In the first season of Rick and Morty, a science-fiction animated comedy, the episode "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!" (2014) aliens trap the lead role (Rick) in a simulated reality in order to trick him into revealing his formula for concentrated dark matter. The hypothesis also serves as the climax of No Man's Sky's overarching plot, in which it was revealed that the game's setting itself was a simulation and that the player character is a member of a race made to explore it. In the game Xenoblade Chronicles, it is revealed that the whole world of the gods Bionis and Mechonis was a simulation run by Alvis, the administrative computer of a phase transition experiment facility (heavily implied to be "Ontos" in Xenoblade Chronicles 2) after Klaus destroyed the universe in a multiverse experiment.