History Main / DogPileOfDoom

** On "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", a doll gets turned into an AppleOfDiscord [[labelnote:*]]Not related to the villain played by [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]][[/labelnote]]. Big Macintosh has it, and he gets dog-piled by nearly every background pony. Big Macintosh literally sends them flying over the horizon after it's taken by the Mayor. In fact, it doesn't even really work in the first place; Big Mac is clearly standing on the bottom half of the dog pile, and the top half can only cover him up to his neck.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': The Saikas tried this on Shizuo, who just [[SuperStrength lifted them up and tossed them off. ]]

* Happens to Germany in the ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' [[TheMovie movie]].

* This is a common occurrence in the comic ComicBook/{{Asterix}}.

* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'': On the Bounty/Rescue Route in ''Completing The Mission'', one of options for getting past Right Hand Man is a dogpile. If chosen, Henry and his team will dogpile on Right Hand Man and then Right Hand Man's own men become ecstatic and join in on the dogpile in excitement. The choice ends up being a fail though, as Right Hand Man blows everybody off of him.

* When Sal Buscema drew ''[[Franchise/SpiderMan Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' in the 90's, he loved having fight scenes that breaking free.

* ''Franchise/TinTin'' ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]''. Tintin is falsely accused of being a bandit, and a group of yokels try to lynch him. After failing to do so repeatedly, they all descend on him in a dogpile, each wanting to be the next one to try. Tintin escapes by crawling out from underneath.

* It's not uncommon for a mob of mooks to attempt this on a character like ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk or ComicBook/{{Superman}} so that the character can show off their SuperStrength via a knocking them away.

* In one ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' story, [[RulesLawyer Brian]] comes up with the idea of hiring a gang of ten NPC peasants to follow the party around and dogpile their enemies, [[LoopholeAbuse exploiting a flaw]] in the melee-combat rules to give them an easy victory regardless of the foe's strength.

* Played for drama in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. During the Eclipse, when Guts sees the only other survivor of the massacre, his lover Casca, in the perverse grasp of some demons, he rushes in to save her from the swarm, but gets his arm caught in the jaws of a demon. Then, to make matters more horrifying, [[spoiler:his former commander and friend Griffith, who was the one who enabled the Eclipse in order to become a demon lord, is reborn as the fifth member of the Godhand Femto, flies down and starts having his way with Casca.]] Desperate to save her, Guts resorts to [[spoiler:[[LifeOrLimbDecision hacking off his own arm with a broken sword]]]] in order to escape from the demon's grasp and continues his rampage... only to be [[spoiler:telekinetically hurled back by Femto's power]] and then dogpiled by a mess of demons, [[HopeSpot mere feet away.]] And then he was [[ForcedToWatch…]]

* Played for drama in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. During the Eclipse, when Guts sees the only other survivor of the massacre, his lover Casca, in the perverse grasp of some demons, he rushes in to save her from the swarm, but gets his arm caught in the jaws of a demon. Then, to make matters more horrifying, [[spoiler:his former commander and friend Griffith, who was the one who enabled the Eclipse in order to become a demon lord, is reborn as the fifth member of the Godhand Femto, flies down and starts having his way with Casca.]] Desperate to save her, Guts resorts to [[spoiler:[[LifeOrLimbDecision hacking off his own arm with a broken sword]]]] in order to escape from the demon's grasp and continues his rampage... only to be [[spoiler:telekinetically hurled back by Femto's power]] and then dogpiled by a mess of demons, [[HopeSpot mere feet away.]] And then he was ForcedToWatch...

* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': During the big battle in Wakanda, Thanos's Outriders pile up on the Hulkbuster and bring it to the ground under their number.

* A filler episode of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has this happen to [[TheProtagonist Ichigo]] by a group of [[CannonFodder Hollows]]. Humorously, one is picking its teeth until Ichigo sends them flying.

* In the Disney version of ''Disney/RobinHood'', this is how the hero gets captured [[spoiler:after his disguise is revealed at the archery tournament]].

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'' has a group of mooks do the dogpile on Michelangelo, only for him to climb out and look at the pile of still attacking thugs and mutter, "pitiful."
** Hilariously, the above was the ''[[{{ChekhovsSkill}} second time]]'' Mikey pulled that off. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Check the background]] when Donatello hogties one of the robbers in the introductory battle.

* It's hard to categorize in an area of animation, as it is technically an Eastern, non-anime animation, but the Hong Kong animated film ''Color Old Master Q'' has this happen with the eponymous protagonist in a martial arts match, when a trio of robbers pile on him and start beating him up... only for the scrawny old man to slip out of the BigBallOfViolence [[ComedicUnderwearExposure wearing only his underpants]] and leave the robbers punching his clothes.

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' has a heroic example - [[spoiler: Scourge's [[TheDragon deputy]] Bone]] is killed by being dog-piled by a bunch of [[KidHero apprentices.]]

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': 3.5th edition splatbook ''Cityscape'' introduces rules for rampaging mobs. While your typical mob is composed of ordinary citizens with no class levels, it is ''way'' more dangerous than its individual parts. Even high-level characters caught in an angry mob are likely to be grabbed, pinned down, pummeled to death, and trampled. By its very nature, a mob negate most defenses like armor, agility or invisibility, much like a [[TheSwarm swarm]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': WesternAnimation/BugsBunny is jumped by several large dogs in an alley in the episode "WesternAnimation/AHareGrowsInManhattan". They attempt to dog-pile him, but in the end, it shows [[OffscreenTeleportation Bugs jumping up and down on top of the pile]], leaving the leader of the dogs at the bottom.

** On "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", a doll gets turned into an AppleOfDiscord [[labelnote:*]]Not related to the villain played by [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]][[/labelnote]]. Big Macintosh has it, and he gets dogpiled by nearly every background pony. Big Macintosh literally sends them flying over the horizon after it's taken by the Mayor. In fact, it doesn't even really work in the first place; Big Mac is clearly standing on the bottom half of the dogpile, and the top half can only cover him up to his neck.

** In "Game of Flags", Star gets dog piled by all the members of her family in a game of Flags. They are blasted away by [[spoiler:Star's mother, Moon Butterfly.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' gets more dog piles than it's predecessor, though the victim isn't Ben:

* A common spot in multi-man matches featuring TheGiant, TheBigGuy, TheWorldsStrongestMan or [[WrestlingMonster "Monsters"]]. Multiple wrestlers will swarm on the big man, usually leading to the big man will throwing them all off and start kicking ass.

* A common spot in multi-man matches featuring TheGiant, TheBigGuy or [[WrestlingMonster "Monsters"]]. Multiple wrestlers will swarm on the big man, usually leading to the big man will throwing them all off and start kicking ass.

The hero activates a super mode, has an epiphany, or otherwise becomes more badass. He explodes out of the pile, minions scattering to the four winds, and rises as an epic figure. At this point the fight might continue, or the mooks might run away.

The hero is killed at the bottom of the pile. (This one is pretty rare outside of [[DevouredByTheHorde zombie movies]], actually.)

The hero is captured. This can mean assimilation, frozen in stasis, knocked unconscious, or simply dragged off to a prison cell.

A more humorous version, the hero simply gets out of the dogpile. This may involve OffscreenTeleportation, with the hero suddenly appearing to the side somewhere (or even on top of the pile), before the mooks even realize that he's gone and they've just been mobbing each other.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar III'', enemies will frequently attempt this on Kratos, leading him cutting his way free.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': 3.5th edition splatbook ''Cityscape'' introduce rules for rampaging mobs. While your typical mob is composed of ordinary citizens with no class levels, it is ''way'' more dangerous than its individual parts. Even high-level characters caught into an angry mob are likely to be grabbed, pinned down, pummeled to death, and trampled. By its very nature, a mob negate most defenses like armor, agility or invisibility, much like a [[TheSwarm swarm]].

* In the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movie ''The Return of Cooler,'' both Vegeta and Goku are barely able to destroy one Metal Cooler, when they are overwhelmed by an army of them. After that, they were captured by Cooler.
** In another ''Dragon Ball Z'' movie, ''Bardock: Father of Goku,'' Frieza's minions try a unique, mid-air variant on Bardock as he flies out of Planet Vegeta's atmosphere, it fails.

'''George''': (''groaning'') [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh, dear.]]\\
'''CDA Agents:''' Get him! (''they bowl George over'')

* in ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'': King Julien calls for his subjects to do one of these on Mort, to keep Mort from boarding the plane. King Julien justifies this to everyone by claiming that Mort is carrying items that are banned from carry-on luggage ("...scissors, and uh, hand cream!"). Mort manages to escape with the use of ... comically large scissors.

* In ''[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown]]'', during the Homecoming Game every down where CB's team has the ball ends up in a big pileup, usually with Charlie on the bottom. Including when he attempts to kick the ball, misses because Lucy pulls it away, and then they jump on him. This would be a roughing the kicker penalty at minimum if Charlie weren't such a ButtMonkey.

* A particularly hilarious example occurs in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode ''Operation I.T''. Numbuh 362 [[IJustWantToBeNormal gets tired of being the supreme commander]], and starts up a game of tag where whoever is "it" by noon gets to replace her. [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Strangely]], nobody actually ''wants'' this position, so everyone begins to run and try to escape, however, once [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Numbuh 13]] gets tagged, everyone around him immediately dog-piles onto him, screaming, "ANYONE BUT HIM!" because they'd rather tag themselves than [[TheDitz let him become their leader.]]

Type A: The hero activates a super mode, has an epiphany, or otherwise becomes more badass. He explodes out of the pile, minions scattering to the four winds, and rises as an epic figure. At this point the fight might continue, or the mooks might run away.

Type B: The hero is killed at the bottom of the pile. (This one is pretty rare outside of [[DevouredByTheHorde zombie movies]], actually.)

Type C: Similar to B, except that the hero is captured instead of killed. This can mean assimilation, frozen in stasis, knocked unconscious, or simply dragged off to a prison cell.

Type D: A more humorous version, the hero simply gets out of the dogpile. This may involve OffscreenTeleportation, with the hero suddenly appearing to the side somewhere (or even on top of the pile), before the mooks even realize that he's gone and they've just been mobbing each other.

* The page pic is of a rare instance of heroes (or in this case, [[MesACrowd one hero duplicating himself countless times]]) pulling this on a villain when Manga/{{Naruto}} attempts to do this to Zabuza in one episode, using his shadow clones. Unfortunately, Zabuza escapes, this being a Type A.

* In the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movie ''The Return of Cooler,'' both Vegeta and Goku are barely able to destroy one Metal Cooler, when they are overwhelmed by an army of them. After that, they were captured by Cooler. This makes it a Type C.
** In another ''Dragon Ball Z'' movie, ''Bardock: Father of Goku,'' Frieza's minions try a unique, mid-air variant on Bardock as he flies out of Planet Vegeta's atmosphere. Being a type A situation, it fails.

* Type C happens to Germany in the ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' [[TheMovie movie]].
* A filler episode of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has this happen to [[TheProtagonist Ichigo]] by a group of [[CannonFodder Hollows]]. Humorously, one is picking its teeth until Ichigo pulls a Type A and sends them flying.

* A common tactic used by the Fang Clan of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', it often results in both Type A and Type D whenever they [[YouAreAlreadyDead met their doom]] by either Kenshiro or Rei.

* When Sal Buscema drew ''[[Franchise/SpiderMan Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' in the 90's, he loved having fight scenes that depicted Type A.

* Type D occurs in ''Franchise/TinTin'' ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]''. Tintin is falsely accused of being a bandit, and a group of yokels try to lynch him. After failing to do so repeatedly, they all descend on him in a dogpile, each wanting to be the next one to try. Tintin escapes by crawling out from underneath.
* We get a big one in ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'', in which Thor and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica are under assault. Thor is separated from {{Mjolnir}}, and as Cap tries to get to it, he's dogpiled by a bunch of Grog's mooks. Unfortunately for said mooks, the Captain just happens to be worthy, resulting in a Type A outcome, followed shortly by a CurbstompBattle.
* It's not uncommon for a mob of mooks to attempt this on a character like ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk or ComicBook/{{Superman}} so that the character can show off their SuperStrength via a Type A.

* ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'' has the [[VillainProtagonist Horned King]] performing a Type A on the [[AxCrazy Mad]] Pack [[SavageWolves wolves]].

* in ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'': King Julien calls for his subjects to do one of these on Mort, to keep Mort from boarding the plane. King Julien justifies this to everyone by claiming that Mort is carrying items that are banned from carry-on luggage ("...scissors, and uh, hand cream!"). Mort manages a Type D escape with the use of ... comically large scissors.

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': The Smiths do this to Neo in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', leading to a Type A when Neo hurls them all off him.
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks'', Byron takes on the Martians hand-to-hand in order to buy time for the others to escape. This appears to be a type B, but he later appears with no explanation as to how he survived. It's notable that in the original script, he did die.
* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'' has a Type D. A group of mooks do the dogpile on Michelangelo, only for him to climb out and look at the pile of still attacking thugs and mutter, "pitiful."

* Cleon of Film/TheWarriors gets dogpiled at the gang conclave. [[spoiler:It's Type B, above.]]

* The eponymous character of Brian Jacques' ''Martin the Warrior'' is mobbed by mooks when he attempts to help Feldoh's elderly father, who is being badly treated by the vermin overseers (as they are all three slaves at this point). Martin is literally described as having "disappeared" amid the mass, and the result is a Type C pile -- dragged off to [[PunishmentBox worse imprisonment than before]].

* In ''Literature/TheChildrenOfHurin'', The Men of the House of Húrin stand as rearguard for the retreating elf army of Gondolin after the defeat of the Elves and their allies in the "Battle of Unnumbered Tears." Húrin and his household stand alone at the last until all his men and his brother Huor lie dead with corpses piled around him. Still Húrin fights on, when his own weapons are lost. His shield is broken. Húrin takes a two handed axe from an Orc-Captain and fights on. Eighty trolls of the guard of the demon-lord Balrog Gothmog fall before Húrin and each time he sings out, in Elvish, "Day shall come again!" The axe melts in his hands and still he fights on. Finally the Orcs dogpile Húrin and overwhelm him because while he can cut off their limbs, too many of their claws and arms remain attached to him and he is overwhelmed and taken captive (type C above). This is a classic example of [[YouShallNotPass You Shall Not Pass]] and [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]] for Húrin and [[DespairEventHorizon Despair Event Horizon]] and [[StartofDarkness Start of Darkness]] for his family and his people.

* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'', "Unfriendly Skies", a victim of the week dies in a Type B when he starts acting erratically on a plane and a large number of passengers dogpile him. They thought he was drunk or drugged, but he really had undiagnosed encephalitis, which combined unfavorably with altitude and air pressure changes.
* ''Series/IronFist2017''. Type A. Danny and Davos are dogpiled by all of the mooks fighting them in a [[HallwayFight hallway]] and somehow knock them all away.

* A common spot in multi-man matches featuring TheGiant, TheBigGuy or [[WrestlingMonster "Monsters"]]. Multiple wrestlers will swarm on the big man, usually leading to a Type A situation as the big man will throw them all off and start kicking ass.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar III'', enemies will frequently attempt this on Kratos, leading to Type A.
* A cutscene in ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has the basic infected do this to Alex. They get hit by Type A as he busts out the Armor and Blade powers. In gameplay, you can do something similar with the Knuckle Shockwave and a decent-sized group of infected.
* In ''[[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Sengoku Basara 4]]'', some groups of enemy soldiers will attempt to do this. Since the character you're controlling is always a OneManArmy, this leads to Type A a moment of button mashing later (assuming you don't just swat them away before they can even land on you).

* Mario and Goombella pull a Type D at the start of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', leaving Lord Crump [[EstablishingCharacterMoment to be pummeled in their place]].
* Mobs of enemies will often try this on Juliet in ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'' (which results in Type A or Type B, depending on the player's actions), a clear case of DoubleEntendre considering [[MsFanservice the type of character she is.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': WesternAnimation/BugsBunny pulls a Type D, naturally. He is jumped by several large dogs in an alley in the episode "WesternAnimation/AHareGrowsInManhattan". They attempt to dog-pile him, but in the end, it shows [[OffscreenTeleportation Bugs jumping up and down on top of the pile]], leaving the leader of the dogs at the bottom.

** Superman unfortunately gets piled on more often than his cousin, but they always end well in a Type A:

** On "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]", a doll gets turned into an AppleOfDiscord [[labelnote:*]]Not related to the villain played by [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]][[/labelnote]]. Big Macintosh has it, and he gets dogpiled by nearly every background pony. Type A then occurs as Big Macintosh ''literally'' sends them flying over the horizon after it's taken by the Mayor. In fact, it doesn't even really work in the first place; Big Mac is clearly standing on the bottom half of the dogpile, and the top half can only cover him up to his neck.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Watermelon Steven", the [[PlantPeople Steven Melons]] start doing this when they turn against the Crystal Gems in an overzealous attempt to "defend" Steven. Garnet does the Type A reaction a few times, but the Steven Melons keep overwhelming her with sheer numbers, while Amethyst suffers Type C.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': In the episode "Divided We Stand", Ben as Ditto did a Type C on Dr. Animo while floating on water. Now how did they not sink from the accumulating weight of the pileup?

** Kevin gets mobbed again by [=DNAliens=] in "Birds of a Feather", and managed to pull a Type D before Gwen does a Type A for him.
** In "The Final Battle: Part 2", Albedo as Negative Ultimate Humungousaur gets mobbed by Vilgax's army of Bioids as Humungousaurs. He did a Type A once, but then got overpowered with a Type C.

** In "It Was Them", Ben as Rath gets mobbed by mutant ants but Rook saves him with a Type D, and RIGHT AFTER the save, he gets mobbed again until he pulls a Type A [[spoiler:by transforming into Crashhopper.]]
** In "Ben Again", Eon gets dog piled and pummeled by Ben as Ditto clones, only to pull a Type D by... shrinking?
** In "Charmed, I'm Sure", Ben as Swampfire gets dog piled by Mutant Pumpkins only to miraculously pull a Type A.
** In "The Vampire Strikes Back", Ben as Whampire pulls a Type A when he gets massively mobbed by his brainwashed companions and all the townspeople consisting of Frankensteins, ghosts, mummies and werewolves.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour1967'' has a downplayed Type A when an entire football team try to tackle The Thing during a charity game after he gets the ball. Thing simply picks up the whole team and carries them to the endzone.

* Even Nature occasionally gets in on the comedic potential of a Type D: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5o-m9Ag7Dk check 1:16-1:24]]. (''Yakety Sax'' version chosen to avert NightmareFuel for ophidiophobes.)

* Manga/{{Naruto}} attempts to do this to Zabuza in one episode, using his shadow clones. Unfortunately, Zabuza escapes, this being a Type A.

* Set up magnificently in ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'' during Act II of the Four Horsemen's tour. As part of the act, several volunteer audience members are hypnotized to attack the "Quarterback" when they hear the [[TriggerPhrase Trigger Word]] "Freeze". They return to their seats and the show goes on. However, when the Horsemen conclude their performance by [[spoiler:[[JustLikeRobinHood publicly robbing their millionaire patron]]]], [[InspectorJavert Agent Rhodes]] moves in to apprehend them. Being a law enforcement officer in pursuit of fleeing suspects, he naturally yells, "Freeze!" Cue one dogpiled cop and four escaping Horsemen. [[spoiler:Hilariously, TheReveal that Rhodes himself is none other than the Horsemen's ManBehindTheMan implies that he willingly sprung that trap on himself.]]