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{{quote|''You know where you are?''<br />

''You're in the Jungle, baby!''<br />

 

If you thought the [[Grim Up North|north was bad]], you have not [[It Got Worse|seen the south]]. Down there everyone is crude, their language indecipherable and their mannerisms are barbaric. The land is inhospitable jungle full of wild beasts, barren desert, or nasty swamps full of crocodiles (sometimes it has all of the above). Also, don't go swimming: there are sharks, or worse.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* There are countless horror films that take place in the Southern USA. Here is a sample list:

** ''[[Deliverance]]''

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Invoked in ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' - the South is reportedly a vast, dense jungle inhabited by tribes, all of which answer to the mighty Meng Huo. Unlike the usual barbarian chieftains, Meng Huo can be reasoned with... eventually... involving a lengthy [[Xanatos Speed Chess|series of moves]] that takes the form of a [[Humiliation Conga]] and culminates in the ultimate [[Break the Haughty]].

* In Faulkner's ''Sanctuary,'' beautiful Ole Miss coed Temple Drake is kidnapped by the impotent criminal Popeye who proceeds to {{spoiler|rape her with a corncob when his junk won't work... later, in a drunken rage at being interrupted by his local book club, Faulkner answered the question, "Do you see yourself in your writing?" with "I, madam, I WAS THE CORNCOB" before slamming the door and getting back to his scotch.}}

* Until fairly recently, Africa south of the Sahara was often called "Dark Africa" in many books and films because it was largely an unknown, "savage" land.

* [[The Other Rainforest|Oregon]]: Washington's Mexico and California's Canada, according to [[The Colbert Report|Stephen Colbert]].

* [[Community]] has a joke in it referring to Thailand as China's Mexico.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* In [[Legend of the Five Rings]], the Crab Clan who occupy Rokugan's Southernmost Provinces are considered by most Samurai to be crude and Vulgar. This is justified however by the fact that, for nearly their entire history they have been at war with the Shadowlands just south of them. Which are an even better example since the are literally hell on Earth.

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' provides some examples. Generally speaking, the humans who live in these areas are fairly civilized or at least peaceful toward outsiders; it's the monsters that live there that pose the real threat.

** Hepmonaland and the Amedio Jungle from ''[[Greyhawk]]''. Home to various plant monsters, [[Mayincatec]] ruins, and a secret cult of [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|fantasy]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]].

** The Mwangi Expanse in ''[[Pathfinder]]'' is filled with dinosaurs, demons, and [[Maniac Monkeys]]. Further south, off the edge of the map, there's rumor of a land of warlike Amazons and an empire of dino-riding [[Lizard Folk]]. On the other side of the world, south of the "Dragon Empires" of Tian Xia, is the "dark continent" of [[Land Down Under|Sarusan]].