History Main / ChainedByFashion

** It's not just limited to the Kiva's either, Kamen Rider Rey from [[NonSerialMovie King Of Hell's Castle]] has loads of chains wrapped around his arms for no apparent reason.

[[caption-width-right:289:This guy was designed by Tetsuya Nomura, obviously.]]

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* ''HarryPotter'' has the Bloody Baron, ghost of Slytherin House and the only being in the castle besides Dumbledore who can get Peeves the poltergeist to listen to him. The last book reveals that he wears them [[spoiler: ou tof guilt for killing Rowena Ravenclaw's daughter, which drove him to kill himself.]]

* Sloth in the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga. Although the chains and manacles are probably to get him to do things rather than to keep him from doing things. He's rather not do ''anything''.

** Twilit Igniter Fyrus also retains his chains after breaking them, which are both his weapons and the key to taking him down.

[[caption-width-right:289:You don't know how long it takes him to get through an airport.]]

* The Shadow Stalker boss in ''[[KingdomHearts Kingdom Hearts II]]'' is wrapped in chains. When it [[OneWingedAngel turns into]] Dark Thorn, it has manacles hobbling its legs, and manacles with broken chains hanging from its wrists.

* ''{{Mortal Kombat}}''[='=]s poster boy Liu Kang is killed and resurrected as a zombie, complete with chains attached to his wrists. The opening video for ''MK: Armageddon'' even shows him using them in a whip-like manner to grab hold of another character, a move he isn't actually able to perform in the game.

* {{Superman}}'s enemy Doomsday beat the entire JusticeLeague to a pulp while still half-bound in the massive steel-cabled straightjacket used to [[SealedEvilInACan seal him in the can.]]

* ''GuiltyGear'''s [[GentleGiant Potemkin]] is a particular case. In the beginning, his gloves and collar are both a weapon and an enslavement device, designed to explode should he try to take them off. After they're deactivated (at the end of the first game), he decides to keep them, as a remainder of his former life as a slave. (''[[BeyondTheImpossible shotgun gloves]]'' help). However, Potemkin's [[OneHitKill Magnum]] [[MegatonPunch Opera]] move reveals their nature of [[PowerLimiter Power Limiters]], as he disintegrates them away and destroys the opponent in ''a single punch''.

** In the card game, there exists Exodia Necross, whi is basically a playable-monster-version of the assembled Exodia. He still has the chains and manacles on him... except they're all ''broken'' OhCrap.

* In CharlesDickens' novel ''AChristmasCarol'', Jacob Marley's ghost is weighed down by long chains.

* '''[[YuGiOh RAGING INFERNO! EXODE FLAME!!!]]'''
** This may need a little Elaboration. Exodia is a SealedEvilInACan, split into 5 pieces and each piece bound. Yugi put him back together in the first episode, and he had chains on his limbs.

* Cheza from ''[[WolfsRain Wolf's Rain]]'', who has golden manacles and a neck chain from her time in the scientist's [[PeopleJars People Jar]]. Subverted in that they're so ''not'' chain-like that they look like a matching necklace and bracelets, but considering the only thing she'd respond to was the blood of a wolf (believed extinct for two centuries), the scientists understandably didn't think she'd ever move enough to ''get'' out. Or that Darcia would break in and bust her out himself.

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[[caption-width:289:You don't know how long it takes him to get through an airport.]]

* ''KamenRiderKiva'' has chains on his right leg and shoulders which act as [[RestrainingBolt Restraining Bolts]], removed only when he triggers his FinishingMove and SuperMode, respectively.

*** Goku was like for a while, too, in the entirety of SaiyukiGaiden, and in flashbacks in {{Saiyuki}}. He does eventually get rid of them. And also, all of the main characters wear chains in the opening credits to the first anime series ( as well as [[EstrogenBaitBrigade tight leather pants and no shirts]] ). The mangaka originally wrote yaoi and the franchise <i> is </i> heavily marketed towards girls and women, after all.

** Goku was like for a while, too, in the entirety of SaiyukiGaiden, and in flashbacks in {{Saiyuki}}. He does eventually get rid of them.

* JohnCena when he was the [[{{Delinquents}} "Doctor of Thuganomics]] until [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks they changed his entire gimmick]].