Bound and Gagged

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• Downplayed in a Hillshire Farm ham commercial, as there is no gagging. Two boys put down their ham sandwiches, and ask to join two girls who are playing with skipping ropes. The girls promptly tie the boys up, and eat their sandwiches in front of them.
• Happens in this Listerine commercial: Two special forces units rescue a bound and gagged hostage and then find out that her mouth smells horrible that they put the gag back and leave her as she was found: bound and gagged.
• This Sunsilk commercial right here. Tied to a chair with quite a lot of rope, and having her hair "tortured". A lot of rope.

• Eren Yeager, the protagonist of Attack on Titan, is subjected to this on multiple occasions. As the Living MacGuffin, multiple arcs have focused on him being arrested or kidnapped by various parties. This also prevents him from biting into his hand, the trigger for his titan transformations.
• This happens to Orihime twice in Bleach, although the first is only implied- Ulquiorra tells Orihime (who is upset because she believes one of her friends is dead) to eat. She refuses, so Ulquiorra tells her if she doesn't eat then he will strap her down and force it down her throat. We never see Orihime eat after that, so it's hard to tell if he followed up on this. Second time was with Grimmjow after he stole her out of her room to go heal Ichigo so Grimmjow could fight him properly.
• Code Geass has this increasingly through out the series. Nunally twice, Vileta once, Cornelia once and others. Kallen and Lelouch are, when captured, forced to wear strait jackets; CC has one as her ''daily clothing'. Also carried out by the soldiers involved in the Chinese uprising. Why were they carrying ballgags with them again?
• FLCL. In Episode 1, a hospital nurse ends up this way after she's Mugged for Disguise by Haruko to get her uniform.
• Fire Force In Episode 17, Shinra Kusakabe is being carried by two White Clad members, who tie him up with a fire-proof blanket to prevent him from attacking, and tape his mouth shut to prevent him from talking. He's strapped to a gurney with all of this in mind.
• In Guardian Fairy Michel, Michel and Kim end up trapped in a net, then tied up and gagged in episode 3 to prevent them from telling the truth about Salome and her gang to a prospective mark.
• Hanaukyō Maid Team La Verite episode 6. In the Baseball Episode, the maid acting as an umpire is kidnapped (and shown tied up and gagged) and replaced with a Technology Department robot.
• Inukami!, of the played for laughs variety. Keita wants to use a magic pot to gain a harem but his Clingy Jealous Girl interrupts him so he tapes her. She breaks free so he uses chains, she breaks free again, he uses more chains etc.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Stardust Crusaders: Boingo gets tied up and stuffed in a suitcase after getting kidnapped by Hol Horse in his attempt to work together against the heroes.
  • Golden Wind: Gelato, a Posthumous Character, was tied and gagged as he was Forced to Watch his partner, Sorbet, get chopped into pieces by Cioccolata.
• Kimi no Knife:
  • In chapter 1, Shiki and Kuzumi is bound and gag Yamashina as they prepare to kill him.
  • In chapter 3, Itsuki gets rolled up into a blanket and gagged so that she can be transported to Shiki's house without much fuss.
• In the manga adaption for Kingdom Hearts, Jasmine winds up bound and gagged after Jafar captures her so she can be taken to Maleficent in Hollow Bastion. In the game, however, she was just unconscious.
  • This happens at least three times in Kingdom Hearts II.
    • First, Megara gets bound and gagged by Pete while she's distracted by Hercules being unconscious. When he tries to lift her dress up, Hades, annoyed with Pete, pushes her into the deepest chambers of the Underworld. Hercules regains consciousness and saves her.
    • Second, Pluto gets gagged with duct tape while he and Kairi are taken to be imprisoned by Saïx.
    • Third time. A variant happens to Tron much later on. After saving Sora and his friends, he gets bound to a wall by Sark and is forced to tell the password to the DTD, or face deressolution. He is saved when Sora and co. (unintentionally) crash-land on Sark.
  • The manga adaptation for Days has two examples, both without gagging involved.
    • First, during the "Wonderland trilogy", Roxas is sentenced to beheading after the Cheshire Cat pulls a Jackass Genie on him by throwing a hedgehog at the Queen of Hearts. His hands are tied behind his back as he is about to be executed by guillotine. He manages to untie himself just in time.
    • The second time, the Lost Boys tie up Roxas and Axel when the two are accused of being pirates. Tinker Bell clears their innocence for them.
• Komi Can't Communicate: In Episode 4, Yamai Ren kidnaps Hitohito Tadano to prevent him from getting closer to Komi. However, when bound and gagged in Yamai's room to a chair, Tadano remarks how well he's tied up in the manga.
• MARRIAGE TOXIN: Often happens to whichever girl Gero is rescuing that arc. One can definitely get the impression that the author is into that sort of thing.
• Marvel Anime: Wolverine: After getting captured by the bad guys, Yukio is gagged with tape and chained to a chair. She's able to free herself with a razor-sharp disk stuck on a nearby wall, only to be knocked out by the villains not too long afterwards. The next time we see her, she's once again gagged with tape and chained, except she's also suspended from the ceiling. This results in Yukio having to wait there until Wolverine saves her.
• Mazinger Z: In episode 27, Sayaka was captured by Baron Ashura, and she got tied to a supporting beam to prevent her from escaping. Partially remade in the remake Mazinkaiser.
• Happens quite often in Mnemosyne, Episode 1, Rin is strapped down and tortured by Sayara. Episode 3, Rin is bound to the handrails of sinking ship. Episode 6, Rin is chained to a table and ball-gagged in front of a chained Angel by Laura. Then there is Apos' torture victim in various episodes.
• Happens to Allelujah Haptism in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. After the final battle of Operation Fallen Angels, he was captured by the UN Forces and was imprisoned like this (restrained to a metal chair and was put in a straitjacket with a muzzle covering his mouth) for four years. He was finally rescued by Celestial Being in Season 2 Episode 3.
• Monster: Tenma is captured, tied to a chair, and beaten by a dwarf Neo-Nazi crime lord. The scene is doubly valuable as a great demonstration of Heroic Spirit and Fanservice.
• Naruto:
  • Sasuke Uchiha gets tied up and gagged by Naruto in the Introduction arc, although he easily escapes.
  • In the anime's adaptation of the Chūnin Exams arc, a few filler scenes are added where Iruka tests Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to see if Kakashi is right in allowing them to participate in the exams. To test Naruto, he takes on the appearance of a villain and captures Moegi, who ends up bound and gagged, before demanding the scroll that his former student stole at the start of the series in exchange. However, Naruto is able to free her without giving in to his demand.
  • Naruto Uzumaki is given this treatment in Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison, or rather it's one of his shadow clones who ends up like that.
• Onegai My Melody: In episode 25 of season 3, Kakeru Kogure is tied up in a net and gagged while he is being impersonated by Baku.
• Yua Kotegawa's first manga series Ottori Sousa was all about this trope for the first half of the series, before Growing the Beard into full-blown thriller detective manga. The main heroine, Joshikousei Damsel in Distress Mizuho Kubo was the designated character for this, except a few cases where Idiot Hero Detective Tatsuya Akiba is caught by the Psycho of the Week.
• Happens quite a few times in Pokémon the Series:
  • In "The Punchy Pokémon", Team Rocket leave a trainer tied up and gagged in a bathroom stall and steal his Hitmonlee, as well as his clothes, in order to compete in a Fighting-type Pokémon tournament.
  • In "Just Add Water", Misty ends up tied up with Dorian, both with tape across their mouths, after accidentally being captured alongside some Water-type Pokémon by Team Rocket.
  • May couldn't catch a break with this in Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire, with many episodes having her as the Designated Victim, either tied up by Team Rocket (eg. "Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut?") or attacked with String Shot by a bug Pokémon (eg. "Caterpie's Big Dilemma"). Some were group scenarios, but May was almost always involved.
  • Marina of The Legend of Thunder gets bound and gagged while captured by Team Rocket duo Attila and Hun. She is saved by Jimmy's Beedrill.
  • In "Turning the Other Mask!", Molayne gets tied up and gagged by James and Faba after they mistake him for an impostor trying to steal the Masked Royal's identity.
  • Pokémon Adventures:
    • At one point in the Ruby/Sapphire arc, Flannery gets kidnapped by Team Aqua. She ends up with her hands tied to her back and with tape across her mouth. Same with Tucker in the Emerald arc.
    • Later on, during the Black/White arc, an undercover Grimsley ties up a Team Plasma grunt pretending to be a construction worker after knocking him out. He leaves the grunt behind to be punished, along with a comatose Black.
  • In Pokémon Origins, Mr. Fuji is bound at the wrists and ankles while taken hostage by Team Rocket.
• Akane from Ranma ½ found herself in this predicament when Cologne tied her up and hid her in a storeroom, to keep her from interfering with Shampoo's plots. Surprisingly, even when Akane is more than capable of breaking free on her own, she refused to do so because Ranma was being a great big Jerkass. This is a persistently common trope in the series. Another incident involved Pantyhose Taro holding her as a hostage, and keeping her gagged and bound with (you guessed it) pantyhose.
• Saiyuki: During a filler episode, the Anti-Villain Ms. Fanservice Yaone was captured by a group of demon-hunting humans and was tied to an X-shaped cross. There was no gag, but the anime utilized a lot of dark lighting and only a few glimpses of her bound wrists and sometimes her body, treating her situation as a really dead serious distress. Because the group is led by a demon who just wanted to consume other demons to attain more power for himself, and if it wasn't for both Kougaiji and Sanzo's groups rescuing her, she would've been the next one consumed.
• Samurai Champloo's resident Damsel in Distress Fuu Kasumi seems to end up Bound and Gagged every other episode. It's a good thing at the start of the show she managed to get two capable Ronin in her debt to act as bodyguards (See Bodyguard Crush).
• Played for horror in the first chapter of Shibito no Koe wo Kiku ga Yoi in which protagonist Jun Kishida is kidnapped by a serial killer and nearly murdered.
• In Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, Sara is tied up with ropes and gagged with tape by Dr. Robotnik during one scene.
• In SPY×FAMILY, Anya Forger is kidnapped by thugs working for a corrupt government official when she accidentally transmits a message to them using Loid's spy gear. When next we see her, she's sitting in a shopping cart with her arms tied and a piece of tape over her mouth.
• No gagging involved, but in Strawberry Marshmallow, Miu called Nobue to tell her that Matsuri was her prisoner and was being tied up with a long rope. She demanded 5000 yen (a little less than US$50) or she would remove Matsuri's panties. Nobue went over to find... Miu tied up. Nobue took Miu's wallet, removed a 5000 yen note, and left over Miu's protests.
• Time Stop Hero: Kuzuno Sekai can stop time and often uses this to neutralize opponents without much of a fight. Since he refuses to harm women, his usual tactic is to stop time, then strip them naked, tie them up, and/or gag them. From their perspective, it is as if he can strip and/or bind them in an instant. The gag can neutralize magic users who have to chant their spells.
• Tokimeki No Ikenie: Played for horror. The story follows a kind and timid teenage girl named Mari Jingyouji who earns the attraction of the most popular boy in school after she saves his life. Unfortunately... her family happens to be a bunch of demon worshippers who kidnap women to sacrifice them to the Old Ones and prevent the end of the world. And surely enough, all of her family's captives are tied up in dungeons, gagged, and blindfolded.
• This has happened to the protagonist Hitomi from The Vision of Escaflowne a couple times, the first it happens to her she is also stuffed into a sack.
• Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune. In the Season One finale, Unit K-321 are handcuffed and mouth-masked during their own court-martial. Fortunately it's not the Kangaroo Court it was intended to be, as their attorney proves more than capable of speaking on their behalf. Given the way the hot-tempered Akira keeps trying to interject or punch people, it's probably just as well.
• In YuYu Hakusho, Kuwabara is tied and gagged in the Chapter Black arc in order for Sensui to use his Jigen-tou to slice through the dimensions- first with Toguro-ani's body working through Gourmet, then with a conventional rope and gag.
• In Yo Kai Watch, Indy Jaws is tied up with rope and gagged with his own bandana by local yokai in the jungle along with Jibanyan (although the latter isn't gagged).

• Part of the Every Episode Ending in Asterix comics is Cacofonix being Bound and Gagged to prevent him singing at the big feast.^note  Though after establishing this as an Every Episode Ending, the creators began avoiding it about once every three books.
• As a children's comic book, this is a common way for both the bad and good guys of Bamse to non-violently subdue each other. In the case of the main character Bamse, it often ends up being a setup for Breaking the Bonds since he'll more often than not manage to imbibe some of his Power-Up Food while restrained.
• The superheroines Black Canary, Zatanna, and Siryn all have histories of being bound and gagged by their enemies◊, due to the fact they all posses vocal-based superpowers. (Poor Zatanna was in this situation on the first page of the first issue of her first self-titled comic.)
• Catwoman (1993): In issue #34, Selina is captured by someone known as the Collector, who forces her to go to some ruins and deal with its traps so he can obtain an ancient wheel. Given that she doesn't want to be a sacrificial lamb, her hands are handcuffed and her mouth is tapegagged before she's loaded into a truck by two of the ninjas working for the Collector.
• Comic Cavalcade:
  • It does contain a Golden Age Wonder Woman feature, so one can expect Diana and/or Steve Trevor to end up tied or chained up at least once per story. They're frequently blindfolded and gagged as well. Special mention to Wondy getting tied to an airplane propeller.
  • Green Lantern discovers the astronomer Solomon Grundy's latest iteration is has been impersonating to hide his return tied up and gagged in the Gotham Observatory.
  • The Turtle ties The Flash and Iris to a spit revolving slowly over a fire, intending to force them to die a slow death.
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe: A comic has the Beagle Boys demonstrate their convenient king-size Coil O'Rope that they carry around simply to tie up Donald Duck, Scrooge, or whoever is opposing them on their nefarious plans.
• D-List Superheroine Empowered ends up like this so often that villains, innocent bystanders, and her own teammates regard her as a laughingstock and she occasionally points out the shortcomings of gag design to the mellower mooks. (Very heavy on the fetish fuel, this series. In fact, it's part of its origin.)
• The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: In #24, Indy sneaks on board the villain's ship and finds a young woman bound and gagged in one of the cabins. Unable to free her immediately, she is still bound and gagged two days later as the ship makes landfall.
• Gaston Lagaffe has occasionally been bound and gagged in a desperate attempt to finally get the contracts signed.
• G.I. Zombie: In the first issue, a fed is tied to a chair and has tape put over his mouth by Western Terrorists. Tiff rips the tape off to get him to talk. Said fed is Jared, the titular zombie, in disguise.
• Harley Quinn: her most recent comic books in the New 52 series has had a heavy emphasis on ballgags, with her using one to gag a victim at least once per issue as they have progressed. Harley herself was bound and gagged in the first issue of Harley Quinn and Her Gang of Harleys.
• There are plenty of instances of characters getting tied up on both sides in Injustice: Gods Among Us. Within the first few chapters, Harley Quinn is captured by Green Arrow to protect her from Superman, and it only goes downhill from there.
• In Jon Sable, Freelance: Blood Trail #6, Jon and Jacob find Myke, bound to the antelope statue, ballgag keeping her quiet, obviously tethered like the goat to bait a lion.
• In Lori Lovecraft: Repression, Thalia knocks out Rene Claude and steals his costume; leaving him bound and gagged while she sneaks on to the set to murder Lori.
• Justified for many of the Marvel Universe magic users (Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, Wiccan, etc.), who need the free use of their hands and voices to cast spells. Some of them have learned the basics of self defense (Strange is a full-fledged Kung-Fu Wizard) so they can protect themselves.
• Nyoka the Jungle Girl is filled with this. All over the place. Nyoka gets tied up by bad guys all the time, many different ways.
• At one point in Robin (1993), Stephanie Brown underestimates Czonka and ends up tied up and gagged in a rigged to be demolished project. When Tim finds the clues which led her there, he makes the same mistake and goes to untie her without first making sure of where Czonka is and gets knocked out and tied up and gagged himself for his troubles.
• Shazam!:
  • Billy Batson's always bound and gagged because he has to speak his magic word to become Captain Marvel. Naturally, this also happened to his sister, Mary Marvel, as well as Freddy Freeman AKA Captain Marvel Jr. for the same reason. Also, their occasional teammate Kid Eternity, who has to speak his magic word to summon a historical or mythological hero.
  • In Mary Marvel (1945), Mary is bound and gagged in almost every issue by the villain of the month, so she cannot say the magic word, or just because they don't want a nosy kid snooping around.
• Happens to many Damsels in Distress in Sin City when they're captured by a Big Bad. Dwight's girlfriend Gail and Wallace's girlfriend Esther are two prime examples.
• Spider Queen: After their victim's cries for help are heard by both Spider Queen and Detective Mike O'Bell, the torture racketeers move their victim from his store to their hideout, where the two heroes find him gagged on top of the ropes tied around his wrists.
• Spider-Woman: The first volume features quite a bunch of tie up scenes of Jessica Drew, and at least there's one scene where she's also gagged.
• Star Wars: Doctor Aphra. Aphra captures rebel general Hera Syndulla and offers her to the Imperial forces, Bound and Gagged and with a large pink bow on her head. It's later mentioned that Hera was more angry about the bow than anything else.
• One of the parts of Street Fighter Unlimited literally ends with a picture of Chun-Li bound and gagged, helpless to defend herself against what is to come. Combined with events in later appearances, one has to wonder if her claim to being the "Strongest Woman In The World" is still valid.
  • A more subdued example, but in her own comic, ninja girl Ibuki is hand gagged by one ninja and physically bounded by a male ninja bigger and stronger than her. In both cases, it didn't end well for the ninja against her.
• Wxt from Super Agent Jon Le Bon! gets subjected to this in "Formula V" when he's tied upside-down with some duct tape over his huge mouth. Though after Jon arrives, gets knocked out then wakes up again, the tape is gone.
• Superman:
  • It's been toned down since The '80s, but Lois Lane still finds herself tied up by the bad guys every so often.
  • Red Daughter of Krypton: In order to transport an out-of-her-mind Supergirl safely, a group of Green Lanterns gagged and chained Kara with solid light constructs and placed her inside a containment cell.
  • Bizarrogirl:
    • Bizarro tied and gagged Bizarrogirl before getting her into the rocket which would take her to Earth.
    • Kara also ties up and gags Bizarrogirl before flying her back to Bizarro World.
  • Starfire's Revenge: After being knocked out, Supergirl is tied up and gagged and taken to Starfire's headquarters, where she is tied to a pillar.
  • The Girl with the X-Ray Mind: When a criminal gang called the Bank Busters assault the Midvale Bank, they tie the manager up to a chair.
  • Death & the Family: Insect Queen imprisons Supergirl in a crystal prison, and an insect mook slaps on her mouth a glob of crystalline material to keep her quiet.
  • Day of the Dollmaker: After kidnapping Catherine Grant, Dollmaker's doll-slaves put a gag on her mouth and tie her to a chair.
  • The Day the Cheering Stopped Superman finds Jimmy Olsen tied to a chair and gagged in media mogul Oswald Mandias' private boat.
  • The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot: Subverted. Superman and Batman are led into a cave where Supergirl and Batgirl are supposedly held captive. They find both heroines shacked to two chairs, but it is soon revealed they are lifelike dummies.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage): In issue #14, upon stumbling across a secret meeting involving a group of bad guys, April O'Neil is gagged and later tied up to a chair.
• Tintin: The titular character has been tied up on several occasions and, in one case, gagged, but has never been tied up and gagged at the same time. In fact, this happens inevitably to somebody or other in just about every adventure (Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Nestor, and a slew of bad guys).
• In Violine, the titular character reads the mind of her rescuer and sees herself like this, cluing her in to his true intentions, and quickly fights him off, to the point of crashing his car. Later actually happens in Muller's dungeon, providing the image for Torture Cellar. Even her mouse gets tied up. Redder also ended up like this in a flashback.
• Wonder Woman:
  • Diana's creator, William Moulton Marston, was into bondage himself, and he definitely wrote it into the job description. The original Wonder Woman has superhuman abilities... unless her vambraces were welded together by a man, at which point she became de-powered. So you can expect incredible amounts of bondage throughout the first couple decades of her comic, especially given that she nearly constantly allows herself to be captured in order to be a Play-Along Prisoner.
  • Steve Trevor tended to end up captured and tied up pretty often as well, and unlike his girlfriend could not just snap the ropes and/or chains when he wanted to leave.
  • Wonder Woman (1942): The villain the Mask gets her name from the poisoned S&M style mask/gag combinations she locks her victims in.
  • Wonder Woman (1987): Kimberly Dunn gets gagged and tied to a chair by Doctor Psycho disguised as Veronica Cale's pet enforcer. Then Cale shows up and rants at her before murdering her. Later on Cale gets a taste of her own poison when Doctor Psycho ties her up and gags her and tosses her in a closet.

• Calvin and Hobbes: An early arc had Hobbes tying Calvin to a chair so that he could try to escape it. Unfortunately, Calvin is no Houdini, and when his parents come in, they're convinced that he did this to himself.
• The Phantom: In the early years, it seemed that nearly every story had Diana Palmer kidnapped and tied and gagged by an assortment of villains.

• Jasmine's Watery Doom: After being enslaved by Jafar and refusing to become his queen, Jasmine, just like Aladdin is in the movie, is bound, gagged, and thrown into the ocean to drown. Luckily, she is saved by Eden from Aladdin: The Series.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• Azula's punishment: Three days after the eclipse, Ozai, having decided that Azula's deception about Aang's "death" means she can no longer be trusted, orders Mai, Ty Lee, and a trio of Fire Nation soldiers to arrest and dispose of her. So while Azula is cooling off in her revealing swim-suit, Mai, Ty Lee, and the three soldiers ambush her. After having her Firebending disabled by Ty Lee, Azula is swiftly gagged by Mai and chained up by the soldiers, and then knocked unconscious. She is then thrown into the ocean, where she eventually drowns... all because of one miscalculation.

Calvin and Hobbes

• Swing123 and garfieldodie's Calvinverse:
  • Calvin, his alter egos, and Hobbes all get bound up in Chapter 9 of Calvin and Hobbes: The Movie.
  • Dr. Brainstorm ends up like this in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series. Calvin's parents also get tied up, though they were asleep the whole time.

Crossovers

• Adventures of a Line Hopper:
  • The Seventh Segment:
    • In "Wibbly Wobbly", besides knocking out and tying up the Doctor, Riley also ties up and gags Donna to make her shut up.
    • In "Home", the Doctor is tied up when Glory's minions bring him to Glory and gagged to stop him from trying to convince them to defect. Amusingly, Glory forgets to open the gag first when she begins her interogation of him.
  • The Bringer of Death:
    • The parents whom Razor brings in to torment the Doctor in chapter 15 are brought with their bodies tied up and gagged.
    • In chapter 32, the vampires tie up and gag Susie as they hang her upside down as part of Razor's signature torture move. The gag is only opened when the torture starts so that the Doctor is forced to hear her scream.
  • The Years that Never Were:
    • In chapter 27, the Watchers Council squad restrain and gag the Doctor so he can't escape even using his words, which also means he can't warn them when Glory sneaks on them.
    • In chapter 37, the possessed Doctor ties up and gags Joyce to use as a hostage when Buffy comes home.
    • When Seo is brought to be branded by the Master in chpater 49, she is tied up and gagged just to make her suffer more.
  • Mr. Hart: By the time Seo wakes up in chapter 6, she finds Dawn captured by John Hart in the same room, except she is also gagged because she wouldn't shut up.
  • Consequences: By the time Ace finds him, Shaun has been left tied and gagged with a rag by Elizabeth who has abandoned the place.
  • Pygmalion Lost:
    • Buffy and the Doctor spend most of chapter 10 chained by the Goddess, and when the Doctor keeps asking the right questions to rile her up, the Goddess has Angelus gags him as well.
    • In chapter 15, Dawn wakes up tied up in the back of a van and Angelus adds in a gag to her mouth so that her screams would be muffled when he starts stabbing her.
• Code Prime:
  • The first instance is in Chapter 2, when Lelouch first finds C.C., like in canon.
  • In Chapter 19, Mao kidnaps Shirley and keeps her like this when he fails in manipulating her to kill Lelouch, instead choosing to use her as a hostage for leverage against Lelouch.
  • When Cornelia is captured by the Autobots and Black Knights in Chapter 22, they bind and gag her with duct tape while also stuffing her in Bumblebee's trunk.
  • Like in canon, Nunnally ends up in this state when Mao kidnaps her in Chapter 23.
  • In Chapter 32, Euphemia is wrapped up in Airachnid's webs as part of the Decepticons' plan to use a Pretender in her image in order to spark a massacre at the Special Administrative Zone.
  • Cornelia ends up in this state again in Chapter 33 when she's webbed up by Airachnid like Euphemia after being defeated and captured by Megatron.
• Fairy May Cry
  • Lucy and Lisanna are tied and gagged with silk rope that represses magic power when they're captured by Erza Knightwalker during the Edolas Arc.
  • Cragnar uses vines to restrain Lisanna when he captures her at the start of the Devil Hand arc.
  • Lady, Mira, Angel, and Ultear all end up in this state when they're taken prisoner by Devil Hand.
  • During the Order of the Sword arc Midnight kidnaps Kyrie, using his magic to create restraints and a gag.
• Hellmouth High Schools Don't Have Reunions: When Xander and Cordelia find the missing Giles and Snyder, they are found tied up and gagged in a closet with a bag over each of their heads.
• In The Institute Saga, Deadpool manages to (briefly) hijack an Author's Afternote before being restrained.
• J-WITCH Series: Happens quite a few times.
  • The first instance is Will being tied and gagged when captured by Phobos' guards and brought to Meridian for the first time.
  • After Cedric loses his bookstore, he does this to a woman named Linda Carol and hides her in her own closet in order to have a place to show Elyon as his home.
  • When Will is captured in "The Precious Mask", the Bat Khan tie her up with shadow ropes. Then Miranda covers her mouth with webbing so she can't say the magic words to assume her Guardian form.
  • Irma ends up this way in ''Fright Night Fight" when the Squid Khan under Chris' command capture her.
  • When Phobos and Wong initiate their plans to drain Elyon of her magic, they restrain her to the throne with skeleton arms and snakes, and have Miranda cover her mouth with webbing.
  • Drago and Miranda web up Cornelia, Irma and Hay Lin as part of a plan to lure Will, Jade and Taranee into a trap.
  • In and Out of Balance has Miranda web up Alchemy during the fight at Section 13.
  • Now, It's Personal sees Susan being tied up and gagged when Drago kidnaps her.
• Happens to the Kankers and then later to Jason, Marcus, and Charlie Brown in the Calvin at Camp episode "A Stalker's Life."
• Metal Gear: Green: More bound than gagged, but after Bakugou finds out Akatani had a gun pointed to him, Akatani effortlessly beats him and zip-ties him in a way where if he uses his Quirk, he'll only hit himself or anything other than Akatani or his restraints.
• In the Danny Phantom/Beetlejuice Crossover fanfiction, Say It Thrice, this happens to Lydia when Melinda summoned and nearly exorcised Betelgeuse. It was intended to prevent her from interfering.
• For a Last Villain Stand in Children of Time (Wholmes Productions), Professor Moriarty kidnaps Beth Lestrade and all too effectively breaks her before even chaining her up. When he gags her, he says outright that he does it because her tongue is a "powerful weapon".
• In the Fire Emblem/The Legend of Zelda crossover, A Ylissan Hylian Tale, Lucina is captured, bound and gagged by the Yiga Clan to trick Chrom into invading Hyrule.
• Tales of the Canterlot Deportation Agency: Luna Vs. The Law Machine: "Cleaning Up The Town": How one criminal is treated:
  It grunted. Grunting was just about all it was capable of.
  [...]
  The human had been recently injured, and by more than the fall. Someone had beaten him, possibly severely. And that same party had taken some pains to treat those injuries by bandaging them. Followed by... keeping right on going. Over ninety percent of the human's body was wrapped in multiple layers of bandages, swaddle after swath after outright encasement, he had been medically cared for within an inch of his life and the cure was in fact looking worse than the disease...
• Pokémon: Harmony and Chaos: A variation occurs during Flash Sentry and Trixie Lulamoon's battle in the first round of the Equestria League. When Astro, Flash's Galvern, and Trixie's Hatterene battle, Hatterene manages to get behind Astro and uses her Prehensile Hair to restrain him and hold him in place. When he tries to fire a Shadow Ball behind him at her to free himself, her hair wraps around his mouth and clamps it shut, leaving him unable to fight back. Hatterene easily defeats Astro while he is in this defenseless state with a Draining Kiss, and proceeds to gently place him on the ground and unwrap her hair from him once he's knocked out.

The DCU

• In Power Girl fanfic A Force of Four, Wonder Woman and her daughter Fury are captured and shackled when the group of villains raid Paradise Island.
• In Superman and Man, Lois Lane is captured, tied up and gagged by Lex Luthor to serve as bait for Superman.
• In The Unfantastic Adventures of Bizarro No. 1, set in a Cloudcuckoolander planet, every so often Bizarro Wonder Woman and Bizarro Supergirl try to ascertain how many people they can tie up with the former's Lasso of Science.
• In Shazam! story Here There Be Monsters, After capturing Captain Marvel, Dr. Sivana gets him shackled.
  Their attention was drawn to the red-and-yellow-clad man whose body was held pent in metallic bands that encircled his chest, arms, legs, waist, ankles, and neck.

Death Note

• In Brilliance Tarnished L, courtesy of Light when Light decides he'd rather keep him than kill him. Later Light courtesy of L.

Dragon Age: Inquisition

• When the Lord Inquisitor is captured in All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird, this happens to him. One of the bad guys even invokes the trope by name.

Final Fantasy VII

• Patchwork (FFVII): When Tseng finds her and Sephiroth's cabin, Aerith manages to subdue him and then leaves him tied up and gagged in an escape tunnel going under the cabin.

Harry Potter

• In Harry Potter and the Magic of the Beasts, Hermione and Emily are bound and gagged in the latter parts of Chapter 24 when Pettigrew plans to enslave the two girls to him with an evil ritual, not knowing that the ritual was altered to give grave consequences to the caster.
• Hell is Your Son from Another Dimension: After capturing her, Sirius ties Bellatrix to a kitchen chair and silences her using a spell in preparation for Harry to use her to obtain Hufflepuff's Cup from her bank vault.
• In My Immortal, Voldemort apparently does this to Draco after kidnapping him: "Volfemort has him bondage!"

Fifty Shades of Grey

• In Lucky Number Thirteen, Sharon says that she agreed to let Christian gag her and tie her up during a BDSM session, though it soon stopped being harmless fun...

The Loud House

• Burning Secret: In one of Lincoln’s nightmares, he ties up Lucy, Lola, Lana, Clyde, Rusty, Liam, Zach, Ronnie Anne, and Mrs. Johnson.

Marvel Universe

• In X-Men: The Early Years, every time Beast and Angel want to get Iceman out of the way, they pick Hank McCoy's special cold-proof rope.

My Hero Academia

• Announcer AU: When Katsuki sees his rival Izuku at U.A.'s Sports Festival, sitting in the announcer's booth and helping narrate the events, he throws an explosive tantrum that leads to his parents having to literally hogtie him before he wrecks their living room. That said, they don't actually gag him because they run out of duct tape.
• Bestowal: Daigoro, Hikage, and En decide to prank everyone by showing up in a meeting with the former tied and gagged to a tree branch and the latter two carrying him like this is a normal occurrence. Izuku is left gawking, Kudo has no idea if he finds this funny or not, and Inko asks Izuku if she should be concerned about the company he keeps.
• In Pulse and Void, Present Mic is captured and brutally tortured. His superpower is his Super-Scream, so he's kept gagged and muzzled along with having a broken arm twisted just to cause more pain when his hands are manacled behind his back. Worse, it's all welded on along with a shock collar and has to be literally cut off him after he's rescued. He’s also shackled to a metal chair most of the time, switching to having his hands bound behind his back when the villain takes him out of the chair near the end. (Dark artwork inside warning)

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• When Rainbow Dash gets captured in Twillight Sparkle's awesome adventure, she's Bound and Gagged before being brought to Celesia's throne room.

Naruto

• The Element of Time: Hinata ends up like this over the course of a short lived attempt by one of Drakmus' mooks to kidnap her during the Konoha Founding Anniversary Festival.
• White Rain: In Chapter 11, Jered willingly agrees to be given this treatment by Itachi and his team to throw off any suspicion of him letting them go.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Doing It Right This Time: In the first draft, Rei covered Kaji's helping her get out by leaving him tied up in a closet to make it look like she'd broken out.

Odd Squad

• In Patterns of the Past, Old Missie is tied to a chair and gagged when kidnapped by the Patternista and held for ransom at the White Dress Hop, a local speakeasy.

Resident Evil

• Liquid's Resident Evil: Claire ends up in this situation twice during the events of Downfall, first by Chief Irons, and then by HUNK and his men.

RWBY

• A Monster's Marriage: In A Monster's Family, Jaune's tied to a chair as part of a kinky role-playing session between him and Cinder. Until their daughter interrupts them and Cinder decides to leave him tied up while she takes care of Ember.

Star Wars

• In Patron of the Art of War, as a prisoner, Sabine's hands are bound a number of times throughout the story. During the art exhibition, she is later gagged after she starts giving a Badass Boast to the Emperor of all people.

• In 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure, Cruella de Vil has Lars gagged and tied to an easel by his hands and ankles with one of his paintings beneath him and throws darts at him.
• Aladdin: In a case of Mood Whiplash, Aladdin is bound and gagged after his and Jasmine's famous carpet ride by the guards under orders from Jafar, and tossed off a cliff into the ocean. He is forced to use his second wish to save himself.
• In The Black Cauldron, the Horned King has Taran, Eilonwy and Fflewddur imprisoned by having their hands tied to an overhead rafter.
• In Catwoman: Hunted, Batwoman defeats La Dama's summoned demons by gagging her with a small glue bomb so she can't give orders and then "interpreting" her murmurs to the demons as La Dama dismissing them. The demons are stupid enough to fall for this and leave.
• Happens in two of the Dot and the Kangaroo sequels.
  • Dot and the Koala sees the local police force tie up and imprison a family of wombats, including the children, only to be tied up and gagged with logs themselves by Dot and her animal friends in order to save said wombats.
  • In Dot in Space, Dot is tied up and silenced by bubble-shaped aliens under the influence of Fantastic Racism, when she crash-lands on their planet.
• Frozen has Elsa all chained up for a little while. It doesn't last.
• Hades binds and gags Meg with smoke to make her seem helpless and so she won't reveal his trap to Hercules.
• At the end of Home on the Range, Alameda Slim is arrested, and taken away bound-and-gagged in a cart, after his plans were exposed by the cows.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
  • This trope is played with for Black Comedy in "The Court of Miracles" song, which has Clopin put Quasimodo and Pheobus, both accused of being Judge Frollo's spies, put on a mock trial, and sentenced to be hanged. The two are unable to defend themselves because they happen to be gagged. Esmeralda clears their names just in time.
  • Quasimodo also gets tied to a turntable during the "Festival of Fools" and chained to Notre Dame cathedral in the climax.
    Clopin: Any Last Words? [Quasi and Phoebus, both gagged, make indecipherable sounds] That's what they all say.
  • At the climax of the film, Esmeralda is tied to a pole to be burned. She is saved by Quasimodo. The scene is also present in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], though not as dramatic, and Quasi himself only says "Sanctuary" once, rather than three times.
  • Frollo has several innocent people chained up for failing to turn Esmeralda in.
• In The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, Melody unintentionally binds and gags Sebastian by tying him behind her with a ribbon when Ariel comes to check up on her. He eventually breaks free, but ruins the party, embarrassing Melody in front of her peers, and gets himself chased by Chef Louis. Ariel also receives this treatment by Morgana binding her and covering her mouth with one of her tentacles.
• Madagascar: The boat captain in the first film and Chantel Dubois along with her men in the climax of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. The penguins are responsible for both.
• The Man Called Flintstone: During the song "Spy Type Guy", Fred has a Fantasy Sequence where he imagines himself as a spy. At one point, he performs a Metronomic Man Mashing to a bad guy next to a woman who is gagged and tied up to a chair.
• In Oliver & Company, Sykes kidnaps young Jenny and ties her up so she can't escape, intending to ransom her to her rich parents with the threat of feeding her to his dobermans.
• Peter Pan: Happens to the Lost Boys, John, and Michael when they get ambushed by the pirates. When Wendy walks the plank in the climax, her hands are tied behind her back.
• An almost identical situation to the one in Home on the Range happens to Governor Ratcliffe in Pocahontas (except in a row boat instead).
• Hilariously done in Ratatouille, with one unusual twist — it's the "good guys" doing the binding and gagging (on a Health Inspector and an interfering former Head Chef) but was released offscreen during the climax of the film!
• In The Rescuers Down Under McLeach ties up Cody to interrogate him over Marahute's whereabouts and later ties him to a crane in order to feed him to crocodiles.
• Return to Never Land:
  • Wendy's daughter, Jane, gets gagged, tied up, and stuffed in a Bag of Kidnapping near the beginning.
  • Happens to Peter and the Lost Boys when they are captured by Captain Hook and his crew after Jane unintentionally betrayed them.
• Shark Tale: Happens to both Oscar and Angie. Oscar by Sykes' jellyfish henchmen when he failed to win the money back from a bet he just made on the race and Angie by Don Lino.
• Sleeping Beauty: This is how Maleficent's mooks capture Phillip after he arrived at the cottage Aurora/Briar Rose had been living in for sixteen years.
  • The scene almost happened to Phillip's predecessor, Prince Charming in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, where unused scenes feature the prince being imprisoned in the Evil Queen's dungeon and put in a similar situation for some reason before the Queen would turn into the old witch. The scene being already grim enough eventually made Disney to scrap this scene, and later modify and eventually give it to Phillip.
• After Torchesac/Oily-creep/McCreep steals the magic flute the night before in The Smurfs and the Magic Flute, Lady Prattle finds Peewit like this in his room.
• Happens to both male and female leads in Tangled, often with Rapunzel's own hair as the bonds. This is very noticeable at the end where Rapunzel is bound and gagged by Gothel after learning that she is the lost princess.
• Done in Treasure Planet when Jim leaves to retrieve the map from the ship, leaving Captain Amelia and Doctor Doppler all alone with pirates right outside their "safe spot".
• Done in Wreck-It Ralph when after Ralph falls into taffy, he gets stuck in a cupcake and taken to King Candy’s castle. The taffy dries across his mouth, gagging him.

• Happens once per book to Dr. Fielding in the An Awfully Beastly Business books.
• Beauty Queens: Agent Harris is bound with duct tape and gagged with a maxi pad.
• The Berenstain Bears Big Chapter Books: The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Auto Graveyard: After seeing Ralph Ripoff's houseboat sailing away with a couple of stolen cars on it, the cubs suddenly hear a noise nearby... and discover Ralph himself, tied up and gagged in the reeds nearby. When they free him (and his parrot Squawk, who was similarly tied up and gagged), he explains who was responsible, revealing that his old "friends" Captain Billy and Otto have returned.
• Boot Camp (2007): When Garrett, Pauly, and Sarah make their escape from Lake Harmony, Joe chases after them in the woods outside the camp. The kids grab Joe, duct tape his mouth, wrists, and ankles, and hide him behind a tree trunk, where they hope he won't be found until morning.
• A Brother's Price: Cira is handled such, and tied to the foot of a bed, after she and Jerin are captured. Jerin is left ungagged, because he's tied to the bed for a different reason.
• The Calf of the November Cloud: Konyek has finally found the titular stolen calf, but it is guarded by two boys. After taking them down, Konyek binds their hands and feet with vines, and then carries them into the bushes, so that they are not found too quickly by their tribe's warriors.
• The Camp Half-Blood Series:
  • Annabeth Chase is bound and gagged at least twice over the course of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In the first book, The Lightning Thief, Percy has a dream in which he and Thalia are wearing straitjackets. One of the times Annabeth is bound is when she and Percy are sailing past the island of the Sirens, a direct Shout-Out to the Odyssey example above. Unfortunately, Percy forgot to take Annabeth's knife before tying her up, and she escapes her bonds and almost drowns.
  • The sequel series The Heroes of Olympus keeps up with it. Piper is bound and gagged in all three books she appears. Since she has a Compelling Voice, it makes a certain amount of sense.
• The Candy Shop War: An adult who wishes to help the kids out ties up their teacher and takes her place as a substitute. One of the bullies is later forced into a straitjacket and gagged, by that same adult (the bully had become the lackey of the Big Bad, without realizing how evil she was). Later, some of the kids are wrapped up with magically controlled grass, then the girl is straitjacketed and gagged and taken as a hostage. Many good guys and bad guys, both kids and adults, are tied up or otherwise restrained.
• In E.W. Hildick's The Case of the Four Flying Fingers, the villain kidnaps the Kid Detectives in her vehicle, but doesn't tie them up — instead, they do it themselves. When they realize that other drivers think they're playing when they yell that they're being kidnapped, they bind and gag one of the group with masking tape, put him at the window by himself, and have him signal with a flashlight in Morse Code for good measure. This display gets the attention of the cops in short order.
• Diana Tregarde: Burning Water: One minor character realizes he's been targeted by a mind control spell and demands his brother (a cop, so he actually has handcuffs available) and his sister-in-law cuff him to the bed. It holds him long enough for two other characters to break the spell.
• Dragons in Our Midst: Billy is Bound and Gagged by the bad guys in the second book.
• The Dresden Files:
  • Harry is bound and gagged by Nicodemus. Since the captor is pretty cautious, he ensures Harry is also under running water (which neutralizes Harry's magic).
  • Also happens to Thomas in Blood Rites when he's kidnapped for use as a ritual sacrifice - gagged, staked out in a magic circle and viciously beaten for good measure.
• Played for Horror when Flashman wakes up bound to the muzzle of a British cannon during the Indian Mutiny, having been knocked unconscious while in disguise as an Indian. On realising his predicament Flashman starts shouting in fear only to be gagged on the spot, so he can't tell his captors it's all been a terrible mistake. Fortunately our cowardly anti-hero keeps his wits about him and attracts the attention of a subaltern by winking at him. Curious at this odd behavior from someone who's about to suffer a Fate Worse than Death, he removes the gag and Flashman is able to gasp out his identity. On being released Flashman has a rare moment of empathy and orders all the other mutineers released as well.
• Freckles: The villains set a trap for Freckles and then tie him to a tree and gag him.
• Ghoul 20077: After knocking her down, Clark binds Deb Lentz's wrists and ankles with silver duct tape. To keep her from screaming, he also stuffs a dirty rag into her mouth and secures it with more duct tape. He loads her into the trunk of his car like this and drives off to hand her over to the ghoul.
• The Hardy Boys: The Hardy Boys go through a lot of this, at least in the blue hardcover books.
• Harry Potter:
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Harry gets tied up by Quirrel and is bound to a gravestone and gagged in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Snape does this to Lupin when the latter confronts him.
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: The Inquisitorial Squad gags and restrains several of Harry's friends.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The protagonist trio and Dean Thomas are tied up when they are taken to Malfoy Manor.
• The Hound of the Baskervilles: Stapleton ties his wife to a beam and wraps her up in a large cloth to the extent that neither Holmes, Watson nor Lestrade initially could identify whether the gagged figure was male or female when they burst in.
• I Am David: An example which comes close to tragedy, without the gagging. From a distance, David sees two boys take their sister Maria into a wooden shed, which catches fire. The boys are too frightened to do anything, and David rushes into the shed to rescue Maria, finding her tied to a chair inside.
• Jennifer-the-Jerk Is Missing: 8-year-old Jennifer is tied and gagged, but she's so bratty, she laughs under her gag when her would-be rescuers (a 13-year-old and another 8-year-old) mess up and end up trapping themselves in a closet. Later, the would-be rescuers are themselves tied up and left that way overnight.
• Journey to Chaos:
  • During A Mage's Power, Kasile spends a couple weeks tied up due to her kidnapping by the Black Cloak's. Then again later, along with Eric, when she is framed for treason.
  • Looming Shadow
    • At the start, Emily is gagged for deliberately violating the Speak of the Devil taboo regarding Tasio. Then bound to prevent her from removing it.
    • A couple of zombie mooks try this on Tiza, but she was one step ahead of them.
    • Eric spends time shackled to a chair while held captive by Mr.15. Naturally, he's also gagged to prevent spell casting.
  • Mana Mutation Menace: Dosh Heleti uses cuffs and a ball gag to restrain Tiza during the Mana Mutation Summit which she escapes from and uses to restrain him in turn.
• In the Kane Series story "Cold Light", Kane's lover Rehhaile is captured by his enemies, led by Lord Gaethaa. Following gang rape, she is tied to a post in an inn where her captors are staying, while they go hunting for Kane. Gaethaa's second-in-command Alidore, who is sickened by the whole situation, frees her, leaving some broken crockery around her ropes to make it seem as if she freed herself.
• The Kingdom Keepers: This happens to Maybeck when he's kidnapped in the first book.
• Let's Go Play at the Adams' is made of this. 20-year-old Barbara wakes up, on page 7, to find herself tied to a bed and gagged, by the kids she was supposed to babysit, and their teenage neighbors. Barbara is literally tied up all throughout the entire 300+ page book, in a huge variety of positions, as her captors have no intent whatsoever of letting her go. Tied to a chair, tied to a bed, tied to a bench, tied to a pole, tied in many different ways, ungagged so she can eat, then re-gagged... it's all over the place. It's even implied that one of the teens tied up one of the kids — in her own words: "so tight that he tied my big toes together". It's also a genuinely gripping story, believe it or not, according to most reviews.
• This happens to Cecile de Troyes in every book of the Malediction Trilogy. In Stolen Songbird she is magically bound and gagged before she is presented to her future husband, troll prince Tristan, because she was kidnapped and forced into marriage, and she tried to run away. In Hidden Huntress she is drugged, bound and gagged (this time by mundane means) and thrown into a basement by her own brother Fred, on the orders of his officer, lord Aiden, who wants to use her as a bargaining chip to manipulate Tristan. In Warrior Witch she is captured by Tristan's half-sister Lessa and thrown into a dungeon — gagged, because she is a witch and it is believed that witches need to speak to cast their spells. Later, Cecile and Tristan do the same thing to their Arch-Enemy duke d'Angouleme.
• The Mermaid of Black Conch: After the fishermen haul the mermaid Aycayia aboard, they gag her and tie her hands.
• Mrs. Smith's Spy School For Girls: Power Play: While searching the decrepit mansion, Abby lures some of Menace's henchmen away from a door. When she opens it, she finds Veronica tied to a chair with a gag in her mouth.
• Nancy Drew did not experience this as often as legend suggests but it happened a lot. Earlier books (the series began publishing in 1930) featured the character bound and gagged in maybe one out of every four or five stories, usually incidental to being left somewhere like a sinking boat, water tank or airtight closet, but these scenes were revised into less dangerous situations or outright deleted from later print editions. Scenes where Nancy was forcibly restrained by male antagonists were considered to have a sexual undertone and they were altered or omitted alongside anything else considered dubious by the changing social and moral standards of the times.
• Nick Velvet: In "The Theft of Leopold's Badge", Sandra Paris mugs a dancer for her costume, and leaves her bound and gagged in a closet.
• Nighttime Is My Time: After kidnapping Laura, the Owl ties her to a bed in such a way that if she struggles, the ropes will tighten, and ties a sock across her mouth as a gag. Laura is terrified that if she throws up she will choke on her own vomit.
• The Odyssey: This trope is Older Than Feudalism. Odysseus willingly allows himself to be tied to his own mast when his ship sails past the sirens. The other sailors use his reactions as a gauge for when it's safe to unclog their ears.
• The Origin of Laughing Jack: A 5- or 6-year-old boy that Isaac kidnaps in a burlap sack is tied up and gagged upon falling out of the bag, and stays that way throughout the whole torture process.
• In George Mann's The Osiris Ritual, Veronica Hobbes is bound and gagged by the villain.
• In Otto of the Silver Hand, One-eyed Hans captures a guard in Castle Trutz-Drachen, demands to know where Otto is being held, then leaves him with a cloth tied over his head and his arms and legs bound with strong cords.
• In The Perils of Enhancegirl, this happens constantly, partly because it is deliberately played as fetish. To name a few notable instances:
  • The eponymous heroine is captured and tied up in duct tape in her civilian guise, then recaptured and bound with ropes in her debut story.
  • She and fellow heroine Stellar are All Webbed Up by a spider-themed villain in Part Four.
  • She is captured with bola-whips by a cat burglar in part 6.
  • She is wrapped up with Tentacle Rope by a Power Parasite in part 9.
• This happens in the first Pixie Tricks book, Sprite's Secret. Sprite was briefly tied up and gagged by Pix's jump rope. Then Pix pulled it which caused Sprite to spin around very fast.
• Happens a few times in the Pyrates series. First, Paul, a boy who lives underground, is tied to a chair and threatened by the Big Bad's henchmen. Later, Shannon, and then George when he comes to rescue her, are both bound and gagged, although very loosely in George's case (socks do not good bindings make). Then in the fourth book, George's dad's girlfriend is kidnapped to try to force a bargain with George's dad, and George and his friends have to rescue her.
• Samantha Stone and the Mermaid's Quest: Samantha gradually learns the ability to teleport over the course of the story. After mistakenly teleporting right in front of an enemy, she is tied to a chair. She teleports out, and the guard is surprised to see a few scattered ropes lying on the chair. Later, they get the drop on her again and don't take any chances. Samantha is knocked unconscious, and bound - and gagged. When she wakes up, she can't cast the teleportation spell.
• Shadows of Self: Wayne finds out the true identity of an impostor, but before he can do anything, he gets shot, banged on the head, bound, gagged and thrown into a closet. For good measure, he has his gold metalminds taken off — these give him healing ability.
• In Janny Wurts's book The Ships Of Merior, Dakar is gagged using the cloth-in-his-mouth method. However, he somehow ingests the sponge they used and escapes.
• The opening of Alan Bradley's The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie has the 11-year-old heroine bound and gagged in a closet, struggling to free herself from her tormentors (her sisters, who put her in there for being bratty).
• The Sword of Saint Ferdinand: When Fortún needs to flee from an enemy city, he dons a disguise and tricks and assails one gatekepper, stealing the door keys and leaving the man tied up and gagged with his own clothes in a locked empty room.
• The Syrena Legacy: In Of Triton, Nalia chloroforms Rayna and Emma and absconds with Emma, leaving Rayna tied up with a power cord with duct tape over her mouth.
• Tommy and Tuppence: Happens once per book to Tommy, narrating the adventures of two married private detectives. Frequently kept bound and gagged by the villains, Tommy can count on his wife Tuppence, his own wits or his assistant Albert to rescue him.
• Tomorrow's Bleeding: After being taken prisoner of war, Yukinaga is mostly kept either bound or shackled. Whenever his captors bring him for "interrogation", they'd also gag him with a coarse fabric to prevent him from committing Tongue Suicide.
• The Wheel of Time: This happens in a number of books to various characters through magical or physical meanings. Most popularly used by magic users in the form of bindings of air.
• This happens to Torak in Wolf Brother and its sequels all. The. Time. Though he's rarely gagged, he does seem to spend quite a bit of time tied to posts in the camps of enemy clans.
• The Word Detective vocabulary book has a picture in which ten spies creep into a hotel to kidnap a famous scientist; and when they hear the police coming, they hide, for the reader to find. One of the spies is shown in a bedroom with two boys, who have tied him up with sticky tape.
• The Worst Witch: In A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch, Mildred has been forbidden to attend the Hallowe'en display, and she is desperate to go for altruistic reasons, so she kidnaps an older girl Griselda, makes her fall over with a Tied-Together-Shoelace Trip, ties her up, and gags her, leaving her lying on her bedroom floor, while she goes to the event, one can assume, temporarily, in Griselda's place. She is very apologetic, and covers Griselda with a blanket, and puts a pillow under her head. Luckily, Griselda is rescued shortly after this and is able to go to the festival with her rescuer to expose Mildred without missing anything. Unfortunately, she also receives no resolution of any kind for her Ordeal.

• Played for Drama in the second manhwa of The Breaker, New Waves. When it's revealed that the doctor who helped Shiwoon overcome several members of the S.U.C was only trying to get close to him, Shiwoon is then shown Strapped to an Operating Table. It turned out that the doctor was after him for the Phlebotinum he was given in the previous manhwa. He's given two options: join the S.U.C, or have his blood turned into a powerful Phlebotinum that will help the S.U.C conquer Seoul. Since the doctor is responsible for his mother's severe injuries in an S.U.C. attack, he naturally refuses. So, the doctor promptly shoves a gag in his mouth and gets ready to turn him into a living blood bank.

• Celldweller:
  • Mentioned in "Blackstar" as a way to symbolize what is inflicted upon the followers of the eponymous Blackstars.
    They'll leave you gagged and bound
    To the whip of the wish they've granted you
  • Brought up in the first verse of "Birthright".
    But I'm still handcuffed, ball-gagged, facedown to the floor
• The Music video for "Tommorow" by The Cranberries features the lead singer Dolores O'Riordan tied up to a slab and then a rope that seems to be on a pully which spins her around as she sings.
• Creature Feature has an aptly named song, "Bound and Gagged", that details the kidnapping of the President's daughter.
• This music video, "Another California Song", by Damhnait Doyle features the singer tying up another woman to a chair and taping her mouth.
• The music video for Edguy's song "All The Clowns" involves the lead singer being duct taped to a chair (with a piece of tape over his mouth) by another band member during the guitar solo. He's free again by the time he has to sing again though.
• A completely serious and terrifying instance of this trope appears in the music video for Song Ji Eun's "Going Crazy", though it's actually more a case of Bound and Blindfolded than Bound and Gagged. As the trope is used for drama, most of the shots of the captive are of his trembling lips and helpless squirming. In fact, a lot of the tragedy in this video can be attributed to the use of this trope, although it helps that the man who is bound is handsome.
• Girls Aloud's alternate ending to the music video for "I Think We're Alone Now", has them getting caught robbing a casino and all the girls are tied up together and left in a vault.
• Green Day's song about BDSM, titled "Blood, Sex, And Booze" makes a reference to this in its first few lines.
  Waiting in a room
  All dressed up and bound and gagged
  To a chair...
• In the music video for Kim Jaejoong's "Mine", he is muzzled and chained before breaking free.
• The music video for "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails subjects Trent Reznor to this.
• The music video for "Be Mine" by the French DJ duo Ofenbach features the two men kept captive by a young and dominant woman. She has tied up both men to chairs and gagged their mouths with tape and playfully taunts them.
• Jarvis Cocker finds himself bound to a chair and gagged at gunpoint in Pulp's music video for their 1998 single "This Is Hardcore". The whole video is a kiss-off to the Golden Age of Hollywood, and the scene cements the seedy, pulpy tone of the song.
• The cover art for Sparks' album Propaganda features the duo tied to a moving boat with their mouths gagged.
• In the music video for Taemin's "Press Your Number", Taemin and a gang of robbers rob a convenience store, kidnapping the owner by tying her wrists with rope and taping her mouth shut. Later on, Taemin himself takes the woman's place, with Taemin seemingly having kidnapped himself.
• The blindfolded variant is in play in two of Violet UK's songs: the original uncensored "Blind Dance" and possibly referred to in "Blue and Blind" as well.
• The music video for "Say You Like Me" by We the Kings is cartoonish and video game-themed, about the band members rescuing a (real) woman who is kidnapped by a cartoon character and cartoonishly tied and gagged, while the band members go through game-like obstacles to rescue her.
• "White Poem II" by X Japan also features Yoshiki being blindfolded and bound both in the PV and the live, in a potential case of Author Appeal as he also wrote both of the above Violet UK songs.

• In The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (Data East), Nell is tied to a log headed towards a buzzsaw in the sawmill.
• During "Team-Up" in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Stern), the captured turtles are each tied to a chair.

• Fans showing their support of wrestlers by throwing streamers during their entrances is a tradition that goes back at least to the founding of All Japan Pro Wrestling. A tradition disrespected in World Wonder Ring ST★RDOM when the Hana Kimura and Kris Wolf of the resident Power Stable, Oedo~tai, tried to gag and bind Mayu Iwatani with the rain of streamers she received.
• During the Evil Versus Evil feud between Kurt Angle and John "Bradshaw" Layfield's Cabinet, Angle bound and gagged diva search participant Joy Giovanni and threw her in the back of JBL's limo to frame him. (The probable cause was that Giovanni was herself feuding with the Cabinet's "publicist", Amy Weber). The hope was that Big Show would come after JBL, as the giant had taken on the little non wrestler as his charge.
• One of the standout embarrassments Chavo Guerrero suffered in World Wrestling Federation (and there are many) was being bound and gagged by Hornswoggle after being forced to wear a cow suit.
• While working as an announcer for TNA, Christy Hemme got captured and ball gagged by The Dollhouse.
• Melina ordered Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury to abduct WWE women's champion Trish Stratus on Monday Night Raw and this is how they presented Stratus to her.

• Marion Williams in The Program Version 3's Prologue for Survival of the Fittest Mini.

• Dungeons & Dragons: A 3rd Edition Prestige Class called the Justiciar is much like a bounty hunter who specializes in subduing an enemy without killing him; being able to tie a victim up is so important for this, having a high rank in the Use Rope Skill is a prerequisite. One Class Ability is called Hog Tie, which more or less let's the Justiciar tie an opponent up and render him helpless while grappling with him, usually ending the fight quickly. (Gagging is usually done after the victim is subdued.) High-level Justiciars have Improved Hog Tie which is, naturally, an improvement of the standard ability. (The Prestige Class is available to Player Characters, as both good and evil Justiciars exist. Of course in this case, male victims can be as common as females, although seeing as the Justiciar has to fight the victim to use this ability, a female victim is rarely ever helpless initially.)
• In Nomine: The opening vignette for the main book includes a (possibly) more benign use of the trope. The Cherub Tariel, assigned to protect the mortal woman Patricia, has to drive out to meet a contact but doesn't dare let harm come to his charge — so he binds and gags her in the passenger seat next to him so he can keep her safe (making sure she's carefully seat-belted, of course).

• In Arsenic and Old Lace, Mortimer Brewster describes how a not-too-bright character in a play he's recently seen just sits down in a chair "waiting to be trussed up and gagged," and a moment later has exactly that happen to him. The first policeman who finds him is less interested in untying him than in reading the second act of the play he's written.
• In the climactic scene of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio is bound to a chair (and sometimes gagged, depending on how kinky the director is) in preparation for having his pound of flesh cut off.
• In The Most Happy Fella, Pasquale leads a group of workers in pulling a prank on Herman, tying his arms up with a string of light bulbs and putting a basket over his head, which causes him to stumble around blindly. Since he's not gagged, he can talk to Cleo, but he stubbornly refuses to complain about his situation.
• In the Mrs. Hawking play series: At the end of part IV: Gilded Cages, Mary and Nathaniel are captured by Frost's henchman and dragged in with their hands tied.
• In One Touch of Venus, a screaming Gloria is tied to a barber chair by Savory and Taxi during their failed ransacking of the barbershop.
• Terrence McNelly's Sweet Eros features a female kidnapping victim who is first seen bound to a chair and gagged. Her kidnapper then proceeds to remove all of her clothing while she's restrained.
• In Urinetown, the start of Act Two finds Hope gagged and bound to a chair in the rebel hideout.

• Princess Alexia from Alundra 2 is like this for almost a 1/3 of the game after she gets captured by the Big Bad who plans to marry her against her will.
• Played for Horror in Angel at Dusk. The first example is in Death Ephemera for the Sharp X68000, in which the human male half of the Battle Couple is wired into his spacecraft, with two of the cables gagging his mouth. The other is in the Freeware Galshell, the backstory of which makes it clear that the male protagonist Korosuke was bound to the "fleshship" against his own will, and to make things worse, the wires were all made of flesh.
• In Batman: Arkham City, you find Harley Quinn tied to a pole and gagged close to the end of the game. You can ungag/gag her as many times as you want. You have to ungag her once to unlock a side-mission. After that, it's just for your own amusement and to hear her yell at you to stop doing that.
• Happens to Henry at one point in Bendy and the Ink Machine.
• BlazBlue: Though not with the gag, Relius Clover invokes this when using his Astral against some characters. This being him, it invokes a far worse image. The only person he ever gags is Valkenhayn, which is justified because restraining a werewolf without a gag is disastrous.
• Bonds is about two college students named Alicia and Robin who discover a passion for bondage and make a business out of it.
• Brain Dead 13: Lance, more "gagged" than "bound", at Vivi's salon. He will remain that way until you choose the facial.
• This happened 2 times in Criminal Case: World Edition. One off screen with Elliot being only gagged with a cloth by Anbu and another in the Season 3 finale with President James Hewitt by Vice President Sarah Bennett.
• In DayZ, it is possible for a player to capture other players by restraining them and gagging them. They can even put a burlap sack over their heads!
• Desperados III: One of the core game mechanics for those aiming for non-lethal runs: the heroes can knock out their enemies, but they will wake up after a while. However, the characters (save for Kate) have the ability to tie up unconscious NPCs to prevent them from moving after they were knocked out (while presumably gagging them as well, even though the game doesn't say it, given the sound clips that play during the animation). There's actually even a gameplay reward for doing so: tied-up enemies can be used to lure other mooks, as they will come to free the prisoner if they see them, which can be used to set up an ambush. It even works on Longcoats and Ponchos, Elite Mooks who are otherwise immune to most of the other tactics used to lure enemies away from their posts.
• DIDNapper and its sequel revolves around tying and gagging girls in an anime-style medieval setting.
• The now-discontinued iOS/Android version of Double Dragon begins with the Lee brothers receiving a ransom note with a photograph of their girlfriend Marian, gagged and handcuffed in a creepy basement◊.
• During the introduction to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the player, along with Ulfric Stormcloak and his rebels, are all tied up in the back of a cart and being transported to the town of Helgen for execution as traitors. Only Ulfric is actually gagged, though, because of his knowledge of the Thu'um.
• Far Cry:
  • Happens to Jason and Grant in the beginning of Far Cry 3.
  • Again in Far Cry 5 with Hudson and the Deputy in John's compound.
• Grabbed by the Ghoulies has so◊ many◊ people scattered around the mansion tied in almost any method you can think of that it probably feeds a fetish.
• Grand Theft Auto V has two instances.
  • In "By the Book", Mr. K is bound to a chair and has to be subjected to two rounds of torture or four (with all four methods have to be done to get the Gold Medal for that mission) to find information on a suspected terrorist. However, the Torture is for shits and giggles by Haines, while Trevor is just disgusted by the concept it always works and instead has Mr. K dropped off at the airport when Hanes orders him to kill Mr. K.
  • In "The Third Way", Trevor has bound Devin up while kidnapping him to take to his death. When he gets to their location, he had taped Devin's mouth shut because he was annoyed with his whiny attitude and voice.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • This happens to Sora, Donald, and Goofy in Kingdom Hearts II. In Port Royal, the party, along with Jack and Elizabeth, are left tied up after Barbossa captures Will and leaves Gunpowder barrels onboard the Interceptor. Of course, Jack breaks free and unties the others.
    Sora: That's the last time I trust a pirate.
  • Also, during the "Ursula's Revenge" number in Atlantica, Flotsam and Jetsam used their bodies to tightly restrain Sora, which nearly causes him to suffocate (despite being a merman). He gets saved by Donald and Goofy before killing his former captives with a beam of light from his Keyblade.
  • Earlier in the game, Megara is tied up by Hades. During the boss fight with Pete, she hops around the arena.
  • And finally, to Santa Claus in Halloween Town, thanks to Oogie Boogie. Santa's yelps even sound like he is gagged, though he really isn't.
  • This also happens to Master Xehanort, of all people, in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Of course, we later learn that it was a Faked Kidnapping planed by Xehanort and his Dragon, Braig.
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: When Tetra's pirates raid the bomb shop, they gag and tie up the shopkeeper so thoroughly that the entire length of his body is wrapped in rope.
• Math Blaster: In Search of Spot: In the final level, Spot is seen bound up with what appears to be chains and is gagged with a grey piece of cloth.
• Has happened to Max Payne at least once in his career.
  Max Payne: He had a baseball bat and I was tied to a chair. Pissing him off was the smart thing to do.
• Mega Man Battle Network 1:
  • During the second chapter, Lan's teacher, Ms. Mari, is bound and gagged by Higsby during his hijacking of the school.
  • During the final chapter, Higsby himself, alongside Ms. Yuri & an old guy, are found bound & gagged in WWW's HQ.
• Happens at least once per game in the Monkey Island series... except for the first game. This is ironic because the first game actually centered around a kidnapping and subsequent rescue attempt.
• Unusually for the Myst series, with its distinct lack of violence, in Myst IV, a preteen girl, Yeesha, is kidnapped and later seen, first in flashbacks and later in person, tied and strapped to a chair, with rope reinforcing the straps. In a flashback, she struggles mightily and appears to be crying. She's also played by a live action actress, due to the game's use of FMV crossed with pre-rendered backgrounds.
• In Mystic Warriors, one of the five playable characters is captured and bound and gagged at the beginning of the game by the Evil Corporation.
• At the start of Noitu Love 2: Devolution's fourth level, there is a damsel who is tied up, without a gag, and two of the Grinning Darn cowboys are keeping watch on her. Xoda jumps in, using a detached waterwheel (crushing the Darn cooking using a campfire), and takes out the other Darn but doesn't bother with untying the damsel as Xoda leaves with a hi-jacked jet board.
• In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers, Grovyle is bound and gagged after his capture to keep him from escaping and revealing that he's trying to prevent the Planet's Paralysis, not cause it. Curiously enough, the next time you see him in the execution chamber in the future, the rope around his mouth is gone.
• Portal:
  • A rather unique example from Portal 1: GLaDOS might have been modeled after a bound and gagged woman hanging upside down (as demonstrated in this fan art), making her even creepier.
  • Portal 2 reveals that this is very likely true: GLaDOS was formerly the secretary of the man who founded Aperture Science, whose dying wish was to have her brain uploaded into the computer mainframe so she could continue running the company in his stead. Some infamous Dummied Out dialogue suggests that this was done against her will.
• Cronk and Zephyr are tied together near the beginning of Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus when taken captive. They don't survive when the ship they are on is blown up.
• In Red Dead Redemption, you can lasso and hogtie bounty targets so you can bring them in alive. Or you can do it to anyone, just for fun. You get an achievement (appropriately named "Dastardly") for killing a tied-up woman by leaving her on the train tracks, old-fashioned villain style, as seen here.
• In Rule of Rose, this happens to Jennifer in an early part of the game as well as in the opening cutscene. The scene repeats itself much later in the game, except that this time Jennifer is also gagged with a fistful of red crayons.
  Imps: A bright red crayon just for you! Lots and lots and lots for you!
• Occurs near the end of Runaway: A Twist of Fate. Gina (one of the playable characters) ends up bound and gagged by the Big Bad; pretty standard, nothing really remarkable. However, something unusual happens when she escapes. Rather than taking off the gag completely, she takes it out of her mouth and wears it as a stylish neckerchief for the rest of the game. Fits in pretty nicely with the game's sense of humor.
• Sly Cooper:
  • Carmelita Fox is sometimes shown to tied up throughout the games. She is only seen gagged in the animated short Timing is Everything.
  • In the Japanese opening of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Sly gags the thieves he robs after tying them to a chair. In the North American opening, however, he simply ties them to a street lamp.
  • At one point in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, Murray is captured by General Tsao's mooks and tied to a bomb. He is saved by Penelope's RC.
• Stray: A curious example happens when the cat finds their ally Clementine tied up to a chair and gagged, courtesy of The Mole. The "curious" part is that the victim is a sapient TV Head Robot — the lack of a physical mouth or tongue to force shut logically should not prevent them from speaking normally, yet they're still struggling to enunciate their plea for help at that moment.
• Super Robot Wars Gaiden: Princess Monica Grania Bilseia is captured by Saphine Grace, who ties her up and gags her with a ball gag.
• Both Lara and Sam have their moments of being tied up during the course of Tomb Raider (2013).
• Uncharted:
  • Elena is tied up in the first game when she's kidnapped.
  • Nathan Drake, when captured by Rameses and his crew, finds himself tied to a chair at the beginning of chapter 12 in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. Using his fighting skills, he escapes. Sully gets tied up, as well, though it was actually a dummy dressed like Sully being used to lure Nate into a trap.
• Early in Wandering Hamster, Bob gets tied up by Skeppio and Rathmara to summon Jormungandling and kill him. They fail and Bob ends up in his belly.
• The iPod Touch game Wild Wild Train features cutscenes telling a story of a damsel in distress. The cutscenes are done using actual photographs of actual actors playing the damsel, villain and hero, all of whom are silent film stereotypes. And the damsel is tied up and gagged and blindfolded, quite well. It's enough to make you wonder...
• Happens to several characters in World of Warcraft, most notably this is how you find Koltira Deathweaver in the Death Knight starting area. You find him like this again, in the Undercity after he was dragged off by Sylvanas for torture. Both times he's also been stripped to his boxers, for clandestine Fanservice presumably.

• Ace Attorney:
  • In Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, after being knocked out by the Proto Badger, Miles Edgeworth wakes up locked in a small room and tied to a pole, though is later freed by Kay Faraday. This was after he was handcuffed when he's suspected of murder earlier that day. Poor guy.
  • In Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit, when Eustace Winner is kidnapped, he's bound hand and foot, gagged, and locked in a dark room at the back of a garage — and this after being crammed into a box and thrown into the trunk of a car. It looks a little goofy (embarrassing if nothing else), but is treated as genuinely traumatic.
• In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the fifth victim, Nagito Komaeda, is found tied up and gagged with a piece of tape. The most bizarre part of it? He did it to himself.
• Galaxy Angel II: In Chapter 3 of Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira, during Anise's raid on the Luxiole, Kazuya can find Steline tied and gagged with an adhesive tape on her mouth if he visits the engine room.
• Given that Love Lock is explicitly a bondage game, this is to be expected:
  • Naturally, the protagonist gets this the most:
    • In Chapter 9, the protagonist wakes up tied to a chair with straps of leather locked around their arms and legs and their mouth taped shut.
    • At the beginning of Chapter 10, the protagonist finds themself with their arms and legs both bound together and a piece of tape over their mouth. In this case, it was meant mostly as a safety measure by Damien to keep them from getting too violent upon waking up, and he soon unties them. Not that it helps much considering the shackle around their ankle.
  • The protagonist's partner ends up this way in Chapter 3, as well as the lead-up to said chapter, after Sebastian kidnaps them to get the protagonist to cooperate.
  • In the murder couple branch of Chapter 7, Vivian is introduced unconscious with her arms tied behind her back and duct tape over her mouth, courtesy of Walter.
• Roman's Christmas: The culprit of chapter 2, Vincel, gets tied up and thrown into the basement by Tsarzn for his attempted murder of Anzox. He is later gagged with Tsarzn's unwashed socks for a while, but loses those later on. It also turns out that the ropes weren't keeping him tied — they were broken, allowing him to sneak off and attempt another murder.
• In Yo-Jin-Bo, Mon-Mon asks you to tie Yo's hands so he doesn't thrash around while he's sewing the gunshot wound closed. The result is very much Does This Remind You of Anything?.

• 13 Cards:
  • During his Image Song, Waru has Felix, Brolly, and Romeo tied up and gagged, and sends them floating on a raft full of garbage down the river. Gabriel is also on the raft, but he isn't bound and gagged.
  • After spending the entirety of "Clones In The Soup" coming up with new ways to mess up the soup that the other clones have been making, Waru himself ends up tied up and gagged with duct tape to prevent him from interfering while they cook up a new batch.
• The Academy of Magic: Dezi is kidnapped by Alpha to keep her Love Interest Xavier occupied while his army invades the school. She is sedated just before the battle begins and wakes up tied to a chair in the basement of his gang's hideout.
• The Amazing Digital Circus: "The Mystery of Milden Hall Manor": Ragatha is implied to have tied up Jax to force him to shut up and not interfere with her and Gangle's adventure, and he spends the tail end of the episode tied up, gagged, and carried around in a cart.
• AstroLOLogy: In "Blast to the Past", every time Virgo replaces one of her past selves, she leaves them tied up and gagged in her closet. At the end, Scorpio finds the seven of them still there, and the fortune message shows them chasing after Virgo Prime, clearly vengeful.
• Batmetal: In Batmetal Forever, Rapunzel is tied up to a tree and has tape on her mouth while Batman is using her magic hair to revive the Joker.
• Fazbear and Friends: In "Circus Baby NEEDS HELP!!!", Circus Baby's friends are bound but not gagged, since the lava, rope, and camera monsters turned their pizzeria into a death trap.
• Happy Tree Friends: In "Gems the Breaks", Lifty and Shifty tie up Giggles and Petunia with duct tape so they can steal the girls' lemonade stand money.
• Happens a few times in Helluva Boss:
  • In Season 1, Episode 1, Moxxie is tied to a chair by two evil children while Millie and Blitzø are tied to a post by two Satan worshippers.
  • In Season 1, Episode 4, Moxxie and Millie tie themselves up in the aftermath of a firefight with the Cherubs.
  • In Season 1, Episode 6, Blitzø and Moxxie are captured by two agents and tied back to back in chairs.
  • In Season 2, Episode 3, Moxxie is bound and gagged by his abusive father and forced into a wedding.
  • In Season 2, Episode 4, Stolas is kidnapped by Striker and tied up. There's also a brief instance where Striker gags Stolas with his tail.
  • In Season 2, Episode 6, Blitzø and Fizzarolli are kidnapped by Striker and Crimson. Fizzarolli is gagged in a ransom video Crimson sends to Asmodeus.

• Bound Adventures is an action adventure series with a dominatrix theme, so getting tied up is part of the point.
• In one arc of Casey and Andy, Andy and his girlfriend are captured and tied up by the Mime Assassin. Casey's girlfriend is Satan, but she's Too Kinky to Torture, and is enjoying being tied up too much to bother to rescue Andy.
• Has happened more than once in Collar 6. Then again, the comic is about bondage, so this isn't a surprise.
• Cyanide and Happiness: Subverted in this comic. Seizure Man has been captured by a super villain, whose henchman was supposed to tie him to a chair to keep him captive. Seizure Man then shows up, very much unrestrained, as the chair is actually tied to the back of his head.
• While resting inside of an old man's home whom he knocked and left to die to the rotters. Monday from Dead Winter finds out that maybe it was a good thing he picked the old man as his target. As he meets a young lady named Sally Wehrnheim tied up and gagged inside of the man's closet.
• In Girl Genius Beausoleil binds and gags Agatha when he kidnaps her to force her to help him deal with an upstart trying to take over Paris. She frees herself very quickly.
• In Matchu a robot arm programmed to duct tape things together wraps Amber head to toe when she gets too close to it.
• In Pacificators, how Cinna and Egmond handled Rendo. According to Muneca, it wasn't in the guidelines.
• The Princess's Jewels: In episode 13, Prince Efrit is seen reading a newspaper containing a front page article about Princess Ariana favouring the recently-arrived Haun Baek over her other "jewels", and not being happy about it in the slightest. The next pictures show he has a man tied up and gagged at his feet. The man is the person who wrote the article.
• Done to Larissa in Sandra and Woo to keep her from interfering while Sandra and her boyfriend, Cloud, share their long-delayed First Kiss. Overlaps with Unwilling Suspension but harmless in this case.
• All over Semi-Auto Semla. Understandable, given its emulation of the pulp genre.
• Sunstone, being about BDSM, tends to feature this a lot. Lisa, one of the two leads, was even a self-bondage enthusiast before she met Ally.
• Happens frequently on Suspicious Links, whether it's the protagonist or supporting characters.
• Paracule and Mauchi from Tower of God do that to all their team member they can find so that they can be used as hostages to make Quant let them pass the test. Unfortunately for them, Quant calls their bluff by saying that if only one drop of blood is drawn, everybody will die.
• Unsounded: Stockyard ties Sette to a chair in his office and puts a gag over her mouth after his goons manage to track her down so he can steal Duane from her. The gag is likely because she bit the finger off a woman earlier in the day.
• A frequent occurrence in V The Vampire Vigilante. Given that it is a Damsel in Distress comic, this is not surprising. It can be read here.

• Happens to every one of the 5 middle-school aged heroes (of both sexes) in the independent kid-made film Bradley's Summer, which can be found on YouTube. Not only that, Bradley himself gets tied up while invisible. Yup, an invisible boy tied up with ropes that look like they're hanging in mid-air.
• Also done in an unusual way to a girl who looks about 10, in the independent film Caitlyn. She's tied to a pole (in part 2) with what appear to be metal strips pulled tightly. She's forced to make a Sadistic Choice between her freedom, or her parents' lives. Part 1 Part 2
• Cam Steady: In "Princess Peach vs. Amy Rose", Peach is shown bound and gagged inside a cage when Amy starts the battle by singing "Surprise you even made it so this shouldn't be tough when you got Bowser and Nintendo always lockin' you up."
• Channel Awesome seems to like this trope and use it in an equal-opportunity fashion:
  • Linkara has been tied up twice, once by Sage and the other time by Mechakara. The former had a gag involved.
  • The Nostalgia Critic was held hostage by the Game Heroes and was tied up with a bag over his head. The bag's pulled off at the start, but he's still squirming and getting manhandled throughout the promo. Later on, Hyper Fangirl and Devil Boner like tying him up with pink handcuffs and chains.
  • Paw Dugan was tied to a chair and had his legs shaved by Pushing Up Roses.
  • The Nostalgia Chick had her hands tied with a red bowtie when Dark Nella took over her show and the Makeover Fairy was tied up in the bath while her make-up was scraped off.
  • The Ghost Of Christmas Future tied Obscurus Lupa to a chair with tape and tinsel in order to try and get the Critic to a Christmas Carol parody.
  • Elisa was taped up on a couch courtesy of Team B in Suburban Knights.
  • The Chick stunned Spoony in the face, tied him up with extension cord and gagged him with a sock at the start of their Dune (1984) IRiff. She's also kidnapped and tied up Todd in the Shadows at least five times. ^note  Add on her chloroforming of the Critic and you start to get a good reason why the fangirls love her.
• About two-thirds into this review by The Gaming Pixie. With ghostly demonic hands involved, no less.
• Golden Book Video Killers:
  • In "Golden Book Video Killers XVI", Grumpy and Daffy were covering the Golden Book Video versions of The Bible stories, Noah's Ark, David and Goliath, and Jonah. Grumpy feared that Daffy would make crude and offensive jokes about the stories (since they were all about Christianity), so he tied up Daffy to prevent that from happening.
  • In the latest episode "Golden Book Video Killers - Si And Am's Edition", Si and Am (from Lady and the Tramp) do this to Grumpy in an attempt to sabotage the 5th anniversary of the show. Fortunately for Grumpy, Zeke Wolf showed up and was able to save him, which led to Grumpy confronting the two mischievous cats about it near the end of the episode.
• Happens to the two female leads in the independent film Green Eyed Monsters. They pretty much spend 80% of the movie tied up. Strong language warning on this one. It's certainly not made by kids.
  • Five actresses have it happen to them in Blackout. From the same director. Hmmm...
• Knot Me. The premise of this short film? "What do you do when you wake up to find yourself tied to a chair?" Find out here. Yes, a short film literally about a young woman being tied up.
• Played for Drama a couple of times in Marble Hornets:
  • In Entry #35, Alex and Jay manage to unmask the masked man after they overpower him and tie him up, revealing his identity for the first time. It's Tim.
  • In Entry #67, the hooded figure knocks out Alex with a pipe at the abandoned hospital and then ties him up to a chair. He allows Tim to practically knock his lights out before he takes Alex's gun and nearly finishes him off himself. Fortunately for Alex, the Operator shows up just in time to save him.
• Done, interestingly, with a lot of rope and a large cloth gag for visual effect, on a young girl about 7, in a movie made by a summer camp, The Mystery of the Missing Jewels. It's obvious she isn't really tied or gagged especially tightly, and it's just for show, but that sure is an almost cartoonish amount of rope.

• Adventures of the Gummi Bears: Princess Calla is tied up and gagged when Duke Igthorn kidnaps her in "The Crimson Avenger Strikes Again".
• Quite a few instances of this happened in Aladdin: The Series, such as with Jasmine and the Sultan in "Destiny on Fire", although that was just an illusion made by the villain of the week.
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Both Hawkeye and Mockingbird get this treatment in "Widow's Sting".
• Happens in many episodes of Batman: The Animated Series to one character or another.
  • "Feat of Clay'': When Clayface catches Germs after his attempt to murder Fox in the hospital is foiled, he proceeds to bind and gag Germs with clay. Batman leaves Germs in this state after he saves him from being thrown off the roof.
  • Catwoman finds herself on a Conveyor Belt o' Doom being carried toward a cat food grinder in the episode "Almost Got 'Im".
  • In the episode "Christmas With The Joker", Joker goes for a festive theme, binding Gordon, Summer and Bullock up like Christmas presents (complete with bows) and using candy canes as gags.
• Batman Beyond:
  • In the very first scene, Bunny Vreeland (daughter of Veronica Vreeland) has been kidnapped for a ransom and, as you can imagine, is bound and gagged by her captors.
  • In Return of the Joker, this happens in a very brief scene to Jordan Pryce's girlfriend.
• Pretty much every major character other than Batman, Nightwing, and Ra's Al Ghul is tied up at one point or another in Batman: Under the Red Hood.
• Happens at least once to Lydia when one of Beetlejuice's enemies gets her in their grip.
• Happens many times in Ben 10, for example Gwen-in-Charmcaster's body is handcuffed and gagged in a police car, Kenny and Grandpa Max end up tied and gagged by Kevin and Devlin 11. and Julie's hands are bound with energy and gagged by the Nanite Queen.
• In the episode titled "Aunt Cass Goes Out" from Big Hero 6: The Series, where Hiro saw Alistair Krei tied up and tapegagged in the Men's Bathroom.
• Happens with some regularity in Carmen Sandiego (2019). Carmen herself gets tied up at least Once a Season, Zack and Ivy get captured by VILE on several occasions, and Chase Devineaux, Tigress, and Paper Star all have their moments.
• Each of the four main rodents from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers ended up like this at least twice.
• Happened at least once to Jeremie Belpois of Code Lyoko. He managed to get the gag off but had to send Odd's dog Kiwi for help because the ropes were too tight. He's not happy about it.
  With my luck, he'll come back with the principal.
• The U.S. Dennis the Menace cartoon once had a scene where a seal is running amok, and at one point grabs a paper towel in its mouth and runs around the kids, wrapping them up in the paper towel. They even get gagged by apples that get knocked off a table and fly into their open mouths.
• In The Dragon Prince, Rayla gets this treatment while being upside down and lowered toward the sea to be fed to sea leviathans until she is saved by Callum.
• Drawn Together: Foxxy in the second season premiere thanks to Strawberry Sweetcake. Her hands are tied behind her back, her ankles are tied together, and she's gagged. She's locked in a closet and struggling, and the front of her top gets ripped in the struggle. Foxxy's struggling then causes a jar of honey to spill on her and this combined with her being tied up and helpless ends up making her very horny.
• Happens to Lena in the 2017 DuckTales series during the episode "The Beagle Birthday Massacre".
• Candle Jack has been known for doing this to whoever says his name on Freakazoid!. Which happens a lot, so he's always gonna need more rope for unknown reasons.
• In the classic George of the Jungle, this has happened to Ursula in the episodes "Desperate Showers", "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seed" and "A Man for All Hunting Seasons".
• Goldie Gold and Action Jack had both titular characters being Bound and Gagged. One instance had a henchwoman grabbing both Goldie's arms from behind, and Goldie spends the next half-minute pinned right in front of her captor.
• Cassandra was bound and gagged in one episode of Hercules: The Animated Series.
• In Hey Arnold!, Harold, Stinky and Sid come to Arnold for help after thinking they blew up a police station When it was actually Ernie who demolished it with a wrecking ball. When Arnold tells them they have to go to the police, they bind and gag him for fear that he would rat them out.
• Happens in House of Mouse when Clarabelle's gossiping spirals out of control, and is about to repeat the cycle.
• I ♡ Arlo: Happens to Edmée in the second-to-last episode of Season 1, when she is being held hostage and Ruff and Stucky are writing a ransom note to lure Arlo back to the swamp as an order by the Bog Lady. Done again to Arlo himself in the finale, "The Uncondemning", albeit not gagged like Edmée, when the Bog Lady snatches him up in her roots before hypnotizing him into never leaving her.
• Penny, the young niece of the title character of Inspector Gadget, would frequently be captured by the M.A.D Agent of the Week and be bound and gagged, often requiring her to either free herself, or be rescued by Brain.
• This occurs to a total of three characters in Ivanhoe: The King's Knight. It happens once to Rowena, one to Harold and twice to Rebecca.
• Justice League Action:
  • Often with Wonder Woman. Happened during "Selfie Help", with an unknown goo-like black substance fulfilling the role of her bindings and gag.◊
  • A Running Gag has Diana gets tied up in her own lasso.
  • Zatanna during "Speed Demon", where a possessed Batmobile binds and gags Zatanna with the ejection parachute and locks her in its trunk◊.
• Kim Possible would often find herself tied up by the villain. She almost always used this time to get the villain to reveal their plot, then escape and kick their ass.
• Lola Bunny ends up bound and gagged midway through Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run, forcing Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck to save her in a Nightmarish Factory.
• This happens to Brattus in the third act of the Mr. Bogus episode "Bogus To The Rescue", after Bogus busts him for making a false alarm on the phone about an emergency.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In "Boast Busters", Applejack is tied up and gagged with an apple when challenging Trixie to a rodeo contest.
  • In Part 1 of "Twilight's Kingdom", Tirek ties up the earth ponies with a lasso and steals their magic.
  • In "Stranger Than Fan Fiction", a vendor at a Fan Convention sells Daring Do body pillows, including some that depict her completely tied up. Later, Rainbow Dash and Quibble Pants get captured and chained together; Quibble demonstrates his puzzle-solving skills by breaking free in mere minutes.
• Also occurs in the original My Little Pony cartoon. In a heroic example, during the final part of "Bright Lights", the Flutter Ponies, while easily beating Arabus, tie his rat underlings together with ropes.
• Mickey and Minnie are tied up and gagged◊ in the old cartoon "Shanghaied."
• The New Adventures of Superman
  • "The Ape Army of the Amazon": Lois Lane gets tied to a pillar in a temple and gagged by the villain so he can steal the temple's treasures.
  • "The Mysterious Mr. Mist": Lois Lane is tied up and gagged by Mr. Mist before he lowers her into a well.
  • "Luminians on the Loose": Jimmy Olsen gets this treatment from Lex Luthor.
• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show: In "They Went That-A-Way", Pebbles is captured by rustlers, who then gag her and tie her up to a cactus. In the next scene, Pebbles' friends find her hopping away while still being tied up to the cactus.
• All the time on The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. Every single episode. More than once. Funny thing is she has only been gagged twice, in "Carnival Calamity" (tied to a giant duck in the shooting gallery) and in "Wild West Peril" (in the Hooded Claw's hot air balloon). About 90% of the Hooded Claw's schemes probably would have worked if he hadn't overlooked that.
• Happens all the time in Peter Pan & the Pirates.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
  • In "Simian Says", Mojo captures the Narrator this way and takes over the narration of the show making the Girls steal for him.
  • The Professor, as the show's designated Distressed Dude, was also trussed up a handful of times by villains, mostly in the later seasons. Although he was usually just tied up with ropes, he did get the full bound & gagged treatment two different times in the episodes "Not So Awesome Blossom" and "Coupe d'etat."
  • Princess Morbucks with a bomb attached in her debut appearance.
  • Miss Bellum, while disguised as Sedusa, after the latter takes her hostage in her own home.
  • The Mayor of Townsville had this happen to him a few times.
  • In "Super Friends", Princess ties up and gags Robyn Snider after tricking her into stealing candy as part of an Engineered Heroics act, in order to convince the girls to accept her as a PPG.
• Saturday Supercade: In the Donkey Kong Jr. episode titled "Double or Nothing", Bones' cousin Lucy Belle is kidnapped by being put inside a Bag of Kidnapping. Junior and Bones later find her tied up and gagged on a chair inside a shed, before Junior frees her from her bindings.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • While all five members of Mystery Inc. have been tied up and gagged over the course of the franchise, Daphne is the one who gets this treatment the most, which is one of the reasons why she earned the nickname "Danger-Prone Daphne". For example, in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, she ends up bound and gagged after getting kidnapped by the Monster of the Week in "Which Witch is Which?" and "Mystery Mask Mix-Up". In both instances, she gets freed only after being found by Fred and Velma.
  • In an episode from The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show titled "Where's Scooby-Doo?", the titular dog is tied up with ropes, gagged with tape, and stuffed into a sarcophagus. He then manages to free himself from all three objects restraining him easily.
• This happens a lot in The Simpsons:
  • The earliest example was "Bart the General" when Nelson was tied up after Bart and the other neighbourhood kids subdued him and his two Weasel henchmen with the promise that he wouldn't be freed unless he promised to stop beating Bart up.
  • In the Season 1 finale "Some Enchanted Evening", Ms Botz the Babysitter Bandit tied up Bart and Lisa (it's implied she also did this to her previous victims) and disconnected the phone so they couldn't stop her from robbing the house or call the police. She only gagged Bart to shut him up. She didn't think to do the same to Maggie though, allowing her to free her siblings and the kids managed to knock Ms Botz out and then tie her up and gag her.
  • One notable example is in "Cape Feare", when Sideshow Bob ties up the entire family (even the pets!) as he goes off to kill Bart. Of course, Homer is asleep throughout the ordeal.
    Lisa: Oh, no. Dad's been drugged!
    Marge: No, he hasn't.
  • He tries this on just Bart in "Day of the Jackanapes" and "The Bob Next Door" and on the whole family (this time, with Bart in place of the pets) in "Funeral for a Fiend". He ties them all up again (with gags) in the Disney short The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
  • The "Cape Feare" example is revisited in the "Ei8ht" segment of "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" with Lisa managing to struggle over to the window, despite her bondage, just in time to see Bob murder Bart. 30 years later, a deranged grown-up Lisa ties up Cletus Spuckler's firstborn son Dermot, before murdering him by skinning him alive.
  • In "22 Short Films About Springfield", as a reference to a scene from Pulp Fiction, Herman the antiques store owner ties Chief Wiggum and Snake to chairs and ball-gags them after they crash through the door of his store while fighting. Wiggum tries to escape by hopping along while still tied up.
  • In "The Joy of Sect", Marge, Ned Flanders and Groundskeeper Willy have Homer and the kids tied up in Flanders' rumpus room, in order to deprogram them from the influence of the Movementarians.
  • In "Lisa the Drama Queen", Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney tie up Lisa and Juliet upon discovering them in their hideout.
  • Homer does this to Maggie in "Homer Alone" and Bart in "We're on the Road to D'oh-Where" to stop them from escaping from the car.
  • In the climax of "24 Minutes", Bart and Groundskeeper Willy are faced with the threats of Drowning Pit and Turbine Blender while tied to chairs.
  • Homer gets kidnapped and tied up in "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love", "Blame It On Lisa", "Mona Leaves-A", "Chief Of Hearts" (along with Wiggum), "The Falcon and the D'ohman", "Homerman", "Sky Police", "The Clown Stays In The Picture", "The Man From G.R.A.M.P.A" (along with Abe), and "A Serious Flanders". Herman takes him hostage in "The Springfield Connection" and covers his mouth so he can't warn Marge about Herman's intention to shoot her.
  • This happened to Apu a few times, most notably in "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes".
  • In Large Marge, Bart ties Milhouse to a merry-go-round in order to imitate a stunt they saw in an episode of the 1966 Batman series, in which Krusty the Clown was the antagonist.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
  • In Promise, Catra is briefly tied up and gagged by a robot spider using it's slimy green webbing.
  • In Ties that Bind, Catra spends most of the episode tied up, though not gagged.
  • In Moment of Truth, Adora spends the entire episode all tied up and gagged, spending most of her time trying to scream through said gag, though she does have the gag briefly removed a few times so she can talk to the villains.
• Several instances of this trope happen in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, including to Spidey himself in the series finale.
• In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Venom does this to Gwen Stacy in order to cause misery to Spidey in "Nature vs. Nurture".
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • We get a very brief glimpse of Mr. Krabs and Patrick tied-up and helpless in the storeroom, courtesy of our favorite sponge as he prepares a fancy dinner for Squilliam and his buddies; it was the only way to stop their disastrous attempts to help.
  • There's another incident where Mr. Krabs is tied to his chair but not gagged as SpongeBob and Squidward torment him to see if he's really a robot. It Makes Sense in Context.
• This sometimes happens to Princess Toadstool and less frequently to Mario and Luigi in the Super Mario Bros. (DiC) cartoons. Even the Koopa Kids get tied up once.
• Superman: The Animated Series:
  • Lois Lane, naturally, gets this treatment quite a few times, among a few other characters.
  • In "World's Finest", the Joker kidnaps Lois and has her bound and gagged while Evil Gloating about his Evil Plan to kill Superman. The gag is removed so Lois can comment on this, only for her to immediately start mouthing off at the Joker, causing an outraged Harley Quinn to shove the gag back in.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
  • April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), who always ended up being bound and gagged by the bad guys, especially during the earlier seasons, to the point that the turtles can even recognize her mumbles.
  • In Turtles Forever, the 1980s Turtles tell their 2000s counterparts that they must save April at least once a day.
• Tom and Jerry:
  • Tom & Jerry Kids: Dripple is on trial in "Droopy Law" with Miss Vavoom as his public defender and McWolf as the injured party. Vavoom has a tape proving that Dripple is innocent. However, before she can play it, McWolf grabs her, runs out of the courtroom (with fighting noises being heard afterwards), and comes back without her, coming up with an excuse for her absence before playing his tape. Soon after, Vavoom returns in the courtroom, tied up, gagged, and blindfolded, hopping until she arrives next to Dripple, who unties her before she plays her tape.
  • Happens to Red in the direct-to-DVD movie Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes.
• In almost all the episodes of the spy-girl series Totally Spies!, one of the girls is captured by the villain(s) of the week, forcing the other two to act fast, leading to their capture with them sometimes being bound and gagged. It happens in the sequel series The Amazing Spiez! too though not quite as often.
• Ultimate Spider-Man:
  • In "Great Responsibility", Spider-Man ties up and gags Thundra with his web before she could sling a vulgar insult to him, with Spidey then saying that "Kids are watching."
  • In "Return to the Spider-Verse, Part 4", Spidey and Miles Morales go to the latter's reality. There, they find Wolf Spider, who then reveals that he took Miles' mother hostage, the latter being bound and gagged with web.
• Caleb from W.I.T.C.H. (2004) gets caught, bound, and gagged in season 1. Lucky for him, he'd done the same thing to the same guards earlier in that episode with his belt, where he kept a dagger that he used to escape.

• The married couple known as Jester and Kitty are two German cosplayers who work under the alias/brand of Natsuko-Hiragi, doing cosplay bondage with Kitty (and sometimes Jester) bound and gagged in a cosplay that could be any character from Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion to Jasmine from Aladdin.