Discussion Main / SchmuckBanquet

Would this be an example? In particular the banquet of gory-bits-hidden-by-illusion-spell at one point? The entire mansion was an elaborate trap by a mind flayer, and although their intent was to destroy it, it in fact was All Just a Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i082uC-QNBY

This does not seem to be an example of the trope, since it's not a trap.

• Wasn't a trap, but in Dragonball, Goku finds a huge fish roasting over a fire and eats it, completely oblivious to the idea that it could belong to someone. Yajirobe returns, calls him out on his stupidity and rudeness, then attacks him.

Neither of these sub-examples seem to be the trope. The first one is not a direct trap laid by a villain triggered by "eating the banquet". It's something more sophisticated indirect and mind-gamey. The second one is accidental, not a trap.

• Ranma One Half:
  • the Cave of Lost Love is filled with ghosts, ghouls, apparitions and aberrations bent on splitting apart happy couples. But it just so happens that, halfway through the cave, there's a huge, luxurious and beautiful bath for the women to relax and soothe their anxieties in. And it's perfectly safe, too: they come out feeling wonderful while they wait for their boyfriends to come out of the men's bathroom... the trick being that this one is a hellish pit (literally; it's a giant iron pot on a big-ass fire in a dank cavern) that makes them resent their lucky girlfriends. The reason this is a trap is because, beforehand, they had to cross a long, cold river in rickety boats. They were told to get in one boat per couple, but the boats were sabotaged to only be able to carry one; invariably, either one of them got pushed out of the boat or they both sank and swam for it.
  • There is also the huge sumptuous banquet at the Amazon village that the starving Ranma and Genma tuck into. Turns out it is a prize for the best fighter in the village and the pair are in a lot of trouble.

These may be examples, but we need specifics: what is the Banquet? How is it a trap laid by a villain? See How To Write An Example.

[[folder: Video Games ]]

• Tenpenny Tower from Fallout 3 is somewhat like this, and turns into a textbook example if the player decides to cry havoc and unleash the Ghouls of war.

[[folder: Western Animation ]]

• The Beast's palace, especially for Belle's father.

Here is the YKTTW for this trope.