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* ''Series/GameOfthrones'': Selyse Baratheon keeps her stillborn children in jars in her quarters on Dragonstone.

* Tank people have shown up in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In the [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E25TheNeutralZone first]], Data found a cryogenic pod containing three frozen American humans from the early 21st century; in the latter, the ship found pods containing people kidnapped from Earth in 1937. One was [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart]].
** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath The Empath]]", Kirk, Spock, and [=McCoy=] find the bodies of two missing researchers encased in jars. Ominously, they then discover three empty jars labelled with their names.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]" shows Khan and his followers in cryogenic storage.
** Borg Maturation Chambers are seen to be this, at least for a certain stage in the humanoid growth cycle. Children (as young as newborns) are placed in PeopleJars until they've grown into adulthood. While inside, the assimilation process makes them more cybernetic than if they were assimilated as an adult, and feeds them more Borg programming.

* In ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', Ramona's 7th evil ex, [[spoiler: Gideon]] has some sort of big spaceship thing, in which [[spoiler: he keeps his OWN 7 evil exes frozen in tubes, awaiting the day they will go out with him.]]

* After ComicBook/WerewolfByNight is infected with [[spoiler:the zombie virus]], ComicBook/{{Morbius}} keeps him in one of these until he can find a cure, as seen in '' Amazing ComicBook/SpiderMan'' #622.

So just like most everything else people find creepy for various reasons, writers like putting people in jars. Experimentation, containment, study, [[DesignerBabies incubation]], medical reasons or just plain old sucking out their LifeForce. Some writers just love putting people in jars and especially love comparing them to insects or pickled specimens.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has a scene in an alien base in which you stumble across a bunch of characters who have been recently kidnapped, stuck in glass tubes. From the dialogue, it's implied that the aliens forgot to include air holes. In one of the weirdest examples of NoOntologicalInertia in videogame history, killing the boss frees all the captives with no discernable damage to the tubes, despite the fact that there's no apparent means of egress whatsoever from the tubes.

** ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'': [[spoiler:Porky]] puts people and animals in tubes filled with a bizarre green fluid [[spoiler:in order to brainwash them into loving him.]]

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[Characters/SCPFoundation [=Characters/SCPFoundation=]]]

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-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]]''', [[WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail sbemail]] #168: [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail168.html "your funeral"]]

* In the 1976 book and 1978 movie ''Coma'', Robin Cook managed to come up with something ''even creepier'' than people in ''jars'': rooms full of people in artificially-induced comas, ''suspended from the ceiling by wires'' to keep them from developing bedsores, used as raw material for organ transplants.

* In ''Unrest'', a large tank of formaldehyde is used to hold an autopsy lab's cadavers between med students' dissection exercises. This being a horror movie, some living people get dunked, too.

* The 1986 Ozploitation thriller ''The Big Hurt'' ends with the IntrepidReporter confronting the people behind a GovernmentConspiracy to develop a MindControl drug, in a laboratory with nude women trapped inside glass cylinders filled with water, and kept alive by scuba-style breathing apparatus.

* As of the Season 3 Intro of {{WesternAnimation/Amphibia}}'' Shown after the credits of the Season Two Finale, [[spoiler: After being stabbed by King Andrias, Marcy is being kept in a Healing Pod for whatever evil purposes King Andrias and his Master planned to do to her.]]

* The Changelings from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' seems to be capable of producing these as a means of immobilizing their enemiess as show in the season 2 finale, the season 6 finale and "Frenemies".

* In the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'', Beakley, Scrooge, Webby, Dewey, and Louie discover May and June in Pods while they were interering a F.O.W.L. secret Lab in Funzos. [[spoiler: However, it was all part of FOWL'S plan for them to find them so they captured the McDuck Family and their Friends]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' The City of Monsters Arc, ArcVillian Di Amara is creating Monsters in attempt to cure a patient that's in a cryostasis Pod, [[spoiler: The Person she is trying to cure is the real Liv Amara who put herself in Stasis after infecting herself with a virus and she created her clone Di to find a cure. She is later cured and awakens just in stop Di.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' The City of Monsters Arc, ArcVillian Di Amara is creating Monsters in attempt to cure a patient that's in a cryostasis, [[spoiler: The Person is trying to cure is the real Liv Amara who put herself in Stasis after infecting herself with a virus and she created her clone Di to find a cure. She is later cured and awakens just in stop Di.]]

* As of the Season 3 Intro of {{WesternAnimation/Amphibia}}'' Shown after the credits of the Season Two Finale, [[spoiler: After being stabbed by King Andrias, Marcy is being kept in a Healing Pod for whateer evil purposes King Andrias and his Master planned to do to her.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' The City of Monsters Arc, [[ArcVillian]]Di Amara is creating Monsters in attempt to cure a patient that's in a cryostasis, [[spoiler: The Person is trying to cure is the real Liv Amara who put herself in Stasis after infecting herself with a virus and she created her clone Di to find a cure. She is later cured and awakens just in stop Di.]]

* In the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'', Beakley, Scrooge, Webby, Dewey, and Louie discover May and June in Pods while they were interering a F.O.W.L. secret Lab in Funzos. [[Spoiler: However, it was all part of FOWL'S plan for them to find them so they captured the McDuckFamily and their Friends]]

Compare BrainInAJar, SoulJar, CrystalPrison and GirlInABox, a gender-specific form of this trope. Contrast to ManInTheMachine, in which the subject (while still physically constrained by a container of some sort) is typically conscious, mobile, and/or able to express autonomy.

* In the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'', Beakley, Scrooge, Webby, Dewey, and Louie discover May and June in Pods while they were interering a F.O.W.L. secret Lab in Funzos. [[Spoiler: However, it was all part of FOWL'S plan for them to find them so they captured the McDuckFamily and their Friends]]
* In the Season 3 Intro of {{WesternAnimation/Amphibia}}'' Shown after the credits of the Season Two Finale, [[spoiler: After being stabbed by King Andrias, Marcy is being kept in a Healing Pod for whateer evil purposes King Andrias and his Master planned to do to her.]]

* In Season 3 intro of ''{{WesternAnimation/Amphibia}}'' shown at the season two finale, [[spoiler: Marcy is kept in a healing pod after being stabbed by King Andrias for whatever evil purposes he and his master planned to do to her.]]

* In the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', Beakley, Scrooge, Webby, Dewey, and Louie discover May and June in Pods while they were intertering a F.O.W.L. secret Lab in Funzos. [[Spoiler: However, it was all part of FOWL's plan to find them, so they can capture the McDuck Family and friends.]]

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** In one of the annuals for ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'' Superboy, who was Cadmus's thirteenth and only successful Superman clone is recalled to the project when they recover the bodies of the previous twelve, all of whom are in glass stasis capsules, except for the sixth who's body is dangling half-out of his damaged capsule.

* ''VideoGame/TheClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures'' has both humans and animals being kept in a type of these [[spoiler:by aliens who want to eat their brains.]]

* In ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'', stasis tubes are used in the Metru Nui Archives to preserve Rahi (animals). [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Shadowed One]] keeps a Toa in a stasis tube as a trophy in his base, similar to Jabba keeping Han Solo in his palace.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' could arguably be based on this trope. The "[[{{Nanomachines}} Nanomachine Colony]]" [[ArtificialHuman Emeralda]] was sealed in a containment tank in Kim's lab, deep within the Zeboim Ruins, four thousand years before the game. [[spoiler: Long before that, the mother of humanity, Elly was created by Abel's [[AmplifierArtifact imagination]], [[AppliedPhlebotinum science]], [[AGodAmI "God"]], or some combination thereof, and she awakens from a capsule, Kadomony, ejected from the Zohar during the Eldridge crash. Presumably, Cain and the Gazel are also created from the same device. Also, after being heavily injured by Ramsus, Fei and Elly end up in healing tanks in Melchior's house. Ramsus himself was created in a test tube by Krelian. Krelian's lab and the Soylent system also contain various human/humanoid parts floating about, some of which are in river-sized tubes.]]

** Abe Sapien's origin story was that he was found by workers underneath a hospital in Washington DC, floating in a suspended animation tank with a note that had the date of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the word icthyos sapien.

This is often how [[HumanPopsicle cryogenics is depicted in fiction]], but is absolutely ''nothing'' like any RealLife equivalents.