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{{quote|''"What is it that's not exactly water, and it ain't exactly earth?"''
|'''Bart''', ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''}}
Quicksand is a common and deadly element of jungle and desert terrain, and its most dangerous feature is its ability to suck people and animals down and drown them in a malevolent blend of sand and water. Although most victims blunder blindly into quicksand, it sometimes seems that the merest touch of an extremity is enough to pull the unwary into its muddy and all-consuming depths like iron filings to a magnet.
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== Anime
* Mikan and a friend of hers encounter this in episode 3 of ''Gakuen Alice''.
* A scene of this happens in episode 5 of ''[[Deltora Quest]]''.
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== Fan
* One entry into a Miniatures forum about what to do when you have nothing but standard bearers in your army is to plant the standards in a sandtrap; the enemy will waste a lot of time to "avoid the quicksand".
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* Fondly parodied in the book and movie ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'', which featured a super-quicksand called "lightning sand," which is dangerous because its grains are so small that you fall straight through it.
** At least as dangerous (in the novel, at any rate) is the way the stuff gets into your lungs.
* While it may be a magical plant rather than quicksand, the devil's snare in the film version of ''[[Harry Potter
* The live-action film version of ''[[The Jungle Book (film)|The Jungle Book]]'' starring Jason Scott Lee had this happen to a villain. He even explicitly states "It's sucking me down!" while struggling.
* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy]]'', a biplane sinks into a pit of quicksand... in the middle of a desert. The protagonists stand atop a dune and solemnly watch it sink. The sequence takes so long that it's hard to tell if it's [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshading]] its own absurdity or just deathly oblivious to it.
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