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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS4E21WarWharf War Wharf]]", construction workers begin to tear down the carousel at the Wonder Wharf to build condos. Tina attaches herself to one of the horses with a bike lock so they can't remove it.

* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}''. A group of environmental activists chained themselves to a terraformer and ended up [[RealityEnsues dying horribly]].

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* ''Series/DropDeadGorgeous'': In "Hazel's Tree", Hazel is distraught to learn that a peppercorn tree that she planted with her mother as a young girl is to be torn down to make way for a new hydraulic water pump. Posing as an unwashed, energy saving environmentalist, Hazel starts a campaign intent on educating the school on all things "green". This culminates in her and many of her schoolmates tying themselves to the tree as a protest.

* In an episode of ''Series/Riverdale'' Jughead and the Serpents chain themselves to Southside High in order to protest its destruction. In a major KickTheDog moment Archie unlocks the padlocks and helps drag them away.

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* ''VideoGame/DiscworldII'' parodies this. There's a woman titled "Suffrajester" who keeps tying herself to poles and protesting that women should be allowed to become jesters. She's a bit confused about the concept though, since she tends to tie herself up in places where there's no one to hear her protesting, like at a graveyard. Rincewind will lampshade this if you speak to her, to which she replies that there aren't any convenient poles to tie herself to near the Jesters' Guild.

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* Lt. Dan Choi and several others attached themselves to a White House fence in 2010.

* ''Series/NaturallySadie'': In "Forest for the Trees", Sadie is upset when her favourite tree is going to be cut down. She is up the tree spying on her crush Owen Anthony when Owen spots her. Owen thinks she is occupying the tree as a protest to prevent it being cut down. Rather than reveal the actual reason she was in the tree, Sadie starts stays in the tree as an actual protest.

* In ''Film/AliGIndahouse'', Ali G goes on a hunger strike and chains himself to the railings outside No. 10 Downing Street when he learns his local council leisure centre is going to be demolished. The two reporters who were sent to cover this pathetic display manage to make him fail simply by offering him some kentucky friend chicken.

* In ''Film/AliGIndahouse'', Ali G goes on a hunger strike and chains himself to the railings outside No. 10 Downing Street when he learns his local council leisure centre is going to be demolished.

* Ted and Dougal chained themselves to the railing in front of a cinema in ''Series/FatherTed''. Backfired spectacularly as their [[MoralGuardians protest against The Passion of St. Tibulus]] made the film a huge success.

** One time Homer and some others chained themselves to trees to protest them being cut down. Cops chased Homer around his tree, causing his chain to cut the tree down.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' TransplantedCharacterFic [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.drwho.creative/aazpimWreDk/8UUIoAp5ILEJ "Busted"]], Samantha Jones is written as a dimwitted SoapboxSadie who spends all her time chaining herself to objects in the name of one cause or another.

* In his memoir, ''The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles'', 17th-century adventurer John Smith claimed that at one point he was nearly executed by hostile natives, but was saved by a native princess named Pocahontas, who, "when no entreaty would prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death."

Compare GoThroughMe.

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* In ''{{Disney/Pocahontas}}'', this is how Pocahontas protects John Smith from execution.

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* This is how Pocahontas protects John Smith from execution, both in RealLife and [[{{Disney/Pocahontas}} the Disney film]].

* ''Film/{{Man-Thing}}'' has some environmentalists chaining themselves on Schist Company's vehicles.

* In the ChickFlick ''Two Weeks Notice'' with Creator/SandraBullock, she and some fellow advocates lay down in front of a building to avert its destruction.

* There's a reference in ''[[Literature/ElementalMasters The Serpent's Shadow]]'' to suffragettes chaining themselves to 10 Downing Street as per the RealLife example.

* In the first episode of ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'', Geoffrey Tennant chains himself to his bankrupt Theatre Sans Argent. Oliver sees his protest on the news and calls him, setting in motion the events of the show. [[spoiler: Namely, Oliver's death and Geoffrey's visit to the funeral home, which leads to him speaking at the funeral, which leads to his being hired as Interim Artistic Director and three seasons of great television.]]

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