History Main / ShackleSeatTrap

* ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''. When Film/JamesBond sits down inside Mr. Big's headquarters, steel bands in the chair's arms snap shut on his wrists, holding him prisoner.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Where The Wild Things Are", Spike is sitting in HauntedHouse, smirking at all the running and screaming going on, when suddenly [[BoundAndGagged straps whip across his arms and mouth]].

* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': In "Strictly Business", Murdoc rigs a DeathTrap in which metal clamps spring out of a chair to hold him place, a statue of Cupid spins around automatically, and a candle burns through a string to launch a cyanide-coated dart from Cupid's bow at Mac's heart.

* In ''Literature/TheCaliforniaVoodooGame'', 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.

* The ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' movie has a chair in Koopa's devolution chamber that straps people in and forces them into the machine. Mario and Luigi later use this against Koopa by knocking him into the chair, briefly de-evolving him so they can escape.

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* Prince Naveen from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' visits the voodoo villain Doctor Facilier, and finds himself restrained in his chair by armrests that have transformed into serpents. The serpents hold Naveen securely in place while Facilier extracts a blood sample.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': At the lab, Doc Ock hurls Peter B. into a chair which subsequently shackles his arms and legs, allowing Doc Ock to take a cell sample from his cheek.

* ''WesternAnimation/AaahRealMonsters'' had an episode with a Bond parody, naturally including the laser scene.

* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. When Shad lands on the space station of Dr. Hephaestus, an automated vehicle with a bench seat turns up to receive him, but when he sits down on it restraints snap shut around his arms and throat, choking Shad so he's unable to speak. The chair then takes him to [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Nanelia]] for repair, apparently in the belief that he's one of their RidiculouslyHumanRobots who has malfunctioned. She only finds out otherwise when she touches Shad and is shocked to find his body is warm.

* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars''. When Shad lands on the space station of Dr. Hephaestus, an automated mobile chair turns up to receive him, but when he sits down on it restraints snap shut around his arms and throat, choking Shad so he's unable to speak. The chair then takes him to [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Nanelia]] for repair, apparently in the belief that he's one of their RidiculouslyHumanRobots who has malfunctioned. She only finds out otherwise when she touches Shad and is shocked to find his body is warm.

* Ruby-Spears' ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon had Roll thrown into a makeup chair in episode 2, which restrained her.

* Late into the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book ''Literature/CryptOfTheSorceror'', you'll need to get yourself trapped in one of these ''on purpose'' in order to confront Razaak, the titular necromancer. Entering a bare room with a single chair built into a wall, you take a seat (choosing ''not'' to seat will have you leaving the room and going nowhere), at which point you're suddenly shackled as a disembodied voice from the chair demands you to identify yourself. If you have a zombie's tag, the chair and wall then flips around and the chair released you into Razaak's innermost sanctum; if you ''don't'', a spike then extends from inside the wall and through your back.

* The opening scene of ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}} And the Pirate's Curse'' shows Shantae taking a bath in her home while reminiscing about the consequences of her previous adventure. Then she remembers she doesn't own a bathtub, and shackles appear, imprisoning her.

* 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]]..."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "2D Blacktop", the safe-but-boring replacement ship has seats equipped with what Bender assumes are cup-holders. They're actually arm-holders, which flip around and restrain his wrists when Leela activates the seat.

* Downplayed in ''Literature/TomorrowTown''. The protagonists get into a ZeeRust bullet train of a community-of-the-future and find that automatic safety belts are being strapped around them. They brace themselves for high-Gees, only for the train to amble along at 25 miles an hour. It's an early sign that everything in the community is AwesomeButImpractical.

* Just about any time [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Perry the Platypus]] sits down, it's in one of these.

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

* One odd trap in Undermountain, an infamous TabletopGames/ForgottenRealms dungeon complex beneath Waterdeep, consists of a canopy bed with a suspiciously-lumpy frame. This is because the "frame" is an animated owlbear skeleton, stretched out on its back. Intruders who sit or lie on the "bed" are subject to its bear-hug attack.

* Prince Naveen from Disney's ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' visits the voodoo villain Doctor Facilier, and finds himself restrained in his chair by armrests that have transformed into serpents. The serpents hold Naveen securely in place while Facilier extracts a blood sample.