History Main / CarouselKidnapping

* On ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'', three young girls are riding a carousel when the man who's watching them [[spoiler: (who's a pedophile who absconded with them after Hurricane Katrina)]] notices they've disappeared. They flee the park, but one gets hit by a car and another is grabbed by the man and carried off in the resulting confusion.

* In the Korean drama film ''Fim/Intruder2020'', the protagonist's younger sister Yoo-Jin is shown and assumed to be lost/kidnapped at an amusement park nearby the carousel. It happened when he was a child and grows up feeling responsible and guilt-ridden. [[ParentalNeglect Even though it was his parents fault.]] Which breeds anxiety and psychological issues as an adult. But in the start of the film, [[LongLostRelative she is back in his life...]]
* Not a child exactly, but in ''Film/JackTheReaper'', Maya is watching Sommer and Tina go round and round on the carousel, and then then carousel comes round again and Tina is gone; with just the blanket she had wrapped round her lying on the animal she had been riding.

* ''Literature/TheButterflyGarden'' [[InvertedTrope inverts this]]. Inara is taken to an amusement park by her parents who are planning to divorce. They refuse to stand together so her dad is waiting by the carousel exit while her mom stays by the entrance. Neither of them notice her discomfort on the ride, and Inara watches as both leave to have an affair with a random park goer--[[ParentalAbandonment both assuming the other is watching the kid]]. When she's finally helped off the ride her parents are gone and Inara wanders the park looking for them until it closes at sunset; she has to escape park security and hike to a gas station to use a pay phone. Her parents never answer their phones, she finally has to call a neighbor, at ten at night, to make the two-hour drive to pick her up and take her back to an empty house.

* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'', one of the Masked Gentleman's illusions is to make everyone in the funfair disappear. Layton and co. notice the carousel is abandoned when they are meant to meet someone by it. When they go looking for him, they then notice that everyone around the area has been kidnapped, [[spoiler:though in reality they are in a replica of the funfair.]]

* Comical [[MookHorrorShow villainous variant]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone''. In the episode "The Dream Beam Invasion", the heroes chase the villains around in a fairground themed dream, getting the upper hand on them on a carousel.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Stewie Loves Lois". When Peter [[SelfServingMemory recites]] the day he was "molested" by his doctor during a prostate exam, he imagines a Film Noir parody scenario with Dr Hartman laughing evilly on a carousel as he apprehends Peter.