History Main / GiantCorpseWorld

* ''VideoGame/Diablo'': The High Heavens and Burning Hells respectively spawned from the remains of Anu and Tathamet after their MutualKill at the beginning of creation.

** The current incarnation of the sixth layer of {{Hell}}, Malbolge, is formed out of the corpse of its former ruler, Malagard the Hag Countess. Its mountains, for instance, used to be the Hag Countess' bones, and there is a tunnel that used to be her throat that still contracts and expands rhythmically.
** Generally the closest a god can get to being truly dead is [[GodNeedsPrayerBadly when nobody worships them any longer]]. What remains of a god at this point is an enormous physical corpse drifting in the VoidBetweenTheWorlds of the Astral Plane. The Githyanki capital of Tu'narath is a metropolis built on -- and into -- the colossal, petrified corpse of a forgotten god. However, none of these gods are ever ''completely'' dead, and could be restored to life by sufficient numbers worshiping them again.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': In Lostbelt 6: Avalon le Fae, [[spoiler:the entirety of Lostbelt Britain is built on the corpses of the fallen, as the original landmass (and indeed, the rest of the planet) was wiped out into an endless ocean by the [[AliensAreBastards White Titan Sefar]]. The southern half of the island is built on the corpse of the Celtic god Cernunnos after he was poisoned to death by the Six Fairies, and the landmass grew as the faeries killed each other and their bodies became one with the land. All those fae who are born of it will [[TheCorruption inevitably decay into Mors]] as a result of [[SinsOfTheFather being descendants of traitors born from a cursed land]]. The northern half of the island has a similar origin and growth, but its point of origin is the fallen body of the primordial dragon Albion. As a result, the fairies born from ''this'' land are far less likely to fall into Mors corruption.]]

* In Myth/ChineseMythology, after the death of Pan-gu, his body was made into the earth, his blood the sea, his eyes the sun and moon, and the lice around his body was turned into people.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is set in the Boiling Isles, an archipelago formed from the rotting remains of an absolutely ''humongous'' creature in the middle of a vast ocean. The [[OurTitansAreDifferent Titan's]] carcass is the source of the Isles' BackgroundMagicField, and its bodily fluids are packed with immeasurable magical power and make travel between universes possible. The ancestors of the local races of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]] are even said to have arisen from its decomposing muck. It seems to be something of a religious figure, as [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] claims [[GeniusLoci it's still alive]] and [[HearingVoices tells him how to rule]], despite being dead. [[spoiler:This turns out to actually be a lie.]]

** In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', the region known as the Cliffs of Morytha is said to be the remnants of a Titan that died long ago. You get to explore a small part of the Titan that was once [[spoiler:the kingdom of Torna]], now a barren, fossilized husk, having reached its final resting place far beneath the Cloud Sea 500 years ago.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': The mining colony of Knowhere is built in the decapitated head of an ancient celestial being. Due to the nature of the planetoid it inhabits, the main resource it mines is actually the celestial being's cerebral fluid.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is set in the Boiling Isles, an archipelago formed from the rotting remains of an absolutely ''humongous'' creature in the middle of a vast ocean. The [[OurTitansAreDifferent Titan's]] carcass is the source of the Isles' BackgroundMagicField, and its bodily fluids are packed with immeasurable magical power and make travel between universes possible. It seems to be something of a religious figure, as [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] claims [[GeniusLoci it's still alive]] and [[HearingVoices tells him how to rule]], despite being dead. [[spoiler:This turns out to actually be a lie.]]

* ''Literature/EndersGame'': Ender accidentally creates one of these, with the corpse of a giant he killed in a video game eventually becoming a village.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is set in the Boiling Isles, an archipelago formed from the rotting remains of an absolutely ''humongous'' creature in the middle of a vast ocean. The [[OurTitansAreDifferent Titan's]] carcass is the source of the Isles' BackgroundMagicField, and its bodily fluids are packed with immeasurable magical power and make travel between universes possible. It seems to be something of a religious figure, as [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] claims [[GeniusLoci it's still alive]] and [[HearingVoices tells him how to rule]], despite being dead.

* The 2008 ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' were based in Knowhere, a Celestial skull at the edge of spacetime where a city had been built to observe the end of the universe.

** One of the setting's nastier abominations is Atropus, the world born dead, a planet crawling with undead whose arrival in a system heralds disaster and that only leaves dead worlds in its wake. It's fairly consistent that it's the remains of ''something'' huge and (un)dead, but its exact nature varies -- sometimes it's an ''enormous'' atropal (the undead corpse of a stillborn god), while other times it's the head of a colossal primordial being.

** [[{{Hell}} Malfeas]] is an entire dimension made from the body of the former ruler of everything in Creation, Theion, now known as Malfeas. It's not ''quite'' a corpse world, however, as Malfeas is still alive, but that really only makes it worse, given the brutality involved in turning him into Creation's version of Hell -- he was forced into a contract in a moment of weakness that prevents him from using a CosmicRetcon to undo his defeat at the hands of the Exalted, and then his body was effectively castrated, disemboweled, flipped inside-out, and then had all of his organs stuffed back into his inverted skin alongside all of the other still-living Primordials (now the Yozi) before being stitched back together, turning him into a bloody, fleshy world that can do nothing more than wriggle in self-loathing.

* ''VideoGame/DoshinTheGiant'': When Doshin dies trying to stop the TowerOfBabel, his corpse turns into an island. The player then has to play on an island that was their own body.

* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'': In the beginning, the webcomic consists of an infinite blank white void. Then Teddy Weddy (a character from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'') falls out of the sky, and dies. The rest of the story focuses on the strange, tiny creatures who find him and build a village on his corpse.

* ''Webcomic/OneOverZero'': In the beginning, the webcomic consists of an infinite blank white void. Then Teddy Weddy (a character from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'') falls out of the sky, and dies. The rest of the story focuses on the strange, tiny creatures who find him and build a village on his corpse.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Aurora|2019}}'', the world is made of the fused corpses of six elemental Primordials.
* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': The "Corpse World" story arc, to initial appearances is a FantasticVoyagePlot, but it's eventually explained that Fern wasn't actually ''shrunk'', but rather transported to a universe ''modeled after'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext her own decomposing corpse]], complete with MegaMicrobes citizenry and scavenger worms going about the business of decomposing it.
* Minor example in ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles'': In Alexander's flashback, he and his Dreamland friends fight a giant cyclops, who ends up tripping and falling over a cliff into the ocean below. He was [[HoistByHisOwnPetard knocked out by his own falling club]] and never got up. When Alexander returns to Dreamland after an eight-year absence, he revisits that area and finds out that grass and palm trees have grown the parts of the cyclops that remained above water, notably his butt. The nearby villagers use the butt islands as a vacation spot.
* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'', the heaven-turned-WretchedHive of Throne is filled with the titanic corpses of the gods, which have been hollowed out and converted into things like [[https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/kill-six-billion-demons-chapter-4/ seedy high-rises]] called Hells or just regular [[https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/king-of-swords-4-35-home/ apartment buildings.]]

* In ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', the Tower's 43rd floor, "the Floor of Death", is made up of the rotting corpse of the floor's Administrator. It wasn't always this way, however, and the Administrator's body is mentioned as being "put to sleep".

** The game is in "the Neath", which, if the story can be believed, is inside the skull of a dead god. [[spoiler:It's not really true, it's just an otherwise normal cavern that the Judgements - the gods of the setting - literally cannot see, which let the laws of reality start drifting. Though it does contain the ''angry thoughts'' of a dead god called [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Storm]], jostling around in the upper air and causing the weather.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', is set on the Boiling Isles, an archipelago formed from the rotting remains of an absolutely ''humongous'' creature in the middle of a vast ocean. The [[OurTitansAreDifferent Titan's]] carcass is the source of the Isles' BackgroundMagicField, and its bodily fluids are packed with immeasurable magical power and make travel between universes possible. It seems to be something of a religious figure, as [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] claims [[GeniusLoci it's still alive]] and [[HearingVoices tells him how to rule]], despite being dead.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', the main characters live on the Boiling Isles, an archipelago formed from the rotting remains of an absolutely ''humongous'' creature in the middle of a vast ocean. The [[OurTitansAreDifferent Titan('s carcass)]] is the source of the Isles' BackgroundMagicField. It seems to be something of a religious figure, as Emperor Belos claims [[GeniusLoci it's still alive]] and [[HearingVoices tells him how to rule]].

* When a large sea creature like a blue whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor there bodies because this for microscopic life.