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Bench Breaker
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- 37 feature instances
- 24 referencing feature instances
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| Bench Breaker | comment |
When a character is tied to a chair, bench, stool or other sitting device, they usually try to pick their handcuffs, rub their ropes against a Conveniently Placed Sharp Thing, or some other action that affects their bindings. Not so with the Bench Breaker; the character manages to break free by destroying whatever they are tied to. This is not simply Breaking the Bonds—it usually is done by a normal human who is desperate enough to ram themselves into a wall just to damage the chair, or nearly break a limb leveraging it. Compare Bring the Anchor Along, where the prisoner ends up dragging whatever they're tied to along with them. Examples |
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Dropped link to BurnTheWitch: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to ManchurianAgent: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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| Bench Breaker | isPartOf |
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| Bench Breaker / int_1ed902af | comment |
In Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus, Annika escapes Ollie the giant by tricking him into testing his strength by chaining himself to a post and breaking free. Rather than breaking the chain, he ends up breaking the post causing his roof to collapse on him. | |
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| Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_222c2051 | type |
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On Chuck, whenever Casey gets handcuffed to a piece of furniture, he ends up breaking it and using the attached pieces as a melee weapon. | |
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| Chuck | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_226f6b3f | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_226f6b3f | comment |
Haven: In a season 4 episode, Dwight (played by WWE wrestler Edge) is kidnapped by mooks working for the season's Big Bad. They tie him to a chair, which he promptly busts out of. Oh, and this is while he's still recovering from a close-range gunshot wound. The only reason the mooks gain the upper hand in this scenario is because Dwight's Trouble is that he attracts bullets, and the mooks are armed. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_2aadfd05 | type |
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Kate Shugak: In A Taint in the Blood, Kate is captured and tied to a camp bed in an old cabin. She escapes by breaking the bed till she can squirm across the floor, and then lighting a Coleman stove and using it to burn through the rope. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_2fb4d94 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_2fb4d94 | comment |
House of Wax (2005): When Cary is strapped to a surgical chair in the basement of the gas station, she manages to escape by pulling loose the rail on one side of the chair. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_36151c14 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_36151c14 | comment |
Hawaii Five-0: When Danny is tied to a chair by gangsters, he manages to escape by ramming himself into the wall to break the chair and subsequently fighting and shooting his way out. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_364144a3 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_364144a3 | comment |
Doreau does this accidentally in the Sledge Hammer! episode "Wild About Hammer". The villain for that episode ties her to a chair. Sledge manages to untie her ankles from the chair before he's attacked. While those two are fighting, Doreau manages to stand herself up on her now freed legs, only to trip, fall over backwards, break the chair, and free herself from the rest of the rope. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_457b671e | type |
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In 24, Jack Bauer escapes by smashing his chair and attacking his captor. | |
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| 24 | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_47a4daec | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_47a4daec | comment |
Mission: Impossible – Fallout has Ilsa Faust simultaneously breaking a chair she was tied to and attacking the one who put her there in the first place. | |
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| Mission: Impossible – Fallout | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_4ab17360 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_4ab17360 | comment |
Inuyasha is, at one point fairly early on in the series, tied to a tree by a demon using her hair like garrote wire. He breaks the tree. Only a partial example, though, because he doesn't qualify as an ordinary human. | |
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| Inuyasha (Manga) | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_5063e4bf | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_5063e4bf | comment |
Lennie Pike from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World breaks the chair that he was tied to after breaking himself free from the pillar and duct tape that the gas station attendants tried tying him up to. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_54291151 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_54291151 | comment |
In the Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "The Nest Hats Craze!," Blythe gets so mad at Whittanny and Brittney tying her to a wooden chair that she breaks the chair to escape. | |
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| Littlest Pet Shop (2012) | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_562e8a6e | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_562e8a6e | comment |
Max Payne waits until Frankie "The Bat" Niagara is out of the room, before falling backwards on his chair in order to break it and set himself free. | |
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| Max Payne (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_616039c3 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_616039c3 | comment |
From time to time in The Incredible Hulk (1977), David Banner would get tied to a chair, only for him to Hulk Out; so Hulk breaks the chair. | |
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| The Incredible Hulk (1977) | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_660a8ba0 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_660a8ba0 | comment |
In Unseen Academicals, Mr. Nutt is a "goblin" ( not really; he's an orc) who recently arrived in the big city after being raised by Lady Margolotta. Before he came to Lady Margolotta he was kept prisoner in some kind of mine or forge, and grew stronger by first lifting the light tools, then the heavier tools, and finally, the anvil. Trev asks why it was so important to be able to lift the anvil, and Nutt says "Because, Mr. Trev, I was chained to the anvil." | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_6c519c14 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_6c519c14 | comment |
In The Last Knight, Sir Michael is chained to a bed by a captor and spends most of his time kicking the bedpost to try to detach it from the bed. He succeeds just in time to aid Fisk in rescuing him. | |
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| Knight and Rogue Series | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_6ea7c33b | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_6ea7c33b | comment |
Altered Carbon. In "Fallen Angels", Vernon tries fighting Kovacs while still strapped to his chair, then breaks it, but is still not able to defeat Kovacs, who then secures him to a huge puffy armchair with an excess of duct tape. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_7291539d | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_7291539d | comment |
In the intro scenes of Batman: Arkham City, Bruce Wayne rocks back and forth in a chair he's been tied to, and then escapes from his bonds once he (and it) topples to the ground. | |
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| Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_73a9c933 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_73a9c933 | comment |
Glen does this in one episode of The Walking Dead after being locked in a room with a zombie. | |
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| TheWalkingDead | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_750c88d7 | type |
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The Butchers: When Simon is tied up by John Wayne Gacy, he escapes by smashing the chair he is tied to. | |
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| The Butchers | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_76eca45c | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_76eca45c | comment |
Cold Pursuit: When Kyle and Dante are abducted, Dante has his wrists bound over his head to the handle above the car door. During the confusion, while the gangsters are trying to subdue Kyle, Dante manages to escape by ripping the handle off and jumping out into the snow. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_7884e8d1 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_7884e8d1 | comment |
In Pulp Fiction, Butch breaks free at the Torture Cellar by ripping the chair apart he was tied to. | |
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| Pulp Fiction | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_80f63b6b | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_80f63b6b | comment |
In Charlie's Angels (2000), Dylan breaks her chair with a flip, similar to the The Avengers example, although her hands stay tied after the chair is broken. | |
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| Charlie's Angels (2000) | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_933c175a | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_933c175a | comment |
in Today We Kill... Tomorrow We Die!, O'Bannion is tied to a chair with one of the Comancheros advancing on him with a set of brass knuckles. Just as the Comanchero gets to him, O'Bannion manages to rip the chair apart with his Stout Strength. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_a037ae41 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_a037ae41 | comment |
Kotomine Kirei from Fate/Zero is tied to a tree by his hands. His response? Rip the damn tree straight out of the ground. Kirei is also arguably a normal human. | |
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| Fate/Zero | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_b0793848 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_b0793848 | comment |
Twice in The Boondock Saints. Connor, handcuffed to a toilet while his brother Murphy is being taken out back to be shot by two goons from The Mafiya, smashes himself screaming against the toilet trying to break it apart before he finally just rips it up from the floor. Before he drops the toilet off the roof onto the Russians. Later in the film, both brothers have to help each other escape from being handcuffed to chairs. While this involves one brother kicking the other brother's hand to break his thumb, it is relatively tame compared to the toilet scene. |
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| Bench Breaker / int_b36fe83b | comment |
Red 2. Frank Moss is being interrogated by US officials while handcuffed to a desk. Then a hit team bursts into the building killing everyone. Frank convinces an agent to uncuff him, but too late as the hitmen burst in and shoot him, catching Frank helpless...until he breaks the desk with his head and uses the pieces to knock out the hitmen. Later in the movie, Frank handcuffs Han to a refrigerator. When police show up to arrest him, Han rips the door off and uses the pieces too, etc. |
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| Bench Breaker / int_ba46c09f | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_ba46c09f | comment |
Kick-Ass. After he's captured, tortured, and is about to be executed by Frank Genovese's goons, Kick-Ass comes up with a frantic and desperate last-ditch escape plan that revolves around taunting them to punch and kick him to death instead of shooting him, until the chair he's tied to shatters, then he picks up the splintered parts of the broken legs to fight his way out. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, when Grace breaks free of her shackles Damien had her in she destroys the chair she was sitting in in the process. This has consequences for the prisoner who was sitting near her. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_cb6abef3 | comment |
Black Widow of The Avengers does a flip while tied to a chair, shattering it on impact and freeing herself. And then she uses bits of the chair as weapons. | |
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| The Avengers (2012) | hasFeature |
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| Bench Breaker / int_dfabfce5 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_dfabfce5 | comment |
In Red Dead Redemption II one of the missions on Guarma begins with Arthur being knocked out and interrogated by the local regime. He manages to escape by toppling the chair he's tied up in and knocking out his captor. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_e0330054 | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_e0330054 | comment |
A flashback in Unknown (2006) reveals how one of the characters frees himself from the chair he was tied to by breaking the chairback. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_e0fcfdea | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_e0fcfdea | comment |
In The Avengers (1960s), Mrs. Peel gets handcuffed to a wooden chair. When the time comes, she swiftly breaks the chair and beats up the baddies with the sticks. At the end of the episode, as they stroll off across a golf course, Steed asks her what her handicap is. She shows him the chunk of wood still cuffed to one of her wrists. | |
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| Bench Breaker / int_e278316b | type |
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| Bench Breaker / int_e278316b | comment |
The Prisoner (1967) episode "The Girl Who Was Death" had him tied to a chair inside a missile set to launch and destroy London - he struggles against the rope for some time before he realizes he can just pull the back of the chair up and off, freeing himself. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In "Gingerbread" the residents of Sunnydale fall under the influence of a demon and try to burn Buffy and Willow at the stake. Buffy is bound so tightly she can't snap the ropes even with her Super-Strength. When the demon attacks her, she breaks the stake and leans forward, impaling it on the tip. In "Never Leave Me" after Spike is revealed to be a Manchurian Agent, Buffy ties him to a chair until she can figure out what to do. Spike even tells her to tighten the bonds. When he's activated, however, he breaks the chair in berserker fury and attacks Andrew, forcing Buffy to chain him up in the basement next time. |
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In the episode of Burn Notice where Fiona gets abducted, she breaks the arms of the chair she's handcuffed to so that she can move around the room freely. | |
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In Tomorrow Never Dies, Wai Lin undoes the handcuffs chaining her and Bond together while they are under a shower. She then handcuffs Bond to the shower pipe and leaves. Bond simply snaps the copper pipe and follows her. | |
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