Binding

The power to bind, imprison or otherwise stop targets. Opposite to Freeing.

Also Called

• Bondage
• Caging
• Immobilizing/Immobilization
• Imprisoning/Imprisonment
• Jailing
• Restraint
• Restricting

Capabilities

User is able to use supernatural powers/traits that bind, imprison, paralyze and/or otherwise stop targets moving normally and possibly completely freezing them where they were. It can be achieved using various means including energy-based or physical restrains or mental effects.

Applications

• Binding Attacks
• Binding Constructs
• Binding Creation
• Personal Binding Manipulation

Techniques

• Binding Combat
• Binding Defense
• Binding Empowerment
• Binding Mimicry

Variations

• Binding Magic
• Container Imprisonment
• Imprisonment Energy Manipulation
• Inorganic Imprisonment
  • Elemental Imprisonment
    • Energy Imprisonment
• Organic Imprisonment

There are several different ways for binding someone:

• Caging: surrounding object with barriers or otherwise restrict their actions, so they can move inside but have no way getting out. Examples: Book Imprisonment, Card Imprisonment, Cocoon Generation, Container Imprisonment, Dimensional Imprisonment, Entrapment Field Projection, Fantasy Imprisonment, Force-Field Imprisonment, Gut Imprisonment, Mind Imprisonment, Personal Void, Picture Imprisonment, Photographic Encapsulation, Spatial Imprisonment, Temporal Imprisonment, Video Imprisonment, Wall Imprisonment
• Chaining: surrounding object by robes/chains/lines that keep them confined. Examples: Chain Manipulation, Constriction, Thread Manipulation, Whip Manipulation, Wire Manipulation.
• Disabling: disabling the target by preventing their bodies/nerves from reacting. Examples: Electricity Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Telepathy.
• Entombing: surrounding object completely by a substance or another medium, so they can't move at all, or at best wiggle slightly. Examples: Burying, Drowning, Elemental Imprisonment, Telekinesis.
• Immobilization: object is locked/anchored on certain spot but can otherwise act. Examples: Body Immobilization, Immobility, Inanimation, Telekinesis, Time Stopping.

Associations

• Absolute Storage
• Adhesion
• Adhesion Manipulation
• Astral Trapping
• Aura Trapping
• Binding Manipulation
• Compression
• Deity Imprisonment
• Demon Imprisonment
• Dimensional Storage
• Dollhouse Monarchy
• Dream Imprisonment
• Entity Tethering
• Fantasy Imprisonment
• Force-Field Imprisonment
• Freezing
• Gravity Imprisonment
• Insertion & Removal
• Irremovability
• Isolation
• Labyrinth Creation
• Labyrinth Manipulation
• Mass Binding
• Mass Reduction
• Mirror Imprisonment
• Nightmare Imprisonment
• Personal Void
• Prison Domain
• Sealed Form
• Sealing
• Spirit Barrier
• Task Binding
• Technological Imprisonment
• Temporal Trapping
• Trapping Intuition

Limitations

• Users of Freeing and Unfixed Movement cannot be bound.
• Depending on the way used to bind the victim, they may be able to overpower/break their bindings.
• Users of Teleportation/Intangibility can escape.
• May be unable to generate the ways to bind and be limited to existing material.
• May have to stay close to the victim or the binding may break.

Known Users

See Also: Can Only Move the Eyes.

Known Objects

• Chest of Demons (The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo)
• Maruta (Denma)
• Acēdia Katathlipsē (Horizon In The Middle of Nowhere)
• Beads of Subjugation (InuYasha)
• Hide of Bondage (Kubera)
• Ito Ito no Mi (One Piece)
• Nui Nui no Mi (One Piece)
• Ori Ori no Mi (One Piece)
• Pero Pero no Mi (One Piece)
• Pokéballs (Pokémon)
• Syndrome's Gloves (The Incredibles)
• Seven Ribbons of Hathor (The Kane Chronicles)
• Sphere of Yun (Xiaolin Showdown)

Gallery

The Chest of Demons (The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo) is meant to bind and contain the thirteen most terrifying ghosts ever to walk the face of the Earth.

Rukia Kuchiki (Bleach) uses Bakudō # 1. Sai to bind Ichigo's arms behind his back.

Hachigen Ushōda (Bleach) using Bakudō #99: Kin, the strongest binding spell there is.

Byakuya Kuchiki (Bleach) using Senkei: Senbonzakura Kageyoshi to create a dome in which is comprised of all the blades of his Zanpakuto and prevents his targets from getting far.

Quilge Opie's (Bleach) unbreakable Reishi cage can imprison all except a fellow Quincy, living up to the name "The Jail"...

... or use Reishi to forcefully seal up dimensional pathways like the Garganta.

Dark Danny (Danny Phantom) binds his former loved ones and teacher with ectoplasm.

The M2 Bind armor (Pokémon) lives up to its name to bind Mewtwo and sap it of its energy.

Thanks to the Beads of Subjugation around his neck, Kagome Higurashi (InuYasha) can subdue and restrain Inuyasha at any time by simply telling him to "sit."

The Sphere of Yun (Xiaolin Showdown) traps the opponent in an impenetrable prison even can be used on the user for protection.

Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) uses the Binding Field Spell.

Yugi Muto (Yu-Gi-Oh!) using the Spellbinding Circle to bind Slifer, if even for only one turn.

Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z) binds Son Goku to a mountain using energy rings.

Cole MacGrath (inFamous) captures a person using Arc Restraint.

Kaguya (InuYasha) binds Inuyasha to a wall with vines.

The Boom ghosts (Sonic X) pull Sonic in a space inside the walls.

Metamorphia (Sonic the Comic) becomes a net to bind Sonic.

Hina (One Piece) phasing a pirate through her arm to restrain him with her Ori Ori no Mi ability.

Charlotte Perospero's (One Piece) candy is strong enough to even bind and hold down the superhuman children of the Vinsmoke Family.

CROW members and Third Exorcists (D.Gray-Man) can use Binding Feathers and Binding Wings to completely restrict targets.

Muhammed Avdol (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III Stardust Crusaders) using Red Bind to restrain Jotaro Kujo.

As an ice manipulator, Snow (Marchen Awakens Romance) once imprisoned herself in ice to protect herself from the Chess Pieces.

Loco's (Marchen Awakens Romance) Darkness ÄRM, Negzero paralyzes the target.

Using his ÄRM, Phantom Glass, Phantom (Marchen Awakens Romance) can imprison people in a mirror. If the mirror breaks, the person inside breaks along with it.

Kouga (Marchen Awakens Romance) activates an ÄRM that binds Alviss in ropes.

Magical Roe (Marchen Awakens Romance) used his magic to imprison Snow in a ball and deliver her to Diana.

Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10)

Decim use Threads to bind Takashi

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