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Distressed Dude

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Distressed Dude	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Meet the Spear Counterpart of the Damsel in Distress. He's usually the sidekick to a butt-kicking Action Girl, always getting himself captured for the female lead to save. This may also occur in shows featuring a male protagonist and even when the male protagonist is a total badass, they tend to get captured quite a bit, usually to demonstrate their awesome escape skills. Sometimes this trope is regarded as a product of twentieth-century feminism, but it's Older Than They Think. When classifying fairy tales according to the ATU Index, one distinguishing mark of several types of tales is that a man (or men) is rescued — generally by the heroine. While he is generally her Love Interest, they are generally her brothers. Compared to the Damsel in Distress, the Distressed Dude is somewhat more likely to save himself in the end or to be saved by someone of the same sex. If he is saved by a woman, she is likely to use her traditional, feminine strengths rather than a more direct approach. When the Distressed Dude is rescued by an Action Girl, it's not uncommon for him (or for another character) to describe this as an injury to his masculinity. If he's in a relationship with the Action Girl, he may be a Useless Boyfriend. This may be Played for Laughs, though sometimes the Distressed Dude will learn An Aesop instead. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The dude may have picked up the Distress Ball. If he was a badass before getting kidnapped, he may suffer Badass Decay. If he continues to kick ass after being freed, he's a Badass in Distress. Compare Non-Action Guy.
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Distressed Dude / int_1053fec	comment	In the manga adaptation for Kingdom Hearts II, Tron is bound to a wall and tortured, and later grabbed by a giant Sark, who tries to crush him (quite painfully). Quite a contrast to the game's portrayals as a Badass Bookworm and a mind-controlled "cyber ninja".
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Distressed Dude / int_106cc8b1	comment	Done a lot to the title character of Natsume's Book of Friends. He gets captured by youkai and the Matoba clan on more than one occasion. Special mention to his first encounter with the head of the Matoba clan. Natsume is abducted and told that if he tries to run, it will be made so that he can't run, and if he tries to yell, it'll be made so that he can't yell. Special mention also goes to Season 4, Episode 6, which plays with the trope before playing it straight: Natsume is trapped in a jar by an ayakashi that wishes to use him as an offering. Initially, the only issue is getting out of the jar since his guardian Nyanko-Sensei protects him, but the ayakashi does eventually make off with Natsume. The episode ends as Natsume's friend runs off trying to save him. Slightly justified in that Natsume isn't necessarily weak — he's actually pretty strong for a non-exorcist human, and the fact that nearly everyone wants him (no, not like that!) leads to him getting kidnapped quite often. That he can scatter ayakashi just by punching them is considered quite impressive. Still doesn't save him from this trope, though.
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Distressed Dude / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time In the Season 5 episode "Vault of Bones", Flame Princess rescues a captive Finn, after authoritatively commanding the dungeon's final boss to release him and do the splits. "DO THE SPLITS! DO THE SPLITS, THOU MILK-LIVERED MAGGOT PIEEEEEEE!" Prince Gumball (Princess Bubblegum's guy counterpart) featured in Ice King's Gender Flip Fanfic is one to Fionna and Cake (Finn and Jake girl counterparts).
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Distressed Dude / int_12f209c	comment	Seth Rollins once put retired wrestler Edge atop cinder blocks on WWE Raw and threatened to kill him unless The Authority were reinstated.
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Distressed Dude / int_144ddb59	comment	Memoria: Matty, here
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Distressed Dude / int_15a26aad	comment	During the events of Arena, Emperor Uriel Septim VII is imprisoned in Oblivion and usurped by his Imperial Battlemage and Evil Sorcerer classic, Jagar Tharn, who uses magic to impersonate the Emperor. Defeating Tharn and rescuing the Emperor is the impetus for the plot. (In-universe, this event is known as the Imperial Simulacrum.)
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Distressed Dude / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): Ronno the Mer-Boy in the Silver Age comics also qualifies, partly due to him always putting himself in harm's way just to impress Diana, and partly because, being a merman, he is pretty much helpless on land. He is especially ticked when he's rescued by Steve Trevor, despite Steve being an Ace Pilot superspy.
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Distressed Dude / int_15c6ea92	comment	In Wonder Woman (1987) Diana had to team up with Ares to save Hermes from Hades after Hades and Poseidon reacted poorly to Athena usurping Zeus' throne and strung up the messenger of the gods in Tartarus.
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Distressed Dude / int_15c73c2f	comment	A more recent (Wonder Woman (2006)) boyfriend, Tom Tresser a.k.a. Nemesis, is generally portrayed as more competent, if not outright badass. But he's still not in WW's league, and thus still needs saving on occasion. The first time Diana rescued him he was actually disguised as Steve Trevor.
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Distressed Dude / int_17c7cdc3	comment	In Daughter of the Lilies Brent is briefly a distressed dude. Meaning that he's munched on by cannibalistic cave elves. After Thistle saves his life by throwing a big ball of fire at the enemies, everyone is more concerned about Thistle and that she has lost the cloth that covers her face than about Brent.
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Distressed Dude / int_19d09126	comment	Pick an issue of Will Eisner's The Spirit. Any issue.
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Distressed Dude / int_19fdf8ed	comment	In The Feather of Finist the Falcon, Finist is wounded by the sisters' knives.
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Distressed Dude / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age has at least one in each game: In Dragon Age: Origins, one late-game quest can potentially be resolved by the Warden surrendering to enemy forces. If this happens, the PC (who might be male) and Alistair (if you had him along at the time) are stripped down to their undies and left in a cramped prison cell. They may either try to escape on their own or wait in hope that your Ragtag Bunch of Misfits comes to get them out. Who you think is coming to save you is meant to demonstrate how you feel about that someone. In Dragon Age II, during the "Best Served Cold" quest, a party member is taken hostage. This will either be one of your siblings or, if they are both dead, Hawke's love interest. If there is no love interest (or the love interest is the DLC-exclusive companion), or the love interest is in the active party at the time Hawke receives the quest, it will instead be Hawke's closest friend outside of the active party. All in all, there's an equal chance of the hostage being male or female. If it's Anders, he'll quip that he's never thought of himself as a damsel in distress up till now. It's brought up in the Mark of the Assassin DLC after Hawke and Tallis escape their cell. If romanced, Anders will admit to having fantasies about Hawke saving him from the Templars just as they're about to make him tranquil and then expressing his gratitude. This gets funny points if Fenris is in the party, as he'll yell at them to get a room. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, an entire squadron of Inquisition soldiers - male and female - are taken hostage by a hostile Avvar warrior. There are also imprisoned slaves, mostly male, whom the Inquisitor can free in the Emprise du Lion and the Hissing Wastes.
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Distressed Dude / int_1b021fcb	comment	Tokyo Ghoul: The Gourmet Arc sees Kaneki become one twice, thanks to Tsukiyama. The first time, he's nearly served for dinner at a Nasty Party, before Tsukiyama decides he'd rather not share and saves him. The second time, Touka comes to rescue him when Tsukiyama lures him into a trap with the intention of eating him. The Aogiri Arc centers around Kaneki being captured by the titular organization. The staff of Anteiku and several allies mobilize to rescue him, though he ends up escaping on his own. Unfortunately, it's only after enduring 10 days of Cold-Blooded Torture and crossing the Despair Event Horizon, leaving him a changed person. In the sequel, this role seems to have fallen to Mutsuki. He's briefly kidnapped by Torso, and rescued by his comrades — experiencing major feelings of doubt over his Non-Action Guy status. He's later used as The Bait during a major operation and ends up as the Living MacGuffin being fought over by various parties. He manages to escape on his own, and reunite with the team. Later, Torso manages to capture him again and says they are going to get married while dressing him up in a white dress, putting a wedding ring on his finger, and cutting off his limbs. Mutsuki manages to save himself by mutilating Torso to death.
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Distressed Dude / int_1b386512	comment	Subverted in Episode 88 of Ranma ½. The Amazon sisters say that they're holding Ranma captive, but it turns out that they simply gave him a meal to keep him busy.
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Distressed Dude / int_1ba5d454	comment	Peeta is taken hostage by the Capitol at the end of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and held prisoner throughout most of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
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Distressed Dude / int_1beda93b	comment	A few arcs in Sluggy Freelance involve this. Either Torg or Riff will end up stuck in Another Dimension, or trapped by some Big Bad. Zoe, Gwynn, and Aylee have rescued those inept boys so many times! Though they do pay back the favor.
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Distressed Dude / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach Used in an Omake to Ichigo and Uryuu when Orihime and Rangiku want them to test a boiling purple thing. Ichigo also seemed to get restrained a lot at the beginning of the series. In the Filler Bount arc, Ishida was whacked with the Distress Ball due to his temporary power drain and ended up this way. In the filler Zanpakutou arc, the shinigami and Ichigo have to come up with a plan to locate and save Captain-Commander Yamamoto who has been captured by the Arc Villain and sealed behind a very powerful kidou barrier from which he cannot escape. Subverted; Yamamoto sealed himself away to escape Muramasa's power. Muramasa led the shinigami to believe he had captured Yamamoto so that Ichigo would use his full power to break the barrier. Muramasa's plan succeeds, allowing him to steal Yamamoto's zanpakutou power.
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Distressed Dude / int_1cfdb84f	comment	In The Senkari, Val is taken captive and must be rescued by his commanding officers.
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Distressed Dude / int_1ea9e462	comment	Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return has no less than three men who are in need of rescuing by a woman. Who are they? The Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion, to be saved by Dorothy Gale.
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Distressed Dude / int_2142f93d	comment	Slayers: Gourry gets slapped around enough and used almost to the point of a Plot Coupon due to being both the Team Normal and the wielder of a powerful sword, but it comes to a head when Monster lord Hellmaster Fibrizo kidnaps him in the second season of the anime/eighth light novel in order to be used to provoke Lina. It takes the summoning of the Guardian of the Multiverse to save him (and her other friends, who also get taken).
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Distressed Dude / int_218f56d7	comment	Evil Islands: Zak gets captured twice by the Khadaganians, and must be rescued (first by the Hermit Lizard, later by the Odalisque).
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Distressed Dude / int_2192aeb3	comment	There's a lot of these in the Fire Emblem series: The first part of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War has Prince Shanan of Isaac, Ayra's nephew and protegée. However, the second part, which takes place 17 years later, shows him and his best friend Oifey as adults who have taken SEVERAL levels in badass. Said second part also gives us the priest Coirpre, held hostage to force his adoptive father Hannibal to work for the enemy. Once the issue is resolved, they both join the main group. Prince Myrddin of Etruria a.k.a. Elffin the Bard's backstory in The Binding Blade has him catching a HUGE Distress Ball and becoming one of these, after a plot against his life almost works. He's saved by the dancer Larum and manages to go Faking the Dead, becoming the local Quirky Bard and joining Roy's group. Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Nils the Bard and his Distressed Damsel sister Ninian. They do join the fight... but as Quirky Bard types (they're damn useful once you get the hang of their abilities, though). There's also Raven and Lucius' brief stunt as Distressed Dudes. When they appear in either Eliwood's or Hector's path, it's in a cell of Lyn's castle. Raven subverts the trope as he forces the guards to let him go so he can take a chunk out of Hector, becoming an enemy unit that you have to recruit with his sister Priscilla; Lucius, however, stays in the cell until a freshly recruited Raven goes to recruit him. In The Sacred Stones: Subverted when Eirika is convinced that her brother Ephraim is being held captive. He got away off-screen and comes back to rescue her when she comes to rescue him. They proceed to team up and kick the ass of the guy whose idea it was to start those rumors. Played straight when Eirika and her company have to rescue the trapped Prince Innes along with his mercenary team in Carcino. In Ephraim's route, Knoll was imprisoned and scheduled to be executed before Ephraim and his troupe freed him. Path of Radiance features the Heron Prince Reyson held hostage as a pet by a crazy noble. Ike's mercenaries are hired to rescue him. He would be a Quirky Bard if he wasn't, quite frankly, one of the most powerful utility characters in the game. He also essentially rescues himself before Ike's mercenaries arrive. Early on in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light's DS remake, Shadow Dragon, Gordin is bound and gagged in an enemy uniform in the hopes that Marth will mistakenly kill him and be branded a murderous tyrant. You can choose to rescue him. Oh, and the villain behind it even calls him "Gaggles", which is now his Fan Nickname. Leo's son Forrest in Fire Emblem Fates is captured and held hostage by bandits who mistake him for a pretty girl. His paralogue and recruitment center around defeating the enemy and ensuring he survives, he joins the party at the end of the chapter.
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Distressed Dude / int_220c2407	comment	Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away: After falling into the Cirque world, the Aerialist is captured by the Archers and Spearmen from Ka and taken to the Counselor.
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Distressed Dude / int_23529ef4	comment	Mike Chilton in the two-part season finale of Motorcity. Texas in the episode "Threat Level: Texas!"
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Distressed Dude / int_238b1fac	comment	The ending of Knight and Day.
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Distressed Dude / int_23be51db	comment	A common premise for pre-Crisis stories featuring Black Canary was her saving her love interest (and eventual husband) Larry.
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Distressed Dude / int_24c1d136	comment	Change 123: Played straight in Chapter 2 where Hibiki eventually rescues Kosukegawa. A variation happens during the "Zero revealing" plot arc where Kosukegawa's kidnapping serves only as bait for HiFuMi to lure them into a trap.
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Distressed Dude / int_253d901c	comment	Atticus Brent from Mokepon, due to being physically unfit and having little understanding of the Pokémon world. In the first four chapters alone he's nearly fallen off a cliff, been tied up by Caterpies, and been held at gunpoint by Team Rocket.
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Distressed Dude / int_253fc742	comment	"Snow-White-Fire-Red"
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Distressed Dude / int_26097013	comment	The third game in The Adventures of Lolo trilogy has Lolo having to save Lala for the third time later in the game. But there is a way to change this around completely; if Lolo manages to get to the Hopeless Boss Fight against King Egger, Lolo will be captured instead of Lala. This means that this time around, Lala has to save Lolo.
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Distressed Dude / int_280378a8	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction, Mokuba is kidnapped near the end of the game and brainwashed.
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Distressed Dude / int_28508de	comment	The Winx Club fairies' boyfriends, the Specialists, have been kidnapped on at least two occasions. First at the end of season 3, where Valtor captures four of the specialists, letting Helia go to deliver a message to the Winx girls to tell them to meet him on Andros. And near the end of season 4's episode 18, the Specialists are captured by Diana and her warrior fairies, only Nabu being able to avoid capture since he is the only one who has magical powers.
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Distressed Dude / int_29263004	comment	Many entries in the Dark Tales series feature your crime-solving partner Dupin as this. Naturally, it falls to the player to rescue him. The player character may also become this, if it's one of the games where they're implied to be male.
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Distressed Dude / int_2a15962e	comment	Furuichi from Beelzebub was kidnapped twice during the manga, both times used as bait to lure Oga into a trap. As the best friend of the main character and being the only one with zero fighting skills, this was bound to happen.
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Distressed Dude / int_2af19e5c	comment	In the Cool Kids Table game Here We Gooooo!, the last hero of the Soda Pop Kingdom gets captured while trying to free the Grape Escape factory, and the party has to free him. When they ask Princess Caramel Seltzer about him, she admits that she's aware of him and that he's actually not that great at being a hero.
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Distressed Dude / int_2ba1d958	comment	In the first Matrix movie, Agent Smith and a few other agents ambushed Morpheus's crew in an old building. The rest of the crew (except for the dearly departed Mouse) escape, but Morpheus was abducted. With him in his custody, Agent Smith attempted to interrogate him into giving them the codes to get into Zion's mainframe. Luckily, Neo and Trinity were on their way to rescue him.
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Distressed Dude / int_2bc165fe	comment	In The World Is Not Enough, Bond gets put into a torture machine that slowly strangles him and will break his neck if pulled far enough.
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Distressed Dude / int_2bf8bd9	comment	Shining Resonance begins with its protagonist, Yuma, being rescued from Gaelritz Prison by the knights of Astoria. Once he's safely within their Capitol, he spends the next several chapters under Astoria's protection, with additional aid from the Dragoneers.
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Distressed Dude / int_2c1809f5	comment	Totally Spies!, known mostly for its heroines getting into distress situations, actually features a couple of scenes where the girls' male spy helpers, Blaine and Dean, get captured by the bad guys. The spinoff series The Amazing Spiez will have a scene featuring one or more of the three Clark boys from time to time.
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Distressed Dude / int_2c56f7ee	comment	Shane from Asagao Academy Normal Boots Club claims to have been one at one time.
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Distressed Dude / int_2dcac970	comment	Mischief Makers had the heroine Marina constantly having to save her perverted mentor. The final time he's kidnapped, he lampshades it when he decides that getting kidnapped is his destiny and doesn't even resist.
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Distressed Dude / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph: At the end of the movie, Vanellope saves Ralph from what would have been a Heroic Sacrifice. Ralph Breaks the Internet does it again, with the Disney Princesses teaming up to save Ralph from falling to his doom near the end of the movie.
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Distressed Dude / int_2e97446c	comment	In Ib, Ib meets Garry when she saves him from a painting who stole his rose and was plucking it to pieces. Later on, if Garry fails to escape the doll room before his time limit is up, Ib has to save him again.
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Distressed Dude / int_2f230a09	comment	Rakion Kalsa in Chaos Fighters: Chemical Warriors-RAKSA.
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Distressed Dude / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "The Gost of Paradise Estate", Pluma's grandpa Ruff, while a hero in his youth, has been trapped in a cage in Squirk's lair and held hostage to force his granddaughter to serve the villain, and needs to be rescued by her and the heroes. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" In the Season 2 finale, Shining Armor is held captivated by an evil sorceress posing as his true love. In a nice inversion of the usual fare, his princess bride-to-be saves him (with the Power of Love, natch). Spike also needs to be rescued a few times. Justified, since he's a baby dragon and all.
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Distressed Dude / int_30940081	comment	Grand Theft Auto V has a mission, "Fresh Meat" where Michael is kidnapped by The Triads and is hung upside-down in a meat processing plant in an attempt to coerce his former friend Trevor. When that fails (due to Trevor previously discovering that Michael had backstabbed him long ago), Michael is left for dead. Franklin, another of Michael's friends, has to rescue Michael before he gets ground up by the meat processing machines.
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Distressed Dude / int_31677f1c	comment	He-Man in the She-Ra: Princess of Power movie. Let's have The Nostalgia Chick talk about it, shall we?
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Distressed Dude / int_3359ce51	comment	Bob Reynolds, the boyfriend of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, spent most of his time having to be rescued by Sheena.
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Distressed Dude / int_33abd33e	comment	In Ghostsquad there's a mission where you must rescue the president after he was taken hostage by Indigo Wolves terrorists on Air Force One.
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Distressed Dude / int_37ea664b	comment	X-Factor: Rictor's first appearance in comics consisted of his being saved from the Right, who'd kidnapped him in order to use his powers to wreak havoc on San Francisco. Since then, in his two stints in X-Factor and his time in X-Force, he's often the go-to guy to be kidnapped.
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Distressed Dude / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, an entire squadron of Inquisition soldiers - male and female - are taken hostage by a hostile Avvar warrior. There are also imprisoned slaves, mostly male, whom the Inquisitor can free in the Emprise du Lion and the Hissing Wastes.
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Distressed Dude / int_3ab71c22	comment	Dungeon Keeper Ami has Snyder, an acolyte of the Light that tends to get captured by the forces of good every time he goes on his own. And it's always up to Keeper Mercury to save him somehow.
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Distressed Dude / int_3c084586	comment	Baby Luigi in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Island DS and Yoshi's New Island.
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Distressed Dude / int_3c284cef	comment	Yuki from Betrayal Knows My Name often qualifies. Most of the time, the other characters are protecting or saving him.
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Distressed Dude / int_3cf0c5c5	comment	The music video for Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" puts the entire band in this situation, as they've been captured by the leader of an underground stuffed animal fighting ring (yes, really) and stuck in a dungeon underneath the arena. Alexandra Daddario ends up rescuing them after taking down the leader and his champion.
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Distressed Dude / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in The Nostalgia Chick's review of Supergirl: it was an incoherent mess that eventually turned into a Love Triangle over a pathetic schlub, but the one thing that the Chick liked was that the Action Girl/male "damsel" aspect was Played Straight rather than For Laughs.
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Distressed Dude / int_3e0d6d5e	comment	In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, Mega Man is captured for the latter half of Episode 13, and Roll, ProtoMan, and Kalinka set out to rescue him. Tron Bonne also tags along, unbeknownst to the other characters.
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Distressed Dude / int_3e5c6c5a	comment	Mario and Luigi (along with Wario) in Super Mario 64 DS actually start out trapped by Bowser. The player starts off as Yoshi and has to rescue them first in order to unlock them.
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Distressed Dude / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Eren from Attack on Titan. Whenever he's separated from Mikasa or Levi, he gets eaten or kidnapped, sometimes both. Justified, as Eren is a MacGuffin Super Person desired by multiple factions. Jean, for all his budding leadership qualities, has shades of this. He's been saved by Connie, Annie, Marco, and thrice by Armin.
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Distressed Dude / int_3fbe5a51	comment	"East of the Sun and West of the Moon"
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Distressed Dude / int_4329184f	comment	Elisa spends most of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops prying Big Boss out of some trap or another, not just during torture. Not to mention, several scientists get kidnapped in the series, mostly male.
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Distressed Dude / int_43a0bc40	comment	Taki from Yellow gets this a bit, although it happens to Goh at least once.
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Distressed Dude / int_4407fa9a	comment	Golden Sun: Dark Dawn: Matthew and Amiti are the only male player characters not subject to this trope. Tyrell crashes a borrowed soarwing in the Tanglewood out of his own overconfidence and stupidity. He happens upon a Psynergy Vortex, gets drained, and remains unconscious until the party shows up to save him. Rief nearly repeats Tyrell's mistake involving a nearby Vortex, only for the Tuaparang to come along and some Mooks distract you while he gets kidnapped by the leaders. You later find him Bound and Gagged in a box. Eoleo is arrested for piracy and locked in a suspended cage outside Belinsk Castle to frighten him out of using his powers to get away. He is one of the two sentenced to Cruel and Unusual Death by boiling alive during the full moon festival. Fortunately, it doesn't come to that. Unfortunately, what does happen is much worse. You rescue him again when it gets worse; he goes charging onto the ship to look for his dad and gets cornered by the Eclipse monsters that just... oh, goddammit.
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Distressed Dude / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Yeah, Shinji's a pretty easy target who cries and whines compared to his two female companions (a Stoic Woobie and Fiery Redhead). Yet he deserves mention for one episode where he takes charge, gets in trouble, and screams for help from the main female characters.
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Distressed Dude / int_466e458	comment	Moore in Big Game, when he's locked in a refrigerator hanging under a helicopter and about to be carried away for seven days of torture and painful death. Cue Big Damn Heroes from Oskari.
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Distressed Dude / int_469771d2	comment	The Powerpuff Girls' dad, Professor Utonium, sometimes falls into this.
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Distressed Dude / int_475972f0	comment	Y: The Last Man: Yorick Brown frequently needs to be rescued by 355. And in the "Safeword" arc, the bondage gets... rather literal. He's also a trained Escape Artist, so he can free himself at least some of the time.
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Distressed Dude / int_47b1287b	comment	In Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger, Quentyn himself gets launched into space in an emergency evac suit, and no communicator with enough range to reach help.
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Distressed Dude / int_482ba098	comment	Oz from PandoraHearts was being one twice. First when he was captured by the Baskervilles in the Lutwidge Academy, and then he was saved by Elliot. Second was in Yura’s Mansion, and Gil goes to rescue him (Elliot happened to be in the rescue team, too). Oh, and he didn’t show much of a resistance in both incidents, especially the first one.
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Distressed Dude / int_49a88435	comment	In the Final Fantasy XII fanfic, Touch and Go Balthier gets kidnapped, and almost succeeds in freeing himself.
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Distressed Dude / int_49ad83ee	comment	Koltira Deathweaver is showing a disturbing propensity for this in World of Warcraft, despite ostensibly being a badass. The first time we meet him is in the Death Knight starting zone, where he's been abducted and tortured by a Scarlet inquisitor and has to be rescued. One expansion later, in Cataclysm: he gets abducted again, this time by Sylvanas Windrunner, who's implied to be "re-educating" him to be more loyal to her after he intentionally let his enemy counterpart go after a battle, because they were friends. Dude can't catch a break.
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Distressed Dude / int_49b9194f	comment	Astonishingly averted in Yu-Gi-Oh! R, where nobody even considers grabbing Mokuba Kaiba.
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Distressed Dude / int_49ca84e5	comment	In The Smurfs (1994) by Infogrames, a few Smurfs in addition to Smurfette must also be rescued from Gargamel.
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Distressed Dude / int_49cb0175	comment	Ralph Breaks the Internet does it again, with the Disney Princesses teaming up to save Ralph from falling to his doom near the end of the movie.
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Distressed Dude / int_4b6caf38	comment	Kyrie from Sands of Destruction, so many times it's not funny. It's to be noted that he has the potential to defend himself but he never does.
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Distressed Dude / int_4b73d244	comment	Uncommon Time does this to Saki during Movement 2, as he's poisoned in the fight with the behemoth and is bedridden until you can find an antidote.
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Distressed Dude / int_4b790c79	comment	Funnily enough, before that, in the first two Iron Man films, both Tony and Rhodey act like this at different points. In Iron Man, Tony is captured at the beginning by the terrorist group The Ten Rings, and forced to make a missile for them; it's this capture, combined with giving him access to a box of scraps, which leads to him building the Iron Man armor in the first place. Later, the villain Obidiah Stane catches Tony by surprise in his home and takes out his Arc Reactor, which Tony now needs to live, putting him into Cardiac Arrest until he can get to his older, less powerful Arc Reactor. In Iron Man 2, Rhodey, now using the War Machine armor, has his armor hacked by Ivan Vanko and is trapped inside the armor as it attacks Tony, putting him in danger until Black Widow can re-hack it and free him.
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Distressed Dude / int_4b790c7b	comment	Iron Man 3, though Pepper is the one who spends most of the film in danger, and thus is a Distressed Damsel, Tony's pal Rhodey is also briefly captured by AIM, who pry off his armor and use it as part of a plan (though, had it not been for their Extremis powers, they'd have probably had difficulty holding him as see by his brief escape attempt). Said plan, funnily enough, involves capturing the President and executing him live, forcing Tony and Rhodey to work together to save him, making him another example.
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Distressed Dude / int_4c095a1f	comment	Optimus Prime gets this with his love interest Elita One in The Transformers. When arriving to save her from the Decepticons, first Optimus gets captured and watches helplessly as Elita tries to save them both, nearly getting killed for it. For one reason or another, the Decepticons decide not to finish them immediately but to hang Optimus over an acid bath where Elita will have a good view of his demise (and her demise-to-be). Elita One then activates her time powers to save Optimus Prime, which leads to him finally being able to do something to rescue her. It's pretty 50/50 with them. A similar incident occurs with Blurr in "The Face of the Nijika" (minus the whole "save my girlfriend" thing).
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Distressed Dude / int_4d48667e	comment	Donkey Kong himself is captured in the second and third iterations of Donkey Kong Country, and Diddy Kong is in the third. Dixie Kong is never captured (at least in the Donkey Kong games, she is in Mario Super Sluggers) making her one of Nintendo's straightest examples of an Action Girl.
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Distressed Dude / int_4d8f125d	comment	Ethan in Supergirl finds himself in several dicey situations requiring his rescue by the Maiden of Might.
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Distressed Dude / int_4da3b0a9	comment	The spinoff series The Amazing Spiez will have a scene featuring one or more of the three Clark boys from time to time.
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Distressed Dude / int_4ddcf970	comment	Mikagami Tokiya in Flame of Recca, despite being a competent fighter and a ruthlessly efficient The Smart Guy, actually doubles as this. He gets tied up TWICE in the series, both probably as an effect of picking up the Distress Ball, or maybe because Good Is Dumb, since this happens once he lets go of his Revenge tendencies and lessened his ruthlessness. In his defense though, after all that, he goes to beat down the most feared member amongst the enemy ranks.
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Distressed Dude / int_50b9086a	comment	In the Ready Jet Go! episode "My Fair Jet", the DSA weather balloon flies off in some nasty weather, and carries Sean along with it. But luckily, Jet saves him with his jetpack. In "Castaway Carrot", Carrot gets stranded on the moon but gets rescued by his family.
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Distressed Dude / int_5101b879	comment	"Kate Crackernuts" saves a prince from The Fair Folk.
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Distressed Dude / int_51b22d8b	comment	Edward in Witches' Legacy is only slightly less likely to find himself in trouble than Lynn — probably because neither Morgana nor Elisabeth seems interested in him as anything other than a way to get to her. But he still manages to find himself in some sort of jam each game. Like being trapped in a dreamstate or turned into a puppet or kidnapped by the sorcerer Mathias.
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Distressed Dude / int_526d4c5c	comment	And in the first Knights of the Old Republic, you and a couple party members are kidnapped by The Dragon, and have to pick a party member to stage a jailbreak. Also, remember that your Player Character could be Distressed Dude or a Damsel in Distress...
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Distressed Dude / int_527cde8d	comment	Ratchet is captured and rendered comatose by Luna in Size Matters, and has to be saved by Clank. And in the sequel, well...
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Distressed Dude / int_529ee66	comment	Tails in at least half of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Justified, since he is 4½ years old and goes on dangerous missions with Sonic.
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Distressed Dude / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern has been full of this since the dawn of time, but special mention goes to the New 52 run that, thus far, has been chock full of our two leads getting captured (by the Sinestro Corps, Indigo Tribe...).
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Distressed Dude / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Lampshaded here. And here.
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Distressed Dude / int_58907201	comment	In Sinfest, a trike feminist rescues Squidley from the prison.
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Distressed Dude / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear games almost always have a scene where the protagonist is captured, tortured, then given the means to escape by a woman (okay, Otacon or Gray Fox in Metal Gear Solid, but they're Snake's Not Love Interests and probably qualify). Metal Gear Solid 2 has Olga free Raiden, with Snake on standby to give him his clothes back later. In Metal Gear Solid 3, means to escape are given by The Boss, but you can flirt it out of Johnny instead if you want. Elisa spends most of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops prying Big Boss out of some trap or another, not just during torture. Not to mention, several scientists get kidnapped in the series, mostly male.
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Distressed Dude / int_59b2199f	comment	In the fourth game, Sir Galleth finds himself captured by a robotic dragon built by Penelope, and is saved by Carmelita. He finds this embarrassing to be saved by a woman, and they agree to keep it a secret from the others.
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Distressed Dude / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond seems to get himself captured almost every movie. Hence the title that this trope used to have: James Bondage. That iconic Goldfinger scene where James is strapped down to a table with a giant laser slowly making its way toward his groin. In The World Is Not Enough, Bond gets put into a torture machine that slowly strangles him and will break his neck if pulled far enough. Bond is captured by the North Koreans in Die Another Day and spends the title sequence being beaten and tortured. Casino Royale (2006) has the poor guy tied naked to a chair and whacked repeatedly in the groin by a knotted rope. Spectre has Bond tied to a chair while holes are drilled into his head.
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Distressed Dude / int_5ae0b268	comment	On one edition of TNA Impact, Samoa Joe was jumped by masked men in black while in the parking lot and loaded into a van, which sped away. Kidnapped by ninjas became a meme after the commentators innocuously pointed out Joe wasn't returning anyone's calls in the following weeks.
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Distressed Dude / int_5b8afa32	comment	Mamoru Amami from GaoGaiGar, specifically in its epilogue OVA, FINAL. When trying to make the preparations that would allow 3G to win against the 11 Planetary Lords of Sol, Mamoru created a replicant of himself to use as a decoy so he could get to the G-Crystal without being caught by the Sol Lords, said replicant is...very gut-wrenchingly chained and given mind-altering drugs by Palparepa.◊ It's pretty scary, honestly, and adds more to Mamoru's woobie factor.
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Distressed Dude / int_5ce2f08b	comment	Ciel of Black Butler is quite the chessmaster, but he's also a scrawny thirteen-year-old with asthma and winds up having to be saved rather a lot, usually by his Battle Butler Sebastian or his fiancée Elizabeth.
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Distressed Dude / int_5ce3fc86	comment	In one arc of the Soul Eater manga, Death the Kidd seems to be playing this role after a Collector of the Strange decides to add him to his collection. He manages to break out by himself, but only after a fight with Black Star which snaps him out of insanity.
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Distressed Dude / int_5cf2e9d2	comment	Sami The Samurai Squirrel: In one story, Doug is kidnapped by pirates.
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Distressed Dude / int_5d994fbf	comment	Goto in Samurai Flamenco becomes one near the end to lure Masayoshi into a final confrontation with Haiji. He managed to get out from his cuffs.
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Distressed Dude / int_5fa2f9f8	comment	The plot of Marl Kingdom really kicks off once the handsome prince Ferdinand is kidnapped and turned to stone (unfortunately, not in that order), leaving the heroine to save him. Similarly, Croix of La Pucelle Tactics spends the last chapter of the game kidnapped and strapped to a sacrificial altar, waiting for the heroine Prier to rescue him.
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Distressed Dude / int_5fb36d0e	comment	Dick Grayson used to get captured and tied up a lot during his old Robin days, in order to play the sidekick in danger and get rescued by Batman. Now, as Nightwing, this has evolved into a tendency to end up bound and stripped down to his underpants by the villain. Not that we're complaining.
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Distressed Dude / int_605704fb	comment	In Roza, she goes to rescue the horse-prince.
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Distressed Dude / int_607f6b7	comment	Inspector Gadget is this at least as often as his niece Penny is the Damsel in Distress. The difference between them is that the Inspector doesn't always know he's in danger. Brain, the dog, also qualifies for this trope on occasion.
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Distressed Dude / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War: Thor when he is beaten by Thanos and left floating in space, injured and unconscious. Just ask Star-Lord: Doctor Strange gets kidnapped and tortured by Ebony Maw in an attempt to steal the Time Stone from him, and has to be rescued by Iron Man and Spider-Man. After Vision is badly injured, multiple heroes try to save him from being captured and killed by Children of Thanos. In the end, Thanos kills him anyway.
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Distressed Dude / int_6276800c	comment	This happens to The Nostalgia Critic quite a lot; chloroformed and fondled by I Have You Now, My Pretty-looking The Nostalgia Chick, drugged and raped by Spoony, having to get saved in the Brawl, and so on.
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Distressed Dude / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, one late-game quest can potentially be resolved by the Warden surrendering to enemy forces. If this happens, the PC (who might be male) and Alistair (if you had him along at the time) are stripped down to their undies and left in a cramped prison cell. They may either try to escape on their own or wait in hope that your Ragtag Bunch of Misfits comes to get them out. Who you think is coming to save you is meant to demonstrate how you feel about that someone.
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Distressed Dude / int_62bdcf8a	comment	In Blue Yonder, Jared is familiar with the process, even though it's reversed at the moment.
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Distressed Dude / int_63ac9abf	comment	Tails in the Master System and Game Gear version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is captured by Eggman and Sonic goes out to save him. Beating the game without all the chaos emeralds results in Tails not being rescued and it is implied, although vaguely, that Tails was killed as a result.
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Distressed Dude / int_640d9be1	comment	Prince Myrddin of Etruria a.k.a. Elffin the Bard's backstory in The Binding Blade has him catching a HUGE Distress Ball and becoming one of these, after a plot against his life almost works. He's saved by the dancer Larum and manages to go Faking the Dead, becoming the local Quirky Bard and joining Roy's group.
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Distressed Dude / int_64b4421d	comment	Honoka Takamiya from Witch Craft Works. Interestingly more damsel-er than most.
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Distressed Dude / int_64dad195	comment	Joey Wheeler in Ultimate Re-Imaginings, though he manages to get himself out of the immediate danger only; any outside forces he's still gotta get saved from. Like dying from smoke inhalation, being beaten up, being beaten up again, being trapped in a dream world, etc...
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Distressed Dude / int_678f32e0	comment	Big Hero 6: The Series: Alistair Krei is constantly having run-ins with supervillains, some of whom he created himself, and Big Hero 6 has to bail him out. He's basically a more bumbling version of Norman Osborn in The Spectacular Spider Man.
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Distressed Dude / int_67ce5a04	comment	Leo's son Forrest in Fire Emblem Fates is captured and held hostage by bandits who mistake him for a pretty girl. His paralogue and recruitment center around defeating the enemy and ensuring he survives, he joins the party at the end of the chapter.
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Distressed Dude / int_699a47ae	comment	In So The Drama, Kim's new boyfriend Eric is taken hostage by Dr. Drakken...or so it seems. It turns out that he's actually a synthodrone created by Dr. Drakken to distract her and ultimately lead her into a trap.
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Distressed Dude / int_69b389ee	comment	Rambo: First Blood Part II: Rambo gets captured by the bad guys and has to be rescued by his teammate Co.
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Distressed Dude / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Funnily enough, before that, in the first two Iron Man films, both Tony and Rhodey act like this at different points. In Iron Man, Tony is captured at the beginning by the terrorist group The Ten Rings, and forced to make a missile for them; it's this capture, combined with giving him access to a box of scraps, which leads to him building the Iron Man armor in the first place. Later, the villain Obidiah Stane catches Tony by surprise in his home and takes out his Arc Reactor, which Tony now needs to live, putting him into Cardiac Arrest until he can get to his older, less powerful Arc Reactor. In Iron Man 2, Rhodey, now using the War Machine armor, has his armor hacked by Ivan Vanko and is trapped inside the armor as it attacks Tony, putting him in danger until Black Widow can re-hack it and free him. Bucky from Captain America: The First Avenger; being captured is what prompts Steve to act, and defy his orders to launch a rescue mission that saves Bucky, and nearly two-hundred other captured soldiers. Later in the film, Bucky is once more in danger when he jumps in the way of an energy blast to save Steve, causing him to fall out of a train and dangle from the side above a cliff. Unfortunately, Steve doesn't succeed in saving him. In The Avengers, Hawkeye's primary use in the film is to motivate Black Widow, his partner in the field, to rescue him as he's been captured by Loki and used as a Brainwashed and Crazy weapon, leading to her helping to form the Avengers. Due to the nature of how he's been captured, she basically ends up saving him from himself through an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight, and once rescued and given time to recover, Hawkeye helps the others in the final fight, which allows them to save the other Distressed Dude, Selvig. Iron Man 3, though Pepper is the one who spends most of the film in danger, and thus is a Distressed Damsel, Tony's pal Rhodey is also briefly captured by AIM, who pry off his armor and use it as part of a plan (though, had it not been for their Extremis powers, they'd have probably had difficulty holding him as see by his brief escape attempt). Said plan, funnily enough, involves capturing the President and executing him live, forcing Tony and Rhodey to work together to save him, making him another example. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve realizes half-way through the film that the title villain is none other than Bucky, brainwashed and used as a living weapon by HYDRA; and thus, he goes through a similar experience as Widow went through in Avengers. Avengers: Infinity War: Thor when he is beaten by Thanos and left floating in space, injured and unconscious. Just ask Star-Lord: Doctor Strange gets kidnapped and tortured by Ebony Maw in an attempt to steal the Time Stone from him, and has to be rescued by Iron Man and Spider-Man. After Vision is badly injured, multiple heroes try to save him from being captured and killed by Children of Thanos. In the end, Thanos kills him anyway.
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Distressed Dude / int_6a58dc6	comment	In the Child Ballad "The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward", the young lord saves his life by promising to never tell that his servant robbed him; the servant turns him into a servant until the daughter of a local lord figures out how to get the story out of him. (Gender Flip version of the Damsel in Distress in The Goose Girl).
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Distressed Dude / int_6b3cfe38	comment	Bob and George: Bob and Mike And George here, not quite escaping here, and back. Blues, with a Lamp Shade on the dangers of Unwilling Suspension, plus joined by Rock Man Mega Man and George again for a Fate Worse than Death. But first of all of them -- the author.
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Distressed Dude / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 has Nick Valentine, who first appears being held captive by Skinny Malone's gang. He lampshades this if you rescue him as a female player character:
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Distressed Dude / int_6cd3b44f	comment	Rock in Black Lagoon. Revy at one point makes a sarcastic quip when his latest kidnapper turns out to be a Japanese high-school girl.
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Distressed Dude / int_6d31710b	comment	During a most surreal Raw segment, CM Punk ordered his straight edge cohorts Luke Gallows and Serena Deeb out into the audience in order capture Jared Fogal, Subway Sandwich spokesman, to force him into the cult after Fogal politely declined.
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Distressed Dude / int_6d5963e6	comment	Hansel from "Hansel and Gretel" is put in a cage to be fattened, and it is up to his sister Gretel to kill the witch and rescue him.
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Distressed Dude / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Path of Radiance features the Heron Prince Reyson held hostage as a pet by a crazy noble. Ike's mercenaries are hired to rescue him. He would be a Quirky Bard if he wasn't, quite frankly, one of the most powerful utility characters in the game. He also essentially rescues himself before Ike's mercenaries arrive.
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Distressed Dude / int_6f22f406	comment	Seraph of the End gives this role to Mika and especially Yuu. Both state how they want to rescue/save the other and it's lampshaded by Ferid. Ferid calls Yuu by the Terms of Endangerment "precious princess", "lovely Yuu-chan", and "precious angel". Mika makes it his life goal to save Yuu from the vampires/humans out to use him and carries him in a Bridal Carry a couple times. There's even fanart of Mika dressed as a prince carrying Yuu who's dressed as a princess.
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Distressed Dude / int_7149a731	comment	Wonder Woman: We first meet Steve trapped in his sinking plane, rescued at the last second by Diana. Then she has to save him a second time from her own people. It happens a third time in London when German soldiers try to steal back something he stole on his earlier mission. He's not useless in the slightest, but, yes, he needs a lot of saving.
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Distressed Dude / int_717c5f25	comment	Naoyoshi from Gamaran. And rescuing him is actually one of the main plot motive of the series.
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Distressed Dude / int_72262aee	comment	Two examples from Avatar: The Last Airbender: Sokka, as the show's resident Butt-Monkey, suffers from this the most (he got captured by a hole in the ground!), but Aang often receives the more elaborate setups.
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Distressed Dude / int_72cfeebe	comment	In Crowns of the Kingdom, the Disney Villains capture all of the princes except for Charming at one point.
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Distressed Dude / int_7357234c	comment	Both of Jade's (male) sidekicks in Beyond Good & Evil have the nasty habit of getting themselves into trouble and needing Jade (female) to rescue them. Torture? Poisoning by an evil alien virus? Kidnapping? Death itself (or not)? Even in ordinary combat, not necessitated by the plot, they seem incapable of getting themselves up if pinned by a certain type of enemy. Although Jade is freed from tentacles by Pey'J at the start of the game.
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Distressed Dude / int_74c659e6	comment	In something of a reaction to the kind of pulp science fiction Rocket Age tries to reconstruct, there are an almost disproportionate number of distressed dudes in the published adventures.
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Distressed Dude / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Whenever the King of Hyrule hasn't been killed by the Big Bad, he usually ends up as this. See The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, the The Legend Of Zelda C Di Games and the cartoon series. Similarly, Link in the CDi game Wand of Gamelon is, along with the king, captured by Ganon. Zelda goes on her own adventure to save them both. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild involve Link rescuing the Sages or equivalent characters from Ganon's grasp, almost half of whom are guys. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword takes this a step further by including a sequence where Link himself is captured and must retrieve his weapons and items without being caught by enemy Mooks.
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Distressed Dude / int_75622e41	comment	Happened to Scott aka Cyclops quite a bit across the various X-Men cartoons — he gets it worst on Wolverine and the X-Men, mostly just so Jean Grey and Emma Frost would look better. And in X-Men: Evolution, where Mystique abducts him, steals his Power Limiter and leaves him completely blinded and indefense in the desert, as revenge having been the Spanner in the Works for her earlier. Jean saves him that time. In the latter case though, this was explicitly a Badass in Distress moment given he didn't sit around helplessly.
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Distressed Dude / int_7668653a	comment	The plot of the Mass Effect 2 expansion "Lair of the Shadow Broker" is kicked off by Liara's efforts to rescue her friend Feron from a ruthless information trader.
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Distressed Dude / int_7682fdc7	comment	The leader of the bears gets kidnapped by the Evil Guy in Something Else and it is up to Luigi to save him if Luigi wants to return to the Mushroom Kingdom.
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Distressed Dude / int_775cd181	comment	Streets of Rage 2 plot is about Mr. X managing to kidnap one of the guys who beat him last time, Adam Hunter, and it's up to his two buddies that also beat Mr. X, Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding, along with two more new friends, Eddie 'Skate' Hunter and Max Thunder, to beat Mr. X again and save Adam. He returns the favor next game not by being playable, but by pulling several Big Damn Heroes and implying of having other business backstage.
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Distressed Dude / int_7779051d	comment	This happens to the character of Kale in the movie Disturbia, and his Love Interest Ashley rescues him.
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Distressed Dude / int_78d6f120	comment	Subverted in the Destroy All Humans! series. Crypto, the main protagonist, gets captured once in each game. He often then breaks out of his containment himself. Played straight in Destroy All Humans! 2, where Crypto is rescued by his love interest, Natalya.
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Distressed Dude / int_78e27fa7	comment	Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Nils the Bard and his Distressed Damsel sister Ninian. They do join the fight... but as Quirky Bard types (they're damn useful once you get the hang of their abilities, though). There's also Raven and Lucius' brief stunt as Distressed Dudes. When they appear in either Eliwood's or Hector's path, it's in a cell of Lyn's castle. Raven subverts the trope as he forces the guards to let him go so he can take a chunk out of Hector, becoming an enemy unit that you have to recruit with his sister Priscilla; Lucius, however, stays in the cell until a freshly recruited Raven goes to recruit him.
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Distressed Dude / int_79ed218f	comment	Jimmy Jacobs hired many masked men to kidnap Tyler Black in his final effort to continue The Age Of The Fall. This ended up being the end of The Age Of The Fall when Kevin Steen, El Generico, and Delirious came out to stop him.
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Distressed Dude / int_7c038c18	comment	On Phineas and Ferb, the Agent P and Dr. Doofenshmirtz B-Plot parodies the tropes of Spy Fiction, including those put forth by the page image. In every episode, Dr. Doofenshmirtz has a new trap for Perry the Platypus, which gets progressively more absurd as the show goes on. Of course, Perry always escapes, either by his own ingenuity or Doof's incompetence. The title characters occasionally find themselves in this position, but being a pair of relentlessly optimistic kid geniuses, they're more likely to see it as a chance for an adventure than any cause for distress. In cases where things really do get out of control, it often forces Candace into a Cool Big Sis role. Examples include when they and their friends are tricked into a "Freaky Friday" Flip with alien criminals when a black hole has opened in the backyard, or in the Grand Finale when the boys are removed from existence.
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Distressed Dude / int_7cabe488	comment	At the end of Bendy and the Ink Machine Chapter 3, Boris gets Toon-napped by Susie Campbell. Henry's mission in Chapter 4 is to rescue him.
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Distressed Dude / int_7e3ba863	comment	In Chapter 5 of Eons Ago, Starscream is knocked out, kidnapped and sexually harassed by Steve the Vehicon. Megatron and Soundwave pull a Big Damn Heroes and rescue him.
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Distressed Dude / int_7f624b67	comment	This happens several times throughout the Sly Cooper games and has happened to the main trio at least twice. There have been two incidents where Sly himself is captured alongside Carmelita Fox; the first time, they are saved by Bentley; the second by Tennessee Kid Cooper. In the second game, Sly and Murray are captured by the Contessa following Neyla's Face–Heel Turn and are held in a prison on Prague. Chapter 4's main quest is for Bentley to save his friends; Sly is rescued early on, while the final mission involves saving Murray, who's been fed race-inducing spices. In the fourth game, Sir Galleth finds himself captured by a robotic dragon built by Penelope, and is saved by Carmelita. He finds this embarrassing to be saved by a woman, and they agree to keep it a secret from the others.
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Distressed Dude / int_7f8a38b6	comment	While he doesn't get caught every single episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing... well, if there's a boy liable to get captured, that's Duo Maxwell. Flanderized to death by fandom via Wimpification.
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Distressed Dude / int_7fc78282	comment	In The Lord of the Rings fanfic Pip-napped!, Pippin is kidnapped by a former innkeeper and his accomplice. Since the story is set AFTER the War of the Ring, and his kidnappers are nowhere near as dangerous as Orcs, it takes no time at all for Pippin to free himself and turn the tables on his captors.
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Distressed Dude / int_8019a9f1	comment	A different version of Steve finds himself in the same old boat in The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016). He was dragged to Themyscira to become a Human Sacrifice for Ares' plot and was injured and essentially helpless and in need of rescue for the duration of his stay.
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Distressed Dude / int_8097425	comment	Minwoo from Metal Heart gets kidnapped by Nova in order to use him as bait for Sia.
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Distressed Dude / int_80d8f911	comment	In Penny Blackfeather, The Adventurer is captured by monsters. And chained. And requires Penny's rescuing.
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Distressed Dude / int_810c9b91	comment	Rick and Morty (Oni): Both Rick and Morty become this sometimes: Morty is the more common target since Rick's enemies often try to use Morty against him. Most notably, he gets taken hostage at gunpoint in Issues 9 and 39, and is outright kidnapped in Issues 18 and 57. Rick gets captured by Dictator Morty of Dimension 304-X, and by his former employees of his dinosaur park, requiring his grandkids to save him both times.
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Distressed Dude / int_815220e8	comment	Sideswipe in the Transformers Armada episode "Past II", when he is abducted and chained up in a burning industrial complex by Wheeljack. Hot Shot rescues him.
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Distressed Dude / int_82212fb0	comment	The Mrs. Hawking series: In part V: Mrs. Frost, Nathaniel is taken captive by the villain, and an all-female team of heroes works together to save him.
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Distressed Dude / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Mario, Luigi and Toad become these in Super Princess Peach. Mario and Luigi (along with Wario) in Super Mario 64 DS actually start out trapped by Bowser. The player starts off as Yoshi and has to rescue them first in order to unlock them. As of late, Luigi seems to have been put in the unenviable position of 'Character everybody would rather play as'. In an effort to make players work for their reward, he's been made unavailable throughout Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 3D Land. The easy way to accomplish this is, of course, kidnapping. Mario in both Mario Is Missing! and Luigi's Mansion. Both times, Luigi has to bail him out. Yoshi's Safari has a king and prince kidnapped by Bowser while Princess Peach, who is the king and prince's friend, asks Mario and Yoshi to save them. Baby Luigi in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Island DS and Yoshi's New Island.
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Distressed Dude / int_84230cff	comment	In Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Valerie rescues her brother Eagle first from being chained in the town square, and then from being handcuffed in the middle of a river.
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Distressed Dude / int_86e51bb5	comment	Lucas Miller of The Adventure Zone: Balance spends most of The Crystal Kingdom waiting for the Tres Horny Boys to save him, and bleeds out through most of the arc's final battle.
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Distressed Dude / int_8a339030	comment	As Indiana Jones: tied to a light pole in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Chained to a whipping post in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Tied to a chair in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Kidnapped and stuffed in a car trunk and tied to a chair in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Practically Lampshaded with this exchange between Marion and Indy about them both being kidnapped
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Distressed Dude / int_8c87469c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword takes this a step further by including a sequence where Link himself is captured and must retrieve his weapons and items without being caught by enemy Mooks.
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Distressed Dude / int_8d00deda	comment	Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie gives double trouble with a damsel & a dude in distress(Kimberly & Jason). Not to mention Bulk & Skull.
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Distressed Dude / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Ron Stoppable in Kim Possible gets this quite a bit as sidekick to the show's hero Kim. She, of course, has her moments of helplessness, but Ron gets himself into trouble even more, occasionally leading to situations when they're both captured and tied up at the same time. One episode centred on Ron learning an Aesop about "becoming a man," and featured one of his teachers pointing out that he can't be very good at being a "real man" — because he keeps getting saved by a girl. In So The Drama, Kim's new boyfriend Eric is taken hostage by Dr. Drakken...or so it seems. It turns out that he's actually a synthodrone created by Dr. Drakken to distract her and ultimately lead her into a trap.
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Distressed Dude / int_93939352	comment	Spectre has Bond tied to a chair while holes are drilled into his head.
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Distressed Dude / int_93de917f	comment	In American Barbarian, even Rick needs some help sometimes.
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Distressed Dude / int_944468be	comment	A few That Guy with the Glasses guys have been this. Linkara has been tied up twice, once by Sage to torture him with an Old Shame fanfic and the other time by Mechakara... just to torture him. Paw was tied up in a recent video and covered in blood while The Nostalgia Critic was kidnapped by the Game Heroes and made to promote their stuff at gunpoint. This happens to The Nostalgia Critic quite a lot; chloroformed and fondled by I Have You Now, My Pretty-looking The Nostalgia Chick, drugged and raped by Spoony, having to get saved in the Brawl, and so on. Spoony himself in To Boldly Flee, then later The Cinema Snob. Linkara, on the other hand, was a Badass in Distress. Demo Reel wasted no time at all in turning Doug's new character, Donnie, into one. He's taken by the bad guys at the end of episode three, dumped in the woods to die, and then kidnapped again by a Loony Fan family who kept him hostage with muscle relaxants.
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Distressed Dude / int_95521c97	comment	The Spectacular Spider Man: Norman Osborn gets kidnapped by the vulture in the series' debut episode, and naturally Spider-Man needs to save him.
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Distressed Dude / int_959e6c9	comment	Dragon Quest IV: When you meet Princess Alena's party in chapter five, Kyril is desperately ill and Alena is out searching for a cure.
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Distressed Dude / int_95a8c491	comment	Sym-Bionic Titan: The King of Galaluna is in this state throughout the whole show (save flashbacks). This also happens to Lance a few times as well, most notably when kidnapped by Xeexi and later on, G3.
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Distressed Dude / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, Bakugo becomes this twice: the first, when he is taken hostage by a sludge villain, and the second when he is kidnapped by the League of Villains.
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Distressed Dude / int_961335e3	comment	In Default Dan, you have to save your turtle monster friend from the princess.
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Distressed Dude / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman's traditional boyfriend the Ace Pilot Steve Trevor tends to get into quite a fair share of trouble. His competence level varies from bumbling idiot, to experienced soldier, to commando superspy badass enough to be part of the Justice League, Depending on the Writer. His tendency to need rescuing, though, is pretty constant. A more recent (Wonder Woman (2006)) boyfriend, Tom Tresser a.k.a. Nemesis, is generally portrayed as more competent, if not outright badass. But he's still not in WW's league, and thus still needs saving on occasion. The first time Diana rescued him he was actually disguised as Steve Trevor. Wonder Woman (1942): Ronno the Mer-Boy in the Silver Age comics also qualifies, partly due to him always putting himself in harm's way just to impress Diana, and partly because, being a merman, he is pretty much helpless on land. He is especially ticked when he's rescued by Steve Trevor, despite Steve being an Ace Pilot superspy. In Wonder Woman (1987) Diana had to team up with Ares to save Hermes from Hades after Hades and Poseidon reacted poorly to Athena usurping Zeus' throne and strung up the messenger of the gods in Tartarus. A different version of Steve finds himself in the same old boat in The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016). He was dragged to Themyscira to become a Human Sacrifice for Ares' plot and was injured and essentially helpless and in need of rescue for the duration of his stay.
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Distressed Dude / int_99beaff4	comment	Demo Reel wasted no time at all in turning Doug's new character, Donnie, into one. He's taken by the bad guys at the end of episode three, dumped in the woods to die, and then kidnapped again by a Loony Fan family who kept him hostage with muscle relaxants.
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Distressed Dude / int_9cff8e37	comment	The music video for Bastille's "Laura Palmer" involves the frontman Dan Smith being kidnapped by two masked men and a masked woman riding ATV's. They bind him with duct tape and put a bag over his head, torturing him by shouting into a megaphone right next to his ear, placing a tarantula on his face, and hitting him over the head with a bottle.
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Distressed Dude / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls During the events of Arena, Emperor Uriel Septim VII is imprisoned in Oblivion and usurped by his Imperial Battlemage and Evil Sorcerer classic, Jagar Tharn, who uses magic to impersonate the Emperor. Defeating Tharn and rescuing the Emperor is the impetus for the plot. (In-universe, this event is known as the Imperial Simulacrum.) In spin-off Dungeon Crawler game, Battlespire, a fellow trainee and friend who leaves you clues and supplies through the first part of the game eventually gets captured and has to be saved from Big Bad. Said trainee is the opposite gender of the player character, so if the player character is a female, this trope manifests. Complete with dramatic carrying the rescuee with both hands towards an exit at the end.
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Distressed Dude / int_9da04de7	comment	The A-Team: In what's probably a nod to the original show (see below), Face is captured by bad guys and tied up in tires while wearing nothing but an open bathrobe. Also Hannibal at the very beginning of the movie, getting punched by two corrupt Mexican cops while handcuffed. Unfortunately for their boss, they're dumb enough to leave him alive. This ends badly for them.
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Distressed Dude / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Portgas D. Ace is definitely this trope; an entire war is done to save him from the Marines. Except that his younger brother Luffy is the one rescuing him, not a girl. Luffy succeeded in freeing him. Unfortunately, it was in vain as soon Ace took a lava punch from Admiral Akainu to save Luffy and actually died. Trafalgar Law goes through this in the Dressrosa arc. He gets knocked out, bound in Seastone chains, and interrogated by the arc's Big Bad. Then Luffy rescues him... but doesn't have a key for the chains, so he has to carry Law all over the island, through multiple battles, until they finally get the key and Law can (somewhat) participate again.
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Distressed Dude / int_9e876c22	comment	The Good Omens fandom seems to have a thing for Aziraphale being dragged into Hell for some torture scenes with the option of making Aziraphale Fall. This got parodied in Manchester Lost, where Poor Aziraphale got it so bad we only got to see what was going through his head as Lucifer tore off his wings, which was an incredibly fluffy flashback.
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Distressed Dude / int_9ef055f4	comment	Happens several times throughout the Ratchet & Clank series, mostly towards Clank. The most heartbreaking case is when the Zoni capture him at the end of Tools of Destruction, and he then spends the next two years in a coma. Ratchet is captured and rendered comatose by Luna in Size Matters, and has to be saved by Clank. And in the sequel, well... Merc and Green get captured at one point in Deadlocked. Of course, Merc is quickly rescued, but it's a few missions before Green is saved.
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Distressed Dude / int_9f5224a2	comment	In War: 13th Day, Brooks charges after Chase with a spear. He refuses to fight back because she's the best friend of his lover. He ends up pinned down and almost raped until Wildfire rescues him. Or not.
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Distressed Dude / int_a34101c8	comment	Yoshi's Safari has a king and prince kidnapped by Bowser while Princess Peach, who is the king and prince's friend, asks Mario and Yoshi to save them.
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Distressed Dude / int_a495544e	comment	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Ty Parsec, a fellow ranger and old Academy friend of Buzz Lightyear, has a very unfortunate streak of getting himself into trouble and needing to be rescued by Buzz. In his introduction, we learn that Buzz has saved him at least 50 times. Needless to say, it annoys Ty greatly.
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Distressed Dude / int_a68c19b8	comment	The first part of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War has Prince Shanan of Isaac, Ayra's nephew and protegée. However, the second part, which takes place 17 years later, shows him and his best friend Oifey as adults who have taken SEVERAL levels in badass. Said second part also gives us the priest Coirpre, held hostage to force his adoptive father Hannibal to work for the enemy. Once the issue is resolved, they both join the main group.
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Distressed Dude / int_a695c23a	comment	Simon Pegg's character is kidnapped for leverage in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
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Distressed Dude / int_a7a0b48b	comment	9S in NieR: Automata gets captured by Adam after being separated from 2B. The Japanese game cover even shows 2B holding an unconscious 9S in a Bridal Carry.
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Distressed Dude / int_a7c45bec	comment	"The Seven Ravens"
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Distressed Dude / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Squall at the start of the second disc of Final Fantasy VIII. Prompto from Final Fantasy XV has two moments. First time was when he gets grabbed by the Naga in Fociaugh Hollow, although he was able to save himself shortly after. Second time was when he gets kidnapped by Ardyn after chapter 11. Rescuing him however involves going through arguably the most frustrating part of the game.
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Distressed Dude / int_a8729c90	comment	The first Fairly OddParents game on the Game Boy Advance, Enter the Cleft!, is about Timmy having to rescue the Crimson Chin.
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Distressed Dude / int_a9830146	comment	Happens to Terinu fairly often, so far being capture and strapped half-naked to a Wave-Motion Gun, stripped completely and tossed into a cell in a biological testing facility, and now basically being treated as the pampered pet of the Big Bad.
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Distressed Dude / int_aa1cb7f1	comment	Sergeant Magnusson in Medal of Honor: Vanguard is captured by the Nazis in 'Behind Enemy Lines' and Keegan and his squad are tasked with rescuing him.
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Distressed Dude / int_aa6bfd5a	comment	In Plume, Vesper seems to consider Corrick to be this after events of chapter 9, although he himself seems to be dealing with all that happens pretty fine.
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Distressed Dude / int_aa7d9eae	comment	Steve in the opening to the first Scream is an extreme example.
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Distressed Dude / int_aac06a76	comment	Barbarella: Pygar the angel is extremely ill-equipped to deal with the evil and insanity of the city of Sogo, leading to Barbarella having to save him a couple of times; from a group of Sogoites who want to shred his wings and stab him with a scythe, and from the Black Queen who holds him hostage and crucifies him.
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Distressed Dude / int_ac67074d	comment	This happens to Robin from Teen Titans a few times. Once, when his teammates thought he was going crazy, they restrained him to a medical bed. A few times? Try a lot! A lot of villains' favorite plan seems to be "capture Robin and put him out of commission" so the Titans are faced with having to rescue him. Very often, he ends up shackled or strapped to one thing or another. Or, if he isn't restrained with those, he's been paralyzed by magic/superpowers/poisons/whatever. Or stuck into a marionette. Kinda makes sense when you realize that Robin is the leader of the team, so if you take down the leader, the rest of the team is most likely to fall apart. Many villains try to follow this tactic, but usually, it doesn't work that well. In fact, Cyborg and Beast Boy usually gleefully take the opportunity to shout "Titans! GO!" while Robin is out of commission.
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Distressed Dude / int_ac76e13b	comment	In Akame ga Kill!, Tatsumi finds himself captured and imprisoned by one of the most powerful, cruel, and sadistic human beings in existence, Esdeath, a woman with extremely deadly powers who has slaughtered hundreds of thousands without mercy. That's not the problem though. The problem is Esdeath is hopelessly in love with Tatsumi and fully intends to make him hers. Hilarity Ensues.
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Distressed Dude / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild involve Link rescuing the Sages or equivalent characters from Ganon's grasp, almost half of whom are guys.
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Distressed Dude / int_b0028436	comment	Rohan Kishibe from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure where he falls into a trap by Highway Star and gets held captive until Josuke hunts down and defeats the Stand user. Koichi was earlier taken captive by Keicho Nijimura. Likewise, Josuke also had to rescue him. He also gets kidnapped by Yukako but frees himself after defeating her. Josuke himself needed rescuing when he and Koichi were captured by Terunosuke Miyamoto and his Stand, Enigma. Interestingly enough, the one to do the rescuing was Yuya Fungami - the one who actually held Rohan captive previously.
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Distressed Dude / int_b0c48482	comment	The eponymous Mystery Team has this happen to them a lot.
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Distressed Dude / int_b1bae649	comment	In Princess Princess, the two princesses come across a prince in distress. He is not in immediate danger, clinging to a tree, and tells them he'd prefer to not be rescued by princesses.
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Distressed Dude / int_b4cd70c2	comment	Happens at the end of Mission: Impossible III, after Tom Cruise's character electrocutes himself to short out the bomb in his head (yes, really), the Love Interest he just rescued has to revive him, but before doing so has to take out the Big Bad and his mooks all by her lonesome while the hero lies prone and unconscious. Simon Pegg's character is kidnapped for leverage in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
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Distressed Dude / int_b4fa387e	comment	Azusa Mizutani from Gakuen Ouji is this at the beginning of the manga. The female lead had to rescue him twice from being gang-raped by all the crazy, horny girls at their school.
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Distressed Dude / int_b55b8015	comment	In the arcade version of Ninja Gaiden, your nameless ninja gets chained on the floor during the Game Over sequence while a buzz saw is descending from the ceiling.
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Distressed Dude / int_b5f2ea65	comment	The Fate of Paul Twister begins with Paul locked up in a prison, until a rather authoritative woman shows up to bail him out. Lampshaded by Paul when he finds out her identity:
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Distressed Dude / int_b7c72249	comment	Richter Belmont from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night when, after having rescued Annette in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood/Dracula X, he vanishes suddenly and mysteriously four years later. One year later, Annette's sister Maria sets out to rescue him.
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Distressed Dude / int_b7e8e4b6	comment	My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "The Gost of Paradise Estate", Pluma's grandpa Ruff, while a hero in his youth, has been trapped in a cage in Squirk's lair and held hostage to force his granddaughter to serve the villain, and needs to be rescued by her and the heroes.
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Distressed Dude / int_b906a721	comment	In Secret of Mana, Purim's reason for joining the party is to rescue Dyluck.
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Distressed Dude / int_b94ee6aa	comment	Finn's role in Warrior U. As a would-be bard ("I'm a lover, not a fighter") completely failing his warrior training class, he usually needs the more standard hero Harv to be his bodyguard against the psychotic unicorn that is constantly trying to kill him.
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Distressed Dude / int_b97f910f	comment	The 'Save Our Seeds' levels in Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time have 'endangered plants' which the player must protect from the zombies in order to complete the level.
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Distressed Dude / int_bb4af8d3	comment	All the guys in Young Justice have gone through distressing situations, but the honor has to go to Superboy.
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Distressed Dude / int_bb5cd713	comment	Kaito Doumoto of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch should really stop going overseas for surfing tournaments. The first time, he was kidnapped by his long-lost brother Gackto, had his power almost stolen, and got used to blackmail Lucia. The second time, he had his memory wiped by Michel and was used to draw Lucia out of hiding and blackmail her again. Thankfully, though she may be The Ditz, she's smarter than that.
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Distressed Dude / int_bbd5e513	comment	Lawrence sometimes takes this part in Spice and Wolf. In both arcs of the first season, Holo has to save his butt (or the business deal at hand) by returning to her true form, a giant wolf, and kicking around lots of thugs. The situations in the second season are a bit more complicated, however.
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Distressed Dude / int_bbeb8db7	comment	Blake and Mortimer: Professor Philip Mortimer usually investigates alone and tends to get captured when he's trapped and outnumbered, leading his best friend, Captain Francis Blake to rescue him. Though there are a few cases when Blake also gets captured and Mortimer is the one who rescues him.
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Distressed Dude / int_bc1dc95a	comment	The first three Pirates of the Caribbean films share the In Distress role around a bit between the original 3 leads — Elizabeth gets more time in it than anyone else, true, but the other two get it sometimes, and as they're both male...
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Distressed Dude / int_bc8524a4	comment	"The Six Swans"
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Distressed Dude / int_bcc05def	comment	Bad Dudes: The President has been kidnapped by Ninjas. Are you a Bad Dude enough to rescue the president?
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Distressed Dude / int_bd310eaa	comment	An entire arc is dedicated to rescuing Elliot as a catboy in El Goonish Shive. During which time he loses his shirt and gets tied to a pole. And he actually escapes by turning into a girl (his female form is significantly smaller than his catboy form, so his transformation loosened the ropes.)
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Distressed Dude / int_c01a7c9e	comment	Spelunky gives the player the option of turning the Damsel in Distress on each floor into a half-naked, buff guy.
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Distressed Dude / int_c079573a	comment	In METAGAL, Meta needs to save her creator, Dr. Ray, from General Creeper.
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Distressed Dude / int_c28ecade	comment	R!Syaoran in Shatterheart when he is kidnapped and later tortured by Serial Killers during an outing with Fai.
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Distressed Dude / int_c3c3dfc	comment	While every single one of the main characters in Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders periodically needs rescuing, Polnareff is the poster boy for this trope. Even during his personal quest to avenge his murdered sister, Advol takes a knife to the back and a bullet the face just to protect Polnareff from being tag-teamed by Hol Horse and J. Geil. Then Kakyoin has to stop him from attacking the two enemy stand users without knowing how their powers work against Advol's wishes.
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Distressed Dude / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" In the Season 2 finale, Shining Armor is held captivated by an evil sorceress posing as his true love. In a nice inversion of the usual fare, his princess bride-to-be saves him (with the Power of Love, natch). Spike also needs to be rescued a few times. Justified, since he's a baby dragon and all.
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Distressed Dude / int_c4a22754	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Many jokes are made about Mokuba Kaiba's frequent kidnappings. LittleKuriboh even saw fit to put together a montage of a few scenes in which he was kidnapped.
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Distressed Dude / int_c511c682	comment	Asterix: Getafix the druid is sometimes captured by the Romans or Goths because they want his Super Serum potion. Cacofonix gets captured by the Romans a few times and gets Bound and Gagged at the end of most stories. In most cases, the kidnappers want to give him back.
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Distressed Dude / int_c686bb8	comment	In The Sacred Stones: Subverted when Eirika is convinced that her brother Ephraim is being held captive. He got away off-screen and comes back to rescue her when she comes to rescue him. They proceed to team up and kick the ass of the guy whose idea it was to start those rumors. Played straight when Eirika and her company have to rescue the trapped Prince Innes along with his mercenary team in Carcino. In Ephraim's route, Knoll was imprisoned and scheduled to be executed before Ephraim and his troupe freed him.
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Distressed Dude / int_c6e9c6cc	comment	As of late, Luigi seems to have been put in the unenviable position of 'Character everybody would rather play as'. In an effort to make players work for their reward, he's been made unavailable throughout Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 3D Land. The easy way to accomplish this is, of course, kidnapping.
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Distressed Dude / int_c8b6b0e8	comment	The Tale of the Great Bunny: The titular Great Bunny ends up this way, being kidnapped near the beginning of the show by the evil weasels.
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Distressed Dude / int_ca47629	comment	Lance in Brain Dead 13, when he is captured by Vivi for use in a painful "makeover".
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Distressed Dude / int_cad487df	comment	Out of the five members of the Sushi Pack, the three male members have been captured more times than the two female members (although only one episode had all three of them captured at the same time). On the other hand, at least one of each has been captured even more often (usually of the "four are captured, one sets them free" variety).
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Distressed Dude / int_caffe49f	comment	In Life Ore Death one member of the Injustice League escapes and attempts to redeem himself by taking a 14-year-old boy hostage to get to his father, and half the Team is on hand to help. Joseph still gets his throat cut, but his powers come from Miss Martian's flesh, and he joins the Team.
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Distressed Dude / int_cb09ad9	comment	King's Quest has Edgar...who spends most of his first appearance as a Mook of Lolotte's, and his second appearance transmogrified into a troll.
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Distressed Dude / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!:
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Distressed Dude / int_cb6abef3	comment	In The Avengers, Hawkeye's primary use in the film is to motivate Black Widow, his partner in the field, to rescue him as he's been captured by Loki and used as a Brainwashed and Crazy weapon, leading to her helping to form the Avengers. Due to the nature of how he's been captured, she basically ends up saving him from himself through an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight, and once rescued and given time to recover, Hawkeye helps the others in the final fight, which allows them to save the other Distressed Dude, Selvig.
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Distressed Dude / int_cbe9419f	comment	Last Res0rt hits this right on the start of the second chapter (first if you don't read through the Art Evolution) with Slick Giovanni in a fairly intricate "prison harness", and then later on with Slick attempting to seduce Jigsaw while he's chained to the wall. No wonder he also doubles as The Chick (even though at least half the cast is female).
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Distressed Dude / int_ccd9e40c	comment	In their effort to take over TNA, Aces & Eights once loaded Kurt Angle unto the back of a pickup truck, though he got away on his own.
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Distressed Dude / int_d3381e70	comment	In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve realizes half-way through the film that the title villain is none other than Bucky, brainwashed and used as a living weapon by HYDRA; and thus, he goes through a similar experience as Widow went through in Avengers.
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Distressed Dude / int_d45b3eed	comment	This happens to a wounded Hannibal King in Blade: Trinity when he gets captured by vampires.
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Distressed Dude / int_d4f6536b	comment	There are multiple distressed dudes in Lorelai who have to be rescued by the female protagonist. Her love interest is the most prominent example, who gets knocked unconscious and abducted (along with her baby sister) by her evil stepfather in the second half of the game, leaving Lorelai determined to resurrect in time to stop him from murdering them both. There's also Jimmy, who shares a lot of critical info with Lorelai in the afterlife and then gets captured/imprisoned by the Queen of Maggots, leaving him helpless until Lorelai can find his body in the real world and wake him up.
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Distressed Dude / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Disney's Aladdin is one example from being put in the dungeon, to almost drowning to beheading, etc.
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Distressed Dude / int_d69b7276	comment	Similarly, Croix of La Pucelle Tactics spends the last chapter of the game kidnapped and strapped to a sacrificial altar, waiting for the heroine Prier to rescue him.
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Distressed Dude / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Sailor Moon: Mamoru Chiba, a.k.a. Tuxedo Kamen started off as helpful and slightly badass, but after he and Usagi entered into a relationship, the poor guy descended rapidly into Distressed Dude territory. This also had some Worf Effect crossover just because the most common method of the villains to demonstrate their evil was to chuck the powerless guy in the tuxedo across the room and make off with him... or, in at least two cases, reprogram him. The manga tried to reduce this effect by giving him useful powers, and he took care of a few villains by himself, but he'd still get kidnapped/killed/brainwashed whenever the plot needed to kick up the drama a few notches. The Stars manga storyline even started off with Galaxia effortlessly killing the poor kid in front of Usagi.
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Distressed Dude / int_d836e0f8	comment	Mark Trail: Rusty's designated role, constantly getting kidnapped or trapped.
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Distressed Dude / int_da093071	comment	Masuhiro, the Daimyo of the Senshin clan in No Need for Bushido, gets kidnapped by ninjas early on in the story. His status as Distressed Dude isn't for lack of trying on his part, mind you. He's such an incredible badass that he keeps breaking out of captivity time and time again, using increasingly improbable methods, usually killing several mooks in the process or gaining valuable intel. It's just that the party responsible for his captivity is led by female ninjas, and he can't help but be Distracted by the Sexy long enough for them to get the drop on him.
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Distressed Dude / int_da7daec7	comment	In Opoona, Opoona himself, along with his brother Copoona, get captured at the start of the second half of the game, and become trapped in Paradiso, the supposed paradise of the planet. It's up to their sister Poleena, along with her new gal-pal Chaika, to rescue them.
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Distressed Dude / int_da82c908	comment	Mark Lily from Ugly Americans manages to get himself into all kinds of horrifying and distressful situations.
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Distressed Dude / int_da92c130	comment	Erfworld: Ansom. Jillian just knows it.
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Distressed Dude / int_db17a15f	comment	In The White Dove, the prince falls into a witch's power.
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Distressed Dude / int_db57b722	comment	Happens to every guy in Noblesse on multiple occasions. You can pretty much make a drinking game out of all the times the RK4 or Shin-Wu & Ik-Hwan need to be rescued from a superior enemy.
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Distressed Dude / int_db96ded4	comment	In The Legend of Korra (Sequel Series of the above), Bolin is captured by the Equalists in the third episode. Korra and Mako have to team up to rescue him before Amon can take away his bending.
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Distressed Dude / int_dc217e32	comment	In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Ash has been kidnapped twice, though in both cases he was taken off-guard. The first time, he was attacked while on the road and taken captive by Hunter J, though he manages to (barely) escape from her ship on his own. The second, he was forcibly teleported to the Saffron Gym by Sabrina. He managed to hold his own until his female companions and his recently found half-sister Belladonna managed to get there and get him out.
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Distressed Dude / int_df7fa951	comment	Casino Royale (2006) has the poor guy tied naked to a chair and whacked repeatedly in the groin by a knotted rope.
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Distressed Dude / int_e05681a1	comment	In Kick-Ass, Dave and Big Daddy get tortured on streaming video, before Hit Girl arrives to stop the show.
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Distressed Dude / int_e081af79	comment	In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Jean is rather embarrassed at having been captured by sasquatches but consoles herself that Bob is probably competent enough to rescue her. On cue, the sasquatches arrive with Bob also tied up, and toss him in next to her.
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Distressed Dude / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II, during the "Best Served Cold" quest, a party member is taken hostage. This will either be one of your siblings or, if they are both dead, Hawke's love interest. If there is no love interest (or the love interest is the DLC-exclusive companion), or the love interest is in the active party at the time Hawke receives the quest, it will instead be Hawke's closest friend outside of the active party. All in all, there's an equal chance of the hostage being male or female. If it's Anders, he'll quip that he's never thought of himself as a damsel in distress up till now. It's brought up in the Mark of the Assassin DLC after Hawke and Tallis escape their cell. If romanced, Anders will admit to having fantasies about Hawke saving him from the Templars just as they're about to make him tranquil and then expressing his gratitude. This gets funny points if Fenris is in the party, as he'll yell at them to get a room.
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Distressed Dude / int_e179ec3a	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: The Series: Calvin's father (and mother) in "The Return of Dr. Brainstorm", though they were asleep the whole time. Calvin and Hobbes get stuck in a Bag of Kidnapping in "An MTM Episode". Socrates tends to get kidnapped a lot - he's held for ransom by Dr. Brainstorm twice (though Calvin shows little concern) and the Super Smoke being in "Nocturnals" says that a returning character is after him, to his surprise.
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Distressed Dude / int_e1bb431b	comment	Yuuen from Wild Rock is small, weak, and looks like a girl, and basically helpless against most giant prehistoric animals. Luckily for him, Emba's the opposite.
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Distressed Dude / int_e293455a	comment	In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfiction West of the Moon, East of the Sun (a loose adaptation of both the famous Norwegian fairytale and the Greek myth Cupid and Psyche) Spike is captured by the Big Bad and held captive in another dimension. Buffy has to go and rescue him.
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Distressed Dude / int_e2b3cc8a	comment	Spoony himself in To Boldly Flee, then later The Cinema Snob. Linkara, on the other hand, was a Badass in Distress.
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Distressed Dude / int_e59216c7	comment	In The Gamer's Alliance, the Sirithai capture Refan and tie him into the arena where he is to be sacrificed to the monstrous Plushiebunny. Ax ends up saving him and can't help but keep teasing him about it because usually Refan has been the one doing the rescuing.
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Distressed Dude / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright is no slouch in this department. Accused of murder in 1-2 for daring to question the resident Corrupt Corporate Executive, stricken with amnesia in 2-1, then the defendant for Mia to rescue in 3-1. He and Maya share the distress spot in 1-3 when Dee Vasquez nearly rubs them out, Gumshoe arrives just in time to save both their hides. In Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, this happens twice. Once when Edgeworth is "arrested" for supposedly murdering another passenger on a first class transcontinental flight and once when Edgeworth goes to deliver some ransom money to some kidnappers and gets taken hostage himself. Both times he ends up with his hands either tied or handcuffed behind his back, and he has to talk to other people into setting him free. Poor, poor Sebastian Debeste from Investigations 2. Getting kidnapped (accidentally, at that) was just the icing on the cake to a severely traumatizing day for him. Kay and Edgeworth free him after finding him Bound and Gagged in a small, dark room while looking for another kidnapping victim, and by this point, he's become so emotionally fragile from the experience that the ensuing Logic Chess sequence is the most difficult one in the game.
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Distressed Dude / int_e7f3f26e	comment	The plot of Coventina's Crown starts when Morain's brother Errol is kidnapped.
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Distressed Dude / int_e8595ff9	comment	In Tangled, Rapunzel's interventions did save Flynn on a few occasions, most notably during the Snuggly Duckling scene. That said, he is able to hold his ground against the palace guards, and he kind of repaid the favor by performing a Heroic Sacrifice, thereby freeing Rapunzel from Gothel. Taken Up to Eleven in the animated series. He's still a badass, but Rapunzel has also Taken A Level In Badass. Notably there's never any insulting of his masculinity; he usually just swoons and/ or brags about his badass girlfriend before getting back in the action.
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Distressed Dude / int_e995f4b2	comment	In Night Trap, Lt. Simms informs you that you have to protect the Damsels in Distress at a sleepover party (Lisa, Cindy, Ashley, Megan, and S.C.A.T. member Kelly Medd) from getting captured and killed by vampiric Augers. However, in the 2017 remaster, it's not just the girls who need saving... it's Lisa's kid brother Danny as well. In one of the Deleted Scenes added for the remaster, it's your job to save him from being drained by the augers in the downstairs hallway, or else it's Game Over.
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Distressed Dude / int_eb6719f6	comment	Squall at the start of the second disc of Final Fantasy VIII.
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Distressed Dude / int_ec19bd89	comment	Genjyo Sanzo of Saiyuki gets abducted and restrained by baddies quite often in the anime. Doesn't stop him from being a badass, though. Then again, his original counterpart from Journey to the West got this treatment way more than Saiyuki Sanzo, without being badass the rest of the time to make up for it. Not that that's hard given his original counterpart was pretty much a complete wuss compared to Saiyuki's loud, violent, arrogant, chain-smoking, gambling, foul-mouthed, violent version who on average threatens to kill his companions at least twice a chapter. Oh, and did I mention foul-mouthed and violent?
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Distressed Dude / int_ec421f5d	comment	"Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead" is exactly this trope. When the character of Bobby is kidnapped by Rusty Nails, his fiance Melissa must save him. Later on, the other male protagonist is kidnapped.
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Distressed Dude / int_ee344d3d	comment	The Evil Within, the Spiritual Successor to Resident Evil 4, has multiple dudes in distress: Your detective partner Joseph is the most straight example, essentially taking up Ashley's role from RE4; Badass Bookworm though he may be, if he's in a chapter then you can expect him to be knocked out, shot, overcome with The Corruption, and/or forcibly split up from the badass protagonist. Alternative Character Interpretation suggests that the Big Bad does it on purpose to get an emotional reaction out of Sebastian. The protagonist himself starts off the game tied upside down by his feet and needing to escape from the chainsaw-wielding Sadist, though he manages to free himself with the help of a convenient knife nearby. Leslie, a male mental patient, spends most of the game being hunted down by the Big Bad, and thus requires protection from the protagonist.
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Distressed Dude / int_ee3848d	comment	Shokupanman, frequently, in Anpanman. And by frequently, I mean all the time, by everyone. Even though he's also a superhero and one of the Power Trio.
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Distressed Dude / int_f10619d8	comment	Fon Master Ion from Tales of the Abyss manages to get kidnapped a grand total of four times in the course of a single game. Justified as he's both rather sickly and a target of various villains for their plans.
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Distressed Dude / int_f38b1d2f	comment	Charles Xavier is put through what could be considered an even worse hell in X-Men: Apocalypse compared to the two previous films in the rebooted series. When Apocalypse manages to connect to him via Cerebro (only because Charles was appealing to Erik and didn't realise he was there) in order to set off the entire world's nuclear missiles, his great awe at Charles's mutant powers instantly turns into kidnapping and near-successful possession of his body in his need to transfer his consciousness to him since Charles's powerful telepathic abilities would enable him to have access to everyone on the planet. Even a fight on the astral plane leaves Charles battered and bloodied due to Apocalypse's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of him, at which point he calls on Jean to unleash the Phoenix Force to disintegrate the god-like mutant.
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Distressed Dude / int_f3cbb86a	comment	When we first meet Shift in BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, he’s been falsely locked up in the YouTube city jail, and must be rescued for the plot to continue.
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Distressed Dude / int_f6a54e75	comment	For a series with most of it's women Damsels in Distress, a few males in the Kingdom Hearts series wind in in this situation, such as Pinocchio, Santa Claus, Jack Sparrow, Phillip, and even Sora himself. In the manga adaptation for Kingdom Hearts II, Tron is bound to a wall and tortured, and later grabbed by a giant Sark, who tries to crush him (quite painfully). Quite a contrast to the game's portrayals as a Badass Bookworm and a mind-controlled "cyber ninja".
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Distressed Dude / int_f724b70d	comment	In Code Lyoko, the Damsel in Distressed role tends to go to Aelita, who doesn't reach Action Girl status until around Season Three, or Yumi in some sort of random Running Gag. However, there are also many episodes that involve Jérémie being the one in trouble, usually with electrocuting or trying to electrocute him. (And there was that one time where XANA sent one of his specters to clog his airways and suffocate him.) This really makes the most sense, since when you're a computer program, the most dangerous foe is the guy who controls the computer.
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Trials of Mana (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Twisted Wonderland (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Wario Land: Legends of 6 Crystals (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Warriors Orochi (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Witches' Legacy / Videogame / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Yoshi's Island (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Yoshi's Safari (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Dark Parables / Videogame / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Dark Tales / Videogame / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Visual Novel) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Dangan Ronpa (Visual Novel) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Visual Novel) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Fate/stay night (Visual Novel) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
War: 13th Day (Visual Novel) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Flash-Gitz Animation (Web Animation) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Memoria / Web Comic / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
White Dark Life / Web Comic / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Ask That Guy with the Glasses (Web Video) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Escape the Night (Web Video) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Feminist Frequency (Web Video) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Ninja (Web Video) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Splinter Cell: Extinction (Web Video) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Cuanta Vida (Webcomic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Eons Ago (Webcomic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Everett (Webcomic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Hell(p) (Webcomic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Homestesque (Webcomic)	seeAlso	Distressed Dude
One-Punch Man (Webcomic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Roza (Webcomic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Sword Princess Amaltea (Webcomic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Terinu (Webcomic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Overused Sci-Fi Storylines (Website) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
A Bug's Life / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Aladdin: The Series / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Barbie and the Three Musketeers / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Captain Planet and the Planeteers / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Finding Nemo / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Kaijudo / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Mighty Mightor / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Monsuno / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Monster Buster Club / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Puppetoons / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Ralph Breaks the Internet / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Ready Jet Go! / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Tangled / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Aristocats / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Chipmunk Adventure / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Corsican Brothers	seeAlso	Distressed Dude
The Dick Tracy Show / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The LEGO Movie / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The New Adventures of Zorro (1997) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Tale of the Great Bunny / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Triplets of Belleville / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Venture Bros. / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Totally Spies! / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
We Bare Bears / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Winx Club / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Wolverine and the X-Men / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Zak Storm / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Edge (Wrestling) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Kurt Angle (Wrestling) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Matt Hardy (Wrestling) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Undisputed Era (Wrestling) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Zack Ryder (Wrestling) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Children of Time (Fanfic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Hunting the Unicorn (Fanfic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Rio Bravo / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Septimus Heap / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
distresseddude	sameAs	Distressed Dude
The Wild Wild West / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
LISA (Video Game) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
Charby the Vampirate (Webcomic) / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude
The Legend of Tarzan / int_f9e16ef	type	Distressed Dude

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