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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', Santa Claus is strapped down to a table in Oogie Boogie's lair while OogieBoogie sings his VillainSong. [[spoiler:Sally gets tied down in the same way after she is captured trying to rescue him.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', Santa Claus is strapped down to a table in Oogie Boogie's lair while OogieBoogie Oogie Boogie sings his VillainSong. [[spoiler:Sally gets tied down in the same way after she is captured trying to rescue him.]]
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* Let us not forget the incident with Santa Claus in ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.

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* Let us not forget the incident with In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', Santa Claus is strapped down to a table in ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.Oogie Boogie's lair while OogieBoogie sings his VillainSong. [[spoiler:Sally gets tied down in the same way after she is captured trying to rescue him.]]



** In ''Art of Theft'' you are brainwashed like this, the tilted version.

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** In ''Art of Theft'' ''VideoGame/TheArtOfTheft'' you are brainwashed like this, the tilted version.



* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'''s Season 2, where Bloom is seen strapped down ''and'' gagged but it's not thanks to a MadScientist. [[spoiler:The culprit is the season's BigBad, an EvilSorcerer who plans to infuse her with Dark Energy and transform her into his BrainwashedAndCrazy ApocalypseMaiden]].

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* {{Subverted|Trope}} in In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'''s Season 2, where Bloom is seen strapped down ''and'' gagged but it's not thanks to a MadScientist. [[spoiler:The culprit is the season's BigBad, an EvilSorcerer who plans to infuse her with Dark Energy and transform her into his BrainwashedAndCrazy ApocalypseMaiden]].

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* The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Compilation pulls this one on the endlessly unlucky Vincent Valentine, though whatever eeriness or service-factor was intended vanishes rapidly down the commode on account of polygon chibi-sprites ([=FF7=] itself) or towering mounds of bad drama (Dirge of Cerberus).
** Interestingly zig-zagged, as while he is implied to be the victim of multiple experiments, he never seems to be strapped down - in the original Hojo simply puts him on his desk and leaves him to wake up after the event, and in Dirge he wakes unbound on an operating table in a few flashbacks or is otherwise suspended in a semi-conscious state in some sort of liquid in a tank. Whether this was an attempt to keep the certification down is anyone's guess.

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* The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' Compilation pulls this one on the endlessly unlucky Vincent Valentine, though whatever eeriness or service-factor was intended vanishes rapidly down seen in a backstory cutscene in the commode on account original and expanded upon in his solo game ''Dirge of polygon chibi-sprites ([=FF7=] itself) or towering mounds of bad drama (Dirge of Cerberus).
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Cerberus''. Interestingly zig-zagged, as while he is implied to be the victim of multiple experiments, he never seems to be strapped down - in the original Hojo simply puts him on his desk and leaves him to wake up after the event, event (though [[AmbiguousSituation Hojo's note implies he was the one to lock Vincent in the basement with no explanation how he got there]] or got his [[IconicOutfit prosthetic golden arm and new outfit]]), and in Dirge he wakes unbound on an operating table in a few flashbacks or is otherwise suspended in a semi-conscious state in some sort of liquid in a tank. Whether this was an attempt to keep the certification down is anyone's guess.guess, though it should be noted that Hojo shot him immediately prior to this and Lucrecia was trying to save his life, so he likely didn't need to be strapped down in his wounded state.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRebirth'' adds this with Red XIII. During his trial in the Temple of the Ancients he remembers his capture by Hojo, including being dragged over to a lab table, tied down and branded with his number tattoo.
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* ''Film/ReturnToOz'': Dorothy ends up strapped to the trolley which takes her into Doctor Worley's operating theatre. They tell her this is so she does not fall off, but it is clearly to prevent her escaping.
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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': Bumblebee is chained down to an appropriately sized table and tortured. It's never really explained why, besides the government agency needing to hold the VillainBall.

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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'': Bumblebee is chained down to an appropriately sized table and tortured. It's never really explained why, besides the government agency needing to hold the VillainBall.

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* In the ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders''/''ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}'' crossover, Captain Boomerang II and Sasha Bordeaux are captured on a mission to Oolong Island and wake up strapped to operating tables in the lab of Chang Tzu.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}: Labyrinth'', Meriem is strapped to an operating table after being captured by a zombie cyborg guard in an abandoned military research facility. Because she is superhumanly strong, this situation does not last long.
* ''ComicBook/DesolationJones'' goes through this as part of a horrifying experiment of which he is the sole survivor.

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* In the ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders''/''ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}'' ''ComicBook/Outsiders2003''/''ComicBook/{{Checkmate}}'' crossover, Captain Boomerang II and Sasha Bordeaux are captured on a mission to Oolong Island and wake up strapped to operating tables in the lab of Chang Tzu.
* ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}'': In ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}: ''Cavewoman: Labyrinth'', Meriem is strapped to an operating table after being captured by a zombie cyborg guard in an abandoned military research facility. Because she is superhumanly strong, this situation does not last long.
* ''ComicBook/DesolationJones'' ''ComicBook/DesolationJones'': Desolation Jones goes through this as part of a horrifying experiment of which he is the sole survivor.



* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:
** ''ComicBook/SabretoothAndTheExiles'': At least some of Dr. Barrington's mutant prisoners are used for medical research, secured to operating tables, and vivisected by Barrington or her robot AutoDoc. In Sabretooth's case, after he threatens her, she makes a point of getting the robot surgeon to [[{{Fingore}} remove his claws]] without sedating him.
** ''ComicBook/ThanosRising'': Sui-San, [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]]'s mother, is captured by her villainous son, strapped to an operating table and vivisected. Thanos, unaware of his family's full history, doesn't realise that Earth's [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternals]] have full ResurrectiveImmortality and she returns to life on Earth. It's a ''long'' time until Thanos realises that, though.

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''ComicBook/SabretoothAndTheExiles'': At least some of Dr. Barrington's mutant prisoners are used for medical research, secured to operating tables, and vivisected by Barrington or her robot AutoDoc. In Sabretooth's case, after he threatens her, she makes a point of getting the robot surgeon to [[{{Fingore}} remove his claws]] without sedating him.
** ''ComicBook/ThanosRising'': Sui-San, [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]]'s mother, is captured by her villainous son, strapped to an operating table and vivisected. Thanos, unaware of his family's full history, doesn't realise that Earth's [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternals]] have full ResurrectiveImmortality and she returns to life on Earth. It's a ''long'' time until Thanos realises that, though.
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* In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', this happens to a few hapless souls who fall foul of the Un-Men.

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* In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', this ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': This happens to a few hapless souls who fall foul of the Un-Men.Un-Men.
* ''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'': In ''ComicBook/ThanosRising'', Sui-San, [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]]'s mother, is captured by her villainous son, strapped to an operating table and vivisected. Thanos, unaware of his family's full history, doesn't realise that Earth's [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternals]] have full ResurrectiveImmortality and she returns to life on Earth. It's a ''long'' time until Thanos realises that, though.

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* Alcatraz in ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2'' after [[spoiler:Hargreave]] captures him. The table has dozens of arms suspended above it with lasers for slicing.



* Alcatraz in ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2'' after [[spoiler:Hargreave]] captures him. The table has dozens of arms suspended above it with lasers for slicing.

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* ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos''

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4|A Promise Unforgotten}}'' all of the generic classes have introductory cutscenes which play when you create a new one to add to your team. The [[InfinityPlusOneSword cyborg]] class's cutscene shows a female fighter being subjected to AlienAbduction, followed by being restrained this way and undergoing UnwillingRoboticisation.
** At the end of ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'', [[spoiler:Mao declares Super Hero Aurum will be his guinea pig for his experiments. Cut to the credits where a very distressed Aurum is strapped down while Mao delightfully contemplates what he should do first.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4|A Promise Unforgotten}}'' all of the generic classes have introductory cutscenes which play when you create a new one to add to your team. The [[InfinityPlusOneSword cyborg]] class's cutscene shows a female fighter being subjected to AlienAbduction, followed by being restrained this way and undergoing UnwillingRoboticisation.
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** At the end of ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'', [[spoiler:Mao declares Super Hero Aurum will be his guinea pig for his experiments. Cut to the credits where a very distressed Aurum is strapped down while Mao delightfully contemplates what he should do first.]]first]].
** In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4|A Promise Unforgotten}}'', all of the generic classes have introductory cutscenes which play when you create a new one to add to your team. The [[InfinityPlusOneSword cyborg]] class's cutscene shows a female fighter being subjected to AlienAbduction, followed by being restrained this way and undergoing UnwillingRoboticisation.
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* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'':

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** One bed in the Little Sister's orphanage/lab has straps...

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** One bed in the Little Sister's Sisters' orphanage/lab has straps...



** In the prequel DLC Burial at Sea Episode 2, [[spoiler:Atlas does this to a helpless Elizabeth to get information out of her]].

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** * In the prequel DLC Burial at Sea ''VideoGame/BioShockInfiniteBurialAtSea: Episode 2, 2'', [[spoiler:Atlas does this to a helpless Elizabeth to get information out of her]].

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