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* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', Hiruma plays the second half of the game with the Hakushuu Dinosaurs with a broken right arm. Keep in mind that he's a quarterback (the position which throws the ball) A month later, at the Christmas Bowl, it still hasn't exactly healed, so he'll have to keep off it... causing the star running back of the opponents, the Teikoku Alexanders, to say he'll ''also'' play without using his right arm. And while this ultimately turns out to have been a ploy by Hiruma so the Alexanders would underestimate him, Yamato keeps using only one arm until he's forced to do otherwise, to show he doesn't need to try to kick ass.
* In one episode of [[Vision of Escaflowne]], Van got himself tied with his hands up. He pulled the one of his guards' sword from the scabbard ''with his legs'', throwing it so it would cut the rope he was tied with, and then proceeded to off the soldiers aroung in industrial quantities.
* ''[[Ranma ½|[[Ranma
** She might have assumed Ranma wouldn't want to hurt the cute innocent widdle pig. "Pig is VALID weapon...." Cue the squealing....
** Near the end of the manga, Ranma's hands and arms were held in place and encased in nigh-indestructible crystal, product of [[Big Bad|Saffron]]'s metamorphosis. He was still able to fight almost to his full abilities, even wielding the spear-like Gekkaja with his toes and cut a giant Phoenix statue's neck in half that way.
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== Comic Books ==
* In a [[Story Arc]] that takes place over a few issues of Marvel's ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic, Snake-Eyes's wrists are manacled together with a long chain, which is then thrown over a hook a few feet up a stone wall. He manages to feign death by slowing his heartbeat -- which of course annoys the would-be torturer enough that he lets his guard down -- steal a poker from the torturer, leap up to the hook, pry it free of the wall using the poker, and then use the chain to steal a sword from a guard. At that point, it's all over.
* In a variant used in an early ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' story, Cap once got his hands untied, but his feet were still bound together. Even so, he was doing well fighting a small army of goons under that circumstance to the point when he got his legs free, the crooks know they were now ''really'' in trouble.
* Doomsday, only partially out of the super-strength straitjacket he'd been buried in for millennia, manages to decimate the Justice League literally with one hand tied.
* When Gambit is captured along with the other [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] in mutant-enslaving Genosha and is hanging by his shackled arms, he deliberately allows himself to be impaled with a steel spike-- which he works out, drops and catches it between his feet, then ''with his feet'' over his head picks an ''electronic'' lock and frees himself.
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* Done beautifully in a deleted scene from ''[[Jurassic Park|The Lost World]]'' in which Roland picks a fight with a womanizing man who harasses one of the waitresses at the bar/restaurant they are both at. The man sizes up Roland, then boasts he could beat Roland with one hand behind his back. Cut to Roland having a hand tied behind his own back, then as the other man attempts to correct Roland's "mistake", gets punched out, slammed into a table and a pole or two, then has his ''[[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|nose broken by Roland's single hand crushing it with his index and middle fingers]]''.
* Jackie Chan, in ''[[Rush Hour]]'', had a nice battle with both his hands cuffed to a (removed) steering wheel. He also manages to go over a twelve-foot wall with his hands still chained. The post-movie blooper reel has a screamingly funny outtake of the wall climb...
** Only one hand was cuffed to the steering wheel, which just made it an unusual weapon/thing to try and conceal.
** Not the first time he's done this either. In ''Who Am I?'', he escapes from his captors and makes his way '''down''' a three-story building {{spoiler|by turning himself into a human yo-yo}} with his hands cuffed behind his back.
** And in ''Mr. Nice Guy'', near the end, the [[Big Bad]] ties a bunch of ropes to him so he can beat him up without worry, but Jackie still manages to get the upper hand once.
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* In a Villainous version, the film ''[[X-Men: The Last Stand|X Men the Last Stand]]'' has Mystique [[Neck Snap|breaks the neck]] of a [[Mooks]] with her legs because she's hanging from the wall by her arms.
** Earlier, she tries to strangle a police officer who's interrogating her, with her handcuffs.
* In ''[[Anaconda]]'', Jon Voight strangles Kari Wuhrer to death with his legs while handcuffed to a pole.
* It takes Anton Chigurh a horrifically long time to finally strangle his arresting officer with a pair of handcuffs in [[No Country for Old Men]]. Never wonder if he's a [[Complete Monster]] again.
* ''[[FX]]: Murder by Illusion'' (1986). The protagonist is able to knock out the hitman and ties him up with his hands behind his back; but when the hitman revives he's able to partially free himself (in the middle of their struggle) by leaping up in the air and whipping his bound hands underneath his feet in one movement.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Jaime Lannister, an in-universe [[Memetic Badass]] and widely considered to be the greatest fighter in the Seven Kingdoms, gets into a sword fight with Brienne of Tarth, whose first on-screen action was to defeat something like forty other knights, including a young knight who is generally thought of as the new Jaime. Jaime's hands are shackled together at the time, and he'd been locked in a dungeon for some time prior to the fight. Brienne is arguably also hampered in that fight by her oath not to do any harm to Jaime until they reach their destination, and is on the defensive until he starts to taunt her. They fight for what's implied to be the better part of a day, and by the time they're done they've both lost their swords and been injured. It only ends when they're interrupted while grappling. {{spoiler|Most fans give that fight to Brienne, as she was (successfully, until the interruption) trying to drown Jaime in a creek.}} Each is astonished at the other's skill, with Jaime later judging the strength of his oponents by Brienne (and finding them wanting,) and Brienne mentioning that no knight she's ever faced would be able to withstand Jaime at his full strength.
** Leading to the funniest exchange in the whole book (paraphrased):
{{quote|"You can't hurt him. I swore that I would get him safely back to King's Landing."
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* Lisa from ''[[Resident Evil]]'' on the [[Game Cube]] has her hands shackled, but can deliver extremely powerful blows on the player.
** [[Cursed with Awesome|By using those very shackles as a weapon]].
* Kuroda Kanbei in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' combines this with [[Epic Flail]]. He fights with manacles on his wrists, attached to a giant steel ball which he can swing around with ease. A [[Running Gag]] is his failed attempts to remove the shackles.
* In ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]] 2'', Grievous will occasionally boast, "I could do this with one, two, no, [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|THREE ARMS]] TIED BEHIND MY BACK!"
* There's a section near the beginning of ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'' where Bruce Wayne gets arrested on bogus charges for speaking out against Arkham City, and after he gets thrown into the prison himself, you to fight off a few groups of goons as a still-handcuffed Bruce.
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