History Main / ConveyorBeltODoom

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}} in America'' features a cannery, where Tintin is tricked into falling into the meat grinding machine.

** Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', where one of the last traps is a conveyor belt into a grinder which you escape by ''[[MundaneSolution jumping off it]]'' onto a ledge on the thing's side--no portals necessary. It's so pathetic that the BigBad will instead say it's more of a death ''option'' than a deathtrap and will actually be quite surprised if it kills you.

* In ''VideoGame/SpiritsOfMystery'' 9: The Moon Crystal'' the heroine has to escape from an overhead conveyor belt of manacled people heading toward a ravenous monster.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan''

* The fourth floor of Grunty Industries in ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'' has a conveyor belt dragging everything on it toward enormous SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom which prevent access to the area behind. After the crushers are deactivated, it turns into an InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt by switching directions.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11806414/10/Amy-Potter-is-Batgirl Amy Potter Is Batgirl]]'' Amy and Hermione are tied to a conveyor belt in a bookbinding factory by The Joker. He actually returns them to the start of the belt several times when Batman and Robin take longer to arrive than he expected.

* Mrs. Peel of ''Series/TheAvengers1966'' is tied up and put on a conveyor belt to a giant buzzsaw in the episode "Epic".

* In ''VideoGame/{{Creatures}}'', there were a number of 'torture stages', where Clyde has to save other critters who have been tied to Conveyor Belts O Doom by solving a complex item interaction puzzle.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "The Good Ol' Days", Vicky kidnaps Timmy's grandfather and [[ChainedToARailway attempts to tie him to the railroad tracks]], only to find it crowded so she opts for this at the sawmill. Seeing how slow the conveyor moved, she realizes why the mill was up for grabs.

* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' had one of these that Dark Kat put the heroes on, while he and Hard Drive were stealing the Turbokat in "Night of Dark Kat".

* The '''entire premise''' of ''Series/{{Downfall}}''. Don't answer in time, and your prizes, your money and eventually ''you'' go over the side of a 10-story building.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Sully ''thinks'' that Boo was trapped on one of these when it was actually just a piece of her monster costume. In a way, this allows the scene to be much ''more'' gruesome than it otherwise would be, judging by [[EmotionalFainting Sully's reactions]] as he watches the costume-piece go through one crusher and thrasher after another, assuming Boo is in there.(His terrified reactions are an homage to the [[Chuck Jones]] cartoon "Feed the Kitty" wherein bulldog Marc Antony thinks his cute little kitten pal Pussyfoot is receiving the identical treament.)

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]" featured a man-eating mulching machine and plenty of gory description of what would happen to any living bodies that went through it.

** "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS13E6TheSeedOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]" featured a man-eating mulching machine and plenty of gory description of what would happen to any living bodies that went through it.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Killings of Copenhagen", the murderer trusses up one of the victims and places them on a conveyor belt leading into an industrial bakers oven.

* PlayedforLaughs in ''Literature/CaptainUnderpantsandthePerilousPlotofProfessorPoopypants''. When George and Harold (aliases Fluffy and Cheeseball) are shrunk and flying around in a paper airplane, upon landing they see a steamroller thingy coming their way. One of them then shouts, "Oh, NO! We're going to get STEAMROLLER THINGIED to death!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Sully ''thinks'' that Boo was trapped on one of these when it was actually just a piece of her monster costume. In a way, this allows the scene to be much ''more'' gruesome than it otherwise would be, judging by [[EmotionalFainting Sully's reactions]] as he watches the costume-piece go through one crusher and thrasher after another, assuming Boo is in there.

* ComicBook/TheJoker has suffered the sawmill version of this twice - once in the newspaper comic story "The Joker and the Sparrow", and once in the first issue of his self-titled comic book series.

-->-- '''Goldmember''', ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember''

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[[caption-width-right:349:Nell, about to have [[{{Pun}} a splitting headache]].]]

* In ''ComicBook/SoulsearchersAndComapny'' #4, Bridget's extendable pole gets caught in a bottle recycling machine and she is almost dragged to her death.

* In ''ComicBook/SoulsearchersAndComapny'' #4, Bridget's extendible pole gets caught in a bottle recycling machine and she is almost dragged to her death.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'', where [[spoiler:the player]] gets StrappedToAnOperatingTable on a conveyor belt, having drugs injected and parts of his body removed and replaced by Strogg cybernetics. The Stroggification is interrupted when the {{People Jar|s}} [[spoiler:your character]] is placed in towards the end is smashed before the control chip can be activated. It's [[PainfulTransformation pretty traumatic]]; you can watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3clVvh5gbGE here!]] The conversion actually improves [[spoiler:your character]], including increasing [[spoiler:your]] health by 25%, and giving a noticeable boost to running speed. Sure, his fellows are disturbed and distrustful of the Strogg on their side, but [[HeroicMime he never complains]]. And, in the end, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer it pays]].