History Main / WoodChipperOfDoom

* A non-lethal version in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': child-contaminated doors are fed into a chipper; [[spoiler:Sully is heartbroken when this happens to Boo's door at the end, though it's eventually restored afterwards.]] Randall, at one point, [[BadBoss threatens to feed his assistant Fungus into it]] out of frustration.

This is a DeathTrope, so beware of some unmarked spoilers. Compare and contrast with GroundByGears.

* ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'': This appears to be the preferred method of execution in Panem, or at least the Capitol. Any Gamemaker who fails at their duties is [[WoodChipperOfDoom thrown into a woodchipper that President Orion owns]]. Snow reuses it for his Gamemakers after he becomes president, and Paylor also makes use of it to [[spoiler:execute Snow's ministers and any remaining Gamemakers]] once she's made interim president following the Second Rebellion.

* The ''Pokémon'' fanfic ''The Many Deaths of Nemona Alegria'' has this as the first death - Nemona is tripped up by a Smoliv and falls into a running wood chipper.

* In the fourth ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book, George and Harold have been shrunk by VillainOfTheWeek Professor Poopypants and try to escape the school using a paper airplane and almost get sucked into a woodchipper. Fortunately, Captain Underpants happens to be guiding them and pushes their glider out of harms way (they can't see him since he's been shrunk even smaller than them).

* An ice chipper, not a wood chipper, but in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', you can make use of one of these for a particularly brutal finisher. [[spoiler: It's how Wei finishes off [[BigBad Big Smile Lee]].]]

* ''Film/{{Downtown}}'': Joe Pantoliano's character is flung off the windscreen of a car into a wood chipper and turned into a bloody puree.

* One stunt on ''Series/CrissAngelMindfreak'' had Criss appear to fail an escape from a coffin being fed into a wood chipper, only to reappear in one piece afterwards.

* Uday and Qusay, the sons of Iraqi dictator UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, were widely believed to have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_alleged_shredder used a wood chipper or a plastic shredder to dispose of their victims.]]

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* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaPomewinIsland (original draft)'' is a competition fic in which contestants are murdered upon their elimination. For the first boot, this entailed being thrown into a wood chipper by Chef.

* Played for laughs in the one episode of the recurring ''Series/MadTV'' sketch [[BloodyHilarious Paul Timberman's Workshop]]. Paul Timberman's grandfather, Grandpa Timberman, had an untimely fall into a woodchipper.

* A good-guy version occurs in ''Film/TheSilence2019''. When Hugh's family is attacked by [[TheSwarm vesps]] while crawling through the drainage tunnel, he creates a distraction for the monsters (who are drawn by sound) by turning on a nearby woodchipper, causing TheSwarm to fly right into it and get chopped up.

* Perhaps the most infamous usage of this trope is in the movie ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', where psychopathic criminal Gaear Grimsrud murders [[spoiler:Carl Showalter]] with an ax, chops the body up into little pieces, then shoves the pieces into a ridiculously small wood chipper, which has jammed by the time [[PregnantBadass Marge Gunderson]] arrives at the scene, horrified by how sociopathic Grimsrud is.

This is a DeathTrope, so beware of some unmarked spoilers. Compare and contrast with GroundByGears

* An ice chipper, not a wood chipper, but in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', you can make use of one of these for a particularly brutal finisher. [[spoiler: It's how Wei finishes off [[BigBad Big Smile Lee]].]]

* In ''Film/DarkNightOfTheScarecrow'', Harliss hears a noise in his barn. He is investigating up in the loft when a wood chipper below starts of its own accord. Startled, he topples over into the machine and is killed. Since the wood chipper had not run out of gasoline after Harliss had been killed but had been switched off, Otis, Philby, and Skeeter suspect that Harliss' death was not accidental.

* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': Season 4’s “Dear Diary” saw Rosco’s diary — a surprisingly-detailed accounting of Boss Hogg’s criminal activities through the years — bite the dust in a wood chipper, thrown in there by the Duke Boys during a game of “keep away” from two of Boss’ ex-associates (who learn of the diary and plan to extort money in exchange for not bringing the book to the [=FBI=]).

* In the ''VideoGame/BloonsTowerDefense'' series, one of the towers in the fifth game is the Bloonchipper, a mechanical device that sucks in Bloons, shreds them, and spits the remainders, which then can be sucked in again. Its upgrades allow it to suck in more Bloons or shred them faster, and the final upgrade allows it to suck in [=MOAB=] class Bloons, stalling and delaying their movement.

This is a DeathTrope, so beware of some unmarked spoilers. Compare and contrast with GrindedByGears

This is a DeathTrope, so beware of some unmarked spoilers.

* Subverted in the pilot of ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. During an argument with his father, Clark shoves his arm into a woodchipper. His father is appropriately horrified and runs over to him, only to see that Clark is completely unharmed. This seems to be the moment where he (and by extension Martha) realize that Clark isn't just superhumanly strong and fast, but completely indestructible.

Any time you see someone using a wood chipper for its ''intended'' purpose, you probably cringe in fear, because in movie and TV land, wood chippers are big 'ol murder machines that'll turn your body into an unidentifiable pulp if you're unlucky enough to fall in. Alternatively, a wood chipper is also depicted as an excellent way of DisposingOfABody, albeit with [[{{Gorn}} a lot of gore]] and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome possible jamming of the mechanisms in the process]].

This fear of wood chippers is very TruthInTelevision -- people have gotten gravely injured and even killed by falling into wood chippers. Hell, some yahoos have even pulled a Houdini with a body ''{{Film/Fargo}}''-style (with various results).