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* The WallaceAndGromit short film ''A Close Shave'' had the villain intending to do this to the heroes, complete with ConveyorBeltODoom into a machine which produced canned dog food. 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 [[spoiler:a robot.]]

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' short "I Gopher You", featuring the Goofy Gophers, one of the gophers gets canned on a tomato packing line, and the other opens every can, until he finds him in the last can. The first gopher tells his friend that he was in the first can and he started at the wrong end.

* Cruella DeVille suffers from this in ''OneHundredAndOneDalmatians.''

* In the French comedy ''The Wing or the Thigh'', the sidekick of LouisDeFunes is baked into a big pie. Don't worry, he's OK.

Usually, the package's design will change through the power of RuleOfFunny to reflect the unexpected contents.

* Parodied in ''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 ChuckJones short ''{{Feed the Kitty}}.''

* At the start of the ''TomAndJerry'' short "Cannery Rodent", Tom is chasing the mouse through a fish packing plant and both are packed into cans of tuna, which inexplicably had a picture of each of their faces on the packaging. Near the end of the same cartoon, a shark that has been pestering Tom for the majority of the cartoon is sent through the same packaging machine and is canned in a similar fashion.

* In the French comedy ''The Wing or the Thigh'', the sidekick of Louis de Funes is baked into a big pie. Don't worry, he's OK.

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[[caption-width-right:335:Puffy Ami Yumi cereal! Now with a special surprise inside!]]

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[[caption-width:335:Puffy Ami Yumi cereal! Now with a special surprise inside!]]

* Happens to Cindy Lou Who in the 2000 version of ''HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''.

* Happens in ''ChickenRun'', with the protagonists temporarily getting trapped inside a pie.

* Wile E. Coyote, of course, ends up in a parcel that was meant for the RoadRunner. Courtesy of an Acme parcel-making machine, naturally.

* Cruella DeVille suffers from this in ''{{101 Dalmatians}}''

* Cruella DeVille suffers from this in ''{{101 Dalmations}}''

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* In one ''Madeline'' video (not sure which one), Madeline and her friends are in a doll factory, and Madeline ends up on the conveyor belt and packed into a doll box.

* Similar to the ''WallaceAndGromit'' example above, one episode of ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'' 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.

* Happens in ''ChickenRun'', with the protagonists becoming Protagonist Pies.

* A variation occurs in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Hare Hillbilly Hare]]''. Characters/BugsBunny [[KarmicTrickster tricks]] his two opponents into a hay baler. After going through it, they're ejected, bundled inside bales of hay. Watch it on [=YouTube=], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBeXupj83I starting at 6:20]].

* In another Characters/BugsBunny cartoon, "The Unmentionables", gangsters Rocky and Mugsy get caught in a cereal factory and are packaged in appropiately sized and labeled boxes.

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* Threepio in ''StarWars: Attack of the Clones'', except that instead of being packaged, he's sent out with the combat droids.
** After having his head switched with one.

* Parodied in ''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 ChuckJones short ''{{Feed the Kitty}}.''

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' short I Gopher You, featuring the Goofy Gophers, one of the gophers gets canned on a tomato packing line, and the other opens every can, until he finds him in the last can. The first gopher tells his friend that he was in the first can and he started at the wrong end.

* One ''LooneyTunes'' short starring the Goofy Gophers, one of the gophers gets canned and the other opens every can, until he finds him in the last can. The first gopher tells his friend that he was in the first can and he started at the wrong end.

** The sequence is an extended ShoutOut to the ChuckJones short ''Feed the Kitty.''

* Dramatic example in 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.
* In Ernest Scared Stupid, Ernest manages to get himself stuck inside his garbage truck and compacted into a trash box.

* Parodied in 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.
* Parodied in 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.

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* In the ClassicDisneyShort ''Modern Inventions'', Donald Duck is wrapped in cellophane by a gift wrapping machine.