History Main / StewedAlive

* In Season 7 episode 22 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', the fish monster assisting by Big M. is captured by Ambassador Miao and his cat guards and boiled alive in a big pot for them to eat.

** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackiki_Wabbit Wackiki Wabbit]]''. A couple of castaways try to cook Bugs in a pot.

* Some crabs are cooked this way, dipped alive in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court-bouillon court-bouillon]] (though it's already hot when it happens), and likewise with lobsters (in court-bouillon as well as a variety of other dishes). Hence the infamously incoherent quote by Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi of ''Series/JerseyShore'' fame: "That's why I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that -- because [[CaptainObvious they're alive when you kill it]]."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' 10th season episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E7LisaGetsAnA Lisa Gets an 'A']]", Homer accidentally cooks Pinchy, a lobster he originally intended to raise for food but became attached to as a pet, by putting it in a hot bath. The last scene shows him [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone crying over Pinchy]] [[EatTheDog while eating him]].

* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': This was a very common scenario whenever the protagonists stranded in the jungle or some exotic island anywhere. The local tribesmen would often put them into a boiling cauldron to eat them.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11294922/1/In-the-Wild In the Wild]]'' cannibals do this to Harry and Luna. They manage to escape when Luna summons a rather angry Snorkack which knocks the pot over and attacks the tribesmen.

* In some ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' games, Kirby can get the chef hat, a single-use ability that sucks all the enemies on-screen into a pot of stew and cooks them into recovery items. In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Brothers Brawl]]'', this is Kirby's [[LimitBreak Final Smash]] attack. As Kirby gotten a new Final Smash, this becomes Chef Kawasaki's primary attack when he's added as an Assist Trophy.

** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%27s_Feat Rabbit's Feat]]''. Wile E. Coyote tries to cook him this way.

* In some versions of ''Literature/ThreeLittlePigs'' where the big bad wolf attempts to get into the third pig's house via the chimney (after failing to blow it down). What he doesn't know is that the third pig has a boiling pot over the fire, and the wolf gets cooked in it.
* In the children's book ''Wombat Stew,'' a dingo has one of these ready to cook the wombat in. Since this is a book for young children, the wombat gets rescued before he's put into the pot.

-->'''Wilkins:''' Hey, the cannibals are boiling us in Wilkins Coffee!
-->'''Wontkins:''' Yeah, so what?
-->'''Wilkins:''' I was beginning to think you'd ''never'' [[{{Pun}} join me in a cup of Wilkins]].

* ''{{ComicBook/Asterix}}'': Almost happened to a Roman soldier in ''The Big Fight'': the cauldron had landed on his head and he refused to leave it and be sent back on patrol. His squadmates start a fire and put him over it, and he leaves once things get too hot for him.
* ''{{ComicBook/Rocky}}'': In a sequence, Rocky has arrived in New York to pay a social call to a friend, who lives in a rather murky neighborhood. When Rocky calls on him, two [[ScaryBlackMan sinister black guys]] hang around close by. During the time it takes for the friend to answer the bell, the two get closer and closer, until Rocky imagines himself in a cauldron while the two men suddenly dance around him with spears and full cannibal outfit. To compete this, Rocky even wears a classical British Empire helmet.
---> '''Rocky''' (screaming in panic): ''Open the door for pity`s sake!''

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* In the orgy scene from ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'', a large black cauldron is carried in, containing what appears to be pea soup. It actually contains a soup made from human corpses (the cultists are cannibals).

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* In "Ball-Carrier and the Bad One" the Bad One orders his servant Lung-Woman to boil Ball-Carrier in a giant kettle, then leaves to invite guests. Ball-Carrier (who's protected by the spirits) shouts that Lung-Woman should come and taste the soup, then kicks the kettle over, takes what he came for and escapes while she's being scalded to death.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog Supposedly]], a frog won't notice that it's being boiled as long as the water starts out at a more comfortable temperature and then heats up slowly. Although this has been debunked as ScienceMarchesOn, it's still a popular analogy for problems that develop gradually enough for people not to notice until it's too late.
* Myth/ClassicalMythology has a non-culinary variant when Daedalus kills King Minos by rigging his bath to fill with boiling water.
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** In a variant, the cook gets mad and starts banging one of the explorers with his ladle. The chief tells him to knock it off, the cook says "But chief, he's eating all the rice!".
** In yet another, the village women start dancing provocatively in front of the cauldron. The explorer complains about this extra sadism, the cook tells him it's so there's [[RagingStiffie more to eat]].

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-->The boys in the jungle had me on the run\\

That's when I found out they was-a cooking me!\\
\\
Great goo-ga-moo-ga! Lemme outta here!

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* ''Theatre/PeerGynt'': The trolls are actually set on cooking and then eating the main character before the Mountain King hushes them down. The prospect of "stewing him in a kettle" is brought up.

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* In ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', the crocodiles who live on the Land of Heat and Clockwork greet Dave Strider--the hero of their land--by sticking him in a cauldron of hot water and pelting him with onion slices. Dave just climbs out, and the crocodiles don't bother him again. Whether they actually wanted to eat Dave, or the entire thing was just a weird greeting (as Terezi claimed) is never clarified.
* The webcomic ''WebComic/{{Banished}}!'' depicts a scene where the (alien) protagonist is captured by Amazons and thrown in a cauldron. he pees in the water, telling them "That's what you get for not killing your food before you cook it."
* Played with in ''WebComic/OzyAndMillie'', where Llewellyn follows the recipe for "Dragon soup", which essentially results in Llewellyn cooking ''himself'' in the giant stewpot. The recipe has the dragon be removed at the very end (after all, what's a little heat to a fire-breathing dragon?), and Llewellyn can only remark that the soup "tastes of bathwater".
* In ''Webcomic/{{Weesh}}'', after a wish to live in caveman times, Nate and Weesh are [[http://www.weeshcomic.com/archive.php?strip=2011-04-01 stewed]] by a sabertooth tiger.
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/{{The Legend of Maxx}}'': Maxx and Cyril are captured by a tribe of jungle-dwelling pygmies who throw them into a giant cauldron filled with hot water. Cyril immediately assumes they are being cooked alive in a 'stereotypical heathen ritual'. Maxx, however, correctly guesses that the pygmies [[http://legendofmaxx.com/archives/1008 just wanted to draw them a bath]].
--> "Maybe they just wanted to make us a nice hot bath. Like, for cleaning. I hear that's a thing people do."
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/CarryOn'' when Kathy and Sandy get captured by a tribe of warthogs and tossed into a cauldron... then realize the water [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20140530.html smells like lavender]].

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s sidekick Bob is freaked out at being cooked by natives in ''WebAnimation/BadDays- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amH3CR8toIM Deadpool]]''. Creator/StanLee is also getting cooked, but really doesn't care.
-->'''Stan''': (''tastes the soup'') [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Needs more salt]].

--> '''Judge''': Okay chef Fudd, I'm disappointed in your entry this week, your dish was just a live rabbit who thought he was taking a bath!
--> '''Elmer''': But I used cawwots and celewy!
--> '''Judge''': Yes, I saw that he was scrubbing his back with a large stalk of celery.

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** In yet another, the village women start dancing provocatively in front of the cauldron. The explorer complains about this extra sadism, the cook tells him it's so there's more to eat.

* Cecil gets tricked into this situation by a witch doctor in an episode of Time For Beany, As seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBB-qeUjZ74 here]]

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Implied and Invoked by Kozuki Oden, Daimyo of Wano. It's not openly said how he died, but a flashback conversation has him goading his captors into boiling him alive. After all, [[PunnyName Oden is also a type of boiling hot soup.]] A further flashback shows that [[spoiler:this was not PlayedForLaughs ''at all'', and Oden endured being boiled for ''an hour'' in order to save the lives of his vassals. [[SmugSnake Orochi]] wasn't impressed and tried to simply have Oden's vassals shot, but [[ArcVillain Kaido]] [[WorthyOpponent was]].]]

* This fate befalls Korekiyo Shinguji, the Ultimate Anthropologist in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', when he is found guilty of murdering Angie Yonaga.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Implied and Invoked by Kozuki Oden, Daimyo of Wano. It's not openly said how he died, but a flashback conversation has him goading his captors into boiling him alive. After all, [[PunnyName Oden is also a type of boiling hot soup.]]

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* This is what happens to Korekiyo Shinguji, the ultimate Anthropologist in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3'' when he is found guilty of murdering Angie Yonaga and Tenko Chabashira.

** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Tonic Hare Tonic]]'' is a more modern variation, where Elmer takes Bugs home to stew him. Having already set Elmer up for failure, Bugs helpfully puts himself in the pot.