History Main / DeadlyTrainingArea

* Balamb Garden from ''FFVIII'' had a sort of Greenhouse-like training area where you could [[LevelGrind fight against]] the [[ManEatingPlant local variety of voracious flora]]. Occasionally, a TyrannosaurusRex would eat you.

* The other potential TropeMaker (although the [[TropeCodifier Codifier]] is probably still ''{{X-Men}}'') is from the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', who have a dangerous training area, as well.

* The ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' also have a [[{{X-Men}} Danger Room]]-like training area.

* One of the more popular ways to train soldiers in Dwarf Fortress is a danger room with the whole room covered in spike traps hooked up to a lever set to repeat.

* The other potential TropeMaker (although the [[TropeCodifier Codifier]] is probably still ''{{X-Men}}'') is from the ''FantasticFour'', who have a dangerous training area, as well.

* In ''{{Bleach}}'', when Ichigo is trying to regain them after Byakuya [[BroughtDownToNormal removes the Shinigami powers he got from Rukia]], the first task is a case of a Deadly Training Person, rather than Area. He has to survive a punch from [[CuteBruiser Ururu]], while in his soul form.

* In ''{{Bleach}}'', when Ichigo is trying to regain them after Byakuya [[BroughtDownToNormal|removes the Shinigami powers he got from Rukia]], the first task is a case of a Deadly Training Person, rather than Area. He has to survive a punch from [[CuteBruiser|Ururu]], while in his soul form.

* In ''SaintSeiya'', Death Queen Island, the training ground for candidates for the Phoenix Saint Cloth, is an active volcanic site with deadly steam vents, open calderas, and endless plumes of black ash. And that's not even mentioning the training ground's [[CompleteMonster taskmaster]]. Similarly, there are areas of Athena's Sanctuary (in Greece) that are built specifically as deathtrap-filled obstacle courses to weed out weak candidates, but it's hinted that these are a recent addition created by the current Pope.

* The training for vampire knights in ''RequiemChevalierVampire'' is carried out in [[TrainingFromHell Hell]]. Not only that, but in a specifically malevolent branch of Hell. Most of the apprentices don't get out with their deaths.

* The [[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League of Europe]] had one of these, not unlike the Danger Room, in their embassy. On one occasion it got turned up to its maximum setting while two relatively low-powered members, the Flash and the Crimson Fox, were the only ones inside. Good times.

* ''KungFuPanda'''s training room is a rather impressive example, filled with all manner of wind-up or clockwork bludgeoning, stabbing, slicing, or burning devices.

* Balamb Garden from ''FFVIII'' had a sort of Greenhouse-like training area where you could [[LevelGrind fight against]] the [[ManEatingPlant local variety of voracious flora]]. Occasionally, a TyrannosaurusRex would eat you.

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* Infantry training in several countries has traditionally involved troops crawling along the ground below live machine gun fire or training in areas seeded with an unknown amount of unexploded ordinance collected over decades of use.

* {{Holodeck}}s in the ''StarTrek'' {{Verse}} - which are supposed to be primarily for training - are very prone to developing problems with the safety protocols, making them deadly.

* In ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon'', the Arena almost fits the bill. Though it is revisited several times, it never looks the same twice, as it is changed to suit the day's training. However dangerous, though, the intention is to avoid killing.

* There's a villainous example in ''FromRussiaWithLove''.

-->'''Training ground official''': I agree. We use live targets as well.

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* Infantry training in several countries has traditionally involved troops crawling along the ground below live machine gun fire.
** Or training in areas seeded with an unknown amount of unexploded ordinance collected over decades of use.

** In Shippuden [[spoiler:the [[TurtleIsland hidden island]] used by Kumo to train its jinchuuriki ''used'' to be this as a result of its many large and aggressive fauna. B [[BeyondTheImpossible tracked down and beat up each of the animals until they respected him]], so they don't bother anyone B approves]].

* ''{{Portal}}'' has a live fire military training course that, according to [=GLaDOS=] was intended for military androids. It features a series of turrets that will kill you for purely being in their line of sight. This trope is slightly subverted by the tendency of the turrets to shut down after simply being knocked over, and the fact that you have a weapon that shoots trans-dimensional portals.

* The most famous example and possibly the TropeMaker[=/=][[TropeCodifier Codifier]] is the Danger Room from the ''{{X-Men}}'' series. The level of technology varies by the continuity, but it's usually capable of fully-fledged simulations.

* In ''ThiefOfTime'', Lobsang goes with History Monk Lu Tze to two potentially deadly training areas, one with large wooden balls, the other with walls studded with spikes.
* The past is viewed this way in Literature/TimeScout. Make a mistake and you end up dead very quickly. Make a bigger mistake and you die slowly. Make no mistakes and you still might die.

-->'''Training ground official''': I agree. We use live ammunition as well.