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** Let us not forget Romilda Vane, she of the love potion which, by sequence of events, very nearly {{spoiler|got Ron killed.}}
* Appears in Joseph Heller's classic novel ''[[Catch-22]]''. Yossarian spends much of the second half of the book trying to escape Nately's Whore, going to such lengths as to take her up in a plane, fly over Italy, strap a parachute to her back and kick her out (over German held territory), only to return to Pianosa and find she's already waiting for him.
* The early [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld/The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]'' has an extremely elderly wizard preparing an elaborate method of escaping [[The Grim Reaper|Death]]. The last step is climbing into a tiny '''airtight''' box and locking it from the inside. Just as he settles down, he hears a voice in his ear: {{smallcaps| Dark in here, isn't it?}}
** [[Don't Explain the Joke|Locking oneself into a small airtight box would tend to lead to immediate suffocation and death.]]
** Inverted with the Igors, who stay out of your way most of the time but appear behind you right when you need them.
*** In ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', an employer of an inquiring turn of mind stands in front of a bear trap and calls for his Igor. He hears the bear trap go off, then turns around to see an uninjured Igor holding the sprung trap. Igor tells him this isn't the first time, for him or for any Igor; one of his uncles was employed by a man who liked to stand with his back to a pit of spikes when he made the call. Then one day he forgot it was there. Talk about laugh.
** In ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', [[Lovable Rogue|Moist von Lipwig]] finds that he is being relentlessly and cheerfully pursued by Mr. Pump, his parole officer. Mr. Pump, being a golem, has a definite advantage over Moist in that he [[Implacable Man|never needs to eat, rest, or even breathe]].
** Also shows up in ''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards Guards]]'' which has the villain at the end of the book futilely fleeing from the supposedly imprisoned Vetinari.
* Wednesday at the beginning of ''[[American Gods]]''.
* No matter how much the [[No Name Given|nameless protagonist]] of ''[[Green Eggs and Ham]]'' protests and runs, Sam-I-Am will ''always'' be just around the corner to attempt to get him to try the eponymous dish...
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== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* In addition to the animated cartoon mentioned above, the trope-naming song was also memorably featured in a sketch on ''[[The Muppet Show]]''.
** Actually, the Muppet Show sketch was an almost entirely different song, though it had much the same theme.
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