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{{trope}}
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{{quote|"''Did I just die by walking into the fucking ''door!?'' Yeah! Everything kills you, literally ''everything''.''"
Video games struggling for creativity will invent unlikely obstacles.
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Some games that normally avoid this will design a deliberately ludicrous yet highly dangerous enemy/obstacle for [[Rule of Funny|comedic value]]. A [[Platform Hell]] game will often take this trope to ludicrous places for comedy. See also [[Malevolent Architecture]] and [[Death World]].
Compare: [[Animals Hate Him]]; [[Super-Persistent Predator]]; [[Damn, Nature! You Scary]]; and [[Books That Bite]].
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== Video game examples ==
=== [[Action Adventure]] ===
* Most of ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'''s foes are logical for a dolphin - sharks and jellyfish for the most part. The angry crabs and giant water spiders are a bit weird, but the [[Prehistoria]] levels take it to the extreme with ''trilobites'' and giant seahorses who ''shoot their young at you''.
* Enemies in ''[[Legacy of Kain]]: Soul Reaver 2'' had the rather alarming tendency to forget who they were fighting and come after you. This is even worse when demons and demon hunters become best of friends for the amount of time it takes to kill your character.
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=== [[Action Game]] ===
* ''[[Paperboy]]'' is infamous for having everything from runaway lawnmowers to breakdancers to [[The Grim Reaper|the Grim friggin' Reaper]] running around the middle of the street for no discernible reason other than to mess with the eponymous deliverer.
** That's probably why his exploits made the front page of the newspaper every day. In fact, [[Epileptic Trees|one theory that's been floated]] is that the eponymous delivery person is, in fact, ''dead'', and the delivery route is his [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|personal purgatory]]. Only by delivering the paper and surviving every day for a week is he able to escape.
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* ''[[Home Alone]] 2'' for the NES and SNES was ridiculous. Not only did every random stranger in the hotel try to get you, but so did vacuum cleaners, luggage, and mop buckets (both the moving mop and the inanimate bucket).
** The Infogrames staff must have played this game before coding ''[[Tintin]] in Tibet''. In the hotel level alone, you could get [[Collision Damage]] (and lose one of your four hit points) from waiters carrying a platter, maids vacuuming the floor, luggage carelessly knocked over by said maids, and little dogs that don't bite. Oh, and the timer too.
** But then, the entire premise of ''[[Home Alone]]'' was that Kevin made his house/hotel room into a place where
* The ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' game on the Sega Genesis. Cute little lizards who take half your health, climbing ropes who are vertical poison ivies, Pteronodon carrying you back to the top at the cost of half your health... Also goes with [[Nintendo Hard]].
* This page would be remiss without a mention of a Sega Genesis ''[[X-Men]]'' game whose first level started in [[Prehistoria|a jungle]]. And in this jungle, getting a lance thrown at you did damage, getting carried off by a [[Giant Flyer]] did damage... and ''having a dragonfly buzz past you'' did damage. The hell?
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* ''[[Time Gal]]'' on the Sega CD. That girl has no allies whatsoever. It seems that every era she gets transported to only serves the purpose of pitting her against something or another.
* In ''[[DmC: Devil May Cry|DmC]]'', the reboot of ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', Dante fights in a parallel dimension, Limbo, where the city itself literally tries to kill him.
* The ''[[Kunio-Kun]]'' series plays the Trope pretty straight, even lampshading it in ''[[River City Girls]]'', from the one of the two anti-heroines’ conversations ([[Hypocritical Humor|Of course, like ''they'' should talk...]]):
{{quote|'''Kyoku:''' You ever wonder why everyone in our town is so violent?
'''Misako:''' Nope.
'''Kyoku:''' I mean, everyone’s always punching and kicking each other, like everywhere we go, like all day long.
'''Misako:''' I guess so, what’s your point?
'''Kyoku:''' Nothing.}}
=== [[Adventure Game]] ===▼
▲== [[Adventure Game]] ==
* Sierra celebrated the way of character death, embraced it, became one with it. Many Sierra [[Adventure Game|adventure games]] would [[Trial and Error Gameplay|kill for making one seemingly innocuous false step]], and then [[Have a Nice Death|mock you for getting yourself killed]]. It became slowly more forgiving with time, replacing [[Unwinnable]] situations with instadeaths (which is a good thing, kind of) and eventually granting an "Oops" button or two.
** Take the second ''[[Laura Bow]]'' game. It would kill the title character by means of an automobile that appeared out of nowhere if she stepped off the pavement onto a seemingly empty road. You were apparently supposed to look at the road first to confirm that no cars were approaching, but the same would happen even if you did that and the game told you it was all clear. (It expected you to look ''both ways'' before crossing the road. Just looking once wasn't enough, in one of Sierra's more... pedantic puzzles. Luckily, you can get everywhere by taxi, and just skip the stupidity.) Another scene would kill you if you wandered into a dark passage without a light. Somehow, a woman in her early twenties would be swarmed and ''overpowered'' by quite ordinary ''bats''
** Not all that many games make players try to kill off their characters in every possible way, even fewer have them enjoy it. The latter include the farcical ''[[Space Quest]]'' and ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'' series, where even the narrator is basically a [[Deadpan Snarker]]. [http://tmd.alienharmony.com/rw/index.htm A fan website] has cataloged 67 distinct ways to die in ''Space Quest V'' alone. In ''Space Quest III'', trying to pick up a simple piece of metal scrap one room away from the start of the game would result in Roger cutting himself, severing an artery, and dying of blood loss within seconds. Total play time to first death in that situation? About 20 seconds.
** Even the slot machine can kill you. Get three skull-n-crossbones, and it turns you into dust with its built-in [[Disintegrator Ray]]. The slot machine ''is'' named "Slots O' Death"... you could rig the machine in the remake to beat it quickly, but in the original, [[Luck-Based Mission|save often and hope for the best]].
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*** On the first screen of the Land of the Dead in ''[[King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow]]'', there are two zombies that can come over and touch you to death in fewer seconds than the immediately preceding cutscene lasts.
** ''Nothing'' in ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 5'' can kill you. Nothing. Even if you try to electrocute yourself with a wall outlet. There is also exactly ''one'' [[Unwinnable]] situation in the game due to a bug.
* [[
** Death was rare but possible in the ''[[Full Throttle]]'' adventure game. Each time Ben was killed, the game would automatically backtrack to the point where the fatal mistake was made, allowing you to try it
*** Death only becomes possible in Full Throttle in the endgame, when it's made blatantly clear that you're in a life-or-death chase sequence.
** The ''[[Monkey Island]]'' games, for example, averted this trope. Nothing could kill its hero, Guybrush Threepwood ({{spoiler|well, [[Tales of Monkey Island|almost nothing]]}}), or even do permanent harm. Not even getting repeatedly punched sky-high by the [[Big Bad]].
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*** The same game has another sequence where Guybrush can walk off a cliff. A Sierra-style death screen comes up, followed moments later by Guybrush bouncing back onto the cliff's edge, with two words of explanation: "Rubber Tree".
*** Guybrush could also die in ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'' if you took too long escaping the [[Death Trap]] in LeChuck's lair, but since the game was told in flashback form, Elaine (to whom Guybrush was telling the story) would point out that Guybrush couldn't have died if he was here talking to her, and Guybrush backtracks his story. In the easy mode play, it's impossible for Guybrush to die, and the [[Death Trap]] is solved automatically (via {{spoiler|an alternative bodily fluid}}).
*** In ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', Guybrush has to fake his death to progress in the game, prompting one character to comment "Funny, I didn't think you could die in [[
*** In ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]],'' the one possibility of death is a brief time-traveling episode in a swamp. Future Guybrush would tell present Guybrush things and give him things in a specific order, and if that order was not replicated exactly by the player (when the player controls future Guybrush), a time vortex would open and swallow everything. (And that doesn't really end the game - you get another try to do the sequence right. For shocks, you can also try shooting your alter ego with the gun he had handed you...)
{{quote|'''Guybrush:''' Wow, I guess it's true that gun owners are nine times more likely to shoot themselves.}}
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=== [[Driving Game]] ===
* ''[[Mario Kart]]'' can be accused of this if you are in first place. Between everyone behind you out to [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|spill your blood by spamming powerful items at you]], several that can't be blocked, and trying to dodge track obstacles like pipes, thwomps, or fireballs, this is a game that wants to make sure you don't have it easy.
** [http://www.rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2009-06-01 One shell, two shell, red shell, blue shell, death-on-swift-wings-comes-for-you shell.]
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=== [[First-Person Shooter]] ===
* While not exactly ''everything'' trying to kill you, all of the killable characters in the PC game ''Vivisector: Beast Inside''
** Similarly, ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' has both good and evil enemies, and they'll all attack Shadow regardless of his [[Karma Meter]] (except when they're busy fighting each other!)
** Another example of this sort of thing can be found in ''[[Far Cry]] 2''. Ostensibly you are a mercenary working for one side in a civil war in Africa. They try to [[Hand Wave]] it in game by claiming you're a disposable asset that nobody knows about. In reality even when working a mission for one side you will be attacked by both sides. Constantly.
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=== [[Light Gun Game]] ===
* The 80's light gun arcade game ''Who Dunit'' requires you to not only guide a detective through a mansion, but protect him from things like pimps throwing their hats at him, and beach balls bouncing all over the place. Because anything that touches him will instantly skeletonize him, his soul drifting away. Yes, even the ''beach balls''.
** Another Exidy light gun game, ''Crossbow'', is pretty bad about this one as well; the [[Heroic Fantasy]] warriors you're defending will go up in flames if anything touches them, even if the implement of their destruction was ''a coconut thrown by a monkey''. But hey, it beats getting turned into a skeleton by a beach ball.
=== [[Miscellaneous Games]] ===
* Pretty much every object in the games on the ''[[Action 52]]'' multicart is trying to kill you. Elton John kills you (Non Human). Money kills you (Streemerz). File cabinets kill you (French Baker). The floor kills you (Meong). Pasta kills you (Alfredo, only playable via some emulators). Bowling balls kill you (Hambo) Dildos kill you (Thrusters). You'll wish that the game would self destruct and kill you in real life.
** ''Star Evil'' is pure evil with the way it puts your ship two inches from a cinderblock at the start. And the stage boss moves like a DUI driver (according to mpn1990's Unlicensed Garbage show on [[YouTube]]).
=== [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPGs]] ===
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has its fair share of unlikely enemies, including hippies, [[McNinja|ninja snowmen]], animated nightstands, anime smileys, fire-breathing ducks, pastiches of characters from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', and the Guy Made of Bees. Then there's the many twists on standard RPG enemies, like Orcish frat boys, apathetic lizardmen, misspelled undead (including zmobies, lihcs, and ghuols), and the 99 Bottles of Beer On A Golem. There's also an area (accessible only while high on [[Mushroom Samba|astral mushrooms]]) where you can fight things like [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Really_Interesting_Wallpaper some really interesting wallpaper] and [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Urge_to_Stare_at_Your_Hands the urge to stare at your hands]. Really.
** "Crimbo" 2010 introduced exciting new enemies, such as the Tedious Spreadsheet, the Hideous Slideshow and the Water Cooler. Oh yes, and there were elves climbing out of the toilets, too.
* This is pretty much the entire plot of ''[[Gaia Online|zOMG]]'', which features enemies called "the Animated".
** Not to mention the cute pink balls of fluff that can kill you with ''one'' hit.
* The MUD ''[http://www.aardwolf.com/ Aardwolf]'' takes this trope to utterly ludicrous levels, as some magically enchanted areas have [[A Wizard Did It]] (literally) related creatures, from the traditional walking broom to irritated neck-ties, nightstands, gardening equipment, cabinets, violent cacti, and man-eating pot pies. ''[[Dungeons
* In ''[[
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' seems to have this in spades. You'll realise this as you count up the hours you spend running away from increasingly violent and aggressive deer, flowers, and moths - on top of the demons, dragons, and old gods (aka Faceless Ones), of course.
* Runescape has Ape Atoll. Pretty much everything is out to get you on this island, ranging from monkey archers (or even zombie monkeys) to poisonous snakes to birds to scorpions. The monkeys that aren't trying to kill you are not only trying to send you to jail, but make sure that you stay there. Unless you happen to be able to transform into a monkey. Into which case, the island is essentially harmless.
=== [[Platform Game]] ===▼
▲== [[Platform Game]] ==
* ''[[Metroid]]''. You're stuck on a planet where if it is moving it will try to kill you. Even some of the plants will do damage to you in the original ''[[Metroid Prime]]''.
** In ''[[Metroid Prime]]'', most of the plants stay still. (The rare Bloodflower, which spits stuff at you, is an exception.) In ''Super [[Metroid]]'', they actually ''try to eat you if you fall into them''. And some have extending claws that try to grab you.
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* The NES platform game ''[[Monster Party]]'' had some pretty out-there enemies. Disembodied legs stuck in the ground and walking pants are just two examples. Then there's the bosses, which include a giant bubble-spitting pitcher plant, a giant snake with Medusa hair that throws ''tsuchinoko'' (a type of semi-mythical snake famous in Japanese cryptozoology; [[Pokémon|Dunsparce]] is a Tsuchinoko) at you, and a ''giant fried shrimp'' which eventually morphs into an ''onion ring'', then a ''kebab''.
** Let's not forget the rock n' roll player who'd make you "Face the music!", The giant cat who threw killer kittens at you, drops of blood that'd mysteriously hurts you in Stage 2... on the other hand, there was also that dead spider that said "Sorry, I'm Dead" in Stage 1 and those zombie dancers who you'd beat only if you didn't attack them and watched them dance.
* ''[[Oddworld|Abe's Oddysee]]'' (sic) has about 5 friendly [[NPC
** No means of self-defense, that is, except for rocks, mines, grenades, and ''[[Made of Explodium|causing people to explode by singing at them]]''.
* The freeware game ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' uses this to and past the limit, featuring killer spikes, <s>apples</s> <s>giant cherries</s> ''Delicious Fruit'' that can also fall ''up'' and ''the moon'' as the most common killers in the game. Add to that ripped-off enemies from 8-bit games, several innocuous-looking objects suddenly dropping lethally on your character (including a star, thunderbolts, a glass of wine thrown by the ''Symphony of the Night'' Dracula ''during a cutscene'' and ''a killer pop-up''), a Tetris segment where you must avoid being squashed by the blocks, a floor of spikes that ''suddenly develops wheels and chases you'' and even a killer ''save point'' just before the final boss to get a hair-tearing frustration masterpiece.
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** Contrary to popular belief, not everything is trying to kill you. The air is relatively safe. Also, there are numerous squares of very benign ground. Everything else will kill you.
** Incidentally, at one point the only way to survive a certain jump is to [[Soft Water|land in a pool of water]]. Making it one of the rare games where the [[Super Drowning Skills|water DOESN'T kill you]] (particularly odd given that that would have been one of the deaths that made sense in real life if it had killed you).
** The [[Fan Sequel
* Nearly everything in the [[The Problem with Licensed Games|video game movie]] ''[[Warlock (comics)|Warlock]]'' could harm you, including water dripping from the ceiling and ''otherwise harmless birds if they fly into you''. Even worse, there's one stationary hazard, a thorn vine trap, that will damage you ''even if you cheated and used a [[Game Shark|Game Genie]] to give your character unlimited life and/or gave you unlimited [[Mercy Invincibility]]''. Then again, you could also be killed with those cheats on through [[Super Drowning Skills]] and [[Convection, Schmonvection|staying immersed in lava]].
* ''Jumping Flash''. Killer mosquitoes, dragonflies, strange creatures with cannons for mouths that launch missiles, a diversity of frogs, giant mechanical scorpions... just about the only thing in the game that isn't trying to kill you are [[Space Whale|the air whales]].
* ''Jumping Flash 2'' has a reverse of this trope in both regular and Extra world 6-1, where you can actually safely stand on one of the many rotating spike balls in the level.
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* The entire collection of bosses (and many enemies) in the ''[[Wario Land]]'' series. Last time you heard of a living cuckoo clock that tries to electrocute the character and use a grabbing claw, or a ghostly mouse riding an inflatable teddy bear being a boss and trying to kill you?
** The latest game takes it a bit further, with an evil race car driver, robo clown with flamethrower and frying pan riding duck chef as bosses.
* Believe it or not, the ''Barbie'' game for the SNES falls under this trope terribly. Any and everything that hits you takes away
** The ''Barbie'' game for the NES is even worse: pizzas, jellyfish (complete with creepy music), clothing, water spouts, kites, tennis balls, skates, soda...
* In the first ''[[Tomb Raider]]'', absolutely everything and everyone is out for Lara's blood. A few of the later games, however, had people and/or creatures that wouldn't attack her unless she attacked them first (examples: the warrior monks in the second game, and the monkeys and the gang members from certain levels of the third game). However, even if you attack just one of the monks in the second game, ''every single monk in the entire level'' will be trying to skewer you.
* ''Sunday Funday'' puts you up against plumbers, disco dancers, businessmen, joggers, big-headed women wearing pearl necklaces... All of them want you dead for the terrible crime of ''going to Sunday School''.
** This game was a 'Christianized' [[Retool]] of earlier title ''Menace Beach''. All they did was change the storyline ('rescue your girlfriend' is now 'get to Sunday School') and the sprites (from somewhat more acceptably threatening ninjas, evil clowns etc. to more innocuous
* Beautifully inverted in indie game ''[[Karoshi]]''. Absolutely nothing is trying to kill you, and some things will even prevent your death. Unfortunately, the point of the game is to die...
* In ''[[Jackie
* ''Impossamole''. Any object or animal can be a [[Goddamned Bats|God-damned Bat]] or [[Demonic Spider]]. Even innocent little penguins. And origami birds. And rolling barrels. And ceiling tiles even after they've fallen.
* The extremely [[Nintendo Hard]] ''[[Bubsy]] The Bobcat'' games, as demonstrated in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM0G4rWKSCs this] [[Let's Play]].
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* All ''[[Kid Niki]]'' games, especially the third one which had flying banana peels, flowers which shoot at you, statues shaking their private parts at you, hairy plant legs and so on.
* ''[[Back to the Future: The Game|Back to The Future]] II and III''. Enemies include giant snails, fish, mutant frogs, birds, bouncing balls, dinosaurs, bullet-shooting clouds, pipe monsters, ghosts, walking trashcans and in certain areas, books, test tubes, teddy bears, heart symbols, graduation hats and screwdrivers. The list goes on.
* The NES ''[[Hook]]'' game has obviously pirates. However, besides these, you also have [[Giant Spider
* The SNES ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' game had pretty interesting things attacking you ranging from ants and dinosaurs to mechs.
* In ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'', the [[Minecart Madness]] levels are bad enough, and the [[Rocket Ride]] levels crank this right on [[Up to Eleven]].
* ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' video game had some strange enemies attacking you. When you're in the dreamworld, getting attacked by skeletons and spiders with a human head is [[Justified Trope|justified]]. However, it doesn't explain why in non-dream world [[Giant Spider
* This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaCkpbbOVVM Let's Play] video of freeware game ''Syobon Action'' does a good job explicating this trope. On stage 2, the player is killed by an "invisible cloud". He was underground at the time.
** Word to the wise: Don't trust ''anything'' in this game, from the floor to the ceiling to message boxes to bonus items to ''clouds in the background!''
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=== [[Real Time Strategy]] ===
* In ''Perimeter'', the nature of psychospheres means that the reality itself is trying to kill you. Psychospheres react to human presence, and forming human fears into reality...and those things then attack humans. Earth was going to be destroyed and humans want to survive, so they need to travel through psychosperes to a new world. The only way to reduce Scourge threats are to keep mental activity in the Frames at minimum, achievable by ''personality elimination''.
* ''[[Outpost 2]]'' could be like this at times. Earthquakes? Check. Volcanoes? Check. Lightning storms? Check. Tornadoes? Check. Meteors? Check. Nuclear reactors that explode if left unattended? Check. All-consuming microbes released by science [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] trying to terraform the entire planet [[Grey Goo|and you along with it]]? Check. And all this is before factoring in the other players...
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=== [[Roguelike]] ===
* ''[[Nethack]]'' and many other Roguelikes. Virtually anything in Nethack, animate or not, can either kill you outright or lead to your grisly death. Sinks and fountains can spew [[Goddamned Bats]], some magic items can strangle you when equipped, you can fall into a poison-spike pit with no warning, old food can rot and give you food poisoning, etc. Also, all the initially peaceful [[NPC
** Alphaman has various typically-tame woodland critters as enemies and children's cartoon characters as major bosses. (Gumby will kick your ass.)
** And then there's ''Slash'EM'', a ''[[Nethack]]'' variant that's even ''more'' deadly and unforgiving. One of the better examples from Slash'EM is the poison {{spoiler|cloak}}. Nethack players are used to dealing with deadly items already, so they know to look out for stuff like stumbling boots and amulets of strangulation. There's not a single dangerous {{spoiler|cloak}} in regular Nethack, and it has a 1/3 chance of instant death. ''And'' it does so even if it's not cursed, meaning you can't look out for a cursed one. You're not gonna see it coming.
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=== [[Role
* The original ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' games will makes you paranoid, because not only are demons of all stripes trying to kill you, most humans are split into one of two factions, and even joining one or the other will not guarantee that members of your own faction won't still try to kill you. In fact, if you elect to pick the Neutral path in most games, you just wind up pissing off EVERYONE.
* In ''[[Drakkhen]]'', an old Amiga game, sometimes the ''stars'' would randomly turn into crazy monsters which would fly down and kill you very quickly.
* In the original ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'', the way the faction system was set up some modules created with the toolset would have everything in an area turn hostile as soon as you attack one thing.
* In the SNES RPG ''[[
** The game sort of jokes about this: there's an [[NPC]] who claims she got badly wounded by a mouse. It's a legit warning: Rowdy Mice have a high chance of dealing [[Critical Hit|SMAAAASH!!]] attacks.
** Cavemen, street signs, seedlings, little [[Flying Saucers|UFOs]], mushrooms, zombies, and even a circus tent want to crush you.
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** Let's also take into account the 'shadows' (demons) of ''[[Persona 2]]''. In Persona 2, you could talk to them to get them not to rip your guts out. Now they just right out attack you.
* ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' features enemies like living handbells, bags of money, and, in the game's penultimate boss fight, a homicidal, sentient ''castle''.
** ''[[Dragon Quest VII]]'' had it even worse, with the aforementioned bags of money (a staple monster for the series), a giant rose bush, books, pots, wells, eggplants, anteaters, columns, clowns, a moose, clouds, Aladdin-style lamps, Easter Island heads, starfish, snails, [[Everything
** Solar systems. Every ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' game featured some bizarre enemies, it seems. ''[[Dragon Quest II]]'' had robots, in a medieval fantasy. ''[[Dragon Quest III]]'' had jewel bags, carnivorous treasure chests, and evil mushrooms. ''[[Dragon Quest VI]]'' had evil mirrors, castles, and waves.
* Similar to the ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' example, one of the bosses in the second ''[[Xenosaga]]'' game is called Cathedral. It is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* Similar to those two examples above, Hell House from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. It's a small house... that sprouts a head, arms and legs and tries to crush Cloud and co. Oh, and it fires out [[Nuke'Em|nukes]] as an attack.
* So many [[RPG
* ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' has the killer soda creature called the Chuckolator, which is exactly what it sounds like. It has a shield and sword, and is healed by bad jokes. There's also a yo-yo wielding Hammer Bro species.
** ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time]]'' has the Piranha Planets, which are killer planets with astronaut piranha plants. And the Handfakes, killer hands made of tar holding pictures of an enemies that they attack Mario and Luigi with.
** ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' has a wedding cake as a ''boss'' at one point. You fight the chefs that made the cake and they flee when the cake comes to life. The cake's signature attack is Standstorm, which attacks the whole party and causes Fear, cutting your defense in half. The hard part was you can't kill it traditionally at first. You have to "blow" out the candles by attacking and it relights one candle when its turn comes up. Only after you get rid of the top layers that you can attack the bottom layer normally and when you do beat it, Booster comes in [[Just Eat Him|and swallows the cake whole.]] [[
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', the krogan homeworld Tuchanka ''IS'' this trope incarnate. The main reason the krogan were so dangerous was that anything the universe could throw at them paled in comparison to what was waiting to kill them in their sock drawer every morning. The Codex notes with a bit of amusement that it took the invention of gunpowder to make the krogan marginally more dangerous than the surrounding species thus making death by gunshot ''slightly'' more common than being eaten by wild animal.
** Just to put some numbers on this, the Genophage was a [[Depopulation Bomb|bioweapon]] released on the krogan which renders all but one in a thousand pregnancies non-viable. The net effect of this is to reduce krogan population growth to "pre-industrial levels". [[Layman's Terms|To translate]]: Tuchanka was so dangerous that ''99.9% of krogan died before they could reproduce''.
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* While trekking across the desert in ''[[Secret of Evermore]]'', the player will be actively pursued by ''tumbleweeds'' trying to do him harm.
=== [[Shoot'Em Up]] ===
* The ''very premise'' of obscure NES shooter ''[[Gun Nac]]'' is that normally docile animals and even inanimate objects mysteriously come alive and start attacking... everything! Of course, it's up to our hero to find the cause of this madness.
* ''[[Geometry Wars]]'' is pretty much this trope, to the point where the only things NOT trying to kill you are the walls, and (ironically enough) the mines left by the spiked mine-layers. Which ''do'' kill you if you make contact with them.
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=== [[Sports Game]] ===
* ''720 Degrees'': Police on scooters, bodybuilders, lugers, breakdancers, frisbee throwers, recumbent bikers, cars, other skateboarders, and rollerblading skeletons are all out to slow you down and inhibit your escape from the killer bees that [[Stalked by the Bell|appear when the timer runs out]].
=== [[Survival Horror]] ===
* In ''[[Silent Hill 1]]'', Harry must get a dagger off the door of a fridge. Simple, right? Not quite. If you don't use an item called "Ring of Contract" on the door and try to walk away from the fridge, a cutscene kicks in, which shows a ''huge tentacle that grabs onto Harry's leg and drags him off into the abyss''.
* The SNES horror game ''[[Clock Tower (series)|Clock Tower]]''. If you look in the mirror in the bedroom your reflection might suddenly reach out ''and strangle you''.
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=== Tabletop Games ===
* ''[[Dungeons
** And let's not forget the [[Malevolent Architecture|Doomy Room]] [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Of Doom]]: the Lurker (looks like a cave ceiling), the Trapper (looks like a cave ''floor''), the Stunjelly (looks like the wall), and the Gelatinous Cube (perfectly square transparent [[The Blob|ooze]], so '''the space inside the room''' can kill you!)'
*** And the Greater Mimic, which can imitate larger objects, like a ''room''. The Lurker, Trapper, and Stunjelly in one.
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** The latest edition has made a decidedly strong return to this trope. While 4th edition removes nearly every outstanding environmental hazard from the previous editions (Hell no longer tries to kill you just from you being in the environment for example), now, quite literally, ''every single creature you meet may attempt to destroy you''. There's no such thing as a truly "Good-aligned" creature anymore, (or there is, but alignment in 4th doesn't actually mean much of anything): angels, devils, humanoids, dragons (all shapes, sizes and colors), living, unliving, [[Killer Rabbit|fluffy bunnies]], [[Happy Fun Ball|very small rocks]], literally anything that can have stats can, and most likely ''wants'' to, murder you.
** [[The Spoony One]] tells of a D&D adventure in a world based on [[Alice in Wonderland]] - where ''everything'' and everyone tries to kill you almost instantly, from the Cheshire Cat to the Caterpillar. Hell, even the ''[[Killer Rabbit|Dormouse]]'' is a [[Crazy Awesome|20th level ninja monk]]
** As far back in the original D&D Basic Set, TSR established this in the tutorial. The player - a novice Fighter - had the goal of hunting down a criminal named Bargle the Infamous, and along the way, met and befriended a beautiful female Cleric named Aleena. While it was possible to slay Bargle in this story (assuming the player overcame the ''charm person'' spell with a Saving Throw, which wasn't likely), the villain would murder Aleena, and no option the player could take could prevent it.
* In the RPG ''[[Paranoia]]'', there are countless ways to die. Whatever your mission is might kill you. Your teammates might peg you as a traitor and kill you. You might kill your teammates as traitors and have your death ordered by the Computer for murder. Malfunctioning equipment or the wrong paperwork might kill you. Ending up in a section of Alpha Complex with the wrong color-coding can kill you. There's a reason every player gets 6 backup clones.
** The second rule listed for the gamemaster: "Kill the bastards."
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* ''City Jumper'' is more "everything just stands there and you will die if you touch them" than "everything grows legs and kills you". You can die of trees, crabs, and even ''clouds''.
* ''[[FATAL]]''. There's a coin that will decapitate you if it lands on heads. Your armor has a very good chance of ''making you more vulnerable'' (and a 7% chance of killing you outright).
* This is essentially the entire premise of the ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' world [https://web.archive.org/web/20131007214351/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Multiverse/
** Oh, and those giant pointy rocks hanging in the sky? Well...you may want to wander over to the [[Eldritch Abomination]] page. Open the folders and search for the word "Eldrazi".
* A well-protected facility can be like this in ''[[Shadowrun]]'', but Australia in the sixth world really takes the cake. The native wildlife have now gained magic abilities, creating such wonders as vampire koalas, giant wombats and bunyips. Australia is notable for having a ridiculously high concentration of angry spirits and manastorms (basically magic going amok). It seems that magic itself is out to get you in Australia.
* [[New Horizon]]. Well, okay, it's more accurate to say ''almost'' everything is trying to kill you, and quite a few of those things are really freaking good at it. Tellingly, almost every major city has tall, thick walls...
* [[Warhammer
* If you're a [[Promethean: The Created|Promethean]], your very existence ''pisses off reality''. No, seriously - the universe quite literally hates Prometheans, and makes it impossible for them to live peacefully. Spend more than a few minutes around humans? [[Hate Plague|Good chance they'll try to kill you.]] Try to pet a dog? [[Evil-Detecting Dog|It tries to take your hand off.]] That odd-shaped rock? Good chance it's actually the results of your kind's generative act gone wrong, forced into dormancy and waiting to be awakened by your presence, and the only way it can survive is by eating your viscera. Stay in one place more than a day? ''[[Walking Wasteland|The land itself wants you dead.]]'' Hang around your own species? Some of them are okay, but others have decided that this whole "Pilgrimage" business is a waste of time, and they ''like'' the powers being a horrid excuse for a living being can bring, and they can gain more power by doing unspeakable things to you. The entire world and everything in it is out for the fluid that passes for blood in your veins. [[To Become Human|There's a way out.]] [[Earn Your Happy Ending|Good luck.]]
=== [[Third-Person Shooter]] ===▼
▲== [[Third-Person Shooter]] ==
* The ''[[Crusader: No Remorse|Crusader]]'' games, being set in a [[Dystopia|dystopic future]] run by a [[Mega Corp]] so obsessed with profit their attitude towards [[Bad Boss|things like worker safety]] makes China's human rights record look like they give dissenters pats on the backs for being good chaps, has a some less ridiculous variants of this. However, as the game progresses, the nearly-invisible traps, sensors, and hidden weapons of moderate destruction get so cramped you'll be surprised they have room for their [[Science Is Bad|immoral experiments]]. And then there's the vending machines that randomly dispense grenades instead of soda.
** It's not uncommon in certain parts of the game for random scientists to walk into a trap and blow themselves up the moment you enter the screen, often before they could even possibly be aware of your existence.
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=== Video Games based on The Bible ===
* ''Bible Adventures'' has 3 separate games but each with their own assassins.
** In ''Noah's Ark'', rocks appear randomly and the some animals you have to pick up, tries to fight back until you manage to lift them over your head.
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=== [[Visual Novel]] ===
* In ''Kagetsu Tohya'', the sort-of sequel to ''[[Tsukihime]]'', you can get eaten by ''a magical leopard that springs out of Arcueid's underwear drawer and [[Refuge in Audacity|lectures you]]''. Even Shiki is baffled and unbelieving of this one. There are random bizarre deaths like this strewn all over.
=== [[Wide Open Sandbox]] ===
* Due to a glitch in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', Tommy would sometimes take damage by walking off an ordinary street curb- apparently the mechanism that causes him to be damaged by falls sometimes misjudges the height of the curb, triggering a hit. Fans called this "stubbed toe damage". Getting a steroid power up causes a sort of [[Bullet Time]] that enhances Tommy's speed, dramatically increasing the damage this causes, meaning Tommy can ''get killed by running over a street curb''.
** Similarly, there's a couple of cheats for ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' where C.J. can jump really, really high, but the cheat does nothing for his ability to land. So basically you can jump two stories, but unless there's something a story high for you to land on, you're going to take damage when you land. Further, the cheat is only useful ''at all'' in the suburban areas or country towns. out in the country or parks, there's nothing to land on but the ground. In the city, everything's too high. So you can't jump on anything ''and'' you hurt when you land.
* In ''[[The Godfather (video game)|The Godfather]]: The Game'', it's possible to anger the police into going after you and at just over two out of five Vendetta "boxes" filled, enemy gangsters of the relevant Family will open fire as you get near enough, whether in a car or on foot. If you're spectacularly bloodthirsty, masochistic or unfortunate, you can be fired on by all four enemy Families and the police, making it very difficult to get anywhere. Combined with your character's near-realistic squishiness and you get this trope.
* ''[[STALKER]]'' is set in a nuclear wasteland where you never more the one hundred metres from a killer human, mutant, patch of radioactivity or anomaly that with decorate the countryside with your entrails. Its also one of the few [[First-Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]] where you can die of starvation.
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=== Fan Works ===
* In ''[https://archiveofourown.org/works/975415 The Good Life]'', a fanfic for the 1980s ''[[Dungeons & Dragons (animation)|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' cartoon set after the main characters return to the "real" world, Eric the (former) Cavalier views the D&D world as this trope, but can't figure out why he felt safer ''there'' than he does now that he's home.
=== Live Action TV ===▼
* ''[[Deadliest Catch]]'': This show is loaded with lethal things. [[Giant Wall of Watery Doom|Ship crushing waves]], [[Kill It with Ice|icebergs and ice in the rigging]], [[Kill It with Water|falling overboard in near-freezing water]], boats have been [[Kill It with Fire|destroyed by fire]], and finally, most ironically, 1000 pound crab pots [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|swinging around like piñatas]].▼
=== Web Comics ===
* In the faux-videogame [[Web Comic]] ''[[Kid Radd]]'', the eponymous hero sprite is damaged by apples and bazookas (and by touching [[The Goomba|Bogey]]). And he's damaged ''the same amount'' by each one. This is ''a major plot point''.
* Parodied (of course) in ''[[Adventurers!]]!''. The party encounters an [https://web.archive.org/web/20130615073739/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0080.html Inanimate Chair] and somehow can't run away from it. An [https://web.archive.org/web/20140705081334/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0343.html encounter] with [[Dancing Pants|evil pants]] is [https://web.archive.org/web/20130616061738/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0344.html immediately followed] by one with a [[Rock Me, Asmodeus|demonic boombox]]. As Ardam says when [https://web.archive.org/web/20140705080434/http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/20030113.html facing down a killer coffin], "It really says something about our lives that this doesn't seem at all weird."
* Castle Heterodyne in ''[[Girl Genius]]'', which also counts as [[Malevolent Architecture]]. {{spoiler|Since it recognizes Agatha as its master, the central AI won't hurt her. Or people she explicitly and unambiguously ordered not to. Everything ''not'' under its control will still try to kill her, and
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has Annie [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=875 joking] about various entities trying to end her story.
* ''[[Basic Instructions]]'' covered this trope in [http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/4/26/how-to-play-video-games-together-rerun.html this comic].
* The title character of ''[[Princess Pi]]'' suffered this in her first comic, "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/princesspi/index.php?issue=1&pageType=index&seriesID=12 Princess Pi vs. Everything]".
* ''Is It Canon?'' considers "[http://isitcanon.com/index.php?date=2016-04-07 The only sane way to play RPGs where everything's trying to kill you]"
=== Web Original ===
* ''[[Felarya]]''. A land mostly inhabited by [[Cute Monster Girl
* The [[Binder of Shame]] describes Psycho Dave's gameworld thus:
{{quote|And for the record the most dark and brutal game world I had ever seen was a D&D campaign that Psycho Dave had run many years ago. For this game he had created a hybrid damage system that combined the standard D&D hit point system with the Arduin Grimoire critical hit chart and the infamous Rolemaster critical damage tables. And he used this table for any kind of injury whatsoever for players and NPCs alike. In doing so he created a desolate, blood soaked ruin of a world where carpenters died from complications of bruising their thumbs, people picking at hangnails had their flesh suddenly fall away from their bones in wet red strips and mothers in childbirth frequently detonated.}}
* The world of Remnant from ''[[RWBY]]'' is home to the distinctly ''unnatural'' creatures known as the Grimm, which seem to exist solely to attack and destroy humanity and its works. {{spoiler|And as we find out at the end of V3, this is very literally the case, as they are the creations and minions of a [[Humanoid Abomination]] named "Salem", who is actively trying to exterminate humanity.}}
=== Western Animation ===
* The original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' series was filled with [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show|vile villains]], misplaced magical artifacts, and deadly wildlife.
** Mind you, ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Friendship is Magic]]'' isn't slouching around in this department either; the Everfree Forest is filled with near Australia grade deadly wildlife and plants.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' loves this trope, what with being set in a [[Crap Saccharine World|Crapsaccharine]] future and all. "Ghost in the Machines" takes this to the logical extreme, with Bender possessing nearly every appliance that Fry interacts with.
{{quote|'''Fry:''' I was attacked in my bathroom, ''by'' my bathroom! }}
* In the first five seasons of ''[[South Park]]'', [[They Killed Kenny Again|everything is trying to kill Kenny]].
* Downplayed, Played for Laughs, in season three of ''[[Disenchantment]]'', where Bean complains that "everything is trying to kill me or kiss me!" Which is pretty much true, as a lot of unscrupulous characters ''are'' trying to get into her pants.
=== Real Life -- Australia ===▼
* Yes, [[Australia (
▲== Live Action TV ==
{{quote|"Every creature [in Australia] is bigger and angrier than anywhere else in the world. ...[[Insane Troll Logic|spiders and snakes and the like normally hide under rocks. The Earth is one big rock, Australia is at the bottom of the big rock, and so they're trying to hide under it.]]"
▲* [[Deadliest Catch]]: This show is loaded with lethal things. [[Giant Wall of Watery Doom|Ship crushing waves]], [[Kill It with Ice|icebergs and ice in the rigging]], [[Kill It with Water|falling overboard in near-freezing water]], boats have been [[Kill It with Fire|destroyed by fire]], and finally, most ironically, 1000 pound crab pots [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|swinging around like piñatas]].
|'''[[The Ricky Gervais Show|Karl Pilkington]]''' - ''Happyslapped by a Jellyfish.'' }}▼
▲== Real Life -- Australia ==
▲* Yes, [[Australia (continent)|Australia]] has so much dangerous stuff we had to give it its own section. This quote is quite typical of most people's opinions on the place.
▲{{quote|"Every creature [in Australia] is bigger and angrier than anywhere else in the world. ...[[Insane Troll Logic|spiders and snakes and the like normally hide under rocks. The Earth is one big rock, Australia is at the bottom of the big rock, and so they're trying to hide under it.]]"<br />
▲'''[[The Ricky Gervais Show|Karl Pilkington]]''' - ''Happyslapped by a Jellyfish.'' }}
* Even the geological chemistry of Oz is trying to kill you. [[wikipedia:Wittenoom, Western Australia|Proof]]. [[Midnight Oil]] sang about the workers who had to suffer for it.
* About the only things that aren't dangerous or poisonous are some of the sheep (which aren't native to Australia). And maybe wallabies. The following things will kill you: common spiders, the most common snakes, ticks, crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, stonefish, we have a seashell that will go for you and deliver a very painful, fast death. Even (male) platypus are poisonous.
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* The Australian fierce snake (named for its home, the Fierce Desert, not for its temperament, which is actually non aggressive) is considered the most poisonous snake in the world.
* According to the [[Made of Explodium]] page, eucalyptus trees have a rather amusing tendency to, well, explode, given the proper stressors. Truly a gamer's continent.
** Eucalypts also produce dry, waxy leaves and loose bark that fuel the frequent and highly dangerous bushfires, and have a tendency to lose branches in high winds, or just after said fires. Add in the fact that eucalypt branches are often
* Also, falling gum tree limbs (known as [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|widowmakers]]) have caused serious property damage and deaths. And they ''fall with '''no''' warning''. Feel like taking a nap under a gum tree during a hot day? It might be the last thing you do...
* And that's just the stuff on land, they also have - apart from the sharks and saltwater crocodiles - blue ringed octopus, box jellyfish, cone snails, stingrays, etc.
** You know your country is scary when even the snails can kill. The aptly named Triton (not the car) is one of the few predators that will kill and eat [[wikipedia:Crown-of-thorns starfish|"crown of thorns"]] starfish
* That is one of the reasons why Steve Irwin was considered one of the best [[Real Life]] [[
** If Australia killed Steve Irwin, what chance do ''you'' have?
* Emus are basically really big ''[[Feathered Fiend|Velociraptor]]'' with a beak. Be glad that you do not meet their dietary needs. Cassowaries, too. They were actually used as the models for the ''Velociraptor'' in [[Jurassic Park]].
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* If you think that's bad, Australia was even more of a [[Death World]] back in the Pleistocene, when humans first arrived. Carnivorous buzz-saw toothed kangaroos? Check. Monitor-lizards the size of a city bus? Check. Climbing warm-blooded saw-toothed crocodiles? Check. Gigantic killer pseudo-python? Check. Marsupial lion with sickle thumbs? Check. [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate|The Demon Duck]] [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|of Doom!]] (I'm not joking, scientists actually call it that). Oh yeah, it's there. Ninjemys, a gigantic horned turtle built like a panzer tank (and yes, [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|the name means exactly what you think it means]] and it was named ''after'' that), check.
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_16868_6-deadliest-creatures-that-can-fit-in-your-shoe.html This Cracked article] feels appropriate. No, it isn't all in Australia, but half of it is.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131122060905/http://www.cracked.com/funny-163-australia/ Another Oz-related Cracked article.]
** Two thirds of the animals on [http://www.cracked.com/article_15853_6-cutest-animals-that-can-still-destroy-you.html this Cracked list] of [[Killer Rabbit
* Any child growing up in Australia learns (unless the parents are trying to kill the kid) a long list of things that can kill you, practically by heart. It's a long list, and just to make sure at least one state teaches it in primary schools.
** Is it "everything"? That's not that hard to memorize.
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* Out of all these critters, the only ones that really cramp your style are the jellyfish. Sharks? Pfft, there's like three left. Spiders? Don't go picking up random bits of rusty iron. Snakes? Make a lot of noise whilst walking through undergrowth, wear tough shoes, etc. Stonefish/cone shells? Don't walk barefoot on reefs. Drop bears? Don't hang around underneath gum trees. But jellyfish? "Oh, I'm sorry if you wanted to go for a swim at that otherwise harmless sandy beach when it's 42 degrees. We'll just be floating around by our thousands, invisible and potentially fatal."
** Not to mention the Irukandji. The worst of the box jellyfish (an infamous class of jellyfish), they will actively seek out prey rather than drift along in the current, are the size of a fingernail, are transparent, can swim through anti-jellyfish safety nets on beaches and pack a horrifically painful sting which has 'a sense of impending doom' listed as a symptom on [[That Other Wiki]].
** Sure the little guys are scary, but on the other side of the scale, Australia is also home to a southern-hemisphere relative of the [[wikipedia:File:Jellyfish and shark - Sant Hall - Smithsonian.JPG|Lion's Mane jellyfish]]. Yes, that is a jellyfish that can grow up to 120 feet long, 8 feet across, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140111053222/http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/lionsmane2.html whose stingers remain dangerous even after detached]. While there hasn't really been a ''recorded'' case of a person being eaten by one of these, isn't it nice to know that there are species of jellyfish actually capable of devouring you whole? Oh yea, and sometimes they swarm. Sleep well!
* They may not be dangerous to humans, but the only known variety of sea squirt that snares prey like a Venus fly-trap rather than passively filtering water lives just off Australia.
** Look at the rest of the list. Not dangerous to humans? Don't count on it.
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* To elucidate a little further, it's not just NT ground that can kill you (although honestly, living in Alice Springs is almost a death wish, and you only live in Darwin if you have a love affair with bipolar weather and cyclones), but nearly all ground ''everywhere'' that can kill you. Apart from some of the most perilous mountain ranges anywhere (with sharp drops, deceptive rock formations, crumbling earth, nexus of underground caves which you ''won't'' find your way out of without a very experienced guide, and narrow winding paths that you only can travel with immense preparation (and these are mountain ranges with absolutely ''tiny'' mountains compared to the rest of the world, just look up the Flinder's Ranges)), you have wide vast expanses of ridiculously dry desert in Western Australia that you ''will'' die in if you don't have someone who knows how to find the water hidden deep beneath the ground, a coastline with so many abrupt cliffs that if you're not careful you can drive right off, and marsh land and estuaries in NSW and Queensland that will either suck you into their swampy extremes, or leave you wandering lost for days in sand dunes. Even the ''bushes'' will try to poison you and paralyse you! ... Oh god, why do I live here again?
* Continuing on from even the ground trying to kill you, everyone growing up in Darwin knows not to dig during the wet season if you have any cuts or injuries. The bacteria, Melioidosis, more commonly known as Nightcliff Gardener's Disease lives deep in the soil, but comes to the surface when it rains. It's has a nearly 90% mortality rate when untreated and there's no known vaccine.
* Even the things that ''aren't native'' are happy to join the party. Just give them a little evolving time. [http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/17/gang-cats-size-dogs-threatens-aussie-neighborhood/ This article], about felines that take [[Cats Are Mean]] [[Up to Eleven]], takes place in, you guessed it, [[Australia (2008 film)|Brisbane]].
** Yes, even things only introduced to the Australian environment 100 years ago can now kick the ass of its counterparts in Europe and America. And they tend to be more sadistic too.
*** [[Australian Rules Football|Especially the sports]].
** You also have to remember that pretty much any time Cracked mentions Australia, it must, and absolutely must, be restated that dingoes eat human babies.
* The plants can also kill you. The Stinging Tree is aptly named; all shrubs and trees of this genus have very fine hairs which will end up in your body if you walk too close (also, said hairs SHED, so too close is probably within a
* It is ironic when one considers that despite the high number of dangers Australia actually has a very low death rate from bites and stings, due to a combination of its people being well-educated about the dangers, advanced medical care being accessible to a majority of the population, and many of its potentially dangerous animals being unaggressive and/or restricted to remote areas where they rarely encounter people.
** [http://www.bobinoz.com/migration-advice/australias-killer-creatures-the-truth-about-deaths/ The stats] speak for themselves. The take-home lesson - no worries.
* In the surrounding areas of the A.C.T (Australian Capital Territory), there is a road to a lovely beach town in NSW (Batemans Bay) called the clyde. Along this road, there is a tourist attraction known as Pooh Bear's corner. Back in WWII, this fun little visiting spot (now filled with plush toys of its namesake) was filled with explosives. Back then, the Clyde was the only route in or out of Canberra and was meant to halt invading Japanese soldiers by either blowing them up or cutting off the road at an important point. So in Australia, even the most innocent of places could've killed you.
* Australia is not just an active killer, it's also passive-aggressive as all hell. There's been no crustal overturn in most of the continent since around the time of the first dinosaurs, so the soils tend overwhelmingly to be thin and nutrient-poor, and in many
* Just to prove the government has a sense of humour - snakes are protected species in most areas, it's illegal to kill them. Snakes do not reciprocate this policy. Fortunately for gardeners, the natural enemy of the snake, the shovel, is often close by.
* But, there is one subversion. Most native Australian [[Everything's Worse with Bees|bees]] either have no stingers or stingers too small to penetrate human skin. Australia has a most ironic sense of humor.
=== Real Life -- The Rest ===
* One could argue that [[Real Life]] ''itself'' is ''loaded'' with this: wild animals, natural disasters, disasters from space, wars...And let's not get into the [[The Same but More|megadisasters]] on Earth: supervolcanoes, supertornadoes, megatsunamis, [[wikipedia:Hypercane|hypercanes]], ''giant asteroids''...[[The Long List|the list just goes on and on and on...]]
* Column writer Robert Brockway has written a book titled "[http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Going-Kill-Everybody-Terrifyingly/dp/0307464342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249601995&sr=8-1 Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead]"
* How about the ocean? Obviously if you can't swim and don't have a lifejacket you're in trouble. But even if you manage to find some kind of floatation device much of the ocean is cold enough to get you via hypothermia as cold water conducts heat away from the body [http://www.ussartf.org/cold_water_survival.htm 32-times faster than cold air] - many of the victims of shipping disasters who escape the sinking ship die from the cold. Even heing adrift in warm waters in the relative security of a raft is no guarantee of safety as you are at serious risk of dying from thirst. Drinking large quantities of seawater is potentially lethal thanks to the [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2131/what-would-happen-to-you-if-you-drank-seawater high salinity] that will lead to dehydration and kidney failure. Then there are the things that live in the oceans; large predatory animals [[Everything
** Octopuses are rarely dangerous, in spite of their infamous reputation for malevolence. First, while almost all octopuses venomous, very few will bite humans, with those few that will will do so only when provoked (i.e., being pulled out of their lair and or picked up). Second, the giant octopuses, the only ones capable of harming a human with sheer size, usually hide in caves deeper than human beings tend to dive, and are very shy. Third, in the very rare situation that an octopus ''is'' harming you, you can usually get it to let go by pinching the incredibly sensitive membrane between the arms. Fourthly, only one species, the Blue-Ringed, is the only octopus ever been documented as being able to kill humans.
** The [[wikipedia:Humboldt Squid|Humboldt Squid]], off the coast of South America. Know what it's Spanish name is? Diablo Rojo. This is a species of squid that actively attacks you and would be QUITE happy to kill you. And it can. One of them can do quite a bit of damage, even assuming it doesn't kill you and you have a buddy around to help you. You have to wear a suit of armour if you intend to go into waters anywhere people think there might POSSIBLY be one of these [[Demonic Spiders|evil, evil fuckers]].
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*** Florida is basically the Australia of the US.
**** To be fair, any coastal state in the southeastern US contends with these, though there has yet to be any escaped constrictor snakes. To make up for this glaring lack of danger, many have mountain terrain that adds bears, wolves and cougars to the mix. It's always fun trying to explain to individuals unfamiliar with the fauna that yes, it is a good idea to keep a loaded weapon near the door when you live in secluded areas.
*
* Some of the most dangerous volcanoes haven't erupted in a long time. Heck some of them most people don't know are volcanoes! ex. Most people thought Pompeii was just a nice big mountain, back in the old days, well it made the most deadly eruption list, TWICE! Yellowstone doesn't even look like a volcano, but it's actually a supervolcano that one day is going to erupt, and cause worldwide crop failure. People round the world wouldn't even be able see the sun for at least months. The worst part? We don't even know when it will happen.
*** So, I'm right in assuming that, if it erupts, the consequences will be so dire that people will be ''wishing'' they were in the US when the thing goes?
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