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* 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.

** Castle Anthrax. (Though despite the name, it might be rather pleasant for someone who likes having lots of sex with girls who may or not be {{jailbait}}.)

** Castle Anthrax.

* ''Series/DeathInAParadise'': In "Murder on Mosquito Island", Inspector Parker, who is allergic to mosquito bites, is in a virtual panic about having to visit a place the locals call 'Mosquito Island'.

** One Metropolis neighborhood's name on city maps is Hob's Bay, but the locals call it something else: Suicide Slum. Given that 'Hob' is a mediaeval name for the Devil (as mentioned in ''[[Franchise/{{Quatermass}} Quatermass and
the Pit]]''), even the official name gives pause for thought.[[note]]However, 'Hob' is also a mediaeval diminutive for 'Robert' and was reasonably commonplace right through to the 17th Century.[[/note]] It's where the more successful versions of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] hail from. Other origin stories include Smallville and OverlordJr.

** One Metropolis neighborhood's name on city maps is Hob's Bay, but the locals call it something else: Suicide Slum. Given that 'Hob' is a mediaeval name for the Devil (as mentioned in ''Series/QuatermassAndThePit'') even the official name gives pause for thought. However, 'Hob' is also a mediaeval diminutive for 'Robert', and was reasonably commonplace right through to the 17th Century. It's where the more successful versions of [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] hail from. Other origin stories include Smallville and OverlordJr

* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'':

* 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'.

* Franchise/DocSavage: ''Fear Cay'' takes place largely on the eponymous island. As well as housing a FountainOfYouth, here is also a terror on the island that can turn a man into a skeleton in minutes.

* Hell's Reef in ''Film/GreatWhite''. It's official name is Imperious Reef, but the locals have been calling it Hell's Reef since the 1950s when a pearl lugger was wrecked there, and only one member of the 18 man crew survived.

* 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]].

** ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' has Turnback Cave and Sendoff Spring that appropriately lead you into a dark, heavily fogged labyrinth. Its even lampshaded in the guidebook.

* ''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.

** There's also the island in Lake Michigan named Demonreach. Demonreach is actually quite a nice place if (and only if) the ''GeniusLoci'' of the place likes you.

** There's also the island in Lake Michigan named Demonreach. Demonreach is actually quite a nice place if (and only if) the ''genius loci'' of the place likes you.

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'': Deliberately invoked by the heroes, upon discovering an island with a spring that turns anything that touches its water into solid gold. They immediately recognize the danger of such a place (especially since there's a "statue" of a ''person'' at the bottom of said spring), and Caspian decides to name the place "Deathwater Island" to discourage any visitors. ("Goldwater Island" was also suggested, but while accurate and descriptive it was thought that name would attract more people to the place.)

* ''Characters/{{Harley Quinn|AndSupportingCharacters}} and Her Gang of Harleys'': Harley Sinn has her secret hideout on the Island of Horrible Death. Presumably she named the place herself.

* 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/FinalFantasyI'': The Temple of Fiends (which is both the first and final dungeon).

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':

** Also Blüdhaven, the nearby city under ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'s protection where [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] moved after his father's murder.

* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} and Hell's Kitchen. That said, Hell's Kitchen is a real neighborhood in New York. (It has become considerably safer and more upscale in the decades since Daredevil was first launched. But the Franchise/MarvelUniverse cares not.)
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': [[{{Egopolis}} Doomstadt]], capital city of Latveria. ComicBook/DoctorDoom named several other towns in Latveria after himself as well.

* ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and Her Gang of Harleys'': Harley Sinn has her secret hideout on the Island of Horrible Death. Presumably she named the place herself.

* ''ComicBook/NewGods'': Apokolips. It's a place ruled by ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}; need we say more?

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** One Metropolis neighborhood's name on city maps is Hob's Bay, but the locals call it something else: Suicide Slum. Given that 'Hob' is a mediaeval name for the Devil (as mentioned in ''Series/QuatermassAndThePit'') even the official name gives pause for thought. However, 'Hob' is also a mediaeval diminutive for 'Robert', and was reasonably commonplace right through to the 17th Century. It's where the more successful versions of ComicBook/LexLuthor hail from. Other origin stories include Smallville and OverlordJr

* In ''Film/BatmanForever'', ComicBook/TheRiddler builds his base on Claw Island. Website/TheAgonyBooth's [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Batman_Forever_1995.aspx?Page=13 recap of the movie]] finds it "convenient", saying "subsequent supervillains will have to make do with building their bases on Gumdrop Island, or Fluffy Bunny Atoll."

* In ''Film/ScoobyDoo'', Shaggy and Scooby are unwilling to visit [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Spooky Island]]. In fact, they have a whole list of "forbidden" place names - including "scary", "haunted", "forbidden" or "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick hydroclonic]]".

* ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' have a few of these, notably the titular swamp in ''Literature/LostInStinkeyeSwamp'' (it's haunted by a VengefulGhost named Annabelle who cursed it 500 years ago), the canyon in ''Literature/AloneInSnakebiteCanyon'', Hotel Morte ("Death" in Spanish) in ''Literature/CheckoutTimeAtTheDeadEndHotel'', among several others.

* In ''Literature/AfterTheRevolution'' the US Federal government nuked Dallas during SecondAmericanCivilWar in an incident that would be named the "Lakewood Blast". Dallas has ever since been known as "Ciudad de Muerte" ("City of Death" in Spanish).

* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': The Gate of Tears, an artificial sea channel that has become the lair of a sea monster that is over two hundred years old. Even ''[[ProudWarriorRace the Calvarians]]'' are scared of it. (Note that "Calvarian" is itself kind of a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast scary name]], as ''calvaria'' means "skulls" in Latin.)

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'' brings us the Forsaken Lands and the Dead Lands, both of which are very dangerous locations. The former is a drab, foggy valley that's easy to get lost in, and the latter is [[spoiler:a long-abandoned house that's infested with horrific, damn-near eldritch monsters stronger than anything Bugkind has ever seen.]]

* ''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.

** 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.

** 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.

* ''WestenAnimation/RainbowBrite'': Before Rainbowland gets turned into the happy world it truly should be, it's full of such places as the No-Return River and the Tangled Forest.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1CapeFeare Cape Feare]]":

* 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....

* The Literature/NightLords live on a planet they call the Carrion World (Tsagualsa). A palace ([[HumanArchitectureHorror made of people]]) on the planet is even called the Screaming Gallery.

* A whole bunch of ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' adventures are set in scary, ominous-sounding locations, including Darkwood Forest from ''Literature/TheForestOfDoom'', Freezeblood Mountains from ''Literature/SiegeOfSardath'', the Inn of the Ghostly Visitors from ''Literature/SpectralStalkers'' (and yes, it's an InnOfNoReturn - the owner ''will'' drug you and sell you as food to goblins), Isle of Despair from ''Literature/StealerOfSouls'' (where you confront Mordraneth, the titular soul-stealing sorceror), among others.
* As with the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' books below, so too ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebooks. Just a few examples: the Desert of Skulls, Blood River, Plain of Bones, Mountains of Grief, Port Blacksand, Nightshriek Jungle....

** Deadworld, but only after the omnicidal Dark Judges who destroyed it renamed it in their own image -- before that it was just an AlternateDimension of Earth. Filled with mountains of corpses of their victims, the only inhabitants left on the planet are the four undead Judges and the tormented souls of the dead.