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* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', Corwin attempts to steal a knife at a banquet, but it's confiscated. This leads to him attempting to dig his way out of his cell with a spoon.

* ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': In "The Special Orders", Same is being held captive by a gang of slavers. She steals a knife from dinner and uses it to prise out the scrap of cloth she had jammed into the doorframe earlier to prevent the lock from closing.

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* ''Film/DrNo''. When the BondGirl is dragged away to be [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil handed over to Dr No's guards]], Bond jumps to his feet only to get a gun shoved in his back. Bond puts down the bottle he was going to use as an ImprovisedWeapon, but Dr No then tells him to put back the dinner knife he palmed during this moment of distraction.

* ''Film/DrNo''. When the BondGirl is dragged away to be handed over to Dr No's guards, Bond jumps to his feet only to get a gun shoved in his back. Bond puts down the bottle he was going to use as an ImprovisedWeapon, but Dr No then tells him to put back the dinner knife he palmed during this moment of distraction.

** In ''Trigger Mortis'', Bond manages to steal a knife during a dinner provided by Jason Sin, and later uses it help himself to dig out from being buried alive.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gawayn}}'': Xiao Long manages to [[FastTunneling dig a very long tunnel]] in an attempt to help himself and the other questers (sans Roderick) escape jail in an episode with a fork.

* Free, the immortal werewolf from Anime/SoulEater tries to invoke this: he allows himself to be captured because he thinks it would be cool to dig his way out with a spoon like in the movies. Unfortunately [[WrongGenreSavvy he forgot he was in a Japanese series]], and all of his meals were served with chopsticks. He ends up spending about 200 years in prison as a result.

When being held prisoner, the natural inclination is to escape. And your chances of escape are greatly improved if you have some kind of weapon. So naturally captors are careful not to allow their prisoners access to any kind of weaponry. However, prisoners still need to be fed, and that usually involves some kind of utensil. And an eating utensil can make a handy improvised weapon.

* In ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', protagonist Moist von Lipwig manages to secrete a spoon in his cell, which he uses to gradually chip away at the ancient mortar around one of the blocks in the wall. He finishes on the night before he's due to be hanged, only to find a freshly mortared block right behind it, with a shiny new spoon in the gap. Apparently the jailers regard false hope as a healthy prisoner activity.

* In ''Series/BreakingBad'', [[spoiler:there is a man stealing the fragment of a plate to escape]].

* Mirtai's backstory in ''[[Literature/TheElenium The Tamuli]]'' involves being captured by slavers as a child. She pulled the handle off the spoon they gave her, and sharpened the metal shank.

* In ''Literature/DrNo'', Literature/JamesBond attempts to steal a steak knife while [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine he is having Dinner with Dr No]]. Dr No, however, is wise to this trick and has Bond searched before he leaves the table.

* The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was accomplished with, among other implements, spoons stolen from the dining hall. The escapees widened the opening of the ventilation ducts leading into their cells by chipping away at the concrete with their stolen spoons.

* In ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad: Most wanted'', Deadshot snaps off pieces of his utensils to construct a shiv that he uses to take out out a guard and escape.

Mirtai's backstory in ''[[Literature/TheElenium The Tamuli]]'' involves being captured by slavers as a child. She pulled the handle off the spoon they gave her, and sharpened the metal shank.