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* ''Series/DoctorWho'' [=S2E10=] "Love and Monsters": The baddy of the week is a FatBastard alien {{expy}} who absorbs his victims, where they become part of his body. Near the end, we see his victims' faces jutting out of his skin. They actually cooperate and push themselves outwards, which eventually weakens the monster enough to kill it.

* When gems in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' [[FusionDance fused together]], they turn into amorphous light before reforming into a new body. The Topazes exploit this by forming the merged body ''around'' people to hold them captive. The [[spoiler:[[AlienAbduction abducted humans]]]] she holds inside are [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/steven-universe/images/f/ff/Are_You_My_Dad_180.png engulfed almost entirely]], usually only exposing eyes, noses, and parts of a few helplessly flailing limbs.

* The infamous ''Anime/OnePiece'' movie ''Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland'' has [[spoiler: the EldritchAbomination Lily Carnation with the Straw Hat crew stuck inside it and being digested]].

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* One of the boss battles in ''VideoGame/GirlsAndDungeon'' involves a mimic who captures one of your companions in its mouth, forcing you to use only single-target attacks for fearing of hurting the companion.
* The Parasite Cage Heartless in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' is, aptly named, a large monster that spent one of the two battles with it keeping Pinnochio trapped behind its bar like teeth.
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts2'', Maleficent summons a Heartless called "Prison Keeper" which has a cage as part of its body, and it holds [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Lock, Shock, and Barrel]] in it until it has need of their abilities, in which case it swallows them.

** ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends'' sees the return of the Tricky Treasure levels as part of the Back To Origins bonus levels that were originally part of ''Rayman Origins'', in which Rayman has to chase living treasure chests in order to gain a Ruby Skull Tooth. In ''Legends'', the treasure boxes contain a captive Teensy Jester instead, making it this trope.

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* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'': Among the enemies encountered in Bowser's castle after Fawful takes it over are the jailgoons, which resemble large living cages with feet and with a cannon and shield for arms. Each jailgoon contains either a goomba or a [[ActionBomb bob-omb]], minions that evidently remained loyal to Bowser and that Fawful thus locked away inside the jailgoons.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'', the character D'Compose used his [[{{Pun}} ribcage]] as a prison.

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* The sludge villain of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' had trapped both Midoriya and Bakugo before attempting to enter and take control of their bodies, even using Bakugo as a HumanShield when confronted by heroes.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' :

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* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'': In "All His Engines", a demon has stolen Chas' granddaughter and keeps her in a cage inside him. He allows John inside to see her, but John ended up covered in gunk as he lunged for the cage, so it's not surprising that she interpreted John's "We're coming to get you!" [[NightmareFuel in an entirely different context]].

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* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': Erek, an android, reveals that the Chee are doing what they can to fight the Yeerks, sluglike parasites that wrap themselves around the host's brain and control them, but need to leave the host every three days. By pretending to be infested, they trap Yeerks inside their own cranium and extract information from them.

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* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'': While most [[MonsterOfTheWeek Yummies]] grow by [[TheHeartless acting out the desires of the human they were spawned from]], the variety created by Kazari are instead parasites that influence that human's behaviour. When they reach their adult form the host becomes trapped inside their body, forcing OOO to find some way to get the human out before he can destroy them.
* Series/DoctorWho [=S2E10=] "Love and Monsters": The baddy of the week is a FatBastard alien {{expy}} who absorbs his victims, where they become part of his body. Near the end, we see his victims' faces jutting out of his skin. They actually cooperate and push themselves outwards, which eventually weakens the monster enough to kill it.

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* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons: An odd case with the devourer from the ''Monstrous Compendium III'' for the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' setting -- a towering, cadaverous undead monster with a shriveled, doll-like figure trapped inside of its ribcage -- the soul of one of its victims. While the victim is dead their soul can still be rescued. It continues to seek out new mortal victims to prey on, as each trapped soul's life force is drained.

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* In ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' obtaining Gogen requires fighting the Illusion Lord. The monster is a large blue genie like creature holding Gogen trapped between its hands and using his magics on your party during the fight.

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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Inhumanoids}}'', the character D'Compose used his [[{{Pun}} ribcage]] as a prison.

* When gems in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' [[FusionDance fused together]], they turn into amorphous light before reforming into a new body. The Topazes exploit this by forming the merged body ''around'' people to hold them captive. The [[spoiler:[[AlienAbduction abducted humans]]]] she holds inside are [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/steven-universe/images/f/ff/Are_You_My_Dad_180.png engulfed almost entirely]], usually only exposing eyes, noses, and parts of a few helplessly flailing limbs.

* DoctorWho S2E10 "Love and Monsters": The baddy of the week is a FatBastard alien {{expy}} who absorbs his victims, where they become part of his body. Near the end, we see his victims' faces jutting out of his skin. They actually cooperate and push themselves outwards, which eventually weakens the monster enough to kill it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/16375/sharing-the-night Sharing the Night]]'', dragons are immortal beings who never stop growing, eventually becoming titanic things of living earth and rock, entering nearly eternal hibernations and becoming part of the landscape; [[ThatsNoMoon almost every part of Equestria is made up of unimaginably ancient dragons sleeping on top of and around each other]]. Tartarus, specifically, used to be a dragon by that name who decided to contain all evil beings in the world by swallowing them and imprisoning them within himself. By the time he entered his permanent, rocky hibernation, he had become a living, cavernous prison still holding an uncountable number of ancient horrors in his prison-like gut, which had been transformed and partially "digested" to become a host of lesser monsters that still wriggle to freedom past his jaws every now and again.

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* When gems in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' [[FusionDance fused together]], they turn into amorphous light before reforming into a new body. The Topazes exploit this by forming the merged body ''around'' people to hold them captive. The [[spoiler:[[AlienAbduction abducted humans]]]] she holds inside are [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/steven-universe/images/f/ff/Are_You_My_Dad_180.png engulfed almost entirely]], usually exposing eyes, noses, and a few helplessly flailing limbs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': At the beginning of "There's No Camp Like Home", Piglet has a nightmare about being chased by heffalumps and woozles, ending with him being behind bars inside a police heffalump's stomach.

* In ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' obtaining Gogen requires fighting the Illusion Lord. The monster is a large blue genie like creature holding Gogen between its hands and using his magics on you during the fight.

** The Gourmet Corp. use a strange skeleton beast with cages on its shoulders to capture chefs.
** The IGO also uses beasts that grow cage like structures on their backs to transport prisoners.

* The COVERS of ''Anime/KillLaKill'' pull people inside them leaving only a small face visible.