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Distressed Dude
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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. The dude may have picked up the Distress Ball. If he was a badass before getting kidnapped, he may suffer Badass Decay, but if he continues to kick ass after being freed, he's a Badass in Distress. Compare Non-Action Guy. |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this MonsterVerse fanfiction, there are a few times when it's Vivienne Graham who has to protect and save San, instead of vice versa as in the beginning: helping bring San out of a Heroic BSoD, and saving him from being permanently killed by MaNi/Elder Brother. | |
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A Bug's Life: Flik twice during the climax. First about to be squished by Hopper and then almost flown away/kidnapped (again by Hopper). Princess Atta to the rescue on both occasions. | |
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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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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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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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In Trials & Trebuchets, the party's mentor Artis frequently finds himself in need of rescue from situations such as being imprisoned in Patter, being stuck in the top of the Spire Nebulosis as it collapses, and even having his soul trapped in a pebble. | |
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In Turtle Kittens, August O'Neil is this by virtue of being a version of April O'Neil, being targeted by the Kraang for his DNA. | |
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a good chunk of Wolf Song: The Movie has Alador become this, as he is captured and physically tortured by the Death Alpha and his goons (well, mainly Cobalt), and as such his sister Kara, along with half a dozen other pack members go to the rescue. Partway through, Kara herself becomes momentarily captured, but the secondary characters are able to come to her aid. She then is able to locate and meet back up with her badly injured brother but by that time it’s too late. | |
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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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Since Luigi from The Super Mario Bros. Movie spends a while in the middle of the movie being captured and imprisoned by Bowser, this is what drives Mario and Peach through the middle of the movie until the beginning of the climax. | |
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Pick an issue of Will Eisner's The Spirit. Any issue. | |
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The Feather of Finist the Falcon: Finist is wounded by the sisters' knives. | |
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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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In The Senkari, Val is taken captive and must be rescued by his commanding officers. | |
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Mortality Holmes is definitely this. Culverton Smith tortures him with an inch of his LIFE and gloats over him while he's dying. Good thing Watson helps him out. Who knows where he'd be without him. Probably dead by now. The captured criminal reveals playing in what happened to him-while begging for mercy. Unfortunately, Watson doesn't give any. |
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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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A few Channel Awesome 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 3, 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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In the climax of one issue of Runaways, Chase is captured and held at knifepoint by Geoffrey Wilder, while trying to see if Nico and Xavin escaped from the burning planetarium. He's rescued by Gertrude. Unfortunately, Geoffrey decides to just kill Gert instead, making it a Heroic Sacrifice on her part. | |
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A common premise for pre-Crisis stories featuring Black Canary was her saving her love interest (and eventual husband) Larry. | |
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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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"Snow-White-Fire-Red" | |
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You'd think someone as large as Carl the rhinoceros from Kevin & Kell wouldn't find much to be threatened by. But given he's a rhinoceros, he does have to deal with poachers seeking his horn. In addition, he's had a couple non-poacher incidents where he's needed rescue. The one usually to his rescue? His eventual wife, lioness Leona Mangle. | |
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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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Shane from Asagao Academy: Normal Boots Club claims to have been one at one time. | |
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"Pintosmalto" | |
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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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Yield: Happens to Charlie when he is shot at when he and the team are on horseback trying to retrace the victim's shooter's tracks and gets a shot in the arm and a concussion as a result. | |
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Rakion Kalsa in Chaos Fighters: Chemical Warriors-RAKSA. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" | |
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In Crowns of the Kingdom, the Disney Villains capture all of the princes except for Charming at one point. | |
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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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In the Final Fantasy XII fanfic, Touch and Go Balthier gets kidnapped, and almost succeeds in freeing himself. | |
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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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In "The Nix in the Mill-Pond", the huntsman is captured by a wicked but powerful water sprite and must be rescued by his wife. | |
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"Kate Crackernuts" saves a prince from The Fair Folk. | |
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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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The Order of the Stick: Lampshaded here. And here. |
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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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In Turning Red, Ming interrupts 4*Town's concert while they’re attached to harnesses and they spend most of her rampage helplessly dangling in the air as a result. | |
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Sami The Samurai Squirrel: In one story, Doug is kidnapped by pirates. | |
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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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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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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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Fire Emblem Rekka No Ken: A Story Retold: On two occasions, Michaelnote the Tactician is captured by the group's enemies and has to be saved by Lyn. After the second incident, he starts taking fighting lessons from Lyn to avoid any future hostage situations. | |
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At the moment, Bucky/the Winter Soldier is probably the most popular Distressed Dude in Marvel Cinematic Universe fanworks, but people are also fond of beating up on Tony, Clint, and Loki. | |
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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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During a most surreal Raw segment, CM Punk ordered his straight edge cohorts Luke Gallows and Serena Deeb out into the audience in order to capture Jared Fogal, Subway Sandwich spokesman, to force him into the cult after Fogal politely declined. | |
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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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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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Many Cars fanfics involve Lightning Mcqueen being put in some form of danger with either Sally, Mater, someone from the Radiator Springs gang, or even Chick Hicks having to save him. One example is Three Days, where Lightning and the King are kidnapped in the very first chapter and spend a majority of the fic as hostages (although they do try to escape and give their captors a little snark when they can). | |
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Christopher Booker goes into great detail on the symbolism behind his bondage, and the symbolism inherent in the heroine coming to free him. | |
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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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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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How much The Lord of the Rings fanfiction has either Aragorn or Legolas in danger, kidnapped, tortured, or out of commission so the other has to rescue him? Answer: lots. | |
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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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Minwoo from Metal Heart gets kidnapped by Nova in order to use him as bait for Sia. | |
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In Penny Blackfeather, The Adventurer is captured by monsters. And chained. And requires Penny's rescuing. | |
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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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Batman: 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. Lampshaded in The Dark Knight Returns comic when Joker refers to "Robin, the Boy Hostage". Hey, Dick isn't the only one who gets tied up. Even Batman◊ gets it sometimes. Bernard Dowd was kidnapped and tied up by villains and needing rescue twice within a short time of becoming Tim's love interest, once in Batman: Urban Legends and again in Tim Drake: Robin. Even before that he was grabbed and menaced by a villain looking for Tim back in the pages of Robin (1993) but he was able to talk his way out of that one with the only real casualty being his car and a few bruises. |
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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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Jimmy Westeron is first seen in Jenny and the Multiverse when about to be killed by Lord Grallyx, whereupon Laura and Jenny fly to the rescue. | |
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In the Child Ballad Young Beichan, the hero is imprisoned and must be saved by the heroine. | |
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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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Syaoran in Reversal of Fate by virtue of being the one whose feathers were taken. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: The comic starts with Allison's boyfriend Zaid getting kidnapped, and the Key of Kings getting shoved into her skull. Zaid spends most of the comic being passed between the Demiurges, who think he is the Rising King destined to kill them and inherit Creation. It takes a while for anyone to realize that Allison might be the destined Successor instead. Allison, for her part, admits she doesn't particularly like Zaid (she was just trying to get rid of her virginity as fast as possible), but nobody deserves what he's going through. | |
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In "The Death of Koschei the Deathless", Koschei chops Prince Ivan into little pieces, throws them into a barrel, and throws the barrel into the sea. His brothers-in-law must retrieve the barrel and fetch the Water of Death to put him back together and the Water of Life to revive him. | |
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My Hero Academia has a ton simply by having so many male characters. True they all have superpowers, but writers find ways around it. By virtue of being leads, Midoriya, Bakugo and/or Todoroki are the most common targets, but there are also enough “Aizawa gets captured and Present Mic and/or Hitoshi save him� fics to fill a page. Present Mic and All Might aren’t immune either. | |
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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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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 3, 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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In Marc Being In A Gang Rights, Nathaniel has been threatened by Marc's gang at knife-point, kidnapped to be helped for ransom, kidnapped by a villain, and is almost mugged, coincidentally by the same gang that kidnapped him. | |
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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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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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* The Last Seidr: Someone gets stabbed, someone gets brainwashed, someone gets kidnapped, and all of these people are dudes. | |
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"The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird" | |
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This crops up quite a lot in Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfiction. They tend to fall into one of two camps: The nations are discovered by the public at large or some shady organization and are abducted and imprisoned. This usually leads to some sort of experimentation on them. One or more of the nations kidnaps another or several nations and holds them hostage, usually for some dark and disturbing purposes. This can be used to represent historic events, like an occupation or invasion. Beatrice The Golden (NSFW, no longer active) has written some of the more graphic ones, including Debt and My Little Chicken. |
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East Slavic redaction (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine): the woman and one of her sons are abandoned in the sea in a barrel, but they survive and establish themselves on an island. The boy then goes to rescue his missing elder brothers (cf. The Tale of Tsar Saltan). | |
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"The Seven Ravens" | |
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The Nostalgia Chick: In her review of Supergirl (1984), the Chick liked that the Action Girl/male "damsel" aspect was played straight rather than for laughs. | |
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Terinu: It happens fairly often, so far being captured and stripped 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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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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The Best Laid Plans: Charlie is briefly this when Mark Breshers, who is the real killer of his father, Philip Breshers, tries to steal the vehicle Charlie is in before holding him hostage before Don is able to talk him down. | |
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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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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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Erika and the Princes in Distress: A voluntary inversion of the Damsel in Distress trope with the titular Princes, who have gone missing, been kidnapped, or otherwise fallen victim to one menace or another. Erika has been tasked with rescuing them in order to prove that she is worthy of the throne. Prince Egg-White went missing while fetching ingredients for his newest recipe, and Erika quickly figures out that he probably got lost inside the Black Forest, which is filled with dangerous and fearsome creatures. Eventually subverted when it turns out he is actually safer in the forest, as the reason he ended up there was to escape an assassin sent by his stepfather. Prince Aurel is initially not in immediate danger, aside from suffering from a curse that could put him into an eternal slumber. After it does happen however, he is kidnapped by Morphine and taken to an active volcano, his captor planning to melt his body into perfume. |
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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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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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"The Six Swans" | |
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Group of 7: A Most Secret Tale: In Issue #3, Frederick Banting is captured by enemy soldiers and taken to a top secret laboratory, where he's to be made to help the Germans perfect their new Super-Soldier formula. | |
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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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R!Syaoran in Shatterheart when he is kidnapped and later tortured by Serial Killers during an outing with Fai. | |
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In their effort to take over TNA, Aces And Eights once loaded Kurt Angle unto the back of a pickup truck, though he got away on his own. | |
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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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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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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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Last Res0rt hits this right at 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 Load. | |
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Mark Trail: Rusty's designated role, constantly getting kidnapped or trapped. | |
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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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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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Erfworld: Ansom. Jillian just knows it. | |
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The White Dove: the prince falls into a witch's power. | |
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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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"Princess Belle-Etoile" | |
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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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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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Calvin & 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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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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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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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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Very popular in the Firefly fandom. The amount of fics where Wash, Mal and/or Jayne are captured either by Niska or the Alliance and need to be rescued could probably fill a page of its own. | |
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The 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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The plot of Coventina's Crown starts when Morain's brother Errol is kidnapped. | |
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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. 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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Bernard Dowd was kidnapped and tied up by villains and needing rescue twice within a short time of becoming Tim's love interest, once in Batman: Urban Legends and again in Tim Drake: Robin. Even before that he was grabbed and menaced by a villain looking for Tim back in the pages of Robin (1993) but he was able to talk his way out of that one with the only real casualty being his car and a few bruises. | |
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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. | |
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Weebl & Bob: The first "Team Laser Explosion" short had Weebl and Bob having to save "the Mayor" from the evil Fire Thunder Squad. | |
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