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{{quote|''Welcome to the [[Trope Namer|Black Bug Room]].''
''Everyone has their own Black Bug Room.''
''This is yours, Scott.''
|''[[New X-Men]]'' #116}}
The opposite of the [[Happy Place]] and the darkest corner of the [[Mental World]], the '''Black Bug Room''' is the place inside a person's head where all of his or her negative feelings dwell and fester. A person's consciousness may get sent there when his or her mind breaks under the strain, or other characters may end up there by taking a wrong turn during a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]].
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{{examples}}
== Comic Books ==
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* In ''[[Psychonauts]]'', a secret room in "Milla's Dance Party" is a cage made of fire with ghostly monsters behind it, whispering menacing things about a tragedy from Milla's past. Keep in mind the ENTIRE rest of the level has a bright, disco/party theme, and this single room is the disturbing exception.
** This is the only time you'll get to take a good look at the monsters-you'll see them twice more over the course of the game, and you'll be busy fighting them both times. They're a representation of a person's nightmares. They're caged up here because Milla has iron control over them, which, considering what they actually ''are'' (dig the memory reel in the vault you find nearby and you'll see what I mean), is pretty impressive given how relevant they are to her current job.
*** The nightmares were actually originally designed to be Milla's personal demons, not as generic nightmares. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106034011/http://www.doublefine.com/Psycho-pedia/Nightmare/ The developers moved them] to the Milkman stage because it didn't make sense story-wise for children to be attacked during a training lesson from a fully-fledged Psychonaut. Their design matches up with the tragic secret locked in her vault. Milla is constantly running this noisy party in her mind to {{spoiler|drown out the nightmare-inducing memories of her childrens' cries as they died in a fire. Seriously, ouch...}}
* The ''entire town'' of ''[[Silent Hill]]'' may be one of these. Also, the dark room full of literal bugs in the Historical Society of ''[[Silent Hill 2]]''.
* The {{spoiler|entire game}} in ''[[Twisted Metal]]: Black'' is either {{spoiler|Sweet Tooth's}} Black Bug Room or his [[Happy Place]]. He's so [[Ax Crazy]], it's hard to tell.
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* ''[[Yume Nikki]]'': The entire game. Other than possibly the rooftop and {{spoiler|Masada's spaceship}}.
** The fansequel ''[[Dot Flow]]'' has an even more disturbing case of this.
* In ''[[
* Desmond finds himself in one come ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' with a twist: {{spoiler|he's actually exploring his own memories in an attempt to piece together his past and separate them from those of his ancestors so he doesn't end up like Subject Sixteen.}}
== Web Comics ==
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== Other ==
* Tangency, the off-topic section of RPG.Net, uses the "Black Bug Room" tag to describe stories of miserable events where the posters reading cannot try to stop things like that from happening again by doing something productive—they're just topics on the [[Humans Are
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