Tying up women in front of oncoming trains was never a real thing.
The scene of Nell being tied to railroad tracks is an old running gag - Gloria ...
Lately, I have been noticing the same sort of queries cropping up again and again: Who was the silent era villain who tied women to train tracks ...
hat and a thin mustache, which are common among classic cartoon villains.
... and cartoons that the villain ties their victim to the railroad tracks to kill
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And she's not actually tied to the tracks.
Tying women to the train tracks pretty much became the signature move of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon character Snidely Whiplash, a .
Yup, she's been chained to a railroad track, and the 7:10 Express is running right on time.
It happens in cartoons, it happens in early movie serials, and it happens in Victorian stage plays: villain ties girl to railroad tracks in hopes of ...