With My Hands Tied: Difference between revisions

* During ''[[One Piece]]'''s current arc (Fishman Island), {{spoiler|Luffy manages to beat down Vander Decken with both his arms and legs tied together}}.

** Before that, [[Big Bad]] Hody Jones wipes out a whole pirate crew (Albiet underwater where fish-men have an advantage, and pumped up on stimulants) with his hands shackled together. One pirate realizes that the handcuffs are to show just how outmatched the crew is compared to Hody.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''Infinity Gauntlet''. Captain America is stuck up to his ankles in pavement and still faces down the God-Level Thanos. He gets his shield shattered and smacked to death but still...

 

* In Disney's ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'', during the climax, Peter fights Captain Hook with one hand behind his back.

* In ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'', Kaylee kicks the feet out from under one of Ruber's mooks and drops him through the floor while tied up.

* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' has an early scene where Jack Sparrow engages in a daring escape and sword fight while his hands are shackled. At one point he fights while one hand is stuck to a moving cogwheel. In the second movie, he doesn't do much fighting, but he still manages to pull off quite a lot of crazy stuff while tied to a pole.

** Jack actually ''wanted'' to be shackled, just so he could escape (first thing he did was use them to hold Elizabeth in front of him so he wouldn't get shot. Second thing was to use them as a pulley to slide down a rope). As soon as they got the cuffs on him, he says "Finally".

* In ''Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day'', Romeo has his hands chained behind his back while he fights a large Frenchman. Romeo dodges his attacks, flips the chains to his front and takes the man down with a submission.

* In ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', [[Black Widow]]'s reintroduction is, after being the [[Play-Along Prisoner]] for an indeterminable amount of time, her beating up a gang of Russian thugs while tied to a chair. It's ''amazing''.

 

== Literature ==

** It's been not so subtly hinted that Jaime Lannister is (or was, in his youth) the greatest living blade on Westeros. Brienne was no slouch but its implied that most of the warriors of the new generation haven't learned to fight in real battles. The distinction between being good in tournaments and being really good is lampshaded by Jaime and Barristan Selmy.

* In the first book of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, several characters are captured, and one in particular, a boundary warden named Chase, has his hands tied behind his back (because he'd ''already'' killed five of the nine attackers on his own). When a suitable distraction happens, he tackles one of the captors and snaps his neck with his legs before being beaten savagely by the captor's leader. He's standing up again within minutes, leading one of the other characters to remark that he's far tougher than he has any right to be.

{{quote|'''[[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Cuddy]]''': I could beat you with one hand tied behind my back!

'''[[All Trolls Are Different|Detritus]]''': You get opportunity! I tie BOTH hands behind your back! }}

* [[Spenser]] fights a tough mook in ''Crimson Joy'' with one hand, using the other to keep his gun trained on the guy's buddies so they don't jump in. Slightly subverted when he cheats a little by switching the gun from one hand to the other, but he still never uses more than one hand at a time.

 

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has done this, on more than one occasion, including kicking Drusilla while she's chained in a dungeon. On another occasion, when the town attempted to [[Burn the Witch|burn her at the stake]], she simply unearthed the stake and impaled a monster on it.

* In ''[[Lost]]'' Sayid's [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]] is where he manages to break a man's neck...with his legs, while he is still tied up from being held at gunpoint moments before.

* Occurs in the ''[[Bones]]'' episode "Two Bodies In The Lab". Brennan does it trying to escape Kenton in the warehouse. It works for a while, until Kenton gets the upper hand on her.

 

* Just about everyone in [[Warhammer 40,000]], hence why more... exotic... measures are commonly employed.

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', one of the questions Strong Bad asks Homestar in the short "The Interview" is "Who would win in a fight: Strong Sad or The Cheat?". Homestar's response comes with a cutaway to a brief demonstration:

{{quote|'''Homestar Runner:''' Oh, man. That's not even fair. The Cheat would win with both hands duct-taped behind his back, and little pieces of duct tape covering his eyes, and Strong Sad can have a spear, even!}}

 

== Web Comics ==

* Subverted in ''[[The Princess Planet]]'': see the bottommost strip of [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517132145/http://www.theprincessplanet.com/p4.html this page].

* An extreme version of this appears in ''[[Goblins]]'': {{spoiler|K'Seliss}} gets captured by an undead abomination that eats liquefied and dissolved flesh. After getting both his arms destroyed by a disease the creature uses to create its 'food', the creature leaves him to slowly die and rot away from the disease, unwilling to confront him further. Even with that handicap, {{spoiler|K'Seliss manages to kill it by jumping onto its back and ''biting its head off'' even as his feet and tail are rotting away. He dies shortly after as biting it spreads the disease to his head.}}

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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