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* The Labyrinth in ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''.

* Played to hilarious effect in the General White arc of ''{{Dragonball}}''. Goku and Android 8 ("Ha-chan") must get through a maze to reach the Red Ribbon officer. The maze is completely normal, except for a single wall which can be toggled to block one of the two passages out. After running back and forth between the apparent dead-ends for a while, Goku and Android 8 finally decide to just split up and take both passages at once. [[SarcasmMode Top-notch security system there, General.]]

* WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse features one of these in "Serious Steven." Steven becomes increasingly uncomfortable throughout his time in the maze, and for a while, the Crystal Gems are stumped. Whatever direction they choose, they seem to encounter the same three rooms over and over. It baffles everyone until [[spoiler: Steven realizes that the reason he isn't feeling well is because he's feeling motion sick. The hallways of the maze are moving so that they always lead to the same three rooms. Garnet then breaks the floor, exposing the mechanism that controls the maze.]]

* This trope appears a few times in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'':
** The Logrus is an ever-changing labyrinth where you had to rely on your luck and intuition to ever find a way out.

* The Logrus in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'': it is an ever-changing labyrinth where you had to rely on your luck and intuition to ever find a way out.

* The Aperture Science Computer Aided Enrichment Center in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' can be considered a Mobile Maze in that the walls are constantly shifting in order to keep test subjects like Chell trapped inside the designated testing area. Exits can be opened or (more often) closed, not to mention that the entire place can, at any moment, be [[spoiler: [[AIIsACrapshoot flooded with a deadly neural-toxin]]]].

* The ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'' glass house.

* ''WebOriginal/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008 SCP-3008]]: After entering, the exit will relocate itself as soon as it leaves your sights. If you're lucky enough to find it again, it could disappear as you approach.

* ''{{GRiD}} 2'' is a rare case of this trope applied to a racing game. Its "Liveroutes" events feature an endless route through one of the game's cities, contructed on the fly ahead of the player by placing barriers and signs. The route can cross itself and the grandstands and billboards you just raced past will have moved themselves into a different configuration while you weren't looking. Due to the technical requirements of the mode, your minimap is disabled. The overall effect is a little spooky, especially in multiplayer once you realise that some of your opponents are physically in the same location as you but you can't see them and [[AlienGeometries it looks different to them]].

* Comicbook/DoctorStrange's Sanctum Sanctorum is a (relatively) benign example. Strange's friends and allies have no trouble getting around, but it becomes a dangerous trap for his enemies.
* The basement of Comicbook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac's house is like this. [[PsychologicalTormentZone It's a less benign example]].
* Ducklair Tower from PaperinikNewAdventures qualifies as this, as the [=AI=] Uno can control and shift around the entire inside. In one story, he uses this to keep a group of robbers, the police and Angus Fangus from running into each other for four hours.

* A less extreme example is the rotating Grand Staircase in ''Film/HarryPotter'''s Hogwarts Castle. Although not truly a maze, it's still easy for students to get lost on their way to class.

* The Shrub Maze in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' did this ([[EverythingTryingToKillYou with tons of traps and hazards]]).

* In the ''CastlePerilous'' series, the entire castle acts this way. The outer regions are especially chaotic and unstable, the Guest areas are relatively safe with only a few minor gravity and perspective shifts every so often. Since the castle is also a massive PortalNetwork to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic 144,000]] worlds, a trip to the bathroom can lead to adventure, terror, or the bathroom.

* ''[[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]]'' has Rubikon, a dungeon simulator built in Limbo by a group of Modrons to determine what the deal is about dungeons and adventurers' relation to them. As Modrons are beings of pure law while Limbo is the plane of pure chaos, the place is ''insane''. The dungeon can be reset to respawn items and baddies, and also set to three difficulty levels; doing so will change the layout. It also offers decent experience and some unique loot, as well as an additional party member.
-->Morte: It feels like I'm in a cuckoo clock. A ''cuckoo'' cuckoo clock.
** Ravel's Black-Barbed Maze from ''[[PlanescapeTorment Planescape: Torment]]''. She seems to have control over its changing shape.

* The realm of Tzeench in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} / [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} 40k]]'' is like this. It is described as appearing to mortals as a huge crystalline labyrinth that endlessly shifts and changes to trap any would-be intruders. At its center sits the Impossible Fortress, a huge structure not bound by the laws of physics, geometry or sanity. Windows and doors constantly appear and disappear on its surface, and interior rooms and passages keep constantly changing. Even gravity changes in strength and direction at random.

* ''TheTaleOfGavenMorren'': The City of Miir becomes this at the behest of The Shadows.

* Creator/DavidEddings' novel ''[[Literature/TheElenium The Sapphire Rose]]'' includes a maze which changes so no one can ever leave. The heroes defeat it by [[spoiler: [[CuttingTheKnot smashing a hole in the ceiling and climbing onto the top]], saying "if you don't like the game, don't play it."]]

TheMaze is the parent trope. If paired with an PsychologicalTormentZone, it becomes a deadly ClosedCircle.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon The Horns of Nimon]]", the alien Nimon demand sacrifices from the Skonnon Empire to provide for them. They use victims from the planet Aneth, who find that the walls seal behind them. (A TwiceToldTale based on the legend of Theseus and the Labyrinth.) It turns out the labyrinth is actually a giant computer and the changing walls are the circuits making connection. The entrance is actually a hologram of a wall.
** Also used in the newer episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]", where the Doctor, Rory and Amy are trapped in what appears to be a seventies hotel, with corridors that twist and shift and can end up going on for miles. The above-mentioned Nimon also receives a Shout Out- the Monster of the Week is said to be a distant evolutionary cousin of it.
** Used again in the recent episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]", [[spoiler:where the Doctor is trapped inside his own confession dial, creating a prison of his own nightmares, which is represented by a huge, concentric castle, deserted aside from himself and [[EldritchAbomination a shambling, silent, cloaked figure which never stops chasing him, except for a few seconds when the Doctor tells a deep, personal truth.]] Whenever the Doctor tells the truth, the castle's walls move, opening some doors and closing others. Also, whenever a room is left on its own, the contents reset itself to their previous position before the Doctor's visit. Aside from this, nothing else changes, so this is a Downplayed example of this trope.]]

* In one of the many {{Flashback}}s of ''Franchise/{{BIONICLE}} Legends #4: Legacy of Evil'', the six Piraka try to murder their boss the Shadowed One, but find that his transforming fortress has been leading them into ''his'' trap.

-->'''[[StonersAreFunny Chong]]:''' The tunnels… [[BobDylan they are a-changin’]].

* In the episode of ''Anime/{{Ulysses 31}}'' featuring Theseus and the Minotaur, at one point the whole [[TheMaze Labyrinth]] starts to move around, threatening to separate or even crush the heroes.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[Characters/SCPFoundation [=Characters/SCPFoundation=]]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-413 SCP-413 ("Endless Garage")]]. SCP-413 [[AlienGeometries changes its internal dimensions]] and uses a [[BrownNote low-frequency sound that makes it hard to navigate]] to trap people inside itself for variable lengths of time, from twenty minutes to more than three months.