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* Happens to a few unlucky characters in ''Film/{{Underwater}}'' when their hard-shell diving suits fail. One character's helmet buckles, causing their suit to rupture and send fragments of macerated tissue scattering everywhere; another one's helmet abruptly fills with gore when his suit's ''boot'' is detached by a monster.

* ''ComicBook/TheResurrectionOfMagneto'': The newly resurrected Magneto finds himself facing an elite squad from the anti-mutant extremist group Orchis. If he uses his powers against them, they'll release nerve gas and kill their hostages. However, there's metal in their armour and weapons, so magnetically compresses all of that material into small spheres before the soldiers or their sensors can trigger the gas; the flesh and bone wrapped inside the soldiers' armour is reduced to wet pulp.

* This is the implied fate of [[BigBad Darren Cross]] at the end of ''Film/AntMan1'', when the Yellowjacket suit destabilizes and begins shrinking different parts of his body at different rates. [[spoiler:It doesn't kill him outright, and he [[BodyHorror survives, in a sense]], in the Quantum Realm.]]

* In season 2 of WesternAnimation/Invincible2021 [[spoiler:the {{Sizeshifter}} hero Shrinking Rae is killed when she returned to her normal size after being swallowed by Komodo Dragon, a villain with SuperToughness. It's not directly shown what happens to her but the crunches and screams as her body is crushed by digestive tract is sickening.]]

* In season 2 of WesternAnimation/Invincible2021 [[spoiler:the Sizeshifter Shrinking Rae meets her end returning to her normal size after being swallowed by Komodo Dragon, a villain with SuperToughness. It's not directly shown what happens to her but the crunches and screams as her body is crushed against his digestive tract is sickening.]]

->''That's how we lost Torres. Something grabbed him, pulled him through. The hole wasn't big enough for his head, but he still went through, eventually.''

* ''Literature/XWingSeries''. In ''X-Wing: The Krytos Trap'' the Rogues launch an attack on a space station in the Yag'Dhul system. The station manager's office suffers a hull breach during the battle and the manager gets sucked out into space through a hole smaller than he was. [[spoiler:Given the subtext of the conversation, it's implied that [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch the official cause of death might not be the ''actual'' cause of death]]; the hole was described as the size of "a blaster bolt", and the Givin, the keepers of the station, can survive in a vacuum, while the station manager, a Twi'lek, could not.]]

* A grisly death could await early divers in old diving suits; while the helmets themselves were reinforced to resist the immense underwater pressure, the rest of the suit was made of flexible cloth, kept in shape only by the air pressure ''inside'' the suit. Thus, if the air supply was cut off, the suit would collapse, subjecting the person wearing it to the full weight of the water around them. Since the only part of the suit that ''didn't'' collapse would be the helmet, this would become the area of lowest pressure within the suit, and the laws of physics that the area of high pressure (the fabric part) would try to rush into the area of low pressure (the helmet) and take the poor soul inside with it--and, as you can imagine, trying to force a whole human being into an area only ''slightly'' larger than their head [[ChunkySalsaRule does not end well]] for the human being. This was horrifically ''confirmed'' on ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''. They wound up ruining the old diving helmet in the process as it crumpled into itself like a soda can while "meat man" burst into a flood of artificial gore.

* A grisly death could await early divers in old diving suits; if the pressure was cut, from diving too deep or losing the hose, they could be crushed into their own helmets. This was horrifically ''confirmed'' on ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''. They wound up ruining the old diving helmet in the process as it crumpled into itself like a soda can while "meat man" burst into a flood of artificial gore.

* A variant occurs in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', where Legato uses his powers to force several dozen police officers into the back of a small personnel carrier. He even has a line about how the human body can fit into surprising amounts of space when given the proper motivation. Meanwhile, the truck is so full that blood is gushing out the bottom as the officers smash themselves into hamburger.

[[folder:Web Original]]gescape the fire in the school theater.

* Another Jason example in ''Film/JasonX'', this time on a spaceship (yes, we know, [[MST3KMantra just go with it]]). Jason punches a hole in the hull of the ship, causing one of the characters to die this way. We don't see anything beyond some scraps of flesh on a vent, but the line is the standout of the scene.

* One victim on ''Series/{{Castle}}'' was found crammed into a wall safe, and one so small that it's obvious the corpse's limbs had to be broken to stuff it inside. The position of the hands and feet strongly imply that it was shoved butt-first into the safe.

* ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' This would be the ultimate fate of [[spoiler: [[TheHeavy Chris Walker]] who in the climax of the game gets forcefully shoved into an air vent courtesy of the Walrider and turned into LudicrousGibs.]]

* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'': Samus's Morph Ball allows her to transform her PoweredArmor (and somehow her body within) into a spherical shape to roll through small spaces, without injury. A data log written by the Space Pirates describes their ill-fated attempt to reverse-engineer the Morph Ball, which resulted in four test subjects being "horribly broken and twisted" when they activated the prototypes. Science Team wisely decided to move on to other projects.
* In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2'''s fifth level, if the Prince attempts to take off on the MagicCarpet before opening the skylight grate, he gets pressed through the grate in a GoryDiscretionShot.

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* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In "[[Recap/HTFClassAct Class Act]]", Cuddles suffers from this thanks to the combination of his Christmas Tree costume's hole and the crowd forcefully pushing him (since his costume was blocking the way) in an effort to escape the fire in the school theater.

** Another gets consumed by a micro-black hole in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBxMGSwoWzg this sequence]] about SCP-001 candidate "The Prototype".