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== [[MMORPGs]] ==
* ''[[Runescape]]'' has one in the quest Icthlarin's Little Helper, where the corridor is two spaces wide and traps that take up one space each litter the corridor. [[Have a Nice Death|Have fun trying to make it past the trapdoors without a guide.]]
== Non-Video-Game Examples ==▼
== [[Film]] ==▼
* Number Six in ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' at one point has to navigate a large tunnel with a massive fan at one end by leaping between the vents that line the tunnel walls rather than simply running down the wall. As she approaches the tunnel, the danger is shown with an Alien getting pulled up into the fan and being [[Bloody Murder|completely mulched]].▼
* ''Guest House Paradiso'', [[The Movie]] of ''[[Bottom]]'', has the two main characters try to avoid a hallway of projectile vomiting hotel guests. ...ItMakesSenseInContext.▼
* ''[[The Rock]]'' has Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage trying to get ''into'' Alcatraz by sneaking past a hazardous zone which if they don't get past it on a certain time sequence, it will kill them. Not mentioned why a prison has the equivalent of a [[No OSHA Compliance|smoke and fire factory]] or why a prison that has been shutdown for over 20 years would have one still running, but...▼
* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' has Sylvester Stallone and some other minor guy trying to sneak back into town by evading an incinerator tube that activates like a flamethrower for 5 seconds once every 30 seconds, so all they have to do is get through the tube in 25 seconds from when one of the fire blasts stops.▼
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* [[Matthew Reilly]]'s ''the Six Sacred Stones'' contains a rare Shaft Cubbyhole Climb (a Corridor Cubbyhole Run, but vertical). It regularly drops giant boulders down the shaft, and also has to be [[Speed Run|speedran]] in both directions.▼
== [[Live Action Television]] ==▼
* A live action [[Game Show]] variant: ''Takeshi's Castle'' (and it's [[Gag Dub]] ''MXC'') featured a game where one must run up a hill-based corridor while giant foam boulders come rolling down on them, with little crevices their only way of avoiding the boulders. Slightly altered in that the crevices were guarded by people who would try to push the contestants out in front of the boulders.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* It's relatively simple for the DM to build a trap like this in [[Dungeons and Dragons]] with the use of fire-spell based traps. Obstacle courses for rogues with high dexterity and Uncanny Dodge ability. The "Door opens and you find an arrow heading towards you" kind of obstacle courses.▼
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* [[Evil Overlord List]]:▼
{{quote|63. Bulk trash will be disposed of in incinerators, not compactors. And they will be kept hot, with none of that nonsense about flames going through accessible tunnels at predictable intervals.}}▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* Played mostly straight in, oddly enough, an episode of the ''[[Thundercats]]''. A drugged Panthro has been dropped down a chasm to die, and survives. The chasm ejects lethal energies at regular intervals, but there are crannies he can fit in that are mostly safe. Panthro thinks, "Got to time them, move between blasts. Thirty-four seconds, I can do this." When he reaches the top, a blast fires early, driving him to remark, "Twenty-eight seconds? That's foul play!"▼
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* ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]''. The corridor is up the middle of a rising plane with the cargo loader door open. The random obstacles are barrels the enemies (human?) are pushing at you.
* ''[[Ufouria]]'' forces the player to climb a cliff while boulders rain from above. The cliff has a couple of notches in it where the player can wait. Usually two rocks fall, and then there's a bit of a pause... but, at other times, ''three'' rocks fall, [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|which is guaranteed to mess you up.]] And if you get hit it's down to the bottom for you.
▲== Non-Video-Game Examples ==
▲=== [[Film]] ===
▲* Number Six in ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'' at one point has to navigate a large tunnel with a massive fan at one end by leaping between the vents that line the tunnel walls rather than simply running down the wall. As she approaches the tunnel, the danger is shown with an Alien getting pulled up into the fan and being [[Bloody Murder|completely mulched]].
▲* ''Guest House Paradiso'', [[The Movie]] of ''[[Bottom]]'', has the two main characters try to avoid a hallway of projectile vomiting hotel guests. ...
▲* ''[[The Rock]]'' has Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage trying to get ''into'' Alcatraz by sneaking past a hazardous zone which if they don't get past it on a certain time sequence, it will kill them. Not mentioned why a prison has the equivalent of a [[No OSHA Compliance|smoke and fire factory]] or why a prison that has been shutdown for over 20 years would have one still running, but...
▲* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' has Sylvester Stallone and some other minor guy trying to sneak back into town by evading an incinerator tube that activates like a flamethrower for 5 seconds once every 30 seconds, so all they have to do is get through the tube in 25 seconds from when one of the fire blasts stops.
▲=== [[Literature]] ===
▲* [[Matthew Reilly]]'s ''the Six Sacred Stones'' contains a rare Shaft Cubbyhole Climb (a Corridor Cubbyhole Run, but vertical). It regularly drops giant boulders down the shaft, and also has to be [[Speed Run|speedran]] in both directions.
▲=== [[Live Action Television]] ===
▲* A live action [[Game Show]] variant: ''Takeshi's Castle'' (and it's [[Gag Dub]] ''MXC'') featured a game where one must run up a hill-based corridor while giant foam boulders come rolling down on them, with little crevices their only way of avoiding the boulders. Slightly altered in that the crevices were guarded by people who would try to push the contestants out in front of the boulders.
▲=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
▲* It's relatively simple for the DM to build a trap like this in [[Dungeons and Dragons]] with the use of fire-spell based traps. Obstacle courses for rogues with high dexterity and Uncanny Dodge ability. The "Door opens and you find an arrow heading towards you" kind of obstacle courses.
▲=== [[Web Original]] ===
▲* [[Evil Overlord List]]:
▲{{quote|63. Bulk trash will be disposed of in incinerators, not compactors. And they will be kept hot, with none of that nonsense about flames going through accessible tunnels at predictable intervals.}}
▲=== [[Western Animation]] ===
▲* Played mostly straight in, oddly enough, an episode of the ''[[Thundercats]]''. A drugged Panthro has been dropped down a chasm to die, and survives. The chasm ejects lethal energies at regular intervals, but there are crannies he can fit in that are mostly safe. Panthro thinks, "Got to time them, move between blasts. Thirty-four seconds, I can do this." When he reaches the top, a blast fires early, driving him to remark, "Twenty-eight seconds? That's foul play!"
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