History Main / SaunaOfDeath

** The Hokkaido level "Situs Inversus" of ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'' has a sauna that remains occupied by [[NonPlayerCharacter two NPCs]]. You can crank up the temperature and completely unnecessarily kill those two [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], or more helpfully, get an accident kill on the target for that level; Yuki Yamasaki.

** The Japan level of ''[[VideoGame/Hitman2016 Hitman: No Subtitle]]'' has a sauna that remains occupied by [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]]. You can crank up the temperature and completely unnecessarily kill those two [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], or get an accident kill on the target.

* In an ''Franchise/{{Archie|Comics}}'' comic book, Veronica was placed in an overheating steam cabinet and left to die by a supervillain. Jughead (who was in superhero mode) was charged with rescuing her, but didn't do a very good job of it. Losing quite a bit of weight and starving in the ordeal, she consumed a vile concoction the beanied one had prepared earlier for his lunch so as to fatten back up a bit -- grossing everyone, including the bad guy, totally out.

* In the humoristic Italian comic ''Alan Ford'', the villain (an incredibly obese and ill man who wants to become handsome and healthier by replacing all his organs with fully functional ones token by various people) is at one point put in a "sauna box" by his dragon to "lose some weight" before the operation. Sadly, he is forgotten and left there for far too much time, causing him to become skeletal in appearance and eventually die from fear when mistaking himself for the GrimReaper, much to the shock of his medic/right hand man.

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'': The Bookworm once locked Batman and Robin in a steam room disguised as a giant cookbook, saying it was a recipe for steamed bat. And it wasn't a sauna, it was hooked up to super-heated steam from a steam tunnel.

* ''Videogame/OxygenNotIncluded:'' While not exactly a sauna, the same effect of the air growing hot enough to suffocate and even scald is perfectly possible if you're not accounting for heat generation and sources, such as running machinery and outside biomes (especially geysers). Certain enclosed rooms can quickly become deadly, and your entire base slowly so, from the top up.

* Incredibly, this has actually happened. The World Sauna Championships 2010 in Finland ended in one contestant getting killed and another suffering third degree burns and falling into a coma for two months. Mind you, it was about a contest on being able to stand longest in the hottest sauna. An autopsy revealed that the contestant who died [[TooDumbToLive had used painkillers and anesthetics to bypass his physical limitations]].

** The Japan level of ''[[VideoGame/Hitman2016 Hitman: No Subtitle]]'' has a sauna that remains occupied by [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]]. You can crank up the temperature and completely unnecessarily kill those two [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]], or accidentally kill the target.

* The "Sauna Box" variation appears in the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E48LikeInBlunt Like in Blunt]]." Launchpad's part of the death trap (which is meant to set off Blunt and Darkwing's) is a steamer. While Sharp saw it mostly as part of the device to kill his nemesis, it's implied (especially from Blunt and Darkwing's panicked reactions when they remember they left him in it) that it would have killed him eventually.

* Downplayed in ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' when Killa the [[BeeAfraid killer bee]] attacks Kimihito, Centorea, and Rachnera. They trick her into entering a sauna and lock her in, not to kill her, but just to get her overheated to the point where she stops trying to fight, since high temperatures are her WeaksauceWeakness.

* There's a story about UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher going to a sauna, and when she was inside, the two guys responsible for the sauna said something along the line, "Now we could get rid of her, and everyone in Britain would be glad."

* A sauna is intended to cause perspiration, which implies losing body fluids. First-timers are usually advised "to drink a lot" to cover the fluid loss. This is to be interpreted as "[[CaptainObvious to hydrate a lot]]", not to "[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant get plastered a lot]]". Being inebriated in a sauna will lead easily to passing out and being dehydrated to death, due both to the effects of the sauna and the dehydrative effects of alcohol (alcohol impairs the body's ability to reabsorb water, and too much of it can lead to vomiting). For this reason, it is strongly advised NOT to drink any alcoholic beverages stronger than mild beer in the sauna.

* Possibly referenced in ''Iorich'', where Kiera has Vlad soak himself in a hot spring to soothe his aches after a beating. Once he emerges, she remarks that she'd heard Easterners' hearts would explode from that much heat, but she hadn't believed it.

* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'': In the episode "For Those Of You Just Joining Us...", the show's production staff is locked in an sauna during a trip to a team-building camp. Kevin Sorbo, aka Hercules, saves them by knocking down the door after a quick LookBehindYou moment to keep his powers hidden.

* Literature/PhryneFisher and Sascha are locked in a Turkish bath by the killer in ''Cocaine Blues''.

* In the first episode of the ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries''. (See also Literature above.)

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSchnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow'' There is an episode where the titular characters try to lose weight and eventually get themselves trapped in a sauna.

* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' has a bathhouse in the Golden Cat brothel that features a few steam rooms. It's possible to kill one of Corvo's targets by waiting for them to go into the steam room, locking the door, and putting the steam on full-blast.