History Main / MenagerieOfMisery

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Menagerie is a continent that is controlled by [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]. [[LandDownUnder Located in the south east of Remnant, two thirds of its landmass is a harsh, inhabitable desert full of dangerous wildlife.]] As a refuge for any Faunus in the world to retreat to if [[FantasticRacism life elsewhere becomes too harsh]], the single settlement region is cramped and overcrowded. While Humans gave it to the Faunus as a peace-offering over the Faunus fight for equality, Menagerie has instead become a symbol of just how unequal the relationship between Humans and Faunus remains.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Menagerie is the name of the continent where most of the [[BeastMan Faunos]] live. [[LandDownUnder Located in the south east of Remnant, two thirds of its landmass is a harsh, inhabitable desert full of dangerous wildlife]], it was a "reward" granted by humans to the Faunos for their participation in the [[GreatOffscreenWar Great War]]. Things got ugly when the human kingdoms attempted to centralize all the Faunos population into Menagerie, sparking the Faunos Rights Revolution. The Faunos won and were allowed to live in the other continents, even thought they all still face [[FantasticRacism discrimination]] from most of the humans in the setting.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'''s Imperial Zoo is depicted as a bunch of shelterless brick pens with iron bars and a pile of straw for bedding in the "Let's play a tabletop RPG" episode of ''WebVideo/EmperorsTextToSpeech.''

* In ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', two academically-minded people from the Literature/{{Discworld}} cross to [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Pasadena, California]]. While quantum research Wizard Ponder Stibbons is finding lots of things in common with people like Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter, his co-researcher Johanna Smith-Rhodes, an Assassin by education and a zoologist by vocation, is being shown the animal handling facilities at Caltech by an excited Amy Farrah-Fowler. After a very big wince at Amy's casual terminology -- she dismisses orang-utans as mere monkeys [[note]]Johanna knows the Librarian. Who is very defintely an ape[[/note]], Johanna looks around her, at bare spartan cages, not big enough for their occupants, in a warehouse room with no windows, and is horrified. Reminding herself not to get angry, she starts reforming the animal-handling culture at Caltech.

* ''WesternAnimation/CreatureDiscomfortsLifeInLockdown'': The aim of the film is to highlight how animals in captivity can suffer from neglect or abuse by using interviews with people in lockdown. It includes animals in zoos (a pair of tigers and an orangutang in concrete cages with little space).
* ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'': ZigZagged. The film has a major "fish belong to the ocean, not to tanks" message, but also establishes that the Marine Life Institute is primarily a rescue center that releases animals that recovered from their injuries, and its fish habitats are more or less accurate to real-life aquaria. Yet, the "touch pool", from the animals' point of view, is depicted as a terrifying place where the poor starfish and sea cucumbers hide for their lives from [[HumansAreCthulhu the giant hands of human children]]. Also, the Cleveland Aquarium is referred to as a scary place where animals end up if they are in a too bad condition to be released to the wild.

* ''Film/JurassicPark'' implies this to be a factor in why the park failed, with John Hammond failing to have proper welfare for all the dinosaurs which resulted in a triceratops suffering from food poisoning and the raptors living in an enclosure far too small for them.
** ''Film/JurassicWorld'' had greatly improved on this which is part of why it was successful, however it is still heavily implied that because the ''Indominus Rex'' lacked proper social interaction and loved it’s entire life in an enclosure that was too small it became extremely aggressive and unhinged, which is why it would break out and cause the collapse of the second park.

* ''Film/JurassicPark'' implies this to be a factor in why the park failed, with John Hammond failing to have proper welfare for the dinosaurs which resulted in a triceratops suffering from food poisoning and the raptors living in an enclosure far too small for them.

** ''Film/JurassicWorld'' had greatly improved on the welfare and enclosures for the dinosaurs which is why it was successful, however it is still heavily implied that because the ''Indominus Rex'' lacked proper social interaction and was in an enclosure that was too small it became extremely aggressive and unhinged, which is why it would break out and cause the collapse of the second park.

** ''Film/JurassicWorld'' had greatly improved on the welfare and enclosures for the dinosaurs which is why it was successful, however it is still heavily implied that because the ''Indominus Rex'' lacked proper social interaction and was in an enclosure that was too small it became extremely aggressive and unhinged, which is why it would break out and cause the collapse of the park.

** ''Film/JurassicWorld'' has greatly improved on the welfare and enclosures for the dinosaur which is why it was successful for over twenty years, however this trope is still heavily implied to be factor in the aggressive and unhinged nature of the Indominus Rex, because it lacked social interaction and was in a far too small enclosure, which is why it would break out and cause the collapse of the park.

* Film/JurassicPark implies this to be a factor in why the park failed, with John Hammond failing to have proper welfare for the dinosaurs which resulted in a triceratops suffering from food poisoning and the raptors living in an enclosure far too small for them.

* ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldEvolution'': If the player to create enclosures that are too small or lacking the right population, environmental needs and food/water. This will that will result in the dinosaurs being unhappy and they will break out and rampage across your park, which will effect your rating.

* ''WesternAnimation/CreatureDiscomfortsLifeInLockdown'': The aim of the film is to highlight how animals in captivity can suffer from neglect or abuse by using interviews with people in lockdown. It includes animals in zoos (including a pair of tigers and an orangutang in concrete cages with little space).

* ''WesternAnimation/CreatureDiscomfortsLifeInLockdown'': The aim of the film is to highlight how some animals in captivity can suffer from neglect or abuse by using interviews with people in lockdown. It including animals in zoos (including a pair of tigers and an orangutang in concrete cages with little space).

* ''WesternAnimation/CreatureDiscomfortsLifeUnderLocdown'': The aim of the film is to highlight how some animals in captivity can suffer from neglect or abuse by using interviews with people in lockdown. It including animals in zoos (including a pair of tigers and an orangutang in concrete cages with little space).

* ''Series/BrassEye'': A bit in the first episode concerns an East German[[note]][[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp in 1997]], mind you[[/note]] zoo that's so bad that an elephant sticks its trunk up its own arse to escape. Of course, it's all fake.

* ''WesternAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Exaggerated in "[[Recap/HTFFromAToZoo From A to Zoo]]", where the cast goes to a zoo. The zoo is bad both for the animals, who have tiny, cramped environments and lax safety and protection; ''and'' the guests, with all the animals being fiercely violent and homicidal (resulting in the majority of the episode's deaths) and no security, employees, or first aid being available at any point.

* This was a main premise in the film ''Zebra in the Kitchen'' (1965). A boy working at the zoo, in a protest against the appalling living conditions of the animals, takes the zookeeper's keys and lets all the animals loose! Hilarity ensues as the jungle animals wander all over town.

* In the [[Film/Dumbo2019 live-action remake]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', there is the darkly appropriately named Nightmare Island in the Dreamland theme park. In this attraction, all the animals on display (a [[SavageWolves gray wolf]] billed InUniverse as [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent the Werewolf of Central Park]], a [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodile]] billed as the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon-like]] monster Reptilla, a [[BearsAreBadNews grizzly bear]] billed under some sort of nightmarish sounding name, and [[spoiler: Mrs. Jumbo]] painted to resemble a skeletal CruelElephant) are kept in small alcove style cages built into the walls of the island building's interior, given precious little ability to avoid being in constant view of the guests, heavily decorated and costumed to look as fearsome and scary as possible for the sake of guests' amusement, and also implied to potentially undergo brutal beatings for the sake of sticking to their 'acts'. And while the environments within the cages (with the potential exception of [[spoiler: Mrs. Jumbo's cage]]) seem to be relatively naturalistic, the overall size of said cages and other unpleasant living conditions make this detail a very small comfort for the animals.

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians:'' Percy, Annabeth and Grover hitch a ride on a zoo animal transport train that turns out to be mistreating its cargo, keeping them in filthy cages and giving them the wrong food.

* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad'': PlayedForLaughs. Conroy Bumpus, an EgomaniacHunter, has a large collection of mounted animal heads, which he specifically calls a "menagerie," in his mansion. However, they are somehow alive and can talk. Disturbingly, they say at one point that "[[AndIMustScream none of us can leave, though we all wanna]]."