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{{trope}}
{{quote|You, my metal friend, will have the honor of becoming 174 Slurm cans!
|The Slurm Queen to Bender, ''[[Futurama]]''}}
Not to be confused with [[Inconveniently-Placed Conveyor Belt]], a common hazard in video games.
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{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* A 1970s commercial had [[Expy|expies]] of [[The Avengers (TV series)|Steed and Mrs. Peel]] strapped to one of these and headed for another giant buzzsaw—while they [[Casual Danger Dialogue|discussed whatever product the commercial was for]]. Then "Steed" managed to work one of his shoes loose, tossed it with a kick, it hit a control lever, and the board they were tied to pivoted so the blade passed ''between'' the heroes, cutting the ropes holding them.▼
== Board Games ==▼
* ''[[Robo Rally]]'', a board game by [[Richard Garfield]], has lots of these. If you aren't careful, they'll carry your robot off the board and/or into a bottomless pit.▼
== Comic Books ==
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* In "The Pearl" in ''[[Jonah Hex]]'' v.1, #64, Jonah and the [[Girl of the Week]] are tied up and dropped on a conveyor belt leading into a copper smelter.
* In the [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]] story "W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.", Huey, Dewey, and Louie get trapped on one when they're wandering around a woodwork factory looking for the logs that used to make up the old Junior Woodchucks' fort club house. Donald saves them in the nick of time by turning it off.
== Films -- Animated ==
* Played straight in the New Zealand movie ''[[Footrot Flats
* At the end of ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', the characters are all stuck on one of these while anthropomorphic cars are smashed to death in a crusher at the end of the line.
* In ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2'', the conveyor belts in the airport are this.
** How about the conveyor belt in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' that leads to the {{spoiler|incinerator}}?
* In ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', Sully ''thinks'' that Boo is on one of these, when it was only a piece of her monster costume. In a way, this allows the scene to be much ''more'' gruesome than it otherwise would be; the costume-piece actually goes through one crusher and thrasher after another (instead of being saved before the first one), forcing us to [[Nightmare Fuel|imagine the horrors that Sully is imagining]]—or not so much imagine as see his serial spells of [[Fainting|Emotional Fainting]] (quite possibly [[Nightmare Fuel]] all by themselves).
* ''[[Chicken Run]]'' has the various machinery inside and leading into the Pie Machine, which is basically lots of conveyor belts all put together.
* ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]''. Po gets caught on one [[Bamboo Technology|made of bamboo]] in Lord Shen's cannon factory. Although he's not tied to it, Po can't run fast enough to avoid going over the edge into the smelter {{spoiler|fortunately he's grabbed onto a fork that he can stick into the bamboo planks and get carried away underneath.}}
* ''
** Bigweld is also put on a conveyor, but is saved before getting dumped into the furnace as well.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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* In one of the film's most famous scenes, the eponymous villain of ''[[Goldfinger]]'' straps [[James Bond]] to a table and uses an industrial laser in place of the traditional sawblade; here, it is the peril that inexorably advances toward the hero, rather than the other way around (compare [[Chained to a Rock]]). Bonus points because of ''[[Groin Attack|where]]'' on Bond the laser is headed.
** Interestingly, in the original book, they ''did'' use a buzzsaw. And Bond faints before being spared by the villain.
** This scene is played with in [
*** And in [http://qntm.org/files/stickmanstickman/comics.php?n=319 this StickManStickMan comic strip]{{Dead link}} as well.
** Parodied in ''[[Austin Powers]] in Goldmember'', where Austin's father is strapped to a conveyor belt-esque contraption that would eventually pour liquid gold over his genitals.
** Also parodied in ''[[Carry On]] Spying''.
** And in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', with ''James Bont'' instead of James Bond to avoid [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|problems]].
** It even got parodied in a ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74295 card!].
* In the [[Jackie Chan]] Movie ''[[Mr. Nice Guy]]'', during the construction site fight, Jackie is knocked down on a piece of plywood sliding towards a circular saw, which he rolls out of the way of at the last second, then does a sideways roll over ''while it's still spinning''.
** Remember, live stunts, no stuntman.
** There's ''another'' Jackie Chan movie with a conveyor belt o' doom. It's a sticky surface that gets chopped into lengths by blades at the end of the conveyor belt. Jackie and the girl get stuck on it while fighting mooks. In the end, Jackie gets himself and the girl off (with some [[Clothing Damage]])... and then goes back and stops the belt just before the mooks get sliced into pieces.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Attack of the Clones]]'', Anakin and Padme find themselves on a conveyor belt on Geonosis. Anakin battles Geonosians, and in the process has his lightsaber destroyed and his arm stamped on a metal plate. Padme falls in a giant crucible, and is only saved from being incinerated by molten metal by R2D2, who deactivates the machinery just in time.
** Parodied mercilessly in ''[[Darths and Droids]]''.
* In ''[[Minority Report]]'', the main character, John Anderton, finds himself on a conveyor belt on which machines are building cars, and fights his enemy on it. He manages to avoid the machines for a while, but in the end finds himself trapped in a car that's being built right around him. At a certain point we see a machine close in on him, then the camera cuts on the outside of the car, leaving the audience to think he has been squashed flat. Instead, as the car is completed we see he is right in it, and as it exits the factory he drives away from his pursuers.
* Another [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] example is the conveyor belt in ''[[Licence to Kill]]'', leading to a crusher crushing blocks of cocaine.
** Also in ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'', as Bond is knocked out, placed in a coffin, and conveyed into an incinerator at a Vegas-style funeral parlor.
* As an example where someone actually died in ''[[
* ''[[In Like Flint]]''. Derek Flint falls onto a conveyor belt and is almost carried to his doom inside a document furnace. Later, a man falls from a height onto the belt and suffers that fate.
* In ''[[Hellboy II]]: the Golden Army'', the eponymous demon hero does this to a villain (sort of)- he goads the enormous troll into firing his spring-loaded, retractable fist at him and ducks- while standing in front of an enormous pair of spiky wheels.
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* In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'', Indy fought a Thuggee guard on a conveyor belt that led to a rock crusher. Things were further complicated by the brainwashed prince stabbing a voodoo doll of Indy just as he gained the advantage in the fight. Indy of course escapes, the guard... doesn't.
** The same film features a cage that is used to lower human sacrifices into a large lava pit. Indy manages to save Willie from a fiery demise in this device, but an unnamed [[Sacrificial Lamb]] is not so lucky.
* In the [[Richie Rich (film)|film adaptation of ''
* In the 2009 adaptation of ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'', Lord Blackwood has Irene Adler tied to a conveyor device designed to saw pig carcasses in half. Cue the tense rescue scene.
* The late-entry AIP beach movie ''[[How To Stuff A Wild Bikini]]'' leads up to a melodrama sawmill setting, and perpetual biker-shnook Eric Von Zipper gets comically sawn in half, with bloodless, cheap effects photography.
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* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' contains elements of this trope along with [[Chained to a Rock]] near the climax of the film, when Roger and Jessica Rabbit are suspended by chains while a nearby contraption spraying The Dip, Judge Dooms weapon of choice, inches ever closer. Notably comparable to Goldfinger, although this plays with the tension by having the stream swung back and forth haphazardly.
** The scene where Judge Doom gets his hand stuck to the steamroller and is slowly crushed contains the inescapability of the trope.
== Literature ==
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* This also happens to Charles in ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''.
* In ''[[Animorphs]]'', once, the kids morphed bulls and went into a slaughterhouse to investigate Yeerks tampering with human food. Ax was very happy to get out of there.
== Live-Action TV ==
* This happened at the Part 1/Part 2 break of ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' at least once, and probably more.
* In the ''[[Blake's 7
* In one of the old episodes of ''[[All That]]'', Kenan Thompson's super alter ego, who is lactose intolerant, gets strapped into a conveyor belt which will spray milk on him, but he gets rescued all right
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial
**
* In one episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', a woman is drugged on a plane and chucked onto an airport convoy belt—where she gets a fatal head injury from a luggage arm.
* In the ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'', two sisters are practicing a magic trick where one of them is strapped down and moved towards a buzzsaw which drops away at the crucial moment. {{spoiler|Except it doesn't and she gets cut in half lengthwise.}}
*
* One of the so-called "[[Bonus Round
* The '''entire premise''' of ''[[Downfall (TV series)|Downfall]]''. Don't answer in time, and your prizes, your money and eventually ''you'' go over the side of a 10-story building.
* Mrs. Peel of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' is tied up and put on a conveyor belt to a giant buzzsaw in the episode "Epic".
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* In the ''[[New Tricks]]'' episode "Dark Chocolate", Gerry is almost dragged into a chopping machine when his jacket gets snagged on a conveyor belt in a chocolate factory.
* In the ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "The Black Corsage", [[MacGyver]] and Frank Colton are captured in a fish processing plant, tied up and placed on a conveyor belt that will feed them into a fish grinder.
▲* A 1970s commercial had [[Expy|expies]] of [[The Avengers (TV series)|Steed and Mrs. Peel]] strapped to one of these and headed for another giant buzzsaw—while they [[Casual Danger Dialogue|discussed whatever product the commercial was for]]. Then "Steed" managed to work one of his shoes loose, tossed it with a kick, it hit a control lever, and the board they were tied to pivoted so the blade passed ''between'' the heroes, cutting the ropes holding them.
== Music ==
* Referenced multiple times in the song "Along Came Jones" (which is about watching [[Cliff Hanger]]s on TV).
* "And the Great Big Saw Came Nearer and Nearer", performed by [[Spike Jones|Spike Jones
▲* ''[[Robo Rally]]'', a board game by [[Richard Garfield]], has lots of these. If you aren't careful, they'll carry your robot off the board and/or into a bottomless pit.
==
* In Robo's sidequest in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', a room in a [[Bad Future]]'s factory sports a conveyor belt where live humans are transported and (with a [[Hell Is That Noise|blood-curling scream]]) transformed into...small, shiny stuff.The whole point of the quest is to stop everything.
* Wildly twisted in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]] 2'': You can't get to the next area because there is a large crushing wheel blocking your way that is right in front of a Conveyor Belt O' Doom that constantly tries to make you hit the damn thing. The solution? You find a half-dead member of Jason's Argonauts, bring him to the belt, lay him on it, and then watch as he screams in horror and is carried under the wheel where his crushed bones jam it, allowing you to break it and pass through.
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* The boss of Gene Gadget Zone in ''[[Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island]]'' takes place on one of these, with a large row of spikes at the end of the conveyor belt. The player must hit Eggman's ship, avoiding spike strips and missiles.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]: Ghost Babel'' for the [[Game Boy]] had a variant on this, except it was the player who got the pain. In what is probably the otherwise great game's [[Scrappy Level]], legendary [[Badass]] Solid Snake must infiltrate the enemy base, by going through a color coded box sorting system via conveyor belt. It eventually leads into a showdown with Marionette Owl, part of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]].
* In ''[[Creatures]]'', there were a number of 'torture stages', where Clyde has to save other critters who have been tied to Conveyor Belts O' Doom by solving a complex item interaction puzzle.
* The fourth floor of Grunty Industries in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie|Banjo-Tooie]]'' has a conveyor belt dragging everything on it toward enormous [[Smashing Hallway Traps of Doom]] which prevent access to the area behind. After the crushers are deactivated, it turns into an [[Inconveniently-Placed Conveyor Belt]] by switching directions.
* They turned up a lot on the 16-bit ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games, where Sonic is on a conveyor belt and has to be really quick to avoid being crushed by something or cut with decending buzzsaws.
* One
* In the finale of ''[[Heavy Rain]]'', Norman Jayden can get into a fight on a conveyor belt of doom with the Origami Killer, who can kill him if you fail the button prompts.
* One of the most iconic executions in ''[[Danganronpa (video game)|Danganronpa]]'' is the "After School Special" in the first game. {{spoiler| The victim is seated at a desk on the conveyor belt, the end of which has a giant compactor that will smash the victim flat at the end. Worse, as the desk moves backwards, Monokuma appears to gloat, dressed as a teacher and giving the victim a class lesson (specifically sex education). This is the fate intended for Kyoko, but she only gets it in the Bad Ending should the player call her out for lying in the fifth trial; if the player avoids this, Makoto is the victim, but he is saved by Alter Ego, which leads to the sixth and final chapter. It is also the sixth part of the Ultimate Punishment given to Junko. For extra awesome, this is included in ''Cyber Danganronpa VR Class Trial''. Who’s the victim here? YOU are!}}
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Fillmore!]]'', where it gets a [[Lampshade Hanging]] (Filmore is saved by an erupting model volcano clearly labelled "Mount St. Cliche").
* In "Don't Fool with a Phantom", the last episode of the original ''[[Scooby
** Not that this stopped the Snow Ghost from tying Velma to a log and sending it towards a buzzsaw in an earlier episode...
* One of these was set up by cliché devotee Señor Senior, Sr., on ''[[Kim Possible]]''. At the end was a stolen cryogenic freezing device. [[Contractual Genre Blindness|As a keen observer of villain codes]], he points out the power switch to them.
** But they can't reach it, and Rufus the naked mole rat doesn't weigh enough to push it.
* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', the deathtrap is neatly subverted, as Catwoman is carried to her doom while Batman has captured Harley Quinn, who tells him that he has to [[Sadistic Choice|choose]] whether to keep her or save Catwoman. As it turns out, all Batman has to do is [[Take a Third Option|reach for the conveniently placed power switch to turn off the conveyor belt]].
* In the ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' animated short ''A Close Shave'', Gromit fights robo-dog Preston on the Conveyor Belt O' Doom of a dogfood machine.
* Spoofed in ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'', where in one episode Darkwing has to train a newbie villain how to carry off the trope properly.
* Averted in ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': After being placed on one such conveyer belt, Numbuh Five calmly takes one step to the left (and off the machine), walks to the end of the belt, and switches it off.
* An interesting subversion in ''[[
* In ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', the Master is caught in the conveyor belt of a junkyard trash compactor, {{spoiler|leading Toaster to do a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save him.}}
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Fry has to choose between saving Bender, who is tied to the Conveyor Belt O' Doom (which will turn him into Slurm cans), saving Leela, who is being dunked in a [[Shark Pool|slurm-filled pit]] (which will turn her into a Slurm Queen), or drinking from a trough of delicious concentrated Slurm. He chooses the Slurm, of course. However, {{spoiler|he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|saves Leela by dragging the trough with him, who then saves Bender.]] Hey, he was literally addicted to the stuff.}}
* [[Underdog (animation)|Underdog]] has been in this situation three times, and Sweet Polly was in the same mess each time:
** In the
** In "Pain Strikes Underdog", the conveyor belt is part of a candle-making machine that the villain Riff-Raff is using to disguise stolen swords as candles; in this case, both victims are bound with the wicks and hardened wax, the wick cutter intended to be used like a guillotine. (It even looks like one.) Unfortunately for Riff-Raff, [[Villain Ball| wax and normal rope can't hold Underdog for long...]]
** In "The Silver Thieves", Underdog's ring has been stolen, he's already nearly powerless because of it, and he and Polly are thrown onto one that leads to a furnace designed to melt down silver. Fortunately, Polly is lucky enough to find the stolen ring there.
* In the ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' episode "A Star Is Lost", Gadget, Rick Rocker, etc. are tied up with reel-to-reel tape and put on a conveyor belt that goes through a record pressing machine. Similarly, in "Quimby Exchange", the characters are frozen in blocks of ice and sent towards a chopping machine.
** There was another with Penny on a Conveyor Belt o' Doom, tied up and heading for a laser that's used to cut up diamonds.
* Mr. Nezzar puts the title characters of the ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' episode "Rack, Shack and Benny" onto one of these in the way to the furnace. The episode takes place in a chocolate factory.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' in an ''[[
* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', the episode "Home is Where the Spark Is" has Bulkhead on a conveyor belt that brings him towards a large machine that would crush his head(he wrestles with it to keep it from getting him during most of this part).
* ''[[Swat Kats]]'' had one of these that Dark Kat put the heroes on, while he and Hard Drive were stealing the Turbokat in "Night of Dark Kat".
* Used straight in an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' (and the person on it ''doesn't'' make it off safely).
* It happens in almost every ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' episode, [[Fetish Fuel|to the delight of certain fans]].
* Richard Adler, the workshop teacher in ''[[South Park]]'', attempts suicide by placing himself on a conveyor belt with a circular saw at the end. He appears to have second thoughts about it, but only because he realises that he's going toward the saw balls-first, and proceeds to reorient himself.
* In an episode of ''[[Sam
* In ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'', episode [[Canada, Eh?|"Yukon Yutz"]], the villain ties Johnny to a conveyor belt with a buzzsaw at the end. If I recall correctly, Johnny was saved by the ultra-hard gel in his hair, which broke the buzzsaw.
* The eponymous heroes of ''[[Goldie Gold and Action Jack]]'' get into this.
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* In a ''[[George of the Jungle|Super Chicken]]'' episode, a melodrama villain actor snaps and thinks he's a real villain, taking his female co-star to all the usual places, including the sawmill, to persuade her to go to the Villain's Annual Picnic with him.
* In ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' episode "Operation: Plush and Cover", the penguins are caught in a conveyor belt in a toy factory, which leads to an incinerator for rejected toys. Attempts to turn it off only activates more crushing devices.
* Happens to an
* ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]'' has done this a few times.
* ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' does this in the chocolate bunny factory ep-naturally, they get off it just in time.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony:
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "The Ducksters" begins with [[Porky Pig]] tied on a conveyor belt to a buzzsaw as part of a quiz show hosted by [[Daffy Duck]] (he had to answer the question before reaching the saw). At the end, Daffy is in the receiving end of the conveyor belt after Porky buys the radio station with his prize money and turns the tables on him.
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