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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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* A pit appears early in ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''; other than the fact that it shows up in the middle of an arid desert, it's actually a pretty accurate representation.
* Averted in ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]''. The quail firmly belive this trope, leaving one poor bastard who gets stuck in the mud to die. Luckily for him, the party comes through and the [[Smart Guy]] has them build a lever device to pry him out.
== Literature ==
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* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'': Rick stumbles in what he believes is quicksand and yells for help; when TC and Magnum arrive, Magnum tells Rick he's in a swamp - "There is no quicksand in Hawaii."
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[The Wild Wild West]]'''s "The Night of the Bottomless Pit," who absolutely hates muck, [[Death by Irony|meets his maker that way]].
* Averted in, of all places, the campy ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series, where the Riddler's [[Death Trap]] involves tricking the Dynamic Duo into posing for a picture on a giant cake which is made of quicksand (long story). Batman warns Robin that the key to surviving quicksand is not to panic, and once this advice help them stay buoyant, he is able to use a rocket-device on their belts to propel them upward and escape.
== Music ==
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** Subverted in ''Mario Teaches Typing 2.'' During a cutscene, Mario and Luigi fall through a hole in a bridge and are saved by a pool of quicksand below.
* ''Super [[Metroid]]'''s many quicksand pools present no danger at all, because Samus wears a sealed space suit and can't drown. If you don't feel like jumping out, you can sink all the way in and walk around on the bottom. In a few places this allows access to new areas.
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** The Arbiter Grounds in ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' has quicksand, including the instant-death type, as a frequent and dangerous obstacle.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'''s Haunted Wasteland has a river of no-escape quicksand that you cross by either using the Longshot or the Hover Boots. Once across, you are still in danger of sinking if you stray off the path.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|Spirit Tracks]]'' has quicksand pits in the Sand Temple and parts of the Tower of Spirits.
** You fight a Moldorm in a pit of quicksand in ''[[Links Awakening]]''. You only get sucked downward (to a cave you must traverse to get back to the surface) if you get put in the center of the pit; the rest of the quicksand simply pulls you toward that center.
** In ''[[Skyward Sword]]'', Link can keep from getting sucked into the quicksand of Lanayru Desert if he [[Videogame Dashing|sprints across it]]. Also, the Timeshift Stones can change it back into the solid, grass-covered ground it once was [[Before the Dark Times]].
** A variation is the Bottomless Bogs in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild|Breath of the Wild]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom|Tears of the Kingdom]]'', a mire that can cause Link to drown almost instantly.
* Subverted in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Tooie]]''. While there is quicksand in Mayahem Temple and Terrydactyland, it doesn't pull you down, the Dragundas living in it do, then spit you back onto solid ground. The wading boots are used to cross the quicksand. The Dragundas are also in Grunty Industries' toxic waste and polluted water.
* Used in an absolutely laughable manner in the [[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)||Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]] game. Wherever sand appears, expect it to be quicksand. And if you fall in? You fall straight through like there's nothing there. In other words, another [[Bottomless Pit]] in disguise, much like water in that game.
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* Averted in ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]''. Guybrush gets trapped in a pool of quicksand, but only up to his waist, and he sinks so slowly that the player has ample time to figure out how to use a balloon, a rock, and a nearby thorn bush to get him out before anything unpleasant happens to him.
* ''[[Adventures of Dino Riki]]'' has quicksand whirlpools popping up from the ground.
== Web Originals ==
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* Heloise throws a bunch of [[Pandaing to the Audience|pandas]] into a quicksand pit on an episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. They only approve of the mudbath.
* A ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch has a giraffe step into quicksand and, because its tall body takes so long to go down, goes through the five stages of grief as it sinks. {{spoiler|The giraffe's life is saved when its feet hit bottom!}}
* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] harshly in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed Edd & Eddy's Big Picture Show]]''. Ed and Eddy at first appear to be sinking in quicksand, and appear to die as Edd attempts to save them. However, as Edd mourns their deaths, it turns out it was [[Kick the Dog|just a joke that Ed and Eddy played on him.]] Naturally, Edd gets [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|pissed off at the two and immediately leaves them to return to the cul-de-sac,]] [[Lesser of Two Evils|preferring to be punished by the kids for]] [[Noodle Incident|the scam that backfired and sent them on the run in to first place]] rather then continue on the journey with [[Jerkass|Ed and Eddy]].
* Mozenrath's Black Sand in the [[Aladdin (Disney film)|
* In ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'', the gang loses footage of all the paranormal things they witnessed after their camera falls into quicksand.
* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'': Johnny Bravo ends up stuck in quicksand while marooned on an island. Fortunately, he keeps his shirt on in the situation... so to speak. It was smart of him to call for help though. No point in allowing himself to go under.
== Real Life ==
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