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== Films -- Animation ==
* In ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', after Tiana and Naveen have both been transformed into frogs and landed in the Louisiana swamp, Naveen explains why he has no money, even though he is a prince.
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* In ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]'', Tulio decides to save time by walking through a pond. Cut to Miguel pulling leeches off his back.
== Films -- Live Action ==▼
* In ''[[Stand by Me]]'', a brawl between two characters sends them both tumbling into a pond. Later in the same scene, the brawl comes to a screeching halt when the one character spots a leech on the neck of the other. Cue panicking, screaming, stripping off of clothes, ripping off of leeches... and Gordy finding a leech in [[Groin Attack|the worst possible place]]. [[Fainting|His reaction]] is understandable.▼
* In ''[[The African Queen]]'', Charlie gets several leeches on him when he underwater repairing the ship. The movie subverts the typical trend of just tearing them off by having him be smart enough to force them to let go with salt.▼
* In ''The Amazing Panda Adventure'', the male and female leads both end up covered in leeches after tumbling into water, leading them to start stripping off their clothes hastily. A moment passes, then they both realize the other one is getting naked too...▼
* Happens to [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] in ''[[Octopussy]]'', among several other animal encounters. He uses a cigarette lighter to make it let go.▼
== Literature ==
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* In the final novel of the [[Aubrey-Maturin]] series, ''Blue at the Mizzen'', Stephen Maturin and Christine Wood fall into brackish West African mud. Afterward, each is covered with "astonishingly numerous and avid leeches." They use salt (brought by Christine for this purpose) to remove the leeches.
* ''[[Literature/Jurassic Park|Jurassic Park]]'': Ed Regis ends up with leeches on him when he falls into the moat at the Tyrannosaur paddock. Before he tears them all off, the reader is treated to him remembering that the maintenance staff said that they liked damp, warm places and "liked to crawl right up your-", at which point Regis snaps out of his shock, rips the leeches off, and legs it.
▲== Films -- Live Action ==
▲* In ''[[Stand by Me]]'', a brawl between two characters sends them both tumbling into a pond. Later in the same scene, the brawl comes to a screeching halt when the one character spots a leech on the neck of the other. Cue panicking, screaming, stripping off of clothes, ripping off of leeches... and Gordy finding a leech in [[Groin Attack|the worst possible place]]. [[Fainting|His reaction]] is understandable.
▲* In ''[[The African Queen]]'', Charlie gets several leeches on him when he underwater repairing the ship. The movie subverts the typical trend of just tearing them off by having him be smart enough to force them to let go with salt.
▲* In ''The Amazing Panda Adventure'', the male and female leads both end up covered in leeches after tumbling into water, leading them to start stripping off their clothes hastily. A moment passes, then they both realize the other one is getting naked too...
▲* Happens to [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] in ''[[Octopussy]]'', among several other animal encounters. He uses a cigarette lighter to make it let go.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In a short story in Dragon magazine #123 illustrating the magazine's topic of swamp environmental hazards, a man hires a guide through the swamp and notes oddities about the guide from eating raw onions and rubbing them on his arms to the series of triangular scars along his arms. When he attempts to kill the guide, he finds himself suddenly weak whereupon the guide explains the ecology of leeches and how to ward them off, such as by rubbing one's skin with onions.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', pretty much any time you enter water, leeches attach themselves to you. The sound of them attaching themselves to you can be hard to hear, so you might not notice until they start quickly draining your stamina. Luckily, using Snake's cigar to burn them off is easy and effective.
== Western Animation ==
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