History Main / DungeonBypass

*** There is also a glitch that allows you to warp from the first dungeon to after the fight with Ganondorf, where you are escaping a collapsing Hyrule Castle.

*** There has been found a glitch that lets you go from the first temple to the scenario near the end, where you are escaping a collapsing ganon's castle. As kid link you escort zelda through the building, and fight ganon himself in his final incarnation. you can beat the game like this.

*** To clarify: by using the Star Road at the first opportunity (via Donut Secret House), it's possible to beat the game by completing as few as 12 levels. Playing the game straight through requires beating about 40, and OneHundredPercentCompletion is 96.

** ''SuperMario3DLand'' if not an exaggeration or parody. It's normally a water level, where you start on solid ground, go through an underwater area, then use a pipe to reach the flagpole, which is also on solid ground. As a matter of fact, you can even see the flagpole from the start of the level... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhIcgdVJHM0 and, if you have a Tanooki suit, jump over to it, allowing you to skip the entire level and beat it in 5 seconds]].

** Playing as Luigi or Toadstool in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' allowed you to easily bypass large chunks of several stages.

* This trope has got to be on the list of ''ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG''.
** It is. Check number 50.

** ''SuperMario3DLand'' contains what may well be [[BeyondTheImpossible the epitome of this trope]], if not an exaggeration or parody. It's normally a water level, where you start on solid ground, go through an underwater area, then use a pipe to reach the flagpole, which is also on solid ground. As a matter of fact, you can even see the flagpole from the start of the level... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhIcgdVJHM0 and, if you have a Tanooki suit, jump over to it, allowing you to skip the entire level and beat it in 5 seconds]].

Heroes that find another way to get past a maze may also count. Basically, the Dungeon Bypass is where the hero takes a shortcut instead of whatever the intended path was (possibly exploiting MyopicArchitecture in the process). If used in combat, this can be in some contexts a case of FightingDirty. This is a SubTrope of FakeSkill.

* In ''HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry takes a shortcut through a maze by blasting through the hedge in order to rescue Cedric. Yet it takes a spell and quite some fighting with the branches just to open a small hole.

* VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon has the Pure Seed item, which teleports you to the stairs down instantly. AwesomeButImpractical in that, while not very expensive, you'd have to bring one for each of the up to 50-70 floors of the dungeon, can only find them as random drops or in the randomly restocked shops, and they would take up a lot of space in your bag...

** During the Reilly's Ranger's quest, the main marker path leads you eastbound from Metro Central to Freedom Street and the Mutant-infested and irradiated Vernon Square, which is the main entrance to Our Lady of Hope Hospital, but Reilly suggests a bypass route to the hospital from Dupont Circle through the Dry Sewers.

* In ''RainbowSix: Raven Shield'''s ninth mission, a StealthBasedMission, leaving one operative in the Extraction Zone will automatically trigger the "mission complete" flag after the other operative completes the objectives, saving you the trip back.

* One of the factors that contributed to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople Fall of Constantinople]] (thus the TropeNamer for IstanbulNotConstantinople) was the failure of the naval blockade by the Christian defenders of the city. Not because Sultan Mehmed II broke through the blockade with his famed {{BFG}}s, but because the Sultan transported his fleet overland: he ''ordered the construction of a road of greased logs across Galata on the north side of the Golden Horn, and rolled his ships across''.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena'', included the spell "Passwall". It allowed players to permanently destroy dungeon walls, letting them bypass tough enemies and other obstacles. They didn't include it in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', but enterprising players can make use of the wonky level geometry to move through the walls into a black space known as [[FanNickname The Void]], allowing you to run along on top of the dungeon paths. Be aware, though, that while it's relatively easy to pass into the Void, it's rather more complex to get back out of it. These "features" live on in later Bethesda games, with the "tcl" (toggle clipping) console command.

* In JourneyQuest Perf and Nara accomplish this [[spoiler: on the Temple of All Dooms, by accident!]]

* In the ''{{Crusader}}'' games, virtually any door that you need a keycard or combination to open can be blasted open with explosives. This will, however, set off the alarm.
* ''{{Minecraft}}'' includes strongholds and dungeons among it's procedurally-generated terrain, and since any player is going to be equipped with a pickaxe one might think the walls of the dungeon would present no obstacle at all. But, to make the player think twice about breaking down a wall, the stone-brick block that comprises the dungeon walls are randomly populated with identical-looking blocks containing Silverfish, a vicious swarming enemy that can cut even an armored player down in numbers, and that tends to make more of itself when attacked.

** The books got some fun with cadets finding solutions the examiners hadn't thought of, the crowners being Peter Kirk (Jim's own nephew) issuing a formal duel challenge to the enemy commander (Romulan in this version. He knew the Romulan culture much better than his examiners) and having his ship rescue the crew of the Kobayashi Maru during the duel, and Mackenzie Calhoun [[OffTheRails blowing up the the Kobayashi Maru himself]], reasoning that [[ShootTheDog either the Kobayashi Maru had been really captured and their crew would have been tortured to death by their captors once they killed him]] or [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves were working with the enemy and was thus another target]].

** Speaking of which, in Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky, with enough IQ grinding, Palkia can learn the IQ skill Absolute Mover, which lets you traverse any terrain type ''and'' break through walls. Combined with other skills such as Stairs Sensor, and you can easily skip quite a few rooms within a floor.

**** An AscendedMeme as of ''NanohaInnocent'', which has Nanoha travelling in exactly this way through a computer-generated maze of buildings.