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* ''[[Goemon (series)|Legend of the Mystical Ninja]]'', in addition to having ordinary citizens of peaceful, feudal Japanese towns trying to kill you, has a particularly mean enemy: deer. The deer deal out a ridiculous amount of damage, they bound around very quickly and haphazardly so they're difficult to dodge, and worst of all, ''you lose health if you hurt them''. [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment|Because you're beating up on deer, you jerk]].
* The ''[[Castlevania]]'' series loves this trope. Sure, you're going up against Dracula so monsters like skeletons and zombies are obvious. The (empty) coffins in ''[[Super Castlevania IV]]'' fit with the theme, though common sense doesn't explain why they would be so aggressive. But armadillos, frogs, toads, birds, bats, snakes, plants, [[Lethal Chef|chefs]], [[Battle Butler|butlers]], [[Ninja Maid|maids]] and sometimes [[Brainwashed|previous teammates]] all want you dead. Most of Dracula's [[Offstage Villainy|villainy is informed/off screen]], so it makes you wonder if the Belmonts and company are [[Alternative Character Interpretation|actually just colossal jerks who no one likes]].
{{quote| ''Well this is bound to be a lovely resurrection party... Oh Christ, it's one of those guys with a whip again. He'll probably whip all the party guests to death, snuff out our candles and steal our food.''}}
** The more recent, [[Metroidvania]] style games have begun explaining it by having them all be demons or ghosts. They're still absurdly aggressive for their jobs, though.
* The enemies of the SNES game of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' include birds, [[Stalactite Spite|stalactitish]] lemons, cactus cats, plants on unicycles, chattery teeth, hands of grandfather clocks, walking chairs, blobs, flying blue elephants, dripping water, bouncing pumpkins and buzzsaws. Plus rats.
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*** 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 [[Lucas Arts]] adventure games." He fakes said death (at a later point in the game he states that he simply went into a temporary coma) by usage of combining medicine and alcohol, an act that he [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] by noting that if he wasn't a "lovably inept cartoon character with the potential for a few more sequels", he more than likely would have been killed by doing this. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=rREKIPsDi6g You can see the whole event here.]
*** 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.}}
*** Another possibility of a Game Over in ''Escape'' is that he can stay underwater, but after 8 minutes on the first dive, Guybrush says, "I'm running low on air." If kept under water for another 2 minutes, he decides to head back up to the surface. It is on the ''second'' dive that if he stays underwater for ten minutes, he ''will'' drown, with no second chances this time.
*** And ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'' shows the ''only'' time in the ''Monkey Island'' series that {{spoiler|Guybrush's death by the [[Big Bad]]'s Cutlass of Kaflu at the end of Chapter 4 (and repeated disposessions of his corpse while on Flotsam in Chapter 5) is ''not'' a Game Over or an Easter egg, but rather story-related in order to continue on with the progress of the game}}.
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* ''[[Felarya]]''. A land mostly inhabited by [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Monster Girls]] who tend to see human visitors as tasty snacks. Apart from giant sentient predators, said visitors may also be devoured by animals, carnivorous plants, or even gaping mouths in the ground. Or shredded by sharp leaves falling from a tree. Or... The possibilities are many.
* 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.}}
 
 
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** 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]].
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== 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.
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