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In many stories with a civilized setting, the wild is often portrayed as [[Eldritch Location|a dangerous, untamed place]], full of vicious animals and occasionally even dangerous ''plants.'' This way, people are urged to stay within the confines of cities and towns, or villages if you're in a fantasy setting. This is hardly the case in many [[Real Life]] areas, though - animals actually have more to fear from ''us'' than we do from them, courtesy of our ever-expanding civilization encroaching on their space, as well as killing animals for all kinds of reasons, [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|sometimes even for fun.]] Keep in mind, however, that [[Truth in Television|many animals can still kill a human being if push comes to shove.]] It's just that they try their best NOT to.

 

 

A subtrope of [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]. See [[Darkest Africa]] for a related trope.

 

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== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' has ''an entire bestiary'' dedicated to the dangerous creatures that may attack you sooner or later. Aside from dragons, of course, we have manticores, harpies, snake-women, werewolves, griffins, and the list goes on and on and ON...