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== Literature ==

* Subverted in Saki's ''The Interlopers''. Two men arguing over a strip of land end up trapped under a fallen tree. They form a friendship, but only as a form of insurance, as they assume that one of their friends will come and save them, and both would rather live than take the gamble of possibly being shot by the other man's allies. However, they do not get saved in the nick of time as they expect, but are instead eaten by wolves.

* In ''Polar Star'', the sequel to ''[[Gorky Park]]'', Renko is locked in the freezer of a Soviet factory ship by some people [[Make It Look Like an Accident|trying to kill him]]. He tries to get out by lighting some oily rags near the heat sensors, but it doesn't work. Ironically he then gets freed by someone walking past who hears him singing (as he's now high from the fumes).

* The plot of the Italian novel ''Blackout'' by Gianluca Morozzi. Unusually for the trope, it's [[Shown Their Work|understood]] that the [[Evil Elevator]] is behaving strangely and that there should be an automatic alarm going off, their cell phones should still be working, and the doors shouldn't be wedged shut. It turns out that {{spoiler|the elevator was rigged. Two young TV executives looking to break into the reality show industry came up with the idea to select an apartment at random, fix the lifts, wait until two or three people were in the elevator together, and then put it on lockdown and film the results. Driven by greed, they don't stop the cameras even after some seriously messed-up stuff has gone down, but to protect themselves from liability they decide to market the resulting fiasco as recordings taken by the elevator's security camera, which the station purchased and edited into a TV program after the survivors were rescued, instead of as an event orchestrated by the producers. The book lampshades the fact that "there were so many holes in this version of events, you could have driven a truck through them", [[Hand Wave|explaining]] that the Italian populace is such that they're willing to swallow this for the sake of entertainment, and that the people who comment on the doors working strangely, et cetera, are dismissed as paranoid conspiracy theorists.}} The American straight-to-video adaptation of the novel just has the elevator crash for no reason.