History Main / CarpetRolledCorpse

* An ad for Creator/TheABC's iview service has a pair of gangsters digging a grave for a carpet rolled corpse. One of the gangsters complains to his buddy that his partner is unsubscribing from their streaming service because it is too expensive. When his buddy asks what they will do for entertainment, he says they will watch ABC iview and lists off the type of shows available, and that it's free.A voice from inside the carpet then adds that it's ad-free as well, and then the carpet tries to roll away.

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* In ''Series/{{CSINY}}''''s "Jamalot," the corpse of an up-and-coming writer was found rolled up in an expensive rug inside a dumpster.

* ''Theatre/{{Fangirls}}'': When the girls decide to dump Harry's unconscious for in 'the woods', [[spoiler:Catherine]] tells them to wrap him up in the rug.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #414, Superman wraps his just-deceased cousin -who had just been killed by the Anti-Monitor in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' #7- in her cape to transport her body to Rokyn, where her biological parents are still living.

** In ''All The Rage'', Doug vanishes from his apartment after hacking into the files of the drug company he works for. His fiancee notes that his living room's rug is missing, which immediately brings this trope to mind.

* Parodied in ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'' in an episode where Shin-Chan, Himawari and Misae went on a picnic outing at a nearby park. Misae decides to take a short nap, but being [[HeavySleeper Misae]], she ends up sleeping longer than expected. When Shin-Chan tried waking Misae up (because his favourite anime's about to start) unsuccessfully, he instead leaves with Himawari, but not before rolling Misae into a bundle using the picnic rug (quoth Shin-Chan, "Don't let mom catch a cold"). Cue plenty of horrified passerbys looking at the rolled-up Misae, and someone calls the police that "there's a dead body rolled-up in the public park"...

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** ''ComicBook/Supergirl1972'': In the sixth issue, Supergirl needs to stop a gang war, so she picks two huge rolls of insulation, and lays them out, knocking the gangers over and rolling them up inside. Once they are paralyzed, they have no option but listening to her.
** After her death at the hands of the Anti-Monitor in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', Superman uses this method to transport his cousin's body to Rokyn where her natural parents live.

Often a DeathTrope, so '''unmarked spoilers''' may follow.

* Happened at least one on ''Series/{{Castle}}''. A city councilman is found this way... after the carpet had been rolled out by people who took the carpet to their apartment, thinking it was left out for those who needed it ([[TruthInTelevision turns out that this is a thing in New York]]). They immediately realize that the corpse was moved to hide where the victim was murdered, but the carpet actually helps link them to a hotel manager who hated the victim [[spoiler: and help discover the victim's affair]]. Naturally, Castle had to lampshade it.

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* PlayedForLaughs in a ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' stunt where Johnny Knoxville gets wrapped up in a red carpet and rolled down for Wee Man (dressed as a king) to use. They do it twice, first down a set of concrete stairs, then down a hilly street.
* After a woman dies of an overdose at a Barskdale gang part in ''Series/TheWire'' Wee Bay rolls the body in a carpet and disposes of it in a dumpster. The woman was friends with waitress Shardene at the gang's front business, and after witnessing the autopsy, Shardene agrees to help the police to bring the gang down.

* ''Dying Earth'' RPG adventure "[[http://www.dyingearth.com/violetcusps_files/Exasperating.zip The Exasperating Cadaver]]" on the Dying Earth website. The {{PC}}s are hired to deliver a "package", which turns out to be a body wrapped up in a carpet. They later discover that the body is actually still alive but drugged.

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]": Lampshaded by Louis when Daniel inquires as to how he and Claudia disposed of Lestat's body.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the second episode, after Louis de Pointe du Lac is done feeding on the tractor salesman, Lestat de Lioncourt rolls up the dead man inside a red carpet rug that he'll later discard as he ponders on a replacement.
-->'''Lestat''': For our next carpet, I'm thinking Persian. Arabesque maybe. Certainly need a more efficient way of ridding the waste.

* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesAndTheMysteryOfThePersianCarpet'': The victim is found disposed of in a Persian carpet.

* Like the Real Life example below, this also happens in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' as Bayek and Aya roll Cleopatra up into a rug to sneak her past Ptolemy’s guards so she can meet with Julius Caesar.

* Al-Mustasim, the last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad, was rolled up in a rug and trampled to death by the Mongol cavalry. This was because royal blood was too special to be [[ExactWords spilled on]] [[LoopholeAbuse the ground.]]

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': among the people interested in buying Al's [[TheAlledgedCar Dodge]] were a pair of mobsters with a corpse in a rolled up carpet in tow, asking if the car had any leaks.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'';:

* ''Batman #132: "Crime Does Not Pay"'': In the story "A Fat Tip for Murder", the murderer rolls his second victim in a carpet to transport her to the hospital where they both work to disguise her as an anatomy class specimen.

* In ''Manga/ThusSpokeKishibeRohan'' episode 2 - ''Mutsu-kabe Hill'' - Naoko was forced to hide her lover's corpse in a rolled-up carpet to hide it from her father, who was mere moments away from seeing the body.

* A Bronze Age ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story called "The Corpse Came C.O.D." (issue #271), when Alfred receives a carpet with a corpse rolled up in it and brings it to the attention of his master Bruce Wayne as well as to the police, leading to Batman investigating the matter.
* ''Crime Does Not Pay'' #132: In the story "A Fat Tip for Murder", the murderer rolls his second victim in a carpet to transport her to the hospital where they both work to disguise her as an anatomy class specimen. Like all the stories in the series, loosely based on a RealLife event.

* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:
** Rare heroic example in ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1972}} Supergirl vol 1]] #6''. The eponymous heroine needs to stop a gang war so she picks two huge rolls of insulation, and lays them out, knocking the gangers over and rolling them up inside. Once they are paralyzed, they have no option but listening to her.
** After her death at the hands of the Anti-Monitor in ''Crisis On Infinite Earths'', Superman used this method to transport his cousin's body to New Krypton where her natural parents lived.
** When the Matrix Supergirl fused with Linda Danvers, one of the flashback memories revealed Linda, as a young girl, witnessing a church leader beating his wife to death through the window of their house. The husband had the body removed inside a carpet and spread the word she'd run off on him.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: While they're obviously alive Diana uses the roll 'em up in a carpet method to restrain and transport a villain.

* In [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch Plutarch's]] ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Lives Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans]]'', it is described how Cleopatra smuggles herself into Julius Caesar's apartment in either a bedsack or the coverlet of a bed (depending on the translation), carried by Apollodorus, the Sicilian.

* Although her body was never found, police suspect this was Anne Marie Fahey's fate when they noted that her ex-lover Thomas Capano had purchased a new carpet shortly after she disappeared.