History Main / HungryJungle

* ''LeiningenVersusTheAnts'' and its [[MacGyver adaptations]] take place in the Amazon. The jungle and it's killer ants are viewed as invincible forces of nature by the natives.

* The protagonist of Leo Frankowski's CrossTimeEngineer novel, ''Conrad's Search for Rubber'', faces this when attempting to explore Africa. After the massive death incurred by both the explorers and the natives, Conrad vows to do no more exploration until he'd found a solution. [[spoiler:His relatives from the future then proceed to come down from the heavens and give him [[DeusExMachina a solution to his problems]].]]

* The protagonist of Leo Frankowski's Cross-Time Engineer novel, ''Conrad's Search for Rubber'', faces this when attempting to explore Africa. After the massive death incurred by both the explorers and the natives, Conrad vows to do no more exploration until he'd found a solution. [[spoiler:His relatives from the future then proceed to come down from the heavens and give him [[DeusExMachina a solution to his problems]].]]

* Gran Pulse in FinalFantasyXIII.

* [[StarWars Dagobah]] is a SingleBiomePlanet version.

** One of the first (and best) "Jungle Venus" stories was Stanley G. Weinbaum's 1935 short story "Parasite Planet." After a mud volcano destroys his isolated shack the protagonist must trek through a nightmarish jungle full of horrifying creatures such as [[TheBlob "doughpots"]], [[ManEatingPlant "Jack Ketch Trees]], and [[StarfishAliens "trioptes"]]to get to civilization. The story is basically an ExcusePlot to show off the vicious animals and carniferns that the author imagined.

* Lustria in Warhammer Fantasy. Basically the worst jungles in South America taken to eleven. It doesn't help that there's a race of killer dinosaur-people who want to sacrifice you to a giant snake-god, either...
* The card "Ravenous Baloth" in [[MagicTheGathering Magic the Gathering]]. Its flavor text is: "All we know about the Krosan Forest we have learned from those few who have made it out alive." - Elvish Refugee

* NewHorizon has the Narhhel jungle. It's mostly unexplored, filled with predators, and might have [[AncientRuins unknown]] [[Precursors technology]] embedded in them.

* Skull Island in ''KingKong''. Everything there [[EverythingTryingToKillYou wants to eat you]].

* Apparently ''all'' of Pandora in ''{{Film/Avatar}}''. Made worse by having all the wildlife psychically linked to Ga--Eywa, which then goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge ''en masse''.

* The second half of Evelyn Waugh's ''A Handful of Dust'' has the protagonist, Tony Last, venture into the rainforests of South America in search of a gothic city. He contracts a terrible fever, his incomptent companion scares off the native guides and gets himself killed. Tony is 'rescued' by the head of another tribe... who reports to the search party that Tony is dead, and keeps him in the jungle, forcing him to read the complete works of Dickens- [[FateWorseThanDeath over... and over... and over...]]

* ''LeiningenVersusTheAnts'' and it's [[MacGyver adaptations]] takes place in the Amazon. The jungle and it's killer ants are viewed as invincible forces of nature by the natives.

* The InheritanceTrilogy has the Spine. While not a jungle, it's a range of mountains that the BigBad apparently lost a third of his army in once.

->"Beware, beware the Bight of Benin. Where one came out, fifty went in."

* DarkCrusade has a map where the description is from the notes of a Commissar Caern, recording the final words of a trooper prior to his execution for treason, along the lines of "I can't take it anymore! This jungle's going to eat us alive!"
* Dxun as portrayed in StarWars: KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II: [[ColonCancer The Sith Lords]]
* MassEffect has a few of these, including Zorya and Pragia.

See also DontGoInTheWoods, RiverOfInsanity.

* Skull Island in ''KingKong''. Everything there wants to eat you.
* ''ApocalypseNow''

* ''HeartOfDarkness''

* LeiningenVersusTheAnts and it's [[MacGyver adaptations]] takes place in the Amazon. The jungle and it's killer ants are viewed as invincible forces of nature by the natives.

* ''StarWars: Shatterpoint'' features Haruun Kal, a planet covered in this kind of jungle. For Mace Windu, it comes to draw out and represent his own inner darkness. Felucia also tends to become this in the general Star Wars ExpandedUniverse.

**One of the first (and best) "Jungle Venus" stories was Stanley G. Weinbaum's 1935 short story "Parasite Planet." After a mud volcano destroys his isolated shack the protagonist must trek through a nightmarish jungle full of horrifying creatures such as [[TheBlob "doughpots"]], [[ManEatingPlant "Jack Ketch Trees]], and [[StarfishAliens "trioptes"]]to get to civilization. The story is basically an ExcusePlot to show off the vicious animals and carniferns that the author imagined.

*The second half of Evelyn Waugh's ''A Handful of Dust'' has the protagonist, Tony Last, venture into the rainforests of South America in search of a gothic city. He contracts a terrible fever, his incomptent companion scares off the native guides and gets himself killed. Tony is 'rescued' by the head of another tribe... who reports to the search party that Tony is dead, and keeps him in the jungle, forcing him to read the complete works of Dickens- [[FateWorseThanDeath over... and over... and over...]]

* Many of the early Amazonian explorers seem to have experienced this--hideous fungal infections, hostile natives, trouble finding anything to eat, and [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything else trying to eat them.]] A well-known (if now under siege) anthropological theory is that the Amazon is a "wet desert", in which civilization can never arise, and which dissolves the underpinnings of civilizations that try to migrate there.
** Hence subverted; remnants of a flourishing civilization have been found in the Amazon, hinting even that much of the "wilderness" was in fact cultivated and kept under check for centuries. The diseases brought by the Europeans destroyed it before a single Westerner could witness any of it.
* While technically rainforests, not jungles, big chunks of north-eastern Australia are like this.

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