History Main / BagOfKidnapping

* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Houdini", Fat Doc and Slim Doc are trying to figure out ways to capture Lamput. One of the ideas they exhaust is stuffing him into a bag, which fails since Lamput morphs into a pair of scissors and cuts his way out of the bag.

* ''Series/AlexRider'': Part of the kidnapping in Episode 2. Alex is knocked off his bike by a van, chloroformed and stuffed in the van with a bag over his head.

* Happens twice to Bomby in [[WebAnimation/BattleforDreamIsland Battle For Dream Island Again]].

* Happens twice to Bomby in WebAnimation/BattleforDreamIsland Again.

* Rock Bottom does this in a ''WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat'' installment where the Master Cylinder hires him to send Poindexter (the Professor's nephew) to him. The first time Rock captures Felix in a Poindexter mask. The second time after the Master Cylinder chews him out about the mistake, Rock catches Poindexter himself.

A tactic mostly seen in WesternAnimation: The villain usually sneaks up behind the target and throws a large burlap sack over their head and carries them off to his hideout; this usually happens to a DamselInDistress or SnoopingLittleKid. The target is typically female, but it can happen to male characters, just not as often. This can sometimes be a problem involving HollywoodDensity - adult humans typically weigh 150-200 pounds, so one has to be very strong to casually pick up a load like that by themselves, especially since the person in the bag is frequently not just 150-200 pounds of dead weight, but instead is actively struggling to get out of the bag and away from the person carrying it.

'''Hooded Claw:''' Good, it's time you hit the sack... ''(EvilLaugh)'' literally!

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': During a CIA-related episode, the CIA ''keeps doing this to the good guys.'' Apparently, the location of their underground headquarters are classified. God only knows why the CIA isn't going through normal, legal channels instead of randomly kidnapping cops of the street at gunpoint. Seriously.

** In the “Revenge of the Island episode “Backstabbers Ahoy!” When Dawn tries to warn the contestants about the traitor, Chef takes her sack she had been using to collect money for the mutant animal sanctuary and stuffs her inside it, he then launches her off a catapult off the island.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' Gidget gets put in the sack by Fat Cat. In "Mind Your Cheese and Q's" when Gadget tries to escape from Rat Capone's hideout after she rejects his advances, his henchman Sugar Ray captures her with this method. In Flash the Wonder Dog, Fat Cat orders his henchmen to kidnap Flash. Flash goes into his dressing room where Fat Cat's goons were waiting for him. They stuff him in the sack and kidnapped the dog.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode "Mandy Doll Mania'' Seth Toyman uses the remote controlled Mandy dolls to tie Sam, Clover, and Alex up in a sack.

* In ''Film/HomeAlone4'', this was Marv and Vera's plan to kidnap the prince: put him in the bag, throw it out the window, climb down the rope and be gone before the royals know what hit them.

* In Film/HomeAlone4, this was Marv and Vera's plan to kidnap the prince: put him in the bag, throw it out the window, climb down the rope and be gone before the royals know what hit them.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' episode "All for Pink and Pink for All", the Queen is kidnapped by her advisor's men who were disguised as musketeers.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_Man Sack Man]] is a figure similar to the boogeyman, portrayed as an ugly old man who kidnaps naughty children using the sack on its back for nefarious purposes. There are many variations of the myth across the world, especially in latin countries like Portugal, Spain and in Latin America.

* A lampshaded RunningGag in ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids''; the protagonists both often use this tactic (with Larrikin noting that he always carries a burlap sack with him for just such an occasion) and on the receiving end of it from various villains.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Great Night Sack Trick, demonstrated by Literature/TureSventon]]

'''Hooded Claw:''' Good, it's time you hit the sack... ''[evil laugh]'' literally!

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has an episode where this is used on Isabella during her birthday. Buford stuffs her in a sack and takes her [[OverlyLongGag from activity to activity]]. The Fireside Girls also do this to Irving when his presence threatens to ruin Isabella's time with [[ObliviousToLove Phineas]]( who is finally alone and unoccupied with projects). Neither Isabella nor Irving seem to mind. [[CasanovaWannabe Irving is just elated that he was tied up and stuffed into a sack by beautiful ladies]] [[SarcasmMode because it's obvious that]] AbductionIsLove.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MaoMao:HeroesofPureHeart'' in the episode "Meet Tanya Keys" Tanya captures Badgerclops for the bounty. She puts him in the bag and she carries him over her shoulder displaying her super strength, agility, and ninja skills despite that she's smaller than Badgerclops.

* In the children's story ''''Literature/WhatsInFoxsSack?'', it's a story where the fox kidnaps a bee and puts in the sack; however, the bee escape. The fox takes a rooster and put it in the sack. The rooster escape. He later puts the pig in the sack. After the pig escape. The fox kidnaps and put a human child in the sack. Later, the child gets rescue and put the dog in the sack to teach the fox a lesson. At the end the dog chase the fox away. There was another version at a different ending where the fox gets put the sack and force become sack pet.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrothers'' there is the Wii U Mushroom Kingdom stage. In it there is a stage hazard in the form of Nabbit, who literally attempts to bag a player character then fly away with them in tow. He notably appears in "Enough With The Kidnapping". In which the player as Princess Peach has to face Bowser and his son, her two common kidnappers, and they are aided by a Boss Galaga that aims for and only affects Peach and attempts to kidnap her if she gets caught in their beams. Nabbit also appears here more commonly and can also "kidnap" Peach by bagging her but unlike the other kidnapping elements he also affects Bowser and Jr in the exact same way.

* In the seventh episode of ''Anime/VisionOfEscaflowne'', Hitomi is kidnapped by some Gekkos so that their king could have her for his bride.

* In ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'' issue #21, "Silent Interlude", Storm Shadow kidnaps Scarlett.
* In ''[[ComicBook/SonicX Sonic X]]'' at the Christmas Comic, Sonic is forced to go into the bag.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''
-->'''Rougefort:''' LOOK OUT FOR THE--''(Edgar captures the cats)''--sack.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Professor Rattigan sends his bat-henchman Fidget with a list of items he needs for his EvilPlan, including tools, uniforms, clockwork gears, and the daughter of the KidnappedScientist (to ensure his cooperation). Fidget ends up shoving all of them in the same bag.

-->'''Roxanne''': Would it kill you to wash the bag?

* ''WesternAnimation/Pinocchio'': Pinocchio lies to the Blue Fairy that he was kidnapped by monsters and lied that they tied him in a sack which didn't happened causing his nose to grow.
* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf - Animation/TheMythicalArkAdventuresInLoveAndHappiness'', Weslie, of all characters, grabs a bag and traps Brother Bill the snake in it so that they can shut him up and bring him to the Ark spaceship. Wolffy even says that it feels more like something he would do.

* In the fifth ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film, Weslie, of all characters, grabs a bag and traps Brother Bill the snake in it so that they can shut him up and bring him to the Ark spaceship. Wolffy even says that it feels more like something he would do.

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "A Friend in Deed", Jessie and James actually capture Pikachu. In "The Path to the Pokémon League", they capture a Sandshrew.