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The [[Death Course]] makes a mundane walk in the park into a slightly less sadistic version of football training camp. It's common in [[Video Game Tropes|video games]] where [[Everything Trying to Kill You|hazards are commonplace]], and action series. Sometimes, there are [[Dungeon Bypass|Dungeon Bypasses]] available.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* The Gauntlet in ''[[Nox]]'', through which prospective Warriors must fight their way to show they've got what it takes.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks]]'' has a good number of these.
* This is the entire point of ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''. It would be redundant to list the numerous things that will kill [[One
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' lets you build these as a very effective method of keeping your fortress safe from invaders. Interestingly, you can make an auxiliary entrance which invaders are forced to take when your drawbridge is up or your main entrance is sealed off in some other way. This entrance, of course, can be extremely long and extremely deadly.
* The final mission of ''[[Thief]]: The Dark Project''.
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== Webcomics ==
* Kind of subverted by good old ''[[
* In ''Reality Experiment'', one of the main characters has to run a death course to return to life after being killed. The price of failure is eternal torment. However, after being asked by the Grim Reaper('s assistant) to try to avoid the grinding gears at the beginning, since it jams the whole course and takes forever to clear up, the character throws the Grim Reaper into the gears to jam the whole course and run back to life.
* Most of Castle Heterodyne in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has turned into one of these by the time Agatha enters it.
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* In the direct to video sequel ''[[An American Tail]]: The Treasure of Manhattan Island'', Fievel and his friends pass through a [[Death Course]] while exploring underground caverns on their way to the hideout of an underground tribe of Native American mice. Later on in the film some corrupt policemen are tricked into going through the death course themselves. There are noticeably fewer of them after they come out the other side.
* [[Adventure Time (Animation)|Gauntlet]] [[Awesome but Impractical|Dock!]]
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Read It and Weep", Daring Do faces two sets of these back to back, though we only ever see the first. Said course involves thrown axes, fire pits, crocodiles hanging from the ceiling, arrows, and spikes.
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