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In fiction, whenever anyone has a position they need filled, rather than putting out a want ad or interviewing potential candidates, they'll simply grab the first person they see and ''force'' them to help.
Though this is usually played for comedy, it was used seriously by [[Real Life]] navies; the practice of grabbing men off the streets and forcing them to become sailors was known as [
See also [[Got Volunteered]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Pretty much everyone in the SOS Brigade in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' anime show can attest that they were bodily forced- er, recruited using this method.
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* Takatoshi Tsuda, the main character of ''[[Seitokai Yakuindomo]]'', is shanghaied onto the student council on the first day of school.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In a ''Wash Tubbs'' comic, Wash and Easy are shanghaied into working on an old-timey whaling ship. They eventually lead a mutiny against the first mate and his supporters. Interestingly, while most of the other crew members were shanghaied to fill positions on the ship, Wash and Easy were targeted specifically because the first mate knew they had a lot of money on them to steal.
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* The ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]'' novels mentions press gangs that were sent out to grab people and force them to become sailors in the British Royal Navy.
* In ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'', Dahak does this to get a new captain.
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* Implied in ''[[Who Cut the Cheese?]]'' by Mason Brown, where Cover's characterization of the maze as a "hellish netherworld with no fixed address" implies a contrast to a less hellish outside.
== [[Music]] ==
* In the [[Stan Freberg
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Bug
* The plot of ''[[Spacetrawler]]'' begins with the alien Nogg abducting six humans to serve in the [[Slave Race|Eeb]] liberation movement. However, he specifically chooses six individuals who would be most likely to help, and he does allow them to opt out after explaining the situation to them.
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** In "Mutiny on the Bunny", [[Bugs Bunny]] is forced into service by sea captain Yosemite Sam (who in this cartoon goes by the appropriate moniker of Shanghai Sam).
** [[Porky Pig]] in the 1936 cartoon "Shanghaied Shipmates".
* A Captain Ahab type takes Tom in the Gene Deitch ''[[
* [[Mickey Mouse]] in the aptly-named "Shanghaied". The cartoon begins with Mickey and Minnie already on the ship, but it's not hard to tell how they got there.
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** This tradition started all the way back in ancient Greece.
* When impressment was abolished, boarding masters for non-military ships in the 19th century would sometimes resort to underhanded tactics to get men aboard ships, such as [[Slipping a Mickey|drugging drinks at a waterfront bar]] and then signing them on as crew without their knowledge or consent. Boarding masters who were known for this were called crimps, and the practice in general soon became known as "shanghaiing."
**A more complicated method of going about this was known in the less honest kinds of port establishments. When a sailor was asleep they would make off with his chest and often his clothes forcing him to sign on for the next year to survive whether or not he desired too. Those kinds of places were the dreaded "land sharks".
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