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See also [[Sand Is Water]], [[Mucking in The Mud]], [[Swamps Are Evil]], and [[Bubblegloop Swamp]]... Also compare [[Unrealistic Black Hole]] because both black holes and quicksand are portrayed in media as pulling in anything nearby whereas both only consume things which have gotten too close in the first place.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* A cave in ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' featured this.
* One of the policemen in ''Kekexili: Mountain Patrol'' dies from this.
* In the climax of ''[[House of Frankenstein (Film)|House of Frankenstein]]'', the finally powered up [[
* One of the Sheriff's attempted duels in ''[[Hot Lead and Cold Feet]]'' ends with him sinking in quicksand brought about by heavy rains.
* ''[[The Hallelujah Trail]]:'' The opening narration tells you that there is going to be a ''disaster'' at Quicksand Bottoms.
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* During a stint of being [[Reassigned to Antarctica]] [[Vorkosigan Saga|Miles Vorkosigan]] runs across a nasty arctic version called a "Permofrost Inversion Zone"; this appears to be solid ground, but has the potentially lethal property of unexpectedly thawing into a gooey sea of mud. Miles manages to sink an entire "scat-cat" (a kind of arctic all-terrain jeep) in one after he parks on top of it rather than try to drive back to base at night, and very nearly dies because he chained his tent to it.
* In the [[Known Space]] stories of [[Larry Niven]] some areas of Mars have sand that is so fine that it essentially is a liquid and people can sink in it.
* Many older science fiction stories portrayed the Moon as having areas very fine dust that functioned like quicksand, ''A Fall of Moondust'' by [[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)]] being a good example.
* In ''The Takers'' (a modern [[Two Fisted Tale]]-homage by Jerry Ahern) the protagonist and his [[Plucky Girl]] get caught in quicksand while wading through a swamp on a Caribbean island.
* Occurs in Book 7 of ''[[The Hardy Boys]] Casefiles'', ''Deathgame''. Joe starts sinking in the quicksand and knows enough to float on it, but then has to force himself to sink below the surface to hide from his attacker. The caked mud later serves him as improvised camouflage.
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* ''[[Max Steel]]'' both plays this straight and partially subverts it. In season two, Max and Berto walk in to quicksand and start sinking, having to use a vine to pull themselves out. In season three, Berto and Kat walk in to quicksand; however, Berto says that the human body is lighter and they manage to swim out of it.
* Happens two different times in [[Totally Spies]].
* Crossing the line between [[Did Not Do the Research]] and [[Rule of Cool]], the [[Recycled:
* Catwoman leaves [[Batman]] and Robin in a quicksand [[Death Trap]] in the Filmation series episode "The Nine Lives of Batman".
* Happens with Shareena and Gug in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQaWUjY6dxo this clip] from a ''[[Detention]]'' episode. Actually, the "quicksand" is just a sinkhole.
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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]].
* [[Aladdin (Disney)|Mozenrath's]] Black Sand. The heroes didn't even have to step in it, it ''reached out'' to suck them in, an act that was, in one episode, disturbingly referred to as ''eating''.
* In ''[[Scooby Doo On Zombie Island]]'', the gang loses footage of all the paranormal things they witnessed after their camera falls into quicksand.
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