Everything Trying to Kill You: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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.

* 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''.

 

== Real Life -- Australia ==

{{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.]]"

'''[[The Ricky Gervais Show|Karl Pilkington]]''' - ''Happyslapped by a Jellyfish.'' }}

* 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.

** 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]].