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* Used straight in the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] movie ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]'' where the villain had it set up in his elevator to drop into a [[Shark Pool]]. Bond defeated it by straddling the walls. In an earlier film, ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'', Bond suspects the same trick, only to be felled by gas instead. Subverted in ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'', when Japanese Secret Service chief -- and Bond ally -- Tiger Tanaka uses a [[Trap Door]] with slide to bring Bond to their first face to face meeting.

* ''[[Star Wars]] VI: Return of the Jedi'': Jabba the Hutt.

* Kim Jong-Il had one in ''[[Team America: World Police]]''. It's not outside the realms of possibility that this is [[Truth in Television]]. [[~~Useful Notes/North Korea|~~North Korea]] is that kind of country.

* Kim Jong-Il had one in ''[[Team America: World Police]]''. It's not outside the realms of possibility that this is [[Truth in Television]]. [[North Korea]] is that kind of country.

* In ''[[Sinbad Of The Seven Seas]]'', the titular Sinbad is dropped into a pit with snakes in it by Jaffar, the wizard of all that is evil. You know him, don't you?

* In one segment of Disney's ''Mars and Beyond'', the Martian leader pulls a rope and a trap door opens under the kidnapped heroine.