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A [[Death World]] is a highly dangerous place, where simply ''going'' there is considered taking your life into your own hands. It could be from hazardous environmental conditions, such as an acidic swamp or poisonous fog, or from powerful native predators (Here there be Dragons, or worse, [[Always a Bigger Fish|something]] that ''eats'' them), dangerous flora, or even all of the above. It's like the entire place is deliberately hostile to human life. (Of course, if it's also a [[Genius Loci]], it just might be!)

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' has both Fieras VI, a fairly unpleasant world in terms of climate, terrain, and biosphere. But then there's the aptly-named Soul Eaters, alien life forms that possess humans, grant them [[Body Horror]]-based supernatural powers, and eventually totally take over their minds and convert them into new Soul Eaters. On top of that, the planet has a screwy magnetic field that interferes with electronics, especially targeting systems, so you can't even nuke the planet from orbit. There's also the prison planet in the R45 system, whose landmasses are mostly swamps overrun with poisonous plants, nasty predators, carnivorous plants, and stranded alien [[Bug War|bugs]] driven insane by the planet's natural anti-magic field. A planet that drives BUGS insane is not a nice place to serve out a life sentence, however brief that may be.

* [[Felarya]], [[Not Safe for Work|NSFW]] except everything is trying to ''[[Author Appeal|eat]]'' you. Or just kill you. Or, you know, ''both''. The writer specializes in vore, so, as expected, most of the flora and fauna in his magnum opus are based on one question: "How many ways are there for a creature to eat someone?" There's a creature for every possible method. How about gassing you and growing roots into you to suck out the juices? Or portals ''out'' of that hell being created by creatures who live between dimensions and will ''snatch you while you're in [[Subspace or Hyperspace]]'' for dinner? The ones on the ''low'' end of his hazard scale aren't ''safe,'' they just need to be ''near'' you to kill you as opposed to, say, creating a wind tunnel to suck you up from over a hundred yards away. It's amazingly creative. However, if you're not a voreaphile, the sheer number and creativity of ways you can suddenly find yourself in something's gut make it scary, not sexy.

** It gets better. He has most of his critters forgo the whole 'chewing' bit even when they've got big teeth. When - not if, ''when'' - something in Felarya makes a meal of you, you don't get to die quickly when the jaws close, no. You get a nice acid bath that can take ''days'' to finish burning your flesh and bones down to nothing. When the only mercy a world has is that if you're lucky, you run out of oxygen before you can suffer too terribly, you know you're in a [[Death World]].