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Beneath the Planet of the Apes had one that combines urban and caverns.

The tunnels play a key role in the Tipaan chapters. Most of the Svenjaya have to live in the Svenjaya tunnels.

The Keys Stand Alone: Or, beneath the surface of the Flying Island of Tipaan in The Soft World.

And unfortunately, it decides that with Harry's appearance, it's finally got something worth waking up for. what with the utterly ancient Elder Wyrm, a planet-killing dragon that routinely eats intruders or enslaves them as wights ( in its sleep). No one's entirely sure when it was built, but it's largely empty - unless you count the mutated Grindylows.

There are remains of a rather large and downright ancient fortress underneath an island in the Hogwarts Lake, which serves as the setting for the altered First Task.

It's home to a number of unpleasant supernatural creatures, its geography frequently changes, and, naturally, a young Bruce Wayne tried to sneak down there because he was curious.

The canonical example of Chicago's Undertown from The Dresden Files is present here as per canon, it's a product of the fact that Chicago's swampland location means that bits of it periodically sank into the surrounding land, and bits have been built on top.

right up until Harry Dresden's Death Curse (he got better) blasts him halfway to orbit. Being an ancient and thoroughly evil necromancer, he feels right at home. the City of the Dead, exist and make an appearance in the first book - here, as the temporary lair of Gravemoss.

As in real life, the Catacombs of Paris a.k.a.

See also Mouse World, which is basically this but on a smaller scale, and Dug Too Deep. When there's a whole hidden social system living underground, in secret but fairly regular contact with the mundane surface population, that's a Wainscot Society. The King in the Mountain can also be found here, resting until his hour of need comes again.

Tvtropes beneath a steel sky series#

Subterranean civilizations armed with giant Robeasts are a common Super Robot series antagonist. In fantasy, expect instead to find dwarves, goblins and dark elves making their homes down here. (Or that other place.) In Science Fiction and pulp settings, this will often be home to the Mole Men or dinosaurs in a Lost World. In mythology, folklore, and fantasy, this is typically where you'll find The Underworld. Often found side-by-side in with the Underground Level and Absurdly-Spacious Sewer. Particularly well-to-do ones will build an Underground City instead. Not so lucky ones (who often want revenge on whoever forced them to live here) get gloom, fungus (often of incredible size and possibly sentient) and lava (which tends to be somehow survivable). If this subterranean landscape is so vast and habitable that it effectively has a sky, it qualifies as a Hollow World.

The really lucky underground dwellers will have a Lost World thing going, with flora and fauna in abundance (although occasionally with monsters like dinosaurs). Go a few kilometers deeper, and the Earth's crust is filled with spacious caverns. New York has an especially crowded sewer system. (Sewer Dwellers don't pay electricity bills.) Other times, the ruins of an older city may be paved over when a new one is built, leaving the remnants of old streets and buildings to form an under-city home to surviving stragglers, giant vermin, and assorted eccentrics. Maintenance crews never stumble across the living quarters, nor do power companies realize the drain. Sewers are surprisingly clean and warm, relatively speaking, with good lighting and electricity access. The urban area version of this trope is a remarkably livable sewer system. If they had better technology or more resources, they might have built an Elaborate Underground Base or even an Underground City but if they don't they have to make do with simple caves and tunnels. Alternately, they may have fled to escape The End Of Their World As They Knew It. They fled either to create a new home for themselves, or to harbor their grudge for revenge (depending on how well they did). Those who live Beneath the Earth are often exiles from the World Above.

Tom Waits, "Underground" - SwordfishtrombonesĪ very short distance beneath our feet, there dwell fantastic beings, societies and terrors.