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* ''Webcomic/WhiteRooms'': Everybody in the white rooms, except for the Ritses, has a leg chained to a heavy block, and the only way to get around is to drag it along with them. When Charlie arrives, entering through a door rather than waking up in the room, a white monster promptly appears from the ceiling to chaining him to a block and then vanish again.

* ''Series/GetSmart'': In "The Day They Raided Knights", 99 is tied to a surfboard by KAOS agents, but manages to escapes by waddling away still tied to the board and throwing herself on a conveyor belt. Later, she knocks out a female KAOS agent who has the drop on Max by hitting her with surfboard, which is still tied to her back.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': One of Paula's minions tied Diana to a tree with her own unbreakable lasso. Diana responded by tearing up the tree by the roots and knocking her out with it.

* ''Series/GetSmart'': In "The Day They Raided Knights", 99 is tied to a surfboard by KAOS agents, but manages to escapes by waddling away still tied to the board and throwing herself on a conveyor belt. Later, she knocks out a female KAOS agent who has the drop on max by hitting her with surfboard, which is still tied to her back.

* In ''Film/{{Stag}}'', Serena is duct taped to a chair. She manages to tip the the chair over and drag herself across the floor to the window using her elbows.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', Nutt describes his early childhood labouring in a dark forge, where he built up his strength by working with larger and larger equipment until he could even carry the anvil. When his friend asks why that was so important to him, he clarifies that he was [[BornIntoSlavery chained to the anvil]].

* ''Literature/{{BigTrouble}}'' has a cop and a jerkass handcuffed to a heavy metal entertainment unit, which they end up dragging to freedom. Later, the aforementioned jerkass is shown still dragging the thing down the street.[[note]]It's essentially the same as in the novel, but the film puts a different officer in this situation.[[/note]]

* The novel of ''Literature/{{BigTrouble}}'' has a cop and a jerkass handcuffed to a heavy metal entertainment unit, which they end up dragging to freedom.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': After all the destruction Ed causes in "Rent A Ed", Eddy and Double D tie him to a beam and use him as a towel rack for the Seiz La Sweat scam. Unfortunately, when Eddy tells Rolf to put a towel on, Ed busts through the wall, still tied to the beam, to offer towel rack services. Even worse, [[FromBadToWorse it was the support beam for the house]].

* ''Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'': Toad escapes jail by disguising himself as a washer woman, hiding the iron ball he's chained to under the dress as a bustle.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "The Wolf of Wharf Street", Bob handcuffs Teddy to the coffee table. Teddy carries the table over his back while chasing Bob.

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* When Stephanie is "kidnapped" and handcuffed to a bed to make it look as though her father is being coerced into working with his newest accomplices she and [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] pick up and use the bed to plow through her captors and he only gets the cuffs and by extension bed off of her when they're out of the room she was being held in.

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* At the start of ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'', the Lady knocks out Dog Kelly and shackles him to the wheel of an old wagon buried in the desert. Later Dog turns up in town, dragging the wagon wheel with him, and challenges the Lady to a duel.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Max is held prisoner by the Warboys, and tied to Nux (who's leukemic) to administer blood. When Nux crashes his car with Max aboard, Max is unable to break the chain tying them (and a car door) together, and settles for carrying them with him.

* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', Jack Sparrow is lashed to a roasting-spit by cannibals. He manages to jounce the spit off its props to escape being cooked, but has to run away with it still tied to his back.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Homer the Great", Homer is punished for ruining the Stonecutters' sacred parchment by being stripped naked and forced to pull the "stone of shame" all the way home. When the Stonecutters' notice a birthmark identifying Homer as TheChosenOne, they release him and instead make him pull the even larger "stone of triumph".

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'': In "Has-Been Hero", Crane is captured and tied to a rotating wooden pillar. He escapes still tied to the pillar and uses it as a battering ram to smash his way out of the villain's hideout. Later Monkey uses the pillar as a weapon, with Crane still tied to it.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dragons: Race to the Edge]]'', Hiccup teaches the dragon hunters that dragon-proof chains are useless without dragon-proof winches... but dragon-proof winches are just as useless when anchored to a ''wooden'' deck, as Hiccup simply blasts the deck, allowing Meatlug and Fishlegs to fly away with the winch still chained to her leg.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "The Wolf of Wharf Street", Bob handcuffs Teddy to the coffee table. Teddy carries the table over his back while chasing Bob.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': After all the destruction Ed causes in "Rent A Ed", Eddy and Double D tie him to a beam and use him as a towel rack for the Seiz La Sweat scam. Unfortunately, when Eddy tells Rolf to put a towel on, Ed busts through the wall, still tied to the beam, to offer towel rack services. Even worse, [[FromBadToWorse it was the support beam for the house]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Hearts and Hooves Day", Apple Bloom ties Big Mac first to an ox-drawn cart full of anvils, then to a ''house''. Both get dragged along with him, much to the dismay of Apple Bloom, the oxen pulling the cart, and the house's occupant.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Hearts and Hooves Day", Apple Boom ties Big Mac first to an ox-drawn cart full of anvils, then to a ''house''. Both get dragged along with him, much to the dismay of Apple Bloom, the oxen pulling the cart, and the house's occupant.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' in the episode where's he trains to 'jump good', he unknowingly volunteers to have a boulder tied to him. This is thus an inversion (subversion?) of the trope, as it's for training, but he carries the rock around until he can bear its weight.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': After all the destruction Ed causes in "Rent A Ed", Eddy and Double D tie him to a beam and use him a towel rack for the Seiz La Sweat scam. Unfortunately, when Eddy tells Rolf to put a towel on, Ed busts through the wall, still tied to the beam, to offer towel rack services. Even worse, [[FromBadToWorse it was the support beam for the house]].

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddAndEddy'': After all the destruction Ed causes in "Rent A Ed", Eddy and Double D tie him to a beam and use him a towel rack for the Seiz La Sweat scam. Unfortunately, when Eddy tells Rolf to put a towel on, Ed busts through the wall, still tied to the beam, to offer towel rack services. Even worse, [[FromBadToWorse it was the support beam for the house]].