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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.
* This is what happens to {{spoiler|Hinamizawa's population under the "Disaster of Hinamizawa" natural disaster coverup}} in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]''.
* 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 [[Gas Chamber]]. [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist|Inspector Zenigata]] knows that the method of execution at this particular joint is the electric chair and any guard would've known that. He has just enough time to figure out the guard is actually Lupin in disguise before Lupin [[Xanatos Backfire|uses this knowledge against him]] and he sets off to rescue the guard Lupin sent to be electrocuted in his place.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Captain Planet and Thethe Planeteers]]'': Though the [[Drowning Pit]] and [[Sealed Room in Thethe Middle of Nowhere]] also made an appearance or two, the most popular [[Death Trap]] hands down for the Planeteers was a room slowly filling up with poisonous vapors.
** Makes sense from the villains' point of view, since the protagonists' rings stop working if the area is heavily contaminated with environmental pollutants. Otherwise, they could just call the [[Zero Punctuation|blue man in his underpants]] to get them out...
* ''[[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.
* ''[[I Want to Live (Film)|I Want to Live!]]'' {{spoiler|Barbara is executed inside a gas chamber.}}
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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** 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 ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]''.
* 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''.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[Rogues in The House (Literature)|Rogues in Thethe House]]", a glass wall falls down in a room, and the dust of the gray lotus is used, which drives them murderously insane.
* The vacuum version is used in ''[[In Hero YearsYears… I'm Dead]]'' involving a memorabilia room that the heroes are trapped in.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* 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. {{spoiler|Holmes flushed out the murderer by closing everyone in a small room and lighting the candle. The murderer, preferring a blown cover to death, broke the window.}}
* 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 (TV)|Angel]]'', an angry client tries to kill Gwen and Angel with a modified elevator and poison gas. Luckily, vampires don't need to breathe.
** Similarly, ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' had Angel rescuing Giles, Willow and Buffy from the high school basement, where they were locked in with the gas turned on by an angry invisible girl.
* In the [[Stargate SG -1]] episode "Dominion," Daniel gets caught in a room that is accidentally being flooded with toxic gas. Despite trying to breathe through his clothing, he inhales the gas for several minutes before the leak is shut off, but he seems to suffer no side effects whatsoever.
* In ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' the Scarrans use a chamber flooding with paralytic gas. On learning he's trapped in one John yells, "Staleek, this is very unoriginal!"
* One stunt on ''[[Fear Factor]]'' involved enduring a sealed chamber that filled with CS gas longer than anyone else.
 
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== [[Video Game]] ==
* The videogame adaptation of ''[[The Thing (Filmfilm)|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 (Video Game)|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{{spoiler|1=, and also dropping the bars holding the Queen CloudRunner captive}}.
** 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 {{spoiler|1=GLaDOS attempting to flood the final battle area with a deadly neurotoxin after Chell destroys her [[Restraining Bolt|morality core]]. She's quite nasty about it too, taunting Chell about her impending death from the deadly neurotoxin (along with jabs of a more personal nature.)}}
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* The original ''[[Resident Evil]]'' had a couple of poison gas [[Death Trap|death traps]] that activated if you did a puzzle wrong. In ''Code Veronica'', a gas leak [[Broken Bridge|blocks your progress]], and you have to find a way to activate the ventilation system to clear it.
* 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>. {{spoiler|The trap fails.}}
* ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|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.]]
* There's a whole level dedicated to this in ''[[Dead Space (Videovideo Gamegame)|Dead Space]]''. Standing too close to one of the Wheezers for too long will cause Isaac to die.
** Also, Isaac sometimes has to go out into the vacuum of space.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[[Look to Thethe West]]'', gas chambers called "phlogisticateurs" are employed by the alternate French Revolutionaries to execute the more prominent enemies of the Republic, including King Louis himself. They are invented due to the work of Antoine Lavoisier, [[My God, What Have I Done?|who takes his own life]] upon realising this. They use carbon dioxide and are not very efficient, only being used for particularly cinematic cases - most of the time the Revolutionaries use the Chirugeon, the in-timeline name for our guillotine.
** In a twist, the phlogisticateur technology later becomes used to create test greenhouses that allow the widespread cultivation of cinchona trees, meaning a ready supply of quinine to combat malaria in Africa. This is intended to be a similar case to the fact that in our own history, chemotherapy drugs came about as a result of research into poison gas in [[WW 1]].
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]'' had villain Clock King trap Batman inside a bank vault with a vacuum pump that was rapidly sucking in the available air. (Clock King is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to point out that he knows Batman [[Crazy Prepared|would carry a gas mask with him]], so he's opted to just remove ''everything''). It's also [[Time Bomb|wired to blow]] if it's picked up to try and prevent Bats from fiddling with it.
* In ''[[Superman: theThe Animated Series]]'', the episode "The Late Mr. Kent" reveals that Metropolis uses this in administering the death sentence. As a result, [[Rule of Drama|after the killswitch is thrown, Superman still has a few seconds to swoop in and save a falsely-accused man.]]
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
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