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25	->''"What's the matter, Gaggles? Can't talk cause you're gagged, Gaggles?"''
26	-->-- '''A Gra soldier''' to [[DistressedDude Gordin]], ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon]]''
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28	When a SnoopingLittleKid, DamselInDistress, FauxActionGirl, or [[DistressedDude unlucky guy]] is captured by the villain, they're usually restrained in some fashion, and to keep them from crying out for TheHero, they're usually silenced as well. In the olden days, this was usually accompanied by some form of fantastical DeathTrap to add to the suspense.
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30	As technology marches around the 21st century, the victim's cell phone will invariably ring and the villain will pick it up and answer, "Sorry, she can't come to the phone right now ... she's [[{{Pun}} all tied up]] at the moment." ([[NeverHeardThatOneBefore Villains never get tired of this one.]] [[ObligatoryJoke Never.]] ''[[UndeadHorseTrope EVER.]]'' In fact, there have been a few cases where the ''victim'' has said it to whoever is calling if she's somehow able to speak at the moment, although she usually needs a ''very'' good reason for it.)
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32	To the captives themselves, they're likely to say "IHaveYouNowMyPretty" or "You got spunk!" or some variation/combination of the two. Both of which usually inspire the DefiantCaptive to be extra defiant.
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34	Simple rope is popular among these villains. Others use handcuffs. Sedatives are rare unless the kidnapper uses it to do the initial nabbing. Some villains will invest in unbreakable chains made of {{Unobtainium}} to restrain a super-strong captive (and possibly forget that [[BenchBreaker whatever said chains are bolted to isn't made of the same stuff]]) or possibly include a PowerNullifier.
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36	Sometimes this is done for humor instead. For example, a character who is considered annoying might be tied up by the group simply to get that person out of the way. Especially if the character has an annoying voice or worse: a DreadfulMusician with horrendous vocal chords. Other times, someone might be tied up humorously as the result of some mishap.
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38	When this trope is played for dead serious drama, you can expect, in many cases, very dark lighting and only glimpses of the bonds. It generally tends to be more light-hearted adventures that actually show a lot of rope. In those cases, part of the fun is often seeing the hero escape, or try to escape, the bonds, so there's a lot of emphasis on showing the bonds, the struggling, and the escape or rescue. When it's played for drama, the emphasis is on how terrible the captive feels, so there's more focus on facial expressions and less on the bonds.
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40	Depending on the means used, a rescue can lead to a PainfulAdhesiveRemoval.
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42	Binding and gagging is the most common of [[ARestrainedIndex the many methods of restraint]].
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47	!!Example subpages:
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49	[[index]]
50	* BoundAndGagged/AnimeAndManga
51	* BoundAndGagged/ComicBooks
52	* BoundAndGagged/{{Disney}}
53	* BoundAndGagged/FanWorks
54	* [[BoundAndGagged/LiveActionFilms Film — Live-Action]]
55	* BoundAndGagged/{{Literature}}
56	* BoundAndGagged/LiveActionTV
57	* BoundAndGagged/VideoGames
58	* BoundAndGagged/{{Webcomics}}
59	* BoundAndGagged/WesternAnimation
60	[[/index]]
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63	!!Other examples:
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65	[[foldercontrol]]
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67	[[folder:Advertising]]
68	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dC0_lVaiTQ This Sunsilk commercial right here.]] Tied to a chair with quite a lot of rope, and having her hair "tortured". A lot of rope.
69	* Happens in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qac2MF5wrn0 Listerine commercial]]: Two special forces units rescue a bound and gagged hostage and then find out that her mouth smells horrible that they put the gag back and leave her as she was found: bound and gagged.
70	[[/folder]]
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72	[[folder:Art]]
73	* Art sites, from Website/DeviantART to Booru sites or Website/{{pixiv}} usually has tags related to "Bound and Gagged" for [[RuleThirtyFour many fetish hunters to search.]] It doesn't matter about the victim's gender: While most commonly a DamselInDistress is the target, you'll also find a plenty amount of DistressedDude drawn this way. Then there's also [[TakeAThirdOption both genders in distress, called 'Couple in Distress']], as well as those for the [[DudeLooksLikeALady not-so-clear]] [[LadyLooksLikeADude genders]]: 'Traps in Distress' (Scenarios of BadassInDistress is also pretty common for arts like this). It's considered by many artists as some sort of GuiltyPleasure and for the most part also tagged with 'NSFW', even if it doesn't include hardcore stuffs (like, for instance, emulating the 80's-90's shows which were rife with such bound and gagged scenarios).
74	[[/folder]]
75
76	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
77	* An early arc in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' had Hobbes tying Calvin to a chair so that he could try to escape it. Unfortunately, Calvin is no Houdini, and when his parents come in, they're convinced that he did this to himself.
78	* In the early years of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'', it seemed that nearly every story had Diana Palmer kidnapped and tied and gagged by an assortment of villains.
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81	[[folder:Films — Animation]]
82	* Happens in two of the ''WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo'' sequels.
83	** ''Dot and the Koala'' sees the local police force tie up and imprison a family of wombats, [[WouldHurtAChild including the children]], only to be tied up and gagged with logs themselves by Dot and her animal friends in order to save said wombats.
84	** In ''Dot in Space'', Dot is tied up and silenced by bubble-shaped aliens under the influence of FantasticRacism, when she crash-lands on their planet.
85	* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'': Happens to both Oscar and Angie. Oscar by Sykes' jellyfish henchmen when he failed to win the money back from a bet he just made on the race and Angie by Don Lino.
86	* The boat captain in the first film of ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'' and Chantel Dubois along with her men in the climax of ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted''. The penguins are responsible for both.
87	* ''WesternAnimation/TheManCalledFlintstone'': During the song "Spy Type Guy", Fred has a FantasySequence where he imagines himself as a spy. At one point, he performs a MetronomicManMashing to a bad guy next to a woman who is gagged and tied up to a chair.
88	* Kayley in ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'', near the end.
89	* After Torchesac/Oily-creep/[=McCreep=] steals the magic flute the night before in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAndTheMagicFlute'', Lady Prattle finds Peewit like this in his room.
90	[[/folder]]
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92	[[folder:Manhwa]]
93	* PlayedForDrama in the second manhwa of ''Manhwa/TheBreaker'', ''New Waves.'' When it's revealed that the doctor who helped Shiwoon overcome several members of the S.U.C was only trying to get close to him, Shiwoon is then shown StrappedToAnOperatingTable. It turned out that the doctor was after him for the {{Phlebotinum}} he was [[PhlebotinumRebel given in the previous manhwa.]] He's given two options: join the S.U.C, or have his blood turned into a powerful {{Phlebotinum}} that will help the S.U.C conquer Seoul. Since the doctor is [[spoiler: responsible for his mother's severe injuries in an S.U.C. attack]], he naturally refuses. So, the doctor promptly shoves a gag in his mouth and gets ready to turn him into a living blood bank.
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95
96	[[folder:Music]]
97	* The Music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jek51dK-7A Tommorow]]" by Music/TheCranberries features the lead singer Dolores O'Riordan tied up to a slab and then a rope that seems to be on a pully which spins her around as she sings.
98	* Music/CreatureFeature has an aptly named song, "Bound and Gagged", that details the kidnapping of the President's daughter.
99	* This music video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxosG2R6nk "Another California Song"]], by Damhnait Doyle features the singer tying up another woman to a chair and taping her mouth.
100	* The music video for Music/{{Edguy}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEp8zzCofV0 "All The Clowns"]] involves the lead singer being duct taped to a chair (with a piece of tape over his mouth) by another band member during the guitar solo. He's free again by the time he has to sing again though.
101	* Music/GirlsAloud's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZfKxc6MHQU alternate ending]] to the music video for "I Think We're Alone Now", has them getting caught robbing a casino and all the girls are tied up together and left in a vault.
102	* Music/GreenDay's song about BDSM, titled "Blood, Sex, And Booze" makes a reference to this in its first few lines.
103	-->''Waiting in a room''\
104	''All dressed up and bound and gagged''\
105	''To a chair...''
106	* In the music video for [[Music/DongBangShinKi Kim Jaejoong's]] "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYgTJ9D4Rgg Mine]]" he is muzzled and chained before breaking free.
107	* A completely serious and '''terrifying''' instance of this trope appears in the music video for Song Ji Eun's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1TLaZp1i8E "Going Crazy"]], though it's actually more a case of Bound and {{Blindfolded\|Trip}} than BoundAndGagged. As the trope is used for drama, [[TheWoobie most of the shots of the captive are of his trembling lips and helpless squirming]]. In fact, a lot of the tragedy in this video can be attributed to the use of this trope, although it helps that the man who is bound [[SharpDressedMan is handsome]].
108	* The music video for "[[Music/TheDownwardSpiral Closer]]" by Music/NineInchNails subjects Trent Reznor to this.
109	* The music video for "Be Mine" by the French DJ duo Ofenbach features the two men kept captive by a young and dominant woman. She has tied up both men to chairs and gagged their mouths with tape and playfully taunts them.
110	* Music/{{Jarvis Cocker}} finds himself bound to a chair and gagged at gunpoint in {{Music/Pulp}}'s music video for their 1998 single "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUMqXWaF4Ac/ This Is Hardcore]]". The whole video is a kiss-off to the Golden Age of Hollywood, and the scene cements the seedy, pulpy tone of the song.
111	* The [[https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2733519a80d3768863e57eaeb31 cover art]] for Music/{{Sparks}}' album ''Propaganda'' features the duo tied to a moving boat with their mouths gagged.
112	* The blindfolded variant is in play in two of Music/VioletUK's songs: the original uncensored "Blind Dance" and possibly referred to in "Blue and Blind" as well.
113	* The music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cW1U-i6L8Y Say You Like Me]]" by We the Kings is cartoonish and video game-themed, about the band members rescuing a (real) woman who is kidnapped by a cartoon character and cartoonishly tied and gagged, while the band members go through game-like obstacles to rescue her.
114	* "White Poem II" by Music/XJapan also features Yoshiki being blindfolded and bound both in the PV and the live, in a potential case of AuthorAppeal as he also wrote both of the above Music/VioletUK songs.
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117	[[folder:Pinball]]
118	* In ''Pinball/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkleAndFriends'', Nell is tied to a log headed towards a buzzsaw in the sawmill.
119	* During "Team-Up" in ''Pinball/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesStern'', the captured turtles are each tied to a chair.
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122	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
123	* During the {{evil versus evil}} feud between Wrestling/KurtAngle and Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield's Cabinet, Angle bound and gagged diva search participant Joy Giovanni and threw her in the back of JBL's limo to frame him. (The probable cause was that Giovanni was herself feuding with the Cabinet's "publicist", Amy Weber). The hope was that Wrestling/BigShow would come after JBL, as {{the giant}} had taken on the little non wrestler as his charge.
124	* Wrestling/{{Melina}} ordered [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Nitro]] and Joey Mercury to abduct WWE women's champion Wrestling/TrishStratus on Monday Night Raw and this is how they presented Stratus to her.
125	* One of the standout embarrassments Wrestling/{{Chavo Guerrero\| Jr}} suffered in Wrestling/WorldWrestlingFederation (and there are many) was being bound and gagged by Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}} after being forced to wear a cow suit.
126	* Fans showing their support of wrestlers by throwing streamers during their entrances is a tradition that goes back at least to the founding of Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling. A tradition disrespected in Wrestling/WorldWonderRingSTARDOM when the Hana Kimura and Kris Wolf of the resident PowerStable, Oedo~tai, tried to gag and bind Mayu Iwatani with the rain of streamers she received.
127	* While working as an announcer for Wrestling/{{TNA}}, Wrestling/ChristyHemme got captured and ball gagged by The Dollhouse.
128	[[/folder]]
129
130	[[folder:Roleplay]]
131	* Marion Williams in The Program Version 3's Prologue for ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittestMini''.
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133
134	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
135	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': A 3rd Edition Prestige Class called the Justiciar is much like a bounty hunter who specializes in subduing an enemy without killing him; being able to tie a victim up is so important for this, having a high rank in the Use Rope Skill is a prerequisite. One Class Ability is called Hog Tie, which more or less let's the Justiciar tie an opponent up and render him helpless while grappling with him, usually ending the fight quickly. (Gagging is usually done after the victim is subdued.) High-level Justiciars have Improved Hog Tie which is, naturally, an improvement of the standard ability. (The Prestige Class is available to PlayerCharacters, as both good ''and'' evil Justiciars exist. Of course in this case, male victims can be as common as females, although seeing as the Justiciar has to ''fight'' the victim to use this ability, a female victim is rarely ever helpless initially.)
136	* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': The opening vignette for the main book includes a (possibly) more benign use of the trope. The Cherub Tariel, assigned to protect the mortal woman Patricia, has to drive out to meet a contact but doesn't dare let harm come to his charge -- so he binds and gags her in the passenger seat next to him so he can keep her safe (making sure she's carefully seat-belted, of course).
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138
139	[[folder:Theatre]]
140	* In ''Theatre/ArsenicAndOldLace'', Mortimer Brewster describes how a not-too-bright character in a play he's recently seen just sits down in a chair "waiting to be trussed up and gagged," and a moment later has exactly that happen to him. The first policeman who finds him is less interested in untying him than in reading the second act of the play he's written.
141	* In the climactic scene of [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]'s ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'', Antonio is bound to a chair (and sometimes gagged, depending on how kinky the director is) in preparation for having his [[AnArmAndALeg pound of flesh]] cut off.
142	* In ''Theatre/TheMostHappyFella'', Pasquale leads a group of workers in pulling a prank on Herman, tying his arms up with a string of light bulbs and putting a basket over his head, which causes him to stumble around blindly. Since he's not gagged, he can talk to Cleo, but he stubbornly refuses to complain about his situation.
143	* In the ''Theatre/{{Mrs Hawking}}'' play series: At the end of part IV: ''Gilded Cages'', [[spoiler:Mary and Nathaniel are captured by Frost's henchman and dragged in with their hands tied.]]
144	* In ''Theatre/OneTouchOfVenus'', a screaming Gloria is tied to a barber chair by Savory and Taxi during their failed ransacking of the barbershop.
145	* Terrence McNelly’s Theatre/SweetEros features a female kidnapping victim who is first seen bound to a chair and gagged. Her kidnapper then proceeds to [[ShamefulStrip remove all of her clothing]] while she’s restrained.
146	* In ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'', the start of Act Two finds Hope gagged and bound to a chair in the rebel hideout.
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149	[[folder:Web Animation]]
150	* ''WebAnimation/AstroLOLogy'': In "Blast to the Past", every time Virgo replaces one of her past selves, she leaves them tied up and gagged in her closet. At the end, [[SomethingWeForgot Scorpio finds the seven of them still there]], and the fortune message shows them chasing after Virgo Prime, clearly vengeful.
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153	[[folder:Web Videos]]
154	* Happens to every one of the 5 [[KidHero middle-school aged heroes]] (of both sexes) in the independent kid-made film ''Bradley's Summer'', which can be found on [=YouTube=]. Not only that, Bradley himself gets tied up while invisible. Yup, an invisible boy tied up with ropes that look like they're hanging in mid-air.
155	* Also done in an unusual way to a girl who looks about 10, in the independent film ''Caitlyn''. She's tied to a pole (in part 2) with what appear to be metal strips pulled tightly. She's forced to make a SadisticChoice between her freedom, or her parents' lives. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2cu0wBw5w4 Part 1]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlbFfFiS88 Part 2]]
156	* Website/ChannelAwesome seems to like this trope and use it in an equal-opportunity fashion:
157	** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] has been tied up twice, once by Sage and the other time by Mechakara. The former had a gag involved.
158	** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic was held hostage by the Game Heroes and was tied up with a bag over his head. The bag's pulled off at the start, but he's still squirming and getting manhandled throughout the promo. Later on, Hyper Fangirl and Devil Boner like tying him up with pink handcuffs and chains.
159	** WebVideo/PawDugan was tied to a chair and had his legs shaved by WebVideo/PushingUpRoses.
160	** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick had her hands tied with a red bowtie when Dark Nella took over her show and the Makeover Fairy was tied up in the bath while her make-up was scraped off.
161	** The Ghost Of Christmas Future tied WebVideo/ObscurusLupa to a chair with tape and tinsel in order to try and get the Critic to a Christmas Carol parody.
162	** Elisa was taped up on a couch courtesy of Team B in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''.
163	** The Chick stunned [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] in the face, tied him up with extension cord and gagged him with a sock at the start of their ''Film/Dune1984'' [=IRiff=]. She's also kidnapped and tied up WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows at least five times. [[note]] Add on her chloroforming of the Critic and you start to get a good reason why the fangirls love her.[[/note]]
164	* About two-thirds into [[http://www.gamingpixie.com/43/all-videos/gamereviews/gaming-pixie-reviews-the-white-chamber/ this review]] by WebVideo/TheGamingPixie. With ghostly demonic hands involved, no less.
165	* ''WebVideo/GoldenBookVideoKillers'':
166	** In "Golden Book Video Killers XVI", Grumpy and Daffy were covering the Golden Book Video versions of Literature/TheBible stories, Noah's Ark, David and Goliath, and Jonah. Grumpy feared that Daffy would make crude and offensive jokes about the stories ([[ItMakesSenseInContext since they were all about Christianity]]), so he tied up Daffy to prevent that from happening.
167	** In the latest episode "Golden Book Video Killers - Si And Am's Edition", [[CatsAreMean Si and Am]] (from ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'') do this to Grumpy in an attempt to sabotage the 5th anniversary of the show. [[spoiler: Fortunately for Grumpy, Zeke Wolf showed up and was able to save him, which led to Grumpy confronting the two mischievous cats about it near the end of the episode]].
168	* Happens to the two female leads in the independent film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahphe3lXAo Green Eyed Monsters]]''. They pretty much spend 80% of the movie tied up. Strong language warning on this one. It's certainly not made by kids.
169	** Five actresses have it happen to them in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ahRBFMNQY&feature=relmfu Blackout]]''. From the same director. [[AuthorAppeal Hmmm...]]
170	* ''Knot Me''. The premise of this short film? "What do you do when you wake up to find yourself tied to a chair?" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmfIvzbzBK4 Find out here.]] Yes, a short film literally about a young woman being tied up.
171	* PlayedForDrama a couple of times in ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'':
172	** In Entry #35, Alex and Jay manage to unmask the masked man after they overpower him and tie him up, [[TheReveal revealing]] his identity for the first time. [[spoiler:[[IKnewIt It's Tim.]]]]
173	** In Entry #67, the hooded figure knocks out [[spoiler:Alex]] with a pipe at the abandoned hospital and then ties him up to a chair. He allows [[spoiler:Tim]] to practically [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge knock his lights out]] before he [[spoiler:takes Alex's gun and nearly finishes him off himself. Fortunately for Alex, the Operator shows up just in time to save him.]]
174	* Done, interestingly, with a lot of rope and a large cloth gag for visual effect, on a young girl about 7, in a movie made by a summer camp, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDf67JtDvI#at=887 The Mystery of the Missing Jewels]]''. It's obvious she isn't really tied or gagged especially tightly, and it's just for show, but that sure is an almost cartoonish amount of rope. Occurs at 14:47 in (link will skip you there).
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177	[[folder:Others]]
178	* The married couple known as Jester and Kitty; two German cosplayers, that work under the alias/brand of ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/natsuko-hiragi Natsuko-Hiragi]]'' revolve around Cosplay Bondage with Kitty (and sometimes Jester) bound and gagged in a cosplay that could be from Asuka Langley from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' to Jasmine from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''.
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