"What is this thing? I mean, it serves no useful purpose for there to be a bunch of chompy, crushy things in the middle of a hallway... well, forget it! I'm not doing it!"
— Gwen DeMarco (faced with the obstacle course from hell), Galaxy Quest
Objects, places, and characters that exist to impede the progress of others, and the methods used to do so.
Contrast This Index Is Unstoppable.
Categories:
- Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: An attempt at barricading an entrance that doesn't really do much in preventing someone from going through the entrance.
- "Avoid This Area" Effect
- Barrier Warrior
- Beef Gate: An area in a video game that you can't enter until you've leveled up enough.
- Berserk Board Barricade
- Boss Battle: A computer-controlled opponent fought at the end of a video game level who is much more powerful than the regular enemies fought until that point and whose defeat will allow the player to move on to the next level (or end the game if they are the Final Boss).
- Bouncer: A person who's job is to prevent people from entering an establishment where they are not allowed, as well as to throw out disruptive patrons of said establishment.
- Boundareefs
- Broken Bridge
- Caltrops
- Cash Gate
- Chase-Scene Obstacle Course
- Chokepoint Geography
- Clockworks Area
- Containment Field
- Deadly Rotary Fan
- Death Course
- Advancing Wall of Doom: A sequence in a video game where the player must run to the exit before a wall of instant death catches up to them.
- Bottomless Pits
- Corridor Cubbyhole Run
- Laser Hallway
- Pit Trap
- Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom
- Spikes of Doom
- Steam Vent Obstacle
- Fame Gate
- Forbidden Zone
- Furniture Blockade
- Gate Guardian
- Guerrilla Boulders
- Ick Barrier
- Impassable Desert
- Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence
- Involuntary Group Split
- Kill Enemies to Open
- Locked Door
- Malevolent Architecture
- Mobstacle Course
- NPC Roadblock
- Only the Worthy May Pass
- Parachute in a Tree
- Plot Lock
- Point of No Return
- Road Block
- Running into the Window
- Sea Mine
- Space Mines
- Threshold Guardians
- Vortex Barrier
- Walls of Tyranny
- Wannabe Line
- Watch Out for That Tree!
- You Have to Burn the Web
- You Shall Not Pass!
