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Line 2: [[File:mother3 peoplejars.png\|link=Mother 3\|frame\|Oh god... THEY GOT THE [[Save Point\|SAVE FROG]]!]] {{quote\|''"Maybe I'll just preserve myself fetal pig-style in a mason jar filled with the salty tears of all the [[Casanova Wannabe\|heartbroken private school girls that will pine for me]]. That way, there'll be something left to re-animate once the [[Zombie Apocalypse\|zombie uprising]] cometh."''~~\|'''[[Homestar Runner\|Strong Bad]]''', [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail168.html sbemail #168: "your funeral"]}}~~ \|'''[[Homestar Runner\|Strong Bad]]''', [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail168.html sbemail #168: "your funeral"]}} [[Captain Obvious\|There is something creepy about people in jars.]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon\|Jarring]], even. Line 17 ⟶ 18: {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * ''[[B't X]]'': Metal Face was in one after his big fight with Teppei. Line 33 ⟶ 32: * ''[[Guyver]]'': Plenty of unfinished [[Mooks\|Zoanoids]] hanging out in jars... and one of the few instances where you actually see someone leaving one of the jars without someone having to smash said jar first. * ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]] La Verite'': In episode 11 Taro finds Mariel stored in a jar of liquid in an underground room. * ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' has {{spoiler\|Mukuro}} chained in a jar after certain plot points. * ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)\|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'': The dead body of Fate Testarossa's older sister Alicia {{spoiler\|or better said, the girl Fate was cloned from}} is kept in a jar. Also, in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS\|StrikerS]]'', there are scores of said girls in Scaglietti's lair, which are revealed to be his illegally-created minions, and some broken People Jars in his abandoned labs; this has something to do with the forbidden research of the first season, as well as its presumed-dead [[Big Bad]]. * ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'': Noel and Coco are imprisoned in underwater fish tanks. Gackto also wants to trap the girls in this. Line 41 ⟶ 40: *** "Implied"? In the manga, we see the original in a jar. * ''[[Outlaw Star]]'': [[Spaceship Girl]] Melfina, climbed into a tank ''naked'' to provide special navigation. * ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'': Lord Renard planned to used followers from the Browning Church to power a [[Wave Motion Gun]] to annihilate the city of St. Grendel, home to the Church of Mauser. {{spoiler\|He himself is actually a Mauser inquisitor, and promptly [[Left for Dead\|leaves them all for dead]] when he finds out that Pacifica and her party are in the area.}} * ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' OVA: The Asgard ranch had these. * ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]] OAV'': Ryoko ends up put in one of these via [[Big Bad]] Kagato. {{spoiler\|Washu had been in hers for quite a while, too.}} * ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': Former [[Big Bad]] Lordgenome is revived as a "biological computer" after the [[Time Skip]], which means he's now living life as a ''Futurama''-style head in a jar. This was also his [[Heel Face Turn]], as he started relaying truth and [[Techno Babble]] about the Anti-Spirals and the series' backstory. In the very end, he ''does'' get his body back, and goes out in [[Heroic Sacrifice\|a blaze of glory]]. * ''[[ToA ~~Aru~~Certain ~~Majutsu no~~Magical Index]]'': Aleister Crowley floats upside-down in one, having his entire body save his consciousness rely entirely on machinery. In Volume 22 of the novels, however, {{spoiler\|it's revealed that he may be capable of omnipresence, appearing before Fiamma of the Right to [[Curb Stomp Battle\|defeat him]] while simultaneously still being in his People Jars.}} * ''[[Turn A ~~Gundam\|Turn a~~ Gundam]]'': Several Moonrace people are kept in jars and in suspended animation. IIRC, two of them are {{spoiler\|Queen Diana and Teteth Halleh's mother Linda}} * ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'': Cheza was in a jar being studied by Cher Degre before she got busted out by Darcia. In this case, she's not being ~~imprisoned—just~~imprisoned, just studied and kept alive. The second time she gets put in a jar, it follows the trope much more closely because 1) she's been forcibly taken, 2) her [[Determinator\|most zealous bodyguard]] Kiba has also been locked in a nearby jar and is ''having his blood drained out'', and 3) {{spoiler\|3) Jagara and her guests are drinking ~~WOLF~~''wolf ~~BLOOD~~blood'' in front of her, '''which may or may not be Kiba's'''.}} Did I mention that spilled wolf's blood in general triggers Cheza's [[The Scream\|scream reflex?]]}} * ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! R]]'':Subverted. The lab in Kaiba Corp's basement is meant for testing holographic projectors, so none of the monsters floating inside the glass tubes are real. There is an actual person in one of the tubes, but he put himself in there as a practical joke and can easily let himself back out. * ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': After being cut in half, Hiei is put in a tank to heal. == [[Comic Books]] == Line 62 ⟶ 60: == Fan ~~Fic~~Works == * ''[[Tamers Forever Series]]'': In {{spoiler\|the Apex, the core of the four Quadrants.}} There's {{spoiler\|the first five failed Takato bodies, a spot for the sixth one: [[Digimon Tamers\|Takato Matsuki]], the seventh one: [[Opposite Gender Clone\|Gabrielle/Takako]], and a spot for the eighth one: Takato [[Digimon Adventure\|Tachikawa]] }} * ''[[Rise of the Galeforces]]'', naturally, showcases [[Our Clones Are Identical\|cloned]] Supers from the Golden Era in these, particularly in the first two parts. Line 116 ⟶ 114: * ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had infected patients in tanks. And don't forget the Face of Boe. Daleks are aliens in mobile jars. One of them properly fits this trope in {{Spoiler\|"Asylum of the Daleks", where it's revealed that a human has been captured and made into a Dalek}}. * ''[[Dark Angel]]'': Max spent some time in a jar. * Tank people have shown up in [[Star Trek: The Next Generation]] and in [[Star Trek: Voyager]]. In the first, Data found a cryogenic pod containing three frozen American humans from the early 21st century; in the latter, the ship found pods containing people kidnapped from Earth in 1937. One was {{spoiler\|Amelia Earhart}}. Line 134 ⟶ 133: * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131009173108/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91sbelvedere.phtml Brocktoon!] * Given how experiments on humans, aliens and hybrids are common in ''[[The X-Files]]'', this happens every now and then. == Music == Line 222 ⟶ 220: * [[Homestuck]] has [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003671 this]. * The ''[[Girls in Space]]'' adventure "The Pickled Past" has alien people in jars. == [[Web Original]] == Line 244 ⟶ 243: ** Not to mention that ''all'' Irkens are [[Designer Babies\|born this way.]] [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight\|Giant tubes probably don't seem so horrific to them...]] * In a season six episode of [[American Dad]], Roger and Stan go to Area 51. In the background, an old woman can be seen floating in a jar. (this is actually a [[Call Back]] to a season one episode where agents were chasing Roger but Stan removed the wig from the old woman and convinced the agents that she was the alien.) * One [[Bad Future]] in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. == Real Life == * In 2019 [https://www.livescience.com/65526-jars-of-the-dead-found-laos.html archaeologists rediscovered more than 100 stone jars] (averaging about ten feet tall) scattered throughout part of central Laos. Local folklore and archaeological evidence indicates that they were used as sarcophagi. {{reflist}} Line 252 ⟶ 255: [[Category:Turn-On Tropes]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Contained People]]