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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS9E6 Country Matters]]", a woman pretends to be caught in a bear trap as part of an elaborate sexual roleplay.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Country Matters", a woman pretends to be caught in a bear trap as part of an elaborate sexual roleplay.

* ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' has lots of bear-traps scattered across the woods, apparently due to poachers. Walking into one will cost you a bit of health, and pin you to the ground for a while. Worse, EVERY TIME you walk into one, it will cause a Taken to spawn nearby and run up to attack you while you're helpless. Oh, and in one part with bear traps, you don't have any guns to fight the Taken that spawns if you step on a trap.

* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'' has traps throughout the world which damage you when touched, sometimes to force you to take another path but othertimes seemingly randomly. Partway through the game when you get the ability to see things that are hidden you find out that the entire continent is scattered with ''Invisible Beartraps''
* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' have these as trap hazards, just to make creeping through dark, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Ghoul-infested]] subway tunnels all the more memorable. They're great at crippling your legs, reducing your speed to a painful hobble, which is especially brutal on ''New Vegas''' Hardcore Mode since limbs are much harder to heal. And in the ''New Vegas'' expansion ''Dead Money'' you get to see what happens when the mooks decide to wear a bear trap on their knuckles: the [[PowerFist Bear Trap Fist]].

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': when one of the [[WickedWeasel weasels]] attempts to search Jessica's [[VictoriasSecretCompartment bosom]].
-->'''Eddie Valiant:''' Nice [[{{Pun}} booby trap]].

* ''Film/StrawDogs'' has one of the home invaders trying to break into Dustin Hoffman's house fall victim to a ChekhovsGun trap which, whilst not intended for bears, operates very similarly in mechanics and effect.

* In ''Film/{{Ticks}}'', Jarvis is startled by the giant version of the titular arachnid, and stumbles onto a bear trap he was playing with earlier.

-->'''Eddie Valiant:''' Nice [[JustForPun booby trap]].

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* ''VideoGame/HelloNeighbor'' has [[CrazyPrepared the]] [[BigBad Neighbor]] setting them all over his house to ensure that you don't trespass into his property, he also throws them at you if he spots you.

* The "Reverse Bear Trap" from the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series is, as its name implies, a device resembling a bear trap that snaps open instead of closed, and is hooked onto the victim's jaws, prying them apart with great force once the snap happens. Due to its simple nature in comparison to the series' other {{Death Trap}}s, everyone who got put in the Reverse Bear Trap managed to escape it (as long as they weren't put in inescapable circumstances, which was the case with Jill Tuck in ''Film/Saw3D'').

* The "Reverse Bear Trap" from the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series is, as its name implies, a device resembling a bear trap that snaps open instead of closed, and is hooked onto the victim's jaws, prying them apart with great force once the snap happens. Due to its simple nature in comparison to the series' other {{Death Trap}}s, everyone who gets put in one manages to escape it (as long as they weren't put in inescapable circumstances, as was the case in ''Film/Saw3D'').

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* The "Reverse Bear Trap" from the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' movies is, as its name implies, a device resembling a bear trap that snaps violently ''open'' instead of closed, and is hooked onto the victim's upper and lower jaws, prying them apart with great force. Strangely, despite it being the most iconic deathtrap of a movie series whose whole point is gratuitous amounts of {{Gorn}}, everyone who gets put in one manages to escape it... at least until ''Film/Saw3D''.

* In the Piemations short, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSw1OgD8Rc Papyrus Finds a Human]], Papyrus does this as his first attempt to catch Frisk. After Papyrus dramatically announces it as a trap and Frisk must surrender to him combined with a "Dun, dun dun!" sound effect...Frisk just uses a stick to trigger and walks off. [[PungeonMaster Sans]] states "That kid knows how to get out of a STICKy situation!" and laughs before Papyrus tells him to be quiet and Papyrus says he won't be outsmart that easily and he'll get Frisk next time.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** In their first appearance, Tweedledee and Tweedledum trap Batman and Robin in wolf traps while they are robbing a furrier. Batman comments that if they had been using bear traps instead, he and Robin probably would have been crippled.
** In issue #10 of ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2011}}'', Batgirl breaks up a group of car thieves working the parking garage of a high-class charity event, only to stop in horror when one of the fleeing thugs triggers a bear trap that nearly slices off his leg at the knee. People claiming to be security for the event explain that it has become a new part of gang warfare for one gang to follow another as they commit crimes and leave traps to capture them afterwards.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' comic ''The Black Island'', [[MadDoctor Dr Muller]] has a lot of these set up in the garden around his house.

->''"I'm so happy 'cause I'm a Gummy Bear, Gummy Bear! ''(gets caught in a bear trap)'' '''AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'''"''

* In one episode of ''Series/DarkMatter'', Three finds a bear trap when he goes to rescue Five from some kidnappers. He [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turns it against one of them]] to [[AgonyOfTheFeet gruesome effect]].

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'':

* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'' have these as traps in the mountain levels. And given the game runs on EverythingTryingToKill you; at one point you're dodging ice blocks in a HairTriggerAvalanche, the traps will ''not'' trigger despite the falling ice but ''will'' trigger when you step on them!