- 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.
- 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.
- From the 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.
- In Aeon Natum Engel, the Nazzadi loyalist is disabled in the way that resembles the way how Section 9 restrain criminals, while giving a Shout-Out to I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
- This happens several times in 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.
- In The Institute Saga, Deadpool manages to (briefly) hijack an Author's Afternote before being restrained.
- 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, 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.
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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.
- 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.
- In Brilliance Tarnished L, courtesy of Light when Light decides he'd rather keep him than kill him. Later Light courtesy of L.
- 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.
- 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.
- In My Immortal, Voldemort apparently does this to Draco after kidnapping him: "Volfemort has him bondage!"
- 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...
- Burning Secret: In one of Lincoln’s nightmares, he ties up Lucy, Lola, Lana, Clyde, Rusty, Liam, Zach, Ronnie Anne, and Mrs. Johnson.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In Ahsoka Tano And Scorpios Riddle, the first titular character is tied up and gagged by the second when he captures her. He clearly enjoys it.
- 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.
