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** Loki's less-than-pleasant final fate involves being chained underground while a snake drips venom in his eyes. Not all the time though- his wife holds a bowl to catch the venom, but when she moves away to empty it, the venom lands, and Loki's spasms cause earthquakes.
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* The searat captain Gabool the Wild keeps a scorpion pit in his castle. While every main character is arguing about who has more cause to kill Gabool, he ends up falling into it.
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* ''{{Literature/Redwall}}'': The searat captain Gabool the Wild keeps a scorpion pit in his castle. While every main character is arguing about who has more cause to kill Gabool, he ends up falling into it.
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* The searat captain Gabool the Wild keeps a scorpion pit in his castle. While every main character is arguing about who has more cause to kill Gabool, he ends up falling into it.
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* The epsiode “Halloween Knights” from ''MacGyver'' has a snake pit as part of a deadly obstacle course that Mac and Murdoc have to complete in order to free Murdoc's sister.
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* The epsiode episode “Halloween Knights” from ''MacGyver'' ''Series/MacGyver'' has a snake pit as part of a deadly obstacle course that Mac and Murdoc have to complete in order to free Murdoc's sister.
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* During a pyramid exploration story in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', Torg and Riff nearly fall into one of these. However, since Bun Bun stole all their food before they left for the trip, they end up using the snakes for food instead.
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Ragnarr Loðbrók
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This trope has no inherent relation to Why Did It Have To Be Snakes, making this a Sinkhole. Also, that movie quote is overused.
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** Other species of snakes, such as some rattlers, have also been observed hibernating together. Of course, a hibernaculum isn't a very ''good'' example of this trope, because the snakes would all be too sluggish to do any damage to anyone who was thrown in.
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* While normally solitary, when autumn arrives, garter snakes gather by the hundreds in a cave or pit to hibernate for the winter. These places are known as hibernaculums. Once spring arrives, males will mate with females and then they leave to become solitary once more.
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* ''Series/TropicalHeat'': In the episode "Fowl Play", Nick Slaughter is trapped in a container with snakes.
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* A similar method is used in Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force's fairy tale "The Good Woman". This time, it's an evil king ordering the execution. The titular Good Woman saves herself from being executed by throwing moss at the king's feet, making him fall into the snake pit and die.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', Xandir's girlfriend is being lured into a pit of cobras when Xandir calls her to tell her he's gay.
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* When the Ogress in Creator/CharlesPerrault's "Literature/SleepingBeauty" finds out the cooks [[MercifulMinion have not carried out]] her order to kill Sleeping Beauty and her children, she orders a large tub to be "filled with toads, vipers, snakes, and all sorts of serpents" as a means to execute Sleeping Beauty, her children, and the disobedient cooks.
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cooks. But the king returns before the execution is carried out, and the ogress throws herself into the pit to be "instantly devoured by the ugly creatures [[KarmicDeath she had ordered to be thrown into it for others.]]"
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* In the 2006 ''Series/RobinHood'' series, Robin at one point is lowered into a pit of venomous snakes... that were [[YouFailBiologyForever clearly harmless boa constrictors]].
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** In the Old Norse legend of the Niflungs, King Gunnar of the Niflungs is thrown into a snake pit to die by his treacherous brother-in-law Atli. Related in ''Literature/ProseEdda'', ''Literature/PoeticEdda'' and ''Literature/VolsungaSaga''.
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** In the Old Norse legend of the Niflungs, King Gunnar of the Niflungs is thrown into a snake pit to die by his treacherous brother-in-law Atli. Related in ''Literature/ProseEdda'', ''Literature/PoeticEdda'' and ''Literature/VolsungaSaga''.
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* One of Captain Bimbo's traps in ''Webcomic/{{Zortic}}''.
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* In ''Series/{{Vikings}}'', King Aelle of Northumbria has one of his captains [[YouHaveFailedMe who has failed]] him in fighting Ragnar Lothbrok thrown into a snake pit to die.
* In ''Series/{{Vikings}}'', King Aelle of Northumbria has one of his captains [[YouHaveFailedMe who has failed]] him in fighting Ragnar Lothbrok thrown into a snake pit to die.
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* When the Ogress in Creator/CharlesPerrault's "Literature/SleepingBeauty" finds out the cooks [[MercifulMinion have not carried out]] her order to kill Sleeping Beauty and her children, she orders a large tub to be "filled with toads, vipers, snakes, and all sorts of serpents" as a means to execute Sleeping Beauty, her children, and the disobedient cooks.
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* Film/GungaDin features a pit full of cobras.
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A '''Snake Pit''' is the terrestial cousin for SharkPool - a pit or container full of venomous or otherwise dangerous snakes, other reptilians, arachnids, scorpions or other nasty creatures. The victim is supposed to get killed by multiple angry animal bites or stings. While this is a very nasty and historically plausible way to get killed, it is also fairly impractical.
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A '''Snake Pit''' is the terrestial cousin for SharkPool - a pit or container full of venomous or otherwise dangerous snakes, other reptilians, arachnids, scorpions [[ScaryScorpions scorpions]] or other nasty creatures. The victim is supposed to get killed by multiple angry animal bites or stings. While this is a very nasty and historically plausible way to get killed, it is also fairly impractical.
impractical.
This trope plays on the often [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent irrational fears many people harbour towards reptiles]] and arachnids. It likes to pretend that the little crawlies are tiny monsters programmed by nature to attack humans, and therefore [[PiranhaProblem will swarm in droves upon a hapless victim if given the chance.]] In reality, most such creatures avoid humans; stinging or biting us is exclusively a defensive behavior.
This trope plays on the often [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent irrational fears many people harbour towards reptiles]] and arachnids. It likes to pretend that the little crawlies are tiny monsters programmed by nature to attack humans, and therefore [[PiranhaProblem will swarm in droves upon a hapless victim if given the chance.]] In reality, most such creatures avoid humans; stinging or biting us is exclusively a defensive behavior.
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Daniel in the Lion\'s Den belongs on Fed To The Beast.
A subtrope of FedToTheBeast.
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->''When he had been taken and cast into prison, his guilty limbs were given to serpents to devour, and adders found ghastly substance in the fibres of his entrails. His liver was eaten away, and a snake, like a deadly executioner, beset his very heart. ... The executioner beheld him beset with poisonous beasts, and asps gorging on that heart which he had borne steadfast in the face of every peril.''
-->--''Literature/GestaDanorum'': the death of Ragnar Lothbrog, book 9
-->--''Literature/GestaDanorum'': the death of Ragnar Lothbrog, book 9
