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4	->''"It doesn't kill you. What it does is make you feel like you're in a noisy little dark room...naked and ashamed...and there are things in the dark that need to hurt you because you're bad...little pinching things that go in your ears and crawl on the inside of your skull. And you know that if the noise and the crawling would stop...that you could remember how to get out...but you never will."''
5	-->-- '''Glory''' describing the effects of her [[LiquidAssets brain suck]] to Tara, ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
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7	The EvilCounterpart to the HappyPlace and the darkest corner of the MentalWorld, the Black Bug Room is the place inside a person's head where all of their negative feelings dwell and fester. A person's consciousness may get sent there when their mind breaks under the strain, or other characters may end up there by [[WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque taking a wrong turn]] during a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, and permanent confinement there is [[FateWorseThanDeath to be avoided at all costs]].
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9	In movies, entering the Room is often shown with a MadnessMontage. Compare Room101 and PsychologicalTormentZone for the non-metaphysical versions with all the same effects. Not to be confused with a DebugRoom, or the [[MinusWorld Black Room of Death]] in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''.
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15	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
16	%%* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': The black bug room is where every single negative emotion is stored in Guts' mind, especially all of the horrifying memories of the Eclipse. When [[EnemyWithin the Beast of Darkness]] isn't directly exerting pressure on Guts, this is where it sleeps. %%What is a black bug room?
17	* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': Most of Lucy's interior monologue and reasoning takes place in an incredibly large black void. Her reasoning is mostly governed by her murderous instincts and tortured past, so she sees the room as a space where humans remind her that she is pathetic and doesn't belong in their world, with her diclonius instinct sweetly promising that everything will be better if she just kills every last motherfucker in sight.
18	* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'': The center of the Witch's mind turns out to be one, as the magical girl ends up mentally reliving the moment of utter despair for them over and over, with no chance to escape. In the movie, the worst memory is [[spoiler:Homura having to MercyKill Madoka in one of the previous timelines]]. Sayaka implies that this horror is the norm for ''every'' magical girl turned Witch in the series. Tormented by their worst memories that caused them to fall into despair far enough to turn into a Witch.
19	* ''Manga/SoulEater'': A Black Blood Room appears in Soul Eater's mind. Manifesting when he got infected with the Black Blood, the Black Blood Imp lives there. Whenever Soul tries to channel the Black Blood's Madness properties, he ends up there. It's a fancy room with a piano (which is how he can use his Soul Resonance in an advanced state) and whoever ends up there ends up dressed to the nines, reflecting Soul's sophisticated tastes (he ends up there in a nice suit with the Imp already having one and Maka, the only person entering there, ends up in a lovely black dress with heels).
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22	[[folder:Comic Books]]
23	* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'':
24	** "The Glow" is [[BigBad Gideon Graves]]' form of supernatural psychological warfare that he heavily implies he made millions with the military. Anyone inflicted has their memories tainted and distorted while their vices are amplified to self-destructive tendencies; their heads begin glowing (hence the name) whenever they are in distress, likely signifying that they are trapped in this. For example, when Ramona's head glows, it's a sign of her currently troubled state. Scott later ends up infected with it. Worth noting that Gideon himself is seemingly immune to the Glow. He explains he's been trapped inside his own head since he was a kid and, as far as the man's concerned, has no personal issues to deal with.
25	** Scott's mindscape represents a desert and appears to symbolize his feelings of despair and loneliness as seen in the beginning (he is still recovering from a bad breakup and showing he's in an emotionally unstable state.) It was likely this emotional instability along with the Glow that led to the rise of Nega-Scott (given how he first appears when Scott is first seen glowing.)
26	%%** We see Ramona's where a subconscious version of her is seen in a rather skimpy outfit, fawning over a subconscious construct of Gideon, showing that a part of her is still controlled and influenced by him. %%Ramona's what?
27	%%* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
28	%%** The {{Trope Namer\|s}} is the event in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' #116, in which Cassandra Nova [[http://en.marveldatabase.com/Black_Bug_Room sends Cyclops there]]. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
29	%%** It's brought back in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' #14, in which Emma Frost brings him there for some PsychicSurgery. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
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32	[[folder:Fan Works]]
33	%%* ''FanFic/BeingDeadAintEasy'' has one of these as part of Seto Kaiba's Soul Room, and a major problem is the threat of being permanently trapped there with all the dangers conjured up from Kaiba's mind. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
34	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fan works:
35	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14060442/1/Darth-s-Vengeance Darth's Vengeance]]'', Darth (an Irken with PsychicPowers) torments Zim by sticking him in the worst part of his own mind, which is referred to as the Black Bug Room. It takes the form of a mixture of the Skool and the restaurant on Foodcourtia that Zim was banished to, where an in-universe CompositeCharacter of Miss Bitters and Sizz-Lorr harasses him. And when Dib and Gaz interfere with Darth's attack, he sticks them in their Bug Rooms too -- Dib's is the Nightmare Realm from the canonical HalloweenEpisode, while Gaz's is an eldritch void. [[spoiler:And then it turns out that Gaz is [[EnfantTerrible so twisted]] that her Bug Room is her HappyPlace, and she has total control of it; to counter this, Darth sticks her in her actual Happy Place, a SugarBowl that disgusts and terrifies her.]]
36	** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14011103/1/Gaz-and-the-Sinister-Social-Club Gaz and the Sinister Social Club]]'', Gaz ends up retreating into the deepest part of her mind, described as her Black Bug Room, in response to [[spoiler: the attempt to [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul brainwash her into preppiness]]]]. It's described as a black void full of countless copies of her own eyes staring back at her, while she's left with the feeling of ''things'' crawling all over her, as countless voices whisper at her. Getting in touch with her innermost self like this [[spoiler: gives her the strength to resist the brainwashing]].
37	%%* ''[[Fanfic/TheDuologyOfNicholasAndersen Tales of a Reset Mind]]'': This is where [[spoiler:the Evil Emotions torture Nico.]] It takes the form of a psych ward room. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
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40	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
41	* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'': The Subconscious is a prison set in the cliff around the Memory Dump, home to all the things that Riley is afraid of. Of course, since she's 11, it's mostly stuff like broccoli, basement stairs, and a clown who was at one of her birthday parties. [[spoiler:Joy and Sadness have to go down there to retrieve Bing-Bong after he's caught being troublesome by mind workers.]]
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44	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
45	%%* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': The Winter Soldier's mind looks a lot like this, in the horrific flashback sequence we see. One highlight: having his arm amputated without anesthesia. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
46	%%* ''Film/TheCell'': A lot of Carl Stargher's subconsciousness functions as his Black Bug Room, from the memory of his childhood home to the display chamber of grotesque dolls (which are actually representations of his victims). %%What is a Black Bug Room?
47	%%* ''Film/{{Flatliners}}'': The plot involves accessing a Black Bug Room during a near-death experience. It turns out by the end that the characters are each experiencing a manifestation of their deepest personal guilt. %%What is a Black Bug Room?
48	%%* ''Film/{{Inception}}'': A black bug room takes the form of Cobb's reconstructions of his memories. Specifically, of his greatest regrets in that hotel room. %%What is a black bug room?
49	%%(PCE)* The Hospital from ''Film/JacobsLadder''. Complete with grimacing eyeless anesthesiologist of doom. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
50	* ''Film/OsmosisJones'': The evil virus [[BigBad Thrax]] at one point stumbles into Frank's brain and takes a peek at his nightmare section, which [[HorrifyingTheHorror greatly disturbs Thrax]] and he quickly and frantically scrambles out of the room.
51	--> '''Thrax''': Whew! [[EvenEvilHasStandards This cat was sick before I even got here!]]
52	* In ''Film/WhatDreamsMayCome'', those who [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] end up in a SelfInflictedHell of their own making, since they are still wracked by the depression and guilt they suffered while they lived. Since YourMindMakesItReal, they suffer from their worst fears. In the case of Anne, the main character's wife, she suffers from the guilt of not only outliving her two children, who died in a car accident, but also her husband, who died later on from another car accident.
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55	[[folder:Literature]]
56	%%* In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''The Room With No Doors'' by Kate Orman, the eponymous Room (which the Doctor starts dreaming about being trapped in) functions as a Black Bug Room for the Doctor, although its actual origin and purpose turns out to be something quite different. %%What is a Black Bug Room?
57	* In ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'' by Thomas Harris, Hannibal Lecter has an 'oubliette' in his MemoryPalace that contains some troubling memories.
58	%%* Described in the ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' novels as ''Chapel Perilous''. All the principal characters have to "walk that lonesome valley" to the Chapel and confront their deepest and most primal fears before moving on. Some require repeat visits. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own -- What is described as "Chapel Perilous"?
59	%%* Room101 in Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' is the Black Bug room made manifest. With, for Winston Smith, [[spoiler:[[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes extra added rats]]]]. %%What is a Black Bug Room?
60	* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' novel ''Mosaic'', Janeway keeps dreaming that she's stuck in a small room with a locked door (mirroring the current crisis, where the ''Voyager'' is pinned down by the Kazon while part of their crew is stuck on a nearby planet.) Behind the locked door is [[spoiler:the memory of the accident that killed both her father and her fiancée]].
61	%%* Black feathers and the yellow feather "Curious Yellow" in ''Literature/{{Vurt}}''. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
62	* ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}'': Those who fall to TheCorruption of the Wood have their bodies used as {{Meat Puppet}}s while their minds are trapped in an endless nightmare of being lost in the trees. Their minds can be located with magic and even rescued, but most are {{Mind Rape}}d into {{Empty Shell}}s after a week or so of captivity.
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65	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
66	%%* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Glory's description of the state of her victims after she [[LiquidAssets drains their sanity]] is highly illustrative of this. More interestingly, this is also the state Glory herself descends into if she goes too long without brain-sucking anyone. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
67	%%* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': The Attic is one, in which the victim is subjected to near-total sensory deprivation. Near-total, in that the victim feels near a thought at all times with all thoughts. In its titular episode, "The Attic", the Attic is [[spoiler:actually a supercomputer run on the adrenaline and nightmares of the people sent there, including a man eating sushi made [[AutoCannibalism from his own flesh]].]] %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
68	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'':
69	** The episode "[[Recap/FarscapeS02E15WontGetFooledAgain Won't Get Fooled Again]]" involves Crichton becoming trapped in a MentalWorld in which plenty of repressed fears and insecurities rise to the surface in humanoid form. Ironically, for someone so [[SanitySlippage traumatized]], Crichton does a pretty good job staying out of his Black Bug Room during the rest of the series.
70	%%** "[[Recap/FarscapeS04E15MentalAsAnything Mental as Anything]]" gives D'Argo a Black Bug Room in the form of his cell on Moya. At the end of the episode, D'Argo's brother-in-law is imprisoned in his Black Bug Room, reliving his worst memory for the rest of his life: [[spoiler: disfiguring the corpse of his sister so that D'Argo would be blamed for her murder.]] %%What is a Black Bug Room?
71	%%* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVTerrorform Terrorform]]", a planetoid is transformed into a physical representation of Rimmer's Black Bug Room. It turns out to be designed to represent his entire MentalWorld. Unfortunately, most of Rimmer's psyche is Black Bug Room. %%What is a Black Bug Room?
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74	[[folder:Music]]
75	* In Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGWBGFZcKGE&index=11&list=PLjACqN5i5sDWoCTXHzphV5EZtNqPEmYaP Nothing Stays the Same]]", the singer says he's "walked through [the] unlit corridors" that are inhabited by his [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity black and white]] thoughts.
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78	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
79	%%* If you botch a Pilot Safety/Nightmare check in ''TabletopGame/BlissStage'', this is where you end up. Your Anchor loses control of the dream and the other players get to add [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic personalized]] horror to the narration. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
80	%%* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'':
81	%%** This trope is the bread and butter of manitous that animate [[CameBackWrong the Harrowed]]. Every time a Harrowed goes asleep, the manitou puts them into their Black Bug Room, with the purpose of weakening their will and eventually taking [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil full control]] of their undead body. %%What is Black Bug Room?
82	%%** Subverted with [[HeroKiller Jasper Stone]], whose manitou is too afraid of ''him'' to wield any power over him.
83	* ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'':
84	** In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'', Insanity Realms are said to by far be the most dangerous and disturbing parts of the [[MentalWorld Oneiros]]. They're literally the metaphysical landscapes embodying a person's [[SanityMeter derangements]], and anyone who visits them temporarily suffers the derangement they embody...and they don't let go of visitors very easily.
85	** In ''TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion'', the Harrowing occurs when a wraith has just lost or is about to lose some key part of their existence (their [[UnfinishedBusiness passions]], their [[HauntedFetter fetters]], their physical coherence, etc.). It's as much a struggle against one's own personal nightmares as a fight against some of the more insidious influences of [[PowerOfTheVoid Oblivion]].
86	%%** In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', this (referred to as "the Quiet") is one of the possible results of botching a spell, especially one that relates to mind magic. The mage goes on a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind through their Black Bug Room and, if they don't die or go insane, returns cleansed of all their paradox. %%What is a Black Bug Room?
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90	* In ''Theatre/JacobMarleysChristmasCarol'', Marley's personal hell is a room where everyone laughs and screams at him. He cracks in minutes.
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94	%%* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'': Desmond finds himself in one, but with a twist: [[spoiler:He's actually exploring his own memories in an attempt to piece together his past and separate them from those of his ancestors so he doesn't end up like Subject 16.]] %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
95	* ''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'': The main character's hallucinations mysteriously go to a place filled with oily black monsters, getting progressively worse as black oil starts covering everything in that place, and then [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never show up again]].
96	%%* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'': After being temporarily swallowed by Nightmare, Dante retreats into his black bug room where he fights off various monsters from his past, at least [[AllThereInTheManual according to Nightmare's in-game enemy file.]] %%What is a black bug room?
97	%%-->"When you are surrounded in its gel like form, you will be teleported into an evil dimension. You must destroy the evil spirits that rule the dimension. The evil is a reflection of Dante's trauma that rests in his subconscious."
98	* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'': Thanks to a combination of long-standing depression and a recent mental breakdown, the protagonist is tormented by the voices of [[OrganAutonomy his Ancient Reptilian Brain and Limbic System]] ''every time he goes to bed'', [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech telling him how much of an unlovable fuck-up he is]] and trying to convince him to [[DrivenToSuicide take the big black door marked "EXIT ONLY"]]. It's specifically noted that this makes his sleep an absolute horror, turning it into something "dry [and] un-nourishing".
99	* ''{{VideoGame/DLIRIUM}}'': The Personal Hell is where you awaken if you die of too much shock, if the name is of any indication. You awaken as an undead ghoul in a dark cavern and must retrieve personality fragments to return to the Heart in order to escape before giant black tendrils engulf the whole map.
100	* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}} 2'': Near the end of the game, Nowe travels into Manah's mind to save her from a HeroicBSOD. It's freaky enough to begin with, what with the series of empty doorframes, and having to chase around the constantly teleporting CreepyChild. And then you have to fight an army of red-eyed black-and-red-silhouette ''things''. And they keep coming. And then during the second stage, the background becomes row upon row of these things, just watching you.
101	* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': the Sea of Eden in Magicant is located deep within Ness' own subconscious, and the only enemies encountered in the Sea of Eden are three Krakens and [[spoiler:[[EnemyWithin Ness's Nightmare]], which appears as the Evil Mani Mani statue and represents all of Ness's evil, fears, and doubts. Destroying it will allow Ness to gain the true power of the "Your Sanctuary" locations.]]
102	%%* The final level of ''Figment'' has you traverse one themed after a car accident and composed of smashed car parts and the belongings of the people inside strewn around. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
103	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': the central hub of Cloud's Psyche, populated by the ghostly images of Cloud's subpersonalities, all in the state of anguish and suffering. Tifa arrives here when their minds meld as they submerge into the Lifestream, and has to use this uncanny place as a hub to explore other parts of Cloud's mind to find out his history and the reason for his madness and catatonia.
104	* The elevator in ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' is where Ellen is confronted by a biography of her traumatic life -- [[spoiler:and a reconstruction of the man who raped her]]. Whether this place is a physical reconstruction or the literal place within Ellen's mind is up for debate.
105	* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': In the final episode, Max seriously overstrains her time travel powers and passes out. She spends an extended period of time wandering through a nightmare world, bombarded by all her worst fears and insecurities: [[spoiler:that she's using her rewind to make people like her and doesn't actually care, that the tornado might be her fault, that she's too dull for Chloe, that basically all the guys she knows are possible threats...]]
106	%%* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'': Shepard is repeatedly forced to confront their own black bug room, a gray forest mantled in ashes and smoke where the whispers of friends who've died in the conflict haunt them. They try to save a young boy who died as they fled Earth, only to watch him burn as a representation of all the people on Earth that they can't save. %%What is a black bug room?
107	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'': The black bug room is [[spoiler:[[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Black Space]], which Headspace is constructed to seal away. When you acquire the right Keys to fill out the Hangman Puzzle, you gain access to it, and everything in Black Space is significantly more erratic and horrific as it tries to force Sunny to face the truth of his sister Mari's death.]] %%What is a black bug room?
108	* ''VideoGame/ThePark'': [[AmusementParkOfDoom Atlantic Island Park]]'s House of Horrors is deliberately modeled on Lorraine's house, specifically during the time when she was left alone to raise Callum; for good measure, the place is littered with evidence of her hardships, from disconnection letters from the power company to rejection letters from her ''own mother.'' Attempting to leave results in Lorraine looping back through the house, finding it more and more distorted with each iteration: blood drips from the walls, corpses dangle from the ceiling, dolls are melted in ovens, books rewrite themselves into disturbing new narratives, and notes sudden transform into taunting messages addressed to Lorraine herself. [[spoiler:This is actually an illusion created by the Bogeyman/Nathaniel Winter, all with the explicit goal of driving Lorraine into insanity.]] Worse still, it's hinted that the events of the game are actually Lorraine's memories of what happened to her that day, continuously re-experienced as nightmares: as a result, Lorraine will keep being dragged through her Black Bug Room all the way up to the events of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld.''
109	* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': Some of the dungeons are at least partially formed from the minds of the people who are trapped in them, so they're bound to include these.
110	** ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' has [[spoiler: [[RobotGirl Labrys']]]] once their [[EnemyWithin Shadow]] reveals itself. The environment switches from a mostly normal school to a hellish security room with a giant incinerator in the background, dismantled and broken mannequins hanging off meat hooks, and blood running down the windows repeatedly.
111	** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' goes the furthest with this with the Palaces of the installment's resident MentalWorld--the Metaverse. Here, distorted views of reality are made physical, and the Shadows of their source act as Ruler.
112	** ''VideoGame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'' has [[spoiler:Hikari]]'s labyrinth, a representation of all the trauma heaped on her throughout her life every time she [[IndividualityIsIllegal went against the crowd]], which by the time of the game has left her a [[BrokenBird horribly depressed and catatonic girl]]. The majority of the labyrinth has a bright and cheerful aesthetic atypical of a Black Bug Room, but it's filled with cartoon animals and flowers singing about ''abandoning your individuality and becoming one with the crowd'', and every few floors depicts an event in [[spoiler:Hikari]]'s past that led her to become the broken person she is now.
113	* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''
114	** A secret room in "Milla's Dance Party" is a cage made of fire with ghostly monsters behind it, whispering menacing things about a tragedy from Milla's past. Keep in mind the rest of the level has a bright, disco/party theme, and this single room is the disturbing exception. They're a representation of a person's nightmares, caged up there because Milla has iron control over them, which, considering what they actually ''are'', is pretty impressive given how relevant they are to her current job. Milla is constantly running this noisy party in her mind to [[spoiler:drown out the nightmare-inducing memories of the cries of her foster children as they died in a fire]].
115	** The game's final level combines traumatic childhood memories of [[TheHero Raz]] and the BigBad, forcing Raz to sort out both of their issues [[spoiler:with some help from his dad]].
116	* ''VideoGame/{{Sanitarium}}'': The premise (quickly explained in the third chapter) is that the protagonist is a mental asylum patient who experienced a car accident. As a result, he has frequent hallucinations set in surreal worlds. As the game goes on, he starts experiencing hallucinations even when he's in the asylum in the "real world". [[spoiler:Except that, near the end of the game, it's revealed that the asylum is also a hallucination; the protagonist was in a coma the entire time]].
117	%%(ZCE)* In ''VideoGame/SecondSight,'' the interrogation room appears to function as this during John Vattic's flashbacks and visions. [[spoiler: Or ''does'' it?]] %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
118	* ''Franchise/SilentHill'': The ''entire town'' seems to serve as the keeping place of all its visitors' psychological torments, waiting to be confronted. The [[AlienGeometries topologies and layouts]] have less to do with being actual places and more with emphasizing what the characters feel and think, and upon entering [[DarkWorld the Otherworld]], the symbology takes center stage under the spotlight, to horrifying or depressing effect.
119	%%* The [[spoiler:entire game]] in ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal: Black'' is either [[spoiler:Sweet Tooth's]] Black Bug Room or his HappyPlace. He's so AxCrazy, it's hard to tell. %%What is a Black Bug Room?
120	%%(ZCE)* ''VideoGame/YumeNikki''
121	%%(ZCE)** The entire game. Other than possibly the rooftop and [[spoiler: Masada's spaceship]].
122	%%(ZCE)** The fansequel ''VideoGame/DotFlow'' has an even more disturbing case of this.
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125	[[folder:Webcomics]]
126	* ''Webcomic/{{Blip}}'': Mary, Hester, and Liz take a trip into Bishop's subconscious. In there, they find a room with infinitely tall walls, and every secret in Bishop's life is scrawled on those walls. In the center of the room, there's a small table with a laptop on it, which has a video that shows the trio that certain recent events were not all that they seemed.
127	* ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'': When a person is possessed by a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent drath]], their mind is trapped with the drath's spirit in a black void where it delivers an unending HannibalLecture of their deepest insecurities. A wizard can break in and [[TheSoulsaver rescue them]], but only if the victim can shake off the drath's lies enough to accept the help.
128	%%* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': This is one possible explanation for the entire [[DarkWorld city]] in which Zimmy spends much of her time -- dystopian, unmaintained, populated by [[TheBlank people]] who drip black smoke from where their faces should be, and containing other such oddities as giant spiders, bottomless trash cans, gruesomely injured mannequins, and glass windows containing incomprehensible silhouettes of people and centipedes. It's even scarier when you discover that Zimmy can accidentally drag other people into it and that [[spoiler:things from there can escape and start using those people as PeoplePuppets]]. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
129	%%* ''Webcomic/{{Kagerou}}'': Kano Jurgen's mind seems to be one giant "Black Bug Room", called the Zones, where some of his personalities live. %%What is a Black Bug Room?
130	%%* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'': Shelly's boiler room is a subversion. It is dark, unsettling, and occupied by one of the creepiest little girls in the history of fiction. However, the girl is easily the friendliest [[OurDemonsAreDifferent personal demon]] to appear in the comic and essentially acts as a conscience. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own -- What is subverted?
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134	* In ''WebVideo/{{Animerica}}'', BigBad Kiyone [[spoiler:is revealed to have an EnemyWithin that was subsequently created from his hidden negative feelings on his brother Kasuse but we don't actually get a glimpse of his mind until ''next'' season when he is confronted by his evil side once Ron gives him a moving speech. From the looks of it, it consists of him being tied up in spiked vines to a black pillar in a purple-black hued room with his inner demon smirking at him in a sinister chair across the room. Here, it attempts to give him another BreakingLecture but [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome then...]]]]
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138	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'': Duckman has a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind episode wherein he is hypnotized and encounters his Confidence (an emaciated, chained-up version of himself) and his Guilt (a massive dragon). All seems lost, but then a memory of Duckman's late wife, Beatrice, appears and reminds him of how and why she loved him. Hearing this causes his Confidence to become healthy and muscular, and it slays the dragon.
139	%%* Dib's nightmare world in the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' HalloweenEpisode falls into this category. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
140	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'': The Tick has one. [[IdiotHero His subconscious stores it in a cardboard box.]] [[spoiler:[[SoulCrushingDeskJob A day job? At an office?!]] [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!]]]] %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
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144	%%* Tangency, the off-topic section of RPG.Net, uses the "Black Bug Room" tag to describe stories of miserable events where the posters reading cannot try to stop things like that from happening again by doing something productive -- they're just topics on the [[HumansAreBastards deepest of human fuckery]] (such as animal and child abuse). Inverted in that there are also topics on heartwarming subjects, described with the tag "White Puppy Solarium". Futuba imageboards often fill the /x/ sections with these. Literature/TheHoldersSeries was born out of this. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
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