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Starving in the belly of a whale!"''|'''[[Tom Waits]]''', ''Starving in the Belly of a Whale''}}
This, as denoted in ''[[The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Literature)|The Hero With a Thousand Faces]]'', is the conclusion of the Initiation, the first phase of [[The
[[Darkest Hour|It may not be entirely pleasant]] -- there's a reason Campbell compares it with dying. It is often the moment of greatest ''personal'' danger for the hero. [[The Hero]] can move forward by defeating the [[Threshold Guardians]], but also by being destroyed by them.
For tropes about actual stomachs, try [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]], [[Swallowed Whole]], [[Ribcage Stomach]], or [[Womb Level]].
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
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** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past (Video Game)|A Link to the Past]]'', this comes when he rescues Zelda from Agahnim and becomes a fugitive.
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|Ocarina of Time]]'', when the Great Deku Tree dies and Link must leave the forest.
*** And later when Link is sealed in the Sacred Realm for a seven-year coma, only to awaken to a [[Crapsack World]] in which he first thing he sees is a [[
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Wind Waker]]'', when the pirates first drop Link off at the Forsaken Fortress.
*** Arguably it's immediately after his defeat at the Forsaken Fortress. When he's sent to the fortress, he's still an overconfident kid. After he was tossed into the ocean and rescued, THAT was when he wised up to what he really needed to do.
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