History Main / DogPileOfDoom

** ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'': The Smiths do this to Neo, until Neo hurls them all off him.

* The average {{Mooks}} can dogpile you in ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', prompting you to button-mash your way out, which will immediately defeat them. The funniest one is Kim's, who shrugs as the enemies fly off her as if she had no idea what's going on.

** Superman gets dogpiled by Mutant animals in ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', episode "Timber Wolf".

-->"Dogpile on the rabbit! Dogpile on the rabbit!"

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

* In the third ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' movie, when the gang fights an army of the Bitter Gourd King's gourd minions, Wolffy, while he is bashing the heads of two of the minions together, is targeted by a bunch of other minions who form a dog pile on him. He jumps out of the dog pile, using the two minions he was already attacking as weapons to push back the other minions.

* 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.]]

** In the 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.

* Mooks have attempted this trope on Zoro of ''Manga/OnePiece''...with little success. In fact, Zoro's first display of badass was to block a dogpile of Marines -- all armed with swords -- with his Santoryu.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': when Danny steals the exo-suit and fights the ghost army in Reign Storm, the ghost skeletons do this to Danny before he breaks out.

** In episode "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2", Changelings as fake Applejacks pile up on the real Applejack [[spoiler:until Twilight Sparkle blasts them away and reels the real one towards her.]]

** ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'': An army of [[EvilTwin Superior Girl]]'s minions leap onto Supragirl -a Supergirl of an alternate timeline-. However she explodes out of them quickly.

* 1966's ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'' has a scene where the Joker, the Riddler, the Penguin and their accompanying goon squad burst in on Bruce Wayne and Catwoman (disguised as Russian reporter Miss Kitka), with the intent to kidnap them. Bruce initially does pretty well for himself before the numbers become too much and the villains dogpile him, with the Penguin climbing on the very top with an open umbrella because that's how he rolls.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:

* 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. 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 ''Literature/{{Friday}}'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, the eponymous Friday is captured in this way. Later, "Boss" Baldwin says, "You killed two and injured three before they piled enough bodies on you to hold you down by sheer weight."
* In ''Literature/HardToBeAGod'', Earth observer (and proto-Progressor) Rumata is defeated like this. He is a capable combatant when faced with another (or multiple duelists) due to the physical advantages of Noon Universe humans, plus the combat training that is superior to anything on the [[DungAges Dung Ages]] Arkanar. So what does Don Reba do? He gets 30 of the most beefy, fat guards, armed only with clubs, nets, and shields. They overwhelm him (despite taking several casualties), then capture him, and bring to Don Reba.
* In ''Literature/{{HIVE}}'', [[spoiler:Raven]] gets taken down this way by [[spoiler:ninja robot assassins. No, really.]] It's really the only acceptable way for a character as badass as [[spoiler:she]] to get taken out.
* The eponymous character of Brian Jacques' ''Literature/MartinTheWarrior'' 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 him dragged off to [[PunishmentBox worse imprisonment than before]].
* In the prologue of the novelization of ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', the Invid are attacking a Zentraedi outpost, where a variation occurs. Dolza, who is at the base at the time, says that the base would undoubtedly be covered completely in Invid mecha "Like a lethal blanket of death."
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'' has a heroic example -- [[spoiler: Scourge's [[TheDragon deputy]] Bone]] is killed by being dog-piled by a bunch of [[KidHero apprentices.]]

* ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''. Danny and Davos are dogpiled by all of the mooks fighting them in a [[HallwayFight hallway]] and somehow knock them all away.

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

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', when [[spoiler:the other crime families of Mos Espa betray Boba]], Black Krrsantan is seen being dragged to the ground and dogpiled by a number of [[spoiler:Trandoshan]] foot soldiers. Unusually for this trope, [[UncertainDoom the scene cuts away before we see what became of him]], and only later do we learn that [[spoiler:he survived]].

** In the 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.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]'', the titular character 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.

* In the Disney version of ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'', this is how the hero gets captured [[spoiler:after his disguise is revealed at the archery tournament]].

* In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', when [[spoiler:the other crime families of Mos Espa betray Boba]], Black Krrsantan is seen being dragged to the ground and dogpiled by a number of [[spoiler:Trandoshan]] foot soldiers. Unusually for this trope, [[UncertainDoom the scene cuts away before we see what became of him]], and only later do we learn that [[spoiler:he survived]].

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*** Superman unfortunately gets piled on more often than his cousin, but they always end in them knocked away -- Mutated bacteria in "Monkey Fun" or Apokolips' demons in "Apokolips...Now, Part 2".

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

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* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'', "Unfriendly Skies", a victim of the week dies in 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.

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

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': The Smiths do this to Neo in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', until when Neo hurls them all off him.

* In ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril'', half dozen of Phantom Zoners jump on Franchise/{{Superman}} at once, but he slips out among them, circles back and rolls over the group as a human bowling ball.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', during the fight with [[spoiler:Lucas Lee's stunt team.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** During the climax of ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', [[http://www.readcomics.tv/images/manga/supergirl/32/7.jpg several dozens of alien Diasporans leap onto the titular heroine]], surrounding her everywhere and pinning her down. All they managed though was making the short-tempered Red Lantern Kryptonian teenager mad. [[http://www.readcomics.tv/images/manga/supergirl/32/8.jpg Kara explodes out of the pile, shaking them off with several blasts of heat vision and her Red Ring]].

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': 3.5[[superscript:th]] 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 mid- to high-level characters caught in an angry mob are likely to be grabbed, pinned down, trampled and pummeled to death. By its very nature, a mob negates most defenses like armor, agility or invisibility, much like a [[TheSwarm swarm]].

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

%%* Happens to Germany in the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' [[TheMovie movie]].
* A filler episode of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has this happen to Ichigo by a group of [[CannonFodder Hollows]]. Humorously, one is picking its teeth until Ichigo sends them flying.
* 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…
* A common tactic used by the Fang Clan of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', it often results in both escaping then [[YouAreAlreadyDead meeting their doom]] by either Kenshiro or Rei.
* Zenigata has attempted this on ''Anime/LupinIII'' multiple times. Sometimes it even works.
* In the ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' episode "Attack! Leozack", Star Saber tries to fight off the Decepticons in his Jet Form, but gets piled on by Leozack, followed by the rest of the Dinoforce. Funny thing though, is that Leozack's the one getting crushed by their intense weight, while Star Saber simply breaks free by transforming.

* In ''Manga/SazanEyes'', during the Amara Arc Yakumo accidentally triggers a magical trap which summons several ogre-like monsters who try to subdue him. He uses [[AntiMagic Ku Yong to dispel the sorcery]]... only to discover that those monsters were transformed [[FullFrontalAssault naked girls]] who still try to attack him and end up burying him under [[{{Fanservice dogpile of naked female bodies]], as Yakumo is too embarassed to fight back.

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* In the ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Sumo Momo", when Samosa tells the story of how he defeated two Sumo Momos, the accompanying visuals end with an army of Sumo Momos appearing and forming a dog pile on him, followed by Samosa punching his way out of the dog pile.
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* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', during the fight with [[spoiler:Lucas Lee's stunt team.]]

* When Sal Buscema drew ''[[Franchise/SpiderMan Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' in the 90's, he loved having fight scenes with Spider-Man breaking free.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** During the climax of ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', [[http://www.readcomics.tv/images/manga/supergirl/32/7.jpg several dozens of alien Diasporans leap onto the titular heroine]], surrounding her everywhere and pinning her down. All they managed though was making the short-tempered Red Lantern Kryptonian teenager mad. [[http://www.readcomics.tv/images/manga/supergirl/32/8.jpg Kara explodes out of the pile, shaking them off with several blasts of heat vision and her Red Ring]].
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'': An army of [[EvilTwin Superior Girl]]'s minions leap onto Supragirl -a Supergirl of an alternate timeline-. However she explodes out of them quickly.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In "[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]", the titular character 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 them knocked away, followed shortly by a CurbstompBattle.
* ''ComicBook/SimonDark'': The cultists try to swarm Tom Kirk, but as he's immune to their bullets and most of them are not immune to his it's not working, until they manage to swarm him enough that one of their more powerful members can come up from behind and hit him in the head hard enough to break his neck.

* 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.

* 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.

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'': The Smiths do this to Neo in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', until when Neo hurls them all off him.

* Cleon of Film/TheWarriors gets dogpiled at the gang conclave. [[spoiler:He doesn't make it out alive]]
* ''Film/StrangePsychoKineticStrategy'' has a group of "nuns" attacking Lupin, hitting and kicking him. Lupin seems to easily slip out between their legs, while they're so intent on hitting him that they don't notice he's disappeared.
* 1966's ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'' has a scene where the Joker, the Riddler, the Penguin and their accompanying goon squad burst in on Bruce Wayne and Catwoman (disguised as Russian reporter Miss Kitka), with the intent to kidnap them. Bruce initially does pretty well for himself before the numbers become too much and the villains dogpile him, with the Penguin climbing on the very top with an open umbrella because that's how he rolls.
* The mall cops in ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' use this method to apprehend UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan and UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid. (Not that any other way would have likely been feasible with those two...)
* 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 {{The Man Behind The|Man}} Horsemen implies that he willingly sprung that trap on himself.]]
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''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.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': Despite the SpiderLimbs of his armor in "Instant Kill Mode" skewering them left and right, the Outriders ganging up on Spider-Man carrying the Infinity Gauntlet are soon overwhelming him. At first Peter tries to man up by repeating ImOkay, but when he starts disappearing under the many opponents, he cracks and desperately calls for help.

* In the prologue of the novelization of ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', the Invid are attacking a Zentraedi outpost, where a variation occurs. Dolza, who is at the base at the time, says that the base would undoubtedly be covered completely in Invid mecha "Like a lethal blanket of death."

* In ''Literature/{{HIVE}}'', [[spoiler:Raven]] gets taken down this way by [[spoiler:ninja robot assassins. No, really.]] It's really the only acceptable way for a character as badass as [[spoiler:she]] to get taken out.
* 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. 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 ''Literature/HardToBeAGod'', Earth observer (and proto-Progressor) Rumata is defeated like this. He is a capable combatant when faced with another (or multiple duelists) due to the physical advantages of Noon Universe humans, plus the combat training that is superior to anything on the [[DungAges Dung Ages]] Arkanar. So what does Don Reba do? He gets 30 of the most beefy, fat guards, armed only with clubs, nets, and shields. They overwhelm him (despite taking several casualties), then capture him, and bring to Don Reba.

* ''Series/IronFist2017''. Danny and Davos are dogpiled by all of the mooks fighting them in a [[HallwayFight hallway]] and somehow knock them all away.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': 3.5[[superscript:th]] 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 negates most defenses like armor, agility or invisibility, much like a [[TheSwarm swarm]].

* In ''Ultimate VideoGame/MortalKombat3'', one of Scorpion's fatalities is to teleport the opponent into Hell and dogpile them with countless [[DoppelgangerAttack doppelgangers of himself]].
* Mario and Goombella pull a slip out of one 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 breaking free or dying depending on the player's actions), a clear case of DoubleEntendre considering [[MsFanservice the type of character she is.]]
* The average {{Mooks}} can dogpile you in ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', prompting you to button-mash your way out, which will immediately defeat them. The funniest one is Kim's, who shrugs as the enemies fly off her as if she had no idea what's going on.
* The boss battle against Ra's al Ghul in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' includes sequences where a horde of ninjas leaps at Batman from all directions, with the action slowing down while they are still in mid-air. The player must rapidly press the "counter" button to account for every single ninja before they land; if this is done right, the player is rewarded with the sight of Batman exploding out of the dogpile.

* Ann odd variant occurs in ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' where 2B and 9S are overwhelmed in this fashion, seconds after the dogpile completes [[spoiler: everyone is destroyed by the two activating their self-destruct mechanisms just after finishing copying their minds elsewhere to backup bodies.]]

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has Belkar and Hobgoblins, where the Hobgoblins are helping to establish that Belkar is, in fact, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0439.html A Sexy, Shoeless, God of War.]]

* ''Webcomic/GenocideMan:'' [[spoiler:Lola Lamb]] finally bites it under one of these, her corpse found buried under dead and injured Senegal soldiers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': Optimus and Ratchet are fighting an army of robot zombies, when this happens. Optimus bursts out and saves Ratchet.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E4WhereNoDuckHasGoneBefore Where No Duck Has Gone Before]]" ends with [[NiceCharacterMeanActor Major Courage]], now demoted to a candy vendor, sinking under a swarm of bratty children all trying to get candy at the same time.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': When Scrooge seemingly catches Gold Fever, which is making him paranoid that an interdimensional imp had stolen 87 cents from his vault, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, Launchpad, Gyro, Manny the Headless Manhorse, and Gizmoduck all dog-pile him so he wouldn't dive into his pile of gold. Even while he was sick [[spoiler:with the common cold]], Scrooge overpowers and toss them aside.

--> "Dogpile on the rabbit! Dogpile on the rabbit!"
* In ''[[Franchise/{{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.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'':
** Several mooks try this on a young lady... which leads to the reveal that this young lady, is, in fact, [[OhCrap Supergirl in her first appearance.]]
** Superman unfortunately gets piled on more often than his cousin, but they always end in them knocked away:
*** Mutated bacteria in "Monkey Fun".
*** Apokolips' demons in "Apokolips...Now, Part 2".
* There are other TV series and movies where Superman gets dogpiled by:
** Mutant animals from ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', episode "Timber Wolf".
** Brainiac's robotic drones from the movie, ''WesternAnimation/SupermanUnbound''
* 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.]]

* 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 fights them off reaction a few times, but the Steven Melons keep overwhelming her with sheer numbers, while Amethyst gets captured.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': In the episode "Divided We Stand", Ben as Ditto did a capture Dr. Animo while floating on water. Now how did they not sink from the accumulating weight of the pileup?
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' gets more dog piles than its predecessor, though the victim isn't Ben:
** In "Grounded", Kevin gets pinned down by [=DNAliens=] before Ben's father chased them away with his rifle.
** Kevin gets mobbed again by [=DNAliens=] in "Birds of a Feather", and managed to pull a slips before Gwen does a fends them off 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 fight them off once, but then got overpowered.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', Ben becomes the center of almost all dog piles in this series.
** In "It Was Them", Ben as Rath gets mobbed by mutant ants but Rook saves him with a by slipping free. Right after the save, he gets mobbed again until he pulls a beats them off [[spoiler:by transforming into Crashhopper.]]
** In "Ben Again", Eon gets dog piled and pummeled by Ben as Ditto clones, only to pull a slips away by shrinking.
** In "Charmed, I'm Sure", Ben as Swampfire gets dog piled by Mutant Pumpkins only to miraculously fight them off.
** In "The Vampire Strikes Back", Ben as Whampire gets massively mobbed by his brainwashed companions and all the townspeople consisting of Frankensteins, ghosts, mummies and werewolves.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour1967'' 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.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6m40W1s0Wc This is the method that Japanese Honeybees use to kill Asian Giant Hornets scouts]]. After luring the hornet towards the nest, a whole bunch of them jump on the hornet and literally cook it to death. (The honeybees survive as they have a higher temperature tolerance than the hornet)

A large number of {{Mooks}} jump on the hero, pinning him down

A large number of {{Mooks}} jump on the hero, pinning him down.

* 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 him dragged off to [[PunishmentBox worse imprisonment than before]].