Buried Alive: Difference between revisions

* In the first arc, "Public Enemies", of ''Superman/Batman'', Metallo shoots [[Superman]] with a [[Kryptonite Factor|kryptonite bullet]], and buries Superman and [[Batman]] alive. {{spoiler|They escape, and [[Battle Butler|Alfred]] removes the bullet.}}

* Done in a ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' comic.

"Oh, thank god." }}

* A ''[[Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'' story centers around Fat Freddy dying. Turns out he was really under some very powerful drugs, and he bursts out of his grave, not at all happy.

* ''[[Discworld]]''

** A variation of the trope occurred in ''[[Discworld/The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]''. One particularly old wizard was not at all interested in a close encounter with Death, so he'd holed himself up in a box that nobody and nothing could get into once it was shut. Including light and, more importantly, air.

** Windle Poons from ''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'' got a taste of this trope, but only a small one, as he was a zombie when his University colleagues buried him. Lack of oxygen wasn't a bother, but he got so bored and fed up with the situation that he soon dug his way out again.

* This happens to {{spoiler|Lisbeth Salander, after she was shot in the '''fucking head'''}} in ''[[The Millennium Trilogy|The Girl Who Played with Fire]]''. {{spoiler|[[Crazy Awesome|She digs her way out with a cigarette case and then shoves an axe through the face of the man who put her there.]]}}

* Referenced in the [[Scissor Sisters]] song "I Can't Decide" (where what can't be decided is "whether you should live or die"): ''"Or I could bury you alive / But you might crawl out with a knife / And kill me when I'm sleeping"''.

* Referenced in "The Mariner's Revenge Song" by the Decemberists:

* The Creature Feature song "Buried Alive", as a tribute to Edgar Allen Poe, is unsurprisingly about this concept. It isn't the only song that mentions this. They also have it on "Such Horrible Things" (My Brother Was Quite Dull/So With Laughter In My Skull/Pushed Him In A Hole/Then Buried Him Alive) and in "A Gorey Demise", a parody of Edward Gorey's poem "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" (E is for Erik who was buried alive).

* Lupe Fiasco's "The Cool" has this happen to the main character in the first verse, and he digs himself out during the second.

* ''[[Bug (webcomic)|Bug]]'' tells us that if this happens to you, [http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/old-age/ you may be getting older.]

* This happens early on in ''[[The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon]]'', to the titular character. He gets out of it.

'''Jack:''' It's not my fault if I can hear your incredibly nasal voice underground. }}

* In ''[[Shanghai Noon]]'', Roy's gang does this to him in the middle of the desert where vultures pick at his exposed head. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|He somehow gets out of it using a pair of chopsticks.]]

* The [[Anthology]] movie ''[[Creepshow]]'' has a segment all about the Sand Necktie variation. Leslie Nielsen plays a deranged millionaire (but not ''[[They Might Be Giants|the]]'' deranged millionaire) who buries his wife and her lover, Ted Danson, in the sand at low tide. Then the tide comes in and they drown. {{spoiler|Then they come back as undead and do the same thing to him}}.

* Happens to the title character (played by [[Dwayne Johnson]]) in ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' -- next to a massive colony of inch-long fire ants. Apparently this is a standard method of executing criminals, as two thieves received the same fate. One of thieves, somehow, manages to free himself; but the Scorpion King himself needs to be rescued.

* This is done to a character in ''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]] II'' in order to save his life.

* In ''[[Jeremiah Johnson]]'', this happens to a side character when he gets captured by hostile natives. Since he was bald, they decide that scalping him would be a waste of time.

* The Soviet [[Red October|Ostern]] movie ''[[White Sun of the Desert]]''. [[The Gunslinger|Comrade Sukhov]] first meets his friend Sayid after rescuing him from the "sand necktie" in the desert.