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* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' features a Mech-scale version of these during the Battle of Tukayyid, specifically the Battle at Devil's Bath. The defending Com Guards had lured the attacking Steel Viper unit into the Bath and baited them across what looked like muddy but otherwise passable terrain... only for the Vipers to discover, to their horror, that the mud flats were actually strewn with enormous boiling mud geysers, some dozens of meters deep, that acted like huge sinkholes that [[QuicksandSucks pulled 'Mechs down when the solid ground disappeared beneath them]]. It's been implied that lingering emotional trauma suffered after experiencing this trap led to the eventual psychosis and derangement of the Bloody [=ilKhan=] Brett Andrews later int he setting.
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* ''Literature/MermaidsOfErianaKwai'': In ''Ice Crypt'', Meela, Tanuu, Blacktail, and Annith are searching for Eriana's Host when Annith suddenly falls into a flooded pit trap that someone illegally dug to trap a deer or a bear. Tanuu and Blacktail take her back to town to get dried off, but Meela stays and looks into the pit, where she finds a stone with a serpent's head carved into it.
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* One level in ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}} 64: The Crystal Shards'' has numerous pitfalls scattered across its first stretches. Some of them contain helpful items, but some contain nasty spikes. The trick is to trigger them and then jump ''very'' quickly.
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* In the ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' episode "Sneaky Peepers", Madison High School receives a copy of Rodin's statue "The Kiss" instead of "The Thinker". Principal Conklin orders it covered up with a tarpaulin. At lunch, Conklin punishes Walter Denton for peeking at it. Denton protests his innocence, and sets up a trap sending anyone peeking at the statue falling into a locked supply room in the basement. Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton, Mr. Conklin, '''Walter Denton himself''' and finally school board head Mr. Stone fall into the basement supply room.
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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1341 SCP-1341 ("JUNGLE IN A JAR").]] SCP-1341 is soil that causes jungle-like plants to grow from it that eventually produce ape-like creatures. During an experiment with SCP-1341, one of the researchers is killed by falling into a pit trap (lined with stakes) dug by the creatures.
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* ''Literature/WolfPack'': Dr. Monk has Bruno and Charles dig one of these and cover it with branches to catch one of the four werewolves. Tora's the one who falls in, since it was on her shortcut.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': The 'regulation pit traps' become a RunningGag in "Quark Games", with just about every character falling (or being knocked) into one at some point.
* ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'': In "[[Recap/DennisTheMenace1986S1E8 The Monster of Mudville Flats]]", Dennis and Tommy set this type of trap to catch the titular monster, using a leftover peanut butter sandwich as bait. When the monster (later revealed to be a hippo that escaped from the animal park) scares Margaret, she ends up running into the trap.
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'''Dennis:''' Yeah, but it caught the wrong monster!
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': While navigating a forest filled with booby traps, Hank, Bill and Boomhauer all get CaughtInASnare. Or rather, Hank and Boomhauer do, while [[FatSlob Bill]]'s snare [[NoSell fails to budge him at all]]. He proclaims with glee, "I'M TOO FAT! I'M TOO FAT!" and unties himself to free the others... and immediately steps right into a pit trap.
* ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'': In "[[Recap/DennisTheMenace1986S1E8 The Monster of Mudville Flats]]", Dennis and Tommy set this type of trap to catch the titular monster, using a leftover peanut butter sandwich as bait. When the monster (later revealed to be a hippo that escaped from the animal park) scares Margaret, she ends up running into the trap.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': While navigating a forest filled with booby traps, Hank, Bill and Boomhauer all get CaughtInASnare. Or rather, Hank and Boomhauer do, while [[FatSlob Bill]]'s snare [[NoSell fails to budge him at all]]. He proclaims with glee, "I'M TOO FAT! I'M TOO FAT!" and unties himself to free the others... and immediately steps right into a pit trap.
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'': In "[[Recap/SonicTheHedgehogSatAMS1E08HookedOnSonics Hooked on Sonics]]", Antoine sets this trap to catch Dr. Robotnik so he can be praised as a hero and win the hand of Princess Sally. Unfortunately, Robotnik uses his jet boots to fly out of the pit.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': The 'regulation pit traps' become a RunningGag ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces (1968):'' in "Quark Games", with just about every character "The Carlsbad or Bust Bash", Dick Dastardly sets this trap to catch the Wacky Racers, and it succeeds. Unfortunately for him, [[DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp Professor Pat Pending helps them out of the pit]] before Dastardly can drive over them, resulting in [[HoistByHisOwnPetard him falling (or being knocked) into one at some point.the pit]].
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* In ''Film/TheTripper'', Dylan has set {{Booby Trap}}s throughout the forest. He is eventually HoistByHisOwnPetard when he falls into one of his pit traps while attempting to flee from Deputy Buzz and is impaled on the spikes.
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* The notorious pit-traps used by Viet Cong troops in the jungle against American troops during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Often with a courtesy detail of poisoned punji spikes at the bottom.
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* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Trap Hole]][[note]]"Pitfall" in Japan[[/note]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Trap_Hole_(archetype) archetype]] of trap cards, which are supported by the [[TrapMaster Traptrix]] [[AntlionMonster monster]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Traptrix archetype.]]
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' adventures uses them all the time in underground areas, often with SpikesOfDoom on the bottom to impale victims.
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* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Mighty Little Defenders'' episode 3, there are two scenes where Wolky sets up pitfalls containing ravenous plants, both covered up in such a way that they blend in with the surrounding ground. to capture the goats. Both times, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Wolffy sends him falling into the pitfall]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE42BabyItsColdOutside2 Baby, It's Cold Outside, Part 2]]", one of the traps on the way to King Charlatan's throne room is a hidden trapdoor that opens up to reveal a pit filled with sharp spikes of dry ice.
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** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE42BabyItsColdOutside2 Baby, It's Cold Outside, Part 2]]", one of the traps on the way to King Charlatan's throne room is a hidden trapdoor that opens up to reveal a pit filled with sharp spikes of dry ice.
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*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]]": In order to prevent Big Macintosh and Cheerilee from meeting each other while under the effect of the love poison, the CMCpull this.resort to digging a very large pit, placing a mattress at its bottom, and tricking Big Macintosh into falling in.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E10GoingToSeed Going to Seed]]": While trying to catch the Great Seedling, Applejack and Apple Bloom dig a number of deep pits around the orchard and cover them with leaves; Applejack also did this while trying to catch the seedling in her own youth. This consistently backfires on them; filly Applejack accidentally trapped herself in her own pit, and in the present day the pits only catch the family dog and a sleepwalking Big Macintosh.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE42BabyItsColdOutside2 Baby, It's Cold Outside, Part 2]]", one of the traps on the way to King Charlatan's throne room is a hidden trapdoor that opens up to reveal a pit filled with sharp spikes of dry ice.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]]": In order to prevent Big Macintosh and Cheerilee from meeting each other while under the effect of the love poison, the CMC
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E10GoingToSeed Going to Seed]]": While trying to catch the Great Seedling, Applejack and Apple Bloom dig a number of deep pits around the orchard and cover them with leaves; Applejack also did this while trying to catch the seedling in her own youth. This consistently backfires on them; filly Applejack accidentally trapped herself in her own pit, and in the present day the pits only catch the family dog and a sleepwalking Big Macintosh.
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* ''Film/SweetHostage'': After Leonard kidnaps Doris Mae to his secret mountain cabin, he warns her that the nearby woods are full of booby traps. She doesn't believe him until her escape attempt, when she falls through some brush into a pit and injures her ankle.
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** Duncan and Owen use a pit trap covered with twigs to steal the compass off Gwen and Heather in "[[Recap/TotalDramaAreWeThereYeti Are We There, Yeti?]]".
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* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''. Duncan and Owen use a pit trap to steal the survival gear off Gwen and Heather in "Are We There, Yeti?"
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** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaEatPukeAndBeWary Eat, Puke and Be Wary]]", Zoey gets into the trapper game and among others sets up a pit trap. Of all possible victims, it's Fang who falls into it, which saves Scott from being mauled by the mutant shark.
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** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaEatPukeAndBeWary Eat, Puke and Be Wary]]", Zoey gets into the trapper game and among others sets up a pit trap. Of all possible victims, it's Fang who falls into it, which saves Scott from being mauled by the mutant shark.
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* In ''Manga/DrStone'', the Empire of Might builds pit traps around the cell they're holding [[spoiler:Chrome]] in, so the Kingdom of Science can't use [[spoiler:their tank]] to stage a rescue.
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* Parodied in ''Website/TheOnion'''s "[[https://www.theonion.com/hasbro-launches-line-of-trap-building-kits-to-encourage-1840851848 Hasbro Launches Line Of Trap-Building Kits To Encourage Girls To Get Into Post-Apocalyptic Survivalism]]", which includes "small floral-accented commando shovels for digging beginner-sized tiger pits".
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* In Creator/TomSharpe's satirical farce ''Literature/RiotousAssembly'', the insane BOSS secret policeman Liutnant Verkramp falls foul of one of these, when out on a mission against a white houseowner paranoid against the possibility the blacks are about to rise in revolt, who has taken extreme precautions in defending his property.
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* The TempleOfDoom guarding ''Literature/TheBandsOfMourning'' have plenty of these in the booby-trapped hallway. The crew cheats by sending [[BlobMonster MeLaan the kandra]] to trigger all the traps. The only one lethal to her is the acid trap, which [[RealityEnsues froze over years ago in the icy moutaintop temple]].
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