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* In the web short ''Film/TheHouseThatDripsBloodOnAlex'', the titular character played by Creator/TommyWiseau should have known better than to buy a house on [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay Blood Street.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'': the entire path to the ''T. rex'' nest which goes through the "Jungle of Misery", the "Chasm of Death", and the "Plates of Woe", all named by a CrazySurvivalist. At one point he's asked:

* Slaughter Swamp, birthplace of ComicBook/SolomonGrundy in Franchise/TheDCU.

** "Cape Feare":

** During Lisa's ImagineSpot:

** And then there's the Murderhorn, the insurmountable highest peak in Springfield.

** During their parody of Franchise/KingKong we get this conversation.

** When Marge joins the police force, Chief Wiggum informs her that, as a new officer, her beat will consist of Bumtown and Junkieville.
** [[DoubleSubversion Double-Subverted]] when Troy [=McClure=] is featured in a promotional video for the Meat Council:

** When Dr. Colossus is released in "Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part 2)":

* In ''Fanfic/TrustDoesntRust'', Dean is unnerved at the name of ‘Devil’s Kettle’, but is soon assured that it doesn’t have any supernatural activity about it beyond those events relating to Low Shoulder and Jennifer Check’s transformation.

* Music/{{Mothy}}'s series the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles, has country names based on the names of demons- Levianta, Elphegort, Lucifenia, and so on... and when some of them decide to create a single state, they name it... United States of Evillious.

** Dead Man's Well from ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa3'' located in Moses. According to the townsfolk, when the 4 devils used to rule the land, the sick and the elderly were thrown down the well until it became a mass grave.

** One of the {{Horrible Camping Trip}}s that Roger took the family too was at a place called "Skeeter Falls". (Apparently, Roger was [[TooDumbToLive too dumb to realize what the name meant.]])

* Genocide City in the ''Pokémon'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BraveNewWorld''. Nobody actually ends up going there, but it's implied that it's worse than Treasure Town, a WretchedHive that is [[spoiler:literally built on top of a portal to hell]]. The name also serves as a reference to a famously cut level from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2''.

** ''Steel Ball Run'' has the Devil's Palm.
** In the first part of the manga, Ogre Street is a fictional London Rookery inhabited mostly by criminals, including Speedwagon. Jojo goes there to find a cure for his father's poisoning.

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** The Peaks or Peril, on the other hand, are actually not that bad. Okay, so the {{Kirin}} who live there have a ''teensy'' little problem with [[BurningWithAnger literally bursting into flame when they get angry]], but otherwise it's just a fairly normal mountain area.

* The ''VideoGame/CatacombFantasyTrilogy'' is full of these. The titular Catacombs of Despair contain such levels

* The ''VideoGame/CatacombFantasyTrilogy'' is full of these. The titular Catacombs of Despair contain such levels as The Garden of Tears, The Demon's Inferno, The Town of Morbidity, The Garden of Forgotten Souls, The Lost City of the Damned, Hall of the Wretched Pox, The Chamber of the Evil Eye, The Chamber of the Invisible Horror and so on. Meanwhile, the levels contain areas named The Corridors of Death, The Way to Certain Peril, The Insufferable Ways of Pain, The Chamber of Ultimate Doom...
* ''Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick: VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay''. The administrators just had to name the prison "Butcher Bay" to make [[HellholePrison its nature]] abundantly clear.
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', Crono and his friends visit Death's Peak, the Mountain of Woe, and the Black Omen.
* Cap au Diable from ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains''.
** Also, the ghost-infested Fort Hades.
** And in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', the literal ghost town Dark Astoria.
* Skull Island and Blood Island from ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''. Of course, Skull Island looks like something distinctly different from a skull.
* The land of Lordran in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has the Undead Burg, Blighttown, Demon Ruins, Lost Izalith, The Abyss, Tomb of Giants, etc. Apparently, they're big on honesty in advertising.
* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' is full of these. The very first wilderness you enter is called Blood Moor, which contains a cave called The Den of Evil. In Kurast, there's the Flayer Dungeon, the Spider Forest, and the Durance of Hate. In Hell, you have the Plains of Despair, the City of Torment, and so on.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' has the supercontinent Pandyssia. That's "pan" as in ''Pandaemonium'' and "dys" as in ''dystopia''. The name means something like "all that is bad," which rather succinctly reflects the attitude the Empire of Isles has to the place. Not without reason, either. It's DarkestAfrica taken UpToEleven, a DeathWorld with EverythingTryingToKillYou from the smallest rat to the largest predator (and even [[RodentsOfUnusualSize the smallest rats aren't actually very small]]). Almost everyone who goes there dies, or [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes mad]] and ''then'' dies.
* Not quite a full blown level, but anything named after KAOS in ''VideoGame/{{Donkey Kong Country 3|DixieKongsDoubleTrouble}}''. KAOS Kore and Kastle KAOS are bad, but KAOS Karnage takes the cake for 'scary level name'.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'':
** Episode 3 has many: "Hell Keep," "Slough of Despair," "Pandemonium," "House of Pain", "Unholy Cathedral," "Mt. Erebus"[[note]]Erebus was a Greek god, son of the god Chaos, and represented the personification of darkness.[[/note]], "Gate To Limbo", and "Dis".
** See if you can tell the exact point at which Hell starts to bleed over into the Deimos base in episode 2: Deimos Anomaly. Containment Area. Refinery. Deimos Lab. Control Center. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Halls of the Damned. Spawning Vats.]] [[Literature/TheBible Tower of Babel]].
* Parodied in the ''Franchise/DotHack'' series with Bewildering Fool's Hiding Place. And played straight with the area keywords for the showdown with Skeith: Chosen Hopeless Nothingness.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' the deepest, darkest part of the Deep Roads is called the Dead Trenches. With reason.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Anders references Awakening with the Blackmarsh and Varric wonders why you would ever even consider going to such a place. The two then go on to talk about better places to go to but then realize that adding 'marsh' to the end of anything really makes it seem like a place to avoid. The Flowermarsh, the Kittenmarsh...
** More explicitly discussed is "[[WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt The Bone Pit]]." Hawke can immediately say that the mine owner's first mistake was calling it that, though he assures you that it's just what the miners call it.
* The grottoes of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'' have names generated more-or-less randomly, based on their general difficulty. The Clay Tunnel of Joy doesn't sound very menacing, but the Diamond Void of Ruin isn't so inviting.
* In the ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'' series, the game world ''starts out'' with very nice and cheerful names, such as Eversmile, Water Dream Fall, and Flower Hat. It becomes less pretty after the BigBad (you) are through with it, and the new names reflect this trope straight: Brana Hawk, Wither's Tread, and Fire Wall, respectively. Your assistant then praises you for all the horrible things that have taken root, such as cannibalism, anthrax, and a "healthy disrespect for life."
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' provides many examples, thanks to its randomly generated names. ''LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}}'' is the most (in)famous, and among the most grand, but such names are most commonly seen in [[DarkWorld evil lands]] and goblin fortresses. Sometimes they're [[DeathbringerTheAdorable just fine]], sometimes they're [[{{Mordor}} not]]. The fortress of LetsPlay/{{Battlefailed}} was set between the Plains of Ooze and the Blueness of Malodors.
* ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'': Planet Vortex, Dark Water.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** Many of the [[EldritchLocation planes of Oblivion]], realms of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Princes]], have names like this. These include [[DestroyerDeity Mehrunes]] [[OmnicidalManiac Dagon]]'s "[[FireAndBrimstoneHell Deadlands]]", [[GodOfEvil Molag]] [[TheCorrupter Bal]]'s "[[BloodyBowelsOfHell Coldharbour]]", [[AllTheOtherReindeer Malacath]]'s "[[DeathWorld Ashpit]]", [[ImAHumanitarian Namira]]'s "[[BodyHorror Scuttling]] {{Void|BetweenTheWorlds}}" etc.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', [[ReligionOfEvil Sixth House]] bases often have rooms, corridors and halls with ominous names like "Soul Rattle", "Black Heart" etc.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'':
*** You get the chance to visit the aforementioned Deadlands during the main quest and it very much lives up to its billing.
*** {{Subverted|Trope}} with the Inn of Ill Omen, which is just an ordinary inn... Which is then played straight in the basement where a man is murdered by you.
** Done to ''death'' in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]''. A short sampling: Frostflow Abyss, Sightless Pit, Hag's End, Bleak Falls Barrow, Blackreach, Benkongerike (means 'Kingdom of Bones'), Snapleg Cave, Bloated Man's Grotto, and Stillborn Cave. It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise when you remember that Skyrim is a GrimUpNorth land with almost EverythingTryingToKillYou and these places were named by the Nords, a ProudWarriorRace of HornyVikings.
* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' Cyclopean Haunt. A nearly impassable labyrinth full of scary monsters and with a hell of a final boss in the end.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' has the delightful "Murder Pass". Just past the souvenir shop! Another one specific to ''Fallout'' fans is "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Deathclaw]] Sanctuary".
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Devil%27s_Throat Devil's Throat]]. (Which is based off a real place in the Mojave desert!)
*** The ''Lonesome Road'' [=DLC=] has a location in the Divide called "Cave of the Abaddon". Abaddon is the name of an angel in the Bible associated with destruction and locust plagues.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has the Glowing Sea. The "Glowing" refers to the intense radiation resulting from the atom bomb that leveled Boston and will kill you in a few minutes without protective clothing or liberal doses of Rad-X and Radaway.
* [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed As it does everything else]], ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' loves these. They're not even reserved for final dungeons, either:
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'': The Temple of Fiends (which is both the first and final dungeon).
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'': Pandaemonium (also appears in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'').
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Fanatics' Tower (part of the World of Ruin.)
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'': Lunatic Pandora, Island Closest to Heaven, and Island Closest to Hell. (Don't think "Island Closest to Heaven" sounds bad? Think about the last thing you have to do to get to Heaven.)
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': Evil Forest. Lampshaded:
-->"Plants that attack people... I guess they don't call it Evil Forest for nothin'."
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': The Den of Woe. No surprises, [[spoiler:entering the place drives you insane. And that’s if you don’t get possessed by the evil spirit that was sealed there.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'': Abyssea is a post-apocalyptic parallel universe of Vana'diel. [[spoiler: Although it turns out that it's more like Vana'diel is the alternate version of Abyssea.]]
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': Necrohol (city of the dead) of Nabudis, Nabreaus Deadlands, Mosphoran Highwaste... And individual sections within these regions have their own ominous names of doom. A sampling: Subterra: Abyssal (Pharos at Ridorana), The Lost Way (Tchita Uplands), and, best of all for creepiness, a hidden and unmapped area called The Fog Mutters (Nabreus Deadlands).
*** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', set in the same world, has the Necrohol of Mullonde. In the [[TranslationTrainWreck PSX version]], it was Murond Death City. The map of the final battle? Graveyard of Airships.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': Hanging Edge, The Vile Peaks, [[spoiler:Orphan's Cradle]]. Individual zones within also have ominous names, for example: A Silent Maelstrom and A City No Longer (Lake Bresha), Wrack And Ruin and Devastated Dreams (Vile Peaks), and Maw Of The Abyss and Deep In The Dark (Mah'habara Subterra).
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' has the Valley of Torment, a LethalLavaLand that was once a sprawling forest until it was bombarded by "javelins of light" in ancient times.
* ''VideoGame/FutureCopLAPD'' has the delightfully named [[TheAlcatraz Hell's Gate Prison]]. A classic maximum security prison, with the only ground routes essentially being ''killzones and firing lanes'' protected by multiple turrets with overlapping arcs of fire and elevated positions for guards, ultimately designed to make a mass-escape from within the facility absolutely suicidal.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'': Hell's Precipice, Dunes of Despair, and the Desolation. On top of those are the realms of a couple of gods: the Fissure of Woe (Balthazar) and the Realm of Torment (Abaddon's prison).
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'': Ravenholm, though not nearly as foreboding as most examples.
* ''VideoGame/HeavyWeapon'' has its stages named after real-world counterparts of either war-torn places or areas that were controlled by Soviet Russia. Two of them are "Antagonistan" (Afghanistan) and "Killingrad" (Stalingrad).
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', being made by the same guys as ''Final Fantasy'' above, is not shy about this trope.
** The most recurring world in the series (counting cutscene appearances) is called Hollow Bastion. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Merlin in ''II'' when he asks how the place got its name, [[spoiler: right before Sora and co. find out the world's real name: Radiant Garden. Hollow Bastion is just the name of the castle]].
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' has The End of the World. Yes, that is a level name, not an event. ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' has the similarly named The Final World.
** ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' takes place entirely within Castle Oblivion.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' ups the ante with The World That Never Was, which itself has subsections like The Hall of Empty Melodies, Brink of Despair, and the Altar of Naught.
*** Honorable mention goes to Proof of Existence, which isn't ominous sounding by itself until you remember [[FridgeHorror the true nature of the antagonists as undead/non-existent beings]]. What is Proof of Existence then, you ask? ''A graveyard''. Sure, it works as a connecting room to each Organization member's quarters, but ''still''.
*** Even [[MundaneMadeAwesome mundane]] areas in the World That Never Was get ominous monikers. The break room is called the Grey Area. An ''elevator'' goes by Crooked Ascension.
** Almost every installment at least mentions the Realm of Darkness, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]] and includes such location names as Forest of Thorns, Depths of Darkness, Valley of the Dark, and the Dark Margin. It also goes by the name Dark World and is usually only possible to enter and exit by using a Corridor of Darkness. Basically, you may want to bring a flashlight.
** ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' introduces the [[FieldOfBlades Keyblade]] [[WeaponTombstone Graveyard]]. When it's visited in the climax of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', Xehanort forms a sub-location called the Skein of Severance.
* Disc 2 of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' has [[spoiler:The Valley of Corrupted Gravity]], a place with guards that won't let you in without permission from the King of Fletz. Yeah, ''it's that bad.''
* ''VideoGame/LegendOfGrimrock'': Mount Grimrock, it and its deep dungeon, with its skeleton soldiers and its giant spiders.
* ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' has The Bone Fortress, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin constructed of bones]]. The Lucemia dungeon (skeletal remains of a titanic wyrm) has a section named Avenue of Deterioration.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Death Mountain, the Shadow Temple, the Lost Woods, Forsaken Fortress... and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Curiously, Death Mountain is rarely considered an ''evil'' place in the ''Zelda'' series. While it is certainly dangerous to most people for being a perpetually-active volcano, the native Goron people are very friendly and tourism and trade with them are usually going quite strongly, and the wildlife isn't particularly more dangerous than in other locations. It's only in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI the original game]] that it has any negative connotations, due to being where [[BigBad Ganon]] made his home.
** Both ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' and ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' have "The Lake of Ill-Omen".
** Basically everywhere in ''A Link to the Past'''s DarkWorld has a name like this: Swamp of Evil (Misery Mire), Plains of Ruin, Skeleton Forest (Skull Woods), Village of Outcasts (Thieves' Town), Palace of Darkness...
* Baol Dungeon in ''VideoGame/{{Mabinogi}}'' could count as baol is Gaelic for "Danger". For a plus, it lives up to its name as its one of the hardest dungeons in the game.
* The first ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' takes place in the fictional Carcer City in United States. "Carcer" means "prison" in Latin, as in "in''carcer''ation".
* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorVanguard'' has the mission 'Predators' take place in a town in the Netherlands called 'Grave', which is a real town.
* San Heironymo Peninsula, from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps''. It means "Peninsula of the Dead", according to Campbell. This is either a nickname or an in-character made a mistake -- "San Heironymo" is simply Spanish for "Saint Jerome".
* Inverted big time in ''VideoGame/Mother3'', with the BigBad's giant lightning generator, the [[InNameOnly Tower of Love]] [[SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom and Peace.]] But played straight with the tower's REAL name (Thunder Tower).
* ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' has the Chamber of Extinction, which isn't quite the formidable challenge its name implies. (The Chamber of Birth is arguably worse.)
* In ''VideoGame/MySimsKingdom'', when you first go to Spookane, Buddy is scared of going there, but Lyndsay is sure it's just a name... ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'' has a town called Spookane as well.
* ''VideoGame/MysteryScienceTheater3000PresentsDetective'' lampshades this: taking a wrong turn at one point leads you to "the so called 'Murderers Lounge'. Unfortunatly, there ARE murderers here, and when you check around, they get angry." Cue instant game over.
--> '''Crow:''' But it's nice to know that this city has establishments that cater exclusively to criminals.
* If your region's Delegate and/or [[TheManBehindTheMan Founder]] in ''Website/NationStates'' is sufficiently annoyed with you, they can eject you to the "Rejected Realms". Subverted since GameplayDerailment has turned it into a [[AHellOfATime nicer place]] than most of the regions you're likely to get kicked out of.
* ''VideoGame/OkageShadowKing'' has the Escapeless Abyss. Unfortunately, [[ThatOneSidequest that's not an ironic name]].
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/PeasantsQuest'' has a souvenir tee-shirt from Scalding Lake. This place is, apparently, a tourist destination for peasants.
* In ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'', an island called "Ori o Koīki" brings up a question of translation. There's two ways to translate "Koīki" from Huana -- it can refer to either a corpse or a pungent-smelling fruit, akin to a durian, considered a delicacy in the Deadfire. Queen Onekaza II insists on the second translation when asked about it after sending the player to investigate the island. Unfortunately, the "Ori" still means "cursed land". Ori o Koīki is either the "cursed land of corpses" or "cursed land of fruit trees"; the latter is less ominous than the former, but not by much.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/Pirate101'' with the Isle of Doom, it's name only comes from it's discoverer Von Doom. [[DoubleSubversion It's actually a pleasant place, provided you avoid the carnivorous bees and plants and the frogmen with poisonous skin]].
* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', the final few levels of the game are set in the Fortress of Regrets, which is located on the Negative Material Plane. In keeping with [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the setting]], the name is ''literal'': the place is actually built from the regrets of all the Nameless One's past incarnations. And it is, of course, a quintessential EvilTowerOfOminousness. And that's after visiting such places as Curst, the Pillar of Skulls, and the Hive. And after discovering that the city's inhabitants usually refer to Sigil as "the Cage."
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' has Pyrite Town. Pyrite as in "Fool's Gold", for all the riches you will part with if you don't watch your back for hoods. One of the few good things to come out of that city happens to be ONBS.
** Citadark Isle from ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness''.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' has Turnback Cave and Sendoff Spring that appropriately lead you into a dark, heavily fogged labyrinth. Its even lampshaded in the guidebook.
** There's also the [[AnotherDimension dark, sinister dimension]] where Giratina lives, which Cynthia names the Torn World, or Distortion World in the American version.
** Fittingly enough, the ''Platinum'' version of Turnback Cave contains a portal to the Distortion world.
* Mordavia from ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV''. Guess what sorts of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent inhabitants]] you might meet [[{{Uberwald}} there]].
* ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa'' has the Isle of Evil, where MadScientist Ewei lives.
** Dead Man's Well from ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa3'' located in Moses. According to the townsfolk, when the 4 devils used to rule the land, the sick and the elderly were thrown down the well until it became a mass grave.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has quite a few of these.
** Daemonheim, or "Demon halls". The fact that it is a massive cursed dungeon with ''Occult floors'' and ''Warped floors'' doesn't help.
** The Wilderness in general. Packed with places like Graveyard of Shadows, Demonic Ruins, plus a couple of Chaos Temples.
* The Dark Souls inspired ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'' likewise has a host of miserable sounding places. "The Festering Banquet," "The Mire of Stench," "The Red Hall of Cages," "The Crypt of Dead Gods," "The Blackest Vault," and so on. The Village of Smiles ''sounds'' like a reprieve from that bleakness. [[SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom It isn't]]; you soon find out all those smiles are of the [[GlasgowGrin Glasgow sort]].
* The Gallery of the Dead from ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts Covenant''. Located beneath Moscow, the place is a hybrid between catacombs, prison cells, and a storm sewer.
* The PC AdventureGame ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheComet'' takes place in [[strike:Innsmouth]] Illsmouth, just a small New England town that is [[SarcasmMode absolutely not]] a reference to Creator/HPLovecraft's stories, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial why ever would you think such a thing?]]
* ''Franchise/SilentHill'', which is just about the creepiest name for a [[TownWithADarkSecret sleepy little tourist town]] ever. Not to mention [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLY3R32DSEA The Devil's Pit]] in ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour''.
* One spawn point in ''VideoGame/{{Skate}} 2'' is called the Murderhorn. It is one of the best places to "die", just behind the Hideki Tower spawn point.
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': The Dark Rift, the Maw of Tartas.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally going to have a level called "Genocide City"]], but it was ultimately cut from the final version. WordOfGod is that the game's creators wanted to give the place a name that "sounded dangerous", and overshot; Cyber City was considered as a possible alternate name before the level was dropped.
** The Death Egg, from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' and ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', is a massive space station that Eggman hopes to use to conquer the earth.
* ''Videogame/{{Subnautica}}'':
** The deep, dark trenches full of Ampeels, Blighters, Crabsquids and even a Ghost Leviathan leading down to the Lost River are called the Blood Kelp Zone.
** In early development, the zone marking the edge of the map was called "The Void" or the "Dead Zone"[[note]]A reference to this still exists in the final game, as entering the Crater Edge leads the PDA to refer to it as an "ecological dead zone"[[/note]], before being renamed to the much less terrifying "Crater Edge" during final release.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' Several stages qualify.
** LethalLavaLand, Deep Dark Galaxy, Melty Molten Galaxy, Melty Monster Galaxy, BigBoosHaunt, Dreadnought Galaxy... Dark Land in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' says it fairly clearly, even without you knowing it's hell incarnate. Or maybe Bowser in the Dark World/Fire Sea. In the case of Melty Molten Galaxy, its foreign names are ''even scarier'': Hell Prominence Galaxy (Japanese and Korean), Infernal Stroll Galaxy (Spanish), Infernal Erupting Lava Galaxy (Chinese), etc.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty''. Bowser's levels have some mighty dangerous sounding names: Bowser's Warped Orbit, Infernal Tower, Bowser Nightmare, Bowser's Enchanted Inferno...
** Averted in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' -- [[MonsterTown Monstro Town]] is actually a pretty nice place.
** Rogueport in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is a straight example though. As it's ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', this gets lampshaded relatively quickly. Twilight Town isn't so bad ''most'' of the time, but the Creepy Steeple in the woods outside it is a straight example.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' has Crumbleden of the Ruined Kingdom. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's just as dilapidated as it sounds and more]]. [[spoiler: You also have to deal with a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant]] [[ShockAndAwe lightning-breathing]] ([[NonStandardCharacterDesign and over-realistic]]) [[DragonsAreDemonic dragon]] there to clear a path to Bowser's Castle.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing A Super Mario Bros X Thing: Prelude to the Stupid]]'' has murder death place zone. It's [[BrutalBonusLevel aptly named]], much to the chagrin of [[LetsPlay/{{raocow}} its creator]].
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', there's a town called Ruin (changed slightly in the English version to Luin to make it a little less obvious) that has the nickname "The Village of Hope." [[spoiler:[[WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt Yeah, how'd that work out for you, guys?]]]]
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Most of the maps have names appropriate for where hat-obsessed mercenaries kill one another on a constant basis (Badwater Basin, Double Cross, Offblast, etc.)
* ''VideoGame/{{Tibia}}'' has the Dark Cathedral, [[{{Mordor}} Demona]], the Pits of Inferno and the Plains of Havoc.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': The Muenzuka, or The Mound of The Nameless, the final battle site of ''VideoGame/TouhouKaeidzukaPhantasmagoriaOfFlowerView''. Even [[MemeticBadass Cirno]] shudders!
** Scarlet Devil Mansion.
** The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hell of Blazing Flames]] is a former hot naraka of Buddhist hell. As of ''VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism'', the hell may have been completely reactivated, and part of it upgraded into a nuclear reactor that opens up to Gensokyo directly in ''VideoGame/TouhouHisoutensokuChoudokyuuGinyoruNoNazoOOe''.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' series has its share:
** [[VideoGame/UltimaIII Exodus]] lives in Castle Death, on the Isle of Fire. [[EverythingTryingToKillYou The very floors of Castle Death, and the grass of the lawn, try to stop you]].
** The [[MacGuffin Codex of Infinite Wisdom]] can be found at the bottom of ''The Great, Stygian Abyss'' in ''VideoGame/UltimaIV''. For that matter, six of the dungeons bear the names of the ''inverse'' of virtuous character traits: Deceit, Despise, Destard, Shame, Wrong and Covetous.
** ''VideoGame/UltimaV'' has the same six dungeons as the fourth installment, but closes down the Abyss in favour of the Dungeon '''Doom'''. Also has The Underworld. Oddly enough, the fortress where the three [[EldritchAbomination Shadowlords]] live is fairly innocuously named as Stonegate.
* The deadzones in ''VideoGame/{{Unturned}}'' are as frightening and dangerous as the name indicates. Everything in those places means "nope": the trees are dead and the soil is a dull grey, vibrant warning signs dot the outer perimeter, there ade indications of chemical spills like old barrels and such, the game puts an icon of a skull in your HUD whenever you're inside one, every single zombie is a walking ActionBomb of radioactive sludge, [[EliteZombie Megas]] very frequently spawn there, and the air itself is toxic, eating through filters in a matter of minutes. And woe betide thee if you stumble into a deadzone without a gas mask in your face, because your immunity will plummet down to zero like a mortar shell within ''seconds'' if you don't turn around and leave ''right that moment''. The only saving grace of these damned places is that they're DifficultButAwesome to explore, as the best items in the game spawn in them.
* In the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series, possibly Hotel Horror and Horror Manor.
* ''VideoGame/{{Wildstar}}'' has Malgrave, the Southern and Western Grimvault, and the home of the current BigBad, Blighthaven. They are even ''less'' inviting than they sound. And they're adjacent to each other.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Hellfire Peninsula, Dragonblight, Plaguelands.
** There's also Bloodmyst Isle, Duskwood, Deadwind Pass, the Swamp of Sorrows, the Blasted Lands, Shadowmoon Valley and probably a few others, and that's not even counting instances or sub-zones.
*** A lot of these places were renamed to reflect what they became. The Plaguelands were simply part of Lordaeron, the Blasted Lands used to be the Black Morass (admittedly its original name is hardly friendlier), Bloodmyst Isle used to be called Silvergale, and Deadwind Pass, well... someone managed to kill that part of ''the planet'' and render it nigh-uninhabitable.
** Lampshaded in the second manga series: "The Blade's Edge Mountains... the Hellfire Citadel... is there no place in Outland that speaks of peace?" (The answer is "very few")
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* ''Webcomic/BloodStain'' has its protagonist realize she's living at "01 Fatal Accident St., Godknowswhere" after she tries to get an address for her sister to send her stuff.
-->'''Elly''': [[LampshadeHanging Oh seriously? This is the address I'm residing at??? Really??? Oh come on...who would go this far just for a prank...? Sigh...I can't send this address to my sister, she'll think I'm making stuff up.]]
* ''Webcomic/BumrapeIsland''. The title says it all, really.
* Parodied in ''Webcomic/{{Footloose}}'', where heroes ''seek out'' places named like this, because even though they're usually just as dangerous as the name implies, the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality tends to favor the heroes more strongly.
* Hellmurder Island from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. That isn't its official name (it has no name) but it just isn't a nice place to live. Also [[DeathWorld The Land of Wrath and Angels.]]
* Played straight in the ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/1449.html parody of said name]], "''Khazad-DoomyDoomsOfDoom''".
* ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'': When Nodwick is stuck in a BadFuture run by the GodOfEvil Baphuma'al (a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Name to Run Away From]] in his own right), he studies a map of the BigBad's Black Citadel... involving locations such as the Grand Hall of Pain, the Blood of the Innocent Causeway and the Hall of Evisceration. Promptly {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in this exchange:
-->'''Nodwick:''' Who named all of these places, anyway?\\
'''Future Artax:''' Who do you think? A worse question would be ''why''.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0190.html The Perilous Path of Crushing Doom]].
--->'''Redcloak:''' Please tell me it's actually filled with cute fuzzy bunnies, and they just named it that to be ironic.
** Most of the nations on the Western Continent qualify: Dictatoria, Cruelvania, East and West Despotonia, The Empire of Blood, etc.
** In the ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]'' prequel book, there is Helldeathdoomfire Volcano, where Xykon's former master lived and trained his disciples.
* Parodied in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/20/ this]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip.
* The main city of ''Webcomic/TheSanityCircus'' is indeed called Sanity. Given that it has demons loose on the streets, shapeshifting is not uncommon and there is an unseen infestation of fear-eating {{Eldritch Abomination}}s underway, that name is like a sort of SuspiciouslySpecificDenial.
* The town of E-ville, which appears in a book-exclusive side-story in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.
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* Inversion in ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'':
--> '''Redem:''' That would put it somewhere in the Valley of Tears, near the Waterfall of Forever, in the old tombs in the Fields of Dreams.\\
'''Creator/KeiraKnightley:''' This planet has a lot of nice names to say you're all so GrimDark.\\
'''Evil [=MrP=]:''' Well, the Tears are those shed after the six million men of General Elasticus were burned as heretics by accident in the battle there due to a communications error, leading to it being lost... the Forever is the thousands of years that valley was fought over in endless bitter wars... the Dreams are those of the Lord High Insurgent Pieter von Killemall and his sadly never-realised plan to carve this entire planet into a huge truncheon to hit the Logic Gods in the face with and bless it through the mass sacrifice of its entire population....
* [[http://www.ichorfalls.com/ Ichor Falls]].
* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has a few of these. A couple of major examples are the Hypercorruption Expanse, which is a battleground between the Metasoft Version Tree and a powerful hypertech blight, and the Solipsistic Panvirtuality, which regards foreign bionts as grime to be scoured away.
* Once Grif and Simmons are reassigned in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', the former makes sure to ask about the new location: "Does it at least have a better name than Danger Canyon?" And the name of the place does qualify, Blood Gulch. The [[Franchise/{{Halo}} source material]] has a few more of those, such as Damnation, Burial Mounds, Epitaph and Death Island.
* ''[[http://thesickland.blogspot.co.uk The Sick Land]]''
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* ''LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}}'', [[LampshadeHanging "... a name which doesn't bode well for much of fucking anything."]] The name turns out to be partially appropriate: At no point do any ''boats'' play a role in the story...
* In the web short ''Film/TheHouseThatDripsBloodOnAlex'', the titular character played by Creator/TommyWiseau should have known better than to buy a house on [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay Blood Street.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', there's the Scary Dark Forest, the Sea of Sure Death, the Badlands, and the Desert of Doom.
* Lampshaded in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Spell-Bound" (which was, incidentally, the first half-hour episode starring Pinky and the Brain extensively). While travelling through the Enchanted Forest to the Murky Mountain, the pair comes across a signpost pointing to the "Glade of Woe", the "Chasm of Despair" and the "Pit of Barbecue". (In regards to the last one, the Brain says, "Perhaps later.")
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** Arguably the entire Fire Nation. Within that, we have the Boiling Rock.
** The Serpent's Pass, which should give you an idea [[SeaMonster what kind of critters you should watch out for]].
** Lake Laogai, named after the labor camps of communist China.
** Si Wong Desert doesn't sound too bad, until you learn that "Si Wong" means "death" or "to die" in Chinese.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' episode "Save the Day" features Pablo, Tyrone and Uniqua as harbor patrollers, making sure nobody wanders into places with dangerous-sounding names (i.e.; Shark Bite Bay, Catastrophe Cove, etc.) A Main/RunningGag in the episode is them "rescuing" Tasha from these places, who wanders into them hoping to catch a whopper.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' has the "Do Not Disturb Room", the bedroom of Ma and Pa.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', Rayla asks Callum and Ezra to please tell her the Cursed Caldera is named after famous explorer Sir Phineas Cursed. It's not, the name is because it's full of monsters. [[spoiler: Subverted in that the monsters are illusionary.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' has the Black Mountains of Viltheed which, while not directly corresponding to anything in real life, still sounds pretty ominous and serves as the homeland for the evil Zordrak and his nightmare legions. Between Viltheed and the Land of Dreams likes the Sea of Destruction (eternally lashed by storms and violent waves), with the Isle of Catastrophe (the junkyard of all Urpgor's failed invasion machines from expeditions that died in the Sea) halfway between the two lands.
* ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'', trying to track down Psycrow, reads the Idiot's Guide To Hideously Dangerous Places; featuring entries on The Pit Of Unimaginable Fear, The Cavern Of Flesh Ripping Weasels, and [[TakeThat Det]][[UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} roit]]. He turns out to be at The Boulevard of Acute Discomfort.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** From "My Three Sons:"
--->'''Leela:''' Uh, Professor, are we even allowed in the Forbidden Zone?\\
'''Farnsworth:''' Why, of course! It's just a name, like the Death Zone, or the Zone of No Return. All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror!
** [[SubvertedTrope Ironically]], the mission would have gone great, if [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Emperor hadn't survived Fry drinking him]].
** Also the Planet Express crew had a bad experience on Cannibalon. Bender enjoyed the food, though.
** A few of Farnsworth's missions qualify, such as Sicily 8, the Mob planet (not helped by the fact that they were delivering subpoenas) and Ebola 9, the Virus Planet.
** Inverted in the following exchange:
--->'''Leela:''' According to this, the fountain is located within the darkest, most ancient region of space, just past Teddy Bear Junction.\\
'''Prof. Farnsworth:''' Teddy Bear Junction. The worst scum hole in the universe.
** A DoubleSubversion in "Bender's Game" with the Cave of Hopelessness. It was named after its founder, Reginald Hopelessness...the first man to be eaten alive by the Tunnelling Horror.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gawayn}}'' has 'Nevercross Bridge': guarded by a pair of beavers who will [[TakenForGranite turn to stone]] anyone who cannot ask them a question they cannot answer.
* Abysus from ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''.
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' is set in the town of Miseryville. Better yet, it's implied to be located in ''{{Hell}}'' (and would have explicitly been if it weren't for ExecutiveMeddling).
* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowskiSuburbanDaredevil'' has Mt. Hurtsmore where the Mellowbrook Drift race takes place.
* Camp Wannaweep in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.
* ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'': Who in their right mind would want to holiday on an island named 'Apocalypso'?
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Ghastly Gorge -- home to jagged rocks, huge thorned plants and giant eel-things that try to eat anything that passes by.
** The prosaically named Scariest Cave in Equestria, apparently home to some rather horrifying monsters [[NothingIsScarier we don't actually see on-screen]].
** Tartarus, a prison for dangerous monsters that shares a name with the ancient Greek underworld.
** The Peaks or Peril, on the other hand, are actually not that bad. Okay, so the {{Kirin}} who live there have a ''teensy'' little problem with [[BurningWithAnger literally bursting into flame when they get angry]], but otherwise it's just a fairly normal mountain area.
* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' has a dangerous mountain board course called "Bruised Man's Curve".
* In ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', the evil Horde's headquarters are called the Fright Zone, which should probably have clued Adora in to the nature of the Horde...
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** "Cape Feare":
--->'''Agent:''' We have places your family can hide in peace and security: Cape Fear, Terror Lake, New Horrorfield, Screamville --\\
'''Homer:''' ''[enthusiastically]'' Ooh, Ice Creamville!\\
'''Agent:''' Er, no, Screamville.\\
'''Homer:''' ''[scared]'' Aah!
** During Lisa's ImagineSpot:
--->'''Judge:''' I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island! ''[{{GASP}}]'' Don't worry, it's just a name.\\
'''Lisa:''' ''[[[DescriptionCut being chased by monsters]]]'' He said it was just a name!\\
'''Guy:''' What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula!
** And then there's the Murderhorn, the insurmountable highest peak in Springfield.
** ''And'' there's Foreboding Widow's Peak.
** During their parody of Franchise/KingKong we get this conversation.
--->'''Carl:''' Hey, I heard we're goin' to Ape Island.\\
'''Lenny:''' Yeah, to capture a giant ape.\\
'''Carl:''' I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island.\\
'''Charlie:''' Candy Apple Island? What do they got there?\\
'''Carl:''' Apes. But they're not so big.
** When Marge joins the police force, Chief Wiggum informs her that, as a new officer, her beat will consist of Bumtown and Junkieville.
** [[DoubleSubversion Double-Subverted]] when Troy [=McClure=] is featured in a promotional video for the Meat Council:
--->'''Troy:''' Come on Jimmy, let's take a peek at the killing floor.\\
'''Jimmy''': Ohhh!\\
'''Troy:''' Don't let the name throw you, Jimmy. It's not really a floor, it's more of a steel grating that allows material to sluice through so it can be collected and exported.
** "I should have got off at Crackton..."
** When Dr. Colossus is released in "Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part 2)":
--->'''Wiggum:''' Okay, Colossus, you're free to go, but stay away from Death Mountain.\\
'''Colossus''' ''[sadly]'' But all my stuff is there...
** A mild example is Spittle County, "Birthplace of the Loogie" and home to various unpleasant rural stereotypes.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** The Roman Catholic Church is called the Bleeding Eyes of Jesus. It's actually a good fit for the amount of (dis)respect that the show gives the church.
** There's also the appropriately named Hell's Pass Hospital.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'' is set on Keepaway Island.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''.
** "Isolation Point" from "The Other Exchange Student". The Diaz family thinks it's a great place to have a picnic!
** "Diaz Family Vacation" features a Mewni landmark known as the Forest of Certain Death.
* ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' gives us Terra Cyclonia, Terra Gruesomus, the Black Gorge, and the ever-popular Wastelands.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhoKilledWho'' is set in a spooky manor on the "Gruesome Gables".
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* [[TropeOverdosed As it does everything else]], ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' loves these. They're not even reserved for final dungeons, either: