Binding

Binding
Captain Hina (One Piece) gained the power to create iron shackles from eating the Ori Ori no Mi.
Power/Ability to:	Bind, stop and imprison.

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

Also Called

• Apprehension/Bondage
• Caging/Capture
• Immobilizing/Immobilization
• 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
• Deity Imprisonment
• Dimensional Imprisonment
• Dream Imprisonment
• Eternal Binding
• 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, Motion Lock, 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.

• Force Users (Star Wars)
  • Mara Jade Skywalker
  • Ben Solo/Kylo Ren
  • Yoda
• Gwen Tennyson (Ben 10)
• Uzumaki Clan (Naruto); via Chakra Chains
• Various Shinobi (Naruto); via Sealing Jutsu
• Byakuya Kuchiki (Bleach); via Senkei Senbonzakura Kageyoshi Kuchiki
• Hachigen Ushoda (Bleach)
• Shinigami with Binding Spells (Bleach)
• Quilge Opie (Bleach); via "The Jail"
• Dorian Havilliard (Throne of Glass)
• Magic Users (Harry Potter); via Freezing charm, Incarcerous, etc.
• Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics); via Crimson Bands of Cyttorak
• CROW members (D.Gray-man)
• Dark Danny/Dan Phantom (Danny Phantom)
• One of assassins (Denma); via Body Immobilization Quanx ability
• Hades (Denma); via Cube Quanx ability
• Eclipse Virgo (Fairy Tail)
• Users of Capture spells (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha)
• Hina (One Piece); via Ori Ori no Mi
• Shura (One Piece)
• Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece); via Ito Ito no Mi
• Leo (One Piece); via Nui Nui no Mi
• Charlotte Perospero (One Piece); via Pero Pero no Mi
• Tazma Grimm (Mysticons)
• Users of the Temporary Paralysis Technique (Naruto)
• Users of the Shadow Possession/Paralysis Jutsu (Naruto)
• Pokémon with the "Disable" or "Imprison" moves (Pokémon)
• Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magica); via Ribbon Manipulation
• Aquamarine (Steven Universe); via Wand
• Marko (Image Comics)
• DIO Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Joseph Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders); via Hermit Purple
• Muhammed Abdul (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders); via Magician’s Red
• Jellal Fernandes (Fairy Tail)
• Millianna (Fairy Tail)
• Nebal (Fairy Tail: 100 Year Quest)
• Mages via Restraining Magic (Black Clover)
  • Julius Novachrono
  • Magna Swing
  • Charmy Pappitson
  • Yami Sukehiro
• Franken Stein (Soul Eater)
• Jillian (Nanatsu no Taizai)
• Radicles X (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
• Alma Jinnai (Jewelpet Tinkle)
• Andromeda Shun (Saint Seiya)
• Corset (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt)
• Rima Mashiro (Shugo Chara!); as Clown Drop
• Amu Hinamori (Shugo Chara!); as Amulet Spade
• Tadase Hotori (Shugo Chara!); using Holy Crown or as Platinum Royal
• Nagihiko Fujisaki (Shugo Chara!); as Yamato Maihime
• Atticus O'Sullivan (The Iron Druid Chronichles)
• Kagome Higurashi (InuYasha); using the Beads of Subjugation
• Alexia (Ángel o Demonio)
• Sylar (Heroes); via Telekinesis
• The Charmed Ones (Charmed), via Crystal Cage
• Illyasviel von Einzbern (Fate/Stay Night); via Mystic Eyes of Binding
• Eda Clawthorne (The Owl House)
• She-Ra/Adora (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
• Ruka (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Asato Kido (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Walescu (Chica Vampiro)
• Ariel (So I'm a Spider, So What?)
• Kumoko/Shiraori (So I'm a Spider, So What?)
• Dune Bug (Skylanders)
• Sorcerer Doomlander (Skylanders)
• Flowey (Undertale)
• Supreme Kai (Dragon Ball); via Telekinesis
• Gotenks (Dragon Ball Z)
• Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)
• Bujin (Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound/Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn); via Telekinesis
• Bido (Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound/Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn); via Telekinesis
• Zangya (Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound/Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn); via Telekinesis
• Cole MacGrath (inFamous); via Arc Restraint
• Kaguya (InuYasha)
• Miranda Kane (Shadow Falls); via Magic
• Haruka Amagiri (The Asterisk War); via Imprisonment
• Phantom (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Kouga (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Rolan (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Galian (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Peta (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Loco (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Alviss (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Kollekio (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Trix (Winx Club); via Cage of Sorrow
• Tolietnator (Codename: Kids Next Door)
• Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Siege (Card Captor Sakura: Clear Cards)
• Black Knight (Zatch Bell!); summoning a cage via throwing his lance
• Zaruchim (Zatch Bell!)
• Jafar (Disney's Aladdin)
• Carter Kane (The Kane Chronicles)
• Sadie Kane (The Kane Chronicles)
• Zia Rashid (The Kane Chronicles)
• The Beldam (Coraline)
• Cure Whip/Ichika Usami (Kira Kira Pretty Cure A La Mode)
• Cure Custard/Himari Arisugawa (Kira Kira Pretty Cure A La Mode)
• Yubel (Yu-Gi-Oh GX)
• Tsubasa Kazanari (Symphogear)
• Shinji Ogawa (Symphogear)
• Decim (Death Parade) via Threads
• Boom ghosts (Sonic X); only inside walls
• E-47 Pumpty (Sonic X)
• Metamorphia (Sonic the Comics)
• Qhangelings (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic); via slime and cocoon

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)
• Aquamarine's Wand (Steven Universe)
• 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.

Tazma Grimm (Mysticons) using shadow tentacles to bind Piper and Zarya.

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

E-47 Pumpty (Sonic X), trapping Tail, Amy and Chris in to its super strong holding chamber.

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

Cure Custard (Kira Kira Pretty Cure A La Mode)

Cure Whip (Kira Kira Pretty Cure A La Mode)

Queen Chrysalis (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Eda Clawthorne (The Owl House)

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