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* ''Literature/OnTheRun'': One of the first adults Meg and Aiden encounter in the series is a grungy, burly man at a gas station and mini-mart who sells poor-tasting food and eyes them suspiciously throughout their talk. That said, his behavior is justified since he correctly suspects them of being escapees from juvie hall and has no way of knowing about their circumstances when he reports them to the police (although his teenage assistant implies that he is a MeanBoss regardless).
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* {{Subverted|Trope}} like every other HillbillyHorrors trope in ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'': the creepy and vaguely menacing hillbillies at the gas station who spook the group of college kids are actually harmless {{Good Ol Boy}}s suffering from a case of PoorCommunicationKills.

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* {{Subverted|Trope}} like every other HillbillyHorrors trope in ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'': the creepy and vaguely menacing hillbillies at the gas station who spook the group of college kids are actually harmless {{Good Ol Boy}}s suffering from a case of PoorCommunicationKills. When the camera switches to show the perspective of the hillbillies, the gas station is a brightly-lit, well-organized store with a computer and a fax machine behind the counter.
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* In the video of the ''Music/BlueOysterCult'''s "Take Me Away" (from the album ''Music/RevolutionByNight''), where the young couple in the car pull in at a GasStationOfDoom and get the first inkling something is not right; the band logo of the hooked cross painted on the petrol station wall is as big a clue as the sinister guy who serves them and grins maliciously as they pull out, knowing they are on the road to AlienAbduction.

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* In the video of the ''Music/BlueOysterCult'''s "Take Me Away" (from the album ''Music/RevolutionByNight''), ''Music/TheRevolutionByNight''), where the young couple in the car pull in at a GasStationOfDoom and get the first inkling something is not right; the band logo of the hooked cross painted on the petrol station wall is as big a clue as the sinister guy who serves them and grins maliciously as they pull out, knowing they are on the road to AlienAbduction.

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* ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' Downplayed with OneShotCharacter Sanchez, a talkative, PermaStubble-sporting, baseball bat-wielding man with a harsh smile who owns the last gas station in town with any gas left in it. His rough appearance is only because everyone left in the city has to be tough, and he is a warm-hearted ally of Batgirl.* ''ComicBook/TheGoldenAge'': The amnesiac superhero Manhunter spends some time pumping gas at an isolated gas station in the middle of the woods during his FugitiveArc. He sports a constant brooding look and a mild PermaStubble and moves to attack anyone who seems to recognize him. He improves considerably after his former comrade Fatman encounters him at the gas station and helps him remember how to use his powers and learn to trust people again.

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* ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' Downplayed with OneShotCharacter Sanchez, a talkative, PermaStubble-sporting, baseball bat-wielding man with a harsh smile who owns the last gas station in town with any gas left in it. His rough appearance is only because everyone left in the city has to be tough, and he is a warm-hearted ally of Batgirl.Batgirl.
* ''ComicBook/TheGoldenAge'': The amnesiac superhero Manhunter spends some time pumping gas at an isolated gas station in the middle of the woods during his FugitiveArc. He sports a constant brooding look and a mild PermaStubble and moves to attack anyone who seems to recognize him. He improves considerably after his former comrade Fatman encounters him at the gas station and helps him remember how to use his powers and learn to trust people again.
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* In the video of the ''Music/BlueOysterCult'''s "Take Me Away" (from the album ''Music/RevolutionByNight''), where the young couple in the car pull in at a GasStationOfDoom and get the first inkling something is not right; the band logo of the hooked cross painted on the petrol station wall is as big a clue as the sinister guy who serves them and grins maliciously as they pull out, knowing they are on the road to AlienAbduction.
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* ''ComicBook/ScareTactics'': After escaping the town of Beaumont, where they had been trapped in waking nightmares, the band stops at a rural gas station. They ask about the town, only for the creepy attendant to tell them there is no town called Beaumont in the area. In fact, [[VanishingVillage there is no town at all in the direction they came from]].

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* ''ComicBook/ScareTactics'': ''ComicBook/ScareTacticsDCComics'': After escaping the town of Beaumont, where they had been trapped in waking nightmares, the band stops at a rural gas station. They ask about the town, only for the creepy attendant to tell them there is no town called Beaumont in the area. In fact, [[VanishingVillage there is no town at all in the direction they came from]].

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* ''ComicBook/TheGoldenAge'': The amnesiac superhero Manhunter spends some time pumping gas at an isolated gas station in the middle of the woods during his FugitiveArc. He sports a constant brooding look and a mild PermaStubble and moves to attack anyone who seems to recognize him. He improves considerably after his former comrade Fatman encounters him at the gas station and helps him remember how to use his powers and learn to trust people again.

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* ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' Downplayed with OneShotCharacter Sanchez, a talkative, PermaStubble-sporting, baseball bat-wielding man with a harsh smile who owns the last gas station in town with any gas left in it. His rough appearance is only because everyone left in the city has to be tough, and he is a warm-hearted ally of Batgirl.* ''ComicBook/TheGoldenAge'': The amnesiac superhero Manhunter spends some time pumping gas at an isolated gas station in the middle of the woods during his FugitiveArc. He sports a constant brooding look and a mild PermaStubble and moves to attack anyone who seems to recognize him. He improves considerably after his former comrade Fatman encounters him at the gas station and helps him remember how to use his powers and learn to trust people again.


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* ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'': Walter is a slow-talking mustached man who is introduced calmly reading a magazine inside an empty service station in an isolated part of town, ignoring a thunderstorm. However, he turns out to be the biggest NiceGuy in the movie, and when a PursuedProtagonist comes to his doorstep, Walter takes the man to the hospital.
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* One of the murderous siblings in ''Film/HouseOfWax2005''.

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* Diehl from ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'' deliberately misleads the main couple into going back into the town instead of warning them away, because he's collaborating with the murderous child cult to get them supplies in exchange for not being killed.
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* ''ComicBook/TheGoldenAge'': The amnesiac superhero Manhunter spends some time pumping gas at an isolated gas station in the middle of the woods during his FugitiveArc. He sports a constant brooding look and a mild PermaStubble and moves to attack anyone who seems to recognize him. He improves considerably after his former comrade Fatman encounters him at the gas station and helps him remember how to use his powers and learn to trust people again.

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* In the ''Series/TwentyFour'' comic ''One Shot'', Jack, another agent, and [[TheAtoner a repentant ex-IRA informant]] end up at a dimly-lit rural gas station while fleeing the destruction of their safehouse. The owner of the gas station is heavily tattooed, shabbily dressed, and won't help them until he sees Jack's badge. The gas station owner ends up being more of a ButtMonkey by the end of his brief page-time, though. The antagonists pursuing his customers blow up the gas station (although he escapes out the back door), and the fleeing heroes [[HeroStoleMyBike take his motorcyle to replace their blown-up car.]]



* The unnamed old man and father of the hillbillies from the first two ''Film/WrongTurn'' films.

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* In ''Film/CityOfTheDead'', Nan stops at a remote gas station on a fog-shrouded road to ask for directions to [[TownwithADarkSecret Whitewood]]. The gas station attendant warns her that god-fearing folk don't go there, but gives her directions nonetheless.

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* ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'' story arc "Welcome to the Bayou" has Frank battle a CannibalClan, starting with the rat-faced guy running the gas station.

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* ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'' ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'': The story arc "Welcome to the Bayou" has Frank battle a CannibalClan, starting with the rat-faced guy running the gas station.




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* Probable TropeMaker Drayton Sawyer from the original ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''. Encountered early on by the protagonists, he appears normal enough, but when Sally goes to him seeking aid after her friends are killed, he is revealed to be the head of Leatherface's family and captures the girl to take home for dinner. Other examples from the series include Alfredo from ''Film/LeatherfaceTheTexasChainsawMassacreIII'' and W.E. from ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration''.
* The gas station attendant (named Jeb, Jr. in a [[Comicbook/TheHillsHaveEyesTheBeginning spin-off comic]]) from ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006'' sends travelers in the direction of the mutants, and in exchange is given any valuables the victims had on them. By the events of the film, years of guilt have caught up with him, and he commits suicide by [[AteHisGun blowing his brains out]] in an outhouse.
** Ironically, this is subverted in the [[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977 original]] Creator/WesCraven film, wherein the gas station attendant, Old Fred, is affiliated with Papa Jupiter's brood solely by virtue of [[spoiler:blood relation, being Jupiter's father]], but he attempts to steer the Carter family away from their doom in the midst of his own attempts to escape from Papa Jupiter, and ends up paying for both actions with his life.
* The unnamed old man and father of the hillbillies from the first two ''Film/WrongTurn'' films.
* Downplayed in ''Film/{{Abominable}}. The gas station clerk is an unshaven, wide-eyed, string-haired man with an oxygen tank who is reading about the {{Yeti}} attacks when the protagonists stop at his establishment. He means well, but he's quick to start an unprompted conversation about the death of Preston's wife and calls her a "looker" with an odd smile.
* Michael [=McDonnell=] (played by Brad Dourif of ''Film/ChildsPlay'' fame) from ''Film/UrbanLegend'', though true to the story the film is referencing, he is harmless and merely trying to warn Michelle that...
-->"There's someone [[DangerTakesABackseat in the backseat!]]"
* An escaped mental patient from the first segment of the anthology film ''Film/BodyBags'' kills a gas station owner, assumes his identity, and begins murdering customers.
* In ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' the guys stop at a creepy gas station with a creepy gas station attendant... and a kid who plays the banjo. The gas station attendant dances along, creepily.
* The cannibalistic and necrophilic Charles Reese in ''Film/Rampage1987'' (the 1987 one).
* One shows up in ''Film/DevilsGround'', and is named Tobe, probably in reference to ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' creator.
* The two rapists from ''Rape! 13th Hour''.

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* Probable TropeMaker Drayton Sawyer from the original ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''. Encountered early on by the protagonists, he appears normal enough, but when Sally goes to him seeking aid after her friends are killed, he is revealed to be the head of Leatherface's family and captures the girl to take home for dinner. Other examples from the series include Alfredo from ''Film/LeatherfaceTheTexasChainsawMassacreIII'' and W.E. from ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration''.
* The gas station attendant (named Jeb, Jr.
{{Downplayed|Trope}} in a [[Comicbook/TheHillsHaveEyesTheBeginning spin-off comic]]) from ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006'' sends travelers in the direction of the mutants, and in exchange is given any valuables the victims had on them. By the events of the film, years of guilt have caught up with him, and he commits suicide by [[AteHisGun blowing his brains out]] in an outhouse.
** Ironically, this is subverted in the [[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977 original]] Creator/WesCraven film, wherein the gas station attendant, Old Fred, is affiliated with Papa Jupiter's brood solely by virtue of [[spoiler:blood relation, being Jupiter's father]], but he attempts to steer the Carter family away from their doom in the midst of his own attempts to escape from Papa Jupiter, and ends up paying for both actions with his life.
* The unnamed old man and father of the hillbillies from the first two ''Film/WrongTurn'' films.
* Downplayed in ''Film/{{Abominable}}.
''Film/{{Abominable}}''. The gas station clerk is an unshaven, wide-eyed, string-haired man with an oxygen tank who is reading about the {{Yeti}} [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Yeti]] attacks when the protagonists stop at his establishment. He means well, but he's quick to start an unprompted conversation about the death of Preston's wife and calls her a "looker" with an odd smile.
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* Michael [=McDonnell=] (played by Brad Dourif of ''Film/ChildsPlay'' fame) from ''Film/UrbanLegend'', though true to the story the film is referencing, he is harmless and merely trying to warn Michelle that...
-->"There's someone [[DangerTakesABackseat
A RareFemaleExample in the backseat!]]"
SlasherMovie ''Film/TheBlackburnAsylum'', where the attendants are a pair CreepyTwins played by sisters Jacqueline and Joyce Robbins.
* An In the first segment of ''Film/BodyBags'', an escaped mental patient from the first segment of the anthology film ''Film/BodyBags'' kills a gas station owner, assumes his identity, and begins murdering customers.
* {{Invoked|Trope}}, like [[DeconstructorFleet practically everything else]], in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' with [[HarbingerOfImpendingDoom Mordecai]], who warns the teens away from the eponymous cabin. [[spoiler:He's the ButtMonkey for everyone else in the secret organization, as he's one of the few who [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously treats their job seriously]]. Surprisingly, he also has elements of the OnlySaneMan, because he appreciates how serious the AncientConspiracy is and recognizes that Marty is much smarter than he looks and could become a SpannerInTheWorks. Ironically, his co-workers fail to take his warnings seriously, leading to their own doom when Mordecai's assessment of Marty [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass turns out to be entirely correct]].]]
*
In ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'', the guys stop at a creepy gas station with a creepy gas station attendant... and a kid who plays the banjo. The gas station attendant dances along, creepily.
* The cannibalistic and necrophilic Charles Reese in ''Film/Rampage1987'' (the 1987 one).
* One shows up in ''Film/DevilsGround'', ''Film/DevilsGround'' and is named Tobe, probably [[ShoutOut in reference to]] Creator/TobeHooper of ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' fame (see below).
* A black marketeer in ''Film/{{Existenz}}'' is a gas station owner named... Gas. He tries
to ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' creator.
kill the main character for the bounty on her head, after installing a faulty [[BrainComputerInterface bio-port]] in her companion. He's also played by Creator/WillemDafoe, for extra creepiness. [[spoiler:When the whole movie turns out to be [[AllJustADream All Just a Video Game]], the guy who played Gas bemoans his part in the game as clichéd, though the other players assure him that he was genuinely creepy.]]
* ''Film/Exit33'' is about a SerialKiller gas station owner (played by Creator/KaneHodder) who decides which customers to murder by the gas pump they use. It's implied that the jerky he sells is made of people.
* The two rapists main character in the 1973 serial killer/hardcore porn hybrid ''Film/ForcedEntry'', as well as its R-rated remake. The other "sort of" remake from ''Rape! 13th Hour''.2002 references this by having one of the main villain's accomplices be a gas station worker.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977'', wherein the gas station attendant, Old Fred, is affiliated with Papa Jupiter's brood solely by virtue of [[spoiler:blood relation, being Jupiter's father]], but he attempts to steer the Carter family away from their doom in the midst of his own attempts to escape from Papa Jupiter and ends up paying for both actions with his life.
* The gas station attendant in ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006'' -- named Jeb, Jr. in a [[ComicBook/TheHillsHaveEyesTheBeginning spin-off comic]] -- sends travelers in the direction of the mutants, and in exchange is given any valuables the victims had on them. By the events of the film, years of guilt have caught up with him, and he commits suicide by [[AteHisGun blowing his brains out]] in an outhouse.



* The main character in TheSeventies serial killer/hardcore porn hybrid ''Forced Entry'', as well as it's R-rated remake. The other "sort of" remake from 2002 referenced this by having one of the main villain's accomplices be a gas station worker.
* Subverted like every other [[HillbillyHorrors Evil Hillbilly]] trope in ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'': the creepy and vaguely menacing hillbillies at the gas station who spook the group of college kids are actually harmless {{Good Ol Boy}}s suffering from a case of PoorCommunicationKills.
* ''Exit 33'' is about serial killer gas station owner (played by Creator/KaneHodder) who decides which customers to murder by the gas pump they use. And it's implied the jerky he sells is made of people.
* A black marketeer in ''Film/{{Existenz}}'' is a gas station owner named... Gas. He tries to kill the main character for the bounty on her head, after installing a faulty bio-port in her companion. He's also Willem Dafoe, in a cameo. [[spoiler:When the whole movie turns out to be All Just a Videogame, the guy who played Gas bemoans his part in the game as clichéd, though the other players assure him he was genuinely creepy.]]
* The gas station from ''Madness'' is implied to be owned by the inexplicably Swedish killer hillbillies.
* ''Film/JoyRide3Roadkill'': In a deleted scene, the vacant-eyed attendant at an isolated midwestern gas station surprises Jewel and Alissa by appearing in front of them with a wrench when it initially appears that the gas station is deserted, but then explains he'd just been working on his car and didn't hear them arrive.
* {{Invoked|Trope}}, like [[DeconstructorFleet practically everything else]] in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' with [[HarbingerOfImpendingDoom Mordecai]], who warns the teens away from the eponymous cabin. [[spoiler: He's the ButtMonkey for everyone else in the secret organization, as he's one of the few that [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously treats their job seriously]]. Surprisingly, he also has elements of the OnlySaneMan, because he appreciates how serious the AncientConspiracy is and recognizes that Marty is much smarter than he looks and could become a SpannerInTheWorks. Ironically, his co-workers fail to take his warnings seriously, leading to their own doom when Mordecai's assessment of Marty [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass turns out to be entirely correct]].]]
* A RareFemaleExample in the slasher film ''The Blackburn Asylum'', where the attendants are a pair CreepyTwins played by sisters Jacqueline and Joyce Robbins.
* ''Film/MiracleMile'': An urban version of the creepy gas station attendant appears when Harry and Wilson the stereo thief stop at a service station to call Julie on the payphone. The gun-totting nightwatchman pointedly calls Wilson "Boy" and makes the customers pump their own gas. When the police show up to arrest Harry and Wilson, the attendant forms an EnemyMine situation with Wilson due to fear of being arrested if the police realize that he doesn't have a permit for his shotgun.
* ''Film/SundownTheVampireInRetreat'' has this role filled by three bearded old men, Milt, Mort and Merle, who sit on a rocker all day in their thick hats and gloves, dark glasses and thick sunblock, commenting dryly whenever a customer shows up and generally trying to steer them away from the nearest town of FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires. The three are on the side of the heroes but give of a literal RetiredMonster vibe, as the second scene of the movie has Mort punch an unruly customers head off in a fit of temper (which is witnessed by his terrified friends nearby), then wearily clean up the mess as Merle drives into town to report this lapse in their pacifistic new lifestyle.
* In ''Film/PigHunt'', the protagonists stop at a remote gas station to get directions to John's uncle's ranch. The owner is surly and hostile to everyone (except John whom he regards as a local) and, when asked for a map, he draws one a page from a nudie calendar in a very creepy fashion.
* ''Film/{{Sabretooth}}'': The man transporting the tiger stops at a gas station run by two brothers covered in oil stains. One of the brothers never talks and looks up directly at the sun at one point. Ultimately though, the two are unrelated to any of the movie's horror and get subjected to a JumpScare by the real menace.
* ''Film/TalonFalls'': The movie gives us an unnamed gas station manager who's creep factor comes from him having a dirty face and shirt. He also tends to speak in an octave that just enough to count as [[NoIndoorVoice loud]]. He's the one who suggests the protagonists check out Talon Falls Scream Park [[spoiler:because he's either in cahoots with them, or he actually works for them.]]
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* The gas station owner in ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday the 13th: Mother's Day]]'' turns out to be a CaptainErsatz of [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]].
* "The Grinning God" is a pair of short stories by May and Jacques Futrelle (her's is "Wraiths of the Storm" and his reply is "The House That Was", both 1907) that feature a crusty New Englander variant of the unhelpful and alarming gas station attendant. He lives above the store in the middle of nowhere and is reluctant to sell fuel at night, despite the driver's car being clearly out of gas, miles from the nearest big city. He won't put the driver up for the night despite the signs of an approaching storm. He tells the driver that the road to the next town is "straight 'cept where it bends." Only an offer to pay double prompts the man to finally sell the fuel at all. The driver goes his way and has a series of strange experiences. He comes to doubt his own sanity and act accordingly. It is up to Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen ("Literature/TheThinkingMachine") to work out the answer, bringing the distraught man along on a re-enactment of the trip to show that it was all real. [[spoiler:The driver had turned and backtracked instead of going on toward his destination; the attendant tried to call after him but had his voice drowned out by the thunder and the roar of the engine]].
* Played with in ''Literature/AmericanGods''. Laura's a zombie, so she takes the night shift at a gas station, thinking people won't realize that she's a rotting corpse so easily. Creepy or not, she's actually one of the good guys.

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* The series premiere of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' ends with Gideon stopping at a gas station operated by a twitchy and stuttery man who he realizes is a SerialKiller the FBI has been after for a while. The next episode shows how he deals with being taken hostage by the guy. Another episode had two service station owners who hunted people for sport.
* Parodied in a series of sketches on ''Series/TheFastShow'', where people stop to ask directions from a batty old man at a rundown petrol station. His advice starts out innocently enough but quickly descends into insane ranting.
-->'''Old Man:''' You wanna watch where you're steppin' around 'ere, boy. You might fall down a 'ole. Where would you be if you fell down a 'ole? '''[[SuddenlyShouting WHAT ABOUT THE FOG!?]]''' Stuck in a hole in the fog? Stuck in a hole in the fog in the middle of the night! '''WITH AN OWL! Up a tree! Stuck in a 'ole in the middle of a night! Stuck down an 'ole, with an owl! On your own, behind the wall! Lovely old wall! Stuck down a hole with an owl in the middle of the night! It could happen! Stuck down a hole on your own in the middle of the night! WITH AN OWL!'''
* The first episode of ''Series/TrueBlood'' had a {{Goth}} gas station attendant pretend to be a vampire to unnerve some travelers. After they leave, a peeved real (and redneck) vampire threatens the poser with death if he ever does that again.
** The guy later reappears in season 6, though not doing the whole "pretend to be a vampire" act anymore. This time, though, Jessica glamors him as part of a trap she and Bill set to scoop up Andy's faerie daughters.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': one appears as the killer in a season 2 episode.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': Zig-zagged initially with the normal-looking attendant of the well-off Moel gas station. When the main character first arrives in Inaba, the gas attendant is one of the first people to welcome him, with the two engaging in some friendly conversation and a seemingly innocent handshake. However, the attendant will subsequently only appear around the gas station on rainy days, and the True Ending reveals that [[spoiler:she's actually Izanami, the BigBad responsible for starting the entire plot, with her going OneWingedAngel in the final battle]].
* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', [[PyroManiac the Pyro]] is a mouth-breathing serial killer and has a gas jockey themed item set.
* One of [[ShowWithinAShow the movies your Sims can watch]] in ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' is a slasher movie called ''Moonlight Massacre III", which features one of these among many other cliches.

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* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': Locus briefly plays this role when the pilot that brought Donut and Doc to Chorus stops at the abandoned gas station to refuel. Locus is professional enough that the pilot doesn't suspect a thing until Locus guns him down from behind.

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* An episode of ''MTV's Downtown'' featured such a character, which the main characters thought was part of the titular Cropsey Clan of that episode due to his unibrow (the inbred Cropseys supposedly all had unibrows).
* A character who sometimes shows up in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is an old gas station owner prone to offering ominous, overwrought and unsolicited warnings about things like cursed paths, haunted mountains and cemeteries [[Literature/PetSematary that can bring back the dead]]. Butters also assumes the role in "The Wacky Molestation Adventure".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "Night of the Living Spud", Darkwing and his family meet a guy like this on the highway named Dwayne who warns them that a vampire potato is on the loose, giving them advice on what to do when they see it along with showing a wide knowledge of various unnatural phenomena. He may be a truck driver (according to himself under the employment of the state's secret paranormal department) but he does take them to a creepy gas station. While they at first think he's crazy, [[NoMereWindmill Dwayne's warning is very accurate]], and his advice [[DarkIsNotEvil is actually sound]], giving credit to the idea that he is all that he claims to be.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' segment "Potty Emergency" after countless unsuccessful attempts to find a bathroom, Wakko stops at one at a gas station. However, he runs into one of these guys who warns him that he hasn't washed the bathroom in over a year. After seeing the nightmare of a bathroom himself, he decides not use it, no matter how badly he needs to.
** He shows up again in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', this time saying he hasn't washed it in THREE years!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'': In "The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake", [=LeBeau=] the gas station attendant is a hulking, scowling man who warns the gang about the monster and calls them crazy for wanting to stick around as he prepares to flee town. He's innocent, though, and [[TookALevelInCheerfulness acts nicer in the final scene once the mystery is solved.]]

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* The main character in TheSeventies serial killer/hardcore porn hybrid ''Forced Entry'', as well as it's R-rated remake. The other "sort of" remake from 2002 referenced this by having one of the main villain's accomplices be a gas station worker.
* Subverted like every other [[HillbillyHorrors Evil Hillbilly]] trope in ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'': the creepy and vaguely menacing hillbillies at the gas station who spook the group of college kids are actually harmless {{Good Ol Boy}}s suffering from a case of PoorCommunicationKills.
* ''Exit 33'' is about serial killer gas station owner (played by Creator/KaneHodder) who decides which customers to murder by the gas pump they use. And it's implied the jerky he sells is made of people.
* A black marketeer in ''Film/{{Existenz}}'' is a gas station owner named... Gas. He tries to kill the main character for the bounty on her head, after installing a faulty bio-port in her companion. He's also Willem Dafoe, in a cameo. [[spoiler:When the whole movie turns out to be All Just a Videogame, the guy who played Gas bemoans his part in the game as clichéd, though the other players assure him he was genuinely creepy.]]
* The gas station from ''Madness'' is implied to be owned by the inexplicably Swedish killer hillbillies.
* ''Film/JoyRide3Roadkill'': In a deleted scene, the vacant-eyed attendant at an isolated midwestern gas station surprises Jewel and Alissa by appearing in front of them with a wrench when it initially appears that the gas station is deserted, but then explains that he'd just been working on his car and didn't hear them arrive.
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* {{Invoked|Trope}}, like [[DeconstructorFleet practically everything else]] in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' with [[HarbingerOfImpendingDoom Mordecai]], who warns the teens away The gas station from the eponymous cabin. [[spoiler: He's the ButtMonkey for everyone else in the secret organization, as he's one of the few that [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously treats their job seriously]]. Surprisingly, he also has elements of the OnlySaneMan, because he appreciates how serious the AncientConspiracy ''Film/{{Madness}}'' is and recognizes that Marty is much smarter than he looks and could become a SpannerInTheWorks. Ironically, his co-workers fail to take his warnings seriously, leading to their own doom when Mordecai's assessment of Marty [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass turns out implied to be entirely correct]].]]
* A RareFemaleExample in
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* ''Film/MiracleMile'': An urban version of the creepy gas station attendant appears when Harry and Wilson the stereo thief stop at a service station to call Julie on the payphone. The gun-totting gun-toting nightwatchman pointedly calls Wilson "Boy" and makes the customers pump their own gas. When the police show up to arrest Harry and Wilson, the attendant forms an EnemyMine situation with Wilson due to fear of being arrested if the police realize that he doesn't have a permit for his shotgun.
* In ''Film/PigHunt'', the protagonists stop at a remote gas station to get directions to John's uncle's ranch. The owner is surly and hostile to everyone (except John, who he regards as a local), and when asked for a map, he draws on a page of a nude calendar in a very creepy fashion.
* The cannibalistic and necrophiliac Charles Reese in ''Film/Rampage1987''.
* The two rapists from ''Rape! 13th Hour''.
* ''Film/{{Sabretooth}}'': The man transporting the tiger stops at a gas station run by two brothers covered in oil stains. One of the brothers never talks and looks up directly at the sun at one point. Ultimately, though, the two are unrelated to any of the movie's horror and get subjected to a JumpScare by the real menace.
* ''Film/SundownTheVampireInRetreat'' has this role filled by three bearded old men, Milt, Mort and Merle, who sit on a rocker all day in their thick hats and gloves, dark glasses and thick sunblock, commenting dryly whenever a customer shows up and generally trying to steer them away from the nearest town of FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires.{{Friendly Neighborhood Vampire}}s. The three are on the side of the heroes but give of a literal RetiredMonster vibe, as the second scene of the movie has Mort punch an unruly customers head off in a fit of temper (which is witnessed by his terrified friends nearby), then wearily clean up the mess as Merle drives into town to report this lapse in their pacifistic new lifestyle.
* In ''Film/PigHunt'', the protagonists stop at a remote gas station to get directions to John's uncle's ranch. The owner is surly and hostile to everyone (except John whom he regards as a local) and, when asked for a map, he draws one a page from a nudie calendar in a very creepy fashion.
* ''Film/{{Sabretooth}}'': The man transporting the tiger stops at a gas station run by two brothers covered in oil stains. One of the brothers never talks and looks up directly at the sun at one point. Ultimately though, the two are unrelated to any of the movie's horror and get subjected to a JumpScare by the real menace.
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* Probable {{Trope Maker|s}} Drayton Sawyer from ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''. Encountered early on by the protagonists, he appears normal enough, but when Sally goes to him seeking aid after her friends are killed, he is revealed to be the head of Leatherface's family and captures the girl to take home for dinner. Other examples from [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre the series]] include Alfredo from ''Film/LeatherfaceTheTexasChainsawMassacreIII'' and W.E. from ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration''.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} like every other HillbillyHorrors trope in ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'': the creepy and vaguely menacing hillbillies at the gas station who spook the group of college kids are actually harmless {{Good Ol Boy}}s suffering from a case of PoorCommunicationKills.
* Michael [=McDonnell=] (played by Creator/BradDourif) from ''Film/UrbanLegend'', though true to [[UrbanLegends the story]] the film is referencing, he is harmless and merely trying to warn Michelle that...
-->''"There's someone [[DangerTakesABackseat in the backseat]]!"''
* The unnamed old man and father of the hillbillies from the first two ''Film/WrongTurn'' films.
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* Played with in ''Literature/AmericanGods''. Laura's a zombie, so she takes the night shift at a gas station, thinking that people won't realize that she's a rotting corpse so easily. Creepy or not, she's actually one of the good guys.
* The gas station owner in ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday the 13th: ''Franchise/FridayThe13th: Mother's Day]]'' Day'' turns out to be a CaptainErsatz of [[Film/{{Psycho}} Norman Bates]].
* ''Literature/TheThinkingMachine'': "The Grinning God" is a pair of short stories by May and Jacques Futrelle (her's is "Wraiths of the Storm" and his reply is "The House That Was", both 1907) that feature a crusty New Englander variant of the unhelpful and alarming gas station attendant. He lives above the store in the middle of nowhere and is reluctant to sell fuel at night, despite the driver's car being clearly out of gas, miles from the nearest big city. He won't put the driver up for the night despite the signs of an approaching storm. He tells the driver that the road to the next town is "straight 'cept where it bends." bends". Only an offer to pay double prompts the man to finally sell the fuel at all. The driver goes his way and has a series of strange experiences. He comes to doubt his own sanity and act accordingly. It is up to Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen ("Literature/TheThinkingMachine") to work out the answer, bringing the distraught man along on a re-enactment of the trip to show that it was all real. [[spoiler:The driver had turned and backtracked instead of going on toward his destination; the attendant tried to call after him but had his voice drowned out by the thunder and the roar of the engine]].
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* The series premiere of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' ends with Gideon stopping at a gas station operated by a twitchy and stuttery twitchy, stuttering man who he realizes is a SerialKiller who the FBI has been after for a while. The next episode shows how he deals with being taken hostage by the guy. Another episode had has two service station owners who hunted [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt people for sport.
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* Parodied {{Parodied|Trope}} in a series of sketches on ''Series/TheFastShow'', where ''Series/TheFastShow'' in which people stop to ask directions from a batty old man at a rundown petrol station. His advice starts out innocently enough but quickly descends into insane ranting.
-->'''Old Man:''' You wanna watch where you're steppin' around 'ere, boy. You might fall down a 'ole. Where would you be if you fell down a 'ole? '''[[SuddenlyShouting ''[[SuddenlyShouting WHAT ABOUT THE FOG!?]]''' FOG!?]]'' Stuck in a hole in the fog? Stuck in a hole in the fog in the middle of the night! '''WITH ''WITH AN OWL! Up a tree! Stuck in a 'ole in the middle of a night! Stuck down an 'ole, with an owl! On your own, behind the wall! Lovely old wall! Stuck down a hole with an owl in the middle of the night! It could happen! Stuck down a hole on your own in the middle of the night! WITH AN OWL!'''
OWL!''
* One appears in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' as the killer in a season 2 episode.
* The first episode of ''Series/TrueBlood'' had has a {{Goth}} gas station attendant pretend to be a vampire to unnerve some travelers. After they leave, a peeved real (and redneck) vampire threatens the poser with death if he ever does that again.
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''VideoGame/Persona4'': [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] initially with the normal-looking attendant of the well-off Moel gas station. When the main character first arrives in Inaba, the gas attendant is one of the first people to welcome him, with the two engaging in some friendly conversation and a seemingly innocent handshake. However, the attendant will subsequently only appear around the gas station on rainy days, and the True Ending reveals that [[spoiler:she's actually Izanami, the BigBad responsible for starting the entire plot, with her going OneWingedAngel in the final battle]].
* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', [[PyroManiac the Pyro]] is a mouth-breathing serial killer and has a gas jockey themed item set.
* One of [[ShowWithinAShow the movies your Sims can watch]] in ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' is a slasher movie SlasherMovie called ''Moonlight Massacre III", III'' which features one of these among many other cliches.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' segment "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode26 Potty Emergency]]", after countless unsuccessful attempts to find a bathroom, Wakko stops at one at a gas station. However, he runs into one of these guys who warns him that he hasn't washed the bathroom in over a year. After seeing the nightmare of a bathroom himself, he decides not to use it, no matter how badly he needs to. He shows up again in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', this time saying he hasn't washed it in ''three'' years!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E4NightOfTheLivingSpud Night of the Living Spud]]", Darkwing and his family meet a guy like this on the highway named Dwayne who warns them that a vampire potato is on the loose, giving them advice on what to do when they see it along with showing a wide knowledge of various unnatural phenomena. He may be a truck driver (according to himself under the employment of the state's secret paranormal department) but he does take them to a creepy gas station. While they at first think he's crazy, [[NoMereWindmill Dwayne's warning is very accurate]], and his advice [[DarkIsNotEvil is actually sound]], giving credit to the idea that he is all that he claims to be.
* An episode of ''MTV's Downtown'' featured ''WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}}'' features such a character, which character -- the main characters thought was think that he's part of the titular Cropsey Clan of that the episode due to his unibrow BigOlUnibrow (the inbred Cropseys supposedly all had have unibrows).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'': In "[[Recap/TheScoobyDooShowS3E16TheBeastIsAwakeInBottomlessLake The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake]]", [=LeBeau=] the gas station attendant is a hulking, scowling man who warns the gang about the monster and calls them crazy for wanting to stick around as he prepares to flee town. He's innocent, though, and [[TookALevelInCheerfulness acts nicer in the final scene once the mystery is solved]].
* A character who sometimes shows up in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is an old gas station owner prone to offering ominous, overwrought and unsolicited warnings about things like cursed paths, haunted mountains and cemeteries [[Literature/PetSematary that can bring back the dead]]. Butters also assumes the role in "The "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E16TheWackyMolestationAdventure The Wacky Molestation Adventure".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "Night of the Living Spud", Darkwing and his family meet a guy like this on the highway named Dwayne who warns them that a vampire potato is on the loose, giving them advice on what to do when they see it along with showing a wide knowledge of various unnatural phenomena. He may be a truck driver (according to himself under the employment of the state's secret paranormal department) but he does take them to a creepy gas station. While they at first think he's crazy, [[NoMereWindmill Dwayne's warning is very accurate]], and his advice [[DarkIsNotEvil is actually sound]], giving credit to the idea that he is all that he claims to be.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' segment "Potty Emergency" after countless unsuccessful attempts to find a bathroom, Wakko stops at one at a gas station. However, he runs into one of these guys who warns him that he hasn't washed the bathroom in over a year. After seeing the nightmare of a bathroom himself, he decides not use it, no matter how badly he needs to.
** He shows up again in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', this time saying he hasn't washed it in THREE years!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'': In "The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake", [=LeBeau=] the gas station attendant is a hulking, scowling man who warns the gang about the monster and calls them crazy for wanting to stick around as he prepares to flee town. He's innocent, though, and [[TookALevelInCheerfulness acts nicer in the final scene once the mystery is solved.]]
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* ''Film/TalonFalls'': The movie gives us an unnamed gas station manager who's creep factor comes from him having a dirty face and shirt. He also tends to speak in an octave that just enough to count as [[NoIndoorVoice loud]]. He's the one who suggests the protagonists check out Talon Falls Scream Park [[spoiler:because he's either in cahoots with them, or he actually works for them.]]
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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': Locus briefly plays this role when the pilot that brought Donut and Doc to Chorus stops at the abandoned gas station to refuel. Locus is professional enough that the pilot doesn't suspect a thing until Locus guns him down from behind.
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A type of character often found in horror of the [[HillbillyHorrors backwoods]] variety, the [[TitleDrop Creepy Gas Station Attendant]] is a grizzled and almost AlwaysMale [[CorruptHick hick]] who appears to be the sole proprietor of a dilapidated and desolate service station (although he may be accompanied by an ensemble of similarly creepy locals whose only apparent purpose is to stare silently and menacingly at "outsiders"). You know the ones, [[DisgustingPublicToilet unsanitary]] and filled with an assortment of vermin, outdated products, non-functioning fixtures, and rusting heaps that may have once been vehicles. Depending in the setting, may have a HayseedName akin to Otis, Dale, or Zeke, which will typically be on a patch stitched onto the breast of his shirt.

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A type of character often found in horror of the [[HillbillyHorrors backwoods]] variety, the [[TitleDrop Creepy Gas Station Attendant]] is a grizzled and almost AlwaysMale [[CorruptHick hick]] hick who appears to be the sole proprietor of a dilapidated and desolate service station (although he may be accompanied by an ensemble of similarly creepy locals whose only apparent purpose is to stare silently and menacingly at "outsiders"). You know the ones, [[DisgustingPublicToilet unsanitary]] and filled with an assortment of vermin, outdated products, non-functioning fixtures, and rusting heaps that may have once been vehicles. Depending in the setting, may have a HayseedName akin to Otis, Dale, or Zeke, which will typically be on a patch stitched onto the breast of his shirt.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' segment "Potty Emergency" after countless unsuccessful attempts to find a bathroom, Wakko stops at one at a gas station. Howver, he runs into one of these guys who warns him that he hasn't washed the bathroom in over a year. After seeing the nightmare of a bathroom himself, he decides not use it, no matter how badly he needs to.

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* ''Film/{{Sabretooth}}'': The man transporting the tiger stops at a gas station run by two brothers covered in oil stains. One of the brothers never talks and looks up directly at the sun at one point. Ultimately though, the two are unrelated to any of the movie's horror and get subjected to a JumpScare by the real menace.

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A type of character often found in horror of the [[HillbillyHorrors backwoods]] variety, the '''Creepy Gas Station Attendant''' is a grizzled and almost AlwaysMale [[CorruptHick hick]] who appears to be the sole proprietor of a dilapidated and desolate service station (although he may be accompanied by an ensemble of similarly creepy locals whose only apparent purpose is to stare silently and menacingly at "outsiders"). You know the ones, [[DisgustingPublicToilet unsanitary]] and filled with an assortment of vermin, outdated products, non-functioning fixtures, and rusting heaps that may have once been vehicles. Depending in the setting, may have a HayseedName akin to Otis, Dale, or Zeke, which will typically be on a patch stitched onto the breast of his shirt.

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A type of character often found in horror of the [[HillbillyHorrors backwoods]] variety, the '''Creepy [[TitleDrop Creepy Gas Station Attendant''' Attendant]] is a grizzled and almost AlwaysMale [[CorruptHick hick]] who appears to be the sole proprietor of a dilapidated and desolate service station (although he may be accompanied by an ensemble of similarly creepy locals whose only apparent purpose is to stare silently and menacingly at "outsiders"). You know the ones, [[DisgustingPublicToilet unsanitary]] and filled with an assortment of vermin, outdated products, non-functioning fixtures, and rusting heaps that may have once been vehicles. Depending in the setting, may have a HayseedName akin to Otis, Dale, or Zeke, which will typically be on a patch stitched onto the breast of his shirt.

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* Downplayed in ''Film/{{Abominable}}. The gas station clerk is an unshaven, wide-eyed, string-haired man with an oxygen tank who is reading about the {{Yeti}} attacks when the protagonists stop at his establishment. He means well, but he's quick to start an unprompted conversation about the death of Preston's wife and calls her a "looker" with an odd smile.


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* ''Film/JoyRide3Roadkill'': In a deleted scene, the vacant-eyed attendant at an isolated midwestern gas station surprises Jewel and Alissa by appearing in front of them with a wrench when it initially appears that the gas station is deserted, but then explains he'd just been working on his car and didn't hear them arrive.


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* ''Film/MiracleMile'': An urban version of the creepy gas station attendant appears when Harry and Wilson the stereo thief stop at a service station to call Julie on the payphone. The gun-totting nightwatchman pointedly calls Wilson "Boy" and makes the customers pump their own gas. When the police show up to arrest Harry and Wilson, the attendant forms an EnemyMine situation with Wilson due to fear of being arrested if the police realize that he doesn't have a permit for his shotgun.
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* In ''Film/PigHunt'', the protagonists stop at a remote gas station to get directions to John's uncle's ranch. The owner is surly and hostile to everyone (except John whom he regards as a local) and, when asked for a map, he draws one a page from a nudie calendar in a very creepy fashion.
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* One of [[ShowWithinAShow the movies your Sims can watch]] in ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' is a slasher movie called ''Moonlight Massacre III", which features one of these.

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