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{{trope}}
[[File:Zatanna gagged.jpg|link=Zatanna|thumb|350px|"Cat got your tongue, Zatanna?"]]
{{quote|''"What’s the matter, Gaggles? Can’t talk cause you’re gagged, Gaggles?"''
|'''A Gra soldier''' to [[Dude in Distress|Gordin]], ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon]]''}}
▲{{quote|''"What’s the matter, Gaggles? Can’t talk cause you’re gagged, Gaggles?"''|'''A Gra soldier''' to [[Dude in Distress|Gordin]], ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon]]''}}
When a [[Snooping Little Kid]], [[Damsel in Distress]], or [[Faux Action Girl]] (or the occasional [[Dude in Distress|unlucky guy]]) is captured by the villain, they're usually restrained in some fashion, and to keep them from crying out for [[The Hero]], they're usually silenced as well. In the olden days, this was usually accompanied by some form of fantastical [[Death Trap]] to add to the suspense.
Nowadays, the victim's cell phone will invariably ring and the villain will pick it up and answer, "Sorry, she can't come to the phone right now ... she's [[Literal-Minded|all tied up]] at the moment."
To the captives themselves, they're likely to say "[[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]" or "[[You Got Spunk]]" or some variation/combination of the two.
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'''Related tropes include:'''
* [[All Webbed Up]]—when spiders (or related beings) do the binding.
* [[Bag of Kidnapping]]—when the captive is tied in a sack.
* [[Banging for Help]]—when a bound captive tries to make noise to get attention.
* [[Bench Breaker]]—Instead of cutting their bindings with a [[Conveniently
* [[Chained to a Bed]]—often played for comedy... but it can just as easily be played for drama.
* [[Chained to a Railway]]—the classic "tied to the tracks" cliché.
* [[Chained to a Rock]]—and left to die, either by a monster or by exposure.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]—when the tentacles pierce or hurt their victim.
* [[Conveniently
* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]—when a bound captive is placed on a conveyor belt leading to death.
* [[Death Trap]]—what many bound captives get placed in for melodrama.
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{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dC0_lVaiTQ This Sunsilk commercial right here]. Tied to a chair with quite a lot of rope, and having her hair "tortured". Did I mention she was tied to a chair with a lot of rope?
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Wonder Woman]]'', and no wonder (pun not intended, at least not consciously): Her creator may have into bondage himself, but he ''definitely'' wrote it into the job description.<ref>William Moulton Marston actually admitted once that the concept was stimulating, but he also claimed the idea was meant to be empowering - especially given the nature of [[Those Wacky Nazis| her usual enemies]] at the time - as it as he could depict her breaking free from men's attempts to restrain her.</ref> The original Wonder Woman has all those abilities... unless she was tied up (specifically by a man), at which point she became de-powered. So you can expect incredible amounts of bondage throughout the first couple decades of her comic. It's such a common occurrence - to the point of once suggesting that the villains threaten to ''untie'' her - that the [
* [[Faux Action Girl|D-List Superheroine]] ''[[Empowered]]'' ends up like this so often that villains, [[Innocent Bystander|innocent bystanders]], and ''her own teammates'' regard her as a laughingstock and she occasionally points out the shortcomings of gag design to the [[Punch Clock Villain|mellower]] [[Mooks]]. (Very heavy on the [[Fetish Fuel]], this series. In fact, it's part of its origin.)
* Part of the [[Every Episode Ending]] in ''[[Asterix]]'' comics is [[Dreadful Musician|Cacophonix]] being Bound and Gagged to prevent him singing at the big feast.
* The superheroines [[Black Canary]], [[Zatanna]], and [[Siryn]] all have histories of being bound and gagged, due to the fact they all posses vocal-based superpowers. Zatanna is even shown like this on the splash page of the first issue of her own comic. Justified, seeing as she's an [[Escape Artist]] - she breaks free by the end of page 2.<ref>Although, ''page three'' reveals this ''specific'' example was part of her stage magician act.</ref>
* ''[[Superman]]'s'' Lois Lane. Sure, it's been toned down since [[The Eighties]], but [[Pre Crisis]], it happened all the time. As an example, check out the old Fleischer cartoons.
* [[Shazam|Captain Marvel]] is a well-known male example; Billy's always bound and gagged because he has to speak his magic word to become Captain Marvel. Naturally, this also happened to his sister, Mary Marvel, for the same reason. Also, their occasional teammate Kid Eternity, who has to speak his magic word to summon a historical or mythological hero.
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* Justified for many of the Marvel Universe magic users ([[Doctor Strange]], [[Scarlet Witch]], [[Young Avengers|Wiccan]], etc.), who need the free use of their hands and voices to cast spells.
== [[Fan
* In ''[[Aeon Natum Engel]]'', the Nazzadi loyalist is disabled in the way that resembles the way how [[Ghost in the Shell|Section 9]] restrain criminals, while giving a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream]]''.
* Dr. Brainstorm ends up like this in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]''.
** Calvin's parents also get tied up, though they were asleep the whole time.
* Happens to the Kankers and then later to Jason, Marcus, and Charlie Brown in the ''[[Calvin at Camp]]'' episode "A Stalker's Life."
* April O'Neil's tendency to have this happen to her is [https://www.deviantart.com/saneperson/art/April-O-Neil-877582936 lampooned here], where she actually starts carrying a soft rope so Shredder won't use the type that chafes. (Be warned, the link is SFW, but it's part one of a short series that turns NSFW quickly.)
* Also [https://www.deviantart.com/redpulp/art/Spider-Woman-The-Commentary-898428820 lampooned here], where [[Spider-Woman]] tries to justify all the times it happened to her, specifically mentioning Hangman, a villain from a two-part story in her original comic - who, in hindsight, she should have been able to defeat [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|in three panels at most]].
== [[Film]]
* Hilariously done in ''[[Ratatouille]]'', with one unusual twist—it's the "good guys" doing the binding and gagging (on a Health Inspector and an interfering former Head Chef)!
* In ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', Alex and his droogs improvise ball gags out of rubber super balls and cellophane tape when they break into Frank Alexander's house. Works real horrorshow, too.
* Ball-gags are used in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' in the scene where Butch and Marsellus are captured by Zed and Maynard.
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* In the ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' movie, Drew Barrymore's character is tied to a chair by some creep and gagged with a wide strip of duct tape with red lips drawn on it.
* A not-so-common, non-villainous example occurs in the exorcism scene from ''[[The Exorcism of Emily Rose]]''. The title character allows herself to be tied to her bed posts at one point to keep the demon possessing her from hurting herself or anybody else in the room. It doesn't work.
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[
* ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''. The Nazis tie Marion Ravenwood to a pole in a tent and gag her. When Indy finds her, he starts untying her, but then realizes that if he does so the Nazis will start looking for them. This would prevent him from finding the Ark, so he ties her back up and puts her gag back on while she makes loud protests.
* In the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' Will gets bound and gagged by the pirates who want to use his blood to break their curse. In the second film he's tied up in a [[Tribal Carry]] by the island natives when he's trying to find Jack. [[Running Gag|In the third film]] he is tied up and Waterboarded by Sao Feng's crew after he tries to break into their temple and steal to charts to World's End. [[Dude in Distress|We're starting to sense a pattern here...]]
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** Snape does this to Lupin at the confrontation scene in ''Prisoner of Azkaban''.
** It should noted that all of these scenes are either changed/removed in the [[Harry Potter (film)|film adaptations]], though they actually added a gagging scene in the first film, where Ron is briefly gagged by the Devil's Snare.
** Judging by the trailers, Harry's tied up and manhandled by Voldemort in ''[[
* Interesting usage in the kids' book ''[[Jennifer
* In George Mann's ''The Osiris Ritual'', Veronica Hobbes is bound and gagged by the villain.
* ''[[Let's Go Play at the Adams']]'' is made of this. 20-year-old Barbara wakes up, on page 7, to find herself tied to a bed and gagged, by the kids she was supposed to babysit, and their teenage neighbors. Barbara is literally tied up all throughout the entire 300+ page book, in a huge variety of positions, as her captors have no intent whatsoever of letting her go. Tied to a chair, tied to a bed, tied to a bench, tied to a pole, tied in many different ways, ungagged so she can eat, then regagged... it's all over the place. It's even implied that one of the teens tied up one of the kids—in her own words: "so tight that he tied my big toes together". It's also a genuinely gripping story, believe it or not, according to most reviews.
* In ''Burning Water'', by [[Mercedes Lackey]], one minor character realizes he's been targeted by a mind control spell and demands his brother (a cop, so he actually has handcuffs available) and his sister-in-law cuff him to the bed. It holds him long enough for two other characters to break the spell.
* Happens many times, in diverse ways, in ''[[The Candy Shop War]]''. An adult who wishes to help the kids out ties up their teacher and takes her place as a substitute. One of the bullies is later forced into a straitjacket and gagged, by that same adult (the bully had become the lackey of the [[Big Bad]], without realizing how evil she was). Later, some of the kids are wrapped up with magically controlled grass, then the girl is straitjacketed and gagged and taken as a hostage. Many good guys and bad guys, both kids and adults, are tied up or otherwise restrained.
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* Happens [[Once an Episode|Once A Book]] to [[Hot Scientist]] Dr. Fielding in the ''[[An Awfully Beastly Business]]'' books.
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''[[Freckles]]'', the villains set a trap for Freckles and then tie him to a tree and gag him.
* Buttercup was tied up, gagged, ''and'' blindfolded by Vizzini in the book version of ''[[The Princess Bride]]''. In the film version, she was not gagged - likely because the director didn't want to cover too much of the actress' lovely face.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[VR Troopers]]'' Kaitlin, the [[Action Girl]], was captured, bound, and gagged as bait to lure her friends into a [[Death Trap]].
* In ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'', Quarles likes to bind and torture male hustlers. In "The Man Behind the Curtain," Sammy Tonin mentions the rentboy back in Detroit whom Quarles left in a coma, an incident that played a role in Quarles' exile to Kentucky. Several episodes show Brady gagged, nearly naked, and bound to a bed in Quarles house before Quarles presumably kills him. At the end of "Guy Walks into a Bar," Donovan is shown bound and gagged in a bathroom as a naked Quarles approaches.
* ''[[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]]'': Dot, Aunt Prudence and Mr Butler are gagged and tied to chairs by a killer who is waiting in ambush for Phryne in "Death at the Grand".
* ''[[Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey, I Shrunk the Kids]]'': Crossing over with both [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] and [[Laser Guided Karma]], Wayne's evil co-worker Bianca ends up wrapped up by her own gift wrapping machine (that she invented, no less), and subsequently silenced with a label that reads, "Do Not Open Until Christmas."
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Diana Palmer from ''[[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]]'' - it seemed in the early years nearly every story had Diana kidnapped and tied and gagged by an assortment of villains.
== Periodicals ==
* Pulp Magazine character [https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81jXfdFijjL.jpg Sally the Sleuth] is proof that this is [[Older Than They Think]]. [[Action Girl]] Sally tended to be captured and tied up [[Reluctant Fanservice Girl| (and often stripped)]] by the bad guys in every issue, often leading to her beating them up wearing only lingerie.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In the 3rd Edition of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', there's a [[Prestige Class]] called the Justiciar who is much like a bounty hunter who specializes in subduing an enemy without killing him; being able to tie a victim up is so important for this, having a high rank in the Use Rope Skill is a prerequisite. One Class Ability is called Hog Tie, which more or less let's the Justiciar tie an opponent up and render him helpless while grappling with him, ending the fight quickly. (Gagging is usually done after the victim is subdued.) High-level Justiciars have Improved Hog Tie which is, naturally, an improvement of the standard ability. The Prestige Class is available to Player Characters, as both good and evil Justiciars exist. Of course in this case, male victims can be as common as females, although seeing as the Justiciar has to ''fight'' the victim to use this ability, a female victim is rarely ever helpless initially.
== [[Theatre]] ==
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* A rather unique example happens in the game ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'', where GlaDOS might have been modeled after a bound and gagged woman hanging upside down (as demonstrated [http://www.game-ism.com/2008/04/04/still-alive-shes-free/ in this fan art]), making her even creepier.
* Unusual for the ''[[Myst]]'' series, with its distinct lack of violence, in ''Myst IV'', a preteen girl, Yeesha, is kidnapped and later seen, first in flashbacks and later in person, tied and strapped to a chair, with rope reinforcing the straps. In a flashback, she struggles mightily and appears to be crying. She's also played by a live action actress, due to the game's use of FMV crossed with prerendered backgrounds.
* ''[[Grabbed By the Ghoulies]]'' has so many tied up people scattered around the mansion in so many ways that it probably counts as [[Fetish Fuel]]. Tied in almost any method you can think of. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121123020146/http://img.jeuxvideo.fr/00155169-photo-grabbed-by-the-ghoulies.jpg Example 1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20121123020146/http://xboxmedia.ign.com/xbox/image/ghoulies_052303_09_640w.jpg Example 2] The game itself, however, was a massive flop.
* Happens at least once per game in the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series...except for the first game. This is ironic because the first game actually centered around a kidnapping and subsequent rescue attempt.
* iPod Touch game ''Wild Wild Train'' features cutscenes telling a story of a damsel in distress. The cutscenes are done using actual photographs of actual actors playing the damsel, villain and hero, all of whom are silent film stereotypes. And the damsel is tied up and gagged and blindfolded, quite well. It's enough to make you wonder... [http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9987/cutscenecol.png A collage of 9 of the cutscenes]
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{{quote|'''Max Payne:''' He had a baseball bat and I was tied to a chair. Pissing him off was the smart thing to do.}}
* In ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'', you find Harley Quinn this way. Batman can ungag her to obtain some information and regag her after he's done.
* Though not with the gag, [[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* Happens to Bleu 3 times in ''[[Cuanta Vida]]'', the first time alongside Scout.
* Used more than once in ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]''.
* ''[[Memoria (2010 webcomic)|Memoria]]'' [http://memoria.valice.net/?p=436 Matty, here]
* Has happened more than once in ''[[Collar 6]]''. Then again, the comic is about bondage, so this isn't a surprise.
* ''[[Shiniez]]'', being about BDSM, tends to feature this a lot.
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* Done, interestingly, with a lot of rope and a large cloth gag for visual effect, on a young girl about 7, in a movie made by a summer camp, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDf67JtDvI#at=887 The Mystery of the Missing Jewels]''. It's obvious she isn't really tied or gagged especially tightly, and it's just for show, but that sure is an almost cartoonish amount of rope. Occurs at 14:47 in (link will skip you there).
* Also done in an unusual way to a girl who looks about 10, in the independent film ''[[Caitlyn]]''. She's tied to a pole (in part 2) with what appear to be metal strips pulled tightly. She's forced to make a [[Sadistic Choice]] between her freedom, or her parents' lives. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2cu0wBw5w4&fmt=18 Part 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlbFfFiS88 Part 2]
* ''Knot Me''. The premise of this short film? "What do you do when you wake up to find yourself tied to a chair?" [https://web.archive.org/web/20101129152315/http://www.spike.com/video/knot-me/2744113 Find out here.] Yes, a short film literally about a young woman being tied up.
* Happens to every one of the 5 [[Kid Hero|middle-school aged heroes]] (of both sexes) in the independent kid-made film ''Bradley's Summer'', which can be found on YouTube. Not only that, Bradley himself gets tied up while invisible. Yup, an invisible boy tied up with ropes that look like they're hanging in mid-air.
* Happens to the two female leads in the independent film ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahphe3lXAo Green Eyed Monsters]''. They pretty much spend 80% of the movie tied up. Strong language warning on this one. It's certainly not made by kids.
* Think of your favourite animated female character. Whoever it is, anyone from [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Mikuru Asahina]] to Erin Esurance, [[Rule 34|someone out there is drawing pictures of her]] tied up, and likely posting them on [[Deviant ART]].
* About two-thirds into [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102055432/http://www.gamingpixie.com/43/all-videos/gamereviews/gaming-pixie-reviews-the-white-chamber/ this review] by [[The Gaming Pixie]]. With ghostly demonic hands involved, no less.
* [[That Guy With The Glasses]] seems to like this trope and use it in an equal-opportunity fashion:
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] has been tied up twice, once by Sage and the other time by Mechakara. The former had a gag involved.
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** Funny thing is she has only been gagged once. 90% of the Hooded Claw's schemes probably would have worked if he hadn't overlooked that, but then we wouldn't have a show, would we?
* April O'Neil in the 1987s ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', who always ended up being bound and gagged by the bad guys several times, especially during the earlier seasons, to the point that the turtles can even recognize her mumbles.
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]'', where it happens in almost every episode. Given the cheesy, simplistic plots, it's one of the reasons many [[Fetish Fuel|people watch the show]].
* In the classic ''[[George of the Jungle]]'', this has happened to Ursula in the episodes "Desperate Showers", "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seed" and "A Man for all Hunting Seasons".
* [[Kim Possible]] would often find herself tied up by the villain. She almost always used this time to get the [[Just Between You and Me|villain to reveal their plot]], then escape and kick their ass.
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* Happens to [[Red Hot Riding Hood|Red]] in the direct-to-DVD movie ''[[Tom and Jerry]] Meet Sherlock Holmes''.
* Mickey and Minnie are [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bxVZ7GvshNg/Sus7B68k3gI/AAAAAAAAB3E/-TDOvnUsd3E/s320/Shanghaied+1.jpg tied up and gagged] in the old cartoon "Shanghied."
* An odd variation occurs in the ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]'' episode "Truth". The eponymous akuma can force victims to answer any question truthfully, meaning he can use this to force Ladybug to reveal her identity. The heroine avoids this by ''gagging herself''.
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