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* [[http://www.movie-theatres.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/daybreakers.jpg A version of this]] is used to store the humans being harvested for blood in {{Daybreakers}}.

* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''. Mr. Freeze's wife suffers from a fatal disease called MacGregor's Syndrome. He keeps her in suspended animation in a liquid-filled tube while he works on a cure.

* In ''The City of Gold and Lead'' (''Literature/TheTripods'' novels by JohnChristopher), the narrator wonders why no women are seen in the Tripod city. Then his Master takes him to a place were human females are kept preserved like butterflies.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Any Saiyan that ends up hurt gets put in one to heal much faster than they normally would.
** Anyone under Frieza's command gets put into a healing tank to recover; even Frieza himself gets this treatment.

* ''StarWars'': In a less squicky moment, Luke Skywalker recovers from ice monster injuries and near hypothermia in a bacta tank.

* TheMovieOfTheBook ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' puts the protagonist into a jar while a surgical robot fixes a large gash in his leg.

* In ''{{Terinu}}'' the Ferin were placed in "Power Cells" up to ten at a time to act as living fusion reactors for the Dominion. [[http://www.terinu.com/GalleryImage.aspx?Gallery=3&Image=5 they seem to have regarded it as pleasurable]] though Teri would disagree.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' had infected patients in tanks.

* Tank people have shown up in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In the first, Data found a cryogenic pod containing three frozen American humans from the early 21st century; in the latter, the ship found pods containing people kidnapped from Earth in 1937. One was [[spoiler: Amelia Earhart]].
** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Empath", Kirk, Spock, and [=McCoy=] find the bodies of two missing researchers encased in jars. Ominiously, they then discover three empty jars labelled with their names.
** "Space Seed" shows Khan and his followers in cryogenic storage.

* In the reboot of ''Battlestar Galactica'' [[spoiler: humanoid Cylons who show signs of personality abberations are 'boxed' to quarantine them from infecting the rest of the Cylons with their abberations/ideas]]

* In the Subspace Emissary mode of ''Super Smash Bros''. Brawl, several Subspace creatures can be found in tanks during one of the Halberd stages.

* ''TheySavedHitlersBrain'' - actually, his entire live, sentient head. Clearly an influence on ''{{Futurama}}''.

* ''{{Noein}}': The people from [[spoiler: the possible future]] tried to put [[spoiler: Haruka]] in a people jar.

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* ClueFinders 5th grade has both humans and animals being kept in a type of these [[spoiler:by aliens who want to eat thier brains.]]

* Young Clark Kent from the elseworlds Superman: Secret Identities after being captured by the American Government wakes up floating in one and surrounded by dozens of similar jars containing the murdered victims of others from infants to adults that the government had captured and experimented on.

* ''GundamSEED and ''GundamSEEDDestiny'':''Several characters were grown in jars. They all have issues.

* ''Manga/DragonBallZ'': Any Saiyan that ends up hurt gets put in one to heal much faster than they normally would.

** ''[[VideoGame/{{Mother1}} VideoGame/EarthBound Zero]]'' also has people who have been kidnapped by aliens stuffed in tubes, making this a series-wide trope.

* Between ''[[VideoGame/GalaxyAngel Galaxy Angel: Eternal Lovers]]'' and ''Galaxy Angel II: Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira'', Vanilla discovers Nano-Nano, an ArtificialHuman made of {{Nanomachines}}, in a jar.

* In ''[[VideoGame/StarControl Star Control II]]'', [[CollectorOfTheStrange admiral ZEX]] keeps the last female Shofixti in [[SuspendedAnimation cryogenic pods]] in his menagerie.

* ''Manga/DragonBall Z'': Any Saiyan that ends up hurt gets put in one to heal much faster than they normally would.

* In the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/BionicHeart'', we learn that Richard, the CorruptCorporateExecutive the main character works for, has captured and preserved some of the greatest minds from the last 50 years into People Jars so that [[spoiler:he can place their brains into android Prototypes and use them for personal gain]].

* In Webcomic/GuildedAge, [[spooiler: the [[FiveManBand five main characters]] are kept in this, as the world they live in is actually a [[Film/TheMatrix Maxtrix style]] video game.]]