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Serious [[Nightmare Fuel]], with the extra horror of being [[Truth in Television]] for several million people during [[World War Two|The Holocaust.]] A villain contemplating using one has usually crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] of villainy into [[Complete Monster]] territory.
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== [[Anime]] ==▼
* ''[[Sabre Rider And The Star Sheriffs]]'' had an episode in which Sabre Rider went to the Outworld and confronted the main baddie, who proceeded to suck the oxygen out of the room, as he himself didn't need it.▼
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* This is what happens to {{spoiler|Hinamizawa's population under the "Disaster of Hinamizawa" natural disaster coverup}} in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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▲* This is what happens to
* In ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', [[The Lancer|Duo]] and [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Wufei]] are trapped in a little cell along with [[Mad Scientist|Professor G]]. The amount of air is limited (they are in space, after all), and Professor G says something along the lines of "If anyone wants to die, they should do so, and save some oxygen for the rest of us!"
* In an early chapter of the [[Lupin III]] manga, a guard said Lupin would be heading to the
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Saw]] II'' had a gas '''house'''.
* ''[[Star Wars the Phantom Menace]]'' features at the beginning the Nemoidan Trade Federation trying to gas the <s> heavily armed religious fanatics</s>ambassador Jedi.
* ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* The ''Devil's Foot'', one of the original ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' short stories, had a character place the title
** This one nearly killed Holmes and Watson when Holmes (in a rare moment of holding the [[Idiot Ball]]) experimented with the root to see if it's the culprit.
* Another murderer used the poisoned candle M.O. in [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''The Imp of the Perverse''.
* The poisoned candle trick shows up again in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
* One of the [[James Bond]] books has a sealed room with [[Did Not Do the Research|a window air conditioner which runs backwards to suck the air out]].
** Also appears in ''The Barsoom Project''.
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* The vacuum version is used in ''[[In Hero Years… I'm Dead]]'' involving a memorabilia room that the heroes are trapped in.
== [[Live
* ''[[The Prisoner]]'' episode "The Girl Who Was Death" had a room filled with poison-releasing candles that would explode if extinguished.
* A ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' mystery (one of the ones specially created for one of the many TV series) involved a person who died from a candle he didn't know was poisoned.
* One of the urban legends busted by Mythbusters involves a man who, after a particularly starchy dinner, falls asleep in a small unventilated room and asphyxiates on his own flatulence.
* In an episode of ''[[Angel]]'', an angry client tries to kill Gwen and Angel with a modified elevator and poison gas. Luckily, vampires don't need to breathe.
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* The videogame adaptation of ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'' has a scene where the protagonist is lured into a room quickly being filled with poison gas. The message left on a computer screen in the room is a nice touch:
{{quote|Breathe deep, Blake. Breathe deep and die.}}
* ''[[Star Fox Adventures]]'' had such a room: you had to [[Block Puzzle|push blocks around]] while a special meter started emptying. This troper has never seen whether an empty meter means your life gauge starts emptying, or whether you got a failure cutscene, or whether you lost a life, but when you succeeded, the door would open, letting good air in
** You got a failure cutscene and reappeared outside the room. This troper can't remember if there was any loss of health, though (but there wasn't any loss of ''continue'').
* ''Portal'' ends with
* ''[[Onimusha|Onimusha 3]]'' had a gas chamber trap where you had to unlock the door by completing a "simon says" minigame before you succumb to the fumes.
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'' features the Jekk'Jekk Tarr, a bar for aliens on Nar Shaddaa where the atmosphere is toxic to humans. It also had the HK-50 unit turn the entire dormitory section of the Peragus mining facility into one of these by sabotage.
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** The original ''[[Metal Gear]]'' and ''[[Metal Gear]] 2: Solid Snake'' also had gas-filled rooms that you had to traverse.
* Tifa of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' gets tossed into a gas chamber for a public execution midway through the game, and has to pick up the conveniently dropped key to her shackles with her feet to escape. Unlike other segments in the game, there is no time limit on this sequence - no matter how long you struggle, Tifa cannot be killed.
* [[Metal Wolf Chaos]] turns the entire city of Chicago into one big
* ''[[Doom]] 3'': An entire level is made into one of these, and you have to find the ventilation switch. "There's nothing but a slow death for you, as your lungs fill with toxic gases."(Dr. Bertruger)
* In the original ''[[Perfect Dark]]'', you must flee a room flooded with nerve gas during your escape from [[Area 51]].
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* In ''[[The Journeyman Project]]'', the NORAD VI installation is flooded with sleeping gas, requiring you to obtain an oxygen mask before you go there.
* There are three rooms in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' that end up getting filled with Smilex, forcing Batman to find a way to activate the ventilation system to purge the gas.
* Parodied in ''[[Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden]]'', where at one point your party is trapped inside a cabin which is slowly filled with sugar substance.<ref>Sugar is treated [[Serious Business|as deadly]] in this game. The fact that diabetes is [[Universal Poison|a status effect]] speaks for itself.</ref>
* ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' has it in the form of Bloodtox, a gas harmless to anyone not infected by the virus. Alex, a man made up entirely of infected material, discovered this fact when it was announced to a room full of soldiers he had infiltrated, that they had been exposed to the gas for the last ten minutes. His disguise didn't last long.
* [[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]] invokes this with an entire arena, requiring you to beat all the enemies before Ratchet succumbs. It's just sleeping gas, but it works by [[Fridge Horror|depleting your health bar.]]
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* In the United States, this and the electric chair were the top methods of executing criminals during the 20th Century. Today only a few states still have this as an option.
** Currently{{when}} there are no convicts eligible for this method, so the last person to be executed by asphyxiation will be German national Walter leGrand 1999 in Arizona.
** California, which was the most frequent user of this method pre-Furman, has declared this method as unconstitutional "cruel and unusual punishment". Instead, the executions are made with lethal injection today.
* [[Nazi Germany]] used two main types of this.
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** There is also the need to be sure [[Fridge Brilliance|a future sailor or airman confronted with a messy, smoky and incendiary malfunction of the ship or plane]] will stay calm and proceed to do the needed repairs instead of panicking.
* Mandatory prep for a trip on NASA's Vomit Comet, the KC-135 weightlessness simulator, involves being put in a room that the oxygen is lowered in, then being required to remove your oxygen mask and answer math questions to see how your brain holds up. It's to help prepare people for what could happen if the thing loses pressure at 30k feet. It was even required for the cast of the movie ''[[Apollo 13]]'' before their trips.
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[[Category:Death Tropes]]
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