History Main / KnottyTentacles

* Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk has at least once defeated Mr. Fantastic of Comicbook/TheFantasticFour by tying him in knots. He also tied Doc Oc's arms into knots in retaliation for the beating he received in a sinister six storyline.

* The animated film ''TheSecretOfKells'' has the boy protagonist face off against a tentacle monster to retrieve another magifying crystal to replace the one his mentor lost years ago. Part of his tactics for defeating the thing invokes the trope as he evades the tentacles.

* In the 1980s '''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' movie, the Chipettes escape from a room full of snakes by tying two of them together and using them as a rope to get out of a window.

* ''The Adventures of Theatre/TheLeagueOfSTEAM'': In "Tall Tails" three men boast of their encounters with a kraken, including one man who claims he defeated it by tying its tentacles in a nice square knot. [[RightBehindMe While he's talking a kraken attacks]], but as the man only has one arm now he's got a good excuse not to volunteer to fight it off. "I need two arms for that!"

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Piggy_Bank_Robbery The Great Piggy Bank Robbery]]". Duck Twacy (Daffy Duck) hunts down the gangsters (all inspired by ComicStrip/DickTracy villains) who stole the piggy banks. One of them is Neon Noodle, a Frankenstein's Monster lookalike made of neon tubing. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jos-Yy3ZFg#t=6m38s Twacy wrestles him and turns him into an "Eat at Joe's" sign]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7C84g8ia1M one of the openings]] has Static using complex maneuvers against Rubberband Man to make him tie himself up.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': in a TreehouseOfHorror epsiode, Bart becomes a RubberMan calling himself "Stretch Dude." At one point the BigBad has SD and [[CuteBruiser Clobber Girl (Lisa)]] suspended over a vat of boiling lucite, tied there with Stretch Dude's own arms.

* In the 80s '''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' movie, the Chipettes escape from a room full of snakes by tying two of them together and using them as a rope to get out of a window.

* In the 80s ''Chipmunks'' movie, the Chipettes escape from a room full of snakes by tying two of them together and using them as a rope to get out of a window.

* In the video game adaptation of ''{{Hook}}'', the instruction manual says that the reason the snake enemies are attacking you is because you used to tie them into knots when you were a kid.

* ''LooneyTunes'' short "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Piggy_Bank_Robbery The Great Piggy Bank Robbery]]". Duck Twacy (Daffy Duck) hunts down the gangsters (all inspired by ComicStrip/DickTracy villains) who stole the piggy banks. One of them is Neon Noodle, a Frankenstein's Monster lookalike made of neon tubing. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jos-Yy3ZFg#t=6m38s Twacy wrestles him and turns him into an "Eat at Joe's" sign]].
* In the ''SillySymphony'' short "Birds in the Spring", a bird escapes a snake by flying through a hollow log and letting the snake tie itself up on the knotholes.

* ''StaticShock'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7C84g8ia1M one of the openings]] has Static using complex maneuvers against Rubberband Man to make him tie himself up.
* ''TheSimpsons'': in a TreehouseOfHorror epsiode, Bart becomes a RubberMan calling himself "Stretch Dude." At one point the BigBad has SD and [[CuteBruiser Clobber Girl (Lisa)]] suspended over a vat of boiling lucite, tied there with Stretch Dude's own arms.

* In one episode of ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Superman uses this tactic to defeat an alien monster with multiple tongues.
* In the 80s ''Chimpmunks'' movie, the Chipettes escape from a room full of snakes by tying two of them together and using them as a rope to get out of a window.

* ''Main/TheLeagueOfSTEAM'': In "Tall Tails" three men boast of their encounters with a kraken, including one man who claims he defeated it by tying its tentacles in a nice square knot. [[RightBehindMe While he's talking a kraken attacks]], but as the man only has one arm now he's got a good excuse not to volunteer to fight it off. "I need two arms for that!"

SubTrope of BoundAndGagged. Compare and contrast TentacleRope. Little relation to the [[Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub late trope]] "Naughty Tentacles", other than by pun.

* Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk has at least once defeated Mr. Fantastic of Comicbook/TheFantasticFour by tying him in knots.

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* ''Main/TheLeagueOfSTEAM''. In "Tall Tails" three men boast of their encounters with a kraken, including one man who claims he defeated it by tying its tentacles in a nice square knot. [[RightBehindMe While he's talking a kraken attacks]], but as the man only has one arm now he's got a good excuse not to volunteer to fight it off. "I need two arms for that!"

* ''Main/TheLeagueOfSTEAM''. In "Tall Tails" three men boast of their encounters with a kraken, including one man who claims he defeated it by tying its tentacles in a nice square knot. [[RightBehindMe While he's talking a kraken attacks]], but as the man only has one arm now he's got an excuse not to try replicating his feat.

* ''Manga/DragonballZ'' has Goku face a giant snake called Princess Snake. He defeats the snake by flying around it until it ties itself into a knot trying to eat him.

* ''Manga/{{Dragonball}} Z'' has Goku face a giant snake called Princess Snake. He defeats the snake by flying around it until it ties itself into a knot trying to eat him.

* ''LooneyTunes'' short "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Piggy_Bank_Robbery The Great Piggy Bank Robbery]]". Duck Twacy (Daffy Duck) hunts down the gangsters (all inspired by DickTracy villains) who stole the piggy banks. One of them is Neon Noodle, a Frankenstein's Monster lookalike made of neon tubing. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jos-Yy3ZFg#t=6m38s Twacy wrestles him and turns him into an "Eat at Joe's" sign]].

Compare and contrast TentacleRope. Little relation to the [[Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub late trope]] "Naughty Tentacles", other than by pun.

Compare and contrast TentacleRope. Little relation to the [[PermanentRedLinkClub late trope]] "Naughty Tentacles", other than by pun.

Contrast CompareRope. Little relation to the [[PermanentRedLinkClub late trope]] "Naughty Tentacles", other than by pun.

Contrast TentacleRope.

* In the Comicbook/XWingSeries, a teenaged Wedge Antilles was restrained by Booster's tentacled copilot while going berserk as his parents were dying. Somehow, off panel Wedge slipped out and got to a window, and the copilot was seen looking startled with its tentacles knotted.

* When attacked by two snakes, the baby Hercules defeated them by tying them together.

* ''DragonballZ'' has Goku face a giant snake called Princess Snake. He defeats the snake by flying around it until it ties itself into a knot trying to eat him.

* While the tentacle monster in WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'s "Beast with a Billion Backs" was not defeated this way, this method or a similar one was used to delay Leela's capture to it.

* While the tentacle monster in WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'s "BeastWithABillionBacks" was not defeated this way, this method or a similar one was used to delay Leela's capture to it.