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== [[Film]] ==
* Part of the [[Death Course]] parody in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]''.
* In ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' the stamping presses on the conveyor belt of the droid factory qualifies. It also has the bladed kind later on. Also, one wonders how a machine designed to stamp metal plates into a flat shapes actually molds said metal ''around'' his squishy squishy non-robotic arm.
 
== Folklore[[Live-Action and MythologyTV]] ==
* The ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' episode "Buried" had a [[Death Course]] with swinging blades and blasts of fire. Instead of jumping through it, [[Cutting the Knot|the team gets by it by zip-lining over the top.]]
 
== [[Oral Tradition|Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends]] ==
* The Argonauts from Greek mythology had to avoid a similar obstacle on their way to Colchis — the Symplegades, a pair of rocks clashing together to destroy ships attempting to cross the Hellespont. This, of course, makes this [[Older Than Feudalism]].
* The Filipino [[Strong Man]] Bernardo Carpio was trapped for eternity between two mountains who had nothing else to do but bounce their bodies together.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' episode "Buried" had a [[Death Course]] with swinging blades and blasts of fire. Instead of jumping through it, [[Cutting the Knot|the team gets by it by zip-lining over the top.]]
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* One level of the unlicensed Famicom/NES game ''Thunder Warrior'' has Thwomp [[Expy|expies]].
* The crush pillars in the ''Monty Mole'' series.
* In ''[[Toontown Online]]'', the Sellbot Factory and Cashbot Mint had stompers. The latter had the possibility of a stomper ''filling an entire hallway''.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==