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.]] |
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