and as it finishes the others are picked up again and one by one finished.
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Recursive Reality / int_4c99197e	comment	The Alice Cooper episode of The Muppet Show had the "Toothache All Over My Body" skit. It starts out with a room full of what look like stalactites and stalagmites. One complains about a toothache that was so bad, it felt like having "toothache all over my body", and the others repeat what he says, and at one point beating him to it, which he lampshades. Then the camera zooms out to reveal that the talking stalactites and stalagmites were all teeth of another stalagmite which is ALSO complaining about a toothache.
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Recursive Reality / int_4de9ed43	comment	One of the Activity cards in the card game Chez Geek is a "Stupid Card Game", and the art for the card is a bunch of geeks playing a game of... Chez Geek.
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Recursive Reality / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck, the Battlefield, Skaia, is contained in the King's scepter. Said king is fighting on the Battlefield. And there are two kings. Every single universe is apparently a giant frog, which is made in the Sburb game session of the previous universe. I.e. Earth C is in a universe that's a giant frog in Earth A and B's universe, which in turn is in a universe that's a giant frog in the Troll's universe, and so on and so on. Snowman's heart contains the troll universe, she is currently inside the troll universe. Not to mention that The Tumor is a bomb using the death of two universes as a catalyst. The two universes are the Troll universe and the Human universe, both of which are contained within it.
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Recursive Reality / int_51017d03	comment	Both Deadpool tables feature this trope. The Deadpool Digital Pinball Table made by Zen Studios appears to recurse infinitely if you pull back the camera. Deadpool plays a miniature version of the table on the left apron, and it appears that you're playing it on the left apron of an even BIGGER version of the table. The Deadpool Physical Pinball Table made by Stern, when no modes are running, the main display shows Deadpool playing the table itself.
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Recursive Reality / int_510974b4	comment	Johnny Test has an episode similar to "He Who Shrank" — Johnny shrinks to smaller than a quark, and it turns out that each quark is an entire universe.
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Recursive Reality / int_53a10f26	comment	The Twilight Zone (2002): In the episode "The Pool Guy", Richie Almares, the titular pool cleaner, continues living the same day over and over, each 'loop' ends with a man saying "wake up" and shooting him. He then wakes up in bed and starts the day all over again, unable to avoid the same ending each time. He spends the episode trying to figure out if he's trapped in a nightmare within a nightmare, a time loop, or a malfunctioning virtual reality experiment. The ending reveals it's actually all three; he's a murderer who is being forced to virtually relive his crime over and over as a form of punishment. The man with the gun was his victim.
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Recursive Reality / int_574b92e4	comment	Quiet, Please (1947): "The Man Who Stole A Planet" has an archaeologist finding an old Mayan underground chamber with an inscription saying "The place where the world lives." Inside he finds a little silver globe the size of a baseball, which is an accurate rendition of the Earth. Only it turns out that it is the Earth. When the man flicks a little bit of water on the northern Africa part of the globe, the radio broadcasts a report of cataclysmic rainfall and flooding in the Sahara Desert. When the man pokes Minnesota on the globe with a needle, the radio broadcasts a second report of a massive earthquake in Minnesota. This raises the question of whether there's a very very very tiny man somewhere on the baseball-sized globe, possibly with a little silver globe of his own.
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Recursive Reality / int_5bb5ff95	comment	Jorel's Brother: When the titular character gets lice in his head, he finds out his lice also have lice, which also have lice, which also have lice, and so on. In the end of the episode, it's revealed that the characters' world itself is actually the lice of an alien dinosaur.
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Recursive Reality / int_5e150650	comment	Malfeas in Exalted. When the Exalted overthrew the Primordials, they needed some way to imprison titanic beings the size of mountains and planets somewhere far away from Creation. Their solution: turn them all inside-out; imprison Malfeas, the Demon City inside the body of Cecylene, the Endless Desert; then imprison all the other Primordials, including Cecylene, inside the body of Malfeas; finally, boot them out of Creation into a separate dimension. Even this was considered too insecure for one Primordial, who ended up imprisoned inside his own wings. Understandably, they're a bit miffed.
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Recursive Reality / int_5e8da983	comment	The farming board game Agricola features several different "Room" tiles, in one of which a game of Agricola is being played (a few posts down here).
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Recursive Reality / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd plays with this a few times; see, for example, recursive roleplaying. No matter how into model trains you are, don't make a scale model of the area it's in. Happens again here. Recursive storytelling can get repetitive sometimes. Bubble Universes show a man blowing bubbles that contain universes, and in one universe there is a man blowing bubbles.
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Recursive Reality / int_609fc58f	comment	Haunt #99 of Betrayal at House on the Hill involves your party being sucked into a box which is basically a copy of the game you're currently playing without explicitly saying it is, making the players completely rebuild a new house map and play through it within 30 real-world minutes. And if you're really unlucky, you might end up triggering a new Haunt within the one you're currently trapped in... What actually happens is when you trigger a haunt in the recursive game is you get sucked into another recursion, only this time with half the starting time of the last instance. And this plays out until the players retrieve the Omen that started the haunt, or run out of time.
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Recursive Reality / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic once reviewed the movie Last Action Hero. He is a fictional character who is watching a movie featuring a fictional character who watches a movie about a fictional character who has movies featuring fictional characters portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. He also made Hyper Fangirl as a Take That! to women who harass him at cons, and in a couple of vlogs she harasses everyone (in character) at cons.
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Recursive Reality / int_654ab3ee	comment	In Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Desmond is in the Animus living Ezio's memories, who uses the Masyaf Keys to live Altair's memories. And Assassins Creed IV implies that the reason Desmond himself is in third-person is because someone else is reliving his memories through the Animus.
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Recursive Reality / int_6846eab7	comment	The Cyberiad: Fables for a Cybernetic Age (1967) by Stanislaw Lem has a robotic prince trapped in recursive virtual dreams by his Evil Chancellor. Once the prince realises what happened, he panics, and desperately tries to wake up "for real" — and at one point he does, but, thinking in his panic that he is still dreaming, keeps trying, thus falling back into endless recursive dreams forever. This happens in a story within a story within a story. In one of Lem's The Star Diaries stories, Ijon Tichy visits the scientist, professor Corcoran, who build numbers of electron brains. Those electron brains closed in the chests have consciousness and they are thinking that they are real people. Chests are wired to the device which sends electric signals to those brains' senses imitating perception of the real world. Those brains have no clue about their real situation. Except one, who is called by Corcoran 'his world lunatic'. Because of some world imperfections (such as Deja vu or theory of Seriality), this brain suspected that it is not real and everything is just illusion which is served to him by someone or something. At the end of conversation, professor Corcoran admits, that he is also suspecting that he is not real and surrounded by phantoms, products of false signals sent to his senses and that it is probable that even the creator of this world is also a chest in someone laboratory, and so on and on...
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Recursive Reality / int_69e42410	comment	The crossover miniseries Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: AssimilationÂ² (obviously) has the Doctor meeting the TNG cast, whereas previously, episodes of the regular Doctor Who show referenced Star Trek as a fictional series. He lampshades it in his own typically enigmatic fashion, casually remarking that he can feel his memories changing after he enters the Trekverse— he recognizes Worf as a Klingon, but recalls that he didn't know the word a few minutes ago.
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Recursive Reality / int_6ac55ec7	comment	The 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons modules I6: Ravenloft and I10: The House on Gryphon Hill could be played either as stand-alone adventures, as an adventure and its sequel, or as interlocked adventures in which PCs who retired for the night in one module would wake up in the other, and vice versa. This last option could be played as a recurring It Was All Just A Dream, as a recursive Dream Within a Dream, or as the result of genuine shifts between realities.
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Recursive Reality / int_6c1169cf	comment	Horton Hears a Who! (1970) is about an elephant who hears voices from a tiny town called Who-ville, built on a dust mite. At the end, there's a scene where the main Who hears a voice coming from a Who-scaled dust mite...
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Recursive Reality / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, this is the basis of the Church of Atom, a cult that worships the "creative" power of nuclear bombs—they believe that every atom is an entire universe and the splitting of atoms equals the birth of whole new universes and, well, just don't let them near your nukes. Nobody ever explain fusion bombs to these people. It might spark a holy war.
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Recursive Reality / int_6fcf8703	comment	The page pic is from a The Perry Bible Fellowship strip in which an astronaut somehow lands on his own helmet; when he takes it off he can see a miniature figure of himself standing on it holding a miniature helmet with an even smaller figure of himself standing on it holding...and to make his day even worse, his bald spot is spreading.
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Recursive Reality / int_71169c78	comment	An episode of Chowder opens with Chowder eating a gumball with muffled screaming being heard as he chews it. At the end of the episode when Chowder has gummed everyone and everything on the planet together, the planet gets eaten by another Chowder and the same screaming is heard.
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Recursive Reality / int_71725a	comment	It's Okay to Not Be Okay: In the first episode, Gang-tae and his buddy Jo are pushing Jo's crappy old bicycle across a bridge. They pass a billboard advertising the new Korean Drama It's Okay to Not Be Okay.
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Recursive Reality / int_72f26584	comment	And in Equal Rites, Esk stands between two mirrors and marvels at her reflections stretching to infinity... and one of them waves at her. This becomes a plot point in Witches Abroad.
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Recursive Reality / int_73d7930f	comment	In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Far Beyond the Stars", the events of the series are suggested to be a story written by a 1950s sci-fi author named Benny Russell, who is struggling to get his story told on account of having a black protagonist in an era where African-Americans were heavily repressed. This is later revealed to be a vision from the Prophets. The Pah-wraith brings back this vision in "Shadows and Symbols", showing Russell in an asylum writing his stories on the walls as doctors try to convince him to stop, so that Benjamin Sisko would not open the Orb of the Emissary.
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Recursive Reality / int_769c365b	comment	In one episode of MythQuest, Alex gets into a myth by touching a reflection of himself in a mirror in the portal. When he touches the mirror to get back to his world, he actually gets back to a version of his world that isn't quite right. He has to touch the mirror again to get to the real version of his world.
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Recursive Reality / int_77184a72	comment	Despite multiple concrete examples of crossovers that put Victorious, Drake & Josh, iCarly and Zoey 101 in the same Nick Verse, Victorious as part of one episode refers to Drake & Josh as a TV show.
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Recursive Reality / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: In the episode "A Single Pale Rose", it is revealed that Pearl's gem contains a world which also has a Pearl with her own world in her gem, repeating for several layers. The Pearl in the surface layer organises the things that outer Pearl stores in her gem and the Pearls in the deeper layers relive Pearl's important memories in reverse order. Steven has to travel though these layers to find Pearl's missing phone after he receives a text message from one of Pearl's inner selves.
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Recursive Reality / int_817acecf	comment	Fables mentions this trope with a side-character. A queen is punished for her infidelity to her sorcerer-king husband by being transformed into a tortoise, cursed to wander with a fragile teacup balanced on her shell, with the teacup containing the archipelago on which she grew up. Later we see a short story where there is a tradition amongst the people of the archipelago to touch the "wall" surrounding their sea, and it turns out there is a debate in their community between people who hold different views on whether the tortoise exists or not, and whether there are Turtles All The Way Down. As far as the reader can tell, both schools of thought are wrong, unless it subsequently turns out that the greater Fables multiverse is on a tortoise of its own. The Great Fables Crossover introduces the Fables (who have long theorised that the popularity of their stories amongst the mundane humans of Earth are tied to their own power, though this has never been conclusively proven, and nobody's sure whether they exist because of the Mundies' stories, or if the Mundies have stories about them because they already existed) to the Literals (who are the embodiments of literary devices, like the Anthropomorphic Personifications of Revision, Genres, the Deus ex Machina, and their progenitor, the Pathetic Fallacy, Anthropomorphic Personification of Anthropomorphic Personifications). The antagonist of this arc is Kevin Thorn, (son of the Pathetic Fallacy, father of Revise) who, as the personification of story-telling itself, has gotten thoroughly fed up with his characters all acting on their own and making a mess of his overall story, and has resolved to rewrite things so that the entire Fables multiverse (including their equivalent of the Mundy world) never existed in the first place, but fortunately his braindead twin Writer's Block keeps preventing him from actually making the multiverse-ending flourish of his pen. The screwing around with meta-concepts, breaking of the Fourth Wall (which the Literals are aware of but the Fables aren't) and general Bizarro Episode feeling of this arc causes Bigby and Snow to make the decision to treat it as an in-universe Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, and try to get back to their already-complicated lives as quickly as possible.
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Recursive Reality / int_8448a597	comment	In A Super Mario Bros X Thing: Prelude to the Stupid, one level leads the player outside an apartment, inside of which some guy is implied to be doing a Let's Play. The recursion comes from the fact that the game was created specifically for this guy to do a Let's Play of. In Make A Good Level Xnote A level designing contest hosted by the forum that did ASMBXT, with the same intention (having it being Let's Played by raocow), but which got so many entries that it actually got its own hub level, the arcade in the Hub Level has two arcade machines which are being played by other characters. One of them is Make A Good Level X, which is being played by raocow.note The other one was A Second Mario Bros X Thing, which is being played by its own main character.
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Recursive Reality / int_87e00d8e	comment	Teen Titans (2003): One Kids' WB! ad for the show has Robin and Starfire sitting on the couch in front of the TV. Starfire asks Robin what he's watching; he says he's watching Teen Titans. Zoom out to show a recursive image and Starfire asking Robin the same question. They do this enough times to put it barely short of an Overly Long Gag, then Starfire breaks the fourth wall, asking the audience what they're watching. In "Nevermore", Cyborg and Beast Boy are sucked into Raven's Magic Mirror, which transports them into her mind. The weird part of this is, Raven herself is somehow able to go there — meaning she's inside her own mind. She doesn't explain how that's possible, and they don't even question it (likely because there's a much bigger problem — Trigon — threatening them). An even weirder part of this is how Raven tells them that they'll be trapped there forever if she's beaten (the reason why she pleads with them to leave). Given that they're inside her mind, it isn't known exactly how it's possible that the place could even still exist if she were killed (assuming that's what she meant by "beaten"). "Bunny Raven or How to Make a Titananimal Disappear" has the characters being imprisoned by Mumbo in his magic hat. Cyborg points out that Mumbo, appearing in the world inside the hat, is still wearing his hat — which everyone is still inside, including Mumbo, and his hat.
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Recursive Reality / int_8bd2ee90	comment	An episode of I Am Weasel revolves around Weasel, Baboon and Red Guy trying to find out where everybody in the world has gone to, leaving every public place empty. It turns out everybody is home, watching I Am Weasel. And yes, it DID in fact include a shot of Weasel in front of a TV showing him in front of a TV showing him in front of a TV showing him... To be honest, though, this wasn't even one of the weirdest episodes.
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Recursive Reality / int_8d7db4a5	comment	In Devs, the major secret project of the Devs team is a simulation of reality itself through which perfect projections of past and future events can be made. By necessity, this means that it must contain a simulation of itself which, in turn, would contain a simulation of itself and so on. This is actually noted as a problem early on — but when it is solved, the resulting implications heavily disturb several members of the team.
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Recursive Reality / int_8e5c230b	comment	In one of Lem's The Star Diaries stories, Ijon Tichy visits the scientist, professor Corcoran, who build numbers of electron brains. Those electron brains closed in the chests have consciousness and they are thinking that they are real people. Chests are wired to the device which sends electric signals to those brains' senses imitating perception of the real world. Those brains have no clue about their real situation. Except one, who is called by Corcoran 'his world lunatic'. Because of some world imperfections (such as Deja vu or theory of Seriality), this brain suspected that it is not real and everything is just illusion which is served to him by someone or something. At the end of conversation, professor Corcoran admits, that he is also suspecting that he is not real and surrounded by phantoms, products of false signals sent to his senses and that it is probable that even the creator of this world is also a chest in someone laboratory, and so on and on...
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Recursive Reality / int_9068877a	comment	The ending of Red vs. Blue: Revelation leaves room for the interpretation that the entirety of the Recollection trilogy is a digital world created by some version of Epsilon where he lives out the rest of his life in a memory (including the part where he created a digital world). Burnie Burns stated in an interview that the setting of The Blood Gulch Chronicles was real, but deliberately left the rest open to debate.
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Recursive Reality / int_916ad40d	comment	Kaufman's earlier screenplay, Adaptation., is the result of his struggle to write an adaptation of The Orchid Thief, and is about the story of a screenwriter character named Charlie Kaufman, who struggles to write an adaptation of a novel titled The Orchid Thief. The fictional Charlie gives up, too, and writes a screenplay titled Adaptation, which is about, well, you can probably guess...
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Recursive Reality / int_94b6b60a	comment	Let's see the Buildingverse (so Roommates, Girls Next Door and Down the Street and their assorted fanwork) is a Megacrossover Meta Fic 'verse, where the (for them) real stories of the characters, are fictional (so all the responsible people exist. James already placed Orlando Bloom as his problem with Legolas), that is fictional in ours, and the cast knows this. This isn't even accounting for all the Dream Within A Dream Lands The Fair Folk can create from the inside, or the possibility for stories being Mutually Fictional, or the ability to travel to the worlds of other fiction (Jareth even managed to "fix" Inceptionnote So according to this there is a missing scene, where he brings forth the canonical ending, because Saito messing with his love interest's dreams from Limbo annoyed him.). And don't let us get started on the implied possibility to read the comics in the comics. Is there a true reality? Does the chain of fictionality ever end? We don't know. You reading this could be fictional in some other world/story too. ... And this isn't a twist ending, this is one of the most basic facts about these comics. Also the authors read each other's work, and some even TV Tropes. So questions, ideas, characters etc. flow kinda free between the worlds making up the 'verse. At the end it's either All Fiction Is Real Somewhere or an exceptionally pretty Butterfly! Or both.
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Recursive Reality / int_981b4162	comment	The plot of the Bernice Summerfield novel Dead Romance uses this trope for some hardcore Mind Screwery; the protagonist discovers that she is from a Universe-in-a-bottle created by the Time Lords, and the reason her (and by extension, our) universe is so mundane is that the Time Lords didn't have enough material handy to recreate all the crazy aliens that humanity in the "proper" universe seems to run into every week. A visitor from the outside universe is astounded that the Pyramids were actually built by humans instead of Ancient Astronauts, for example.
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Recursive Reality / int_9888a110	comment	The Man in the High Castle ends with the characters, who are all living in an Alternate History where the Nazis won the Second World War, learning from the i Ching that the world they exist in isn't real, that the Nazis actually lost the war, and that the novel that one of the characters wrote about a world where the Nazis lost the war is actually reality. This causes them much confusion. They are, of course, fictional characters in a novel written in a world where the Nazis lost the Second World War, but this isn't the real brainscrew. The real brainscrew is that the world within the book within the book where the Nazis lost the war, which is supposedly reality, is nothing like the world we live in.
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Recursive Reality / int_9eddb2fb	comment	The ending to Irredeemable is basically this: Plutonian having to absorb deadly radiation surrounding Earth or be killed with a weapon so powerful it can kill him completely. After he does so his body begins to be slowly ravaged. As chance to finally redeem Plutonian, Qubit uses inter-dimensional technology to send Plutonian's original essence before his Faceâ€“Heel Turn to a parallel universe where he can end up right. As a result Plutonian's essence inspires Joel Shuster and Jerry Siegel to create Superman which in turn gets Mark Waid into comics and eventually writing Irredeemable.
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Recursive Reality / int_9f89a5f0	comment	At various points throughout the PokÃ©mon games, the player will encounter NPCs who themselves are playing PokÃ©mon.
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Recursive Reality / int_a0960dc4	comment	Baba is You features a world map that, alongside its own set of levels, contains several sub-maps that themselves contain more levels. After completing enough puzzles, you can access a few levels that can be turned into Baba and a Flag, and then beat the world map and discover that the world map is itself a level on another map above that.
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Recursive Reality / int_a09b76a	comment	In The Thirteenth Floor, the scientists are creating a simulation they can download their brains into. But it works both ways, the simulations can upload into the real people Eventually, one of the scientists realizes that their own world is a simulation and people have been downloading themselves into him and his friends. One of the people from the layer above starts to treat him like a person when they realize he's built a new layer of this reality and he gets to upload into the mind of someone in the layer above.
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Recursive Reality / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In "The Series Has Landed", we see a character in an arcade playing Skeeball. In the next area over, a character is playing Virtual Skeeball; they have on a headset and gloves in an otherwise empty area, and are moving like they're playing Skeeball. Next to them, Amy is playing Virtual Virtual Skeeball; she's sitting on a chair with a headset on, and comments "Wow, I could swear I was really playing Virtual Skeeball". In "The Sting", Leela experiences the Dream Within a Dream type. She slowly realizes she's in a dream (or going insane) and keeps trying to escape only to end up in more bizarre situations. She meets Fry each time, who tells her she needs to "wake up". It turns out that she's in a coma, and she's hearing the real Fry (at her bedside) pleading with her to "wake up". In "The Farnsworth Parabox", Farnsworth ends up creating a box containing a portal to an alternate universe, the other end of which is a box the alternate Farnsworth created. At the end of the episode, the two Farnsworths somehow manage to trade boxes through the portal, meaning the box "our" Planet Express crew currently have contains their own universe.
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Recursive Reality / int_a57cf54d	comment	Darths & Droids has no film version of Star Wars in its world, with the plots of the movies used for a Tabletop Game instead. In that world, however, there is a webcomic about a world that has no Harry Potter movies, with the plots of those used for a Tabletop Game. The layering goes down and down and down, with another movie added every 50 strips. It gets especially meta with this installment, based on Inception.
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Recursive Reality / int_a6fb0678	comment	The remake of La-Mulana has the protagonist use various pieces of software to aid him in the game. One of those is titled lamulana.exe, and its description is: "Nigoro's first full-fledged game. You're playing it right now!"
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Recursive Reality / int_a7199cf6	comment	A short Darkwing Duck comic published in an issue of Disney Adventures (titled "Cogito Ergo Something") has Launchpad holding up a dandelion and positing the existence of countless Recursive Realities to Darkwing. Sure enough, the perspective changes, and we see another world inside the dandelion seed where an alien Launchpad is presumably saying the same thing to an alien Darkwing about an alien flower. Then the perspective changes to inside the alien flower, and we see the "normal" world again (inside the inside), where Darkwing promptly blows the whole idea off as nonsense and blows the dandelion seeds to the wind.
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Recursive Reality / int_a73c4731	comment	Goodbye Strangers is a Nested Story with three levels. What should be the top is Behind the Curtain which a fictionalized version of how Goodbye Strangers was written. The main setting of the story is called North Mural, which is where Space Madness takes place. Zeroworld is a Fictional Video Game that exists in North Mural and depicts the Bad Future world of VHZ. But somehow, ''Behind the Curtain'' also exists within VHZ. Several pages of the website also have advertisements for Goodbye Strangers. One esample is the page for the recurridaize (which appropriately contains at least two layers of smaller versions of itself)
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Recursive Reality / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering allows for subgames, which are games played inside the main game. These have always been part of card effects that end up rewarding the winner or rewarding the loser. There's nothing stopping an effect from creating a subgame in the middle of a subgame, and ad infinitum. The card that allowed this was banned for Game-Breaking (or, more specifically, making tournament matches unending), and all new cards that involve subgames are relegated to tournament-illegal Un-Sets, which sell themselves on breaking all manner of game rules.
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Recursive Reality / int_a84f287e	comment	In Cube 2: Hypercube, Kate at one point opens a door to escape someone who turned murderer, accessing the opposing door from the same room she is already in. Even the madman is a bit baffled at this.
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Recursive Reality / int_a90d239a	comment	Psychonauts: The level Waterloo World starts off in a hall where Fred Bonaparte and a mental manifestation of the real Napoleon are playing a board game, from which you can shrink down and travel on an enlarged version of the board game. This allows you to look inside the windows of the prop houses on the board where, in one house, you can find the two Bonapartes playing the board game!
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Recursive Reality / int_aa13bfe3	comment	Tingles Raveng The Tingling: While My Immortal-style "geddit" pun explanations are a Running Gag in the story, an instance in Chapter 24 has multiple nested pun explanations.
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Recursive Reality / int_af5f24e3	comment	In the John Crowley novel Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament, the world of the Fae is smaller than the human world and exists in cracks and crevices of the latter. By the time a slow-motion End of an Age comes around, the Fae have abandoned their world, apparently for another, smaller one, and the few humans aware of the Fae have taken their places in the Fae world. The further in you go, the bigger it gets.
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Recursive Reality / int_b23caf95	comment	Lucids: Well, everyone can have dreams, and any people within those dreams can have dreams, and so on all the way down. And there also may not be a top layer of "real" reality.
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Recursive Reality / int_b39dea58	comment	Superliminal: Some levels contain rooms/portals contained inside themselves, with you changing size as you exit or enter.
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Recursive Reality / int_b3f687d1	comment	In an early FoxTrot Sunday Strip, the very strip's splash panel can be seen on a newspaper that Roger is reading.
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Recursive Reality / int_b4709254	comment	The website TV Tropes has a page devoted to this concept, called "Recursive Reality", along with a long list of examples. Humorously, one of the examples actually links to the TV Tropes page itself.
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Recursive Reality / int_b5bdb8a6	comment	The entirety of Shimeji Simulation's Chapter 42. The first part shows Shijima and Majime in what appeared to be an empty, barren area with a mysterious donut-shaped structure and a noose within the middle, of which Mogawa attempted to hang herself. Then the scene cuts to another recursion where Shijima, Majime and Sumida are seen in an art gallery-esque place, with Sumida seen painting Mogawa that turned out to be the previous recursive world that Shijima and Majime just visited moments ago. And then the final scene cuts to the final recursion where a small, crude canvas sitting on an easel of what looked like the members of Hole-Digging Club including Shijima and Majime. Shijima and Majime are later seen at the final panel of the chapter.
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Recursive Reality / int_b5c45bf5	comment	One adventure for the appropriately-named Over the Edge suggests that the gamemaster swipe a small item off the table that the players will miss but not worry too much about. The object then shows up in the game world and proves to not quite follow the laws of physics. This can potentially escalate to the player characters arguing with the players.
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Recursive Reality / int_b88b182f	comment	One campaign for The Dark Eye featured a pocket dimension containing an archipelago on whose islands certain legends were true. One suggested subplot depended on one character dying there; their soul would be transported to, and be able to have encounters in, another dimension while the rest of the group was supposed to find a way to bring them back. (This is not the norm in this game system; mostly, dead means dead.) It was mentioned that if the soul was swallowed by a certain kind of monster, it would be thrown into a realm even further removed, from which they could not be brought back.
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Recursive Reality / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In "No Free Rides", when Mrs. Puff enters the house during the surprise party held by Spongebob's parents, there's a picture on the wall that depicts the exact same situation of Mrs. Puff entering the house. And there's a picture on the wall as well, which also shows Mrs. Puff entering the house the same way... In "Bummer Vacation", SpongeBob is made to go on forced vacation, so he consoles himself with the Official Krusty Krab Playset. Toy-SpongeBob ends up accumulating too much vacation time as well, so he's forced to go on vacation, resulting in Toy-SpongeBob playing with Toy-Toy-SpongeBob and... yeah, the real SpongeBob decided to cut it off there. In "Truth or Square", SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs go to the Krusty Krab's surveillance room when trying to find a way out of the building's duct system. One of the video feeds they watch is showing them watching the video feed. Then it is revealed that the surveillance room was recorded by two fish who appeared out of nowhere and run away when noticed. In "Lost and Found", SpongeBob comes across a snow globe of Bikini Bottom on a shelf while looking for a kid's teddy fish within the Krusty Krab's lost and found. He shakes it once, which causes the whole town to shake violently. He very wisely puts the snow globe back and backs away.
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Recursive Reality / int_bd310eaa	comment	There's a one-off joke in El Goonish Shive where the Author Avatar is actually a character in the comic strip created by Sarah. Also there is this sketchbook which features the three original main characters (plus the Goo) viewing the first strip.
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Recursive Reality / int_bf471bbe	comment	Men in Black II pulls a similar gag by showing a world inside a locker where K's watch is a symbol of worship, then at the end, K shows J that their world is also simply inside a larger locker (doesn't work quite as well as the first film, the moment you think about it). An alternate ending has J going on vacation and ending up on the world inside the locker, being the size of its inhabitants, which implies that either there is some sort of change in size when you go through the locker door, or that the lockers are more of a Portal Network.
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Recursive Reality / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Drowtales: One of Kiel'ndia Vel'Vloz'ress' many quirks is her belief in the "infinity turtle".
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Recursive Reality / int_c19c6efa	comment	In Minecraft there are people who have built working computers in the game itself. It has been speculated how long it will take untill we're playing Minecraft in Minecraft. It begins. Ten years later, it's only improved. The mod ComputerCraft includes a text-based version of Minecraft as part of the default operating system, entitled Adventure. If you 'craft computer', the program crashes because you "tore a hole in the spacetime continuum". Meaning the program on the computer in the Minecraft world, not the program running Minecraft in the first place. Fundy ends up making a screen capture of his desktop displayed in Minecraft, take two and two together and guess what you get here Then Ph1LzA asked Fundy to make Minecraft inside of Minecraft inside of Minecraft and so on. The Immersive Portals mod now allows you to make literal Recursive Realities, like a house inside itself, inside itself (and so on), in Minecraft.
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Recursive Reality / int_c2dea593	comment	Time Fcuk: If you press the button to restart the level, your character takes a pill which makes his head explode. However, doing this in the final level gives you the bad ending: When his head explodes, another, smaller version of himself pops out. He proceeds to take a pill and make his head explode. An even tinier him comes out and pops another pill...
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Recursive Reality / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Castrovalva" features a variation on this; the entire town of Castrovalva has been warped in on itself. One of the cliffhangers has a hilarious line from the Fifth Doctor. The entire premise of "Amy's Choice" is a choice between two possible realities in which they keep falling asleep and "dreaming" of the other world, in which they are entirely convinced they are in the "real world" again. It turns out that both scenarios are dreams, but there is a brief moment that could be an Up the Real Rabbit Hole situation. Then there's the TARDIS ending up inside the TARDIS in "Time".
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Recursive Reality / int_c5656ebe	comment	The main character of Clash at Demonhead expresses his desire to have a video game made of his adventure during the ending.
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Recursive Reality / int_cad8b687	comment	A later Dark Tower novel, The Wind Through the Keyhole, features a minor Scheherazade variant. As Roland and his Ka-Tet shelter from an intensely cold storm, he tells them a story from his childhood. At a pivotal point in this tale, young Roland tells another character the legend of "The Wind Through the Keyhole." After the legend is over, the story returns to young Roland's adventure, and after this ends, the perspective returns to modern-day Roland and company, who move on from the storm and continue their quest.
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Recursive Reality / int_cf39ca4f	comment	A Pearls Before Swine comic strip featured Pig meeting Atlas who held the Earth on his shoulders. Pig then points to the part of the Earth where he is, and his giant hand comes down and pokes his eye.
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Recursive Reality / int_d1515d27	comment	The booklet for Aerosmith's Nine Lives started as this: the cover with a "cat krishna" fighting snakes was inside a picture with threatening fish, which was in a fish tank, and so on until a picture with caricatures of the band. Then the picture was found insensitive to Hindu religion, and the replacement had a cat person strapped to a wheel, wearing a shirt with the illustration with the Aerosmith caricatures... and then in the fish art, it had the cover, making the recursion circular as well.◊
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Recursive Reality / int_d969e2d	comment	1968 experimental film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One is about the filming of a (fictional) movie called "Over the Cliff"... and the documentary crew filming that movie... and the second documentary crew filming the first documentary crew.
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Recursive Reality / int_d981184b	comment	The Fountain is a film about a man hunting for the Fountain of Youth. It features the same two characters in three time periods. Given that, you assume they succeed, and Complications Ensue when the girl gets sick and threatens to die on him due to Phlebotinum Failure. But no: the past timeframe is the plot of a book about Tom as a conquistador, told by the dying present day wife, and Tom's character Ascends To A Higher Plane Of Existence in the future timeframe, where he bodily intervenes in the plot of the uncompleted book. Meanwhile, the present Tom does find the Tree of Life, but it's too late to save his wife, and the Tree in question is dying, so he plants another one over her grave where she predicts it will resurrect her as a tree...at the end of the story, the conquistador succeeds in living forever when he stabs the bark of the tree and the immortal tree consumes him. He drops his ring, a a gift from the Spanish Queen, which the future Tom picks up. It turns out to be the wedding ring that the present Tom had lost.
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Recursive Reality / int_d99024a2	comment	Genesis' "One For the Vine" is about a charismatic warlord about to lead his tribe into battle. One of those who don't believe in him deserts, and flees up a distant mountain, only to slip and fall into a strange valley... where he encounters a tribe who hail him as their new warlord. To his horror, he realises that he is back in the situation from which he was trying to escape. The song ends with him leading his new tribe into battle — and seeing a deserter flee up a distant slope, only to slip and fall...
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Recursive Reality / int_db1543bc	comment	In Boneland, Colin and the Watcher are playing out the same issues of loss and trauma, in much the same geological place but separated by up to half a million years in time. Both are struggling to work out what is happening to them according to their conditioning and cultural preconceptions. Alan Garner even hints that this is vitally necessary for both to pass on from their respective traumas and emerge into their own lives again. The key lies in the ancient cave-sculptures noted by Colin, which are a representation of Colin's face as it appeared to the Watcher... possibly the very first act of Magic ever to happen on Alderley Edge.
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Recursive Reality / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City has the Moleculands, an entire set of microscoping realities like Subatomia and the Quarkrealms.
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Recursive Reality / int_df073316	comment	All-Star Superman shows Superman, wondering how the world will function without him, creating a miniature Earth in a miniature universe. It grows relatively quickly, and the last panel of the issue shows someone drawing a comic-book character, declaring "This time, I'll change everything..." The character is Superman - it's our world, the man doing the drawing is Joe Shuster, and we have a loop.
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Recursive Reality / int_e05ef82a	comment	In The Darkside Detective, McQueen finds a photograph while exploring an eldritch location, which he describes as showing you, the player, playing a video game in which a man in a trenchcoat is looking at a photograph.
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Recursive Reality / int_e2fa7287	comment	Part of the plot of Imperishable Night, the eighth game in the Touhou series. In order to avoid discovery emissaries from the Moon, lunarian refugee Eirin Yagokoro hides the Earth in a magic pot with a fake sky on the inside. She then hides the pot in her home of Eientei. Which is on Earth. Which is hidden in the magic pot.
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Recursive Reality / int_e5226bfe	comment	This is mentioned in one of the "news" feeds in Cookie Clicker when the player has advanced far enough.
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Recursive Reality / int_ed113c02	comment	Saints Row IV. It's made pretty clear from the start that the computer virus-like Dominatrix in the Enter the Dominatrix DLC is a very powerful opponent within the simulation, but it doesn't become fully clear just how powerful until near the end of the DLC when she resets the DLC. Remember: the Framing Device for Enter the Dominatrix is that it's a flashback about the Dominatrix, part of which isn't even set in the simulation. Try not to think too hard about this one.
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Recursive Reality / int_f0196885	comment	Old adventure game Nippon Safes Inc. has this as one of its examples of meta-humor. In Matsushita Labs Dino finds a pirated floppy disk of Nippon Safes Inc. and makes a little speech on why Digital Piracy Is Evil. In the sequel NSI is apparently still a computer game but it's stated that the event from the previous game actually happened, even if they didn't affect the plot in any meaningful way.
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Recursive Reality / int_f120845f	comment	In Kingdom of Loathing, part of a side-quest introduced as a cross-promotion for the MC Frontalot album Zero Day involves shrinking down and fighting scabies (skin mites) on your own leg. The Crimbo 2010 event lets you work in an office that gradually increases your Boredom. Get it too high and you might face the Tome of Tropes, get it to 100% and your character starts playing the Best Game Ever.
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Recursive Reality / int_f1c2ef05	comment	In the first episode of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, Daphne's Establishing Character Moment is that her first Once per Episode quirk is conversing using hand puppets of herself and the gang. When revealing them, she shows that her puppet of herself is wearing a smaller version of itself, which has a smaller version of itself, and so on.
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Recursive Reality / int_fbf33963	comment	Inception has dreams within dreams within dreams (and so on) with time slowing down exponentially with depth, allowing someone to spend decades inside dream worlds. Reached Memetic Mutation where all Recursive Realities henceforth are named with the meme "_____ within a _____. _____ception"
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Recursive Reality / int_fca5f743	comment	[title of show] is a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical. "A, D, D, D, D, F-sharp, A... will be the first notes of our show..."
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Recursive Reality / int_fd8221d2	comment	In the Wikipedia page on "Infinite regression", one of the "See also" items is sometimes "Infinite regression".
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Doodlebug / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
eXistenZ / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
I'm Not There / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Inception / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Last Action Hero / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Look Who's Back / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Man with a Movie Camera / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Men in Black / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Men in Black II / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Muppets from Space / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Spaceballs / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Synecdoche, New York / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Fountain / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
World on a Wire / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Faction Paradox (Franchise) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
League of Legends (Franchise) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
TheStrawhatNO! (Lets Play) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Twitch Plays Pokemon Rising Ruby (Lets Play) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Twitch Plays Pokémon XG (Lets Play) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Arabian Nights / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Gulliver's Travels / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Horton Hears a Who! / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Idoru / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Sophie's World / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Sourcery / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Behemoth / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Chronicles of Narnia / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Last Battle / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Worm / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Xanth / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Ptitlev2ypgugs	seeAlso	Recursive Reality
Shimeji Simulation (Manga) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You (Manga) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Angus McSix (Music) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Demon Days (Album) (Music) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Everything Everything (Music) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Land of Confusion (Music) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Michael Jackson's Thriller (Music) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Music) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Ocean (Music) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Quiet, Please (1947) (Radio) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Museum of Everything (Radio) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Ricky Gervais Show (Radio) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Character Development Thread (Roleplay) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Black Lightning (2018) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Cosmos / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
It's Okay to Not Be Okay / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Aquabats! Super Show! / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Agricola (Tabletop Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Betrayal at House on the Hill (Tabletop Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Splinter (Tabletop Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
A Strange Loop (Theatre) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Fairview 2018 (Theatre) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
A Super Mario Thing (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Accounting (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Alan Wake (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Baba is You (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Chaos Wars (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Clash at Demonhead (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Cocoon (2023) (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Conway's Game of Life (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Cookie Clicker (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Crush Crush (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Cube Escape (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Dungeon Encounters (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Game Dev Tycoon (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Goat Simulator (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Knights of Pen and Paper (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
La-Mulana (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
League of Legends (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Monument Valley 2 (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Nippon Safes Inc. (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
No Man's Sky (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Parasocial (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Pathologic (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Patrick's Parabox (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Psycho Waluigi (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Psychonauts (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Rabi-Ribi (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Starship Titanic (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Streets of Rage (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Sunset Overdrive (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Superliminal (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Darkside Detective (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Game of Life (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Room: Old Sins (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
To the Moon (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Underrail (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Universal Paperclips (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
WarioWare (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Xeno Fighters (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Zork Zero (Video Game) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp (Visual Novel) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Doki Doki Club Meetings (Visual Novel) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
asdfmovie (Web Animation) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Cyriak (Web Animation) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Kizuna AI (Web Animation) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Level UP (Web Animation) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
TheSuperPonyPowerHour	seeAlso	Recursive Reality
Board James (Web Video) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
commodoreHUSTLE (Web Video) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Echo Chamber (Web Video) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Lucids (Web Video) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Stuart Ashen (Web Video) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Twitch Plays Pokémon Red Anniversary (Web Video) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Twitch Plays Pokemon Rising Ruby (Web Video) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Star (Web Video) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun (Web Video) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Awful Hospital (Webcomic) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Buildingverse (Webcomic) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Girls Next Door (Webcomic) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
He Is a Good Boy (Webcomic) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Jack (David Hopkins) (Webcomic) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Koan of the Day (Webcomic) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Roommates (Webcomic) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Square Root of Minus Garfield (Webcomic) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
0 0 0 This Comic Appears First Alphabetically (Webcomic) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Advent of Code (Website) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Channel 101 (Website) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Goodbye Strangers (Website) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
TV Tropes (Website) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Onion (Website) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show! / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Chowder / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Claymation Christmas Celebration / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Earthworm Jim / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Horton Hears a Who! (1970) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Horton Hears a Who! (2008) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Jorel's Brother / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
The Killing of an Egg / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Xavier: Renegade Angel / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Disney Adventures (Magazine) / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality

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