History Main / StuffedIntoATrashCan

* This is one of the humiliations suffered by the protagonist of ''The Eighteenth Emergency'' by Betsy Byars.

* Happens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJaklYpcLM this PIF]] from Tidy Britain Group where a guy [[WhatAnIdiot after he littered in front of]] [[BerserkButton the Tidy-man]], ends up learning the hard way by being grabbed and [[BewareTheNiceOnes shoved in a bin by the Tidy-man]].

A related trope would be StuffedIntoALocker, although this happens ''much'' more. This trope has nothing to do with StuffedIntoTheFridge, which is far more lethal.

By the way, just so things are clear, [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] is not related to this trope at ALL (unless he was actually shoved into that thing by some other evil puppet [[ObviouslyEvil *COUGH*Elmo*COUGH*]] and ended up getting stuck, making him immobile and thus forcing him to call the trashcan his new home and turning him into the grumpy green guy (no, not [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk THAT grumpy green guy]]) he is today).

* In ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}},'' [[BarbaricBully Susie]] does this to a [[TheGoomba Rudinn]] in order to escape her jail cell.
-->'''Susie:''' I uh, [[BlatantLies "invited" him to the trashcan]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' [[BarbaricBully Susie]] does this to a [[TheGoomba Rudinn]] in order to escape her jail cell.

* In ''Film/TheSpyNextDoor'',Ian’s bullies throw him in a trash can after giving him a {{wedgie}}.

* In {{Film/TheSpyNextDoor}},Ian’s bullies throw him in a trash can after giving him a {{wedgie}}.

* PlayedForDrama and ''weaponized'' in Chapter 25 of ''FanFic/WhatIsAPersonWorth'' when bullies after [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lincoln Loud]] stuff Ronnie Anne into a trash cash to take her out of the fight. In a RealityEnsues moment, she swallows garbage on top of the injuries she got from being stuffed into the can and then it being thrown while she was inside and becomes ill.

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.

* ''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 Gerald 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.]]

* PlayedForDrama and ''weaponized'' in Chapter 25 of FanFic/WhatIsAPersonWorth when bullies after [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lincoln Loud]] stuff Ronnie Anne into a trash cash to take her out of the fight. In a RealityEnsues moment, she swallows garbage on top of the injuries she got from being stuffed into the can and then it being thrown while she was inside and becomes ill.

* Inverted in the 1982 musical, ''Film/{{Annie|1982}}'', when the title character does this to a bully instead of the other way around.

* In ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'' (the film), Bastian gets his lunch money stolen and tossed into a dumpster. At the end, he gets his revenge when [[spoiler:he terrifies the bullies by pursuing them on a flying luckdragon and they [[GarbageHideout hide in the dumpster themselves]]]].

* In ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', Bastian mentions that kids once did this to him, when he tried to respond their insults.
* In the ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' prequel, ''The Historical Illuminatus:The widow's Son'', Irish fisherman Seamus Muadhen is tortured this way by British soldiers in Dublin Castle. A large bucket is placed over his head and it is pounded with rifle butts, causing injuries, excruciating pain and burst eardrums. As Seamus said, the Brits who tortured him have converted a mere fisherman into an Irish Republican who will seek vengeance, so go and eat shit, Englishman. Seamus gets his revenge years later as commanding officer of an Irish Legion in the American War of Independence.

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* In the GameOver sequence of the UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame ''APB'', the other cops beat you up and dump you into a trashcan.

* Happens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJaklYpcLM this PIF]] from Tidy Britain Group where a guy [[WhatAnIdiot after he littered in front of]] [[Berserk Button the Tidy-man]], ends up learning the hard way by being grabbed and [[BewareTheNiceOnes shoved in a bin by the Tidy-man]].

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* Happens in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJaklYpcLM this PIF]] from Tidy Britain Group where a guy [[WhatAnIdiot after he littered in front of]] [[HiddenBadass the Tidy-man]], ends up learning the hard way by being grabbed and [[BewareTheNiceOnes shoved in a bin by the Tidy-man]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' fanfic ''FanFic/MoreThanMyFriend'' this is PlayedForDrama. Mac gets stuffed into a trash can by Terrance and his drug-affiliated friends after he [[spoiler:trashes a large amount of drugs he was supposed to deliver]]. They proceed to kick the trash can mercilessly. They only stop when Frankie appears and beats them up.

By the way, just so things are clear, [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] is not related to this trope at ALL (unless if he was actually shoved into that thing by some other evil puppet [[ObviouslyEvil *COUGH*Elmo*COUGH*]] and ended up getting stuck, making him immobile and thus forcing him to call the trashcan his new home and turning him into the grumpy green guy (no, not [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk THAT grumpy green guy]]) he is today).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers'': At the end of the film, the Techno Trousers were stuffed in a trashcan outside Wallace and Gromit's house, and they walk off by themselves into the sunset.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers'': Gromit stuffs himself in a trashcan in the streets after he left Wallace's house upon seeing Wallace and Feathers McGraw having a good time together. At the end of the film, the Techno Trousers were stuffed in a trashcan outside Wallace and Gromit's house, and they walk off by themselves into the sunset.