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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* ''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.

* ''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...

-->-- '''[=StarkRavingMad=]''', ''LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}}''

Related to DoomyDoomsOfDoom. The location counterpart to NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast. The inverted version of this trope would be SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom, except in that trope, the thing ''must'' be actually bad.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' has the Dread Isle, where the main villain of the game hangs out and, coincidentally, where no one wants to go if they can help it. Your party has to fight a bunch of pirates to prove themselves worthy to get there, and the one character who ''does'' want to go there is established to be obsessed with seeking knowledge to his detriment.

** In ''VideoGame/TheDig'' [[AllThereInTheScript (as told anywhere but the game itself)]] we have the planet Cocytus, named after the deepest circle of Hell.

** Quiet Rest in Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E5ForgottenPeople Forgotten People]]" may seem like a picturesque nursing home, but [[WouldHarmASenior many of its patients there have been dying at an alarming rate and their death rate ranks 27% higher than any other comparable senior care facility]], because little do the families know, it is actually a secret illegal testing facility where its corrupt doctors and ex-con orderlies are plotting to put variations of an outlawed Alzheimer's drug on the market, and their experiments resulted in the deaths of nine patients, and anyone who'd try to escape or tell an outside source what's really going on would be put to death to keep them quiet. When this happens to a friend of Trivette's, C.D. is sent in undercover to find evidence while Walker, Trivette and Alex try to obtain a search warrant by having the nine patients exhumed to find traces of the illegal drug.

** In the ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickOnTheOriginOfPCs On the Origin of PCs]]'' prequel book, [[TheDitz Elan]] chose the "Rob-U-While-U-Sleep Inn" as a place for his then-employer Sir Francois and himself to stay for the night.

* ''FilmbChuckECheeseInTheGalaxy5000'': The last three miles of the Galaxy 5000 run straight through a dangerous and treacherous canyon known as Dead Man's Canyon; when Chuck E. attempted to fly through at the speed of Vega-2, he lost control and crashed. After getting some training from Harry, he flies through without a hitch at Vega-3 and wins.

* ''ChuckECheeseInTheGalaxy5000'': The last three miles of the Galaxy 5000 run straight through a dangerous and treacherous canyon known as Dead Man's Canyon; when Chuck E. attempted to fly through at the speed of Vega-2, he lost control and crashed. After getting some training from Harry, he flies through without a hitch at Vega-3 and wins.

* ''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.

* The titular estate of ''Literature/AcidRow''doesn't sound like an ideal place to live, an assumption that is highly accurate. Technically, the real name is the Bassindale Estate, but the sign at the entrance has been continuously vandalised from "Welcome to Bassindale" to "Welcome to Ass i d Row"; many residents and even visitors to the estate have adopted Acid Row as the name, feeling that it better reflects the realities of living there.

*** {{Exaggerated}} for the final dungeon of the "Endwalker" expansion. [[spoiler:Amaurot, in and of itself, is not the scary name at play here, as it was simply the name of an important city in the pre-Sundered world, one that Emet-Selch speaks fondly of. When you venture into Amaurot, however, it is during [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the "Final Days"]] when the world was brought to the brink of total annihilation. The location names within this dungeon are not normal names, but lines from a poem detailing the world's destruction. The first three areas, for example, are thusly called: "And lo, vile beasts did rise", "Leaving naught in their wake but blood and ash", and "Thus did the first doom befall us."]]

*** {{Exaggerated}} for the final dungeon of the "Endwalker" expansion. [[spoiler:Amaurot, in and of itself, is not the scary name at play here, as it was simply the name of an important city in the pre-Sundered world, one that Emet-Selch speaks fondly of. When you venture into Amaurot, however, it is during [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the "Final Days"]] when the world was brought to the brink of total annihilation. The location names within this dungeon are not normal names, but lines from a poem detailing the world's destruction. The first three areas, for example, are thusly called: "And lo, vile beasts did rise", Leaving naught in their wake but blood and ash", and "Thus did the first doom befall us."]]

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has "The Void", home of the [[EldritchAbomination voidsents]] that love to intrude upon Eorzea and cause trouble. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that the Void is one of the thirteen "reflections" that makes up Hydaelyn's [[TheMultiverse multiverse]]: specifically, "The [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Thirteenth]]. This reflection saw its existence completely consumed by the darkness, turning it into a DeathWorld where the laws of death and rebirth are thrown out the window: anyone who isn't devoured by another denizen of the Void eventually comes back to life, trapping everyone in a perpetual cycle of purgatorial rebirth and destruction.]]

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has "The Void", home of the [[EldritchAbomination voidsents]] that love to intrude upon Eorzea and cause trouble. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that the Void is one of the thirteen "reflections" that makes up Hydaelyn's [[TheMultiverse multiverse]]: specifically, "The [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Thirteenth]]. This reflection saw its existence completely consumed by the darkness, turning it into a DeathWorld where the laws of death and rebirth are thrown out the window: anyone who isn't devoured by another denizen of the Void eventually comes back to life, trapping everyone in a perpetual cycle of purgatorial rebirth and destruction.]]

** The current Imperial Guard codex tells of a nightmarish world known as [[UsefulNotes/OtherBritishTownsAndCities Birmingham.]] (*[[AcceptableTargets shudder]]*)

** The small border town of Mournful, Texas, in Season 7's "On The Border", where Walker, Trivette and Alex contend with a corrupt and intimidating lawman trafficking drugs.

** Season 5's "Devil's Turf" has Devil's Gym, which is owned and operated by the VillainOfTheWeek, Mick Stanley, and serves as the source of a powerful drug killing high school athletes. One student is barely talked out of ever going there again after realizing the dirty business they do and was nearly murdered along with his girlfriend until Walker, Trivette and the school janitor (whose younger brother is a Texas Ranger sent in undercover as a student) intervened.
** Quiet Rest in Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E5ForgottenPeople Forgotten People]]" may seem like a picturesque nursing home, but [[WouldHarmASenior many of its patients there have been dying at an alarming rate]], because little do the families know, it is actually a secret illegal testing facility where its corrupt doctors and ex-con orderlies are plotting to put variations of an outlawed Alzheimer's drug on the market, and their experiments resulted in the deaths of nine patients, and anyone who'd try to escape or tell an outside source what's really going on would be put to death to keep them quiet. When this happens to a friend of Trivette's, C.D. is sent in undercover to find evidence while Walker, Trivette and Alex try to obtain a search warrant by having the nine patients exhumed to find traces of the illegal drug.

** Quiet Rest in Season 6's "Forgotten People" may seem like a picturesque nursing home, but [[WouldHarmASenior many of its patients there have been dying at an alarming rate]], because little do the families know, it is actually a secret illegal testing facility where its corrupt doctors and ex-con orderlies are plotting to put variations of an outlawed Alzheimer's drug on the market, and their experiments resulted in the deaths of nine patients, and anyone who'd try to escape or tell an outside source what's really going on would be put to death to keep them quiet. When this happens to a friend of Trivette's, C.D. is sent in undercover to find evidence while Walker, Trivette and Alex try to obtain a search warrant by having the nine patients exhumed to find traces of the illegal drug.