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== Comicbooks ==
* DC: An artificial planet created by Devilance, a New God from Apokolips, is a death world, with automated defenses based upon the strength of the intruders and killer midgets, among various monsters. Seen in [[
* Marvel's Ego the Living Planet is a [[Genius Loci]] (or Loco) Deathworld. And frequently a ''mobile'' Genius Loci Deathworld, meaning it doesn't just wait for ''you'' to come to ''it''...
* Krypton's Deathworldiness plays a part in the backstory of [[Superman]]'s deadliest foe, Doomsday; a [[Mad Scientist]] dumped a baby onto the surface, where it died instantly. He then cloned the few surviving cells. Repeat ''ad infinitum'' until you get a [[Super Soldier]]. [[Hollywood Science|Comic Book Science]] at its best, folks.
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** The world of Urisarach was home to a nigh-extinct race of [[Giant Spider|huge arachnids]] dumped there by other aliens because the monsters were just that unpleasant. It earned its nickname after a failed incursion that nearly wiped out an entire expeditionary fleet of space marines: "[[Punctuated for Emphasis|This. World. Is. ]]''[[Punctuated for Emphasis|Murder]]''."
** Yet these are relatively mundane locales compared to Daemon Worlds, planets utterly corrupted by the warping influence of [[The Corruption|Chaos]], where reality is reforged on the whims of daemons and the laws of physics are guidelines at best, the results looking something like a collaboration between H.R. Giger, Heironymous Bosch, and M.C. Escher. Despite being the home turf of the [[Legions of Hell]] and the fact that the planet may be [[Genius Loci|literally trying to kill you]], some foolhardy explorers poke around Daemon Worlds, as many are former Eldar homeworlds swallowed up by the warpstorm spawned by the race's calamitous Fall, and still contain ancient relics. Few survive, [[Fate Worse Than Death|none survive intact]].
* The jungles of Lustria in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' are everything nasty about the Amazon with the added benefit of [[Lizard Folk|Lizardmen]] whose [[Mayincatec]] culture is fine with human sacrifice. The Dark Elves' homeland of Naggaroth is a shadowy, bleak continent whose native wildlife includes hydras and cold ones (flesh eating dinosaur-like creatures), and with sparse resources that force its cruel inhabitants to turn to piracy to survive. And worst of all, of course, are the Chaos Wastes, the polar regions around a gaping hole in reality that leads straight to hell.<br /><br />The entire world has since to this with a huge infusion of raw magic into anywhere they could stick it. Now it's anyone's guess whether that forest consists of normal trees or EVIL DEATH-TENTACLE TREES OF HORRIBLE TOXIC DOOM. You don't want to know what some of the other terrain pieces are like.
* [[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]] settings:
** The ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has one of these in the form of the Underdark, a ''massive'' underground realm full of all sorts of things that want to kill you. If it's nasty and it's murderous, it probably lives here--indeed, half the reason Drow are so tough is because they spend half their time fighting some of the nastiest things ''D&D'' has to offer, and the other half fighting the other inhabitants of the Underdark.
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