History Main / CollapsingLair

* The Halcon research facility falls apart at the end of ''Anime/AppleseedExMachina'' for no apparent reason, other than to fulfill the cliché. In fact, it has no other reason even to exist!

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, Mewtwo blows up the Team Rocket base in the beginning of the first movie. The only known survivors are Giovanni and his signature pokémon (there could be more, but they're never addressed either way).

* In the first ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' movie, Sparky accidentally blows up a bomb made by Wolffy near the control panel in Cha Cha's lair, causing the lair to fall apart and flood. Everyone makes it out of the lair perfectly fine [[spoiler:except for Weslie, who seemingly gets trapped in the lair, but even then he later makes it out perfectly fine as well because he landed in Granny Snail's slime and used some growing pills left by Wolffy to grow back to his normal size]].

* After defeating the FinalBoss in ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'', the tower starts to collapse and final level consists of running out of the tower.

** ''ComicBook/DemonSpawn'': Once Supergirl defeats Nightflame and her minions, the [[AlternateDimension Innerverse]] collapses. Justified, since that world was the psychic manifestation of Supergirl's dark side, so it was destroyed when Kara beat her inner demons.

* Neo Bowser Castle collapses when the final boss is defeated in VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam.

* 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 [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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.

* 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 [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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 cannot use the Ocarina to play the Sun's Song in order to paralyze it) while the timer ticks down.

* 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 [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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 cannot use the Ocarina to paralyze it) while the timer ticks down.

* 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 [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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 while the timer ticks down.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after Ganondorf is defeated the first time, he makes his castle collapse with his last breath, intending to [[TakingYouWithMe bury Link and Zelda alive in the wreckage]], and the duo has [[TimedMission three minutes]] to escape before they are killed [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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 while the timer ticks down.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after Ganondorf is defeated the first time, he makes his castle collapse with his last breath, intending to [[TakingYouWithMe bury Link and Zelda alive in the wreckage]], and the duo has [[TimedMission three minutes]] to escape before they are killed [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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 the first one is eliminated]], and the [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you while the timer ticks down.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after defeating Ganondorf the first time, the LoadBearingBoss intends to [[TakingYouWithMe bury Link and Zelda alive with his last breath]]. Link and Zelda have [[TimedMission three minutes]] to escape his collapsing castle before they are killed in the wreckage [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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 the first one is eliminated]], and the [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you while the timer ticks down.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after defeating Ganondorf the first time, the LoadBearingBoss intends to [[TakingYouWithMe bury Link and Zelda alive with his last breath]]. Link and Zelda have [[TimedMission three minutes]] to escape his collapsing castle before they are killed in the wreckage [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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 revive if you take too long to kill the second one after the first one is eliminated, and the [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you while the timer ticks down.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after defeating Ganondorf the first time, the LoadBearingBoss intends to [[TakingYouWithMe bury Link and Zelda alive with his last breath. Link and Zelda have [[TimedMission three minutes]] to escape his collapsing castle before they are killed in the wreckage [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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 revive if you take too long to kill the second one after the first one is eliminated, and the [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you while the timer ticks down.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after defeating Ganondorf the first time, Link and Zelda have [[TimedMission three minutes]] to escape his collapsing castle before they are killed in the wreckage [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. 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 revive if you take too long to kill the second one after the first one is eliminated, and the [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you while the timer ticks down.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after defeating Ganondorf the first time, Link and Zelda have [[TimedMission three minutes]] to escape his collapsing castle before they are killed in the wreckage [[spoiler:(actually, Link loses one heart and has to start over)]]. Made cooler by the fact that you get to fight Ganon on the wreckage after escaping the castle. Made slightly more annoying by the Stalfos and [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you while the timer ticks down.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after defeating Ganondorf the first time, Link and Zelda have [[TimedMission three minutes]] to escape his collapsing castle before they are killed in the wreckage. Made cooler by the fact that you get to fight Ganon on the wreckage after escaping the castle. Made slightly more annoying by the Stalfos and [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you while the timer ticks down.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after defeating Ganondorf the first time. Made cooler by the fact that you get to fight Ganon on the wreckage after escaping the castle. Made slightly more annoying by the Stalfos and [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you while the timer ticks down.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after defeating Ganondorf the first time. Made cooler by the fact that you get to fight Ganon on the wreckage. Made slightly more annoying by the Iron Knuckles and [=ReDead=] that like to paralyze you while the timer ticks down.

* Every endgame location in every ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' ever made. Sometimes this even happens twice, as in ''Code Veronica''. It's mostly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since said locales typically contain laboratories crawling with viral abominations and are armed with fail-safe [[SelfDestructSequence self-destruct mechanisms]].

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': Episode 1 is sorta this. In a nutshell, it involves going into the citadel to slow the timer(conveniently sped up by the combine) then getting the hell out of dodge before it does, making all of C-17 the Collapsing Lair.

* ''Franchise/TombRaider [[VideoGame/TombRaider 1]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TombRaiderII II]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TombRaiderAnniversary Anniversary]]'', explicitly.

** In ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheLastRevelation'', Lara [[OurHeroIsDead apparently falls to her death]] during the collapse of the Temple of Horus.

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' is ''even'' worse and moves this into [[UpToEleven outright trope abuse territory]]. It's almost assured that the final setpiece will explode into flames somehow. Trying to make a drinking out of this trope '''WILL''' kill you.

* ''Anime/{{Spriggan}}''. Noah's Ark is frozen in time, and activating the SelfDestructMechanism causes the flow of time to continue. As the Ark's mass is too great to sustain its weight in three-dimensional space, it collapses.

* And so is the Wolfram & Hart office building in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' finale "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22NotFadeAway Not Fade Away]]".
** As well as the following home bases: The school ("[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E22GraduationDayPart2 Graduation Day Part 2]]"), Angel's office ("[[Recap/AngelS01E22ToShanshuInLA To Shanshu in L.A.]]"), the magic shop ("[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E22Grave Grave]]"). And for the villains: the factory ("[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E17Passion Passion]]"), the Initiative ("[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E21Primeval Primeval]]"), and the original Wolfram & Hart building ("[[Recap/AngelS04E08Habeas Corpses]]").

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' finale "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen Chosen]]", Sunnydale itself is a Collapsing Lair.

* ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'': In the Season 3 episode "Trinity", Kara and the DEO take on the Worldkillers in their Fortress of Sanctuary. After Purity and Pestilence are killed and Reign flees, the Fortress collapses, dissolving into sand.