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[[File:temple_4280temple 4280.png|frame| Also called the main characters' special graveyard.<ref>Clockwise from top-left: ''[[Earthbound]]'', ''[[Metroid]]'', ''[[Wario Land]]'', ''[[La-Mulana]]'', ''[[Kirby and The Amazing Mirror]]'', ''[[Spelunky]]''</ref>]]

An ancient temple or city, usually buried [[Jungle Japes|deep within the jungle]] or [[Shifting Sand Land|in the middle of the desert]]. The temple is often full of [[Bamboo Technology|ancient yet sophisticated machines]] and [[Booby Trap|Booby Traps]]s that still work to lethal effect [[Durable Deathtrap|even after thousands of years without maintenance]].

The [['''Temple of Doom]]''' is almost always inhabited, often by the same [[Mooks]] and monsters found in the surrounding environment -- oddlyenvironment—oddly, they know how to avoid every single trap in the [[Death Course]] -- but—but you can also expect things like ghosts, skeletons, living statues and other ancient guardians. And naturally, whatever treasure you go in there to find will be found in the very spot the [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] has decided to make its home.

Occasionally, the [['''Temple of Doom]]''' will be co-opted by the [[Big Bad]] to use as his base, which would explain why the traps still work. In which case, you can also expect his Mooks and a few high-tech surprises as well.

* Not only does ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' have the trope namer, but it also has the ancient idol resting place from the beginning of ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', the temple of the Grail in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', and the eponymous ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull|Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]''. <ref>Plus the attractions based on them at [[Disney Theme Parks]].</ref>

* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has some of these. In general, they tend to contain [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|Things]] [[Black Box|Man]] [[Eldritch Abomination|Was]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|Not]] [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Meant]] [[Endofthe World As We Know It|To]] Find.<br /><br />This is part of [[Planet of Hats|the hat]] of the Necrons in particular, though their architecture is a metallic version. Imperial scholars have been studying some of the surface bits of them for generations, but it is only in recent history that the Stasis Tombs have begun to "[[Sealed Evil in a Can|wake up]]", their [[Portal Network|Inter-spacial Gates]] opening with a [[Sickly Green Glow]], and legions of [[Skele-Bot 9000|metal skeletons]] animate and begin their [[Omnicidal Maniac|terrible work]].

* A very large number of levels in the [[The Legend of Zelda|Zelda]] franchise. There's the occasional level [[Womb Level|inside a suitably enormous creature]], and occasionally a level still inhabited by its original builders (the Gerudo Fortress in ''Ocarina of Time'', the Hyrule Castle Tower in ''A Link to the Past''), but most dungeons are of the [[Temple of Doom]] variety, frequently [[Hailfire Peaks|mixed with some other theme]]. In ''The Adventure of Link'', not only are all eight dungeons [[Temple of Doom]]-type, the monsters within them are [[All There in the Manual|ostensibly]] not on the same side as the ones on the [[World Map]].

* ''[[La-Mulana]]'' has a single [[Temple of Doom]], the titular ruins, contain all the levels in the entire game.

* The "Temple of Bù" in ''[[Little Big Adventure]]'' -- traps—traps, skeletons and stuff, not to mention it is located underground [[Shifting Sand Land|in the middle of the desert]]. In the second game, it got turned into a Theme Park ''and'' the aliens' secret base.

** Zul'Drak is ''an entire leveling zone'' that is a [[Temple of Doom]]. And there is a more classic enclosed [[Temple of Doom]] at the far end of it.

* ''[[Fallout 2]]'' begins with a [[Temple of Doom]]. There's no justification for it in game or real world history, but it's so Doomy that surviving instantly makes you [[The Chosen One]], even though one of your tribesmen are waiting for you inside.

* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has the Hidden Temple, which is loaded with all kinds of traps involving arrows, poison gas, boulders, swinging blades, and an homage to the Indiana Jones puzzle that used stone tiles engraved with letters. Although a few of the puzzles are necessary to locate the Hidden City during the level 11 quest, most of the incentive for visiting the Hidden Temple lies in the traps themselves, which provide quick stat gains if you can keep your HP above zero, with the caveat that you'll gain no items, currency, or familiar experience like you would from adventuring somewhere with monsters to fight. The Ancient Buried Pyramid is another [[Temple of Doom]], this time filled with monsters that impede your progress in solving the puzzle in the lower chambers. [[Affectionate Parody|It's worth noting that these two examples are located in a jungle and a desert, respectively.]]

* ''[[Journey Quest]]'' contains the [[Temple of Doom|Temple Of All Dooms]] as a storage for the Sword of Fighting. It seems to follow the trope, though it's weak to [[Cutting the Knot]].