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The Wall Around the World

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The Wall Around the World	comment	All around where you grew up is a barrier. No one knows what lies on the other side. Or if they do, they're not telling. It could be Here There Be Dragons, or your ancient enemies, or it could be that you and everyone you know is Sealed Good in a Can. (Or evil, who knows?) Passage through will be difficult if not impossible, for what good is a barrier if anyone can walk on through? The wall can surround a single village, a town, a continent, a world, or even an entire galaxy. Or it could seemingly surround nothing, and simply mark a barrier between one world and the next. Note that, despite the name, the barrier does not have to be a literal wall. If the barrier surrounds a community, it is an isolated Small, Secluded World or City in a Bottle or possibly a Domed Hometown. Contrast with The Great Wall, which bisects the world, dividing it into two separate parts, and The Outside World, what lies outside the walls. When the wall is so big people start living on it, you have yourself a Dyson Sphere. See also: Border Patrol
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The Wall Around the World / int_1360882c	comment	Gone: The impenetrable FAYZ Wall which surrounds the area.
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The Wall Around the World / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Everything related to Dragon Age is set on a single continent named Thedas, and although the franchise's lore stretches back for several thousand years, almost nothing is known of the world around Thedas. The continent is walled in by massive mountain ranges to the west, impenetrable jungles to the north, frozen wastelands to the south and endless oceans to the east. Many have tried to explore these regions over the millennia, but scarcely anybody has ever returned, and those that did can't tell much because they didn't get far enough to uncover anything of note. As far as the average Thedosian is concernced, there's nothing beyond Thedas but rumors, legends and death.
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The Wall Around the World / int_1bdeba5a	comment	In the "Age of X" X-Men storyline, there's a massive barrier keeping the bad guys out. Kitty phases through it once and finds out there's nothing beyond it. It turns out the world isn't real, but made by a Reality Warper who is only good enough at this point to make a world that's only so big.
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The Wall Around the World / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance the "Punyverse" turned out to be surrounded by a giant solid sphere, the inhabitants mostly didn't know that and thought it was an endless void inhabited by "void ghosts" that occasionally attacked (it was really wild shots reflecting off the sphere). Also their entire universe was artificial.
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The Wall Around the World / int_1cba4fec	comment	Our whole universe in Fine Structure is 'walled'. Nothing gets in or out. It's actually a prison designed to keep Oul inside.
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The Wall Around the World / int_1ed98120	comment	In Wild AR Ms 4, your first indication that Ciel is not a typical RPG hamlet is when fighter craft shatter the barrier surrounding it that was disguised as sky. The outside world is quite a bit different.
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The Wall Around the World / int_217caad	comment	A massive mountain range in Leif & Thorn between SÃ¸nheim and Ceannis, keeping their magic systems separate. The SÃ¸nheim embassy in Ceannis has a big wall around it to replicate the effect.
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The Wall Around the World / int_21e2f10d	comment	Dragon Quest III: Unlike in the main world, the seas of Alefgard are shown to be bordered by black nothingness, where they actually end.
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The Wall Around the World / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild uses a mixture of A Link to the Past and The Wind Waker in terms of natural barriers. The north and and west portions of Hyrule are cut off by a massive gorge, the southwest has an expansive desert, and the south and east are nothing but the sea. The gorge is too wide to fully cross and too deep to go down safely, the desert kicks up an impassible sandstorm if you try to go any further (if you still try, the game will trigger the message "You can't go any farther"), and venturing beyond the sea just greets you with an invisible wall. Trying to climb cliffs near these barriers will have the game force Link to dislodge from the wall to prevent him from climbing. What makes it stranger is the world map does show more landmass beyond the desert and chasms, but no one in game ever mentions it.
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The Wall Around the World / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons The glass dome enclosing Springfield in The Movie. And the wall made of garbage separating Springfield from New Springfield.
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The Wall Around the World / int_283159ac	comment	The "spiritual barrier" around the village in From the New World. The humans inside the barrier are told never to cross it, because the outside world is full of horrific monsters. They are taught this so that their subconscious telekinesis will only create said monsters outside the barrier. The barrier keeps bad things out and imprisons the characters, by necessity.
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The Wall Around the World / int_283badac	comment	Palm Brinks in Dark Cloud 2 was sealed off from the rest of the world via a titanic wall, far too tall to scale. This was done by the Mayor, to protect the citizens from the incredible devastation taking place in the outside world —but now that the land is healing (and with the heroes having escaped via an underground sewer/aqueduct,) many of Palm Brink's inhabitants dream of exploring and building new cities.
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The Wall Around the World / int_2ade1ae9	comment	The Weirding Wall in Nobilis which encloses the whole universe.
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The Wall Around the World / int_2af8d0bc	comment	In Yuki Yuna is a Hero, the setting is the island of Shikoku, which survives as its own country after a deadly virus struck the world hundreds of years ago; they were rescued by the Shinju-sama, which is now worshiped as a god. There's a wall around the country; if one goes beyond it, they discover a hellish landscape filled with Vertexes, which is what actually destroyed the rest of humanity.
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The Wall Around the World / int_2b70efd4	comment	The borders between the physical realm and the spirit worlds in the Old World of Darkness RPG line (the Gauntlet and the Shroud) qualify. Most humans have no idea that the spirit realms are real. The Gauntlet still stands in the New World of Darkness, cutting off the Shadow from the material. There's also the Abyss, which severs the Supernal from the Fallen. The NWOD is full of these, and generally for the better. The Gauntlet is the border between the real world and the spirit world. The Hedge is the border between the real world and Arcadia. It takes the form of a thick thorny bush that hurts the soul of anyone passing through it. There's also an unnamed wall that prevents interaction between the real world and Inferno.
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The Wall Around the World / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes: Sylar is imprisoned in a section of abandoned Manhattan with a wall around it. Since this is a psychic prison imposed on him by a telepath, there is actually NO "outside".
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The Wall Around the World / int_2e1a541c	comment	Lusternia is comprised of the Basin of Life, which is entirely isolated from the rest of the world by mountains. Nobody can get out, but there have been cases where denizens have come in from/gone out to some place on the outside.
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The Wall Around the World / int_2f2f1ab7	comment	The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea: To keep her daughter from endangering herself in the sea, Ariel has an enormous wall built around the palace to separate them from it. However, by 12, Melody has learned a way through it: a loose bar on one of the gratings allows her to squeeze through.
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The Wall Around the World / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has the human villages deep underground. The planet's surface is overrun with monsters, and humanity has hidden away for so long that most of the people in Kamina's village question whether the surface actually exists.
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The Wall Around the World / int_3167d0b9	comment	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) : The Mystic Wall separates the Light and Dark hemispheres of Eternia. For a time its utterly unbreachable and, as far as inhabitants on either side are concerned, a literal wall around their portion of the world. Right up until current events are kicked off in the series, when Skeletor breaks it down.
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The Wall Around the World / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "A New Life", Daniel and his wife Beth discover that there is a forcefield surrounding the forest in which the religious community is located. Daniel later learns that they have left Earth and that the forest is in fact an artificial environment aboard a spaceship.
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The Wall Around the World / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia is set in Alpha Complex, a domed city. The existence of "Outdoors Sector" is acknowledged, but information about it is limited, especially at low security clearances.
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The Wall Around the World / int_371a48d6	comment	In Back Arrow, the entire continent of Lingalind is surrounded by a wall so massive, you can't see its top - it just blends into the sky. It's revered as God by the inhabitants and they believe that beyond it there's nothing but void. It's made quite explicit that saying otherwise is heresy and could get you killed. This belief is challenged by the title character, who insistently claims to have come from beyond the wall.
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The Wall Around the World / int_3bc91429	comment	Used in the DWM comics, most notably in "Oblivion".
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The Wall Around the World / int_3bd162e9	comment	Friends at the Table's Sangfielle takes place in the titular Eldritch Location, a country-sized region in the middle of the continent that suddenly went weird after centuries of colonization. For fear of Sangfielleâ€™s curse expanding, the nations of the world united to build the â€œringed cityâ€� of Concentus around it as a physical and magical barrier. Anyone coming in or out of Sangfielle must pass through Concentus first. The final episode in the epilogue sees Concentusâ€™s wards deliberately breached by one of the players, allowing Sangfielleâ€™s strangeness to inundate the rest of the world.
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The Wall Around the World / int_3d48c34e	comment	The broken bridge in Dellamorte Dellamore, aka Cemetery Man.
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The Wall Around the World / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, the remnants of humanity live inside an area protected by three absolutely massive ring walls. All the lands outside are claimed by man-eating giants that have hunted humanity to near extinction. The plot of the series is kicked off when the walls begin to fail... There's also a kind of layered example in how each wall has a quartet of towns situated just outside of it (surrounded by an extended semicircle), serving partially as a waystation in the major gates of the walls, but mostly as a cost reducing factor by baiting the Titans into easily monitored concentrations just outside the towns (the walls there being thinner than the rest). Although there are government incentives to settle such towns, it's offset by needing to live with the constant visual reminder of their enclosure. At least before the first one falls.
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The Wall Around the World / int_3f44e3d7	comment	The wall in Princess Tutu is both literal and metaphorical, keeping reality from intervening in the narrative-controlled Gold Crown Town. Most people don't even realize it exists, since the story prevents them from wanting to leave. (This doesn't stop people from suddenly appearing inside the town gates, but it's ambiguous whether they're capable of leaving.)
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The Wall Around the World / int_41c887f7	comment	The walls of Truman's enclosed world in The Truman Show.
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The Wall Around the World / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: Exaggerated with SCP-6218: a solid structure that encloses the entire universe. People who get too close to it start hallucinating, but what's more disturbing is that if one digs a few kilometers into it, it's organic. And it's alive. The scientists found that they were digging through the skin cells of some kind of absolutely colossal being. An intelligent being. Which claims that it encloses the universe to protect the life within it from something... outside.
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The Wall Around the World / int_43ec18d7	comment	GÃ¶teborg City in Gravity Break: Cataclysm is surrounded by walls and shields that protect against the gravity storms on the outside. Charon notes that while "walls and shields are common sense in this world", this particular city is not normal, and the rulers are using the walls to keep the citizens isolated and ignorant.
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The Wall Around the World / int_4499d6a0	comment	In Grandia, an entire continent was divided by an enormous wall about a mile high. No one ever tried to explain why it exists, it may have something to do with Gaia killing almost everything in its path, as it's only encountered on that side of the wall until it got on an airship.
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The Wall Around the World / int_44a080cd	comment	Incarceron, being a giant prison, is surrounded by massive steel walls.
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The Wall Around the World / int_467773a6	comment	Rogue One has Scarif, location of an immense archive and protected by a shield with a single entry gate. The shield also prevents the titular commando from trasmitting the plans of the Death Star to the Rebel fleet when it attacks, at least until the Rebels ram a Star Destroyer in the gate and disturb the shield long enough to receive the transmission. The shield is later destroyed when the Death Star, in a vain and late attempt to keep Rogue One from completing its mission, fires the superlaser at the archive.
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The Wall Around the World / int_4d8931d9	comment	Utopia Falls: New Babyl is (supposedly) the last inhabited city on Earth, with a shield protecting its residents from the danger of the ruined outside world that surrounds it completely. It's in fact keeping people inside however.
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The Wall Around the World / int_4da11f30	comment	Return of the Jedi has the Forest Moon of Endor and the incomplete Death Star II protected by a shield. Destroying the generator through a commando raid is the first part of the Rebel plan to destroy the Death Star.
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The Wall Around the World / int_4ea10091	comment	Grandia II had something similar, a huge nigh-uncrossable canyon, though its existence was explained: it was basically caused by God crashing into the earth.
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The Wall Around the World / int_52e8fba	comment	Land of Oz: If you only follow the first book, Oz would seem rather like this. The endless deadly desert surrounds Oz on all sides, isolating it rather nicely. Too bad later books place other magical kingdoms on the other side of a desert that seems rather more like a moat. Eventually, all the magic-users in Oz gather their power to put up a wall of invisibility, thus more permanently sealing off Oz.
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The Wall Around the World / int_535ac0ac	comment	In the novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, the End of the World sections take place in a town which has a wall around it, and once you come to the town you can't go outside the wall.
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The Wall Around the World / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "To Serve Man", the Kanamits provide every country on Earth with the technology to project a forcefield around their borders, ending the possibility of any nation attacking another.
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The Wall Around the World / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The spherical Walls of the World, which are only specifically described in The History of Middle-earth, although their existence is implied in The Silmarillion. The walls separate the world from the empty void of the Outer Dark, and are only pierced by a single Door of Night, created by the Valar to thrust Morgoth out until The End of the World as We Know It.
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The Wall Around the World / int_5ad20940	comment	In Sex Mission the survivors of a Depopulation Bomb — only women (reproducing artificially) — live in a deep mine and are afraid to venture outside, because all their periscope shows is a grey wasteland. There is a literal wall around the periscope and the surface gate. With very convincing grey wasteland painted on it.
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The Wall Around the World / int_5cbb9f06	comment	In the film version of Ã†on Flux the survivors of the "industrial virus" (biological apocalypse) have lived in the walled city of Brenga for generations. The outer perimeter of the wall is periodically sprayed with some sort of poison to keep the outside world at bay.
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The Wall Around the World / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Faxai-on-the-Caul, the only Realm city on the Lunar-controlled island of the Caul, is surrounded by massive walls; not only are they a major reason the city hasn't fallen, they're also partially why the Realm wants to keep a presence there (as legends state they were made by a venerated figure). The lands beyond are largely unknown.
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The Wall Around the World / int_5fe8632b	comment	W.I.T.C.H.: The Veil serves to keep a powerful evil, identified with Phobos, on the world of Metamoor and keep the universe safe from him, with most people being able to get through the various portals but Phobos being apparently unable to. The Veil becomes unnecessary and is torn down once Phobos is captured and locked in the Tower of Mists.
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The Wall Around the World / int_615c5032	comment	In Maleficent, the titular character creates a great wall of thorns to keep the humans out of the Moors. King Stephan builds a similar tangle of thorns made of iron in his castle.
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The Wall Around the World / int_638624c8	comment	In the first and second seasons of Slayers, the world Lina could explore (and put craters into) was restricted by a magical barrier that went down after the Big Bad powering it was killed.
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The Wall Around the World / int_656e8d31	comment	Tokyo Jupiter in RahXephon, encasing Tokyo (and looking like Jupiter).
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The Wall Around the World / int_68db5f35	comment	A large portion of the plot in Orson Scott Card's Pathfinder (2010) revolves around one of these. It's revealed decently early on that there are actually 19 "worlds" with Walls.
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The Wall Around the World / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: In the episode "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat", an alien declares that his people have decided to wall off Earth's solar system to prevent further contact with humans (with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech parodying Donald Trump's remarks about securing the US-Mexico border).
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The Wall Around the World / int_694b6208	comment	The area known as The States in White Noise is surrounded by a gigantic wall and poison gas filled moat. No one is allowed in or out except for bounty hunters, and residents hate and fear those who live beyond it.
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The Wall Around the World / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons, as always: The Misty Border in the Ravenloft setting cuts it off from the rest of the multiverse. You can check in, but you never check out. Darklords can do this at will (with a few thematically-appropriate exceptions) to isolate their own domains. The town of Barovia has its own permanent version of its domain's closed border; only the Vistani know how to make a secret antidote that allows safe passage. Spelljammer has a borderline case: crystal shells. Oh, it can have many thousands of portals... spread over the whole surface of a star system, that is. It's not easy to find one without knowing where it is, and they don't always stand still forever. Thus the proper magic is the best way to locate a portal or even open a temporary one — for those who have it.
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The Wall Around the World / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, Vault 101 was intended to never open its door. The line is, "No one ever enters, and no one ever leaves." Neither are true: your dad is from Rivet City, and you and he both leave.
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The Wall Around the World / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 has an invisible border that surrounds the majority of the playable game world, and attempting to go beyond it gives a message "You cannot go that way." This border extends across the edges of the map in the Pip-Boy... except for The Glowing Sea region, which extends some ways past the visible map. Naturally, these map borders cannot be normally crossed, but a simple edit to the game's fallout4.ini file can permanently turn off these borders. In a subversion to this, if the DLC for Far Harbor or Nuka-World are installed, new terrain data is loaded into the Commonwealth's regular map cells, which extend beyond the normal barriers of the world. That is, even if the game's standard borders are active, you will be able to travel past the invisible barrier. However, if you travel to either the Far Harbor or Nuka-World areas (which load their own unique world maps), they will each have their own invisible barriers preventing extensive exploration... unless the aforementioned .ini file tweak is active.
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The Wall Around the World / int_719e6177	comment	Motocross Madness surrounds its playable region with a high cliff, and players who manage to surmount this will be blown sky high by hidden landmines.
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The Wall Around the World / int_72262aee	comment	Ba Sing Se, the Earth Kingdom capital in Avatar: The Last Airbender, is surrounded by two giant walls. People within the city are generally encouraged not to even think about the world outside the walls.
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The Wall Around the World / int_7357234c	comment	There's no actual wall on Hillys in Beyond Good & Evil, but if the player strays too close to the edge of the map, a series of pillars will rise up out of the water and warn the player that they're leaving territorial waters. Trying to get past them will just lead to them shooting non-lethal lasers at the player's vehicle to turn it around.
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The Wall Around the World / int_740815bb	comment	The great Agatean Wall in Interesting Times in more to keep everyone inside, rather than other people out. According to the leaders, there is nothing but ghost and vampire filled wasteland outside it.
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The Wall Around the World / int_74ce3b5b	comment	The desert that "surrounds" the Maitlands's house in Beetlejuice. Basically, any ghost who tries to go beyond his/her haunting grounds ends up there until they turn back.
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The Wall Around the World / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda uses the trope in varying degrees: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Hyrule is a valley bordered on all sides by impassable mountains and a thick forest on the Northwest. No one knows or even speculates on what's beyond. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: Koholint Island is an island in a vast ocean. Its inhabitants have not attempted to build any sailing vessel more advanced than a rivergoing raft, and most express surprise and disbelief at the notion that there is a world outside their island. This is because the island and everyone and everything in it exist only in the dream of the Wind Fish. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: The Great Sea has no physical barrier to keep you from leaving the map. However, your boat tells you that it's dangerous to leave and turns you around. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has an impenetrable cloud cover that separates the residents of Skyloft from the surface. As far as the people of Skyloft are concerned, the "surface" is a mythical place, rumored to be filled with monsters. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild uses a mixture of A Link to the Past and The Wind Waker in terms of natural barriers. The north and and west portions of Hyrule are cut off by a massive gorge, the southwest has an expansive desert, and the south and east are nothing but the sea. The gorge is too wide to fully cross and too deep to go down safely, the desert kicks up an impassible sandstorm if you try to go any further (if you still try, the game will trigger the message "You can't go any farther"), and venturing beyond the sea just greets you with an invisible wall. Trying to climb cliffs near these barriers will have the game force Link to dislodge from the wall to prevent him from climbing. What makes it stranger is the world map does show more landmass beyond the desert and chasms, but no one in game ever mentions it.
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The Wall Around the World / int_75cfb0cb	comment	In the episode Child Abduction is Not Funny, the paranoid parents in South Park had Mr. Lu Kim build a huge wall around the town to keep kidnappers out. It was ordered to be demolished again at the end of the episode after spending the entire episode protecting it from Mongol invaders.
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The Wall Around the World / int_79ffa674	comment	A nationwide example happens in Azure Striker Gunvolt Series where Japan has isolated itself from the rest of the world with the Kamishiro Barrier, preventing anyone from entering or leaving the nation without permission (usually granted by Sumeragi). This is to prevent a potential invasion by foreign powers and to further monopolize Glaive technology. The Kamishiro Barrier was deactivated in 2 via sabotage from within which allowed Eden forces to launch an invasion but, after they are thwarted, it was reactivated by the time of 3 several decades later. Unable to rely on similar sabotage, ATEMS instead use specially-designed missiles which emit powerful forcefields to successfully pierce through the barrier and launch their own invasion with the special forces prepped on them.
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The Wall Around the World / int_7aaf9e41	comment	In Batman Annual #20, New Gotham is surrounded by a dome. The City Controllers tell the populace that it is for their own protection as the air outside New Gotham is poisonous. However, this is not true. The dome was constructed for the sole purpose of keeping the people inside the city.
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The Wall Around the World / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: in "Escape from Phineas Tower", the titular tower traps Phineas and Ferb and their friends in a dome. To escape, they make the tower realize they have friends in multiple places, causing the tower to encase larger and larger areas into its dome, until eventually the dome ends up surrounding the entire Milky Way galaxy.
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The Wall Around the World / int_7ccbb85f	comment	In The Dosadi Experiment the whole planet is encased inside the "God Wall" barrier as a part of said experiment. Not that it's completely impassable, but for most people inside it is.
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The Wall Around the World / int_7d3d4fd4	comment	In The Singer of All Songs, the order of priestesses known as the Daughters of Taris live surrounded by a giant wall of ice. They are the only people who can use ice magic, so they control who can come in and out.
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The Wall Around the World / int_7fb486bc	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: Koholint Island is an island in a vast ocean. Its inhabitants have not attempted to build any sailing vessel more advanced than a rivergoing raft, and most express surprise and disbelief at the notion that there is a world outside their island. This is because the island and everyone and everything in it exist only in the dream of the Wind Fish.
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The Wall Around the World / int_817acecf	comment	In Fables, a queen was punished for her infidelity to her wizard-king husband by being transformed into a tortoise and having the archipelago on which she was born shrunk and put into a teacup she must constantly balance on her back. We briefly see the inhabitants of the archipelago, who have various myths and semi-scientific theories relating to the colossal white wall (the rim of the cup) surrounding their world. Several of their stories have elements of truth to them, though by and large the people simply accept the wall as a fact of life, and it barely features in their lives beyond having a rite-of-passage where a boy must touch it to become a man.
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The Wall Around the World / int_85b79d17	comment	Black Mirror: The episode "Hang the DJ" has the main characters living in a world that they know to be walled off, referred to as The System. The climax involves them attempting to escape The System by climbing over the wall.
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The Wall Around the World / int_8756f1a5	comment	The Twelve Kingdoms: The city of Houryou, in the Kingdom of En, has many layers of walls, but in this case, is because of the constant population growth, as more people migrate to En from other kingdoms, the city constantly needs to expand more to accommodate them, and since the walls are needed to protect them from the monsters, they have to constantly be build with the expanding city.
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The Wall Around the World / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	A New Hope, with the easily missed shield protecting Alderaan. It's easily missed because the Death Star's superlaser is so incredibly powerful it batters through it in 1/10 seconds and then shatters the planet. It's implied one of the reasons the Death Star was built was just that: hit planets through their shields.
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The Wall Around the World / int_8b957d5d	comment	The planet Krikkit in Life, the Universe and Everything was surrounded by a thick dust cloud such that they never saw outside their world. This was done by the remnants of the supercomputer Hactar, making the Krikkiters into an Omnicidal Maniac race once they saw the universe. He did this so they would use the universe-destroying bomb he had invented, thus fulfilling a duty he welshed on long ago and getting rid of his long-standing guilt.
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The Wall Around the World / int_8c87469c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has an impenetrable cloud cover that separates the residents of Skyloft from the surface. As far as the people of Skyloft are concerned, the "surface" is a mythical place, rumored to be filled with monsters.
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The Wall Around the World / int_8e4d18b7	comment	In Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim, the Canaan Archipelago is cut off from the outside world due to a Perpetual Storm generated by the eponymous Weather-Control Machine.
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The Wall Around the World / int_8ec33a86	comment	The world of Xenoblade Chronicles 1 consists of two behemoths standing in an endless sea. If the characters reach the beaches at the bottom of the world and step into the sea, they lose HP rapidly until collapsing and winding up back on shore.
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The Wall Around the World / int_8ec33a87	comment	In Xenoblade Chronicles 2 the world consists of several behemoth titans in an endless cloud sea. If the group ventures too far into the Cloud Sea until the titans aren't in view anymore the party hits an invisible wall with one of the group remarking that they should turn around.
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The Wall Around the World / int_8ec33aad	comment	The land in Xenoblade Chronicles X is made up of five linked continents, each with unique ecosystems, surrounded by an endless ocean. The player is able to swim or sail out onto the ocean but as soon as the land is no longer in view, the game produces an invisible wall and throws up a message that you cannot continue on.
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The Wall Around the World / int_920d318c	comment	Partially averted with the magical barriers that divide the setting of Anima: Beyond Fantasy in three smaller, spherical ones plus a bunch of much smaller territories that did not get included in them. Depending on someone's location, those barriers take different forms - from a large, perpetual tempest that allows circumnavigation of the (sub)world in the case of the human territories to terrain that repeats again and again in the case of some of those separated territories.
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The Wall Around the World / int_980c3316	comment	In The Power of Shazam! Annual #1, the city on Binderaan where CeCe Beck lives is located inside of a dome.
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The Wall Around the World / int_995158f0	comment	The Ear, the Eye and the Arm: In Zimbabwe in 2194 a large preserve has been set aside where a select few live in the Good Old Ways of pre-colonial Africa. It's large enough to hold at least a couple villages with their livestock and agriculture, and surrounded by an enormous wall to block out the sights and sounds of the modern world, mirrored on the inside to give the impression of going on forever. The residents call the wall "the edge of the word" and aren't even curious what's on the other side, knowing it only as Mwari's country.
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The Wall Around the World / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: The barrier around the galaxy in the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". In "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", the world is a hollow asteroid.
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The Wall Around the World / int_a09b76a	comment	In The Thirteenth Floor the world has no physical wall around it but it does have an edge where the simulated nature is visible to the naked eye. People within the simulated world are just programmed to never think about going anywhere near that edge (of course there are exceptions...)
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The Wall Around the World / int_a168eb30	comment	The wall around the town in Haibane Renmei. (We never do find out what lies beyond, though considering that the walls are death...)
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The Wall Around the World / int_a27e0900	comment	Prisoners of Power: Planet Saraksh has an atmosphere with very high refraction, which leads its inhabitants to believe that they live not on the outer surface of the globe, but on the inner one. They can see the surface around them curving upward, as far as dense low clouds allow them to see. The idea that they live on an outer surface ("mas-saraksh", "inside-out world") is well known, damned by all religions, commonly used as an expletive, but gives surprisingly accurate results for plotting trajectories of ICBMs. Only the insane believe in existence of other worlds, and a crash-landed alien is considered a mutant.
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The Wall Around the World / int_a2dee471	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: The Great Sea has no physical barrier to keep you from leaving the map. However, your boat tells you that it's dangerous to leave and turns you around.
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The Wall Around the World / int_a2e4f356	comment	Legends of the Dead Earth: In Batman Annual #20, New Gotham is surrounded by a dome. The City Controllers tell the populace that it is for their own protection as the air outside New Gotham is poisonous. However, this is not true. The dome was constructed for the sole purpose of keeping the people inside the city. In The Power of Shazam! Annual #1, the city on Binderaan where CeCe Beck lives is located inside of a dome. In Aquaman Annual #2, the first storyteller believes that Atlantis was a domed city on the surface of Old Earth.
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The Wall Around the World / int_a32877f1	comment	In Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series, a huge, ancient and magic-infused wall separates the mundane, magic-free Ancelstierre (which resembles early 20th-century England) to the South from the Medieval Stasis land of the Old Kingdom to the North. Passage across the wall from the Ancelstierre side is tightly regulated, with military checkpoints and watchtowers, though they're also watching for threats, particularly undead ones, coming from the Old Kingdom.
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The Wall Around the World / int_a4e6a00a	comment	Skies of Arcadia: The western half of the planet is surrounded by a giant maelstrom with the Empire in the eye of the storm. Survivors claim there are weird monsters in there, and most sailors believe the population of said monsters is endless, but there's an Asian-themed empire on the other side.
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The Wall Around the World / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: There is a reference to the sky being a firmament, a literal wall around the entire world. This is slightly different than the usual application of this trope, as there is nothing outside of the area enclosed by the firmament, which exists to hold back the waters that are the source of rain. Although the Book of Isaiah does describe Yahweh as having His throne on top of the firmament.
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The Wall Around the World / int_a62dae97	comment	The Qur'an: There's a story of Dhul-Qarnayn (Arabic for "The Two-Horned"note possibly alluding to a horned helmet that he wore?), who may or may not be the same as one of several historical figures (among whom are Alexander the Great and Cyrus the Great), being asked to protect a people from their enemy, the Ya'juj and the Ma'juj (Arabic names of Gog and Magog, but as peoples instead of individuals). He does so by building an exceedingly tall wall entirely made of iron, with a massive iron gate that's difficult to open. There's also a 'wall' (more metaphorical than literal) between this world and the realm of the dead, that absolutely no one can pass. The wall is the reason why there are few (if any) ghost stories in the Islamic world.
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The Wall Around the World / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: in "Love Struck", Timmy wishes for the world's population to be divided by gender, causing the Earth to be split up in a men's half and a woman's half, separated by a large wall circumnavigating the Earth at the poles.
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The Wall Around the World / int_a9cb14fc	comment	The Misty Border in the Ravenloft setting cuts it off from the rest of the multiverse. You can check in, but you never check out. Darklords can do this at will (with a few thematically-appropriate exceptions) to isolate their own domains. The town of Barovia has its own permanent version of its domain's closed border; only the Vistani know how to make a secret antidote that allows safe passage.
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The Wall Around the World / int_ac70897e	comment	Stardust is a story about a wall that separates two worlds, one entrenched in magic and the other that is similar to our own.
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The Wall Around the World / int_acac378b	comment	The second act of Razia's Shadow starts after the world was split into the light and dark.
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The Wall Around the World / int_b1df22ec	comment	In Tales of Graces, the entire world of Ephinea is surrounded by the Aquasphere, an enormous bubble of water. The only thing that can been seen through the Aquasphere is Foselos, a ring of...actually, no one on Ephinea knows. Foselos keeps the Aquasphere stable, and the reason there is an Aquasphere in the first place is to keep the people of Ephinea from seeing Fodra. Notably, the trope is played with; while the Turtelz are somewhat curious as to what, exactly, Foselos is, only some people in the Amarcian Enclave seem to care about the Aquasphere, and it takes Pascal messing around with a computer from the old Amarcian Enclave to even find the 'name' of the Aquasphere.
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The Wall Around the World / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Characters refer to the Wall as "the edge of the world."
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The Wall Around the World / int_b50aa03f	comment	The Reynard Cycle: Deconstructed by the Muraille, a series of fortresses connected by a wall meant to serve as the eastern border of Arcasia. Unfortunately, the finished product was Awesome, but Impractical: It could never be fully manned, and has been breached so many times that the whole thing has been abandoned.
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The Wall Around the World / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk occasionally visited the Keystone Quadrant in his old comic-book series... basically a solar-system (possibly more than one) which was somehow 'walled off' from the rest of the universe, it could only be entered and exited through various types of teleportation. It was basically a Sugar Bowl without the sugar - populated by funny talking animals and hilariously incompetent Keystone Kops... and caught up in a long war between a Mad Scientist tortoise and his cybernetically-enhanced Black Bunny Brigade (not to mention a small army of robotic Monster Clowns), and the heroic Animal Resistance, led by a fast-talking Raccoon space-captain.
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The Wall Around the World / int_b683f90f	comment	Perry Rhodan uses this on a number of occasions (including a 'wall' around the entire Milky Way Galaxy that the protagonists had to deal with after losing a few hundred years in an unexpected stasis field while outside, once). There's also a more literal example in Wardall, a tide-locked planet with a wall running around its entire circumference following the terminator. The planet's former natives apparently lived inside said wall rather than on either side of it, not surprising considering the conditions there; by the time the issue set on the world opens, though, its only inhabitants are the surviving crew members of a crashed pirate vessel and their descendants.
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The Wall Around the World / int_ba4c7343	comment	The Amazing Frog? features the town of Swindon, which is surrounded on all sides by an enormous wall that's nearly impossible to pass over, unless you either jump high enough or find the secret hold in the wall.
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The Wall Around the World / int_bb7d6a95	comment	The Duckman episode Exile in Guyville had a wall being built down the middle of America, dividing the sexes with Women on the East and Men on the West.
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The Wall Around the World / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The planet Krikkit in Life, the Universe and Everything was surrounded by a thick dust cloud such that they never saw outside their world. This was done by the remnants of the supercomputer Hactar, making the Krikkiters into an Omnicidal Maniac race once they saw the universe. He did this so they would use the universe-destroying bomb he had invented, thus fulfilling a duty he welshed on long ago and getting rid of his long-standing guilt. In So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Wonko the Sane builds an inside-out house he calls "the Asylum" to fence in the rest of the world (he, naturally, lives "outside the Asylum", which is inside the house). He'd decided the entire world had gone insane when he came upon a pack of toothpicks with instructions.
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The Wall Around the World / int_bcfa43ed	comment	In The Secret of Kells, Abbot Cellach is obsessed with building a wall that will protect his monastery from Viking invasions. It doesn't work. He is very strict with forbidding his charges from going outside, punishing young Brendan harshly when he disobeys.
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The Wall Around the World / int_bd083a1b	comment	Beyond the Wall: A giant stone wall surrounds the village, keeping the villagers inside and forest monsters outside. The punishment for trying to go beyond the wall is immediate execution.
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The Wall Around the World / int_c1b44782	comment	In Aquaman Annual #2, the first storyteller believes that Atlantis was a domed city on the surface of Old Earth.
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The Wall Around the World / int_c3d4f879	comment	A Hole in the Fence: When GrisÃ³n manages to crawl into the Forbidden Zone beyond his hometown, Courquetaines, he discovers a several-meter-high fence stretching out as far the eye can see, and beyond the wall a huge city. When GrisÃ³n and Prune manage to break through the fence, they ask their mother because their city is walled up. Surprised, she reveals that it is the region around Courquetaines and other villages which was fenced off by their inhabitants, who wanted to make a live off the land instead of inhabiting over-populated and over-polluted cities.
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The Wall Around the World / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In the story "Inferno", the Doctor pushes through a barrier in time and ends up in a Mirror Universe. Used in the DWM comics, most notably in "Oblivion".
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The Wall Around the World / int_c5b9137b	comment	In Dark City, John Murdoch tries to reach Shell Beach; instead he finds a wall at the edge of the city.
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The Wall Around the World / int_c96cfe29	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Hyrule is a valley bordered on all sides by impassable mountains and a thick forest on the Northwest. No one knows or even speculates on what's beyond.
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The Wall Around the World / int_c97b59d9	comment	Secret Wars (2015): After Dr. Doom cobbles together Battleworld from the remaining fragments of the multiverse, he sets up a wall made out of Ben Grimm to keep out uncontrollable monsters like the Marvel Zombies, Ultron, and Annihilus.
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The Wall Around the World / int_cb7b647e	comment	The main continent of the world of Palladium Fantasy is surrounded by a vast wall of darkness that disintegrates (or maybe dimensionally teleports) anything that sails or swims into it. This being a Palladium game, this isn't mentioned at all in the corebook description of the world and only comes out in passing in a later supplement.
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The Wall Around the World / int_cefe086	comment	In The Legends of Ethshar, the world of Ethshar is a Flat World, being the end-cap of a cylinder. The edge of the end-cap is marked by a "noxious yellow gas".
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The Wall Around the World / int_d0aa1fb1	comment	Grandia: In Grandia, an entire continent was divided by an enormous wall about a mile high. No one ever tried to explain why it exists, it may have something to do with Gaia killing almost everything in its path, as it's only encountered on that side of the wall until it got on an airship. Grandia II had something similar, a huge nigh-uncrossable canyon, though its existence was explained: it was basically caused by God crashing into the earth.
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The Wall Around the World / int_d4c4f175	comment	Henkyou no Roukishi Bard Loen: The known world is surrounded by a giant wall called Han Dessa Rou. The Tersia lands of Pakura District have a section without the wall, which is the entrance to an unexplored forest where the monsterous Kijiel come from.
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The Wall Around the World / int_d51868d1	comment	The Hexen II manual states that the universe is surrounded by a crystal barrier, beyond which there is a darkness inhabited by demons. The Serpent Riders are merely the three who slipped through a tiny hole which was sealed almost immediately.
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The Wall Around the World / int_d709b969	comment	Several stories in the world of Elric of MelnibonÃ© show that its world is surrounded by a World of Chaos that is inhospitable to human life. One major guardian of the walls is the lawful good sorceress Myshella.
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The Wall Around the World / int_d90f02aa	comment	There aren't any literal walls in The Books of Ember, but there might as well be — the only light comes from the city, as does all of the food and other necessities, making it impossible to leave. Nobody in the city knows what might exist outside of it, if there's anything there at all. It turns out that the entire city is actually underground. The original builders included instructions for leaving the city to be used after a certain amount of time had passed, but they were lost and forgotten before they could be used, leaving the citizens trapped in a city with dwindling food and power supplies, and no way of knowing that escape was necessary or possible.
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The Wall Around the World / int_d930a4c7	comment	Spelljammer has a borderline case: crystal shells. Oh, it can have many thousands of portals... spread over the whole surface of a star system, that is. It's not easy to find one without knowing where it is, and they don't always stand still forever. Thus the proper magic is the best way to locate a portal or even open a temporary one — for those who have it.
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The Wall Around the World / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: In the episode "Pinewood Derby", Earth and the Moon are sealed off by a cube-shaped force field after the humans fail the Space Cash Test. In the episode Child Abduction is Not Funny, the paranoid parents in South Park had Mr. Lu Kim build a huge wall around the town to keep kidnappers out. It was ordered to be demolished again at the end of the episode after spending the entire episode protecting it from Mongol invaders.
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The Wall Around the World / int_da275e44	comment	The 4400: In "The Gospel According to Collier", Jordan Collier saw a city surrounded by a wall 1,000 feet high during his visit to the future. In "Terrible Swift Sword", he reveals that it is the last city on Earth.
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The Wall Around the World / int_daa2d589	comment	In Smallfoot: The Yeti are told by the Stonekeeper for generations that their entire world is an snowy island on a sea of clouds on the back of gigantic mountain mammoths. Beneath the sea of clouds is the Himalaylan Mountains where people live. The Yeti long ago ran away from the humans ((or Smallfoot)) that called them monsters and agreed on a collective lie to never go down the mountain. The Stonekeeper is supposed to maintain order, protect the village, and maintain the generations of lies to keep the Yeti safe.
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The Wall Around the World / int_e0300f0c	comment	Oathbringer (third book of The Stormlight Archive): Shows up as a myth of people living in a land of shadows surrounded by a wall to keep the monsters out, only for one girl to climb the wall and bring back light, and in the process she discovers the wall is to keep the monsters in. This appears to be a mythologized account of Shinovar, the first human settlement on Roshar, and how humans eventually conquered the world. The walls are the mountains surrounding Shinovar that act as a windbreak for Highstorms, and the light is Stormlight, glowing Mana that can only be obtained by leaving a gemstone out in a Highstorm.
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The Wall Around the World / int_f00d733b	comment	The Gauntlet still stands in the New World of Darkness, cutting off the Shadow from the material. There's also the Abyss, which severs the Supernal from the Fallen.
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The Wall Around the World / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes has the War Walls, justified as barrier against alien invasion, but really there as a level separation.
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The Wall Around the World / int_fad1ddfe	comment	In The Last Starfighter, the entire civilized-good-guys portion of the galaxy is surrounded by an enormous force field called the Frontier. The evil Ko-Dan Armada lies outside the Frontier, but they've found a way to drill through it. (Cue Musical Sting.)
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The Wall Around the World / int_fae1b03e	comment	Meta-example. The universe in which Glass Fleet takes place is described as a "closed space". The exact details are unclear, but one thing is made clear: it's shrinking as more and more of it crosses the event horizon of the Black Cross: a massive black hole.
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The Wall Around the World / int_fb83eb7b	comment	In The Sword of Truth / Legend of the Seeker, there is an (almost impenetrable) great barrier around a region called "The Midlands", which is the central geography of the story. That barrier is re-used in Naked Empire of the same series, to close off a group of people from the rest of the world.
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