History Main / ChainPain

Overlaps with BreakingTheBonds if the chain was being used to restrain its wielder. ChainedByFashion is when a character wears the chains as an accessory, although it can also overlap with this trope if said character chooses to make use of those accessories as weapons too. See also BladeOnARope, EpicFlail, and FightingWithChucks for other weapons that have chains as an important component. A kusarigama is likely to be included in StockNinjaWeaponry. If the chains become electrified (naturally due to being made of metal), it becomes a LightningLash.

Overlaps with BreakingTheBonds if the chain was being used to restrain it's wielder. ChainedByFashion is when a character wears the chains as an accessory, although it can also overlap with this trope if said character chooses to make use of those accessories as weapons too. See also BladeOnARope, EpicFlail, and FightingWithChucks for other weapons that have chains as an important component. A kusarigama is likely to be included in StockNinjaWeaponry. If the chains become electrified (naturally due to being made of metal), it becomes a LightningLash.

* Leia uses the chain of her SlaveCollar to strangle Jabba the Hutt to death in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.

* ''Film/TheGameChanger'' has one of the protagoniosts breaking out of prison, still shackled in chains and all, and when several prison guards tries restraining him, he then uses those chains to beat up his captors.

* In ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' A weighted chain is an option for a cavalier’s offhand, albeit an uncommon one [[TruthInTelevision because of it’s difficulty to master]]. Notable users include Anastasia the First’s cavalier Samael Novenary, Protesilaus Ebdoma, and [[spoiler: Harrow in one of her {{Elseworlds}}.]]

* SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}'s signature weapon is a hook on a chain.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': After Oliver escapes from being imprisoned in the Season One finale, he uses the chains (which are still cuffed to his wrists) to take out two guards.

* Improvised by John Reese in the ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' [[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E01 Season 5 premiere]]. Injured and on the run from [[AIIsACrapshoot Samaritan]] with [[spoiler:The Machine]] in tow, Reese runs out of ammo shortly after [[ShootOutTheLock shooting out a padlock]] and chain holding a gate closed. Two Samaritan agents confront him, and he uses the chain to strangle one and deliver a beatdown on the other.

Sometimes the chain is all you need for a weapon, without the weight at the end. It's used much the same way as a {{whip|ItGood}} or [[KnowsTheRopes rope]], and, in less realistic works, skilled users can make InstantKnots with it. [[VariableLengthChain The length may vary as appropriate]].

A BadassBiker will often do this in a rumble. Also very common in 80s movies with street gangs and among fictional Japanese delinquents. Overlaps with BreakingTheBonds if the chain was being used to restrain it's wielder. ChainedByFashion is when a character wears the chains as an accessory. See also BladeOnARope, EpicFlail, and FightingWithChucks for other weapons that have chains as an important component. If electrified, it becomes a LightningLash.

A BadassBiker will often do this in a rumble. Also very common in 80s movies with street gangs and among fictional Japanese delinquents. Overlaps with BreakingTheBonds if the chain was being used to restrain it's wielder. ChainedByFashion is when a character wears the chains as an accessory. See also BladeOnARope, EpicFlail, and FightingWithChucks for other weapons that have chains as an important component. If electrified becomes a LightningLash.

A BadassBiker will often do this in a rumble. Also very common in 80s movies with street gangs and among fictional Japanese delinquents. Overlaps with BreakingTheBonds if the chain was being used to restrain it's wielder. ChainedByFashion is when a character wears the chains as an accessory. See also EpicFlail and FightingWithChucks for other weapons that have chains as an important component. If electrified becomes a LightningLash.

A BadassBiker will often do this in a rumble. Also very common in 80s movies with street gangs and among fictional Japanese delinquents. Overlaps with BreakingTheBonds if the chain was being used to restrain it's wielder. ChainedByFashion is when a character wears the chains as an accessory. See also EpicFlail and FightingWithChucks for other weapons that have chains as an important component.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' mini-series ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'', which narrates the history of Krypton, reveals Superman's homeworld was once conquered by an alien race called the Vrangs who held sway over the planet until being kicked out by a slave revolt. The first rebel slaves lacked weapons when they revolted, so they used their own chains to fail their guards to death, and then they stole their ray guns.