Sauna of Death: Difference between revisions

== Films -- Live Action ==

* In ''[[Thunderball]]'', both novel and film, [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] locks his rival Count Lippe in a Turkish Bath, causing him serious injury and delaying the SPECTRE scheme in which Lippe was supposed to play a part. See also [[Villain Ball]] to know ''why'' Bond was fighting Lippe.

* In the 2002 movie adaptation of ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (film)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', the Count locks himself in a sauna with Monsieur Villefort and raises the steam to its maximum, interrogating him until the stress and heat combine to force Villefort to [[Engineered Public Confession|confess his culpability]] in the Count's imprisonment.

* A pack of crooked doctors tried to kill [[Three Stooges|Moe and Larry]] this way in "Monkey Businessmen", but Curly freed them by [[Turning It Up To Eleven]] and blowing the door off its hinges.

* ''The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship'': the tsar locks the fool into his bathhouse and orders the furnace cranked up to kill him. The fool, of course, borrows his friend's straw that can soak up any heat and actually has to try to stay warm in the bathhouse.

* Used against [[Nancy Drew]] in ''Two Points to Murder,'' when she's investigating a college basketball team and gets trapped in the sauna room. She winds up stripping to her underwear to buy time before finally figuring out an escape.

* [[Phryne Fisher]] and Sascha are locked in a Turkish bath by the killer in ''Cocaine Blues''.

 

* This happens ''twice'' in ''[[Spin City]]''. In one example the only reason why most of the main cast was trapped in the sauna was because a nosy reporter was prowling outside. In another example, Stuart and Carter get trapped in the boiler room of city hall while trying to fix a circuit for a vending machine. Carter couldn't get the fuse box open, so Stuart grabs a conveniently located crowbar... which was being used to prop open the door.

** To make matters worse, at the end of the episode when Mike finally finds them, it's revealed that there was a phone in the room the whole time.

* ''[[Dark Justice]]''. A [[Black Widow]] killer bumps off her first husband this way.

* On an episode of ''[[The Chronicle]]'', the tabloid reporters were dealing with the angry ghosts fat people killed in a fat farm sauna. In the end, they had to rescue the murderer from suffering the same fate.

* In one of the ''[[Hitman]]'' games, the player can kill one of the targets by blocking the door to his steam room and increasing the supply.

* In ''[[Nancy Drew (video game)|Nancy Drew]]: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek'', there is one puzzle where Nancy is locked inside a sauna.

{{quote|Eiphel: Then believe what you will as you fade into nothing... in the flames of the Fornaceron!}}

* In ''[[Persona 2]]'', the party at one point in both games run into an oven trap on their way to stop the Masquerade.

 

 

* A variation of the Sauna ''Room'' is the Sauna ''Box'', which has been used in countless cartoons as a means for wacky anthropomorphic animals to dispatch their rivals. (Usually the cartoon animal locked in the Sauna Box has their head turn red as they get hotter. In more creative examples of this trope, their head will actually turn into an overheating thermometer.) This trope usually ends with the Sauna Box exploding in a spectacular fashion, or a radically reduced victim emerging from a cloud of steam..

* In one episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'', this happens accidentally, in what is apparently the worst-designed sauna in the world.

* Happens in the ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' episode "New Order". XANA locks Yumi and Ulrich in a room and raises the temperature, making it a [[Death Trap]], although the real point was to show the two avoiding looking at each other when they were forced to start taking their clothes off; as if their relationship needed any more [[UST]].

* The first attempt on the life of [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]] in "The Great Louse Detective" by {{spoiler|Frank Grimes Jr., in revenge for his father whom Homer drove insane}}. He was actually already in danger by being in the sauna at all because of his obesity and heart problems. The sauna controls helpfully included the setting [[Inventional Wisdom|"murder"]].

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