History Main / IronMaiden

* Creator/BramStoker short-story ''[[http://www.bramstoker.org/stories/03guest/03squaw.html The Squaw]]'' is focused on the iron maiden (refered as "Iron Virgin" in the text) exposed in Nuremberg Castle (the device really existed, it was destroyed by the Allied bombing of 1944). Its protagonist is an American tourist who visits the castle and asks the guid to brievely almost close the iron maiden on him, to know how would have fell a victim of this supplice. [[spoiler:Before entering the castle, he unintentionally killed a group of kittens next to their mothers, by throwing a stone. While testing the iron maiden, the guid is attacked by the resentful cat and let go the rope which held the device's doors open; the heavy doors thus slammed shut, killing the protagonist.]]

--> '''Bill and Ted:''' Iron Maiden? Excellent!\\

* Creator/BramStoker short-story ''[[http://www.bramstoker.org/stories/03guest/03squaw.html The Squaw]]'' is focused on the iron maiden (refered as "Iron Virgin" in the text) exposed in Nuremberg Castle (the device really existed, it was destroyed by the Allied bombing of 1944). Its protagonist is an American tourist who visits the castle and asks the guid to brievely almost close the iron maiden on him, to know how would have fell a victim of this supplice. [[spoiler: Before entering the castle, he unintentionally killed a group of kittens next to their mothers, by throwing a stone. While testing the iron maiden, the guid is attacked by the resentful cat and let go the rope which held the device's doors open; the heavy doors thus slammed shut, killing the protagonist.]]

* One of your hiding places for Fiona during the second portion of ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' is inside an iron maiden. [[spoiler: If Daniella finds her, she'll pull a lever and [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Fiona is impaled.]]]]

-->(''Palin, voice-over''): But for the lack of any untold circumstances for this secretary to notice, and the total non-involvement of Mr. Mellish in anything illegal, the full weight of the law would insure that Ralph Aulds Mellish would have ended up like all who challenge the fundamental laws of our society. In an iron coffin, with spikes on the inside.

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* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': From ''Kept Busy'':
--> "How's dear old Groll doing these days?"
--> "Your admirably treacherous and selfish former subordinate remains in the torture chamber. We put him into an iron maiden built from his own teeth," the butler proclaimed, rubbing his hands with glee. "I hope you don't need to ask him anything, Master. His pronunciation has deteriorated quite a bit since we put ants in his mouth."

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''

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* The ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short "Can You Take It?" has Popeye enduring abuse as part of his InitiationCeremony into the Bruiser Boys Club, ending with him encased in an iron maiden. However, the durable sailor survives and the knives in the back are bent.

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* ''Manga/DropkickOnMyDevil'' Yurine puts Jashin in one [[Main/DisproportionateRetribution as punishment for eating her pudding.]]

* In ''VideoGames/LobotomyCorporation'' there's an Abnormality called "We can change anything" which is modeled after an iron maiden.

* Animus of ''VideoGame/TheBlackHeart'' spent most of his centuries-old immortal life inside of an iron maiden, which probablly explains why [[GenderBender he/she]] is such a CombatSadomasochist. One of his victory animations even has him having the iron maiden close on him as he laughs.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls'' episode [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E5BoogieFrightsAbracadaver "Abracadaver"]], the titular Villain of the Episode was a magician who died from an iron maiden-like coffin after a little girl pushed him for losing her toy. After he was revived as a zombie, Abracadaver exacted revenge towards Blossom, who resembles that little girl decades ago, by hypnotizing her and sealing her inside the iron maiden. At the end, the Abracadaver reveals to be Blossom, and Blossom did the switcheroo by sealing the zombie inside the maiden.

* Uday Hussein, the psychopathic son of UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, is rumored to have [[{{Defictionalization}} ordered the construction of an iron maiden]] for use in his torture-sessions. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_maiden_(torture_device) More info]] at Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

* The Noble Phantasm of Carmilla aka grown-up Elisabeth Bathory in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is Phantom Maiden, the iron maiden she supposedly used to torture people, though her profile also states that it never actually existed in the first place.

* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Carmilla has one as her Noble Phantasm, Phantom Maiden. After her animation update, she summons to catch her foes from behind in her Buster animation and summons one via a portal to fall on and grind them into paste in her Extra attack animation. The full Noble Phantasm activation creates a colossal iron maiden that oozes copious amounts of blood, healing Carmilla in the process.

An iron maiden is a form of medieval torture wherein a person is stuffed into a man-shaped metal case with SpikesOfDoom all around the insides, causing the poor soul to get stabbed and eventually die. Often, that metal case is also a coffin. This effectively combines the two {{Primal Fear}}s of [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]] and [[BuriedAlive claustrophobia]].

Not to be confused with [[Music/IronMaiden the heavy metal group]], though they are named after the device. Also no relation to IronLady.

Can often be found in a TortureCellar. See also PunishmentBox, which is a (slightly) more humane version.

* In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', [[SadistTeacher Miss Trunchbull]] stuffs kids into a closet, dubbed "the Chokey", which is full of rusty nails and broken glass, akin to an iron maiden. The idea here is that the kids must stand perfectly still until released to avoid injury.

* In ''Whack The Serial Killer'', the title psycho has one of these in his TortureCellar, which you can use on him.

* ''Film/FiveDeadlyVenoms'' features an iron maiden variant with the victim's head exposed, which Snake uses to kill Toad. [[spoiler:It only takes after Snake smashes Toad's ears and disables his "iron skin" power]].

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': One of the curios that heroes may encounter in the Ruins. Interacting with it can range from simply swinging open and revealing nothing but foul smelling air to trapping the hero inside it, having a chance of giving them a claustrophobia quirk and stressing them out or exposing them to tetanus with a low chance for a random disease. Heroes with the bloodthirsty quirk can be compelled to open maidens on their own.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' features a few of these during the Conviction Arc, and Casca very nearly gets shut in one, which is about the point when all hell really breaks loose.

An iron maiden is a form of medieval torture wherein a person is stuffed into a man-shaped metal case with SpikesOfDoom all around the insides, causing the poor soul to get stabbed and eventually die. Often, that metal case is also a coffin. This effectively combines the two primal fears of [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]] and [[BuriedAlive claustrophobia]].

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'', the first execution we see is someone being trapped in a rocket flying into space that doubles as an iron maiden. Their body burns up upon reentry if the spikes didn't kill them first.

** In WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror for 2014 one of the ThreeShorts takes place in a school in Hell. At one point we see two bullies push a smaller demon into a locker with spikes inside and slam it shut, then blood pours out of the bottom of the locker.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "The King's Demons", the Master's TARDIS takes on the form of an (anachronistic) iron maiden in thirteenth-century England.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls'' episode "Abracadaver", the titular Villain of the Episode was a magician who died from an iron maiden-like coffin after a little girl pushed him for losing her toy. After he was revived as a zombie, Abracadaver exacted revenge towards Blossom, who resembles that little girl decades ago, by hypnotizing her and sealing her inside the iron maiden. At the end, the Abracadaver reveals to be Blossom, and Blossom did the switcheroo by sealing the zombie inside the maiden.

An iron maiden is a form of medieval torture wherein a person is stuffed into a man-shaped metal case with spikes all around the insides, causing the poor soul to get stabbed and eventually die. Often, that metal case is also a coffin. This effectively combines the two primal fears of impalement and claustrophobia.

Not to be confused with [[Music/IronMaiden the heavy metal group]], though they are named after the device.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PowerPuffGirls'' episode "Abracadaver", the titular Villain of the Episode was a magician who died from an iron maiden-like coffin after a little girl pushed him for losing her toy. After he was revived as a zombie, Abracadaver exacted revenge towards Blossom, who resembles that little girl decades ago, by hypnotizing her and sealing her inside the iron maiden. At the end, the Abracadaver reveals to be Blossom, and Blossom did the switcheroo by sealing the zombie inside the maiden.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' : In one of the darkest bits of humor on the show, the BumblingDad built one of these as a punishment for his children. The "Fenton Stockades", he called them - though ultimately, ''he's'' the one who gets put inside.

* In ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesofSorrow Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow]]'' and [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDespair Castlevania: Harmony of Despair]], the Puppet Master deploys four Iron Maidens in his room, summons a puppet and places it in one of the four devices. You need to destroy the puppet before it enter the Iron Maiden, otherwise you'll be teleported into the Iron Maiden and get stuffed into it.

* In ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesofSorrow Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow]]'', the Puppet Master deploys four Iron Maidens in his room, summons a puppet and places it in one of the four devices. You need to destroy the puppet before it enter the Iron Maiden, otherwise you'll be teleported into the Iron Maiden and get stuffed into it.

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