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** The developer mis-sectored one of the rooms[[note]] instead of the exit pointing to the next room in the chain it points back to the first room[[/note]], either [[gameBreakingBug by mistake]] or to prevent the player from [[SequenceBreaking getting to the exit too early]].

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** The developer mis-sectored one of the rooms[[note]] instead of the exit pointing to the next room in the chain it points back to the first room[[/note]], either [[gameBreakingBug [[GameBreakingBug by mistake]] or to prevent the player from [[SequenceBreaking getting to the exit too early]].

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* '''Enforced''': The author wants to paint the Lair of Despair as an EldritchLocation.

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The author wants to paint the Lair of Despair as an EldritchLocation.EldritchLocation.
** The developer mis-sectored one of the rooms[[note]] instead of the exit pointing to the next room in the chain it points back to the first room[[/note]], either [[gameBreakingBug by mistake]] or to prevent the player from [[SequenceBreaking getting to the exit too early]].
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** The east/west hallway of the underground lair, though straight looking, actually follows the S88 circle of latitude.

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** The east/west hallway of the underground lair, though straight looking, actually follows the S88 88°S circle of latitude.
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** The east/west hallway of the underground lair, though straight looking, actually follows the S178 circle of latitude.

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** The east/west hallway of the underground lair, though straight looking, actually follows the S178 S88 circle of latitude.
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** The east/west hallway of the underground lair, though straight looking, actually follows the S178 circle of latitude.
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** It's a sign that this is [[AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption BREEP-BREEP-BREEP-…]] AllJustADream.

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* '''Subverted''': Bob walks out of the Lair of Despair, down a hall, and finds himself back in the lair...but Alice hears [[TheDragon Dracone]] gloating about having made more lairs just to {{gaslight|ing}} Bob, and spills the secret.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** Bob was just walking in a circle around the camera.
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Bob walks out of the Lair of Despair, down a hall, and finds himself back in the lair...but Alice hears [[TheDragon Dracone]] gloating about having made more lairs just to {{gaslight|ing}} Bob, and spills the secret.
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* '''Subverted''': Bob walks out of the Lair of Despair, down a hall, and finds himself back in the lair...but Alice hears [[TheDragon Dracone]] gloating about having made more lairs just to {{gaslight}} Bob, and spills the secret.

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* '''Subverted''': Bob walks out of the Lair of Despair, down a hall, and finds himself back in the lair...but Alice hears [[TheDragon Dracone]] gloating about having made more lairs just to {{gaslight}} {{gaslight|ing}} Bob, and spills the secret.
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'''Basic Trope''': A place where going somewhere will just take you back where you started.
* '''Straight''': Bob walks out of the Lair of Despair, down a hall...and finds himself back in the lair.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob walks out of the Lair of Despair, into the Lair of Despair.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob goes through several rooms and eventually finds himself back in the lair.
* '''Justified''':
** The Lair of Despair has been enchanted by an EvilSorcerer so no one can escape.
** The Lair of Despair is an [[AesopEnforcer aesop-teaching]] GeniusLoci; no one can leave without EpiphanyTherapy.
* '''Inverted''': Bob walks out of the Lair of Despair and can never find it again afterwards, even when he tries backtracking his steps.
* '''Subverted''': Bob walks out of the Lair of Despair, down a hall, and finds himself back in the lair...but Alice hears [[TheDragon Dracone]] gloating about having made more lairs just to {{gaslight}} Bob, and spills the secret.
* '''Double Subverted''':...But when Bob confronts him, Dracone smugly tells him that he just let Bob ''think'' that [[HopeSpot in order to build up his hopes]] before crushing them again; it really was the same lair.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Locations work the way they do in real life and can be left.
* '''Enforced''': The author wants to paint the Lair of Despair as an EldritchLocation.
* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Bob''': How can we be here again? [[TemptingFate It's not like this room is the world now, right?]]
* '''Invoked''': Emperor Evulz has a spell put on the Lair of Despair to make it inescapable.
* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz uses the Lair to store prisoners, given that it's inescapable.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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Hey, didn't we just leave UnnaturallyLoopingLocation? [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Uh-oh...]]
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%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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