History Main / EvilTaintedThePlace

* [[TheCorruption The Blight]] from ''Franchise/DragonAge'' corrupts everything it touches. Even after the Archdemon is dead the lands the Darkspawn ravaged never fully recover as a result of the corrupting effects. Some areas of the Anderfels are so ravaged by the Blight that not only does noting grow/live there, but also ''corpses don't decompose''. No insects, grubs, or even bacteria can exist in such wasted places.

** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'' is about a [[WizardSchool school for witches]] posing as a private all-girl academy, but which saw so much magic rituals, curses and betrayals of all kinds that it now traps the souls of the deceased in its walls.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In "Civil Defense", a Cardassian computer program that the Federation accidentally triggers tries to kill every one aboard the station in increasingly severe attempts.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "Where the Wild Things Are", a children's home turned college dorm (called the Lowell house) is tainted by the lingering psychic mojo of the sexually abused children that once lived there. The mojo manifests itself as a gang of poltergeists that heighten and live vicariously through various college students' steamy err... [[SureLetsGoWithThat interactions]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "Ghost Light", the events of the episode left a psychic trace in the house strong enough to terrify the 13-year-old Ace when she broke in a hundred years later.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E09Home Home]]", Mary Winchester is killed by Azazael as her wound has infected with a telekinetic poltergeist inside her old home, which terrorizes anyone who is inside it. [[spoiler:But when Mary sacrifices herself to defeat the poltergeist, they cancel each other out.]]

* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Recap/SupernaturalS01E09Home", Mary Winchester is killed by Azazael as her wound has infected with a telekinetic poltergeist inside her old home, which terrorizes anyone who is inside it. [[spoiler:But when Mary sacrifices herself to defeat the poltergeist, they cancel each other out.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': The Corruption, Crimson, and Hallow biomes which infect 'pure' biomes such as a forest, desert, or jungle. The former two spawn {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, while the last biome is a CrapsaccharineWorld. Before beating the DiscOneFinalBoss, these biomes can only spread across dirt, but afterwards, they spread much more aggressively, being easily able to corrupt half of the overworld before the defeat of another boss slows the spreading of these biomes.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'': If the statement that "the Demons have brought their own reality with them" in ''Doom II'''s story text is anything to go by, being tainted by evil is why none of the canon levels from the ''Doom'' series' 2D graphics era to be set in the land of the living look at all recognizably or convincingly like a real-life example of the type of location the level name suggests it is supposed to be.
** This trope could also be seen in the first game when going from Phobos to Deimos. The facilities on Deimos show various signs of demonic influence-rivers of blood and magma, vines growing on the walls, a [[RedSkyTakeWarning blood-red sky]], and demonic symbols inscribed in various places. It all builds up to TheReveal that [[spoiler:Deimos has been transported to Hell]].

* In the third book of the ''Literature/{{Graceling}}'' Trilogy we discover that the former ruler of Monsea (who was blessed with an astounding ability to make people believe anything he wanted to), left a nasty taint on the kingdom for his daughter to deal with when she assumes the throne. The good old king, in addition to being CursedWithAwesome, was a creepy sadist whose favorite pastime was to torture his subjects with his gifts. The fallout of having literally hundreds of people mentally tortured into believing things leaves the new ruler with the problem of having the occasional person or two go completely nuts out of the blue. Needless to say she tires of it real quick.

* At one point in X-Men, Magneto raised a previously constructed base he somehow found out about from the ocean floor. This place is said to be where arcane rituals were carried out, rituals so terrible they permanently tainted the place with evil that no force could cleanse. Nothing much seems to come of this besides young Illyana Rasputin getting dragged into Limbo and becoming Magik.

* A MaybeMagicMaybeMundane example is in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': the castle of Harrenhal was built by a tyrannical king ([[{{Egopolis}} named Harren]]), who died right there when a dragon roasted him. Since then, no one manages to hold this castle for long, every family that gets ownership of it winds up being destroyed in one way or another, and everyone thinks of Harrenhal as an unholy and cursed place. The possible rational explanation for that is that the castle is too big for any non-royal feudal lord to properly maintain, and hard to defend properly because of the location as well as the never-repaired damage caused by the dragon.

** The Blasted Heath in "Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace" is either this or LeakingCanOfEvil.

Compare SealedEvilInACan (for when a presence is sealed within a place), LeakingCanOfEvil (for when the originator of the evil is not directly present but is still is an active part of the threat), and VillainousLegacy (for when the work of a villain lives beyond them). See also UnholyGround. See ResidualEvilEntity for when evil "taint" gets "washed away", but winds up as another creature later.

Compare SealedEvilInACan (for when a presence is sealed within a place), LeakingCanOfEvil (for when the originator of the evil is not directly present but is still is an active part of the threat), and VillainousLegacy (for when the work of a villain lives beyond them). See also UnholyGround.

** Just about anything corrupted by Chaos becomes this, often the only way to remove it is to destroy the ''planet''.

* The final season of ''Series/BeingHumanUS'' involves what appears to be the ghost of a little girl revealing herself to the cast. She's later revealed to be the spirit of the house, an incarnation of the dark rituals performed in its basement in the past, involving the sacrifice of the same little girl whose appearance it currently wears. It feeds off carnage and suffering, and is active now because it's that the main characters are tying up all their problems and conflicts. She's eventually banished and exorcised through great effort.

* In ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'', the special Landmarks buildings associated with [[{{Necromancer}} Nagash]], both in his Black Pyramid and his fortress, gives a very high amount of Undead corruption to the region they're in, representing how the Arch-Necromancer's magic forever tainted the place.

* In ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'', the special Landmarks buildings associated with [[TheNecromancer Nagash]], both in his Black Pyramid and his fortress, gives a very high amount of Undead corruption to the region they're in, representing how the Arch-Necromancer's magic forever tainted the place.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In "Where the Wild Things Are", children's home turned college dorm, called the Lowell house is tainted by the lingering psychic mojo of the sexually abused children that once lived there. The mojo manifests itself as a gang of poltergeists that heighten and live vicariously through various college students' steamy err... [[SureLetsGoWithThat interactions]].

* The final season of Series/{{BeingHumanUS}} involves what appears to be the ghost of a little girl revealing herself to the cast. She's later revealed to be the spirit of the house, an incarnation of the dark rituals performed in its basement in the past, involving the sacrifice of the same little girl whose appearance it currently wears. It feeds off carnage and suffering, and is active now because it's that the main characters are tying up all their problems and conflicts. She's eventually banished and exorcised through great effort.

* The Deadlands in ''Literature/AnOutcastInAnotherWorld''. One phrase of advice is given: don’t go there. They’re later revealed to be [[spoiler:Blighted zones, where all life and matter quickly decays, and the air is toxic]].

* In the ''Series/Supernatural'' episode "Recap/SupernaturalS01E09Home", Mary Winchester is killed by Azazael as her wound has infected with a telekinetic poltergeist inside her old home, which terrorizes anyone who is inside it. [[spoiler:But when Mary sacrifices herself to defeat the poltergeist, they cancel each other out.]]

* Simialar to the ''Tabletopgame/{{Deadlands}}'' example above, some highly dangerous entities can come into existence on the battlefronts of Ancient Rome, both World Wars, and Vietnam, in Pinnacle Entertainment Groups' ''TabletopGame/SavageWorlds'' settings for alternate dark fantasy versions of those eras. The horror and anguish of war seems to simply create them there.

* [[TheCorruption The Blight]] from ''Franchise/DragonAge'' corrupts everything it touches. Even after the Archdemon is dead the lands the Darkspawn ravaged never fully recover as a result of the corrupting effects.

* A MaybeMagicMaybeMundane example is in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': the castle of Harrenhal was built by a tyrannical king ([[{{Egopolis}} named Harren]]), who died right there when a dragon roasted him. Since then, no one manages to hold this castle for long, every family that gets ownership of it winds up being destroyed in one way or another, and everyone thinks of Harrenhal as an unholy and cursed place. The possible rational explanation for that is that the castle is too big for any non-royal feudal lord to properly maintain, and hard to defend properly because of the never-repaired damage caused by the dragon.

* In ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'', the special Landmarks buildings associated with [[TheNecromancer Nagash]], both in his Black Pyramid and his fortress, gives an extreme amoutn of Undead corruption to the regin they're in, representing how the Arch-Necromancer's magic forever tainted the place.