in-universe

English

Adjective

in-universe (not comparable)

1. Referring to a perspective or view from the context of a fictional world, in contrast to a perspective from the real world.

   Referring to Lord Voldemort as the most feared person in the world is an in-universe classification in the Harry Potter series.

   • 2017, Jordan Erica Webber, Daniel Griliopoulos, “On utilitarianism: BioWare's baddies”, in Ten Things Video Games can Teach Us‎^[1], Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 243:

     And in Mass Effect 2, you can find a secret dossier on the synthetic Geth sniper called Legion, which was created solely to preserve its species. This dossier shows that this apparently serious Geth spends a lot of processing time playing video games — ranging from playing as a Level 612 Ardat-Yakshi Necromancer in Galaxy of Fantasy, an in-universe MMO with over eleven billion players, to being a max-scoring sniper in Code of Honor: Medal of Duty.

   • 2019, Monica Louzon, “Mara Jade, Frontier Woman”, in Melanie A. Marotta, editor, Women's Space, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 29:

     The Star Wars novels, comics, video games, television series, and radio shows created between 1977 and 2012 all constitute an original Expanded Universe (EU) of in-universe history and lore set within the same transmedia franchise.

Synonyms

• intradiegetic
• Watsonian

Antonyms

• Doylist
• extradiegetic
• out-of-universe

Translations

referring to a perspective or view from the context of a fictional world