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* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'': Goku finds a hot spring halfway across Snake Way, which proves to be illusory; it's really a giant snake's gullet.
* ''[[Spirited Away]]'': Happens near the start, with tragic results. It certainly looked like a restaurant (and it was, just not for humans, which they couldn't have been expected to guess) and as the father pointed out, he had cash and credit cards on hand. It definitely wasn't perfectly kosher, they could have been setting up for a private party for example, but its hardly as bad as many of the examples here.
* ''[[Negima]]'': Used a great many times. The gang, unless undergoing [[Training
* ''[[The Tower of Druaga (anime)|The Tower of Druaga]]'' has one of these in the form of a mansion that gives the visitors cherished things they have lost in the past, from childhood toys to bringing back their lost [[True Companions]] from the dead. The goal being to trap the heroes in the illusion so they do not continue on with their quest. Unlike most examples the "inhabitants" admit it isn't real. In fact one of the illusionary dead people prove enormously helpful.
* Averted in ''[[Inuyasha]]'', the Kitsune Inn is marked with a sign, so anyone entering understands that it is the annual kitsune magic test, and outsiders are going to be test subjects for kitsune illusions. Kagome proves to be very hard to ruffle, but consider what she's been through, besides traveling with Shippo for months.
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== Literature ==
* One ''[[Dungeons
* [[Rober E Howard]]'s ''[[Xuthal of the Dusk]]'' starts off like this, after [[Conan the Barbarian]] and his [[Girl of the Week]] are attacked by what seems to be a dead man. Natala fears this trope when she sees a meal laid out. Conan tells her she's a fool since they are starving, but once he has eaten it does occur to him that it could be poisoned.
* [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] subverts this in ''[[The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'', with a banquet that appears to have put several people to sleep for ''years''. Despite ''seeing the victims'' still sitting at the table, some of the crew are tempted to dig in, though the more [[Genre Savvy]] among them shoot that idea down. Later it turns out that the banquet is perfectly all right—the victims fell asleep because during a heated argument, one of them grabbed the stone knife the White Witch used to kill Aslan, and they all dropped asleep as soon as he touched it.
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== Traditional Games ==
* At least two old ''[[Dungeons
The feast in Castle Ravenloft is specifically set out for adventurers. Strahd von Zarovich doesn't want his "guests" to [[Even Evil Has Standards|die on an empty stomach]].
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