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You Can Keep Her!

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You Can Keep Her!	comment	Classic scenario: Alice is kidnapped. The kidnappers contact Bob, who is the legal guardian/spouse/caretaker/someone who should care about Alice and explain they are holding her for ransom, even threatening to kill Bob's little dog too if he doesn't comply with their demands. However, Bob has no intention of paying. Either he flat out doesn't care, he doesn't think that much money is worth it or considers the kidnappers to have done him a favor. The fact that the kidnapped party may die does not faze him in the least. Of course, karmic justice normally ends up biting him in the ass. At that point, the kidnappers would be annoyed that they've kidnapped someone for nothing or even be genuinely appalled by their callous attitude. May end in a Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth situation if the kidnapped party really is THAT annoying — see Pity the Kidnapper. It may also end up that the victim is actually a Hate Sink, so the audience cheers along with the protagonist at the kidnapping. This trope can be a possible counter to villains. A small variation of this would be Bob not taking the kidnapping seriously, seeing as Alice has previously faked similar attempts as a cry for attention. Unfortunately, this time it's for real and the Crying Wolf principle applies... See also Shoot the Hostage, for cases where disregard for the threatened party is more proactive and immediate. For a more straight Super-Trope of this, see also Threat Backfire. May overlap with Refuse to Rescue the Disliked.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_102a22a7	comment	Ansem Retort: Played with: Contessa Belle holds Larxene hostage and tries to get a ransom from Governor Zexion. Zexion refuses, listed his demands to take Larxene off Belle's hands, and leaves. Cut to a week later, and Belle's giving in. When Axel confronts Xemnas, he asks how he plans to stop him and save his hostage Sora. Axel says he's fine going one for two and kills Sora himself.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_1510822e	comment	In GoldenEye, when Janus gives James Bond the Sadistic Choice of saving the girl or completing the mission, Bond coldly answers, "Kill her, she means nothing to me." He then rescues the girl anyway and later comments, "Basic rule, always call their bluff." Later, when she changes the Goldeneye access codes, Janus threatens to kill Bond if she doesn't cooperate. Her response: "Kill him. He means nothing."
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You Can Keep Her! / int_16861a09	comment	In The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible grabs Mirage and threatens to crush her if Syndrome doesn't release him. Syndrome calls his bluff. Mr. Incredible can't bring himself to do it, and Syndrome's reaction to the situation leads to Mirage's Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Though it never actually comes down to it, the hypothetical potential for this is implied early in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Harry is trying to impart to his obstinate Uncle Vernon the importance of him and his wife and son going into hiding under wizard protection. Harry brings up the likelihood that, as his only living family (however begrudging that is), they would be targets for the villains, either to torture them for information on Harry's whereabouts, and/or to use them as bait in hopes that Harry would try to rescue them. He and Vernon meet eyes after he says this, and Harry gets the impression that in that moment "they were both wondering the same thing."
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You Can Keep Her! / int_1ab60296	comment	The Sony Universe Venom, an anti-hero superhero, is so selfish that when Annie gets captured by his evil red offspring Carnage near the end of Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Venom whines that red Symbiote's powers are a No-Sell against him and declares, "We never liked her anyway!" and loudly declares he's leaving.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach's Soul Society arc, Ichigo holds Hanatarou hostage in an attempt to escape from another stronger group, only for the latter to laugh at the idea and explicitly state that they, the 11th division, do not really care about Hanatarou, who is from the 4th division.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_23445d5f	comment	In Weeds, Quinn and Rudolfo's kidnapping of Celia goes worse than expected once they realize everyone hates her.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_25298e7f	comment	CalebCity: The 'Protagonist' in ''When a criminal meets a MONSTER'' remains steadfastly uncaring towards the ransom call he gets.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_298a47a9	comment	In The Big Lebowski, Bunny gets this, although the titular Lebowski tries to hide it. He puts phone books in the ransom case and then hires the Dude to make the drop, confident that things will go awry, and no one will believe that the Dude didn't keep the money for himself.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_29e77392	comment	A Horrible Histories sketch has a Saxon woman abducted by a kidnapper and held for ransom. The husband offers to buy her back... for half a penny, because he's legally obligated to, at minimum, try and buy his naggy wife back. He hopes the kidnapper will reject his offer so he can remarry, but the kidnapper ends up finding the kidnapped woman so annoying he accepts the half a penny so he could be rid of her.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_2a590d91	comment	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:
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You Can Keep Her! / int_2bc165fe	comment	The World Is Not Enough: M tells this to Sir King since the Secret Intelligence Service does not give in to terrorists and criminals. Electra is enraged and decides to take revenge against her father and M.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_32c541e6	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist, a defeated Envy tries to take control of Yoki's body, only to find out that none of his companions care. Defeated, they detach themselves and are put into a jar. Although Yoki's companions say they were just bluffing afterward.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_37a6e77b	comment	Camp Lazlo had Samson get captured, interrogated (fruitlessly) and tortured by aliens demanding cheese. The dumb alien suggests they use Samson as hostage against the other campers to hand over their cheese, but the alien leader spots the campers throwing tether-balls at a rock with a crude drawing of Samson (crying, mind you) and decides that idea won't work out.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_37ee9dd3	comment	In one Doonesbury strip, some of Duke's creditors kidnap his son Earl. When they call him up and tell him this, his reaction is along the lines of "So what? Kill him. What else you got?" Cut to Earl tied to a chair, cheerfully commenting "Boy! You guys sure don't know Pop!"
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You Can Keep Her! / int_39463e41	comment	Cradle 2 the Grave has the Big Bad Ling kidnap Anthony's daughter. He calls Anthony and offers to exchange her for the black diamonds he stole (they're actually a new form of plutonium). Since neither Anthony nor Su (a Taiwanese agent) has the stones at the moment, Anthony asks Su to talk to Ling. Su and Link converse in Chinese, and Su tells Ling he won't negotiate for the stones. When the infuriated Anthony is about to pounce on him, Su replies he's stalling for time, as Ling wouldn't have released the girl anyway, and now Ling is confused why Su is refusing to deal. On the other hand, Su realizes that the danger the stones represent and is simply making the pragmatic choice.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_3cd90f30	comment	In Arrested Development, Michael is riding his bike to work, when a limo pulls up next to him. The man inside tells him "If you care about your brother, you'll get in this car."
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You Can Keep Her! / int_40b98237	comment	In Problem Child, when the Bow Tie Killer kidnaps Flo and Junior, Ben is initially overjoyed that they are gone. However, after seeing a drawing Junior made, he realizes Junior loves him and goes out to rescue him. Flo... not so much.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_4155160d	comment	The Caligula Effect has this happen when Mirei kidnaps Kotono's ex-boyfriend Ryosuke. Except Mirei didn't realize the ex- part, and also didn't realize that Kotono despises Ryosuke, which almost leads to this happening.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_4259a3cd	comment	Deconstructed in Nefarious. Crow starts his invasion of Kyuutopia by kidnapping Princess Foxglove, as per usual, but the guards apathetically put up a fight, and the rest of the citizens do no better. By the time they make it past the city gates, Foxglove explains that the citizens hate her and want her off the throne — not because she's annoying or tyrannical, but because all her decisions focus on keeping Kyuutopia out of debt than the needs of its native people.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_43576f5	comment	Subverted in the Supernatural episode "Weekend at Bobby's", where Bobby has the ghost of Crowley's son, Gavin. Crowley incorrectly assumes that Bobby is trying to get his soul back from him by using his son as a bargaining chip, but Bobby reveals that he knows Crowley and his son hate each other and that the real bargaining chip is Crowley's earthly remains, whose location Gavin was happy to give him.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children: An ancient curse on the English village of Lower Uncton will only be broken if all male Bundys are killed within its town limits; the neighboring village of Upper Uncton wants at least one Bundy killed outside Lower Uncton, to make sure the curse goes on forever. When Al and Bud are cornered on the border between the two towns, neither side can kill them, so the Upper Uncton townsfolk seize Peg and Kelly and threaten to kill them unless Al and Bud come over to their side. Of course, Al and Bud laugh uproariously and invite the Upper Unctonians to do whatever they want. One of the Lower Unctonians (who have been hunting down Bundys for centuries), snarks that that tactic didn't work with the others either.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_4670ba54	comment	One Piranha Club story had a pair of bumbling crooks kidnapping Mother Packer, Dr. Pork's mother-in-law. Given that Mother Packer is an extreme case of an obnoxious in-law, Dr. Pork is more than happy to get rid of her. The crooks eventually let her go after she beats the crap out of them for the millionth time, who then proceeds to go after her son-in-law.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_468bebb0	comment	Subverted from time to time in the City Watch Discworld books. Someone will take Angua hostage and be mildly surprised when Carrot doesn't come rushing to her rescue. Of course, Carrot knows Angua can take care of herself perfectly well, and it's the hostage-takers who are in trouble. Or when the danger is greater than that, he's not RUSHING to rescue her, he's coming slowly and taking his time. Beware the Nice Ones. Also, because, even though he cares deeply about her, "personal" is not the same as "important".
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You Can Keep Her! / int_489ce4ff	comment	In The Legend of Zorro, in prison, Alejandro gets threatened by several prisoners. He tries to make them back off by grabbing Joaquin and threatening him (he is of course bluffing), but they say they don't care and keep advancing, forcing him to fight them off.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_4b57d678	comment	One episode of Murphy Brown has Murphy get abducted by radical environmentalists who are trying to force greater public recognition of crimes against nature committed by certain companies. Everyone they try to contact about holding her hostage is either A: a coworker that had been pranked by her recently, and is glad to see her gone, or B: thinks that this is a prank. After a day or so she annoys them so much that they let her go.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_4d5b6107	comment	In The Usual Suspects, the legend of Keyser SÃ¶ze has the Hungarians capturing and raping SÃ¶ze's wife and threatening to kill her and his son if he doesn't give them his drug business. So he pulls out a gun and shoots her and his son.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_4f091b42	comment	In Tiger & Bunny this turns up in Kriem's back-story. When their daughter is kidnapped and held to ransom by Jake Martinez, it turns out Kriem's parents — who hate and fear her for being a NEXT — have no interest in getting her back. Kriem finds Jake's ideas on NEXTs being superior to ordinary humans far more appealing, and so stays with him even when he decides he may as well release her.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: When his Quirky Bard teammate Elan is kidnapped by bandits, Roy decides that he's The Millstone and not worth rescuing, then leaves the rest of the Order behind when they disagree. A few strips later he recalls that he became a fighter specifically to protect people, has a major Jerkass Realization and goes back to help.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: The World Is Not Enough: M tells this to Sir King since the Secret Intelligence Service does not give in to terrorists and criminals. Electra is enraged and decides to take revenge against her father and M. In GoldenEye, when Janus gives James Bond the Sadistic Choice of saving the girl or completing the mission, Bond coldly answers, "Kill her, she means nothing to me." He then rescues the girl anyway and later comments, "Basic rule, always call their bluff." Later, when she changes the Goldeneye access codes, Janus threatens to kill Bond if she doesn't cooperate. Her response: "Kill him. He means nothing." In Casino Royale (2006), when Bond learns Vesper is taking the poker winnings to a meeting with Gettler, Gettler spots Bond, and puts a knife to Vesper's throat, saying "I'll kill her!" Bond replies "Allow me."
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You Can Keep Her! / int_5cc1f6b9	comment	This is the entire point of the Danny DeVito movie Ruthless People. Sam Stone is planning to kill his wife, when she's kidnapped for ransom instead, so he tries to provoke the kidnappers into killing her.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_5d790d1c	comment	Freaky Flyers: In Paulie Atchi's story mode, Pilot X kidnaps his mama so he can force Paulie into a battle in outer space... except all Pilot X really did was make Paulie's job easier.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_60f02ddb	comment	Subverted in an episode of American Dad!: Francine fakes a kidnapping of Roger in order to prove that Stan really does care about him. Stan's response is complete and total nonchalance, to the point where he actually negotiates the ransom money down to a handful of pocket change...but still doesn't pay. After a few days, he tells Francine that he knew it was fake all alongnote they have Caller ID and she made the ransom calls from her own cell phone. The plan ultimately backfires because Roger's bratty behavior during the fake kidnapping makes Francine hate him too.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_62636e2b	comment	Police Talesnote A collection of supposedly true unverifiable very short stories originating in FidoNet. by Nikolay Fyodorov, story 55. Bandits kidnapped a detective's shrewish wife to force him to stop his investigation. He was very happy, doubled his efforts, and soon arrested them all. The wife got killed when police stormed their hideout. The officer got a reputation of uncompromising enemy of The Mafiya and several promotions, but "just in case hasn't re-married yet". Of course, it's a cautionary tale. Of note is the discrepancy that a house is stormed by riot police (possible, but unlikely).
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You Can Keep Her! / int_674f5997	comment	In one episode of Human Target, Chance's ex-girlfriend's husband is captured by a ruthless South American dictator, and she comes up with a plan to kidnap the kidnapper's brother and set up a Prisoner Exchange. The kidnapping plan is successful, but it turns out the dictator doesn't really want his brother back very much.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_694ab80	comment	In one episode of Batman Beyond, the Royal Flush Gang kidnapped Paxton Powers and demanded a ransom from Bruce Wayne; Wayne refused to pay it, telling them that it was against his company policy to negotiate with kidnappers and terrorists (claiming that Paxton was the one who had written that policy). Of course, Bruce wasn't so cruel, even though he despised Paxton; this was, naturally, a Batman Gambit aimed at exposing Paxton's criminal activities once and for all by forcing him to bargain further with his abductors, and it worked like a charm. (That Trope isn't named after that guy for nothing.)
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You Can Keep Her! / int_70ec51d4	comment	In WeiÃŸ Kreuz, Omi was kidnapped when he was young. When the kidnappers demand the ransom (with a tearful Omi begging his father to save him) his father, Reiji, declares he won't pay. It's later revealed that this was because Reiji was aware that Omi wasn't his son, but was instead the product of an affair between his wife and his brother Shuichi.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_750abe8f	comment	The Borgias depicts the same incident with Caterina Sforza as the Literature example above; she tells Juan Borgia, who's sieging the walls of Forli and threatening her son, that she can make ten more sons.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_75584731	comment	In Tropic Thunder, Tug Speedman is kidnapped by a guerilla group and held for ransom. Unfortunately for him, the studio head immediately realizes that Tug's death will trigger an insurance payout on the already Troubled Production. Between that fact, Tug's declining popularity and his total lack of concern whether Tug lived or dies, he quickly decides that the kidnapping is the best thing that could have happened.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_7c6f5e19	comment	In The Red Green Show movie Duct Tape Forever, the villain who kidnaps Harold worries that this might be Red's reaction. It's not.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_853bf2d3	comment	In Tripping the Rift Bobo tries to get one of the judges to vote for his daughter in a beauty contest, showing a picture of his mother tied up and in a cannon as leverage. The just simply replies that is his mother-in-law and tells him to go for it.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_87ffda3d	comment	In Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge, the Society tells Captain Cold that they have his father hostage. He is not as intimidated as they expect, and though he does track down his father, it's only to confront and kill him himself... or at least have Heat Wave do it.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_8a339030	comment	Indiana Jones: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: When Indy threatens Willie with a sharp fork, Lau Chen giggles, "You keep the girl. I'll find another!" Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: During Indy and Elsa's break-in to the castle where Henry Jones is being held by the Nazis, Elsa is held at gunpoint by The Dragon, who tells Indy to Put Down Your Gun and Step Away. Henry tells the Dragon to go right ahead and shoot her, telling Indy that Elsa herself is a Nazi mole. He's right.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue Season 14; Felix, Locus, and their partner Siris abduct one Gabriel Lozano, the son of notorious crime lord Ruben Lozano, intent on turning him in for a bounty. This goes awry when the bounty is abruptly cancelled just as the three are going to collect, so Felix decides to change plans for a traditional kidnapping and ransom. Unfortunately, Ruben hates Gabriel and says that the three would have done him a favor by killing him, and is more concerned about the hit to his reputation that the kidnapping caused.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_90a3a7f4	comment	In the Kim Possible episode "O Boyz", the Seniors kidnap a boy band (and, accidentally, Ron), hoping to extort their manager into giving Junior a singing career of his own. The band has lost its popularity lately, the singers have a lot of fussy demands contractual obligated to them, and the news coverage from the kidnapping has increased album sales, so the manager is happy to be rid of them. Kim rescues them anyway, and they replace their manager with Rufus.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_96387ca2	comment	Kissed by the Baddest Bidder: When the protagonist is kidnapped on Eisuke's route, Eisuke coolly declares that he doesn't care what happens to her. The trope is subverted when it becomes clear that it's all just part of his plan to set the kidnapper up for the most abject failure and crushing humiliation possible.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_982fa89f	comment	In the BBC show Robin Hood, at one point Robin has Guy at sword-point and it demanding his own unimpeded release as well as some important black rocks (base ingredient for explosives or so). The Sheriff decides the rocks are of more worth than Gisborne and it's only due to Lady Marian interfering that Gisborne is ransomed out after all. (Naturally, Guy afterwards holds this against Marian.)
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You Can Keep Her! / int_9888f901	comment	In a Daria/Labyrinth crossover fic Not Quite Beyond the Goblin City, the Goblin King kidnaps Quinn after Daria wished her away. And then just hung out outside of the labyrinth for a few hours. The Goblin King has to pay Daria to get her to take Quinn back in the end.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_98dc652b	comment	In the first episode of Dragon Ball GT, a group of kidnappers snatch the recently re-chibified Goku, after being unable to kidnap Bra for ransom. They then call Vegeta with the ransom demand, saying they've got his son Goku. His reaction can be neatly summed up by this trope's name. (Whether Vegeta doesn't care about Goku or simply says it because he's sure the kidnappers are going to be taught a painful lesson by their victim, or a little of both, is hard to say.) They also try calling Bulma, who laughs and tells them to watch their backs.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_9f91a58a	comment	In Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, Kurumi's parents were kidnapped by the Disas who threatened to kill them if she resisted. Unfortunately for them, Kurumi's parents were a particular brand of abusive and she was actually glad that they were kidnapped, and gunned down the Disas representatives.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_a183d57f	comment	In one episode of Futurama the Planet Express crew is taken hostage by Roberto the robot, but the one he threatens to kill if the police try to stop him is resident Butt-Monkey Dr. Zoidberg. The cops' reply is, "Do you have any better hostages?"
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You Can Keep Her! / int_a2174d23	comment	In an episode of 'Allo 'Allo!, Lieutenant Gruber, Colonel von Strohm, and Captain Bertorelli are kidnapped by the Communist Resistance. Rene then tries to take advantage of this by calling General Von Klinkerhoffen while disguising his voice and claiming that unless the General pays 1 million francs, the three will be shot. The General then deadpans "Very well. Let them be shot." and hangs up. Later on, Herr Flick, not knowing of the previous call, then tries the same scheme and asks for two million francs. You can guess the result.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_a54eef52	comment	In the Hetalia: Axis Powers anime, after the Allies capture Italy, Germany simply tells them to give him pretty women and a soccer ball to keep him happy. Germany was most likely duping them. Before he and Italy became allies, he captured Italy in WWI and learned firsthand how unpleasant it is to have Italy as a POW and knew they would send him home eventually. Plus, he made a promise to be there for Italy when he was in trouble, and genuinely likes him. It's also Truth in Television: Lots of Italian POW found their captivity so congenial they emigrated to the US or Canada after the war.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_a5b8b965	comment	The Iliad begins with Agamemnon confiscating Achilles' favorite slave for himself, whereupon Achilles stops participating in the war. But when Agamemnon relents and offers her back, along with a heap of other inducements to return to the battlefield, Achilles refuses to take her, despite professing to love her like a wife.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_a92c264a	comment	In Exterminatus Now Lothar takes Eastwood hostage in order to rescue Kyle. Virus points out that this Eastwood is useless as a hostage since no-one in the Inquisition cares if he lives or dies.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_ad7edd1f	comment	In Kaamelott, Leodagrance met his wife Seli when he abducted her from her Pict tribe. He asked for a ransom of 10,000 gold coins; they offered him twice that sum if he would keep her.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_ae0356e0	comment	Courage the Cowardly Dog once threw Eustace into a monster's hands declaring, "Okay, you can have him!" Given Eustace's Kick the Dog behavior, can anyone blame Courage?
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You Can Keep Her! / int_af306819	comment	In Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, a captive Drake attempts to escape Big Bad Lazarevic by holding one of his Mooks at gunpoint. Lazarevic then gives a short speech claiming that "great men" like Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot "prevailed" because "they had the will to do what other men would not". Lazarevic then shoots the hostage himself.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: In "The Rains of Castamere", when the Red Wedding happens, Catelyn Stark attempts to secure her and Robb's release by holding a knife to Walder Frey's wife's throat. He callously says he'll just get another wife, and doesn't bat an eye when Catelyn kills her and is killed in turn.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_b4fe32c9	comment	In the Halloween episode of Invader Zim, when Zim is captured in the nightmare world and the monsters try to extort Dib into surrendering his head to them, Dib tells them they can keep him and throws a can at the monster's head.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_bc3e398b	comment	Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: In "What He Beheld", while in a shootout, Derek grabs a little girl bystander and threatens her, but his opponent says he doesn't know her so he doesn't care. Derek shrugs, kills him and releases the girl.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_be3cb67d	comment	In the Central Park Zoo level of The Punisher for the Xbox, it is possible to take a specific mook hostage and thus have Frank try and trade him to The Dragon for the innocent Joan. Quite naturally, The Dragon doesn't give a damn.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_c03c2b44	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, when Sao-Feng notices a spy in his midst while negotiating with Barbossa, and suspects foul play:
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You Can Keep Her! / int_c2297a9c	comment	One Judge Dredd comic features a supremely obnoxious woman who's a member of a group that believes that The Power of Love can reform all criminals because they are simply misunderstood. The criminal she ends up trying this with kidnaps her for ransom, only to end up begging the group to take her back, take him to jail, ANYTHING to get rid of her.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_c4ed1c1f	comment	In the Dink Smallwood mod Attack of the Mutant Veggies the king refuses Dink's demand for gold to buy a better sword with the explanation that Visigoths have kidnapped the queen and if he doesn't keep paying them extortionate sums, they'll bring her back.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_c7cca04f	comment	Pushing Daisies: As a child, Olive was accidentally kidnapped by two thieves when she tried to run away from home because her parents never paid any attention to her. When the thieves try to return her, they're outraged to discover that the Snooks never even realized their daughter was gone.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_ca677a95	comment	A season 8 episode of Little House on the Prairie ("The Legend of Black Jake") saw Nels Olsen, co-owner of Olsen's Mercantile, kidnapped by two hopelessly inept criminals. Nels' wife, the brutally stingy Harriet Olsen, outright refuses to pay the ransom demand, asserting that the kidnappers "probably wouldn't release Nels even if [she] paid up".
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You Can Keep Her! / int_caf76c89	comment	In 1967's The Happening (not the same as this film) some hippies kidnap a retired mob boss (Anthony Quinn), and demand a ransom for him. His associates, his mother, and his wife all give the same answer.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_cc4d6462	comment	In Joe Loves Crappy Movies, Joe, knowing any hypothetical kid of his will probably be just as much of an asshole as he is, says that if kidnappers or the devil kidnapped his kid, they can have them. Considering that Switchblade Motorcross Dunn made the devil cry, he probably had a point.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_cf39ca4f	comment	One arc in Pearls Before Swine had Zebra kidnap Larry the Croc's wife in order to try and stop the crocs from attacking him. Given that said wife is a bit of a nag, Larry decides to use the opportunity to do all the things she tells him not to do, despite his son Junior's protests. Eventually, when Zebra brings her back, along with a bucket of KFC as an apology, Larry is more upset that he didn't add mashed potatoes.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_d08081ff	comment	Atomic Betty once had to rescue an Empress captured by Maximus, who demanded a MacGuffin as ransom. Instead of giving him what he wanted, her people told him they didn't want her.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_d6d59994	comment	Dr. Madcap and Greta "Green Lips" Ghoul capture Cool McCool and hold him for ransom in the episode "Will The Real Coolmobile Please Stand Up?" Cool's superior, Number One, says he's only worth five cents.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_d78241e7	comment	In Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Nick Moran's character (Eddie) loses a large amount of money at a rigged card game. He has 5 days to pay. Vinnie Jones (Big Chris) offers Eddie's father (JD) the option of giving up his bar to cover the cost... to which JD (played by Sting), replies:
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You Can Keep Her! / int_d9c602eb	comment	In an episode of South Park that strikingly parallels Raiders of the Lost Ark, Tweek steals a bazooka and aims it at Steven Spielberg and George Lucas after they've kidnapped the other major characters (it's a long story). "All I want are my friends," Tweek explains - and then he quickly adds "Except for Cartman; you can keep him."
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You Can Keep Her! / int_dad73e07	comment	In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, there's a scene with a woman and some police officers after her husband has been kidnapped. Initially, she's quite frantic and insistent that she'll pay anything and give them anything they want... until she finds out what they're asking for.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_df7fa951	comment	In Casino Royale (2006), when Bond learns Vesper is taking the poker winnings to a meeting with Gettler, Gettler spots Bond, and puts a knife to Vesper's throat, saying "I'll kill her!" Bond replies "Allow me."
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You Can Keep Her! / int_e034f402	comment	In Bruno the Bandit this results in a custody battle during a kidnapping-in-progress.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_e144ba19	comment	In the third act of Dragon Age II, someone important to Hawke (their sibling if still alive, their love interest or closest friend otherwise) will be kidnapped. The victim isn't being held for ransom, but someone lets Hawke know what's happened so they can mount a rescue. Selecting the middle ("silly") reaction can have Hawke comment about what a pain in the ass the character in question is, and how they really don't want them back. It's a subversion in that the rescue takes place anyway, but it comes across as this trope to the confused informant.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_e3876b26	comment	Digimon Frontier: In episode 6, a tribe of KaratsukiNumemon mistake the heroes for allies of Grumblemon and capture them, then try to arrange a Prisoner Exchange for the females of their tribe that he captured. Grumblemon has no idea who the kids are and doesn't care about them.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_e3a1067	comment	Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: When Scanty and Kneesocks begin to lose their fight against Panty and Stocking, they take Brief hostage. Stocking is apathetic, and Panty is almost offended at the idea of putting someone else's well-being ahead of her goals. The demon sisters are disgusted, while Brief despairingly wishes Panty would at least remember his name. They decide to attack Panty and Stocking instead of killing Brief, to no avail. Afterward, Panty offers Brief sex as an Apology Gift but takes it Off the Table when he hesitates.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_e6695c62	comment	From Hudson Hawk:
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You Can Keep Her! / int_ec19bd89	comment	This is standard procedure for the main cast of Saiyuki. It's usually an act, but they're all such assholes that it's a very convincing act. And they might be slightly more caring than they seem, but one thing's definite: Sanzo's not going to give you a sutra cause you're threatening to kill someone.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_edaa765e	comment	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: During Indy and Elsa's break-in to the castle where Henry Jones is being held by the Nazis, Elsa is held at gunpoint by The Dragon, who tells Indy to Put Down Your Gun and Step Away. Henry tells the Dragon to go right ahead and shoot her, telling Indy that Elsa herself is a Nazi mole. He's right.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_edbc9738	comment	Spider Jerusalem uses those exact words when his wife's cryogenically preserved head is stolen and held for ransom in Transmetropolitan. Well, eventually, after having initially enunciated his position by the use of various unprintable invectives. Put it this way; she's his ex-wife, and the animosity was mutual. It also turns out that she had attempted to manipulate the people who stole her head into killing Spider but didn't count on him being able to explain it to them and prove their mutual animosity by tossing her head off a bridge.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_f0841a69	comment	Subverted on Primeval: Lester tells Helen that she can shoot Christine if she wants to. But he almost immediately instructs his men to lower their weapons and let Helen get away.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_f0b1b9a5	comment	Marcus Didius Falco is investigating a kidnapping ring in Ancient Rome and recovers a baby whose parents for some reason did not want to pay the ransom. It's Falco's mother who realises that the baby is deaf, and therefore would be regarded as a simpleton.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_f104cbdb	comment	Multiple groups have tried to coerce the title character of Vexxarr by threatening Sid. This fails partly because Vexxarr is a Snark Knight Anti-Hero, but mostly because Vexxarr is well aware that Sid has Nigh-Invulnerability. The hostage takers are likely to damage their equipment and/or maim themselves in their attempts while Sid doesn't even notice his hosts are trying to harm him.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_f47908bc	comment	This is Jane's back-story in The Legends of Treasure Island: Long John Silver kidnapped her hoping to hold her for ransom but she was in her own words "such a little brat" that her parents didn't want her back. As a result, Silver was stuck with her until she joined the protagonists.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_f4e799ee	comment	Played with in Burn Notice (this might count as an inversion or maybe an Invoked Trope): when Sam is captured in the first season finale, Mike pretends to be glad to be rid of him in order not to give his kidnappers as much leverage.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_f5c28dbb	comment	One of the Brillo stories from 1634: The Ram Rebellion is pretty clearly a retelling of the O. Henry story The Ransom of Red Chief.
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You Can Keep Her! / int_f9ab713d	comment	Osomatsu-san: In one episode, Chibita gets fed up with the protagonists not paying their tab at his oden bar for the last however-many years, and resorts to kidnapping Karamatsu so his brothers can at least pay a ransom. Not only do his brothers explicitly not care at all (with Ichimatsu even doing a happy dance), their own mother then comes in with snacks without addressing that something is wrong, implying she doesn't care either.
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