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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A character has been shackled or put in handcuffs and upon being released they must rub their wrists. Somehow this not only stops the pain but removes all physical evidence that the character was chained up to begin with. In fiction land, having your hands tightly bound for long periods of time usually only causes mild discomfort. Examples |
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Cody in Street Fighter Alpha 3 has a variant, where one of his animations at the beginning of a match involves him removing one of his cuffs and shaking the hand it had been on before putting it back on. | |
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Lidusis from Black Haze is tied up and used for target practice by some upperclassmen in order to get a rise out of Rood. When Lin unties his hands, the first thing he does is rub his wrists. | |
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The Queen's Thief: Averted. Gen's wrists are badly injured by his time in shackles in Sounis' prison, and this becomes a problem on at least one occasion in the novel. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: A minor gag involves Raiden doing this leisurely and then realising that another body part requires more instant attention. Snake also ends up in handcuffs closer to the end of the game, but is not seen doing this, since his method of freeing himself from them involves breaking the chain between the cuffs. | |
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Arthur in Detective Story does this after getting his handcuffs removed. | |
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iCarly: Spencer is arrested for causing a traffic jam with a large sign for iCarly. When the handcuffs are removed, he rubs his wrist and says he needs lotion. The cop who arrested him taunts him with cucumber melon lotion that he won't give up, since the sign malfunction to read "PEE ON CARL", and his name is Carl. | |
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"Starcrossed": The Justice League rubs their wrists when they're released from shackles. In Justice League Unlimited: "Grudge Match" Black Canary rubs her wrists after being released. It should be noted her wrists were badly burned and she had been wearing the cuffs over them. Ouch. |
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Played with in Friday the 13th (2009) reboot. A girl is chained to a small area and her legs and hands have grown weak over the past few days. She can barely walk when at first when she is freed. But after a few minutes she's completely in perfect shape again. | |
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Averted in Merlin when Guinevere is captured and held in handcuffs for a day before being returned, she tries to lie to Merlin and say she was sick. Merlin immediately points out the marks on her wrists. They vanish after a few days, but that's another trope. | |
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Averted in Splinter of the Mind's Eye. Halla, after being bound upright for half of a day, can't stand on her own when cut loose. | |
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Best Seller. James Wood's character notes that the cuffs hurt more than expected, while rubbing his wrists, after being (temporarily) arrested by the detective protagonist. | |
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Sunstone explores this extensively with its themes of BDSM; normally the characters don't do this as the restraints are intended to be comfortable and avert this; but in the instances that things go wrong; such as when Alan was separated from Ally when she was tied up we see strong red marks on her body and Alan soothing the sore wrists. Played with too in the case of Marion and her accident; due to the fact she had her blood circulation cut off resulting in the formation of blood clots, the ropes couldn't be taken off in the first place without doing some serious damage; so we don't see Marion do this; but we do see Ally doing this to herself unconsciously as she tells the traumatic story. |
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Averted in Gerald's Game. Not the "rub your wrists" part, that's still there; the "mild discomfort" part. Of course, slicing your own wrist so that the blood will provide enough lubrication to slip your hand through the cuff is a little more than "mild discomfort" for any setting. | |
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Played completely straight in Poker Night, both the automatic rubbing of wrists and how there are no after-effects of the bondage. | |
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The second Protector of the Small book averts the trope. Lalassa was bound tightly by rope, not handcuffs, and left overnight. She could barely move after being untied - her rescuer had to massage her hands to get the blood moving, the dog took care of her ankles - and had pins and needles afterwards, as well as rope burn. The Provost's Dog books also justify this, since instead of handcuffs the Provost's Guard uses leather thongs to tie people up. | |
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Disney's Sleeping Beauty: Prince Phillip also does this when the good fairies release him. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, if you go to third person mode right as your hands are being untied at the start of the game, you'll catch a glimpse of the Dragonborn doing this. | |
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Done by Lee Everett in The Walking Dead when he managed to find the keys to his cuffs after the police car crash he was in. | |
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Inglourious Basterds: Near the end. | |
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Averted in Resident Evil 0; freed prisoner Billy, who inexplicably freed only one of his hands from a pair of cuffs when escaping custody in the intro, leaving the other dangling from his wrist for the entirety of the game, finally slips the other one off in the last cutscene and just tosses the cuffs off into the forest, leaving his wrist un-rubbed. | |
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Nick Velvet: Nick does this after he released from being handcuffed to a bed in "The Theft of Nick Velvet". | |
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Ed does this in Fullmetal Alchemist (episode 41). | |
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Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, after Proteus offers himself to be executed in place of Sinbad (should he fail to retrieve the Book of Peace), Sinbad's cuffs were released, he grasps one of his wrists. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh once uses this trope to escape. He complains to his guards that the cuffs are chafing because they're too loose. When the guard comes to tighten them, he heats up the metal, causing them to drop him. In Sequel Series The Legend of Korra, Korra rubs her wrists after Beifong releases her from custody. |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, after Governor Swann is arrested, Cutler Beckett makes a deal with him, and, after he agrees, he takes off his shackles, after which Weatherby rubs his wrists, which are noticeably red and raw (and probably painful). | |
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When Darrel Conway of RWBY: Reckoning is shackled to a chair, upon his release, the first thing he does is massage his wrists. Given that he thrashed about in anger when he first woke up, it's understandably justified. | |
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Avatar: Grace does this, after the first time Quaritch and his goons haul her out of the link. | |
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In the first chapter of The Green Hornet Strikes Again!, Britt and Kato are captured and tied up by crooks. After they get free, both of them rub their wrists. | |
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Sleipnir in Girl Genius does this after being released from a shackle, though her wrists were covered by gloves. | |
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Averted in an episode of Murdoch Mysteries in which Det. Murdoch is abducted and tied up; the episode ends (some time later) with a scene between Murdoch and Dr. Ogden as she applies an ice pack to the rope burns on his wrists. | |
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Lost In the pilot episode, the first time we see Kate, she's doing this. We don't find out why until the second part of the episode. Averted with Jin. After spending awhile with one half of the handcuffs still on his wrist, it's started to leave marks. Sun notices and asks him to have Jack look at it. In a later episode, when the Others have handcuffed Kate, Tom gives her aloe for the cuts and irritation on her wrists. Even later on, when we see Richard in a flashback his wrists are a bloody, infected mess from being in handcuffs for several months. |
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Monk: In "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", as pictured above, photographer Douglas Thurman does this when Stottlemeyer is releasing him and removing his handcuffs after questioning him for the strangulation murders of three young women fails to turn up any solid evidence against him or a confession. | |
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In 9 Dragons, a screenwriter is handcuffed by Detective Bosch. After the cuffs are removed, he rubs his wrists and says he always wondered how that felt. | |
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Hot Shots! Part Deux: Parodied — Colonel Walters has his two index fingers tied together by the bad guys with a Chinese finger trap, when he is freed, he begins rubbing his wrists instead. | |
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As well in Shrek 2, another Dreamworks example. | |
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Once Upon a Time in the West: After Cheyenne cuts him loose aboard Morton's train, Harmonica is seen rubbing his wrists in the background. | |
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Sort of averted in A Song of Ice and Fire books, where being tied up or chained up can be extremely painful, but also sort of played straight, since a couple of characters survive being restrained in ways (like being strung up dangling by their wrists for extended periods of time) that would probably kill them or at least permanently disable them in real life. | |
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The Sting. Detective Snyder arrests Hooker and takes him to meet with Special Agent Polk of the F.B.I. Polk tells Snyder to take off Hooker's handcuffs and Hooker rubs his wrists after he does. | |
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Averted in Yes-Man the two main characters are handcuffed in an airport by security. When the cuffs come off, they don't rub their wrists. | |
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Averted in Pet Shop of Horrors. Leon spends almost the entirety of "Discovery" (vol. 6) in handcuffs, and ignores the fact that they've cut up his wrists. D bandages them up for him. | |
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Averted in Hunting the Unicorn. When Blaine, Wes, and David get kidnapped by Blaine's Stalker with a Crush, Wes and David are tied to chairs while the concussed Blaine panics and runs. Once they get untied, they suffer pins and needles and can barely walk until their circulation gets back to normal. This lets the police officer know that Blaine's actually been missing for hours. | |
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Game of Thrones. In "Kill The Boy", Jon Snow unshackles Tormund Giantsbane to show he's serious about them forming an Enemy Mine alliance. For a moment Tormond looks like he's going to strangle Jon with his bare hands, but takes care of his own wrists instead. | |
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The Princess Bride: Buttercup does this after being untied. | |
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In Krull, the prince proves that he is the prince by using the master key to free the shackles from the escaped criminals. They remove their cuffs and rub their wrists. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, after Governor Swann is arrested, Cutler Beckett makes a deal with him, and, after he agrees, he takes off his shackles, after which Weatherby rubs his wrists, which are noticeably red and raw (and probably painful). Jack in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, right after he's shoved into Beckett's cabin. (We don't actually see the cuffs before removal, but since he's a prisoner it's strongly implied he had 'em.) |
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Jack in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, right after he's shoved into Beckett's cabin. (We don't actually see the cuffs before removal, but since he's a prisoner it's strongly implied he had 'em.) | |
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Doctor Who: In "Robot of Sherwood", the Doctor rubs his wrists after he and Robin get out of their shackles. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: "Spark of Rebellion": One of the Wookiees does this after Ezra unlocks his cuffs. "Homecoming": Hera does this after Chopper releases her from being handcuffed to a chair. "Zero Hour": Kallus is seen doing this after beating up his guards (offscreen) in an elevator, which he did with his hands cuffed behind his back. |
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In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, Empath and Polaris both have their wrist and ankle cuffs removed upon their release from Psychelia, but are never shown to rub their wrists or ankles afterwards. Apparently being in cuffs for a long time causes very little discomfort. | |
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Aladdin: The Genie does this when he is freed from the lamp. Aladdin himself does the same earlier in the movie when he was freed from prison in order to go find the Genie. | |
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Midnight Run: As Jack uncuffs the Duke on the train, the Duke says, "Thanks, 'cause they're starting to cut into my wrists." In fact, the actor Charles Grodin (who played Duke) has permanent scars resulting from the handcuffs he had to wear for most of the film. | |
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The Stainless Steel Rat once had cuffs applied extremely tightly by a sadistic cop. He escaped, but had a job removing them before complete numbness set in. There is a certain Fridge Horror in the description of his risking serious injury, possibly even involuntary amputation, from a power saw he wedges tightly in a desk draw, hoping it won't slip as he cuts the steel... | |
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Disney's Robin Hood: Friar Tuck has been hanging from shackles for at least a few days, but upon release, five seconds of rubbing and presto! | |
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Captain Danilo does this in romantic comedy The Merry Widow when taking the stand at his court martial. The queen, who was having an affair with him, had his handcuffs engraved "From Dolores to Danilo". | |
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"The Bound Man" in Unknown (2006) only rubs his wrists after having them untied despite complaining that "they turned blue", but the guy left hanging by one handcuff is visibly in great pain and it's stated that he'll almost certainly lose that hand. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the Season Six episode "Dead Things" while they are in bed together Spike offers Buffy handcuffs and asks, "Do you trust me?" Buffy replies, "Never". The next day Buffy is shown rubbing her wrists when meeting with Tara, only to suddenly realise what she's doing and hide her hands under the table. | |
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In the Turnabout Gallows case of the Ace Attorney manga, Maya does this with her wrists after being momentarily trapped in a chair that restrains the people in it by their wrists, ankles, waist, upper arms and shoulders. This one is more justifiable than most examples given that Maya was only in the chair a few minutes and therefore would be sore but otherwise unharmed. | |
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Joker does this in The Defiant Ones. Justified, as it's shackles rather than mere handcuffs, and his wrist has gotten infected from the chafing. | |
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Averted in Little Brother, after his wrists being zip-tied together for a few hours, Marcus can't feel his hands, nor move them, and his fingers are described as looking sausage-like. | |
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Friends: Simultaneously subverted and lampshaded. Chandler's been handcuffed to a chair. Upon being released he does this. Rachel asks if it hurts. He responds that it doesn't, but people always do it in the movies. | |
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In The Quick and the Dead, Cort is kept shackled between duels. Before his second round fight he can be seen ripping the cuffs of his shirt out of the bloody welts left on his wrists by the shackles. | |
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In Justice League Unlimited: "Grudge Match" Black Canary rubs her wrists after being released. It should be noted her wrists were badly burned and she had been wearing the cuffs over them. Ouch. | |
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