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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'' uses this quite a bit.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Nodwick]]'' once was caught in a trap that didn't merely kill a victim, but... [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2006-05-31 see for yourself]{{Dead link}}. It even produces a copy of the manufacturer's business card when it gets triggered with the suggestion:
{{quote|[[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|Visit our showroom.]] [[Rain of Blood|Bring an umbrella.]]}}
* In his first appearance, the Phantom Blot tries to kill [[Mickey Mouse]] with exceptionally complicated home-made [[Death Traps]]. When finally caught and unmasked, the Blot reveals that he does this because, despite his criminal endeavors, he doesn't have the guts to kill someone with his own hands.
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** The Riddler used to set up insurance fires that were set off by such an elaborate series of events using items already in the buildings that they would look like accidents.
== Fan
* Most of [[The Prankster|Socrates']] pranks in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]'' come off as a downplayed and [[Played for Laughs]] version of this, usually targeting [[The Chew Toy|Calvin.]]
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Evil Genius (video game)|Evil Genius]]'': You can create traps to foil agents of justice trying to crash the party. You get extra points for clever, sadistic traps.
** Clever players can even use this to create inescapable rooms with traps that constantly affect the trapped agents and/or tourists, earning money for trap chains. With proper set-up, you need not worry about money again. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20131026040336/http://wiki.n1nj4.com/index.php?title=Ubertrap here] for the designs to "The Square of Insanity" and "The Tornado Trap".
* In ''[[Hitman]] Blood Money'', you are rewarded for making your hits look like accidents. In all of the games in the series, you can come up with very indirect or ingenious ways of offing your targets.
* ''[[MadWorld]]'' awards higher points per kill the more elaborate the kill is.
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* ''[[Ghost Trick]]'', in spades. It, for example, features {{spoiler|death by Rube Goldberg contraption}} (twice) and {{spoiler|death by giant plastic chicken}}. You, of course, get to go and try avert all those ridculously complicated deaths.
** In fact, the game deconstructs the idea a little; the {{spoiler|Rube Goldberg contraption}} permanently scarred the person who set it up (since it was supposed to be harmless). Later, it was found to have made an "impossible move", and nobody could ever figure out why it acted the way it did, leading all involved to despair.
* This was a possible result of a ''[[Fallout]] 3'' [[Wreaking Havok]] demonstration. Ideally, the player would remain where they
== Western Animation ==
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