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20th Apr '13 3:22:54 PM StFan

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* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse''
** There is a variant in ''SurvivorsQuest''. Survivors in the ruins of ''OutboundFlight'' rigged the turbolifts -- think elevators IN SPACE, with repulsor beams replacing cables -- to imprison the heroes and suspend them between two Dreadnaughts. If they tried to cut their way out, one repulsor beam would shut off and the other one would crush them against a Dreadnaught. The two action-oriented parties immediately block the cameras and gets to work getting out; the noncombatant party talks their way into getting released. The one including Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker gets out of this using BadassBack, a synchronized strike, and a WireDilemma. The one including [[BadassCrew Aurek Seven]] gets out by siphoning power from one cable and directing it to another.
** In another of the Expanded Universe novels, Luke Invokes this trope, he has to get a work crew out of a construction mecha during an emergency, and projects the image of a hungry maw over the elevator doors to make the workers take the stairs.

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* There is a variant in ''SurvivorsQuest''. Survivors in the ruins of ''OutboundFlight'' rigged the turbolifts -- think elevators IN SPACE, with repulsor beams replacing cables -- to imprison the heroes and suspend them between two Dreadnaughts. If they tried to cut their way out, one repulsor beam would shut off and the other one would crush them against a Dreadnaught. The two action-oriented parties immediately block the cameras and gets to work getting out; the noncombatant party talks their way into getting released. The one including Mara Jade and Luke Skywalker gets out of this using BadassBack, a synchronized strike, and a WireDilemma. The one including [[BadassCrew Aurek Seven]] gets out by siphoning power from one cable and directing it to another.
** In another of the ''StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' novels, Luke Invokes this trope, he has to get a work crew out of a construction mecha during an emergency, and projects the image of a hungry maw over the elevator doors to make the workers take the stairs.
** During ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', when things start going wrong on the ''Star of Empire'', Hoole tells the Arrandas they should never take the turbolifts in an emergency. Later some characters go into one turbolift, [[RedShirt others]] into the other - and they both start going down way too fast, "screaming like a bomb being dropped." [[ShadowsOfTheEmpire Dash Rendar]] manually hotwires the emergency brake for long enough for the people in his car to get out, but the occupants of the other car were not so lucky.

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9th Oct '12 6:59:22 PM wwtoonlinkfan

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* Somewhat inverted with the dangerous but somehow nonfatal paternoster, or "cyclic elevator", an elevator invented in the late 1800s in England. The paternoster is named after the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin (Our Father) in reference to rosary beads, which the paternoster's string of cars resembles. The paternoster consists of a string of cars that are attached to a chain that circulates around two elevator shafts, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Paternoster_animated.gif one going up and the other going down]]The elevator cars do not flip over at the top or bottom - they instead stay upright and cycle over to the shaft going the other direction. The paternoster's main claims to infamy are its lack of doors and the fact that it ''never stops''. Yet despite its frightening setup, the paternoster elevator has killed just five people from 1970 to the present day. However, frightened governments have banned the construction of new paternosters and many building managers have phased out existing ones. Today only around 40 paternosters are left, with none in the US.

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