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 opening and ending were both filmed and can be seen on the Lethal Weapon 4 DVD.

The alternate universe title Exiles features a version of Hyperion referred to as " King Hyperion ", who is a member of a team known as Weapon X.

So, Blink decides to help an alternate Quentin Quire by acting as the Timebroker through Gambit's old Tallus, which is given to him by the Nighthawk from the reality where the Exiles had battled Weapon X after Quentin is able to transport himself there on his own.

Support was added to OS X in order to provide support for the large number of existing AppleTalk devices, notably laser printers and file shares, but alternate connection solutions common in this era, notably USB for printers, limited their demand.

* Crusader X, an alternate version of Captain Britain

* The anime series Sonic X reveals that Sonic, his friends, and Eggman hail from an alternate real version of Earth ; Mobius and Earth were once one planet, but a cataclysmic event split the planet into two and sent what would become Mobius into another dimension.

He also starred in the series Bishop: The Last X-Man ( 1999 – 2001 ), in which he was trapped in another alternate timeline, and District X ( 2004 – 2005 ), which cast him as a police officer in New York City ’ s " mutant town ," as well as the House of M tie-in, Mutopia.

An indexed file can have multiple alternate indexes ( X ), and in fact, a sequential file may have alternate indexes placed on it so there is no primary index.

In the alternate reality represented in the comic book Mutant X, Warren Worthington is captured by Apocalypse much like he is in the main Marvel timeline.

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

Pilaster the S and the arcs consist of stones and archstone X alternate green and white.

In the Mutant X Universe — an alternate world which was visited by the Earth-616 ( mainstream Marvel Universe ) Havok — Elektra ( surname: Stavros ), while still equally trained as a martial artist and assassin, was the nanny and bodyguard of Scott Summers.

In the alternate reality known as the Mutant X universe, young Scott Summers was abducted into space along with his father Christopher and mother Kate, leaving his brother Alex to become one of the founders of the X-Men as Havok.

In the alternate future of Earth X, Medusa's hair volume has drastically increased.

After X-Factor disbanded, Havok starred in Mutant X, a series in which he explored a strange alternate reality.

In the alternate universe world of Mutant X, it was revealed that Mr. Sinister had obtained the cocoon that held Jean Grey following her transformation into Phoenix.

In the alternate universe title Earth X, an older Colossus reveals himself to have been Mister Sinister ; in love with Jean Grey, he traveled back in time to preserve her as a clone.

However, such alternate layouts are still not compatible with subpixel rendering font algorithms used in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, which currently support only the RGB or BGR striped subpixel layouts.

In the alternate universe of Earth X, Uatu is portrayed as a cold, nihilistic manipulator who feels far superior to the people of earth whom he watches.

An alternate version appears in Mutant X Annual 2001.

In an alternate universe story in Mutant X Annual 2001, Fin Fang Foom is a member of the Lethal Legion, who dies in battle against the Goblin Queen ( posing as the entity the Beyonder ).

There is an alternate version of the " crotch chop " where instead of pointing down on each side of their crotches, they point down and make their arms in an " X " formation, over their stomach / crotch.

In the alternate universe limited series Earth X, the Celestials are beings of energy encased in armor composed of vibranium, a metal with properties that prevent their dissipation.