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%%* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPGLegendOfTheSevenStars'': Smithy's Weapons Factory is a cross between this and OminousFloatingCastle.

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%%* * ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPGLegendOfTheSevenStars'': Smithy's Weapons Factory [[BigBad Smithy's]] Weapon World is a cross between this an entire dimension that's been turned into one of these. The factory's "outskirts" are decrepit and OminousFloatingCastle.full of scrap, with several ghostly enemies lurking around, and similarly drab and dull machinery with conveyors that move around ''copies of previous Smithy Gang bosses''.

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* Stage 5 of ''VideoGame/HardCorpsUprising'' can be this. After sneaking in through what appears to be an ordinary (and poorly lit) base, the heroes are attacked by mechanical monsters that are constantly being dumped out onto conveyor belts. When defeated, they fall backwards and explode into pieces that can damage a character. The boss is [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere a flying alien-looking]] [[FetusTerrible fetus thing]] inside a case with mechanical arms and weapons attached to it. [[spoiler:Bahamut experiences the real 'Nightmare' part of this trope. Playing as Krystal (and reading her storyline loading screen after this stage) reveals that those mechanical monsters used to be people, and that she could see Bahamut was visibly disturbed about gunning down what may have been be his ex-comrades.]]
** The second half of Stage 3 of ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}: Shattered Soldier'' also fits this. After you have destroyed the small HelicopterBlender, you enter the factory, facing the grinding machine and the chubby alien thing that produces inanimate molds. Defeat it and it gets into grinding machine along with the molds, getting grinded into the grinding machine. Next, you will see an alien snake (looks like Devil Dragon Emperor Java) that spits the hazardous bubbles as well as poisonous acids. Beat the alien snake, and two rolling turrets following it, and you will face a giant robot that breaks the wall and chases you.

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Stage 5 of ''VideoGame/HardCorpsUprising'' can be this. After sneaking in through what appears to be an ordinary (and poorly lit) base, the heroes are attacked by mechanical monsters that are constantly being dumped out onto conveyor belts. When defeated, they fall backwards and explode into pieces that can damage a character. The boss is [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere a flying alien-looking]] [[FetusTerrible fetus thing]] inside a case with mechanical arms and weapons attached to it. [[spoiler:Bahamut experiences the real 'Nightmare' part of this trope. Playing as Krystal (and reading her storyline loading screen after this stage) reveals that those mechanical monsters used to be people, and that she could see Bahamut was visibly disturbed about gunning down what may have been be his ex-comrades.]]
** The second half of Stage 3 of ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}: Shattered Soldier'' ''VideoGame/ContraShatteredSoldier'' also fits this. After you have destroyed the small HelicopterBlender, you enter the factory, facing the grinding machine and the chubby alien thing that produces inanimate molds. Defeat it and it gets into grinding machine along with the molds, getting grinded into the grinding machine. Next, you will see an alien snake (looks like Devil Dragon Emperor Java) that spits the hazardous bubbles as well as poisonous acids. Beat the alien snake, and two rolling turrets following it, and you will face a giant robot that breaks the wall and chases you.
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* The Good Guy Doll factory from ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' is an effective LightIsNotGood spin on this trope. Instead of being dirty and ominously lit, the factory is an eerily clean and brightly colored environment, but it's completely void of life (there's only one guy watching everything from a control room) and it's filled with safety hazards, which endanger the protagonists and end up giving Chucky a RasputinianDeath.

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* The Good Guy Doll factory from ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' is an effective LightIsNotGood spin on this trope. Instead of being dirty and ominously lit, the factory is an [[CreepyCleanliness eerily clean and brightly colored environment, environment]], but it's completely void of life (there's life, with only one guy watching everything from a control room) and it's room. It's also [[NoOSHACompliance filled with safety hazards, hazards]], which endanger the protagonists and end up giving Chucky a RasputinianDeath.

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->''"In the Rainbow Factory, where your fears and horrors come true. In the Rainbow Factory, where not a single soul gets through..."''

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->''"In ->''In the Rainbow Factory, where Factory,\\
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In the Rainbow Factory, where Factory,\\
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not a single soul gets through..."''''
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* The Petpak pet food factory in the ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' certainly qualifies as one.

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* The Petpak pet food factory in the climax of ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' certainly qualifies as one.
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* ''VideoGame/MagicalTetrisChallenge'': Averted. Franchise/MickeyMouse, the hero, works at a factory, and it's not a particularly scary place. The factory boilers, which are [[AnimateInanimateObject alive]], look friendly enough.
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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-001-o5 The Factory]]. A city-sized factory with a live-in staff, specializing in OrganicTechnology and MagiTek, powered by slave labour, [[spoiler: BloodMagic, and SoulPower]]. The security guards are [[FrankensteinsMonster sewn together patchwork-men]] between [[BeastMan animals and people]].

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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-001-o5 The Factory]]. A city-sized factory with a live-in staff, specializing in OrganicTechnology and MagiTek, powered by slave labour, [[spoiler: BloodMagic, and SoulPower]]. The security guards are [[FrankensteinsMonster sewn together patchwork-men]] between [[BeastMan animals and people]].
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* In its initial phase of production, the aboveground floors of "Literature/TheRedTower" were full of harshly grinding gears and levers, twisting pipes and deep vats. Then they were evaporated by the wasteland, leaving their spectral outlines behind. [[GeniusLoci At no point is it clear that anyone actually worked there.]]
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Overlaps with EternalEngine in video games, and with HellholePrison wherever such places use convict labour.

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Overlaps with EternalEngine in video games, and with HellholePrison wherever such places use convict labour.
labour. May take the form of a SteamAndFlameFactory.
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* In Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' the "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" scene shows the schoolchildren being marched into an industrial machine, coming out the other way with [[FacialHorror identical deformed faces]], before they are sent down into a giant meat grinder.

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* The Good Guy Doll factory from ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' is an effective LightIsNotGood spin on this trope. Instead of being dirty and ominously lit, the factory is an eerily clean and brightly colored environment, but it's completely void of life (there's only one guy watching everything from a control room) and it's filled with safety hazards, which endanger the protagonists and give Chucky a RasputinianDeath.

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* The Good Guy Doll factory from ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' is an effective LightIsNotGood spin on this trope. Instead of being dirty and ominously lit, the factory is an eerily clean and brightly colored environment, but it's completely void of life (there's only one guy watching everything from a control room) and it's filled with safety hazards, which endanger the protagonists and give end up giving Chucky a RasputinianDeath.RasputinianDeath.
* The Geonosian droid factory in ''[[Film/AttackOfTheClones Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones]]'' is a sinister automated industry that nearly kills the heroes before they are found and captured.



* ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. Max works in a factory building robots. He's told to enter a radiation chamber to move a pallet that's blocking the door or lose his job. The door shuts on him and he receives a lethal dose of radiation.

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* ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. In ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' Max works in a factory building robots. He's told to enter a radiation chamber to move a pallet that's blocking the door or lose his job. The door shuts on him and he receives a lethal dose of radiation.
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* The Good Guy Doll factory from ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' is an effective LightIsNotGood spin on this trope. Instead of being dirty and ominously lit, the factory is an eerily clean and brightly colored environment, but it's completely void of life (there's only one guy watching everything from a control room) and it's filled with safety hazards, which endanger the protagonists and give Chucky a RasputinianDeath.
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* Old-school {{industrial}} is meant to sound like one.

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* Old-school {{industrial}} is meant {{Industrial}} was given its name because early bands were signed to Industrial Records and its early sound like one. used sounds that brought one of these to mind.
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* This is essentially what the [[spoiler:Star Forge]] is in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. It's able to [[spoiler:churn out an endless amount of warships and so forth without any issues as it only requires a single type of fuel.]] What is that fuel? [[spoiler: Nothing more than [[TheDarkSide dark side energies]] emitted from sentient beings.]] And if that isn't enough, [[spoiler:Darth Malak]] mentions that the [[spoiler:Star Forge is akin to a living creature, always hungering for dark side energy.]] It's no freakin' wonder why [[spoiler:Revan]] voice-locked the Ebon Hawk's navicomputer since, depending on the choices answered to Atton at the beginning, even if [[spoiler:the Star Forge is destroyed via the LS option, the technology that built it could be used to '''rebuild it''' in time.]]

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* This is essentially what the [[spoiler:Star Forge]] is in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. It's able to [[spoiler:churn out an endless amount of warships and so forth without any issues as it only requires a single type of fuel.]] What is that fuel? [[spoiler: Nothing more than [[TheDarkSide dark side energies]] emitted from sentient beings.]] And if that isn't enough, [[spoiler:Darth Malak]] mentions that the [[spoiler:Star Forge is akin to a living creature, always hungering for dark side energy. And if the individual isn't as resilient/strong enough to control it like Malak and Revan were, it consumes them for fuel as well.]] It's no freakin' wonder why [[spoiler:Revan]] voice-locked the Ebon Hawk's navicomputer since, depending on the choices answered to Atton at the beginning, even if [[spoiler:the Star Forge is was destroyed via the LS option, the technology that built it could be used to '''rebuild it''' in time.again over the years.]]
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* This is essentially what the [[spoiler:Star Forge]] is in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. It's able to [[spoiler:churn out an endless amount of warships and so forth without any issues as it only requires a single type of fuel.]] What is that fuel? [[spoiler: Nothing more than [[TheDarkSide dark side energies]] emitted from sentient beings.]] And if that isn't enough, [[spoiler:Dark Malak]] mentions that the [[spoiler:Star Forge is akin to a living creature, always hungering for dark side energy.]] It's no freakin' wonder why [[spoiler:Revan]] voice-locked the Ebon Hawk's navicomputer since, depending on the choices answered to Atton at the beginning, even if [[spoiler:the Star Forge is destroyed via the LS option, the technology that built it could be used to '''rebuild it''' in time.]]

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* This is essentially what the [[spoiler:Star Forge]] is in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. It's able to [[spoiler:churn out an endless amount of warships and so forth without any issues as it only requires a single type of fuel.]] What is that fuel? [[spoiler: Nothing more than [[TheDarkSide dark side energies]] emitted from sentient beings.]] And if that isn't enough, [[spoiler:Dark [[spoiler:Darth Malak]] mentions that the [[spoiler:Star Forge is akin to a living creature, always hungering for dark side energy.]] It's no freakin' wonder why [[spoiler:Revan]] voice-locked the Ebon Hawk's navicomputer since, depending on the choices answered to Atton at the beginning, even if [[spoiler:the Star Forge is destroyed via the LS option, the technology that built it could be used to '''rebuild it''' in time.]]
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* This is essentially what the [[spoiler:Star Forge]] is in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. It's able to [[spoiler:churn out an endless amount of warships and so forth without any issues as it only requires a single type of fuel.]] What is that fuel? [[spoiler: Nothing more than [[TheDarkSide dark side energies]] emitted from sentient beings.]] And if that isn't enough, [[spoiler:Dark Malak]] mentions that the [[spoiler:Star Forge is akin to a living creature, always hungering for dark side energy.]] It's no freakin' wonder why [[spoiler:Revan]] voice-locked the Ebon Hawk's navicomputer since, depending on the choices answered to Atton at the beginning, even if [[spoiler:the Star Forge is destroyed via the LS option, the technology that built it could be used to '''rebuild it''' in time.]]
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-->-- '''Music/WoodenToaster''', ''song that inspired Fanfic/RainbowFactory''

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-->-- '''Music/WoodenToaster''', ''song that inspired Fanfic/RainbowFactory''
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Factories made to look like one of the circles of Hell. This goes beyond the typical sweatshop aspects of long hours, slave wages, and NoOSHACompliance. Those things may happen through negligence, but this factory cranks all those aspects UpToEleven ''on purpose'', until the place is an enclosed CrapsackWorld.

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Factories made to look like one of the circles of Hell. This goes beyond the typical sweatshop aspects of long hours, slave wages, and NoOSHACompliance. Those things may happen through negligence, but this factory cranks all those aspects UpToEleven up ''on purpose'', until the place is an enclosed CrapsackWorld.
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* Every Glukkon factory in ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}''.

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* Every Glukkon factory in ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}''. Every corner that can be cut is sliced off, the machinery is actively dangerous, and workers are enslaved and often double as HumanResources.
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* ''Videogame/Afterlife1996:'' Two of the highest Sloth punishments in hell are different flavors of these.
** The "Beat the [[Creator/CharlesDickens Dickens]] out of You" factories are more Victorian-themed, with a note that demons are quite fond of the industrial revolution: "It was a time when pollution ran unchecked, giant machines regularly mangled innocent workers, entire families were placed into indentured servitude to rich, thoughtless corporations, and the concept of trade unions hadn't even begun to form in people's minds." As such, they aim their best to replicate and surpass the worst of the era.
** "Sisyphus Factories" are a little more modern, in that while apparently safer most of the modernization is taken in the worst direction possible: Millions upon millions of individual goals are given out and worked on with back-breaking labour, only to never get achieved right at the end due to some minor matter, thus dashing down all the hard work that took to get there. It's explicitly stated nothing is ''ever'' finished, and no product has ever left the factories.
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* Old-school {{industrial}} is meant to sound like one.
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[Literature/{{Howl}} "Moloch, whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!"]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: [[Literature/{{Howl}} [[Literature/Howl1955 "Moloch, whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!"]]]]
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* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' has the factory in which Max works.

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* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' has the ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. Max works in a factory in which Max works.building robots. He's told to enter a radiation chamber to move a pallet that's blocking the door or lose his job. The door shuts on him and he receives a lethal dose of radiation.
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* In ''Film/TheRipper1997'', Inspector Hansen chases the Ripper into a factory that seems to be doing nothing but belching out flame and steam.

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* The Toy Factory in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''.

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* %%* The Toy Factory in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''.''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''.
* In VideoGame/WorldOfGoo, Majority of Chapter 3, "Cog In The Machine", takes place in the factory designed to create and launch the mysterious Product Z. These levels are significantly darker in both tone and atmosphere, compared to the rest of the game, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEL0UsMQRcQ fittingly]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb0s7UavHNU unsettling]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i9oZnDdI9A music]] solidifying the hopelessness the place gives off.
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* The fifth Palace in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' is a mix between this trope and a space station. Robotic drones (representing how Palace owner Kunikazu Okumura views his employees) are forced into endless mind-numbing work with only a few seconds of break time. Whenever one of them breaks down from the stress, [[spoiler:their body is molten down and turned into fuel]]. His actual factory in the real world is a less extreme version, having harsh work conditions and poor safety practices.

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* The fifth Palace in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' is a mix between this trope and a space station. Robotic drones (representing how Palace owner Kunikazu Okumura views his employees) are forced into endless mind-numbing work with only a few seconds of break time. Whenever one of them breaks down from the stress, [[spoiler:their body is molten melted down and turned into fuel]]. His actual factory in the real world is a less extreme version, having harsh work conditions and poor safety practices.
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* The infamous factory level in ''Franchise/{{Kirby}} [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards 64]]''.
** ''Videogame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'''s Egg Engines would count too.

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* The infamous factory level stage on Shiver Star in ''Franchise/{{Kirby}} [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards 64]]''.
64: The Crystal Shards]]''.
** ''Videogame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'''s The Egg Engines level in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' would count too.

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