History Main / ChainedToABed

* In ''Film/FortyDaysAndFortyNights'', the protagonist has given up all forms of sex for Lent due to a string of unfulfilling relationships, but as he nears the end of his last day he's starting to crack. So he asks his roommate to handcuff him to his bed so he doesn't give in to the urge to "help himself". [[spoiler:He wakes up just in time to discover his ex-girlfriend broke into the apartment and is [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raping him while unconscious]] just to win a bet, and [[FinaglesLaw of course]] his LoveInterest enters the scene just in time to [[NotWhatItLooksLike get the wrong idea]]. He has to apologize to her, with the [[UnfortunateImplications logical inference]] that if you're a man who's raped trying to fulfill your vow of chastity, it's your own fault.]]

* Happens to Joon of [[KoreanPopMusic MBLAQ]] in Kan Miyeon's video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1KfUDB1zU Going Crazy]]. He's later shown [[WithMyHandsTied with his hands tied]] with a [[RedStringOfFate red rope]], which symbolizes exactly what it seems: The girl in the video apparently kidnaps young men and tries to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe force them to marry her]]. When they (very rationally) reject her, she keeps 'em [[UnfortunateImplications locked up together in her closet]]. So, almost literally, the man in the video is StrangledByTheRedString.

* Happens to the title character of ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan''. Played completely for [[BlackComedyRape comedy]], because it's [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Rachel and Dominic]]. [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-07-22 Comic here.]] What's interesting is the massive amounts of DudeNotFunny reaction from the fan forum. It was very much implied to be non-consensual (as Dominic claims to have had "no choice in the matter"), so treating it as comedy (compared to the male-on-female rape that is treated as [[RapeAsDrama drama]]) has some UnfortunateImplications.

* ''Film/ActOfVengeance'': When the manager of the Baby Doll Club attempts to rap Lina, the Rape Squad knock him out and trash his apartment. When he wakes up, he is tied to his bed. The women remove his pants, first pretending that they are going to rape him, and then that they are going to pour sulphuric acid over his genitals. The finally pour blue dye over his penis, so that if he attempts to rape anyone else his identity will be obvious.

* The last surviving female explorer in ''Film/DyingBreed'' ends up chained to a bed by the inbred cannibal bogans, [[spoiler:who intend to use her as breeding stock]]. As you can expect, this is played for all the horror it's worth.

* In ''Film/RichardIII'', Earl Rivers (also played by Creator/RobertDowneyJr) is handcuffed to a bed enjoying the attentions of an air hostess, a cigarette and a favourite beverage when [[spoiler: he is stabbed to death from below the bed]].

* ''Fanfic/FiveScoreDividedByFour'': Part of Evan's pretty awful May. Shortly after realizing he's undergoing a SlowTransformation, he's chained to a bed by a [[HospitalHottie nurse]] he sought out for help, who turns out to have a fetish for this sort of thing. He ends up breaking the frame with his newfound strength and stealing her car to escape.
* ''Fanfic/TheOmnitrixHero'': Shining Armor, who has become a bit of a ConspiracyTheorist towards all the aliens appearing in Canterlot, sees Flash Sentry transform back from one of his alien forms into his human form while knocked out. He takes Flash to an old abandoned apartment building and handcuffs him to a metal bed so he can't reach the watch and interrogates him, wondering if he is even human at all. After Shining leaves to try to stop Animac, Flash manages to free himself by activating the watch with one of the headboard's bars on the bed and transforming into Goop.

* ''Fanfic/FiveScoreDividedByFour'': Part of Evan's pretty awful May. Shortly after realizing he's undergoing a SlowTransformation, he's chained to a bed by a [[NaughtyNurse nurse]] he sought out for help, who turns out to have a fetish for this sort of thing. He ends up breaking the frame with his newfound strength and stealing her car to escape.

* There is also ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', where Hephaestus chains Aphrodite and Ares to a bed as revenge for Aphrodite cheating on him. {{Aesop}} about 'smart outstrips the swift'.

* Non-romantic example in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}''. Angelica [[ChainedHeat accidentally gets handcuffed to Chuckie]] [[LaserGuidedKarma after playing with toy handcuffs her dad told her not to play with]] as they were being donated to underprivileged kids. They do eventually find the key, but then Angelica gets handcuffed to her own bed.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn''. Harley captures Nightwing and duct-tapes him to her bed, since she's decided to go straight and so can't just kill him. On seeing Nightwing has become... [[RagingStiffie aroused]] at seeing her strip down to her underwear, she decides to take advantage of the situation. Batman is not amused when he turns up.
-->'''Nightwing:''' Like ''you'' never [[DatingCatwoman made out with a supervillain...]]

%%* Played straight in a side story in the manga ''MelKano''.
%%* Otome Chibaku Yuugi has this for [[RapeAsDrama drama]]
* In the ''Anime/PleaseTeacher'' OVA, Hatsuho drags Kei to a [[LoveHotels love hotel]] against his will and ties him to the bed, in order to spice up Kei and Mizuho's married life, or possibly so she could just have video footage.

* ''Anime/Conception'' Main Character, Itsuki Yuge, In titular needed hero to help a magical society propagate celestial offspring, In First Episode, he awakens tied to the bed of a huge Chamber; stripped down to his boxers.

* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': When Stephanie Brown gets handcuffed to a flimsy bed by her father's accomplices to make it appear they're using her against him she and Tim Drake use the bed to knock over a bunch of them before fleeing from their gunfire. She hates having to run but as she's just in [=PJs=] and Tim didn't bring any extra body armor in his hurry it's the only option they have.

* WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}

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* Film/NationalLampoon's ''Dorm Daze''. The plot involves a handbag full of stolen money. At one point, a guy offers a woman half the money in exchange for a good time. She tells him "By the time I'm done with you, you'll give me all of it." After handcuffing him to a chair: "Okay, I'm done with you."

* In the gangster film ''Film/ShanghaiGrand'', TheLancer Ding-lik ends up being knocked unconscious and waking up in the main villainess' bedroom in this manner, handcuffed to the bedposts. What's even worse though, his captor, a complete {{sadist}}, had sliced his chest open and is ready to feed him to a hungry boa constrictor.

%%* Happened in Creator/AnneRice's book ''Lasher''. Since that was a woman, it was, yes, deadly serious.

* ''Literature/HilaryTamar'': In ''The Sibyl in Her Grave'', bank director Edmund Albany gets found by one of the protagonists, almost naked and tied to a bed. It turns out that he referred to a French dominatrix as ''tu'' -- a grave violation of propriety, since one ought to pay respect by using "vous".

* In one of the many deaths in ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'', a man wakes up after a wild party involving crossdressing handcuffed to a bed, a water bed to be exact. He struggles for a while until one of his stiletto heels cuts a hole in the water bed, and he drowns, unable to get any of the other passed-out guests to hear his screams.
* This happened to George Costanza in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. His latest plan to pick up women is to ride the subway in a suit reading the financial section of the paper, making it look like he's a hotshot stockbroker. The woman he picks up this way indeed thinks he's rich, gets him tied to a bed, and uses the opportunity to rob him. Or rather try to -- George doesn't actually have any money ("Eight dollars? I wasted my whole morning on you for ''eight dollars''?"), so she decides to steal his suit instead.
--> "Will I see you again?"

* Happens to Joon of [[KoreanPopMusic MBLAQ]] in Kan Miyeon's video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1KfUDB1zU Going Crazy]]. He's later shown [[WithMyHandsTied with his hands tied]] with a [[RedStringOfFate red rope]], which symbolizes exactly what it seems: The girl in the video apparently kidnaps young men and tries to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe force them to marry her]]. When they (very rationally) reject her, she keeps 'em [[UnfortunateImplications locked up together in her closet]]. So, almost literally, the man in the video is StrangledByTheRedString.
* Another KPop example: In Epik High's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eINjPkO7w4M "Fan,"]] an obsessive "sasaeng" fan kidnaps an idol and keeps him chained to a bed. ''[[AbductionIsLove It's not]]'' ''[[AccidentalMurder played for laughs.]]''
* Music/{{Madonna}} is lying on a bed with chains to her neck in the [[https://youtu.be/GsVcUzP_O_8?t=161 music video]] for "Express Yourself".
* In the video for the White Stripes song "Icky Thump" the singer and guitarist Jack White is chained to a bed and robbed by a Mexican prostitute with a glass eye. [[MickeyMousing The scene is derived from the lyrics]].

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* In "Lovers Lie" by Music/TheAtomicFireballs, the singer tells how he woke up to discover that his lover has left him overnight. She also tied him to the bed and deposited all of his belongings on the lawn.
* The Music/{{WASP|Band}} song "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)". Comic phrase in comic song: "I'll nail your ass to the sheet..." It's self-irony 'cause it's just riotous fancy of a finger-artist.
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Compare ChainedToARock, BoundAndGagged, and ShamefulStrip. Overlaps with KinkyCuffs and TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction. Often a certain type of {{fanservice}} or a CasualKink. May lead to CuffsOffRubWrists. Sometimes, it's part of a HollywoodExorcism.

* This is the subject of a credit card advert in the UK.
* Also the subject of a Capital FM advert where a man gets chained to a bed and can't reach the phone so he can call the station to win the contest.
* Another British example, a car advert has a couple enjoying an improbably sexy dinner followed by aborted bondage on the stairs. He is left cuffed to the bannister staring at a piece of paper which reads "Ask before you borrow it."

* In ''Film/AVeryLongEngagement'' an old man is being tied to a bed by TheVamp Tina Lombardi.

* ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'' has Shungo, [[spoiler:who gets drugged and tied to a bed by Reika. She tries to have sex with him as soon as he wakes up, but is distracted by news of intruders.]]

* Used in an episode of ''Series/ScareTactics'' where the "victim" begs the person being pranked to free her, only to have the captor return and threaten the prankee with the same fate before the reveal.

* In ''Film/FortyDaysAndFortyNights'', the protagonist has given up all forms of sex for Lent due to a string of unfulfilling relationships, but as he nears the end of his last day he's starting to crack. So he asks his roommate to handcuff him to his bed so he doesn't give in to the urge to [[ADateWithRosiePalms "help himself"]]. [[spoiler:He wakes up just in time to discover his ex-girlfriend broke into the apartment and is [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raping him while unconscious]] just to win a bet, and [[FinaglesLaw of course]] his LoveInterest enters the scene just in time to [[NotWhatItLooksLike get the wrong idea]]. He has to apologize to her, with the [[UnfortunateImplications logical inference]] that if you're a man who's raped trying to fulfill your vow of chastity, it's your own fault.]]

[[caption-width-right:346:''"Madam, I need you to remain calm, and [[TrustMeImAnX trust me, I'm a professional]]. But beneath this pillow, [[InnocentInnuendo lies the key to my release.]]" [[note]]"Of course, she misinterpreted my meaning entirely".[[/note]]'']]

** In [[http://audreys-efanfic.freeservers.com/counterblow.html "Counterblow"]], it's even more serious. John reports a cop for abuse and his girlfriend seduces John. She beats him and leaves him tied to the bed. As he and Roy are off shift, it's not until he doesn't show up for work 2 days later that he's found, dehydrated, nearly dead, in his trashed apartment. Naturally, it isn't a pretty sight. And the woman keeps stalking him until she gets into a crash as the police chase her.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': In a (possibly) non-romantic example, Vicky does this to Timmy at least once.

* Inverted in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E19FavoriteSon Favorite Son]]". Harry Kim is stranded on a planet of [[HornyDevils Amazon Vampire Succubi]] that secretly want to suck his life out by having [[OutWithABang deadly sex with him]]. He's discovered their plans, so when two of them come to seduce him he suggests to them that he'd like to do it with them tied to the bed. As soon as they're bound, his escape attempt ensues.

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* Two possible real-life examples are retold on [[http://everything2.com/title/You+really+shouldn%2527t+let+people+you+don%2527t+know+tie+you+up this node]] at Website/{{Everything2}}.
* This is why all toy handcuffs have levers on them that allow the wearer to free themselves without a key.
* A poster in a bondage forum kicked off a minor FlameWar when he admitted to invoking this on a few of his sessions. Some of his "victims" were freaked out (which he found funny), others were too smart to fall for it. He justified that the people he pulled this on had been people he already knew, but some posters felt that it violated the SafeSaneAndConsensual principles of UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}}.
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* This happens more than once to Lisbeth Salander in the ''Literature/MillenniumSeries''. The first time, she's being strapped down by a [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate sadistic psychiatrist]], and the second time, she's being [[RapeAsDrama raped by her court-appointed guardian]]. [[spoiler:She gets vengeance on both of them.]]

-->-- From '''{{Website/Cracked}}.com''''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18756_7-romantic-movie-gestures-that-can-get-you-prison-time.html#ixzz10dWTtaOj list of romantic movie gestures that can get you prison time.]]

* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', after [[NonActionGuy Jerin]] is kidnapped this is PlayedForDrama. The first time, he's assured that [[VirginTension he won't be touched]], and the ''second'' time, [[spoiler: he's been delivered to the women who arranged for his kidnapping, one of whom ''rapes his mouth''.]] Cira, who was BoundAndGagged and chained to the foot of the bed [[ForcedToWatch to watch]], is furious.
* In Peter Robinson's ''Friend with the devil'', one of the investigating detectives finds a suspect tied to the bed in a hotel room. She proceeds to interrogate both him and his lover, before letting the lover untie him. It's just as awkward and absurd as it sounds.
* The trope is played not just for drama, but for outright terror in the Creator/StephenKing novel ''Literature/GeraldsGame,'' which begins with a woman being handcuffed to a bed out in the middle of nowhere by her husband, who then dies of a heart attack. And she has about two days before she'll die of thirst. And then Death himself shows up...

* A very dark example of this is in ''Literature/LessThanZero'' where a twelve-year-old girl is tied to a bed, and given drugs as she gets used as a {{sex slave}}.
* Happens more than once to Lisbeth Salander in ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy''. The first time, she's being strapped down by a [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate sadistic psychiatrist]] and the second time she's being [[RapeAsDrama raped by her court-appointed guardian]]. [[spoiler: She gets vengeance on both of them.]]

* In Courtney Milan's ''Proof By Seduction'', Gareth insists that Jenny wear a much fancier dress than the plain fare she prefers, and won't let her voice any objections. She [[ShowSomeLeg lifts her skirts to above her knees,]] slooowly peels down one of her stockings, and then climbs on his lap for makeouts. While he's distracted, she uses the stocking to tie one of his hands to the chair behind his back. Then she climbs off his lap and archly tells him to free himself. When he furiously declares that he can't reach the knots with his free hand, she tells him she can't reach the laces on the back of that fancy dress either. She's too poor to hire a lady's maid, and the plain dresses are the only ones she can put on and off by herself.
* In ''[[Literature/HilaryTamar The Sibyl in Her Grave]]'' by Sarah Caudwell, bank director Edmund Albany gets found by one of the protagonists, almost-naked and tied to a bed. It turns out that he referred to a French dominatrix as ''tu'' -- a grave violation of propriety, since one ought to pay respect by using "vous".
* Alluded to in ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight''. The Lady Bertilak threatens to have Gawain bound to his bed if he does not 'strike a bargain with her'. In some translations and adaptations, the Lady is teasing, and Gawain responds in kind. In others, Gawain is rather nervous or legitimately concerned about the threat.
* In Janet Evanovich's first Literature/StephaniePlum book, Stephanie is [[InterruptedBath interrupted while showering]] and ends up handcuffed to the shower--an example of this trope being played to comedic effect with a woman. The book gets away with it because the guy who does it is just trying to keep her out of the way so he can search her apartment for something he believes she has. He [[EatingTheEyeCandy ogles her a bit]], but it's presented as being mostly playfulness (they have "history" together), as well as causing her to [[NakedFreakOut get embarrassed and cover up]] rather than make trouble.

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** In [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40993689/chapters/102736095?view_adult=true As The Embers Dim and Die]], Camilo is kidnapped and chained to a bed by a crazed man who thinks he’s hid other half.