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* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' has the reveal trailer for the third character of th second Fighter Pass. It opens with the various heroes of the roster getting [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] by [[AngelicAbomination Galeem]], the BigBad of the story mode "World of Light". But just as he prepares to unleash his ultimate KillEmAll attack, just as he did in the story's opening, he suddenly gets ''[[DiagonalCut sliced in half!]]'' As the other fighters gaze in awe of their enemy defeated, it's eventually revealed that they just exchanged one angel of death for another, more dangerous one; [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] has arrived, ready to bring despair to Super Smash Bros.

* Taken literally in ''VideoGame/{{Afterlife}}'', where one of Hell's punishments places the damned on a giant frying pan over a fire. They occasionally jump, in the desperate and vain hope that the fire will be less hot this time.

* ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Ratigan's RightHandCat Felicia is being chased by Toby, Sherlock Holmes's dog who is helping Basil. She hops atop a high wall and smugly taunts her pursuer before jumping to the other side... where the Royal guard dogs are kept.

-->'''Tidus''': *Narrating* I had gone out of the frying pan... [[PopularSayingBut and into the freezer]].

--> '''Bunnigus''': "What? '''No.''' We're saving them from the fire."
--> '''Legs:''' "We're chasing an indoor [[{{BFG}} plasma rocket]], sir. [[DeadpanSnarker We're probably only saving those two from the frying pan]]."

-->'''Vader:''' You're in no position to choose anything.
-->'''Luke:''' Oh, I'm positioned perfectly to choose. Between the frying pan and the fire. [[ShutUpHannibal I choose... fire]]. ''(jumps into a massive hole)''

* WesternAnimation/SouthPark: In “Coon and Friends”, after BP’s second drilling accident opens a dimensional portal unleashing a horde of monsters they get the bright idea of fixing it by drilling on the moon, which awakens Cthulhu.

* Creator/MeatLoaf has a song called "Out of the Frying Pan (and into the Fire)".

* ''WesternAnimation/AsterixVersusCaesar'': After being captured by the Romans, Tragicomix and Panacea are initially taken to a Roman camp in the Sahara, where they are put to work as slaves. They escape the camp, but get stranded in a sandstorm and are taken captive again; this time by slave traders who take them to Rome, where they are bought by Caius Fatuous to be thrown for the lions during the upcomming games in the circus.

* In ''{{Film/Hellboy}}'', after Hellboy resists temptation and avoids triggering the apocalypse, he kills his tempter, Rasputin. A tentacle-y monster slithers out of Rasputin's body and rapidly grows to a massive size...

* ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'': In "Yogi Bear's Biog Break", Yogi tries to break out of Jellystone Park so he won't have to put up with annoying tourists. When he finally escapes via HumanCannonball, he finds out that hunting season just opened, and the episode ends with Yogi trying to reenter while dodging bullets.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': At the end of "Dexter Detention", Dexter and some fellow students escape from detention by [[FastTunnelling digging a tunnel underground]], only emerge from the ground inside the state prison.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has a [[LampshadedHanging lampshaded]] case. The penultimate boss fight (for those who don't have the [[UpdatedRerelease Royal Edition]]/[[DownloadableContent Royal Pack]]) is [[PhysicalGod Ifrit]], [[PlayingWithFire the Infernian]]. He spends the first half of the boss fight on a throne, and after the party takes out his first HP bar, Noctis summons Bahamut to perform [[StormOfBlades Ultima]] [[{{BFS}} Sword]]. End result? Ifrit ''[[AllForNothing loses a horn]]'', and gets off his throne in the process. Cue round two.

* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' ends with [[spoiler: the destruction of Asgard by a flaming monster while Thor, Loki, Hulk and the rest of the Asgardians escape on a spaceship.]] However, the mid-credits scene shows [[spoiler: the ship being intercepted by '''''[[GreaterScopeVillain Thanos]]''''']] Cut to ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' - [[spoiler: half the surviving Asgardians are massacred, and Thanos personally kills both Heimdall and Loki before leaving Thor floating n space, where he gets rescued by [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy the Guardians of the Galaxy]].]]

* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' ends with [[spoiler: the destruction of Asgard by a flaming monster while Thor, Loki, Hulk and the rest of the Asgardians escape on a spaceship]]. However, the mid-credits scene shows [[spoiler: the ship being intercepted by '''''[[GreaterScopeVillain Thanos]]'''''. ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' shows a sea of Asgardian corpses with Heimdall and Loki being killed by the mad titan's clutches and [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy the Guardians of the Galaxy]] finding Thor floating through space in a field of debris after receiving a distress call from an Asgardian]].

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' has a [[LampshadedHanging lampshaded]] case. The penultimate boss fight (for those who don't have the [[UpdatedRerelease Royal Edition]]/[[DownloadableContent Royal Pack]]) is [[PhysicalGod Ifrit]], [[PlayingWithFire the Infernian]]. He spends the first half of the boss fight on a throne, and after the party takes out his first HP bar, Noctis summons Bahamut to perform [[StormOfBlades Ultima]] [[BFS Sword]]. End result? Ifrit ''[[AllForNothing loses a horn]]'', and gets off his throne in the process. Cue round two.

--> '''Tidus''': *Narrating* I had gone out of the frying pan...[[PopularSayingBut and into the freezer]].