Stuncuffs

Stuncuffs
Production information
Cost	100 credits
Usage and history
Purpose	Restriction of limb movement

"I have to put you in stuncuffs."

―A stormtrooper, to Anandra Milon

Stuncuffs, also known as binders, restraints, manacles, or shackles, were devices designed to restrict the movement of an individual's limbs, primarily their hands. Many versions were designed with the ability to shock the wearer if they struggled, particularly versions intended to be used on Force users. Some stormtroopers carried stuncuffs in case they needed to conduct arrests.

Appearances

Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge — "Episode 8" The High Republic (2022) 5 The High Republic (2022) 6 The High Republic: Path of Vengeance (and audiobook) The High Republic: Cataclysm (and audiobook) Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures — "The Thieves of Tharnaka" The High Republic: Into the Dark (and audiobook) (In flashback(s)) The High Republic: Light of the Jedi (and audiobook) The High Republic Adventures (2021) 6 The High Republic: The Rising Storm (and audiobook) The High Republic (2021) 7 "Starlight: Past Mistakes" — Star Wars Insider 205–206 The High Republic: Mission to Disaster (and audiobook) The High Republic Adventures – Dispatches from the Occlusion Zone 2 The High Republic (2023) 2 The High Republic (2023) 4 The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless (and audiobook) The High Republic: Beware the Nameless (and audiobook) The High Republic: Tempest Breaker (In flashback(s)) The High Republic: Tempest Breaker script (In flashback(s)) Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi — "Justice" "Life Day Part 2" — Star Wars Adventures (2020) 4 "Galactic Tales: The Wesell Run" — Star Wars Insider 209 The Living Force (and audiobook) Darth Maul (2017) 3 Darth Maul (2017) 4 Star Wars Battlefront II Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade (and audiobook) Brotherhood (and audiobook) Hyperspace Stories 1 (Mentioned only) Age of Republic - Anakin Skywalker 1 "Galactic Tales: From The Shadows Come The Kran" — Star Wars Insider 212 Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Hidden Enemy" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Bombad Jedi" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Cloak of Darkness" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Dooku Captured" (In flashback(s)) Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Gungan General" "Dooku Captured" — The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark (and audiobook) (Mentioned only) Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Blue Shadow Virus" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Innocents of Ryloth" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Cargo of Doom" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Children of the Force" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Legacy of Terror" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Brain Invaders" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Lightsaber Lost" Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Academy" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Assassin" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Sphere of Influence" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Hostage Crisis" "Hostage Crisis" — The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Senate Murders" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Counterattack" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Gungan Attack" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Prisoners" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Nomad Droids" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Carnage of Krell" "The Shadow of Umbara" — The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Slaves of the Republic" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Escape from Kadavo" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Deception" "The Lost Nightsister" — The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Soft War" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Bound for Rescue" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "A Necessary Bond" "Almost a Jedi" — The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark (and audiobook) "Kenobi's Shadow" — The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Sabotage" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "To Catch a Jedi" Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Wrong Jedi" "Kindred Spirits" — Star Wars Insider 159 (also reprinted in Star Wars Insider: The Fiction Collection Volume 2) Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 3 Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Together Again" Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Phantom Apprentice" Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi — "Resolve" Star Wars: Tales of the Empire — "Devoted" Darth Vader (2017) 2 (Mentioned only) Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Rampage" Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Bounty Lost" Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Common Ground" Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Devil's Deal" Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Rescue on Ryloth" Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Infested" Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Return to Kamino" Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Tipping Point" Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Plan 99" Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "The Cavalry Has Arrived" Darth Vader (2017) 17 Adventures in Wild Space: The Rescue (and audiobook) Thrawn 1 Rebel Rising (and audiobook) Star Wars Forces of Destiny — "Triplecross" A New Dawn (and audiobook) Obi-Wan Kenobi — "Part IV" Obi-Wan Kenobi 4 Obi-Wan Kenobi — "Part V" Obi-Wan Kenobi 5 "Powered Down, Part 1" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 10 "Everyone's a Critic" — From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (and audiobook) Star Wars (2015) 20 Han Solo & Chewbacca 1 (Mentioned only) Han Solo & Chewbacca 5 Han Solo & Chewbacca 6 Han Solo & Chewbacca 7 Han Solo & Chewbacca 10 (In flashback(s)) Lost Stars webcomic Andor — "Reckoning" Andor — "Narkina 5" Andor — "Daughter of Ferrix" Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion Star Wars Rebels: The Rebellion Begins (First identified as binders) Star Wars Rebels — "Fighter Flight" Star Wars Rebels — "Rise of the Old Masters" (Appears in hologram) Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks (Mentioned only as binders) Kanan 5 Servants of the Empire: Imperial Justice (As binders) Star Wars Rebels — "Call to Action" "Senate Perspective" — Star Wars Rebels Magazine 9 (Mentioned only as binders) "Rebel Bluff" — Star Wars Insider 158 (also reprinted in Star Wars Insider: The Fiction Collection Volume 2) (Mentioned only) Star Wars Rebels — "Always Two There Are" Star Wars Rebels — "Stealth Strike" Leia, Princess of Alderaan (and audiobook) Star Wars Rebels — "The Protector of Concord Dawn" Star Wars Rebels — "Legends of the Lasat" Star Wars Rebels — "Homecoming" "The Gangsters of Galzez" — Star Wars Rebels Magazine 20 (As binders) Star Wars Rebels — "Twilight of the Apprentice" Rogue One - Cassian & K-2SO Special 1 Star Wars Rebels — "The Holocrons of Fate" Star Wars Rebels — "The Antilles Extraction" Star Wars Rebels — "Hera's Heroes" Star Wars Rebels — "The Last Battle" Star Wars Rebels — "Imperial Supercommandos" (As binders) "Divide and Conquer" — Star Wars Rebels Animation 2 Star Wars Rebels — "Ghosts of Geonosis" Star Wars Rebels — "Through Imperial Eyes" Star Wars Rebels — "Zero Hour" Thrawn: Alliances (and audiobook) (Mentioned only) Star Wars Rebels: Heroes of Mandalore Star Wars Rebels — "In the Name of the Rebellion" Star Wars Rebels — "The Occupation" Thrawn: Treason (and audiobook) Guardians of the Whills Star Wars Rebels — "A Fool's Hope" Star Wars Rebels — "Family Reunion – and Farewell" Obi-Wan 1 (In flashback(s)) Obi-Wan 4 (Mentioned only) (In flashback(s)) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Rogue One: A Star Wars Story novelization (and audiobook) Star Wars: Rogue One: A Junior Novel (and audiobook) Rogue One Adaptation 1 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance) A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy (and audiobook) Star Wars: A New Hope junior novelization Escape from Darth Vader "The Bucket" — From a Certain Point of View (and audiobook) Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures — "Princess Leia vs. Darth Vader - A Fearless Leader" "Change of Heart" — From a Certain Point of View (and audiobook) Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures — "Chewie vs. Holochess - Let the Wookiee Win" Battlefront II: Inferno Squad (and audiobook) Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure (and audiobook) Star Wars Adventures: Smuggler's Run 2 "One Thousand Levels Down" — Star Wars Insider 151 (also reprinted in Star Wars Insider: The Fiction Collection Volume 1) (First identified as Stuncuffs) Princess Leia 4 Han Solo 3 The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure (and audiobook) Doctor Aphra: An Audiobook Original Star Wars (2015) 6 Star Wars (2015) 10 Star Wars (2015) 11 Star Wars (2015) 12 Darth Vader (2015) 7 Darth Vader (2015) 15 Star Wars (2015) 27 Star Wars (2015) 35 Doctor Aphra Annual 1 (In flashback(s)) Doctor Aphra (2016) 15 Star Wars (2015) 45 Doctor Aphra (2016) 37 Choose Your Destiny: A Smuggler Mission (Mentioned only) Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization "Against All Odds" — From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (and audiobook) (Mentioned only) Captured on Cloud City Bounty Hunters 4 Doctor Aphra (2020) 4 Doctor Aphra (2020) 5 Bounty Hunters 8 Bounty Hunters 9 Bounty Hunters 10 Doctor Aphra (2020) 14 Darth Vader (2020) 17 (First identified as manacles) Star Wars (2020) 18 Crimson Reign 2 Crimson Reign 3 (In flashback(s)) Bounty Hunters 28 Sana Starros 4 (In flashback(s)) Bounty Hunters 36 Star Wars (2020) 41 "A Trick of the Mind" — Revelations (2023) 1 Star Wars (2020) 46 Darth Vader (2020) 43 (In flashback(s)) Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure (and audiobook) Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization Rescue from Jabba's Palace Return of the Jedi – Jabba's Palace 1 (In flashback(s)) TIE Fighter 2 Return of the Jedi – Max Rebo 1 (In flashback(s)) Battle of Jakku — Insurgency Rising 3 Alphabet Squadron (and audiobook) Aftermath (and audiobook) Aftermath: Life Debt (and audiobook) The Mandalorian — "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian" The Mandalorian Junior Novel (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Manga The Mandalorian 1 The Mandalorian — "Chapter 5: The Gunslinger" The Mandalorian 5 The Mandalorian — "Chapter 7: The Reckoning" The Mandalorian Season 2 Junior Novel The Mandalorian: The Path of the Force (Picture only) The Mandalorian — "Chapter 14: The Tragedy" The Mandalorian — "Chapter 16: The Rescue" The Mandalorian: The Rescue The Book of Boba Fett — "Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land" The Book of Boba Fett — "Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa" The Book of Boba Fett — "Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm" (In flashback(s)) The Mandalorian — "Chapter 19: The Convert" The Mandalorian — "Chapter 22: Guns for Hire" Ahsoka — "Part One: Master and Apprentice" Ahsoka 1 Ahsoka — "Part Two: Toil and Trouble" Ahsoka 2 Ahsoka — "Part Four: Fallen Jedi" Ahsoka 4 Ahsoka — "Part Six: Far, Far Away" Star Wars: Skeleton Crew – "We're Gonna Be In So Much Trouble" (First identified as shackles) The Legends of Luke Skywalker (and audiobook) Force Collector (and audiobook) (Indirect mention only) "Better the Devil You Know, Part II" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 2 Poe Dameron 7 Poe Dameron 19 Phasma (and audiobook) Star Wars Resistance — "Descent" Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Force Awakens: A Junior Novel (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Force Awakens Graphic Novel Adaptation Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire (and audiobook) Star Wars: Datapad Star Wars Resistance — "No Escape: Part 1" "A Call for Heroes" — Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beginner Game Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel (and audiobook) The Last Jedi Adaptation 4 Star Wars Resistance — "Rendezvous Point" Star Wars Resistance — "Breakout" Allegiance 3 Allegiance 4 Hyperspace Stories 4 "Tales from Wild Space: Win/Lose" — Star Wars Adventures (2017) 24 (In flashback(s)) Star Wars Resistance — "The Escape" Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition (and audiobook) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: A Junior Novel (and audiobook)

Non-canon appearances

• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Sources

• "Prisoners" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary
• Star Wars: Rogue One: Rebel Dossier
• Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
• Collapse of the Republic
• ° First Order Cargo (Pack: Binders with Light Effect) (backup link)
• "Shattered" Episode Guide - The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link)
• Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian — "Legacy"
• Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian — "Technology"
• "The Gunslinger" Episode Guide | The Mandalorian on StarWars.com (backup link)
• "The Reckoning" Episode Guide | The Mandalorian on StarWars.com (backup link)
• Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian — "Making of Season Two"
• "Bounty Lost" Episode Guide | The Bad Batch on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
• "Infested" Episode Guide | The Bad Batch on StarWars.com (backup link)
• "Return To Kamino" Episode Guide | The Bad Batch on StarWars.com (backup link)
• Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian — "Making of the Season 2 Finale"
• Tales of the Empire | Official Trailer on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
• Jarek Yeager in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
• Jedi binders in the Databank (backup link)

Notes and references

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