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Pendulum of Death
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A classic Death Trap, tracing its origins to Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. The hero is strapped to a table beneath a huge, curved blade mounted on a pendulum. When activated, the pendulum descends slightly with each swing, gradually getting closer to the hero. Will they escape or be rescued in time? Compare Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom. |
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This is the threat of the Scissor Twins urging you to go forward in Clock Tower 3. They're holding Alyssa's friend Dennis in this situation. At one point, the pendulum stops swinging and drops straight on him.Good thing it's just a dummy. | |
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Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy: The final puzzle of the game sees Nancy trapped in a room with a descending pendulum; she has to figure out how to escape through a nearby secret passage before it cuts her to bits. Fittingly, the entire game has references to Edgar Allan Poe's stories. | |
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Ruby-Spears Superman: Theme Serial Killer Bonechill kidnaps the Daily Planet staff and leaves them in Poe-themed death traps to distract Superman. Perry White almost gets sliced open by a swinging pendulum. | |
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Totally Spies!: The villain of "Do You Believe in Magic?", an evil Stage Magician, uses one of these as a Death Trap to dispose of the spies. The spies escape by using one of their gadgets to rotate the table they have been chained to 90 degrees, so they can get the swinging blade to cut through their shackles. | |
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In the Justice League Unlimited episode "The Ties That Bind", when Granny Goodness captures Oberon, she places him in a deathtrap with three large blades swinging back and forth above him and slowly descending. | |
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Green Arrow: The Clock King straps Green Arrow beneath one in an attempt to force him to divulge the access codes to Queen Industries accounts in the "Sins of the Mother" arc. | |
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In Champions of Far'aus, the last room in the House of insanity Skye and Karla have to go through has one. It isn't much of a problem for long, as Karla summons Kara, a corporeal spirit who weighs one ton, on top of the blade so it stops moving. | |
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In Your Turn to Die, Shunsuke Hayasaka's first game involves one of these. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: The first Machine monster of "Bandit" Keith Howard that we get to see is Pendulum Machine, called Furikoyaiba no G�monkikai in Japan, which translates to "Pendulum Blade Torture Machine". As you can guess, it's a pendulum blade monster with arms to grab the enemy before cutting them with its pendulum. The Duel of Darkness between Mahado and Thief King Bakura involved them as traps for Bakura. Bakura eventually adapted to the situation and swung on the pendulum blade, whereas Mahado sacrificed his life with the pendulum blade, in order to become a new Ka (read: Duel Spirit) for the Pharaoh. The pendulum may have brought death for Mahado, but it gave life to the iconic Black Magician. |
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Ghoulies II: The ghoulies use the pendulum in the horror house at the carnival to murder a teenager. | |
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Final Fantasy VII has an enemy fought in the Shinra Mansion that has the top half of a man, the bottom half of a bladed pendulum and attacks by swinging at your party from a chain. If you're lucky enough, you can knock it off the chain making it helpless for a few turns. | |
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Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans: Sultana captures Deathstalker and straps him to a table where a giant pendulum swings closer and closer to his private parts. | |
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The Wild Wild West: In "The Night of the Deadly Blossom", Jim West and Japanese agent Ishuda are captured by the villain Barclay. In an effort to get Ishuda to talk, Barclay has West strapped to a table beneath a slowly descending pendulum blade. | |
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The Uncanny: In 1936, in Hollywood, the actor Valentine De'ath replaces the blade of a fake pendulum to kill his actress wife, and give his young mistress and aspiring actress a chance. The cat of his wife avenges her. | |
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The 1965 spy-spoof Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine homages/parodies the Creator/Corman version of The Pit and the Pendulum (see below), with returning star Vincent Price's eponymous Mad Scientist having the same setup in his headquarters. Evidently some footage was reused as well. | |
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Sensation Comics: Don Enrago tries to kill Wonder Woman and Marcia, one of the Holliday Girls, by strapping them to a table under a slowly lowering swinging blade. Wonder Woman quickly escapes and rescues Marcia. | |
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A common trap in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, several Nord tombs have one or two halls that feature this type of obstacle that the player must get through. Usually with Whirlwind Sprint which with good timing can quickly allow them to run through the trap after the scythes have swung. | |
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These appear in Sonic Heroes in Hang Castle. As is fitting for the setting, they're mere set dressing. | |
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Resident Evil 4 has these at a certain point of the game for the player to easily dodge. In case they get hit anyway, Leon is sent crashing into a wall and falls into a pit. | |
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In The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (a.k.a. The Blood Demon, The Snake Pit and the Pendulum and Castle of the Walking Dead), Roger is imprisoned in a pit beneath a descending pendulum after being captured by Count Regula (Christopher Lee) and then attempting to escape. | |
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An episode of The Wizard had Simon, Tillie and a Guest-Star Party Member explore a Temple of Doom to return a cursed dagger. At some point the guest star is caught in such a trap, and is rescued seconds before the pendulum reaches where his neck was. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: In the episode "The Adventures of Sherlock Mario", the gang (Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool) are captured by "Professor Koopiarty", Bowser's Sherlock Holmes-themed alter ego for the episode. They get tied up and subject to this, Koopiarty taunting them with "In a few moments, you'll be sliced salami!" as he starts the blade. | |
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The Flintstones: In the episode "Dr. Sinister", Fred and Barney are caught in a situation like this one. Fred asks Barney what James Bondrock would do in such a situation. Barney remembers him using the pendulum to cut his hand bonds — which he does, and it works! | |
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Fu Manchu uses this as a Death Trap in Chapter 4 of the Film Serial Drums of Fu Manchu. The chapter is titled "Pendulum of Doom". | |
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Dark Shadows: In episodes 795 and 796 ("The Pits" and "Death and Taxes") Aristede straps Quentin to a table beneath a slowly descending swinging axe blade as he attempts to extort the Legendary Hand of Count Petofi from Angelique. | |
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An entire corridor of Pendulums of Death stands in Hype's way in the Lost City in Hype: The Time Quest. Made worse by arrow traps situated in between them. | |
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A swinging blade is one of the many traps Agatha's group contends with in Girl Genius when leaving the Incorruptible Library to track down Professor Zardeliv and Prende's Lantern. | |
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Wolfchild: These are environmental hazards used against Wolfchild and are found starting with the Temple levels. | |
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A common breed of trap in later Deception games. | |
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Magic: The Gathering includes a card called 'Razor Pendulum' depicting this device. | |
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Referenced in "The Poet and the Pendulum" by Nightwish: | |
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Elvira's Haunted Hills shows Elvira herself beneath a swinging blade, though oddly positioned to be severed lengthwise, not crosswise. Mustn't harm the boobs, after all. | |
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This is how Lord Blackthorne executes one of your companions if you get caught in Ultima V. | |
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In the torture chambers of the Nali Castle in Unreal, you find one of these, though with no victims strapped to the slab. | |
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Game of Thrones: The Night's Watch's Scythe is functionally a giant bladed pendulum with a chain that grazes the Wall in case intruders attempt to climb it, cutting or crushing everything in its path. It is used on hapless Wildlings during the battle of Castle Black at the end of Season 4. | |
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Saw V: Seth Baxter wakes up in a room, chained to a table, with two vices on either side of it. Above him, is a large, bladed pendulum that begins to swing after his tape is completed. Seth has to push buttons in the back of the vices that will crush his hands in order to stop the Pendulum from reaching his body, as his hands are the "tools" that caused harm to others. In sixty seconds, the pendulum will cut him in half if he doesn't succeed. Seth inserts his hands into the vices, but quickly pulls them out in fear. Trying again, he succeeds in crushing his hands and the Pendulum ceases swinging for a few moments, but after a short pause, the Pendulum reactivates and descends far enough to begin cutting into his abdomen, and eventually slices him in half, confirming that the trap was inescapable. | |
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Cult of the Lamb: The Relics of the Old Faith update introduces larger versions of these that serve as environmental hazards. | |
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In The Raven (1935), Dr. Vollin has Bateman drag Judge Thatcher out of his bed, and strap him into a slab that's beneath a pendulum blade that slowly swings down on his chest. | |
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The 2012 horror/mystery film The Raven, starring John Cusack in the role of Edgar Allan Poe, contains multiple reenactments of Poe's horror stories. Included is a scene where the "Pit and the Pendulum" scenario is recreated and successfully kills its victim. | |
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One appears partway through the first stage of Castlevania: Bloodlines, held by two massive skeleton statues. It poses a danger both to the player and to the Skeleton enemies who stupidly wander into it. | |
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The Martian Chronicles: In "Usher II", all of the murders are based on Edgar Allan Poe stories. One of the victims is killed by the descending pendulum from "The Pit and the Pendulum". | |
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In an episode of Beetlejuice riffing on numerous Edgar Allan Poe stories, BJ finds himself in four-point restraints under a descending razor pendulum, which cuts through his tie and lapels just before a commercial break. | |
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Night Gallery: In "A Question of Fear", Colonel Mallory lies down on a bed in a supposedly haunted house. Steel restraints suddenly emerge and cover his chest, locking him in. Then a swinging razor-sharp swinging pendulum descends, moving closer and closer to his neck. Just short of slicing his throat, the pendulum stops. The next morning the restraints and pendulum are gone. | |
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Czech Surrealist Jan Svankmajer directed a 15-minute live action short film called The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope, based on "The Pit and the Pendulum" and the short story "A Torture by Hope" by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. It is a fairly faithful adaptation of both stories, featuring a unique first-person camera perspective and segments produced in Svankmajer's trademark stop-motion and cut-out animation. It also shows some of the mechanisms behind the pendulum's operation. | |
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Phantasmagoria: In the past, Marie conspired with her lover, Gaston, to kill her bluebeard husband Carno by sabotaging the equipment for his most infamous and dangerous escapology trick, in which Carno dons a burning hood and escapes from bonds on a throne equipped with an overhead pendulous axe. The sabotage leaves Carno horribly burned and disfigured, but he survives and viciously attacks Marie and Gaston. After killing Marie by beheading her with the same pendulous throne, Carno is killed by Gaston just before he succumbs to his own wounds. In the present, Don (who is possessed by a demon) captures Adrienne and straps her into the pendulous throne, but she distracts him long enough to free herself from the throne and trigger the pendulum, which impales and kills Don. | |
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Used twice in Yaiba as part of a Death Course, first in Ryuujin's labyrinth test, then on the bridge leading to the Oda Nobunaga's tournament grounds on Yoroi Island. In the latter's case, it's part of a test to gauge the strength of the partecipants. In the former's case, they force the heroes to go forward to hide the fact that the exit of the Labyrinth is the entrance itself. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons (2000): A series of these is the first trap in the Antius Guild Maze Ridley must traverse. Rather than try to dart between them, he hops on top of them and jumps from blade to blade as they swing close to each other. | |
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The 1991 version keeps many aspects of Poe's story, but adds in a romance and supernatural elements. | |
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One deathtrap in Dragon's Lair requires Dirk the Daring to traverse a passageway where three of these swinging blades await to One-Hit Kill Dirk, who must Press X to Not Die to dodge these blades. | |
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Marvel Anime: Wolverine: Pendulums of Death are among the various traps found on Hell Road. Logan and Yukio almost fall victim to them when navigating the road, and getting stuck in wet cement. | |
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action: In the films climax, the Chairman's Death Trap for DJ's father includes one of these on top of a Train of Death, crates of TNT, and a 2-ton anvil. However, he decides that the Pendulum is overkill and orders Wile E. Coyote to remove it. | |
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Quake II has a variant in the torture chamber level: a prisoner is lashed to the wall and has a giant cross-thing slowly lowered to crush him. | |
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The Perils of Penelope Pitstop: In "London Town Treachery", the Hooded Claw captures Penelope and attempts to kill her using a pendulum that swings lower and lower. | |
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MacGyver (1985): The Cliffhanger at the end of the first part of the two-part "Legend of the Holy Rose" has Mac strapped beneath a descending blade on a pendulum in a torture chamber exhibit. | |
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She-Cat is subjected to this in Femforce #98, in a story titled "The Cat and the Pendulum". | |
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Rulah, Jungle Goddess: In "The Thirsty Stone" (Zoot Comics #12), evil witch doctor Potmas attempts to fulfill an ancient prophecy by sacrificing a yellow haired woman to become all-powerful in the jungle. He captures blonde Bold Explorer Mildred Maxim and straps her to the eponymous "thirsty stone": a stone altar beneath a swinging stone knife that drops lower on every swing. | |
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One episode of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers titled "A Lad in His Lamp" has the villain's henchman Mole attain possession of a magic lamp, complete with obedient genie. When the Rangers attempt to confiscate the lamp, Fat Cat roars at Mole to "wish for something, you ninny!" The next instant shows the captured Rangers affixed beneath an oscillating blade, watching its slow descent. In a Pet the Dog moment, Fat Cat declares, "Why, Mole, you surprise me." | |
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Sen's Fortress in the first Dark Souls has these. The Dungeon is also full of traps like pressure plates that shoot arrows, falling boulders, and others. | |
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I Dream of Jeannie: In "Have You Ever Had A Genie Hate You?", a magic potion causes Jeannie to hate Tony. After putting him through various tortures, in the end, both Tony and Roger find themselves under a swinging pendulum about to slice their throats. | |
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Fear & Hunger: The Gauntlet, a potential endgame area, has several hallway pendulums as overworld traps. Touch one and you will be cut in half, which inevitably results in a Game Over. | |
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