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* 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]]s 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.

* ''[[Super Ghouls And Ghosts]]'' put one in Level [[Four Is Death|Four]]. Doubles as a [[Gimmick Level]] with the constantly changing gravity.

 

* 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.

 

 

* ''[[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.}}

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* 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).

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* ''[[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 Womb Level is actually [[Shown Their Work|fairly accurately modeled on a human heart]], down to featuring red and blue color schemes in the appropriate areas: several dead ends are even quite clearly the branching arteries leading to and from the lungs. (The [[Fan Translation|fan translator]] was so impressed by the discovery that he broke his "no abbreviations" rule to fit "L. Atrium", "R. Atrium", "L. Ventricle" and "R. Ventricle" into the twelve lettters alloted for location names.)

 

 

* ''[[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.]]

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* ''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.

 

 

* "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 40,000]]'' spinoff game ''Advanced Space Crusade'', a spinoff and (relatively) family-friendly dumbing down of the previous "Space Crusade" and "Space Hulk", was inside Tyranid "bio-ships", sabotaging crucial "organs".

 

 

* ''[[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.]]

 

 

* 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]].

 

 

* One of ''[[LittleBigPlanet]] 2's'' levels has you shrunk down and entered into a character's body in order to fight an infection inside his brain.

 

 

* 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.