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* Attempted in ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers''. Thanks to [[spoiler: Sakurako]]'s machinations, Tsukushi finds herself taken for a drag ''in a speeding car'' while Kazuya is ForcedToWatch. [[spoiler:Tsukasa arrives and bails her out, but ''barely''.]]

* ''Film/SevenMenFromNow''': Stride is wounded in an ambush set by two of the seven men. After he kills them, he tries to take one of the outlaw's horses, only for the horse to spook and run off. Stride gets dragged along behind the horse until he slams headfirst into a rock.

* Played for laughs in the Creator/ChrisFarley movie ''Film/BlackSheep1996'' - he's enthusiastically campaigning for his politician brother, loading groceries in an old couple's car and putting them off with his overbearing zeal. He closes the trunk and realizes he's caught his tie in it, and his terrified screams only get the couple to drive away faster.

* In the Creator/JohnWayne movie ''Film/TheCowboys'', the young boys [[spoiler: send off the villain who has trapped his foot in a stirrup, his body dragging on the ground, by firing in the air to frighten the horse and letting it run off. Would have been kinder to just shoot him dead]].

* In ''Literature/HeavenOfficialsBlessingTianGuanCiFu'', RoyalBrat Qi Rong punishes Honghong-er [[spoiler: Hua Cheng as a child]] for disrupting the ceremonial parade by accidentally falling from a tall building near the parade route by dragging Honghong-er in a sack behind his carriage. Fortunately, Xie Lian rescues Honghong-er before he can be permanently injured. Unfortunately, the king and queen refuse to punish Qi Rong beyond revoking his carriage-driving privileges.
* In ''Literature/TheLastBookInTheUniverse'', [[spoiler: Ryter is executed this way]]. It appears to be a common method of execution in the latches.
* In ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'', Mr. Big intends to kill Bond and Solitaire by keel-hauling them - dragging them over a coral reef and then letting them be eaten by sharks and barracuda in open water. Just before they hit the coral, though, a mine Bond had attached to Mr. Big's yacht explodes.

-->'''Vince Snetterton-Lewis (Graham Chapman)''': Well, one day I was sitting at home, threatening the kids, when I look out through the hole in the wall and I see this tank drive up. And one of Dinsdale's boys gets out, and he comes in all nice and friendly like and says Dinsdale wants to have a talk with me. So he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's place.

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* The ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'' hero Rampage can do this with his rhino. [[spoiler: Or his unicorn.]]

* Happens to [[spoiler: Carlos]] in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', resulting in [[spoiler: the player character giving him a MercyKill]].
* ''[[VideoGame/TheEndTimesVermintide Warhammer- The End Times: Vermintide]]'' has the Packmaster Skaven, who grabs a hero by the neck with a "Things-Catcher" (basically a spiked clamp) and drags them around to their slow, painful death unless another hero kills it. However, the pain isn't from the dragging- it's from the suffocation as well as the spikes on the clamp digging into their neck.

-->'''Stan''': Well, who didn't see that coming.

-->'''Gordon''': Well, little Thomas! [[LaserGuidedKarma Now you know what hard work means, don't you?]]

* Inverted by the "Nantucket sleighride", a tactic of old-time whalers, in which a harpooned whale would drag a longboat until it succumbed to blood loss and exhaustion. Occasionally subverted if the tether broke, or played straight if the whale turned back and flipped or demolished the longboat.

* Kabal's "Road Rash" Fatality in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' has him hooking his opponent with one of his sword before he uses his SuperSpeed to drag him across the ground until their face is reduced to a bloody skull and the eyes are torn out of their sockets. And then, just to end in a high note, he launches them in front, before teleporting to cut them in half.

* One VictimOfTheWeek in the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "Blood on the Saddle" is killed by being lassoed and then dragged along behind a horse.

* Messala's death in ''Film/BenHur1959'' comes as a result of being dragged behind his chariot in the sand of the chariot race-course. Ouch.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS2E11VivaLosMuertos ¡Viva los Muertos!]]"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

** An assassin who tries to kill Daenerys Targaryen, a ''khaleesi'' (queen) of the Dothraki, is punished by having his neck and arms tied behind her horse as she breaks camp and being forced to run naked behind her until he inevitably passes out from exhaustion and gets dragged to death.

--->''"He won't be harmed... as long as he can keep up."''

** An assassin who tries to kill the Khaleesi is punished by having his neck and arms tied behind her horse as she breaks camp.
-->''"He won't be harmed... as long as he can keep up."''

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'' has a particularly ''brutal'' example. In the wake of the chaos caused by Soldier Boy's attack on Herogasm, A-Train kills Blue Hawk by using his speed to drag him by his leg along the road for several miles until he's reduced to an eviscerated corpse with a long trail of blood behind him, something that can be only described as a fatal case of road rash. This also doubles as KickTheSonOfABitch as Blue Hawk is a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain virulent racist]] who paralyzed A-Train's older brother.