Line #51 Main/ChainedByFashion


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2	[[caption-width-right:298:He's got [[{{Pun}} killer]] fashion sense.]]
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4	They've tried [[TooManyBelts belts]], [[{{Zipperiffic}} zippers]], [[PowerCrystal crystals]], [[PowerGivesYouWings wings]], [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset bones]], and even their kid sister's [[PowerGlows glowy]] [[PowerFloats floaty]] {{sparkles}}, but none of those made them look badass and [[PowerMakeover super powerful]] (more like a cute RummageSaleReject)... so what's a budding {{Mon}}, [[SummonMagic summon monster]], or enslaved freedom fighter to do?
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6	Get ''[[PerfumeCommercial Chained]],'' by Fashion.
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8	Simply put, characters who are impossibly powerful tend to be incredibly dangerous, so they get [[PowerLimiter limited]], [[SealedEvilInACan sealed]], or [[SealedGoodInACan bound]] to [[TailorMadePrison imprison]] them (in this particular case it must have been with chains). Like that'll work. To show this, [[BreakingTheBonds when the chains inevitably break]] because the character is ''just that powerful'', they'll often choose to keep the locked manacles as reminders of their captivity (humility, rare) or displays of their indomitability ({{pride}}, common). Then, there's always cases where they either can't remove the manacles or don't care to.
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10	The manacles will have short lengths of chain still attached, which will rarely ever impede movement and will nonetheless [[VariableLengthChain still be long enough]] to act as whips or to choke opponents. Sneaking up on someone while hauling noisy chains around can prove difficult, which may constitute TheCrocIsTicking.
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12	For when there's someone else at the end of your chain, see ChainedHeat. For chains as {{Improvised Weapon}}s, see ChainPain.
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15	!!Examples
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19	* Advertising/MonsterCereals:
20	** Frankenberry wears thick chains as suspenders, though this seems to be a purely "strength" related reason, while also adding to the "industrial" look he has compared to other Frankenstein's monsters.
21	** Boo Berry originally had chains attached to him, in a Jacob Marley-esque way, often with a cereal box dangling off of them. These were removed in later iterations of his design.
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25	* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': The Beast of Darkness is Guts' extremely dangerous and [[SuperpoweredEvilSide powerful]] EnemyWithin, and the rattling chains attached to its wolf-like body represent Guts and Schierke's measures to contain it inside Guts' subconscious.
26	* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Exodia is a SealedEvilInACan, split into five pieces and each piece bound. Yugi put him back together in the first episode, and he had chains on his limbs. There also exists Exodia Necross, which is basically a playable version of the assembled Exodia. He still has the chains and manacles on him... except they're all ''broken''.
27	* Ajimu Najimi from ''Manga/MedakaBox'' appears in the real world in the state Kumagawa sealed her in: six giant screws in her body, especially the ones fastening her hand to her chest.
28	* Free from ''Manga/SoulEater''. For some bizarre reason, he keeps his ball and chain attached to his foot. Not that it really impedes him any.
29	** In the manga, he uses it in conjuntion with his [[AnIcePerson ice magic]] to help him and Eruka get away from the prison guards.
30	* Cheza from ''Anime/WolfsRain'', who has golden manacles and a neck chain from her time in the scientist's [[PeopleJars People Jar]]. Subverted in that they're so ''not'' chain-like that they look like a matching necklace and bracelets, but considering the only thing she'd respond to was the blood of a wolf (believed extinct for two centuries), the scientists understandably didn't think she'd ever move enough to ''get'' out. Or that Darcia would break in and bust her out himself.
31	* Iron Maiden Jeanne from ''Manga/ShamanKing'' wears this as part of her self-inflicted torture training.
32	* Mukuro from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' was once a slave. Even after she becomes one of the most powerful demons in Makai, she continues to wear a manacle around one of her wrists.
33	* [[FillerVillain Homura]] from ''[[Manga/{{Saiyuki}} Gensoumaden Saiyuki]]''. Those chains are supposed to be keeping his hands together, right? Then whose idea was it to make it so long?! They don't even impede his movements. Lampshaded when he puts the longer chains on Goku, and he comments how helpful they were in a fight.
34	** Goku himself was like for a while, too, in the entirety of ''Saiyuki Gaiden'', and in flashbacks in ''Saiyuki''. He does eventually get rid of them. And also, all of the main characters wear chains in the opening credits to the first anime series (as well as [[MrFanservice tight leather pants and no shirts]]). The mangaka originally wrote yaoi and the franchise is heavily marketed towards girls and women, after all.
35	* ''Literature/MaiHimeDestiny'''s Mayo Kagura finds herself shackled with a pair of really bulky (and [[MadeOfIndestructium nigh-unbreakable]]) dragon handcuffs, which act as a PowerLimiter for the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide evil Dragon Priestess]] lurking within her.
36	* Lanancuras of ''Anime/{{Shinzo}}'' has rock armor. Turns out that's the last bit of the asteroid that restrained his power, and once it's all knocked off of him in battle, he goes from powerful to god-like.
37	* Hinted at in ''Manga/SaintSeiya''. [[DudeLooksLikeALady Shun]], [[TechnicalPacifist Bronze]] [[MartyrWithoutACause Saint]] of [[BarrierMaiden Andromeda]], wields the [[EpicFlail Nebula Chains]] on each arm: the right-arm one, with a pointed end, is meant for offense; the left-arm one, with a circular weight, defends (although it can suffer from TheWorfBarrage from time to time.) While he uses these as his primary tools most of the time, woe to the foe that destroys them or forces him to take them off --at that point, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Shun will shed his inhibitions]], explode his [[BattleAura Cosmo]], and summon the [[GameBreaker unbeatable attack]] ''Nebula Storm''.
38	* The characters of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' wore chains on their gothic outfits in the Human Chess-obsessed Mafia world they stopped off in after the series took a turn for the confusing. ItMakesSenseInContext, but not much.
39	* In ''Manga/KingOfThorn'', Alice's protector is adorned with chains, which it can also manipulate as weapons.
40	* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', Kurapika's [[FunctionalMagic nen ability]] is the ability to materialize a variety of chains from his hands with different powers.
41	* In ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', Belphemon wears chains that bind him in his [[SealedEvilInACan dormant form]]. In both that and his [[OneWingedAngel awake form]], he is able to shoot ''lasers made out of green fire'' from them.
42	* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Virgo is also manacled, showing her [[SummonMagic servitude]] to her master. [[TooKinkyToTorture She really doesn't seem to mind.]]
43	* Ikari in ''Manga/Eyeshield21''. He's not the most powerful character in the series, so much that his teammates have to chain him up, so you'd usually see him restrained until the critical time comes. But he's pretty showy about his BerserkButton. It's revealed that back in middle school he was TheDreaded due to being TheBerserker and the chains were part of his clothing style, which gave him the nickname Prison Chain Ikari.
44	* Sloth in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Although the chains and manacles are probably to get him to do things rather than to keep him from doing things. He'd rather not do ''anything''.
45	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Yamato has explosive manacles with short lengths of chain attached around both wrists that were put on him by his father Kaido to prevent him from leaving Onigashima.
46	* Haruko in ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' has a manacle around her right wrist with a single chain link still attached. The chain link rattles as if being tugged on by some unseen force at certain points in the story [[spoiler:in response to Atomsk - the chain link is a piece of his nose ring]].
47	* A later series by Creator/StudioGainax, ''Anime/MelodyOfOblivion'' has Sayoko, who wears manacles which do the exact same thing as Haruko's, pointing toward the man she's in love with. [[spoiler:The manacles are left over from when she was going to be sacrificed but was saved by Kurofune. Also, they stop pointing toward him and start pointing to Bocca about midway through the series, for obvious reasons.]]
48	* The Yamai twins in ''Literature/DateALive'' each have manacles(and trailing chains) on one arm, one leg, and the neck. The positioning indicates they were originally [[ChainedHeat chained together]]. A [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] in that it signifies that they were one spirit split in two rather than something bound that was freed.
49	* In the ''Mega Man EXE'' manga, a flashback to the origin story of Bass.EXE shows that his destructive tendencies caused him to be restrained with a code that manifested as shackles. He asks his creator [[LampshadeHanging if they at least make him look cool]], showing that at the time, he had an innocent and optimistic personality. Then comes Bass's StartOfDarkness, and [[TheUnfettered the shackles are the first thing to go]].
50	* ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs'': Chuuya has a small chain on his hat. If someone's in need of being knocked down a peg (either because they're the target of the Port Mafia or because [[TheGadfly their name is Osamu Dazai]]) they're in for a beating.
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54	* Franchise/{{Superman}}'s enemy Doomsday beat the entire Franchise/{{Justice League\|of America}} to a pulp while still half-bound in the massive steel-cabled straitjacket used to [[SealedEvilInACan seal him in the can.]]
55	* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
56	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In Zara's second appearance she wears a chain collar with a strip of chain dangling down from it between her breasts.
57	** In UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age\|of Comic Books}}, the Amazons kept their former slave shackles as handy bullet-bouncing bracelets.
58	* One ''ComicBook/IronMan'' comic book has ol' Shellhead cabled in front of a huge laser cannon. When he gets down from there he still has cuffs and cables on his wrists, but he doesn't have time to take them off since he still has to defeat The Living Laser. At least he figures out that the cables could come in handy if he sweeps them across the floor to trip up some henchmen.
59	* On the cover of an issue of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', Sonic himself wore broken manacles since the arc had him currently framed for murder.
60	* Ex-con The Absorbing Man, part of ComicBook/TheMightyThor's RoguesGallery, carries his prison ball-and-chain as a weapon. Since he was wearing it at the time he got his powers, it has the same magic properties he does, so this is a matter of practicality.
61	* Not only does ComicBook/{{Spawn}} wield chains as weapons, but they also feature prominently in his outfit, one chain holding his cape in place, while another set serves as a belt.
62	* In ''Comicbook/DarkCrisis'', villains under the control of the Great Darkness (the {{Big Bad}}s of previous {{Crisis Crossover}}s, and later Deathstroke's Secret Society of Supervillains) have crossed chains across their chests.
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66	* In ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' fanfic ''FanFic/DirtySympathy'', Klavier is wrapped in chains for one of his stage acts. [[FatalMethodActing It ends]] [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident badly.]]
67	* ''Fanfic/FateOfTheClans'': [[spoiler:Even after breaking free, Cú Chulainn Alter still has several chains on him, 29 of them.]]
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71	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfTheTigerProwess'': The gold chains Lord Japper wears around his neck and on his pants are a good indicator that he's quite rich, as well as the fact that he's even able to build an amusement park over Goats' Village in the first place.
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75	* Pang from ''Film/DogBiteDog'', a cage fighter who escaped police custody after being handcuffed to a police vehicle, where he managed to saw the cuff off. He spends several scenes - several ''days'' in-universe - wearing a cuff with a dangling chain attached.
76	%%* ''Film/KingKong''.
77	* Juggernaut in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand.'' He just never bothered to take his restraints off.
78	* The rather inappropriately titled (under the circumstances) ''Film/HerculesUnchained'', as seen on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
79	* In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood'', Jason Voorhees has a length of chain hanging from his neck, left over from [[spoiler:the end of ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives Part VI]]'', when Tommy Jarvis chained him to a big damn rock and anchored him at the bottom of the lake]].
80	* ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'': Megatron's new look has him covered in chains that crisscross his chest in robot mode and across his grill in vehicle. Considering his injured state coming out of the last film, it looks less "Insane beast raging against his restraints" and more like hodgepodge medical work that he refuses to let do its job while he does his business.
81	* ''Film/TransformersRiseOfTheBeasts'': New villain Scourge has chains wrapped around his arms in robot mode and over his exhaust pipes in vehicle. Considering the full trailer shows that his master is ''Unicron'', planet eating monster transformer with a panache for enslaving others to his will, its appropriate.
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85	* Prince Josua of ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'' wears the manacle around his left wrist that his brother, King Elias, imprisoned him with. In his case, it's the humble version of the trope and serves to emphasize his [[TheChainsOfCommanding personality]]. It also gets a ChekhovsGun moment at the end of the story, when it [[spoiler:saves his life from Elias' sword blow]].
86	* In ''Literature/TheScar'', a castaway recounts the story of how the avanc, a gargantuan sea monster, swam out the side of a vast wall of water and plunged into the titular crack in the world, [[spoiler:dragging along the boat-city of Armada, to which it had been tethered as a means of propulsion]]. Twenty miles of chain coil around its body as it falls.
87	* In Creator/CharlesDickens' novel ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Jacob Marley's ghost is [[JacobMarleyApparel weighed down by long chains, locks, and lockboxes]] as punishment for his greed and apathy in life. It's later shown that this is not an isolated case -- the punitive side of the afterlife actually has this as standard punishment for those who are like Marley. Scrooge is warned the same fate is waiting for him when he dies as well, and his chains will be even longer and heavier than Jacob's.
88	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has the Bloody Baron, ghost of Slytherin House, whose distinguishing features are being covered in chains and blood. The last book reveals that he wears them [[spoiler:out of guilt for killing Rowena Ravenclaw's daughter, which drove him to kill himself.]]
89	* ''Literature/WyrdSisters'' mentions a BarbarianHero wearing "the outside of several bulls and enough chains to moor a battleship". Unfortunately, he commits the error of calling the Librarian a monkey... (he's an ''[[InsistentTerminology ape]]'', people never learn.)
90	* Early in ''Literature/SnowCrash'', Y.T. gets arrested for going in to a burbclave while not on official Kourier business, and while they're processing her paperwork, they handcuff her to a radiator. She picks the lock and escapes with the help of Hiro, but she still takes the cuffs and wears them on one arm like a double bracelet because she thinks it looks cool.
91	* In ''Literature/AnArchdemonsDilemmaHowToLoveYourElfBride'', Nephy was forced into a collar during her enslavement, which suppresses her mana and was enchanted to explode if anyone took it off. After the BenevolentBoss she was sold to disenchanted it and freed her, she decided to keep wearing it as a sign of her HappinessInSlavery, and is treated more like an engagement ring for the two (it helps that her natural elf strength means the collar barely weighs anything to her).
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95	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': House Umber's sigil is chains, and they wear chains in their armor.
96	** The Faith Militant wear two chains crossed over their chests over their habits.
97	** The Maesters wear a long chain as a symbol of their learning, with each link symbolising a different subject they have studied. Notably, they are entitled to keep adding links to their chain if they continue studying things.
98	* ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'':
99	** Kiva has chains on his right leg and shoulders which act as [[RestrainingBolt Restraining Bolts]], removed only when he triggers his FinishingMove and SuperMode, respectively.
100	** Chains also form a large part of Kiva's motif. They spread over his body during his transformation sequence, and whenever he changes into [[TheGunslinger Bashaa]], [[MasterSwordsman Garuru]] or Dogga form, chains appear all over the parts of his armor that change.
101	** Additionally, the original King of Checkmate Four wears a costume bedecked with chains; when [[spoiler:Wataru]] declares himself King near the end of the series, he starts wearing the same outfit.
102	** It's not just limited to the Kivas, either - Kamen Rider Rey from [[NonSerialMovie King Of Hell's Castle]] has loads of chains wrapped around his arms, but instead of restraining wings, they are restraining [[WolverineClaws huge ass claws.]]
103	* ''Series/UltramanLeo'''s younger twin brother Astra has a shackle on his left thigh, complete with broken chain, as a leftover signifier of his days as a slave in the hands of the Magma aliens.
104	* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]", world-destroying demon the Destroyer is chained when summoned. Then Morgaine releases him when the Doctor stops her taking Excalibur.
105	* ''Series/HankZipzer'': In "Hank's New School", Mr. Rock's old bandmate Crazy Ed wears a pair of handcuffs to hold up his pants because it is part of his rock n' roll image. And because he lost his belt.
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109	* The Guy, the mascot of Music/{{Disturbed}}, is frequently portrayed with numerous chains strung across his body, often in part from having broken some restraints. Even when he hasn't, he generally wears them anyway to convey the same theme.
110	* Zero of Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe wears a large one around his neck.
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114	* In some versions of the myth of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Prometheus]], even after being ChainedToARock for a few thousand years and freed by Hercules, Zeus relented but had to enforce his permanent sentence. Thus, Prometheus would continue to wear a wreath and a ring of chains. It's said that humans began to wear wreaths and rings in tribute to him.
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118	* Ginger The Wrestling Bear, which was not a fancy nickname. Back in the 1930s through 1950s, some jokers taught a bear how to wrestle and gave it a chain to wear.
119	* Wrestling/HaystacksCalhoun was known for wearing a chain as a necklace.
120	* The late Wrestling/JunkyardDog's chain, [[NamedWeapons Ruby]].
121	* [[ForeignWrestlingHeel Russian or Soviet wrestlers]] (in particular, the trio of Wrestling/IvanKoloff, Wrestling/NikitaKoloff, and Krusher Krushchev]]) often [[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/r/russians/04.jpg exhibit this trope]]. One consequence of this tendency is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry1eSDtTuNs Russian chain match]], a variation of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_match_types#Strap_match strap match]] in which the wrestlers are joined together by the chain.
122	* The late [[http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/h/hercules/04.jpg Hercules Hernandez]] as part of his entrance attire.
123	* Steve Sharp wore a chain around his shoulders as well as a chain attached to a smaller chain necklace.
124	* Wrestling/TheUndertaker during his BadassBiker gimmick.
125	* Wrestling/JohnCena when he was the [[{{Delinquents}} "Doctor of Thuganomics"]] until [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks they changed his entire gimmick]].
126	* [[Wrestling/{{TNA}} Abyss]] used to come to the ring with chains draped across his shoulders. Said chains would often be used as weapons in his matches.
127	* Keith Walker of The Skull Krushers {{tag team}} was known for carrying around chain [[http://www.cagematch.net/site/main/img/workers/00004138_2008_Keith%20Walker_Independent.jpg on his neck.]]
128	* La Amazona of IWA fame really took the [[http://www.genickbruch.com/pics/bio_gross/911234139866.jpg fashion part]] to heart.
129	* Lin "Bitch" Bairon was restrained and lead around by a chained collar when not wrestling in SMASH, so not exactly a fashion statement accept that [[CuteButPsycho she seemed to like it.]]
130	* Heidi Lovelace took out a chain for fashion purposes in this [[http://www.wrestling911.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10546&sid=1bc0409efd9313223585c03deeb83654 911 Wrestling Photo Shoot.]]
131	* Monster Pain, though it wasn't always ''just'' a fashion statement, as Glenda Lee [[https://www.facebook.com/288520801171927/photos/a.612759755414695.1073741854.288520801171927/612765485414122/?type=1&relevant_count=1 demonstrates]] at Wrestling/{{AAA}}'s Triple Mania. She's chained him to a wall before only to see him tear it loose and assault random people, forcing her to take the reigns.
132	* Mr. 450 has a hooded jacket with handcuffs attached to the shoulders and their chains hanging off of it.
133	* "La Mas Violenta de Mexico" Sadika [[http://llf.mx/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Sadika06.png likes the taste of hers]].
134	* The Rainmaker Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada took to wearing a golden chain to show how rich he was after becoming "TheAce" of Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, or at least of the Chaos stable. Plus it went so well with his newly dyed blonde hair.
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138	* The ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' character, Kharn the Betrayer, has a massive bundle of chains around the hand in which he holds his [[ChainsawGood chain-axe]]. Yep. And he still has Intiative 5. To compare, you only have Intiative 3. He has an excuse - he's the favourite champion of the chaos god, Khorne.
139	** Justified - he chains his axe to his wrist so he doesn't lose it when he goes into one of his bloody frenzies. Which he does a lot.
140	** It helps with the speed that, before becoming chosen champion of the Patron God of AxCrazy, he was ''already'' a SuperSerum-modified SpaceMarine in PoweredArmour that boosts strength. The divine favour's just the icing on the blood-soaked mightily-thewed death-cake.
141	** From the same setting, the Black Templars chapter of [[SpaceMarine Astartes]] usually have several chains strung about their PowerArmor. These chains are symbolic, tying their weapons to their arms as a sign that they will not let them go as long as the battle goes on, and to carry various lanterns which represent them bringing the light of the GodEmperor with them.
142	** Daemonhosts are very often depicted in this fashion - the (usually almost-naked) human host having been securely chained down before the ritual in a (usually unsuccessful) attempt to prevent the daemon summoned into them from getting free. Many other prisoners and constructs associated with Imperial Inquisitors (such as psychic Penitents) also wear chains to mark their subjugation.
143	** Chaos Marine Helbrutes are usually chained down to prevent their berzerk rampages outside of battle. They also tend to break free and charge about with broken chains hanging from their legs and arms.
144	** Chaos Dreadnoughts are restrained with a simpler method: the sarcophagus simply has its arms and legs disengaged, which is then chained to the wall. Note that being put in a Chaos Dreadnought is ''punishment''- where Loyalists reserve it as an honor for the most deserving of champions so their wisdom can continue to benefit that Chapter by letting them sleep in the centuries between battles, Chaos forces keep them awake and unable to do anything about it. Small wonder that they have a chance of shooting their own side in battle.
145	* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The imaginatively named Chainrasp Hordes and Chainghasts -- the ghosts of prisoners who died in chains, and who are forced by Nagash to continue wearing said chains in the afterlife, symbolizing their new imprisonment as his Nighthaunt.
146	* Kytons (Chain Devils) from ''Tabletopgame/DungeonsAndDragons'' have a magical ability to control any and all chains. The Master of Chains prestige class can do the same, to a lesser extent.
147	%%(ZCE)* [[CaptainErsatz King]] [[Film/KingKong Kondo]] from ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}''
148	* Lawgivers, one of the spectre types from ''TabletopGame/{{Orpheus}}'', are wrapped in copious amounts of chains, which they can also use as weapons. The chains show they are under the direct control of the game's EldritchAbomination and have no free will of their own.
149	* In ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'', the Xyz Monster [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/File:BattlinBoxerLeadYoke-LTGY-EN-R-1E.png Battlin' Boxer Lead Yoke]]. fashionable ''and'' practical, because as the anime reveals, he's ''so damn strong'' that he needs the chains to hold back his full strength. As his effect is used and his Xyz Materials are spent, the chains crack and break, finally falling off when he has no Xyz Materials, at which point he's at full strength.
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153	* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': Toa Hewkii has one large climbing chain around his weapon as an Inika and two smaller [[ChainPain electrified chains]] attached to his arms as a Mahri.
154	* ''Toys/MyPetMonster'' had bright orange manacles with a snap-link in the middle.
155	* ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' has Spectra Vondergeist, and all the other ghost students, wearing chains, ala Jacob Marley.
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159	* [[TechnicolorNinjas Ninjara]] from ''VideoGame/{{ARMS}}'' has {{Chain\|Pain}}s for arms. He also has glasses and headphones combined by being a chain, that chain also holds his hair up into a shuriken-shaped ponytail.
160	* In the battle against Bahamut in ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'', he spends the first half of the fight heavily chained, a remnant of his original sealing. When he [[TurnsRed goes into Overdrive]], he breaks the chains and later unleashes a party-wiping 999999-damage laser.
161	* Anima from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' appears heavily bound by chains. But then you reach her [[LimitBreak Overdrive]]...
162	* ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe III'' had Braoude Cragger, who was a Giant still wearing manacles. And yes, he was the strongest of them all.
163	* Wolf Link in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' has a manacle and a short length of chain around his weapon paw (Left for the Game Cube, Right for the Wii) Of course, Link didn't break it; Midna did. He keeps it for the rest of the game.
164	** The chain also jingles somewhat audibly when he moves.
165	** Twilit Igniter Fyrus, the boss in the second dungeon, Goron Mines, also retains his chains after breaking them, which are both his weapons and the key to taking him down.
166	* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'''s [[GentleGiant Potemkin]] is a particular case. In the beginning, his gloves and collar are both a weapon and an ExplosiveLeash, designed to explode should he disobey or try to take them off. At the end of the first game, the dictatorship of his country is eventually overthrown and his devices are deactivated, but as of XX he still has them as a keepsake of his former life as a slave. (''[[RuleOfCool shotgun gloves]]'' help.) However, Potemkin's [[OneHitKill Magnum]] [[MegatonPunch Opera]] move reveals their nature of [[PowerLimiter Power Limiters]], as he disintegrates them away and destroys the opponent in ''a single punch''.
167	* Your character in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' starts as a prisoner, with (pre-broken) manacles among your beginning equipment. Many players like to hang onto them -- not only do they look pretty snazzy, but they're the only non-armor hand equipment in the game, making them useful for SquishyWizard players. And they're weightless, to boot.
168	* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' features the [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Giant Monster]] Jack in Irons, who is basically SmashMook, who occasionally spawns to drop the hammer on Heroes in one particular Zone. His game model features manacles, an iron neck-brace, and a lot of chains.
169	** The game also features chains (and barbed wire) as ubiquitous costume options in character creation, which are often used by [[PlayerCharacter PCs]] to invoke this trope.
170	* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''
171	** Due to being SealedEvilInACan ''and'' the OptionalBoss, The Forgotten One from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'' was required to be Chained By Fashion. You have to wonder whether resident vampire lord Walter was conscientiously imprisoning him for the good of mankind... or just being a JerkAss to a defeated rival.
172	** In a Concept Art, [[DummiedOut but never put in the game]], [[VideoGame/{{Castlevania 64}} Cornell]] would've had a prisoner outfit, complete with ball and chain as a costume.
173	* Cody in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 3'' still wears, as part of his prison uniform, a pair of long-chained handcuffs. It's pretty clear during several victory poses that he can take them off at will, rather than actually being bound by them. He merely wears them for the challenge.
174	** For a more straight example. Oro in ''Street Fighter III'' bound one of his arms because of his power.
175	* Billy Coen, the male lead of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'', spends the entire game wearing a broken pair of handcuffs on his left wrist. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic They're probably symbolic, or something.]]
176	* The enemy [[{{Hellhound}} Cerberus]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' features manacles with broken chains on its forelegs.
177	* The Shadow Stalker boss in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' is wrapped in chains. When it [[OneWingedAngel turns into]] Dark Thorn, it has manacles hobbling its legs, and manacles with broken chains hanging from its wrists.
178	** The various forms of Iron Imprisoner from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' - and the fewer chains it's wearing, the more pain you're in for. By the time it's completely free...
179	* [[VideoGame/{{Utawarerumono}} Karura]] keeps an immense iron ring around her neck. Don't worry, she has superhuman strength. She keeps it to remind herself that she is a normal woman and not [[spoiler:a princess of a country that (justifiably, apparently they were huge jerkasses) turned on her race and killed/drove them all out,]] though she dismisses offers to remove it as it is CLEARLY much too heavy.
180	* Regal Bryant in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia.'' In [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld the sequel]], he's taken them off, only to end up back in handcuffs. Sometimes it would appear as if Regal likes being in handcuffs.
181	* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'''s poster boy Liu Kang is killed and resurrected as a zombie, complete with chains attached to his wrists. The opening video for ''MK: Armageddon'' even shows him using them in a whip-like manner to grab hold of another character, a move he [[GameplayAndStorySegregation isn't actually able to perform in the game]]. This one comes complete with total inexplicability: we saw Lang's death scene the previous game (Shang Tsung broke his neck), and there were no chains on him then. And the zombie is explicitly Liu Kang's corpse (since we also see his spirit, mostly appearing to tell people how disgusted he is that his body was [[CameBackWrong brought back wrong]].
182	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'':
183	** Both Suika Ibuki and Yuugi Hoshiguma wear manacles and chains, being oni and all. Suika also has three symbolic geometric shapes attached to her chains. In his character notes, ZUN even directly states that the chains were chosen to denote Suika's oni-ness. There's no way Yuugi wouldn't get her own jewelry.
184	** [[Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit Kasen Ibaraki]] also has a manacle on her wrist, which is one of the many clues foreshadowing that she's [[spoiler: actually an oni]].
185	* Bowser, of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' fame has manacles. Given that he's a ''king'' and has never been depicted as being chained up, he only wears them truly because of RuleOfCool.
186	** In ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Bowser's Inside Story]]'' he can swap them out for ones that actually do stuff, like boost his power or regenerate [[{{Mana}} SP]].
187	** Like father, like son; the Koopalings also have spiked bracelets like Bowser's. The daughter, Wendy, has bracelets that are more fit for a princess, made out of gold and in no way resembling manacles.
188	** Chain Chomps are another example. In every depiction, they are either chained to a fixed point so that they can only bite someone who comes too close, or they have just broken free and they are gleefully running around while dragging a chain behind them.
189	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
190	** In the GBA iterations of the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' games, the General class has a chain that attaches their lance or axe to their arm. Why exactly this is helpful is uncertain, but that's made up for by the fact that watching a giant suit of armor throw a spear or an axe at someone and then yank it back via the chain is [[RuleOfCool simply too cool to question.]] Occasionally [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in FanFiction that have a character grab the chain to prevent the General from pulling the weapon back, rendering him unable to continue fighting.
191	** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', unlike the students of the titular three houses, all of the Ashen Wolves students have chains incorporated into their school uniforms, possibly signifying the persecuted and underground nature of the unofficial house.
192	* ''VideoGame/KingdomUnderFireTheCrusaders'' gives us Regnier. His chains are part of his armour, and you can buy different chains for bonuses to him.
193	* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
194	** Liches, some of the most powerful undead creatures, have chains floating around them.
195	** The Jailer, the BigBad of the Shadowlands expansion, has a chain motif on both his person and the areas he controls. They symbolise how he was locked away in a hellish afterlife but broke free. It is commented that "He forged his chains into a weapon".
196	* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', anybody? Ares bestows upon Kratos the most badass weapons ever forged that doubly exist so that he can control Kratos. Said chains became undone at the end of ''[[VideoGame/GodOfWarIII III]]'', signifying that his service to the Olympians is now over. The chains were ''seared'' onto Kratos' arms when he made his pact with Ares. [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 Even centuries later]] his arms still bear the scars. [[spoiler:And while his service to the Olympians is over, the Blades of Chaos are still bound to him -- no matter what he does to get rid of them they always return to him as a permanent reminder of his sins.]]
197	* ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' has Nessiah. In fact, his chains have a ''name'': the Chains of Conviction.
198	* The Divine Dragon in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon''. The chains worked . . . [[spoiler:for 11,000 years]]. One could call it Sealed Evil In a Can, but it's more like Sealed Dumbass In a Can [[OurDragonsAreDifferent given the nature of dragons in this game]].
199	* Quite a few creatures in the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' series, mostly the demonic ones. The sixth release has [[http://www.maps4heroes.com/heroes6/pictures/heroes_6_artworks/heroes_6_artwork_70.jpg the Demented]], a low-tier unit, but the most prominent example, hands down.
200	* The Qunari of ''Franchise/DragonAge'' fear mages even more than the rest of Thedas. Qunari mages are chained, [[SlaveCollar collared]], masked, have [[MouthStitchedShut their mouths stitched shut]], and are restrained with special control rods by their handlers. Despite this, in-game they are still as powerful and dangerous as any enemy mage.
201	* Though [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Voldo]] doesn't own costumes with chains on them, there is a memorable mission in ''Soul Calibur IV''. Nightmare has ravaging the countryside and as you chase him down you come across a large town that is destroyed and abandoned. The description explains that in the chaos, many prisoners were released (possibly by nightmare) from the local dungeon including a guy who is found clinging onto a wall like a spider. He simply hisses at the hero and attacks him. He has so many restraints that he completely absorbs most damage and the only way to defeat him is by using power attacks to throw him forcibly across the walls for concussion damage.
202	* In ''VideoGame/{{Astal}}'', Astal carries broken handcuffs on his wrists after escaping from imprisonment on the moon.
203	* Gaige from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has a pair of handcuffs on her belt, kept over from her arrest. They serve as a fashion statement, since she is into anarchy and punk, and may also be used for... [[{{LovableSexManiac}} other]] [[BrainsAndBondage stuff.]]
204	* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' has Kanbe Kuroda, TheStarscream and ButtMonkey of the third game, who is always seen in chains because he is a prisoner. He runs around very slowly because of the ball and chain that hobble him and tie his hands together, but he's also a surprisingly powerful fighter. It's often implied that he would be a menace to all of Japan if he got his manacles off, though this is stymied somewhat by a combination of his bad choices and worse luck.
205	* In the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series, some demons have chains on their bodies, such as Hecatoncheires, Angels, and Grendel, who has chains for hair.
206	** Beldr from ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' has several chains attached to his body.
207	** The Reaper, a recurring antagonist in the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' subseries since ''VideoGame/Persona3'', is wrapped in chains that audibly signal his presence.
208	** ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Whenever a party member awakens their [[FightingSpirit Persona]] for the first time, their Persona is surrounded by chains, symbolizing how they feel trapped by society. Arsène in particular has long chains that the protagonist often grips onto. [[spoiler:The hero breaks these chains when Arsène evolves into Satanael.]]
209	** ''Videogame/Persona5Strikers'': In addition to chains like the ones from ''Persona 5'', Zenkichi's Persona [[Literature/LesMiserables Valjean]] wears cages over formal clothes. Broken chains hang from them to symbolize how he has broken free of the cynicism and despair he fell into after he was blackmailed into letting his wife's murderer go free.
210	* Secondary protagonist Cyrille from ''VideoGame/ShiningForceEXA'', has these binding her to her book. While most video game characters that wear chains are freaking strong, Cyrille is the opposite. She's a frail and bookish magician-type, who's more into standing far away and shooting foes with her crossbow pistol or zapping them with magic.
211	* [[MamaBear Rosa]] from the ''{{VideoGame/Bayonetta}}'' series had a thick, metal collar welded around her neck with shackles attached to her wrists and ankles connected by chains, although they don't seem to actually impede her movement. They were placed there when she was incarcerated by the Umbra Witch clan for breaking their code by having a child with a Lumen Sage, and they possibly act as a PowerLimiter. In ''{{VideoGame/Bayonetta 2}}'' she even uses them as an ImprovisedWeapon to slaughter several angels during the Witch Hunts ... well, [[CutscenePowerToTheMax in the cutscenes anyway]].
212	* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': The Abomination's body is bound in cursed chains (which serve as his armor), which burst off when he [[HulkingOut transforms into his Beast form]] and [[MagicPants magically reappear]] when he turns back into a human.
213	** ''VideoGame/TheSunkenCityCollection'', a large and popular mod, also has the Thrall, a [[TheBrute giant slab of ex-gladiator meat]] with a chain hanging from the back of his mask. You could probably use it to moor a boat.
214	* ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain'' and its [[VideoGame/RiskofRain2 sequel]] have Acrid, a lizardlike creature who was chained up in one of the shipping containers of the Contact Light. The crash seems to have broken its chains and freed it, but its shackles are still around its wrists.
215	* Sylas in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' wears chains hanging from his wrists as a reminder of the time he spent in prison for being a mage in magic-hating Demacia. The links, as shown onscreen, are larger than some books.
216	* Possessed Klug from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' uses golden chains as a necklace, which holds his clock and his cape. He's the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoFever2''.
217	* ''VideoGame/MegaManXDive'': [[VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission Ferham's]] Swimsuit variant in this game sports some chains around her waist, heels and left thigh.
218	* The [[GangBangers G archetype]] in ''VideoGame/{{Brink}}'' incorporates chains into its clothes. The pants have a chain and padlock as a makeshift belt, while the jacket has a chain necklace built from a chain and another chain wrapped around an improvised harness.
219	* ''VideoGame/VermintideII'': Sienna's Unchained {{class\|AndLevelSystem}} wears plenty of padlocked chains around her neck, as arm- and wristbands, and connected to her belt. Ironically, the class represents her succumbing to her [[AddictiveMagic magic addiction]] and giving up on trying to control it.
220	-->'''FlavorText for Chains of Purpose:''' The locks amidst the chains are symbolic of Sienna's (oft-abandoned) struggle for control.
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224	* Kukuri's guardian angel Abraxas in ''VisualNovel/ElevenEyes'', a representation of her soul, is restrained as much as possible. Its mouth and eyes are covered and its hands are bound. Yet it can still unleash some powerful mace attacks.
225	* In ''VisualNovel/CorpsePartyCrossFear'', due to how she's lashed out at the hospital staff, Kaori has been forced to wear manacles connected by a chain. One of her first goals after being pulled into the cursed school is finding a way to get them off.
226	* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' there's Berserker, the Greek hero Herakles, and there's Gilgamesh's magical chain, "Enkidu", which responds to any divinity a captive has by growing stronger. As the son of Zeus, Berserker's divinity is highest ever seen in the series (since Gilgamesh lost most of his long beforehand). Despite that, Berserker still manages to break free with sheer strength and rage in order to protect his summoner. He's not a straight example in that he doesn't wear any part of the chains afterwards [[spoiler:indeed, Gilgamesh kills him shortly afterwards]], but his "breaking free" moment is iconic, and a part of one of the game's video intros.
227	** And then there's Rider's fashionable and functional chains. Though they're not attached to any of her restraints, they're always around her.
228	* Prosecutor Simon Blackquill from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' is a convicted murderer so in order to prosecute cases he is forced to wear manacles on his wrists. Though they seem somewhat pointless at first, they do prevent him from [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger finger pointing]] which is [[SeriousBusiness serious business]] in Ace Attorney court. With one exception he nevertheless breaks the chain between the manacles EVERY SINGLE DAY that he appears in court, signalling that things are getting serious and allowing him to use [[RazorWind razor wind.]] In one case he even broke the chain BEFORE HIS OPENING STATEMENT. (That case was [[ItsPersonal personal]] for him.)
229	* In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', chains wrap around the Demon Tsukuyomi's spherical body, the same ones that were used to tie up their bodies back when it was a group of humans caught in a store fire. If Akira isn't able to gift it with the proper items, then it'll lash out and attack him with its chains.
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233	* ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'': Kronii Ouro wears a large flat chain through her hair like a bizzare ribbon or headband; as she is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of time, this is meant to signify humanity's perpetual imprisonment in time, with Kronii as our "Warden."
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237	* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', the Genie's wrist cuffs disappear when Aladdin wishes for the Genie's freedom, but he ends up wearing them anyway later on.
238	* Ghostfreak's design in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' has manacles around his limbs and chains around his torso. One TransformationSequence even involves chain imagery.
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241	[[folder:Real Life]]
242	* This was [[http://web.archive.org/web/20160818092557/http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/06/adidas-cancels-shackle-shoe-that-critics-say-evokes-slavery/ controversially invoked]] in an Adidas shoe design that was quickly canceled before official release.
243	* Music/LadyGaga. Pick a costume.
244	* {{Escape artist}}s regularly appear in chains so they can later wriggle out of them. Many pictures show Creator/HarryHoudini wearing chains and little else, to demonstrate that he wasn't hiding any keys.
245	* [[http://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibits/images/2c1f_7_ondisplay2.jpg Owney the Postal Dog]], mascot of the U.S. Railway Mail Service in the 1890s, was a travel-loving mutt who habitually hitched rides on the postal trains to travel hundreds of miles cross-country. To ensure their beloved mascot's safety from animal-control officials, the postal workers registered him for dog-license tags in dozens of towns and cities, eventually linking them all together with lightweight chains to construct a full-body "vest" the little dog could wear during his travels.
246	* Music/BillieEilish in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Pl8CzNzCw this clip]] for the song "Lovely" wears a black costume with a lot of metal chains.
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