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{{trope}}
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{{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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== [[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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** 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-the-Jerk Is Missing]]''. 8 year old Jennifer is tied and gagged, but she's so bratty, she laughs under her gag when her would-be rescuers (a 13 year old and another 8 year old) mess up and end up trapping themselves in a closet. Later, the would-be rescuers are themselves tied up and left that way overnight. The book's mood [[Mood Whiplash|ranges from silly to suspenseful]].
* In George Mann's ''The Osiris Ritual'', Veronica Hobbes is bound and gagged by the villain.
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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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* 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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