History Main / StickySituation

* In ''Yomeiro Choice'' vol. 2 chapter 11, Moe-chan keeps falling into the traps set by Hiiro, including one that trips her and make her fall upon a large adhesive-covered tarp. [[GivingThemTheStrip She escapes by ripping off all her clothing]], leaving her with just tape over her naughty bits.

*** There is also Gaston's "non-freezing ice-cream", which proves extremely stingy and sticky. Its first appearance leads to involuntary BuildingSwing for Gaston (really). At the end of the album, Gaston accidentally entangles a pickpocket in an alley with it. And then the two cops trying to arrest the thief end up hopelessly entangled alongside by the sticky stuff.

** Not learning from PPP's failure, Mr Stone, one half of a B-List merc team, tries to slow down the wall-crawler by using his SwissArmyWeapon to coat the entire floor in glue so as to give his life-draining partner Mr. Styx a chance to use his touch of death. Spider-Man easily leaps out of his boots onto the ceiling.

* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'': Ron Thompson's improvised BoobyTrap nails his father in the forehead with a rubber crossbow bolt, which he has trouble peeling off.
-->'''Russ''': What's on this thing?\\
'''Ron''': Superglue.\\
'''Russ''': ''Superglue?!''

* ''VideoGame/Revolution1986'': Some levels contain adhesive surfaces, and touching them will cause the bouncing ball to stop bouncing.

* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestV'': A puzzle requires Graham to pour honey on the ground to catch an elf.

* In ''Webcomic/JungleJuice'' one of the Insect Humans who have been merged with a honey bee can generate massive amounts of honey, which is used to trap others.

* One of the monsters in ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' was King Cobra; a giant snake that was able to spit a glue-like substance from its mouth. It used this to capture multiple people, including briefly the H.E.A.T team (who escaped by getting out of their shoes) before been defeated by Godzilla; H.E.A.T and the JSDF having created a chemical to free the captured humans from the glue.
** King Cobra would survive its fight with Godzilla and later appear in the "Monster Wars" trilogy - been mind-controlled and sent to Paris as part of the Tachyon's plan to conquer Earth, with the snake again using its glue spit on the French soldiers who attacked it.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HandyManny'' had Manny's two screwdrivers, Felipe and Turner, get stuck together with glue.

* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': In [[Recap/InfinityTrainS1E1TheGridCar The Grid Car,]] Tulip jumps off the train in an attempt to find her way home. However, as she approaches a dead tree not far from the tracks, the ground becomes very muddy, and Tulip gets her feet stuck.

* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "Raven Saves the Birthday Party," in Jack's raven story, the raven sees a big bucket of what he thinks is ooligan grease, but it was actually spruce pitch, which gets his head stuck inside the bucket. When he finally gets out of it, it seals his beak shut.

--> Lori: I can't move my feet!

* Literature/AdrianMole ends up with a model aeroplane glued to his nose at one point, prompting accusations that he was trying to sniff it.

* Another Roald Dahl example can be found in ''Literature/TheTwits''. Every Tuesday night, Mr. Twit coats the branches of the dead tree in their backyard with glue to capture birds for the bird pie he and his wife eat on wednesdays. In the climax of the novel, the twits themselves get tricked into glueing themselves to the floor of their house.

** In the episode "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS1E9GoodbyeIsland Goodbye Island]]", the group accidentally discover a new glue when they attempt to use the sap of a local tree to create pancake syrup. They then try to use it to repair their boat. [[HilarityEnsues Very clumsily, of course.]]
** In the episode "[[BeautyContest Beauty Is as Beauty Does]]", the group holds a beauty contest between the three women. During the talent portion Mary Ann is to perform a dance routine, and Mr. Howell tries to sabotage it by pouring glue onto the stage. Mary Ann, of course, [[CaptainOblivious steps right in it]], becoming instantly stuck and loses her shoe ([[BrickJoke which is still stuck in place in a later scene]]).