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** In ''FromDuskTillDawn'', the bank teller that the Gecko brothers took hostage can be seen in a cutaway of their stolen car's trunk, bound and gagged.
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* [[VampireDetective Nick Knight]] from ''ForeverKnight'' obtained a vintage car explicitly to invoke this trope if he is caught away from shelter at dawn.
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* In {{Eminem}}'s song "Stan" (except in the [[{{Bowdlerise}} radio edit]]), Stan says that his girlfriend is in the trunk of his car.
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* In {{Eminem}}'s song "Stan" (except in the [[{{Bowdlerise}} radio edit]]), Stan says that his girlfriend [[PregnantHostage girlfriend]] is in the trunk of his car.
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* In ''TheSentinel'' episode "Girl Next Door", Blair rescues a woman who's been trapped in her trunk by her ex. Unfortunately she turns out to be a criminal who winds up dragging Blair--at gunpoint--into an armed robbery and a drug-smuggling operation. At the end of the episode, he takes satisfaction in stashing her back in the trunk.
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* In MalcolmInTheMiddle, when Malcolm and Reese realized that Francis decided to give a concert ticket to a girl he just met instead of either of them, the two decided to sabotage his date. The final act of sabotage managed to work out after Francis's car got pulled over by a cop and the cop finding the two stuffed themselves in the trunk of the car.
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* In MalcolmInTheMiddle, ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'', when Malcolm and Reese realized that Francis decided to give a concert ticket to a girl he just met instead of either of them, the two decided to sabotage his date. The final act of sabotage managed to work out after Francis's car got pulled over by a cop and the cop finding the two stuffed themselves in the trunk of the car.
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* The CheechAndChong routine "Pedro and the Man at the Drive-In" (on the ''Los Cochinos'' album) is about smuggling someone into the drive-in in the trunk, and then being unable to get the trunk open.
* The CheechAndChong routine "Pedro and the Man at the Drive-In" (on the ''Los Cochinos'' album) is about smuggling someone into the drive-in in the trunk, and then being unable to get the trunk open.
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* This was a popular method of getting people into drive-in movies without paying.
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* When Will works as a car salesman in an episode of ''TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', he has trouble selling a car to a group of Wiseguys until he shows them how well he fits in the trunk.
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* In ''ArtemisFowl'' the Fowl family limo has a specially air conditioned trunk for this purpose.
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* In MalcolmInTheMiddle, when Malcolm and Reese realized that Francis decided to give a concert ticket to a girl he just met instead of either of them, the two decided to sabotage his date. The final act of sabotage managed to work out after Francis's car got pulled over by a cop and the cop finding the two stuffed themselves in the trunk of the car.
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* In the ''CowboyBebop'' episode, "Mushroom Samba", Edward stows away in the trunk of a bounty hunter's car so she can get into town and obtain some food.
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* In the ''CowboyBebop'' episode, "Mushroom Samba", Edward stows away in the trunk of a bounty hunter's car so she can get into town and obtain some food.
** As it turns out, the police don't take well to finding an unconscious child in the trunk of a car during a routine check. Even when she's just asleep and crawls away during the ensuing rucus.
** As it turns out, the police don't take well to finding an unconscious child in the trunk of a car during a routine check. Even when she's just asleep and crawls away during the ensuing rucus.
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* In ''{{Eureka}}'', Fargo tries to fob his AI car Tabitha off on Larry, who refuses to accept her. Tabitha is self-aware and insulted enough to pursue both of them, lock them in her trunk, and drive around for a while until they're convinced she's going to kill them. She eventually lets Fargo go so he can save the town, though.
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* An OlderThanDirt subversion exists in TheBible: Abraham has his wife Sarah locked in a box (a literal trunk) because he fears that she will be taken by the Egyptians on account of her [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman beauty]]. [[spoiler: This ploy does not work, as he [[IdiotBall didn't stop to think]] that ''maybe'', just maybe, the box would have to pass through Customs.]]
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* An OlderThanDirt subversion exists in TheBible: Abraham has his wife Sarah [[GirlInABox locked in a box box]] (a literal trunk) because he fears that she will be taken by the Egyptians on account of her [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman beauty]]. [[spoiler: This ploy does not work, as he [[IdiotBall didn't stop to think]] that ''maybe'', just maybe, the box would have to pass through Customs.]]
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** In the first game, after killing Ben Goodman, [[spoiler:Damon Gant]] stuffed the body in the trunk of Edgeworth's car.
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* In the first mission of the Russian campaign of ''EmpireEarth'', Grigor starts out hiding from the authorities in the trunk of his friend's Pyotr car and planning to escape Voronezh. However, he is aware that the trunk is "the first place the guards check" and thus they look for a better vehicle to smuggle him out. If they try to use the original car, they are caught and laugh at how Grigor tried to escape hiding in a trunk "like in a bad spy movie".
* In the first mission of the Russian campaign of ''EmpireEarth'', Grigor starts out hiding from the authorities in the trunk of his friend's Pyotr car and planning to escape Voronezh. However, he is aware that the trunk is "the first place the guards check" and thus they look for a better vehicle to smuggle him out. If they try to use the original car, they are caught and laugh at how Grigor tried to escape hiding in a trunk "like in a bad spy movie".
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* In ''[[TheLaundrySeries The Fuller Memorandum]]'', Bob gets abducted by cultists and stuffed into the trunk of a car, prompting him to give a slightly incoherent rant about how all how cars should be required to have transparent trunks.
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* "Goodbye Earl" by TheDixieChicks is about a woman who (with help from her friend from high school) kills her abusive ex-husband by poisoning his food. She then disposes of his body down by the lake, and puts the body in the trunk to facilitate this.
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* The music video for [[KanyeWest Kanye West's]] song "Flashing Lights" has himself locked up in the trunk of a model's car where she brutally murders him with a shovel.
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* In ''TheBreaker'' ({{manhwa}}), Sosul is first discovered in the trunk of a car. Shi Woon and Alex knew they were supposed to be transporting some "cargo", but they didn't expect it to be a girl.
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** In the first game, after killing Ben Goodman, [[spoiler:Damon Gant]] stuffed the body in the trunk of Edgeworth's car.
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* Marty in ''BackToTheFuture'' by Biff's goons.
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* Valerie Hawthorne in ''PhoenixWright AceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations'', was stuffed in the trunk of the car after being killed.
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** ''QuantumOfSolace'': The ColdOpen features Bond in a frantic car chase, after which it's revealed that he was transporting [[spoiler: Mr. White]] in the trunk.
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* In one episode of ''{{NCIS}}'', the Creep of the Week is holding a navy officer for ransom, keeping her in the trunk of a car. This leads to a race against time to find her, as said Creep didn't know she had asthma (and therefore was in danger of suffocation before his deadline would come).
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*In ''TeaWithTheBlackDragon'' by [=~R. A. MacAvoy~=], the protagonist is abducted and driven somewhere in the trunk of a car.
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*''SinCity'' - When [[spoiler:Jackie]] dies, his body is disposed of in a car, but since the trunk is too small they chop [[spoiler:his]] corpse down to size.
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*''SinCity'' - When [[spoiler:Jackie]] dies, After Miho kills Jackie and his body is disposed friends, Dwight offers to dispose of in a car, but since the trunk is too small they chop [[spoiler:his]] corpse down bodies in the nearby tar pits. The car Gail gets doesn't have a big enough trunk, so most of the bodies are chopped up to size.fit, and Jackie gets to ride shotgun with his head barely still attached.
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*In the Sookie Stackhouse book ''Club Dead'', Sookie throws a weakened Bill in the trunk of a borrowed car to keep him out of the sun.
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*Team Westen of ''BurnNotice'' often transports captured enemies this way.
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* In ''Mystery Date'', the car in question has a leaky exhaust. [[ChekhovsGun This turns out to be relevant]].
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* ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' - Jessica puts Roger in the trunk of her car after knocking him out with a frying pan... [[PercussivePrevention so he wouldn't get hurt, you see.]]
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*The person in the trunk is alive, trapped in the trunk, and being taken somewhere by some villain.
*The person in the trunk is alive, and is hiding in the trunk to
*The person in the trunk is alive, and is being taken somewhere willingly.
*The person in the trunk is dead, and the driver may or may not have put the person in there.
Compare DeadMansChest, GirlInABox. See also TrunkShot.
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*In the ''CowboyBebop'' episode, "Mushroom Samba", Edward stows away in the trunk of a bounty hunter's car so she can get into town and obtain some food.
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*QuentinTarantino seems to like this
**In ''KillBill'' Volume 1, [[spoiler:after killing O-Ren, The Bride stuffs Sofie into the trunk of her car. The Bride stops on a hill above a hospital, telling Sofie that she's only letting her live, so she can tell Bill what she's done. She pulls Sofie out of the trunk and rolls her down the hill.]]
**In ''JackieBrown'', a gun smuggler (played by SamuelLJackson) has one of his underlings (played by ChrisTucker) hide in his trunk, under the auspices of being ready for an ambush. [[spoiler:He drives around the corner, pops the trunk, and shoots him twice.]]
**In ''ReservoirDogs'', Mr. Blonde brings a kidnapped police officer to their hideout in the trunk of his car.
*Also common in JamesBond films:
**''TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': While Mary Goodnight is trying to hide a homing device in the trunk of Scaramanga's car, she's shoved into the trunk and the car is driven away.
**''DiamondsAreForever'': After being gassed unconscious, Bond is put into the trunk of a car by Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd and taken to a construction site to be disposed of.
*In ''{{GoodFellas}}'', Billy Batts is put in the trunk after the trio of {{VillainProtagonist}}s believe they've killed him and are taking him off to bury him somewhere.
*''TheTransporter'' has its protagonist Frank Martin coming across a woman in his trunk (played by Shu Qi) upon breaking one of his rules (don't look in the package), which sets up the main plot of fighting a human trafficking scheme that we ultimately learn is being headed by [[spoiler:the woman's own father]].
*''SinCity'' - When [[spoiler:Jackie]] dies, his body is disposed of in a car, but since the trunk is too small they chop [[spoiler:his]] corpse down to size.
*''AnalyzeThis'': near the beginning, the scene where the psychiatrist crashes into the mafia car, popping the trunk open.
*''TheHangover'' - a pissed off naked Asian guy pops out of the trunk when the dudes search it.
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*In ''AmericanGods'', [[spoiler:the bodies of the children that disappear in Lakeside are hidden in the trunk of the klunker, a ruined car put on the ice of the frozen lake each year. When the ice breaks, the dead child becomes a sacrifice to help the town stay prosperous.]]
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*In [[TwentyFour 24]]'s second season, [[spoiler:when Kim Bauer and her boyfriend Miguel are taking Megan to Kim's aunt's house, using Megan's father's stolen car, she is pulled over for speeding. The cop opens the trunk, which contains the corpse of Megan's mother.]]
*In season 3 of ''{{Dexter}}'', someone ambushes Dexter in the parking-garage as he's leaving work, ties him up and throws him in a trunk before driving off with him. Dexter - and the viewer - naturally assumes that it's the resident antagonist, The Skinner, taking him off to torture and murder, and Dex tensely frees himself of his constrains and readies himself to pounce the moment the trunk is opened - and so he does, squarely hitting... one of his colleagues, who'd chosen this rather melodramatic way to cart him off to a secret Bachelor-party. The rest of his colleagues are both impressed and amused by the reaction, and Dex rapidly recovers his cool.
*''TouchedByAnAngel'' - The Celebrity of the Week (Jack Ritter, if memory serves correctly) gets carjacked and stuffed in the trunk; after the car gets abandoned on the side of the road, the rest of the episode is a race against time to find him before he bakes to death.
*On ''NYPDBlue'' a random car got in an accident with the car Andy & Bobby were in; they heard thumping & screaming from the trunk, which they popped to discover he had a woman in the trunk of his car.
*Shane kidnaps JD in this way in ''HarpersIsland'', wrongly assuming that JD murdered Kelly.
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*In {{Eminem}}'s song "Stan" (except in the [[{{Bowdlerise}} radio edit]]), Stan says that his girlfriend is in the trunk of his car.
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* On ''WWERaw'' Kane and TripleH were in a feud (the [[SarcasmMode ever popular]] [[Horrible/ProfessionalWrestling Katie Vick]] angle), and at the end of the episode Kane tossed Trip into a car's trunk and drove off - but then we saw the car trunk pop open just as they were going to black! Oops. Dealt with at the top of the next episode:
-->'''TripleH''': I've got a special guest gonna come out here later - but before we come to that, I'd like to give a little personal message to Kane. Kane, this is just advice, but next time you try to accost somebody by sticking them into the trunk of a car, you should try to make sure that the trunk does not have one of those child safety latches on the roof - I mean, you can just pull it and jump OUT of the trunk before the person even drives off. Just a bit of advice.
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*In ''[[AssassinsCreed Assassin's Creed II]]'', when Desmond and Lucy are escaping from Abstergo, they make it to the parking garage. Lucy has Desmond hide in her car's trunk on the way to the safehouse.
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* [[http://supernormalstep.com/50/ This]] trunk ninja in the webcomic ''Supernormal Step''.
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* ''FamilyGuy'' does this a few times:
** In the episode "Don't Make Me Over", in a cutaway gag, Neil Armstrong runs into someone after filming the moon landing. The man wonders why he is on Earth, because just saw the moon landing on TV. Neil Armstrong kills the man with his astronaut's helmet and stuffs him into the trunk of his car.
** In the episode "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter", Stewie knocks out his babysitter's boyfriend, because he is jealous of him. He throws him in the trunk of Brian's car. Weeks later, he completely forgets about him.
* In an episode of ''KingOfTheHill'', Hank, Dale, and Kahn are in Mexico, trying to cross the border to the US, in order to escape a fine that they were sentenced to pay. Dale says that if the Border Patrol sees Hank and himself, they will be fine, but Kahn will get them arrested if he is seen. Kahn hides in the car's trunk, but gets out of it after Dale freaks out at the border crossing.
* Done several times on ''BeavisAndButthead'':
** The two get thrown in the trunk themselves on at least two occasions: By Todd in "Canned", and by Muddy in the film.
** In "A Great Day", the two stumble upon a man who is stuffing a dead body in his trunk, who promptly pays them to go away and not say anything about it.
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