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There are very few situations that warrant an "Oh, Crap!" quite as much as waking up in the villain's Evil Lair. The reasons are many and obvious, but this wouldn't be TV Tropes if we didn't analyze 'em all! For starters, the place is probably full of Death Traps, and the owner is likely not far off and just waiting to sneak up on the intruder at just the right time. That they've been brought to the lair alive is seldom good news, he "has you now, pretty!" and can intend anything from marrying, killing, eating, mating, or wearing the captivenote (And hopefully, it'll be in that order). Fun times. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })If that isn't nerve wracking enough, the villain and/or monster might be sleeping not-very-soundly among the memorabilia and leftovers from their last kill. If the hero is really up a creek, he or she will wake up next to said villain, with the latter keeping a paw on them or wearing the only key to the door out around their neck. Which makes the idea of a free character willingly exploring the lair once they find it (and alone, which is usually the case) all the more bizarre. Of course, exploring the lair represents an enormous opportunity. If they don't know who has been killing them off, or how to kill the unkillable, exploring the lair represents a treasure trove of clues in the form of finding a Stalker Shrine, Shrine to Self, Supervillain Lair or other clues to their identity/weakness (remember, villains always keep the one thing that can harm them in their lair). It can also present them with the irresistible and incredibly dangerous chance to attack the villain or monster in their sleep. Thus characters are advised to Never Split the Party; threaten to leave The So-Called Coward to wait alone to get him to cooperate, if necessary. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Typically, whoever is doing the exploring may be unlucky and killed or captured, or get lucky and manage to hide from the villain and escape in a tense and nail biting sequence (or think they did, only to have their arm bust through a wall and catch them). Usually, they get just as far as the threshold before the one, tiny soundnote (Or ringing cell phone, in modern versions. Extra irony points if it's the trespasser's partner calling to warn them that they're in the villain's lair) wakes it, or it shows up at the doorway. Survival varies by victim, of course. |
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Riley and Kalani end up doing this by accident in chapter 23 of We're Alive when they end up finding Ink's Torture Cellar. | |
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In Return to Oz, Dorothy going into the witch Mombi's original head case to get the key and powder of life. Of course, the head wakes up and screams like a living nightmare. | |
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Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn: Simon, upon his return to the Hayholt, with specific attention to Hjeldin's Tower, which has become Evil Sorcerer Pryrates' lair. The latter is not present when he does it, but the book pulls a Chair Reveal with King Elias, who ends up releasing Simon, which then turns into a Hope Spot when he's captured by the returning Norns and thrown into the forge dungeon. | |
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The Simpsons: In a parody of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Bart Simpson sent Lisa to investigate the Flanders pad when he thought Ned had killed his wife. | |
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Pooh's Grand Adventure features this trope when Pooh and the gang are forced to explore Skull as they seek out Christopher Robin even as this puts them on a collision course with whatever perils might lie in store for them. It doesn't help that they decide to split up, even if it means they cover more ground. | |
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In Double Homework, the protagonist and the girls search Dennis's apartment (while he's visiting his dad) for a storage device that contains information about the summer school program run by Dr. Mosely. | |
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After the Space Station is destroyed and the baby metroid captured in Super Metroid, Samus goes to explore the now-abandoned Tourian of the Planet Zebes. It doesn't stay abandoned for long, though. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Lair of Grievous", Kit Fisto, his former Padawan Nahdar Vebb, and a squad of clones wind up in General Grievous' secret hideout while searching for Nute Gunray. This is all a test arranged by Count Dooku because he thinks Grievous is losing his edge. | |
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In Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, Donald is kidnapped and brought into Captain Pete's lair, where he discovers his plot to seize the throne and notices headstones reserved for him, Mickey and Goofy. | |
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Subverted in Earthsong, where Willow finds herself in Tristram's lair. She gets up to walk off while he's asleep, and then he calls after her... to note that there are some pretty crystals down that passage there, and, oh, she'd never find her way out. | |
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The Lord of the Rings. Frodo and Sam in Shelob's lair. | |
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Kaeloo and Mr. Cat wind up doing this in the Season 2 finale in order to find Quack Quack, who has been kidnapped by Olaf. | |
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Dragonslayer, when Galen entered the dragon's lair to rescue the princess. | |
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In the pilot of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Galadriel and her small company of Elves are searching for one of Sauron's hideouts in Forodwaith Mountains. There, they found what could be Utumno and starts to explore it. Inside, Galadriel notices that this place is so evil that the fire from torches stops giving any heat at all. As she searches the place, she discovers a lots of sinister signs of Sauron's dark magic being used on Orcs for some unknown reasons. | |
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Magic: The Gathering devotes an entire set to this trope, appropriately called Stronghold. | |
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Near the end of Heavy Rain, Madison manages to track down the base of the Origami Killer, and bravely/foolishly breaks into it, hoping to find information about where the kidnapped boy, Shaun, is being held. Whether she succeeds at that or not, the killer surprises her on her way out. She CAN escape with her life - potentially - but if you don't think fast, she will die there. And then she does it again in the Downloadable Content episode The Taxidermist; the entire episode consists of breaking into a man's house, finding out he's a serial killer who stuffs women, and then trying to escape when he comes home. Whether she gets out of the house undetected or in a chase (if she does get out at all!) is entirely up to the player. |
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The following film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, saw Gandalf venture inside the fortress to determine if Sauron had indeed returned, which at this point was inhabited by a vast Orc army in addition to Sauron and his spirits. Bilbo and the dwarves also ventured into the lair of Smaug as in the book. The final film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , had Radagast return with Elrond, Saruman and Galadriel to rescue Gandalf, much more successfully than Gandalf's entrance. | |
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This is essentially Clock Tower and Haunting Ground in a nutshell, with a little bit of story and a healthy dose of Alone with the Psycho thrown in. | |
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The player character and C. Auguste Dupin do this quite often in the Dark Tales series - justified, as this is usually the only way to solve the mystery. | |
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Trench 11: The Allies send men to investigate what is believed to be the headquarters of Reiner, an infamous weapons scientist responsible for Deadly Gas. | |
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In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Radagast the Brown enters Dol Guldur, thought by that point to have been abandoned, only to encounter the spirits of the Witch King and the Necromancer. The following film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, saw Gandalf venture inside the fortress to determine if Sauron had indeed returned, which at this point was inhabited by a vast Orc army in addition to Sauron and his spirits. Bilbo and the dwarves also ventured into the lair of Smaug as in the book. The final film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , had Radagast return with Elrond, Saruman and Galadriel to rescue Gandalf, much more successfully than Gandalf's entrance. |
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Legend (1985). Jack and his friends enter Darkness' lair to rescue Lili and the unicorn. | |
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In The Ghost and the Darkness, the two protagonists investigate the lions' den, filled with the remains of their human and animal victims. | |
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In The Prisoner (1967) No 6 wakes up in the village and slowly gets to realise how good a trap it is. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Willow is taken to the Mayor's office and guarded by one incompetent vampire. After she escapes she starts looking around for information on his plans. She's caught by Faith, who quite rightly mocks her for "Nancy Drewing" instead of escaping. | |
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The entire point of the Dragon's Lair games. | |
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Dice Funk: The party spends a whole episode searching the underground compound of a villainous faction. Said villain later taunts them for missing important clues while they had the chance. | |
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The Mountain and the Wolf Tyrion finds the Wolf's ship deserted and climbs aboard. While in the hold, he finds a helmet last seen on Euron Greyjoy, who's supposed to be far away from King's Landing, and starts realizing the Wolf may be Playing Both Sides (he is, but not for the reasons Tyrion thinks), and hears some scratching noises next to the hold. And then two Norscans block the way out of the hold, clearly angry at him, and he doesn't speak their language... He manages to make them understand he's looking for the Wolf, who then shows up. He doesn't mind Tyrion's presence, but on learning the Norscans weren't guarding the ship like they should have been, gives them a beating. The scratching turns out to have been from Cersei who was gagged and bound in another compartment. | |
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The Hobbit. Bilbo enters Smaug's lair. | |
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The end-game of Blackout has such a sequence with the twist being that it is actually the Amnesiac Player Character's own (or rather one of his Split Personalities') evil lair which is being explored. | |
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