History Main / CobwebTrampoline

In fiction, spider webs make excellent trampolines, though in RealLife, this is not the case (anything light enought to not outright tear through the net will just get stuck to it). You can expect this to show up a lot in {{Platform Game}}s, especially in TheLostWoods and BigBoosHaunt settings. If used as an obstacle that bounces the player back, [[YouHaveToBurnTheWeb they may have to burn the web]] in order to proceed.

In fiction, spider webs make excellent trampolines, though in RealLife, this is not the case (anything light enought to not outright tear through the net will just get stuck to it). You can expect this to show up a lot in {{Platform Game}}s, especially in TheLostWoods and BigBoosHaunt settings. If used as an obstacle that bounces the player back, [[YouHaveToBurnTheWeb they may have to burn the web]] in order proceed.

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* In ''VideoGame/DisneysAladdinInNasirasRevenge'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, there's a level in an oasis where you can use the large webs from the resident large spiders as trampolines. Subverted in the BossBattle of that level: You fight a colossal spider on a web, and you can't jump nor run on it.

-->'''Rincewind:''' I don't mind putting my hand up to killing a few spiders. But it was me or them, I mean some of those come at you at ''head'' height --
-->'''Scrappy:''' You changed history.
-->'''Rincewind:''' Oh, come ''on'', [[ButterflyEffect a few spiders don't make that much difference]], some of them were using their webs as ''trampolines'', it was a case of "boing" and next moment --

* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' has one small section of the spider-filled [[LethalLavaLand Arachnia]] where the titular character has to jump on these as springboards.

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* In ''Disney's Aladdin: Nasira's Revenge'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation, there's a level in an oasis where you can use the large webs from the resident large spiders as trampolines. Subverted in the BossBattle of that level: You fight a colossal spider on a web, and you can't jump nor run on it.

* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' game "Scam of the Century" features this.
* In the PC game ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Goin' Quackers'', there are cobweb trampolines in the Haunted House-themed levels.
* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'', one of the boxed animals that you can ride is an enormous spider, whose special move is to spit out perfect round spiderwebs, which can be frozen in mid-air and used as trampolines.
* ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy'': Trampolines made of spider web that are used to reach higher areas in Spider Cave, which is in a mine level infested with crawlies.
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', Santalune City's gym has humongous bouncy spiderwebs that the player must traverse on as its puzzle.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'', gigantic cobwebs appear at the end of Green Cave and White Cave, which bounce the racers back to the start/finish line.

* Used in several Forbidden Forest levels in ''VideoGame/LEGOHarryPotter''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' has one small section of the spider-filled [[LethalLavaLand Arachnia]] where the titular character has to jump on these as springboards.
* One of the powers granted by the Spider ability in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' is creating such a trampoline for allies to jump on. Taranza can also do this.

* WesternAnimation/MrBogus bounces on one of these inside the walls of the house in the opening intro of the show.

Alongside [[SpringySpores mushrooms]], [[GelatinousTrampoline gelatin molds]], and [[TrampolineTummy fat people's stomachs]], another common item that can be used as a trampoline is a cobweb. It depends on whether or not there will be a [[SpidersAreScary spider]] inhabiting it, just as long as the cobweb is facing upward or slightly tilted to the side, but not too much.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': Link can do this on the large central cobweb in the Deku Tree until he jumps from higher up, at which point it breaks and lets you into the basement levels.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' has cobwebs in some dungeons that will bounce Link off them. You normally need to clear them away with the Gust Jar.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] completely in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': If Link touches the cobwebs, he takes damage.

* ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterThePrecursorLegacy'' used this in a mine level infested with insects.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' has cobwebs in some dungeons that will bounce Link off them. You normally need to clear them away with the Gust Jar.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Link can do this on the large central cobweb in the Deku Tree [[spoiler:until he jumps from higher up, at which point it breaks and lets you into the basement levels]].

* Averted in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. Jake gets caught in a spider web, and Finn tries to bounce himself off it.

* ''Videogame/{{Pandemonium}}'', being a platformer, features those.

See also BuildingSwing, which may also involve the use of web threads for aerial locomotion. Compare AllWebbedUp and ProjectileWebbing for other common and useful web-based applications.

* One of the powers granted by the Spider ability in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' is creating such a trampoline for allies to jump on.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Rayman 2}}'' has several spider-webs off which Rayman must bounce, to go alongside with the webs that he can climb. The spiders that made the webs even come out to attack you, in some locations.

In fiction, spider webs make excellent trampolines, though in RealLife, this is not the case (anything light enought to not outright tear through the net will just get stuck to it). You can expect this to show up a lot in {{Platform Game}}s, especially in TheLostWoods and BigBoosHaunt settings. If used as an obstacle, [[YouHaveToBurnTheWeb the player may have to burn the web]] in order proceed.

In fiction, spider webs make excellent trampolines, though in RealLife, this is not the case (anything light enought to not outright tear through the net will just get stuck to it). You can expect this to show up a lot in {{Platform Game}}s, especially in TheLostWoods and BigBoosHaunt settings. If used as an obstacle, [[YouMayHaveToBurnTheWeb the player may have to burn the web]] in order proceed.

In fiction, spider webs make excellent trampolines, though in RealLife, this is not the case (anything light enought to not outright tear through the net will just get stuck to it). You can expect this to show up a lot in {{Platform Game}}s, especially in TheLostWoods and BigBoosHaunt settings.

See also BuildingSwing, which may also involve the use of web threads for locomotion. Compare AllWebbedUp and ProjectileWebbing for other common and useful web-based applications.