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Shackle Seat Trap
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A stock Booby Trap used by Mad Scientists, Supervillains, and other mechanically-inclined bad guys to take prisoners captive, a Shackle Seat Trap resembles a normal chair, sofa, or bench, at least until someone sits down on it. Once they're seated, either the act of sitting itself or some secondary trigger causes sturdy restraints to pop out of its armrests and/or back, ensnaring the sitter and holding them in place. Miraculously, these restraints will always prove just the right size and length to bind them snugly, whatever the sitter's size and height. Variants using beds, car seats, operating tables, or other places a potential victim might settle into also occur, though rarely. Often a form of Schmuck Bait, if the victim already has cause to be wary of traps in the vicinity. Murphy's Bed is its reclining and accidental sister trope. Examples |
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"Runaway Brain": This happens to Mickey Mouse when he applies for a job under Mad Scientist Doctor Frankenollie. He drops through a Trap Door into exactly this kind of chair, and remarks "Talk about your ironclad contract..." | |
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The Haunting (1999): When Crain's ghost animates the woodwork in Nell's room, ornamental spikes above her bed extend to pierce the mattress all around her, boxing her in. | |
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Andor: The prison transport shuttle Cassian is forced onto startles the captives aboard by abruptly and forcibly magnetizing their cuffed wrists to the sides of their seats. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Burns' Heir", Mr. Burns hitting the wrong button causes the chair Bart is sitting in to suddenly sprout shackles. Parodied in "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" when Bart, Lisa, Milhouse, and Nelson are whisked away into Hell and are put in chairs with demon arms that bind them. Nelson pulls his hands upward before he can get bound, but another set of arms pops out. |
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In The Orville, Alara gets strapped down by automatic restraints on a sick-bay examination table during a fear-testing simulation she had Isaac design for her. | |
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Monsters, Inc.: Boggs has a contraption called a "scream extractor" which has automatic wrist straps that hold a victim in the seat while a plunger-looking device attaches itself to their face to suction and capture the sound as they scream, which the titular company uses as a power source. | |
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Battle Beyond the Stars: When Shad lands on the space station of Dr. Hephaestus, an automated vehicle with a bench seat turns up to receive him, but when he sits down on it restraints snap shut around his arms and throat, choking Shad so he's unable to speak. The vehicle then takes Shad to Nanelia for repair, apparently in the belief that he's one of their Ridiculously Human Robots who has malfunctioned. She only finds out otherwise when she touches Shad and is shocked to find his body is warm. | |
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Teen Titans Go!: When Robin finds Terra hacking the Titans' computer in "Terra-rized", he sics the T-Tower's defenses on her. Among the resulting auto-defenses is a set of restraints that pop out of the couch cushions and entrap her arms and torso. | |
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The school bus in Sky High (2005) sprouts seat belts and shoulder straps, securing the students in their seats, just before it drives off the unfinished highway and transforms into an aircraft. | |
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Prince Naveen from The Princess and the Frog visits the voodoo villain Doctor Facilier, and finds himself restrained in his chair by armrests that have transformed into serpents. The serpents hold Naveen securely in place while Facilier extracts a blood sample. | |
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In Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Colonel Calloway learns too late that he sat in one of these when he visits Ms. Grimwood. | |
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In A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, when Freddy attacks Sheila in the dream-classroom, hers and Alice's desks sprout extra bars to trap them both. | |
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BioShock Infinite: Near the beginning, the only way for the plot to proceed is for Booker to sit in a chair in the top floor of the lighthouse. Bands snap down trapping him and a lift-off sequence begins. | |
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Dream Park: In The California Voodoo Game, Captain Cypher accepts the challenge of a loa-possessed video arcade game and sits down on its contoured seat to play. The plastic seat immediately re-molds itself to wrap around his body, leaving only his arms and head free. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess: Celesta, the embodiment of Death, comes to take King Sisyphus to the afterlife at the start of "Death in Chains". He offers her some food before she takes him. After she sits down, restraints snap around her wrists and he takes away her Eternal Flame, trapping her there. | |
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Downplayed in "Tomorrow Town". The protagonists get into the Zee Rust monorail train of a community-of-the-future and find that automatic safety belts are being strapped around them. They brace themselves for the implied high-Gee launch, only for the train to amble along at 25 miles an hour. It's an early sign that everything in the community is Awesome, but Impractical. | |
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In The Wolverine, Logan is tricked into extending his adamantium claws while he's sitting on a chair in Viper's lair, at which point the chair locks his hands and wrists in place, rendering him unable to retract them. Then Silver Samurai appears and uses his super-heated adamantium blade to cut Logan's claws. | |
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Aaahh!!! Real Monsters had an episode with a Bond parody, naturally including the laser scene. | |
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At the climax of Beetlejuice, the titular ghost animates two of the ugly abstract statues. They move up behind Lydia's parents, press against them from behind so they're forced to recline on the awkward sculpted shapes and enfold or entwine the hapless couple in their protrusions. | |
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One odd trap in Undermountain, an infamous Forgotten Realms dungeon complex beneath Waterdeep, consists of a canopy bed with a suspiciously lumpy frame. This is because the "frame" is an animated owlbear skeleton, stretched out on its back. Intruders who sit or lie on the "bed" are subject to its bear-hug attack. | |
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The Magic School Bus Rides Again: When the bus takes on tree-like qualities for the communication-in-Nature episode, leafy vines sprout in the interior as animated seat/shoulder belts for the students. | |
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In episode 2 of Mega Man (Ruby-Spears), Roll is thrown into a makeup chair which restrains her. | |
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In Phineas and Ferb, just about any time Perry the Platypus sits down whenever his nemesis Doofenshmirtz is around, it's in one of these. | |
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Diogenes Club: Referenced in "The Gypsies in the Wood", in which an agent of the Diogenes Club feels a brief interlude of anxiety when he sits down in an examination chair at the village doctor's office. He knows this particular doctor is no Mad Scientist, but his personal experience with ones that were is such that he can't help but suspect this trope may come into play. Downplayed in "Tomorrow Town". The protagonists get into the Zee Rust monorail train of a community-of-the-future and find that automatic safety belts are being strapped around them. They brace themselves for the implied high-Gee launch, only for the train to amble along at 25 miles an hour. It's an early sign that everything in the community is Awesome, but Impractical. |
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Super Mario Bros. (1993): Koopa's devolution chamber has a chair that straps people in and forces them into the machine. Mario and Luigi later use this against Koopa by knocking him into the chair, briefly de-evolving him so they can escape. | |
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The reclining sled used to launch Runners into the game zone in The Running Man has automatic restraints for ankles and wrists, that pop out and bind whoever sits down in it. | |
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The Boss Baby: When Tim and the Baby are trapped at PuppyCo, they're dropped through a trap door into chairs that shackle them around the waist. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry views Dumbledore's memories in the Pensieve, specifically of the wizarding equivalent of the Nuremberg tribunals after Voldemort's defeat. The accused is placed in a chair equipped with chains magicked to automatically bind them when they sit down. When Harry himself is tried for underage magic in Order of the Phoenix in a similar room with a similar chair with shackles, he's relieved when the chains stay still for him. | |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: At the lab, Doc Ock hurls Peter B. into a chair which subsequently shackles his arms and legs, allowing Doc Ock to take a cell sample from his cheek. | |
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Wild Kratts: In "Octopus Windkratticus", Martin sits down in one of the Octo-pod's seats and is wrapped by eight flexible appendages that hold him down. He initially assumes they're automatic seat belts, but they're the arms of a giant Pacific octopus that's clinging to the back of the chair. | |
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Used on Zach and Ivy in an episode of Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?. Ivy, however, is able to stand up in the heavy steel chair, and nearly bursts her restraints, when a rogue judge pushes her Berserk Button by threatening to jail Carmen Sandiego without a fair trial. | |
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Secret Histories: In Casino Infernale, Molly sits down in an office chair while she and Eddie are searching a room for traps, and metal restraints pop out of it to hold her in place. As Molly is a very powerful witch who doesn't need her hands free to use magic, she just sends them snapping back into the chair with a Word, then glares at Eddie daring him to laugh at her for falling for the chair's Schmuck Bait. | |
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The villains trap Erast Fandorin in one of these during their final confrontation in The Winter Queen. Fandorin manages to escape by pretending they've sedated him with chloroform when they unshackle and try to move his "unconscious" body. | |
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In Hardcore Henry, Punk-Jimmy coaxes Henry into one when he realizes that Akan is tapping into Henry's visual feed. It fails to hold Henry for long. | |
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Futurama: In "The Honking", when rampaging were-car Bender captures Fry in his driver's seat, the seatbelts animate and wrap around Fry to secure him in place. Then the belts tighten so Fry can't avoid Bender's steering wheel, which smacks him repeatedly in the face. In "2-D Blacktop", the safe-but-boring replacement ship has seats equipped with what Bender assumes are cup-holders. They're actually arm-holders, which flip around and restrain his wrists when Leela activates the seat. |
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Jackelian Series: In From the Deep of the Dark, villainess Gemma hauls her captive brother from his cell on board her morphic-matter submarine. She uses her mental domination over the vessel to make tentacular bindings sprout from the chair she forces him into, immobilizing him for interrogation. Subverted, because she's been mesmerized to think she's got her brother at her mercy, while he's actually escaped. Her co-conspirator soon finds Gemma beating the hell out of an empty chair, its shackling tendrils entwining only air. | |
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In an episode of K.C. Undercover, K.C. is trapped in a car via this trope when her boyfriend, actually a double agent, kidnaps her. | |
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Live and Let Die: When James Bond sits down inside Mr. Big's headquarters, steel bands in the chair's arms snap shut on his wrists, holding him prisoner (though the bands don't quite encircle Roger Moore's wrists). | |
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In one of the Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions shorts, Wallace's device for clearing the table includes shackles on the chairs so that he and Gromit don't get sucked in by the vacuum that removes the dirty plates. Unfortunately, the power goes out before they can be freed. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Karate Island", SpongeBob falls victim to this after being crowned the King of Karate, being shackled to his own throne. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Androids of Tara", Romana lies down on a bed for examination by a doctor, and metal brackets pop up and encircle her body to hold her there. In "Deep Breath", the Doctor and Clara get snared by restraints that pop out of the upholstery of a restaurant booth. The whole booth then drops through the floor like an elevator, carrying its captives with it. |
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Night Gallery: In "A Question of Fear", Leslie Nielsen gets trapped by a bed that's rigged this way. Another variant in "The House That Cried Murder" features a man being psychically 'trapped' in a vision in which he's chained down to the floor under a swinging blade, The Pit and the Pendulum-style. |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, at the pier duel, Anzu is placed in one of these as part of Marik's latest death trap. More exactly, the Brainwashed and Crazy Anzu straps herself to the seat as Malik uses her as a mouthpiece to explain his evil plan, then is released from the mind-control and wakes up not knowing what the Hell's going on... | |
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Another variant in "The House That Cried Murder" features a man being psychically 'trapped' in a vision in which he's chained down to the floor under a swinging blade, The Pit and the Pendulum-style. | |
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In Ghostbusters (1984), Dana slumps down into a chair, which sprouts grabby demonic arms. These hold her captive as the chair itself slides into a gateway to Zuul's realm. | |
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Villain-free variant: In Strata, Kin climbs onto a mechanical horse, only to find her legs trapped by metal bands that spring from its sides. She'd have been quite alarmed, except that the bands are comfortably padded, being a safety measure to ensure riders can't fall off or be crushed if the horse is knocked on its side. | |
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Madhouse (1974) features a shackle bed trap. When the victim lies upon it, shackles lock around his wrists and hold him in place as he is crushed to death by the descending canopy. | |
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse: The opening scene shows Shantae taking a bath in her home while reminiscing about the consequences of her previous adventure. Then she remembers she doesn't own a bathtub, and shackles appear, imprisoning her. | |
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Referenced in "The Gypsies in the Wood", in which an agent of the Diogenes Club feels a brief interlude of anxiety when he sits down in an examination chair at the village doctor's office. He knows this particular doctor is no Mad Scientist, but his personal experience with ones that were is such that he can't help but suspect this trope may come into play. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Where the Wild Things Are", Spike is sitting in a chair in a Haunted House, smirking at all the running and screaming going on, when suddenly straps whip across his arms and mouth. | |
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12 Monkeys: When James Cole is brought in to meet the panel of scientists, his guards caution them about how dangerous he is. A scientist assures them that Cole isn't going to do them harm, and asks him to take a seat. Cole sits in the only chair available, whereupon metal clamps close over his wrists and the seat elevates halfway up the wall. | |
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The Evil Within: The chair that you have to sit in to upgrade your abilities does this. The first time it happens, Castellanos freaks out, but afterwards he knows it's coming and just puts up with it. | |
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MacGyver (1985): In "Strictly Business", Murdoc rigs a Death Trap in which metal clamps spring out of a chair to hold him in place, a statue of Cupid spins around automatically, and a candle burns through a string to launch a cyanide-coated dart from Cupid's bow at Mac's heart. | |
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In The Muppet Movie, Dr. Krassman forces Kermit into the seat of a brain-scrambling device, and plastic restraints clamp shut on the frog's skinny wrists and ankles. | |
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Late into the Fighting Fantasy book Crypt of the Sorcerer, you'll need to get yourself trapped in one of these on purpose in order to confront Razaak, the titular necromancer. Entering a bare room with a single chair built into a wall, you take a seat (choosing not to sit will have you leaving the room and going nowhere), at which point you're suddenly shackled as a disembodied voice from the chair demands you to identify yourself. If you have a zombie's tag, the chair and wall then flip around and the chair released you into Razaak's innermost sanctum; if you don't, a spike then extends from inside the wall and through your back. | |
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