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* Played for laughs in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' (Now ''there's'' a phrase you don't hear often). When Rena decides she's [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me|taking something home]], there's truly no stopping her.
* [[Rurouni Kenshin]] broke out of hypnosis-induced paralysis on one occasion, and his most awesome [[He's Back]] moment is predicated by him snapping the chains he's bound around his sword. (Long story.)
** Heck, even [[The Lancer|Sano]] and [[
** Sanosuke also exploded the front of his prison cell when he got annoyed at someone. Yes, exploded it. [[Badass|With his fist.]]
* In the ''[[Black Rock Shooter (anime)|Black Rock Shooter]]'' [[OVA]], Black Rock Shooter is bound in chains by [[Big Bad|Dead Master]], but breaks out of them so she can {{spoiler|hug Dead Master into submission}}
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** Barracuda [[Not So Different|does this himself]] later in the arc, finally [[Villainous Breakdown|losing it]] after being shot, beaten, having his [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|crocodile clips wired from a car battery to his testicles for about an hour]], tied up in chains and thrown into the boot of Frank's car. Frank's response?
{{quote|'''The Punisher''': You have got to be fucking kidding me.}}
* In ''[[Asterix]] and the Goths'', after the Gothic chief Metric is deposed by Rhetoric with the aid of the Gauls' [[Super Serum|magic potion]], he is visited in the dungeon by Getafix, who offers him a dose of the magic potion so he can take revenge on Rhetoric. After Metric takes a drink, he bursts out of his chains, and Asterix quips, "He's got a free hand now!" (The original French edition relied on the double meaning of "déchaîné"; the English pun arguably doesn't warrant Obelix laughing over it for the rest of the book once he [[Late to
** And in ''Asterix and the Banquet'', Asterix and Obelix ''want'' to be captured by the Romans, but keep breaking their chains without thinking (at one point Asterix breaks through his chains to ''help the Romans tie up Obelix'', because it's all taking too long). The Romans eventually decide to put them in the cart ''without'' chaining them up.
* In ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', Soapy Slick chains Scrooge to the chimneys of a steamboat and pushes him into [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] mode. Scrooge doesn't just break the chains, ''he breaks the ship''.
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