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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]? Fumoffu'', one of the students mistakes a container of a biological weapon Sousuke had brought to school ([[It Makes Sense in Context|he had gotten it by mistake]]—he had ordered a sniper rifle scope) for a drinks container and accidentally opens it. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as Sousuke tries to keep it from spreading outside the classroom and traps the entire class in containment.

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* [[James Bond]] accidentally (or not) causes this to happen to a couple of scientists working for the Big Bad in ''[[Moonraker]]''. Whether or not he cares is a different issue.

* In ''[[XXX]]'', the Vin Diesel movie, the [[Big Bad]] seals the scientists who created the stuff in the room, then watches on as it kills them all.

* In ''[[Species]]'', they're tooling around with the alien DNA about halfway through the movie. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* The dissection scene from ''[[Independence Day]]'' almost counts: The onlookers arrive after the damage is already done, and the threat from the contained entity is psychic, not biological.

* ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' example below also occurs in the 1971 movie version.

* ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''. When the Nautilus is sinking, Nemo orders that the engine room be sealed off so the water doesn't flood the rest of the ship, condemning the crew trapped in it to death by drowning.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Much of [[Michael Crichton]]'s ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' is centered on this type of set-up. Near the end, one of the scientists is stuck within the contaminated area due to a failure of the lab's airtight seal.

 

* Season three of ''[[24]]'' has this happen on a larger scale involving some gas and a hotel full of people. The writers knew that actual procedure was to remove people from the building, but limited budget and a desire for increased drama meant they left them in there.

* This is played for comedy in the very first scene of ''[[The Middleman]]''.

* In ''[[Look Around You]]'', the danger of the Helvetica Scenario is illustrated by a scene of a <s>masked</s> [[The Blank|literally faceless]] scientist pounding futilely on a glass window while another stands outside taking notes.

* The Lone Gunmen got ''themselves'' deliberately Trapped in Containment when they made their [[Heroic Sacrifice]] at the end of ''[[The X-Files]]''.

** Not only did he have to seal them inside to prevent the fire from spreading. He also had to [[Thrown Out the Airlock|dump the air from that part of the ship]] into space to extinguish the fires.

* In an episode of ''[[MacGyver]]'', a scientist creates a chemical for maturing plants. When her dog knocks over the vial, she is trapped with it and ages to death.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==