![]() Due to Godzilla's Hostile Terraforming over the centuries since his victory, the Earth has become a Death World to humanity when they return after 20,000 years.It is covered in massive hurricanes, and the shuttle carrying the elderly colonists was torn to shreds the moment it entered the atmosphere. Tau Ceti e - the planet the humans were hoping to settle - turns out to be completely inhospitable.It's eventually revealed that there isn't even any water on Vampa: Broly and his father had to get their moisture from the bodily fluids of the animals they hunted. The planet seems to be completely barren and devoid of vegetation, with seemingly the only life forms being absolutely gigantic furry monsters who prey on a species of giant spider-ticks, and the spider-ticks in turn suck blood from the monsters-and based on the trouble Paragus seemed to have with them when Broly wasn't around, they're all stronger than Nappa was when he destroyed entire cities by moving his fingers. Dragon Ball Super: Broly introduces Planetoid Vampa, where Broly grew up.The only safety and civilization is in orbiting colonies, and only remains safe for those willing to train to die on the planet. Earth becomes a death world in Blue Gender.The Megastructure in BLAME! consists of thousands upon thousands of post-apocalyptic wastelands stacked on top of one another and compartmentalized.Life was so harsh that humanity subconsciously willed a God of Evil into existence just to give their suffering some semblance of meaning. The world of Berserk is this - and this was even before it became a Hell on Earth.Oh, and even it has a few giant man-killing monsters. And the one basically Earthlike exception to the mix was actually terraformed at hideous expense, and even then said terraforming will degrade and collapse in a few centuries, rendering the planet uninhabitable. As a few characters occasionally point out, and as humanity learns to great ruin, a few decades is not enough time to fully understand the biosphere of an alien planet. Every Earth-like planet, save one, in 2001 Nights is a Death World that eventually overwhelms the efforts of humans to colonize them: mind-altering spores, periodically being engulfed in firestorms, wasting diseases, and run-of-the-mill hazardous planets and animals.Evolution has begun to repeat itself and is filled with rodents, insects, dinosaurs and even flesh-eating plants that are trying to kill the humans, but also each other. The entire world of 7 Seeds by the time our characters awaken in it.Not to be confused with a Place Worse Than Death, which refers to Real Life locations with bad publicity. For examples of entire Death Universes, see Crapsack World. The Trope Namer is Harry Harrison's novel from 1960, Deathworld, in which the entire flora and fauna of a planet treat the human colonizers as enemies and do their best to kill them.Ĭompare to Gaia's Vengeance where a world can become like this as a response to some threat. Don't be too surprised if there are More Predators Than Prey. The Dark World is often a magical variant. A planet that cannot host life for any amount of time is just "uninhabitable", not this.įor more details, the various Video Game Settings actually do a decent job of describing the various kinds of dangers you might find in different ecosystems, as a result of Everything Trying to Kill You. In fiction, Death worlds generally have relatively breathable atmospheres (for native life, at least), have compelling reasons for characters to get out and walk around, and have varieties of dangerous flora and fauna. In real life, every planet outside Earth that we know of to a reasonable degree, is dangerous, because we have yet to verify that any other planet out there can support human life. Those who live on such a world may be an example of Had to Be Sharp. Sometimes they are genetically engineered. ![]() Sure, half of the population might not survive through adolescence, but those who do should make good soldiers. Some actually take advantage of this as a way of training their Super Soldiers on a planetary scale. Alternately, it may be Mordor, and/or home for an exceptionally tough and ferocious race. Very few people would ever choose to live there, but since anyone who does is almost always a badass, expect any populated Death World to be a World of Badass by default. (Of course, if it's also a Genius Loci, it just might be!) It's like the entire place is deliberately hostile to human life. It could be from hazardous environmental conditions, such as an acidic swamp or poisonous fog, or from powerful native predators (Here there be Dragons, or worse, something that eats them), dangerous flora, or even all of the above. Captain Rock of Catachan, Warhammer 40,000Ī Death World is a highly dangerous place, where simply going there is considered taking your life into your own hands.
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