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->"Her ladyship has been to the castle before," the butler dutifully said. "However Lady Katarina, the castle has not been in this configuration when you had previously done so." He nodded to a door they passed by. "From here, you would usually use that door to head down to the cellar and from there to the underground waterway so you could come out of the third southwest service hallway to get to Prince Alan's music room, would you not?"\\
"Yup," Katarina chirped happily as Maria had terrible flashbacks of trying to get from one side of Cathedral Ward to another on her first day in Yharnam. It had taken her two days, and she had needed to sleep in a tree to avoid dogs.\\
"Because of the international Assembly, however, that door has been locked, and it does not open from this side."\\
"Aw! You mean I have to go up the ladder and walk over the chandeliers to get across to the outside ledge that lets me get into the musty green room and then push the spinning stairs around so I can get through the hall to the music room instead?"\\
"I'm afraid so," the butler said.\\
Maria ''really'' hated mythic architecture.
-->-- ''Fanfic/MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower''

->'''Rose:''' You know something? I think that castle wants to destroy you. Not kill you. No, killing you would be easy. It kills all the time, so it, it got bored with killing somewhere down the line. No, it wants to destroy you, Twilight. Completely.\\
'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Wh-Why would it want to do that?\\
'''Rose:''' ...''[[ForTheEvulz To prove that it can.]]''
-->-- ''Fanfic/MyLittleCastlevania, [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/46026/9/My-Little-Castlevania/Chapter-8-~-Anxiety Chapter 8]]''

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[[folder: Film ]]

->'''Enslin:''' ''[into tape recorder]'' General Manager claims that the phantom in room interferes-\\
'''Olin:''' I have ''never'' used the word "phantom".\\
'''Enslin:''' Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, spirit? Specter?\\
'''Olin:''' No, you misunderstand. Whatever's in 1408 is nothing like that.\\
'''Enslin:''' Then what is it?\\
'''Olin:''' It's an evil [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] room.
-->-- '''Film/FourteenOhEight'''

->Then the words were spoken: [[OldDarkHouse the house]] must die. But the house was stronger than the words, as it was [[TheConstant stronger than the centuries]]. With suddenly falling stones it slew those who laid hands on its walls. It opened the floor under their feet, dragging them down into a shaft, of which no man had previously had any knowledge. It was as though the plague, which had formerly wandered in the wake of [[IconicItem the red shoes]] of [[EvilSorcerer the magician]], still crouched in the corners of the narrow house, springing out at men from behind, to seize them by the neck. They died, and no doctor knew the illness. [[GeniusLoci The house resisted its destruction]] with so great a force that word of its malignity went out over the borders of the city, spreading far over the land, that, at last, there was no honest man to be found who would have ventured to make war against it. Yes, [[BoxedCrook even the thieves and the rogues]], who were promised remission of their sentence provided that they declared themselves ready to pull down the magician's house, preferred to go to the pillory, or even to the scaffold, rather than to enter within these spiteful walls, these latchless doors, which were sealed with [[GeometricMagic Solomon's seal]].
-->-- ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''

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[[folder: Literature ]]

->'''[[VillainProtagonist Catherine]]: '''Is [[EvilTowerofOminousness this entire place]] a death trap?\\
'''[[BlackKnight Black]]: '''Yes.
-->-- ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil,'' [[https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/chapter-20-rise/ Book 1, Chapter 20]]

->''“This house hates everyone, present company included. I'm more than reasonably sure the house, rather than the exile, is my actual punishment. That, or someone in the archives heard rumors of a monster which disguises itself as a truly vile piece of architecture and sent me to inhabit it in the hopes that I'd be the first person to figure out how to murder a residence.”''
-->-- '''Thomas Price''', ''Literature/InCryptid'' “What You Pay For”

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[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

->The innards of the [[MeaningfulName Impossible Fortress]] are [[AlienGeometries no less confounding]] than the exterior. Different passages and rooms obey different physical laws, or may exist in other physical dimensions. [[GravityScrew That which is decreed by gravity to be "up" in one chamber may be "down" in another]]; or can indeed be an alternate state of being entirely, such as sorrow or the past. Were a mortal to find himself in the Impossible Fortress he would not live long before [[GoMadFromTheRevelation being driven completely insane]] - but then, what else is to be expected in a place where a man can travel backwards in time by walking across the room?
-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Chaos Demons Army Book (7th Edition)''

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

->''"So, this must be Garland's haunted mansion... Talk about bad taste in interior decorating."''
-->-- '''Zidane''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''

->''"A schedule for the Derailed Express. Huh. It's scheduled to derail at 4:15. Weird."''
-->-- ''VideoGame/WarioLand Shake It'', description for the Derailed Express Timetable

->'''The Boss:''' "Did you fill the hallways with nonsensical, lethal [[BenevolentArchitecture yet vaguely passable obstables?"]]\\
'''Lackey:''' "Yes, we have all the standard electricity, {{spikes|OfDoom}} and fireballs in position."
-->-- '''[[EternalEngine Sector 6]] introductory {{cutscene}}''', ''[[VideoGame/{{Jumper}} Jumper Two]]''

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[[folder: Webcomics ]]

->''"This is a temple ''dedicated'' to evil. It's built on a desecrated burial ground where other ''more'' ancient desecrated burial grounds went when they got evil built over them. The architect was a Necromancer and the contractors were in the Eldritch Mafia."''
-->-- '''Drizz'l''', ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

->'''WhiteMage:''' What I want to know is this: HOW did you get us lost?\\
'''[[NoSenseOfDirection Black Belt]]:''' Look. This isn't as easy as I make it look, y'know. It's not like this is some ordinary run-down castle. This is the Temple of Fiends! FIENDS, I say! Do you have any idea what that does to a place? Hm? Do you? This is architecture of ''insanity''. The towers of ''madness''! So excuse me if we have trouble navigating through the abnormal psychology imbued within these walls.\\
'''White Mage:''' "Abnormal psychology"? "Architecture of insanity?" What are you ''babbling'' about? This castle isn't some twisted experiment in non-euclidean geometry! It wasn't erected by demons of madness and it's ''not'' built on purely theoretical Escher-teric physics. It's a ''straight run''! A blind, mentally deficient ''monkey'' could've found his way!\\
'''Black Belt:''' These monkeys of which you speak. Are they mentally deficient by ''human'' standards or by ''monkey'' standards? Because that could really make a difference, if ya think about it.
-->-- ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''

->'''Sweet Bro:''' FUCK IM FALLING DOWN ALL THESE STAIRS...................\\
'''Hella Jeff:''' I WARNED YOU ABOUT STAIRS BRO!!!! I TOLD YOU DOG!\\
'''Sweet Bro:''' IT KEEPS HAPPENING\\
'''Hella Jeff:''' I TOLD YOU MAN I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS!
-->-- ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'', extolling the inherent evil of [[FelonyMisdemeanor stairs]]

->'''[[SorcerousOverlord Xaneth]]:''' Moving on, these corridors are as deadly as they look. Any sort of pressure on the ground, and the fire and spikes respectively will brutally murder whoever caused the pressure. On the other side of each is [[SchmuckBait a single chest]] ... If the paths haven't had pressure applied when the room is reached, [[MortonsFork they activate anyway]], faster and more intense than they would have originally. [-And the chests are filled with bees.-]\\
'''Sebastian:''' So then what's the point of all this?\\
'''Xaneth:''' ''[QuizzicalTilt]'' The... point?
-->-- ''Webcomic/TrueVillains'', [[https://www.truevillains.com/comic-2007-12-29~N-Scenic%20Route-jpg.htm "Scenic Route"]]

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

->''"God, who ''designed'' this room, M.C. Escher? ...Why is there a ladder here if it doesn't go anywhere? I don't know... a scientist's job is to try to make sense of the world around him, but this whole building is ''crazy''. Blocked exits. Gordian Knot airducts. A giant box-smashing room. It doesn't add up! The only time I feel like I know what I'm doing is when I'm shooting or breaking things..."''
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]''', ''WebVideo/FreemansMind''

->''"Why is the building TRYING TO KILL ME?!"''
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]''', ''WebVideo/FreemansMind''

->''"[[SarcasmMode YES! GIVE ME MORE HAZARDS!]] '''''[[SanitySlippage I JUST CAN'T HAVE ENOUGH!]]'''''"''
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]]''' [[RuleOfThree yet again]], ''WebVideo/FreemansMind''

->''"I don't believe in a standing army. I believe in cruel and unusual architecture."''
-->-- ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' player '''Pickled Tink''', on the [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php#c3 forums]]

->[while running up on the stairs] ''"Why are there so many poles on these stairs? Not the best architectural decision-"'' [runs into a pole]
-->-- '''Rhombus''', ''Webanimation/RaceToTheMansionOfTomorrow''
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