Sandbox / Beneath The Earth Wick Check

Beneath the Earth wick check per Tropes Needing TRS and this thread. 50/50.

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An underground society

• Animation.Son Of The White Horse: The Underworld, home of the dragons, which has "swallowed" the real world.
• Characters.Hyrule Conquest Misc (Subrosians Folder): Their homeland, the Subrosia Core.
• Characters.Wonder Woman 1942 (Blakfu's folder): Blakfu rules the Underworld, a dark, subterranean civilization of blind men who have delved underground for generations.
• ComicStrip.Prince Valiant: The subterranean realm of the Dawn People, whose storyline has Val traveling through it to rescue Aleta, encountering monsters and what-not, in something very reminiscent of an old-school Dungeons & Dragons dungeon crawl.
• Film.Maleficent Mistress Of Evil: When it became clear they could no longer fight the humans, all of the Dark Fey (except Maleficent) retreated to their "nest of origin," a huge cave in the middle of the sea that, possibly due to magic, has mini-ecosystems from around the world.
• Franchise.Dragon Age: Beneath the Earth, in the meantime, the dwarves built a great empire of the underground cavern cities, or "thaigs", connected by a vast tunnel network known as the Deep Roads.
• JudgeDredd.Tropes A To D: Mega-City One was built right on top of the old cities of the eastern United States, which have since become the Undercity, an inhospitable area now housing feral mutants and various other nasties. It's so dangerous that it's sometimes chosen as an alternative to exile in the Cursed Earth by Judges who take the Long Walk.
• Literature.Bored Of The Rings: The dwarven realm of Doria, the Moria spoof. Goodgulf and the others are puzzled as to how to gain entry, and try a number of magic spells and passwords, before noticing the doorknob.
• Literature.The Shadow Out Of Time: The remains of the Yith civilization lie hidden deep beneath Earth's substrata, with only a scant few cracks allowing entry.
• Manga.Getter Robo: The Dinosaur Empire, primarily.
• Myth.Alur Mythology: There once was a man who borrowed his brother's axe, promising not to break or lose it. On cutting a tree, the blade immediately broke off and fell down a hole. The man checked the depth with his eyes, then his leg, then he finally got the courage to jump into the abyss. He landed in a strange land and followed the road to a city in the world below. He met the king's vizier and was received hospitably before explaining the situation. The king below the earth had intense eyes like burning stars, but his vizier told the man not to fear him. The visitor was sent back to earth with four goats, a cow, and the repaired axe. He had been warned he would die if he told anyone about his journey, and so he happily brought his secret to the grave with him.
• Series.Beauty And The Beast 1987: "The World Below", an elaborately gothic underground colony secretly constructed long ago and connected with the sewers and subways of New York.
• Series.Fraggle Rock: The Fraggles live in an elaborate world of caverns, with the entrance in Doc's workshop. Or beneath the lighthouse, in the UK version. In both cases, exactly where the Gorgs' garden is in relation to the human world is completely unexplored.
• VideoGame.Shineness The Lightning Kingdom: The gromiz are essentially the Maherian equivalents of goblins, they're small with big Pointy Ears, they form a Barbarian Tribe and most of them live Beneath the Earth.
• VideoGame.Zork: Most of the series takes place in The Great Underground Empire.
• WebAnimation.Ollie And Scoops: In the third episode, Scoops introduces Ollie to Catlifornia, a secret city-esque society for cats that can be accessed via a garbage can with a chute that leads to the place located underground.
• WebVideo.Koibu: Dozens of feet under Shirebrook is the Underdim, home of the Draw.
• WesternAnimation.Downtown: In "Graffiti", Fruity, Matt and Chaka venture into the subway tunnels in New York so Matt can tag the trains. While they wander around, they talk about all the crazy inhabitants of whom they've heard tell. Suggestions include survivalists, mole people, giant electric eels and transit cops who stage fights. And then there's the abandoned yet functional station they really DO stumble across...

Anything that lives underground

• Characters.Bigtop Burger: While everyone else in the Season 2 intro is shown in normal apartments and homes (save Steve, who sleeps in the Bigtop Burger truck), Cesare is staggering down a long staircase in some kind of cavern or tunnel, with the implication that this is where he lives.
• Characters.Suikoden II: He lives a troglodyte existence in the sewers beneath Two River.
• TabletopGame.The Small Folk: Living underground is one option for the Small Folk, and knockers have magical abilities that assist them in digging tunnels.
• WesternAnimation.Mighty Max: Skull Mountain, located deep underground and surrounded by magma, is Skullmaster's abode, having been banished there thousands of years ago.

Story takes place underground

• Film.Cannibal Apocalypse: A good portion of the movie is spent with Norman, Tom, Charlie and Helen down in the sewers trying to evade the police who cornered and forced them down there.
• Literature.Chasms Of Malice: The entire story is set underground, starting from the castle vaults where the crack opened and leading you across a maze of caverns, crypts and underground castles. Maybe fits?
• Literature.Tunnels: The setting.
• Manga.Uzumaki: The final chapter.
• Series.Dont Scare The Hare: Said to be set here, but their "underground forest" also has a sky and a day/night cycle.
• Toys.Lego Power Miners: The entire setting of the theme.
• VideoGame.Dark Parables: Where most of the game takes place.

Unclear/ZCE/Other

• Mushroom House: A common feature Beneath the Earth, in the Mouse World and in The Lost Woods alike, it is not uncommon in fantasy settings to see people making their homes in hollowed-out mushrooms of various sorts.
• The City Narrows: Ptolus has the Barrens, a lawless slum that even the major crime syndicates leave alone because it's too unruly and has nothing worth stealing or controlling. The Undercity Market is an aversion: it's Beneath the Earth and full of adventurers, but it's mostly for resupplying, and it's successful enough that it has a burgeoning residential area as well—and being full of heavily-armed adventurers is actually pretty good for keeping things relatively civil and orderly.
• Anime.Spider Riders: The whole Inner World.
• Characters.TNO Komi: Eurasia builds underground bunkers as part of trying to equip itself with nuclear weapons.
• ComicBook.Werewolf By Night: Crawl down through the mist near Devil's Grotto and you'll end up in space.
• Creator.Clark Ashton Smith: Trope-name only example
• DarthWiki.Diamond Phase: The area below the crust is actually one huge, complex technological area filled with strange machines and Metas.
• DarthWiki.Sweatshirt Brigade: Beneath Fibonacci
• Laconic.Clusterfuck: Horny, incredibly troubled college students become victims of Mutant Zombies in a cave in the mountains. Excessive sex and violence ensues. Also, Humans Are Morons. Can't tell if this is the setting or where the monsters are from.
• Literature.Hamish X: The Hollow Mountain mentioned in the second book's title.
• Literature.Kiki Strike: The Shadow City, of course. The website demonstrates all the research that went into making it viable. The third book moves to the catacombs of Paris.
• Monster.Whoniverse: Keeping dozens of scientists prisoner in an underground shelter for five years, Salamander convinced them that a nuclear war rages on the surface and so they must create natural disasters to fight back at the evil armies ravaging the world.
• Music.Bal Sagoth: A considerable part of The Chthonic Chronicles is dedicated to this trope.
• Music.Sunn O: The lyrics of "Aghartha" (which is often given as the name of the land purported to exist by the Hollow Earth Theory) are about this.
• NightmareFuel.The Lord Of The Rings (from the books folder): "Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not. They are older than he. Now I have walked there, but I will bring no report to darken the light of day." Potholed under "Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves"
• Podcast.Friends At The Table: The group going to the tower Boat Party never got to spends a lot of time discovering what's under Hieron.
• Recap.Film Reroll Aladdin: The ruins of the Autarch's kingdom lay buried deep under the desert, and can only be accessed through the Cave of Wonders.
• VideoGame.A Robot Named Fight: The Buried City
• VideoGame.Last Armageddon: Upon reaching the top of the Tower of No Return it's revealed that what the monsters thought was the surface of the Earth was actually a massive underground cave. The Tower of No Return acts as a sort of elevator to move between the underground and the true surface.
• VideoGame.Seventh Dragon: Some dungeons take place underground. In case of 2020, they are part of the subway or underpass. There are also ancient ruins beneath Tokyo, dating from 12,000 years ago.
• WebComic.Digger: In the third episode, Scoops introduces Ollie to Catlifornia, a secret city-esque society for cats that can be accessed via a garbage can with a chute that leads to the place located underground.

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