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* Used repeatedly in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise, where keys are implanted inside people, either to force others to attack them or to force the implant-ee to perform self-surgery.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. To provide for his family, a new inmate is bribed to smuggling Bronze Tiger's WolverineClaws into prison by hiding the various components under his skin. It's implied that he bleeds to death in the process of removing them.

* In ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', Bond uses the dead body of diamond smuggler Peter Franks to smuggle diamonds through customs.

* ''Film/NoTimeToDie''. Safin knows in advance of SPECTRE's plan to kidnap Dr. Obruchev, so he instructs him to download important files from his computer beforehand and swallow the flash drive. Obruchev tries to swallow it again when Bond shows up only to have it knocked out of his mouth before he can do so.

* ''Film/NoTimeToDie''. Safin knows in advance of SPECTRE's plan to kidnap Dr. Obruchev, so he instructs him to download important files from his computer beforehand and swallow the flash drive. He tries to swallow it again when Bond shows up only to have it knocked out of his mouth before he can do so.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' the 4[[superscript:th]] edition Augmentation book gives rules and equipment stats for adding one of these into a dead body.

* ''Literature/GideonTheNinth'': How do you hide something from [[{{Psychometry}} post-cognitives]], {{necromancer}}s and [[ISeeDeadPeople mediums]]? [[spoiler: You hide it inside the body of a murder victim after being examined. Dulcinea / Cytheria hid one of the challenge keys needed to unlock a door within her first murder victim. The combination of a taboo against cutting up a noble lady and doing so after the initial medical examination was ''almost'' a foolproof strategy.]]

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'':

* [[RealityEnsues Malfunction of this trope]] is what leads the protagonist of ''Film/{{Lucy}}'' to acquire her superpowers.

* ''{{Webcomic/Shortpacked}}'': RobotGirl Ultra-Car has a cabinet in her chest that contains a third arm. [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2031 In one page]], she uses said cabinet to shoplift from a closing bookstore.

* In ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' the vampire elders Viktor and Amelia had the components for the key to William's tomb surgically placed in their chests.

* In 1990 ''Peacemaker'', thanks to the HealingFactor. The titular HumanAlien shows up for the climactic fight with a fresh scar on his stomach and says he lost his gun when he fell off the train. A few moments later he tears the wound open and pulls the gun out of there.

* An early episode of ''Series/TheBlacklist'' has a listee nicknamed "The Courier" does this with multiple items throughout his body, including a handy lock pick set for if he gets captures. He can do this because he has [[FeelsNoPain CIPA]], so it doesn't bother him. Consequently, he is CoveredInScars.

* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'': In ''Under My Skin'' patients are [[spoiler:operated on abroad under the guise of a cheaper gastric bypass surgery, removing part of their internal organs and replacing them with bags of drugs. They return in US territory none the wiser, with their obvious health problems explaind away as temporary post-op effects, then are killed and the drugs extracted before anyone realises.]] One of them falls ill earlier, leading Sherlock on the trail.

* In ''Literature/{{Genome}}'' one of Kim's many genetic modifications is a fist-sized poach in her stomach. The novel starts with her hiding there a very valuable stolen device. It's implied that [[spoiler:she's been designed a couple decades ago precisely for smuggling this particular crystal]], but the poach has many more uses for a genetically specialized super-spy.

This trope is about using a person as a walking safe. Or a dead safe, in some cases. Despite the name, the treasure can be hidden in other body parts, and with or without the person's knowledge. Smugglers may willingly have themselves (or others) surgically altered to hide objects inside of them. As shown to the right, in some instances the hidden item may be parked inside the person's [[OurSoulsAreDifferent Soul]] or [[AnatomyOfTheSoul odder "places"]], as if in a spiritual {{Hammerspace}}. Taking the item out may require surgery (hopefully PsychicSurgery to avoid ScarsAreForever), or may be simple if they've been surgically given "pouches".

* ''Literature/GideonTheNinth'': How do you hide something from [[{{Psychometry}} post-cognitives]], {{necromancer}}s and [[ISeeDeadPeople mediums]]? [[spoiler: You hide it inside the body of a murder victim after being examined. Dulcinea / Cytheria hid one of the challenge keys needed to unlock a door within her first murder victim. The combination of a taboo against cutting up a noble lady and doing so after the initial medical examination was ''almost'' a foolproof strategy.]]

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure:
** ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'': Ermes has her breasts slightly modified so that she can hide rolled-up money in them. Since she's going to a higher-security prison and knows their search procedures, she needs ''some'' way to get money past the guards.

* In a rather bizarre version, Christopher Walken's part in ''Film/PulpFiction'' keeps a pocket watch up his arse to give it to the son of the last owner.

* ''Literature/{{Friday}}''. The title character has a pouch implanted behind her belly button that can hold a small object. She often uses it while acting as a courier. At the beginning of the book she's carrying a vitally important message from the Moon to Earth... [[spoiler:but, unbeknownst to her, not actually in her pouch, since her enemies know about it.]]

** The Samedi can use their clan discipline of Thanatosis to hide or store objects in the folds and wrinkles of their putrid skin. Other vampires can learn this application of the discipline, but without skin that naturally sags and stretches, the results tend to be rather... obvious.

* Bender of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' can hide all kinds of stuff inside his robot body - children, robot clowns, Fry... he even proved to have so much space available that a small doomsday device went off inside him and didn't damage him. But when it came to carrying around an entire castle's worth of loot he started to show difficulties.

** [[http://magiccards.info/fvr/en/6.html Karn the silver golem]] (now [[http://magiccards.info/nph/en/1.html golem planeswalker]]) has a {{Hammerspace}} cavity in his chest within which he stores a massive assortment of super-powerful doomsday artifacts called the Legacy, [[http://magiccards.info/query?q=skyshaper&v=card&s=cname some of them]] nearly as large as himself. He's also one of the Legacy artifacts himself. He could ''also'' also plug himself into [[http://magiccards.info/query?q=weatherlight&v=card&s=cname a flying ship]] which was another part of the Legacy to activate [[http://magiccards.info/ap/en/137.html the super-scary doomweapon]], before he absorbed ''the whole ship'' into his chest compartment.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'': In Part 6, Ermes has her breasts slightly modified so that she can hide rolled-up money in them. Since she's going to a higher-security prison and knows their search procedures, she needs ''some'' way to get money past the guards.