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* "The Gift" by The Velvet Underground is a dark variation. The lyrics are a short story written by Lou Reed and read by John Cale about young man named Waldo who decides to mail himself to his girlfriend Marcia who he met before they went to college in different states, not realising she has moved on. He arrives at Marcia's apartment, whereupon Marcia and her friend Sheila see the package is from Waldo and decide they might as well open it. [[spoiler: The crate is nailed shut; Marcia and Sheila's attempts to open it are futile until Marcia grabs a sheet metal cutter. Sheila stabs a big hole in the crate...and Waldo's head.]]
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* The story of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_%22Box%22_Brown Henry "Box" Brown.]]
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* Subverted in an episode of ''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 the ClassicDisneyShort ''Modern Inventions'', DonaldDuck is wrapped in cellophane by a gift wrapping machine.

* The story of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_%22Box%22_Brown Henry "Box" Brown]].

* In one episode of ''DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', Dick Dastardly gets caught in Klunk's pigeon-packing machine and ends up stuffed in a can labeled "sauerkraut".

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** A variation occurs in ''WesternAnimation/HillbillyHare''. WesternAnimation/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]].

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[-[[caption-width-right:200:Puffy Ami Yumi cereal! Now with a special surprise inside!]]-]

* 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.

** A variation occurs in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Hare Hillbilly Hare]]''. 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]].

* 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.

* 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.

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

** The sequence is an extended ShoutOut to the ChuckJones short ''WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty.''

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

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

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

* An example where it's not being done to a protagonist: in ''[[RainbowMagic Pearl the Cloud Fairy,]]'' a goblin falls into a candy wrapping machine and gets wrapped with a sheet of silver paper and a silver ribbon.

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

* In the ''WesternAnimation/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.
** And immediately afterward, the other gopher, while reprimanding him to be careful, walks off a ledge into a [[AlcoholHic pickling vat]], and staggers drunkenly along a ConveyorBeltODoom, ending up in a dehydrated meal packet. When his friend revives him with a ladle of water, he's on a platter with an apple in his mouth.

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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.

* ''FinalFantasyIX'': Zidane, Garnet and Vivi fall into the black mage packing machine and get boxed up.

* Several ''BugsBunny'' cartoons use this.
** A variation occurs in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Hare Hillbilly Hare]]''. Bugs [[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 "The Unmentionables", gangsters Rocky and Mugsy get caught in a cereal factory and are packaged in appropiately sized and labeled boxes.

* 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.
* ''HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' The example of retrieving an object from a cereal factory and getting packed into a box happens to Ami in "Collect All 5".

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

* "The Gift" by The Velvet Underground is a dark variation. The lyrics are a short story written by Lou Reed and read by John Cale about young man named Waldo who decides to mail himself to his girlfriend Marcia who he met before they went to college in different states, not realising she has moved on. He arrives at Marcia's apartment, whereupon Marcia and her friend Sheila see the package is from Waldo and decide they might as well open it. [[spoiler: The crate is nailed shut; Marcia and Sheila's attempts to open it are futile until Marcia grabs a sheet metal cutter. Sheila stabs a big whole in the crate...and Waldo's head.]]