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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.
* In ''[[The Scar (Literature)|The Scar]]'', many of the inhabitants of the floating nation Armada were press ganged.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Jingo|Jingo]]'', Nobby Nobbs mentions his mother's uncle, a sailor who was press-ganged by a bunch of farmers who tied him to a plow.
 
== [[Music]] ==
* In the [[Stan Freberg (Creator)]] recording "The Old Payola Roll Blues," Clyde Ankle is on his way to high school when he is grabbed off the street by a record company which sees in his "pretty face and a pompadour" the makings of a teenage [[Idol Singer]]. Despite that (actually, ''because'') he can't sing, they get him to record the would-be hit single "High School, Oo-Oo" by threatening him with a pointed stick.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Bug (Webcomicwebcomic)|Bug]]'' claimed he [http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/shanghai-surprise/ isn't afraid] of getting shanghaied.
* 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 ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' short "Dickey Moe".
* [[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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