History Main / BlackBugRoom

** In ''[[MageTheAwakening Awakening]]'', Insanity Realms are said to by far be the most dangerous and disturbing parts of the [[MentalWorld Oneiros]].

* In the ''DoctorWho'' [[VirginNewAdventures New Adventures]] 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.

* The ''entire town'' of ''SilentHill'' may be one of these. Also, the room full of literal bugs in the Historical Society ''SilentHill2''.

* The ''entire town'' of ''SilentHill'' may be one of these.

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* ''{{Flatliners}}'' involves accessing a BlackBugRoom during a near death experience. It turns out by the end that the characters are each experiencing a manifestation of their deepest personal guilt.

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* ''WraithTheOblivion'' has a similar example known as the Harrowing, which occurs when a wraith is discorporated (takes enough damage to lose coherency). It's as much a struggle against one's own personal nightmares as a fight against some of the more insidious influences of [[EldritchAbomination Oblivion]].
* If you botch a Pilot Safety/Nightmare check in ''BlissStage'', this is where you end up. Your Anchor loses control of the dream and the other players get to add [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic personalized]] NightmareFuel to the narration.

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* After being temporarily consumed by the Nightmare in ''DevilMayCry,'' Dante retreats into his BlackBugRoom, where he fights off various monsters from his past. Well, [[AllThereInTheManual that's what the in-game files said.]]

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* 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. TheHoldersSeries was born out of this.
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** Futuba imageboards often fill the /x/ sections with these. The HoldersSeries was born out of this.

* Tangency, the off-topic section of RPG.Net, uses the "Black Bug Room" tag to describe stories of miserable events where the posters reading can't 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."

* Tangency, the off-topic section of RPG.Net, uses the "Black Bug Room" tag to describe stories of miserable events where the posters reading can't 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."

* [[spoiler:In Animerica, BigBad Kiyone is revealed to have an EnemyWithin that was subsequently created from his hidden negative feelings on his brother Kasuse but we dont 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 HannibalLecture but [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome then...]]]]

* Kano Jurgen's mind in ''[[Kagerou]]'' by Luka Delaney seems to be one giant "Black Bug Room" called the Zones where some of his personalities live.

* Kano Jurgen's mind in [[Kagerou]] by Luka Delaney seems to be one giant "Black Bug Room" called the Zones where some of his personalities live.

* Kano Jurgen's mind in ''Kagerou'' by Luka Delaney seems to be one giant "Black Bug Room" called the Zones where some of his personalities live.

* [[spoiler:In Animerica, BigBad Kiyone is revealed to have an EnemyWithin that was subsequently created from his hidden negative feelings on his brother Kasuse but we dont 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 HannibalLecture but [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome then...]]]]

The TropeNamer is the event in ''New X-Men'' #116, where Cassandra Nova [[http://en.marveldatabase.com/Black_Bug_Room sends Cyclops there]].

* The aforementioned ''New X-Men'' issue 116.

* This is what hell is like for the main character's wife in WhatDreamsMayCome.

* {{Flatliners}} involves accessing a BlackBugRoom during a near death experience. It turns out by the end that the characters are each experiencing a manifestation of their deepest personal guilt.
* {{Inception}} has this in the form of Cobb's reconstructions of his memories.

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* In the ''RedDwarf'' episode "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 BlackBugRoom.

** "Mental As Anything" gives D'Argo a BlackBugRoom in the form of his cell on Moya.
*** At the end of the same episode, D'Argo's brother-in-law is imprisoned in his BlackBugRoom, 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.]]

* In ''{{Mage the Ascension}}'', this (referred to as "the Quiet") is one of the possible results of botching a spell, especialy one that relates to mind magic. The mage goes on a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind through their BlackBugRoom and, if they don't die or go insane, returns cleansed of all their paradox.

* If you botch a Pilot Safety/Nightmare check in BlissStage, this is where you end up. Your Anchor loses control of the dream and the other players get to add [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic personalized]] NightmareFuel to the narration.

* In ''{{Psychonauts}}'', 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 ENTIRE rest of the level has a bright, disco/party theme, and this single room is the disturbing exception.
*** This is the only time you'll get to take a good look at the monsters-you'll see them twice more over the course of the game, and you'll be busy fighting them both times. They're a representation of a person's nightmares. They're caged up here because Milla has iron control over them, which, considering what they actually ''are'' (dig the memory reel in the vault you find nearby and you'll see what I mean), is pretty impressive given how relevant they are to her current job.
**** The nightmares were actually originally designed to be Milla's personal demons, not as generic nightmares. [[http://www.doublefine.com/Psycho-pedia/Nightmare/ The developers moved them]] to the Milkman stage because it didn't make sense story-wise for children to be attacked during a training lesson from a fully-fledged Psychonaut. Their design matches up with the tragic secret locked in her vault. Milla is constantly running this noisy party in her mind to [[spoiler:drown out the nightmare-inducing memories of her childrens' cries as they died in a fire. Seriously, ouch...]]

* In ''SecondSight,'' the interrogation room appears to function as this during John Vattic's flashbacks and visions- [[spoiler: or ''does'' it?]]
* The elevator in ''IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream,'' where Ellen is confronted by a biography of her traumatic life - 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.)

* {{Yume Nikki}}: The entire game. Other than possibly the rooftop and [[spoiler: Masada's spaceship]].

* This is one possible explanation for the entire ''[[DarkWorld city]]'' in which Zimmy of ''GunnerkriggCourt'' 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.
** Not to mention it seems that [[spoiler: things from there can escape and start using people as PeoplePuppets]].

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* If you botch a Pilot Safety/Nightmare check in BlissStage, this is where you end up. Your Anchor loses control of the dream and [[PlayerCrueltyPotential the other players get to add]] [[WhatDoYouMeanIt'sNotSymbolic personalized]] NightmareFuel to the narration.

* In the ''DoctorWho'' ExpandedUniverse 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.

* The off-topic section of rpg.net uses "Black Bug Room" to describe stories of miserable events where the posters reading can't try to stop things like that from happening again by doing something productive -- they're just topics on the 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."

**** The nightmares were actually originally designed to be Milla's personal demons, not as generic nightmares. [[The http://www.doublefine.com/Psycho-pedia/Nightmare/ developers moved them]] to the Milkman stage because it didn't make sense story-wise for children to be attacked during a training lesson from a fully-fledged Psychonaut. Their design matches up with the tragic secret locked in her vault. Milla is constantly running this noisy party in her mind to [[spoiler:drown out the nightmare-inducing memories of her childrens' cries as they died in a fire. Seriously, ouch...]]

**** The nightmares were actually originally designed to be Milla's personal demons, not as generic nightmares. The developers moved them to the Milkman stage because it didn't make sense story-wise for children to be attacked during a training lesson from a fully-fledged Psychonaut. Their design matches up with the tragic secret locked in her vault. Milla is constantly running this noisy party in her mind to [[spoiler:drown out the nightmare-inducing memories of her children's cries as they died in a fire. Seriously, ouch...]]