Basic Trope: After a long level, you get an easy way to return to the entrance.
- Straight: The game's penultimate level is descending into the Big Bad's dungeon. When you reach the last floor, there's an elevator you can use to get back to the entrance.
- Exaggerated: The elevator can take you back to any of the previous floors.
- Downplayed: The elevator doesn't go directly back to the entrance; only the 2nd-highest floor.
- Justified: The Big Bad's henchmen need an easy and quick way to leave the dungeon.
- Inverted: Rather than passing through an easy level, you can take a long, difficult detour to end up in the same place.
- Subverted: When you try to use the elevator, it breaks down.
- Double Subverted: You can fix the elevator with an item you get in the very next room.
- Parodied: The elevator has a huge neon sign above it that says "ANTI-BACKTRACKING ELEVATOR".
- Zig-Zagged: The dungeon continually evolves and more rooms are added as you go through. Thus, sometimes the elevator serves as a quicker return, and other times it doesn't.
- Averted:
- There is no way to easily go back to the dungeon entrance.
- You have a universally-accessible Fast Travel system. Thus, the elevator isn't there because it would be redundant.
- Enforced: Playtesters complain that the trek back to the dungeon's entrance is basically a Drought Level of Doom. The devs add an easy way to get back.
- Lampshaded: "This elevator will take us back to the entrance of the dungeon!"
- Discussed: "I'm sure there's a quick way to get back to the entrance around here somewhere."
- Conversed: "Oh, good. I was afraid the game would make me backtrack through this whole level."
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