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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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* Played straight in a side story in the manga ''[[Mel Kano]]''.
* In the ''[[Please Teacher]]'' OVA, Hatsuho drags Kei to a [[Love Hotels|love hotel]] against his will and ties him to the bed, in order to spice up Kei and Mizuho's married life, or possibly so she could just have video footage.
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== Film ==
* As seen in the image above, Sherlock Holmes walks right into this trap in the [[Sherlock Holmes (film)|2009 film]]. Although in this case he was drugged unconscious first. And to add insult to injury, the key was left under that pillow.
* 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.
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* Used chillingly on ''[[Shameless]]'', when Paddy is held captive like this and forced to take heroin.
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* 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.}}
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== 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 by the Red String|red rope]], which symbolizes exactly what it seems: {{spoiler|The girl in the video kidnaps young men and tries to [[And Now You Must Marry Me|force them to marry her]]. When they (very rationally) reject her, she keeps 'em [[Unfortunate Implications|locked up together in her closet]]. So, quite literally, the man in the video is [[Strangled by the Red String]].}}
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== 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 [[
* This is why all toy handcuffs have levers on them that allow the wearer to free themselves without a key.
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*** 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 as Drama|drama]]) has some [[Unfortunate Implications]].
* Inverted in [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 Res0rt]]'' uses a downplayed version of this routinely as a preventative measure / enforced "curfew" on criminal players staying in the Executioner's Quarters. Unlike most of the examples here, though, the chains still give them some freedom of movement as opposed to being left spread-eagle and completely vulnerable.
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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
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