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* ''{{Series/CSI}}'': Catherine and D.B. use this trick to get themselves smuggled back into the lab when a hit team is looking for them in "Willows in the Wind".
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* ''{{Series/CSI}}'': ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Catherine and D.B. use this trick to get themselves smuggled back into the lab via body bags when a hit team is looking for them in "Willows in the Wind".Wind".
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': A crazed murder suspect strung out on LSD in "[[Recap/CSINYS06E16 Uncertainty Rules]]" is tazed and wrestled into a body bag in order for him to be transported to the precinct for questioning.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': A crazed murder suspect strung out on LSD in "[[Recap/CSINYS06E16 Uncertainty Rules]]" is tazed and wrestled into a body bag in order for him to be transported to the precinct for questioning.
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* ''Film/TheManWhoCameBack'': Paxton [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] while suffering UnwillingSuspension in prison, so he will be loaded into a coffin and carried outside.
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* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
** And (partly) averted: Dantes expects to merely be buried, at which point he can dig himself free and escape. However, he learns the hard way that the Chateau d'If buries its dead at sea - and still manages to escape, even though it's much harder going.
** And (partly) averted: Dantes expects to merely be buried, at which point he can dig himself free and escape. However, he learns the hard way that the Chateau d'If buries its dead at sea - and still manages to escape, even though it's much harder going.
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* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
**''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''. And (partly) averted: Dantes expects to merely be buried, at which point he can dig himself free and escape. However, he learns the hard way that the Chateau d'If buries its dead at sea - and still manages to escape, even though it's much harder going.
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* In ''A Study in Murder'' by Robert Ryan, prisoners in [=WW1=] German POW camp fake the deaths of an escapee through typhoid or some other cause that justifies them being hastily buried. The coffin has a hinged bottom that opens into an escape tunnel under the grave; the grave marker is moved later so the Germans don't realise they're using the same few graves. However [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Dr. Watson]] starts to suspect that that the escapees are actually being killed off for real outside of the camp.
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* Deconstructed in [[Creator/ECComics Tales from the Crypt]] #54 (Dec. 1954-Jan. 1955) in the story "the Substitute"; a prisoner escapes from an island by hiding in the coffin of the governor he secretly murdered. Unfortunately, it's BurialAtSea for this coffin, leading to the prisoner drowning.
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* Simon and River of ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' use this technique to beat the security and get into a mega-hospital in the episode "Ariel". Bonus points for actually making their hearts stop to get in.
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** Simon and River use this technique to beat the security and get into a mega-hospital in the episode "Ariel". Bonus points for actually making their hearts stop to getin.in.
** In “The Message”, a war buddy of Mal’s smuggles himself onto the ship this way. He was trying to escape a deal with organ traffickers that he was using his body to smuggle enhanced organs for.
** Simon and River use this technique to beat the security and get into a mega-hospital in the episode "Ariel". Bonus points for actually making their hearts stop to get
** In “The Message”, a war buddy of Mal’s smuggles himself onto the ship this way. He was trying to escape a deal with organ traffickers that he was using his body to smuggle enhanced organs for.
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* In the first ''Film/Re-Animator'' film, Dan Cain helps Herbert West sneak into the hospital morgue by wheeling him in shoeless on a gurney, covered with a sheet.
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* In the first ''Film/Re-Animator'' ''Film/ReAnimator'' film, Dan Cain helps Herbert West sneak into the hospital morgue by wheeling him in shoeless on a gurney, covered with a sheet.
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* In ''Film/HardBoiled'', police officer "Tequila" Yuen Ho-yan is granted access to a morgue by disguising himself as a doctor with a surgical mask covering the lower half of his face, while wheeling in undercover cop Alan on a gurney, covered by a sheet.
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* This is how Herbert West gets into the morgue in the first ''Film/ReAnimator'' film.
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* In ''Film/Saw3D'', [[spoiler: Hoffman hides in a body bag so he can sneak into the police station and kill Jill Tuck.]]
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* In ''Film/Saw3D'', [[spoiler: Hoffman hides in inside a body bag (which was previously used to store Dan's corpse) so he can sneak into the police station and kill where Jill Tuck.]]is inside and catch her.
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If used as a means of escape, may end with the character being BuriedAlive -- but not for long. A subtrope -- and a subversion -- of ZippingUpTheBodybag. See also CoffinContraband and SavedByTheCoffin.
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A SubTrope -- and a subversion -- of ZippingUpTheBodybag. If used as a means of escape, it may end with the character being BuriedAlive -- but not for long. A subtrope -- and a subversion -- of ZippingUpTheBodybag.long. See also CoffinContraband and SavedByTheCoffin. \n
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* In ''The Crocodile Tomb'', the fourth part of ''Literature/GodsAndWarriors'', [[spoiler:Hylas is hidden in the coffin of a sacred crocodile that's taken to a tomb of embalmed animals during a festival. Once alone in the sealed tomb, he comes out and finds the hidden entrance to Userref's family tomb where he gives Userref's mummy the Spells for Coming Forth by Day and takes [[TheArtifactOfDoom the dagger of Koronos]] from the coffin]].
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* In ''The Crocodile Tomb'', the fourth part of ''Literature/GodsAndWarriors'', [[spoiler:Hylas is hidden in the coffin of a sacred crocodile that's taken to a tomb of embalmed animals during a festival. Once alone in the sealed tomb, he comes out and finds the hidden entrance to Userref's family tomb where he gives Userref's mummy the Spells for Coming Forth by Day and takes [[TheArtifactOfDoom [[ArtifactOfDoom the dagger of Koronos]] from the coffin]].
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* In ''The Crocodile Tomb'', the fourth part of ''Literature/GodsAndWarriors'', [[spoiler:Hylas is hidden in the coffin of a sacred crocodile that's taken to a tomb of embalmed animals during a festival. Once alone in the sealed tomb, he comes out and finds the hidden entrance to Userref's family tomb where he gives Userref's mummy the Spells for Coming Forth by Day and takes [[TheArtifactOfDoom the dagger of Koronos]] from the coffin]].
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* In ''Film/MoreDeadThanAlive'', members of Luke Santee's gang conceal themselves inside the coffins TheUndertaker is bringing into the prison to collect the bodies of the executed prisoners.
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* Inverted in ''Literature/TheAmazingAdventuresOfKavalierAndClay'': Joseph Kavalier is smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Prague in a coffin with the {{Golem}} of Prague, which has been disguised as an unusually large corpse.
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* The first-century CE rabbi [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohanan_ben_Zakkai Yohanan ben Zakkai]] inverted this, using a coffin to smuggle himself ''out'' of Jerusalem when it was under siege by the Romans.
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* In ''Film/DickTracyMeetsGruesome'', Gruesome avoids Tracy in the morgue by lying down on a gurney and pulling a sheet over himself. Tracy walks straight past him without noticing and Gruesome is able to escape.
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* Attempted in ''Film/AbbotOfShaolin'', when the hero, a Shaolin monk who survived the massacre of his temple under Manchurian rule, joins a local resistance and had to sneak into the capital city via a coffin, with his resistance allies disguised as mourners. Unfortunately, the guards at the city gates insists for the coffin to be emptied out.
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* Killer Frost uses it in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham''.
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* In ''Film/InvisibleAvenger'', the Generalissimo's men attempt to smuggle Pablo Ramirez out of New Orleans in a coffin inside a hearse: knowing that the police will not stop a funeral procession.
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* Used to get Killer Frost into the morgue in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham''.
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* HoboWithAShotgun: When the Hobo kills the DirtyCop who is attempting to rape Abby, his shots draw the attention of the mob who are hunting the homeless. Abby runs past them, looking convincingly panicked, with the cop's body in a shopping trolley. She yells to the mob that HeWentThatWay and they head off in pursuit. After they have gone, the Hobo emerges from the shopping trolley where he has been hidden under (and partially inside) the cop's corpse.
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* HoboWithAShotgun: ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'': When the Hobo kills the DirtyCop who is attempting to rape Abby, his shots draw the attention of the mob who are hunting the homeless. Abby runs past them, looking convincingly panicked, with the cop's body in a shopping trolley. She yells to the mob that HeWentThatWay and they head off in pursuit. After they have gone, the Hobo emerges from the shopping trolley where he has been hidden under (and partially inside) the cop's corpse.
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* HoboWithAShotgun: When the Hobo kills the DirtyCop who is attempting to rape Abby, his shots draw the attention of the mob who are hunting the homeless. Abby runs past them, looking convincingly panicked, with the cop's body in a shopping trolley. She yells to the mob that HeWentThatWay and they head off in pursuit. After they have gone, the Hobo emerges from the shopping trolley where he has been hidden under (and partially inside) the cop's corpse.
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* ''ComicBook/GIJoeIDW'': Kwinn and Lighthorse smuggle Snake-Eyes across the border by hiding him a coffin inside a hearse and say they are returning a family member to be buried in his native land.
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* In ''Film/BlackBook'', the BigBad, a corrupt and treacherous member of LaResistance in German-occupied Holland, is smuggled away in a coffin by some of his comrades. Unfortunately for him, they've been told about his evil deeds, and deliberately seal the coffin and leave him to suffocate.
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* In ''Film/BlackBook'', the BigBad, a corrupt and treacherous member of LaResistance in German-occupied Holland, is smuggled away in a coffin by some of his comrades. Unfortunately for him, they've been told about his evil deeds, and deliberately seal the coffin and leave him to suffocate.
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* In ''Film/BlackBook'', the BigBad, a corrupt and treacherous member of LaResistance in German-occupied Holland, is smuggled away ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'', Yellowbeard escapes from prison by hiding in a coffin by some of his comrades. Unfortunately for him, they've been told about his evil deeds, and deliberately seal the coffin and leave him to suffocate.coffin.