i was thinking that it would be cool to have an option that could let you escape from the death traps, maybe with the classic pressing all the buttons quickly, and while you are at the death traps your energy begins to decrease quickly and if all your character's energy is depleted the death trap finish him/her, obiously adding a initial damage for falling in it, like one quarter of the energy or something like that, for making woth throwing you oponent even if the oponent escapes.

for example in the stage where are the spiked pillars the one that falls there , he/she would try to stop the pilars, if he/she sucess he/she jumps to the arena again, if not he/she gets crushed.

or in the stage that is collapsing the guy who falls try to grab a rock and he begins to hit with the rocks until he stops, then the camera goes again to the uperside and the guy that falls enters the arena from the place he fell. (for doesnt teleporting the characters, but without doing ime in seeing him climbing) but if the enrgy runs out the char just falls like normally would do.
i think this could work as an option that you could turn on or off