History Main / ConveyorBeltODoom

* Getting caught by the BigBad in the NES game ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'' leads the eponymous character to end up in this situation, and it's up to the player to figure out a way to escape before the inevitable occurs.

* There's ''another'' Jackie Chan movie with a conveyor belt o' doom. It's a sticky surface that gets chopped into lengths by blades at the end of the conveyor belt. Jackie and the girl get stuck on it while fighting mooks. In the end, Jackie gets himself and the girl off (with some ClothingDamage)... and then goes back and stops the belt just before the mooks get sliced into pieces.

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Lord Blackwood has Irene Adler shackled to an assembly line with a bandsaw blade designed to saw pig carcasses in half.

* ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'':
** The short "WesternAnimation/TheDucksters" begins with WesternAnimation/PorkyPig tied on a conveyor belt to a buzzsaw as part of a quiz show hosted by WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck (he had to answer the question before reaching the saw). [[BookEnds In the end]], Daffy is on the receiving end of the conveyor belt after Porky buys the radio station with his prize money and turns the tables on him. Daffy apparently ''doesn't'' know the answer to his question and instead [[IsThereADoctorInTheHouse yells for a doctor]].
** "I Gopher You", the gopher twins chase down their vegetables to a food processing plant. One of them gets caught in a canning machine, and the other in a dehydrating machine, neither ending up the worse for wear. Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" was a dominant leitmotif.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': The accidental version happens to Mindy and Buttons in "Up the Crazy River". As always, Buttons comes off the worst for it.
* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode "Starting from Scratch": Furball ends up on a conveyor, but when he realizes it ends in a rotary saw, he just turns his back toward it in the hope that it will scratch his back, where he has a flea. A workman shuts it off before it can split him in half.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "The Good Ol' Days", Vicky kidnaps Timmy's grandfather and [[ChainedToARailway attempts to tie him to the railroad tracks]], only to find it crowded so she opts for this [[LumberMillMayhem at the sawmill]]. Seeing how slow the conveyor moved, she realizes why the mill was up for grabs.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', Gadget is captured and tied to a conveyor belt which is sending her to be chopped up. As she had been pretending to be Chip's moll, the villain, Rat Capone, says he's going to turn her into a "mini-moll". It's only because Monty manages to put his [[IntergenerationalFriendship friend]]'s life above his cheese addiction that Gadget is saved.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' episode "The Surge", Nya, Sensei Wu and a whole mess of schoolkids find themselves on one of these. Context: they were visiting Borg Industries during a field trip to see the factory area. The Digital Overlord takes control of technology while they were on the viewing conveyer belt, causing the manufacturing machines to attack them.
* The first "and now back to" bumper for ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' has Scratch and Grounder happily peering over Sonic as he's tied up on a log being split by a buzzsaw.
* Penny ends up on one in the ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' episode "Mellow Drama Falls", as part of its homage to classic silent films.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoTrux'' has Garby's stomach, a conveyer belt full of blades and crushers meant to break apart and process the rocks he eats. Not the safest place for an accidentally eaten Reptool to find itself.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'' had Kelly Hamdon, who is being tied up to a log by a villain, and placed on a conveyor belt heading towards a rocket ship, about to plunge into the sun. If it weren't for her big brother, Kelly could have been french fried (YUM!) or sunburned (THAT REALLY DOES HURT!). As the rocket ship (containing Kelly) goes into the sun, the superhero(ine) uses a space pod which in turn is attached to the ship's hull and rescue his big sister from plunging into the sun, much to his dismay. While the rocket ship is heading towards the sun (with the space pod attached), Maz used a space shuttle (and some rope) to pull the rocket ship away from the sun and back towards earth.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "My Girl", Lana Lang got caught snooping on an illicit arms deal, and ended up in a hopper that was about to be filled with molten lead. The villain [[JustBetweenYouAndMe pointed out]] that the lead fumes insured that nobody else would be on the grounds and that Superman couldn't see into the building. Fortunately for Lana, Supes could ''hear'' the villain just fine.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', Melissa Chase winds up with her shoelaces caught on a Conveyor Belt of Doom at a recycling center while trying to retrieve Milo's Doctor Note as it moves towards a series of grinders.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Mysterious Mr. Mist", Mr. Mist attempts to feed Perry White into a buzz saw on his farm.
* The page image comes from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight''. It's worth noting that between Nell having to have a postman deliver her request for help to Dudley, Dudley riding to Snidely's sawmill to get Nell to stamp the letter before riding back to base to open it, Inspector Fenwick taking an hour and a half to give Dudley coherent orders to save his daughter, and Dudley riding back to the mill to save the day, the only reason Nell didn't end up in pieces was because the sawmill was badly in need of maintenance.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'':
** The episode "Curse of the Lion Men" had a scene where Wily trapped Mega Man and Rush in a buster-proof net and let them on a conveyor towards blades for slicing fish. Mega Man uses a saw blade to cut the net open and escape.
** In "Campus Commandos", Mega Man and Roll were tied up in a clock tower and left to be crushed by the gears inside. Mega Man takes advantage of his damaged buster and uses its sparks to sever his bindings.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'''s episode, "Ready to Rumble", Porcupine and Gaterboy's mother, Mrs. Fang, suffered an attempt to be fed on a buzz saw on her farm by mobsters after her children failed to win the grand prize of a wrestling competition. Fortunately, Ben was there to save her.

* In one of the old episodes of ''Series/AllThat'', Kenan Thompson's super alter ego, who is lactose intolerant, gets strapped into a conveyor belt which will spray milk on him, but he gets rescued all right.

* An episode of the GameShow ''Series/TruthOrConsequences'' required a woman from the audience to stop an incredibly complex machine before its conveyor belt dropped a pie on her husband's face. There were all kinds of lights, switches, etc. on the machine which she flipped frantically, but [[spoiler:unbeknownst to her, the only way to stop it was to pull the electrical plug out of its outlet]].
* One of the so-called "{{bonus round}}s" on ''Series/{{Distraction}}''; if your prize (which they state very clearly that ''you have already won'') makes it to the end before you answer the question correctly, it meets the wrong end of a wrecking ball.
* The '''entire premise''' of ''Series/Downfall2010''. Don't answer in time, and your prizes, your money and eventually ''you'' go over the side of a 10-story building.
* Mrs. Peel of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' is tied up and put on a conveyor belt to a giant buzzsaw in the episode "Epic".

* In the ''Series/NewTricks'' episode "Dark Chocolate", Gerry is almost dragged into a chopping machine when his jacket gets snagged on a conveyor belt in a chocolate factory.

* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', the gang tries to film a fake a news story in which they rescue kittens. One of their attempts has them try to construct a conveyor belt that leads to Charlie chopping enthusiastically with a butcher knife. After trying it out with a stuffed animal, the gang realizes that it's too obvious that they're the ones imperiling the kittens in the first place.
* ''Series/BreakoutKings'': In "The Bag Man", T-Bag feeds one of his victims into a rock crusher at a quarry.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'':
** In "The Killings of Copenhagen", the murderer trusses up one of the victims and places them on a conveyor belt leading into an industrial bakers oven.
** In "Send in the Clowns", the third VictimOfTheWeek is stunned and dropped on to a conveyor belt into an abattoir which carries into the gassing chamber where is asphyxiated with carbon dioxide.
* ''Series/LostGirl'' involves one that Tamsin is tied to because she was naughty on Yule. Krampus took her and was going to turn her into candy, but Bo stopped it and set her free. Later Bo is strapped to it but is freed when she confesses her worries about the Wanderer.

* ''Goldfinger'' even got parodied in a ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74295 card!]].

* In ''Puzzle Adventure'' Vesemir puts a rogue gnome on a crusher belt in an abandoned factory to intimidate it into revealing the location of its boss.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', where it gets a LampshadeHanging (Filmore is saved by an erupting model volcano clearly labelled "Mount St. Cliche").
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
** In "Don't Fool with a Phantom", the last episode of the [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou original]] ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' series, the Wax Phantom (the MonsterOfTheWeek) left Shaggy and Scooby tied up on a conveyor belt that would dump them into a tank of melted wax, and Shaggy quipped, "That bit went out with the silent movies!" You know it's a DeadHorseTrope when it's being parodied in the ''early 1970s''.
*** Not that this stopped the titular Snow Ghost from chaining Velma to a log and sending it towards a buzzsaw in an earlier episode...
** In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo'', the series premiere, "The Scarab Lives!" had Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy, after splitting up from the rest of the group, get trapped on a conveyor belt that would have sliced them to pieces had it not been for a last minute burst of adrenaline on Scooby's part.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooAndScrappyDooShow'' episode "A Gem of a Case", the sawmill variant is used against the titular dogs and Shaggy as they trail the diamond thief, Fingers Malone. As Fingers escapes, Scooby manages to stop the belt in time before their log reaches the saw.
* One of these was set up by cliché devotee Señor Senior, Sr., on ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. At the end was a stolen cryogenic freezing device. [[ContractualGenreBlindness As a keen observer of villain codes]], he points out the power switch to them. But they can't reach it, and Rufus the naked mole rat doesn't weigh enough to push it, until he eats all the leftover corndogs in Ron's pocket.

* In the WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit animated short ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'', Gromit fights robo-dog Preston on the Conveyor Belt-O-Doom of a dog-food machine.
* Spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', where in one episode Darkwing has to train a newbie villain how to carry off the trope properly.

* An interesting subversion in ''{{WesternAnimation/ReBoot}}'' occurs where Enzo has himself tied up and put on one of these devices on purpose. The intent was to get his quarreling friends to rescue him and reconcile with each other in the process. This fails when the two start arguing again when they meet each other in front of the Conveyor Belt-O-Doom, and Enzo has to be rescued by his dog.

* WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}} has been in this situation three times, and Sweet Polly was in the same mess ''each'' time:
** In episode "Batty Man", Underdog and Polly are chained up and placed on a conveyor belt that goes to a machine that turns anything into bowling balls. Underdog is still able to access his [[AppliedPhlebotinum Super Energy Pill]], though.
** In "Pain Strikes Underdog", the conveyor belt is part of a candle-making machine that the villain Riff-Raff is using to disguise stolen swords as candles; in this case, both victims are bound with the wicks and hardened wax, the wick cutter intended to be used like a guillotine. (It even ''looks'' like one.) Unfortunately for Riff-Raff, [[VillainBall wax and normal rope can't hold Underdog for long]]...
** In "The Silver Thieves", Underdog's ring has been stolen, he's already nearly powerless because of it, and he and Polly are thrown onto one that leads to a furnace designed to melt down silver. Fortunately, Polly is lucky enough to find the stolen ring there.

* Mr. Nezzer puts the title characters of the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode "Rack, Shack and Benny" onto one of these in the way to the furnace. The episode takes place in a chocolate factory.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Parodied in an ''[[ShowWithinAShow Itchy and Scratchy]]'' cartoon. Itchy ties Scratchy to a log and sets it on a conveyor belt to a buzzsaw, but the conveyor belt is ridiculously slow. Frustrated with how long it's taking, Itchy simply gets an ax and butchers Scratchy himself.
** Also, in a segment of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E2TreehouseOfHorrorXXIV Treehouse of Horror XXIV]]" in which Bart and Lisa's heads are attached to the same body, Bart tries to gain full control by having a buzzsaw cut off the Lisa head. Needless to say, it doesn't work out as he hoped.
** ''Goldfinger'' is parodied in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice You Only Move Twice]]" with ''James Bont'' instead of James Bond to avoid [[LawyerFriendlyCameo problems]].
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E8FuneralForAFiend Funeral for a Fiend]]", Sideshow Bob traps Bart in a coffin on a belt slowly being fed to an incinerator. When the rest of the Simpsons arrive to stop him, he turns up the speed from "Gloating Speed" to "Kill Him Already".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', the episode "Home is Where the Spark Is" has Bulkhead on a conveyor belt that brings him towards a large machine that would crush his head he wrestles with it to keep it from getting him during most of this part).
* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' had one of these that Dark Kat put the heroes on, while he and Hard Drive were stealing the Turbokat in "[[Recap/SWATKatsS1E7NightOfTheDarkKat Night of the Dark Kat]]".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Black Eyes Only", Stan is tied to one by the Black Villain (yes, that's his name) and slowly fed into an incinerator. He escapes by [[spoiler:getting Sexpun's evil clone to suck on his feet, causing her to do a HeelFaceTurn and free him.]]
%% * It happens in almost every ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' episode, to the delight of certain fans.
* Richard Adler, the workshop teacher in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', attempts suicide by placing himself on a conveyor belt with a circular saw at the end. He appears to have second thoughts about it, but only because he realises that he's going toward the saw balls-first, and proceeds to reorient himself.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', episode [[CanadaEh "Yukon Yutz"]], the villain ties Johnny to a conveyor belt with a buzzsaw at the end. Johnny was saved by the ultra-hard gel in his hair, which broke the buzzsaw.
* The eponymous heroes of ''WesternAnimation/GoldieGoldAndActionJack'' get into this.
* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'':
** In the episode "Part-time Job", the Red Guy sends Chicken on a conveyor belt to a frying machine, but Super-Cow saves him in time.
** In "The Loneliest Cow", the Red Guy does this to himself. When a jealous Chicken calls for a tree Cow befriended to be removed, he goes to the sawmill to try to get it back to make his lonely sister feel better, but when the Red Guy intervenes, he tells him if he's trying to steal the tree, he's doing it all wrong: he has to tie himself to the tree. The Red Guy does just that, and as a result, gets turned into lumber.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' episode "Operation: Plush and Cover", the penguins are caught in a conveyor belt in a toy factory, which leads to an incinerator for rejected toys. Attempts to turn it off only activates more crushing devices.
* Happens to an overstereotyped Foxxy Love in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' has done this a few times.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]", one of Pinkie Pie's {{Imagine Spot}}s has a DastardlyWhiplash villain dispose of the cake Pinkie was guarding with one of these. With Pinkie herself ChainedToARailway, the cake inexorably meets its {{g|oryDiscretionShot}}ruesome end on a sawblade.

* In ERI Safety Videos' YetAnotherChristmasCarol PSA "[[https://youtu.be/7veBZHrK0Qc A Safety Carol]]", the Ghost of Safety Future shows Scrooge that he will meet his doom this way if he continues his NoOSHACompliance practices.

* ''TabletopGame/RoboRally'', a board game by RichardGarfield, has lots of these. If you aren't careful, they'll carry your robot off the board and/or into a bottomless pit.

* Subverted in a ''ComicBook/Supergirl1972'' issue when the titular heroine tries to save a guy from a conveyor belt and finds the buzz saw is made from plastic. The conveyor belt wasn't supposed to cut the weak-hearted guy in half, it was meant to scare him to death.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}} [[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica in America]]'' features a cannery, where Tintin is tricked into falling into the meat grinding machine.
* In "The Pearl" in ''ComicBook/JonahHex'' v.1, #64, Jonah and the GirlOfTheWeek are tied up and dropped on a conveyor belt leading into a copper smelter.

* A variation occurs in ''The Saga of ComicBook/SwampThing'' Vol. 1 #4 when a possessed man hangs Swamp Thing on a meat hook on a stationary conveyor belt leading to a freezer. Swamp Thing tricks the demon into possessing him instead and then starts the belt. While he can survive the cold for a short time, the demon can't.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': The Joker has suffered the buzz saw version of this twice -- once in the newspaper comic story "The Joker and the Sparrow", and once in the first issue of his self-titled comic book series.

* Played straight in the New Zealand movie ''ComicStrip/FootrotFlats: A Dog's Tale'' - the main canine character, Dog, ends up on a conveyor belt that is moving towards a swinging circular sawblade, three very vicious, very evil dogs surrounding the sides, ensuring he doesn't escape. He does, of course.

* ''Franchise/ToyStory'':
** In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', while trying to rescue Woody from being shipped to Tokyo, the characters wind up in the airport's automated luggage processing center -- a maze of conveyor belts and parcels, but (fortunately) none of it lethal.
** A much more terrifying version: the landfill near the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''. The characters are shoved into one conveyor belt leading to a shredder; they escape as a magnetic strip sorts metal out onto a second conveyor... only to [[OhCrap subsequently realize]] ''it'' leads [[HopeSpot straight to an incinerator]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Sully ''thinks'' that Boo was trapped on one of these when it was actually just a piece of her monster costume. In a way, this allows the scene to be much ''more'' gruesome than it otherwise would be, judging by [[FaintInShock Sully's reactions]] as he watches the costume-piece go through one crusher and thrasher after another, assuming Boo is in there.(His terrified reactions are an homage to the [[Chuck Jones]] cartoon "Feed the Kitty" wherein bulldog Marc Antony thinks his cute little kitten pal Pussyfoot is receiving the identical treament.)

* Farmhands somehow fail to notice that they're feeding Creator/BusterKeaton into a threshing machine in ''Film/TheScarecrow''.
* [[Creator/FattyArbuckle Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle]] (under a pseudonym) directed a short called "Curses", a parody of 1910s serials, in which the DamselInDistress is strapped to the now iconic log headed for a sawblade. It's probably one of the first parodies of this type of scene.

** Also in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', as Bond is knocked out, placed in a coffin, and [[MurderByCremation conveyed into an incinerator]] at a Vegas-style funeral parlor.
* Parodied in ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers in Goldmember]]'' when Austin's father is strapped to a conveyor belt-esque contraption that would eventually pour liquid gold over his genitals.
* Also parodied in ''Film/CarryOnSpying'', where everything, ''including gravity'' works backwards when the conveyor belt is reversed.

* In ''Film/MinorityReport'', the main character, John Anderton, finds himself on a conveyor belt on which machines are building cars and fights his enemy on it. He manages to avoid the machines for a while but in the end, finds himself trapped in a car that's being built right around him. At a certain point, we see a machine close in on him, then the camera cuts on the outside of the car, leaving the audience to think he has been squashed flat. Instead, as the car is completed we see he is right in it, and as it exits the factory he drives away from his pursuers.
* As an example where someone actually died in ''Film/ChildsPlay2'', a factory worker is shoved in and has plastic eyes forced into his.
* ''Film/InLikeFlint''. Derek Flint falls onto a conveyor belt and is almost carried to his doom inside a document furnace. Later, a man falls from a height onto the belt and suffers that fate.
* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', the eponymous demon hero does this to a villain (sort of)- he goads the enormous troll into firing his spring-loaded, retractable fist at him and ducks- while standing in front of an enormous pair of spiky wheels.
* ''Film/TheIcePirates'' has the [[GroinAttack castration factory]].
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', Indy fought a Thuggee guard on a conveyor belt that led to a rock crusher. Things were further complicated by the brainwashed prince stabbing a voodoo doll of Indy just as he gained the advantage in the fight. Indy of course escapes, the guard... doesn't.
** The same film features a cage that is used to lower human sacrifices into a large lava pit. Indy manages to save Willie from a fiery demise in this device, but an unnamed SacrificialLamb is not so lucky.
* In [[Film/RichieRich the film adaptation of Richie Rich]], Professor Keenbean invents a sort of futuristic recycling machine that transforms trash into various objects. Later in the movie, the bad guys try to use the machine to dispose of Richie and his friends, who are forced into its cage-like intake hopper. Thanks to Keenbean's intervention, they barely escape being transformed into bedpans (or possibly bowling balls).
* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Lord Blackwood has Irene Adler shackled to an assembly line with a bandsaw blade designed to saw pig carcasses in half.
* The Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures beach movie ''Film/BeachBlanketBingo'' leads up to a melodrama sawmill setting, and perpetual biker-shnook Eric Von Zipper gets comically sawn in half, with bloodless, cheap effects photography.
* Rare heroic example in ''Film/BornToDefense'', where the protagonist, Jet, defeats and cripples Bailey, the villain responsible for his uncle / adoptive father's death in a factory, and leaves Bailey on a moving conveyor belt leading to a furnace. Bailey doesn't escape.
* Titular beast in ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' meets its demise during the climax inside a pet food factory when the hero tricks it into a conveyor belt, leading to a giant fan that shreds it to mincemeat.
* In the film ''Film/{{Mannequin}}'', the protagonist's nasty, jealous ex-girlfriend puts several mannequins on a conveyor belt, including the hero's lover, hoping to destroy them. Luckily, he is able to save her in time.
* ''Film/TheFlintstones'' near the end. Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are kidnapped by the antagonist, Cliff Vandercave. They are tied up and placed on a conveyor belt leading to a machine that crushes rocks. They are saved by Barney at the last second.

* In ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo'', Kenner and Murata are trapped in Kenner's car when the bad guys place it in a car crusher. Deciding that this isn't enough, they only crush it halfway and place them on a conveyor belt to be ground up into bits.
* E.B. from ''Film/{{Hop}}'' gets immobilized and placed on a conveyor in the Easter Bunny's candy factory. The conveyor leads to robotic circular saws that cut large hunks of milk chocolate into manageable pieces. E.B. is able to wriggle and dodge around this mechanized DeathTrap so well that his outfit remains intact while his bonds were eliminated.
* ''Film/TheBlackHole'', though rather than a belt it's more a rotary device that carries the victims underneath some kind of lobotomizing laser. After discovering the crew of the ''[=USS=] Cygnus'' have been turned into robotic drones, one character is taken away to be turned into one also, with the requisite JustInTime rescue.
* In ''Film/RipperLetterFromHell'', Chantel and Aaron fall on to the conveyor belt in the sawmill which drags them towards the whirling saws.
* In ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'', during the climax Chad kidnaps Allison and takes her to a sawmill where he ties her a log and when Dale comes in to save her, Chad activates the sawmill putting her in this position. Thankfully, Dale manages to cut her free in time.

* The Anthony Horowitz book ''Skeleton Key'' has a scene like this too, where Literature/AlexRider is drugged so he's unable to move except for his head, and put on a literal conveyor belt. The main purpose is to get information out of him, on the threat of being ground to a pulp starting with his feet.
* Charles nearly gets his feet sliced into by the lumber mill's machinery in the fourth book of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.

* The iconic laser scene in TheFilmOfTheBook ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}'', in Creator/IanFleming's original novel, used a circular saw - and Goldfinger ''did'' expect Bond to talk.
* Arguably the most horrific example occurs in the second book of ''Literature/MichaelVey''; when [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dr. Hatch]] shows off his [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant rat-powered electricity generator]] to his [[TykeBomb electric children]], he makes special note of the bowl's feeding conveyor belt. He puts Elgen guards who have failed him onto the conveyor belt to be fed to the rats. The process is horrific[[spoiler:, as Taylor and the captured Electroclan can vouch for [[DarkestHour during Book 7]]]]; Hatch claims that the rats will jump like piranhas onto their next victim, so one doesn't even have to reach the end to die or see themselves disemboweled. And he keeps finding ways to make the process even more painful. [[spoiler:Michael Vey is sent into the bowl during Book 2, but he survives because the electricity generated by it gives him a giant boost in power; he incinerates the rats and frees himself.]]
* PlayedforLaughs in ''Literature/CaptainUnderpantsandthePerilousPlotofProfessorPoopypants'', only not with a conveyor belt. When George and Harold (aliases Fluffy and Cheeseball) are shrunk and flying around in a paper airplane, upon landing they see a steamroller thingy coming their way. One of them then shouts, "Oh, NO! We're going to get STEAMROLLER THINGIED to death!"

** Also on a segment of "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" where Bart and Lisa's heads are attached to the same body, Bart tries to gain full control by having a buzzsaw cut off the Lisa head. Needless to say, it doesn't work out as he hoped.
** ''Goldfinger'' is parodied with ''James Bont'' instead of James Bond to avoid [[LawyerFriendlyCameo problems]].
** In one episode, Sideshow Bob traps Bart in a coffin on a belt slowly being fed to an incinerator. When the rest of the Simpsons arrive to stop him, he turns up the speed from "Gloating Speed" to "Kill Him Already".

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', the deathtrap is neatly subverted, as Catwoman is carried to her doom while Batman has captured Harley Quinn, who tells him that he has to [[SadisticChoice choose]] whether to [[FriendOrIdolDecision keep her or save Catwoman]]. As it turns out, all Batman has to do is [[TakeAThirdOption reach for the conveniently placed power switch to turn off the conveyor belt]].

* In the episode "Part-time Job" in ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', the Red Guy sends Chicken on a conveyor belt to a frying machine.

-->-- '''Goldmember''', ''Film/AustinPowers In Goldmember''

* Subverted in a ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1972 Bronze Age]]'' ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' issue when the titular heroine tries to save a guy from a conveyor belt and finds the buzz saw is made from plastic. The conveyor belt wasn't supposed to cut the weak-hearted guy in half, it was meant to scare him to death.
* ''Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica'' features a cannery, where Tintin is tricked into falling into the meat grinding machine.

* In the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story "W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.", Huey, Dewey, and Louie get trapped on one when they're wandering around a woodwork factory looking for the logs that used to make up the old Junior Woodchucks' fort clubhouse. Donald saves them in the nick of time by turning it off.

* ComicBook/TheJoker has suffered the buzz saw version of this twice - once in the newspaper comic story "The Joker and the Sparrow", and once in the first issue of his self-titled comic book series.

* Parodied in ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember'', where Austin's father is strapped to a conveyor belt-esque contraption that would eventually pour liquid gold over his genitals.

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** The short "WesternAnimation/TheDucksters" begins with WesternAnimation/PorkyPig tied on a conveyor belt to a buzzsaw as part of a quiz show hosted by WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck (he had to answer the question before reaching the saw). In the end, Daffy is on the receiving end of the conveyor belt after Porky buys the radio station with his prize money and turns the tables on him. Daffy apparently ''doesn't'' know the answer to his question and instead [[IsThereADoctorInTheHouse yells for a doctor]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/TheDucksters" begins with WesternAnimation/PorkyPig tied on a conveyor belt to a buzzsaw as part of a quiz show hosted by WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck (he had to answer the question before reaching the saw). In the end, Daffy is on the receiving end of the conveyor belt after Porky buys the radio station with his prize money and turns the tables on him. Daffy apparently ''doesn't'' know the answer to his question and instead [[IsThereADoctorInTheHouse yells for a doctor]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "I Gopher You", the gopher twins chase down their vegetables to a food processing plant. One of them gets caught in a canning machine, and the other in a dehydrating machine, neither ending up the worse for wear. Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" was a dominant leitmotif.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Mysterious Mr. Mist", Mr. Mist attempts to feed Perry White into a buzz saw on his farm. Then, in "The Perils of Superman", Perry White is tied to a log at a sawmill.

* One of these was set up by cliché devotee Señor Senior, Sr., on ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. At the end was a stolen cryogenic freezing device. [[ContractualGenreBlindness As a keen observer of villain codes]], he points out the power switch to them.
** But they can't reach it, and Rufus the naked mole rat doesn't weigh enough to push it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Mysterious Mr. Mist", Mr. Mist attempts to feed Perry White into a buzz saw on his farm.

* ''Film/TheBlackHole'', though rather than a belt it's more a rotary device that carries the victims underneath some kind of lobotomizing laser. After discovering the crew of the ''[=USS=] Cygnus'' have been turned into robotic drones, TheChick is taken away to be turned into one also, with the requisite JustInTime rescue.

* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'': In "[[Recap/AaahhRealMonstersS2E9RoshOMonsterTreeOfIckis The Tree of Ickis]]", Ickis turns into a tree after he eats an acorn. Oblina and Krumm leave him in the forest while they look for a cure, and eventually find one in the form of [[TermiteTrouble termites]]. However, it's complicated when the two find that Ickis has been chopped down by a lumberjack and taken to the sawmill, where the harvested trees [[TreesIntoToothpicks are turned into baseball bats]]. Fortunately, the termites manage to turn Ickis back into a monster just mere seconds before the buzzsaw could slice him.

* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'': In "[[Recap/AaahhRealMonstersS2E9RoshOMonsterTreeOfIckis The Tree of Ickis]]", Ickis turns into a tree after he eats an acorn. Oblina and Krumm leave him in the forest while they look for a cure, and eventually find one in the form of [[TermiteTrouble termites]]. However, it's complicated when the find that Ickis has been chopped down by a lumberjack and taken to the sawmill, where the harvested trees [[TreesIntoToothpicks are turned into baseball bats]]. Fortunately, the termites manage to turn Ickis back into a monster just mere seconds before the buzzsaw could slice him.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'': In the minigame Treadmill Grill, the four players are placed in an area made of four conveyor belts, each moving at a different rate and direction, and all surrounded by blue [[EvilLivingFlames Hot Feet]] which move around them; the players have to hit each other to make them fall down into the flames. As the minigame progresses, some of the Hot Feet will turn orange and creep into the conveyor belts, and eventually the conveyor belts themselves will shrink, making things more difficult for the surviving characters. The last player remaining wins.
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The minigame Track & Yield pits all four players in a large conveyor belt (each of them in a specific color-coded stripe: red, blue, green, yellow) that is dragging them into a dumpster pit. The player's objective is to run forward to prevent that, but they must also avoid the incoming electric fences, as touching them will stun them and potentially make them fall down before they can react. The conveyor belt also moves faster as time passes. The last player remaining is the victor, though more than one can win if they resist during 30 seconds; conversely, if the last players fall down at the same time, the minigame ends in a tie.

* ''VideoGame/DogsLife'' has the cat food machine, complete with flamethrowers, smashing hallway traps of doom, and buzzsaws.

* ''VideoGame/ElectronicPopple'' have stages containing conveyer belts that leads to BottomlessPits, which you need to jump off before you can fall. They move ''really'' fast by the later stages.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'', where [[spoiler:the player]] gets StrappedToAnOperatingTable on a conveyor belt, having drugs injected and parts of his body removed and replaced by Strogg cybernetics. The Stroggification is interrupted when the {{People Jar|s}} [[spoiler:your character]] is placed in towards the end is smashed before the control chip can be activated. It's [[PainfulTransformation pretty traumatic]]; you can watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HH-MqsB8L4 here!]] The conversion actually improves [[spoiler:your character]], including increasing [[spoiler:your]] health by 25%, and giving a noticeable boost to running speed. Sure, his fellows are disturbed and distrustful of the Strogg on their side, but [[HeroicMime he never complains]]. And, in the end, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer it pays]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal|1}}'', [[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=] attempts to kill Chell by tricking her onto a conveyor belt that travels through a furnace. The trap would be extremely difficult to avoid had Chell not had a portal gun, which makes it very simple.]]
** Parodied in ''VideoGame/Portal2'', where one of the last traps is a conveyor belt into a grinder which you escape by ''[[MundaneSolution jumping off it]]'' onto a ledge on the thing's side--no portals necessary. It's so pathetic that the BigBad will instead say it's more of a death ''option'' than a deathtrap and will actually be quite surprised if it kills you.

* Early in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIIThePiratesOfPestulon'', Roger gets dumped onto a conveyor belt and must jump off before he lands in the garbage shredder at the end.
* In ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfRadGravity'', Rad's RobotBuddy Kakos is captured and taken to the planet Effluvia, where the bad guys plan to convert him into a KillerRobot. At the end of the level, he is placed on a Conveyor Belt-O-Doom headed towards the conversion machine, and to stop it, you must shoot the overhead machinery. If Rad fails, he is faced with a HopelessBossFight and must hit the ResetButton.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy had a variant on this, except it was the player who got the pain. In what is probably the otherwise great game's "ThatOneLevel", legendary badass Solid Snake must infiltrate the enemy base, by going through a color-coded box sorting system via conveyor belt. It eventually leads into a showdown with Marionette Owl, part of the QuirkyMinibossSquad.
* In ''Creatures'', the 1990 game, there were a number of 'torture stages', where Clyde has to save other critters who have been tied to Conveyor Belts O Doom by solving a complex item interaction puzzle.
* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'': The fourth floor of Grunty Industries has a conveyor belt dragging everything on it toward enormous SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom which prevent access to the area behind. After the crushers are deactivated, it turns into an InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt by switching directions.
* One particularly nasty moment of ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'' has Jack, the protagonist, walk to an ore grinder and suddenly have a vision of a man who is bound and carried by the conveyor and then dumped into the same grinder. A second later, the poor fellow's mutilated remains rain onto Jack. Furthermore, after getting upstairs, Jack discovers that the only way out is [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption up the same conveyor]]. Naturally, the villain activates the conveyor again, and Jack survives only by jumping onto the catwalk over the grinder, which breaks and blocks the cogs. The whole episode is pretty nightmarish.
* In the finale of ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', Norman Jayden can get into a fight on a conveyor belt of doom with the Origami Killer, who can kill him if you fail the button prompts.
* A variant of this may occur naturally in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' if flowing water goes into a lava pool. This is an especially frustrating way to die since it will result in all your dropped items [[ContinuingIsPainful also being washed into the lava]].
* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', one of these is used for [[spoiler:Naegi's, Kirigiri's, and ultimately Junko's final execution scene, where they are bound to a desk and slowly moved backwards toward a crusher]].
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', Kung Lao's "Razor's Edge" Fatality creates a facsimile of the rotary blade version of this Trope even without an actual conveyor belt. After kicking his opponent to the ground, he throws his hat on the ground, turning it into a buzzsaw which he drags his opponent through, groin first, cutting them in half. ([[WordOfGod Ed Boon himself]] has admitted that [[EveryoneHasStandards this was brutal even for this game]], saying that it was "probably the most painful-looking Fatality ever made." This sentiment is shared by many critics, including ''Cheat Code Central's'' Shelby Reiches, [[WordOfDante who included it among the four worst cinematic scenes in games]], commenting: "Every time he does this to a male fighter, I can hardly watch. I try not to fight against Kung Lao anymore."

* In ''Puzzle Adventure'' Vesemir puts a rogue gnome on a crusher belt in an abandoned factory to intimidate it into revealing the location of its boss.
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'': In the minigame Treadmill Grill, the four players are placed in an area made of four conveyor belts, each moving at a different rate and direction, and all surrounded by blue [[EvilLivingFlames Hot Feet]] which move around them; the players have to hit each other to make them fall down into the flames. As the minigame progresses, some of the Hot Feet will turn orange and creep into the conveyor belts, and eventually the conveyor belts themselves will shrink, making things more difficult for the surviving characters. The last player remaining wins.
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The minigame Track & Yield pits all four players in a large conveyor belt (each of them in a specific color-coded stripe: red, blue, green, yellow) that is dragging them into a dumpster pit. The player's objective is to run forward to prevent that, but they must also avoid the incoming electric fences, as touching them will stun them and potentially make them fall down before they can react. The conveyor belt also moves faster as time passes. The last player remaining is the victor, though more than one can win if they resist during 30 seconds; conversely, if the last players fall down at the same time, the minigame ends in a tie.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooAndScrappyDooShow'' episode "A Gem of a Case", the sawmill variant is used against the titular dogs and Shaggy as they trail the diamond thief, Fingers Malone.

** In "Don't Fool with a Phantom", the last episode of the original ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' series, the Wax Phantom (the MonsterOfTheWeek) left Shaggy and Scooby tied up on a conveyor belt that would dump them into a tank of melted wax, and Shaggy quipped, "That bit went out with the silent movies!" You know it's a DeadHorseTrope when it's being parodied in the ''early 1970s''.

** In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo'', the series premier had Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy, after splitting up from the rest of the group, get trapped on a conveyor belt that would have sliced them to pieces had it not been for a last minute burst of adrenaline on Scooby's part.

* In "Don't Fool with a Phantom", the last episode of the original ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' series, the Wax Phantom (the MonsterOfTheWeek) left Shaggy and Scooby tied up on a conveyor belt that would dump them into a tank of melted wax, and Shaggy quipped, "That bit went out with the silent movies!" You know it's a DeadHorseTrope when it's being parodied in the ''early 1970s''.
** Not that this stopped the Snow Ghost from tying Velma to a log and sending it towards a buzzsaw in an earlier episode...