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* The video for MichaelJackson's "Beat It" has two rival gang leaders tie their hands to each other for the world's most stylized knife fight.

* The entire point of the children's game "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_race Three-legged race]]" is for a pair of contestants to run side-by-side to the finish line while having their adjacent feet bound together.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness''. In "Chain Reaction" croc bandits chain Po and Tigress together. After they finally get freed, Tigress actually reattaches the chain when she realises the inevitable Aesop of them working together.

->'''Lucy''': You know, there's this classic film called ''The Defiant Ones'', starring Tony Curtis and Creator/SidneyPoitier. It's about two prisoners – one black, the other white – and they escape handcuffed together...\\

* The Chained Melody Universe by Diane Bellomo are a series of ''StarTrekVoyager'' SlashFic's involving various beligerant crewmembers forced to work together -- HoYay or LesYay ensues.

* ''{{Webcomics/Housepets}}:'' Zach and Jessica end up in a trap, both dirty, injured, and cold, so they snuggle for warmth. Que Keene showing up thinking he caught a griffon. After they get out, get warm, and get patched up, they agree they want to hang out again. [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2014/12/03/up-all-night-to-get-lucky/ Cue the]] BigDamnKiss!

* Invoked in ''VisualNovel/AkatsukiNoGoei'' when Reika forces Kaito and Tominori to be handcuffed together. Kaito could pick the lock, but she threatens to fire Tominori if he does. He'd be okay with that, but for some reason Tominori gets in his way when he tries.

Two, usually diametrically opposed, characters are chained or handcuffed together for the duration. AnAesop occurs. In the right genre, may result in a forced EnemyMine. May be employed in a symbolic manner and progress into ChainsOfLove. In other genres, it will be played for laughs as both characters will then try to carry on with their (often conflicting) activities despite the handicap. Also odds are good they'll want to hide what happened, letting them make up a wild story as to why they are holding one another's hand. HilarityEnsues.

* In the ST:TOS novel ''How Much for Just the Planet'', by JohnMFord, Uhura and Aperokei wind up handcuffed together and have to deal with that while on the run.

* The entire point of the children's game "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_race Three-legged race]]" is to run to the finish line while having one foot tied to another person's foot.

* The entire point of the children's game "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-legged_race Three-legged race]]" is to run to the finish line while having one foot tied to another person's.

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* The Chained Melody Universe by Diane Bellomo are a series of ''StarTrekVoyager'' SlashFic's involving various beligerant crewmembers forced to work together -- HoYay ensues.

Can overlap with WorkingOnTheChainGang when this trope occurs between escaping prisoners. If it's an adhesive that locks them together, it's a StickySituation.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/{{Magnetism}}'', Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy end up like this due to two magical bracelets forcing them to touch at all times, or else they'll be slammed back together.

* A "Strap Match" is a GimmickMatch with two wrestlers tied to opposite ends of a belt, rope, steel chain, or anything similar in order to keep them in close proximity to each other. This can also be referred to as a "Dog Collar Match," when the competitors are shackled at the neck.

* "Strap Match" refers to {{Gimmick Match|es}} that sees two wrestlers tied to opposite ends of a belt, rope, steel chain, or anything similar in order to keep them in close proximity to each other. This can also be referred to as a "Dog Collar Match," when the competitors are shackled at the neck.

* A [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6uKU9AAtL4 news clip]] showed two prisoners who escaped handcuffed together. Obviously they weren't very bright, while fleeing one tried to go on one side of a lightpole and the other tried the other side. No points for guessing what happened next.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owEB19QDbjU The exact same thing]] happened to a trio in Ontario. It's been shown in both ''Police Videos'' and ''Most Shocking'' (the latter under the "Dumbest Criminals" episode, no less). The trio were being unloaded from a paddy wagon when they decided to bolt. Two went to the left, one to the right. They hit the pole; HilarityEnsues.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/{{Magnetism}}'', Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy end up like this due to two magical bracelts forcing them to touch at all times, or else they'll be slammed back together.

->'''Lucy''': You know, there's this classic film called ''The Defiant Ones'', starring Tony Curtis and SidneyPoitier. It's about two prisoners – one black, the other white – and they escape handcuffed together...\\

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* [[http://skin-horse.com/2010/todays-comic-234/ Immediately identified as such]] in ''SkinHorse''.
* In GirlGenius, Gil does this to Tarvek and Othar and then pushes them out of an airship. [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Because he knows that Othar can get out of anything alive and Tarvek needs to get down intact]].