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* Justified in ''Film/{{Sunshine}}''. Capa locks himself in the spaceship's airlock [[spoiler:to escape Pinbacker, who then locks the hatch from the outside so Capa can't get out. However there are tools in the airlock used for EVA repairs. Capa burns a hole in the inside hatch with an oxy torch, then straps himself to the wall and fires the explosive bolts in the outside hatch. The force of the air inside the spaceship trying to escape through the small hole is enough to wrench the inside door off its hinges.]]

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* Justified in ''Film/{{Sunshine}}''. Capa locks himself ''locks himself'' in the spaceship's airlock [[spoiler:to to escape Pinbacker, the villain, who then locks the hatch from the outside so Capa can't get out. However there are tools kept in the airlock used for EVA repairs. Capa burns a hole in the inside hatch with an oxy torch, then straps himself to the wall and fires the explosive bolts in the outside hatch. The force of the air inside the spaceship trying to escape through the small hole is enough to wrench the inside door off its hinges.]]
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* ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan'' (1940 FilmSerial). Dr. Satan kidnaps Professor Scott and orders him to build the MacGuffin he's after. Scott uses the equipment on his workbench to covertly establish a radio connection to his daughter, then talks loudly to his guards about how he needs a particular transformer and tells them the electronic store where it's sold. She passes the information to the hero, who goes to the store and follows them back to where her father is being held.
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* ''Film/TheCrimsonGhost'' (1946 FilmSerial). When the Crimson Ghost demands that [[KidnappedScientist Dr. Chambers]] build a larger-scale version of his Cyclotrode, he makes the cardinal mistake of leaving a brilliant engineer in a fully-stocked electronics laboratory, under the supervision of a henchman who doesn't understand anything Chambers is doing. One improvised death ray later, Chambers is free to make his own escape.
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** And in a variation on this theme, an [[IrishMob Irish drug cartel]] once stages a crime scene to kidnap Danny and Adam, and holds them prisoner while their teammates raid the central office (where they hope to recover several tons of confiscated drugs). Mistake #1: Adam has brought, and eventually regains access to, his forensics kit, which contains corrosive compounds. Mistake #2: the cartel leaders fail to lure Mac, Stella, and Hawkes from the CSI labs, where ''they'' have access to a whole plethora of tools and firearms with which to defend themselves and the evidence. (Mac is even able to rig up a [[ChekhovsGun claymore mine]] from ordinary lab materials.)

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** And in a variation on this theme, an [[IrishMob [[TheIrishMob Irish drug cartel]] once stages a crime scene to kidnap Danny and Adam, and holds them prisoner while their teammates raid the central office (where they hope to recover several tons of confiscated drugs). Mistake #1: Adam has brought, and eventually regains access to, his forensics kit, which contains corrosive compounds. Mistake #2: the cartel leaders fail to lure Mac, Stella, and Hawkes from the CSI labs, where ''they'' have access to a whole plethora of tools and firearms with which to defend themselves and the evidence. (Mac is even able to rig up a [[ChekhovsGun claymore mine]] from ordinary lab materials.)
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* ''Series/FrankieBoylesTramadolNights'': During the skit where the A-Team is depicted as "real" Vietnam veterans, they're kidnapped and locked in a warehouse with all the equipment they need to build a plane to escape. They end up building a giant crack pipe instead.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the bad guys make many different {{Tailor Made Prison}}s to keep [[ElementalPowers Benders away from their elements]]. But it's often difficult to lock up a Bender without them giving them ''any'' access to them.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the bad guys make many different {{Tailor Made Prison}}s to keep [[ElementalPowers Benders away from their elements]]. But it's often difficult to lock up a Bender without them giving them ''any'' access to them.
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* ''Film/{{Madeline}}'': When Madeline and Pepito are kidnapped, they are left tied up in a the back of a truck filled with circus equipment. They are able to easily free themselves when they realize that there are juggling knives hanging from the wall right next to them. They then escape by stealing a motorcycle also left in the truck, using Madeline's hairpin to pick the ignition, which is some thing that the villain had taught Pepito how to do.
-->'''Pepit:''' What idiots!

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* ''Film/{{Madeline}}'': When Madeline and Pepito are kidnapped, they are left tied up in a the back of a truck filled with circus equipment. They are able to easily free themselves when they realize that there are juggling knives hanging from the wall right next to them. They then escape by stealing a motorcycle also left in the truck, using Madeline's hairpin to pick the ignition, which is some thing something that the villain had taught Pepito how to do.
-->'''Pepit:''' -->'''Pepito:''' What idiots!
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[[caption-width-right:319:[[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]]\\

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[[caption-width-right:319:[[MemeticMutation TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]]\\



** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark is kidnapped and left with various parts that are supposed to build a missile. However, supervision is relatively lax (just some cameras placed here and there) and the terrorists locking him up are mostly tech-illiterate, so he doesn't build the missile like they think he is. Instead he builds the first version of his Iron Man suit [[MemeticMutation in a cave]], [[OverlyLongGag with a box of scraps]], and uses it to escape.

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** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony Stark is kidnapped and left [[MemeticMutation in a cave]], [[OverlyLongGag with various parts a box of scraps]] that are supposed to build a missile. However, supervision is relatively lax (just some cameras placed here and there) and the terrorists locking him up are mostly tech-illiterate, so he doesn't build the missile like they think he is. Instead he builds the first version of his Iron Man suit [[MemeticMutation in a cave]], [[OverlyLongGag with a box of scraps]], and uses it to escape.
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** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' you can operate on yourself using a fork to get to your fake death pill, handily hidden inside your body, you can open the cell door with the correct radio frequency, or trick the guard into giving you a cig spray, or throw food to the guard so that he gets diarrhea.

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** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' you can operate on yourself using a fork to get to your fake death pill, handily hidden inside your body, you can open the cell door with the correct radio frequency, or trick the guard into giving you a cig spray, or throw food to the guard so that he gets diarrhea.
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* The surreal reverse example in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' where three criminals get out of prison thanks to three conveniently placed man-sized Powerpuff Girl disguises within the jail cell. "This is going to be harder than I thought."

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* The surreal reverse example Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' where three criminals plot to get out of prison thanks by disguising themselves as the Powerpuff Girls. "We'll have to use every resource in the joint." The camera pans over the basic facilities in the average prison cell: sink, mirror -- and a clothes rack holding three conveniently placed man-sized adult-sized Powerpuff Girl disguises within the jail cell. "This is going to be harder than I thought."costumes.
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[[caption-width-right:319:[[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]] A SuperheroOrigin as good as any.]]

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[[caption-width-right:319:[[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!]] SCRAPS!]]\\
A SuperheroOrigin as good as any.]]
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* The third ''Film/IronButterfly1989'' film sees the hero, Lin-Jian, captured alive by the triads and handcuffed in the back in a bathroom. Too bad Lin-Jian is an escape artist himself who then uses the tap and faucet to pry his cuffs open, before using the broken cuffs to pick the lock.

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