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* In ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', the characters are moving through a spaceship based on the one in the TV show they starred in. When there's a Death Course down one corridor, one asks why the heck such a thing would be in a spaceship. The answer is, of course, because it was in the TV show.

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* The opening of the "Weird Al" Yankovic movie ''[[UHF]]'' is a loving parody of the famous [[Indiana Jones]] sequence, right down to the giant rolling stone ball. However, this one can navigate and turn corners.

* Let's not forget the path into Alcatraz in ''[[The Rock]]''.

* Inverted in the ''[[Home Alone]]'' series, in that it's the ''villains'' who are forced to negotiate a Death Course, designed by the protagonist.

* Shifu's temple from ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' has one of these.

* In 1972's anthology ''Tales From The Crypt'', the abusive manager of a home for the blind gets his comeuppance when the visually-impaired men he's been mistreating lock him in his office and construct a Death Course through which he must exit, with hundreds of razor blades set into the walls of a very narrow passage. They wait until he's squeezed his painful way through it once, then sic his own attack dog on him and turn out the lights.

 

* The K'chekrik Gauntlet in ''[[Heretic]] 2''.

* The Gauntlet in ''[[Nox]]'', through which prospective Warriors must fight their way to show they've got what it takes.

* This is the entire point of ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''. It would be redundant to list the numerous things that will kill [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|The Kid]] throughout the game, but suffice to say that every single screen is enough to make the proudest [[Adventure Archaeologist]] [[Bowel-Breaking Bricks|shit bricks]].

* ''[[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.

* Oni Island in ''[[Okami]]'' is a huge deathtrap... which is apparently entertainment for the local youkai. There are even ''rules'' for these areas posted on a small, hard to miss sign right before them. And don't get me started on Tobi, the game master for the largest of these death courses...

* In ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]]'', the Death Star level consists of a series of Laser Hallways ''on steroids''

* ''[[N]]'' in all its incarnations is just a ninja [[Le Parkour]]ing through Death Courses.

* Games with level editors can allow players to make Death Courses. Such as a [[Mega Man Powered Up]] level where the floor and every platform are made from [[Spikes of Doom]], or a [[Halo|Halo3]] multiplayer map where all the teleporters and spawn points are placed outside the map's border.

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