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* The Playstation game ''VideoGame/{{Alundra 2}}'' featured a level inside the belly of a whale, only said whale had been turned into a cyborg due to the player's actions early in the game. Thus, while there were occasional organic elements, the majority of the level ended up looking more like an EternalEngine.

* Chapter 4 of Ada Wong's campaign in ''Resident Evil 6'' becomes this when [[spoiler: the fake Ada mutates out of control and begins to grow and spread across the entire ship.]]

* Chapter 4 of Ada Wong's campaign in ''Resident Evil 6'' becomes this when [[spoiler: the fake Ada mutates out of control and begins to grow and spread across the entire ship]]

* Happens surprisingly often in the ''{{Banjo-Kazooie}}'' series, culprits including Clanker the mechanical whale, a giant turtle named Tanktup, a overgrown fish, and a 'Chompasaurus' plagued with stomach ulcers.

* ''{{Blood}}'' had second-to-last level "[[ExactWords In the Flesh]]" take place inside a monster . Its elevator-and-switch-based biology allowed it to stay alive for centuries, feeding only on zombies, gargoyles and robed cultists.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bio-Hazard Battle}}'' is a fairly standard {{Shmup}} except for the playable ships and all the enemies being organic, and the levels get more like this the further you go along.

* The original setting for the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' spinoff game ''Advanced Space Crusade'', a spinoff and (relatively) family-friendly dumbing down of the previous "Space Crusade" and "Space Hulk", was inside Tyranid "bio-ships", sabotaging crucial "organs".

* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', makes a [[PlayedStraight self-conscious play]] at this level: Stage 4 is Isaac's Mom's womb. The final boss of this stage is Isaac himself, still in the womb.

** Just ask [[Literature/TheBible Jonah]].
* As mentioned above, ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had several episodes panned out where Goku and Vegeta end up inside Super Buu's body and have to avoid the hazards of his antibodies, stomach acid, imagination, steam, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and worms]].
** There's also the Princess Snake episode.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''VideoGame/{{The Legend of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Ages'' have dungeons taking place inside the enormous Jabu-Jabu's belly.
** Though of those two only one actually looks like you're inside a giant fish. The other is more a DownTheDrain level with pulsating walls.
** Technically the previous two dungeons of the former game count as well, to much lesser extents. Inside the Deku Tree is... well, inside a giant tree. Dodongo's Cavern contains a portion near the end where you enter a giant skull of a dead Dodongo to reach the last rooms, and there are what looks like colossal bones decorating the walls and ceiling at places.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' would have had one as well had it not been [[ExecutiveMeddling cut to meet the]] [[CosmicDeadline release deadline]].
* The Impact Crater at the end of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has suspiciously fleshy surfaces, and platforms in one room look like giant, misplaced teeth.
** More to the point, the Leviathans in ''Metroid Prime 3'' are destroyed by crawling into their "mouths" and searching for a gigantic eye inside their bodies. Plus, a ship used late in the game has the cockpit INSIDE ITS BRAIN CAVITY, with eyes staring at you from all directions. Inside its head.
*** [[spoiler:Phaaze]] later on is basically a [[spoiler: [[GeniusLoci planet-sized]]]] Womb Level.
*** Due to retcon, the Impact Crater could have been the remains of a Leviathan, making it a literal Womb Level.
* ''{{Okami}}'' does this ''twice''. Once in the stomach of the Emperor of Japan, another inside of a giant dragon. This trope is partially subverted in the dragon level, as it turns out all that meddling with the dragon's internal organs ''does'' kill him. Whoopsie.

* The fourth level of ''SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab'' is set in the stomach of an [[MemeticMutation Alaskan]] ''[[MemeticMutation BULL]]'' '''''[[MemeticMutation WORM!!!]]'''''
** ''Supersponge'' also has one (set inside a prehistoric whale), and also has a giant worm for a boss (it's a tapeworm, though).

* ''VideoGame/UnrealIITheAwakening'' features a planet that actually happens to be a gigantic living organism. The latter half of the level is spent inside it.
** It has giant hairs sticking out like freaky trees on the surface, and lots of teeth in a few places too. Oh, and little wiggly white things when you're inside that look a bit like they might be a physical representation of energy in it's nervous system. Cute.
** Understandably it's rather pissed off when you [[spoiler:blow part of it up with some demo charges to get a piece of the what-turns-out-to-be-an-ArtifactOfDoom, and tries to kill you with the equivalent of antibodies that are about as big as you are and attack by charging into you and exploding.]]

* In the MMO ''LaTale'', you have to annoy a giant worm-like monster (with teeth!) named the Behemoth by trying to dig it up. If you succeed, it will swallow you, leading to a level full of germs, pukes, and blood cells. The only way out is to find the uvula at the very end(!) of the level and whack it with your weapon.
* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' gives us Nespirah, a ginormous shellfish goddess. Despite looking creepy as hell, she's actually on your side; the Naga have her mentally subdued as they steal her pearls, and players are tasked with freeing her.
** There are actually three creatures like this one in Vashj'ir. One of them have a Twilight Cult temple built at it's center. Another Womb Level (though much smaller) is the Old God's stomach in the Twilight Highland. If you stay outside of the NPC's shields for too long, a green meter starts filling up and you get digested. Also, one of the phases of the fight against C'thun in Ahn'Qiraj involves being teleported to it's stomach.
** The hives of the Silithid and most of the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj take place in disturbingly fleshy surroundings. And if that's not enough, during the final encounter with [[EldritchAbomination C'thun]] players will sometimes get swallowed and end up in his stomach.

* The relatively-unknown SNES game ''ArdyLightfoot'' contains a level in which you're swallowed by what can only be described as a HUGE... worm-thing, after beating one of the bosses, who also gets swallowed. You have to navigate through its body to get out, and find the body of the boss you just beat...
** It's scarier in the Japanese version, since you see her bones lying there. In the American version, the sprite was altered so we just see her lying there dead.
*** It's even scarier when you look at the beta picture for what she was supposed to look like. The sprite isn't designed very well, but she was originally supposed to be in the middle of getting dissolved. You can see it on [[http://www.randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/shr/ardy/ this website]], although you'll have to scroll down quite a bit.

** Except for the bonus level, all of Turtle Zone takes place in a turtle. This makes the last stage a WombLevel within a WombLevel.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tempo}}'' has a womb level as one of the first levels in the game. You start off inside the mouth of what appears to be some sort of white, fuzzy beast, and then once you go into its body, you encounter hearts which are literally heart-shaped (and there seem to be many of them) and walking cheeseburgers. Then, once the level is complete, you randomly fight a boxing glove. FOR NO REASON. Then again, [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs the whole game in general is filled with trippy/bizarre/nonsensical stuff]].

* ''BreathOfFireII'' has one level that takes place in the body of a giant whale. (You have to hit its uvula in order to enter inside.) Interestingly enough, the whale becomes your CoolShip once you've finished the quest. In another level, the heroes are shrunk and then have to enter the body of an obese queen in order to defeat the "fatty demons" located inside of her. (Although this is more of a FantasticVoyage scenario.)
** This particular WombLevel is actually [[ShownTheirWork fairly accurately modeled on a human heart]], down to featuring red and blue color schemes in the appropriate areas: several dead ends are even quite clearly the branching arteries leading to and from the lungs. (The [[FanTranslation fan translator]] was so impressed by the discovery that he broke his "no abbreviations" rule to fit "L. Atrium", "R. Atrium", "L. Ventricle" and "R. Ventricle" into the twelve lettters alloted for location names.)

* The first episode of ''VideoGame/CosmosCosmicAdventure'' ends with Cosmo being swallowed alive by a giant alien as a cliffhanger. The first level of the second episode takes place inside of the alien.

** Given that [[spoiler:Sin]] is essentially made from [[spoiler:Jecht's dreams, it makes sense that it kinda looks like Jecht and Tidus's Zanarkand within...Kinda...]]

* ''VideoGame/GrandiaII'' has the heroes battling the Pope deep in the bodily recesses of the giant demon Valmar, which is orbiting high above the Earth. (No. Really.) Earlier, the gigantic Body of Valmar (Valmar was somewhat... in pieces at this point) is defeated by entering its monster-infested and strangely puzzle-filled insides and destroying its core.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' has your Gummi Ship swallowed by Monstro, a SpaceWhale version of the whale from [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney's]] ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. Of course, if ''Kingdom Hearts'' is accurate in its whale anatomy, the sea creatures are actually filled with nothing but fluorescent purple stairs, glowing portals, radioactive pulsing polka dots, and lots of wooden barrels.
** Also, you can drop from the "bowels" back into the "mouth". {{Squick}}.
** Monstro reappears as a level in Chain of Memories, and also in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3D'', where it makes up the entirety of Riku's version of the Prankster's Paradise world. In ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]] [[UpdatedRerelease Final Mix]]'' it shows up again, this time as a BonusBoss who swallows you at regular intervals.

** Or, as the internet likes to insist, ''a literal womb''.

* In ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'', the blacksmith stores your weapons in some sort of living creature with its mouth wide open.
** It's a [[LamePun weapon frog]]

This is usually because the level is set inside some kind of [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Enormous]] EldritchAbomination of some kind, especially ones that like to [[JustEatHim swallow characters whole]], but sometimes it's just because the level designers felt like it. Also, because giant organs can be creepy, as can the very idea of being inside a living thing. These qualities also make Womb Levels popular candidates for being TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, especially when it [[BloodyBowelsOfHell doubles as the game setting's Netherworld or Hell]].

* The last two levels of ''TombRaider'' take place inside the Great Pyramid of Atlantis, which appears to be sentient and has walls covered in pulsating flesh and veins.

* With all the talk of Glomar being a creature and its "heart" traveling through "veins," ''AlphaPrime'' heavily implies it will end this way, but it turns out that they are just euphemisms after all (for the most part).

* Partially played in MassEffect2 during the [[spoiler: attack on the Collector base]]. Not only is the base highly organic and filled with any number of analogues for natural defenses in a living being, but [[spoiler: it becomes a literal womb level when you face the final boss, a giant Reaper embryo]].

* In the first DOOM novel, Marines Flynn Taggart and Arlene Sanders are transported into a giant womb, and have to exit it via a giant pulsing vagina. Arlene quips "Hey, Fly. Do you ever feel like you're being born again?" to which Taggart politely asks her to STFU.

[[caption-width-right:350: The worst thing that could happen isn't keeping that god from being born. [[HumansAreBastards It's letting the girl win.]]]]

If actual biological systems are invoked, expect all laws of anatomy to be cheerfully disregarded.

* At one point in ''WanderingHamster'', Bob gets eaten up by a giant snake, whose interiors are populated by alive seagulls and ducks and comes complete with ''a mini-golf course''.