Basic Trope: A person is trapped when their area is sealed off for safety.
- Straight: Bob the scientist is in a room working with a potentially dangerous alien specimen. When the alien breaks loose from its restraints, Bob gets sealed in the room to make sure it doesn't escape.
- Exaggerated: Bob the scientist is in a room working with a potentially dangerous alien specimen. When the alien breaks loose, the entire site gets nuked from orbit to make sure the alien doesn't escape.
- Downplayed: Bob the scientist is working with a potentially dangerous alien specimen. When the alien breaks its restraints, the room gets sealed — but other safeguards engage to give Bob a fighting chance.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Bob the scientist is in a room working with a potentially dangerous alien specimen. When the alien breaks loose, the Lock Down procedure begins...but Bob rolls under the door just in time.
- Double Subverted: ...However, the next scientist, Alice, has no such luck.
- Parodied: Bob is trapped in the specimen's room for a good minute, desperately trying to open the door, until someone opens it and points out he was pushing on the door instead of pulling.
- Zig Zagged: When an alien escapes containment, the lock down procedure begins...but Bob rolls under the door just in time. However, the next scientist, Alice, has no such luck and gets mauled just short of the door. Charlie, the Almighty Janitor, gets sealed in a room next when the alien breaks out of the lab, but he manages to activate some old safeguards the scientists had dismissed and survives...or it looks like it. The alien has been hypothesized to possess shapeshifting abilities, so it's uncertain if Charlie or the alien escaped. Just in case, he's locked in a room...along with his fellow janitor Eva. The work never reveals what happened next.
- Averted: No one gets trapped in a sealed-off room with something dangerous.
- Enforced: The author wants a visual way to show off the threat.
- Lampshaded:Alice: If you ever hear that alarm, run or you'll be trapped with whatever caused it.
- Invoked:
- Dracone, who resents Bob, purposely seals off the room faster than he can get out, hoping that he'll die and Dracone will get whatever person/thing/position Bob has that he envies.
- Bob, knowing what would happen if Specimen 397 were to escape, deliberately activates the containment from the inside, trapping both of them.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Oh no — the Playing With page has been sealed off from the main page!
