"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
- Barrier Warrior
- Beef Gate
- Berserk Board Barricade
- Boss Battle
- Bouncer
- Boundareefs
- Broken Bridge
- Caltrops
- Cash Gate
- Chase-Scene Obstacle Course
- Chokepoint Geography
- Clockworks Area
- Containment Field
- Deadly Rotary Fan
- Death Course
- 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
- Walls of Tyranny
- Wannabe Line
- Watch Out for That Tree!
- You Have to Burn the Web
- You Shall Not Pass!
