History Main / StuffedIntoALocker

Chances are, it did happen once or twice, but it could also have originated as a joke, since larger lockers were commonplace in older school buildings. However, today, schools are built to accommodate a higher volume of students, and stacked lockers are more common. Some of these newer lockers are barely big enough to hold a basketball, let alone a human being.[[note]]Modern lockers can have less than one cubic foot of space...good luck even getting your head in there.[[/note]] Older buildings may still have the larger lockers but these are often ditched during remodeling. And if a school does have full-height lockers, they'll likely be too narrow for anyone who isn't a cartoon character to actually fit in.

Chances are, it did happen once or twice, but it could also have originated as a joke, since larger lockers were commonplace in older school buildings. However, today, schools are built to accommodate a higher volume of students, and stacked lockers are more common. Older buildings may still have the larger lockers but these are often ditched during remodeling. And if a school does have full-height lockers, they'll likely be too narrow for anyone who isn't a cartoon character to actually fit in.

* This happens in ''ComicBook/AllGhoulsSchool'', with the bullies stuffing a freshman into the heroine's locker. This is apparently a regular occurrence, with the bullies keeping track of who has the record for the longest time it take for a freshman to be released. Later, Becca gets stuffed into a locker by Elle at Darkmoor.

->'''Thug 1''': I think we need to teach yer boyfriend here a little lesson!\\
'''Mark Kant (really Super Dude)''': Well, actually I'm doing quite well in school...\\
'''Thug 2''': Yeah, whaddaya say we do something mean, dangerous, yet visually entertaining to him? (stuffs him in a washing machine)

*** Parodied, of course, in this ''VGCats'' [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/060717.jpg strip]]

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* Averted on ''Series/HappyDays''. Joanie had started dating a guy who was a member of a gang called the Red Devils. Richie confronted them in the school gym before they were about to give her her initiation into the gang [[spoiler: she would have had to "neck" with each member of the gang]]. They easily subdued him and planned to stuff him in a locker. When they opened the locker to shove him in, Fonzie was waiting inside. He then opened the lockers next to his, which had Potsie and Ralph in them.

Not to be confused with StuffedIntoTheFridge, aside from establishing how much of a jerk/monster the stuffer is.

* Larry Kubiac does this to people who annoy him on ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose''.

* Happens with extremely severe consequences in ''TheSagaOfTuck''.

* Played with in the MyChemicalRomance video for 'I'm Not Okay'; a teen gets shut in the locker, and uses his position to jump out and scare the locker's owner.

* The first episode of ''Series/{{Buffy The Vampire Slayer}}'' has a variant-the guy is stuffed in the locker after he's dead.

* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Taylor had her TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening when she was stuffed into her locker after [[{{Squick}} it had been filled with used pads and tampons and allowed to ripen over winter break]].

* Larry Kubiac does this to people who annoy him on ''ParkerLewisCantLose''.

* ''InazumaEleven'': Kabeyama tries to hide himself in a locker, so he doesn't have to play a soccer match, but he ends up getting stuck in it due to his large body size.

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* At the beginning of ''Film/LeanOnMe'', a pair of bullies stuff Thomas Sams into a locker (which is somewhat remarkable in itself, since Sams is rather fat) and walk away. Then, to drive home the point of how much the conditions at East Side High had deteriorated in the 20 years of Joe Clark's absence, a janitor lazily walks down a hall that intersects the hall with Sams' locker while reading a newspaper. Sams is screaming for help, and despite the screams being very audible in the empty hallway (the school day had just ended), the janitor completely ignores them.
* Happens in ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', to the kid who can glow. In fact, the only reason you know he's in the locker is that it's glowing bright green.
* In the slasher film ''The Guard from Underground'', a character is stuffed in a locker and is then crushed inside it.
* In the film, ''Film/ManOfTheHouse'', the protagonist meets one of the other kids when said kid is stuffed into a locker while the protagonist does nothing. Never the end of the movie, having bonded, he takes a stand against the bullies. Cut to a shot of the outside of the lockers with the two of them conversing from within the closed lockets.

* ''XMenEvolution'' did this in the second episode, with Kitty Pryde as the target. Naturally, this was a setup for her to discover her [[IntangibleMan phasing power]], and not coincidentally, run into Avalanche, who was the episode's main villain.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', one student puts ''himself'' in a locker when Twilight Sparkle confronts [[AlphaBitch Sunset Shimmer]] to stop her from bullying Fluttershy. At the end of the confrontation, he opens the door, only to find Sunset glaring at him as she passes by, prompting him to close the door on himself again.

* Happens in ''Film/SkyHigh'', to the kid who can glow. In fact, the only reason you know he's in the locker is that it's glowing bright green.

** This happens to Jaune once again in the finale of Volume 3, but this time it's [[PlayedForDrama much less funny.]] [[spoiler: Pyrrha throws him into a nearby locker and sends him to the city to make sure he won't follow her into Beacon tower.]]

* One of the paths in ''VideoGame/PajamaSam 2'' involves getting the Y-Pipe out of Foster Boondoggle's locker. When you do, Y-Pipe asks if that ever happened to Sam, and he responds that his friend Pete once got himself stuck in a locker at school.

** This happens to Jaune once again in the finale of Volume 3, but this time it's [[PlayedForDrama much less funny.]] [[spoiler: Pyrrha throws him into locker and sends him to the city to make sure he won't follow her into Beacon tower.]]

** Team Cardinal is the bully gang of the year group and Jaune Arc is one of their victims. At one point, Cardin Winchester stuffs Jaune into a locker. However, since Beacon is an ExtranormalInstitute that is run by an [[WordOfGod acknowledged]] {{expy}} of the [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]], the locker is actually rocket-propelled with programmable coordinates. Not only does Jaune have the issue of trying to get out of it, but he has to then make it back to the school from where the locker landed.