Cement Shoes: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Dick Tracy]]'': "Big Boy" Caprice disposes of "Lips" Manliss via "the bath", which involves a large box, a cement mixer, and a warehouse on a pier with a trapdoor. He tries it on someone else later on, only to have Tracy use the box for an ambush.

* In the film adaptation of ''[[The Shadow (film)|The Shadow]]'' , a bunch of gangsters try it on an academic who accidentally discovered their murder of a policeman. of course, the Shadow saves the day/night and sends them packing.

* This is done to Finn and Jack in ''Tell It To The Fishes''. With the added twist of being dropped onto a beach at low tide.

* In ''[[OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies]]'', the main character gets tossed into the Nile to drown. He escapes after seeing dozens of corpses that suffered a similar fate, including Larmina's father.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* E. L. Doctorow's ''[[Billy Bathgate]]'' opens with Dutch Schultz executing someone this way.

* In ''[[Gone (novel)|Gone]]'', the villains trap several kids' hands in cement, but they don't intend for it to kill them. It's to keep them prisoner and prevent them from using their powers, which focus through their hands. Might be a villainous example of [[Cruel Mercy]], or maybe just plain sadism/sociopathy.

* ''[[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'': a young boy (mistakenly thought to be the mark) is chained to some cement blocks (I believe){{verify}} and tossed off the back of a speeding boat, but his body is found anyway.

* ''[[Underbelly]]'': Brian Alexander, criminal lawyer who loses everything, is portrayed to have gone to the corrupt police for help, knowing they would probably just kill him so he doesn't talk. Which they do by tying him to a stove then throwing it off their rented boat, ignoring his pleas for a quick death on the account they didn't want to use a police weapon.

* An intended pilot for a detective spoof{{context}} in the '70s had the two detectives and their client subjected to this ... except that while they waited for the concrete to dry, it turned out the client was good enough at karate to "chop" them free, after which the three ambushed the returning would-be murderers.

* An old skit from ''[[The Electric Company]]'' involves two [[Stupid Crooks]] holding a tied up and gagged hostage and threatening to apply this trope unless he spills "what we want to know". Unfortunately - for them - they get into a heated argument about whether the material is actually cement or concrete until the captive manages to get loose and find a cop. And to add insult to injury, after said cop hauls them away - still arguing over it - the would-be victim says to the viewer that [[Shaggy Dog Story|he had no idea what they wanted him to tell them]] in the first place.

* Mentioned in the first mission of the second act of ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'', in Max's [[Private Eye Monologue|distinctive style]]:

{{quote|'''Max Payne:''' The Brooklyn riverfront was a maze of rusty containers, sharp-boned cranes looming up from the snowstorm. On a night like this you couldn't help but to think of the dark army of dead men sleeping with the fishes, cement shoes in line.}}

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* During one ''[[South Park]]'' episode, Kenny is thrown from a bridge with cement shoes on his feet, but the water beneath the bridge is too shallow, so he's left to hop around through most of the closing credits. Then he hits a deep spot and drowns.

* ''Pasila'': [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in the first episode of this Finnish animated series. The bad guys are trying to brainstorm a fate worse than death for their former associate turned informer. One of them suggests not doing anything and leaving him to wonder for the rest of his life when and how they're going to strike. The leader of the group likes this idea, but then suddenly says they're getting too complicated and orders the others to get standard cement shoe accessories. Then they sail out to the sea, where he reveals that they're now going to use them to drown ''themselves'' so that their bodies will never be found and the snitch will be left in fear for the rest of his life. They do it, too. [[Insane Troll Logic|And it works, too.]]

* In ''[[Alpha Teens On Machines]],'' a guy who got this treatment was tossed into a river... which had barrels of toxic waste at the bottom. He mutated into a beast made of living cement. ''And still talked in rhyme.''

{{quote|Vinny "The Mass" Rossi: "You knocked me underwater, left me to rot, [[This Is Unforgivable!|and I forgive you not!]]"}}