History Main / TheLostWoods

** The middle of Soda Jungle in ''NewSuoerMarioBrosU'' and ''NewSuperLuigiU''. The rest is BubblegloopSwamp.

* ''TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Picnic" has Gumball and Darwin getting lost in the Forest of Doom on a school picnic. HilarityEnsues.

[[caption-width-right:262:[-Left to right, top to bottom: ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 2'', ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', ''ShirenTheWanderer'', ''ActRaiser'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI''. This level shows up a lot.-] ]]

** The sequel has Gaia Rock (plants and earth are emcompassed as Venus-element in GoldenSun), where casting Growth on the sprout in the middle of the repeating rooms shows you where to go.

* The Forest of Illusion in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' in which all of the standard exits simply send you around in circles.

* Boggly Woods in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is this area with a twist: the entire area looks like a photo negative. The later Twilight Trail is dark and scary, though the ghosts don't show up until [[BigBoosHaunt later]].
** ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' features Forever Forest as the setting for Chapter 3 up to the transition to Gusty Gulch. It ''is'' haunted, after a fashion, though the scary bits serve as hints more than haunts; and the enemy population consists of Fuzzies and Piranha Plants. Like in certain incarnations of Zelda's Lost Woods, going the wrong way just takes you back to more familiar settings, so becoming irretrievably lost from Toad Town is not a concern, except for the critters...
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' has Honeyhive and Gold Leaf Galaxy, which are a bit more whimsical than your standard Lost Woods, but they do have giant bugs, lots of bees (including a power-up), and in Gold Leaf, rabbits. Enemies that are standard fare for these worlds appear too, like Wigglers and Monty Moles. Gusty Garden Galaxy is like this to an extent as well, although it's not an actual forest.
** Well, both of the 'forests' are like a mix between forest and hill zone, with big open sunny skies and the general upbeatness. Gusty Garden seems more like a hill zone, too. At least it's not Evil Garden or some such.
** Tall Trunk Galaxy from [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 the sequel]] is actually a more straight example of this, in which there are various planets either shaped like trees, logs, and even a giant slide much akin to the one seen in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''.
* Forest Maze from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', the Chucklehuck Woods from ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'', Toadwood Forest from ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'', and Dimble Wood from ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''.

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'' has Kolima Forest, which earns bonus points for having a DekuTree style dungeon, and Mogall Forest.

** MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam has Dimble Wood, visited twice in the main adventure.

[[caption-width-right:262:Left to right, top to bottom: ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 2'', ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', ''ShirenTheWanderer'', ''ActRaiser'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryI''. This level shows up a lot.]]

* The Everfree Forest in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', home to creepy trees, {{kaiju}}-sized {{bears|AreBadNews}}, [[EvilEye cockatrices]], manticores, [[TheSwarm parasprites]], at least one full-grown dragon, poison joke, ''literall'' [[{{Planimal}} timber wolves]], and other assorted dangerous plants and animals. To the ponies, however, the very scariest thing about the Everfree Forest is that [[EldritchLocation the laws of nature work differently there than they do outside of its boundaries]]; the plants grow, animals take care of themselves, and the clouds move -- ''all on their own!'' For those unfamiliar with the show, the ponies [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows take care of those things everywhere else]].

* The Everfree Forest in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', home to creepy trees, {{kaiju}}-sized {{bears|AreBadNews}}, [[EvilEye cockatrices]], manticores, [[TheSwarm parasprites]], at least one full-grown dragon, poison joke, and other assorted plants and animals. To the ponies, however, the very scariest thing about the Everfree Forest is that [[EldritchLocation the laws of nature work differently there than they do outside of its boundaries]]; the plants grow, animals take care of themselves, and the clouds move -- ''all on their own!'' For those unfamiliar with the show, the ponies [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows take care of those things everywhere else]].

** While not as vast and sparsely populated as the ''East Siberian taiga'', the ''Scandinavian and Russian taiga'' (which includes northern Sweden, Norway and Finland) definitely counts.

As a setting for {{videogame}} stages, The Lost Woods are a cousin to the GreenHillZone, and frequently occupy the second level -- apparently operating by the logic that a forest is a little more dangerous than GhibliHills but not by a whole lot, and that plains and forest aren't too different considering that both are defined by the type of vegetation they have. Unless the stage is placed much later, then things will usually be a lot more difficult. They may or may not be [[BigBoosHaunt haunted]] (later stages often are), but either way, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou expect everything to try to kill you]].

* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' has the Subcon Forest, where people "get . . . kind of crazy when they leave the path."

* The island of ''VideoGame/TheWitness'' has a wide array of biomes [[PatchworkMap {especially for its small size)]], but it is primarily covered in temperate forests. Strangely, one of the forests is in autumn while the rest are in spring/summer.

** The contrast is probably more highlighted with Jersey's usual depiction in media as an industrial PlaceWorseThanDeath.

* The second level of ''BujingaiSwordmaster''. Made all more interesting by the fact that it's actually a bamboo forest.

* We could probably list the entirety of southern New Jersey, with the exception of Atlantic City. Driving down the pine barrens roads at night can easily give you the impression that you're somewhere in LovecraftCountry.

* OneHundredYardStare: Macy might have wandered into this in episode five.

Named for the infamous RecurringLocation in the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]]'' games.

** The TropeNamer is the Lost Woods from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda''. In its first appearance, it was a [[TheMaze homogeneous maze]], a trait shared by its many later appearances.

* Parts of the Earth Area in ''GuardianOfParadise''. As it's a homage to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' franchise it also has a section where it becomes a full-on maze, but you're guided by a ferret/cat you saved earlier.