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{{trope}}
[[File:womb-
{{quote|''"Great. We're inside a giant worm. What the hell are we gonna do now?"''|'''Damon Baird''', ''[[Gears of War]] 2''}}
Biologically based levels are pretty common, especially in [[Shoot
And such a
This is usually because the level is set inside some kind of [[Attack of the 50
If the outside of the creature involved is shown, expect it to be [[Bigger on the Inside]]. Or maybe you were just shrunk.
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Another version of this has [[Meat Moss|alien bio-goo subvert and consume]] some previously normal technological structure. It may also be a [[Living Ship]].
When not dealing with the alien bio-goo, this is similar to a [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]]. The usual difference is tone and intent. A [[Fantastic Voyage Plot]] is typically voluntary, and involves going into somebody's body to ''do'' something to it. A
The polar opposite of [[Eternal Engine]].
Compare [[Organic Technology]], [[Swallowed Whole]].
{{examples}}
== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Contra]]'' games, starting with the arcade original, usually feature a womb level at the end of each game after the usual series of seemingly normal military bases and jungles. The few aversions of this trope are usually in games like ''Operation C'' and ''Contra: Hard Corps'', in which the [[Big Bad
== Action ==▼
▲* The ''[[Contra]]'' games, starting with the arcade original, usually feature a womb level at the end of each game after the usual series of seemingly normal military bases and jungles. The few aversions of this trope are usually in games like ''Operation C'' and ''Contra: Hard Corps'', in which the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] are not actually aliens, but other humans who are using cloning technology to create alien-based weapons.
** This trope wasn't averted at all in those two games. Even though they aren't the very last levels, they're still there.
** The second arcade game's fourth stage has pulsating red and blue blood vessels along the walls.
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* ''[[Super Ghouls And Ghosts]]'' put one in Level [[Four Is Death|Four]]. Doubles as a [[Gimmick Level]] with the constantly changing gravity.
=== [[Action Adventure]] ===
* The Playstation game ''[[Alundra 2: A New Legend Begins|Alundra 2]]'' featured a level inside the belly of a whale, only said whale had been turned into a cyborg due to the player's actions early in the game. Thus, while there were occasional organic elements, the majority of the level ended up looking more like an [[Eternal Engine]].
* In the second-to-last level of ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'' you discover that the huge, gently pulsing tentacles that stick out of the landscape here and there are actually part of the Queen's anatomy. Then you get to fight her inside her disturbingly organic castle, from which her "body" seems to extend.
** The sequel ''[[Alice: Madness Returns|Madness Returns]]'' allows you to return to a more putrefying version of it to visit the Queen of Hearts again.
* The indy game ''[[Aquaria (video game)|Aquaria]]'' has not one but '''two''' womb levels. Both are unsettling enough to classify as [[Body Horror
** In comparison, being swallowed by a whale at another time is positively tame.
* The eighth area in both ''[[Blaster Master]]'' and ''[[Mission Pack Sequel|Enemy Below]]''. It's also home to both games' [[Big Bad
* ''[[Castlevania: Curse of Darkness]]''. The extra bosses are within the Cathedral, are the most evil beings in the game (even more than Dracula, bringing forth the question of why evil is in the CHURCH), and most of the lower levels leading to its lair seem to be made of flesh.
* [[Crusader of Centy]]/Ragnacenty/Soleil has one, where you enter the innards of a monster making up a mountain range and eventually kill the monster by ''fighting her beating but otherwise unmoving heart'' in a boss battle. It's part of a running theme of "killing monsters willy-nilly is not a nice thing to do."
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* The Meat Circus in ''[[Psychonauts]]''.
* In the second part of the first level of ''Ren & Stimpy: Veediots'', Ren travels through Stimpy's mouth, avoiding nerve-endings and other hazards, fights a Tooth Beaver on the tongue, then must escape before the [[Descending Ceiling]] crushes him. And the final stage, "Marooned", of course, takes place inside a giant monster.
* The fourth level of ''[[SpongeBob
* One of the chapters in ''[[StarTropics]]'' consists of being swallowed by a whale and, like the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' example above, navigating an [[Malevolent Architecture|anatomically improbable labyrinth]].
* The last two levels of ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' take place inside the Great Pyramid of Atlantis, which appears to be sentient and has walls covered in pulsating flesh and veins.
=== [[Adventure Game]] ===
* ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 3: Lair of the Leviathan'' is almost 2/3 [[Trope Namer|Womb Level]], {{spoiler|spent inside the belly of the giant manatee that Guybrush and the entire Screaming Narwhal were swallowed by at the end of Chapter 2.}}
=== [[Beat'Em Up]] ===
* The aptly named Organica in ''[[Altered Beast]]: Guardian of the Realms'' walks a fine line between [[Jungle Japes]] and [[Trope Namer|Womb Level]], consisting of a pulsating landscape enclosed inside what's either a forest canopy or living cavern, populated by [[Man-Eating Plant|Man Eating Plants]] and [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]].
* In ''[[Castle Crashers]]'', the blacksmith stores your weapons in some sort of living creature with its mouth wide open.
** It's a [[Lame Pun|weapon frog]]
* And then came ''[[Splatterhouse]]'', in which the womb level the hardest level in the game (harder than [[Hell]], even).
=== Fighting ===
* The various ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' series all have a stage set inside Super Buu, ripped straight from the show.
* Pictured above, the final battle against Jedah in ''[[Darkstalkers]] 3'' takes place in [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KJPHOAKOzfg/TYusWqvhLFI/AAAAAAAAAWY/CrwmNlE6Eyw/s1600/Fetus%2Bof%2BGod.png a giant womb], complete with the giant fetus of a dark god in the background. It is appropriately named "Fetus of God" ("Creator's Fetus" in the English version of the PSP re-release).
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=== [[First-Person Shooter]] ===
* With all the talk of Glomar being a creature and its "heart" traveling through "veins," ''[[Alpha Prime]]'' heavily implies it will end this way, but it turns out that they are just euphemisms after all (for the most part).
* ''[[Blood]]'' had second-to-last level "[[Exact Words|In the Flesh]]" take place inside a monster . Its elevator-and-switch-based biology allowed it to stay alive for centuries, feeding only on zombies, gargoyles and robed cultists.
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=== [[Hack and Slash]] ===
* In ''[[Gauntlet (1985 video game)]]: Dark Legacy'', the stage Your Worst Nightmare in the Dream Realm starts with the players going through a large disembodied mouth, and includes such features as a bits of giant ribcage and a giant beating heart among the squishy meat scenery.
* ''[[Muramasa: The Demon Blade]]'' has Momohime and Jinkuro in an oni's belly at one point. Cue the buzzsaw technique to get out before you're killed by the stomach acid.
=== MMORPG ===
* One of the explorable areas, the Domain of Pain, near the end of ''[[Guild Wars]]: Nightfall'' is this sort of level.
* In the MMO ''[[La Tale]]'', you have to annoy a giant worm-like monster (with teeth!) named the Behemoth by trying to dig it up. If you succeed, it will swallow you, leading to a level full of germs, pukes, and blood cells. The only way out is to find the uvula at the very end(!) of the level and whack it with your weapon.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' gives us Nespirah, a ginormous shellfish goddess. Despite looking creepy as hell, she's actually on your side; the Naga have her mentally subdued as they steal her pearls, and players are tasked with freeing her.
** There are actually three creatures like this one in Vashj'ir. One of them have a Twilight Cult temple built at it's center. Another Womb Level (though much smaller) is the Old God's stomach in the Twilight Highland. If you stay outside of the NPC's shields for too long, a green meter starts filling up and you get digested. Also, one of the phases of the fight against C'thun in Ahn'Qiraj involves being teleported to it's stomach.
** The hives of the Silithid and most of the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj take place in disturbingly fleshy surroundings. And if that's not enough, during the final encounter with
* The final two phases of the "Dilemma Diabolique" incarnate trial from ''[[City of Heroes]]'' took place ''inside the body'' of the death god Mot.
=== Platformer ===▼
▲== Platformer ==
* The [[Final Boss]] of ''[[Adventure Island]] II'' can be found inside a dinosaur of Dinosaur Island.
* The relatively-unknown SNES game ''[[Ardy Lightfoot]]'' contains a level in which you're swallowed by what can only be described as a HUGE... worm-thing, after beating one of the bosses, who also gets swallowed. You have to navigate through its body to get out, and find the body of the boss you just beat... ... and now I have to go add a bit of Nightmare Fuel for that level.
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* Pretty much every version of the first ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'' but the Super NES one had the level [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qUEbpnhKU "Intestinal Distress"], which took place in a giant alien's intestines; the boss was named Doc Duodenum. ''Earthworm Jim 2'', even the SNES version, followed this up with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vNOZjKWs6k "Villi People"] level, which appears to be a giant set of intestines. According to the manual, it's actually a planet that ''looks'' like a giant set of intestines... and it's also Doc Duodenum's summer home (although the doctor does not appear).
** One of the (randomly selected) questions in the trivia game show at the end of the level asks you to name Doc Duodenum's favorite cheese. {{spoiler|It's Camembert.}}
* Levels six and seven of ''[[Flashback (video game)|Flashback]]'' take place in the Morph homeworld.
* The deepest part of the Metal Head nest in the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series.
* ''[[Joe and Mac Caveman Ninja]]'', a cartoony game about cavemen and dinosaurs, has the inside of a T-Rex's body as the final level, complete with a giant, realistic beating heart.
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* The third stage of ''Magician Lord'' is one of these.
* From a certain point onward, Gemini Man's level in ''[[Mega Man 3]]'' has platforms and a background resembling cells, and features what appear to be fertilized eggs that block the player's way. When shot, they release what could only be tadpoles.
* Some platform games played this for cuteness, for instance ''[[The New Zealand Story]]'' and ''[[
* The original ''[[Ape Escape]]'' had a level inside a dinosaur-like creature named Dexter. It was lampshaded, even if unintentionally, by a mailbox from Natalie/Natsumi telling you that Dexter had a 'complex labyrinth' inside his body - "don't get lost!"
* In ''[[Scurge: Hive]]'' (for DS and GBA), there are more Womb Levels than can be safely counted. In fact, nearly every level is at least partially a Womb Level. Considering the game has you attacking an [[The Virus|infectuous biomass]], it's not too much a surprise. Of course, unlike most Womb Levels, actually stepping on or standing in the squishy red/pink stuff is actually pretty bad since the stuff is trying to constantly infect you as well. (Though you can jump like crazy and have almost no effect.)
* The last stage of the Turtle Zone ''[[Super Mario Land 2:
** Except for the bonus level, all of Turtle Zone takes place in a turtle. This makes the last stage a
*** '''BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!'''
* ''[[Super Monkey Ball]] 2'' has a level that takes place inside a giant whale, though the whale has apparently eaten all sorts of buildings and trees, so the level looks more like a city.
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=== [[Puzzle Game]] ===
* Even something as innocent as the puzzle game ''[[Lemmings]]'' contains one level set where the lemmings walk on intestines and have to bash their way through bones. Even their building blocks are bloody-pink!
* Out of the many planets in the game ''[[Meteos]]'', the planet Globin (the name should be a giveaway) is shaped like a giant red blood cell, is actually a living organism and is populated by an alien race that behaves like blood cells, distributing nutrients and repelling invaders. The background music is composed of heart beats, heart murmurs and a magnified breathing sound, creating a very creepy effect.
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=== [[Role
* ''[[Breath of Fire]] 2'' has one level that takes place in the body of a giant whale. (You have to hit its uvula in order to enter inside.) Interestingly enough, the whale becomes your [[Cool Ship]] once you've finished the quest. In another level, the heroes are shrunk and then have to enter the body of an obese queen in order to defeat the "fatty demons" located inside of her. (Although this is more of a [[Fantastic Voyage]] scenario.)
** This particular
* The penultimate battle against Lavos at the end of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' takes place within Lavos himself. Well, sorta. One could say that what everyone ''thought'' was Lavos was just an outer shell or armor. And thankfully the insides lack lots of fleshy meat.
* The first episode of ''Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure'' ends with Cosmo being swallowed alive by a giant alien as a cliffhanger. The first level of the second episode takes place inside of the alien.
* The final dungeon of [[Dragon Quest VII]] looked like this, for some inscrutable reason. Probably because its freaky hell.
* ''[[Etrian Odyssey]]'''s Claret Hollows has walls made of flesh and skulls, powerful cells as enemies, damage tiles that look like stomach acid, and the final boss is called the "heart of the labyrinth". Cool huh?
* Leviathan's stomach in ''[[
** Metaphysically, the Giant of Babil in ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]''. It's mechanical, but it is shaped like the human body, and the sections are named after parts of it.
* The true form of {{spoiler|Exdeath's castle}} in ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' is like this.
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* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'''s final battle takes place in a strange dimension located within the body of {{spoiler|Sin, the flying, mountain-sized monster that appears and destroys the world [[Vicious Cycle|every ten years or so]].}} Though it doesn't ''look'' like a Womb Level once you're inside.
** Given that {{spoiler|Sin}} is essentially made from {{spoiler|Jecht's dreams, it makes sense that it kinda looks like Jecht and Tidus's Zanarkand within...Kinda...}}
* In ''[[SaGa 2]]'', the party shrinks to nano-size and enters the body of the human priestess Ki so that they can retrieve the MAGI inside her, which enemies are killing her to attain. Ki's body doesn't look disgusting like the typical
** And the music (in the DS remake) is ''creepy as shit.''
* ''[[Grandia II]]'' has the heroes battling the Pope deep in the bodily recesses of the giant demon Valmar, which is orbiting high above the Earth. (No. Really.) Earlier, the gigantic Body of Valmar (Valmar was somewhat... in pieces at this point) is defeated by entering its monster-infested and strangely puzzle-filled insides and destroying its core.
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** And then you have that bizarre...flesh-spaceship-with-faces thing from the last battle.
** Monstro reappears as a level in Chain of Memories, and also in ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D]]'', where it makes up the entirety of Riku's version of the Prankster's Paradise world. (And in ''Birth by Sleep Final Mix'' as a [[Bonus Boss]] who swallows you at regular intervals).
* ''[[Lands of Lore]] II'' has a more literal instance of a
* ''[[Legend of Legaia]]'' finished the game with a battle inside a giant Seru, which was really just an excuse for an [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]. Many of the levels before that had been semi-organic and Seru-made.
** And then there's Conkram - imagine a [[Crystal Spires and Togas|marble-and-gold kingdom]] making sweet unholy love to a
* In the SNES RPG [[Maka
* ''[[
** In ''[[
** ''[[
* Partially played in [[Mass Effect 2]] during the {{spoiler|attack on the Collector base}}. Not only is the base highly organic and filled with any number of analogues for natural defenses in a living being, but {{spoiler|it becomes a literal womb level when you face the final boss, a giant Reaper embryo}}.
* Although it's not a literal one with flesh and all, the island, the temple on it, and the final dungeon of the game (behind a certain door within the temple itself no less) in ''[[Mystic Ark]]'' can be metaphorically be described as such. Just watch the ending and figure it out.
* ''[[
* Not so much a level, but in ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]],'' you fight some fuzzy caterpillar thing on the inside of a whale. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And it's dark.]]
* ''[[Phantasy Star IV]]'' has the Garuberk Tower, which is more or less a giant pillar of organs, veins, and ''eyes'', which [[The Hero|Chaz]] has to interact with in a nonspecific way in order to make the fleshy walls tremble and make new areas accessible. The truly unsettling about it is that the Tower isn't a
** ''[[Phantasy Star Online]]'' features Ruins 3, which is basically the insides of Dark Falz.
* In the old Amiga game ''[[Pools Of Darkness]]'', a D&D RPG, you at one point end up on the gigantic, comatose body of the ex-god Moander. In order to complete the events there, you have to enter his body. Not only do you have to fight both enemy cultists and various immune-system baddies, but travel is done mostly through blood vessels, and Moander's heart still beats now and then, resulting in some VERY [[
* The Final Dungeon of [[Romancing SaGa]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49j29AHXUE0 Quietus] is one large
* The Meifumado Citadel in [[Throne of Darkness]] starts out like any other castle encountered so far (except with creepy murals and much darker walls) then the room with the stairs up on the second level, is covered with flesh, and the stairs are made of bones. The next levels are all living, with pulsating walls, giant constructs of flesh and bone, and green steam coming from suspiciously anus-like holes in the ground.
* The Heg from ''[[Treasure of the Rudra]]''. Add [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LqOuGkag_o very disturbing music] and you have the stuff of horror. {{spoiler|Ruins of Meifa also counts too as the boss is fought in front of a giant heart and then fuses with it when you win}}
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* One of the last dungeons of ''[[Xenoblade]]'' takes place {{spoiler|inside of the Bionis. Not nearly as yucky as some other areas of its sort, due to most of the environment being fluorescent colored and very alien in nature. You fight both the literal and figurative immune system of the Bionis there, in the form of giant single celled organisms and the bizarre Telethia, respectively.}}
* Not that it was easy to tell from the horrible graphics but the original ''X-Men'' game for the NES had a couple of levels inexplicably inside a giant space whale. In the comics these were used as starships by the alien Brood.
* The final room of [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] of [[Shin Megami Tensei:
* The last, eerie walk to the [[Big Bad]] of [[
* Minor one from [[Queens Crown]] the iOS game: after beating the final boss for the first time, NPCs with gateways in their bodies appear. The gateways inside them lead to a regular looking dungeon... with regular looking mooks... THAT SURPASS THE MAIN CHARACTER'S MAXIMUM LEVEL BY HUNDREDS. Use magic or die.
=== [[Rhythm
* ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' had a stage where the agents had to cheerlead the white blood cells in an athlete's body into fighting off a fever.
** Specifically, white blood cells personified as [[Hello, Nurse!|sexy nurses]] wielding [[Improbable Weapon User|giant syringes.]] [[Better Than It Sounds|It works.]]
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=== [[Shoot'Em Up]] ===
* In ''[[Abadox]]: The Deadly Inner War'', the hero journeys inside a [[Planet Eater]] to rescue a princess.
* Amiga game ''Anatomic Man'' takes place in a human digestive system, where you need to shoot bacteria.
* The Amiga shoot-em-up [[Apidya]] has two, both bonus levels. One takes place inside a giant pike after he eats you, the other is when you fly into the guts of the dead rat that you just blasted open. I'm not kidding.
* The final level in the NES game ''Attack of the Killer Tomatoes'' took place inside a giant monster tomato.
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* ''[[Legendary Wings]]'' had mid-level punishment segments in which you would be sucked into a giant's mouth if you failed to dodge his whirlwinds. These levels were ''really creepy''.
* Naizoh Habitat in ''Nanostray 2''. "Naizoh" even means "guts".
* The last boss of the forgotten shmup ''Philosoma'' has you whittling away at a giant ''ovum'', all the while your [[
* ''[[R-Type]]'' likes it too; ''R-Type III'' is particularly [[Egregious]].
** ''X-Multiply'', by the people who brought you ''R-Type'', is composed ''entirely'' of Womb Levels because it takes place [[Fantastic Voyage|inside a woman]] who is infected by a microscopic alien queen. And to top it off, the very last stage is the woman's ''actual'' womb.
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* The eponymous Lost Planet of ''Silpheed: The Lost Planet'' is largely turned into one of these, but the organic nature of those stages is downplayed.
* 8th area in ''[[Zanac]]'' takes place in such location.
* ''[[The Binding of Isaac]]'', stage 4. Ew.
* ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/493910 In Utero]'', which features a sperm. The game was designed to celebrate the new baby boy of Tom Fulp, who runs Newgrounds.
=== [[Stealth Based Game]] ===▼
▲== [[Stealth Based Game]] ==
* Played straight in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'', as checking your map during the final act of the game gives you the pleasure of area names like 'small intestine' and 'duodenum'. While this seemed to be just a naming quirk at the time, either in-universe or on the part of Kojima, the creepily organic properties of the Gekko units in MGS4 provide the delicious possibility that it may have been very literal.
=== [[Survival Horror]] ===
* ''Clive Barker's "Jericho,"'' a horror themed PC game, features this in its final Sumeria time slice, replete with dangling organ sacks.
* ''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'' doesn't have an outright womb level, but several areas of the ship, as well as the structures on the colony below, have areas where every surface is covered in alien flesh, sometimes with monsters embedded in the walls.
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=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* "Nightmare Keep", a [[Forgotten Realms]] module for either second or third edition D&D (I can't recall offhand), is all about this trope.
* The original setting for the ''[[Warhammer
** At least one published adventure for [[Deathwatch]] (one of the free ones on the game's website) has the player-characters doing the same; going into a Tyranid bio-ship in order to kill it's link with the [[Hive Mind]], also cutting off the rest of the attacking force. At least one part of the adventure had the Kill-Team moving through a hibernation chamber where various ground units (Genestealers, Warriors, hormagaunts, etc) slept while the ship was in-transit. Make too much noise and the GM better be ready for someone to start quoting [[Alien|Private Hudson]] (although possibly with a nats more eloquence).
* [[Planescape]]'s ''Guide to the Ethereal Plane'' features Neth, the Plane that Lives, a demiplane that consists entirely of the innards of a very curious organism.
* In [[Dungeons
=== [[Third-Person Shooter]] ===
* ''[[Fallout]]'' has one of these as the Master's lair, kind of.
* Taken to its logical extreme in the final stage of Act 2 in ''[[Gears of War]] II''. It even ends with you [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|performing a triple chainsaw bypass.]]
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=== [[Visual Novel]] ===
* In the ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' visual novel, there is one scene in Unlimited Blade Works where Shinji turns into a giant pile of what seems like the blown out insides of a strange animal multiplied in size over 9000 times.
* {{spoiler|The entire Earth can become this}} in [[Saya no Uta]].
=== [[Wide Open Sandbox]] ===
* One of ''[[
=== Other ===
* All three tables in the pinball video game ''Alien Crush Returns''.
* The interior of [[Eldritch Abomination|Muud]] in ''[[Lusternia]]''. Intended as a hunting ground for ''very'' [[Nintendo Hard|high-levelled]] players.[[Eldritch Abomination|C'thun]] players will sometimes get swallowed and end up in his stomach.
* The [[Web Original]] physics based side scroller ''Triachnid'' featured this as the final level. To kill the creature who took your mate and your babies, you had to do it from the
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140220034333/http://www.mazapan.se/news/2008/07/30/no-more-sweden/ You Have To Fertilize The Egg]'' (from the creators of ''[[You Have to Burn The Rope]]'') is literally all about this: The player takes the role of a royal sperm (with a fancy top hat) who races against other sperm in a woman's womb in order to fertilize an egg to give birth to a princess, all the while singing a catchy song about swimming around in a vagina and creating a princess. Couldn't make this up if I tried.
** It's not just them. A prostate cancer charity made a game about getting all the sperm to the prostate so they can become semen. (Hot spots and cold spots kill sperm.)
== Non-Video Game Examples ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* ''[
* As mentioned above, ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' had several episodes panned out where Goku and Vegeta end up inside Super Buu's body and have to avoid the hazards of his antibodies, stomach acid, imagination, steam, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and worms]].▼
=== Film ===
* Film example: The climax of ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'' from the 1980s takes place inside of Unicron's body.
** As does ''[[Transformers Armada]]'', which spends at least five episodes wandering around in Unicron's innards.
*** These examples double as [[Eternal Engine]], since Unicron is [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|a]] [[Planet Eater|planet-eating]] [[Genius Loci|planet-sized]] [[Humongous Mecha|robot]].
* It's been revealed that {{spoiler|the entire Matoran Universe is at Mata Nui's [[Womb Level]]}} in ''[[Bionicle]]''.▼
=== Literature ===
* In the first DOOM novel, Marines Flynn Taggart and Arlene Sanders are transported into a giant womb, and have to exit it via a giant pulsing vagina. Arlene quips "Hey, Fly. Do you ever feel like you're being born again?" to which Taggart politely asks her to STFU.
* ''[[South Park]]'' did it, naturally: Lemmiwinks in Mr. Slave's ass!▼
** And later {{spoiler|Paris Hilton too!}}▼
** And also when {{spoiler|Kenny (who was really a kid from Cartman's fat camp [[It's a Long Story|in disguise]]) climbed inside of Ms. Crabtree's womb on a bet}}.▼
* ''[http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-story&story=dr_yes_jolonah "Yes, Jolonah, There Is a Hell"]'', a story in the [[Orions Arm]] universe, has an unfriendly (and insane) archailect, an existence that is to us as we are to bacteria, decide that there needs to be a hell. So it creates one. Being that Hell is this archailect's body, this certainly qualifies - as womb level, body horror, values dissonance, eldritch horror and nightmare fuel. Read it, for a view on how AI could go Really Fucking Wrong.▼
▲* ''[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=724 RootsSearch]'' After being presumably killed and sent to hell Moira and Buzz end up in some ... thing that looks positively alive.
* [http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/30915/lunging+humpback+whale+nearly+swallows+up+surfer+kayaker/ Whales] can be a potential real-life example.▼
▲* As mentioned above, ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' had several episodes panned out where Goku and Vegeta end up inside Super Buu's body and have to avoid the hazards of his antibodies, stomach acid, imagination, steam, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and worms]].
* ''[[Leviathan (novel)|Leviathan]]'' has any scene taking place inside the eponymous airbeast. One illustration has Deryn taking Dr Barlow to the bee colonies, with the whale's ribcage forming the ceiling.
* Many of the obstacles on the ''[[Double Dare 1986|Double Dare]]'' [[Bonus Round|Obstacle Course]] qualify: "Pick-It" (a giant nose); "Down the Hatch" and later "Big Gulp" (huge mouths); "In One Ear" (a big head filled with "earwax"). "Foot Locker"/"Toe Jam", a huge foot, may also qualify somewhat.▼
▲=== Live-Action TV ===
▲* Many of the obstacles on the ''[[Double Dare (1986 TV Show)|Double Dare]]'' [[Bonus Round|Obstacle Course]] qualify: "Pick-It" (a giant nose); "Down the Hatch" and later "Big Gulp" (huge mouths); "In One Ear" (a big head filled with "earwax"). "Foot Locker"/"Toe Jam", a huge foot, may also qualify somewhat.
=== Religion and Mythology ===
* ''[[The Bible]]'': Just ask Jonah.
=== Toys ===
▲* It's been revealed that {{spoiler|the entire Matoran Universe is at Mata Nui's
=== Web Original ===
▲* ''[http://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oa-story&story=dr_yes_jolonah "Yes, Jolonah, There Is a Hell"]'', a story in the [[
* The [[NES Godzilla Creepypasta]] has the second-to-last levels before the final boss, which are made of [[Squick|disturbingly]] photorealistic gore, just like the monsters that live there. The fact that it's too detailed to be 8-bit just makes it worse.
** There's also the "Orange Tumor Cave" of Pathos.
* The website called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140725061406/http://z13.invisionfree.com/The_Miasma/index.php The Miasma]'' that promises to be "An unflinching celebration of the bizarre and extraordinary". It appears to be an entire forum made out of [[Squick|living tissue]] and is run by an administrator named Neurovore.
=== Western Animation ===
▲* ''[[South Park]]'' did it, naturally: Lemmiwinks in Mr. Slave's ass!
▲** And later {{spoiler|Paris Hilton too!}}
▲** And also when {{spoiler|Kenny (who was really a kid from Cartman's fat camp [[It's a Long Story|in disguise]]) climbed inside of Ms. Crabtree's womb on a bet}}.
=== Real Life ===
▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130310094307/http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/30915/lunging+humpback+whale+nearly+swallows+up+surfer+kayaker/ Whales] can be a potential real-life example.
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