History Main / HereThereBeDragons

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'':

In old times, mapmaking was a fairly imprecise task, due to the lack of advanced technology for exploration purposes. So, to fill great blank areas on the maps, mapmakers used to include textual and/or graphic warnings of the dangers of going into uncharted territory. Such warnings took the form of SeaSerpents, dragons, cannibals and many other mythical and, sometimes, even real creatures. The actual line "Here There Be Dragons" [[BeamMeUpScotty has been found only once]], on the 16th-century [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt-Lenox_Globe Lenox Globe]], but is too cool to give up.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' has a map with, wouldn't you know it, dragons. This is meant literally, as it signals the dragon's nest. The film also {{lampshaded}} the trope, saying "Here at Berk, ''we have dragons''."

** By the same artist as above, the [[http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-Prehistoric-Stereotypes-492775139 Map of Prehistoric Stereotypes]] has helpful warnings throughout of things like Water Monsters, a Carnivorous Lake, Charcharodon {{Megalodon}}, [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire White Walkers]], and, of course, "Here be Saber-Toothed Dragons" and "Hic Sunt Leones".

* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' had the actual line ''"Here Be Dragons"'' on a globe in the observatory.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'' had the Pirate Captain lamenting that they'll never make it where they're headed in time because -- as he points out on the map -- there's a big sea monster in the way. Charles Darwin (who is traveling with them, [[ItMakesSenseInContext because of reasons]]) asserts that they just put those there for decoration. Sure enough, they make it there without a hitch. [[spoiler:Only to have the ship chomped and spat back out by a ''real'' sea monster just before the end credits.]]

* In ''VideoGame/ReturnToRavenhearst'', the schoolroom where Rose's daughters were indoctrinated by Charles Dalimar has a crude outline of England and Wales on its wall map, in which everything else is blank and marked "unknown". No actual monsters are depicted, but the creepiness of the script implies that horrible things lurk beyond the borders.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Risen}}'' while there's no mention on the map, if you go out too far into the sea, a giant sea monster bursts out of the water and eats you. Humorously, you'll wake up on the beach a bit later without any harm. Observe [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUfkXsG5tc8 here]].

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand: The Shake Dimension'' had [[http://www.mariowiki.com/images/0/02/Wlsi_shake_dimension_map.jpg one of these maps.]] Note the mermaid, sea serpent and octopus-like creature in various points on the map and the old-fashioned compass (itself something many of these maps also contain).

In fiction, many maps don't just warn its readers of the great perils on their way, but sometimes also contain other pieces of information, such as the location of cities and landmarks, pointed by [[StylisticSuck stylistically out-of-scale]] drawings.

Because [[GratuitousLatin Everything's Better In Latin]], also sometimes seen as its original spelling, ''Hic sunt dracones''. HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace is what happens when you put this trope InSpace and mix it with FasterThanLightTravel.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Inside Job|2021}}'': The episode "My Big Flat Earth Wedding" confirms that the HollowWorld theory is true. This is where Magic Myk comes from and, as pointed out by Reagan? The same monsters you see on old sea charts like the Kraken. [[spoiler: The Flat Earth Society leader learned this the hard way…]]

* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob'': The episode "My Big Flat Earth Wedding" confirms that the HollowWorld theory is true. This is where Magic Myk comes from and, as pointed out by Reagan? The same monsters you see on old sea charts like the Kraken. [[spoiler: The Flat Earth Society leader learned this the hard way…]]

* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob'': The episode "My Big Flat Earth Wedding" confirms that the HollowWorld theory is true. This is where Magic Myk comes from and, as pointed out by Reagan? The same monsters you see on old sea charts like the Kraken.

* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob: The episode "My Big Flat Earth Wedding" confirms that the HollowWorld theory is true. This is where Magic Myk comes from and, as pointed out by Reagan? The same monsters you see on old sea charts like the Kraken.

* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'': In one episode Gordon Freeman encounters an utterly useless map and mocks it by using this trope:

* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'': The [[http://xkcd.com/256/ Map of Online Communities]] has a stretch of ocean marked with "Here be [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom anthromorphic dragons]]", while another shows the sunken ruins of Website/{{Usenet}}.

* In the fan film ''Acheron'', by Creator/RollinBoy, a synthetic soldier is scouting out the derelict from ''Film/{{Alien}}''. He gives this trope on realising [[OhCrap he's walked into the lair of the Queen Xenomorph]].

'''Mulder:''' I've seen the same thing on maps of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.

* ''Film/JackbootsOnWhitehall''. The excessive detail of the map of Britain stops abruptly at the Scottish border, which shows [[GrimUpNorth no towns or roads at all]].

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