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** A game has spikes almost everywhere and almost every variation.

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** A game has spikes almost everywhere and spikes are in almost every variation.variety.
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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob navigates a spiked maze in a dark room and gets horrified, seeing a head impaled by one of the spikes.
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** Alternatively, spikes are destroyed when player touches them.
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** The spikes are made to be highly acidic.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???'''Downplayed''':
** Spikes in the game won't kill the character, but do deal a decent amount of his health.
** Spikes are in the game, but are not all that common.
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???A way of quickly offing the DemonicSpiders in the game is to lure them into spike pits which kills them instantly.

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* '''Exaggerated''': A game has spikes almost everywhere and almost every variation.
** Alternatively, even though spikes don't seem sharp at all, they're still lethal on touch even on sideways.
* '''Justified''': Those spikes are drawn very sharp and always far below the safe ledges and won't hurt you when touching sides of them.
** Alternatively, spikes might not look very sharp, but they're electrified.
* '''Inverted''': Spikes won't kill the player but flat ground does.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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A game has spikes almost everywhere and almost every variation.
** Alternatively, even Even though spikes don't seem sharp at all, they're still lethal on touch even on sideways.
* '''Justified''': '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''':
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Those spikes are drawn very sharp and always far below the safe ledges and won't hurt you when touching sides of them.
** Alternatively, spikes Spikes might not look very sharp, but they're electrified.
* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Spikes won't kill the player but flat ground does.



* '''Subverted''': What appears to be a pit of spikes, happen to be collectible items.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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What appears to be a pit of spikes, happen to be collectible items.



* '''Double Subverted''': And one group of those items turns out to be real spikes.

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And one group of those items turns out to be real spikes.



* '''Parodied''': A cutscene is shown where a main character touches a side huge triangle and dies instantly due to it being counted as a spike.
** Alternatively, the hero cannot touch the pointy end of a sewing needle without [[LudicrousGibs exploding in an incredibly violent]] [[BloodyHilarious and disturbingly funny way]].
* '''Deconstructed''': The BigBad constructs spikes inside his fortress for protection, but the maintenance cost of constantly cleaning and sharpening those spikes causes him to go bankrupt and the bank to foreclose.
** Alternatively, the spikes will turn out to be too blunt to cause any serious harm.
* '''Reconstructed''': The BigBad purchases specially constructed spikes for his fortress that never go dull and that are made especially slick to prevent stains.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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A cutscene is shown where a main character touches a side huge triangle and dies instantly due to it being counted as a spike.
** Alternatively, the The hero cannot touch the pointy end of a sewing needle without [[LudicrousGibs exploding in an incredibly violent]] [[BloodyHilarious and disturbingly funny way]].
* '''Deconstructed''': The BigBad constructs spikes inside his fortress for protection, but the maintenance cost of constantly cleaning and sharpening those spikes causes him to go bankrupt and the bank to foreclose.
** Alternatively, the spikes will turn out to be too blunt to cause any serious harm.
* '''Reconstructed''': The BigBad purchases specially constructed spikes for his fortress that never go dull and that are made especially slick to prevent stains.
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* '''Exploited''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''':
** The BigBad constructs spikes inside his fortress for protection, but the maintenance cost of constantly cleaning and sharpening those spikes causes him to go bankrupt and the bank to foreclose.
** The spikes will turn out to be too blunt to cause any serious harm.
* '''Reconstructed''': The BigBad purchases specially constructed spikes for his fortress that never go dull and that are made especially slick to prevent stains.






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%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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** The hero simply carefully navigates through the spiked floor, making sure not to step on a spike


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** ...And then trips and falls on them anyways.
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** Alternatively, the spikes will turn out to be too blunt to cause any serious harm.
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* '''Played For Drama''': A dead body of a protagonist's friend can be seen impaled by those spikes.
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** Alternatively, grooves of healing.
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** Alternatively, spikes might not look very sharp, but they're electrified.
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** Or: The hero cannot touch the pointy end of a sewing needle without [[LudicrousGibs exploding in an incredibly violent]] [[BloodyHilarious and disturbingly funny way]].

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** Or: The Alternatively, the hero cannot touch the pointy end of a sewing needle without [[LudicrousGibs exploding in an incredibly violent]] [[BloodyHilarious and disturbingly funny way]].
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** Or: The hero cannot touch the pointy end of a sewing needle without [[LudicrousGibs exploding in an incredibly violent]] [[BloodyHilarious and disturbingly funny way]].
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** Alternatively, even though spikes don't seem sharp at all, they're still lethal on touch even on sideways.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob makes a suicide in [[humorous way BlackComedy]] by jumping into spikes.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob makes a suicide in [[humorous way BlackComedy]] [[BlackComedy humorous way]] by jumping into spikes.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob makes a suicide in [[humorous way BlackComedy]] by jumping into spikes.



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* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': The game doesn't have spikes at all or those which appear to be
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Deconstructed''': ???
The BigBad constructs spikes inside his fortress for protection, but the maintenance cost of constantly cleaning and sharpening those spikes causes him to go bankrupt and the bank to foreclose.
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
The BigBad purchases specially constructed spikes for his fortress that never go dull and that are made especially slick to prevent stains.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
The game features different classes of spikes featured, ranging from harmless to lethal. Only, the player cannot tell by looking what kind of spikes are on the screen, so it is decidedly random.
* '''Averted''': The game doesn't have spikes at all or those which appear to be
spikes.
* '''Enforced''': ???
The writer was accidentally impaled as a child and harbors a pathological fear of sharp objects.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
"Just be sure to avoid those big, pointy things down there..."
* '''Invoked''': ???
The BigBad is getting reports that the security at his fortress is too easy to bypass, so he places a special order for a spike-based defense system.
* '''Defied''': ???
The BigBad decides that spikes are too easy for his nemesis to bypass, so he constructs a complicated laser-based security system instead.
* '''Discussed''': ???
"Let me guess, touch the spikes and I die?"
* '''Conversed''': ???"Why do dungeons always have pits with spikes in them?"

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Click the edit button to start this new page.

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Click '''Basic Trope''': Harmful pointy objects.
* '''Straight''': A game has metal sharp triangular-shaped spikes which harm or kill
the edit button character on contact.
* '''Exaggerated''': A game has spikes almost everywhere and almost every variation.
* '''Justified''': Those spikes are drawn very sharp and always far below the safe ledges and won't hurt you when touching sides of them.
* '''Inverted''': Spikes won't kill the player but flat ground does.
* '''Subverted''': What appears
to start this new page. be a pit of spikes, happen to be collectible items.
* '''Double Subverted''': And one group of those items turns out to be real spikes.
* '''Parodied''': A cutscene is shown where a main character touches a side huge triangle and dies instantly due to it being counted as a spike.
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': The game doesn't have spikes at all or those which appear to be
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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