History Main / ShackleSeatTrap

* According to Russian legend, UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat employed a torturer named Sheshkovsky, whose main implement was such a chair. Sheshkovsky invited his victim to sit in a chair, then the mechanism locked the occupant in place, and the chair lowered midway to the floor below to expose the occupant's rear end to the two burly men with whips who were waiting downstairs and whipped the victim hard. One intended victim of the device, one Count Razumovsky, allegedly forced the torture master to sit in his own chair. The mechanism worked, and the burly men with whips unknowingly whipped their boss instead of their proper victim.
** In reality, Sheshkovsky existed but no proof of the existence of his "invention" was found.

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* Famously used by [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hephaestus]] to prank his mum.

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* Referenced in one of the ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' stories, in which an agent of the Club feels a brief interlude of anxiety when he sits down in an examination chair at the village doctor's office. He knows this ''particular'' doctor is no MadScientist, but his personal experience with ones that ''were'' is such that he can't help but suspect this trope may come into play.

BearTrapBed is its reclining sister trope.

* Used on Zach and Ivy in an episode of WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego. Ivy, however, was able to stand up in the heavy steel chair, and nearly burst her restraints, when a rogue judge pushed her BerserkButton by threatening to jail Carmen Sandiego without a fair trial.

* The school bus to ''Film/SkyHigh'' sprouts seat belts and shoulder straps, securing the students in their seats, just before it drives off the unfinished highway and transforms into an aircraft.

* ''Series/TeenTitansGo'': When Robin finds Terra hacking the Titans' computer in "Terra-rized", he sics the T-Tower's defenses on her. Among the resulting auto-defenses is a set of restraints that pop out of the couch cushions and entrap her arms and torso.

* In ''Film/HardcoreHenry'', Punk-Jimmy coaxes Henry into one when he realizes that Apan is tapping into Henry's visual feed. It fails to hold Henry for long.

* In ''[[Literature/DreamPark The California Voodoo Game]]'', Captain Cypher accepts the challenge of a loa-possessed video arcade game, and sits down on its contoured seat to play. The plastic seat immediately re-molds itself to wrap around his body, leaving only his arms and head free.

* This happens to WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse in the 1995 cartoon ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain'', when Mickey applies for a job under MadScientist Doctor Frankenollie. He drops through a TrapDoor into exactly this kind of chair, and remarks "[[IncrediblyLamePun Talk about your ironclad contract]] ..."

* Ruby-Spears' ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon had Roll thrown into a makeup chair, which restrained her.

* In the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' anime, at the pier duel Anzu is placed in one of these as part of Marik's latest death trap. More exactly, the BrainwashedAndCrazy Anzu ''straps herself'' to the seat as Malik uses her as a mouthpiece to explain his evil plan, then is released from the MindControl and finds herself strapped...

* In the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' anime, at the pier duel Anzu is placed in one of these as part of Marik's latest death trap.