Policeman Bob has been chasing the criminal Dennis for a while. He finally catches up to him, tackles him to the ground and holds him there until his fellow officers arrive with the handcuffs.
Whenever one character holds another to the ground, be it by sitting or laying on them or pressing them to the ground using their hands, knee or feet, in an effort to prevent them from escaping or outright moving, this trope applies. Note that this is not a hero-exclusive trope. Villains can engage in it, too, to prevent their victims from escaping or to prevent The Hero from stopping their plans or to deliver a Coup de Grâce.
If the characters involved have Unresolved Sexual Tension, one of them physically pressing the other to the ground could be seen as a Ship Tease.
Since the pinning requires pressure to be asserted onto the body of the person, this trope may overlap with Cruelty by Feet where someone, usually a villain, stomps on someone else to cause grievous bodily harm or even death. Please note, however, that an overlap with this or any other trope involving grievous bodily harm or death only occurs if there is an intent to hold the one pinned down in place. If the intent is to kill or torture the one pinned down with the pin down only being a side-product, it does not count.
Sister Trope of Dog Pile of Doom where a lot of people pin down a singular person as well as Pinned to the Wall where a character is pinned against a surface, usually a wall, by a pointy object, either through their body or clothes. Compare Victory Pose On Person where someone puts their foot on a defeated, sometimes still conscious opponent as part of their Victory Pose and which can look very similar. Contrast Neck Lift where someone is held in the air by their throat. A common component of the Animal Maul Attack.
Not to be confused with Pinned Down which is when someone has to take cover from gunfire and can't safely move to another spot.
Examples:
- Code Geass:
- This usually happens to Lelouch after Suzaku learns that he is Zero, the one who brainwashed Euphemia to massacre the Japanese and then, killed her. After their Mexican Standoff, Suzaku kicks off Lelouch's gun and pins him on the ground while removing the Sakuradite bomb on his chest. After capturing Lelouch, Suzaku brings him in front of Emperor Charles while pinning him on the throne room floor with a straitjacket. When Charles uses his Geass to erase Lelouch's memories of Marianne, Nunnally, and his alter ego Zero, Suzaku pulls Lelouch's head up by the hair so that he can force Lelouch to see Charles' eyes when he uses his Geass.
- Jeremiah slams Rolo head-first on the school ground after he uses his Geass Canceller to negate Rolo's Geass ability of time freezing. Then, he demands Rolo to tell him where Lelouch is; though, the fighting stops when Viletta arrives.
- Dragon Ball Z: After tricking Goku into letting go of his tail, Raditz beats him to the ground and pins him down with his foot on his chest intending to crush it.
- My Hero Academia: During the Provisional Hero License Exam, Toga who is disguised as Camie attacks Midoriya from behind pinning him to the ground to talk to him.
- Naruto: While Kakashi reprimands Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke after they failed his test, Sasuke attacks Kakashi but is quickly subdued and pinned to the ground by Kakashi sitting on him holding one of Sasuke's arms behind his back.
- One Piece:
- In Marineford, Sengoku slams Garp head-first into the ground holding him in place after Garp tried to kill Akainu for killing Ace.
- When Rebecca attacks Luffy in the Corrida Colosseum, he dodges her attack, jumps into the air, and pushes her to the ground using his feet against her arms landing on her stomach and pinning her to the ground.
- On Whole Cake island, after the plan to assassinate Big Mom has gone awry, Luffy clashes with Big Mom but quickly has his strength drained. He is caught by Sanji. Sanji then places him on the ground to fight. Galette, one of Big Mom's daughters, uses the opportunity to put her foot on Luffy's upper stomach, pinning him down and using her ability to bind his arms to his body.
- After defeating Vinsmoke Judge, Big Mom pins him to the ground under her foot.
- At the start of the 13th saga of Pokémon Adventures, Ruby finds Zinnia in Sky Tower. After a short Pokémon battle, he throws her to the ground and pins her down, questioning her about a possible threat to the planet.
- Jan Tenner:
- In episode 23 of the first series, Jan Tenner: Classic, Jan and General Forbett are climbing a seemingly endless set of stairs as part of the fifth test they have to pass before they can get the Stone of Power. When they suddenly reach the end of the stairs and fight spacecrafts waiting for them, Forbett is about to take one so that the two as well as their friends, whom they had to leave behind as part of the last test, can get back to Earth. But Jan, correctly deducing that this is part of the test, tackles him to the ground and pins him down with his knee pressing on Forbett's back until the General comes back to his senses.
- The cover
◊ of the episode "Schatten über Westland" (engl. "Shadows over Westland") shows Jan pinning down his son Jan Jr., ready to deliver a Coup de Grâce.
- The Avengers:
- In issue #18 of Avengers Arena, Death Locket, a cyborg who has been used as a puppet by the sociopathic technopath Apex, gets freed and delivers a beat down to Apex which ends with Death Locket pinning her down with her foot on her chest ready to deliver the Coup de Grâce.
- In issue #3 of Avengers: The Children's Crusade, Wiccan tries to rescue his amnestic mother, Wanda Maximoff from Dr. Doom. He breaks into her room but she surprises him from behind, knocking him out. When he regains consciousness, he finds her foot on his chest pinning him down.
- In the first issue of the Batman spin-off Batman Secret Files: The Signal, Signal meets up with some of his former friends from their time in We Are Robin. Unfortunately, since they see him leaving their group as a betrayal, they attack him. During the fight, one of them, Rook, kicks him to the ground and pins him down with her foot on the side of his head.
- Birds of Prey (2023): Issue 24 opens with Big Barda, currently possessed by Inque, pinning down Onyx with her foot on her chest while neck lifting Harley into the air as the rest of the Birds of Prey rush her, determined to free their friend from Inque.
- Green Lantern (1990): The cover
of #112'' shows Fatality pinning down Jade with her foot intending to kill her.
- Grimm Fairy Tales:
- In Vol. 1 #112 of the mainline comic, Maka, who has been posing as her sister Duranna, surprises Sela Mathers when she reveals her true allegiances and throws her to the ground. She then proceeds to pin Sela down by stomping with her foot on the back of Sela's head.
- In Vol. 2 #80 of the mainline comic, two young women named Ixxy and Michelle lure two young men, Dale and Aaron into a dark alleyway. There, the two men are attacked and pinned down by shadow creatures. The one attacking Aaron holds him to the ground by pressing his head against the ground while the one pinning down Dale pins him down by pressing its foot against his chest. The two women reveal themselves to be witches (and it is later revealed that they are actually named Reap and Sow), then take the shadow creature's places in pinning down the men with Ixxy/Sow pinning down Dale the same way her shadow creature did, leaning down on her leg, telling them that they intend to take their souls and make them their slaves.
- On the B-cover
◊ of Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: Code Red #3, an unknown person pins down Britney Waters with their foot on Britney's neck as Britney is lying on her back trying to move the leg.
- In the first issue of the first comic of Robyn Hood, Shang interrupts a ritual where some unnamed villains use Robyn as a baby. During the fight, one of the villains manages to pin Shang to the ground with her foot on his chest.
- In the special Robyn Hood Age Of Darkness, Robyn encounters the witch Avella, an old enemy of hers. Robyn immediately attacks her, tackling her to the ground and pinning her down with her foot on Avella's chest.
- Hawkgirl (2023): The cover for issue 5 shows the villain Vulpecula pinning down Hawkgirl with her foot on Hawkgirl's back as Hawkgirl desperately tries to reach for her mace.
- Masters of the Universe: In He-Man: The Eternity War #14, Evil Lyn defeats Teela and pins her down with her foot on her head raising her staff for a Coup de Grâce.
- Invincible: In issue 110, Anissa beats down Mark after having her advances rejected by him and holds him to the ground as she proceeds to rape him continuing to hold him down throughout the ordeal.
- Justice Society of America: During the Injustice Society's attack on the Justice Society, Hawkgirl is attacked by Tigress (Artemis Crock) and badly beaten to the point Tigress has her pinned down with her foot on the upper part of Hawkgirl's pectoralis major, ready to deliver the Coup de Grâce. Luckily for Hawkgirl, a bizarre energy emanating from her wings knocks the villainess away.
- Overwatch Expanded Universe: In the comic Searching, Zarya is charged with tracking down Sombra for threatening Chairman Volskaya in the animated short Infiltration. She eventually finds her and manages to counter her fighting style using a gravatonic surge. With Sombra helplessly on the ground before her, Zarya walks over and pins her down with her foot on Sombra's upper body ready to deliver a Coup de Grâce.
- Scarlet Witch: In the fourth issue of Volume 4, Wanda is fighting the Griever at the End of All Things, the living embodiment of entropy. During the fight, the Griever gets a hold of Wanda' costume, slams her into the ground and pins her down with her foot on Wanda's stomach preparing to finish her off. However, she is interrupted by Polaris.
- She-Hulk: In issue 15 of Volume 4, She-Hulk ties up The Scoundrel for selling a bomb to some aliens to blow up New York and pins him to the ground with her foot on his back.
- Star Wars: In issue 6 of Star Wars: The High Republic 2023, Tey uses a dark side artifact to stop a crazed force user and gets corrupted by it. In response, Master Vildar slashes at him, throwing him onto the ground, and pins him down with his foot on his chest.
- Supergirl:
- Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow: In the first issue, Supergirl beats a bounty hunter by throwing him onto the ground and pinning him down with her foot on his chest after witnessing him mistreat a young girl.
- Power Girl (2023): In issue 8, Power Girl spots Crush in Metropolis. Mistaking her for one of the Czarnians Brainiac recently let loose on the city, she attacks her but is surprised by Crush's chain which ties her up. As she falls to the ground with the front of her body, Crush pins her to the ground with her foot on her back to prevent her from getting back up.
- Teen Titans:
- The cover
◊ of The Return of Donna Troy #3 shows Donna Troy pinning down Wonder Girl strangling her with her lasso.
- At the beginning of the first annual of Teen Titans (2011), Red Robin finds himself in N.O.W.H.E.R.E.'s Colony, pinned down with a foot on his chest by Artemis, one of the metahuman captives there.
- The cover
- Witchblood: The cover
◊ of issue 3 depicts Atlacoya pinning down Yonna with her foot on the back of her head ready to deliver a Coup de Grâce.
- Wonder Woman:
- In Wonder Woman (1942) #6, Wonder Woman meets Cheetah for the first time as she pins down a rich guy she's in the middle of robbing.
- In Wonder Woman (1987) #214, Cheetah and Zoom attacked Flash and Wonder Woman. While Zoom battles Wonder Woman, Cheetah manages to defeat Flash and pin him down with her foot against his chest.
- In Wonder Woman (Cloonan and Conrad) #795, Wonder Woman and Yara Flor tie up Eros' physical avatar with the Lasso of Truth to stop his plan and pin him down with Diana's foot on his chest.
- In the final issue of Amazons Attack! (2007), Wonder Woman confronts Circe over her manipulations which caused the Amazons to attack the US knocking her down and pinning her to the floor with her foot.
- In Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, Diana pins Batman to the ground with her foot on his head to end the fight over Danny.
Wonder Woman: Don't. Get. Up.
- In Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman speaks with an athlete and her friends. Suddenly, Superwoman attacks her, managing to beat her to the ground, pinning her down with her foot against the side of her head, raising her whip to attack her.
- Equestria Girls: Sonic the Hedgehog 2: The first meeting between Tempest Shadow and Rainbow Blaze involves her attacking him over a misunderstanding and the two of them wrestling each other over her gun. Their brief fight ends with her roughly pinning him down and holding her gun to his forehead as she demands answers from him. After she realizes he's with Sonic, Spike, and the CMC though, he bluntly asks if she can get off of him and get him an ice pack.
- The Flash Sentry Chronicles: In The Knight of Friendship, when Twilight starts angrily throwing snowballs at Flash and screaming he's not acting like the Flash she knows when he is in the middle of his Heroic BSoD after his loss against Cold Steel after he refuses to listen to her, her refusal to stop when he tells her to quickly escalates into a fight, with Flash angrily grabbing her by the chest, shoving her to the ground, and pinning her down, screaming in her face for her to stop it. After he screams at her though, he sees her break down crying as he holds her down, with her sobbing to him that she wants the Flash she fell in love with back.
- Hunters of Justice: After being beaten down by Brainiac, Ruby tries to get up only for the villain to pin her back down with his foot on her head mocking her attempt as futile.
- The Wrath of The Earthling Saiyan:
- Kakarot pins Krillin to the ground using his foot during their battle. He does this to stop Krillin from escaping or attacking him while he watches Nappa attack Tien.
- During the fight between the Saiyans and Zarbon, Zarbon stands with one foot on Raditz's chest to keep him on the ground.
- Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: After discovering the Batcave, the Turtles are attacked by Robin (Damian Wayne). As they try to subdue him rather than hurt him, Michelangelo eventually resorts to slamming him into the back onto the ground, keeping him pinned down by sitting on his back using his heavy weight to his advantage.
- Green Lantern: First Flight: After a ringless Hal Jordan refuses to join Sinestro, Sinestro's accomplice Bootikka captures him in a tight force field and pins him down with her foot on his chest while he slowly suffocates.
- The Lion King: Nala pinned down Simba twice while they played together as cubs, teasing him "Pinned ya," both times. When they encounter each other again as adults, Simba recognizes his best friend after such a long time apart when she does so again. Later during their Falling-in-Love Montage, the two accidentally tumble down a hill together, resulting in Simba landing on top of Nala and pinning her down for the first time.
- The Powerpuff Girls Movie: After Mojo Jojo and his army conquer the city of Townsville, Mojo throws the Mayor to the ground and pins him down under his foot.
- In The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, at a climactic moment when Sinbad finds himself being attacked by an angry Roc Bird, he suddenly sees Baronni the genie's lamp fall over, and Evil Sorcerer Sokurah make a move for it. Sinbad immediately alerts his second-in-command Harufa, who runs for the lamp as well. However, Sokurah proves that he's no slouch in physical combat by wrestling Harufa to the ground, pinning him down with his body to prevent him from reaching the lamp. In spite of this, Harufa does manage to reach the lamp, and throw it over towards Sinbad, ensuring that even when the Roc grabs him, he still has the genie on his side. Furious at being denied what he sees as rightfully being his, Sokurah furiously punches Harufa while he's still lying down, then gets up, grabs a spear, and impales him with it.
- Little Manhattan: Between Gabe and Rosemary when they're practicing Karate in the former's living room apartment; Gabe takes Rosemary down to the carpet floor and pins her then she flips him over and pins him to the floor.
- Never Back Down: Between Jake and Baja when they're playfighting in the former's bedroom. Jake takes Baja to the floor and pins her while mentioning submission then Baja flips Jake over pinning him. She then very sexually ask if Jake wants to tap out.
- Discworld: The History Monks use a martial arts move called "the Straddle of the Fish" to pin down opponents. The only escape is by dislocating one's own shoulders.
- The Hunger Games: At the feast, Katniss is ambushed and held down by Clove. The career tribute is large enough and heavy enough to keep her on the ground with just her knees, and she uses that time to prepare to kill Katniss - intending to hold her down all the while. Luckily, Thresh, overhearing her taunts about the deceased Rue, grabs Clove and kills her, sparing Katniss.
- In I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, Sakura tries pressuring the protagonist into sex, then laughs it off as a prank. Thinking she was mocking him, he grabs and slams her onto the bed holding her down. It's only after she begins to cry that he realizes what he's done and proceeds to run away.
- In The 13 ½ Lives of Captain Bluebear, Fredda would repeatedly sit on Bluebear's back during break time shoving pencils into his nose and ears until he agreed to marry her.
- The Brittas Empire: When Suzie learns that she is seemingly pregnant at the start of "Pregnant!", she reacts so poorly to this that Brittas ends up pinning her down using his hands on her back until her brother from the dog-handling unit can show up to take her away.
- Juken Sentai Gekiranger: In episode 11, while Melenote oversees the Monster of the Week doing its thing, she is confronted by GekiRed and GekiBlue show up to fight her. She easily defeats both, then pins down GekiRed by stomping with her foot on his chest and raises her dagger, preparing to kill him. However, she is stopped by GekiYellow before she can finish him off.
- Happens twice in iCarly; both by Carly and Freddie:
- In Season 1 Episode 12, "iPromise Not To Tell", Carly pins Freddie down twice; the first was to stop him from telling on Sam for changing their grades then just to be playful.
- In Season 3 Episode 1, "iThink They Kissed", Carly attemps to pin Freddie to make him confess if he kissed Sam but he flips her over and pins her instead, through he still tells her the truth.
- Power Rangers:
- In episode 33 of Power Rangers in Space, as the Rangers battle the Psycho Rangers, the Yellow Ranger falls to the ground. Psycho Pink proceeds to stomp on her pinning her down.
- In the fifth episode of Power Rangers Megaforce, the Monster of the Week throws the Pink Ranger to the ground, pinning her down with her foot on her stomach.
- Fraggle Rock: In "Boober's Dream", Boober brings his friends into his dream to meet Sidebottom, his goofy alter-ego. During a game of Fraggle Freeze, in which he causes Boober's friends to freeze in place, Sidebottom reveals that he intends to keep them there forever. Boober tackles him and demands that he unfreeze his friends.
Boober: Listen, if I let you up, will you let my friends go?
Sidebottom: Knock, knock.
Boober: Who's there?
Sidebottom: Lettuce.
Boober: Lettuce who?
Sidebottom: Let us up and you'll find out.
[Boober pushes Sidebottom's head to the ground.]
Boober: Notice I am not laughing. Notice I am still sitting on top of you!
Sidebottom: Notice you're no fun at all.
Boober: Will you let my friends go, or do I sit here forever? I could do it, you know. It's my sort of activity.
Sidebottom: Okay, okay, you win! You always win in the end.
- Anime Campaign: In episode 6b, at the beginning of the fight against Nightmare Sylvie, the monster jumps from its position on one train car to the train car the group is on. As it lands, it pins down Mera under one of its claws. While she struggles to free herself, in the end, it let's go of her when it jumps onto another train car.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Bounty Hunter players have the option to pin down two people throughout their story:
- On Taris, Torian tries to sneak up on the player. They can choose to throw him to the ground and pin them down with their feet on his chest.
- On Quesh, the player can choose to throw a Jedinote wanting to arrest them to the ground and pin them down with their foot before killing them.
- The Movie of the Century:
- When the Stormtrooper captured Kirby, one had King Dedede pinned down under his foot.
- The fight between Samus and the ninja ends with Samus on the ground and Snake pinning her down under his foot, preparing to kill her.
- RWBY:
- During the penultimate episode of season 2, after Blake's use of Dust in combination with her Semblance results in Torchwick getting thrown to the ground, he tries to get back up only for her to pin him back down with her foot on his chest.
- After Ruby's use of her silver eyes leaves Cinder vulnerable, Jaune goes in for the kill trying to stab her. Cinder manages to dodge at the last moment causing Jaune to lose his balance and fall to the ground. As he tries to get back up, Cinder, angry that he almost managed to kill her, stomps on his chest pinning him back down to the ground.
- After their first battle, Salem pins down Oz before killing him.
- American Dragon: Jake Long: While infiltrating Hunter Academy, Jake is pinned down twice by Rose:
- The first time, he is pinned down in a lesson to demonstrate how to keep dragons in place before going in for the kill.
- The second time, Rose finds him sneaking around and pins him to the ground to remove his mask.
- Avengers Assemble: In episode 14 of season 3, Black Widow follows Hydra after they kidnap Bruce Banner. After discovering where they took him, she gets into a fight with the Hydra agent Yelena Belova. During the fight, she manages to throw Yelena onto a glass panel above the room where Bruce is being held. As Baron Strucker talks about his plans for Bruce, Black Widow holds Yelena down onto the glass panel before pinning her down with her foot on her back until Yelena destroys the glass underneath them causing them to fall.
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: During a fight against Hydra in episode 16 of season 1, Madame Hydra manages to tie up Mockingbird with her whip. When Mockingbird tries to get back up, Madame Hydra pins her back down with her foot on the side of her head.
- Big Hero 6: The Series:
- During a fight, Momakase manages to destroy Wasabi's weapons. He then slips on a bottle giving Momakase an opening to pin him to the ground with her foot on his chest.
- During their final confrontation, Hiro is thrown in front of Liv /Di Amara, who proceeds to pin him to the ground with her knee on his stomach and attempt to plant a chip on him which would turn him into a monster under her control.
- In episode 22 of season 2, Fred panics after being challenged by a villain he previously failed to beat. It gets so bad, he starts rolling around on the ground. This is when Gogo uses her foot to pin him down to stop him from rolling around and declaring that she will train him.
- Castlevania: Nocturne: In the season 2 finale, during the final fight, Drolta manages to pin Alucard under her foot and stab him with both his own sword and a knife, wounding him enough to temporarily keep him out of the fight.
- Class of the Titans: In the episode Many Happy Returns, while the heroes try to rescue Hephaestus' two robotic helpers whom he thought destroyed, they reactivate. Believing the heroes to be attacking them, they attack and quickly overpower them. In Neil's case, that means being pinned down under the foot of the silver one.
- Code Lyoko: After kidnapping her, the possessed Wiliam lays Aelita sideways down on the back of a Manta, climbs onto it himself, and then puts his foot onto the side of her upper body pinning her to the back of the Manta preventing her from escaping.
- Danny Phantom:
- While trying to get Kitty and Jonny 13 back together in episode 16 of season 1, Danny and Jonny come up with a plan that sees Danny beating Jonny before pinning him down with his foot on his lower chest and raising his hand pretending to prepare to deliver the Coup de Grâce.
- Following her regaining her youth in season 2 episode 2, Penelope Spectra pins down Danny Phantom by stomping on his chest with her foot thinking about how to destroy him.
- Dexter's Laboratory: At the end of the episode "Monstory", Dexter and Dee Dee fight each other after transforming into giant monsters. Dee Dee eventually defeats Dexter, with him falling backwards and crashing into the ground. Dee Dee pins him down by the wrists and gloats that now he'll finally listen to her story she has been trying to tell him. She keeps him pinned down for the rest of the episode, even once she reveals her story was just a long-winded knock knock joke and Dexter lets out a Big "NO!" in response.
- Dragons: Riders of Berk: In the 7th episode of the 7th season, Astrid and Hiccup are training together. Eventually, Astrid throws him onto the ground and pins him down with her foot on his chest winning the match.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy: In the episode "A Twist of Ed", May Kanker surprises Ed with a Bear Hug from behind before she pulls him to the ground. We see in a spoon's reflection that May has Ed pinned down by sitting on top of him. As May leans in to kiss Ed, all he can do is stare in horror at her and her puckered lips.
- Inspector Gadget (2015):
- In the episode "Pyramid Scheme", Talon uses his gun that shoots sticky balls to pin Penny against the wall by her hands. However, as he moves in to gloat, she puts him into a headscissor and in a swift motion throws him onto the ground while freeing herself. She then keeps him pressed down with her knee on his head as she slaps handcuffs on him.
- In the episode "MADtrack", Penny is forced to free the villain Jacques Crankcase to diverte the hover train they are on. Crankcase then distracts her allowing Talon to surprise her from behind, tackle her to the ground and hold her there while gloating.
- Jade Armor: After the Crimson Lord trapped her mother in a lightbulb, Lan Jun furiously attacks him pinning him to the ground demanding to know what he did to her mother.
- The New Adventures of He-Man: Near the end of the episode Queen's Gambit, Action Girl Mara and Dark Action Girl Crita face off in battle. They both try to wrestle each other to the ground, with Mara eventually succeeding, pulling away one of her legs. As Crita hits the ground, Mara grabs the leg she pulled away while also putting her foot on her body, pinning down the villainess. Unfortunately, Crita manages to snack one of her soldiers and pull him in, forcing Mara to let go.
- Transformers: Animated: In the episode "Nanosec", Prowl briefly manages to stop the Villain of the Week by stunning him and pinning him to the street with his foot. However, Nanosec manages to escape a second later via his newly-acquired super-speed.
- Trollhunters: After accidentally splitting himself into multiple clones of himself, Jim finds himself fighting one of these clones who is singular-minded towards his duty as a Trollhunter. Said clone, determined to get rid of him, eventually pins him to the ground preparing to finish him.
- In the second episode of Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), the Frightful Four get the drop on Spider-Man with Thundra pinning him down with her foot on his chest so that The Wizard places one of his discs on its chest to make him float.
- Wild Kratts: In "Groundhog Wake Up Call", Chris is shocked by how far Aviva went with transforming into a gopher and tries to deactivate her while she's hibernating, but Martin pins him down to tell him why that's not a good idea. Lampshaded by Chris when he asks his brother if he can get off him.
- Young Justice:
- In episode 4 of season 1 Kobra throws Robin onto the ground and pins him down with his foot on his chest slowly crushing it.
- In episode 14 of season 3, Big Barda throws Superman onto the ground and pins him down with her foot on his stomach before blasting him in his face with her weapon.

