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"You think these little chains can hold-—?"
Dropkick, Bumblebee

Alyssa: [smirking] Better adventurer? Someone in this room is bound to a chair by a lot of rope, and it's not me.
[Sebastian stands up, snapping the chair and the ropes]
Sebastian: Then who is it, Alyssa?

Before the spurt of evil magic could bridge the gap, Captain Marvel exerted his mighty muscles. The bonds of metal flew apart as shrapnel, and the Sivanas had to dodge the fragments. He leapt from the horizontal prison that had held him for so long, and landed in a certain part of the floor just long enough to stamp his gold-booted foot through its concrete surface.

So the prince brought him a second bucketful. Koschei drank that, and asked for a third. But when he had drunk the third bucketful of water all his former strength was restored, he shook his chains, and snapped all twelve at once.

A mighty surge of his super-muscles, and Streaky bursts the metal cable coils into broken fragments...
Narrator, "Supergirl's Super Pet"

Policeman: [handcuffing Jobu Tupaki] Can't let you do that either.
Jobu Tupaki: [shattering the handcuffs] YOU WITH THE "CAN'T"! See, I don't think you understand the meaning of that word.


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