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* Seneca's idea is recycled by Robert Harris in the novel ''Pompeii'', where the main villain does this to a slave who kills an entire tank of rare expensive fish. [[Complete Monster|In front of the slave's old mother]].
* At the end of the [[Dan Brown]] book ''[[Deception Point]]'', one of the heroes threatens the villain by [[Moral Dissonance|holding a wounded assassin over a large group of frenzied sharks.]]
* The second book of the ''[[Care Taker]]'' trilogy, ''Whirlwind'' has a particularly nasty version: a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Candiru |candiru]] pool. The [[Big Bad]] actually breeds the things just so he can have this nifty pool to threaten people with. People thrown in take many days to die, during which time they are in agony. Some even try to drown themselves in order to avoid this, but "the body's impulse to stay alive is remarkably strong, even with the certain knowledge that one would be far better off dead."
* [[Matthew Reilly]] loves this trope. It all started when the [[Big Bad]] noticed killer whales hanging around in the dive pool, and got re-used with caimans, komono dragons and sharks [[Once Per Episode|in his next books]].
* ''[[Gentleman Bastard]]''
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* One mission in ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money'' features one target who performs onstage above a shark tank. The pyros can be rigged to set her on fire, forcing her to dive into the tank, where she is promptly eaten.
* Mechanical shark tanks are an uncommon hazard for motorcycle stuntman [[Joe Danger]].
* The [[Face Book]] [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] ''[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_Wars:Mob Wars|Mob Wars]]'' had a weekly [[Lost Forever|limited heist]] that was offered from the 8th to the 13th of Feb '11 which involved [http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=269827&id=8743457343 "smuggling a man-eating shark into their private pool"].
* Exaggerated in ''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]'', where every single body of water, from the shoreline of Keelhaul Key to the docks of Rogueport ''to an innocuous, luxurious water fountain'' in Poshley Heights, has piranhas waiting to bite at Mario should he fall in.
 
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** Professor Dementor had an almost generic shark pool, filled with lava!
** [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Evil!Ron]] had a piranha pool prepared in order to scare [[The Dragon|Shego]] into complete obedience. It worked.
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' episode "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean", the Monarch has the main characters tied up and prepared to drop them all into a river infested with [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Candiru |candiru]] fish. Venture mocks him, claiming the candiru's ability to swim up a man's urethra is an urban legend, too bad he's [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010907.html wrong]. (You may now [[Nightmare Fuel|cringe]] if you're a guy.) He has also used an actual pool of sharks to aid in the execution of a purportedly disloyal henchman. Although the sharks didn't touch him, because he'd already [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|replaced the guy's blood with acid]].
* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' has Jackie and Tohru suspended over one.
* ''[[The Pirates of Dark Water (Animation)|The Pirates of Dark Water]]'' features Bloth's Constrictus, a nasty alien creature that lives in a watery pit in his deck, and that he uses to dispose of enemies and [[You Have Failed Me|stupid crewmen]]. Quoth the first episode:
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