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* Happens to Wakko and Dr. Scratchnsniff in an episode of {{Animaniacs}}. HilarityEnsues.
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* This happens in ''DeadIsland'' at the start when you're escaping from the hotel.
* The elevator you spent a rather long time trying to fix in ''AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' only fails on you and crashes.
* The elevator you spent a rather long time trying to fix in ''AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' only fails on you and crashes.
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* ''Sweet Valley University'', a spin-off of ''SweetValleyHigh'', had a book called "The Roommate" that copied the plot of ''SingleWhiteFemale'' where Isabella acquires a roommate who begins imitating her and taking over her life. At the end of the story the roommate falls to her death down an elevator shaft during a psychotic episode.
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* ''Sweet Valley University'', a spin-off of ''SweetValleyHigh'', had a book called "The Roommate" that copied the plot of ''SingleWhiteFemale'' ''SingleWhiteFemale'', where Isabella acquires a roommate who begins imitating her and taking over her life. At the end of the story the roommate falls to her death down an elevator shaft during a psychotic episode.
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* Occasionally used in the ''{{GiveYourselfGoosebumps}}'' series. The books were fonder of EvilElevator, but there were a few endings where you would fall down an elevator shaft while running from a monster, or similar.
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* Occasionally used in the ''{{GiveYourselfGoosebumps}}'' ''GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' series. The books were fonder of EvilElevator, but there were a few endings where you would fall down an elevator shaft while running from a monster, or similar.
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* Used several times in the ''{{GiveYourselfGoosebumps}}'' series, notably "Shop Till You Drop ... Dead!" and "Into the Jaws of Doom". Averted in "Elevator to Nowhere", in which the titular "elevator" is actually a dimension-hopping device and doesn't go up or down.
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* Used several times Occasionally used in the ''{{GiveYourselfGoosebumps}}'' series, notably "Shop Till You Drop ... Dead!" series. The books were fonder of EvilElevator, but there were a few endings where you would fall down an elevator shaft while running from a monster, or similar.
* ''Sweet Valley University'', a spin-off of ''SweetValleyHigh'', had a book called "The Roommate" that copied the plot of ''SingleWhiteFemale'' where Isabella acquires a roommate who begins imitating her and"Into taking over her life. At the Jaws end of Doom". Averted in "Elevator to Nowhere", in which the titular "elevator" is actually story the roommate falls to her death down an elevator shaft during a dimension-hopping device and doesn't go up or down.psychotic episode.
* ''Sweet Valley University'', a spin-off of ''SweetValleyHigh'', had a book called "The Roommate" that copied the plot of ''SingleWhiteFemale'' where Isabella acquires a roommate who begins imitating her and
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* Used several times in the ''{{GiveYourselfGoosebumps}}'' series, notably "Shop Till You Drop ... Dead!" and "Into the Jaws of Doom". Averted in "Elevator to Nowhere", in which the titular "elevator" is actually a dimension-hopping device and doesn't go up or down.
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* In an episode of ''LALaw'', Rosalynd Shays turns to step into the elevator, but it was an error. The bell went off and the door opened, but the car wasn't there and she stepped into an empty elevator shaft.
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* ''{{Jam}}'' had a sketch where an office elevator breaks down, but because the security guard has a speech impediment, he isn't able to warn people in time and they all plunge screaming to their deaths.
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* In Dead Rising 2, during the beginning of the zombie outbreak [[spoiler: Somebody disguised as Chuck Green places an explosive device on one of the zombie gates that goes off releasing yet another zombie outbreak]] and when Chuck is on the elevator it suddenly stops in the overtures to the outbreak. Upon forcing the doors open, he almost gets stuck in front of a rampaging zombie coming right at him, but as luck would have it somebody runs right into it and becomes the new target of the zombie, saving Chuck.
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* In one episode of ''BoyMeetsWorld'', Cory has a nightmare where he pushes all of his friends down an empty elevator shaft.
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* Nephrite tries to kill SailorMoon by sabotaging an elevator.
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* Nephrite tries to kill SailorMoon by sabotaging an elevator. Zoicite tries to do it to get rid of both her and Tuxedo Mask.
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* In one episode of ''OneThousandWaysToDie'', a mean office manager suffers a KarmicDeath this way. While attempting to escape from a stopped elevator, the brakes fail and she is crushed/bisected. Apparently based on a true story described in [[TroperTales/EvilElevator Troper Tales]].
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* [[GearsOfWar Marcus Fenix]] Lampshades this tendency in his [[DeadpanSnarker typical style]] at around the end of Gears 2.
-->'''Marcus:''' "Unbelievable."\\
-->'''Marcus:''' "Unbelievable."\\
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Star Trek TNG, grammar in LA Law.
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* In one episode of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', alien programming starts to take over the computer, causing numerous problems. When Geordi La Forge takes a turbolift (an elevator that can also travel ''sideways''), he ends up violently thrown around and pinned to the walls and ceiling. When it finally comes to a stop, he is thrown violently out of the turbolift and onto the bridge.
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* In of the AlexRider novels, a contract killer kills his target by sabotaging his elevator, causing it to go up one floor higher than it normally would, than leaving a sophisticated hologram of the elevator in it's place, causing the target to step into the empty shaft and fall to his death.
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* In of the AlexRider novels, a contract killer kills his target by sabotaging his elevator, causing it to go up one floor higher than it normally would, than would and then leaving a sophisticated hologram of the elevator in it's place, causing the target to step into the empty shaft and fall to his death.
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* In of the AlexRider novels, a contract killer kills his target by sabotaging his elevator, causing it to go up one floor higher than it normally would, than leaving a sophisticated hologram of the elevator in it's place, causing the target to step into the empty shaft and fall to his death.
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* The Teddy Bomber tries to kill Spike and Andy in "Cowboy Funk" with a sabotaged elevator; instead of plummeting to the bottom, it's rigged to go to the top of the building, causing a bomb to explode. Andy anticipated this scenario and changed the codes on the elevator controls so he could stop it; unfortunately so did Spike, making them what the bomber set originally.
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* The Teddy Bomber tries to kill Spike and Andy in the ''CowboyBebop'' episode "Cowboy Funk" with a sabotaged elevator; instead of plummeting to the bottom, it's rigged to go to the top ''top'' of the building, causing a bomb to explode. Andy anticipated this scenario and changed the codes on the elevator controls so he could stop it; unfortunately so did Spike, making them what the bomber set originally.
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* In CardcaptorSakura, Eriol magically traps Sakura and Li in an elevator. The results are adorable.
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* At one point in ''RedFaction'', an elevator malfunctions and falls into a BottomlessPit, forcing you to find an alternate route.
* Happens a few times in the ''MaxPayne'' games.
* Happens a few times in the ''MaxPayne'' games.
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* [[http://www.simpleton.com/19980403.html Stuck elevator turned]] DrowningPit due to broken water main.
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* When this happens in RealLife, it can be pretty [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/elevator.asp gruesome]] (the article is completely non-graphic)
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* When this happens in RealLife, it can be pretty [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/elevator.asp gruesome]] (the article is completely non-graphic)
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* ''{{Devil}}'' is about five people who get trapped in an elevator by none other than the Devil himself. [[spoiler:While inside the elevator, everytime lights go off, somebody dies]].
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* ''{{Devil}}'' is about five people who get trapped in an elevator by none other than the Devil himself. [[spoiler:While inside the elevator, everytime lights go off, somebody dies]]. himself, [[LightsOffSomebodyDies who slowly kills each one off]].
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* The aptly named Romanian film ''Elevator'' is about two teenagers that get trapped in an abandoned warehouse elevator, with no one who can hear them and rescue them.
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* The aptly named Romanian film ''Elevator'' is about two teenagers that get trapped in an abandoned warehouse elevator, with no one who can hear them and rescue them. [[spoiler: The movie ends with both characters hopelessly expecting to die inside.]]
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* One ''{{Paranoia}}'' mission uses malfunctioning elevators to the 99th floor as a RunningGag. One has the walls and ceiling rise, while the floor stays in place; another is airtight and slow, leaving the PCs to choose between laser-ventilating the wall (and paying a fine for damaging Computer property) or [[ColdEquation each other]]...
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* One ''{{Paranoia}}'' mission uses malfunctioning elevators to the 99th floor as a RunningGag. One has the walls and ceiling rise, while the floor stays in place; another is airtight and slow, leaving the PCs [=PCs=] to choose between laser-ventilating the wall (and paying a fine for damaging Computer property) or [[ColdEquation each other]]...
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* One ''{{Paranoia}}'' mission uses malfunctioning elevators to the 99th floor as a RunningGag. One has the walls and ceiling rise, while the floor stays in place; another is airtight and slow, leaving the PCs to choose between laser-ventilating the wall (and paying a fine for damaging Computer property) or [[ColdEquation each other]]...
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* One ''{{Paranoia}}'' mission uses malfunctioning elevators to the 99th floor as a RunningGag. One has the walls and ceiling rise, while the floor stays in place; another is airtight and slow, leaving the PCs to choose between laser-ventilating the wall (and paying a fine for damaging Computer property) or [[ColdEquation each other]]...
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* FinalFantasyVIII had this in [[spoiler: Balamb Garden during the evacuation]] and your party had to use the hatch on the bottom to advance [[spoiler: The elevator will fall down immediately after they leave.]]
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* On ''{{Friends}}'', Joey's character is killed off ''DaysOfOurLives'' when he falls down an elevator shaft. Of course, it's a soap opera, so he comes back to life.
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* The ''[[ICarly iCarly]]'' episode ''[=iSaw Him First=]'' has the girls fighting over a guy, and at the end he gets fed up and leaves... accidentally stepping into an empty elevator shaft. Believe it or not, it's PlayedForLaughs.
