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#1: Sep 21st 2022 at 7:37:39 PM

There's Thrown Down a Well, for when a living person is trapped inside of a well or otherwise confined, inescapable area, and there's Timmy in a Well, which is about a stock plotline about the family pet that doesn't really have anything inherently to do with wells.

I'm wondering why there's no trope for a body being disposed of by being thrown down a well. I can name a few examples off the top of my head: Shion throws all of her victims down the well in their basement in Higurashi, the twins' bodies are thrown down a well in Fran Bow, in Ace Attorney Investigations 2 a big part of the second case is determining whether or not a body was thrown down a well, and even in music, we have "their bodies found inside of a wishing well" from Bo Burnham's channel 5 news

It seems like it should be a trope to me because it's a pretty specific way of disposing of a body—one not really heard of today with, you know, the decreasing amount of wells in use. Yet it still shows up in all kinds of media.

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#2: Sep 21st 2022 at 7:39:48 PM

Trope Finder is better suited for this. If you're still unable to find the trope, you can always draft it over at Trope Launch Pad

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Sep 21st 2022 at 7:40:01 AM

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