History Main / IllogicalSafe

* Also popular in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts, including "Designs on Jerry" which features a classic variation, where Tom comes out of the safe now smushed into a perfect cube.

If someone is crushed by a large safe, you only need to open the safe, and he will be inside.

In most cases the open safe reveals a torn and bent "floor" -- indicating that the person [[MyopicArchitecture punched his way into it as though it had been made of paper]]. Other times both the safe and the new occupant will be completely undamaged, with absolutely no explanation, [[RuleOfFunny in-universe or otherwise]], as to how they got in there.

* Done with a refrigerator in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. It is later done to Marvin Acme with an actual safe, but unlike what happens with toons, it kills him.

* Done with a refrigerator in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SheriffCalliesWildWest'' fanfiction "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14217830/1/Crackin-that-Safe-Crime Crackin' that Safe Crime]]" features a villain called Wily Woodrow, whose crimes involve dropping safes on the heads of unsuspecting people. At one point in the story, after unsuccessfully attempting to take out Priscilla and Uncle Bun with safes, he even attempts to murder Sheriff Callie by dropping a safe from the roof of the jailhouse. Peck manages to save Callie by pushing her out of the way and is crushed by the safe instead, and when Callie and Toby initially believe Peck has died and even mourn him, they hear him moaning inside the safe. Callie then unlocks the safe, revealing Peck dizzily sitting inside, and Toby helps him out of the safe.

[[caption-width-right:200:Don't try this at home.]]

Compare with ByWallThatIsHoley, ImpactSilhouette, PianoDrop, and AnvilOnHead. Sometimes, this trope may also result in SquashedFlat.

In most cases the open safe reveals a torn and bent "floor" -- indicating that the person [[MyopicArchitecture punched his way into it as though it had been made of paper]]. Other times both the safe and the new occupant will be completely undamaged, with absolutely no explaination, [[RuleOfFunny in-universe or otherwise]], as to how they got in there.

* Wendell T. Wolf is crushed by a safe during the ExpositoryThemeTune, of ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'', though it does not open to reveal him inside of it.

Compare with ByWallThatIsHoley, ImpactSilhouette, and AnvilOnHead. Sometimes, this trope may also result in SquashedFlat.

Compare with ByWallThatIsHoley, ImpactSilhouette, and AnvilOnHead. Sometimes, this trope may also result in SquashedFla.

Compare with ByWallThatIsHoley and ImpactSilhouette. Sometimes, this trope may also result in SquashedFlat as well.

* At the end of ''Disney/TheJungleBook2'' [[Creator/TonyJay Shere]] [[KnightOfCerebus Khan]] is trapped inside a stone tiger head after falling into a volcano.

* Happens to Franchise/CrashBandicoot during one of the Die-O-Ramas in ''Crash Tag Team Racing''.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] keeping TheMcCoy out of harm's way.

* At the end of ''[[Disney/TheJungleBook The Jungle Book 2]]'' [[Creator/TonyJay Shere]] [[KnightOfCerebus Khan]] is trapped inside a stone tiger head after falling into a volcano.

* A ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqifngsT94U short in which Pumbaa suffers a run of bad luck]] has this happening to Pumbaa -- and then, as soon as he's out of the safe, it happens again with a ''space capsule''.

* Also popular in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts, including "The Better Mouse Trap" which features a classic variation, where Tom comes out of the safe now smushed into a perfect cube.

Mostly used in comedy or [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation old cartoons]], although {{Super Hero}}es with invulnerability powers may use it straight.

* ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' played with this, using an armoire instead of a safe falling on Fighter. Fighter emerges from it and Red Mage launches a convoluted explanation that states that Fighter survived because his knowledge of cartoon physics warped reality itself. Then Fighter reveals that the bottom just was cheap particle board.
** Note that this is the Armoire of ''Invincibility'', making the whole thing that much more impossible... Unless of course it's as dysfunctional as everything else in this universe.

* At the end of ''[[Disney/TheJungleBook The Jungle Book 2]]'' [[TonyJay Shere]] [[KnightofCerebus Khan]] is trapped inside a stone tiger head after falling into a volcano.

* On ''GarfieldAndFriends'', when a safe (27-ton, in compliance with a [[FalseReassurance promise]] [[ExactWords not to drop a 16-ton safe on him]]) is dropped on Roy for [[DisproportionateRetribution squeezing toothpaste from the top of the tube]]. Not only was he inside, but he was able to open the safe door from there. (The previous two lessons, incidentally, were punctuated by a falling upright piano and a 1988 convertible. Like the safe, he popped through the bottom of both.)

* A ''TimonAndPumbaa'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqifngsT94U short in which Pumbaa suffers a run of bad luck]] has this happening to Pumbaa -- and then, as soon as he's out of the safe, it happens again with a ''space capsule''.

* One episode of ''DangerMouse'' did this with ''The Statue of Liberty''.
* This happens to {{Popeye}} in "What, No Spinach?" He is unharmed, of course - Wimpy instigated cafe owner Bluto to use the safe as a weapon specifically so it would get opened and he could get to the stash of food inside.

* The third act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS3E4KungFuCampout Kung Fu Campout]]" had this happen to Brattus, with a ''giant pine cone'', though it ended up [[SquashedFlat flattening him into a squashy shape]].

Compare with ByWallThatIsHoley and ImpactSilhouette.

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* ''{{Garfield}}'' does this to Odie in one Sunday strip, as pictured above.

* [[MeaningfulName Illogica Safe]] from ''Fanwork/ZanyToTheMax''. '''[[AnimateInanimateObject She's]]''' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an illogical safe herself!]]

* The third act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS3E4KungFuCampout Kung Fu Campout]]" had this happen to Brattus, with a ''giant pine cone'', though it ended up flattening him into a squashy shape.