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Death Trap

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Death Trap	comment	When an Evil Overlord wants to dispatch one of his enemies, he tends to go the extra mile. Sure, he could just shoot them, but where's the fun in that? So, he instead comes up with an over-elaborate, bizarre, and sadistic means to murder his heroic adversary in some potentially horrific fashion. Hence, the Death Trap. Usually Hand Waved by the villain remarking that simply shooting the enemy is too easy a death for them and instead coming up with something considerably more dramatic and sometimes more slow and painful. It's not just about getting his foe out of the way, it's about proving his superiority. Besides, it makes a useful Cliffhanger to keep viewers on the edge of their seats for the next episode or commercial break. Also, the odds of success in Real Life are probably reasonably high. However, the villains typically make the mistake of not closely observing the heroes or leaving assuming that the trap will work, and they figure out a way to escape just in time — a form of Genre Blindness to which supergenius supervillains are uniquely prone. A related phenomenon is the tendency for villains to resort to other means of assassination which are more complicated than they need to be; such as the use of an Animal Assassin or tricking them into killing themselves. One variant on the trope is it being used as an interrogation method. The hero is often (but not always) delivered to the Death Trap via a Trap Door. See Booby Trap or Death Course for death-traps used as protection rather than execution (never mind that such obstacles tend to be more deadly to incompetent henchmen than the heroes). Someone who specializes in this is likely a Trap Master. Expect the villain to helpfully note that You Have No Chance to Survive. Which, of course, you don't. Not to be confused with the 1977 play Deathtrap or the 1982 film of said play. Here are many types of deathtraps which my peers have resorted to: Acid Pool Beast in the Maze Booby Trap Border Patrol Buried Alive Cement Shoes Chain Pain (see description, it can be used as one) Chained to a Railway (such a Dead Horse Trope that hardly anyone even parodies it anymore) Chained to a Rock Conveyor Belt o' Doom Decapitation Strike Deadly Gas Deadly Rotary Fan Death Course Descending Ceiling Drowning Pit Trapped in a Sinking Car Electric Torture Electrified Bathtub Escape Route Surprise Fake Platform Fed to the Beast Flesh and Bombs Fright Deathtrap Gas Chamber Gladiator Games (where they often watch, which is a mistake because the hero can turn the monster he's fighting on them) Hand in the Hole Indy Escape Lava Pit Locked in a Freezer (when done on purpose) Murder by Cremation Packed Hero Perilous Play Pendulum of Death Robotic Torture Device Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts (for those extremely complicated death traps) Sand Necktie Sauna of Death Saw Blades of Death Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere Shackle Seat Trap Shark Pool Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom Snake Pit Spikes of Doom Spike Balls of Doom Strapped to a Bomb Strapped to a Rocket Strapped to an Operating Table Stuck on a Ski Lift This Is Not a Floor Thrown Down a Well Trap Door (usually used to deliver the heroes to another Death Trap) Trap-Door Fail Trapped In a Tanning Bed Trial-and-Error Gameplay To the Pain The Walls Are Closing In Xylophone Gag (which has never worked)
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Death Trap / int_148f217e	comment	Nearly every Nancy Drew game features a form of a death trap.
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Death Trap / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): Dr. Psycho manages to knock out Diana with a knock out gas, but instead of killing her forces her to call her allies to a certain buoy by mental radio by wrapping her in her own lasso and then rigs the buoy with explosives and ties her to it, again using her own lasso. She escapes and no one dies since she lassos the entire boat her friends are in and pulls it up by hand while dangling from her mentally controlled plane.
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Death Trap / int_164f5129	comment	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: In this 1960s spy series, a Death Trap was often used by THRUSH (or whatever other threat to world security U.N.C.L.E. was battling that week) as an alternative to shooting the heroes. Almost all of the two-part episodes used a Death Trap to set up a Cliffhanger between the episodes, but the single episodes had their share of death traps, too (these were often used against only one of the heroes, setting up a Big Damn Heroes moment for the other). This was enough of a standard device that MAD ended their parody of the show with Solo and the girl of the week suspended by chains, being slowly lowered toward a giant bowl of boiling oatmeal.
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Death Trap / int_19d740d8	comment	The Great Mouse Detective. Professor Rattigan can't figure out which method to use to kill his Arch-Enemy Basil, so he decides to use them all, setting up a series of lethal weaponry to hack, shoot, splatter and squash our heroes, activated by a Rube Goldberg Device.
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Death Trap / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	Batman (1966): The live-action series from the 1960s used this plot device as a typical schtick for the Cliff Hangers. The trope remains common in Batman comics; the Riddler in particular seems fond of death traps. (This is slightly more excusable in Batman, since most of the villains are insane.)
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Death Trap / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: The villain Arcade always uses elaborate death traps, intentionally providing his victims a chance at escape however slim, because he's in the business for the fun of it. After all, it's not really a game at all if there's no chance of losing. Arcade is rich enough that he doesn't really need the money to begin with, and so his deathtraps are more for his entertainment than anything else. He also markets his deathtraps to others, setting up obstacle courses that villains sometimes use to train themselves. When he uses Murderworld in that capacity, he still has at least some of the traps set for lethal effect... but the supervillains are informed of this in advance. Just not which parts are lethal. Lampshaded and played straight simultaneously in the X-Men's first confrontation with Doctor Doom: He captures them, places them in situations which could kill them, then explains to his temporary ally Arcade that he doesn't care if they escape or not. If they don't, he's rid of them; if they do, he gains valuable information concerning their skills and powers. Either way, he benefits.
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Death Trap / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: An abandoned penthouse rigged with death traps is featured in "Death House". The CSI team has to go in because they found the recently dead body of a young man who'd broken in and been killed by one of the traps. The traps includes things like a spiked ax falling from the ceiling if you didn't follow the right steps to deactivate it, and a room that could cook you to death or, alternately, whose walls would close in on you.
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Death Trap / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Parodied on an episode where Homer's new boss, an Affably Evil Bond villain type, has a James Bond lookalike strapped to a deadly trap, and leaves him to die without watching. The Bond lookalike escapes in a suitably ludicrous manner, but is tackled to the ground by Homer during his escape. Homer and his boss depart, while his guards simply walk up and shoot the man dead. And again, in an episode spoofing the story of Moses, Lisa and Milhouse (as Moses and Aaron) are thrown in a room with spiked walls that close in on them. However, the spikes have all been installed opposite each other, so that the walls stop when the tips touch, leaving plenty of room for them to climb to safety (and for Lisa to remark, "Slave labor. You get what you pay for.").
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Death Trap / int_2ba48a26	comment	The protagonists of Castle run into their fair share of these over the course of the show's eight seasons. Recurring villain 3XK has a particular fondness for them as part of his narcissistic personality, but there are other perpetrators, too. Memorable examples include, but are not limited to, Castle and Beckett being Locked in a Freezer, Beckett ending up Strapped to an Operating Table by an insane beauty surgeon intent on stealing her (admittedly gorgeous) face, and Beckett spending almost an entire episode forced to stand completely still because someone rigged her apartment with a pressure plate-activated bomb right under her living room carpet.
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Death Trap / int_2c1809f5	comment	Regular occurrence in Totally Spies!. "This machine will force-feed you cookies until you explode! ...Bye!"
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Death Trap / int_306b1ca9	comment	Nightshade (1992) uses these in place of continues — if you lose a fight, you need to escape a trap in order to avoid a game-over. There are a total of seven traps (counting the one you start in at the beginning of the game), and each one is harder to escape than the last. The seventh is impossible to escape.
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Death Trap / int_316ce2ea	comment	Wasp becomes disorientated and drops copy of The Beano on pensioner's pen refill.
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Death Trap / int_31e24f1e	comment	In the "Emperor Joker" episode, The Joker with his newly acquired Reality Warper powers puts Batman in a Rube Goldberg Device of a Death Trap. Batman escapes, but not really, as his escape triggered the last part of it and he gets killed. The Joker then revives him and kills him repeatedly in more death traps afterwards.
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Death Trap / int_334120fc	comment	Honorable mention goes to 8-Bit Theater's deathtraps, which are not to be confused with actual airships. Despite the name, the one the Light Warriors end up using and crashing repeatedly failed to actually kill anyone.
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Death Trap / int_33dd1d8f	comment	In Half-Life, there's the part where Freeman gets knocked out and thrown into a garbage crusher. By using the conveniently placed crates that are to be crushed along with you, you can jump up above the compressing walls. The whole thing could have been averted by a simple bullet to the head. They try to Hand Wave it by having the soldiers say they're supposed to bring you in alive, but don't want to. The Death Trap is meant to ensure there's no body to prove they killed the person they were supposed to capture. Exactly why they don't shoot you then throw you in, or why they don't stick around after throwing you in, is not explained.
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Death Trap / int_389e4d6b	comment	In Fredric R. Stewart's Cerberon, Merlen and Oethelzeiren face off on the ground level of a colossal tower in the center of a city. After discussing the futility of a direct fight between them, Oethelzeiren improvises a Death Trap for Merlen by blasting out all the supports to the tower above them, leaving Merlen to hold up the tower with his magic while people inside the tower escape, and while an unstoppable Giant Wall of Watery Doom bears down on the city. Becomes No One Could Survive That! when Merlen is still there when the flood water blasts through.
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Death Trap / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Villain Nina Close would lock her victims in style masks designed to release a deadly hydrocyanic gas into their mouths if they tried to remove it, forcing them or their loved ones to pay her a ransom. Wonder Woman (1942): Dr. Psycho manages to knock out Diana with a knock out gas, but instead of killing her forces her to call her allies to a certain buoy by mental radio by wrapping her in her own lasso and then rigs the buoy with explosives and ties her to it, again using her own lasso. She escapes and no one dies since she lassos the entire boat her friends are in and pulls it up by hand while dangling from her mentally controlled plane.
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Death Trap / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in Kingsman: The Secret Service, then averted immediately after.
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Death Trap / int_3ff0f7dd	comment	KateModern: In the episode "The Ice Man", Terrence locks Kate's Watcher in a freezer van. Something of an inversion, since the Watcher is the more obviously villainous of the two characters.
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Death Trap / int_4368039d	comment	In Supergirl (1982) #20, super-villain Parasite builds a floating metal coffin to throw a depowered Supergirl in.
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Death Trap / int_44715363	comment	The manga (before it got taken over by card games, and ever occasionally after) is one long series of these. An interesting twist is that it's usually the hero setting them up as a punishment for local bullies. At one point, he turns his own mind into a death trap when someone invades it. Then there's Big Bad Kaiba, who builds an elaborate theme park of doom for the heroes in an insane revenge plot. His Death Traps are unique in that they involve things like trained mercenaries and serial killers trying to kill Yugi and his friends, so he does at least avert Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?.
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Death Trap / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: Mephisto the Mentalist once explains at great length the psychology of death traps: most of them are meant to either distract the heroes while the villain sets up some other, more mundane plot, or to scare the victim into compliance without actually killing them. In both of those instances, the victims are actually meant to be rescued as part of the intended effect. He does admit that a lot of death traps are, in fact, actually meant to kill the victim, usually with the goal of scaring the piss out of someone else who is the real target of their plot. Also the idea that heroes always escape deathtraps is "The Hays Code version" — in reality supervillains are playing for keeps. He also mentions that a delayed trap can be useful for establishing an alibi, though the circumstances rarely made that feasible.
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Death Trap / int_468bebb0	comment	Parodied several times in Discworld, most notably in Guards! Guards!:
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Death Trap / int_46d48eba	comment	Averted in one of the James Bond novels, You Only Live Twice, when he sneaks into a Japanese castle. He peeks through a keyhole, and sees a guy at the far end of a hallway, fiddling with something beside a door, then leaving. Upon entering, he makes it halfway across the room before the floor falls out from under him. As he falls, he berates himself for not remembering the traditional traps of such castles. He nearly dies.
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Death Trap / int_485c564	comment	Guilded Age: Some sort of Drowning Pit.
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Death Trap / int_498b77e9	comment	Skin Horse: Evil government agency Anasigma uses a lot of deathtrap technology to defend their bases, even at severe risk to their staff, presumably because they employ far too many mad scientists as designers. In this strip, one such offers a justification of sorts, but, well, he's mad.
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Death Trap / int_4a54b863	comment	In Brainiac's Blitz, the titular villain traps Supergirl into a Kryptonite cage. He then bathes the cage with omicron rays to increase the K-radiation and push a button to fill the cage with Kryptonite gas. To finish her off, he transfers his force-field energy into a disintegrator ray and blasts the cage into atoms.
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Death Trap / int_4b356e7c	comment	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr..: The series often involved deathtraps. Some were relatively simple, like leaving the heroes to drown in quicksand. Others were far more convoluted, such as binding the victims to a tree with dampened straps of rawhide. Rawhide shrinks when it dries, which would crush the ribs of the victims. That's not what kills them, though; it's the rifle pointed at the victims with a dampened rawhide strap attached to the trigger. See, we told you it was convoluted.
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Death Trap / int_4cc32015	comment	Space Ghost episode "The Final Encounter". After the Council of Doom captures Space Ghost they put him in a tube that leads to the center of their planet. They plan to have an electrode draw all of the planet's cosmic energy up through the shaft, which will destroy Space Ghost.
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Death Trap / int_4ce969a9	comment	There are countless in Marathon. Some of them will have an item that you usually don't get until much later in the game or an invincibility power up, but failure to get said item perfectly results in death somehow. These are also in multiplayer.
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Death Trap / int_4f7a49d9	comment	Averted hilariously in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World; while Gothmarik Citadel is loaded with deathtraps, Ringo telekinetically disables all of them (except one he missed) before the four even get to the citadel.
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Death Trap / int_50b9a0e2	comment	The Phantom of the Opera: The back door to the Phantom's house leads into his "torture chamber," specifically built there to trap anyone who tries to sneak up on him. The walls, ceiling, and floor are mirrors, which (depending on what single object is placed in the room) drive a person insane until they kill themselves by hanging themselves on the conveniently provided iron tree... if the rising temperature doesn't roast them alive first. He once had a job building these for the Cool And Unusual Execution of criminals as entertainment for a particularly sadistic Persian princess.
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Death Trap / int_5178149f	comment	Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The first thing Batman says in the entire series is to complain to Green Arrow about how often they get caught in death traps. Batman and the Joker Flash Back to the many death-traps Mr. J had trapped Bats in over the years in "Game Over for Owlman!". It's Lampshaded in The Musical Episode which showcased the most extravagant, multi-stage, redundant death trap the series has ever seen. Observe. Count 'em: Constricting ropes. Acid filling the room. Swinging blades of death. Lasers. Walls closing in. And just in case none of that worked, a ticking time bomb. Say what you will about Music Meister, but the man's thorough. Given that they escaped, not nearly thorough enough. In one cold open, Batman and Mister Miracle are strapped to a rollercoaster full of death traps, and escape at the last second. It turns out they were doing it for charity. In the "Emperor Joker" episode, The Joker with his newly acquired Reality Warper powers puts Batman in a Rube Goldberg Device of a Death Trap. Batman escapes, but not really, as his escape triggered the last part of it and he gets killed. The Joker then revives him and kills him repeatedly in more death traps afterwards.
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Death Trap / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Jeopardy Room", Commissar Vassiloff traps Major Ivan Kuchenko in a hotel room with a hidden explosive booby trap. If Kuchenko finds the bomb in time, he will be allowed to go free. If not, he will die when it detonates. Kuchenko eventually determines that Vassiloff has connected the bomb to the telephone and has rigged it to explode when it rings and someone picks up the receiver. After escaping from the hotel room, Kuchenko rings the phone. Vassiloff's assistant Boris absentmindedly answers the phone and both of them are killed in the resulting explosion.
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Death Trap / int_54dd20c	comment	Dream's and GeorgeNotFound's Minecraft Death Swap videos feature many death traps, as the goal is to catch your opponent in one and kill them when a swap happens. If you don't survive, the trapper wins.
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Death Trap / int_56a9183a	comment	In Bulldog Drummond, the criminal mastermind Lakington's house has several built in, including a step on the main staircase that, when activated, triggers a heavy weight to swing out of the wall at neck-breaking height.
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Death Trap / int_59a835fb	comment	Done to Sonic in Sonic Adventure 2. Dr. Eggman, who is at that point armed with a blaster and an enhanced mech, is offered a fake Chaos Emerald in exchange for Amy. Eggman knows it's a fake and tricks Sonic into placing it on the floor of a capsule, which he seals, ejects and hurls toward the atmosphere where it will blow up. The flaw is that not only is Sonic's "fake" Chaos Emerald partly real, it's via Shadow Sonic escapes.
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Death Trap / int_5ada53ed	comment	Bond. James Bond. As with many things, this started out kinda-plausible in the Sean Connery years, got more and more ridiculous with Roger Moore, then gradually got clawed back. I'm thankful I haven't been shot. In Goldfinger, the villain has Bond strapped to a table with a laser beam moving toward his private parts. Since it's an early film, Goldfinger stays to watch the death. Bond doesn't escape — he convinces Goldfinger to keep him alive a bit longer.
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Death Trap / int_5c10e758	comment	The most bizarre, improbable and overly-complicated deathtrap ever was the winning entry sent in to Amiga Power as part of a competition; they also had to come up with an escape plan for the hero:
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Death Trap / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted, Infernal Exalted can atone for acts that offend their demonic masters by behaving like Card Carrying Villains. One of the methods for such atonement is called "Fiendish Deathtrap Compulsion," which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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Death Trap / int_5ec8cfe2	comment	In All Fall Down, AIQ Squared employs a deadly Power Nullifier on the moon. It succeeds in killing Siphon.
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Death Trap / int_60e46926	comment	This was enough of a standard device that MAD ended their parody of the show with Solo and the girl of the week suspended by chains, being slowly lowered toward a giant bowl of boiling oatmeal.
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Death Trap / int_62758d41	comment	Inanimate Insanity has MePhone4S' death trap to kill the losers.
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Death Trap / int_63a870c	comment	In Adventure Comics #400, Supergirl is at the mercy of revenge-hungry villain Black Flame: trapped in a locked room, unconscious and sprinkled with Green Kryptonite. However Black Flame doesn't "want her go that easily", so she orders her hired guns to hurry up and bring Supergirl to an elaborate death trap involving a giant bowling lane and oversized bowling pins. Supergirl survives but she is immobilized, rendered unconscious and brought to another death trap (this time consisting of a giant crossbow) from which she also breaks free.
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Death Trap / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In Don Rosa's Scrooge McDuck story "Treasure of the Ten Avatars", Scrooge and Donald have to get out of a series of these. Among other things there's a Descending Ceiling and Fake Platform with Spikes of Doom, The Walls Are Closing In, Fed to the Beast, and a Snake Pit. Donald even lampshades it by the end when he points out that they've already been through every B-movie clichÃ©.
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Death Trap / int_6b3cfe38	comment	Bob and George: A shrinking force field. One that also protects the villain from the hero. Furthermore, he stays to the end to watch that it works. Too bad he forgot about the Law of Conservation of Energy when he trapped the electricity-based superbeing George.
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Death Trap / int_6bf3fa88	comment	Hidden City: In the "Playing to Live" case, Violet uses a magic board game to trap Mr. Black and Rayden and puts them through a number deadly challenges, such as sending an invincible flaming hound and the fearsome Dark Hunter after them. Their allies manage to rescue them by sending them help from outside the board, although it is all but stated that dying inside the game would kill them for real, and that they would have been doomed if not for the others' support.
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Death Trap / int_6c1234ed	comment	The game Dwarf Fortress allows you to construct several different kinds of death traps for your enemies and / or residents, including most of the ones listed on this page.
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Death Trap / int_7337d81c	comment	Maverick. After Angel captures Maverick, he leaves him with a noose around his neck tied to a tree, on the back of his horse, with his hands tied behind his back. He also leaves a bag full of rattlesnakes nearby to spook the horse so it will move away and leave Maverick to hang. Luckily the branch the rope is tied to breaks, allowing Maverick to avoid death.
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Death Trap / int_754567a7	comment	Time Lord RPG (based on Doctor Who), supplement Journies. A captured Player Character could use the "Master Effect" to make the Big Bad tell the PC their plan and put them in a Death Trap instead of just killing him.
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Death Trap / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Detective Comics #824 parodies the Batman (1966) TV series by suggesting that with some villains, it's just a quaint routine; the Penguin traps Batman in a death trap that Batman easily escapes from — and when Batman challenges Penguin as to this, Penguin admits that he knew Batman would escape, and that he wouldn't have even bothered if he thought that Batman wouldn't ("I even left your utility belt on."). The Penguin had "reformed" at the time, and had the public image of a law-abiding businessman. It wouldn't have exactly done wonders for his reputation if Batman actually died in his nightclub. For the Riddler, however, it's implied to be part of the same crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder which compels him to leaves clues and riddles about his crimes. In Death of the Family, Catwoman gets trapped in a centrifuge by the Joker. The idea is to be spin her around really fast until it kills her. Just when she's about to escape that, the centrifuge get flooded in an attempt to drown her. She escapes that, too.
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Death Trap / int_7d5e43b0	comment	The Goodies: Mad Scientist Rat Fink Petal tries to kill the Goodies with a simultaneous pair of deathtraps: a bathtub slowly filling with water in which sits a man-eating alligator, and a candle burning a rope holding a tub of concentrated acid, so they'll be tormented over which horrible death they'll experience. After a comical Cliffhanger Copout in which they make an unseen escape thanks to Graham's fruit peeler, their escape is foiled by Rat Fink who's lurking outside the door. He then straps them to an enormous Cartoon Bomb, which if moved will open a canister of poison gas.
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Death Trap / int_7e4055b9	comment	Short form games in The Splinter. Players have to complete an objective and escape the S.P.L.I.N.T.E.R. within 8 hours. If they donâ€™t meet that objective, neurotoxins are released into their bloodstreams.
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Death Trap / int_8008341b	comment	In Starfire's Revenge, the titular crimelord throws Supergirl — who she believes helpless — and her minion Rodney — whom she no longer needs — into a pit where she keeps a savage gorilla and leaves the room. Then, Supergirl reveals she is not unconscious or depowered after all, and knocks the ape out.
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Death Trap / int_8397a915	comment	Repeatedly defied in There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns, with Delta turning down all manner of room upgrades like making mud boil and fishing ponds flood, until the menu system starts automatically filtering them out for her.
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Death Trap / int_85919336	comment	In Gotham City Garage, Lex Luthor's secret underground facility is protected with traps such like laser hallways and turret guns built in elevator shafts. Supergirl, Catwoman and Nightwing find them annoying and trite, especially Nightwing.
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Death Trap / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Sparks love installing these in their lairs; Castle Heterodyne is one big self-aware pile of death traps. Lucrezia-in-Agatha activates one to seal off her lair and kill intruders Tarvek and Zola, not realizing that during her (mental) absence a giant hole had been blown in the ceiling.
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Death Trap / int_86c7e315	comment	Lampshaded in Crash: Mind Over Mutant when Doctor Cortex orders the Grimlies to kill Crash quickly. "No games, no foolishness, no death traps that take ten flipping hours."
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Death Trap / int_8d62323c	comment	Danganronpa features these frequently, as a way to execute those who lose the Deadly Games the series is based around. As such, they have a remarkably high success rate.
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Death Trap / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man: Lex Luthor's submarine mecha's cockpit was armed with a network of lasers strong enough to kill Superman. Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus' warehouse. When Spider-Man sneaked in the place, he found himself in a dark corridor. Then the door shut behind him suddenly. Then he found out about the machine guns in the floorboards, the electrified walls and the red-hot ceiling, and his spider-sense warned him about wire screen designed to slice him apart. In Adventure Comics #400, Supergirl is at the mercy of revenge-hungry villain Black Flame: trapped in a locked room, unconscious and sprinkled with Green Kryptonite. However Black Flame doesn't "want her go that easily", so she orders her hired guns to hurry up and bring Supergirl to an elaborate death trap involving a giant bowling lane and oversized bowling pins. Supergirl survives but she is immobilized, rendered unconscious and brought to another death trap (this time consisting of a giant crossbow) from which she also breaks free. In Supergirl (1982) #20, super-villain Parasite builds a floating metal coffin to throw a depowered Supergirl in. In Starfire's Revenge, the titular crimelord throws Supergirl — who she believes helpless — and her minion Rodney — whom she no longer needs — into a pit where she keeps a savage gorilla and leaves the room. Then, Supergirl reveals she is not unconscious or depowered after all, and knocks the ape out. In How Luthor Met Superboy, Luthor sets up an actually simple trap for his nemesis: a Kryptonite rock stashed away behind a lead wall panel. When Superboy walks into his lab, completely clueless to the fact that his former friend now wants to murder him, Lex presses a button on his deks and the panel slids upwards, letting the rock bathe Superboy in lethal radiation. The Phantom Zone: The Phantom Zoners decide to get rid of Supergirl by tossing her into the Disintegration Pit, a radioactive cauldron used by Superman to disintegrate anything dangerous he finds. However, it does not occur to them to stay around to make sure that she falls into the flames and cannot climb back up. In Brainiac's Blitz, the titular villain traps Supergirl into a Kryptonite cage. He then bathes the cage with omicron rays to increase the K-radiation and push a button to fill the cage with Kryptonite gas. To finish her off, he transfers his force-field energy into a disintegrator ray and blasts the cage into atoms.
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Death Trap / int_8e8086c3	comment	In Goldfinger, the villain has Bond strapped to a table with a laser beam moving toward his private parts. Since it's an early film, Goldfinger stays to watch the death. Bond doesn't escape — he convinces Goldfinger to keep him alive a bit longer.
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Death Trap / int_8fd19467	comment	The Grimtooth's Traps books from Flying Buffalo were death trap after death trap, just waiting for a GM to install them in his dungeon. (And to come up with game stats for them.)
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Death Trap / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Common in Kim Possible, whenever it (frequently) pays homage to spy movies. Especially common from villain clichÃ© devotee SeÃ±or Senior, Sr. On one occasion of Lampshade Hanging, as she and Ron are being lowered into a moat of electric eels, Kim asks the villain, who's comfortably sitting back and watching, "Uh, aren't you going to leave now?"
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Death Trap / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series An episode entitled "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy" centers around this trope. An interrogator named Wormwood, who specializes in using Death Traps to terrorize people into giving him information is hired to steal Batman's cape and cowl. He repeatedly sets up a number of traps for Batman, who escapes every one until the Bat finally captures him. As it turns out, it was a disguised Batman who hired Wormwood to retrieve the loot Wormwood had obtained in a previous crime. Joker also had a habit of using these deaths on victims (ironically often being unable to kill them as a result). For example, he hurls Bullock and Batman into a Great White Shark Tank, Sid the Squid into a tank of acid and the Dark Knight (again) by trying to electrocute him. Her debut episode sees Poison Ivy use two set up in her greenhouse lair. First a Trap Door obscured pit filled with jumbo, razor sharp cacti. Second, a a giant, mutant flytrap with python strength tendrils. The Clock King uses two of them. The first one is for Batman, a Gas Chamber with a Time Bomb that will suck out all the air in a Race Against the Clock. The second one is put the victim in between the hands of a Clock Tower. The episode "Almost Got 'Im" features all of the villains around the table comparing notes on whose death trap came closest to "getting" the Batman. All of them, that is, except Croc.
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Death Trap / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: The base model of the Hunchback IIC mech is in-universe called one by most Clanners, since with it's light armor (for a medium size mech ) and sparse armaments (once the UAC 20 ammo is gone it only has 2 medium lasers to fall back on) anyone put into one is not expected to make it out alive. Given the above trope, aging Clan warriors will sometimes request this assignment so they can have a chance to die gloriously.
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Death Trap / int_918c5a7e	comment	Part of the fun in Evil Genius is making elaborate death traps for unwitting foreign agents.
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Death Trap / int_99d2202d	comment	Estate of Panic simply reveled in this, with each room the contestants need to search for money in having a particular "deadly" trap, many inspired from the above list.
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Death Trap / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, Mr. 3 captured Brogy, Zoro, Nami, and Vivi with the Tokudai Candle Service Set, a wax construct topped with massive burning candles. The produced wax vapor begins to condense on their bodies, slowly encasing them in a nearly-unbreakable wax sculpture. Victims either die suffocating on the vapors or suffocating once fully encased.
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Death Trap / int_a03824e8	comment	Although victim to the usual power fluctuation of comic book universes, The DCU's Darkseid never attempts to kill Superman by using his consistently effective vaporizing Omega Beam. Rather, he prefers to inflict pain by slow and agonizing methods, from which Superman inevitably breaks free.
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Death Trap / int_a309575c	comment	Jonathan Creek: Expertly parodied in one episode, in which Jonathan and Carla are trapped by villains in a cage that has been suspended over metal spikes as part of a magic trick, with the rope holding the cage set on fire... however, as Jonathan knows it's a magic trick, he also knows that there's actually a steel cable under the rope suspending it as part of the trick, so he's not particularly worried.
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Death Trap / int_a683820e	comment	The Deception series by Tecmo tasks you with using death traps as your only line of defense against aggressors.
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Death Trap / int_a895e9d3	comment	There are numerous death traps in Portal 2, set up by GLaDOS in the first portion of the game, and Wheatley later on. Wheatley's last trap deserves a special mention for how he refers to it.
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Death Trap / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The manga (before it got taken over by card games, and ever occasionally after) is one long series of these. An interesting twist is that it's usually the hero setting them up as a punishment for local bullies. At one point, he turns his own mind into a death trap when someone invades it. Then there's Big Bad Kaiba, who builds an elaborate theme park of doom for the heroes in an insane revenge plot. His Death Traps are unique in that they involve things like trained mercenaries and serial killers trying to kill Yugi and his friends, so he does at least avert Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?. In the Battle City arc, the villains often pulled a few of these and claimed that the same conditions applied to them; thing was, they had a way to escape. In Pandora's duel with Yugi, the trap had two spinning rotary blades that would hack the loser's legs off, and only by winning the duel could one of the duelists unlock a box with a key. Pandora lost, but he had a spare key up his sleeve. In the team duel between Yugi and Kaiba and Lumis and Umbra, the duel took place on the top of a skyscraper with a glass ceiling rigged with bombs that would cause the loser to fall; the villains had parachutes. Of course, the villains didn't actually escape. In Pandora's case, Marik clouded his mind so he couldn't see the key, and Yugi had to rescue him with his. But this heroic act was pointless, because Marik killed him anyway after possessing his body and using it to threaten Yugi. Marik apparently did the same thing to Lumis, and probably Umbra too. (It can at least be safely said that they were never seen again. In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, a D-Wheel thief named Cid tried to pull this on Jack. The trap consisted of two conveyor belts leading to car crushers, the idea being the loser would be dumped into one of them. Cid tried to jam his belt to make sure he'd be safe even if he lost, but he didn't jam it very well, and had to be rescued by Jack after he lost. (Didn't stop Jack from beating up the other members of his gang afterwards, however.)
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Death Trap / int_aa0c474	comment	In Violine, Muller has a Torture Cellar complete with Death Trap, consisting of a pool filled with crocodiles.
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Death Trap / int_ad20e006	comment	Wonder Woman (1975): Happens to Diana quite often, but she manages to still escape the villain's plans and save the day each time. A particular example would be the episode "Anschluss '77" where she is kidnapped by Nazi agents, handcuffed and taken to an abandoned mine shaft. After refusing to answer their questions, they leave her tied to a beam and place a lit package of dynamite near her. Diana's quick thinking allows her to utilize a Handy Cuffs situation, where she simply twirls the rope around, spins out of the coil and transforms into Wonder Woman. After which she simply throws the dynamite out of the mine shaft and escapes the area.
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Death Trap / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live did a James Bond movie parody, where archvillain Christopher Walken has Bond captive in his lair, which is still under construction, so he can only describe the death trap he was going to subject him to, with conceptual drawings as an aid.
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Death Trap / int_b36b5dbb	comment	Help!: The cultists set up increasingly elaborate death traps to get Ringo. Which, because of the requirements for the sacrifice, also involve painting the victim red.
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Death Trap / int_b4996199	comment	Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus' warehouse. When Spider-Man sneaked in the place, he found himself in a dark corridor. Then the door shut behind him suddenly. Then he found out about the machine guns in the floorboards, the electrified walls and the red-hot ceiling, and his spider-sense warned him about wire screen designed to slice him apart.
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Death Trap / int_b97f910f	comment	Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time: Present in certain levels of Lost City, which are triggered by a plant or zombie touching a rather obvious switch. There are two kinds- boulder traps that destroy 2 columns of plants and zombies, and flame traps that destroy a row.
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Death Trap / int_bb185f99	comment	In How Luthor Met Superboy, Luthor sets up an actually simple trap for his nemesis: a Kryptonite rock stashed away behind a lead wall panel. When Superboy walks into his lab, completely clueless to the fact that his former friend now wants to murder him, Lex presses a button on his deks and the panel slids upwards, letting the rock bathe Superboy in lethal radiation.
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Death Trap / int_c17bf191	comment	In Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man: Lex Luthor's submarine mecha's cockpit was armed with a network of lasers strong enough to kill Superman. Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus' warehouse. When Spider-Man sneaked in the place, he found himself in a dark corridor. Then the door shut behind him suddenly. Then he found out about the machine guns in the floorboards, the electrified walls and the red-hot ceiling, and his spider-sense warned him about wire screen designed to slice him apart.
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Death Trap / int_c19c6efa	comment	Minecraft has tons of these, such as bomb-ridden rooms, arrow shooters, pitfalls, drowning traps, one-way doors... Some spawn naturally, some are set by players for other players, and some are built to harvest enemy mobs.
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Death Trap / int_c24a2f2b	comment	SMPLive: The Cuck Shed is designed to make players fall down onto a magma block and burn to death so that Schlatt & Co. can steal their items.
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Death Trap / int_c380b436	comment	In Penguins of Madagascar, Dave has one in his submarine, where victims are tied into a Theme Park-style ride car and driven through a series of swinging blades, mashing spikes, and explosive rockets fired at close range.
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Death Trap / int_c4282b71	comment	The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Read It and Weep" has, in its Book Within a Show, Daring Do encounters a huge variety of these, ranging from dart traps to throwing axes to flame pits to the entire chamber flooding with lava. Then Ahuizotl has perhaps the most awesomely silly — it has spikes on advancing walls, quicksand, spiders and cobras. While Daring is tied to a table, no less. It's like he got everything from the "ClichÃ© Deathtrap" aisle at Murdermart, and decided to use as many of them as possible at once.
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Death Trap / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Master has always used both simple booby traps and elaborate deathtraps against the Doctor and his companions. In "Terror of the Autons", his very first appearance, he uses a death trap consisting of artificial plastic flowers which will fire a plastic seal over a person's nose and mouth, suffocating them. After enough time has elapsed for the victim to die, the plastic seal will then shrivel up and vanish. Naturally, it only works until the Doctor's current companion falls victim to the trap, whereupon the Doctor saves her by using a spray which causes the seal to lose adhesion so it can be removed before the victim dies. As seen in "The Sound of Drums", the Master has learned his Arch-Enemy will always escape the simple traps, but they're a useful means of putting additional pressure on the Doctor until he falls into the real trap.
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Death Trap / int_c6325e26	comment	In Death of the Family, Catwoman gets trapped in a centrifuge by the Joker. The idea is to be spin her around really fast until it kills her. Just when she's about to escape that, the centrifuge get flooded in an attempt to drown her. She escapes that, too.
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Death Trap / int_c8b499f0	comment	Man-Thing: F.A. Schist has a scientist build one of these to end the Nigh Invulnerable Man-Thing's meddling, once and for all.
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Death Trap / int_ca8b1340	comment	An episode of Dirty Pair has the villains capture one of the heroines, and strap her to a laser cutting table (mercifully aiming top-down instead of bottom-up) which they rig to their security system to lighten the guilt.
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Death Trap / int_cc2f62b7	comment	A Hero Clix set based around the 1960's Batman (1966) TV show had to include a mechanic for this, even called Elaborate Deathtrap. It gets the target out of the way for a while, but they can and will come back, since they get a chance to escape every turn and will always succeed if the guy that out them there has been K.O.'d.
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Death Trap / int_ccc45d2b	comment	The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. A man is tortured by means of a series of death traps, including a Bottomless Pit and crushing walls, from each of which he barely manages to escape. In the most famous scene, he is secured to a table, over which is a large curved blade which swings back and forth like a pendulum, lowering itself slowly with each swing.
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Death Trap / int_cfc77a15	comment	The ABCs of Death: In the "H" segment, The Baroness Frau Scheisse has prepared a particularly elaborate one for her nemesis Bertie. Had she gone with something simpler, she might have succeeded.
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Death Trap / int_d66d7369	comment	In Serial Killing 4 Dummys, the Serial Killer leaves Sasha Bound and Gagged in an exercise machine hooked up to a circular saw above her head. She has to hold up a weighted bar with her legs. As her legs tire and the bar drops, the saw edges closer to her head.
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Death Trap / int_d88d5457	comment	In Lemon Tree Passage, Toby is left tied up in a death trap that is designed to be triggered by his friends when they come looking for him: dropping a deadfall that will then hang him.
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Death Trap / int_d89f5444	comment	The Phantom Zone: The Phantom Zoners decide to get rid of Supergirl by tossing her into the Disintegration Pit, a radioactive cauldron used by Superman to disintegrate anything dangerous he finds. However, it does not occur to them to stay around to make sure that she falls into the flames and cannot climb back up.
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Death Trap / int_daff6a21	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, a D-Wheel thief named Cid tried to pull this on Jack. The trap consisted of two conveyor belts leading to car crushers, the idea being the loser would be dumped into one of them. Cid tried to jam his belt to make sure he'd be safe even if he lost, but he didn't jam it very well, and had to be rescued by Jack after he lost. (Didn't stop Jack from beating up the other members of his gang afterwards, however.)
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Death Trap / int_dda2c07	comment	The miraculous escape from an inescapable deathtrap is superbly spoofed in the 1983 film Bullshot. The dastardly Otto von Bruno completely immobilises the hero "Bullshot" Crummond with a Converse Forcefield. As soon as anyone opens the door it will Reverse the Polarity and detonate the stick of dynamite in Bullshot's mouth. Otto is, needless to say, rather disconcerted when Bullshot later turns up alive.
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Death Trap / int_e03940f	comment	Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: Phantom Blot relies on them, and explains why when unmasked in his introductory comic: While he very much wants to murder Mickey, he can't stand to actually watch someone die, so he needs some way to set up his victim's death and walk away.
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Death Trap / int_e405ef70	comment	L'ombre Jaune (Yellow Shade ?), an evil genius and recurring villain of the Bob Morane series, can't seem to be able to choose how to kill the heroes. They are the main reason he never succeed, and he wants them dead, but in a way that befit their status as his biggest adversaries. Simply killing them when they get in his hand is not enough, so they have to do things like fighting robotic alligators... Of course, while they are not in his hand, a horde of mindless killers is par for the course.
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Death Trap / int_ebf683eb	comment	In Warhammer 40,000, the Primarch of the Iron Warriors, Perturabo, is a master of deathtraps of all kinds. Tasked by the Emperor with the dirtiest, most unforgiving and unrewarding jobs during the Great Crusade, Perturabo not only became a master of defense and siege warfare, but also became a bitter soldier, disillusioned with the Emperor, and possibly suffers from PTSD. In his anger, Pert became quite creative and sadistic in fortress building, particularly setting up traps. His magnum opus is The Eternal Fortress, a labyrinth of landmines, inward facing auto turrets, and plenty of places to get ambushed. When Perturabo fled following Horus Heresy, Rogal Dorn followed suit. Blinded by vengeance, Rogal and his Imperial Fist legion followed his Traitor brother to the Eternal Fortress, swearing he would bring him back to Terra in an "Iron Cage". It ended in a blood bath. When the Imperial Fists were on the verge of annihilation, The Ultra Marines swooped in and turned the tide of battle.
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Death Trap / int_ed175f0c	comment	Sherlock Holmes has the Gas Chamber at Stepney, personally inspected by Moriarty. Holmes finds it easily escapable.
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Death Trap / int_f3ef0f86	comment	In Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Opal Koboi traps Artemis and Holly in an abandoned theme park overrun by trolls and leaves them to die, as revenge for thwarting her world domination plan in The Arctic Incident.
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Death Trap / int_faf84cd	comment	The Fu Syndicate's Mandarin in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines tries to kill the character with a series of different death traps joined together like a bizarre obstacle course. This is explicitly because he knows that guns are ineffective against vampires, and as such he tries several different methods to see which ones work best. If a trap kills you, fine, you're dead. Said method works. If you escape that particular one, a) he knows it won't work later, and b) he finds out more about how strong/fast/enduring you are. He also keeps a stable of guards at hand and keeps observing you through viewing ports. His main error is placing a high-pressurized gas tank from a Kill It with Fire trap next to one of the viewing windows.
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Death Trap / int_fb873b86	comment	The Saw franchise is based entirely around a Serial Killer abducting a person or a group of people, and then placing them in a room where to escape death they must either mutilate themselves or kill someone else. Usually, once having done one of these two things, they die anyway, either because they had to do something else, or, in the later movies, because a Deceptive Disciple of the killer made the trap. This case is notable among examples of the trope as, more often than not, the characters fail to escape and we get to see the results in graphic detail.
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Deadpool (2016) / int_55d62b5c	type	Death Trap
Dick Tracy / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Dr. No / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
ElectroBabe & DynaChick / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Elizabethtown / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Goldfinger / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Help! / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
James Bond / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Kingsman: The Secret Service / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Le Magnifique / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Lemon Tree Passage / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Licence to Kill / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Maverick / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Mindhunters / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Mysterious Doctor Satan / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
New Police Story / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Predators / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Return to Oz / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Romancing the Stone / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Scary Movie / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Sherlock Holmes (2009) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Sherlock, Jr. / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Spectre / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Suspiria (1977) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The ABCs of Death / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Adventures of Captain Marvel / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Boy (2015) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Pit and the Pendulum / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Threads / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
TRON / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Welp / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Who Framed Roger Rabbit / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
You Only Live Twice / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Fallout (Franchise) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Silent Hill (Franchise) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
TombRaider	seeAlso	Death Trap
GeorgeNotFound (Lets Play) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Dirty Pair / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Gosick / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
A Game of Life and Death / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Bulldog Drummond / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Coldfire Trilogy / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Dice Man	seeAlso	Death Trap
Dirty Pair / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Fate/strange Fake / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
ForSpecialServices	seeAlso	Death Trap
Friday / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Fu Manchu / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Geronimo Stilton / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Going Postal / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Gosick / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
How Much for Just the Planet? / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Night Watch (Discworld) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Riptide / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Sharpe / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Sharpe's Tiger / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Sharpe's Triumph / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Little Grey Men Series / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Pit and the Pendulum / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Port of Peril / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Radix / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Scarlet Citadel / int_55d62b5c	type	Death Trap
The Witch of Knightcharm / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Watership Down / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockA	seeAlso	Death Trap
Deathtrap	sameAs	Death Trap
EvilOverlordListCellblockA	seeAlso	Death Trap
EvilOverlordListCellblockB	seeAlso	Death Trap
NowIfYouWillExcuseMeIHaveANounToVerb	seeAlso	Death Trap
SuperVillainLair	seeAlso	Death Trap
ThePerilsofPenelopePitstop	seeAlso	Death Trap
TrialAndErrorGamePlay	processingCategory1	Death Trap
VandalSavage	seeAlso	Death Trap
Watching a Video Game	seeAlso	Death Trap
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Manga) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Thrilling Adventure Hour (Podcast) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
APH Tomorrow Never Dies (Roleplay) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Class Trials ET 5 (Roleplay) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Class Trials Experimental Trials Season 1 (Roleplay) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Batman (1966) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Batman (1966) / int_55d62b5c	type	Death Trap
El gran juego de la oca / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Estate of Panic / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
MacGyver (1985) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Nancy Drew (2019) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Quark / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Revolution / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
SCTV / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Star Trek: Voyager / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Warehouse 13 / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
White Collar / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Before I Kill You, Mister Spy... (Tabletop Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Splinter (Tabletop Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Bullshot	seeAlso	Death Trap
Sherlock Holmes (Theatre) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
ARK: Survival Evolved (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Abuse (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Afraid of Monsters (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
America's Army (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Brutal Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Cataclysm (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Crash Bandicoot (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Deception (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Destroy All Humans! 2 (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Doctor Hauzer (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Enchanter (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Evil Genius (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Final Fight (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Forewarned (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Fortnite (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Freedom Fall (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Gimmick! (1992) (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Golden Light (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Gotham Knights (2022) (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Half-Quake (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
I Expect You To Die (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Jet Set Willy (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Justice Sucks Tactical Vacuum Action (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
La-Mulana (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Legend of Grimrock (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
(Mario) The Music Box (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Meet Your Maker (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Mega Man Rock Force (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Mega Man Super Fighting Robot (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Mega Man Unlimited (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Mr. Gimmick! (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Nancy Drew (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Naughty Bear (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Necropolis (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Nightshade (1992) (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Pikmin 2 (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Portal (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Portal 2 (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Quake (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Quake II (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Quake III: Arena (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
RATUZ (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Resident Evil 6 (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Retro City Rampage (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Rise of Nightmares (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Solomon's Keep (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Starbound (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Stealth Bastard (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Sweet Home (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Sweet Home (1989) (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Switchback VR (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Sword of Sodan (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
System Shock (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Boogie Man (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Devil in Me (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Lost Vikings (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Tomb Raider I (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Trapt (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Unchained Blades (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Uncharted (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Until Dawn (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Viscera Cleanup Detail (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Wipeout (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped / Videogame / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Cthulhu Mythos RPG: The Sleeping Girl of the Miasma Sea (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Dead by Daylight / Videogame / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Radical Dreamers (Visual Novel) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Hamster Hell (Web Animation) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Overly Sarcastic Productions (Web Animation) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Broken Plot Device / Web Comic / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Dream (Web Video) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
GeorgeNotFound (Web Video) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Koibu (Web Video) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
SMPLive (Web Video) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Adventurers! (Webcomic) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Bob and George (Webcomic) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Books Don't Work Here (Webcomic) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Guilded Age (Webcomic) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Oglaf (Webcomic) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
True Believers (Webcomic) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Will Save World For Gold (Webcomic) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Archie's Weird Mysteries / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Big Buck Bunny / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Cars 2 / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Fangface / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Inspector Gadget / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Inspector Gadget / int_55d62b5c	type	Death Trap
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Minions: The Rise of Gru / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Monster Buster Club / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Mr. Puzzles Wants You to Be Less Alive / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Penguins of Madagascar / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Space Ghost / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Superman: The Animated Series / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Amazing Spiez! / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Bots Master / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Fantastic Four (1967) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Great Mouse Detective / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
TheKarateKidTheAnimatedSeries	seeAlso	Death Trap
The Legend of Calamity Jane / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The X's / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Totally Spies! / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Hell Girl / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Phi Brain: Puzzle of God / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Septimus Heap / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
The Wild Wild West / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap
Legend of Legaia (Video Game) / int_55c79f7c	type	Death Trap

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