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Hostage for MacGuffin

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Hostage for MacGuffin	comment	The villains have captured... someone. Anyone. Usually a family member or loved one, but it really could just be the guy down the street, because the main character loves everyone. The Villains are willing to propose a trade. Give them the superpowered item that will let them conquer the Earth and kill far more people than just their one hostage, or they will kill their hostage. The good guys not only go through with it, it's apparent that they would in fact completely honor their side of the deal. But all hope is not lost, because the villain, halfway through the deal and before completely securing the super-doohickey will doublecross the heroes, usually resulting in their defeat since it voids the agreement. They could have just taken the Crystal of Ridiculous Levels of Power but no, they just had to sneer at the heroes and attempt to kill someone completely irrelevant to their goal. It just goes to show that man's worst enemy is often himself. Played straight, this trope often turns into a nasty Straw Vulcan where handing the MacGuffin over is obviously the wrong choice, succeeding only by sheer dumb luck. If it succeeds at all. In Super Sentai, for instance, the villain is likely to blow up a few buildings afterwards, but who cares? The hostage with a human face is saved. Fortunately, not all heroes are that stupid. If there's a decoy MacGuffin kicking around, they might be able to pass that off as the real one. If you have a particularly savvy protagonist or an Anti-Hero, most often times they'll subvert this trope by throwing the item in the air or threatening to destroy it anyway, causing the villain to panic and make a mistake. They can even avert this trope altogether by just shooting the villain or destroying said item on the spot. Common in video games; the villains usually let the heroes collect the seven whatevers and then step in with a trade. The games will even tease you with the choice of not doing it, But Thou Must!. This trope is a variation on the Hostage Situation and is similar to Put Down Your Gun and Step Away. See also Friend-or-Idol Decision and I Have Your Wife. This can be the beginning of an Unhand Them, Villain!
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_108cd205	comment	This occurs during the ending of Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant. After you defeat the Final Boss and find the Astral Dominae, the real Dark Savant shows up. He's captured Vi Dominia and makes the standard demand. The game does let you refuse, but if you do, you die instantly. If you agree, he takes it and teleports away, leaving you and the girl behind, setting up the sequel.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_12d03b27	comment	Used in Gunstar Heroes Not only do you have to give the Big Bad the Gems you got, but you have to fight your way to the Big Bad and take out The Dragon before you perform the transaction.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_1c5e55fc	comment	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: Lord John Whorfin demands that Banzai turn over the Oscillation Overthruster or he'll kill his love interest, Penny Priddy. What he doesn't know is that the Overthruster is actually in Penny's purse (she got it in an I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin moment just seconds before being captured but has no idea what it is herself). Banzai, however, does know this, and uses the Tracking Device in it to locate Whorfin's base and mount a rescue mission. Which fails. Momentarily.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_1d1591e8	comment	In the first season finale of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the turtles are captured by Baron Draxum and the Foot Clan, forcing Splinter into a Sadistic Choice of either giving the Foot the final piece of the Dark Armor to save them or hiding it and leaving his sons to die. The turtles end up freeing themselves, but Splinter, unaware of that, hands over the last piece.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_1e06c610	comment	In Brave Fencer Musashi after obtaining the Sky Crest, the Flatski demand Musashi to hand over the completed sword Lumina for the captive princess. Musashi hands over the sword and Flatski activated it on the crest causing the Sealed Evil in a Can to be released.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_1ec960a9	comment	In Solatorobo, Bruno kidnaps Elh to make an exchange for Red's medallion and indirectly his life.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_1ee8851d	comment	The very first Wild ARMs game has a Princess handing over a magic stone that will enable the villains to destroy the world; because they want to destroy her kingdom. In the Video Game Remake Alter Code F, she gets into a hefty argument with another party member over the morality of this. Her reasoning is that the people of the city are dying now, and handing over the MacGuffin will save them, but doom the planet to a slow death, which she reasons can be averted by getting the MacGuffin back. So she wasn't entirely naive.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_1ff419c5	comment	Kingdom Hearts II: in the Beauty and the Beast segment, Xaldin captures Belle and the Beast's rose and confronts the heroes holding one in each arm, telling the Beast to choose between them. The heroes freeze in indecision — just long enough for Belle to give Xaldin an elbow to the stomach, grab the rose, and run for the group. By the time Xaldin's caught his breath, the Beast is already on him. It should be noted that though the main heroes froze, Beast decided on Belle pretty much instantly. He just lucked out when Belle let him have both.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: In Chapter 6 of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, Novala, a Grado commander, demands that Eirika give him her bracelet or else he will execute a child hostage. Eirika complies, believing that a mere piece of jewelry is not worth sacrificing a child's life, but refuses to turn over her weapons, resulting in Novala trying to feed the child and her parents to spider monsters. Eirika only finds out the bracelet's true importance- one of two seals on Renais' Sacred Stone- after Novala is killed and the bracelet is recovered, since her bodyguard Seth had kept that information secret on her father's orders. In Fire Emblem: Awakening, Gangrel tries to pull one by capturing Emmeryn and threatening her execution if Chrom doesn't hand over the Fire Emblem. This gets foiled when Emmeryn Takes a Third Option and pulls a Heroic Suicide, denying Gangrel leverage as well as demoralizing troops on both sides of the conflict. In Chapter 14 of Fire Emblem Engage, Hortensia takes Seforia, queen of Solm, hostage and demands that Alear hand over the remaining Emblem rings, believing that Sombron will revive her father with them. Seforia's children Timerra and Fogado refuse, knowing it would be a betrayal of all their mother stands for, while Alear points out that Hortensia doesn't have it in her to deprive Timerra and Fogado of their mother, having lost her own father recently (as well as her mother, as her supports reveal).
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_23d2ea71	comment	In the climax of the Donkey Kong Country episode "Follow That Coconut", K. Rool grabs Diddy Kong and threatens to drop him off a cliff unless DK gives him the Crystal Coconut- or at least the right one, as the episode has also focused on a decoy. After K. Rool issues an ultimatum to drop Diddy once he finishes counting to ten, DK kicks the fake coconut into a wall of ice and buries the Kremlings- luckily, K. Rool didnâ€™t account for a breach just beneath where he was holding Diddy that stops him from falling. This would all be a very tense scenarioâ€¦ If it wasnâ€™t delivered in a rap.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_251e67c5	comment	Justice League of America: In a crossover with the Justice Society and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Mordu the Merciless holds Green Arrow, Black Canary, and some of the Legion captive and demands that the JLA and JSA go find three magic artifacts for him, or he'll kill GA and Black Canary. The superheroes naturally know Mordu has no intention of upholding his bargain, but there's not a lot of choice. When they're done, Mordu uses the artifacts to summon some demons, who promptly tell Mordu he can get lost.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_254d7b06	comment	El Dorado: The villains capture Cole Thornton and offer to trade him for Bart Jason, the Living MacGuffin, who is in jail awaiting trial for murder.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_280378a8	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction, Bandit Keith holds Ishizu hostage to force you to hand over the Millennium Items. When you then defeat him in a duel, he ups the ante and orders you to hand over your Egyptian God Cards.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_28508de	comment	Winx Club: In "Date with Disaster", the Winx are forced to give Stella's ring to the Trix in order to save Stella. The Trix think the Solaria ring contains the legendary Dragon's Flame, a power their ancestors spent their lives pursuing. The Winx would face this again in season 3, this time letting that season's Big Bad get away with a magic box in exchange for saving a guy who's interested in Aisha (Aisha is completely uninterested in him, and she doesn't know that he's her intended, but obliges anyway).
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_2d316bc0	comment	Proposed by Leonardo instead of the villains in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) when Leo has recovered Shredder's missing helmet from a thief and will happily hand it over to its original owner in exchange for Karai. Shredder gives them a Karai-shaped bomb instead.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_2e645086	comment	In The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the villain offers to trade the hero's girlfriend for his magic ring. You expect his mentor Balthazar to berate him for it, but he just admits that he would have done the same thing.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_2fee008d	comment	In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, a beastwoman has taken all the female cast (and Gimmy) hostage from a hot spring and projects an image of them in their cage with a mosaic over their naughty bits. In exchange for Kamina giving up control of Gurren, she offers to remove the mosaic from the display, which Kamina immediately accepts. The beastwoman keeps her word, only to reveal everyone (except, of course, Gimmy) is wearing towels, and the Gurren was stolen while he was distracted.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_30007b09	comment	Beyond Oasis plays it completely straight: the Big Bad kidnaps the protagonist's sister and demands a MacGuffin from the castle in exchange for release. The protagonist has no choice but to comply though to their credit the villain keeps their word and releases the hostage unharmed.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_30a1b7de	comment	In the events portrayed on Dawn of Victory, by Rhapsody, the Princess Irene is captured by evil forces, who threaten to kill her unless the Emerald Sword is surrendered to the evil king. Subverted: when the heroes arrive they are captured and made to watch while the Princess is raped to death by demons. One of the heroes escapes, sans Emerald Sword.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_3167d0f6	comment	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021): After He-Man and his allies make it to Castle Grayskull, Evelyn and Kronis capture the others while Keldor distracts He-Man in a fight. Keldor then demands that He-Man unlock the power of Grayskull and give it to him or he would use the power of Havoc to turn his captured friends into monsters. He-Man is able to stall Keldor long enough for Teela to pick the lock on her cuffs and free the others.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_37419634	comment	Discworld Noir: Played straight, Horst holds Ilsa for the Golden Sword.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_3a9cf1cc	comment	In the opening cutscene of Shenmue, Lan Di threatens Ryo's life to coax his father, Iwao, to give up the location of a certain mirror.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_3ccfa555	comment	In Case 3-4 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Trials and Tribulations this trope Gone Horribly Wrong is one of the charges against your client. Jeweler's daughter has been kidnapped in exchange for a precious diamond and falls into the river during the exchange. Client escaped from prison after being found guilty of her murder. Not only said girl is alive and well, but she was actually a mastermind behind the "kidnapping".
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_3d0f5f70	comment	Final Fantasy Legend II: In a relatively unusual variant of the trope, once your characters hand over the 76 MAGI they collected, the villain releases the hostages and leaves. The door he leaves through is sealed and requires MAGI to open, so he assumes that you will never be able to reach him. He never knew about the 78th MAGI.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_410d7c64	comment	Assassin's Creed (2016): The Templars kidnap the Prince of Granada to get the Sultan, an ally of the Assassins, to turn over the Apple of Eden.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_432dcf2f	comment	Used in Super Mario Bros. Z: Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach (again) and demands the Chaos Emeralds for her.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_464a2270	comment	In Epic Mickey, the Phantom Blot threatens to kill Oswald and Gus if Mickey doesn't surrender his heart. Mickey spends the rest of the game trying to stop the unleashed Blot and get his heart back.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_478151e3	comment	The Ripple System: Ersatz kidnaps Lars and Sarah, and threatens to murder them both so that Ned will continuously respawn so that they can kill him over and over again, eventually getting all his gear and most importantly the Ax of Unbridled Knowledge. Then he almost kills them both first, and Ned has to point out that this would defeat the entire purpose of taking hostages to enforce compliance.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_482ba098	comment	Vincent takes Sharon hostage in PandoraHearts (and poisons her) to get Break to destroy Alice's memories he got from Cheshire in exchange for the antidote and her freedom. He does it and true to form Vincent throws the antidote off the balcony, fortunately it's saved by Echo.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_4ab17360	comment	Inuyasha: Invoked and subverted when the Thunder Brothers kidnap Kagome. The younger one was originally going to just eat her, but she convinces them that if they do, Inuyasha will have to avenge her death... but if they don't, he will gladly give them their Shikon Jewel Shards in exchange for her safe return. (It doesn't work, but only because the older Thunder Brother gets impatient and simply attacks him for them.): Played straight, however, in the "The Tragic Love Song of Destiny" anime special with Mistress Centipede, who attacks Kaede and attempts to take her hostage with the intent of ransoming her to Kikyo for the Shikon Jewel; fortunately, InuYasha shows up at that moment and chops Centipede into confetti before she can carry out that threat. Also subverted in that same case; though InuYasha also desires the jewel, he has no intention of holding Kaede hostage for it, preferring to take it from Kikyo in a fair fight.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_4acf5826	comment	All Mixed Up!: Mariana Mag's act of rebellion involved her anagramming some of her co-workers and parts of Precinct 13579's Headquarters, then demanding that words and language be incorporated into Odd Squad's skillset and modus operandi in exchange for turning the agents and the Headquarters parts back to normal. Oprah agrees to the deal, but as soon as Mariana upholds her end and turns all of the agents and parts back to normal, the Director doesn't uphold her end whatsoever. She sends agents to seize and destroy Mariana's Anagram-inator gadget, orders her to reveal who built it and who helped her, bans any agent from going to see Carlos again, demotes Oksana to the Food and Beverage department, and to top it all off, she takes Mariana's badge and wipes part of her memory.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Happens in both Golden Sun games; the characters have been told that handing over the MacGuffin will destroy the world, yet they do so anyways. Yes, later it's revealed unlocking the MacGuffin is a good thing, but at the time, they didn't know that. In the first game, the antagonists are holding a girl hostage and they demand the party to hand over a staff in exchange that the girl won't be harmed. The party hands the staff over and then complain to the antagonists that they are not holding up their end of the bargain, saying they would let her go. The antagonists then gleefully point out that those were their terms; they only agreed to not harm the girl.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_4be3aedd	comment	In an episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, everyone in Angel Grove is kidnapped by Rita, and the Rangers must give up their power coins (making them powerless) to have them released. They comply, but Rita doesn't hold up her end of the deal. Thankfully for the Rangers, she overlooked the fact that Jason didn't give her Tommy's old coin... A subversion comes in a later episode when the same trick is tried again. Not surprisingly, this time the villains get chocolate coins.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_4c2fb967	comment	Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: Shao Kahn threatens to kill hero Johnny Cage, and Raiden immediately threatens to respond by killing all four of Shao Kahn's greatest warriors right there on the spot. Then in a defining Idiot Ball moment, he instantly backs down from his threat. Johnny Cage pointlessly dies moments later.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_4c3aa558	comment	In Ys IV: Mask of the Sun, Bammy confronts Adol in the Citadel and makes a bargain for him to turn over the Plot Coupons. Refusing results in a Non-Standard Game Over.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_4d238cb5	comment	In RoboCop: The Series Robo is forced to steal components for a prototype weapon (a heart-attack gun, yes seriously) to secure the freedom of his (ex)wife; putting him at odds with his programming and police.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_4dd54482	comment	In Ben 10: Alien Force, Vilgax holds Gwen and Kevin hostage for the Omnitrix. Ben hands it over almost immediately.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_4fd9904a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Luciuis tries to get Harry to hand over the prophecy for his friends' safety, however, he didn't actually have any hostages yet. Later he and Bellatrix get hold of Neville and Bellatrix says she'll torture him until Harry hands over the prophecy as she did to Neville's parents until they lost their minds. Luckily the Order arrives shortly after they start because Neville would have never forgiven Harry if he'd handed the thing over and Harry was having a hard time seeing his friend being tortured.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_5268a4ed	comment	Kamen Rider Build: Utsumi holds Kazumi's farm workers hostage, then he calls Kazumi and demands he steals the Pandora's Box from Kazumi's ally. As much as it pains him, Kazumi doesn't give in, and his workers don't hold it against him either, and fortunately, Gentoku frees them instead when Utsumi orders him to execute them, reasoning that they're no longer needed now that Utsumi's plan fails.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_534c1b6b	comment	Kamen Rider Ryuki has a rare example where the character actively chooses the MacGuffin over the hostage. Kagawa Hideyuki (Alternative Zero) wants to stop the war of the Kamen Riders and the bloodshed it causes. When Big Bad Kanzaki Shirou threatens to kill Kagawa's family, Kagawa lets him do it and continues to fight for the greater good. This is held against him, of course, since Kagawa is the local Straw Vulcan. (The family survives because Kido Shinji butts in and saves them without Kagawa's knowledge.)
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_5666e22b	comment	In the Deptford Mice book Thomas, the evil Dahrem Ruhar threatens to kill the temple maiden Neltemi unless Mulligan hands over the ninth fragment of Sarpedon's egg. Mulligan is ready to comply, but Neltemi stabs herself with Dahrem's poisoned blades so that he won't have to make the choice and can escape.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_584365d4	comment	Inverted in Melody. Bethany and Steve steal Melodyâ€™s guitar, planning to threaten to destroy the guitar unless the protagonist comes back to Bethany. She only gives the instrument back after he hands in his resignation as Melodyâ€™s manager to Hank Sharp (that is, unless the player is on Melodyâ€™s romantic path).
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_59a835fb	comment	Sonic Adventure 2, where Eggman has Amy Rose held hostage and Sonic has the final (fake) Chaos Emerald in his possession. Eggman, however, correctly guesses the Emerald is a fake and promptly launches Sonic into space.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_5a1e517c	comment	In an issue of Nodwick, a pair of dragons have captured a noble knight and his retinue and demand a series of powerful artifacts for his return. After the party succeeds in making the trade and the dragons leave, the now-freed knight instantly proceeds to chew them out for their stupidity in handing the wyrms the means to cause suffering to an untold number of innocents... enraging the party fighter and wizard into pummeling him senseless.◊
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_5c66fff9	comment	Near the end of Act I of Neverwinter Nights 2, the githyanki that have been periodically bothering you for the length of the chapter attack the Sunken Flagon and kidnap Shandra Jerro. Interestingly they don't demand the Plot Coupon at first because they think Shandra knows where it is. It's only after you battle your way to their inner sanctum that they bring the trope into play. Then it turns out that you have another Plot Coupon embedded in your chest, and they attack to get it.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_5cab4dfc	comment	In Stitch! The Movie, HÃ¤msterviel tries to bargain Jumba for the other experiments, but Lilo tries to intervene... and ends up captured herself.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_60996c02	comment	Spider-Man: The Animated Series: One episode has Kingpin demand that Spider-Man hand over a sample of an extremely volitile mineral that was collected by a space probe in exchange for someone he's keeping hostage. Spider-Man actually agrees to this, and Kingpin keeps his word and releases the hostage only to find after Spider-Man and the hostage have left that the sample has decayed to the point that it's useless. Kingpin realizes that Spider-Man knew this would happen, which must have been why he was so willing to turn over something so dangerous.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_610a694a	comment	In PokÃ©mon Adventures, Noland gives Guile Hideout the translated Jirachi report in order to save Anabelle's life, thus allowing Guile to nearly flood the world with a magically wished-up Kyogre.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_61a39969	comment	In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos uses this method to gather three of the Infinity Stones, ransoming Thor to get the Space Stone from Loki, Nebula to get (the location of) the Soul Stone from Gamora, and Tony to get the Time Stone from Dr. Strange.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_638624c8	comment	Slayers: In the first season, Rezo threatened to turn all the people in a town to stone if he didn't get the statue Lina stole in the first episode. To her credit, Lina was mostly just using it to get close enough to try to kill Rezo after he made his threat. Also a bit of Forgotten Phlebotinum, as the statue in question is known to contain the Philosopher's Stone (which, in this universe, makes sorcerers much more powerful). At this point, Lina is already a world-class Sorceress (both she and Rezo have a color, i.e. are recognized as Archmages). She could easily have turned the people back or even prevented them from doing so, as any discrepancies in power would be clearly made up for by the Stone.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_64bf7e11	comment	In chapter 84 of Mario and Sonic: Heroes Unite!, the heroes are informed by Dr. Eggman (by Eggman taking over the television broadcasts) that the villains have Peach, Cream, Amy, and Rouge taken hostage and that they want the Chaos Emeralds that the heroes have in exchange for them.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_654ab3ee	comment	In Assassin's Creed: Revelations, after it becomes clear to the Big Bad that Ezio cannot be stopped by any man or army in his quest to recover the Masyaf Keys, he instead pulls a classic "I have your girlfriend" ploy. Ezio, who is at this point weary to the bone of the constant struggle, accepts the terms but has his fellow Assassins prepare for the inevitable treachery, which gives him an opportunity to chase down the villain and recover the keys.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_65aabcf0	comment	In Buso Renkin, Chouno promises to give Kazuki the antidote for the homunculus core that is taking over Tokiko's body in return for his kakugane. However, Kazuki can't be separated from his kakugane, and as Tokiko reveals when she shows up, the antidote was a fake anyway.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_68b5d8bb	comment	Iron Man: Armored Adventures lampshades and justifies this trope in the season one finale when Zhang holds Pepper hostage and forces Tony and Gene to retrieve the fifth Makluan Ring for him or else he will kill Pepper. Pepper responds to this with a sarcastic 'Gee, THAT'S original'. However, this allows Pepper to get close enough to Zhang to steal back the other four Makluan Rings which Zhang stole from them earlier.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_6b1e9070	comment	However, during PokÃ©mon the Series: Black & White, Team Rocket captured Pikachu and Ash and used them as hostages so the Mythical PokÃ©mon Meloetta would cooperate with them.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_6cd819eb	comment	Skulduggery Pleasant has Living MacGuffin Fletcher Renn traded for the Grand Mage. The heroes acknowledge that this is obviously not a straight trade. Both sides have a number of double-crosses up their sleeves.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_6de97f03	comment	In Marco & the Galaxy Dragon, Dosgoro plants bombs throughout the town of Gold Cord and takes Marcoâ€™s new friend Ruri hostage to coerce Marco into handing over the Lizard Stone. Marco does so, and Dosgoro actually lets Ruri go, deactivates the bombs, and leaves. It isnâ€™t until sometime later that he realizes Marco tricked him.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_6f60d0d	comment	Chapter 9 of Calvin and Hobbes: The Movie has one of these - either Calvin hands over the Earth or his friends and alter egos die.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_72cfeebe	comment	Crowns of the Kingdom averts this when Minnie and Daisy flee with the Serpent Crown, trusting the guys to handle themselves with the Dispirations.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_73f86f22	comment	Hocus Pocus: Winifred Sanderson has Danni. Max has the potion the Sanderson Sisters want and that they've spent the movie in pursuit of. Winifred threatens Danni if Max doesn't hand over the potion, while Max threatens to smash the bottle if Danni's hurt, to which Winifred replies that she will kill Danni if he smashes it. Max Takes a Third Option: he chugs the potion himself.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_74f1eb4c	comment	Sneakers: Big Bad Cosmo captures Liz and threatens to kill her unless Martin Bishop gives him the box containing the decoding chip. He promises to let them go once he has the box, but double-crosses them. Luckily, Martin has a couple of aces up his sleeve.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_76d45579	comment	SEGA's web series to promote Sonic Mania Plus, Sonic Mania Adventures, has Metal Sonic do this in episode 4. Near the end of the episode, Metal Sonic takes Ray under his clutches, and will only give him back if Mighty gives Metal Sonic the Chaos Emerald that Mighty has. Mighty canâ€™t attack because Ray might get hurt in the process, so Mighty decides he has no choice but to give the Chaos Emerald to Metal Sonic so that Ray will be unharmed.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_77452922	comment	In PokÃ©mon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, a wild Frosslass held Team Rocket's Mewoth and Dawn's Piplup hostage to get both Team Rocket along with Ash and his friends to find her friend Snorunt, although those intentions were to find a friend instead of a villainous way. Although later in the series, Ash, Brock, and Dawn were taken hostage by Team Galactic as their leader, Cyrus, wanted to make sure that the Legendary Lake Guardians would do whatever he told them to do, due to their connection with them.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_792239e5	comment	In Tales of Symphonia, Yuan holds the hero hostage to get his father, Kratos to give Yuan the Eternal Sword, with which he intended to save the world himself. It might have worked, if the Big Bad hadn't interrupted.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_7a7d900b	comment	In Transformers: ★Headmasters, Sixshot takes Wheelie prisoner and threatens to execute him unless he gets the secret of Fortress Maximus' sword. He was apparently willing to let Wheelie go if Fortress came up with the goods, but Wheelie was rescued by Chromedome before his full intentions were revealed.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_815220e8	comment	Used rather nastily in Transformers: Armada: The hostage turns out to be The Mole. Also played straight when Megatron kidnaps Billy and Fred and holds them in exchange for the Mini-Cons.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_81589a76	comment	In Romancing the Stone the villain Ira captures Joan's sister to exchange for the map that Joan's brother-in-law mailed to her before his death (which indicates the location of a valuable emerald). Unusually for the trope, when the villain gets the MacGuffin, he follows through on his end of the bargain and releases the hostage.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_819b8c9e	comment	Warehouse 13: In "Nevermore", MacPherson, after manipulating Pete and Myka into being the Macguffin Delivery Service, holds Myka's parents hostage for the Poe artifact. He holds up his end of the deal after getting the artifact.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Ryuki has a rare example where the character actively chooses the MacGuffin over the hostage. Kagawa Hideyuki (Alternative Zero) wants to stop the war of the Kamen Riders and the bloodshed it causes. When Big Bad Kanzaki Shirou threatens to kill Kagawa's family, Kagawa lets him do it and continues to fight for the greater good. This is held against him, of course, since Kagawa is the local Straw Vulcan. (The family survives because Kido Shinji butts in and saves them without Kagawa's knowledge.) Kamen Rider Gaim has a subversion. Kouta's older sister Akira is kidnapped and held for ransom, but when Kouta goes to collect her, it turns out that the Bound and Gagged woman is actually Kamen Rider Marika in disguise. She proceeds to violently attack him as soon as he gets close enough to untie her wrists. Kamen Rider Build: Utsumi holds Kazumi's farm workers hostage, then he calls Kazumi and demands he steals the Pandora's Box from Kazumi's ally. As much as it pains him, Kazumi doesn't give in, and his workers don't hold it against him either, and fortunately, Gentoku frees them instead when Utsumi orders him to execute them, reasoning that they're no longer needed now that Utsumi's plan fails.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: In chapter 84 of Mario and Sonic: Heroes Unite!, the heroes are informed by Dr. Eggman (by Eggman taking over the television broadcasts) that the villains have Peach, Cream, Amy, and Rouge taken hostage and that they want the Chaos Emeralds that the heroes have in exchange for them. Used in Super Mario Bros. Z: Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach (again) and demands the Chaos Emeralds for her.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_8525bf6a	comment	In Doki Doki! PreCure, Red-Eyed!Regina demands Mana give her the Royal Crystals, or she'll smash her petrified friends. Joe breaks the stand-off and saves the Precure.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Transformers: Prime: The Decepticons capture the three humans and hold them hostage in exchange for the Omega Keys, which have the ability to restore Cybertron and end the war. The Autobots give up the keys and the minute Megatron gets them, he tries to destroy all the other humans by terraforming their planet, and Optimus is forced to destroy the machine and doom their planet to the barren husk it currently is. It gets better
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV has a slight variation of this trope, approximating the MacGuffin Delivery Service, when Golbez holds Rosa hostage in the Tower of Zot and demands that Cecil fetch and hand over an elemental crystal as ransom. Predictably, once Golbez has what he wants, he orders his minions to execute Rosa anyway, and Cecil must rescue her, but in this case, Golbez gets to keep the MacGuffin. To nail it further, the Crutch Character dies in a Senseless Sacrifice, although that last part was heavily foreshadowed (if you didn't know it already).
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX has this. When you're trying to invade Kuja's fortress, he takes your group hostage and has half of them go off and steal a Plot Coupon from a dungeon he can't breach due to its Anti-Magic field. The other half manages to escape, but not quick enough to prevent the hero from handing the item away. In addition, since Garnet is a magic user and Zidane isn't, the player will probably leave Garnet in the hostage party, fulfilling the "hostage is the hero's lover" variant of this trope.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_89c02b4c	comment	In LEGO Star Wars: Terrifying Tales, VaneÃ©, who has gone One-Winged Angel thanks to a Sith Holocron, is trying to retrieve the holocron from Poe and Dean before his power fades, so he captures Poe and dangles him over lava, threatening to drop him in unless Dean gives him the holocron. Dean instead chucks the holocron towards the lava, and in his panic to try and catch it VaneÃ© drops Poe laterally back onto safe ground while ending up in the lava himself.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_8ba4613a	comment	In Death Note, Sayu Yagami is taken hostage by Mello and traded for the Death Note. Uncharacteristically, Mello takes precautions so that the Note cannot be traced by the SPK or Japanese police, but makes no attempt to kill the hostage or Soichiro (who delivered the Note) after the trade — this makes a lot more sense in the manga, where he later blackmails Sou\ichiro for information about the police investigation.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_8d455d2c	comment	Vandal Hearts: Ash and his team are forced to trade the Royal Ring in exchange for their captured companion Kira. Unsurprisingly, the baddies take the ring and attempt to kill Kira anyway. Kira is successfully rescued upon completion of the level, but they get to keep the ring.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_8d81bb26	comment	On NCIS, the Weatherman leaves a kidnapped, drugged little girl lying on a pressure plate, which is wired to electrocute both her and a bank of computers if she moves. Given more time, the agents might've been able to deactivate the trap without destroying the computers' crucial information; unfortunately, the girl starts to wake up and they have to snatch her off the bed fast, saving her life but forfeiting the stored data.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_90f94684	comment	In Chapter 14 of Fire Emblem Engage, Hortensia takes Seforia, queen of Solm, hostage and demands that Alear hand over the remaining Emblem rings, believing that Sombron will revive her father with them. Seforia's children Timerra and Fogado refuse, knowing it would be a betrayal of all their mother stands for, while Alear points out that Hortensia doesn't have it in her to deprive Timerra and Fogado of their mother, having lost her own father recently (as well as her mother, as her supports reveal).
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_938eb2cb	comment	Late in Ganbare Goemon 3 Shishijurokube No Karakuri Manji Gatame, the villain Shishi Jurokubei demands the Conch Shell used to summon Goemon Impact in exchange for Omitsu, the hero's Love Interest. The exchange is made without a hitch until the hostage is revealed to actually be Creepy Crossdresser Sister Bismaru, the real Omitsu having been with Jurokubei all along.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_95521c97	comment	In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus pulls one of these when Spider-Man plays keep-away with the Applied Phlebotinum Doc Ock needs to power his Artificial Limbs. The chase leads toward Coney Island, where Octopus realizes Spidey feels obliged to save Innocent Bystanders from the resulting chaos. Exploiting this, he grabs a nearby damsel and leaves her hanging precariously from a rollercoaster to force Spider-Man to give up the power source. The damsel is actually Peter Parker's then-girlfriend (sort of) Liz Allan, though neither she nor Octopus knows Spidey is Parker.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_9833749a	comment	Examples from the Calvinverse: Chapter 9 of Calvin and Hobbes: The Movie has one of these - either Calvin hands over the Earth or his friends and alter egos die. In Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, Dr. Brainstorm tries to hold Hobbes hostage and get Calvin's inventions in exchange for him, but due to several complications, he gets Socrates instead.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_9bb5aad4	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Saiou threatens to let Edo fall into a Lava Pit unless Judai hands over the access key to a laser weapon in space. Judai complies to save Edo, then challenges Saiou to a duel for the fate of the world. Saiou points out what only the truly most Genre Blind would forget: the time to make a challenge is before you hand over the Plot Coupon, not after. Also, in the first season, one of the Seven Star Assassins holds Kaiser's brother hostage for his Spirit Gate Key. He was actually willing to go through with it too until Sho said he didn't mind being sacrificed. Kaiser surrendered anyway.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_9d41fc3b	comment	Despicable Me: Vector kidnaps the girls near the end of the film and demands the moon in exchange for their safe return. He gets the moon but doesn't give the girls back.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_9f7704e8	comment	In the sixth volume of The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign, the heroes and villains are fighting over three artifacts: the Founder's Map, the Diamond Master Key, and the Golden Treasure Chest. Kyousuke's group has the first two, while Bridesmaid has the third and has also kidnapped the Meinokawa sisters. They offer to trade the two of them for the remaining two artifacts. Kyousuke's group lay traps in the zoo where the hostage exchange takes place, allowing them to rescue the sisters without handing the artifacts over.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a23dfed3	comment	Shark Attack: After a confrontation with Miles at his lab, Steven steals his research, but Miles captures his female companion before they can both get away. He calls Steven and offers to deal one for the other.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a2eee785	comment	Shanghai Noon: In Shanghai Knights, when the heroes finally recover the Chinese imperial seal from a street urchin who stole it from them earlier in the film, some Boxer rebels take the boy, and threaten to kill him if the heroes don't hand over the seal. They do, and the boy goes free as the rebels flee into the London night.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a3df455	comment	In PokÃ©mon Ranger: Shadows of Almia your idiot rival gets himself captured by the Bad Guys and they offer him in exchange for the shiny gem you've just caught that would ruin their plans to plunge the world into everlasting darkness. Despite the rival insisting that you keep the gem because even he can see how obviously better of a decision it is, But Thou Must! is in full effect and you have to make the trade no matter what.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a413d7dd	comment	Occurs twice in The Adventures of Tintin (2011). First, Red Rackham forces Sir Francis Haddock to give him the treasure the Unicorn is carrying in exchange for his men's lives, only to go back on his word and kill them anyway. Later, his descendant Sakharine threatens to drown Haddock and Snowy if Tintin doesn't give him the scrolls.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a512f762	comment	At one point in Clive Barker's Undying, one of the villains demands a magic stone from the main character in exchange for his friend's life. Despite his friend's protests, and despite the fact that killing the friend has seemed to be the sole goal of the villains up to this point, he hands it over. This doesn't play out so much to standards of the trope, as to how it realistically would — the baddie kills his hostage, then uses the stone to enhance his powers.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a5852f44	comment	Much of the plot of Small Favor revolves around this, but with the subversion that Harry and the Big Bad both know neither side intends to follow through with their end of the bargain but keep up with the pretense because it's the most profitable course. It is... slightly more complicated than that. Both Harry and the Big Bad know that the other side will try a trick. But both are sure they have a better trick. Also, a very profitable course. For the Big Bad, at least.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a5fb61d9	comment	In Modern Day Treasure Seekers, Sam is kidnapped in exchange for the gem that Cade found, which the bad guys need since it's actually a Cool Key.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a61f9bc6	comment	Happens twice in The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone: The two men who were spying on Billy later show up at Billy's home with his dad tied up, and offer an exchange for the magic medallion. Later, Cobra grabs Allie and threatens to kill her if Billy or Huko don't give him the medallion.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a6327b20	comment	The Radix: Metzger does this to Brynstone's wife and daughter.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a695c23a	comment	In Mission: Impossible â€“ Rogue Nation, Big Bad Lane abducts Benji and puts him in a public place in London with a time bomb strapped to him, leaving Ethan and the rest of the team time until midnight to hand him the unlocked disk.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy IV has a slight variation of this trope, approximating the MacGuffin Delivery Service, when Golbez holds Rosa hostage in the Tower of Zot and demands that Cecil fetch and hand over an elemental crystal as ransom. Predictably, once Golbez has what he wants, he orders his minions to execute Rosa anyway, and Cecil must rescue her, but in this case, Golbez gets to keep the MacGuffin. To nail it further, the Crutch Character dies in a Senseless Sacrifice, although that last part was heavily foreshadowed (if you didn't know it already). Final Fantasy IX has this. When you're trying to invade Kuja's fortress, he takes your group hostage and has half of them go off and steal a Plot Coupon from a dungeon he can't breach due to its Anti-Magic field. The other half manages to escape, but not quick enough to prevent the hero from handing the item away. In addition, since Garnet is a magic user and Zidane isn't, the player will probably leave Garnet in the hostage party, fulfilling the "hostage is the hero's lover" variant of this trope. Final Fantasy Legend II: In a relatively unusual variant of the trope, once your characters hand over the 76 MAGI they collected, the villain releases the hostages and leaves. The door he leaves through is sealed and requires MAGI to open, so he assumes that you will never be able to reach him. He never knew about the 78th MAGI. Final Fantasy Tactics: The villains try to use this scheme to push Ramza into handing over the Zodiac Stones and the Germonik Scriptures. He sees through this enough to negotiate a compromise and only hands over the Scriptures. Unfortunately, this plus the two Zodiac Stones the villains already had eventually proves to be just barely enough when push comes to shove... In a separate instance, the villains hold Mustadio's father Besrodio captive so that they can get Mustadio's Zodiac Stone. After Mustadio tells them where it is and Ramza hands it over, the villains gloat and attack the heroes anyway. Joke's on them, however: Mustadio gave them a fake.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a895dcb	comment	In Holy Umbrella, Emperor Dondera traps the Princess and Saki's father in a Crystal Prison to get the Kid Hero to hand over the Rainbow Orb. The crystal breaks soon after.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_a8a16c81	comment	In Strays, the fox woman tries this. It would have worked better if 1. Meela had been Feral's pup, and 2. Feral had the thing she was looking for.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_aa954170	comment	Inverted in After War Gundam X. The antagonists have captured Garrod's companion and Love Interest Tiffa, and are holding her near their newly-completed Wave-Motion Gun, made out of a space colony. Garrod arrives with his own Wave-Motion Gun, the colony-destroying Satellite Cannon, and demands her return or else he'll cripple their superweapon. After a demonstration on Garrod's part, the antagonist's leader realizes his best move is to send Tiffa over. As soon as she is safe next to her soon-to-be boyfriend in the Double X, Garrod blows it up anyway.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_ab67d84	comment	In Ctrl+Alt+Del, a corporate executive abducts Lilah to force her boyfriend Ethan to surrender the crown of Wintereenmas, as he believes this will give him control over the gaming industry. Ethan complies immediately, telling Lilah she's much more important than the crown, but the cute twist comes when the gamers rebel and reinstate Ethan as the King of Wintereenmas.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_aeb6ec24	comment	In Rainbow Magic, the goblins try this in Leona the Unicorn Fairy's book, but it turns out to be a bluff.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_b211ee13	comment	Happens twice in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, though the first time was by accident. On the first occasion, Sky-Byte started attacking a tower just to be evil, but turned it into a hostage situation when Wedge mistook it for one. Later on, Megatron threatened to kill Wedge unless Optimus Prime handed over the O-Parts, but Sky-Byte messed it up.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_b4cd70c2	comment	Mission: Impossible III: Davian has Ethan's wife abducted both to get back at Ethan for daring to capture and inconvenience him and to force Ethan to steal the "Rabbit's Foot" for him in return for a chance at saving Jules' life.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_b55b8015	comment	In the first Ninja Gaiden (the NES one), Jaquio makes Ryu give him the Demon Statue that will let him summon the Ancient Demon; or else he would kill "the girl." (Irene, but Ryu at this point didn't even know her name.) Naturally the Demon is summoned, but fortunately Ryu kills the Demon anyways.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage: When Sterling foiled the team's attempt to steal from his boss and captured Hardison and Parker, he offered to free them in exchange for an item that Sophie stole years ago. Sterling had no intention of keeping his end of the bargain and was going to hand the entire team over to law enforcement after he got what he wanted. The team saw this coming a mile away and made a plan to escape after the exchange, but Sterling still got his MacGuffin.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_b7e8e4b6	comment	My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "The Great Rainbow Caper", Danny and Surprise are kidnapped by the Gizmonks, who demand the Rainbow of Light for ransom.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_bb26d3fb	comment	In Barbie & The Diamond Castle, Lydia forces Melody, hiding in a mirror, to show herself (and give up the location of the Diamond Castle) by ordering a mind-controlled Alexa to walk toward a pit of lava/acid. Once Melody comes out, Lydia promises to set Melody's friends free once the Diamond Castle is revealed, but as they leave, she secretly orders her pet dragon to off the other girls (who end up escaping and saving the day).
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_bcdcf629	comment	Used in Transformers: Animated, with the justification that the villain making the threat plans to start with the hostages and keep up the death and destruction until he finds the MacGuffin himself. Neither party intends to honor the agreement.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_bd793e36	comment	In LostMagic, at the end of the descent from the peak of the Balance Temple, the Diva of the Twilight shows up, verbally confounds Trista, her sister, effectively making her a hostage, and then gives you the option to either give Isaac's Wand of Light to the Diva or hold on to it. You actually do get to choose in this case, although the game really wants you to give up the Wand.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Twilight's Kingdom Part 2", when it becomes apparent their powers are at a deadlock, Tirek resorts to this to get Twilight to surrender her and the Princesses' powers, bringing forth the trapped and powerless Mane Six, Spike and Discord. He was honestly surprised Twilight only agreed if he freed her old enemy Discord as well, despite Discord having betrayed them to Tirek, and it ultimately bit him in the ass because despite getting the Princess' powers, Twilight finally unlocked the MacGuffin and used its power to crush him, take the magic back, and send him to Tartarus.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Subverted and played straight in "The Daleks' Master Plan". The first time it happens, the Doctor goes for the third option and gives the Daleks a fake MacGuffin so he can get the TARDIS back. The second time this trope plays out straight, but only because for once the Doctor's Indy Ploy didn't come off right. Subverted in "Terror of the Autons", where the Master says that if the Doctor doesn't return the Master's dematerialisation circuit, he'll kill Jo. The Doctor is about to give the Master his own TARDIS' dematerialisation circuit (which is broken), but Jo fails to realise this is what he's doing, panics, and gives the Master a bunch of information in the hope he'll change his plan. "Dragonfire": Ace for the Dragonfire. "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos": The villain, Tzim-Sha, murders one of Paltraki's crew and tells him to return the MacGuffin, a mysterious crystal, before lightfall if he wants the other two alive and in one piece.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_c686bb8	comment	In Chapter 6 of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, Novala, a Grado commander, demands that Eirika give him her bracelet or else he will execute a child hostage. Eirika complies, believing that a mere piece of jewelry is not worth sacrificing a child's life, but refuses to turn over her weapons, resulting in Novala trying to feed the child and her parents to spider monsters. Eirika only finds out the bracelet's true importance- one of two seals on Renais' Sacred Stone- after Novala is killed and the bracelet is recovered, since her bodyguard Seth had kept that information secret on her father's orders.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_c86a65cd	comment	In PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Lost Tracks of Time, the Big Bad kidnaps Emmet and asks for the Toxic Plate in exchange. It takes Cold-Blooded Torture to get the heroes to accept the terms.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_c8713393	comment	Mystery Date (1991) has Mr. Lew try to get Tom to trade the tape for Geena.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_c8847d6	comment	Peter and the Starcatchers: In the first book, Slank takes Molly hostage and demands the trunk of starstuff in return. In the second book, Umbra and his crew capture Shining Pearl for the same reason. The Molluscs don't have the starstuff, though, so they end up using her to guarantee safe passage back to their ship.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! had quite a few of these, as well: The first season had Pegasus hold Yugi's grandpa hostage for his Millennium Puzzle, while simultaneously holding Kaiba's brother hostage for his company. The second season and Virtual Nightmare sub-arc had Kaiba's brother held hostage yet again, first for Kaiba's Egyptian God Card, then for Kaiba's own body, while Yugi had Anzu and — later — Jonouchi held hostage for his God Card and Millennium Puzzle.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_cf32411f	comment	Dubious Company's Imperial Guards and Sky Pirates quickly turn this into a Gambit Pileup. Gary holds a fireball to Sal demanding the pirates' surrender. Walter reminds him of the errors in killing the Barrier Maiden and takes back Sal. This gives Leeroy the idea to takes his sword to Sal, demanding the Imperial's surrender. In response, Marty takes Elly hostage. Since Elly is Mary's Love Interest, Mary's Clingy Jealous Girl instincts kick in and the debacle dissolves into Enemy Civil War.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_d11e211f	comment	Kamen Rider Gaim has a subversion. Kouta's older sister Akira is kidnapped and held for ransom, but when Kouta goes to collect her, it turns out that the Bound and Gagged woman is actually Kamen Rider Marika in disguise. She proceeds to violently attack him as soon as he gets close enough to untie her wrists.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_d3b17858	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics: The villains try to use this scheme to push Ramza into handing over the Zodiac Stones and the Germonik Scriptures. He sees through this enough to negotiate a compromise and only hands over the Scriptures. Unfortunately, this plus the two Zodiac Stones the villains already had eventually proves to be just barely enough when push comes to shove... In a separate instance, the villains hold Mustadio's father Besrodio captive so that they can get Mustadio's Zodiac Stone. After Mustadio tells them where it is and Ramza hands it over, the villains gloat and attack the heroes anyway. Joke's on them, however: Mustadio gave them a fake.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_d3c4a6ce	comment	In Trials of Mana, whichever villains correspond to your chosen main character will kidnap the Faerie in a bid to get the Mana Sword. In a rare twist, all of the villains keep their part of the bargain and return the Faerie unharmed.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_d531b6f7	comment	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: A couple of Dr. Totenkopf's Mooks capture Polly Perkins, Joe's love interest.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_d5c33582	comment	During the Team Flare arc of PokÃ©mon the Series: XY, Lysandre planned to use Ash and Greninja as part of his scheme. However, realizing that they wouldn't cooperate with him willingly and taking advantage of their good nature, Lysandre also made sure to capture his Pikachu and the rest of his Kalos PokÃ©mon as hostages to ensure their cooperation.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: Team Rocket has pulled this a few times as they captured anyone who is closest to Ash's Pikachu in order to get him to cooperate with them. However, during PokÃ©mon the Series: Black & White, Team Rocket captured Pikachu and Ash and used them as hostages so the Mythical PokÃ©mon Meloetta would cooperate with them. In PokÃ©mon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, a wild Frosslass held Team Rocket's Mewoth and Dawn's Piplup hostage to get both Team Rocket along with Ash and his friends to find her friend Snorunt, although those intentions were to find a friend instead of a villainous way. Although later in the series, Ash, Brock, and Dawn were taken hostage by Team Galactic as their leader, Cyrus, wanted to make sure that the Legendary Lake Guardians would do whatever he told them to do, due to their connection with them. During the Team Flare arc of PokÃ©mon the Series: XY, Lysandre planned to use Ash and Greninja as part of his scheme. However, realizing that they wouldn't cooperate with him willingly and taking advantage of their good nature, Lysandre also made sure to capture his Pikachu and the rest of his Kalos PokÃ©mon as hostages to ensure their cooperation.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_d603791d	comment	In Rise of the Guardians, after Jack rejects Pitch's offer of We Could Be Feared Together, Pitch reveals that he has Baby Tooth, and demands that Jack hands over his staff in return for her. Jack does so, at which point Pitch promptly has an 'I Lied' moment, snaps Jack's staff in two, and dumps Jack, Baby Tooth, and the staff down a crevasse.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_da88338	comment	In The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy, at the end of the first age, the villain makes Randy give him the prism in exchange for the girl.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_dad73e07	comment	A humorous throwaway scene in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, made to demonstrate the Serious Business of the race to get golden tickets around the world, shows a detective on the phone negotiating for the return of a woman's husband for her case of Wonka bars. She hesitates to make a decision, then asks him, "How long will they give me to think it over?"
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_dbb68ab6	comment	In the Narnia Solo-Game "Return of the White Witch", it is possible to be in a position to screw up the enemies' plans, having two key components the villains need to resurrect the Big Bad. Preventing this will save many, many lives; however, the villains get you to give up by threatening a random baby squirrel (which seems less weak when you remember that animals are the same as people in Narnia). If you insist on the "needs of the many" route and call their bluff, Aslan steps in and forces you to submit, and your Karma Meter takes a hit. No arguing with Big Lion Jesus.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_dcc7107a	comment	Twice in Dungeons & Dragons (2000). Snails is held hostage by Damodar, who demands the Dragon's Eye in exchange for Snails's life. Just as Ridley is about to comply with the demand, Snails pulls out the map he had pilfered from Damodar and tosses it to Ridley, causing an enraged Damodar to knife him to death. Later, Ridley has gotten the Rod of Savrille from its resting place and leaves the cave to find Damodar has taken the rest of his friends hostage. When Ridley hesitates, Damodar reminds him of what happened to Snails, putting a cut on Marina's neck for emphasis. Ridley caves and gives him what he wants.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time has Cora holding Aurora hostage in exchange for the magic compass in Emma's possession. Aurora sneers at the notion that people she just met will trade something so valuable for her, but Cora is assured that Snow and Emma's inherent goodness will cause them to fold. It ends up being moot when Hook frees Aurora though not before removing her heart, which is used to control her and lure the others into a trap. In another episode, Cora takes one of Snow's childhood friends' hearts and wants to trade it for the Dark One's Dagger which could be used to make Rumplestiltskin kill her and her family, and Snow eventually gives her the dagger. Her friend's heart is returned before she is thrown out the clock tower window. During season 5, Hades gets his hands on a contract that, should he cash it in, would give him custody of Rumplestiltskin's child. Hades uses it to get Rumple to make a portal to Storybrooke and kidnap Robin Hood's infant daughter, among other things. In order to escape Hades' control, Rumple and Peter Pan go after Hades' only known weakness: his True Love, the Wicked Witch of the West. Hades destroys the contract without hesitation to ensure her safety.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_de8153c6	comment	In War World, Mongul kidnaps Superman's friends Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen, threatening to kill them if Superman doesn't retrieve a device called the Crystal Key (which allows activating a planet-buster super-weapon) and hands over it to him.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_df7f5754	comment	In Casino Royale (1954), Le Chiffre eventually grabs Valerie and threatens Bond, demanding an exchange of her for Bond's winnings.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_e06e3839	comment	Queen of All Oni: In chapter 12, Finn (empowered by Kuro's mask) kidnaps Viper and holds her hostage in exchange for Ozeki's mask.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_e0ef9c69	comment	This drives the plot of the Big Trouble in Little China comic as Qiang Wu, a former disciple of the movie's villain Lo Pan, challenges Jack to collect the souls of Lo Pan's dead Co-Dragons in exchange for the lives of his kidnapped friends.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_e179ec3a	comment	In Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, Dr. Brainstorm tries to hold Hobbes hostage and get Calvin's inventions in exchange for him, but due to several complications, he gets Socrates instead.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_e1c8fa4d	comment	Ducktalez: Vegeta kidnaps Scrooge's nephews after their first fight in an attempt at getting the Lucky Dime.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Choices": The Scoobies have captured the Box of Gavrok belonging to Mayor Wilkins, while Mayor Wilkins has captured Willow. The Scoobies debate the morality of destroying the box instead of giving it to the Mayor but agree to make the trade. Wesley, however, insists on destroying the box rather than letting Wilkins have it, but Oz then proceeds to smash the pot needed for the ritual to do so, to ensure that they will trade for Willow. The Mayor does not attempt to kill Willow anyway, and releases her once he has the box. The result is that Willow is safe, but the Mayor has the box. An Averted Trope in "Bad Girls". The demon Balthazar has captured Giles and Wesley, and is threatening to torture them unless they reveal where they've hidden his Amulet of Concentrated Awesome.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_e33c6082	comment	Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water does this when Nadia, Marie, and King are taken hostage by Gargoyle, and Jean is told to trade the Blue Water for his friends' lives.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_e40d0ab2	comment	In Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, a Brainwashed and Crazy Sprx holds Nova hostage and threatens to kill her if the team doesn't give him the Skeleton King's skull. Fortunately, Nova manages to bring him back to normal with The Power of Love before the team gives him the skull.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_e6b8dcc3	comment	This backfires badly in Ronin (1998). Gregor reveals that he has a sniper who is currently aiming at the girlfriend of the Russian faction's leader to ensure his leaving with the money after their exchange. Unfortunately, they're entirely willing to let her die just to kill Gregor and take back their money.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_e9e265b6	comment	In Fire Emblem: Awakening, Gangrel tries to pull one by capturing Emmeryn and threatening her execution if Chrom doesn't hand over the Fire Emblem. This gets foiled when Emmeryn Takes a Third Option and pulls a Heroic Suicide, denying Gangrel leverage as well as demoralizing troops on both sides of the conflict.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_eb5d7301	comment	In the Amphibia second season finale, "True Colors", after Polly successfully takes the Calamity Box from Andrias's pedestal, he warns her to put it back, otherwise Sprig, who is in his hand, will be forced to learn "how to fly". Despite Sprig saying not to give in, Anne tells Polly to put the box back. Unfortunately, after she does, Andrias throws Sprig out the window anyway to show Anne how useless and futile friendships are. This ends up being a mistake as it sends Anne into an Unstoppable Rage, awakening her Calamity powers.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_ef215943	comment	PAYDAY: The Heist does this twice in Diamond Heist. If the codes for the vault leading to the diamonds don't work, you're then told by your Voice with an Internet Connection to go find the CFO of the building and escort him to the helipad where he will be used as a bargaining tool against the CEO for the codes. Simply put, the codes, or the CFO's life. Due to the randomness of the game, sometimes the CFO himself will give up the codes and his life is spared. If the CEO refuses to negotiate, then the crew has the CFO booted out of the helicopter as he crashes into the glass dome and dies on impact. The crew is then told to go find the CEO's son to use him as leverage. If it reaches that point, the CEO will always give in.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_ef4c300f	comment	In Assassin's Creed III, Abstergo captures William Miles during an ill-advised solo mission to recover a Plot Coupon. Vidic then offers a trade: Desmond's father in return for the Apple of Eden. Desmond obliges, but not quite in the way that Vidic expects. It turns out that letting a man with a Lost Superweapon walk into your office is not such a great idea. To be fair, Vidic has no way of knowing that Desmond knows how to use the Apple, since the Bleeding Effect of the Animus hasn't been explored by Abstergo much.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_efc16582	comment	Mission: Impossible Film Series: Mission: Impossible III: Davian has Ethan's wife abducted both to get back at Ethan for daring to capture and inconvenience him and to force Ethan to steal the "Rabbit's Foot" for him in return for a chance at saving Jules' life. In Mission: Impossible â€“ Rogue Nation, Big Bad Lane abducts Benji and puts him in a public place in London with a time bomb strapped to him, leaving Ethan and the rest of the team time until midnight to hand him the unlocked disk.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_f31ebb02	comment	In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Prince Nuada makes such a demand of Abe Sapien. Which is strange, because Nuada's hostage is his own sister, and any injury she suffers is transmitted to him, making his threat the equivalent of holding a gun to his own head. But Abe's holding the Idiot Ball, so he complies anyway.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_f4ba2731	comment	Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]: another example happens in the TRON: Legacy segment, with Clu telling Sora that he can return Rinzler back into Tron if he has the Keyblade. Sora, not believing Clu's words, refuses.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts II: in the Beauty and the Beast segment, Xaldin captures Belle and the Beast's rose and confronts the heroes holding one in each arm, telling the Beast to choose between them. The heroes freeze in indecision — just long enough for Belle to give Xaldin an elbow to the stomach, grab the rose, and run for the group. By the time Xaldin's caught his breath, the Beast is already on him. It should be noted that though the main heroes froze, Beast decided on Belle pretty much instantly. He just lucked out when Belle let him have both. Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]: another example happens in the TRON: Legacy segment, with Clu telling Sora that he can return Rinzler back into Tron if he has the Keyblade. Sora, not believing Clu's words, refuses.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_f724b70d	comment	Code Lyoko: Inverted twice. The Lyoko Warriors put Aelita in danger to force XANA to back off his attack. Good thing she's only useful to him alive. Played straight in the appropriately named episode "Ultimatum," when XANA possesses the school principal and kidnaps Yumi and Odd whom he threatens to "liquidate" should Aelita not give herself up to him in the given time frame.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_fbcc15d6	comment	DmC: Devil May Cry has this when Mundus stages a raid on The Order's headquarters and kidnaps Kat, then asks for Virgil in exchange. The Order counters by Dante going to Lilith's nightclub, subduing her, and offering the trade of Kat for Mundus's unborn child. Both parties agree to this exchange. But when this exchange happens, Virgil shoots Lilith in the stomach, killing both her and Mundus's unborn child, and manages to escape with Kat too, subverting the trope.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_fe16b92c	comment	In Happy Heroes and the City of Mystery episode 6, Rock Warrior captures Lisa and requests that Careful S. and Kalo give him Star Pieces if they want her freed. Lisa does a poor job of being a hostage, acting like her captor is a friend and even offering him an apple as a bribe.
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Hostage for MacGuffin / int_ffc52d29	comment	The main plot of Reality Trip deals with Freakshow holding the trio's parents hostage in exchange for the three Mineral MacGuffins. He reminds them once they deliver that "The deal was 'If you want to see your parents alive again.' Well, here they are, alive... for now!"
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Dragons: Riders of Berk / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
LEGO Star Wars: Terrifying Tales / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Sonic Boom / int_7957810b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Speed Racer: The Next Generation / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Stitch! The Movie / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
The Black Cauldron / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
The Dreamstone / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
The Legend of Zelda (1989) / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
The Penguins of Madagascar / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Transformers: Animated / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Xyber 9: New Dawn / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Solatorobo (Video Game) / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin
Iron Man: Armored Adventures / int_42bc6d2b	type	Hostage for MacGuffin

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