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Pity the Kidnapper

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Pity the Kidnapper	comment	The single most powerful deterrent to kidnapping in all fiction (and certainly in the mundane category) is to be so annoying that the kidnapper requires an active force of will to keep their sanity. What makes them annoying isn't important. In truly bizarre cases, the kidnappers can be annoyed because their victim insists on being kind, upbeat, and forgiving even through torture. The point is, nobody wants to be around them and that ransom note looks increasingly unimportant as compared to the promise of not having to deal with the Anthropomorphic Personification of "damned pest" day in and day out. This can lead to an especially awkward situation when it turns out that the extortee doesn't want the hostage back. Expect much comedy to abound in this scenario, in part because a sufficiently vicious kidnapper would not get in this situation in the first place. Foiled by niceness once again, it seems. This trope is a fairly old one. O. Henry's famous example "The Ransom of Red Chief" executes this trope using a pair of kidnappers (and a particularly bratty kid as the "victim") back in 1910, and there are stories, jokes, and folk tales going back to the Middle Ages and beyond of someone who escapes damnation because the Devil Himself doesn't want to deal with her (and it was almost always a her, because the Middle Ages were like that). It's fairly common for this trope to be invoked if the captive is particularly Genre Savvy or cunning. Subversions, aversions, and defiances of this Trope usually (although not universally) involve the kidnapper hitting a Rage Breaking Point and demonstrating how much of a bad idea this was, being unrelentingly evil in the face of said annoyance, or the hostage finding out the hard way that whatever is the final objective of the kidnapper they don't need to be alive (or at least conscious) for it to be achieved. Compare Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth, where the captive is intolerable even to the most hardened captor, Prefer Jail to the Protagonist, where the villain is forced to flee from the hero's presence even if it means being re-incarcerated, and Talking the Monster to Death, where the captive directly challenges the captor's beliefs and motivations. Contrast Poisonous Captive, who insidiously subverts and undermines the captors. If you pity the kidnappers because they're about to get their asses kicked by the kidnappee, then that's Mugging the Monster. Also compare Defiant Captive, who is more 'uncooperative' than simply 'annoying'. See also Sick Captive Scam, which is another trope that works better when the captors don't want any harm to come to the captive. Not to be confused with Stockholm Syndrome, in which the kidnappee develops pity/amicability with the kidnapper; Contrast Lima Syndrome, in which the kidnapper actually starts to like or feel sympathy for the victim.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_11edb6d4	comment	No Deposit, No Return — again, the kidnapees are child terrors.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_16712475	comment	An episode of The Jetsons had Jane attempting to get her driver's license. Her driving was so awful that when a bank robber hijacked her and forced her to be his getaway car, her instructor pitied him.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_18ec2b28	comment	One episode of Beverly Hills Teens, Bianca tries to play a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to get Troy's attention by arranging a fake kidnapping. Unfortunately, an actual criminal overhears the conversation and kidnaps her for real. Soon, it becomes apparent that the episode isn't titled "Take My Hostage, Please!" for nothing.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_19867c65	comment	In an episode from BlackBoxTV (a serious horror example of this trope), a couple kidnap a young girl with the intent to force her family to pay for her back, but then don't hear anything. No police report, no callback on their ransom, nothing. The couple, a man who does have some level of moral compass and a woman with a drug habit and surly attitude, begin becoming frustrated. Eventually, the kidnapped girl turns the tables, using her supernatural powers to lock the woman in her bedroom and viciously attack her with a supernatural teddy bear with razor teeth and sharp claws. The kidnapped girl then forces both the man and woman to become her "perfect parents", acting like a nuclear family out of the '50s. Should they refuse, the kidnapped girl will kill them both with her powers. It is essentially implied that the parents of the girl didn't want her back as this was the life they were forced to live as well, and likely split the second they were free.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_1a2b452e	comment	An episode of Count Duckula featured the Count ending up held for ransom (after some mix-up about sending a ransom note before the actual kidnapping) and inadvertently driving the abductors crazy by showing off his alleged musical skills.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_1f418bf4	comment	TaleSpin: In the episode "Molly Coddled", Molly, dressed as her hero Danger Woman, is kidnapped by two gangsters, whom she repeatedly kicks in the shins and raises a ruckus over until help arrives. This defense technique is also used by her against the antagonist, smooth-talking Covington, in a getaway earlier in the episode. Baloo's pal Louie has an aunt who, in "The Ransom of Red Chimp", is abducted by Don Karnage... and proceeds to drive him up the wall when she develops a crush on him. At the time of the abduction, Karnage demands thousands in ransom. By the time Baloo and Louie arrive to "rescue" Louise, the ransom has dropped to five bucks, and when it turns out that Louie didn't bring his wallet, Karnage pays him five bucks to take her.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_2212773a	comment	Angel combines this one with Enfante Terrible in "I've Got You Under My Skin": after discovering a young boy is possessed by a demon, Angel Investigations exorcises it and then tracks its physical form down to kill it... a fate the demon welcomes, as the little boy was so evil by himself that the demon found himself trapped in a hellish mindscape for years.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_2268de37	comment	An episode of Grimm has a Wesen with a grudge against Sean Renard kidnap his young daughter Diana. When the kidnapper first calls Renard, the latter starts to panic at first, then he remembers that Diana is the most powerful Hexenbiest in history and no moral qualms about torture and murder. So, the next several times the kidnapper calls, Sean reacts very casually, doing everyday things, such as going out for a jog, figuring the guy will eventually beg him to take Diana back. Yeah, that's exactly what happens, and Diana even asks Sean if she can come back and "play" some more with the guy later, much to the horror of the kidnapper, who has been beaten to a pulp by the girl's Mind over Matter abilities.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_23445d5f	comment	Weeds: Celia Hodes is kidnapped by her daughter and her boyfriend the rebel leader. They intend to ransom her, but no one is interested. They then plan to sell off her organs for cash but find out she's had chemotherapy so no one will want them. Celia then "makes herself useful" e.g. by organizing the rebels' firearms, but manages to provoke a fight between her daughter and the rebel leader, breaking up their relationship. The daughter leaves, and the rebel leader lets Celia go.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_27bf5b15	comment	Baby's Day Out has three bumbling kidnappers completely unable to keep one baby corraled, with hilariously painful results. The baby isn't trying to hurt anyone, he's just going about his adventure. It's the kidnappers themselves who are getting into trouble.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_2a787959	comment	In Dennis the Menace, Switchblade Sam is initially okay with taking Dennis hostage, but Dennis being his usual mischievous self, he doesn't make things easy for Sam.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_2bbcacd9	comment	At the end of the Looney Tunes short "The Whole Idea", an inventor finally tires of his stereotypically shrewish wife's nagging and drops her down one of the "portable holes" he'd invented. It apparently leads all the way to Fire and Brimstone Hell, as there's a burst of flame and then a mopey-looking demon appears, hauling her out by the collar of her blouse and asking the inventor, "Isn't it bad enough down here without her?"
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_2d311a08	comment	One episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) had Shredder kidnap a teenage girl who was the young president of an explosives firm (he wanted their recipe for a powerful explosive). She refused to talk, so he tries to use a device that reads thoughts and emotions in an attempt to extract the recipe out of her. The girl, however, was an extreme brat who overloaded the machine with incessant complaints. Subverted in that she was eventually threatened with force to divulge, so she spills, but in the chaos of the Turtles rescuing her, there was no time to test it, allowing the girl to get away with one last insult: she had given the wrong recipe.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_2dd3e031	comment	The Nac Mac Feegle, a race of belligerent, six-inch tall, red-haired, kilt-wearing blue men (also known as pictsies) were rumoured to have been thrown out of Fairyland for being drunk and disorderly. This trope is even more perfectly exemplified in Wintersmith, the third book featuring them, where they accompany the young man Roland to the Underworld to rescue the goddess Summer. Roland gets across the river Styx by paying The Ferryman, who readers may find familiar, the classical two pennies, but when he retrieves Summer and wants to cross back the other way, the Ferrier demands another sixpence, which Roland doesn't have. However, when the Feegles say that if Roland stays, they're obligated to stay with him, the ferryman quickly changes his mind and lets them go.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "The Great Rainbow Caper", Danny and Surprise are held for ransom by the Gizmonks, two Mad Scientist monkeys who want to get their paws on the Rainbow of Light so they can study it. Danny manages to flatter the Gizmonks into letting them out of their cage, then he and Surprise proceed to screw with their inventions, free their test animals, and generally make a mess of the Gizmonks' lab. The episode ends with the Gizmonks fleeing their ruined lab and begging Megan to take the hostages back. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "A Dog and Pony Show", Rarity gets kidnapped by a pack of Diamond Dogs who seek to exploit her ability to find gems and put her to work digging them up and hauling them around. She proceeds to drive them up the wall with her whining, crying, and complaints. When Rarity's friends come to her rescue, the Dogs are all too willing to let Rarity leave, with all the gems she'd found for them. Turns out Rarity was doing it on purpose, too.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_2f90633c	comment	Manehattan's Lone Guardian: When Gray's family gets abducted, Fiver and Zig-Zag avert the trope by being well-behaved. However, Ebony and Pure Energy play this straight: the former doesn't hesitate to speak her mind and behave like a typical Manehattan teenager, forcing her father to hold her back and keep one of the kidnappers from getting angry, and the latter gives his kidnapper the run-around and ultimately escapes his confinement.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_36151c14	comment	On Hawaii Five-0, a pair of kidnappers are abducting the teenage daughters of a rich private school for ransom. The cops are thrown to find their bodies in a van and figure their latest victim must have gotten lucky and gotten away. As it happens, the "schoolgirl" is actually a North Korean spy who had been posing as a teenager to get closer to a local Army Intelligence officer. Too late, her captors realized they were dealing with a very lethal agent.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_37ee9dd3	comment	Doonesbury: The Red Rascal's been captured by terrorists, but he had just googled a certain Ear Worm.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_37f1c1bb	comment	In the first arc of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) comics, Chrysalis gives the Mane Six three days to find and rescue the Cutie Mark Crusaders, partly because that's when the Comet of Doom will be in position, but mostly because she's already starting to get annoyed by their constant chatter and cutie mark obsession.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_3e1e745c	comment	In the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Herman the dwarf is really tired of helping girls spin straw into gold and then claiming their firstborn children along with a share of the cash. It's not that he doesn't like the children, it's just that they're expensive to feed, forcing him to run the same dodge all over again to get more money. His dialogue implies he's long since stopped trying to kidnap children; first he legally changed his name to Herman to make his name easy to guess (it never worked), then he tried moving out away from everybody. People still find him and keep managing to talk him into spinning more straw into gold, and he always gets stuck with more children. The children themselves are generally well-behaved, and he does like children and takes good care of them - it's the situation which is unfortunate.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_40c8681	comment	Forest Kingdom: In book 1 (Blue Moon Rising), Prince Rupert arrives at a dragon's lair only to find a dragon who desperately wants to be rid of an aggressive, tomboyish, loud princess who was sent to it to die. When asked later why the dragon is helping them, Rupert answers that he rescued it from a princess.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_426a7572	comment	Animaniacs: Yakko and Dot challenge Death at checkers to bring Wakko back to life, with their lives at stake. Death exploits Exact Words so he can take all three of them (they asked to "be with their brother again") — but then he realizes he'll have to host the three loons in the underworld for all eternity, and he lets them go. In other episodes, they get Dracula and Satan to let them go for the same reason. They subvert their own pattern in a later episode, as this fails to work on an Army drill sergeant; he just assigns them to worse duties. That is until he can finally stand it no longer, goes insane, and becomes a camp counselor. One episode features something so horrible, even the Warner siblings can't deal with it: Baloney the Dinosaur. Even dropping multiple anvils on him only gains them a temporary respite.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_4670ba54	comment	One Piranha Club story arc had Mother Packer being kidnapped. Much asskicking ensued.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_4692ba4d	comment	In the Sam and Max cartoon, Lorne's first episode The Friend For Life features him kidnapping the Mad Thespian, who begs and pleads to be arrested due to Lorne's psychotic obsession with impressing Sam and Max.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_46a7fe88	comment	A flashback in Nextwave (which may or may not be real) has the Celestials telling Aaron that he's a loser. Complete with L on the forehead. And they mock him further when he Wangsts about it.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_474397c1	comment	In the Mickey Mouse (2013) short "Road Hogs", a group of bikers kidnap Minnie by tricking her into riding with them. When she proves too much for them to handle, throwing out the leader's stuff from his sidecar and cleaning him up as he's driving, he begs Mickey to take her back, as she's nuts.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_483a069c	comment	Mortadelo y FilemÃ³n: in the story where Mortadelo's and FilemÃ³n's nephews appear, they are kidnapped by a soon-to-be judged criminal that demands all proofs against him as payment. The two children proceed to make his life a living hell for his troubles. Of course, it ends up working for him when the kids destroy those proofs as part of his games.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_4ad23d8d	comment	In Conversations with a Cryptid, this happens to the poor sods who decide to kidnap Izuku. All for One is not happy about how they tortured his only child, and both rescues Izuku and turns the lot of them into chunky salsa.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_4b57d678	comment	One episode of Murphy Brown had Murphy get kidnapped by a group of activists who wanted more publicity for their cause. She eventually annoyed them to the point where they let her go (The fact that everyone they tried to announce her kidnapping to either thought Murphy was pranking them or decided You Can Keep Her! didn't help).
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_4be3aedd	comment	This happens in an episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, but it's unique in that the victim intentionally tries to drive the abductor nuts. Lord Zedd gets the idea of making Kimberly his queen, so orders Goldar to kidnap her and use a spell of mind control. The first part is successful, but the spell doesn't work for some reason; so Kimberly pretends it does, doing a rather good impression of Rita, which reminds Goldar only too well how bad a temper she has. He doesn't let Kimberly go (although it is hinted he wants to), but the act does distract him long enough for Billy to find them.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_4c095a1f	comment	In The Transformers episode "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide", the Decepticons kidnap a girl named Astoria in an attempt to learn her father's formula. She drives them crazy with her constant whining, being The Jinx, and tearing the place apart.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_5047c4e3	comment	In the C.O.P.S. (1988) episode "The Case of the Ransomed Rascal", Big Boss and his goons attempt to kidnap Prince Baddin of Rashiland to hold him for ransom. They quickly get tired of Baddin's brattiness and eventually send him to the C.O.P.S. wearing a T-shirt that reads "Take Him Back" on the front and "Please" on the back.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_5047c4e3	featureConfidence	1.0
C.O.P.S. (1988)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_5047c4e3
Pity the Kidnapper / int_50a9ace1	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_50a9ace1	comment	In the third theatrical Popeye cartoon, "Blow Me Down", Bluto sneaks into Olive's dressing room. Some ruckus is heard as Olive calls for help and Popeye rushes to her rescue. As it turns out, she had knocked Bluto unconscious by beating him repeatedly over the head with a club, still calling for help the whole time!
Pity the Kidnapper / int_50a9ace1	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_50a9ace1	featureConfidence	1.0
Popeye (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_50a9ace1
Pity the Kidnapper / int_530a548e	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_530a548e	comment	Used in Serious Sam II, where the literal dragon, after kidnapping the hilariously ugly princess, decided to surrender her to Sam without a fight; he refuses, and they fight over who has to take her. Sam wins and agrees to take her if he can also take the magic artifact he was after.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_530a548e	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_530a548e	featureConfidence	1.0
Serious Sam II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_530a548e
Pity the Kidnapper / int_542776ac	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_542776ac	comment	In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Eustace is such a miserable person to be around that the slave-dealers who kidnap the crew cannot sell him and try, without success, to give him away for free.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_542776ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_542776ac	featureConfidence	1.0
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_542776ac
Pity the Kidnapper / int_59c939c6	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_59c939c6	comment	Nodwick once had the crew greeted at a volcano cave by a dragon, with great relief. He's sick and tired of the nagging princess he's kidnapped, who keeps insisting he does things like "put the seat down"... on the volcano. Said princess turns out to be so annoying that in the following month's issue, even Piffany, a cleric with endless goodness and purity wants to kill her.
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Nodwick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_59c939c6
Pity the Kidnapper / int_5cc1f6b9	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_5cc1f6b9	comment	Ruthless People is all about this trope (and You Can Keep Her! too).
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_5cc1f6b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Ruthless People	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_5cc1f6b9
Pity the Kidnapper / int_5fd867df	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_5fd867df	comment	Fresh Meat: After springing Ritchie, the gang decides to hideout at the Crane family's house. Unfortunately, once it's revealed that Cranes' are a Cannibal Clan, it isn't long before Ritchie's gang are the ones that are in trouble.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_5fd867df	featureApplicability	1.0
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Fresh Meat	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_5fd867df
Pity the Kidnapper / int_61d55f59	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_61d55f59	comment	Impulse #50: "Impulse Agent of the Bat". Bart is drawn into a Batman/Joker conflict and the combination of his Super-Speed and short attention span prove to be too annoying for The Joker.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_61d55f59	featureApplicability	1.0
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Impulse (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_61d55f59
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6234f5b3	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6234f5b3	comment	Father Brown: The robbers in "The Great Train Robbery" who abduct Mrs McCartney and Lady Felecia to cover their getaway soon regret it. The two women are soon directing their behaviour and dictating the ransom note.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6234f5b3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_6234f5b3
Pity the Kidnapper / int_62570927	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_62570927	comment	The Marvel Universe robot character Machine Man (Aaron Stack) was nudged toward sentience by the alien Celestials at his creation. Years later, they abducted him and took him into space. They then returned him to Earth with little explanation for their actions. Suffering from self-esteem issues, Aaron claims they returned him because they thought he was boring and obnoxious. A flashback in Nextwave (which may or may not be real) has the Celestials telling Aaron that he's a loser. Complete with L on the forehead. And they mock him further when he Wangsts about it.
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Marvel Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_62570927
Pity the Kidnapper / int_66be1a55	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_66be1a55	comment	Hondo Ohnaka's Not-So-Big-Score: Hondo and his gang spend a lot of credits and go through a lot of humiliation as part of their scheme to kidnap several wealthy cruise ship passengers. They only people they kidnap (and grudgingly have to release for a Comically Small Bribe of some alcohol) are a Defiant Captive who won't beg to be released for money, a Mock Millionaire, and a Spoiled Brat whose fiancee refuses to pay for her release.
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Hondo Ohnaka's Not-So-Big-Score	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_66be1a55
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6956d9bf	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6956d9bf	comment	In The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain: Clavius, an Evil Sorcerer, kidnaps Queen Uberta, who manages to redecorate the dungeon, get good food and get the Clavius' minion Knuckles confused enough to follow her orders instead of his. She also keeps complaining about how it's her birthday. She doesn't even stop when Clavius turns her into a bunch of different animals.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6956d9bf	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Swan Princess	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_6956d9bf
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6abf16c2	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6abf16c2	comment	Big Finish Doctor Who: This is the Fifth Doctor's reaction when he discovers that Peri has been abducted by kidnappers who have mistaken her for Queen Anne in The Church and the Crown.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6abf16c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_6abf16c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Finish Doctor Who (Audio Play)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_6abf16c2
Pity the Kidnapper / int_70814599	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_70814599	comment	Subverted in an episode of Stargate SG-1; the team gates into a museum and ends up taking a security guard (and a bunch of guests) hostage until they can find a way to gate out. When the security guard has made himself into enough of a pest, Mitchell simply duct tapes his mouth shut.
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Stargate SG-1	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_70814599
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7381ab3c	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7381ab3c	comment	In The Life and Times of Juniper Lee episode "The World According to LARP", the demon warlord Maret told his two moronic henchmen to nab June's younger brother Ray Ray as a hostage, but they nabbed her teenage brother Dennis himself. Unfortunately for Maret, Dennis (who tends to drive even June up the wall) thought it was all part of his LARP group and his ranting gave Maret a bigger migraine worse than any of the armies, sorcerers, and dimensional hordes he had ever vanquished. (Eventually, he did get what he wanted - the Goblet of Nesteer - from him, only for June to show up and beat him senseless.)
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7381ab3c	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7381ab3c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_7381ab3c
Pity the Kidnapper / int_75c31694	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_75c31694	comment	On The A-Team, in the season 3 episode "Bounty", resident lunatic Murdock is abducted by bounty hunters thinking they can use him to find the team. He manages to drive them crazy before they even get back to their hideout.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_75c31694	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_75c31694	featureConfidence	1.0
The A-Team	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_75c31694
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7680545c	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7680545c	comment	The Nanny: From the end of "The Bank Robber":
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7680545c	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Nanny	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_7680545c
Pity the Kidnapper / int_78e27fa7	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_78e27fa7	comment	Discussed in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. An example of this trope doesn't actually occur in the game, but, given Serra's personality, it becomes quickly apparent why Erk would come to this conclusion about her.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_78e27fa7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_78e27fa7
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7a380f3b	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7a380f3b	comment	On General Hospital, after being kidnapped by goons working for her husband's enemies, Laura Spencer proceeded to drive them crazy with her mood swings, demands, and cravings—she was 5-6 months pregnant—then genuinely began to worry them by complaining of abdominal pains. Her husband burst in to save her just as one of them decided to relent and release her, at which point it turned out she'd been faking everything.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7a380f3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7a380f3b	featureConfidence	1.0
General Hospital	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_7a380f3b
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7d20ef2c	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7d20ef2c	comment	An old Bloom County strip features Bill the Cat being traded to the Soviets in a prisoner exchange, causing one character to remark "Such a fate even the evil empire don't deserve!"
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_7d20ef2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Bloom County (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_7d20ef2c
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7db5e90f	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7db5e90f	comment	Lucky Luke's fiancee in the album of the same name is kidnapped by the Dalton gang as bait to get Luke. Like most examples of this trope she gets on Joe's nerves and leads the rest of the boys to housework and chores. Instead of doing the obvious thing of tying her up and gagging her, they surrender.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7db5e90f	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7db5e90f	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucky Luke (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_7db5e90f
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7fc78282	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings fanfic the Ransom At The Redhorn explores the situation where Elrond's wife CelebrÃan (daughter of Galadriel) is taken prisoner by Orcs. The canon tells us unspecified torments were suffered in the Orc-Den. But, as Thranduil Oropherion Redux points out, the reality of who suffered torments and who inflicted the torments might be rather different. It is noticeable Elrond was not in much of a hurry to get his wife back.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7fc78282	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_7fc78282	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lord of the Rings	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_7fc78282
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8125b468	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8125b468	comment	There has been at least one Batman story wherein Alfred is kidnapped by thugs with ambitions towards the Wayne trust fund. Unfortunately for them, Alfred is generally portrayed as a Retired Badass with shades of Battle Butler.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8125b468	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8125b468	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Franchise)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_8125b468
Pity the Kidnapper / int_82643b4b	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_82643b4b	comment	In Zoids: New Century, Polta and the Backdraft Group have kidnapped Leena. While he calmly attempts to negotiate, Leena can be heard in the background shouting down her kidnappers and harassing them. Polta stops talking twice, once to order them to restrain her and another after asking "excuse me a minute", when she threw something that hit him in the face. He leaves the video call to stop her and returns visibly beaten and disheveled, but successful at least.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_82643b4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Zoids: New Century	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_82643b4b
Pity the Kidnapper / int_85ba04e3	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_85ba04e3	comment	Tales of Halloween: In "The Ransom of Rusty Rex", two kidnappers abduct what they believe to be the son of a millionaire. However, their victim actually turns out to be a malicious goblin that has been plaguing the millionaire's life for years. Now that it is gone, he has no intention of ever taking it back.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_85ba04e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_85ba04e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Halloween	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_85ba04e3
Pity the Kidnapper / int_880cfa15	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_880cfa15	comment	The protagonists of Hogan's Heroes were technically POWs, but this Trope could apply a lot. In fact, in one episode, Col. Hogan made a public announcement over a radio (giving support to the German army that was obviously sarcasm) that even got Hitler's attention. Hitler's orders were: "If this man ever tries to escape, LET him!"
Pity the Kidnapper / int_880cfa15	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_880cfa15	featureConfidence	1.0
Hogan's Heroes	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_880cfa15
Pity the Kidnapper / int_882f1fdb	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_882f1fdb	comment	In the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Bugs and Thugs", Bugs is kidnapped by a pair of gangsters. He drives them so crazy that when the police arrive, the criminals beg the cops to arrest them to get them away from him. The same gag is used in the earlier "Racketeer Rabbit". Locking the baddies in a stove, turning the gas on, and then throwing a match in to explode it is really a whole new level of "driving crazy".
Pity the Kidnapper / int_882f1fdb	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_882f1fdb	featureConfidence	1.0
Bugs Bunny	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_882f1fdb
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8ad6e76f	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8ad6e76f	comment	In Carpe Jugulum, where Granny Weatherwax is about to march off into the woods after the Magpyrs. Mightily Oates (a visiting Omnian priest quite unaware of Granny's reputation) asks the villagers:
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8ad6e76f	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8ad6e76f	featureConfidence	1.0
Carpe Jugulum	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_8ad6e76f
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8bb00c1a	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8bb00c1a	comment	One episode of Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid has Hedwig transform Carol into a baby, and kidnap her as leverage against Marina. Unfortunately for her, baby Carol wrecks her lair inside-out, to the point that Hedwig gives up her hostage instantly when Marina comes knocking.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8bb00c1a	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8bb00c1a	featureConfidence	1.0
Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_8bb00c1a
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8d814070	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8d814070	comment	In MAS*H, a pair of North Korean infiltrators drop Major Burns off on the road. In the brief conversation that ensues, they explain that they don't need a hostage anymore, he's driving them crazy, they're not in the mood to torture him, and he should go back to the 4077th because it's the best thing he can do "to help our side." A few seasons later, Major Winchester hires a North Korean spy as a houseboy. In one of his last communications to his people, the spy replies "And in regard to kidnapping Major Winchester for questioning, forget it. He is one big jerk."
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8d814070	featureApplicability	1.0
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MAS*H	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_8d814070
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8e82c366	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8e82c366	comment	The Real Ghostbusters episode "The Ransom of Greenspud" had three ghosts kidnap Slimer and hold him for ransom in an attempt to get the Ghostbusters to free their boss Spiderlegs from the Containment Unit. Slimer ends up driving the ghosts nuts before the Ghostbusters find them and come to Slimer's rescue.
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The Real Ghostbusters	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_8e82c366
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8f6d81a3	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_8f6d81a3	comment	In The Pink Panther cartoon "Pink Valiant", the king sends Pink Panther (as the pink knight) to rescue his daughter from a Black Knight who kidnaps her for ransom, and after some trouble getting on his horse, he eventually trades his stubborn steed in for a dragon. By this time, the princess has become such a fierce fighter throwing everything short of the kitchen sink at the black knight that he is the one crying for help, and the pink knight brushes her aside with his gauntlet rescuing the Black Knight, only for the Pink Panther and Black Knight to be Chased Off into the Sunset by the king riding a dragon.
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The Pink Panther	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_8f6d81a3
Pity the Kidnapper / int_902549c2	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_902549c2	comment	Subverted in an episode of Extreme Dinosaurs. A scientist allows himself to become the hostage of the evil Raptors, but not before hinting his plan to the heroes by making reference to "The Ransom of Red Chief". Unfortunately, his plan backfires and he instead learns a valuable lesson.
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Extreme Dinosaurs	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_902549c2
Pity the Kidnapper / int_9060799c	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_9060799c	comment	Infinity Crisis: In Gamma Relations, when Tony states how Bruce has been kidnapped Pietro asks who they should be sending condolence cards to.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_9060799c	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_9060799c	featureConfidence	1.0
Infinity Crisis (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_9060799c
Pity the Kidnapper / int_90a3a7f4	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Happened in an episode of Kim Possible when Professor Dementor captured Kim's cousin Larry.
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Kim Possible	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_90a3a7f4
Pity the Kidnapper / int_90c73dda	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_90c73dda	comment	In Animorphs one Yeerk is practically driven insane by his own host. Said host constantly recited Henry V, so when the yeerk finds the Time Matrix the first thing he does with it is kill the inspiration for that play, just to silence him.
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Animorphs	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_90c73dda
Pity the Kidnapper / int_935bc701	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_935bc701	comment	An episode of RWBY Chibi has Cinder kidnapping Jaune and Ren. Jaune sings the Camp Camp theme song to successfully annoy Cinder into throwing them out of the car.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_935bc701	featureApplicability	1.0
Pity the Kidnapper / int_935bc701	featureConfidence	1.0
RWBY Chibi (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_935bc701
Pity the Kidnapper / int_94bfa327	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_94bfa327	comment	A recurring plot in The Dreamstone involved Amberley getting kidnapped by the Urpneys, and spending the entire duration of her capture verbally and physically thrashing them. In the pilot, Zordrak has to turn her into stone just to keep her quiet.
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The Dreamstone	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_94bfa327
Pity the Kidnapper / int_95a56c09	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_95a56c09	comment	Jennifer-the-Jerk Is Missing has a group of kidnappers who can't stand their 8-year-old charge, who is a colossal Jerkass for her age, and keeps complaining and mocking everything and everybody (yes, even the people trying to save her) through the book. By the time the protagonists find Jennifer, she is notably tied to a chair and gagged, while her adult valet who was abducted with her is less restrained, even if he is nursing a severe concussion.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_95a56c09	featureApplicability	1.0
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Jennifer-the-Jerk Is Missing	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_95a56c09
Pity the Kidnapper / int_974e8693	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_974e8693	comment	Wagons West: in Montana!, the Indians come to regret having captured the three women, as they have created a bunch of complications from demanding proper eating utensils to wanting to interview the chief.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_974e8693	featureApplicability	1.0
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Wagons West	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_974e8693
Pity the Kidnapper / int_98c961e2	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_98c961e2	comment	Subverted in episode 6 of Helluva Boss. When Blitzo and Moxxie are captured by a pair of human agents and interrogated, they annoy the agents into walking out of the room to consider different tactics. While they are in another room they listen in on the two and find out their plan of annoying the agents until they give up and release them, and the Agents gas them with Truth Serum in response.
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Helluva Boss (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_98c961e2
Pity the Kidnapper / int_98dc652b	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_98dc652b	comment	An early episode of Dragon Ball GT saw Goku, transformed into a child by the Black Star Dragon Balls, get kidnapped by a gang of thugs. (Well, technically he goes along with them willingly, not realizing that they are kidnappers.) He forces them to spend all of their money on food for him, undermines their attempts to negotiate a ransom from his friends, and in the end simply flies away when it's time to go home.
Pity the Kidnapper / int_98dc652b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dragon Ball GT	hasFeature	Pity the Kidnapper / int_98dc652b
Pity the Kidnapper / int_994e32db	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Pity the Kidnapper / int_994e32db	comment	Deconstructed in Rango; when Beans is kidnapped by the bad guys and gets defiant/irritating, Rattlesnake Jake just starts beating and choking her to force her to comply. When she continues resisting, he almost kills her and only stops when Rango interrupts him.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_99c003af	comment	The Boondocks had this happen twice in the episode "Let's Nab Oprah". In an attempt to kidnap Oprah Winfrey from a book signing, the bumbling duo Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy accidentally kidnap Maya Angelou instead. They have to dump her out of the van after she starts repeatedly kicking Gin Rummy. The two try again by breaking into Oprah's studio, but they end up going into Bill Cosby's dressing room instead. They decide to cut their losses and just kidnap him, but he's so annoying they have to let him go fifteen minutes later.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_9aabb65c	comment	The entire plot of The Ref. A jewel thief takes a couple hostage while he tries to get out of town, only for him to find out the hard way how dysfunctional they are. And then the rest of the Dysfunction Junction shows up for Christmas dinner, which means he has to pretend to be the couple's marriage counselor in order to keep from arousing suspicion. Hilarity Ensues.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_9bcbddc	comment	When The Robbers Came To Cardamom Town: The robbers kidnap aunt Sophie so that she can cook and clean for them. She immediately turns this around and makes them wash and clean not only their home, but themselves as well! When constable Bastian, the baker and the sausage maker show up to save her, she doesnâ€™t want to leave, because sheâ€™s determined to make the robbers into decent people. In the end the robbers canâ€™t take her ordering them around anymore, and when she falls asleep, they return her to her home.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_9e2d11c3	comment	In Earth and Sky, at one point Diamond Tiara is abducted by the Changelings... and is shortly after kicked out of their hive, because even they can't stand her.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_a03824e8	comment	In The DCU, Lobo, Karnevil, and The Joker have all been kicked out of hell at one point or another. Lobo for throwing wild parties and causing massive damage to demons and property, Karnevil for annoying/freaking out the demons by constantly pointing out better torture methods, and the Joker for being the Joker.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: Abdullah, the son of Emir Kalish Ezab, is a Spoiled Brat and an absolute terror who constantly pulls painful pranks on his captors in "Land of Black Gold", even when he's actively held at gunpoint by Dr. Mueller. This also leads to the villain's capture, as Mueller tries to shoot himself with the gun Abdullah gave him to avoid capture, but it turns out to be a squirt gun full of ink. While she isn't thrown out, Bianca Castafiore's stay in a San Theodoran prison in "Tintin and the Picaros" is very stressful on the guards, who keep coming out of her cell with spaghetti on their heads because it wasn't cooked to her liking. When she is rescued by Tintin and the revolutionaries, she wants to break into song, which is met by a hasty "No! No!" by Captain Haddock and the San Theodoran officer.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_a0500a06	comment	The Rugrats episode "Ruthless Tommy" featured Tommy being kidnapped by two bumbling criminals who mistakenly believe him to be the child of a billionaire (due to them mixing up their actual target's house address). Tommy proceeds to act in his usual manner and promptly destroys their hideout. By the end of the episode, the exasperated crooks apologize frantically and return Tommy back to the Pickles before they even realized he was missing.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_a1951fc2	comment	We Are All PokÃ©mon Trainers: What happens when Meme is imprisoned in the AU arc. Also what happens to the poor, poor, MAFIAA-serving mons tasked with taking Dintel to more or less the in-universe version of Hell. It ends up with them kicking him out of there.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_a54538ec	comment	Jasmine's attempt to kidnap Matt from a casino hotel in The Affix goes way south from the outset. Having lost a few marbles already, Matt is starting to understand the probability-breaking gem he's stuck with, and uses it along with his newfound brashness to tweak her repeatedly until her eye twitchesâ€”then tries to make her other eye twitch. Then the kidnapping is interrupted by a third party and her night gets a whole lot worse.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_a54eef52	comment	In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Germany, America, England, and France have ALL, on separate occasions, tried to hold Italy prisoner. It never works out. Germany has recently taken Italy prisoner. Germany, bored out of his mind and furious that Italy doesn't even want to escape, is pushed to the limit when Italy starts singing Germany a song. The song starts out as complimentary, but it then starts to insult Germany's attitude, food, "scary tourists" and overly abrasive girls. Italy is shipped back home in a box before he is even finished singing. The Allies shipped Italy back to Germany twice, once after America captured him (although they were willing to keep him like a dog until he insulted England's cooking, at which point America immediately decided not to keep him), then again after France captured him. Both times, the box had 'FUCK' written on it, in big, bold letters.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_a5b8afc8	comment	A Straightforward Boy is a 1929 short film about two kidnappers who grab a Japanese boy, only to send him back after the boy proves way too irritating.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_b067b820	comment	Heather Dale covered this song under the title "The Farmer's Curst Wife"
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_b0ff5776	comment	Young Sheldon: In "A Therapist, a Comic Book, and a Breakfast Sausage", Sheldon goes somewhere without telling anyone, making his parents frantic as they try to track him down. George attempts to lighten the mood by saying that there's no way Sheldon is being held prisoner somewhere; after a very short while, the kidnapper would beg them to take him back.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_b29621f3	comment	In Feet of Clay, a gang takes Angua (a werewolf) hostage. Their injuries are reported as "self-inflicted".
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_b5936059	comment	The main character in High Strung spends most of the film complaining about whatever is within his view. At the end, he is dragged away by Death (played by Jim Carrey), who eventually lets him go because he complains so much.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_b7e8e4b6	comment	My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "The Great Rainbow Caper", Danny and Surprise are held for ransom by the Gizmonks, two Mad Scientist monkeys who want to get their paws on the Rainbow of Light so they can study it. Danny manages to flatter the Gizmonks into letting them out of their cage, then he and Surprise proceed to screw with their inventions, free their test animals, and generally make a mess of the Gizmonks' lab. The episode ends with the Gizmonks fleeing their ruined lab and begging Megan to take the hostages back.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_b975458d	comment	On Dynasty (2017), Fallon is abducted and quickly drives her kidnappers nuts by complaining about them only asking for $15 million for her, cutting her hair into bangs, and complaining about her surroundings like it's a hotel. And then, they also net Fallon's step-mother Cristal so the two women bitch at each other constantly.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_ba6e04f6	comment	The Cuphead Show!: After kidnapping Mugman in the Season 2 finale to break his brother, the Devil tries to break Mugsy's spirit to even the score with Cuphead in "The Devil's Revenge" after not giving him back his pitchfork, even making a bet with Henchman that he can do it before the clock strikes 12. However, Mugman proves to be still be cheerful and hoping Cuphead will save him, even when the heat is turned up and being told his brother is dead after 80 yearsnote Though not in Hell/the Underworld, but in Heaven. By the time Cuphead reaches the Underworld, it's the Devil himself who's near broken after trying to torture Mugman all day, to his lampshaded frustration.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_bbe42b2	comment	In an episode of She-Ra: Princess of Power, the title character's friend Perfuma is captured by the evil Horde. Hordak first demands that She-Ra surrender herself in exchange for Perfuma's release, but Lighthope urges her not to agree to his demands. This proves good advice. Perfuma then proceeds to annoy everyone (especially the audience) with her sing-songy voice, decorate the evil lair with flowers, and even coerce the Horde-Troopers into dancing (in a conga line). Hordak quickly changes his demands, saying She-Ra can have her back if she simply comes to get her. She still heeds Lighthope's advice, and eventually, by the end of the episode, he begs She-Ra to take her back, paying the rebels three months' worth of supplies in return.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_bc758ea9	comment	In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Take Elmyra Please", Elmyra's father invents an environmentally friendly fuel and a rival fuel company kidnaps Elmyra for ransom so they can get the fuel's formula. Elmyra is oblivious because she believes the hideout is a TV studio for her own show and tortures the henchmen by making them do dangerous or humiliating segments. In the end, the henchmen surrender and disclose information about their boss because they want to get away from her.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants was once returned from Davey Jones' locker because the Flying Dutchman couldn't stand to have Spongebob around. The Flying Dutchman also enslaved SpongeBob and Patrick, but it turns out they were HORRIBLE minions. Unfortunately, the Flying Dutchman realized that they'd make better dinner than slaves. Not to mention "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler", where the Tattletale Strangler would rather be in prison than trying to strangle SpongeBob for ratting him out. And in another episode where Krabs lost SpongeBob in a card game to Plankton. By the end of it, Plankton paid Krabs to take him back.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: The Soldier, a deranged, jingoistic gung-ho idiot with No Indoor Voice, claims to have spent time in POW camps...and all of them broke before he did. Of course, this being the Soldier, whether those were actually POW camps is somewhat ambiguous.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_c2297a9c	comment	Features in a Judge Dredd story, where a criminal kidnaps a woman for ransom after she frees him in the mistaken belief that Society Is to Blame. Of course, she's so saccharinely annoying that he's soon begging to be taken to prison just to get away from her.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "A Dog and Pony Show", Rarity gets kidnapped by a pack of Diamond Dogs who seek to exploit her ability to find gems and put her to work digging them up and hauling them around. She proceeds to drive them up the wall with her whining, crying, and complaints. When Rarity's friends come to her rescue, the Dogs are all too willing to let Rarity leave, with all the gems she'd found for them. Turns out Rarity was doing it on purpose, too.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Fires of Pompeii", Donna is abducted by the Sibylline Sisterhood while the Doctor's back is turned. When he shows up to rescue her, neither of them are very concerned about the fact that Donna was about to become a Human Sacrifice (mainly for blasphemy, but also for being, well, Donna).
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_c511c682	comment	Happens a few times in the Asterix stories. In Asterix the Gladiator, Cacofonix is captured by a Roman prefect to give to Caesar as a gift. The suffering of the kidnappers only increases on their journey as they spend more and more time with Cacofonix's singing which however ends up giving them a much more effective threat than the whip for the galley slaves who promise to do their best if this inhuman torture stops, which it does in the old-fashioned way. And as for Caesar, he doesn't deserve pity either, as he is not the one guarding Cacophonix's cell but rather some poor soul of a legionary. In Asterix in Spain, Romans try to get a village of Iberians to surrender by holding the chief's son Pepe hostage. Pepe is, of course, a Bratty Half-Pint who drives the Roman soldiers guarding him up the wall, complicated by the fact that Julius ordered for no abuse or punishment against the child (in order to better indoctrinate him) and is little better when Asterix and Obelix offer to take him home to his father.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_c5f38443	comment	In Pure Luck (and the original French movie La ChÃ¨vre), an extremely accident-prone woman goes on a vacation and ends up getting Easy Amnesia. A guy sees an opportunity (correctly assuming her family to be wealthy) and takes her, figuring he could get a lot of money for her return, once she remembers who she is, that is. By the time the detectives find the guy, he has lost all his money to her bad luck and is in debt to a drug dealer. He explains that he ended up passing her off to another guy. Naturally, things aren't much better for that guy either (she costs him a plane, for one).
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_c757e439	comment	Subverted on 7-Second Riddles. One of the potential solutions for a riddle involves annoying a kidnapper into freeing you, but it's the wrong answer; the correct answer is to try and befriend the kidnapper, to make it harder for them to hurt you.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_c7912cea	comment	A Jimmy Two-Shoes short revolved around Dr. Scientist snatching up Cerbee and trying to experiment on him. However, he quickly proved to be so energetic the doc couldn't handle him.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_c911df7d	comment	In Strange Magic, The Bog King kidnaps the fairy princess Dawn in order to get back a love potion. Unfortunately, she's been hit with it, and falls in love with him and can't stop singing about it, driving everyone in the castle up the walls. He solves this by using her desire to please him by convincing her to go to sleep.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_cbf8de79	comment	In an episode of the Josie and the Pussycats cartoon series, Melody ends up kidnapped by "the Evil Eye" and is put under Mind Control. Unfortunately for the Evil Eye, Melody is The Ditz and is completely useless as a minion - she even responds to commands with "Yes, Mustard" instead of "Yes, Master".
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_cd639e1	comment	In Midnight Run, Jack is a licensed bounty hunter, not a kidnapper, but otherwise the dynamic is the same, as Mardukas annoys the bejesus out of him with his constant irritating questions. The same film showcases a defiance of this trope when rival bounty hunter Marvin gets a hold of Mardukas: Mardukas starts trying to be annoying, but Marvin just knocks him out with one punch and by the time Mardukas wakes up again, they've made it all the way to Las Vegas and Marvin has handcuffed him to a toilet and is taking pictures of him as proof he's got him so he can sell him out to The Mafia.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_cd662714	comment	Fantasy Island had a B-plot that involved two kidnappers trying to ransom Tattoo. He and Mr. Roarke are both quite familiar with the Red Chief story, referred to above, and Tattoo is roughly child-sized...
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_d1bf110e	comment	In Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, you will feel sorry for the demons who kidnapped Princess Syalis of the Human Nation as they constantly feel the wrath of the Princess in her quest for the perfect sleep.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_d46cc708	comment	Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "No Speak Da Ed", Rolf becomes convinced Ed is collaborating with a clan of sheep rustlers from the Old Country, and ends up kidnapping the Eds and trying to beat a confession out of Ed. Unfortunately, on top of not knowing anything Ed is too tough and too oblivious to be bothered by the torture, and all that happens is Rolf ends up exhausted after spending all night repeatedly dunking Ed in a tank of garbage.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_d6e2146d	comment	In a bit of background conversation in Diablo III, an old soldier and his wife reminisce about the time she was kidnapped by barbarians, and the soldier describes how he was beside himself until they brought her back with an apology. His wife comments that their leader still sends her a bundle of hides every year.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_d80d2982	comment	On Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, in the season 3 episode "Kimmy Steps On A Crack," aspiring cult-leader Gretchen turns out to have kidnapped a bunch of teenage boys to keep as "child brides." While they are less rumbunctious than most examples on this list, and just sort of messy, lazy and useless, the result is still this trope, as Gretchen finds herself spending all her time cooking for them, cleaning up after them, and generally acting like their mother.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_da93207f	comment	In The Last Remnant, a sidequest involves rescuing a merchant's son from kidnappers. The catch? The son is a yama, a race of 10-foot-tall powerhouses (and said son is one of the larger ones), and the three kidnappers are qsiti, a race of 2-foot-tall reptilian creatures, with knives that would barely scratch the yama's skin. Rush even says something to the effect of "Which one of them actually needs help?"
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_dc368a13	comment	Penny and Aggie: Charlotte is pitiful enough when she kidnaps Cyndi as a reflection of her self-hatred and hatred for her abusive mother. Then Cyndi talks her into slitting her own throat.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_e034f402	comment	Bruno the Bandit had the nieces and nephew of King Xerxes, who are portrayed as extremely close-knit and with a nasty temper. When Bruno kidnaps the youngest, the other two offer the sum Bruno demanded in exchange for every cutthroat and lowlife in Rothland to hunt down the kidnapper. Hell, even their parents openly pity the kidnapper more than they fear for their child's safety.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: In "The Griffin Family History", burglars break into the house and take Meg hostage. By the time the family is rescued, Meg has been charged with sexual harassment against the burglars. In "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", Stewie kidnaps the entire cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation so he can spend time with them. They quickly get on Stewie's nerves, annoying him and complaining about trivial things, and piss him off to the point that before he sends them home, he dishes out a blistering speech.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_eb9e3429	comment	The Mummy Returns, too, couldn't resist dragging this one out. ("Are we there yet?" "No." "Are we there yet?" "No." "Are we there yet?" "NO!")
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_ece42231	comment	The Filmation's Ghostbusters episode "The Ransom Of Eddie Spencer" has Prime Evil kidnapping the titular character, who manages to wreck Prime Evil's lair because he is such a screw-up. Prime Evil ends up pleading with the other heroes to take him back, even promising to call off the horde of thunder ghosts he's unleashed on the city if they do. (And he does.)
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_ed322fd7	comment	In the first season finale of Killing Eve, Villanelle kidnaps Irina, Konstantin's young daughter. Irina responds to being dragged all over Moscow by a hotheaded psychopath who has a gun by... arguing with her, screaming at her, and in general going out of her way to make damn sure that Villanelle is just as miserable as she is. Konstantin even predicted this would happen.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_eef62751	comment	In a comical skit in Tales of Destiny 2, Nanaly Fletch imagines herself being a Damsel in Distress. Then Loni Dunamis offers to be her Knight in Shining Armor... because he pities any villains that kidnap Nanaly for her tomboy-ness. Cue to the bonecrusher.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_f370ea5	comment	Happened in the novel Jimmy The Kid (a sequel to The Hot Rock) by Donald Westlake, and the movie based on the book.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_f394b9eb	comment	A good portion of Calvin and Hobbes III: Double Trouble is Calvin and Hobbes annoying Chill (his kidnapper). Rupert and Earl exploit this in order to kill Calvin.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 presents a nonantagonistic version: Garibaldi arrests G'Kar for assaulting Londo Mollari (long story). Sometime later, Garibaldi notes that a petition was passing around because the station population thought Garibaldi's men were torturing G'Kar. What was actually happening was that G'Kar was singing to pass the time. But that wasn't what got him out early. Instead, the station was about to go under martial law and Garibaldi needed his security out on the beat, not guarding an otherwise model prisoner.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_fc0e7530	comment	In an early episode of Dexter's Laboratory Dee Dee was given to a trio of visiting aliens by Dexter, but after Dexter changed his mind and went to rescue her, the aliens were more than happy to give her up, since she caused so much havoc on their ship.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_fd9bf686	comment	In How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, an attempt by the heroes to capture Grimmel the Grisly goes bad and, in their haste to retreat, Ruffnut is left behind. When Grimmel locks her up, she starts babbling literally non-stop about all sorts of trivial nonsense (including her annoying twin brother, her love life, and her hair braids) until he snaps, releases her, gives her a dragon fledgling to ride, and tells her to just get out. Ruffnut is quite proud of how she used her talent to be annoying this way. Unfortunately, she's not nearly as clever as she thinks; Grimmel also heard her babbling about the Hooligan tribe's new island base and had her followed back to them.
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Pity the Kidnapper / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", Stewie kidnaps the entire cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation so he can spend time with them. They quickly get on Stewie's nerves, annoying him and complaining about trivial things, and piss him off to the point that before he sends them home, he dishes out a blistering speech.
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