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What's the trope for water suddenly pictured as deep enough to drown in, even though the characters were seen waddling in it just moments before? Usually shown with a camera positioned beneath a drowning or flailing character, light flickering above on the surface, often in slow motion. Sometimes coincidental with Dive Under the Explosion.
Newest example? Game of Thrones 07x04 ending shot. Horseback rider gallops splashing through water barely covering the hooves, gets knocked off the horse, lands in water at least 5 meters deep.
Possibly overlapping with another trope I can't place - a "bottomless puddle", often found in cartoons, in which a small puddle successfully dunks an unlucky pedestrian. For extra comedic effect, another character had just moments ago walked across the puddle with no trouble at all. The latter usually looks like this: [1]◊
Edited by SinusPi