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5	[[caption-width-right:350: [[Literature/Howl1955 "Moloch, whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!"]]]]
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7	->''In the Rainbow Factory,\
8	Where your fears and horrors come true\
9	In the Rainbow Factory,\
10	Where not a single soul gets through...''
11	-->-- '''Music/WoodenToaster''', "Fanfic/RainbowFactory"
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13	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 up ''on purpose'', until the place is an enclosed CrapsackWorld.
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15	People are walking zombies there, and may die at any moment, while the cold, lifeless (or are they...?) machines don't stop moving. For some people, [[IDieFree death may be a release]]. Those at the top either live fat off their profits, or are suffering from the effects of the environment as well, likely going insane slowly, if they're not [[DeadAllAlong already dead]]. And expect various amounts of smog, smoke, and toxic waste being spewed outside.
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17	This trope started when mainstream factories didn't have anything in the way of child labor laws or occupational safety standards, and then people were horrified by the meat factory descriptions given in the book ''Literature/TheJungle'', and infamous RealLife incidents like the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire Triangle Shirtwaist fire]].
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19	Overlaps with EternalEngine in video games, and with HellholePrison wherever such places use convict labour. May take the form of a SteamAndFlameFactory.
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21	SuperTrope to SickeningSlaughterhouse.
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23	Compare {{Dystopia}}, IndustrialGhetto, PollutedWasteland, IndustrializedEvil.
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25	Not to be confused with the band ''Music/FearFactory''.
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27	!!Examples:
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31	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
32	* The factory that King Dedede builds in episode 28 of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa''.
33	* The ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' Sextuplets work at one thanks to Iyami in Episode 2.
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36	[[folder:Fan Works]]
37	* [[http://yukkuri.wikia.com/wiki/Factory The Factory]] in stories about [[WaddlingHead Yukkuris]] in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' setting. Here, the horror is not in the working conditions, but in the horrific treatment of the yukkuris produced there.
38	* In ''Fanfic/{{FREAKINGENSOKYO}}'', instead of a Yukkuri factory we have the cyborg fairy foundry, complete with vats of glowing slime and hordes of bloodthirsty robots.
39	* Magical Girl Star Reverie/Akiko Yamaguchi's newest enemies, [[Fanfic/BattleFantasiaProject The Nightmare Factory]], have these all over the world, pumping out [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]].
40	* In the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic pony]] fanfiction ''Fanfic/RainbowFactory'', based on the song by Music/WoodenToaster, the top levels of the factory are described as this, although it's more because they're [[HumanResources rendering children down for their colors]] to [[MakesSenseInContext manufacture rainbows.]]
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43	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
44	* An entire city (at least) is like this in the BadFuture of ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons''.
45	* The Chop Shop in ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' is this, both in appearance and in how it's seen in-universe. The fact that the owner looks like a female robot Satan doesn't help one bit. Nor does Music/TomWaits' [[Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}} "Underground."]]
46	* Swedish animated movie ''WesternAnimation/ResanTillMelonia'' has orphans forced to work in a Nightmarish Factory that covers an entire island. KidHero Ferdinand has escaped from there.
47	* The characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' make their way to a dilapidated version of this over the course of most of the movie. The villain is actually a {{Magitek}} robot driven crazy by running the factory in the first place.
48	* In ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesRabbitsRun'', this is the setting when Cecil Turtle tries to "smelt" a BoundAndGagged WesternAnimation/LolaBunny. WesternAnimation/BugsBunny saves her (with ''very'' little help from WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck).
49	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSteamEnginesOfOz'', to reach the secret chamber where the Tin Man has hidden his heart, the heroes have to pass through the Great Steam Engine of Oz. It is blisteringly hot, everything is bathed in a hellish red glow, it is filled with smoke and steam, and coal keeps raining down upon their heads. Phadrig and Gromit both almost pass out from the exertion it takes to get through.
50	* Much of the environment of the SurrealHorror StopMotionAnimation film ''WebVideo/MadGod'' has this dark industrial aesthetic, especially the city where {{golem}}s made of crap labour in a gigantic engine.
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53	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
54	* The lower classes in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' worked in a place like this, toiling like slaves to maintain the dangerous machinery that allowed those on the surface to live in luxury. To drive the point home, the movie explicitly compares the factories to HumanSacrifice by showing a giant machine turning into a shrine to Moloch and back again.
55	* The Petpak pet food factory in the climax of ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' certainly qualifies as one.
56	* Through its use of cinematography and lighting, ''Film/TheMachinist'' makes an ordinary machine shop seem this way.
57	* 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.
58	* 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]], but it's completely void of life, with only one guy watching everything from a control room. It's also [[NoOSHACompliance filled with safety hazards]], which endanger the protagonists and end up giving Chucky a RasputinianDeath.
59	* 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.
60	* In a short segment in ''Film/{{Head}}'', Music/TheMonkees are being walked through a factory - as the guide extols the good life it brings, Davy keeps seeing unsettling scenes - an employee drinks blood from a spigot, a desk worker's head drops off - but the others impatiently tell him to keep up.
61	* The setting of the slasher film ''Film/{{Hazmat}}''.
62	* 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.
63	* 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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66	[[folder:Literature]]
67	* The phrase "dark satanic mills" was coined by poet William Blake in his poem ''Jerusalem'' (1808) to describe the factories of the industrial revolution.
68	* The meat packing industry in Upton Sinclair's ''Literature/TheJungle'' can be considered as the TropeNamer. That's more of a modern interpretation, which is, ironically, what the author intended. Sinclair, who was a committed socialist, originally wanted to showcase the flagrant abuse of workers, [[NoOSHACompliance dangerous working conditions]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive owners' complete disregard of everything]] except their profits. Society of the day, however, latched on the (quite colorful, true) description of the industry's ''products'', and unsanitary conditions in which they were made. The resulting outcry basically led to establishment of the Food and Drug Administration. As Sinclair himself said:
69	-->''I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.''
70	* The West German SteelMill in Günther Wallraff's ''Ganz Unten'' (The Lowest of the Low) was described to be a true [[NoOSHACompliance hell factory]] for the workers. Just wondering [[FridgeHorror how it may have been in East Germany...]]
71	* 19th century Swedish writer Viktor Rydberg wrote the poem "Den nya grottesången" ("The New Grotti Song"; the title is a reference to a magical mill in Myth/NorseMythology that could mill gold out of nothing) to draw attention to the horrors of the industry of his era. Even little children are forced to work at the Grotti Mill, and the workers don't get food or water but are simply worked until they drop dead.
72	* 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.]]
73	* The narrator in Creator/StephenKing's story "Trucks" sees these in his imagination when he ponders how the eponymous machines can possibly reproduce:
74	--> ....if I close my eyes I can see the production lines in Detroit and Dearborn and Youngstown and Mackinac, new trucks being put together by blue-collars who no longer even punch a clock but only drop and are replaced.
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77	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
78	* The demon-run factory in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Anne".
79	* The factories of the galactic Company from "''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers The Sun Makers]]". Pluto is Humanity's last resort, as both Earth and Mars are uninhabitable. The entire human populace, each day, is worked ever so much more harder by a galactic Company, to extreme exhaustion. (One character, Cordo, at the beginning of the serial even admitting that he already works double shifts!) Taxes are placed abound on anything from medical care, to basic living, to ''even breathing the air''; heavy fines for ostensible offenses (such as being out in the light of the artificially-generated suns, or what is considered an airspace violation -- the Doctor harmlessly landing his TARDIS on top of one of the city buildings), and workers are penalized, even with legitimate time off given by the Company, [[MovingTheGoalPosts plus these fees and taxes are increased often, leaving them constantly in-debt and unable to pay these exorbitant amounts.]] Offenders are re-educated [[note]]read:essentially lobotomized[[/note]], and dissidents are steamed[[note]]put into a consensation chamber, one of the parts of the many machines in the factories, where the heat exchanger turns the water inside into high-temperature, high-pressure steam, broiling the victim alive[[/note]] The mysterious [[MorallyBankruptBanker Collector]] running the whole operation seems to be a MoneyFetish[=ist=], is obsessed with work, debt, finances, profit, transactions, entrepreneurship, percentage of workmanship and time, allotment, and everything coldly involved with business.
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82	[[folder:Music]]
83	* {{Industrial}} was given its name because early bands were signed to Industrial Records and its early sound used sounds that brought one of these to mind.
84	* ''Chemical Worker's Song''; AKA ''Process Man'' by ''Great Big Sea''.
85	* The AnimatedMusicVideo for the aforementioned ''Rainbow Factory'' features a factory that resembles a SteelMill, but with liquid rainbow instead of liquid metal.
86	* Music/PattiSmith's ''Piss Factory'' is about her early manual job on an industrial production line. On top of the physical discomfort and repetitive manual labour, it becomes nightmarish in a very mundane sort of way. The everyday mundanity is the nightmare.
87	* The Cog Is Dead have ''Burn it Down'', set in a small town where the only work is in the factory. The conditions are deplorable, so one night when the boss is at home, they burn the place down. Subverted when it turns out the factory was literally necessary for their very survival...
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90	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
91	* Certain hive-cities and Forge Worlds in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. It's not certain how bad any given Forge World or Hive Factory actually is, but given the techno-gothic construction techniques and the Imperium's propensity for slave labor and cyborg mind-control, it can't be very nice.
92	** Just to illustrate, one of the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels (which tend to paint the Imperium in ''nicer'' tones), has Cain find himself on a Forge World. An announcement for workers is heard at one point, reminding them that in just a few decades of labour they might afford themselves a cybernetic body upgrade that would render the ambient air more or less breathable.
93	** Their Chaotic counterparts, Hell Forges, even more so. For added fun, since many of the factories of Chaos reside inside The Warp, they can manufacture ''actual nightmares'', or at least turn them into guns and tanks.
94	* The entirety of Autochthonia, Realm of Brass and Shadow, in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''. It's the interior of a machine-god, and it's large enough to be a self-contained world.
95	* The Quiet Furnace from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' is an interesting case. While the factory is run by [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Phyrexians]], and its purpose is to burn the dead and reforge their metallic bodies into more Phyrexians, its leader Urabrask allows [[LaResistance Mirran Resistance]] to take refuge there.
96	** Classical Phyrexia was a much straighter example, since it lacked the benevolent traits infused by the inclusion of significant non-black mana, especially red.
97	* ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'': Ever wonder what a factory that makes combat units out of machine parts and large chunks of dead bodies looks like? Presumably the workforce doesn't care because the Cryx presumably use those same cyborg zombies for a workforce.
98	* The Umbral Realm of The Scar is made up of a whole bunch of these in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse''. Legend has it was once a realm devoted to the promise of cities; then the Wyrm got in, and it slowly turned into an eternal paean to the worst excesses and horrors of the Industrial Revolution.
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101	[[folder:Theatre]]
102	* ''Theatre/{{Hadestown}}'' has the Underworld reimagined as a mining town where the dead slowly lose all sense of self and memory as they toil endlessly in the factories and mines while building an endless wall for Hades. The set is designed to resemble a massive, rusty oil drum that everyone is trapped in.
103	* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', Lucifer is in charge of a factory full of enslaved souls. It's easily the most hellish part of Deadland.
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106	[[folder:Video Games]]
107	* ''Videogame/Afterlife1996:'' Two of the highest Sloth punishments in hell are different flavors of these.
108	** 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.
109	** "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.
110	* 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.
111	* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' DLC ''The Pitt'' is set in the industrial ruins of Pittsburgh, PA, which are ruled by ruthless Slavers up top and infested with pollution-mutated Trogs below.
112	* The infamous factory stage on Shiver Star in ''Franchise/{{Kirby}} [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards 64: The Crystal Shards]]''.
113	** The Egg Engines level in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' would count too.
114	* ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'' has the Brabazon Workworld. Imagine the worst excesses of Victorian industry, and then imagine them with the power to ensure that [[YearInsideHourOutside for every hour that passes outside the factory, an entire year passes for its workers]].
115	* In ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'', the Hatter's Domain is this after being taken over by the March Hare and Dormy.
116	* The penultimate stage in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', The Factory, is an alien version of this.
117	** There's also the antiquated waste processing area in the original ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', which has pounding crusher pistons and glowing tanks of acid.
118	* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'':
119	** 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.]]
120	** The second half of Stage 3 of ''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.
121	* 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 was destroyed via the LS option, the technology that built it could be used to '''rebuild it''' again over the years.]]
122	* The pipe factory in ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky'', where the CorruptCorporateExecutive in charge doesn't even bother to provide a radiation suit for the employee working with the nuclear reactor. [[spoiler: Unsurprisingly, the employee in question is later found dead from radiation poisoning.]]
123	* Grunty Industries of ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie''. To make matters worse for Banjo and Kazooie, the parts, factory workers, and drones all want to kill them.
124	* ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'':
125	** ''VideoGame/QuakeI'': The runic-themed levels have this feel to them. They feel like a cross between a molten-steel plant and a steel-based castle with runes, skulls, and crucifixion emblems adorning the walls and doors. The hot liquid behaves like lava, and the motif has the feel of an underworld villain's lair.
126	** ''VideoGame/QuakeII'': The Processing Plant in, where you get to [[LetsMeetTheMeat watch your comrades get turned into Strogg chow]]. The main objective of the level is to hit the shutdown button for every single one of the processing machines. This concept was expanded in ''VideoGame/{{QuakeIV}}'' into the Stroyent Production Facility, explaining that victims are liquefied into essential nutrients for the Strogg.
127	** ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'':
128	*** The Strogg Medical Facility is one of these, despite the name. Captured human soldiers are put through UnwillingRoboticization where they're doped with steroids with massive, dirty needles, dismembered, and fused with cybernetic limbs and tools to make them into Strogg soldiers. You get to see this in First-Person, too (although for the PC Kain, it's a MidSeasonUpgrade and [[TookALevelInBadass level in Badass]] that gives him 25% more of everything since the mind-control implant in his skull was never fully activated). The really unfortunate prisoners are subjected to ColdBloodedTorture as intense as having their organs removed to see how long they survive.
129	*** The aforementioned Stroyent factory arc in the same act continues the factory theme with corpses being liquefied into essential nutrients. There's a room with giant cogs and discarded piles of human bones to really emphasize the point. Subpar cyborgs also get discarded here in the basement acting like [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]].
130	* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPGLegendOfTheSevenStars'': [[BigBad Smithy's]] Weapon World is an entire dimension that's been turned into one of these. The factory's "outskirts" are decrepit and 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''.
131	* ''VideoGame/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatiansPuppiesToTheRescue'': Cruella [=DeVil=]'s toy factory at the penultimate level, which manufactures the [[LivingToys evil robotic toys]] you've been fighting throughout the game. The place is replete with several types of [[NoOSHACompliance dangerous crushing devices]] and [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom unprotected conveyor belts.]] And let's not forget that giant "super-gloop" cannon that Cruella uses on you in the level after that.
132	* ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'' has a powerless factory holding a massive robotic spider, a level that IS a character's nightmare, which you get to experience firsthand thanks to nanobots who built it. The goal of the area is to repair said spider by solving puzzles based on an alternate version of the four elements, and by extension bring the spider to life. The person who first had this nightmare said that it ended horribly for him, and you get a front row seat to this ending as [[spoiler: the spider crushes everything in its path and decides to eat you alive]]. But, being a dream, you are simply sent to the next realm.
133	* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', there's Frantic Factory. It's set inside K. Rool's island fortress and is inhabited by killer robots, toys that attack the Kongs, and dangerous machines. Oh, and Chunky Kong's held captive there and the boss is a massive Jack in the Box thrown in the "rejected toys" bin.
134	* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorldPiranhaIsland'', Blood Muncher takes place in a hellish factory owned by the Piranha Plants and Munchers. Mario has to ride upon the gears and avoid falling into the deadly lava. However, catchy remixes of Bloodlines and Beginning play in this level and invigorate the player with their catchy beats.
135	* The Magitek Factory in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is a sprawling factory producing MiniMecha and killer robots out of machine parts and [[HumanResources magic forcibly (and improperly) drained from]] [[PureMagicBeing Espers.]]
136	* 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 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.
137	* Heisenberg's factory from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' is one. The underground facility is gigantic and filled with Soldat zombies, cyborg zombies of Heisenberg's creation that are extremely tough and dangerous because of their drill arms.
138	%%* The Toy Factory in Episode 2 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''.
139	* 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.
140	* ''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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144	* The 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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147	[[folder:Western Animation]]
148	* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[ChristmasEpisode The Road to the North Pole]]" had Santa's workshop turn into this after [[HowCanSantaDeliverAllThoseToys being unable to keep up with presents to a world with such a huge population]].
149	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Attack of the Killer App" starts with them going to an entire planet that's like this. Also, Santa's workshop. (Of course, in ''Futurama'', we have a BadSanta.)
150	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The arts and crafts workshop at Kamp Krusty – in the eponymously-titled Season 4 premiere – is literally this: Nothing more than a sweatshop where Mr. Black and his stooges (Dolph, Jimbo and Kearney) abuse and torture the kids, make them work long hours and far beyond exhaustion, threaten them with bodily harm and rake them across the coals for even tiny, otherwise unnoticeable mistakes in their work as they make cheap goods to sell on the black market.
151	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': in Dean's hallucination in the Season 2 finale, he frees enslaved orphans forced to turn a mill so that their misery can fuel the power of the Insect King (a robot/insect version of [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain the Monarch]]).
152	* The ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode "Rack, Shack, and Benny", based on the Biblical story of Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego, uses this trope as a stand-in for the Hebrew captivity and enslavement in Babylon. The main characters are underpaid workers in a [[NoOSHACompliance grotesquely unsafe]] chocolate factory run by the CorruptCorporateExecutive Nebby K. Nezzer (who is also a talking zucchini, this being ''Veggie Tales''). Mr. Nezzer's megalomania gets to the point where he demands all his workers join him in worshipping a giant chocolate bunny. After Mr. Nezzer's HeelFaceTurn at the end of the story, however, he starts treating him employees better and the chocolate factory becomes a much better place to work.
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