Line #1 PlayingWith/BottomlessPits


1	'''Basic Trope''': 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.
2	* '''Straight''': There is a massive chasm ahead on the hero’s path, and it’s so deep the bottom is invisible...whether due to camera issues or light issues. Jumping in leads to death.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': [[GravityBarrier The pit serves as a barrier to all passages, as it’s long enough to fill the horizon.]]
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** NonLethalBottomlessPits
6	** You can actually see the bottom of the pit, but it's obviously fatal to jump into due to it's depth.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** The game’s set on a ShatteredWorld: of course these are everywhere.
9	** They’re literally bottomless, being holes in space-time that are more like black holes than true pits.
10	* '''Inverted''':
11	** Jumping down the pit is the only way to save yourself from an otherwise unavoidable barrage of arrows.
12	** The pit opens in the roof and reverse gravity, sending you flying upwards into the stratosphere
13	* '''Subverted''':
14	** 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.
15	** The [[WingedHumanoid winged hero falls down the pit… and then flies out. Duh.]]
16	** [[WrapAround The hero jumps into the pit and emerges from the top of the screen.]]
17	* '''Double Subverted''':
18	** The hero hits a trapdoor, and THAT one is bottomless.
19	** He’s then pulled back in by a massive hand that emerges from the darkness of the pit.
20	* '''Parodied''':
21	** A villain falls down the bottomless pit. OnceAnEpisode, for the rest of the series, [[IFellForHours they cut back to him doing something random.]]
22	** The pits are literally everywhere; inside houses, on walls, even inside chests!
23	* '''Zig Zagged''': It’s actually a tunnel: anything going in will be thrown out the other side of the planet, neatly charbroiled due to the earth’s core.
24	* '''Averted''': All pits have visible ends.
25	* '''Enforced''': It’s a platform game.
26	* '''Lampshaded''':
27	** “Seriously? A yawing chasm into oblivion? In a CASTLE? Who make these things?”
28	** “Ahh, it’s another one of those mysterious death pits isn’t it?” “How cliché. But they’re not disappearing anytime soon.”
29	* '''Invoked''':
30	** Emperor Evulz insists on putting the pits everywhere.
31	** You gain an item mid-game that lets you put them anywhere you want.
32	* '''Exploited''':
33	** You can kick your enemies into the pit. Screaming about ancient Greek city states while doing so is optional.
34	** [[VideoGame/DwarfFortress The pit is used]] as [[MundaneUtility garbage disposal.]]
35	* '''Defied''': BottomlessPitRescueService
36	* '''Discussed''': “Why did you think that would work? I can FLY!”
37	* '''Conversed''': “Why do you always die at the bottom of the pit? It’s not like you can hit the ground!”
38	* '''Implied''': The hero drops a torch down the pit, and it disappears into blackness before hitting the bottom. He wisely decides to avoid it.
39	* '''Deconstructed''':
40	** If you fall into a bottomless pit, you die of thirst. It takes days to die that way…in and out of game.
41	** Building all those pits has exhausted Evulz’s resources for little actual gain, as they do comparatively little to stop the hero’s progress.
42	** Anything that falls into a pit is lost forever. 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.
43	* '''Reconstructed''':
44	** The hero has a CyanidePill for [[MercyKill this exact purpose.]]
45	** …Allowing Baron Bloodfirst to take over easily, who abuses the pits mercilessly.
46	** Anything going down the pit ends up in a new, stranger ecosystem, like deep sea ecosystems on earth. This allows some nutrients to be cycled back to ground level.
47	* '''Played For Laughs''': [[TemptingFate The hero laughs off the idea he could fall into one of these pits]], [[HypocriticalHumor and then immediately trips over one.]]
48	* '''Played For Drama:''' The hero lost a loved one down the pit, and doesn’t even have a TragicKeepsake to show for it.
49	* '''Played For Horror:''' Those who fall down the pit will go insane from being surrounded by nothing but blackness until they eventually die of thirst.
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51	[[BottomlessPit Respawn back at the Bottomless Pit main page.]]

Context PlayingWith / BottomlessPits