History Main / TrapMaster

* Frenda of ITEM from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' is also one, although she specializes in setting up explosives.

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* In ''VideoGame/FellSealArbitersMark'', the Peddler class specializes in laying traps on the battlefield. These traps inflict damage or debuffs, are invisible to the enemy team, and will end an enemy unit’s turn immediately if stepped on unless the enemy can hover. The Ranger class can reveal traps with their Scout action.

You have accidentally come across the most annoying and sadistic [[TheAnticipator pre-planner]] of all time, known simply as "the trap master". Are the traps illegal? Are they in any way [[RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts realistically functional]]? Is there any possible way that the trap master could have set them up [[GambitPileup in a way that]] [[XanatosGambit doesn't warp]] [[GambitRoulette space and time]]? None of that really matters because no matter what you touch chances are it activates a BoobyTrap that will lead to your hilarious death.

* Rachel Alucard in ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' fights with either slow moving projectiles (which she can use her special ability to blow into opponents) and by planting umbrellas in the ground to serve as a target for her [[ShockAndAwe Sword Ivis]] moves.

* The antagonist of the 2009 film ''Film/TheCollector''.

Oh, you think you escaped the villain's grasp? [[ Film/HomeAlone You think you've successfully broken into a defenseless child's house to rob them?]] Oh boy, are you in for a surprise!

Oh, you think you escaped the villain's grasp? You think you've successfully broken into a defenseless child's house to rob them? Oh boy, are you in for a surprise!

People that fall for the traps are usually TooDumbToLive and/or a {{Determinator}} and don't know when to quit during their pursuit of whatever they are trying to achieve. It is not unusual for the Trap Master role to be given to TheEngineer or TheSmartGuy of a group. A character that is CrazyPrepared will inevitably expose that they have at least dipped their toes into this trope's pool at some point or another.

** Bridget is a minor example as well. Opponents who don't keep track of where his yo-yo is set at any given moment are in for a world of hurt.

* Clockwork Gennai from Oboru-maru's ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' chapter is one of these, he is the one who placed all the traps on the castle.

* The Corruptor archetype in ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'' had a secondary set simply named "Traps" that was full of items like trip mines, poison gas mines, caltrops, sticky web grenades, an acid-grenade launching mortar, and a portable force field generator as superpowers. The set was designed to support the player and their team mostly by [[StatusEffects debuffing]] the enemy and causing additional [[GradualGrinder damage over time]].

** In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', there's a archtype(class variation) of the Ranger class called the Trapper, which gives up spellcasting in favor of learning how to quickly set up snares and other simple traps in combat. There's also a Rogue subclass called the Trapsmith, which specializes in disarming traps and building her own.

* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13173434/41/Cheating-Death-Those-That-Lived Cheating Death]], Lammy Phyronix is this. Despite being [[ChildrenForcedToKill 14]], she's able to survive entirely off the arena for nearly 3 weeks, and rigs up traps to kill off whole Career Pack on her own once she's the only Outlier left - all without having seen them after the first 15 minutes of her games (or any other Tribute for the matter). This, combined with being underestimated by everyone (even her own district partner) after pretending to be weak, lets her win her Games.

* The Corruptor archetype in ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'' had a secondary set simply named "Traps" that was full of items like trip mines, poison gas mines, caltrops, sticky web grenades, an acid-grenade launching mortar, and a portable force field generator as superpowers. The set was designed to support the player and their team mostly by [[StandardStatusEffects debuffing]] the enemy and causing additional [[GradualGrinder damage over time]].

* This, combined with TheEngineer, is the primary role of the Technician class in ''{{VideoGame/PAYDAY2}}''. His skills lend themselves to the use and improvement of sentry turrets or sticky mines (or both, with the proper leveling). When the Technician isn't efficiently drilling open open doors and locked safes, (or simply [[CuttingTheKnot blasting them open with shaped charges]]) he's using the aforementioned mines and turrets to keep waves of police at bay. There are few sounds [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound more satisfying to a player]] than the sound of a distant explosion, followed by your character bragging about killing a [[DemonicSpiders Cloaker]].

* One of the serial killers you can play as in ''Videogame/DeadByDaylight'' is the Trapper, whose play-style revolves around [[BearTrap bear traps]] to ensnare survivors in as he chases them.

* Dr. Doofenshmirtz from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasandFerb'' does this in almost every episode. Every time Perry the Platypus comes in, the first thing that always happens is that he gets caught in a trap, which is different every time. While he's trapped, Doofenshmirtz tells him his evil plan, but then Perry finds some way out of the trap and thwarts him. In one episode, in fact, he rigs an entire ship with them- only to fall victim to his own traps repeatedly.

* [[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost679-Kobolds.jpg This poster]] says it all: "[[FamousLastWords How could]] [[OneHitPointWonder a 1 HD critter]] [[FamousLastWords possibly be a threat?]]"

* Early on in ''Manga/ProjectARMs'', Ryo deals with a couple of opponents this way.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', this is Rishid/Odion's specialty as a duelist. He was the first in the franchise to use Trap-Monsters, and uses powerful Counter Traps like Judgment of Anubis and Magic Jammer, along with the Field Spell Temple of Kings, which allows him to use them the turn they are set. (Video game adaptations take it further, his deck having such infamous Traps as Solemn Judgment, ring of Destruction, and Magic Cylinder.)

* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' has the Trap and Remote Mine support gems, which can be used to turn any spell or bow/wand attack skill into a trap or mine. Mines are placed at the user's feet and detonated on command, while traps are tossed to a target location and detonate when an enemy enters the trigger radius. The Shadow class is the resident trap specialist, with their starting position in the passive tree being quite near most of the trap passive skills, and the [[PrestigeClass Saboteur Ascendancy]] giving a number of trap and mine skills.