References in Culture
Further information: Fictional planets of the Solar System#Counter-Earth- Gor, is the name of the counter-earth that is the setting for a series of 32 novels by John Norman.
- The 1969 science-fiction film Doppelgänger depicts the discovery and investigation of another planet sharing Earth's orbit on the opposite side of the sun. The third season of science fiction television series Lexx was set on binary planets Fire and Water which were revealed to be in orbit around the sun on the side opposite to Earth.
- Two 2011 films -- Another Earth and the Lars von Trier's film Melancholia -- feature a plot in which a planet emerges from behind the Sun and approaches earth.
- Several Marvel Comics or spinoffs of comics were set, or had parts of a story set, in a counter earth. These included The High Evolutionary, The Spider-Man Unlimited TV series and the associated comic book, Infinity Crusade: Paradise Omega, The Earth of The New Universe, the Heroes Reborn Earth ("more of a Pocket Dimension than an actual planet"). On The Adventures Of Superman radio series, the planet Krypton is said to be "situated on the other side of the Sun" from the Earth in the first episode.
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