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* In the ''[[Gintama]]'' anime, Hijikata and Okita are chained together at the neck with exploding collars as a parody of the ''[[Saw]]'' franchise. They spend the next few days foiling each others attempts at escape.

** Also recently Hijikata got handcuffed to ''Gintoki'' and had to request his help in taking down some bad guys. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

** Although they were able to take advantage of it not being ''exactly'' the same in the first chapter to win a fight by switching hands to get an advantage.

* In a side story of ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'', Karin messes around with the [[Transformation Trinket|magic rings]] and ends up [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|getting her hand stuck to]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Kazune's]]. Instead of having to make excuses for cuffs, they have to avoid being seen with their hands stuck together or face the wrath of Kazune's [[Fan Girl|Fangirls]]. This leads to some [[Hilarity Ensues|rather funny]] moments where Kazune has to go to the bathroom and where they have to change for gym. The latter leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] where their enemy walks in on them in a... [[Not What It Looks Like|compromising position]].

** The director used [[Enforced Method Acting]] there by telling each actor independently that they would be driving the motorcycle, causing quite the scuffle over who actually drives.

* The movie ''[[Fled]]'' used this in part, right down to the one black and one white prisoner {{spoiler|although Lawrence Fishburne's character is actually an undercover officer.}}

* ''[[Film/The Specialists|The Specialists]]'': Happens at the beginning of this French movie, in which two prisoners end up chained together during a routine prison transfer and one of them decides to escape. At first they can't stand each other, then they become best friends. {{spoiler|Later revealed to be a subversion: the prisoner who decided to escape was actually an undercover cop, chained to the other man on purpose so he'd gain his trust and convince him to work on a robbery. [[Ho Yay|They end up BFF anyway]].}}

* ''[[Banlieue 13]]'': two prisoners, routine prison transfer, one decides to escape, hate each other, become best friends, one's actually a cop. It's subverted in ''District 13'' though – it turns out the prisoner made the other guy as a cop ''before they even left the police station'', but was playing along until the first opportunity to cut himself loose. He then leaves the cop handcuffed to the steering wheel of the police van. It takes a good chunk of screen time for the cop to track him down again, although they then ''do'' wind up working together despite their differences.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* [[Garfield]], alongside first Jon, then Odie, spent several weeks stuck in a window blind together. Somehow, this gets parsed as something freaky by the woman Jon asks to try and help them get out of this...

** They are later joined by a man, an old lady, and eventually a ''street light''.

* ''[[Ben 10]]'', episode "Grudge Match", shackles Ben to recurring nemesis Kevin. Unusual in that there doesn't seem to be [[An Aesop]] here, unless it's "go with the lesser of two evils." They still hate each other after they separate.

* In ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', during their first encounter, Jack and the Scottsman wind up like this thanks to bounty hunters after spending a good day or two clashing swords.

* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' did an episode forthrightly titled "Chained", with ranger Shane Gooseman and alien outlaw McCross handcuffed together on a frontier planet after their ship crashes (which also makes it an [[Enemy Mine]]).

** Subverted in that it was only for the first part of the episode, and the two characters only managed to piss each other off worse. McCross's fellow gang members showed up, McCross freed himself, and the rest of the ep is the gang terrorizing Ozark and trying to find a cache of stolen loot. Shane's allies consist of his robot horse and a friendly local.