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* Fondly parodied in the book and movie ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'', which featured a super-quicksand called "lightning sand," which is dangerous because its grains are so small that you fall straight through it.
** At least as dangerous (in the novel, at any rate) is the way the stuff gets into your lungs.
* While it may be a magical plant rather than quicksand, the devil's snare in the film version of ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|Harry Potter and the
* The live-action film version of ''[[The Jungle Book (film)|The Jungle Book]]'' starring Jason Scott Lee had this happen to a villain. He even explicitly states "It's sucking me down!" while struggling.
* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy]]'', a biplane sinks into a pit of quicksand... in the middle of a desert. The protagonists stand atop a dune and solemnly watch it sink. The sequence takes so long that it's hard to tell if it's [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshading]] its own absurdity or just deathly oblivious to it.
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