History Main / CollapsingLair

* In the remake of ''VideoGame/SpyHunter'', the enemy base explodes after you {{EMP}} the DoomsdayDevice at the end.

* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': At the end of "Legend of the Holy Rose", the Temple of the Holy Rose collapses, burying all of Ambrose's miraculous artifacts (although Mac and the GirlOfTheWeek are outside at the time and so do not have to flee through the collapsing temple). Mac speculates that Ambrose had intended this to occur all along.

* In ''Film/MirrorMirror'', the Queen's magic mirror lair collapses after her death.
* In ''Film/MissFisherAndTheCryptOfTears'', Phryne and Jack are attempting to return the emerald to the sarcophagus in the crypt. [[spoiler:Jonathon Lofthouse]] is attempting to help them, but then [[spoiler:Crippins]]--who has been revealed as the murderer -- arrives and demands the emerald at gunpoint. AS [[spoiler:Jonathon]] drops the emerald into the coffin, he and [[spoiler:Crippins]] get involved in a GunStruggle. As they do so, an earthquake hits and the crypt and it starts to collapse. Phryne, Jack and Shirin are forced to flee. Phryne tries to go back for the other two, but Jack grabs her arm and pulls her clear as fall and completely seal the crypt once again.

** In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', after Ripley sets the xenomorph queen on fire, the atmosphere processor starts to collapse due to ExplosiveOverclocking and finally blows up in a nuclear detonation.

* The Allied saboteurs trick the Germans into blowing up their own base (and the title weapons) in ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone''.

* ''Film/OurManFlint''. Derek Flint's sabotage of the machinery in Galaxy's IslandBase causes it to blow up and destroy the base.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' ends with Kazar's volcano lair erupting.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' ends with Kazar's volcano lair erupting.

* In the [[MultipleEndings bad ending]] to ''{{VideoGame/Contra}}: Shattered Soldier'', a KillSat destroys Galuga Archipelago after you complete Mission 5, taking the heroes with it.

** In ''Film/DrNo'', this is first done when James Bond superheats the pool reactor setting the titular villain's hideout on a path to a terrific explosion.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': This was done to a meth lab in Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E19UnsafeSpeed Unsafe Speed]]" after Sydney and Gage, who were posing as [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels outlaw bikers]] to infiltrate it, have their cover blown by a mule who witnessed them arrest a drug dealer earlier in the episode. The leader of the bikers leaves Sydney to die in the lab while he and his gang escape, but Walker and Gage arrive in time to save her. Gage had to free Sydney after she was cuffed to the leg of a table by the lead biker using her own handcuffs while Walker dukes it out with the leader himself. At the same time Gage frees Sydney, Walker had just given the lead biker the finishing blow, but they weren't about to let him die in the explosion.

* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' games often contain segments (especially at the end) where the player must guide Samus out of one of these before a timer runs out.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after Ganondorf is defeated the first time, he makes his castle collapse with his last breath, [[TakingYouWithMe intending to bury Link and Zelda alive in the wreckage]], and the duo has [[TimedMission three minutes]] to escape before they are killed [[note]]actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over[[/note]]. Made cooler by the fact that you get to fight Ganon on the wreckage after escaping the castle. Made slightly more annoying by the two Stalfos that [[RevivingEnemy revive if you take too long to kill the second one after defeating the first one]], and the [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you, especially since you're unable to use the Ocarina to play the Sun's Song, while the timer ticks down.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': Bloodlines had one near the end of the game, in the form of Vampire Hunter Grunfend Bach, who, after being beaten by the player, waits to greet you on your way out with a [[SelfDestructMechanism detonator]].
* Happens several times in Wolfenstein 2009. The massive underground base in the caverns beneath the farm explodes after retrieving a crystal being used for research deep within -- though it's kinda-sorta justified: the destruction is implied to be caused by the creatures you freed by getting the crystal rather than by the simple act of taking it. Later, the entire Cannery explodes after defeating a certain load-bearing boss (though this was a result of destroying several critical pieces of machinery, rather than the boss's death). It also happens at the end of the game, after defeating the last boss.

-->-- '''Kim''', ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''

* In ''Videogame/PaperMarioColorSplash'', you have to set off a group of large Bob-ombs in order to destroy [[spoiler: a large tank of black paint in the bomb factory within Black Bowser Castle.]] This results in [[spoiler: black paint flooding the lower levels of the castle and damaging its structural integrity.]] Once you lay the smackdown on [[spoiler: Black Bowser and rescue Peach, the upper levels of the castle start to fall apart and you have to run to the entrance as debris crashes down around you.]]

* ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'': [[spoiler: After finally defeating Pizzahead and knocking down the Pillar John in the final level, the tower starts to collapse. The rest of the level consists of making a mad dash for the tower entrance through the HubLevel with your friends (and the other bosses) in tow.]]
** The more localised 'Pizza Time' happens at the end of every level [[spoiler: except [[TheWarSequence WAR]]]] after knocking out its Pillar John, prompting a mad dash back to the entrance.

--> '''The Player''': I was sort of expecting the Castle to fall down. ({{Beat}}) Probably better get the hell out of here, regardless.