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{{quote|'''Josh''': Why was your bucket over our door?
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* ''[[Good Omens]]'' has Crowley do this with Holy Water, and uses it to kill a Duke of Hell. Notably, the bucket of Holy Water was treated like a bomb.
** Considering Crowley's a demon too, it would be pretty stupid of him not to treat it like a bomb.
* ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'' featured a Holy Water
** In the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]'', Lord Vetinari subverts this trope, being wise enough to expect this from the Fools' Guild. A similar thing happens when the City Watch visit the Guild in ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]''.
** In ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', a bucket of long dried-up whitewash is part of the not-exactly-a-[[Death Course]] created by a king with an odd sense of humour.
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* Played straight in the ''[[Spy vs. Spy]]'' video game, where you could set up a bucket of something deadly (appears to be electrified water, complete with [[X-Ray Sparks]]) for your opponent...but if you forget which entrance it is in, you'd kill yourself.
* The "Tool Use" skill in ''[[Avernum]]'' is illustrated with a picture of an unfortunate individual about to spring a trap of this nature. The bucket is labeled "acid." (''Avernum'' does not take itself particularly seriously.)
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' - not that it had no better traps, but a closed door blocks vertical movement too, thus if floor on the level above it is channeled out and something is dumped into the hole (buckets and other containers won't spill contents, but [[Hammerspace|an arbitrary number of]] anvils or e.g. pouring some ''[[
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