Restraining Bolts in Western Animation.
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Ultron, due to being created by Hank Pym and being an A.I. based on Hank's brain patterns, has programming that prevents him from ever harming Hank's girlfriend Janet Van Dyne. Ultron has to resort to ordering his minions to deal with her. At least, this is the case with Ultron-5. Ultron-6 does not have this problem.
- One episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command had XR wear something that was actually called a Restraining Bolt. It functioned like a shock collar, only around his waist, and forced him to work as a tour guide.
- C.O.P.S. (Animated Series) has an example of Lawful Stupid when Ms. Demeanor is arrested and sentenced to an experimental rehabilitation program, in which she is made to wear a mind-altering tiara.
- Walker in Danny Phantom has a collar that electrocutes his prisoners when worn. He forced it on Wulf in order to get him to do whatever he wanted, otherwise he could have easily escaped his prisons (him being one of the few ghosts able to willingly go to Earth and back through his portal-making claws).
- The Darkwing Duck episode "When Aliens Collide" features mysterious alien Wacko, who wears a collar that reduces him to half his normal size and less than half his normal strength and prevents him from speaking; when he arrives on Earth, he indicates to Gosalyn that he would like the collar removed, and she, thinking he is an alien pet, tries to oblige. The real reason he wears the collar is that he is an escaped convict and Omnicidal Maniac, and the Outer Space Patrol have put the collar on him to keep him under control.
- An episode of Drawn Together has Clara wearing a collar that shocks her when she makes a racist comment.Foxxy: Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!
Clara: Oh, so it's okay when you say it. (ZAP) - Family Guy with the FCC episode where they (in one instance literally) clung to Peter's ass, censoring and bleeping every (according to the FCC) distasteful thing that happened (including farting).
- Futurama:
- "Bender's Game" has the crew using a collar around Leela's neck to restrain her from doing violent things or exhibiting negative emotions. Every time she does so she gets a shock, but eventually develops an immunity to it and even starts to enjoy it.
- In the second season episode "I Second That Emotion", the Professor installs a chip in Bender that causes him to feel whatever Leela is feeling. This leads to him risking his life to save Nibbler.
- The chip was running at triple capacity...and he still barely felt anything.
- In Gargoyles, Oberon places a spell on Puck that removes his powers, unless he's training or defending Xanatos' son, Alexander.
- In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002), He-Man and his friends create what can really only be defined as an evil chastity belt and trick Skeletor into putting it on. He can't do, speak, or even think evil acts without receiving a painful shock...and Tri-Clops reverse engineers it into a device that similarly torments He-Man for being good. Naturally both end up destroyed by episode's end.
- A famous episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show had Stimpy make a "happy helmet" for Ren. When donned it forced him to be happy so that he couldn't remove it short of bashing it with a meat tenderizer during Stimpy's favorite song.
- The Simpsons:
- In "The Great Louse Detective" Homer needs a criminal to help him find out who is trying to murder him. Sideshow Bob is selected and a shock guard is taped to his ankle to keep him in line. Chief Wiggum tells him not to think about taking it off because it's taped to his leg hairs and that really hurts. Bob is about to kill Bart at the end of the episode (he threw the remote to his device out the window), but he can't bring himself to do it. As he leaves, birds outside peck at the remote.
- In "On a Clear Day, I Can't See My Sister", the employees at the Walmart Fictional Counterpart have chips implanted in their skulls to prevent them from leaving at night. Homer manages to get his out and receives brain damage as a result.
- In SpongeBob SquarePants, Man-Ray, an enemy of Mermaid Man, has a tickle belt that tickles him whenever he has the urge to do something evil. Eventually, it comes off and Man-Ray goes and tries to rob a bank but breaks down with an attack of the giggles. "The belt is gone, but I still feel its tickle. The urge to do bad is gone!"
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Gone with a Trace", Ahsoka helps her new friend Trace build some droids that her sister was hired to provide. The droids turn out to be Type 2 binary loadlifters, which are fraudulently marked repurposed demolition droids, for which restraining bolts are absolutely necessary to prevent them from rampaging. When Trace forgets to put a bolt on one of the droids before turning it on, she and Ahsoka are forced to chase it across Level 1313.
- Transformers:
- In Beast Wars, Megatron controls the immortal psychopath Rampage by cutting out half of his spark and putting it in a device filled with sharp and pointy Energon shards. When Megatron squeezes, it inflicts unimaginable pain upon Rampage, forcing him to obey.
- He later creates a Transmetal-2 clone of Dinobot and animates it using half of Rampage's spark. Whenever Rampage is acting out, Megatron just has to glance at Dinobot II, and the latter squeezes the spark, causing pain to Rampage but not to Dinobot. When Rampage is killed, this somehow causes the clone to regain the memories of the original Dinobot.
- Megatron in Beast Machines uses three sparks from other Transformers in his Vehicon generals but places shell programs within the bodies that will completely override the spark's natural personality with one more to his liking. Tankor manages to break out of the shell program fairly early on and begins scheming against Megatron, but apparently having learned from his first experience with Rhinox, Megatron placed a second bolt in his body that prevented him from directly attacking Megatron. Rhinox thus finds himself Out-Gambitted, and only succeeds in delivering a superweapon right into Megatron's hands. Much later in the show, Jetstorm is freed from his shell program as well, while Thrust's inner spark actually prefers what he's like with the bolt on.
- In Beast Wars, Megatron controls the immortal psychopath Rampage by cutting out half of his spark and putting it in a device filled with sharp and pointy Energon shards. When Megatron squeezes, it inflicts unimaginable pain upon Rampage, forcing him to obey.
- X-Men: The Animated Series features collars which disable mutant powers.
