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* A particularly ludicrous example is the opening scene of the French movie ''Le Magnifique'': A spy is trapped in a phone booth, which is then lifted by an helicopter (!!) and dipped into the sea, where a squad of frogmen attach it to a shark's cage before opening the door. Of course, the scene is purposefully over-the-top as it's a parody of the whole ''James Bond''/''OSS 117'' type of spy literature.
* In the ''Stormbreaker'' movie, [[Alex Rider]] is dropped in a tank with a giant Portugese Man o'War. That was in the book, too.
* One villain in ''[[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]]'' keeps a tank of pihranas in his truck which he uses to threaten Taejo.
* In the 1936 ''[[Flash Gordon Serial]]'' film serial, while in the underwater city, Flash is locked in a tank to fight a shark.
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* ''[[Gentleman Bastard]]''
** In ''The Lies of Locke Lamora'', crime boss Capa Barsavi has an enclosed pool beneath his ship-based headquarters, in which he always keeps "something nasty" for when he drops victims into it.
** The city of Camorr also uses a variant as part of its justice system. At the Shifting Market, prisoners condemned for crimes such as rape and murder are granted a reprieve if they can fight off an angry devil fish (which is apparently like a really pissed off octopus) with naught but a tiny dagger. Few people, if any, succeed at this task.
* ''[[Animorphs]]''
** In ''The Illusion'', a scientist is dropped into a pit of Taxxons -- basically giant, eternally-hungry, alien centipedes which eat everything they can get their mouths around.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In the 2006 ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' series, Robin at one point is lowered into a pit of venomous snakes... that were [[You Fail Biology Forever|clearly harmless boa constrictors]].
* One sketch in the BBC series ''[[The Wrong Door]]'' has an evil genius discussing this with a workman fixing his [[Trap Door]]. The workman points out that piranhas aren't that deadly, being omnivores, and even pointing out that his last victim is still alive. He then recommend polar bears to be the optimum creatures for a killing pool.
* The antagonist of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' episode ''The Camp'' kept a giant squid-like monster in a tank and used it as a means of executing prisoners. On occasion, a tentacle would be broken off and used as food.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** The add-on ''Dungeonscape'' features an acidborn template... making... wait for it... SHARKS IN ACID. Which is basically the [[Rule of Cool|most awesome idea ever]].
** The template can also be adapted to produce "lavaborn" creatures. Guess where they swim around.
** ''[[Dragonlance]]'' module DL12 ''Dragons of Faith''. One of the traps in a maze is a [[Trap Door]] leading to a pool filled with sharks.
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{{quote|'''Demon-roach:''' [[Self-Deprecation|They'll let any old hack write a sourcebook these days.]]}}
* [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=994 "The Voice of Reason"] from ''[[Questionable Content]]''.
* Parodied in ''[[Adventurers!]]'': the [[Big Bad]] threatens to throw his enemies into a "vat of boiling sharks", but [[Fridge Logic|soon realizes]] that it [http://adventurers-comic.com/d/0037.html wouldn't work].
{{quote|'''Khrima:''' And this "boiling sharks" idea of yours... Wouldn't the sharks die if we boil them?}}
* The [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090617 "Revenge of the Weasel Queen"] side-story of ''[[Girl Genius]]''. Not only a pit of acid, but it's filled with mutant acid-resistant flying piranhas equipped with flamethrowers and battle axes. And much, much more! There's a reason why the Weasel Queen calls it her "Pit of [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|DOOOOOM]]". When you go through the list of threats, [[Phil Foglio]] pretty much covers all the tropes of this genre. What trope is covered by the robotic Morris dancers? [[Rule of Funny]], [[Crazy Awesome]], [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]], [[Mad Science]]....
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** In his first apperance, Señor Senior Sr. threatened Kim with ravenous koi because "the piranha have not yet arrived."
** Cheapskate villain Frugal Lucre once threatened Kim and Ron with a kiddie pool full of baby snapping turtles.
** Dr. Drakken goes over-the-top in a later episode by dropping a chained-up Kim in a locked safe into a <s>bottomless</s> [[Drowning Pit|very very deep chasm filled with water]], covered in six feet of ice, and containing a shark and man-eating squid. Of course she manages to escape thanks to a few [[Contrived Coincidence|Contrived Coincidences]].
** Señor Senior Sr. also had a shallow pool with crocodiles.
** 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.
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* ''[[Megas XLR]]'' has Kiva and Jamie being suspended over a quantum singularity. Because it's funnier.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', the villain Control Freak sics a ''mechanical'' shark on Aqualad. Trust us, there's a reason he couldn't have used a real shark.
* From ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'':
{{quote|'''[[Diabolical Mastermind|Chairface Chippendale]]:''' Unfortunately, the three of you aren't going to be around to witness my historic crime, because I'm going to feed you to my pit of ferocious man-eating alligators!<br />
'''[[Naive Newcomer|Arthur]]:''' What?... What? ''(aside, to The Tick) What''?!<br />
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