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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' when Boo loses one of the "eyestalks" of her monster costume in a trash can. Sulley sees it and thinks she's in a pile of garbage, then watches that pile of garbage get swept into a cart, dropped down a chute, and put through an exceedingly brutal compactor. The audience saw her walk away from the garbage can, but Sulley faints at every step of the compactor. The sequence is an extended ShoutOut to the Creator/ChuckJones short "WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty".

* In ''VideoGame/PizzaTower,'s'' Peppibot Factory, Peppino can be flattened into a pizza box by running underneath a certain enemy.

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* An example where it's not being done to a protagonist: in a ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' book, a goblin falls into a candy wrapping machine and gets wrapped with a sheet of silver paper and a silver ribbon.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''Modern Inventions'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is wrapped in cellophane by a gift wrapping machine.

* ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}'': One of Amber's [[MegaTwintails giant ponytails]] get snagged onto a conveyor belt, pulling her onto it, which leads to her getting baked into a cake.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}: In "Madeline and the Toy Factory", while Madeline and her friends are visiting the titular location, Madeline jumps on the conveyor belt and is packed into a doll box.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode "Operation: P.O.P.", four of the operatives minus Numbuh Two are stuffed in ''soda bottles'' along with other kids while facing off with [[VillainOfTheWeek Mr. Fizz]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E4ButtercrushFuzzyLogic Buttercrush]]", The Gangreen Gang tricks Blossom and Bubbles into going on a conveyer belt, where Snake drops old cars on them and crushes them into cubes. This results in Blossom and Bubbles being encased in the cubes with only their heads sticking out, and they remain this way for the rest of the episode, even when Buttercup apologizes and hugs them at the end. It's not explained how they were freed from the cubes afterwards.

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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

* The WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit short film ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' has the villain intending to do this to the heroes, complete with ConveyorBeltODoom into a machine which produced canned dog food. [[spoiler:In the end it is the villain who gets crushed up and delivered into the cans. Not as gruesome as it sounds, since the villain was really a robot.]]

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Happens to Cindy Lou Who in the 2000 version of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''.

* Dramatic example in ''Film/MinorityReport'', where the hero and anti-villain are fighting on a ConveyorBeltOfDoom carrying car chassis through an automated factory. The anti-villain jumps off the belt just before the internal components are mounted in place, and he watches as the hero struggles as the seats are bolted in, the dashboard snaps into place on top of him, the frame snaps on, the doors slam shut... surely he's been crushed? Then the wheels are bolted on, hero's head pops up inside, and drives the car away.

* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'': in order for the heroes to get into an enemy territory, an "ally" smuggles them in this way. The crate in question ''is'' big, but when the one of the party members is a stout automaton, it's still really cramped.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' episode "London Town Treachery", the armored Ant Hill Mobsters are similarly canned, with their faces on the labels.
* Subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', where Johnny and his friends visit an ice cream factory, Johnny's dog is thought to have fallen into the vat and been packed into a tin. After Johnny eats his way through the entire batch, the dog walks up to him and asks Johnny what he's doing.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', Dick Dastardly gets caught in Klunk's pigeon-packing machine and ends up stuffed in a can labeled "sauerkraut".
* In the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''Modern Inventions'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is wrapped in cellophane by a gift wrapping machine.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', when Bart goes missing on a school trip at a box-making factory. Homer sees a ''completely ordinary'' cardboard box with Bart's lucky red hat on it, and immediately assumes the worst - not that Bart got packed into the box, but that he ''turned into'' the box.
* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' The example of retrieving an object from a cereal factory and getting packed into a box happens to Ami in "Collect All 5".
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' has Fat Cat using a canning machine as a DeathTrap for the Rescue Rangers, with every implication that the process would result in a bunch of finely-minced Rangers in a cat food can. Not only do the Rangers escape, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard but they also trick Fat Cat and his goons into throwing]] ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard themselves]]'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard into the machine]]: the end result is Fat Cat and his goons improbably stuffed into tiny cans, humiliated but apparently no worse for the wear.
* In ''Madeline and the Toy Factory'', while Madeline and her friends are visiting the titular location, Madeline jumps on the conveyor belt and is packed into a doll box.
* Towards the end of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' during the Oni Masks arc, Valmont (in his first appearance after being PutOnABus) decides to make off with one last treasure, but he ends up falling on the conveyor belt of the post office's packaging sector, and he ends up wrapped in a package to Mexico.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBradyKids'': In "Pop Goes the Mynah", Marlon is sealed in a can at a soda factory, and the Bradys have to rescue him.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "Unfortunate Cookie", Dexter and Dee Dee go to Chinatown to get their [[ChainedHeat Chinese finger trap]] off. After a restaurant owner helps them out, they make it home before dinner by getting delivered there in oyster pail boxes.
-->'''Mom:''' And where is your sister?\\
'''Dad:''' ''[noticing a shaking box]'' I think she's stuck in the kung-pow.

* Cruella [=DeVille=] suffers from this in ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians.''

* Threepio in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', except that instead of being packaged, he's sent out with the combat droids after having his head switched with one. Elsewhere in the factory, Anakin has a piece of machinery welded together around his arm and is unable to free himself for several minutes.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''Modern Inventions'', DonaldDuck is wrapped in cellophane by a gift wrapping machine.

* In the French comedy ''TheWingOrTheThigh'' (''L'Aile ou la cuisse'', 1975), the sidekick of Creator/LouisDeFunes is baked into a big cake. Don't worry, he's OK.

[[folder:{{Film}} -- Animated]]

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' when Boo loses one of the "eyestalks" of her monster costume in a trash can. Sulley sees it and thinks she's in a pile of garbage, then watches that pile of garbage get swept into a cart, dropped down a chute, and put through an exceedingly brutal compactor. The audience saw her walk away from the garbage can, Sulley faints at every step of the compactor.
** The sequence is an extended ShoutOut to the Creator/ChuckJones short ''WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty.''

[[folder:{{Film}} -- Live Action]]

[[folder:{{Literature}}]]

[[folder:VideoGames]]

[[folder:WebComics]]
* ''{{Webcomic/Matchu}}'': One of Amber's [[MegaTwintails giant ponytails]] get snagged onto a conveyor belt, pulling her onto it, which leads to her getting baked into a cake.

[[folder:WesternAnimation]]

* The WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit short film ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' had the villain intending to do this to the heroes, complete with ConveyorBeltODoom into a machine which produced canned dog food. [[spoiler:In the end it is the villain who gets crushed up and delivered into the cans. Not as gruesome as it sounds, since the villain was really a robot.]]

-->'''Mom:''' And where is your sister?
-->'''Dad:''' ''(noticing a shaking box)'' I think she's stuck in the kung-pow.

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* Cruella [=DeVille=] suffers from this in ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians.''

* Wile E. Coyote, of course, ends up in a parcel that was meant for the [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner]]. Courtesy of an Acme parcel-making machine, naturally.

* The Franchise/WallaceAndGromit short film ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' had the villain intending to do this to the heroes, complete with ConveyorBeltODoom into a machine which produced canned dog food. [[spoiler:In the end it is the villain who gets crushed up and delivered into the cans. Not as gruesome as it sounds, since the villain was really a robot.]]

* Threepio in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', except that instead of being packaged, he's sent out with the combat droids after having his head switched with one.

* In the French comedy ''The Wing or the Thigh'' (''L'Aile ou la cuisse'', 1975), the sidekick of Creator/LouisDeFunes is baked into a big cake. Don't worry, he's OK.

* In ''ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' episode "London Town Treachery", the armored Ant Hill Mobsters are similarly canned, with their faces on the labels.