History Main / MessyMaggots

* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'': In the otherwise psychological horror-themed episode "Sounds Like", the main character's wife disappears halfway through the episode. At the end, the cops burst into his house when he goes fully mad, finding her rotting, maggot-eaten corpse in the bedroom.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In ''Heroes and Demons'', Krytan modifies a teleporter to act as a duplicator, creating two copies of the original, which he test upon a strawberry. However, the device unintentionally splits all the good and bad qualities, so whilst one strawberry tastes incredible, the other is rotten and crawling with maggots, a fact Lister doesn't discover until after he's taken a bite of it.

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* A villain of Ben's introduced in ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'' is a mad scientist that invented a "Maggo-O-Net". It attracts massive swarms of maggots [[WorkThatWalks to form a giant monster]] that's incredibly destructive and hard to stop.

* In a chapter of ''Manga/FrankenFran'', Fran comes up with a maggot-like cocoon that allows human babies to gestate outside the womb, preventing many pregnancy-related problems (while the people she presents it to are squicked out by the idea, another one steals the idea and markets it). Unfortunately, people are a lot more careless with the cocoons than with a pregnant woman, and most of them suffer [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Family Unfriendly Deaths]] (eaten by cats, infested by insects, {{squashed flat}}...), and even worse, it's implied the process was faulty as one baby that emerges normally is insectoid in appearance.
* ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'': Seita's and Setsuko's mother is gravely injured by the opening bombing raid and spends the last moments of her life as a BandageMummy. The audience learns that she is dead when we are treated to a shot of her maggot-infested body being carried away.

* Subverted in ''ComicBook/WormwoodGentlemanCorpse''. While Wormwood is actually an extradimensional larva who possesses a corpse for greater mobility, he's not particularly disgusting and fits in quite well among the ghosts, medusae and other supernatural characters.

* In ''Film/BattleshipPotemkin'', the crew of the Potemkin is forced to eat rotten meat full of maggots. When the captain is thrown overboard during the mutiny, a shot of the water roiling after his fall is intercut with a close up of the wriggling maggots that led to the mutiny.

* ''Film/OneMissedCall'': While the female lead is searching the AbandonedHospital, she comes across a phone-holding corpse which has maggots all over it.

* In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'', when Tommy digs up Jason's grave to cremate his corpse, we get a GrossUpCloseUp of Jason's rotting corpse full with coffin fly maggots, earthworms, cobwebs and other things found in a 10-day old coffin.
* When Gary goes looking for Karen in ''Film/EvilBreedTheLegendOfSamhain'', he finds her murdered body in the shed with maggots crawling out of her eyes and mouth ([[FridgeLogic despite the fact there would have been barely enough time for flies to lay eggs in her body, let alone enough for them to hatch]]).

* One round of "Newsflash" on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' (where random footage is green-screened behind an unknowing player that has to act like they are filming a news broadcast) was a loop of various writhing maggots, much to the groaning disgust of the audience.
* Something like this is a cordon bleu delicacy for Klingons in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Commander Riker spends time as an exchange officer on a Klingon ship and is presented with a dish of seething maggots; recognizing this is a test, he eats up without batting an eyelid.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In ''Heroes and Demons'', Krytan modifies a teleporter to act as a duplicator, creating two copies of the original, which he test upon a strawberry. However, the device unintentionally splits all the good and bad qualities, so whilst one strawberry tastes incredible, the other is rotten and crawling with maggots, a fact Lister doesn't discover until after he's taken a bite of it.
* ''Series/AmericanGods2017'': As a zombie, Laura keeps coughing up big wet chunks of white stuff that turns out to be maggots.

* One of the absolute grossest {{golem}} variants in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' is the simply named "Maggot Golem", which debuted in the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting. Existing as a kind of cross between a {{golem}} and TheWormThatWalks, the core of a maggot golem is an enchanted mass of perpetually rotting meat, which attracts flies; these breed profusely, creating an enormous swarm of maggots that then twist themselves into a repugnant caricature of the humanoid form and attack anything they are directed to - or which happens to be made of meat, which they seek to absorb into their rotting central mass. Because of the magic, the meat "core" of the golem regenerates pretty much as fast as it's eaten, so as maggots age, they pupate, turn into flies, then lay their own eggs in the morass, creating a perpetual cycle that ensures the maggot golem will never die. Aside from just being plain disgusting, the most central features of the maggot golem tend to be a vile stench so overwhelming it can ''kill'', obfuscation from the protective swarm of mother flies, and causing even worse attacks against the SanityMeter than the standard [[FrankensteinsMonster flesh golem]].

* ''Toys/TheGrosseryGang'', following in the footsteps of its successor, ''The Trash Pack'', uses maggots as decoration on the characters to signify their rot. Unlike ''The Trash Pack'', they are included in their models in the [[WebAnimation/TheGrosseryGang webseries]], as a separately-animated animation asset. Series 4 of the franchise later introduced Maj. Maggots, an evil living maggot that used a rotten chicken drumstick as his weapon.
* ''Toys/FlushForce'' subverts this with Monstrous Maggot. Despite being a maggot living in a dump, he is very fussy, and a giant [[TerrifiedOfGerms germaphobe]], explicitly preferring his garbage to be "clean and tidy".

* One ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'' strip has Cornelius about to make breakfast when he notices what looks like shredded coconut in the skillet. It turns out to be maggots that fell off the corpse of a rat in a trap.

* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' has a variety of foods that are either maggot-infested or straight up maggots. A majority of this food falls into the "Gross Foods" category. Oddly enough, the "Fly and Maggot Pizza" is considered a standard Pizza category food, while the "Maggot Pizza" is labeled under "Gross Foods" instead.