History Main / SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* ''VideoGame/Doom3'': One appears in the ''Resurrection of Evil'' expansion right after you gain the ability to slow down time in respect to yourself. It more or less serves as a tutorial for using that power.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bzzzt}}: Crushers with spikes show up early in the game.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}!'' has them. Interestingly enough, there were two kinds- stomper-looking things (non-fatal, does 1 hp damage) and moving terrain (fatal). Later levels would remove the former and use the latter, upping the difficulty. Both would make Bug get SquashedFlat, of course.

Having large objects appear on a conveyor belt that crush down are also common... which makes one wonder what these factories are supposed to be making that require so much repeated crushing to make. Moreover, while in real life, either conveyor belt stops or crushers move along the belt during the crushing, such things won't usually happen in video games.

This is a BoobyTrap in which big stone blocks, spiked walls, pistons, or sharp blades [[DurableDeathtrap repeatedly]] ram into each other in a narrow hallway. The way past them is to either immediately run through when they separate or find a way to jam them. Multiple traps lined up may require some pattern memorization. Non-spiked and non-bladed variants of this are also known as crushers.

Having large items appear on a conveyor belt that crush down are also common... which makes one wonder what these factories are supposed to be making that require so much repeated crushing to make. It also sometimes appears in [[WombLevel settings that are within giant monsters]], which could be justified because you're within the monster's digestive tract and that the smashing/pounding things are part of its pre-digestion chewing process. May be (part of) a LivingStructureMonster.

This is a BoobyTrap in which big stone blocks, spiked walls or sharp blades [[DurableDeathtrap repeatedly]] ram into each other in a narrow hallway. The way past them is to either immediately run through when they separate or find a way to jam them. Multiple traps lined up may require some pattern memorization. Non-spiked and non-bladed variants of this are also known as crushers.

Extremely common in video games as a [[MalevolentArchitecture standard obstacle]], especially in medieval settings. May involve a CorridorCubbyholeRun to get past them alive.

* In the Shadow Temple of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', you have to block the falling trap with a block hidden behind a fake wall, which a sign referred to as "the stone umbrella".
* Crushing pistons in ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}''.

This is a BoobyTrap in which big stone blocks, spiked walls or sharp blades [[DurableDeathtrap repeatedly]] ram into each other in a narrow hallway. The way past them is to either immediately run through when they separate or find a way to jam them. Multiple traps lined up may require some pattern memorization.

-->-- '''Gwen''', ''Film/GalaxyQuest''

* One appears in ''VideoGame/Doom3: The Resurrection of Evil'' expansion right after you gain the ability to slow down time in respect to yourself. It more or less serves as a tutorial for using that power.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has crushing pistons in the waste disposal area of Mothership Zeta.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Dizzy}} Fantasy World Dizzy]]'' has a portcullis that works this way.
* ''VideoGame/{{Rastan}}'' has these in the castle areas in the form of spiked platforms lowered from the ceiling.
* ''VideoGame/{{Something}} series''
** Chateau de la Terre in Something is filled with big smashers. The level has no auto-scrolling sections, but the platforming is extremely difficult.
** [[spoiler: Space Hideout]] in Something Else has an {{Auto Scrolling|Level}} section where Luigi must dodge electric pulses and big smashers.

* ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'' has smashing stone blocks, first seen in the Moon Grotto. Mount Horu has a variety covered in SpikesOfDoom that result in instant death if even touched.
* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' has smashers with tricky timing in Crystal Peak.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', to stop [=Longarm/Shockwave's=] identity from being discovered, he [[spoiler:kills Blurr in one of these.]]