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* Mentioned in ''[[The Magician's Nephew]]'' by [[God Save Us From the Queen|Jadis]] as how one of her ancestors dealt with supposedly rebellious nobles.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has been at a few, both via invitation or via crashing them. Seeing as Buffy tends to be the "monster" in any [[Mugging the Monster]] scheme by villains, this trick tends to go badly for the hosts:

** The first was in "Reptile Boy" where the was a frat party she and Cordelia went to was a front for a cult who planned to sacrifice them.

** By the end of the song, said "black and white dress" has become a "black and red dress"...

* Towards the middle of the ''[[Nibelungenlied]]'', Siegfried is murdered by his wife's brothers. The widow, Kriemhild, then marries the king of the Huns and invites her brothers and all their retinue to a feast. Unfortunately they've been forewarned, and turn up armed; the result is an all-night bloodbath only brought to a close when the Huns burn down their own hall. Oh, and according to some versions of the story this leads to a disgusted Hun taking out Kriemhild with a [[Diagonal Cut]].

* ''[[Ravenloft]]'' (5th Edition) In the Domain of Dementlieu, social status is the most important trait a citizen can have, and every citizen is pretending to be of a higher social class than he truly is, while trying hard to climb the social ladder. One of the best ways to do this is the fancy parties the upper class (who again, aren’t as upper class as they claim) regularly hold, and the fanciest of them all is Saidra D'Honaire’s monthly masquerade ball. However, few know that the ball is an elaborate trap set by D’honaire (the Darklord of Dementlieu) to weed out pretenders. (Well, actually, everyone knows, desperation for recognition in the [[Deadly Decadent Court]] makes them willing to take the risk.) Should their facade slip and D’honaire recognize a partygoer as a lower class imposter, she angrily exposes them as such before [[Disintegrator Ray|she vaporizing them with her dark magic]]. The sourcebook does claim that D’honaire is not prepared for [[Mugging the Monster| dealing with a potential victim who can fight back]] (such as [[Player Character]]s) but while she can be defeated, she cannot be destroyed [[Weaksauce Weakness|unless ''her'' ruse is uncovered]] (she is as much a pretender as her subjects, being only a farm girl who once believed herself to be royalty and now pretends to be such). [[Self-Inflicted Hell| Such is the way of Ravenloft’s Darklords.]]

* Once again [[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples]] is invoked in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Titus Andronicus (theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]''. A Nasty Party forms the climax of this [[Kill'Em All|exceptionally bloody]] early work.

* Nobody in ''Abigail's Party'' is trying to kill anybody, but it ends up being pretty nasty all the same.

== [[Video Games]] ==

** Also in ''Oblivion'', a non-lethal example (the objective is to humiliate the guests, not kill them) where [[Quest Giver|Daedric Prince Sanguine]] wants the [[Player Character]] to cast the spell [[The Nudifier|"Stark Reality"]] at a dinner party. Seeing as Sanguine is an [[Expy]] of [[Trickster God|Dionysus]], this makes perfect sense.

* This is why six of the seven murder victims are in the house in the mystery of ''[[The 7th Guest]]''.

* The "cake and party" at the end of the testing in ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' turns out to be {{spoiler|a pit full of fire the player gets dumped into. [[Spanner in the Works|Then they get out.]]}}

* In the ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'' episode "Reunion", Sasha and Grime invite the residents of Wartwood to a banquet, the intent being to publicly execute Hop Pop in an attempt to quash the rebellion he is [[Accidental Hero| (completely by accident)]] inspiring. Fortunately, not only are Grime's men utterly incompetent, {{spoiler| Sasha makes the mistake of assuming Anne will go along with this; [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|Anne refuses to turn against her friends]]; and the plot fails. [[Epic Fail| Spectacularly]].}}

* Niccolo Machiavelli, in his classic work of political science ''The Prince,'' describes just such a banquet hosted by Oliverotto Da Fermo. Oliverotto invited all the nobles of Fermo who might oppose him to a banquet, then invited them to meet with him privately to discuss serious political matters—in a room where he had armed men waiting to massacre them.

* Not to mention the legendary original "Night of the Long Knives" in early British history, when in around 460 AD the Saxons allegedly massacred the British nobility at a banquet to celebrate a peace treaty, reducing King Vortigern to their puppet.