History PlayingWith / BottomlessPits

** “Ahh, it’s another one of those mysterious death pits isn’t it?” “How cliché. [[NecessaryWeasel But they’re not disappearing anytime soon.]]”

* '''Exaggerated''': [[GravityBarrier The pit serves as a barrier to all passage, as it’s long enough to fill the horizon.]]

** The hero fails to jump over the pit…And it turns out that it’s actually rather short, and the pit just had a darkness spell over it to make it look deep.

* '''Averted''': All pits have visible ends, with or without spikes of doom. o.

** Emperoer Evulz insists on putting the pits everywhere.

** If you fall into a bottomless spit, you die of thirst. It takes days to die that way…in and out of game.

** Anything that falls into a pit is LostForever. The pit will [[HostileTerraforming gradually drain natural resources and disrupt the ecosystem]] of any planet it’s on prevent it being recycled and slowly turning it into a barren wasteland.

'''BottomlessPit''': A random chasm or drop that kills you if you fall in it. Alternately, a pit that is effectively as deep as it needs to be.
* '''Straight''': There is a massive chasm ahead on the hero’s path, and it’s so deep the bottom is invisible...wether due to camera issues or light issues. Jumping in leads to death.

* '''Downplayed''': NonLethalBottomlessPits

* '''Justified''': The game’s set on a ShatteredWorld: of course these are everywhere.

* '''Inverted''': Jumping down the pit is the only way to save yourself from an otherwise unavoidable barrage of arrows.

* '''Subverted''': The hero fails to jump over the pit…And it turns out that it’s actually rather short, and the pit just had a darkness spell over it to make it look deep.

* '''Double Subverted''': The hero hits a trapdoor, and THAT one is bottomless.

* '''Parodied''': A villain falls down the bottomless pit. OnceAnEpisode, for the rest of the series, [[IFellForHours they cut back to him doing something random.]]
** The pits are literally everwhere; inside houses, on walls, even inside chests!

* '''Lampshaded''': “Seriously? A yawing chasm into oblvin? In a CASTLE? Who make these things?”
* '''Invoked''': Emperoer Evulz insists on putting the pits everywhere.

* '''Exploited''': You can kick your enemies into the pit. Screaming about ancient greek city states while doing so is optional.

** “Why did you think that would work? I can FLY!”
* '''Discussed''': “Ahh, it’s another one of those mysterious death pits isn’t it?” “How cliché. [[NecessaryWeasel But they’re not disappearing anytime soon.]]”

* '''Deconstructed''': If you fall into a bottomless spit, you die of thirst. It takes days to die that way…in and out of game.
** Building all those pits has exhausted Evulz’s resources for little actual gain, as they do comaprivly little to stop the hero’s progress.
** Anything that falls into a pit is LostForever. The pit will [[HostileTerraforming gradually drain natural resources and disrupt the ecosystem]] of any planet it’s on prevent it being recycled and slowly turning it into a barren wasteland.
* '''Reconstructed''': The hero has a CyanidePill for [[MercyKill this exact purpose.]]

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* '''Played For Drama:’’’ The hero lost a loved one down the pit, and doesn’t even have a TragicKeepsake to show for it.

'''BottomlessPit'': A random chasm or drop that kills you if you fall in it. Alternately, a pit that is effectively as deep as it needs to be.

** Anything that falls into a pit is LostForever. The pit will [[Hostile Terraforming gradually drain natural resources and disrupt the ecosystem of any planet it’s on prevent it being recycled and slowly turning it into a barren wasteland.

** [[DwarfFotress The pit is used as ]] [[MundaneUtility garbage disposal.]]

** [[DwarfFotressThe pit is used as ]] [[MundaneUtility garbage disposal.]]

* '''Downplayed''': NonLethal BottomlessPits
** You can actually see the bottom of the pit, but its obvious fatal to jump into.