Donkey also proves to be highly intelligent, and helps Shrek find a loophole in Rumplestiltskin's contract, comparing Shrek's situation to The Twilight Zone.

Donkey and Puss later save Shrek and Fiona from the Pied Piper, and then lead the assault on Rumplestiltskin's castle.

She even told Belle that true Love's kiss will break any curse so she can take away Rumplestiltskin's powers.

With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

In the Season One episode, " The Road Not Taken ", Olivia described the experience of déjà vu to Walter after she briefly experienced an alternate reality as the result of being a Cortexiphan subject.

It was in fact an alternate reality game.

A more recent development, the alternate reality game, is intrinsically tied to the concept ; an ARG may exist solely as a collection of false documents that build a fictional storyline and puzzles connected to it.

The New York Times reviewed the play saying " Mr. Davalos has molded a daft campus comedy out of this unlikely convergence ," and nytheatres review said the playwright " has imagined a fascinating alternate reality, and quite possibly, given the fictional Hamlet a back story that will inform the role for the future.

In the alternate reality of X-Men: Ronin Iceman is a murderous ninja in the employ of the Hellfire Club.

New Excalibur battles an evil counterpart of Iceman, who is a member of the Shadow-X, the X-Men of an alternate reality in which Professor X was possessed by the Shadow King.

It is set in an Earthlike world ( perhaps in an alternate reality ), deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy, while at the same time being a complex commentary on the insubstantiality of today's contemporary society.

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

Layouts are physical props intended to simulate a sort of alternate reality where life is easier than either the grim existence of the colonist in their marginal off-world colonies, or even Earth, where global warming has progressed to the point that Antarctica is prime vacation resort territory.

Eldritch offers to help Mayerson “ become ” whatever he wants, but in fact is so manipulative and controlling of the CHEW-Z alternate reality that Mayerson ultimately decides he'd rather be dead than continue to be manipulated by Eldritch.

A biologist by training, UK science fiction author McAuley writes mostly hard science fiction, dealing with themes such as biotechnology, alternate history / alternate reality, and space travel.

Voyager was not attacked in the restored timeline ; so the alternate reality when Kes got the warning wouldn't have taken place.

In the 2009 Star Trek film, which takes place in an " alternate, parallel " reality, McCoy and Kirk become friends at Starfleet Academy, which McCoy joins after a divorce that he says " left nothing but bones.

The defeated combatants were either transported to an alternate reality where medical technology was advanced enough that they could be revived from any wound or transported to the alternate reality that was Valhalla.

In the alternate reality of X-Men: Ronin, the story is played out in Japan.

The princess is saved from a second death when the alternate reality Mort created is reduced to a pearl-like state.

* Steven Lisberger's 1982 film Tron explored the idea of virtual reality ; transporting real-life characters into an alternate, computer-generated world.

* Marvel 1602 – Mutants are known as the " Witchbreed " in this alternate reality set during the time of The Inquisition.

* In the Nephilim role-playing game, an Akasha is some kind of alternate reality bubble, whose existence and content are based on the thoughts and dreams of the humans.

In this alternate reality, Willow is an aggressively bisexual vampire.

An alternate approach, using a different formula for the variance, first computes the sample mean,

It formed its first government under parliamentarism in 1889, and continued to alternate in power with the Liberals until the 1930s, when Labour became the dominant political party.

Due to limitations of this system found during the 1960s and 1970s — victims often simply did not report crimes to the police in the first place — the Department of Justice developed an alternate method of tallying crime, the victimization survey.

Black plays first, and players alternate in placing a stone of their color on an empty intersection.

The first of these was A Modern Utopia ( 1905 ), which shows a worldwide utopia with " no imports but meteorites, and no exports at all "; two travellers from our world fall into its alternate history.

Finally, in 1745, the two agreed to alternate as vicars, with Bavaria starting first.

His Age of Apocalypse appearance ( referred to as Spikey ), classic costume ( his standard look ), original costume ( his first comic appearances, with his face completely frosted over ), and Bobby Drake ( the look he adopts in the New X-Men series and his subsequent solo series: he appears in his human form, wearing a leather trenchcoat, with only his hands appearing frozen ) are alternate costumes for Iceman.

Superman: Birthright, a limited series written by Mark Waid in 2004, offers an alternate look at Luthor's history, including his youth in Smallville, and his first encounter with Superman.

The off-white pinstriped jersey, introduced as an alternate in 2010, becomes the primary home jersey while the plain-white jersey with blue placket and sleeve piping, first introduced in 1997, is now the home alternate.

( So player 1 makes the first 4 moves of the game, but the stone colors still alternate ).

Another technique is to alternate a half-bowl and a full-bowl the first several times the pipe is used to build an even cake.

After leaving Asylum, the label released the first Tom Waits " Best of " album in 1981, a collection called Bounced Checks, notable for including an alternate, stripped down version of " Jersey Girl " and the otherwise unreleased " Mr. Henry ", as well as an alternate master of " Whistlin ' Past the Graveyard " and a live performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking ".

Three alternate retellings of The Vision of Escaflowne have been released in manga form, with first two manga series developed at the same time as the anime.

The game was first published in 1984 during the Cold War and was intended to be an accurate depiction of a possible future, but events in the world have rendered the premise of the game an alternate history.

The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close.

< imagemap > File: 2nd millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: In 1492, Christopher Columbus ; The American Revolution ; The French Revolution ; The Atomic Bomb from World War II ; An alternate source of light, the Light Bulb ; For the first time, a human being sets foot on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 moon mission ; Aeroplanes become the most-used way of transport though the skies ; Napoleon Bonaparte, in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe on subjects of expansionism and modernization ; Alexander Graham Bell's telephone ; In 1348, the Black Death kills over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of Europe, in two years.

He demonstrated the world's first colour transmission on 3 July 1928, using scanning discs at the transmitting and receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with a filter of a different primary colour ; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination.

Fingering in the second register is generally the same as in the first / fundamental, though alternate fingerings are sometimes employed in the higher end of the registers to correct a flattening effect caused by higher aircolumn velocity.

The main chapters alternate with dialogues between imaginary characters, usually Achilles and the tortoise, first used by Zeno of Elea and later by Lewis Carroll in " What the Tortoise Said to Achilles ".

While a boy's house, Tudor house had an alternate first verse of the Floreat which for more than two centuries by tradition they would sing by heart at Chapel contrary to all other houses of the school which would sing the official first verse of the Floreat.

Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was a separate character from Luke's father ; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1978 ( further reinforcing this is Obi-Wan Kenobi calling Vader " Darth ", as if it is his true name rather than his new Sith name ).