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Pleasure Island
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An event or activity is presented to one or all of the protagonists as being extremely enjoyable. This event or activity never has any redeeming social value; it's just for fun. It's usually presented as being completely innocuous and not at all objectionable — except, of course, in those cases where the basic selling point of the "fun" thing is that it's something the "unhip, uncool" people of the world would never allow one to do. After perhaps some initial reluctance, the protagonists decide to give it a shot. Bonus points are awarded if some "nerdy" character suggests that it's not a good idea, and everyone either ignores or laughs at this person. When the protagonists finally get involved in the alleged fun, it turns out to be either entertaining beyond their wildest dreams or... well, rather boring. In any case, it certainly doesn't seem to be harmful. But that all changes as the story progresses. Maybe the idea of "fun" being offered up goes way over the line, ultimately breaching the frontiers of good taste or sanity. Maybe the entertainment is actually being used as a cover for some nefarious or destructive purpose. Or maybe the event or activity involves a level of near-suicidal danger that no one could have ever seen coming. The Trope Namer, of course, is the amusement park in Pinocchio that causes boys to turn into donkeys. (For a time at Walt Disney World, there was a nighttime entertainment district cheekily named after this place and aimed at adults and local clubgoers, though most of the clubs were family-appropriate. Today, it's known as The Landing at Disney Springs, which doesn't have anything to do with the old Pleasure Island district.) A Sub-Trope of Too Good to Be True. Often overlaps with The Game Plays You, A Fête Worse than Death, and/or Crapsaccharine World, and in extreme cases Maximum Fun Chamber. Broader than Amusement Park of Doom, because it can involve just about anything that is ostensibly entertaining. The False Utopia applies the same principle on a societal level. See also Do Not Do This Cool Thing. |
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The Adventure Time episode "Dungeon Train" features a constantly-moving ring-shaped train that tempts adventurers into boarding it. They are lured into constantly fighting monster after monster in the endless succession of carriages for an endless supply of loot trinkets until they become a "boss" monster and eventually get killed by one of their successors. | |
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At the Holiday House in The Thief of Always there are four seasons a day, every night is Christmas, and the House grants any wish, all made possible by a man called Mr. Hood. Eventually, though, Harvey's curiosity and growing suspicions about the House lead him to discover some unpleasant truths... | |
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Fantasy Island (2020) which is Played for Horror unlike the TV series it's based on. Here the fantasy being indulged is a Roaring Rampage of Revenge on the other guests. | |
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In Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, which moves the setting to the 1940s, Pleasure Island takes the form of a military training camp where boys are trained to be soldiers for Mussolini's regime. However, it's still depicted as a seductive place, where the boys get to run around, climb on ropes courses, and shoot paintball guns at each other - basically a perpetual game of Cowboys and Indians. The fascist authorities are hoping to turn Pinocchio himself into some kind of Super-Soldier. | |
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One RollerCoaster Tycoon player decided to create an attraction like this in his park. The result: Mr. Bones's Wild Ride. | |
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The 1997 thriller The Game (1997). For his birthday, Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) gets a unique gift from his brother Conrad (Sean Penn). It's a sign-up sheet for Consumer Recreation Services (CRS), which offers customers the opportunity to play an interactive "game." Unfortunately for Nicholas, the only "playing" that ensues is when a conspiracy of complete strangers spend the whole movie mercilessly playing with his head. | |
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Rhododendron in The Golden Apple gives this trope even more play than in The Odyssey, which it is an homage to. Hector leads Ulysses and his crew on a Big Spree, and Ulysses doesn't notice at first that his companions have dwindled each successive time Hector passes around his flask. | |
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The Maw from Little Nightmares appears to be a fancy restaurant where the gluttonous elite Guests can gorge themselves to their heart's content. Of course, many of the guests either eat themselves to death and get added to the menu or get their life force drained by the Maw's owner, The Lady. | |
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In Devil Man Ryo hosts a party at his house where he gathers hundreds of people, where they’re free to do as they please which includes dancing, listening to loud music, eating whatever they want, drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and having sex. Little do they know it is a trap he set up, he plans on sacrificing them to the demons that are inhabiting his mansion, and after he spills their blood the demons arrive and start possessing the party goers causing them to transform into demons and others are killed by the rampaging demons. | |
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Some Goosebumps books, like Let's Get Invisible and The Horror At Camp Jellyjam, use this trope. | |
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In Hostel the three protagonists have the chance to spend their holidays in the titular hostel in Eastern Slovakia where they can get any girl they want. As soon as they get there, they start having the time of their lives...until they find out that the hostel is owned by a sadistic crime organization that kidnaps tourists and offers them to rich paying customers - who pay to rape and/or torture them in the most gruesome ways. | |
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The chocolate factory in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is arguably a positive version of this trope, in that the kids who get punished in this magical wonderland of a death trap are assholes who deserve it anyway. Mind you, this doesn't always make it less disturbing. | |
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Animorphs has The Sharing, a Scouts-esque club for community service that is actually a front to recruit hosts for the Yeerk invasion. | |
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Trolls: Ever since the escape from the Troll Tree, the Trolls throw parties all the time, which comes to bite them back at the escape's anniversary party, when Chef finally finds them. | |
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The Isle o' Smiles in Dragon Quest VI, reached by mobile island, containing a bar that ferries those who board it from Aridea. It is, of course, a trap. The staff are actually demons, leading to Jamirus, the second of the Archfiend's lieutenants. You end up using it as the dream world's water transport, at which point it doubles as an inn. | |
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The Futurama episode "Crimes of the Hot" when all the robots in the world were the source of greenhouse gases, Nixon arranges a party at Galapagos Islands inviting all the robots. Despite the obviousness being a trap, Bender goes. The trap being is to destroy all robots with a Kill Sat. | |
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In Dead End Drive-In, the titular prison camp for unwanted youths lures them in by pretending to be a normal drive-in cinema, and keeps them quiescent with B-movies, junk food, and unofficially sanctioned drug use. | |
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget: The chicken farm that Ginger and her friends have to break into is Fun-Land Farms which is designed as a colorful and lavish amusement park for all chickens to enjoy themselves to their hearts content. The twist is that all of them are fitted with brainwashing collars that keep them happy, mindless and complacent while they have fun. The collars also have a feature that sends the chickens to be butchered and turned into nuggets without them even realizing it. | |
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In The Bible, Earth itself is portrayed as Pleasure Island. Devoting yourself to Earthly pleasures might seem harmless and fun at first, but you will eventually doom yourself to hell if you don't reject them. | |
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"You Have 0 Friends" portrays Facebook this way when Stan gets sucked into a TRON-esque digital world and has to fight the embodiment of his own Facebook profile. | |
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Twisted Wonderland: The Playful Land is a location explicitly based on the Pleasure Island from the Disney Pinocchio film; it's a mobile theme park designed to trap patrons out at sea and turn them into puppets to be sold. | |
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The Hangover portrays Las Vegas this way, a place where the protagonists go for a bachelor party and nearly ruin their lives in the process. It's subverted for Stu, however, for whom the experience helps him grow a backbone to stand up to his controlling girlfriend Melissa. The sequel repeats the experience with Bangkok. | |
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In From Dusk Till Dawn the strip bar Titty Twister is actually owned by some vampires who used it to lure truckers and bikers in order to eat 'em. | |
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Several South Park episodes use this. "Chinpokomon" is about a Phonýmon franchise that turns out to be an Imperial Japanese indoctrination tool. "South Park is Gay" reveals that the metrosexual subculture was started by evil crab people to turn all men into effeminate sissies and make taking over the world easier. "Die, Hippie, Die". A large contingent of hippies arrives in town from Colorado's big cities for a massive 1960s-style music festival; they claim that the purpose of the festival is to stick it to all the corporate bigwigs and other "little Eichmanns" who supposedly run America. Stan, Kyle, and Kenny naively join in the "fun" at first, donning their best "student protester" outfits and learning to play the guitar. But as the festival drags on they start to become bored, and they realize the message of social activism preached by the college kids is, well, pretty much b.s. And on top of it all, all the marijuana smoke is starting to make them sick. They try to leave, but the crowds have become much too thick... until Cartman manages to disperse the crowd with the aid of a: the Hippie Digger and B: a disc full of Slayer tracks (as he said, "hippies can't stand death metal"). "You Have 0 Friends" portrays Facebook this way when Stan gets sucked into a TRON-esque digital world and has to fight the embodiment of his own Facebook profile. |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), The Shredder has created a "pleasure island" to lure misguided teens into his Foot Clan. His warehouse is located on the fictitious Lairdman Island and features rap music, pinball/video games, basketball, dancing, billiards, skateboarding, gambling, graffiti, and tobacco use. Newcomers to the warehouse are told "Anything you guys want... We got. Anything you wanna do... Do it." The naïve protagonist in this instance is Danny Pennington (Michael Turney). | |
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The Land of Toys from The Adventures of Pinocchio. A big place for fun and lack responsibilities, but you will be transformed into a jackass. Well, it's the base of the Trope Namer. | |
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Bacchus's paradise realm in The Smurfs (1981) episode "Paradise Smurfed" is presented as an idyllic place for the three Smurfs that visit it to take it easy without any expectation of repayment, but the Smurfs find out later on that they must repay their host's kindness by doing chores, and since they are too small to do that, the only place Bacchus can see the Smurfs is on his dinner plate. | |
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Bordello of Blood centers around a brothel that is run by vampires to lure in men. | |
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