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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': In ''Isle of the Ape'', the title island was exactly like this. Food and equipment rotted quickly. Filled with dinosaurs, cannibal natives and giant apes, it was made even worse because many spells simply didn't work there, making the party's spellcasters and magic items much less effective.

* Literature/{{Tarzan}}'s native habitat. While Tarzan is perfectly at home here, it tends to prove lethal to outsider s who attempt to intrude: especially if Tarzan does not want them there.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Literature/HeartOfDarkness Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine.]]'']]

* This is the reason why European colonization of Africa remained so limited for so long, even as the Americas and South Asia were successfully conquered. It was only with advances in pharmacology in the mid-19th century that Europeans, lacking natural immunity, had effective treatments for the diseases carried by mosquitoes and tsetse flies.

** Considering what happened at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ramree_Island Ramree Island]], the Japanese ''should'' have felt the same way.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': [[SingleBiomePlanet Catachan]], the mascot for the DeathWorld trope, is covered by a world-spanning jungle where everything is meat-eating, toxic and out to kill you. It's the recruiting grounds for an [[RedshirtArmy Imperial Guard]] regiment who are [[PlanetOfHats all Rambo]].

* Spanish film ''Film/{{Gold}}'', based on a story by Creator/ArturoPerezReverte, shows the effects of the Mesoamerican jungle on a bunch of Spanish conquistadores.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{TORG}}'': The Living Land makes technology break down, dissolves any food if you don't eat it soon after killing or gathering it, is filled with fog that makes it easy to lose your way, and then there are the critters.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': [[SingleBiomePlanet Catachan]], the mascot for the DeathWorld trope, is covered by a world-spanning jungle where everything is meat-eating, toxic and out to kill you. It's the recruiting grounds for an [[RedshirtArmy Imperial Guard]] regiment who are [[PlanetOfHats all Rambo]].

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** In general, this is a common tropical spin on Green’s forests, as a natural result of Green’s love of untamed wilds, its profusion of ravenous monsters and gigantic insects, and its hatred of technology and skill in breaking it down.
** The flavor text for the card "[[https://scryfall.com/card/gvl/8/ravenous-baloth Ravenous Baloth]]", which depicts a massive reptilian predator, is:
--->"All we know about the Krosan Forest we have learned from those few who have made it out alive." -- Elvish Refugee
** Zendikar is an entire world where nature is trying to kill you dead. Among other things.
* ''TabletopGame/NewHorizon'' has the Narhhel jungle. It's mostly unexplored, filled with predators, and might have [[LostTechnology unknown technology]] lost in it.
* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'', most of Venus above the mists is covered in jungle full of dinosaurs, giant insects and horrifying diseases.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}'': The Caecilian Jungle is a large, star-shaped patch of rainforest at the northern end of the Beyond and home to a great variety of predatory beasts. Its depths are home to ruins and wonders -- such as a frog-shaped temple that draws amphibians to itself, a miniature city and a garden of carnivorous plants -- that draw a steady stream of explorers and expeditions, despite the fact there no one who ever went in has been know to come back out again.

* Guadalcanal in ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorPacificAssault''. It comes to a point that Conlin, the PlayerCharacter, mentions at one point that the jungle could very well kill him before the Japanese even come close.

* Dxun, which appears in ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Expanded Universe}}: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II: [[ColonCancer The Sith Lords]]'' and in related ''Star Wars'' material, is entirely covered in jungle and rainforest infested with a rich and varied assortment of vicious alien predators, and has a pervasive hot and humid climate that makes technology break down very quickly unless constantly maintained. It's not known as the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Demon Moon]] for nothing.

* Gran Pulse in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has a variety of climates, but fits the spirit of the trope.

* The jungles of the Rook Islands in ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' are surreal, colorful and teeming with [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal flora, fauna and fungi]], to say nothing of the RuthlessModernPirates and PrivateMilitaryContractors. It's almost as if [[GeniusLoci the islands themselves]] are trying to bring insanity and/or death upon those who set foot on them.

* Several of the maps in ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'' fall under this. Truck sized herbivores will stomp you into a paste, smaller scavengers will gang up on you and rip you to pieces, huge ambush predators lurk in every sizable pond, and man-eating plants will devour you with one wrong step. And that's ignoring the gargantuan beast that's [[ItCanThink stalking you]] throughout the match, growing deadlier all the while.
* Most of the Maguuma Jungle in ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' is not actually that bad; quite pleasant in fact, although there are a few places where you need to watch your step. On the other hand, the Heart of Maguuma to the west, the setting of the first expansion ''Heart of Thorns,'' is bordering on a DeathWorld- filled with packs of hungry saurians, hordes of vicious [[HordeOfAlienLocusts chak]], inhabited by several tribes of the froglike Hylek (some friendly, some xenophobic in the ''extreme'') and, worst of all, patrolled by the [[PlantMooks Mordrem]], particularly the deadly Mordrem Guard. This is the domain of Mordremoth, the jungle dragon. [[spoiler:Literally. [[GeniusLoci The jungle IS the dragon]]. And it is ''very'' hungry.]]
* The jungle from ''VideoGame/RomancingSaga3'' is is nightmare labyrinth where you can get lose for hours to end due to the fact that every exit randomly transports you to a new area. The key is following the different colored butterflies near the exits to your destination of choice. One false step, though, and you will be led to deeper into the jungle until you luck runs out and fall before the creature that lurks there.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'', the Tropical Forest biome presents many challenges and not many advantages. Thick mud and choking undergrowth make moving around or building anything difficult, and if the predatory animals don't get your colonists, the rampant disease will - a talented doctor will be worth his/her own body weight in gold. The silver lining is it's just as deadly for any raiders who are [[TooDumbToLive foolish enough]] to come into your jungle home.

* ''Amazonia'' by James Rollins. Four years after all contact with an expedition into the Amazon basin, the lost expedition's destination, which holds the key to the cure to a worldwide plague, must be discovered at any cost. But the nightmare that awaits Rand and his team of scientists and seasoned U.S. Army Rangers dwarfs any danger they may have anticipated..

* The protagonist of Creator/LeoFrankowski's Cross Time Engineer series faces this when attempting to explore Africa in ''Conrad's Search for Rubber''. 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]].]]
* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'' has the Anarchies, a forest tainted by ancient magic. At one point in "Dark of the Moon", a band of brigands follows Jame into the Anarchies. Only one survives to confront her as the bandits slowly get picked off by strange mushrooms, hills that absorb their sleeping forms, and weird creatures.
* ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'': The Fire Swamp, which is really more like a jungle than a swamp, and, let's face it, more like a fantastical deathtrap than a jungle. If the [[QuicksandSucks "lightning sand"]] and exploding geysers of fire don't get you, the [[RodentsOfUnusualSize giant man-eating rats]] will.
* ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'':
** ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'': The Crake Rainforest may not be [[GardenOfEvil alive and hungry]] but the [[DinosaursAreDragons Graak]] certainly is. The local Rindge avoid the place as much as possible for this very reason, and the entire region has a sort of PrimalFear vibe to it.
** ''Literature/TheHeritageOfShannara': The jungle of Morrowindl is as bad or worse, being a dank, [[SwampsAreEvil swampy mess]], infested by predators, mutants, and Shadowen, including the monstrous Wisteron. The Black Oaks of Southland aren't much better, and characters go out of their way to avoid them, courtesy of the hungry wolf packs that make their home there. In ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannara'' this results in them screwing up and heading straight into the far worse [[SwampsAreEvil Mist Marsh]].
%%* Literature/{{Tarzan}}'s native habitat.
%%* ''Literature/TheMonsterMen'': Much of the island. Virginia is abducted there, more than once, and the title men wander there after their escape.

* ''Literature/TheJungleBook'': Invoked in "Letting In the Jungle": when Mowgli discovers that the inhabitants of a human village are not only trying to hunt ''him'' down, but also plan to kill Messua, the human woman who adopted him, he calls the whole jungle down on the place. His animal allies make the village unlivable to the point that its inhabitants, robbed of their food stores and believing themselves cursed, are forced to abandon the place entirely, and in very little time the jungle has overgrown and swallowed the site completely.

* Illustrated in very vivid detail many times by former [[SemperFi United States Marine Corps]] Lieutenant Philip Caputo in his non-fictional account of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, ''A Rumor Of War.''
-->''It took us all morning to cover the three miles between the landing zone and the village. Four hours to walk three miles, and the company had not once run into significant enemy resistance. It was the land that resisted us, the land, the jungle, and the sun.''\\
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''Everything rotted and corroded quickly over there: bodies, boot leather, canvas, metal, morals. Scorched by the sun, wracked by the wind and rain of the monsoon, fighting in alien swamps and jungles, our humanity rubbed off of us as the protective bluing rubbed off the barrels of our rifles.''
%%* As explained in JamesAlanGardner's ''Vigilant'':
%%-->"You'll be all right if you remember one simple principle. Everything here wants you dead. Even the things that won't directly kill you still want you dead. You're a waste of good nutrients; they want you recycled back into the ecosystem."
* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': Loompaland is a DeathWorld jungle -- the Oompa-Loompas suffered from the double whammy of carnivorous predators, some of which could eat ten of them at a time, and unpalatable food (caterpillars, tree bark and beetles). (Note: In the pre-{{Bowdlerised}} original text, they were black pygmies from DarkestAfrica rather than Caucasians from a fictitious country.) Yes, their lives as Willy Wonka's secret workforce may be HappinessInSlavery, but when ''this'' was the alternative...
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': a staple for the arenas at the Hunger Games.
* ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'': The once-city of Sawa is overgrown with vegetation, full of creatures that want to kill you or turn you into one of their kind, and oversaturated with black magic.

* ''Amazonia'' by James Rollins.

* ''Literature/NonStop'': As the inhabitants of a GenerationShip revert to savagery, the ship's bioengineered plants grow out of control, turning most of the ship into this.
* ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'': In ''Yellow Eyes'', a second Posleen column tries to outflank the human defenders by going through the Panamanian jungle. Between the wildlife, the terrain, and the hostile natives, only one Posleen makes it through the jungle alive, who promptly surrenders, asking only one term: That he not be required to go back in there.
* ''Literature/CoDominium'': The world of Tanith is a jungle world whose evolution is said to be over a million years beyond Earth's.
* "Literature/LeiningenVersusTheAnts" and its [[Series/MacGyver1985 adaptations]] take place in the Amazon. The jungle and its killer ants are viewed as invincible forces of nature by the natives.
%%* ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'': In "Literature/ThePeopleOfTheBlackCircle" where the black lotus grows:%%Quotes aren't context.
%%-->''It was the dread figure of the black lotus that had grown up as she watched, as it grows in the haunted, forbidden jungles of Khitai.''

* The setting of the first story in FanFic/TheVinylAndOctaviaSeries, ''Vinyl and Octavia Machete Their Way Through The Jungle''.

* Skull Island in ''Film/KingKong''. ''[[HorrorHunger Everything]]'' [[SuperPersistentPredator there]] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou wants to eat you]].
** Softened a bit in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', which gives a fairly sympathetic portrayal of the native Islanders, and even some of the local fauna - particularly the gigantic-but-peaceful sker buffalo - inspire more wonder and awe than terror.

* ''Film/TheThinRedLine''. The jungle is beautiful, oppressive, and indifferent to the sufferings of the soldiers.
* A running theme throughout the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' franchise.
** In ''Film/{{Predator}}'' the film's portrayal of the jungle slowly moves towards this until the Predator invokes it full force by picking off the heroes one by one. As stated in the real examples, the actual shooting of the film was very tough due to the jungle conditions.
-->The jungle... it came alive and took him.
** ''Film/{{Predator 2}}'' describes the city setting as a "concrete jungle" portraying the dangerous city in much the same manner of the harsh jungle.
** ''Film/{{Predators}}'' has a massive jungle on an alien world made for the very purpose of hunting. Needless to say it is cruel and harsh with danger lurking in the form of several Predators, alien animals and even fellow "prey".
* The hostile, oppressive and unrelenting jungle, and the unseen horrors (real or imagined) lurking within it, is one of the things that gradually sends the conquistadors mad in ''Film/AguirreTheWrathOfGod''.

* Spanish film ''Film/{{Gold}}'', based on a story by Creator/ArturoPerezReverte, shows the effects of the Mesoamerican jungle on a bunch of Spanish conquistadores.

* ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Expanded Universe}}: Literature/{{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.
** In addition, ''Shatterpoint'' is based on ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness''. The Haruun Kal jungle is ''literally'' hungry, containing an invisible and planet-covering population of sporous fungi that eat most of the futuristic technology common in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe.
** Although it's a [[SwampsAreEvil swamp]], in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' the somewhat drier parts of Dagobah are portrayed as this. It's an amazingly hostile place to everyone except Yoda. Years ago a survey team crashed there, couldn't leave, and over a period of years they were picked off, they had children, their technology broke down... the Children they left behind, malnourished and uneducated, are friendly and much better adapted, but they are always, ''always'' hungry.
* Shows up in some chapters of Tim O'Brien's ''Literature/TheThingsTheyCarried'', especially the part with Mary-Anne.
** Actually somewhat inverted as well with Mary-Anne: "Sometimes I want to ''eat'' this place. Vietnam. I want to swallow the whole country - the dirt, the death - I just want to eat it and have it there inside me. That's how I feel."
* ''Amazonia'' by James Rollins.

* Of the dozens of people on the two expeditions in ''{{Literature/Congo}}'' by Creator/MichaelCrichton, only four are confirmed to have made it out alive (though some ran away earlier). A combo of this trope, a volcano, and KillerGorilla.
* The appropriately named Creator/DavidDrake story "The Jungle", set on a terraformed Venus which has become a DeathWorld.
* One of the first "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 [[BlobMonster "doughpots"]], [[ManEatingPlant "Jack Ketch Trees"]], and [[StarfishAliens "trioptes"]] to get to civilization.
* The planet Pyrrus in Harry Harrison's novel ''Death World'' appears to be like this, then the protagonist discovers that it's a local effect sustained by feedback between mildly telepathic wildlife and the colonists.
* While Midworld is the most obvious example, it should be taken as a given that any time Alan Dean Foster writes something with a jungle in it, it's going to be a Hungry Jungle.
** For example, the varzea of the Viisiiviisii in ''[[Literature/HumanxCommonwealth Drowning World]]''. Besides carnivorous animals (which do things like create sucking whirlpools in rivers and shoot toxic darts) and carnivorous plants (which move remarkably fast), spores and microplants and parasites will invade anyone who doesn't constantly try to clean them off, finding a way through even the best-sealed environmental clothing.
* 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 incompetent 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...]]

* 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 incompetent 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...]]
* As the inhabitants of a GenerationShip revert to savagery in ''Non-Stop'', the ship's bioengineered plants grow out of control, turning most of the ship into this.
* In the Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata novel ''Yellow Eyes'', a second Posleen column tries to outflank the human defenders by going through the Panamanian jungle. Between the wildlife, the terrain, and the hostile natives, only one Posleen makes it through the jungle alive, who promptly surrenders, asking only one term: That he not be required to go back in there.
* The world of Tanith in Creator/JerryPournelle's Literature/CoDominium Universe is a jungle-world with its evolution said to be over a million years beyond Earth's.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/ThePeopleOfTheBlackCircle" where the black lotus grows:
-->''It was the dread figure of the black lotus that had grown up as she watched, as it grows in the haunted, forbidden jungles of Khitai.''

* The Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath has the Anarchies, a forest tainted by ancient magic. At one point in "Dark of the Moon", a band of brigands follows Jame into the Anarchies. Only one survives to confront her as the bandits slowly get picked off by strange mushrooms, hills that absorb their sleeping forms, and weird creatures.
* The Fire Swamp in the book/movie ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'', which is really more like a jungle than a swamp, and, let's face it, more like a fantastical deathtrap than a jungle. If the [[QuicksandSucks "lightning sand"]] and exploding geysers of fire don't get you, the [[RodentsOfUnusualSize giant man-eating rats]] will.
* ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'': The Crake Rainforest may not be [[GardenOfEvil alive and hungry]] but the [[DinosaursAreDragons Graak]] certainly is. The local Rindge avoid the place as much as possible for this very reason, and the entire region has a sort of PrimalFear vibe to it.
** The jungle of [[Literature/TheHeritageOfShannara Morrowindl]] is as bad or worse, being a dank, [[SwampsAreEvil swampy mess]], infested by predators, mutants, and Shadowen, including the monstrous Wisteron. The Black Oaks of Southland aren't much better, and characters go out of their way to avoid them, courtesy of the hungry wolf packs that make their home there. In ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannara'' this results in them screwing up and heading straight into the far worse [[SwampsAreEvil Mist Marsh]].
* Literature/{{Tarzan}}'s native habitat.
* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''Literature/TheMonsterMen'', much of the island. Virginia is abducted there, more than once, and the title men wander there after their escape.
* The Literature/GauntsGhosts novel ''Traitor General'' takes place on the planet Gereon. The [[EldritchAbomination Chaos]] influence drives the Ghosts team slowly insane, pitting them against each other uncharacteristically, and that seems pretty bad already... then they're forced to flee into the "Untill", a massive, unmapped swamp filled with ''moths'' so poisonous that merely brushing against them causes instant death.
* Another ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40,000]]'' novel, ''Fire Caste'' features a SingleBiomePlanet, Phaedra, composed of this. Appropriate, as this novel is a RecycledInSpace remix of ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness''. The world is described in a character's journal entry as "Too lazy to be a {{death world}}, too bitter to be anything else." It is a place in conflict between the Imperium and the Tau, with only a few feral human inhabitants as natives with little strategic value to either side, where ''both'' sides [[ReassignedToAntarctica send the incompetent or uncomfortable commanders]] that they just want to get out of the way. The conflict is stagnant quagmire in more ways than one, and almost as many people are lost slowly to infection, predation, or desertion as they are fighting the enemy.
* Invoked in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'''s "Letting In the Jungle": when Mowgli discovers that the inhabitants of a human village are not only trying to hunt ''him'' down, but also plan to kill Messua, the human woman who adopted him, he calls the whole jungle down on the place. His animal allies make the village unlivable to the point that its inhabitants, robbed of their food stores and believing themselves cursed, are forced to abandon the place entirely, and in very little time the jungle has overgrown and swallowed the site completely.
* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/TheZeroStone'', the planet Jern and Eet escape to is this, at least where they land.

-->''It took us all morning to cover the three miles between the landing zone and the village. Four hours to walk three miles, and the company had not once run into significant enemy resistance. It was the land that resisted us, the land, the jungle, and the sun.''
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-->''Everything rotted and corroded quickly over there: bodies, boot leather, canvas, metal, morals. Scorched by the sun, wracked by the wind and rain of the monsoon, fighting in alien swamps and jungles, our humanity rubbed off of us as the protective bluing rubbed off the barrels of our rifles.''
* As explained in JamesAlanGardner's ''Vigilant'':
-->“You’ll be all right if you remember one simple principle. Everything here wants you dead. Even the things that won’t directly kill you still want you dead. You’re a waste of good nutrients; they want you recycled back into the ecosystem.”
* Loompaland in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' is a DeathWorld jungle -- the Oompa-Loompas suffered from the double whammy of carnivorous predators, some of which could eat ten of them at a time, and unpalatable food (caterpillars, tree bark and beetles). (Note: In the pre-{{Bowdlerised}} original text, they were black pygmies from DarkestAfrica rather than Caucasians from a fictitious country.) Yes, their lives as Willy Wonka's secret workforce may be HappinessInSlavery, but when ''this'' was the alternative...

* The once-city of Sawa in ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict''. It's overgrown with vegetation, full of creatures that want to kill you or turn you into one of their kind, and oversaturated with black magic.

* TheAmazon is portrayed this way in the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "Trumbo's World". Trumbo is in a constant battle to keep the jungle from swallowing his plantation, and a swarm of army ants threatens to devour the everything in its path.
* Parodied in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' with the Forbidden Plateau of Roiurama, where strange primeval creatures still lurk in the dark, impenetrable forest, cut off forever from the outside world.

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* The Hill from ''Webcomic/KissWood''. Now with exploding plants.

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* The "Devil's Island" table of ''VideoGame/BallsOfSteel'' is filled with erupting volcanos, cannibalistic natives, deadly spiders, and giant scorpions.
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* While not a jungle per-se ''Literature/TheBible'' features this during Absalom's rebellion. It is explicitly stated that the forest claimed more lives than the actual battle.
-->'''2 Samuel 18:8'''
-->8 For the battle there was spread out over the surface of the entire countryside, and the [hazards of the] forest devoured more men that day than did the sword.

* In the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module [=WG6=] ''Isle of the Ape'', the title island was exactly like this. Food and equipment rotted quickly. Filled with dinosaurs, cannibal natives and giant apes, it was made even worse because many spells simply didn't work there, making the party's spellcasters and magic items much less effective.
** Also, several layers of the Abyss (which has layers with pretty much every bad thing you could imagine and some you probably can't on them), and one layer of the plane of Carceri could qualify.
* ''TabletopGame/Pathfinder'' naturally follows in ''Dungeons And Dragons''' footsteps, with the [[DarkestAfrica Mwangi Expanse]], [[HollowEarth Deep Tolguth]], and the truly intense [[HolidayInCambodia Valashmai Jungle]], explicitly described as one of the most dangerous regions in the setting. That game's own version of the Abyss has a few layers that fit this trope as well, particularly the realms of [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Angazhan and Zevgavizeb]].
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Double Adventure "Marooned/Marooned Alone", one terrain type on the planet Pagliacci is "Jungle". The players can encounter [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]] and the alien equivalent of army ants. If the water isn't filtered it damages the drinker, and each week the {{PC}}'s must make saving rolls or suffer disease damage and/or equipment malfunction.
* The Living Land in the TORG roleplaying game makes technology break down, dissolves any food if you don't eat it soon after killing or gathering it, is filled with fog that makes it easy to lose your way, and then there are the critters.
* [[SingleBiomePlanet Catachan]], the mascot for the DeathWorld trope, in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. It's the recruiting grounds for an [[RedshirtArmy Imperial Guard]] regiment who are [[PlanetOfHats all Rambo]]. (and there's even a direct Rambo ShoutOut who's even more Rambo than usual)
* Lustria in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''. Basically the worst jungles in South America taken to eleven, most of the continent is covered in trackless swampland and rainforests teeming with swarms of aggressive insects stinged and bloodsucking alike, enormous carnivorous plants, giant snakes and man-eating dinosaurs, all quite happy to kill you -- unless the plagues or the ever-present crushing heat do so before they can (and that's without getting into the zombie vampire pirates on the coast). The only reason anyone ever goes there is to search for wealth and magical artifacts in the golden cities deep in the jungle. Pity that there's a race of killer dinosaur-people living there who take a decidedly dim view to people walking off with their sacred artifacts...

** The flavor text for the card "[[http://magiccards.info/ddagvl/en/8.html Ravenous Baloth]]", which depicts a massive reptilian predator, is:
--> "All we know about the Krosan Forest we have learned from those few who have made it out alive." -- Elvish Refugee

See also DontGoInTheWoods and JungleOpera. Closely related to RiverOfInsanity. Sort of like the ThirstyDesert, though the similar names are coincidental.

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The jungle's inhabitants don't make it any better. There tend to be [[BarbarianTribe hostile natives]], {{cannibal tribe}}s, [[CatFolk cat-]], and [[LizardFolk lizard-people]]. It's also home to BigCreepyCrawlies, [[SnakesAreSinister poisonous and large constricting snakes]], [[PantheraAwesome tigers, leopards, and other large cats]], [[ManiacMonkeys aggressive monkeys]], and [[KingKongCopy giant apes]]. The jungle's lakes, rivers, and swamps are full of [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile crocodiles]] and [[PiranhaProblem piranhas]]. There are even dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.

See also DontGoInTheWoods. Closely related to RiverOfInsanity. Sort of like the ThirstyDesert, though the similar names are coincidental.

God help you if [[JungleWarfare you have to fight a war]] here, [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar which]] [[WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific isn't unknown]]. Compare DarkestAfrica. Also tends to be full of BigCreepyCrawlies.

* TheAlcatraz Robyn is imprisoned in in ''ComicBook/RobynHood: The Hunt'' is a DeadlyEnvironmentPrison surrounded by a hungry jungle.

* "Literature/LeiningenVersusTheAnts" and its [[Series/MacGyver adaptations]] take place in the Amazon. The jungle and its killer ants are viewed as invincible forces of nature by the natives.

* This ''image'' of a jungle in the Western mind is TruthInTelevision that stems from the colonial times. A Japanese WWII veteran, interviewed in ''The World at War'', claimed that Allied troops had far more fear of the south east Asian jungles than Japanese troops did.

* TheAmazon is portrayed this way in the ''Series/MacGyver1985'' episode "Trumbo's World".

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* TheAlcatraz Robyn is imprisoned in in ''ComicBook/RobynHood: the Hunt'' is a DeadlyEnvironmentPrison surrounded by a hungry jungle.