Basic Trope: Leaving a specific area results in death for some supernatural reason.
- Straight: Bob wanders into an Enchanted Forest while on a quest. Then he finds that he cannot leave without withering away and dying.
- Exaggerated: Bob places one foot into an Enchanted Forest while on a quest. The elves who live there pull him fully into the woods to keep him from dying in seconds due to his other foot being outside the woods.
- Downplayed: Bob enters an Enchanted Forest and cannot thereafter spend more than a few days outside it.
- Justified:
- The air in the Enchanted Forest is saturated with both a deadly poison, and an antidote for it. Bob's body metabolizes the antidote much faster than the poison, causing his health to decay due to shortage of the antidote.
- Friphiztsoghat could only make that area of his home void of the, to humans necrosing but to him harmless, radiation, so if you want to leave, take the blorange door you entered through.
- Inverted: Bob enters an Enchanted Forest on a quest. He learns afterwards that he has gained Complete Immortality from the woods and can live anywhere.
- Subverted: Bob is told he cannot survive outside of the Enchanted Forest but eventually gets his hosts to let him try... And he's totally fine.
- Doubly Subverted: ...For a few days; then he notices some rather nasty, lethal symptoms.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: Bob is told he can't survive outside of the Enchanted Forest, but when he tries to leave, he's totally fine... For a few days; then he dies a painful, horrific death. However, then Alice successfully leaves the Enchanted Forest... But she's a dryad, so in some ways she is the woods.
- Averted: There are no locations that hurt someone if they leave.
- Enforced: The author wants some way to explain a legendary hero disappearing.
- Lampshaded: “So... I can never leave now?”
- Implied: Alice walks into an Enchanted Forest, and is never seen again.
- Invoked: Alice wants to run away from home... permanently. So, she enters the woods
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz forces enemies into an Enchanted Forest to get rid of them.
- Defied: Bob hears the stories about an Enchanted Forest and refuses to enter.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
You're now bound to Departure Means Death. Don't stay away too long.
