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14->''"It's not another party head, this time you cannot rise\
15Your hands are tied, your legs are strapped, a light shines in your eye\
16You faintly see a razor's edge, you open your mouth to cry\
17You know you can't, it's over now, blade is gonna ride"''
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23When [[KidnappedForExperimentation captured]] by a MadScientist, don't expect to be left alone in the dungeon. In fact, don't even expect to ''see'' the dungeon. Odds are you'll be hauled into the lab for immediate experimentation and end up strapped to the operating table. Heaven help you if TheyWouldCutYouUp.
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25This is particularly popular with the EvilutionaryBiologist and often occurs when people start PlayingWithSyringes. [[AlienAbduction Abducting aliens]] also seem fond of doing this to their victims.
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27Even if you're dealing with an EvilOverlord who merely wants to kill you, many a DeathTrap still involves strapping the victim down to a flat surface. Some even [[ShackleSeatTrap automate the process]].
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29For some reason, the entire room is usually dark except for a spot-lit circle around the table. You'd think working scientists -- even mad ones -- [[EvilIsNotWellLit would prefer better lighting.]]
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31More realistic settings involve victims bound to a chair (possibly a ShackleSeatTrap) instead. Speaking of reality, remember: the invention of surgery long preceded the existence of anesthetics, so... you and your surgeon needed those straps. Now hold still...
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38%%* Tetsuo from ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.
39* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'':
40** It happens to Itona in a flashback. Being a lab experiment, it kind of comes with the territory.
41** [[spoiler:The human who would later be known as Koro-sensei was often strapped to a table during his months of undergoing unethical experimentation. The restraints were increased as he lost his humanity and developed tentacles.]]
42%%* Eve from ''Manga/BlackCat''.
43* Tomoya of ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' finds himself strapped to an operating table (and attended by nurse Kyou) during an odd dream sequence that rapidly grows disturbing.
44* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Kallen is strapped to a table for no reason save {{Fanservice}} after being captured in the second season.
45* Kei of the ''Literature/DirtyPair'' spends a good chunk of the penultimate TV episode doing a ''Goldfinger''. As Yuri notes, she's lucky she's a girl.
46* In ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', Celty actually ''agrees'' to an autopsy in return for room and board from the doctor performing the dissection. She discovers a little too late that general anesthetic doesn't work very well in this case. While she doesn't feel nearly as much pain as humans, it didn't look very comfortable.
47* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': In a flashback, [[spoiler:the future Führer King Bradley]] is strapped to an operating table [[spoiler:to be injected with a Philosopher's Stone and turned into the homunculus Wrath]].
48* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'': Izumi finds Wrath strapped to an examination table by the military.
49* Chidori Kaname of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' is subjected to this in the first season.
50* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
51** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' features a less villainous version of this: Stellar is bound to the operating table by her captors, but that's largely due to the fact that she's a chemotherapy-altered biological weapon engineered by her masters; not only is she dying from not being administered the highly-illegal chemicals that are keeping her alive, she's fighting tooth and nail to kill the doctors - technically her enemy - who are trying futilely to save her.
52** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'': in episode 2, Heero Yuy is strapped down after being captured. His response? He lowers his own pulse to make it seem like he's still unconscious and almost manages to break through his bonds, leaving a bloody mess. (Keep in mind, he's 15...)\
53What's confusing is the fact that he's lying there for God-knows-how-long with an open bullet wound that's bleeding out, meaning the medics actively had to remove the bandage [[LonelyRichKid Relena]] [[ClothingDamage made from a scrap of her party dress]]. When Relena visits later, she even [[WhatTheHellHero demands to know why he's tied down like that]]; [[TheMedic Sally Po]] says they're trying to keep him from hurting himself further.
54* ''Manga/HappyLesson'' - Chitose gets strapped to a table by Kisaragi for the worst EarCleaning ever.
55* Integra Hellsing from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' is trapped by BigBad Incognito on a cross-shaped table in the last episode of the Gonzo anime series.
56* Vivio of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', after being recaptured by the BigBad. Agito as well, although ironically she's ''saved'' by the BigBad. Well, his minions, anyway.
57* Sanji of ''Manga/OnePiece'' gets this as treatment from the sadistic (but with a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Heart of Gold]]) Dr. Kureha for spinal injuries when he didn't have the sense to not injure himself further by NOT fighting.
58** Trafalgar Law's devil fruit power functions as a variation of this. He has the ability to create "Rooms", clear domes where his powers work. As long as someone's stuck in a room, their bodies are completely at the mercy of the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Surgeon of Death]], which can include such things as [[SwitchOutMove swapping places]], [[FreakyFridayFlip swapping people's bodies]], removing hearts without leaving a cut, or even [[spoiler: completely liquefying someone's internal organs with millions of tiny blades]]
59* ''Literature/{{Paprika}}'': The titular character is not strapped to an operating table per se, just a table, and she has butterfly wings behind her.
60* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
61** Professor Stein ironically hallucinates ending up like this in a later arc while he is going insane.
62** He did it a lot to Spirit in their backstory -- he was operating on him for five years before Spirit found out after being told by the woman who would become Maka's mother. The hallucination mentioned above actually reverses their roles, with Stein as the "patient" and Spirit the "doctor".
63* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': Washuu gets Tenchi strapped down in her lab for at least a little while, early in one series. And proceeds to attempt to take "DNA samples" while dressed as a [[HospitalHottie naughty nurse]], no less. Lady has... issues.
64* At one point in ''Anime/ToumeiShounenTanteiAkira'', Akira gets caught by Team Z and strapped to a table, with a laser slowly moving towards his crotch. The laser gets stopped before it can do any damage, however.
65* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': In the movie, Dilandau is seen strapped to a table and screaming.
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69* ''Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure'': In ''The Red House'' Charlie is strapped to an operating table by Dr. Pain who intends to use the physic extractor on her. Dr. Pain comments that the procedure is painful to a 'pure human', not realising that Charlie is one.
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73* In the ''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.
74* ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}'': In ''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.
75* ''ComicBook/DesolationJones'': Desolation Jones goes through this as part of a horrifying experiment of which he is the sole survivor.
76* ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'': Delores Winters has Dr. Mid-Nite strapped down and his eyes forced open in order for her pet doctor to extract them for sale to clients wanting meta-human parts.
77* ''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.
78* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': In the ''Scrapnik Island'' mini-series, [[spoiler:Mecha Sonic straps Sonic to an operating table - well, technically, it's the table Sigma normally uses to repair the robots - so he can force him into a machine that will swap their minds.]]
79* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
80** In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman1961'', Lex Luthor straps Superman to an operating table so he can bathe him in Kryptonite radiation until killing him.
81** Heroic example in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004''. When ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} arrives on Earth, she is confused, frightened, doesn't know English, and doesn't know her own strength, so she causes several disasters without meaning it. Batman knocks her out using a Kryptonite chunk, carries her to the Batcave, and straps her to an operating table to examine her and check if that unknown alien girl is Kryptonian as he suspects.
82** ''ComicBook/DayOfTheDollmaker'': A flashback panel shows one little girl gagged and chained to a table while the titular villain turns her into a living doll.
83** In ''ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac'', Superman is strapped to an operating table after being captured by Brainiac. When he comes around, he breaks his restraints and rams his fist through a Brainiac's robot.
84* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': This happens to a few hapless souls who fall foul of the Un-Men.
85* ''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.
86* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
87** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': Happens to some nameless Decepticon grunt who is chosen as part of [[AxCrazy Straxus']] plan to replace Megatron. He's strapped to the table and taken apart, piece by piece, before being rebuilt in Megatron's image.
88** ''ComicBook/TransformersTransTech'': Shockwave straps some dimensional travelers to tables for analysis.
89* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'':
90** ''ComicBook/UltimateOrigins'': Everyone who's a "guest" of Project: Rebirth and Weapon X, including Nick Fury, Logan, and T'Challa.
91** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Captain America has been found alive, but he's still a man with superhuman strength, and there's no telling to the way he would react to the idea of having been frozen for so long (or if he's still sane). Strapping him to the operation table was a mandatory precaution.
92* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
93** ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': In her first appearance, Doctor Poison straps Steve Trevor to an operating table to force a {{truth serum|s}} into him and question him, with the promise of returning later and using him in her experiments.
94** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Paula von Gunther straps her victims into chairs and onto tables both in preparation for torturing information out of them and to condition people into her agents via TheLudovicoTechnique.
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98* ''Fanfic/AsylumOfDoom'': When Gaz finds herself [[CuckooNest waking up in 1945 as a patient]] of the [[BedlamHouse Burke Lunatic Asylum]], she's strapped to a bed in a patient room, something that's done to her every night for her whole experience there. She's also strapped to an actual operating table for her repeated bouts of [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture electroshock]] [[spoiler: and eventually for a lobotomy]].
99* ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} is strapped to a table in a warehouse by [[ComicBook/TheJoker the Joker]] in ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/689983 Captured.]]''
100* In AlternateUniverseFic, ''[[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]]'', has [[spoiler: Music/GirlsAloud and Music/MelanieC]] meeting this fate, as they’re subjected to UnwillingRoboticisation, which leaves their [[BrainInAJar living heads]] in a machine ala Film/MarsAttacks.
101* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' this happens to Harry in the sequel at the hands of Sinister and the Red Room, then later, to Clark Kent, who Harry finds in this position at the mercy of a MadScientist[=/=]EvilSorcerer. Possibly thanks to memories of the above, he goes berserk.
102* When Lydia gets kidnapped in ''Fanfic/{{Cinderjuice}}'', she ends up in this situation -- on live television.
103* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': This is Mao's fate after [[YouHaveFailedMe failing Megatron one too many times (failing to get a sample of C.C. along with failing to kill Lelouch/Zero)]], [[spoiler:in which the latter hands him over to Shockwave for experimentation.]]
104* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/774045 Dead Things Should Stay Dead]]'' has [[OriginalCharacter Dr. Jason Olsen]] strap [[CameBackWrong Agent Coulson]] to a table so he can kill him, as he believes Coulson should die as fate intended.
105* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13698258 Death's Door]],'' Cinder wakes up [[spoiler: from her DyingDream]] to find herself strapped to a hospital bed in [[spoiler: Salem's lair, being [[BodyHorror transformed]] into ''something'' Grimm.]]
106* It happens to Danielle of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' again in the ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'' by the Guys In White. Based on her previous experiences, she's not impressed.
107* Like the ''Literature/MaximumRide'' example below, most ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fanfics featuring [[MadScientist Professor Hojo]] and his [[EvilutionaryBiologist experiments]] involve this at some point.
108* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheGreatRedPandaRescue'', Mei is kidnapped and gets her appendix removed in this way.
109* In ''Fanfic/HeroesForEarth'', when the [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Planeteers]] are captured, the villains decide to try and find out just exactly how their magic rings work, by any means necessary.
110* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'': Happens to Blues in one of his failed Loop attempts, at the hands of something that's taken over Dr. Light. Mercifully reality crashes before anything serious happens, but it leaves some nasty psychological scars.
111* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Insontis}}'', [=McCoy=] straps Spock to a biobed as part of a game the two are playing with kid!Kirk, in which Spock's character has been strapped down by an evil doctor.
112* In the ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fic "Lab Rat", Danny wakes up on an operating table so his parents could dissect him.
113* Most ''Literature/MaximumRide'' fanfics that involve characters being captured by the School and [[PlayingWithSyringes experimented on by the whitecoats]] will involve this.
114* Frieza, in Chapter 4 of ''Fanfic/SaviorOfDemons'', during his extensive recovery is either strapped to a table or strapped to an upright vertical frame. Naturally, this means he can't get away when Goku torments him with his Super Saiyan transformation. Even before Goku showed up, he was being restrained, probably for reacting very violently to whatever the doctors did to reconstruct his body.
115* In the DarkFic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/618871?view_adult=true Show me what's in you,]]'' mad!Stein [[KickTheMoralityPet chains Marie to a lab table to gorily dissect her]].
116* In the ''Manga/SoulEater'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6826941/1/When-I-Was-Young When I Was Young]]'', human!Ragnarok and Crona (who are nine and about five, respectively) are both strapped to operating tables in Medusa's lab before she forces Ragnarok to turn into his weapon form, melts him down, and injects him into Crona.
117* In Chapter 3 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31492754?view_full_work=true Mars Attacks: Simpsons]]'' [[Music/MelanieC Melanie]] finds herself strapped to a table at the [[Film/MarsAttacks Gnard]] station. When it was very clear what the Gnards were about to do to her, Melanie simply responded by saying, “[[OhCrap D-OH]]”.
118* In ''Fanfic/ThePiratesSoldier'', Ryoko is submitted to this by Washu. Unusually for this trope, despite being possibly the greatest MadScientist in the universe, Washu's intentions aren't malicious, since she's just doing a complete physical checkup on Ryoko, but the experience is still embarrassing for her.
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122* Just the start of the agony for [[spoiler:Tim Drake/Robin]] in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.
123* Let us not forget the incident with Santa Claus in ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
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127* ''Film/TwentyFirstCenturySerialKiller'': Aaron wakes up strapped to an operating table in an empty room with wooden walls after [[spoiler:Charles]] knocks him out.
128* In the beginning of ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', a chimp is strapped to a table after being infected with the HatePlague central to the plot.
129* ''Film/ABCsOfDeath2'': The man starts strapped to an operating table, waiting for his killers to arrive in "D is for D[[spoiler:eloused]]".
130* ''Film/AngerOfTheDead'': After the film's prologue, we see Rooker's prisoner strapped naked by her wrists and ankles to a table.
131* ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'': After being struck by lightning, Alan wakes up strapped to an operating table in Dr. Finiski's lab, with the doctor about to [[EyeScream remove his eye]] without anaesthetic.
132* ''Film/AsianSchoolGirls'': After May kills one of his {{mooks}}, Curtis straps her to an operating table and prepares to perform a female circumcision on her, [[TortureTechnician claiming that torture is a hobby of his]].
133* ''Film/BlackWidow2021''. Yelena is captured by the Red Room and is sent to an operating theatre so Red Room techs can cut her head and find out why she is no longer under their mind control. She mutters that this is not a cool way to die. [[spoiler:Fortunately she's a TrojanPrisoner and cuts the straps with a concealed knife.]]
134* In ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'', Dr. Eric Vornoff straps his unwilling experimental subjects to his operating table before experimenting on them.
135* ''Film/TheButchers'': After capturing Nicole, Jack the Ripper straps her to what is either a dentist or barber's chair in preparation for the torture and murder that is to follow.
136* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'':
137** Cap finds Bucky strapped to a table after being captured by HYDRA. Judging by his exhaustion and delirious rambling, as well as his pretty drastic change of character afterwards, ''something'' happened to him that's never elaborated on. [[spoiler:WordOfGod says Zola injected him with some variation of the same super-soldier serum used on Steve, explaining how he later survives his fall.]]
138** When Zola himself is captured, he's put in an interrogation room with a hospital gurney and is disturbed to see a patch of blood on the floor beneath it. It's possible that this was set up just to mess with his head so that he'd be more willing to cooperate.
139* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', [[spoiler:poor Bucky is strapped to an operating table ''again'' when his mind is wiped and he's put in [[HumanPopsicle cryonic stasis]] as the Winter Soldier]].
140* ''Film/CherryFalls'': After discovering [[spoiler:her father in the trunk]], Jody receives a TapOnTheHead and wakes up to discover she is strapped to an operating table in the killer's TortureCellar.
141* ''Film/ACureForWellness'' has this happen with hospital gurneys, iron lungs, and [[DepravedDentist dental chairs]].
142* ''Film/Deadpool2016'': After he's diagnosed with terminal cancer, Wade Wilson volunteers for a program that turns out to involve him being strapped to a gurney and tortured for months in the belief that his latent mutant genes will activate in an attempt to save his life. Wilson manages to keep up his annoying snark through all of it, so they place him in a hyperbaric chamber and keep him on the verge of oxygen suffocation.
143* In ''Film/DeepInTheValley'', the nurses strap Lester face down to an examination table preparatory to giving him a sponge bath. This leaves him in a very vulnerable position when Suzi Diablo enters, and she proceeds to torture him by [[AssShove shoving a sphygmomanometer cuff up his ass]] and starting to pump.
144* ''Film/TheDevilCommands'': When Dr. Blair decides that his daughter Anne is a conduit he needs to be able to communicate with her dead mother Helen, he straps her into a chair that looks a lot like an electric chair and affixes the brainwave helmet to her head.
145* ''Film/District9'' plays this trope horrifyingly straight. Wikus is strapped to a table and subjected to lots of very painful experiments for the better half of a day, non-stop. They were going to vivisect him, too, but he escaped when that part became obvious.
146* ''Film/DrGiggles'' has the protagonist strapped to one at one point, when the killer arrives to check her heart with a stethoscope (which he keeps in the fridge) and begins to operate upon her.
147* In ''Film/EscapeFromLA'', the plastic surgery freaks strap their victims to tables.
148* The SerialKiller in ''Film/FeardotCom'' does this.
149* The villains in ''Film/TheFinal'' do most of their torturing with their victims strapped to a chair [[ForcedToWatch in front of their classmates]].
150* ''Film/FireInTheSky'', during the horrifying AlienAbduction scene.
151* In ''Film/FrankensteinIsland'', Jason and his daughter are strapped to operating tables when Sheila Frankenstein plans to transfuse their blood into her husband in order to complete his revival.
152* ''Film/FromHell'': A supposedly insane woman is used as a {{lobotomy}} demonstration for a class of medical students. Unfortunately, she's not insane; she's being lobotomised to cover up a royal scandal. The 'subject' is BoundAndGagged, unable to plead for rescue.
153* In ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', this happens to anyone when they're having the Doctor do anything that involves sticking needles into them, [[spoiler:including to Duke, though he escapes before anything bad happens]].
154* {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''Film/{{Help}}''. In an attempt to [[ItMakesSenseInContext steal the ring magically stuck to Ringo's finger so he can rule the world]], a MadScientist has Ringo [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext strapped to an operating table on a boat]] to amputate his finger. The restraints are set up in a way that should make them more than easy for Ringo to break out of, but of course he just lies there and waits to be rescued. This particular joke is also {{justified|Trope}}, as he and the rest of the Beatles were quite stoned, both in and [[RealitySubtext out of universe]].
155* ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'': Dr. Heiter does this to the hapless victims of his deranged surgical experiment, the "Siamese triplet".
156* ''Film/JamesBond'':
157** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' has possibly the most famous operating table scene. Bond gets strapped to an operating table with an industrial laser slowly moving toward his crotch.
158** In ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'', archvillain Jimmy Bond has the Detainer strapped naked to a cot (with wide, strategically placed metal straps). His intentions are strictly lustful.
159--->'''Detainer:''' And is ''this'' how you treat the women you desire?\
160'''Jimmy:''' Yes! Yes, I remove their clothing and tie them up, yes. I learned that in the Boy Scouts.
161** Done similarly to ''Goldfinger'' in ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', albeit with the GirlOfTheWeek instead of Bond himself.
162** Bond is strapped to a high-tech version (more like a dentist chair) while he is remotely tortured by Oberhauser in ''Film/{{Spectre}}''.
163* In ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'', a member of the {{Yakuza}} wants the information stored in Johnny's head. The best way of collecting that data (as well as everything else that's ever been stored in there) is, naturally, to strap Johnny to a table and try to cut his head off.
164* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', this happens to Superman. He's just suffered a MindProbe, so Kal-El may not be at his A-game, and he's in an environment that cancels out his powers. Nevertheless, the implications are still horrifying.
165* ''Film/MarathonMan'': A horrifying variation -- strapped to the ''[[DepravedDentist dentist's chair]]'', complete with [[TheToothHurts oral]] [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]].
166-->''"Is it safe? '''Is it safe?'''"''
167* Charlotte is tied to a table for the waxing procedure in ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum''.
168* ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonightII'': The film ends with [[spoiler:Adas]] strapped to an operating table with two scientists about to operate on [[spoiler:him]]. The shot cuts out as one of the scientists starts using a large syringe to extract fluid from [[spoiler:Adas']] head.
169* In ''Film/ThePresidentsAnalyst'', the title character, quitting his job and running off under extreme stress, and pursued by agents of every country for the secrets in his head, ends up getting captured by [[spoiler:the Canadian Secret Service. Tired of being the "silent bleeding partner in North America"]], the agents strap him down on a cot and intend to [[TruthSerums inject him with something that will make him talk]].
170* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': Westley is strapped to a table in the Pit of Despair for Count Rugen's experiments in pain.
171* ''Film/ReAnimator'': Megan Halsey gets strapped to a lab slab, whereupon the movie puts a really {{Squick}}y spin on the term "giving head".
172* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'': The Repo Man does this to one of his on-screen victims and stands it upright while he repossesses the guy's bowels.
173* ''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.
174* ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' features Anakin Skywalker's EmergencyTransformation into Darth Vader. [[BodyHorror He is operated on while still conscious]], since he screams and writhes.
175* A staple of the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series. Applications of this trope are almost always followed by explosions of {{Gorn}}.
176* In ''Film/ScreamAndScreamAgain'', Helen is strapped to an operating table when Dr. Browning is about to use her as an unwilling donor for his next transplant operation.
177* Part of the opening scene in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' features River strapped to a chair while a group of Alliance scientists experiment on her. Fortunately, [[BigDamnHeroes Simon is there to rescue her]], although [[BreakTheCutie substantial damage has already been done]].
178* In ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheSecretWeapon'', Holmes is strapped to an operating table by Moriarty. Turns out to be Holmes's BatmanGambit.
179* ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'': After being [[InstantSedation knocked unconscious by Miss Ivory's injection]], Watson wakes up strapped to an operating table-like contraption in the BigBad's laboratory.
180* ''Film/SpaceMutiny'': Kalgan's interrogation of Lea involves her being strapped to a dentist's chair while a futuristic dental laser is used to burn out her teeth.
181* ''Film/TalesOfHalloween'': In "Trick", [[spoiler:the little girl who is missing an eye]] has been taped to the table that [[spoiler:Catlyn and her friends]] are using as an operating table for their perverted experiments.
182* Happens multiple times in ''Film/{{Train}}'' as the victims of the OrganTheft ring wake up to discover themselves strapped to an operating table with a surgeon either about to, or in the process of, removing their organs.
183* ''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.
184* ''Film/Transylvania65000'': After the Wolfman delivers Gil to Dr. Malavaqua, Malavaqua straps him to the operating table in his MadScientistLaboratory.
185* ''Film/Underworld2003'': In ''Underworld: Evolution'', the hybrid is strapped to an upright operating table for some PlayingWithSyringes, [[spoiler:albeit by the good guys]].
186* In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', Angel is strapped down to receive the mutant cure of his own volition, but once he sees the needle, he gets panicky and quickly escapes.
187* The Italian comedy ''Film/LeComiche2'' offers a few variations of this trope:
188** A man is strapped to a stretcher by two lunatic male nurses. Since he is complaining too much, he is knocked out with an oxygen bottle and a Minnie Mouse mask is placed on his head.
189** The same man (he is TheChewToy of the movie) finds himself on an operating table where he takes the place of a female patient. Before even understanding what is going on, an anesthesia mask is placed on his face. A doctor comes in and the man learns they are going to perform a breast augmentation on him. He starts moaning but is not able to alert about the patient mix-up and passes out.
190** For a second time the same man finds himself on an operating table. He has been stripped to underwear revealing he has now a pair of large breasts and he is wearing a lacy bra. A surgeon with comically large scissors approaches, implying he is going to have a sex reassignment. At this point, he just passes out.
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194* In one book in the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' series, the Animorphs are strapped to operating tables by creatures who want to kill and stuff them for display.
195* In ''Literature/TheCityOfDreamingBooks'', one character wakes up to find his body strapped to the operating table. His head, on the other hand, is being held by the villain.
196* In ''Literature/TheCobraTrilogy'', protagonist Jonny Moreau is strapped to one when he's captured by the Troft (invading aliens) and expects to be vivisected (live-dissected); however, as a Cobra [[OneManArmy supersoldier]], he has a bomb in his body. The Troft know about this from previous attempts at vivisection, so they just stick monitoring equipment on him and fill the place with video cameras so they can get information on his surgically implanted equipment from how he uses it during his inevitable escape attempt.
197* Creator/RoaldDahl describes how in his childhood, small surgeries were carried out without an anaesthetic, or even painkillers: he himself had his adenoids removed, and witnessed a seven-year-old boy at school having a boil lanced, by the doctor throwing a towel in the boy's face, and jumping on him with a scalpel. He also describes that although they were put to sleep for this, other operations were carried out not in a hospital, but on an ordinary table at home.
198* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/FarnhamsFreehold'', [[spoiler:Hugh Farnham and his son, Duke]] are strapped to an operating table where [[spoiler:they're about to castrate both of them]] until Ponce decides not to have them do this. Later, [[spoiler: they actually end up doing this to Duke]].
199* ''Literature/IntoTheBloodredWoods'': Happens to Hans when Albrecht is cutting him open to try and force him to transform.
200* In ''Literature/AMacabreMythOfAMothMan'', poor [[spoiler:Brett]] spends ''an entire year'' more or less strapped to a table while [[MadScientist Dr. Wu]] turns him into a moth/human hybrid. Later on, he's strapped to the same table when Dante Eclipse tries to psychologically break him (this time though, the restraints are rigged to electrocute him if he tries to break free).
201* In ''Literature/MaximumRide'', [[spoiler:when the School captures them, Max and her flock are strapped to tilted tables]].
202%% * ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'': Thomas in ''The Death Cure'' when [[spoiler:[[FunWithAcronyms WICKED]] is trying to [[{{Squick}} operate on his brain]]]].
203* In ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', Count Olaf and {{mooks}} briefly capture Violet Baudelaire this way in Book the Eighth.
204* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' Typically, Doctor Evazam used straps to keep patients on operating tables. In ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: City of the Dead'' he doesn't bother; he just has his [[OurZombiesAreDifferent super-strong obedient zombie servant]] hold Zak Arrandar down while he [[PlayingWithSyringes injects him with things]].
205* In ''Literature/SpaceAssassin'' the titular protagonist is infiltrating one of [[EvilutionaryBiologist Cyrus']] labs when he comes across an unfortunate captive in this state, with his limbs and most of his appendages surgically removed in a mutant conversion. Within the same room, there are several jars of random, harvested organs floating in translucent liquid...
206* Happens to Veldron in ''Literature/SuperStories'' after being captured by the Ultimate Justice Squad.
207* Sawyer in ''Literature/VoidDomain'' is fond of this trope. He takes a great deal of pride in his skill at strapping people down to the point where even little movements are near-impossible.
208* Happens to several characters in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', often as part of their SuperheroOrigin. For example, Trevor Goodkind gets darted when he turns into a mutant, and wakes up clamped down on a table under the 'care' of the notorious [[MadScientist Dr. Emil Hammond]].
209* [[spoiler:Taylor]] in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', courtesy of [[MadDoctor Bonesaw]]'s paralysis.
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213* ''Series/AlexRider'':
214** Shortly after arriving in Point Blanc, Alex is drugged unconscious. Next morning, he mentions to James that he didn't sleep well because of a nightmare about this trope. Kyra, sat nearby, chimes in to finish his description with eerie precision, revealing that she had the exact same nightmare, with James soon admitting the same thing. This, along with Laura suddenly turning all StepfordSmiler, makes them decide to escape.
215** [[spoiler:Later, after Alex's cover gets blown, he's caught and subjected to this while doped on {{Truth Serum|s}}.]]
216%% * Recurring trope in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum''.
217* Every time Cyd and Shelby travel to the future in ''Series/BestFriendsWhenever'', they find themselves strapped to examination tables under blinding white lights, with a figure in a Hazmat-type suit walking towards them.
218* In one episode of ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'', Tommy finds himself in another dimension where he never became a werewolf, but his much less responsible football teammate did. While trying to fight with said teammate, Tommy is bitten and passes out. Merton and Lori (who, in this dimension, aren't normally friends with Tommy) have him strapped to a table in Merton's lab until they can determine if he's safe or not. He promptly rips the (metal!) straps apart just by sitting up.
219* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E19NewMoonRising New Moon Rising]]", [[spoiler:the werewolf Oz]] is strapped naked to an operating table by [[GovernmentConspiracy the Initiative]], [[TheyWouldCutYouUp experimented on and tortured]] to find out [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting what makes him tick]].
220* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "Lying Down with Dogs", the VictimOfTheWeek was strapped to an operating table in a rescue kennel before being injected with a euthanizing solution.
221* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' is fond of securing his "playmates" to tables (or equivalent surfaces) with plastic wrap.
222* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
223** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages The Savages]]", the Doctor is strapped to a gurney before he undergoes the transference process.
224** This happens to Polly as the first cliffhanger of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace The Underwater Menace]]", as she is forcibly anaesthetized, about to be turned into a [[{{Cyborg}} fish-person]] while kicking and screaming. This scene was so brutal that it was cut by the Australian censor board, thus making it [[MissingEpisode some of the only surviving footage of the episode]].
225** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators The Dominators]]", Jamie gets this at the hands of the Dominators, only instead of straps, the table paralyses him via molecular forces.
226** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]", Sarah Jane and Harry are strapped to a table and tortured via AgonyBeam so that Davros can force the Doctor to reveal the information of how he defeated the Daleks in every encounter in the past ([[TimeyWimeyBall in Davros' future]]).
227** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]", Sarah Jane is tied down to an operating table by [[MadScientist Solon]]. Thankfully, he's too busy [[spoiler:trying to reanimate Morbius]] to operate on her -- he just wants to keep an eye on her, as she keeps running away and causing trouble, even whilst completely blind.
228** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]", the Doctor experiences a hallucination of this in the {{Cyberspace}} NightmareSequence, in a sequence inspired by the common phobia of waking up in the middle of surgery. He also willingly submits to this in order to enter said Cyberspace world, complete with head nodes and agonized screaming.
229** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]", Leela's first story, she gets strapped to a table in her little leather leotard, [[MsFanservice setting a trend for her later appearances]].
230** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]", one robot is seen immobilized on a table in Taren Capel's workshop with its face removed while Capel sticks a laser probe into its CPU. The robot is clearly aware of the whole process, and being ThreeLawsCompliant, it loudly protests against being reprogrammed into a killer.
231** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E4TheAndroidsOfTara The Androids of Tara]]", Romana I is strapped to a table and nearly cut up for parts [[spoiler:due to being mistaken for an android]].
232** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks Resurrection of the Daleks]]" has the Daleks do this to the Doctor.
233** During the Sixth Doctor's run, this happens twice to Peri -- one of the reasons why this era was widely perceived as nasty and mean-spirited.
234** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Dalek]]", the Doctor gets strapped to a wall-based body scanner and unwillingly examined via AgonyBeam.
235** This happens to Rose and Mickey in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace The Girl in the Fireplace]]". There was an unintentional pan over Creator/BilliePiper's tightly clad body; when the production team saw it in the edit, [[MaleGaze they kept it]].
236** {{Subverted|Trope}} in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth The Hungry Earth]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood Cold Blood]]": [[spoiler:the Silurian doctor doing the examination turns out to be perfectly well-meaning, if a bit lacking in anesthetic techniques]].
237* River from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is strapped to a chair by the Hands of Blue at the Academy.
238* Natalie from ''Series/ForeverKnight'' ends up strapped to one by a desperate doctor who wants her heart to save her dying daughter. Natalie was going in for knee surgery and it would have ended badly if Nick hadn’t found the truth.
239* People keep doing this to Olivia Dunham of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', and she keeps kicking their ass for it. Her alternate isn't too fond of it either.
240* A late-entry ''Series/GetSmart'' episode has Smart and Agent 99 in a MadScientist lair, strapped to tables. As the scientist and his Igor dementedly play organ and violin, Smart works to set them free. To give them more escape time, 99 cheerfully cries out "One more time!" and they obligingly play another verse.
241* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'':
242** In "[[Recap/GothamS1E22AllHappyFamiliesAreAlike All Happy Families Are Alike]]", Falcone is wounded in an assassination attempt. When he wakes up, he is strapped to a gurney in an abandoned section of the hospital. The Penguin and Butch then arrive planning to kill him.
243** A mob plastic surgeon who transplants captives' faces to give criminals new identities has his latest victim strapped down and gagged this way, and is marking pen-lines on her face in preparation for removing hers when Barnes busts in and interrupts.
244* Several of the heroes in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' were subjected to this by Mr Bennet.
245* Happens to Duncan in a season 1 ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' episode. He gets hit by a car and catches the attention of a MadDoctor when his HealingFactor kicks in and he tries to leave the hospital. He’s drugged and taken to the doctor’s basement lab. Fortunately, he’s able to escape when the guy leaves for a while.
246* The climax of ''Series/TheHunger1997'' episode "Sanctuary" has MadArtist Julian Priest (Music/DavidBowie) strapping Eddie, a murderer on the run, to an operating table to turn him into a grisly piece of performance art. Worse, Eddie is conscious, but ''only'' from the neck up thanks to Julian's subsidiary skills with anesthetics. ''Even worse'', [[spoiler: Eddie does not exist, and the legless corpse the police discover is Julian's. What we saw was his Dying Dream: having committed the murder, he proceeded to kill himself by numbing his body, strapping ''himself'' to the table, and severing his own legs -- knowing he would gain artistic immortality this way.]]
247* ''Franchise/KamenRider'': The first episode of the original series had protagonist Takeshi Hongo strapped to a circular table while Shocker turned him into the Kamen Rider; as a result, this has become one of the most iconic pieces of imagery in the entire franchise. ''Series/KamenRiderOOO''[='s=] MilestoneCelebration of the franchise's 1000th episode (which had the cast making an InUniverse ''Kamen Rider'' movie) paid homage to this with a shot of [[TheHero Eiji]] strapped to a table...in his trademark boxer shorts.
248* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Sawyer is strapped to an operating table by Ben's henchmen in Season 3. Cue lots of Sawyer squirming and yelling while he gets an enormous fucking needle jabbed into his heart. Ben then brings out a bunny in a cage and induces the creature to have a heart attack. Except not.
249* ''Series/TheMagician'': When Tony finds his kidnapped friend The Amazing Denbo in "The Illusion of the Deady Conglomerate", Denbo is strapped into a dentist's chair as a dentist prepares to forcibly alter his teeth to match those of a criminal preparing to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]].
250* ''Series/MissionImpossible'': Happens to Barney when he is tortured in "The Golden Serpent (Part 1)".
251* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
252** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E4LastSupper Last Supper]]", Frank Martin's flashbacks show Jade strapped to an operating table being experimented upon and tortured by Dr. Lawrence Sinclair to test the extent of her HealingFactor.
253** In the final scene of "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E8BlankSlate Blank Slate]]", Hope Wilson is strapped to an operating table about to have her memory erased by Dr. Tom Cooper, with whom she had a brief relationship when his memories were erased.
254* In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', this happened to [=PhD=]-holding/high school teacher Tommy Oliver before his students saved him (and he became a Ranger ''again''). The evil villain, once friends with Tommy when he was human, was [[HoYay oddly gleeful]] about having him strapped down.
255* In ''Series/{{Roswell}}'', Max is strapped to an operating table as [[TheMenInBlack Agent Pierce]] prepares to [[PlayingWithSyringes dissect him]].
256* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'': Henry is strapped to a chair several times. He manages to break free on one occasion, though that was [[spoiler:exactly the plan, as they intended him to go on a murderous rampage after he had transformed into his werewolf self]].
257* ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'': In The Hostile Hospital, Violet Baudelaire finds herself captured by Esme Squalor and Count Olaf, tied to a gurney in the Heimlich Hospital. When she attempts to call for help, they put tape over her mouth. The next time we see Violet, she's tied to a hospital bed, where the "mad doctor" Count Olaf taunts her in a very creepy way. He also reveals his plan to "operate" on Violet, performing a craniectomy which means cutting off her head. The resourceful Baudelaire does manage to escape her bonds by using a scalpel but is caught and restrained again on a gurney with thicker restraints. She is then put under anesthesia for the operation, to which the villains release her from her bonds now that she was not able to escape.
258* Happens to Chloe on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' when Lex Luthor discovers [[spoiler:she's a Meteor Freak]].
259** Also happens to Kara in Season 7, when an [[TheMenInBlack agent]] from the Department of Homeland Security finds out she broke into a secure location to retrieve the blue crystal they took, putting two-and-two together and concluding she's not from Earth.
260** Also happens to Tess in the series finale. [[spoiler: Earth-2 Lionel wants to [[OffingTheOffspring cut out her heart]] so that he can use it to bring Lex back to life.]]
261* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Late in season 4, Teyla gets this treatment [[spoiler:after being kidnapped by Michael because he wants to use her unborn child for his schemes.]]
262* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E5Schisms Schisms]]" includes a very creepy reveal as several people who were experimented on slowly regain their memories and describe them to the computer, which recreates them as holograms. Result: one sinister-looking operating table.
263* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E10Shattered Shattered]]", after entering the Captain Proton holoprogram, Captain Janeway finds herself strapped to [[MadScientist Dr. Chaotica]]'s Cradle of Persuasion ("It's fully equipped: [[MindProbe Brain Probe]], Pain Modulator..."). Much to her annoyance, Janeway has to resort to the undignified method of [[TheVamp vamping]] her way out.
264* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E09Singularity Singularity]]", a NegativeSpaceWedgie is making the crew act loopy. Dr. Phlox becomes obsessed with finding the cause of Ensign Mayweather's headache. He refuses to do any further tests and says Phlox will "have to strap him to a biobed". [[TemptingFate Guess what happens a mere thirty seconds later]].
265* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
266** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E15TimeIsOnMySide Time is On My Side]]", Sam has this done to him by a zombie doctor who wants his PuppyDogEyes.
267** After being stripped and redressed in lederhosen, Dean had his turn in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E05MonsterMovie Monster Movie]]".
268** And Ruby while being tortured by Alastair. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic The table is shaped like a cross]].
269** The same table crops up again in season 6, this time with [[spoiler:Meg]] as the victim.
270** This happens ''routinely'' to [[spoiler:Castiel]] in season 8, as part of a {{Brainwashing}} scheme. He actually doesn't remember any of it until another torture victim screaming triggers a PTSD reaction. [[spoiler:He's still brainwashed though, so Naomi is able to order him back to Heaven and ''keep doing it to him''.]]
271** Happens to Dean again in season 10, when he's captured by a family who routinely harvest other people's organs to replace or add to their own. Dean suggests they not kill him, because if they don't, some of them might survive, but if they do, [[spoiler:the Mark of Cain will resurrect him as a demon]] and he'll kill ''all'' of them. Needless to say, it's doesn't end well for the family.
272* Happens to Martha Jones in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E6Reset Reset]]".
273* ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': In "Fausta, The Nazi Wonder Woman", Wonder Woman is captured, her belt of strength removed, and put into this position. [[spoiler:{{Pride}} saves the day as Fausta's superior officer [[IdiotBall throws the belt and lasso back to Wonder Woman]]. A minute later Wonder Woman is the only one left standing.]]
274* Alex ends up on one close to the end of ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack''.
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278* Music/BlueOysterCult's ''Doctor Music'' is at face value a rock tune with a dance-disco edge. But listen carefully to where the lyrics go: Doctor Music is a psycho who hears music in the sounds of the strapped-down women he is torturing.
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282* The music video to "Nightmare" by Music/AvengedSevenfold begins with such a situation happening to the lead singer M.Shadows[[note]]given the surreal imagery throughout the video while Shadows is wheeled down the halls of the institution and since the song is called "Nightmare", this probably isn't actually happening[[/note]].
283* The music video to "Asylum" by Music/{{Disturbed}} has the delusional patient of the titular asylum being wheeled down a hallway in this manner then drowned as the doctors try to calm him down with cold water to the face.[[labelnote:*]][[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Since the patient/protagonist is insane and all]], this probably wasn't actually happening.[[/labelnote]]
284* The music video to "The Phoenix" by Music/FallOutBoy has Patrick strapped to a table whilst his hand is chopped off and other various tortures inflicted upon him. None of which stop him from singing.
285* Nor will it stop Brendon Urie of Music/PanicAtTheDisco during the first minute of the music video to "This Is Gospel," which finds him strapped to an operating table while scrubbed-in surgeons perform various tests and prepare him for some [[LiteralMetaphor conveniently metaphorical]] open-heart surgery.
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289* One of the spinners in Creator/DataEastPinball's ''Pinball/TalesFromTheCrypt'' shows a man strapped to it.
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293* Parodied in ''Radio/RoundTheHorne''.
294-->'''Female Victim:''' Why have you strapped me to this operating table?\
295'''Mad Scientist:''' Call it an old man's whim.\
296'''Female Victim:''' All right -- why have you strapped me to this old man's whim?
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300* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
301** The art of [[http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/daily/li/li136_Vedalken_Anatomist.jpg Vedalken Anatomist]] depicts a goblin restrained this way.
302** In the ''Invasion'' tie-in novel, Metathran general Thaddeus is captured and Strapped To An Operating table by the sadistic Phyrexian general Tsabo Tavoc before being tortured and vivisected.
303** The silver-bordered [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Discussion.aspx?multiverseid=74295 Goblin Secret Agent]] parodies James Bond straight up.
304* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'':
305** In Hazlan, a domain ruled by a wizard darklord with an enquiring turn of mind, being sent to "the Tables" is a standard punishment for those convicted of sedition or other capital crimes. Or those who just piss him off, for that matter.
306** This trope is just the beginning of one's problems if [[EvilutionaryBiologist Frantisek Markov]] gets a hold of you.
307** Or golem-creator Emil Bollenbach.
308* One of the images of incapacitated Tempest in ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' shows him in this predicament while an evil [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thorathian]] scientist prepares to do his worst.
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312* In ''[[VideoGame/ArmyMen Army Men II]]'', one of the GameOver videos (on the mad grey scientist's island) was of Sarge strapped to an operating table and torn apart by zombies.
313* ''VideoGame/{{Bioforge}}'': Happens to Dane, to the hero in the opening cutscene, and presumably to all of [[MadScientist Dr. Mastaba's]] other cyborgization victims.
314* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'':
315** While you never get strapped down yourself, the first boss is the deranged plastic surgeon Dr Steinman. When you show up at his operating room (with the ominous-sounding name "Aesthetic Ideals"), he's slashing away at some poor splicer strapped to the table, ranting that she's ''still'' not "perfect". On the whole, you may want to think twice before you go to a plastic surgeon who loves Cubism.
316** One bed in the Little Sisters' orphanage/lab has straps...
317** The crucifix-like operating tables in the Big Daddy factory, headrest restraints bathed by spotlight, also Steinman's other failed works are suspended from these on his ceiling.
318* In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfiniteBurialAtSea: Episode 2'', [[spoiler:Atlas does this to a helpless Elizabeth to get information out of her]].
319* In ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN5qyJdTQpw Relius Clover's Astral Finish]] had his opponent in this condition. In a way, this varies between characters, such as Arakune's 'Operating Table' being a big flask, Ragna and Rachel being bound to crosses, Jin being tied with [[LightIsNotGood ray lights]], Taokaka being inside a cage, Bang being bound ''and'' forced to kneel thanks to the heavy weights on his legs, etc. (The only one ''actually'' strapped to something like a table is [[GenderBender Mai Natsume]].) Regardless, knowing [[MadScientist what kind of person Relius is]], rather than showing what happens to the character, [[GoryDiscretionShot the door closes in]] and [[ScreamDiscretionShot a scream is heard]].
320* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'': THE NUMBERS, MASON.
321* ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'':
322** In ''7 Days A Skeptic'' [[spoiler:Doctor William straps you to an operating table after you find out he was possessed by [=DeFoe=]]].
323** In ''Art of Theft'' you are brainwashed like this, the tilted version.
324* Alcatraz in ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2'' after [[spoiler:Hargreave]] captures him. The table has dozens of arms suspended above it with lasers for slicing.
325* In the text-based {{Gamebook}}-style game ''VideoGame/{{Cyberqueen}}'', the eponymous A.I. straps the protagonist down for experimental surgery. [[spoiler:Twice.]]
326* JC from ''VideoGame/DangerGirl'' briefly suffers this fate at the start of a level, after she's abducted by Assassin X, with a MadScientist threatening to use a "probing device" on her. [[PressXToNotDie Press X to Escape a gruesome fate via dissection]] ensues.
327* Happens off-screen in ''VideoGame/DejaVu1985'': the amnesiac protagonist comes across a restraint chair which is later revealed to be where the bad guys strapped him down and gave him the drug that caused him to lose his memory prior to the start of the game.
328* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'':
329** 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]].
330** 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.
331* ''VideoGame/EndlessNightmare: Hospital'' begins with the player character, James, waking up in a hospital ward with a probing device lowering on him. But he breaks out in an instant and starts exploring the place.
332* Occurs in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUHRhv718II here]].
333* In ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin]]'', Becket briefly wakes up after a city-shattering explosion to find himself strapped to an operating table and enduring a horrifyingly traumatic surgery, made all the worse by the fact that every time he passes out, Beckett experienced hallucinatory dreams involving the operation, except the doctors are replaced by screaming demonic ghosts ripping into his guts. Before he passes out for the last time, the doctor in charge kindly says, "You'll feel a... little ''pinch''... now." Cue writhing in excruciating agony when the final hallucination shows one of the monstrous doctors slamming a blade into his heart. Later on, Becket learns what that surgery was all about: [[spoiler: Genevieve Aristide was surgically implanting Beckett to attune him to Alma in order to draw her attention after she was released.]]
334** Redd Jankowski undergoes similar treatment but doesn't survive, since the medical staff overseeing the automated surgery machines were killed.
335* 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).
336** 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.
337* In ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', this is where Starkiller wakes up six months after being [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown stabbed, beaten]] and [[ThrownOutTheAirlock spaced.]]
338* ''VideoGame/{{Galerians}}'' opens with the protagonist bound to a table, receiving an injection of some sort of chemical. He discovers he can release the restraints through telekinesis, but [[IdentityAmnesia he has no idea who he is.]]
339* Happens a few times in ''VideoGame/{{Geist}}''. First, Raimi is strapped ''up'' in a gigantic, vaguely telescope-like thing to be separated from his body. Later this happens to his friend Bryson, and when that is interrupted Bryson is strapped down and left to die. There are also a few others who failed separation and got strapped ''and'' straight-jacketed down.
340* [[MadDoctor Faust]] from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' places his opponent in this condition with his instant kill. He proceeds to detonate the nuclear bomb planted under the table, which either goes off normally or malfunctions and gives him and the victim a FunnyAfro. In ''Xrd'', he instead gives them [[MagicPlasticSurgery a swift facial]].
341* Happens to [[spoiler: Madison]] in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''.
342* The intro of ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'' shows Jak strapped to an operating table while undergoing [[PsychoSerum Dark Eco]] experiments at the hands of [[EvilOverlord Baron Praxis]]. He manages to break himself free apropos of his first transformation into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Jak]].
343* Roger has flashbacks of when this happened to him in ''VideoGame/JeanneDArc''.
344* In the Creator/{{Infocom}} text-adventure ''VideoGame/LeatherGoddessesOfPhobos'', the player is strapped to an exam table by a mad scientist and turned into a Gorilla. It's also possible to observe other experiments of the Leather Goddesses, but the game won't tell you what they are. Whether that is a SexyDiscretionShot or a GoryDiscretionShot is entirely up to the player's imagination.
345* In ''VideoGame/MadouSouheiKleinhasa'', one of the bad endings has Roze strapped to a gynecologist's chair as scientists perform various experiments on her. [[{{Squick}} It's implied that she doesn't survive.]]
346* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
347** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3:'' If you don't go to help the Ascension Project in time, [[spoiler:this is the ultimate fate of Jack, experimented on by Cerberus until they turn her into a Phantom.]]
348** ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'': The kett ''love'' doing this. Many times through the game it's possible to find their victims, often with a recording of their last words before the kett killed them.
349* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': A recurring theme is less "the protagonist comes to strapped to an operating table" and more "the protagonist comes to strapped to a torturing device", but it's not better.
350* The Medical level of ''VideoGame/NightmareNed'' plays this for laughs. One half of it opens with a HospitalGurneyScene where Ned has to avoid [[MadDoctor evil doctors]] that are out to steal his organs, and the next puzzle has Ned strapped to a spinning table on a wall. The player then has to stop the table at one of eight glass jars containing substitute ''monster organs'', and repeat depending on how many organs were taken at the start. Succeeding allows Ned to leave the room, but failing the puzzle drops Ned into a body bag, returning him to the level's hub.
351* ''[[VideoGame/{{Oddworld}} Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee]]'': In the bad ending, if you didn't save enough [[SlaveRace Mudokon scrubs]] and [[KillerRabbit Fuzzles]], Munch becomes a victim of this.
352* Dr. Loboto in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' straps his victims into a dentist's chair before removing their brains.
353* Early in ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'', the hero gets in a little over his head in a battle and is subsequently knocked out and captured by the enemy aliens. When he wakes, he's strapped to the operating table/ConveyorBeltODoom for a rather nasty surgical procedure to turn him into one of them...and after watching most of the "[[PainfulTransformation Stroggification]]" procedure happen to yourself, the cavalry shows up.
354* Although ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'' starts you off in the dungeon, the first thing you see is your fellow spy strapped to the operating table. And you were going to be next...
355* In one cutscene of ''VideoGame/{{Sanitarium}}'', [[MadScientist Dr. Morgan]] catches Max sneaking into his laboratory and straps him to a cross-shaped operating table to be injected with a strange substance.
356* In ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'', Illuminati characters are strapped to a table as part of their introduction to the organization.
357* ''VideoGame/ShadowGuardian'' begins with Jason waking up in Dr. Novik's lab, wrists and legs bound to one such table as Novik prepares to interrogate him.
358* ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'': How you start off, complete with a bit of ControllableHelplessness. Then you hear [[spoiler: good old Pyramid Head lumbering towards you]]. Cue "OhCrap" and furious button mashing to break free.
359* ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'': One of the endings has the protagonist strapped to an operating table.
360* In ''[[VideoGame/StarTrekEliteForce Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force]]'', an officer is strapped to an assimilation table.
361* [[HalfWittedHillbilly Cletus]] in ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' gets [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]] and is found stapped on a table along with a pig with both of them having a [[AnalProbe rather big pointy thing ]] pointing at them.
362* In ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'', you come upon a ghostly reenactment of one of the ship's scientists about to perform a rather... radical cybernetics procedure on an unwilling female victim. Considering that you meet the results in the very next room, it's ever-so-slightly chilling.
363* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'', Guybrush Threepwood gets strapped to an operating table by the Marquis De Singe, [[spoiler:who attempts to cut off Guybrush's Poxed hand,]] and our hero must use his limited movement ability (and the Marquis' helper monkey Jacques) to escape.
364* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Look closely at the operating table in "Meet the Medic". The table has restraints, but they aren’t being used on the Heavy, who is currently being treated. It’s only natural to assume some of Medic’s other patients were... troublesome.
365* In ''VideoGame/XMenVsStreetFighter'', [[spoiler: Charlie Nash]] is seen restrained like this in his ending. [[spoiler: This particular "continuity" states that not only Charlie was tortured and experimented on, but transformed into a BrainwashedAndCrazy SuperSoldier known as Shadow.]]
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369* ''WebAnimation/{{Chadam}}'':
370** A unknown woman wakes up in episode 1, strapped down to an operating table, seeing nothing but the bright lights above her head before her captor suddenly appears and clamps his hand over her mouth...
371** The same thing happens to an innocent artist later, who gets captured by Viceroy and then wakes up in the same operating room.
372** Even later, Ripley herself ends up getting kidnapped and strapped down by Viceroy.
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376* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfWiglafAndMordred'': Gawain finds himself on [[AxCrazy Galen's]] [[http://liliy.net/wam/2009/10/07/he-needs-it-more/ exam table]] fairly quickly after she realizes his whole [[OurZombiesAreDifferent can't die thing.]]
377* ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'': Zeno was strapped down and experimented on by scientists. [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/comic/89 He could kind of watch TV though from where his head was strapped down.]]
378* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/12/05/dont-wait-up/ CK follows a group of androids into a room prominently marked "abattoir"]] [[EverythingsSexierInFrench apparently thinking it's something else]]. Predictably, [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/01/30/action-sequence-go/ he winds up on an operating table]].
379* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', a [[http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/2004-02-11 scrapped idea]] for Grace's restraints after being captured would have looked like this. Instead Dan [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2004-02-12 went with a chair]] that resembles a ShackleSeatTrap.
380* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
381** Othar Tryggvassen, GentlemanAdventurer! in the [[MadScientist Baron's]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040105 laboratory]].
382** Also from {{show within a show}} "Race to the West Pole". (That's the family-friendly interpretation, to be sure.)
383--->'''Bill''': ''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050527 You! Minion!]]'' [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050530 Why am I tied to this table?]] And where are my ''pants?''
384** Castle Heterodyne is littered with [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090828 operating tables]] for subjects to be strapped to.
385** Gil has a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120316 secure operating table]] in his secret lab aboard Castle Wulfenbach that he uses to secure [[TheSociopath DuPree]]. She calls him pathetic because he ''only'' uses it for medicinal purposes.
386* Parodied in ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'', when the Film/JamesBond parody spy is captured trying to sneak into Tony's base. He gets strapped to a table and asks Tony if he's going to put him in some overly elaborate DeathTrap and then leave. Tony denies it; he says he's going to point a gun in the spy's face. If the spy moves, he pulls the trigger. If the spy ''doesn't'' move, he pulls the trigger.
387* ''Webcomic/{{Spectre}}'' does this. Interestingly, the operating chair has both straps and a row of needles that pierce the victim's back to hold them in place.
388** Protagonist Callas is given [[SadisticChoice an option]]: either [[HeroicSacrifice he goes in the chair]] or his {{Woobie}} friend [[KickTheDog Alexi]] does. [[spoiler: Callas volunteers himself, only to find out that his opinion doesn't matter as they lock him in a cell and force Alexi into the chair anyway.]]
389* ''Webcomic/StrongFemaleProtagonist'': this is the fate of [[spoiler:Feral]]. The kicker? [[spoiler:She does that in order to help people by becoming the ultimate organ donor, by virtue of her potent HealingFactor. And yes, it's '''completely voluntary''' on her part]]. Later, Alison is able to arrange for [[spoiler:Feral's healing power to be supercharged, to the point that she's able to meet ''global'' demand for organ donations with just 40 hours of surgery a month]].
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393* In ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'', [[spoiler:after Linkara beats Mechakara, the robot is captured by Dr. Insano, who has him tied down and tortured with magnets.]]
394* Maggie of ''WebVideo/LG15TheResistance'' is shown to have spent a lot of time strapped to an operating table in {{Flashback}}s.
395* The Whartons of ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'' appear vulnerable to this; it happens to Emma in "Girl Tied Up" and Jonas in "Dangerous Injection!" and "Rooftop Brawl".
396* In ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation's'' ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' [[SarcasmMode review]], Yahtzee tells that ear-flailing buttons come in handy when Duke is strapped to an operating table and must activate a crossbow somewhere left of his head.
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400* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': The episode "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E22AprilMoon April Moon]]" ends with one of the most disturbing uses of this trope. For context, the episode's villain, Bullwhip, has kidnapped a surgeon's beloved girlfriend and forced him to turn him and his gang into powerful cyborgs. Right before the climax, the doctor discovers that Bullwhip and his girlfriend are actually in on it together and having an affair; the thing is, Bullwhip doesn't know that the doctor knows and goes back to him for repairs after Batman defeats the rest of the gang. Bullwhip is strapped to an operating table, and he asks that the doctor upgrade him and tells him not to hold back. The doctor then begins lowering a power drill as he puts Bullwhip under...
401-->''"I understand. No holding back."''
402* Happens to Batman when the Joker starts to unscrew his head and destroy his mind in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s LighterAndSofter AnimatedAdaptation of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker''.
403* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': When Lydia injures her foot, Beetlejuice takes her to a Neitherworld hospital where she is strapped to a gurney for the better part of the episode ("Generally Hysterical Hospital"). It appears that the Neitherworld doctors' plan is to remove Lydia's soul from her body. Beetlejuice has to think of a plan to get her out.
404* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Odd and Ulrich end up strapped to hospital beds in one episode because they are experiencing XANA-induced hallucinations and attacking anyone that resembles a monster on Lyoko. Aelita comes to set them free later on.
405* Danielle [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. Also occurs in another episode, when Danny himself is strapped to a table by [[spoiler:Maddie]], and, even earlier, by [[spoiler:Spectra]].
406* Happens to King Cole in ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat in Bold King Cole''.
407* WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle use this to spring Dimwit from an asylum in "Magpie Madness". The head physician, Chesty the Bulldog, gets strapped to an operating table as the birds climb inside him for some spot surgery.
408* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' does this in its Film/JamesBond {{parody}} episode.
409* The Season 1 opening of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' has an unfortunate demon strapped onto [[EnfantTerrible Heloise's]] operating table for an electrical experiment. The guy's saved when Jimmy slides into it and pushes him out at the last second. Heloise acknowledges Jimmy's presence but goes on with the experiment anyway.
410* In ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'', while Saturn Girl is in Timber Wolf's mind, it's shown that [[GuineaPigFamily this happened to him when he got his powers]].
411* Dr. Wily straps Rock and Roll to two of these in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'' so that it'd be easier to reprogram them, by shoving an electric drill in their heads ''while they were still awake''.
412* Happens to poor WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse in a frankly horrifying short, "WesternAnimation/TheMadDoctor". Pluto's not strapped to a table, but he is shackled to a chair-thing. [[spoiler:Luckily for both of them, it's AllJustADream.]]
413* This happened in ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'', episode "The Treacherous Movie Lot Plot".
414* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Doofenshmirtz does the ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' thing on Perry because he SawItInAMovieOnce, though [[BondVillainStupidity Doofenshmirtz didn't stay to see the end because it looked pretty foolproof]]. Unless you're using it on a platypus smaller than what the restraints were made for, so he can pull them free the moment you've gone.
415* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'' has Holmes strapped down by the episode's DeadlyDoctor... with invisible magnetic restraints.
416* The above-mentioned ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' example is a favorite scene to rework as a Film/JamesBond parody. In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a James Bond lookalike is subjected to this in "You Only Move Twice".
417* Jokey and Clumsy in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Jokey's Funny Bone" are strapped together on two adjoining tables when Brainy is about to do the funny bone transplant operation.
418* In ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'', the four protagonists are strapped to tables before being injected with stuff that should turn them into sharks, but just kills them... until they wake up and turn into sharks.
419* Occurs several times in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': The season 1 episode "The Way of Invisibility" has this happen to Raphael after being captured by the Foot. "Notes from the Underground" parts 1 and 2, from the same season, show a video recording of a scientist turning a random guy strapped to a table into a digging monster. Later, in the season 3 episodes "Worlds Collide" parts 2 and 3, the turtles are strapped to operating tables by Bishop, who plans to dissect them. Leatherhead is also shown strapped down to a table and possibly had similar procedures done to him.
420* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
421** Brother Blood did this to the [[WestCoastTeam Titans East]] in their ''debut two-parter'' (well, as a team; three of five have had guest spots).
422** A little earlier in the same season, the main Titans [[KindRestraints have to do this to Robin]]. (He's somewhat violently unstable and having hallucinations of fighting Slade at the time.)
423* The ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' parody also happens to Plucky Duck in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. Heck at this point, if you had a dollar for every James Bond parody that ''doesn't'' use this at some point, you'd be broke.
424* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
425** Whenever Tarantulas of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is able to get his hands on a "subject", he gleefully straps them to a table and torments them with a variety of painful experiments while casually dismissing remarks about his sanity.
426** [[BountyHunter Lockdown]] in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', though his tables are used so he can [[CreepySouvenir steal his victim's mods as trophies]] ([[MemeticMolester unless you read fanfiction]]).
427** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', [[TheBrute Breakdown]] is strapped down by MECH, a human terrorist cell, who start to take him apart to find out how he works, just like with any machine. While he's still fully conscious. This also crops up in Season 2 during a flashback episode in which Shockwave straps down Arcee and [[spoiler:Cliffjumper]] to [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind retrieve an Autobot code]] using a [[MindRape cortical psychic patch]].
428* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros''' Halloween special, this happens to Dean after sneaking into a spooky old house. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}} when it turns out that Ben only wants to give Dean a medical check-up, and soon releases him.]]
429* {{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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