GIRAFFE STUCK IN QUICKSAND MOVIE
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Cue the elephantine monster suddenly sinking and quickly drowning (the last scene being his trunk sticking out the quicksand's surface). Doraemon then takes out his quicksand powder and has Nobitania's allies, Shizukaria, Sunemisu and Giantosu, sprinkle the powder all around Ganbosu's feet. Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen has Nobita's Alternate Self, Nobitania, fighting General Ganbosu, a powerful elephant demon who reveals his ability to transform into a mountain-sized behemoth.This trope is Older Than Feudalism, with descriptions of it existing in fiction, as well as historical accounts for centuries, as the Real Life section demonstrates. Also compare Unrealistic Black Hole, because both black holes and quicksand are portrayed in media as pulling in anything nearby, whereas in reality both only consume things which have gotten too close in the first place. See also Sand Is Water, Mucking in the Mud, Swamps Are Evil, and Bubblegloop Swamp. However, with the right combination/consistency of sand, clay, water, and salt, it is nearly impossible to escape quicksand without help. While animals and people do sometimes die in quicksand, it's almost never from drowning - it's from exposure, dehydration or predation after exhausting themselves struggling to get out. Struggling in a panic may actually cause you to drag yourself down instead of up, and survival guides stress the importance of staying still if this starts to happen. The usual advice for someone who finds themselves caught in deep quicksand is to simply relax and float on their back. In fact, real quicksand is so dense that you can't sink in it (with more than half your body).

GIRAFFE STUCK IN QUICKSAND MOVIE

In truth, quicksand, while real, isn't terribly common exerts none of its movie counterpart's mythical 'sucking' power and isn't nearly the Sticky Situation the movies made it look like. In movies, it is often used to set up a Chekhov's Gun scenario in which the hero stumbles into it and escapes early on, in order to set up for a villain to die that way later in the film. In particularly challenging versions, enemies will come out and attempt to drag the player to the depths, making them somewhat similar to Instakill Mooks if sinking in quicksand is an instant-death condition (and it often is). This trope is a Discredited Trope nowadays, although the Shifting Sand Land of video games is still allowed to play it straight, as a gameplay challenge if nothing else.

GIRAFFE STUCK IN QUICKSAND SERIAL

Originally a movie serial and B-film device, this trope has been carried over to television by way of programs that mimicked or paid homage to those films, or to pulp fiction in general. Although most victims blunder blindly into quicksand, it sometimes seems that the merest touch of an extremity is enough to pull the unwary into its muddy and all-consuming depths like iron filings to a magnet. In all cases, its most dangerous feature is its ability to suck people and animals down and drown them in a malevolent blend of sand and water.

Science Fiction stories written before the Moon landings are also liable to describe thick layers of extremely fine lunar dust on the Moon's surface that are treated as functionally equivalent to quicksand. Quicksand is a common and deadly element of swamp, jungle, and desert terrain.

Giraffe stuck in quicksand