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* ''WesternAnimation/RugRatS'' has a Game Boy Advance game subtitled "Castle Capers" and in it is a level where you climb inside a giant grandfather clock.

* WesternAnimation/RugRatS has a Game Boy Advance game subtitled "Castle Capers" and in it is a level where you climb inside a giant grandfather clock.

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May overlap with ClockPunk and EternalEngine. May also be related to NoOSHACompliance if it involves workers riding around on the gears.

-->'''[[LemonyNarrator --Professor Gregorious T. Oswald,]]''' VideoGame/{{Puppeteer}}

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* The Creator/CharlieChaplin film ''Film/ModernTimes'' features the Tramp working on an assembly line and riding the conveyor belt into the machinery, passing (harmlessly) among giant gears.

%%* The fight between the AlmightyJanitor and the evil repairman in TheHudsuckerProxy.

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* In ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'', Nanny Ogg and the dwarf romeo Casanunder sabotage the clock tower to prevent "Cinderella" hearing the chimes of midnight. There is also the cat Greebo's memory of chasing a mouse into a working windmill and realising he is in a place of danger where one paw put in the wrong place will drag him to doom among all the turning gears and grinding wheels.

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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' had Batman fighting Catwoman and Ragdoll in the gears of a giant clocktower.

* ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' provides the page image, and has its climax in Big Ben.

* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} 2'', the Lemons all trap Mater, Finn [=McMissile=], and Holly Shiftwell inside Big Bentley as an attempt to kill them all while they succeed in their evil plans. They eventually escape, however.

->''"The gears meshed together in order to transmit torque. You see, they're finely tuned to make sure that the hour and the minute hands of the clock rotate at steady accurate pace. [[LampshadeHanging Also, they make convenient footholds."]]''

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Castle Heterodyne has a large number of areas that are full of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070727 giant]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071003 gears]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080625 and]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090225 other]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091030 mechanisms.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': Clock Tower levels have been a staple of the series, since the original. Some of the most notable ones being the level in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' where you meet Grant and "Stage A" from ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV'''. %%**''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight''.

* ''Film/TheGreatMouseDetective'' provides the page image, and has its climax in Big Ben.

%%* The Creator/CharlieChaplin film ''Film/ModernTimes''
* The climax of ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' takes place inside of Big Ben, with Basil and Ratigan climbing through the gears to reach the top. It's incredibly dangerous for them, but it's justified by them being mice, not humans.

%%* Various levels in ''EpicMickey''.

* Tick Tock Clock in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', which can be tweaked based on the time that a player jumps through the wall.
** The level returns as a racecourse in ''VideoGame/MarioKartDS'' and again in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8''.
* Also, some of the castles from ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii''.
* There's also some clock themed levels in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand''.
* The Old Clockworks from ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'' is an old and ruined clock factory with NoOSHACompliance. The ClockTower entrance is blocked since the hands of the clock barring the passage are missing, and Luigi has to get through the factory's dangerous gears and clocks to retrieve them.

* Metal Man's stage in ''VideoGame/MegaMan2''.
** Time Man's stage in ''MegaManPoweredUp'' is this, in an actual ClockTower.

* [[EternalEngine Scrap Brain Zone]] from the original ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game. Its WorkingTitle was even "The Clockwork Zone" (or "Clock Ork" as the W wasn't programmed into the title card).

* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' had an area in [[ThatOneLevel Rusty Bucket Bay]] that involved a switch puzzle to control rotating gears. Falling off results in death by boiling oil.

** An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' had Batman fighting the Clock King like this, in a clock tower.

* The Old Clockworks from ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon is an old and ruined clock factory with NoOSHACompliance. The ClockTower entrance is blocked since the hands of the clock barring the passage are missing, and Luigi has to get through the factory's dangerous gears and clocks to retrieve them.

** The level returns as a racecourse in ''[[VideoGame/MarioKartDS]]'' and again in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8''.

** The level returns as a racecourse in ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart Mario Kart DS]]''.

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' had a dungeon and a boss fight based on this theme.

-->'''Narrator:''' The gears meshed together in order to transmit torque. You see, they're finely tuned to make sure that the hour and the minute hands of the clock rotate at steady accurate pace. [[LampshadeHanging Also, they make convenient footholds.]]

* The final level of ''[[{{VideoGame/ClockTower}} Clock Tower 3]]'' is a climb up the titular ClockTower, including the gears.