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In many works a character can end up being [[Not Himself]]. He or she could even hurt someone, or admit to someone that they are worried they might hurt someone. Sometimes, he or she is just acting oddly enough to give people reason to ''think'' that they're crazy and/or a danger to themselves and others. Often, their freedom is taken away by their own friends or allies to keep them safe and unable to harm themselves or other people. This could be by restraint, sedation, or confinement.
This will often happen in a safe location, such as their base or a hospital (or whatever serves as one), and will often result in some fight between the captive and the captor(s). This can result in [[Breaking the Bonds]], or if they gain superpowers it could become a [[Cardboard Prison]]. Those keeping them captive may employ some sort of [[Kryptonite Factor]] to keep them under control. This could also result in an [[Unwanted Rescue]]. If they [[Self-Restraint|ask to be restrained]], it can overlap with [[No Matter How Much I Beg]].
The character being confined does not need to be willing, and the characters to whom they lose their freedom don't need to be benevolent. However, their confinement has to be for safety, and not for malice or punishment, in order to actually fit this trope.
Related to: [[Cruel to Be Kind]].
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== Comic Books ==
* This happens to [[
* ''[[Spirou and Fantasio]]'': In the album ''La Valllée des Banis'', a venomous mosquito bites Fantasio and causes him to go insane; [[Insane Equals Violent|the insanity makes Fantasio become very violent and reckless]] and Spirou is eventually forced to tie him up to keep them both safe.
* A similar situation happens in the [[Achille Talon]] album ''Viva Papa!''. To escape from a prison cell while tied up, Talon has sidekick Lefuneste gnaws on their bonds. Except, as they finds out, the rope is made of Tapasambalian hemp, a dangerous psychotropic plant. Thus Lefuneste has to be kept tied during the escape. Later, the bad guys capture them again and, seeing one of them still in ropes, conclude that he's no longer their friend and have him
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[Astral Journey: It's Complicated]]'' had [[Spice Girls| Emma, Melanie, and Victoria]] all in this. For Emma and Victoria, it was due to be being standard practice as they were being transported to the hospital for safety reasons. Considering Emma was already badly injured from the pitch, it was also used to keep her body stable, which is one of safest things to do.
**In Melanie's case, of course, she got hurt during her ''second'' attempt at escaping after being sectioned and a wheelchair is included.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[The Invisible Man (
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* ''[[The Exorcist]]'', Reagan is strapped to her bed during her exorcism.
== Literature ==
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' novel ''[[The Silver Chair]]''. The Green Lady's protege asks the protagonists to tie him to the title device and not let him go [[No Matter How Much I Beg]], so that he won't change into a green serpent and kill them. Actually a subversion since he has not yet been revealed to be Prince Rilian and the real reason he is being kept in the Silver Chair is because, rather than being in danger of turning into a snake and killing everyone, those nightly spells are the only times he realizes that he is Prince Rilian and the Green Lady wants to ensure that he doesn't escape from her while he still knows who he is.
* In ''[[The Hunger Games (
* ''[[
* In ''[[Harry Potter (
* In [[The Parasol Protectorate]], werewolves have servants called "clavigers", whose job description includes locking their werewolf in a cell when the moon is full.
* ''[[
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* In ''[[The Shining]]'' by [[Stephen King]], Jack Torrance starts going violently insane to the point where his wife Wendy has started carrying a knife around in the event that she has to use it on Jack in self defense. When she manages to get him unconscious after he tries to hurt her, she locks him in the pantry of the Overlook to protect herself and their son Danny and so that he won't starve in the time it takes for help to arrive. {{spoiler|He does manage to escape, though.}}
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** Chloe being locked in her room while turning into the aliens.
** Similarly, Cornel Young is tied to a chair before swapping minds with one of the aliens to make sure the alien can't do anything to ''Destiny''.
* ''[[
** [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Oz]] is confined on full moons. At first in a cage locked with a key, later however in a cage locked with a combination keypad which he can supposedly only operate when he is human.
** In the episode "Living Conditions" she starts rooming with a new girl her own age, then starts to get annoyed about those kinds of little things that roomies do to annoy each other... then she starts to get delusional and claiming that the girl is 'evil', and that she's going to have to 'slay' her, which prompts the rest of the Scoobies to tie her up to stop her while trying to find out why she's suddenly gone crazy. {{spoiler|Turns out the girl actually IS a demon in disguise, and she's been performing nightly rituals to drain Buffy's soul, which is why she's acting erratic. Also, the restraints are less than effective at holding her.}}
** Buffy chains Angel up to keep him from hurting himself or attacking others after his return from hell, when he's still feral and wild.
* In ''[[
** There's a werewolf chick who comes to Wolfram & Hart every month to be locked up.
** Angel himself in "Somnambulist". He lets the others tie him up when he's afraid he's killing people in his sleep. "Eternity" might or might not count... he was having a pseudo-Angelus episode brought on by drugs, so he was evil when they chained him up. However, he was left tied for a while by Cordy and Wes later at the end of the ep.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
** Seven of Nine once is affected by a borg core causing other personalities to come forth.
** Tuvok in a last season episode dealing with Makii brainwashing.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', Castiel, Bobby, and Sam lock Dean in Bobby's panic room to stop him getting to Michael.
** Bobby and Dean also lock Sam in there to keep him away from the demon blood.
* In early episodes of ''[[Being Human (
** In a flashback, Mitchel's vampire sponsor ties him to a chair during his blood-detox.
* In ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'', Jim goes a little nuts and starts digging graves in the blazing hot Atlanta sun, and has to be restrained by being tied to a tree until he comes to his senses.
* In ''[[
== Myths & Religion ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: In ''[[
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
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'''Roy:''' I'm going to choose to attribute that comment to stress and not hold it against you in the future. }}
* In ''Sodality'', Lex Philippine learns of the latest plot by the Icy Finger to take over key positions in Toklisana's government and become [[Big Brother Is Watching|Big Brother]]. He also notes that they have several sympathizers working as prosecuting attorneys, and that the Sodality is at great risk. While those in the Sodality who can flee do so in order to defeat the Icy Finger, Sodality members that cannot flee so easily are encouraged to find meeting points with SCALLOP agents and be arrested as quietly as possible, taken to SCALLOP prisons so they will be shielded from their political enemies and able to continue their operations from behind safe walls. Those without serious criminal records either face trumped-up charges or else are encouraged to do petty things to stage that they are in more trouble than they really are. The plan works, and most of the captured heroes play along with their "sentences" confident that the guards are secretly on their side. Since most of those in "Team Caged Dove" are the women, this leads to a (considerably downplayed) [[Girls Behind Bars]] situation.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In the "The Return of Harmony, Part 2", Twilight Sparkle has to find her friends and cast a spell to make them themselves again. Once she finds them, they have to be tied up in order for her to cast the spell because they won't stay still.
** It happens again in "Hearts and Hooves Day," where the Cutie Mark Crusaders brew up a love potion in order to [[Shipper
* In the ''[[
* In the ''[[Teen Titans (
* Happens twice to Batman in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
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* In the United States, a person can be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital on the grounds of likelihood of harm to themselves or others or grave disability, defined as inability to provide for one's own needs as a result of their mental disorder. Even when a patient voluntarily commits themselves, the environment in a mental institution is such that patients are unable to escape or harm themselves, with the purported goal of helping them get better.
* Suicide watch in any form, which is basically restricting the watchee, if not outright confining them, so that he or she can't kill themselves. Of course, when this is done with death row prisoners, this veers more into [[Cruel Mercy]] territory.
* This is often common to strap patient to a stretcher when being transported by ambulance for a similar reason as seat belts are for cars. Considering the patient is in a moving vehicle, it's done for safety reasons.
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