Talk:Deathtrap (plot device)

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I agree with Series premiere's changes & don't like Ringess's decisions 123.211.154.121 (talk) 08:05, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

MURDOC AND MACGYVER!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.203.245.9 (talk) 22:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Does the end of the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days of Sodom" count as this?
Does the last section of the Marquis de Sade's novel 120 Days of Sodom count as this? The final section ("Murderous Passions") is all about people being cruelly murdered in baroque fashions often using elaborate machines (such as a red-hot bell, large enough not to touch the skin, placed around the victim's head to slowly melt their brain), but none of the people escape and the victims are not personal enemies of the perpetrators. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.6.113 (talk) 22:17, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Titanic (1997)
Jack Dawson being kept chained deep in the ship at the instigation of Rose's jealous beau, so that he would go down with the ship, and being rescued by Rose, is one of the most well-known death-trap situations in contemporary fiction. It belongs in the list of examples.

Of course, almost any 007 film includes at least one elaborate death-trap scene, some as many as three. :) 80.216.104.81 (talk) 22:36, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Other “Famous examples”
Other “Famous examples” from TV could include the Adventures of Superman penultimate episode "The Perils of Superman", where criminals plot revenge on Daily Planet staffers with deathtraps, dunking Clark Kent in a vat of acid (for all the good that'll do 'em, since he's Superman), tying Lois Lane to railroad tracks, tying Perry White to a large log being fed (head first) into an even larger buzzsaw, and pouring acid onto the brake and steering mechanisms of the small truck Jimmy Olsen is driving through winding cliff-edge mountain roads.

Also, the 1960s spy series The Avengers, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart, each of which featured deathtraps on multiple occasions. 2601:541:880:9130:F05B:1EE6:2C97:8346 (talk) 22:28, 25 May 2024 (UTC)