History Main / IronMaiden

** ''Magazine/WhiteDwarf'' magazine #40, adventure "The Eagle Hunt". The Assassins' Guild headquarters has a torture chamber with two iron maidens that are used to punish and interrogate victims.
** ''Magazine/{{Dungeon}}'' magazine

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', being a DarkFantasy series, naturally features these. In ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', monsters will sometimes pop out of them.

->''[[PowerEchoes "Within this virgin of cold ore, who shall swallow even your screams with her embrace, suffer in anguish as your entire body is stabbed and skewered!]]'' '''''[[PowerEchoes IRON MAIDEN!!]]"'''''
-->-- '''Naofumi Iwatani''', ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''

* Naofumi from ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' can summon an Iron Maiden with the [[EvilWeapon Wrath Shield]] as a powerful FinishingMove against his enemies.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', Edith goes into Gru's iron maiden, and what appears to be blood drips out of it, much to Margo's horror. The iron maiden then opens, only for it to be revealed that the spikes poked a hole in Edith's juice box, causing the red juice to drip out.

* ''The Arduin Adventure''. The example dungeon "The Forgotten Tower" has a torture chamber with a rack and an iron maiden for interrogating prisoners.

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* In ''Film/CarryOnHenry'', Sir Roger is tortured in an iron maiden to force him to make a false confession. After he's let out, he seems unharmed but when he asks for a glass of water the water sprays out of the InvisibleHoles in his torso.

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* ''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.

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* Wiki/{{SCP|Foundation}}-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-762 762 ("Immortal Iron Maiden")]] is an iron maiden that puts anyone inside it into a state of suspended animation, and they do not require sustenance and are immune to the effects of disease or injury, and when they are removed, the injuries caused by the SCP heal instantly. However, the subject [[AndIMustScream remains conscious]] and the experience is described as being extremely painful.

* [[spoiler:Elizabeth]]'s ultimate fate in ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum'' is to be locked in an Iron Maiden without any hope of rescue.

* The song "Iron Maiden" by the band, Music/IronMaiden (From the album ''[[Music/IronMaidenAlbum Iron Maiden]]'', references the torture device.

* The song "Iron Maiden" by the band, Music/IronMaiden (From the album ''[[Music/IronMaidenAlbum Iron Maiden]]'' references the torture device.

* The song "Iron Maiden" by the band, Music/IronMaiden (From the album ''Iron Maiden'' references the torture device.

* MarionetteMaster Kankuro from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' has a FinishingMove named after and emulating this trope [[DubNameChange (in the English dub)]]. "Secret Black Move: Iron Maiden", in which he first traps his victim in one of his puppets' barrel-like body, then uses the blades of his other puppet to skewer them.

* 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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls'' episode [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E5BoogieFrightsAbracadaver "Abracadaver,"]] the titular VillainOfTheWeek 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.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' features a few of these during the Conviction Arc, and Casca very nearly gets shut in one when she's taken to Mozgus's torture chamber that has clearly been used recently, which is about the point when all hell really starts breaking loose.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' features a few of these during the Conviction Arc, and Casca very nearly gets shut in one when she's taken to Mozgus's torture chamber that has clearly been used recently, which is about the point when all hell really starts breaking loose literally.

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