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** The planet Spiridon in ''Planet of the Daleks'' is a good example. Plants that spurt quick-hardening glue that can trap you or close off your airways. Plants that shoot spores that, if they touch you, [[Body Horror|starts growing in your skin and spreads fast]]. Tons and tons of carnivorous beasts. Hostile, ''invisible'' natives. Honestly, when the army of insane alien killing machines is the ''least ''of your worries, things are bad.

** The planet Skaro—a delightful wasteland which experienced a nice long NBC campaign by two opposing sides, leaving it essentially a polluted, radioactive stone quarry. Also, there are the [[Absolute Xenophobe|surviving inhabitants]]...

** The eponymous planet from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/~~NS/S4~~/E10 Midnight|Midnight]]" is seemingly made entirely of precious gems, and as such has a stake as a high-class vacation planet... as long as you stay inside, as the ''reason'' the planet's soil has turned to gems is because it's constantly exposed to a form of radiation that would incinerate anything living in two seconds flat. {{spoiler|Except for a nasty little [[Body Surf|body surfer]]...}}

** The eponymous planet from "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E10 Midnight|Midnight]]" is seemingly made entirely of precious gems, and as such has a stake as a high-class vacation planet... as long as you stay inside, as the ''reason'' the planet's soil has turned to gems is because it's constantly exposed to a form of radiation that would incinerate anything living in two seconds flat. {{spoiler|Except for a nasty little [[Body Surf|body surfer]]...}}

** The planet Marinus from ''The Keys of Marinus''. Glass beaches lapped by acid seas. Jungles full of hostile plants and deadly mechanical traps. Frozen wastelands patrolled by packs of man-eating wolves. Bodiless, telepathic slavers. Then there's the WAR...

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' had a couple of examples:

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** The Lower Planes. Besides the infestation of devils, demons, and other nasty things, 3.5 makes them quite literal death worlds. In several senses. The Abyss' colloquial description is "Too horrible for conventional wisdom to comprehend" (one of the random things you can encounter on its infinite layers is an ''ocean of insects'', for example), and the Nine Hells of Baator are all actively trying to kill you in some way shape or form:

{{quote|'''Avernus''': Giant fireballs from the sky.

'''Dis''': Superheated environment meets government that makes [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]] look like happy flower hippies.

'''Minauros''': Acid swamp perpetually absorbing the structures built on it, largely a wilderness in which giant [[Eldritch Abomination|things]] lurk which the ''devils'' are afraid of.

'''Phlegethos''': Fire-dominant environment. The landscape is made of volcanoes and magma. The ''entire'' landscape.

'''Stygia''': Cold-dominant environment. The entire landscape is glaciers and stop-your-heart-in-seconds water. That also rips out your memories.

'''Malbolge''': Before Glasya, a land made entirely of hills suffering perpetual landslides from mountain-sized boulders. Now, the entire landscape is alive, and guess what it wants to do to you?

'''Maladomini''': Breathing kills you.

'''Cania''': Major cold-dominant. Breathing kills you, or you freeze to death first.

'''Nessus''': One big flat plane, with some canyons. You have nowhere to hide from all the forces of the heart of Hell. No, the canyons are [[It Got Worse|worse.]] }}

** As of fourth edition, Baator is now a [http://images.yuku.com/image/pjpeg/45536ba641a897edcc85536f05a293fe97906a7c.jpg planet]. The one thing that won't kill you? Falling from the upper atmosphere, which is where most people who come here arrive. Why? Because the place isn't merciful enough to kill you that quickly.