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{{trope}}
A '''Trap Master''' is a character whose style of fighting isn't about hitting the opponent directly. This character far prefers arranging traps in such a way that, when the opponent arrives, he only has to let the victim act, or activate the traps with minimal effort, to utterly dominate said opponent. [[Difficult but Awesome]] is almost a requisite, as these characters are different from the basic [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]] mindset of many gamers, favoring taking their time to indirectly cause their own victory.
Has [[I Read That As|nothing to do]] with [[Gender Reveal|gender reveal]] tropes.
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== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', the Straw Hat Pirates' mechanic Usopp fights via deception. A large part of this is to lure his enemies into becoming vulnerable for one of his attacks. Once he's caught someone in a trap, chances are that person [[Crazy Prepared|will get caught in a number of subsequent traps]] [[Xanatos Speed Chess|until they lose consciousness]]. Even the protagonist of this series is not immune to such a spectacle.
** On top of that, one-time character Foxy the Silver Fox's power is the ability to slow down time in specific regions, which wear off exactly 30 seconds later. He mainly uses this power to cause projectile weapons, such as arrows and bombs, to float in midair and suddenly and unpredictably hurl themselves at his foes.
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** Genno from the Trap Master Arc (filler) also counts.
* Satoko from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' is an extreme example of this, to the point of {{spoiler|taking out a large number of highly trained soldiers with traps that could only have been set up in a few days}}
* Frenda of ITEM from ''[[
* Student Council Vice President Akira Himuro from ''[[Fujimura-kun Mates]]'' somehow was able to set up pitfall traps throughout the entire town without anyone's notice. She triggers them with the slightest provocation.
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** Some of D&D's most legendary classic adventures, including ''I6: [[Ravenloft]]'' and ''[[Tomb of Horrors]]'', largely or entirely consist of a dungeon-crawl through the lair of a Trap Master.
** In ''[[Pathfinder]]'', there's a sun-class of the Ranger class called the Trapper, which gives up spellcasting in favor of learning how to quickly set up snares and other simple traps in combat. There's also a Rogue subclass called the Trapsmith, which specializes in disarming traps and building her own.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'': As much as the name suggests otherwise, [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Trap_Master the Trap Master] is not this trope.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* An old [
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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