History Main / StuffedIntoALocker

[[caption-width-right:300: [[ExaggeratedTrope A little excessive]],l but you get the idea.]]

* In the first episode of ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove''[='s=] second season, Nyarko pulls Mahiro into a locker to start a make-out session (he's not interested). Unfortunately, it's the girls' locker room, and the girls are coming in to change for gym, so he's afraid of getting caught. Luckily for him, Cuuko pulls him out of the locker using a ''Series/KamenRiderWizard''-style magic portal.

* Wrestling/{{TNA}} had a baby {{face}}, Wrestling/EricYoung, [[KickTheSonOfABitch do so]] to Wrestling/MadisonRayne on [[TakeThatScrappy account of her screeching]] being annoying.[[/folder]]

[[caption-width-right:300: [[ExaggeratedTrope A little excessive]], but you get the idea.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In the episode "The Mystery", Gumball opens his locker and suddenly finds the principal trapped in it, so he and the other kids try to discover who did that.

* In {{WesternAnimation/Trollhunters}}, Steve Palchuk routinely does this to Eli Pepperjack

* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', Flash not only stuffs Peter in his own locker, but flashbacks show he's been doing this regularly for years. When the Frightful Four attack the school, Spider-Man encourages Flash to hide in a locker as payback.

* ''Manga/InazumaEleven'': Kabeyama tries to hide 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.

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

--->'''Lisa:''' How about jazz? Do you like jazz?
--->'''Milhouse:''' I like jazz.
--->'''Lisa:''' Milhouse? She got you, too?
--->'''Milhouse:''' Yeah, but it's not so bad. I'm standing on Ralph.
--->'''[[TheDitz Ralph]]:''' We're a totem pole. ''(hops up and down chanting)''

* In the slasher film ''The Guard from Underground'', a character is stuffed in a locker and is then crushed inside it.

A [[DiscreditedTrope Discredited]] HighSchool trope that is not disappearing any time soon. A nerdy kid is forcibly shoved into a school locker, which is then locked so they can't get out. Every JerkJock has done it to the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent at least once. Even an AlphaBitch or two has done it to the NaiveEverygirl.

* Non-school example in ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} 3: Resurrection of Evil''. When you start the second level and go inside a ravaged crew quarters, a maintenance worker is using a locker as a hiding spot. He'll pop out when you enter, look around for barely a second, and slam the door shut again, and will only open the door again the first time you talk to him. After that, he'll yell through the door at you to leave. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Whether the tactic works long enough for him to survive all the events of the game is unknown]].

* Similarly, the nerds at Springfield Elementary in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' are shown to have a secret clubhouse/base hidden within the lockers.

* One of the many ways ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom's'' [[IntangibleMan intangibility]] power comes in handy. The opening credits even shows him phasing out and stuffing one of the {{Jerk Jock}}s in.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In a similar fashion to the above example, Denzel Crocker hid inside Timmy's locker in "Mind Over Magic" for a pop quiz. Francis the bully later shut the locker door to interrupt Crocker's rant about Fairy Godparents.

* In the first episode of ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan''[='s=] second season, Nyarko pulls Mahiro into a locker to start a make-out session (he's not interested). Unfortunately, it's the girls' locker room, and the girls are coming in to change for gym, so he's afraid of getting caught. Luckily for him, Cuuko pulls him out of the locker using a ''Series/KamenRiderWizard''-style magic portal.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'' there's a kid who also puts himself inside a locker, to show how depressing things are at Richard Horvitz Middle School.

* 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]].

* 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 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.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=2009&addr=090416 Wally Sneedhocker used to stuff Jon in the school locker.]] He became an undertaker.

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, and the books take up most of the room...good luck even getting your coat 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.

* ''Manga/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.
* In the first episode of ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan''[='s=] second season, Nyarko pulls Mahiro into a locker to start a make-out session (he's not interested). Unfortunately it's the girls' locker room, and the girls are coming in to change for gym, so he's afraid of getting caught. Luckily for him, Cuuko pulls him out of the locker using a ''Series/KamenRiderWizard''-style magic portal.

* 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, indicating that she is now the bottom of the food chain at her new school.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* Happens several times to Merton on ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus''. Once, he himself does it to a nerdy demon, and notes how refreshing it is to be on the other side of the "being shoved into a locker" thing.

* The first episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has a variant-the guy is stuffed in the locker after he's dead.

* In ''VideoGame/GhoulSchool'', Spike likes to stuff freshmen into lockers, [[AllThereInTheManual according to the manual]]; this is supposed to explain his ability to hide himself inside them.

-->'''Lisa:''' How about jazz? Do you like jazz?
-->'''Milhouse:''' I like jazz.
-->'''Lisa:''' Milhouse? She got you, too?
-->'''Milhouse:''' Yeah, but it's not so bad. I'm standing on Ralph.
-->'''[[TheDitz Ralph]]:''' We're a totem pole. ''(hops up and down chanting)''
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'', JFK boasts of stuffing the ''entire freshman clsss'' into only ten lockers. And in another episode, Abe, having gone without sleep for almost a week, stuffs ''himself'' into a locker (and since Abe was six-foot-four, he was folded like an accordion).

* Some full-height lockers have a latch on the inside which allow anyone inside to get out easily. Presumably it was a safety measure intended to keep people from being permanently trapped, but a good side bonus is that it turns the locker from a holding cell to a quite decent hiding spot, as the bullied has control over the door.

* Wrestling/{{TNA}} had a baby {{face}}, Wrestling/EricYoung, [[KickTheSonOfABitch do so]] to Wrestling/MadisonRayne on [[TakeThatScrappy account of her screeching]] being [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound annoying]].[[/folder]]

* Wrestling/{{TNA}} had a baby {{face}}, Wrestling/EricYoung, [[KickTheSonOfABitch do so]] to Wrestling/MadisonRayne on [[TakeThatScrappy account of her screeching]] being [[MostAnnoyingSound annoying]].[[/folder]]

* ''WebOriginal/{{Worm}}'': The protagonist's TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening takes place after a ''really'' horrible variation of this.

* Wrestling/{{TNA}} had a baby {{face}}, Eric Young, [[KickTheSonOfABitch do so]] to Wrestling/MadisonRayne on [[TakeThatScrappy account of her screeching]] being [[MostAnnoyingSound annoying]].[[/folder]]