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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''[[Double Standard|Obviously if you're watching a scene with a woman tied to a bed while]] [[Rape
'''''It's a tie game with no score.'''''
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The guy always [[All Men Are Perverts|enthusiastically]] [[Genre Blindness|agrees]]. At which point she cheerfully robs him blind and leaves, leaving the robbed (and naked) guy stuck until someone finds him.
A prime example of [[Comedic Sociopathy]] in that the victim is not only robbed (as in a mugging), but deeply, deeply humiliated in a public way while the trope is (almost always) played entirely for laughs at his expense.
Sometimes the setup is used for dramatic, rather than comedic effect, as the person who was chained to the bed is now helpless and at the mercy of the person who tied them up or whoever discovers him. In the comic example the victim is nearly [[Always Male]]; in the dramatic example the victim might be male or female. If it ''is'' a woman chained to a bed it's much more likely that it's [[Double Standard|deadly serious]].
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* Another British example, a car advert has a couple enjoying an improbably sexy dinner followed by aborted bondage on the stairs. He is left cuffed to the bannister staring at a piece of paper which reads "Ask before you borrow it."
* [http://www.visit4info.com/advert/Base-London-Unmodel-Behaviour-Base-London/21036 This] ad for, believe it if you can, a shoe store. No, it doesn't make any more sense to us.
== Anime and Manga ==
* Done (mostly) non-sexually and dead serious in ''[[Zombie Loan]]''.
* Otome Chibaku Yuugi has this for [[Rape
* This is similar to Yamazaki Sakura's prefered source of revenue in ''[[Blue Seed]]''; she pretends to be a prostitute, insists that the guy take a shower, and then swipes his wallet. [[Comedic Sociopathy|Hilariously]], when one of them suggests some BDSM, [[Megaton Punch|she flips out on him.]]
* Played straight in a side story in the manga ''[[Mel Kano]]''.
* In the ''[[Please Teacher
* ''[[To
== Comic Books ==
* Male on female version: Wallace does this to Delia in ''[[Sin City|Hell And Back]]'', to restrain her after
* Tulip does this to Jesse in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' and leaves him tied up for the whole day as revenge for leaving her behind when he went to Masada.
** Jesse was also tied to a bed by Miss Outlash. But she did knock him out first. And dress him in a Nazi uniform. Which was a bit awkward when his black female deputy encountered him walking around in said uniform.
* [[The Adventures of Barry Ween|Barry Ween]] left one of his male enemies dressed in lingerie and handcuffed to a bed in a sleazy motel room. With another man. And no memory of what happened.
== Film ==
* As seen in the image above, Sherlock Holmes walks right into this trap in the [[Sherlock Holmes (
* In the very dark drug comedy ''[[Spun]]'', the protagonist ties a girl to his bed, duct-tapes her eyes and mouth shut, and leaves her there for days.
* ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' - the first time we see Jane kill anyone is when she's sent to play dominatrix to an arms dealer.
* In ''[[Heartbreakers]]'', Sigourney Weaver's character is tracked down by her ex-husband (well, the most recent one, anyway) in the midst of her scheming to capture the next one. He begs her to take him back. Being too busy to deal with him just at the moment, she persuades him to let her tie him to her hotel bed blindfolded, then takes off and leaves him to be discovered by the maid. Who doesn't exactly rob him, but does refuse to let him go until he offers her a bribe. Incredibly, he later teams up with this character and her daughter to enact another scheme.
* Susan Sarandon ties Tim Robbins to the bed in ''[[Bull Durham]]'', just to read Walt Whitman to him.
* Subverted in the Irish film ''[[When Brendan Met Trudy]]''. Brendan, who is [[Genre Savvy]] has been seriously rattled by news reports that a woman has been running around chaining up unsuspecting men and ''castrating'' them. When Trudy (who Brendan already knows lied about her job) turns up with the paraphenalia and starts chaining him to a bed, he not unnaturally panics. Turns out she really ''was'' only looking for consensual, kinky sex. In a further twist she does in fact turn out to be a thief.
* In ''[[Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS|Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS]]'', Ilsa is tricked into being tied to her bed by Wolfe, believing that he's into S&M. Instead, Wolfe leaves her there, escaping the concentration camp. {{spoiler|When the Nazis storm the camp, Ilsa believes they're going to rescue her. However, they shoot her in the head. This didn't stop three more sequels, though.}}
* ''[[Sex Drive]]:'' Lance lets the gas station attendant he met less than an hour previously handcuff him to the bed in her trailer. She asks if he wants to try the "rolling brownout." He quickly agrees, then asks: "Wait, brown?" he is next seen running naked out of the cornfield, carrying the headboard which he is still attached to.
* In ''[[
* The Australian movie ''Envy'' has this happen to the protagonist's teenaged son, although the "kinky sex" bit is absent.
* [[National Lampoon]] 's ''Dorm Daze''. The plot involves a handbag full of stolen money. At one point, a guy offers a woman half the money in exchange for a good time. She tells him "By the time I'm done with you, you'll give me all of it." After handcuffing him to a chair: "Okay, I'm done with you."
* ''Something Wild''. A woman (Melanie Griffith) lures a man (Jeff Daniels) into being handcuffed to a bed, then makes him call his place of work and tell them he's taking the rest of the day while she's sexually stimulating him.
* In ''[[The French Connection]]'' Gene Hackman's character wakes up like this and his partner lets him out. Played to suggest this is not a particularly unusual occurrence for him.
* In the slasher ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Hostage]]'', Jennifer Smith (Michelle Horn) is tied to a bed by psycho serial killer mercenary Mars (Ben Foster). She's rescued in the nick of time by her kid brother before Mars can do anything rapey. In somewhat of a fulfillment of the quote above, Mars is later killed during a confrontation with [[Bruce Willis
* In ''[[Idle Hands]]'', when things are getting hot and heavy with Molly, Anton ties his own hand to the bed. He's doing it for her safety, but she thinks he's just being kinky.
== Folk Lore ==
* A moderately famous urban legend has this happening to a man who is handcuffed to a bed in anticipation of kinky sex. She then leaves the room and a man dressed as [[Batman]] jumps out of the closet and rapes him. That's pretty much it.
** A similar urban legend is about a man tying his wife to the bed so he can play a "Batman saves the girl" role play scene. But during the fun he jumped onto the bed and smashed his head on the ceiling fan, knocking him unconscious. The woman had to call for help until the police kicked in the door to save them. (''The Big Book of Urban Legends'', a book of short comic-strip treatments of various ULs, had this one illustrated by Kevin Maguire of ''[[Justice League International]]'' fame.)
* There is also ''[[
** Although there's a difference between 'guy stupidly lets a girl tie him to the bed' and 'guy and girl are busy on the bed when a net of golden chains made by girl's angry husband traps both of them'.
== Jokes ==
* There is a joke about a man waking up to his wife giving him a silk cord and telling him: "Tie me up and do whatever you wish." He ties her up and goes fishing.
== Literature ==
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* Happened in [[Anne Rice]]'s book ''Lasher''. Since that was a woman, it was, yes, deadly serious.
* In Peter Robinson's ''Friend with the devil'', one of the investigating detectives finds a suspect tied to the bed in a hotel room. She proceeds to interrogate both him and his lover, before letting the lover untie him. It's just as awkward and absurd as it sounds.
* In Janet Evanovich's first [[Stephanie Plum]] book, Stephanie is handcuffed to the
* In Courtney Milan's ''Proof By Seduction'', Gareth insists that Jenny wear a much fancier dress than the plain fare she prefers, and won't let her voice any objections. She [[Show Some Leg|lifts her skirts to above her knees,]] slooowly peels down one of her stockings, and then climbs on his lap for makeouts. While he's distracted, she uses the stocking to tie one of his hands to the chair behind his back. Then she climbs off his lap and archly tells him to free himself. When he furiously declares that he can't reach the knots with his free hand, she tells him she can't reach the laces on the back of that fancy dress either. She's too poor to hire a lady's maid, and the plain dresses are the only ones she can put on and off by herself.
* In the short story "Bed of Roses" by Elisabeth Waters, the protagonist's suitor/stalker insists on [[Exact Words|"a night in her bed"]] in exchange for helping her to rescue her little brother. He should probably have asked for something else, considering that she's a [[Celibate Hero|member of a celibate order]] of [[Religious Bruiser
* ''[[Vampire Kisses]]'': Played with in the first book when Raven distracts Trevor by making out with him and then stealing his clothes that he had taken off, thinking that he was gonna score with her. The next day at school, she plays a prank on him by supergluing his underwear to her locker.
* A very dark example of this is in ''[[
* Happens more than once to Lisbeth Salander in ''[[The Millennium Trilogy]]''. The first time, she's being strapped down by a [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|sadistic psychiatrist]] and the second time she's being [[Rape
* In ''[[Hilary Tamar|The Sibyl In Her Grave]]'' by Sarah Caudwell, bank director Edmund Albany gets found almost-naked and tied to a bed by one of the protagonists. It turns out that he referred to a French dominatrix as ''tu'' when she preferred ''vous''.
== Live
* Happened to George Costanza in ''[[Seinfeld]]''.
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* Marissa did it to a [[Jerk Jock]] in ''[[The OC]]''.
* Mandy did this to her crazy ex-boyfriend in ''[[Game On]]''.
* In ''[[
* Happened to Greg's father Edward in ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'', involving Penn from [[Penn & Teller]]. The girl cuffs him and walks out, then Penn comes in. A pause, then Edward says, "Oh, I sure hope you're here to rob me."
* Used in an episode of ''[[Nip Tuck]]'' in which Christian's bitter on-again/off-again girlfriend Kimber tricks him into letting her tie him to a bed, supposedly in preparation for kinky sex...then proceed to torment him with a knife (she never hurts him, but takes great pleasure in making him think she's going to), fed up with the crappy way that he treats
* In ''[[
* Played straight in ''[[Life On
* ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' had this happen to protagonist Duncan MacLeod, who was over two hundred years old by then and really, ''really'' should have known better.
** It happens to Richie too. The poor boy never did have any luck with his women.
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* Happens to Xander, more or less, in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Xander is the one to suggest that the rope might be for "kinky sexy fun"; the girl claims she just wants to suspend a canoe in her garage. We're not shown exactly how Xander ends up suspended over the Hellmouth.
* Adebisi did this to Kenny Wangler on ''[[Oz]]'', but that was implied to be a straight-out [[Prison Rape]].
* The killer-of-the-week in the ''[[
** As did the UNSUB in "Conflicted". [[It Got Worse]].
** Used as a joke in another episode. "If a John wants to tie you up, walk away. If he wants to be tied up, do it and steal his wallet."
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* Something similar happened in the UK comedy series ''[[Coupling]]''. Girl cuffed to bed, played for laughs. Only in ''this'' case she wound up stuck because {{spoiler|Spank Man accidentally swallowed the key}}.
** Don't forget Patrick handcuffing ''himself'' to the bed in anticipation of his girlfriend bringing back another woman for their supposed threesome. Needless to say, Earth logic need not apply. Again.
* Inverted in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Favorite Son". Harry Kim is stranded on a planet of [[Horny Devils|Amazon Vampire Succubi]] that secretly want to suck his life out by having deadly sex with him. He's discovered their plans, so when two of them come to seduce him he suggests to them that he'd like to do it with them tied to the bed. As soon as they're bound, his escape attempt ensues.
* Inverted in ''[[
* Happens to Casey in ''[[Chuck]]'', with the result being that Casey breaks the headboard off and beats down his capturers with the piece of wood. It's also implied that this is not the first time this has happened.
** And then happened to Chuck in "Chuck vs. the Suburbs".
** Casey is later chained to a radiator (no seduction in that case). He takes it with him, and uses it to hit someone.
* In one episode of ''[[Archie
* Happens to Cliff in the ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' episode "The Rapes of Graff".
* On the pilot episode of ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'', Jordan flirts with the investigating police officer throughout the episode, and at the end ties him to a bed so she's free to wipe the makeup off his arm and [[The Reveal|reveal]] the bite mark that identifies him as the killer.
* Subverted on ''[[
** Another episode had a Navy programmer die, and while searching for the boyfriend as a suspect, he's found in exactly this situation.
* On ''[[
** [[Memetic Mutation|Then there's the version where the prostitute ties the mark to the bed before forcing them to listen to Rick Astley.]]
** Subverted in another ''CSI'' episode when a police officer with missing uniform was found to have engaged in some handcuff/uniform kinkiness but was ''not'' robbed by the woman - it was instead stolen when sent for much-needed cleaning afterwards.
* In one episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', a dead man is found handcuffed to a bed. It emerges the hotel has branded cuffs available for just that sort of thing.
** Another first season episode had a man ''anally raped''. When the detectives cite how there was no forced entry Horatio drops a rather dark [[Quip to Black]].
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* Used chillingly on ''[[Shameless]]'', when Paddy is held captive like this and forced to take heroin.
* [[Gender
* A variant is used in the TV version of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', where Harry is handcuffed to the bed by a date post-sex so that she can steal Bob's skull.
* Used in an episode of ''[[Scare Tactics (TV series)|Scare Tactics]]'' where the "victim" begs the person being pranked to free her, only to have the captor return and threaten the prankee with the same fate before the reveal.
* Happens in ''[[The New Statesman]]'' entirely by accident and the (rich female) victim loves the experience, even as Alan gets back to the hotel and concludes that he doesn't have time to deal with her cuffs if he's going to make the flight home. Possibly the only non-serious version with a female victim.
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* Another accidental version in ''[[Peak Practice]]'' - it's a medical show, so the one with the keys has a bad fall and can't get to the cuffs to unlock them.
* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', Guy of Gisborne gets tied to a bed...by his sister. She then refers to him as a "present" for Prince John.
* Subverted in ''[[Dollhouse]]'', when Echo only leaves her client this way when her programing glitches.
* A rare female version occurs in an episode of ''[[Friends]]''. Rachel finds Chandler handcuffed to a chair in her boss' office. Cue him insisting she uncuff him, and her wondering whether it's worth the risk of her boss knowing she was in there and firing her (he ends up handcuffed to a completely different piece of furniture before finally escaping). Chandler later gets revenge by leaving the boss chained up, in her slip, for Rachel to discover.
** A variation occurs, AGAIN involving Chandler, earlier in the show. Julia Roberts guest-stars as a girl Chandler humiliated as a child, and dates him for a while only to convince him to put on her underwear and get naked in a bathroom stall. She then runs away with his clothes. While he is technically not chained to anything, the effect is exactly the same.
* In Season 2 of ''[[Mad Men]]'', Don Draper is having one of his many extramarital affairs when, just before having sex, his [[Girl of the Week]] tells him that he has a reputation. Draper is not happy with this; he takes the belt of the bathrobe she was wearing, ties her hands to the bed with it ([[Genre Blind|to which she responds enthusiastically]]), then walks away.
* Happens to Rayanne in a ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' episode.
* Inverted on an episode of ''[[St. Elsewhere]].'' Dr. Ehrlich (Ed Begley) hooks up with a slightly kinky young woman who asks him to tie her up. He gets her tied, then goes out to his car to fetch one more item . . . and the apartment door locks behind him.
* Happens in an early episode of ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]''. The US Marshals are tipped off about an escaped con hiding with his girlfriend. Guess how they find them...
** Boyd Crowder ends up doing this to {{spoiler|Quarles near the end of Season 3. He messes it up however by having two Oxycontin addicts be guards, and leaving a nice bottle of the drug in the room.}}
** In season three, Quarles binds Brady to a bed and tortures him to death. The crime was part of Quarles' long history of abusing male hustlers.
* Happens to ''[[
** In Season One after 'happy pills' inexplicably caused a ''temporary'' reversion to
* Sam does this in ''[[Las Vegas]]'', before she leaves him to be ''raped'' by someone else.
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', happens with Barney once...or so he says.
* Mentioned in one episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
* Self-inflicted example occurs in ''[[Two Pints of Lager and
== Music Videos ==
* In the video for the White Stripes song "Icky Thump" the singer and guitarist Jack White is chained to a bed and robbed by a Mexican prostitute with a glass eye. [[Mickey Mousing|The scene is derived from the lyrics]].
* Happens to Joon of [[Korean Pop Music|MBLAQ]] in Kan Miyeon's video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1KfUDB1zU Going Crazy]. He's later shown [[With My Hands Tied|with his hands tied]] with a [[Strangled
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Happens to a gay couple in the comic strip ''[[Chelsea Boys]]'', both tied up in chairs by a kinky guy they met on the internet who then proceeds to rob them.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] and parodied in an ''[[Het Dagboek Van Anton Dingeman|Anton Dingeman]]'' comic: a guy who is wanted by the police for being fatally boring seduces a girl and ties her to a bed. While she is excited over the prospect of kinky sex, he proceeds to bore her to death with his stamp collection and vacation photos.
== Real Life ==▼
* Two possible real-life examples are retold on [http://everything2.com/title/You+really+shouldn%2527t+let+people+you+don%2527t+know+tie+you+up this node] at [[Everything Two]].▼
* This is why all toy handcuffs have levers on them that allow the wearer to free themselves without a key.▼
== Video Games ==
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** A variation occurs at the beginning of the sixth game, wherein Shamara (after indeed spending the night with Larry), leaves him handcuffed to a bed and steals Larry's wallet... Then he accidentally sets the hotel on fire.
** Also ''two'' different types of death scenes in the second game - one with "Mama Bimbo", another with any of Dr. Nonookie's "helicopter girls".
* One of Aurica's cosmosphere levels in ''[[Ar
== Web Comics ==
* Happened to Danny in the
▲* Happened to Danny in the webcomic ''[[Sorcery 101]]''. Possibly unique in that girl (er, demoness) does not escape scot free. Very much not.
* Tip in ''[[Skin Horse]]'' lets Julie chain him to a bed with her police handcuffs for some kinky sex. Afterward, she leaves him chained up "for his own protection." However, the handcuffs don't present Tip with much difficulty in the end.
** [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php?view=archive&chapter=38295#strip3 "Honestly. Like I've never been handcuffed to a bed before."]
* Happened to the titular character of ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''. Played completely for [[Black Comedy Rape|comedy]], because it's [[Double Standard Rape (Female
** What's interesting is the massive amounts of [[Dude, Not Funny]] reaction from the fan forum
*** Well, it was very much implied to be non-consensual (as Dominic claims to have had "no choice in the matter"), so treating it as comedy (compared to the male-on-female rape that is treated as [[Rape
* Inverted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213172350/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/97 this] ''[[Loserz]]'' strip where Jodie is the one chained to the bed, but it's after a [[Wild Teen Party]] and played for laughs.
* ''[[Last
== Western Animation ==
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** {{spoiler|[[Don't Explain the Joke|He used his penis]]}}
* In an episode of ''[[The Critic]]'', a female projectionist (who happens to be a very obsessed fan of movie critic Jay Sherman) invites him to her apartment, drugs his glass of wine, and when he awakens he finds himseif tied up to her bed with rolls of movie film. By the episode's end, his best friend Jeremy rescues him.
* ''[[The Fairly
▲== Real Life ==
▲* Two possible real-life examples are retold on [http://everything2.com/title/You+really+shouldn%2527t+let+people+you+don%2527t+know+tie+you+up this node] at [[
▲* This is why all toy handcuffs have levers on them that allow the wearer to free themselves without a key.
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