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'''Dr. Drakken''': ''It's very, very deep, all right?!''|''[[Kim Possible]]''}}
Slightly less perilous than a [[Lava Pit]] or [[Shark Pool]] but menacing none the less, the victim is [[Locked in a Room]] that is slowly filling with water. Could be
Another variant involves the villain placing the hero inside some kind of non-buoyant container, a steel drum, vehicle, etc, and then tossing that into a large body of water. When drowned in a car, characters might take a breath of canned air from the tires to stay under water and be [[Left for Dead]].
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* In one of the later books in the ''Darren Shane Saga'', Darren is called to do a series of tests for the leaders of the vampire world. One of these challenges is to find his way out of a maze that is slowly filling with water. While he has a boulder tied to him.
* Erik turns his [[Death Trap]] for [[Murder the Hypotenuse|Raoul]] and the Persian into this in the climax of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''. Christine saves them by taking his [[Scarpia Ultimatum]].
* ''[[Fablehaven]]'': One of the obstacles in the Dreamstone is a room that fills with water. After the gate to the next room is unlocked, then the water rapidly recedes. Here's the catch: as the water goes down, it
== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[Cold Case]]'' had a flashback of a serial killer's childhood. He passed by a well a woman had fallen into, and instead of getting help, he watched happily as she got tired and drowned.
* ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'' The Villain buries a bus full of kids as part of a ransom plot, but a freak storm causes it to start filling with mud.
* ''[[Due South]]'': In the second-season episode "Vault", Ray and Fraser are locked in a bank vault which is slowly filling with water from its broken sprinkler system. In a twist, ''Fraser'' broke the
* ''[[Get Smart]]''
** Smart and another person find themselves trapped in such a situation, but escape when Smart actually finds the room's plug (which is literally a regular size bathtub plug) and manages to drain the room.
** He and Agent 99 find themselves in a flooding phone booth
* Ace finds herself in such a predicament during the cliffhanger ending of one episode in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''Battlefield''.
* Happened on ''[[Perfect Strangers]]'' in the basement of the apartment building. The danger in this case was not drowning, but the water getting deep enough to hit the fuse box and electrocute everyone.
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* ''[[Onimusha]]'' has at least one example of this kind of trap. In a Sengoku-era castle, about 400 years prior to indoor plumbing. On the third floor. [[Fridge Logic|Don't think about it too hard]].
* ''[[Uninvited]]'': One of the bathrooms contains a surprisingly deadly sink. Namely, it won't turn off once you turn it on, and won't drain, eventually causing the room to fill up with water. {{spoiler|This turns out to be the only way to get to the final room in the game. The door is on the ceiling, and you need to swim up there to open it.}}
* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'': Behind the [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|Dwarven Atom Smasher]], a
* ''[[Heavy Rain]]'': Favored method of the Origami Killer, who leaves his victims to drown in rainwater (hence the title). {{spoiler|It connects to something in his past.}}
* ''[[Half Life|Half-Life: Opposing Force]]'' combines this with the [[Lava Pit]] in the form of a room trap early in the game. As you try to cross the room, a fuse shorts out, blows open a tank of biowaste then proceeds to disintegrate the floor bit-by-bit. After you climb up to the catwalk, you notice G-Man staring at you from the control room... the electrified waste is still rising... it's almost to your feet... then he opens the nearby maintenance door at the last second. The base game also had a loooong swim with great ease of getting lost and running out of air. With leeches (underwater [[Goddamned Bats]]) everywhere.
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