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=== [[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.
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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]].
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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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* [[Warhammer 40,000]] is an example where ''everything in the setting'' is trying to kill each other.
* 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]] ===
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== Non-video game examples ==
=== 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]].
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=== 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 Everything Trying to Kill You still applies to everybody ''else'' in the castle}}.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has Annie [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=875 joking] about various entities trying to end her story.
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{{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 ===
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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]]s are found in Australia.
* 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.
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