Trope Workshop:Wood Chipper of Doom

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Whenever you see a wood chipper be used as intended, you would probably cringe in fear. This is because Wood Chippers can be turned into big old murder machines in works of fiction, and anything that enters their maw would probably be shredded into an unidentifiable pulp. Additionally, they can be used to dispose of a body, albeit with a lot of gore and possible jamming.

This fear of wood chippers is pretty much Truth in Television. Many persons have fallen into a wood chipper and got gravely injured, if they survived, that is.

Examples of Wood Chipper of Doom include:

Comic Books

• Button Man combines this with Fed to Pigs, where Exton deals with a man who owns a wood chipper and a large brood of chickens during his main corpse disposal early in the series. When introduced by a mutual acquaintance, he is warned that if he is offered eggs, he should accept as the eggs are very good, but he should stay away from the chicken stew.

Fan Works

• The Meany Deaths of Nemona Alegria, created as a fanfic for the Pokémon franchise, has this as the first death: Nemona is tripped up by a Smoliv and falls into a running wood chipper whereupon she is devoured by the machine.

Film

• This happens in Deadpool 2 when Zeitgeist lands in a wood chipper during his first mission with the X-Force and gets eaten by it. Peter tries to help him, but his arm is destroyed by Zeitgeist's caustic vomit.
• Monsters, Inc.: Randall threatens to feed his assistant Fungus to a chipping machine that is used to destroy child-contaminated doors out of frustration.
• Hugh saves his family from the vesps by turning on a close-by wood chipper in The Silence. The vesps fly into it leading to their demise.
• During one scene of Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, one of the College Kids attempts to stab a Hillbilly (who he and the other College Kids mistakenly believe is an insane backwards killer) who is using a wood chipper. However, when his attack misses, the College Kid flies over his target and into a wood chipper. The Hillbilly in question tries to save him from being devoured by the machine, but his attempts fail (as wood chippers have a strong pull on their victims), and the other students believe he is pushing the kid into the wood chipper.

Literature

• During the fourth Captain Underpants book, namely The Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants, George and Harold have been shrunken down to micro-size by the titular villain after they mock him one too many times and use one of their paper airplanes to escape the school. The plane nearly gets sucked into the maw of a wood chipper, but Captain Underpants pushes their glider out of harm's way, allowing them to continue their journey. (He is invisible since he has been shrunk even smaller than they are.)

Live-Action TV

• During an early episode of Bones, the protagonistic team finds only a piece of bone from the victim because whoever killed him fed the remains into a wood chipper whose spray he aimed into a fast-flowing river close-by in order to obscure the evidence.

Newspaper Comics

• The September 10th 2006 strip of Pearls Before Swine features the Crocs trying to trick Zebra into one as one of them claims to have lost one of his contact lenses in there. Being the Crocs, one of them ends up jumping in instead.

Video Games

• Bloons Tower Defense: Bloonchippers appear as one of the possible towers in the fifth game, invoking this trope for the titular foes. They suck in and chew up Bloons and spit out the remainder which they can suck up again, and their upgrades allow them to suck in more Blooons, shred them faster, and suck in MOAB-class Bloons, stalling and delaying said Bloons' movement, in order.
• Sinder from Cel Damage uses a wood chipper to suck his foes up and spit them out the back. This is much less gory than most examples, though.
• Mortal Kombat: The Lumber Mill battle stage in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon has a wood chipper that serves as an instant death trap.