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  • But these elaborate death-traps can come in a couple of forms in TRA – in the early stages they are often just minor setbacks – a bit of lost health or a missed jump that needs to be attempted again.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Ben Abraham 2009

  • But these elaborate death-traps can come in a couple of forms in TRA – in the early stages they are often just minor setbacks – a bit of lost health or a missed jump that needs to be attempted again.

    The Raider, The Prince and The Assassin Ben Abraham 2009

  • Their recurring nemesis was Dr. Miguelito Loveless, a dwarf mad scientist who exhausted too much of his genius on death-traps for Jim and Artie.

    Mission: What’s Your Favorite ‘Weird Western’? | Missions Unknown 2010

  • The death-bot looked helplessly as the vines and noxbo entangled the death-traps of his skeleton, creating a good-bot instead of a war-turd.

    BIRDY NAM NAM - THE PARACHUTE ENDING on Vimeo 2010

  • Thrill to killers crocs, vicious women-warriors, pit vipers, lethal death-traps and assorted other jungle perils; all stemming from Tiger Girl's timely rescue of a chick that isn't quite as innocent as she appears.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Chuck Wells 2010

  • Thrill to killers crocs, vicious women-warriors, pit vipers, lethal death-traps and assorted other jungle perils; all stemming from Tiger Girl's timely rescue of a chick that isn't quite as innocent as she appears.

    Tiger Girl in "Out of the Murky Past" (Fiction House;1945) Chuck Wells 2010

  • It still has Sala's fingerprints all over it--a goofily-named secret society, a demented serial killer, preposterous death-traps, secret doorways, etc.--it's just that these elements are laid out in a straightforward, mainstream-friendly way.

    Archive 2009-09-06 2009

  • Make our cars big and safe instead of little death-traps.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge 2009

  • Eventually, Batman and Joker confront Owlman, who has teamed-up with other super-villains and is holding all the heroes in death-traps, like poor Aquaman here:

    Brave and The Bold: "Game Over for Owlman!" rob! 2009

  • Admirably free of plot, the movie unfolds as more of collection of five or six vignettes as the bomb squad spends their days negotiating a series of increasingly hair-raising death-traps as they dig up and defuse IEDs buried in garbage, cars, and strapped both in and on human bodies.

    Will Menaker: The Hurt Locker 2009

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