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Ground by Gears

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A particularly Cruel and Unusual Death where a character ends up trapped in a mesh of large machinery, which crushes and grinds them into a pulp. Oftentimes, given the purpose of the devices, it features someone being wedged between two of them at once. If this happens in a cartoon, chances are the character involved will simply be Squashed Flat.
This commonly is caused by an article of clothing, especially a cape/cloak, being snagged on the gears and pulling the character inside.
Often goes hand in hand with a Conveyor Belt of Doom. Places where this can happen are often guilty of No OSHA Compliance. Surprisingly has nothing to do with Gears of War. Often involves a Gory Discretion Shot. Not to be confused with what grinds your gears. Compare with Wood Chipper of Doom, Deadly Rotary Fan and Fold-Spindle Mutilation.
This is often a Death Trope, so all spoilers are unmarked.
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, during a battle in the steel mill, the T-800 gets its arm caught between a large gear and the track it's on, crushing and pinning it. Not having the strength or leverage to reverse the gear's direction, he is forced to tear the damaged arm off his body to get free.
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Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge: After Volker attacks Melody again, knocking her unconscious, Eric fights him, then kills him using the automatic box crusher.
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Dick Tracy: Big Boy is pushed over a ledge and falls to his doom in a gear factory. The temporary stopping of the gears makes it clear that he was more likely crushed to death.
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In Disney's The Great Mouse Detective, Basil flips the villain's cape into some bevel gears while the two were fighting inside Big Ben. Basil then rushes to rescue the Heartwarming Orphan, who is poised to be crushed by much larger gears meshing, leaving the villain to tear off his cape to free himself.
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In the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries episode "Death by Miss Adventure", the Body of the Week is a factory worker mangled by the machinery. The investigation reveals that the safety equipment was added after the death, that the factory owner was running illegal nighttime shifts under a second set of accounts, and, ultimately, that the victim was pushed into the gears by her spurned lover, who decided that If I Can't Have You…
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Ship Breaker. Richard Lopez is pulled halfway into the gears of the ship's hydraulics system losing both legs and an arm — he's so high on drugs he can barely understand the horror of what's happened to him.
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Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance: There's an enemy called Guardian Armor. It resembles the many Living Armor monsters encountered in the game, with the difference being that it carries a huge shield that makes it impervious to damage. To destroy it, one must push it into the rotating gears affixed into the back of the room. If the Guardian Armor is pushed all the way onto them, they will trap and pull him in, destroying him completely and sending the pieces of its armor flying all across the room, that Juste can equip.
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J.P. Beaumont: In Taking The Fifth, one of the victims is drugged, bound, and placed under a rotating stage, where he gets caught in the mechanism and crushed to death.
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This is the implied fate of Herbert, the son of the family who inherit The Monkey's Paw. After wishing for 200 pounds to pay some bills, a messenger brings news that Herbert had been caught in the machinery of the factory where he works — his body was so badly mangled that he could only be identified by his clothes. His gruesome death has the company award the family the 200 pounds out of sympathy.
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In Alita: Battle Angel, the grinder Alita manages to have Stinger caught in is akin to big gears crushing what's thrown in it.
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This almost happens to Donald Duck in How to Have an Accident at Work when he accidentally starts the machine he is eating lunch on and the napkin tied around his neck is snagged in the gears. In freeing himself, he completely derails western civilization.
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The second Roger Rabbit short cartoon is Roller Coaster Rabbit, which sees a desperate Roger attempt to save Baby Herman from harm at a carnival. When Baby Herman clambers aboard a Ferris wheel, Roger tries to snag him from the car, but his feet become enmeshed in the wheel's many exposed drive gears. Toon Physics make this mightily painful for Roger, but neither injurious nor fatal; even his outfit emerges intact.
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James Bond:
Licence to Kill: The Dragon Dario attempts to drop Bond into an industrial pulverizer that is being used to crush cocaine. After a tough fight, Bond manages to yank Dario so he falls into the pulverizer and is turned into a fine pink mist.
Tomorrow Never Dies: During the fight in Carver's headquarters in Hamburg, Bond tosses one of Carver's goons into a running printing press; resulting in the papers coming out black and white and red all over.
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Young Sherlock Holmes: The final fate of Grivens in Red Leech. Tipped over a walkway in the engine room of the ship, his coat snags on the cams of the massive steam engine and he is crushed to death.
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In Lori Lovecraft: Repression, Thalia Dubois attempts to kill Lori inside Big Ben during a film shoot. In the struggle, she falls into Big Ben's gears and is crushed to death.
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Father Brown: In "The Grim Reaper", the Victim of the Week Alfred Tatton is pushed into a threshing machine.
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In Pathfinder, the signature move of the Clockwork Golem is to pop open and drag someone into its transmission.
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Carl Clover's updated Astral Heat in Chronophantasma has him trapping his foe in a pocket dimension where they are ground to dust by giant gears.
One of Relius Clover's Distortion Drives, Req Vinum, has him trapping the foe in an energy field and chipped away by large gears and cogs.
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Subverted in Modern Times. Charlie gets caught inside the machinery, but the gears only move him around without harming him.
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Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Tesarus of the Decepticon Justice Division is a massive Cybertronian who has a pair of powerful waldos on his shoulders that he likes to grab smaller foes with and shove them into the massive grinding gears that he has in his chest. Sometimes he uses these grinding blades to execute prisoners (typically feet-first so it takes longer and is more painful), but frequently he'll use it as a torture method and pull his victim out before the damage becomes fatal.
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Idées Noires has a new kind of Siege Engine: a giant gear that pulps the heads of the soldiers looking over the battlements.
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In When Evil Calls, a girl wishes she could lose a stone in weight. Her wish is granted by having her arm ground off when it gets trapped in the garbage disposal.
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In Going Postal, Mr. Gryle is quite thoroughly done in by an experimental mail-sorting engine, thanks to a central flywheel so poorly designed that it rotates through its own space-time frame where pi is exactly equal to three. Alien Geometries plus an off-balanced banshee equals a "gloop" and a sticky smear.
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In Holmes & Watson, Watson is strapped to a giant gear in the Titantic's engine room, so his head will be crushed by a cog when the engines start turning.
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In Cold Pursuit, Avalance gets sucked into Nils' snowplow and is turned into a bloody red pulp that is sprayed along the side of the road.
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Clock Tower: This is how the Scissorman is eventually defeated in the good endings. After the title location gets activated, the bells ringing seem to mess with him mentally, causing him to wander off the edge of the platform, seemingly falling into the gears below. On a more unfortunate note, if the player gets the A ending, then they’re presented with a Hope Spot of one of the protagonist’s friends arriving shortly after, upon which Mary suddenly appears and throws said friend into the gears as well.
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Mortal Kombat: Armageddon has a set of gears as a death trap in the Khan's Arena stage, that seems to serve no purpose other than being a death trap. Knock a fighter in them and they'll jam the gears until the motor manages to "work" them through the cogs.
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The "Campus Commandos" episode of Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) involves Dr. Wily attempting to kill Mega Man, Roll and Rush by tying them to the gears of the campus clock tower.
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Diogenes Club: In "The Gypsies in the Wood", Uncle Satt's chief clerk Steadman dies when he pushed into the main dynamo powering the Gift and is ground up by the workings.
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Crash Tag Team Racing: In one of the "Die-o-rama" cutscenes, Crash is killed by being crushed by giant gears.
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Poppy Playtime has this trope as the way you kill Mommy Long Legs. Upon turning on a grinder, she gets her arm caught in it, then her leg, before finally getting pulled in and crushed.
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Licence to Kill: The Dragon Dario attempts to drop Bond into an industrial pulverizer that is being used to crush cocaine. After a tough fight, Bond manages to yank Dario so he falls into the pulverizer and is turned into a fine pink mist.
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Lanfeust: When Hebus the troll runs into a castle gate, he starts beating on it, to no effect. A guard leaning back against the windlass smugly tells his friend that it's Armalian steel and the troll won't get through it. Hebus, having reached the same conclusion, grabs the gate and pushes it up, the guard getting crushed by the gears he was leaning on.
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Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal: Qwark previously defeated Dr. Nefarious when he attempted to give him a wedgie, which caused Nefarious to trip and fall into the gears of his own machinery. Though, Nefarious survived, as the process instead turned him into a robot.
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Cars 2: Around the climax of the movie, Finn and Holly are tied to the giant clock gears of the Big Bentley by the bad guys, with them edging closer to being crushed by another gear each minute. Holly manages to save themselves by making the clock run in reverse.
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Pokémon: The move Gear Grind, learned by the Klink evolution line, uses gears to crush targets.
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The Jonah: Drugs runner Andy Trewick, for stealing his employer's merchandise, is fed into a mill’s funnel-shaped pulverizer.
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The Executioner. In #57 "Flesh Wounds", terrorist leader Dante gets his sleeve caught in the gears underneath the rotating stage of a music concert. Bolan points out that in a few seconds it'll be his hand, but Dante chooses to be Defiant to the End rather than talk, so Bolan gives him a Mercy Kill.
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In The Funhouse, Gunther dies when he is caught in the gears of the funhouse after being electrocuted.
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This can happen to Norman Jayden in Heavy Rain during the junkyard fight if the player doesn't guide him out of the car thrown into the grinder fast enough.
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Bloody Zombies have outdoor areas containing gears, which can harm you upon touch. But you can also take advantage of the environment by throwing zombie mooks into them, with bloody results.
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Paper Mario: The Origami King: During his search of Shogun Studios, Luigi ends up getting caught in the gears behind the scenes of the ninja house attraction. Fortunately, this is the continuity where everyone is made of paper, so he's able to be freed and good as new after getting unfolded.
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle:
Poppy tells one of her mooks to throw his companion into an oversized meat grinder. She then cooks the meat and makes the mook eat it as a test of loyalty.
Near the end of the movie, the climax of the fight between the Kingsmen and Whiskey results in the latter being dunked head-first into the running meat grinder. Even with nanotech that can revive people after being shot in the head, it's highly unlikely that Whiskey would be able to walk off his untimely death.
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Gears are all over the place in Exit Limbo: Opening, that can chew your health away if you touch them. You can also throw enemies into gears with bloody effects, and in fact this is the only method to defeat the first boss, Junkie Ram, a Bullfight Boss who constantly charges at you. (Said boss area have a set of gears in the back wall. You do the math.)
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Wallace & Gromit: In A Close Shave, main villain Preston is defeated by getting run through his own dog food machine's grinder. As he's a Robot Dog, however, Wallace and Gromit rebuild him to be nicer.
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In the opening scene of Shanghai Grand, a mook gets tackled into a set of gears and is subsequently chewed into half from the waist.
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30 Days of Night: A vampire is thrown into a large grinding machine not long after the survivors reach the plant.
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Narrowly averted in the Silly Symphonies short "The Old Mill''. A bird has made her nest on one of the spoke holes of a grindstone of the abandoned mill. That night a storm starts moving the gears and the rope holding the main gear breaks. The bird and her eggs are only saved by the fact that the corresponding spoke is missing.
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CSI: In "Hero to Zero", the second Victim of the Week is crushed to death in the winching mechanism of his truck in an attempt to Make It Look Like an Accident.
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Happens to a mook in Snowpiercer, when he gets pushed over a railing during a fight scene and is then eaten by the train engine's gears, thanks to No OSHA Compliance.
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Limbo: The sprawling late-game factory includes several Clockworks Areas where the Player Character has to navigate giant, moving gears, threatening this trope as one of The Many Deaths of You.
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The ultimate of Urgot, the Dreadnought, from League of Legends fires a long-ranged harpoon out that locks onto the first enemy champion it hits. If their HP is low enough (making them too weak to resist him), he reels the harpoon back in, dragging the hapless champion into a set of grinding rollers set into the front of his cybernetic body and gruesomely ripping them apart and not even leaving a body behind. Not only is it effectively a guaranteed kill (it does 9999 damage), it's such a horrible death that any of the hapless victim's teammates nearby are briefly terrified by witnessing it.
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DSBT InsaniT: This is how Blake defeats Darkness Robo in 'VRcade'.
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Squid Game: Ali's boss' hand gets crushed up by a pair of rolling flatteners after he accidentally get shoved into it.
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This is also the fate of the Seamstress in 9, trapped by the heroes and dragged between two massive gears in the factory; we even get to see her head go 'pop' between the teeth, though as she's a Mechanical Monster, this isn't as gory as it sounds.
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The Brave Little Toaster: Toaster commits a Heroic Sacrifice by jumping into the gears of a trash compactor to stop it from killing the Master. Fortunately, the Master is able to repair him good as new.
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The Mountain and the Wolf: The siege of King's Landing goes particularly fast because the River Gate was left open, allowing Davos' fleet to make landfall without resistance. Tyrion investigates the River Gate and finds that the soldiers have not only been killed but stuffed into the gears to keep the gate open.
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The Batman has a Mêlée à Trois between Batman, Catwoman, and Ragdoll take place inside the Gotham clock tower over two legendary jewels supposedly hidden inside it
Batman is about to be dragged into one of these deaths by way of a Cape Snag from Ragdoll, prompting a Sadistic Choice between losing his hooded cape (and thus making a Dramatic Unmask) or this trope. He is narrowly saved by Catwoman on the grounds that she doesn't want his mysterious allure ruined.
Just after Batman is saved by Catwoman, the enormous bells of the clock tower strike and the vibrations send Ragdoll tumbling into the gearwork, prompting a bloodcurdling scream from Ragdoll as the gears swallow and grind him with both Batman and Catwoman looking on in horror as the scream dies... and gives way to a relieved sigh with Ragdoll emerging on the other side no worse for wear, prompting Stunned Silence from both Batman and Catwoman. The real kicker? While he was undergoing what, to him, was essentially thorough impromptu massage therapy he somehow managed to spot and grab the two jewels while inside the gearworks.
Batman later abuses Ragdoll's immunity to this trope to get around his Thou Shalt Not Kill rule - by kicking him into the gears (much to Ragdoll's enjoyment) only to jam the gears with a Batarang, causing Ragdoll to get helplessly stuck and taking him out of the Mêlée à Trois.
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army:
Mr. Wink is crushed to death when he accidentally fires his mechanical fist into some sort of spinning trash-compacter in the Troll Market, pulling him into it. In Hellboy's defence, he did give him several chances to surrender beforehand.
Several of the Golden Army automatons are crushed to pieces in the giant gears of their resting place, but they can endlessly regenerate by Pulling Themselves Together so this is only a minor convenience for them.
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In the True Devil Chojin arc of Kinnikuman, Benkiman loses the match against Gear Master by getting crushed in Gear Master's Genocide Gears.
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There are two obstacles in Duke Nukem 3D that are composed of two enormous gears meshing, with one gear missing a tooth. Duke can travel between these gears if he occupies the missing tooth's space. Or he can mistime it, and get squished, giving himself a Bond One-Liner.
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In Ghost Ship, Munder is crushed to death under the ship's gears while scuba diving in the flooded engine room.
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Tomorrow Never Dies: During the fight in Carver's headquarters in Hamburg, Bond tosses one of Carver's goons into a running printing press; resulting in the papers coming out black and white and red all over.
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Alex Rider is threatened with this at one point by The Dragon of Skeleton Key, Conrad, if he doesn't confess. Then when he does, Conrad decides to kill him anyway. Alex is only saved by the intervention of the Big Bad, Alexei Sarov.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. At the end of Indiana's fight with a Giant Mook, the villain is dragged into a giant rock crusher by his scarf and squashed to death.
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