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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.

Sometimes this is done for humor instead. For example, a character who is considered annoying might be tied up by the group simply to get that person out of the way. Of course, [[Fetish Fuel|if that character is really cute]], the intended humor might be lost a bit on some audiences. Other times, someone might be tied up humorously as the result of some mishap. For example, the US ''[[Dennis the Menace US|Dennis The Menace]]'' cartoon once had a scene where a seal is running amok, and at one point grabs toilet paper in its mouth and runs around the kids, wrapping them up in toilet paper. They even get gagged by apples that get knocked off a table and fly into their open mouths.

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has this increasingly through out the series. Nunally twice, Vileta once, Cornelia once and others. Kallen and Lelouch are, when captured, forced to wear straight jackets; CC has one as her ''daily clothing'. Also carried out the soldiers involved in the Chinese uprising. Why were they carrying ballgags with them again?

* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Kuwabara is tied and gagged in the Chapter Black arc in order for Sensui to use his Jigen-tou to slice through the dimensions- first with Toguro-ani's body working through Gourmet, then with a conventional rope and gag.

* ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'''s resident [[Damsel in Distress]] Fuu Kasumi seems to end up [[Bound and Gagged]] every other episode. It's a good thing at the start of the show she managed to get two capable Ronin in her debt to act as bodyguards (See [[Bodyguard Crush]]).

* This happens ''a lot'' on ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]'' to the titular girls.

* [[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.

* ''[[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.

* Taken to a level of hilarity in the movie ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]''.

* [[Cameron Diaz]] has a number of tie-ups to her credit, including:

** In ''[[A Life Less Ordinary]]'', she is tied to a chair as part of a somewhat faked kidnapping, then later seen tied up and gagged at a table while trying to play a card game, before she is blindfolded.

** In ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'' she is tied to a post.

== [[Literature]] ==

* This trope is [[Older Than Feudalism]]. Odysseus willingly allows himself to be tied to his own mast when his ship sails past the sirens in ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''. The other sailors use his reactions as a gauge for when it's safe to unclog their ears.

* Interesting usage in the obscure children's book ''[[Samantha Stone and the Mermaid's Quest]]''. Samantha gradually learns the ability to teleport over the course of the story. After mistakenly teleporting right in front of an enemy, she is tied to a chair. She teleports out, and the guard is surprised to see a few scattered ropes lying on the chair. Later, they get the drop on her again and don't take any chances. Samantha is knocked unconscious, and bound - and gagged. When she wakes up, she can't cast the teleportation spell.

* ''[[Nancy Drew]]''. Oh lord, [[Nancy Drew]]. Not as often as legend suggests, though. Earlier books (the series began publishing in 1930) featured the character bound and gagged in maybe one out of every four or five stories, usually incidental to being left somewhere like a sinking boat, water tank or airtight closet, but these scenes were revised into less dangerous situations or outright deleted from later print editions. Scenes where Nancy was forcibly restrained by male antagonists were considered to have a sexual undertone and they were altered or omitted alongside anything else considered dubious by the changing social and moral standards of the times, particularly the depiction of non-white characters and even - lamentably - Nancy's initially headstrong and outspoken proto-feminist persona, which abandoned her early love of cars and excitement for more fashion and boy-oriented concerns as the series progressed.

* ''[[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.

* Annabeth Chase is bound and gagged at least twice over the course of ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]''. In the first book, The Lightning Thief, Percy has a dream in which he and {{spoiler|Thalia}} are wearing straitjackets. One of the times Annabeth is bound is when she and Percy are sailing past the island of the Sirens, a direct [[Shout-Out]] to the Odyssey example above. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, Percy forgot to take Annabeth's knife before tying her up, and she escapes her bonds and almost drowns}}.

* This happens to {{spoiler|Maybeck}} when he's kidnapped in the first ''[[Kingdom Keepers]]'' book.

** The Third Doctor is bound and gagged in ''Day Of The Daleks'', as is Jo Grant.

* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' - Emma Peel. [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant|Routinely]]. The only times she ever seems remotely put out by this is when it looks like a related [[Death Trap]] might go off while she's still, ah, indisposed.

* [[Dexter|Dexter's]] playmates are mostly bound and gagged when he's having his... fun with them.

* ''[[NCIS]]'' At one point or another, Jenny, Ziva, Paula Cassidy, EJ and Palmer all end up this way, not always with the gagging. It should be noted that while those are mostly female names on the list, the show does ''not'' have a [[Fetish Fuel]] or [[Distresssed Damsel]] bent. It seems to be mostly coincidence.

** In the sequel, when {{spoiler|Yumihiko Ichiyanagi}} is kidnapped, he's bound hand and foot, gagged, and locked in a dark room at the back of a garage -- and this ''after'' being crammed into a box and thrown into the trunk of a car. It ''looks'' a little goofy (embarrassing if nothing else), but is treated as genuinely traumatic.

* In ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'', you can lasso and then tie up anyone! You get an achievement for killing a tied up woman on the train tracks, old-fashioned villain style, as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Fm3XaTdI here].

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* Early in ''[[Wandering Hamster]]'', Bob gets tied up {{spoiler|by Skeppio and Rathmara}} to summon Jormungandling and kill him. They [[Hopeless Boss Fight|fail]] and Bob ends up [[Womb Level|in his belly]].

== [[Web Original]] ==

* 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).

* ''Knot Me''. The premise of this short film? "What do you do when you wake up to find yourself tied to a chair?" [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.