Exactly What It Says on the Tin: A fight that takes place in a slaughterhouse, amongst the meat chunks hanging from the hooks. Adds a certain edge to a confrontation, surrounding it with death from the onset and simultaneously blocking the line of sight in all directions. Expect No OSHA Compliance and a Conveyor Belt o' Doom. Bonus point if the place doubles as a Sickening Slaughterhouse.
And hey, if you survive you can get a Beef Bandage immediately.
Has nothing to do with Slaughterhouse-Five.
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Anime & Manga
- In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Barry the Chopper tries to kill Winry and Ed at one of these. Makes sense, since he's also a butcher.
Comic Books
- Batman Inc. has one when Talia tries to poison a huge supply of beef. It ends with Damian declaring himself a vegetarian and adopting "Bat-Cow."
- Captain Britain fights the monstrous killer Silver Death in a Glaswegian abattoir. Silver Death, one of the mutated Warpies, is a flying bundle of bladed, hooked tentacles surrounding a disembodied head. He absolutely shreds the beef carcasses during the fight - and flying through them doesn’t even slow him down.
- Cletus Kasady and Flash Thompson, who are both legless due to losing their symbiotes, fight in a meat processing plant at the end of Carnage U.S.A.
- Deadpool gets into a fight in a slaughterhouse with Mr. Improvised Weapon himself, Bullseye. The only way for Wade to survive is to make a suit of frozen meat armor, thus fulfilling his childhood dream.
Fan Works
- When ice hockey first comes to Ankh-Morpork on the Discworld, the best available venue for big mennote on ice skates to beat Hell out of each other is the deep-frozen Pork Futures Warehouse. Where room is created for a fighting/occasional playing area among all the deep-frozen meat carcasses. It's all in the A.A. Pessimal version.
Film — Live-Action
- The 1990 Captain America film has one fight scene that takes place in a slaughter house.
- Every Which Way but Loose features a bare-knuckle fight in a slaughterhouse cooling fridge.
- Van Damme's character finds himself in such situation in Maximum Risk, as he is chased by a chainsaw wielding bad guy.
- Motel Hell had a scene in which the villain fought the hero in a slaughterhouse while wearing a pig's head as a mask.
- Predator 2: Keyes and his DEA team plan to capture the Predator in a slaughterhouse, filling the air with dust to foil its Invisibility Cloak, while the low temperatures and some special suits will render his team invisible to thermal vision. Unfortunately for the feds, the Predator still has ears, and its Cool Mask comes with additional vision modes.
- Happened in Sherlock Holmes (2009), with the Damsel in Distress chained to a Conveyor Belt o' Doom leading to a bandsaw and gas pipes spewing flame. The location was later justified when it was revealed the Big Bad was refining his poison gas in the bellies of swine.
- The 2005 horror film The Slaughterhouse Massacre is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
- Erin is forced to play cat and mouse games against Leatherface in the climax of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Chrissy does the same in the prequel.
- At the start of The Tournament, Joshua is involved in a gunfight inside a slaughterhouse.
- At the end of Wanted, fighting the knife master.
Live-Action Television
- The Book of Boba Fett. "The Return of the Mandalorian" opens with the eponymous Mandalorian looking inside an alien slaughterhouse for his bounty, who happens to be the owner. After killing the bounty and his minions, the Mandalorian finds himself confronted by a mob of slaughterhouse workers wielding cleavers. Fortunately, he's able to convince them to help themselves to the money on their dead boss's desk in exchange for letting him pass without further violence.
- Happened at least once on Highlander.
- There are at least two examples in The X-Files, one of them in episode "Red Museum".
Video Games
- There's a brief scuffle between Todd and rival gang members in a slaughterhouse in Beavis And Butthead Virtual Stupidity.
- Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard has the beginning of the second level (arguably the first real level, since the first is more of a tutorial/setting-of-the-stage thing) set in a butcher's store, complete with a shootout in the meatlocker, and an achievement for destroying all the hanging sides of meat.
- After Michael is taken hostage by the Triad in Ludendorff in Grand Theft Auto V, Franklin tracks him to a slaughterhouse in East Los Santos. Said slaughterhouse has open vats of acid and open saws, which would be dangerous enough without the gunfight that ensues, and several mooks fall into these as you fight them.
- In Half-Life, one portion of Office Complex takes place in a giant walk-in refrigerator with hanging meat.
- Norman fights a minor criminal inside a slaughterhouse in Heavy Rain. A meathook ends up playing an important part in the fight.
- The second visit of Lupino's hotel in the first Max Payne takes Max through a slaughterhouse located next to the hotel and full of goons.
- Nightmare Creatures: The third boss, Jose Manuel, whom you fight in a burning slaughterhouse and attacks you by flinging butcher knives.
- The last (non-DLC) heist in PAYDAY: The Heist, aptly named "Slaughterhouse". Has since been ported to the sequel.
- The restaurant stage in Resident Evil: Gun Survivor has a scene where the protagonist battle zombies in a slaughterhouse freezer.
- In Saints Row 2, the protagonist faces off against Mr. Sunshine (Hollywood Voodoo-powered Dragon of a drug cartel) and his men in a slaughterhouse. For extra creepiness, there are occult symbols scrawled all over the walls, floor, and ceiling.
- The boss fight against Eddie Drombowski in Silent Hill 2, in what's implied to be his version of the Otherworld. The theme of "butchery" is also significant in Silent Hill: Origins.
- In a late level in the original Splinter Cell, Sam has to crawl through a slaughterhouse filled with enemy guards (and turrets).
Western Animation
- The end of the King of the Hill episode "Pigmalion". The villain, a crazy meat tycoon voiced by Michael Keaton, dies when he is run through the machinery... seconds after an electric shock restores his sanity.