White holes in fiction

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White holes have long been speculated about in science fiction, generally being depicted as one end of a wormhole.

Examples:

• In the Marvel Comics series The Uncanny X-Men, a 'white hole' was the cosmic power source used by Carol Danvers to become the heroine Binary.
• In the collectible card game, Yu-Gi-Oh, White Hole is the name of a Trap card that counters Dark Hole. Also, in the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, a massive white hole is the origin of the mysterious Surge of Light / Light of Ruin that is the basis of the split personalities of Sartorius, and Aster Phoenix's legal guardian, DD.
• The British sitcom, Red Dwarf, uses a white hole as a plot point. However in addition to matter, the white hole in that episode was also spewing out time, causing the characters to repeat many actions. See Red Dwarf characters: Talkie Toaster.
• In the Andromeda television series, a massive explosion induced within a black hole caused a white hole or miniature big bang to occur.
• In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, white holes are used for retrieving rare elements for the construction of planets.
• In Diane Duane's Young Wizardry series, white holes are stellar organisms who were once black holes and before that, stars. A white hole nicknamed "Fred" by the protagonists features prominently in one story (So You Want to Be a Wizard).
• In the film Godzilla V.S. Space Godzilla it is revealed that Godzilla's doppelganger Space Godzilla was created by a White Hole (And several other factors).
• In Gene Wolfe's novel The Urth of the New Sun, the sequel to The Book of the New Sun, Severian brings back a white hole that re-energises the Sun.
• In Filmation's The Masters of the Universe, in the episode titled "The Taking of Grayskull," the villain Skeletor utilizes a white hole to transport Castle Grayskull into an alternate dimension where he has access to the secrets of the castle, and the Sorceress is unable to stop him because her powers work in reverse. He-Man is able to send Castle Grayskull back through the white hole to its proper location on Eternia. Once Castle Grayskull is back in its proper location, the white hole disappears.
• In the children's sci-fi series "Space Cases" a ship of misfit space cadets and their instructors are thrown across the universe by a white hole, leaving them a 7 year journey back home.
• In Alastair Reynolds' short story Understanding Space and Time from the collection Zima Blue and Other Stories, the main character ponders the true nature of the universe, augmented by visiting aliens. He accretes layers of processing material as he strips back layers of theory, until told that in finding the ultimate truth, he will collapse into a black hole as have three previous entities in the known history of the Universe. He postulates that in doing so he will transform himself and his final theory into a new universe contained within his own singularity, essentially a white hole.