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When a character is [[Bound and Gagged|tied to a chair, bench, stool or other sitting device]], they usually try to pick their handcuffs, rub their ropes against a [[Conveniently
This is ''not'' simply [[Breaking the Bonds]] - it usually is done by a normal human who is desperate enough to ram themselves into a wall just to damage the chair, or nearly break a limb leveraging it.
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* In [[Dean Koontz|Dean Koontz's]] ''Intensity'', the protagonist escapes her captor by ramming a wall with the chair she is tied to and splintering it. She injures herself in the process.
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* In ''[[24]]'', 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]]'' episode "The 13th Hole", Mrs. Peel gets handcuffed to a wooden chair. (Not even a chair bolted to the floor - an ordinary easily-moved 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.
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