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* TeamRocket in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' use these so often that they're practically the {{Trope Codifier}}s. They often mess up ''a la'' the standard subversion.

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* TeamRocket Team Rocket in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' use these so often that they're practically the {{Trope Codifier}}s. They often mess up ''a la'' the standard subversion.



** They did use one correctly in "Charmander, the Stray Pokémon", only for the plan to fall apart after being burned by Charmander.

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** They did use one correctly in "Charmander, the Stray Pokémon", only for the plan to fall apart after being burned by Charmander. In that instance, Meowth even pointed out they'd used on a few episodes beforehand.
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* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'': In ''Freddy to the Rescue'', animal rights campaigners bury boxes around a construction site in the hopes of capturing the endangered field hamsters who live there and moving them to another field. They only succeed in capturing the golden hamster Freddy and the cat Sir William.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' adventures uses them all the time in underground areas, often with SpikesOfDoom, HollywoodAcid, a BlobMonster, or some other unpleasant thing on the bottom to make it that much deadlier.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' adventures uses ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
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them all the time in underground areas, time, often with SpikesOfDoom, HollywoodAcid, a BlobMonster, or some other unpleasant thing on the bottom to make it that much deadlier.deadlier.
** [[OurKoboldsAreDifferent Kobolds]], being a race of {{Trap Master}}s, have the ''Enveloping Pit'' as a holy relic of their deity Kurtulmak. In its base form it's a foot-wide PortableHole, but at a command word, it expands to 10 feet wide and 50 feet deep. A common kobold tactic is to put the ''Enveloping Pit'' in the center of a corridor in its compact form, then as soon as a group of intruders steps around it, the kobolds give the command to make the pit expand, swallowing them up.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': [[spoiler: Rilursa]] is assassinated when her carriage is forced onto a cliffside road with a hidden pit trap full of sharp wooden spikes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheChocolix'': In "The Chocobeard Treasure, Part 1", Chocobeard's assistants set up traps to keep people from finding their treasure, one of which is a pitfall trap. One of them ends up falling in the trap afterwards.
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* TeamRocket in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime use these so often that they're practically the {{Trope Codifier}}s. They often mess up ''a la'' the standard subversion.

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* TeamRocket in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' use these so often that they're practically the {{Trope Codifier}}s. They often mess up ''a la'' the standard subversion.

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