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* In ''Literature/LordsOfTheStarship'' a giant starship is being built over hundreds of years. The builders have divided in two; the Technos (aristocrats) and the People (workers). A war breaks out between them- the ship is big enough to have tank battles in the corridors. Finally, the victorious People seal up the tunnels where the Technos are still resisting. Years later, it is said you can hear the ghostly hammering of the Technos slowly starving to death within the walls.

* ''Series/TheWomanInTheWall'' refers to the body of a woman, found in a house by the owner (who can't remember how she got there) and then sealed up inside the space between the walls to hide the crime. [[spoiler: until the wall is knocked down again a few days later and the body has gone missing...]]

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%%* This happens to WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} at the end of the Famous Studios short "Shuteye Popeye", after the mouse has taken over his bed. %%What happens at the end of that short?

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Doctor Doom and Susan Richards travel through secret passages behind the walls of Doom's castle in Latveria. Their aim is to confront Reed Richards, who is acting as Latverian regent after a FreakyFridayFlip, and somehow reverse the process.

* ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'': In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' issue ''Midnight is the Dying Hour'', Barbara Gordon (aka. Batgirl) is knocked out, and wakes up in time to find herself BoundAndGagged and at risk of being sealed up behind a wall in the vein of "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado".

* "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado: Montresor murders Fortunato by luring him into catacombs and then walling him in with brick, leaving him to die and remain undiscovered for at least fifty years.

* ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'': In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' issue ''Midnight is the Dying Hour'', Barbara Gordon (aka. Batgirl) is knocked out, and wakes up in time to find herself BoundAndGagged and at risk of being sealed up behind a wall in the vein of ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado''.

* ''Literature/TheBlackCat'': After the narrator murders his wife, he hides her body in a wall in his house. However, later when police are investigating, they hear yowling from inside the wall and open it up to find the narrator's cat had been walled in with the carcass and is sitting on the head, meowing loudly.
* ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado'': Montresor murders Fortunato by luring him into catacombs and then walling him in with brick, leaving him to die and remain undiscovered for at least fifty years.

Inside The Walls is when a character finds themselves between the walls or ceilings of a building. Reasons for this include:

* ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'': Hugh believes he has a rat problem after he hears scratching behind one of the brick walls. He takes a few bricks out to put in rat poison, then photographs the inside to assess the damage. He realises there's a skeleton inside and calls the authorities. They determine it to be Henry Hill, who disappeared mysteriously in the 20's. The man killed himself by building a wall and effectively trapping himself to die.

* ''Series/OnePiece2023''; Kaya, Nami, and Usopp use a series of hidden passages in the walls of Kaya's mansion to try and sneak past Kuro and the Mewoban Siblings when the pirates launch their plan to murder Kaya for her inheritance.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'', "The Haunted Sonata" has the ghost of a young woman take revenge against the descendant of the man who had taken credit for her work and caused her death, as he was about to murder ''her'' descendant. She ends up bricking him up in the same wall where her skeleton was buried [[RedEyesTakeWarning just as the eye sockets began to glow red]]. We're later informed that when he was pulled from the wall, he'd gone insane.

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* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': The Wall of the Faithless, the barrier around the City of the Dead on the Fugue Plane established by former god of death Myrkul, is a punishment for [[NayTheist people who refused to worship any god ever]]. The souls of the Faithless are entombed in the Wall and slowly consumed by it over thousands of years.
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* The third act of ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' reveals that [[spoiler:Bruno]] never left the village, but instead has been living within the walls of Casita. He's been secretly [[spoiler:patching up the cracks]] that appear to try and help his family the best he can.

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* Horror author Creator/GradyHendrix revealed [[https://twitter.com/grady_hendrix/status/1189335707082465281?lang=en on Twitter]] that a man was found dead behind a vent in his house when he was a kid. He had previously seen a pair of eyes looking out from behind the vent, and evidence found in the walls revealed that he had been living there at least since May of that year.
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* ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsIII'': In a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado'', one of the possible assassination plots involves you getting your target drunk and walling them inside your castle's wine cellar.

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* ''Fanfic/VowOfDuty'': Haara spends most of one story crawling around inside a mansion's walls after a noblewoman locks her in the basement.

->'''Mike''': Turns out... ''someone's'' living in the ''walls''.\\
'''Jay''': ''Whaaaaaat''!\\
'''Mike''': ''Oh'' my ''gaaaaaawd''!

* A key plot point to ''Franchise/AttackOnTitan'' at the end of the first major story arc/season was the revelation that inside the walls of Paradis Island were [[spoiler: Colossus Titans]].