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* One episode of ''Animation/Pucca'' saw Garu and Tobe get stuck together.

[[quoteright:350:"I don't have the ''keys'' for these cuffs!"]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10901358 Under Lock and Key ]]'', Manon handcuffs Adrien and Marinette together while they are watching her in the Louvre. The problem is, these are antique handcuffs, which means: 1) there is no key around, 2) the cuffs are way too valuable to break and 3) the locksmith who knows how to handle them won't be around for two days at least...

* ''{{Webcomic/Housepets}}:'' Zach and Jessica end up in a trap, both dirty, injured, and cold, so they snuggle for warmth. Cue 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 TheBigDamnKiss!

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* ''{{Webcomic/Housepets}}:'' Zach and Jessica end up in a trap, both dirty, injured, and cold, so they snuggle for warmth. Cue 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!

* ''[[http://www.tomparisdorm.com/viewstory.php?sid=780 The Chained Melody Universe]]'' by Diane Bellomo are a series of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' SlashFic's in which B'Elanna Torres and Seven of Nine are bound together by Captain Janeway to force them to learn to work together. LesYay ensues.

* ''{{Webcomics/Housepets}}:'' Zach and Jessica end up in a trap, both dirty, injured, and cold, so they snuggle for warmth. Cue 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!

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10901358 Under Lock and Key ]]'', Manon handcuffs Adrien and Marinette together while they are watching her in the Louvre. The problem is, these are antique handcuffs, which means: 1) there is no key around, 2) the cuffs are way too valuable to break and 3) the locksmith who knows how to handle them won't be around for two days at least...

* ''Fanfic/TheChainedMelodyUniverse'' by Diane Bellomo are a series of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' SlashFic's involving various beligerant crewmembers forced to work together -- HoYay or LesYay ensues.

->'''Lucy''': You know, there's this classic film called ''Film/TheDefiantOnes'', starring Creator/TonyCurtis and Creator/SidneyPoitier. It's about two prisoners – one black, the other white – and they escape handcuffed together...\\
'''Brad''': And while they don't like each other at first, they come to respect and care for one another by the end.\\
'''Lucy''': You've seen it.\\
'''Brad''': No, but I know what you're getting at. And I don't want a moral lesson in tolerance and cooperation. I just want to get through the next couple of hours without committing murder.

** The results are both [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome badass]].

* Remus and Danger Lupin from the FanFic/Dangerverse are a variant on this trope. Danger's magical bond with Remus allows her to partially suppress his lycanthropy. He still transforms, but he retains his mind and doesn't suffer the usual pre-and-post-transformation sickness. The bond also turns out to give Danger lupus, but the symptoms are suppressed. The problem is that if they go more than about 24 hours without skin-to-skin contact, all the suppressed symptoms of lycanthropy and lupus start coming back at once. Since they are rather spectacularly in love, they went more than a decade before discovering this fact, by which point the accumulated symptoms had already reached lethal levels. They both nearly die before someone figures out what's wrong and brings them into contact. Being, as previously mentioned, spectacularly in love, they don't particularly mind being stuck together in this manner, but it is still a problem that has to be worked around on occasion.

Unusually, the TropeNamer -- the GirlsBehindBars film ''Chained Heat'' -- is unrelated to this trope.

* [[TheUrthbloodSaga The Crimson Badger]] contains the mouse/stoat duo of Jans and Broggen, who are a rare ''willing'' example of this trope. The backstory is that Broggen committed a crime in Urthblood's service that should've landed him a death penalty, but Jans took pity on him and saved him from the badger's wrath. Urthblood declared that the stoat would be his responsibility for the rest of his days, and to keep Broggen from getting into further trouble, they decided to chain each other together. In spite of their predicament, they're one of [[BackToBackBadasses best warriors]] in the army. [[spoiler: At the end of TCB, Jans is killed in battle, freeing Broggen from his manacle.]]
* The Chained Melody Universe by Diane Bellomo are a series of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' SlashFic's involving various beligerant crewmembers forced to work together -- HoYay or LesYay ensues.

--> Cop #1: "You guys are idiots."
--> Cop #2: "You also have the right to be stupid."

See also LockedInARoom, WithMyHandsTied.

Unusually, the TropeNamer - the GirlsBehindBars film ''Chained Heat'' - is unrelated to this trope.

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

* In ''Webcomic/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]].

* An extreme example in book three of ''TheBartimaeusTrilogy'': Bartimaeus and Nathaniel trying to take on TheLegionsOfHell while [[spoiler:SharingABody. And mind-linked]].

* In the ST:TOS novel ''Literature/{{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.

* In an episode of ''HappyTreeFriends'' Handy and Mole are chained together by Lumpy who's acting as a highway patrol officer, eventually Mole dies and Handy has to drag his corpse around with him before he's hit by a train.

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 (sometimes in the form of ToiletHumor, as at least one of these types of stories has a part where [[PottyEmergency one of the characters has to go to the bathroom]] and the other doesn't).

-->-- ''HeyDude''

'''Brad''': No, but I [[GenreSavvy know what you're getting at]]. And I don't want [[AnAesop a moral lesson]] in tolerance and cooperation. I just want to get through the next couple of hours without committing murder.