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A specialized version of the [[Elevator Action Sequence]]. Compare with [[Rise to the Challenge]], where you're actually trying to ''avoid'' touching the rising floor.
Not to be confused with the ''[[
=== Video-Game Examples ===▼
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== Action Adventure ==▼
▲=== Action Adventure ===
* The second battle against Black in ''[[Gunstar Heroes]]'' takes place on one of these.
* The ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' games are fond of this, though there's no platforms to crush you. You just need to kill the enemies in time.
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=== Fighting Game ===
* One of the enemies in the Subspace Emissary story mode of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' actually uses this as an attack, looking something like a hostile flying carpet and lifting you off the screen to instant death if you weren't careful. Thankfully, it's easy to avoid and/or destroy.
** There's also a more traditional example in another part of the story mode. As the lift travels down, you must evade Primids and spikes jutting out from the walls.
=== First Person Shooter ===
* In the level "Defend This!" of the original ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'', there is a trash compactor-style Lift of Doom room, where the only way out is through an invisible door. Another one appears in "No Artificial Colors". Sometimes the player is required to traverse these to access optional items, such as the gauntlet of Lifts of Doom (not the lift puzzle) in "Colony Ship for Sale", and the "wave" in "Cool Fusion".
* Variation at the beginning of ''[[Half Life]] 2:Episode One''. Alyx and Gordon are on an elevator and debris is falling down. The goal isn't to dodge, as the debris will destroy the elevator, and both will plummet to their deaths, but to grab the objects and throw them away from the elevator.
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=== Platformer ===
* The level Castle Crush from ''[[Donkey Kong Country]] 2: Diddy's Kong Quest'' is probably a well-known instances of this trope.
* A section of Boomer Kuwanger's stage from ''[[Mega Man X]]'' featured a rising elevator with these properties.
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{{quote|"[[Raocow|I guess this is the obligatory Japanese 'let's have an elevator' stage, because those are so MUCH FUN! Look at that! I'm riding an elevator, guys!]]"}}
* One or two stages from ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'' had this sort of feature, but you didn't die from being caught between the lift and the platform (unless it was spiked). Instead, the ''lift'' died, leaving you to gravity's mercy.
** ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' and ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' both have this kind of level with a rising elevator, deadly obstacles and platforms, and the addition of giant metal spiked balls rolling around and killing pretty much everything in their path.
** Played with and inverted in the original ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]]''. If you go down the wrong pipe in world 5, you will be sent to an underwater section, complete with Sushi of DEATH. One lift goes up and can trap you there as time runs out (or the fish, which [[Mook Maker|are apparently infinite]], take your hit points). The other one goes ''down'', straight into the abyss. You know why the underwater soundtrack is all violins? Because the programmers pity poor Mario.
* This occurs in Hill Top Zone in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]''. At one point the whole floor rises up, appearing to move behind the platforms and ceilings already in the room. However, should Sonic find himself between the floor and one of these, he is crushed to death.
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