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* In ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'', a girl wishes she could lose a stone in weight. Her wish is granted by [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor having her arm ground off when it gets trapped in the garbage disposal]].
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* One of Count Cagliostro's mooks is crushed by the workings during the famous ClockTower climax of ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'', though each time a GoryDiscretionShot hides the gruesome details from the audience. An unusual variant happens to the Count himself when he's caught in between the gigantic hour and minute hands of the clock face itself as the special mechanism causes them to both rapidly converge on 12.
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* In the ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'' episode "Death by Miss Adventure", the BodyOfTheWeek is a factory worker mangled by the machinery. The investigation reveals that the safety equipment was added after the death, that the factory owner was running illegal nighttime shifts under a second set of accounts, and, ultimately, that the victim was pushed into the gears by her spurned lover, who decided that IfICantHaveYou....
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* ''VideoGames/CrashTagTeamRacing:'' In one of the "Die-o-rama" cutscenes, Crash is killed by being crushed by giant gears.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'': the move Gear Grind, learned by the Klink evolution line, uses gears to crush targets.
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* TheVillain from [[Creator/HannaBarbera Hanna Barbera]]'s cartoon series ''WesternAnimaion/JosieAndThePussycats'' episode "Never Mind A Mastermind" seeks to eliminate the meddlesome Alexander, Melody and Alexandra by letting a cogged rack act as a ConveyorBeltODoom, taking the three toward the point where it meshes with a large drive gear. The TeamPet saves them from being meshed to mush, however.
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* In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Mr. Gryle is quite thoroughly done in by an experimental mail-sorting engine, thanks to a central flywheel so poorly designed that it rotates through its own space-time frame. AlienGeometries plus an off-balanced banshee equals a [Gloop] and a sticky smear.
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* In ''TabletopGame/Pathfinder,''the signature move of the Clockwork Golem is to pop open and drag someone into its transmission.
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* ''Literature/AlexRider'' is threatened with this at one point by TheDragon of ''Skeleton Key'', Conrad, if he doesn't confess. [[ILied Then when he does, Conrad decides to kill him anyway.]] Alex is only saved by the intervention of the BigBad, Alexei Sarov.
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* ''Literature/ShipBreaker''. [[PsychoForHire Richard Lopez]] is pulled halfway into the gears of the ship's hydraulics system [[AnArmAndALeg losing both legs and an arm]] -- he's so high on drugs he can barely understand the horror of what's happened to him.
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** Batman later abuses Ragdoll's immunity to this trope to get around his ThouShaltNotKill rule - by kicking him into the gears (much to Ragdoll's enjoyment) only to jam the gears with a batarang, causing Ragdoll to get helplessly stuck and taking him out of the MeleeATrois.
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* The BigBad and one mook are crushed by the workings during the famous ClockTower climax of ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'', though each time a GoryDiscretionShot hides the gruesome details from the audience.
* This is also the fate of the Seamstress in ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'', trapped by the heroes and dragged between two massive gears in the factory; we even get to see her head go 'pop' between the teeth, though as she's a MechanicalMonster, this isn't as gory as it sounds.
* This is also the fate of the Seamstress in ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'', trapped by the heroes and dragged between two massive gears in the factory; we even get to see her head go 'pop' between the teeth, though as she's a MechanicalMonster, this isn't as gory as it sounds.
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* In ''TabletopGame/Pathfinder,''the signature move of the Clockwork Golem is to pop open and drag someone into its transmission.
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* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': This is how Blake defeats Darkness Robo in [='VRcade'=].
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* In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Mr. Gryle is quite thoroughly done in by an experimental mail-sorting engine, thanks to a central flywheel so poorly designed that it rotates through its own space-time frame. AlienGeometries plus an off-balanced banshee equals a [Gloop] and a sticky smear.
* ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'': The final fate of Grivens in ''Red Leech''. Tipped over a walkway in the engineroom of the ship, his coat snags on the cams of the massive steam engine and he is crushed to death.
* In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Mr. Gryle is quite thoroughly done in by an experimental mail-sorting engine, thanks to a central flywheel so poorly designed that it rotates through its own space-time frame. AlienGeometries plus an off-balanced banshee equals a [Gloop] and a sticky smear.
* ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'': The final fate of Grivens in ''Red Leech''. Tipped over a walkway in the engineroom of the ship, his coat snags on the cams of the massive steam engine and he is crushed to death.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': Around the climax of the movie, Finn and Holly are tied to the giant clock gears of the Big Ben by the bad guys, with them edging closer to being crushed by another gear each minute. Holly manages to save themselves by making the clock run in reverse.
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* The ultimate of Urgot, the Dreadnought, from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' fires a long-ranged harpoon out that locks onto the first enemy champion it hits. If their HP is low enough (making them too weak to resist him), he reels the harpoon back in, dragging the hapless champion into a set of grinding rollers set into the front of his cybernetic body and gruesomely ripping them apart and not even leaving a body behind. Not only is it effectively a guaranteed kill (it does 9999 damage), it's such a horrible death that any of the hapless victim's teammates nearby are briefly terrified by witnessing it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': Toaster commits a HeroicSacrifice by jumping into the gears of a trash compactor to stop it from killing the Master. Fortunately, the Master is able to repair his good as new.
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* ''Film/LicenceToKill'': TheDragon Dario attempts to drop Bond into an industrial pulverizer that is being used to crush cocaine. After a tough fight, Bond manages to yank Dario so he falls into the pulverizer and is turned into a fine pink mist.
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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "Hero to Zero", the second VictimOfTheWeek is crushed to death in the winching mecanism of his truck in an attempt to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
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---> '''Ragdoll:''' "''Really irons out the kinks... oh! And lookie what I found!''" *holds up the jewels with a shit-eating grin on his face.*
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* Basil of Baker Street from Disney's Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective flips TheVillain's cape into some bevel gears while the two were fighting inside Big Ben. Basil then rushes to rescue the HeartwarmingOrphan, who is poised to be crushed by much larger gears meshing, leaving TheVillain to tear off his cape to free himself.
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* The ''Creator/{{Pixar}}'' short cartoon ''Mikes New Car'' from 2002 has Mike Wazowsky show off his new car to his best friend Jimmy Sullivan. At one point, Mike ends up in the car's engine bay with the hood shutting above him. The engine compartment seems composed of solely of large gears meshing precisely to create this hazard. Mike survives due to PlotArmor and the RuleOfFunny.
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A particularly CruelAndUnusualDeath where a character ends up trapped in a mesh of large machinery, which crushes and grinds them into a pulp. Oftentimes, given the purpose of the devices, it features someone being wedged between two of them at once. If this happens in a cartoon, chances are the character involved will simply be SquashedFlat.
Often goes hand in hand with a ConveyorBeltOfDoom. Places where this can happen are often guilty of NoOSHACompliance. Surprisingly has nothing to do with ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar''. Often involves a GoryDiscretionShot. Not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy what grinds your gears]]. Compare with DeadlyRotaryFan.
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* Basil of Baker Street from Disney's Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective flips TheVillain's cape into some bevel gears while the two were fighting inside Big Ben. Basil then rushes to rescue the HeartwarmingOrphan, who is poised to be crushed by much larger gears meshing, leaving TheVillain to tear off his cape to free himself.
* ''Film/Cars2'': Around the climax of the movie, Finn and Sally are tied to the giant clock gears of the Big Ben by the bad guys, with them edging closer to being crushed by another gear each minute. Sally manages to save themselves by making the clock run in reverse.
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* In TheClimax of ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', Gordon ends up caught in the gears of the Ark's door mechanism and is brutally (though [[BloodlessCarnage not explicitly]]) crushed to death. A minor Chinese character also ends up getting a leg caught in the machinery.
* ''Film/TheFinalDestination'': After barely escaping an explosion in the mall, Lori is pulled into the exposed machinery of a broken escalator and is torn to shreds as Nick looks on. Of course, this turned out to be another premonition and he is able to prevent it. In an alternate scene, he ends up getting pulled in as well.
* Subverted in ''Film/ModernTimes''. Charlie gets caught inside the machinery, but the gears only move him around without harming him.
* Happens to a mook in ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}'', when he gets pushed over a railing during a fight scene and is then eaten by the train engine's gears, thanks to NoOSHACompliance.
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom.'' At the end of Indiana's fight with a GiantMook, the villain is dragged into a giant rock crusher by his scarf and squashed to death.
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* In the ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'' episode "Death by Miss Adventure", the BodyOfTheWeek is a factory worker mangled by the machinery. The investigation reveals that the safety equipment was added after the death, that the factory owner was running illegal nighttime shifts under a second set of accounts, and, ultimately, that the victim was pushed into the gears by her spurned lover, who decided that IfICantHaveYou....
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* In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Mr. Gryle is quite thoroughly done in by an experimental mail-sorting engine, thanks to a central flywheel so poorly designed that it rotates through its own space-time frame. AlienGeometries plus an off-balanced banshee equals a [Gloop] and a sticky smear.
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* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''
** Carl Clover's updated Astral Heat in Chronophantasma has him trapping his foe in a pocket dimension where they are grinded to dust by giant gears.
** One of Relius Clover's Distortion Drives, Req Vinum, has him trapping the foe in an energy field and chipped away by large gears and cogs.
* ''VideoGames/CrashTagTeamRacing:'' In one of the "Die-o-rama" cutscenes, Crash is killed by being crushed by giant gears.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'': the move Gear Grind, learned by the Klink evolution line, uses gears to crush targets.
* There are two obstacles in VideoGame/DukeNukem3D that are composed of two enormous gears meshing, with one gear missing a tooth. Duke can travel between these gears if he occupies the missing tooth's space. Or he can mistime it, and get squished, giving himself a BondOneLiner.
* This can happen to Norman Jayden in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' during the junkyard fight, if the player doesn't guide him out of the car thrown into the grinder fast enough.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar3,'' Kratos uses Poseidon's princess to keep a gate mechanism open, but her strength eventually gives out and she's crushed by the gears, her mangled body keeping the gate from closing completely.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': Toaster commits a HeroicSacrifice by jumping into the gears of a trash compactor to stop it from killing the Master. Fortunately, the Master is able to repair her good as new.
* Narrowly averted in the ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' short "Disney/TheOldMill''. A bird has made her nest on one of the spoke holes of a grindstone of the abandoned mill. That night a storm starts moving the gears and the rope holding the main gear breaks. The bird and her eggs are only saved by the fact that [[ByWallThatIsHoley the corresponding spoke is missing.]]
* The second [[Characters/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]] short cartoon is ''Roller Coaster Rabbit'', which sees a desperate Roger attempt to save Baby Herman from harm at a carnival. When Baby Herman clambers aboard a Ferris wheel, Roger tries to snag him from the car, but his feet become enmeshed in the wheel's many exposed drive gears. ToonPhysics make this mightily painful for Roger, but neither injurous nor fatal; even his outfit emerges intact.
* TheVillain from [[Creator/HannaBarbera Hanna Barbera]]'s cartoon series ''WesternAnimaion/JosieAndThePussycats'' episode "Never Mind A Mastermind" seeks to eliminate the meddlesome Alexander, Melody and Alexandra by letting a cogged rack act as a ConveyorBeltODoom, taking the three toward the point where it meshes with a large drive gear. The TeamPet saves them from being meshed to mush, however.
* The ''Creator/{{Pixar}}'' short cartoon ''Mikes New Car'' from 2002 has Mike Wazowsky show off his new car to his best friend Jimmy Sullivan. At one point, Mike ends up in the car's engine bay with the hood shutting above him. The engine compartment seems composed of solely of large gears meshing precisely to create this hazard. Mike survives due to PlotArmor and the RuleOfFunny.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' has a MeleeATrois between Batman, Catwoman, and Ragdoll take place inside the Gotham clock tower over two legendary jewels supposedly hidden inside it
** Batman is about to be dragged into one of these deaths by way of a CapeSnag from Ragdoll, prompting a SadisticChoice between losing his hooded cape (and thus making a DramaticUnmask) or this trope. He is [[AvertedTrope narrowly saved]] by Catwoman on the grounds that [[DatingCatwoman she doesn't want his mysterious allure ruined]].
** Just after Batman is saved by Catwoman the enormous bells of the clock tower strike, and the vibrations sends Ragdoll tumbling into the gearwork, prompting a [[ScreamDiscretionShot bloodcurdling scream from Ragdoll as the gears swallow and grind him]] with both Batman and Catwoman looking on in horror as the scream dies... [[SubvertedTrope and gives way]] to a relieved sigh with [[{{Contortionist}} Ragdoll]] emerging on the other side no worse for wear, prompting StunnedSilence from both Batman and Catwoman. The real kicker? While he was undergoing what, to him, was essentially thorough impromptu ''massage therapy'' he somehow ''managed to spot and grab the two jewels while '''inside''' the gearworks.''
---> '''Ragdoll:''' "''Really irons out the kinks... oh! And lookie what I found!''" *holds up the jewels with a shit-eating grin on his face.*
** Batman later abuses Ragdoll's immunity to this trope to get around his ThouShaltNotKill rule - by kicking him into the gears (much to Ragdoll's enjoyment) only to jam the gears with a batarang, causing Ragdoll to get helplessly stuck and taking him out of the MeleeATrois.
Often goes hand in hand with a ConveyorBeltOfDoom. Places where this can happen are often guilty of NoOSHACompliance. Surprisingly has nothing to do with ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar''. Often involves a GoryDiscretionShot. Not to be confused with [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy what grinds your gears]]. Compare with DeadlyRotaryFan.
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* Basil of Baker Street from Disney's Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective flips TheVillain's cape into some bevel gears while the two were fighting inside Big Ben. Basil then rushes to rescue the HeartwarmingOrphan, who is poised to be crushed by much larger gears meshing, leaving TheVillain to tear off his cape to free himself.
* ''Film/Cars2'': Around the climax of the movie, Finn and Sally are tied to the giant clock gears of the Big Ben by the bad guys, with them edging closer to being crushed by another gear each minute. Sally manages to save themselves by making the clock run in reverse.
[[AC: Film- Live Action]]
* In TheClimax of ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', Gordon ends up caught in the gears of the Ark's door mechanism and is brutally (though [[BloodlessCarnage not explicitly]]) crushed to death. A minor Chinese character also ends up getting a leg caught in the machinery.
* ''Film/TheFinalDestination'': After barely escaping an explosion in the mall, Lori is pulled into the exposed machinery of a broken escalator and is torn to shreds as Nick looks on. Of course, this turned out to be another premonition and he is able to prevent it. In an alternate scene, he ends up getting pulled in as well.
* Subverted in ''Film/ModernTimes''. Charlie gets caught inside the machinery, but the gears only move him around without harming him.
* Happens to a mook in ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}'', when he gets pushed over a railing during a fight scene and is then eaten by the train engine's gears, thanks to NoOSHACompliance.
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom.'' At the end of Indiana's fight with a GiantMook, the villain is dragged into a giant rock crusher by his scarf and squashed to death.
[[AC: Live-Action TV]]
* In the ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'' episode "Death by Miss Adventure", the BodyOfTheWeek is a factory worker mangled by the machinery. The investigation reveals that the safety equipment was added after the death, that the factory owner was running illegal nighttime shifts under a second set of accounts, and, ultimately, that the victim was pushed into the gears by her spurned lover, who decided that IfICantHaveYou....
[[AC: Literature]]
* In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Mr. Gryle is quite thoroughly done in by an experimental mail-sorting engine, thanks to a central flywheel so poorly designed that it rotates through its own space-time frame. AlienGeometries plus an off-balanced banshee equals a [Gloop] and a sticky smear.
[[AC: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''
** Carl Clover's updated Astral Heat in Chronophantasma has him trapping his foe in a pocket dimension where they are grinded to dust by giant gears.
** One of Relius Clover's Distortion Drives, Req Vinum, has him trapping the foe in an energy field and chipped away by large gears and cogs.
* ''VideoGames/CrashTagTeamRacing:'' In one of the "Die-o-rama" cutscenes, Crash is killed by being crushed by giant gears.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'': the move Gear Grind, learned by the Klink evolution line, uses gears to crush targets.
* There are two obstacles in VideoGame/DukeNukem3D that are composed of two enormous gears meshing, with one gear missing a tooth. Duke can travel between these gears if he occupies the missing tooth's space. Or he can mistime it, and get squished, giving himself a BondOneLiner.
* This can happen to Norman Jayden in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' during the junkyard fight, if the player doesn't guide him out of the car thrown into the grinder fast enough.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar3,'' Kratos uses Poseidon's princess to keep a gate mechanism open, but her strength eventually gives out and she's crushed by the gears, her mangled body keeping the gate from closing completely.
[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': Toaster commits a HeroicSacrifice by jumping into the gears of a trash compactor to stop it from killing the Master. Fortunately, the Master is able to repair her good as new.
* Narrowly averted in the ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' short "Disney/TheOldMill''. A bird has made her nest on one of the spoke holes of a grindstone of the abandoned mill. That night a storm starts moving the gears and the rope holding the main gear breaks. The bird and her eggs are only saved by the fact that [[ByWallThatIsHoley the corresponding spoke is missing.]]
* The second [[Characters/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]] short cartoon is ''Roller Coaster Rabbit'', which sees a desperate Roger attempt to save Baby Herman from harm at a carnival. When Baby Herman clambers aboard a Ferris wheel, Roger tries to snag him from the car, but his feet become enmeshed in the wheel's many exposed drive gears. ToonPhysics make this mightily painful for Roger, but neither injurous nor fatal; even his outfit emerges intact.
* TheVillain from [[Creator/HannaBarbera Hanna Barbera]]'s cartoon series ''WesternAnimaion/JosieAndThePussycats'' episode "Never Mind A Mastermind" seeks to eliminate the meddlesome Alexander, Melody and Alexandra by letting a cogged rack act as a ConveyorBeltODoom, taking the three toward the point where it meshes with a large drive gear. The TeamPet saves them from being meshed to mush, however.
* The ''Creator/{{Pixar}}'' short cartoon ''Mikes New Car'' from 2002 has Mike Wazowsky show off his new car to his best friend Jimmy Sullivan. At one point, Mike ends up in the car's engine bay with the hood shutting above him. The engine compartment seems composed of solely of large gears meshing precisely to create this hazard. Mike survives due to PlotArmor and the RuleOfFunny.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' has a MeleeATrois between Batman, Catwoman, and Ragdoll take place inside the Gotham clock tower over two legendary jewels supposedly hidden inside it
** Batman is about to be dragged into one of these deaths by way of a CapeSnag from Ragdoll, prompting a SadisticChoice between losing his hooded cape (and thus making a DramaticUnmask) or this trope. He is [[AvertedTrope narrowly saved]] by Catwoman on the grounds that [[DatingCatwoman she doesn't want his mysterious allure ruined]].
** Just after Batman is saved by Catwoman the enormous bells of the clock tower strike, and the vibrations sends Ragdoll tumbling into the gearwork, prompting a [[ScreamDiscretionShot bloodcurdling scream from Ragdoll as the gears swallow and grind him]] with both Batman and Catwoman looking on in horror as the scream dies... [[SubvertedTrope and gives way]] to a relieved sigh with [[{{Contortionist}} Ragdoll]] emerging on the other side no worse for wear, prompting StunnedSilence from both Batman and Catwoman. The real kicker? While he was undergoing what, to him, was essentially thorough impromptu ''massage therapy'' he somehow ''managed to spot and grab the two jewels while '''inside''' the gearworks.''
---> '''Ragdoll:''' "''Really irons out the kinks... oh! And lookie what I found!''" *holds up the jewels with a shit-eating grin on his face.*
** Batman later abuses Ragdoll's immunity to this trope to get around his ThouShaltNotKill rule - by kicking him into the gears (much to Ragdoll's enjoyment) only to jam the gears with a batarang, causing Ragdoll to get helplessly stuck and taking him out of the MeleeATrois.
