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== [[Film]] ==
* Black Widow of ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]'' does a flip ''while tied to a chair'', shattering it on impact and freeing herself.
** [[Drew Barrymore|Dylan]] also does this in ''[[CharliesCharlie's Angels]]'', though [[With My Hands Tied|her hands keep on tied]] after the chair is broken.
* Lennie Pike from ''[[ItsIt's aA Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' breaks the chair that he was tied to after breaking himself free from the pillar and duct tape that the gas station attendants tried tying him up to.
* Twice in ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''. Connor, handcuffed to a toilet while his brother Murphy is being taken out back to be shot by two goons from [[The Mafiya]], smashes himself screaming against the toilet trying to break it apart before he finally just rips it up from the floor. [[Death From Above|Before he drops the toilet off the roof onto the Russians.]]
** Later in the film, both brothers have to help each other escape from being handcuffed to chairs. While this involves one brother kicking the other brother's hand to break his thumb, it is relatively tame compared to [[The Can Kicked Him|the toilet scene]].
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* In ''[[Twenty Four24]]'', Jack Bauer escapes by [[Badass|smashing his chair and attacking his captor]].
* In the episode of ''[[Burn Notice]]'' where Fiona gets abducted, she breaks the arms of the chair she's handcuffed to so that she can move around the room freely.
* From time to time in ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' TV series David Banner would get tied to a chair, only for him to [[Hulk Out]]; [[Breaking the Bonds|so Hulk breaks the chair]].
* Doreau does this accidentally in the ''[[Sledge Hammer]]'' episode "Wild About Hammer". The villain for that episode ties her to a chair. Sledge manages to untie her ankles from the chair before he's attacked. While those two are fighting, Doreau manges manages to stand herself up on her now freed legs, only to trip, fall over backwards, break the chair, and free herself from the rest of the rope.
* In ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'', Mrs Peel gets handcuffed to a wooden chair. When the time comes, she swiftly breaks the chair and beats up the baddies with the sticks. At the end of the episode, as they stroll off across a golf course, Steed asks her what her handicap is. She shows him the chunk of wood still cuffed to one of her wrists.
 
== [[Video Games]]: ==
* In the intro scenes of ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'', Bruce Wayne rocks back and forth in a chair he's been tied to, and then escapes from his bonds once he (and it) topples to the ground.
* [[Max Payne (Video Gameseries)|Max Payne]] waits until Franky is out of the room, and then falls backwards on his chair in order to crack the wood.
 
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