History Main / StuffedIntoATrashCan

* Near the end of ''Film/TheBabysittersClub'', AlphaBitch Cokie Mason, who has been causing trouble for the club all summer, falls out of a tree and into a dumpster.

* In ''Videogame/SleepingDogs'', Wei can toss people into open dumpster bins if they drag them to one.

* They did this to Rick on ''Series/{{Degrassi}}''.

Sister trope of {{Swirlie}}. Compare GarbageHideout, in which a character deliberately hides in a trash can,

This trope would be TruthInTelevision as it is done in real life by actual bullies but it is unsure if most of the time in the Hollywood counterpart versions of this trope if this is only played for laughs or if it's mostly done in a serious manner showing how much TheBully overpowers the poor guy (often leading to a mix between PayEvilUntoEvil and RevengeOfTheNerd moments or whatever).

Sister trope of {{Swirlie}}. Compare GarbageHideout, where a character deliberately hides in a trashcan in order to avoid being caught by people wanting to exact revenge, or sometimes for more mundane reasons such as avoiding chores, or even just to spy on people.

* In ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' the poor kid is thrown into a ''dumpster''. [[spoiler:Later, all the rest of the students, seeking revenge on the bullies, [[BookEnds toss]] ''[[BookEnds them]]'' [[BookEnds in the same dumpster]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' had a whole episode about this. It was a yearly tradition for the fifth graders to stuff the fourth graders into trash cans on "Trash Can Day," and Arnold and the other fourth graders worked together to figure out a way to get home safely without being canned. They get through the whole day going through many perils to escape the fifth graders, [[spoiler:only to be betrayed at the last second by a false Samaritan and getting canned anyway. After it's over though, they decide it wasn't as bad as they expected, and are considering doing the same once they're in the fifth grade.]]

* In ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' the poor kid is thrown into a ''dumpster''. [[spoiler:Later, all the rest of the students, seeking revenge on the bullies, toss ''them'' in the same dumpster.]]

Imagine a typical scene where a kid, not necessarily but often times a {{Nerd}} or a {{Geek}}, meets a JerkJock and maybe even his little gang of miscreants in a schoolyard/park/alleyway/etc. The bullies pick on the helpless little guy, maybe even playing KeepAway with something that belongs to him or something, and eventually after beating the poor guy up they stuff him down a garbage can that's conveniently located in the area.

* In ''Film/MaxKeeblesBigMove'' the poor kid is thrown into a ''dumpster''.

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* In ''Webcomic/JoyToTheWorld'' this repeatedly happens to Joy, when she picks fights with the school bully.