themayorofsimpleton
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#27: Jun 20th 2021 at 4:15:39 PM
Changing my vote to yard.
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I--Vanya--I
A bee, a beetle and a moth
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Since: Jun, 2018
Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
A bee, a beetle and a moth
#28: Jun 20th 2021 at 9:00:21 PM
Revoting to yard.
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Tabs
Since: Jan, 2001
#29: Jun 21st 2021 at 3:07:29 PM
Concept's tropeworthy. There are so many things that could make a gross barrier/hidey-spot that I'm surprised by the lack of examples. Voting to yard.
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
#30: Jun 21st 2021 at 3:31:00 PM
Here
's one example for good measure.
GastonRabbit
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#31: Jun 22nd 2021 at 12:41:29 PM
I already voted to Yard it unless someone in this thread offers to sponsor a TLP draft.
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How sweet it is
#32: Jun 23rd 2021 at 2:36:15 PM
Seems like we have enough votes for sending it to the yard. Let's do it.
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How sweet it is
#33: Jun 23rd 2021 at 2:40:08 PM
Okay, it's added to the yard. Do we have a list of examples that we can salvage?
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#34: Jun 23rd 2021 at 2:42:23 PM
There are the on-page examples
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Live Action TV
- Burn Notice: An early episode has Michael exploit this, by covering a listening device in gum and lint before dropping it under the Villain of the Week's desk. He explains that sometimes you don't need to hide a bug, you just need to make sure nobody wants to touch it.
Film
- Indiana Jones films:
- The Well of Souls in Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's a vault containing the Ark of the Covenant that is infested with snakes.
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The lever to disable the death trap was covered in webs and insects. Real insects.
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The horde of rats in the catacombs under Venice where the shield was hidden.
- Labyrinth had the Bog of Eternal Stench.
- Desperado had a secret passageway in a Bad Guy Bar hidden by a mechanism in a totally disgusting excrement-stained toilet.
Video Games
- Inverted in Golden Sun, where the heroes are blocked from a certain path by a group of playing puppies that they don't want to disturb. Justified in that there's no immediate hurry and you're supposed to be going elsewhere, so there's no reason for them to insist on heading that way.
- LEGO Indiana Jones contains pits that are filled with snakes, and can be easily jumped over... unless you're playing as Indy, who will become paralyzed with fear and refuse to proceed. This is generally part of a puzzle in which one of the other characters must find a way to get Indy across because he's needed on the other side, but a few of the pits have nothing on the other side and are only there for decoration, only frightening Indy for the sake of consistency. There are also similar pits filled with rats, which have the same effect on Dr. Jones Sr.
Literature
- In Tarnsman of Gor, a secret passage into (and out of) the Central Cylander of Ar is hidden in a fake Dar-kosis pit — a place where sufferers of Dar-kosis (leprosy, more or less) are kept, away from the rest of civilization, until they die. The lever to open the door is further hidden in a disgusting, dank, scummy water sump within the DK pit.
- Cirith Ungol in The Lord of the Rings. The Watcher guarding the Gate of Moria, too.
Edited by Ordeaux26 on Jun 23rd 2021 at 2:42:35 AM
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How sweet it is
#35: Jun 23rd 2021 at 7:02:28 PM
Okay, post added to the yard item. Time to dewick....
...which won't take long.
Edit: Done, cut, and closed.
Edited by Berrenta on Jun 23rd 2021 at 9:09:37 AM
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Yard it, it definitely looks like a tropable thing
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