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* ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'': Chloe, Nadine and Sam get captured by Asav's men at one point. The three have their hands cuffed behind them and then are marched along by their captors, while Sam and Nadine bicker the entire way.
* Arvo receives this treatment from Kenny in Telltale's ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonTwo''. It makes sense that Arvo be pushed in front of the group, since he's promised to lead the group to a house with food and supplies.
** Kenny's rough treatment of the captive Arvo is used to illustrate Kenny's becoming increasingly volatile and unstable.

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* In ''Disney/PeterPan'', an Indian walks John and Michael this way when the tribe captures them and the Lost Boys.

* ''Series/Merlin'': In the Episode, 'The Dark Tower' Morgana takes Gwen prisoner this way, dragging her by her bound wrists while she rides on horseback, in the hopes that it will exhaust Gwen and break her spirit faster.
* ''Series/Rome'': In the episode, 'Owl in the Thornbushes' Eirine, a Germanic woman sized by soliders fleeing Rome and tied by her wrists to an ox-pulled cart carrying treasury gold stolen by Pompey's recruits.

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', Sam Gamgee's nightmare vision of a possible future, at the well of Galadriel, of the Shire over-run by the forces of Mordor. As Hobbiton blazes, Sam witnesses grinning leering Orcs manacling surviving Hobbits into long lines of bound prisoners, prodding them along with spears and kicks.

* ''Series/Once Upon a Time'': In Season 2, Episode 2 called "We Are Both" Emma and Mary Margret have their hands bound in front of them and their bonds are attached to a long rope and are forced to walk behind their captor, Mulan, who is on a horseback. They are eventually cut from the horse, but their wrists are still tied when the group arrive at their destination.

* A variant in ''Film/{{Batman}}'', when the Joker takes Vicki Vale hostage and forces her to the top of Gotham Cathedral at gunpoint. No need to bind her hands or anything, due to the aforementioned being-at-gunpoint. He also only starts physically pushing her along to when it becomes clear that Batman is following them.

* In ''Film/DinosaurIsland'', Lucas and Kate are taken prisoner by a local tribe, pulled along with their hands tied.

* ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'': Chloe, Nadine and Sam get captured by Asav's men at one point. The three have their hands cuffed behind them and then are marched along by their captors, while Sam and Nadine bicker then entire way.

* ''Series/WonderWoman'': The episode "The Man Who Made Volcanoes" has Diana being captured by a pair of Chinese agents investigating the mountain where the volcano-making machine is. For several scenes after they are shown dragging her along (sometimes literally) with her hands tied behind her and they make their way up the mountain side.

* A variant in ''Film/BatMan'', when the Joker takes Vicki Vale hostage and forces her to the top of Gotham Cathedral at gunpoint. No need to bind her hands or anything, due to the aforementioned being-at-gunpoint. He also only starts physically pushing her along to when it becomes clear that Batman is following them.

* A variant in ''Film/BatMan'', when the Joker takes Vicki Vale hostage and forces her to the top of Gotham cathedral at gunpoint. No need to bind her hands or anything, due to the aforementioned being-at-gunpoint. He also only starts physically pushing her along to when it becomes clear that Batman is following them.

* A variant in ''Film/Batman'', when the Joker takes Vicki Vale hostage and forces her to the top of Gotham cathedral at gunpoint. No need to bind her hands or anything, due to the aforementioned being-at-gunpoint. He also only starts physically pushing her along to when it becomes clear that Batman is following them.

* A variant in ''Film/Batman1989'', when the Joker takes Vicki Vale hostage and forces her to the top of Gotham cathedral at gunpoint. No need to bind her hands or anything, due to the aforementioned being-at-gunpoint. He also only starts physically pushing her along to when it becomes clear that Batman is following them.

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Basically, a character is captured by some group of people, and is being pushed along, sometimes even at sword-point, spear-point or gun-point, and has their hands tied. In some cases, it's even a group of people that are taken this way, and they may even have a rope leading from each prisoner's hands to another prisoner's hands.

Sometimes the captor is holding a rope attached to the captive's hand and pulling them along by the rope.

This is TruthInTelevision, since it's often easier to transport prisoners this way - tie their hands so they can't fight, but have them able to walk so you don't have to carry them. In fiction, however, it serves several purposes. Besides looking visually dramatic to see, prisoners who are being forced to walk sometimes get chances to escape, especially if their captors are distracted, and in some cases (such as in action or kung fu movies) can fight back [[WithMyHandsTied with their hands tied]]. Captors sometimes learn the hard way that this isn't the best way to transport a captive!