Bound And Gagged / Western Animation

Gagging an anthropomorphic duck with a different speaking method will require different methods.

• Happens in many episodes of Batman: The Animated Series to one character or another.
  • Catwoman finds herself on a Conveyor Belt o' Doom being carried toward a cat food grinder in the episode "Almost Got 'Im".
  • In the episode "Christmas With The Joker", Joker goes for a festive theme, binding Gordon, Summer and Bullock up like Christmas presents (complete with bows) and using candy canes as gags.
• In the very first scene of Batman Beyond, Bunny Vreeland (daughter of Veronica Vreeland) has been kidnapped for a ransom and, as you can imagine, is bound and gagged by her captors.
  • In Return of the Joker, this happens in a very brief scene to Jordan Pryce's girlfriend.
• Pretty much every major character other than Batman, Nightwing, and Ra's Al Ghul is tied up at one point or another in Batman: Under the Red Hood.
• Happens at least once to Lydia when one of Beetlejuice's enemies gets her in their grip.
• In Catwoman: Hunted, Batwoman defeats La Dama's summoned demons by gagging her with a small glue bomb so she can't give orders and then "interpreting" her murmurs to the demons as La Dama dismissing them. The demons are stupid enough to fall for this and leave.
• Happened at least once to Jeremie Belpois of Code Lyoko. He managed to get the gag off but had to send Odd's dog Kiwi for help because the ropes were too tight. He's not happy about it.
  With my luck, he'll come back with the principal.
• The U.S. Dennis the Menace cartoon once had a scene where a seal is running amok, and at one point grabs a paper towel in its mouth and runs around the kids, wrapping them up in the paper towel. They even get gagged by apples that get knocked off a table and fly into their open mouths.
• In The Dragon Prince, Rayla gets this treatment while being upside down and lowered toward the sea to be fed to sea leviathans until she is saved by Callum.
• Drawn Together: Foxxy in the second season premiere thanks to Strawberry Sweetcake. Her hands are tied behind her back, her ankles are tied together, and she's gagged. She's locked in a closet and struggling, and the front of her top gets ripped in the struggle. Foxxy's struggling then causes a jar of honey to spill on her and this combined with her being tied up and helpless ends up making her very horny.
• Candle Jack has been known for doing this to whoever says his name on Freakazoid!. Which happens a lot, so he's always gonna need more rope for unknown reasons.
• In the classic George of the Jungle, this has happened to Ursula in the episodes "Desperate Showers", "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seed" and "A Man for All Hunting Seasons".
• Goldie Gold and Action Jack had both titular characters being Bound and Gagged. One instance had a henchwoman grabbing both Goldie's arms from behind, and Goldie spends the next half-minute pinned right in front of her captor.
• In Hey Arnold!, Harold, Stinky and Sid come to Arnold for help after thinking they blew up a police station When it was actually Ernie who demolished it with a wrecking ball. When Arnold tells them they have to go to the police, they bound and gag him for fear that he would rat them out.
• I ♡ Arlo: Happens to Edmée in the second-to-last episode of Season 1, when she is being held hostage and Ruff and Stucky are writing a ransom note to lure Arlo back to the swamp as an order by the Bog Lady. Done again to Arlo himself in the finale, "The Uncondemning", albeit not gagged like Edmée, when the Bog Lady snatches him up in her roots before hypnotizing him into never leaving her.
• Penny, the young niece of the title character of Inspector Gadget, would frequently be captured by the M.A.D Agent of the Week and be bound and gagged, often requiring her to either free herself, or be rescued by Brain.
• This occurs to a total of three characters in Ivanhoe: The King's Knight. It happens once to Rowena, one to Harold and twice to Rebecca.
• Justice League Action:
  • Often with Wonder Woman.
    • Happen during "Selfie Help", with an unknown goo-like black substance fulfilling the role of her bindings and gag.◊
    • A Running Gag has Diana gets tied up in her own lasso.
  • Zatanna during "Speed Demon", where a possessed Batmobile binds and gags Zatanna with the ejection parachute and locks her in its trunk◊.
• Lola Bunny ends up bound and gagged midway through Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run, forcing Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to save her in a Nightmarish Factory.
• This happens to Brattus in the third act of the Mr. Bogus episode "Bogus To The Rescue", after Bogus busts him for making a false alarm on the phone about an emergency.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In "Boast Busters", Applejack is tied up and gagged with an apple when challenging Trixie to a rodeo contest.
  • In Part 1 of "Twilight's Kingdom", Tirek ties up the earth ponies with a lasso and steals their magic.
  • In "Stranger Than Fan Fiction", a vendor at a Fan Convention sells Daring Do body pillows, including some that depict her completely tied up. Later, Rainbow Dash and Quibble Pants get captured and chained together; Quibble demonstrates his puzzle-solving skills by breaking free in mere minutes.
• Also occurs in the original My Little Pony cartoon. In a heroic example, during the final part of "Bright Lights", the Flutter Ponies, while easily beating Arabus, tie his rat underlings together with ropes.
• The New Adventures of Superman
  • "The Ape Army of the Amazon": Lois Lane gets tied to a pillar in a temple and gagged by the villain so he can steal the temple's treasures.
  • "The Mysterious Mr. Mist": Lois Lane is tied up and gagged by Mr. Mist before he lowers her into a well.
  • "Luminians on the Loose": Jimmy Olsen gets this treatment from Lex Luthor.
• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show: In "They Went That-A-Way", Pebbles is captured by rustlers, who then gag her and tie her up to a cactus. In the next scene, Pebbles' friends find her hopping away while still being tied up to the cactus.
• All the time on The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. Every single episode. More than once. Funny thing is she has only been gagged twice, in "Carnival Calamity" (tied to a giant duck in the shooting gallery) and in "Wild West Peril" (in the Hooded Claw's hot air balloon). About 90% of the Hooded Claw's schemes probably would have worked if he hadn't overlooked that.
• Happens all the time in Peter Pan & the Pirates.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Simian Says", Mojo captures the Narrator this way and takes over the narration of the show making the Girls steal for him.
  • The Professor, as the show's designated Distressed Dude, was also trussed up a handful of times by villains, mostly in the later seasons. Although he was usually just tied up with ropes, he did get the full bound & gagged treatment two different times in the episodes "Not So Awesome Blossom" and "Coupe d'etat."
  • Princess Morbucks with a bomb attached in her debut appearance.
  • Miss Bellum, while disguised as Sedusa, after the latter takes her hostage in her own home.
  • The Mayor of Townsville had this happen to him a few times.
• Saturday Supercade: In the Donkey Kong Jr. episode titled "Double or Nothing", Bones' cousin Lucy Belle is kidnapped by being put inside a Bag of Kidnapping. Junior and Bones later find her tied up and gagged on a chair inside a shed, before Junior frees her from her bindings.
• Scooby-Doo. Not as often as you might think for a character nicknamed "Danger-Prone Daphne", but regularly enough to deserve an honorable mention.
  • In an episode from The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show titled "Where's Scooby-Doo?", the titular dog is tied up with ropes, gagged with tape, and stuffed into a sarcophagus. He then manages to free himself from all three objects restraining him easily.
• This happens a lot in The Simpsons. One notable example is in "Cape Feare", when Sideshow Bob ties up the entire family (even the pets!) as he goes off to kill Bart. Of course, Homer is asleep throughout the ordeal.
  Lisa: Oh, no. Dad's been drugged!
  Marge: No, he hasn't.

• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Catra gets this the most:
  • In Promise, she is briefly tied up and gagged by a robot spider using it's slimy green webbing.
  • In Ties that Bind, she spends most of the episode tied up, though not gagged.
    • In Moment of Truth, Adora spends the entire episode all tied up and gagged, spending most of her time trying to scream through said gag, though she does have the gag briefly removed a few times so she can talk to the villains.
• Several instances of this trope happen in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, including to Spidey himself in the series finale.
• In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Venom does this to Gwen Stacy in order to cause misery to Spidey in "Nature vs. Nurture".
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • We get a very brief glimpse of Mr. Krabs and Patrick tied-up and helpless in the storeroom, courtesy of our favorite sponge as he prepares a fancy dinner for Squilliam and his buddies; it was the only way to stop their disastrous attempts to help.
  • There's another incident where Mr. Krabs is tied to his chair but not gagged as SpongeBob and Squidward torment him to see if he's really a robot. It Makes Sense in Context.
• This sometimes happens to Princess Toadstool and less frequently to Mario and Luigi in the Super Mario Bros. (DiC) cartoons. Even the Koopa Kids get tied up once.
• Lois Lane, naturally, gets this treatment quite a few times, among a few other characters, in Superman: The Animated Series.
  • In "World's Finest", the Joker kidnaps Lois and has her bound and gagged while Evil Gloating about his Evil Plan to kill Superman. The gag is removed so Lois can comment on this, only for her to immediately start mouthing off at the Joker, causing an outraged Harley Quinn to shove the gag back in.
• April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), who always ended up being bound and gagged by the bad guys, especially during the earlier seasons, to the point that the turtles can even recognize her mumbles.
  • In Turtles Forever, the 1980s Turtles tell their 2000s counterparts that they must save April at least once a day.
• Tom and Jerry:
  • Tom & Jerry Kids: Dripple is on trial in "Droopy Law" with Miss Vavoom as his public defender and McWolf as the injured party. Vavoom has a tape proving that Dripple is innocent. However, before she can play it, McWolf grabs her, runs out of the courtroom (with fighting noises being heard afterwards), and comes back without her, coming up with an excuse for her absence before playing his tape. Soon after, Vavoom returns in the courtroom, tied up, gagged, and blindfolded, hopping until she arrives next to Dripple, who unties her before she plays her tape.
  • Happens to Red in the direct-to-DVD movie Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes.
• In almost all the episodes of the spy-girl series Totally Spies!, one of the girls is captured by the villain(s) of the week, forcing the other two to act fast, leading to their capture with them sometimes being bound and gagged.
  • It happens in the sequel series The Amazing Spiez! too though not quite as often.

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