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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 [[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.

* 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.

* Hawkeye in the "Ultimates" continuity. They should have taken his fingernails.

* Black Widow in the "Ultimates" continuity. Bonus points that not only was she bound at the hands and feet, she was hung upside-down from a ceiling. She manages to dispatch several of her captors nonetheless. When one pulls a pistol and aims it at her, she shoots him a "I'm upside down, tied- and you need a gun? How pathetic are ''you''?" look.