— Elan, Meet the of the Damsel in Distress. He's usually the sidekick to a butt-kicking, always getting himself captured for the female lead to save. This may also occur in shows featuring a male protagonist and even when the male protagonist is a total badass, they tend to get captured quite a bit. Usually to demonstrate their awesome escape skills. Sometimes this trope is regarded as a product of twentieth-century feminism but it's. When classifying fairy tales according to the Aarne-Thompson system, one distinguishing mark of several types of tales is that a man (or men) is rescued — generally by the heroine. ( He is generally her; they are generally her brothers.) Compared to the, the Distressed Dude is somewhat more likely to save himself in the end, to be saved by someone of the same sex, or, if saved by a woman, to be saved by one using her traditional, rather than by someone using.

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When the Distressed Dude is rescued by an, it's not uncommon for him (or for another character) to describe this as an injury to his masculinity. If he's in with said, he may be a. This may be, though sometimes the Distressed Dude will learn, instead. The dude may have picked up the. If he was a badass before getting kidnapped, he may suffer. If he continues to kick ass after being freed, he's a. In, Tatsumi finds himself captured and imprisoned by one of the most powerful, cruel, and sadistic human beings in existence, Esdeath, a woman with extremely deadly powers who has slaughtered hundreds of thousands without mercy.

That's not the problem though. The problem is Esdeath is hopelessly in love with Tatsumi and fully intends to make him hers. Shokupanman, frequently, in. And by frequently, I mean all the time, by everyone. Even though he's also a superhero and one of the. Whenever he's separated from or, he gets eaten or kidnapped, sometimes both.

Justified, as Eren is a desired by multiple factions. Jean, for all his budding leadership qualities, has shades of this. He's been saved by Connie, Annie, Marco, and thrice by Armin. Parodied with North Italy of, who often gets in trouble and derails his partners' plans. Italy: (over the phone) Germany! I'm in North Africa right now and.

This reaches a new level of absurdity when Italy needs rescuing from falling into a pit dug by 'that jackass Britain'. It wasn't an elaborate or hidden trap, it was just an ordinary hole dug in the ground. His brother South Italy plays it a bit straighter as a child, when Turkey kidnaps him. His boss/caretaker Spain goes on Turkey.

In return, Spain in another strip and the adult South Italy searches for a 'cure', even having recourse to to try help him. As a child, North Italy's Austria played it straight and had to be bailed out by Switzerland. Ironically, the one who 'bullied' Austria the most was Hungary.

Who would become his, and later his wife. Two recent strips feature England as a parody of this trope, trying to escape from Germany and the Italies and hilariously failing. In Paint It, White! Most of the heroes find themselves immobilized after they are turned into Pictonians. Ironically, it's Italy who saves them at that time. In the third Hetalia Fantasia CD Canada is captured and starts to get by 'the Black and White Knight of the Dark Night' AKA Prussia. It is a though, so it can be debated how much distress he actually is in.

Furuichi from was kidnapped twice during the manga, both times used as bait to lure Oga into a trap. As the best friend of the main character and being the only one with zero fighting skills, this was bound to happen.

Yuki from often qualifies. Most of the time, the other characters are protecting or saving him. Ciel of is quite the, but he's also a scrawny thirteen-year-old with athsma, and winds up having to be saved rather a lot, usually by his Sebastian or his. Revy at one point makes a sarcastic quip when his latest kidnapper turns out to be a Japanese high-school girl. Used in a Omake to Ichigo and Uryuu when and Rangiku want them to test a boiling purple thing. Ichigo also seemed to get restrained a lot in the beginning of the series.

In the Bount arc, Ishida was whacked with the due to his temporary power drain and ended up this way. In the filler Zanpakutou arc, the shinigami and Ichigo have to come up with a plan to locate and save Captain-Commander Yamamoto who has been captured by the and sealed behind a very powerful kidou barrier from which he cannot escape.

Subverted; Yamamoto sealed himself away to escape Muramasa's power. Muramasa led the shinigami to believe he had captured Yamamoto so that Ichigo would use his full power to break the barrier. Muramasa's plan succeeds, allowing him to steal Yamamoto's zanpakutou power.: Played straight in the Chapter 2 where Hibiki eventually rescues Kosukegawa. A variation happens during the 'Zero revealing' plot arc where Kosukegawa's kidnapping serves only. Mikagami Tokiya in, despite being a competent fighter and a ruthlessly efficient, actually doubles as this. He gets tied up TWICE in the series, both probably as an effect of picking up the, or maybe because, since this happens once he lets go of his tendencies and lessened his ruthlessness. In his defense though, after all that, he goes to beat down the most feared member amongst the enemy ranks.

Azusa Mizutani from is this in the beginning of the manga. The female lead had to rescue him twice from being gangraped by all the crazy, horny girls at their school. Naoyoshi from. And rescuing him is actually one of the main plot motive of the series. Mamoru Amami from, specifically in its epilogue OVA, FINAL. When trying to make the preparations that would allow 3G to win against the 11 Planetary Lords of Sol, Mamoru created a replicant of himself to use as a decoy so he could get to the G-Crystal without being caught by the Sol Lords, said replicant is.very chained and given ◊ It's pretty scary, honestly, and adds more to Mamoru's. Arslan from often needs someone, usually Daryun, to come help him get out of being cornered/attacked by the enemy.

Justified in that he is young and inexperienced and while he can hold his own in a fight, he is frequently targeted because he is the prince with. Lantis from gets captured by Nova near the end of the second season. Negi Springfield of once got held captive by his fellow mages who wanted to turn him into an ermine and deport him to the Magic World for failing to maintain. He managed to get out of his cell, but his (mostly ) had to bust into the enemy base to get him out. Kaito Doumoto of should really stop going overseas for surfing tournaments. The first time, he was kidnapped by his long-lost brother Gackto, had his power almost stolen and got used to blackmail Lucia. The second time, he had by Michel and was used to draw Lucia out of hiding and blackmail her again.

Thankfully, though she may be, she's smarter than that. While he doesn't get caught every single episode of. Well, if there's a boy liable to get captured, that's Duo Maxwell. To death by fandom via. Tragic from Mythic Quest is threatened in exchange for Aramusha's good behavior so often that the one time someone claims to have, he knows they're bluffing, because that's not how things work.

Usually this is just an excuse to have Tragic and Aramusha agree not to use their powers for the duration of a fight, but once John is actually kidnapped and Anaya has to go rescue him. Done a lot to the title character of. He gets captured by and the Matoba clan on more than one occasion.

Special mention to his first encounter with the head of the Matoba clan. Natsume is abducted and told that if he Special mention also goes to season four, episode six, which plays with the trope before playing it straight: Natsume is trapped in a jar by an ayakashi that wishes to use him as an offering. Initially, the only issue is getting out of the jar since his guardian Nyanko-Sensei protects him, but the ayakashi does eventually make off with Natsume. Slightly justified in that Natsume isn't necessarily weak - he's actually pretty strong for a non-exorcist human, and the fact that nearly everyone wants him (no, ) leads to him getting kidnapped quite often. That he can scatter ayakashi just by punching them is considered quite impressive. Still doesn't save him from this trope, though.: Yeah, Shinji's a pretty easy target who cries and whines compared to his two female companions (a and ). Yet he deserves mention for one episode where he takes charge, gets in trouble, and screams for help from the main female characters.

Portgas D. Ace is definitely this trope; an entire war is done to save him from the Marine. Except that his younger brother Luffy is the one rescuing him, not a girl. Luffy succeeded in freeing him. Unfortunately, it was in vain as soon Ace took a lava punch from Admiral Akainu to save Luffy and actually. Trafalgar Law goes through this in the Dressrosa arc.

He gets knocked out, bound in, and interrogated by the arc's. The Luffy rescues him.but doesn't have a key for the chains, so he has to carry Law all over the island, through multiple battles, until they finally get the key and Law can participate again. Oz from was being one twice. First when he was captured by the Baskervilles in the Lutwidge Academy, and then he was saved by Elliot.

Second was in Yura’s Mansion, and Gil goes to rescue him (Elliot happened to be in the rescue team too). Oh, and he didn’t show much of a resistance in both incident, especially the first one. Due to his lack of a heart, with thanks to the nature of the story he came from, and a?. Subverted in episode 88 of. The Amazon sisters say that they're holding Ranma captive, but it turns out that they simply gave him a meal to keep him busy.: Mamoru Chiba, a.k.a.

Tuxedo Kamen started off as helpful and slightly badass, but after he and Usagi entered into a relationship, the poor guy descended rapidly into Distressed Dude territory. This also had some crossover just because the most common method of the villains to demonstrate their evil was to chuck the powerless guy in the tuxedo across the room and make off with him. Or, in at least two cases,. The tried to reduce this effect by giving him useful powers, and he took care of a few villains by himself, but he'd still get kidnapped/killed/brainwashed whenever the plot needed to kick up the drama a few notches. The Stars manga storyline even started off with Galaxia effortlessly killing the poor kid in front of Usagi.

Though he's not completely incapable of fighting, Ikki routinely bails him out of tough battles. Note this becomes routine only in the filler episode of the anime and in non-canon movies where he is subject to.

Genjyo Sanzo of gets abducted and restrained by baddies quite often in the anime. Doesn't stop him from being a badass, though.

Then again, his original counterpart from got this treatment way more than Saiyuki Sanzo, without being badass the rest of the time to make up for it. Not that that's hard given his original counterpart was pretty much a complete wuss compared to Saiyuki's loud, violent, arrogant, chain smoking, gambling, foul mouthed, violent version who on average threatens to kill his companions at least twice a chapter. Oh and did I mention foul mouthed and violent?. Goto in becomes one near the end to lure Masayoshi into a final confrontation with Haiji. He managed to get out from his cuffs. Kyrie from, so many times it's not funny. It's to be noted that he has the potential to defend himself but he never does.

gives this role to Mika and especially Yuu. Both state how they want to rescue/save the other and its lampshaded by Ferid. Ferid calls Yuu by the 'precious princess', 'lovely Yuu-chan', and 'precious angel'. Mika makes it his life goal to save Yuu from the vampires/humans out to use him and carries him in a a couple times. There's even fanart of Mika dressed as a prince carrying Yuu who's dressed as a princess.: gets slapped around enough and used almost to the point of a due to being both the and the wielder of a, but it comes to a head when Monster lord Hellmaster Fibrizo kidnaps him in the second season of the anime/eigth light novel in order to be used to provoke Lina. It takes the summoning of the to save him (and her other friends, who also get taken). In one arc of the manga, Death the Kidd seems to be playing this role after a decides to add him to his collection.

He manages to break out by himself, but only after a fight with Black Star which snaps him out of insanity. Lawrence sometimes takes this part in. In both arcs of the first season, Holo has to save his butt (or the business deal at hand) by returning to her true form, a giant wolf, and kicking around lots of thugs. The situations in the second season are a bit more complicated, however.:.

The Gourmet Arc sees Kaneki become one twice, thanks to. The first time, he's nearly served for dinner at a, before Tsukiyama decides he'd rather not share and saves him. The second time, Touka comes to rescue him when Tsukiyama lures him into a trap with the intention of eating him. The centers around Kaneki being captured by the titular organization.

The staff of Anteiku and several allies mobilize to rescue him, though he ends up escaping on his own. Unfortunately, it's only after enduring 10 days of and crossing the, leaving him a person. In the sequel, this role seems to have fallen to. He's briefly kidnapped by, and rescued by his comrades — experiencing major feelings of doubt over his status. He's later used as during a major operation, and ends up as the being fought over by various parties. He manages to escape on his own, and reunite with the team. Later, Torso manages to capture him again.

Mutsuki manages to save himself by mutilating Torso to death. Sideswipe in the episode 'Past II', when he is abducted and chained up in a burning industrial complex by Wheeljack. Hot Shot rescues him. Yuuen from is small, weak, and looks like a girl, and basically helpless against most giant. Luckily for him Emba's the opposite. Honoka Takamiya from. Interestingly more damsel-er than most.

Taki from gets this a bit, although it happens to Goh at least once. Mokuba Kaiba from. even saw fit to put together a montage of a few scenes in which he was kidnapped. Kaiba thinking: Hmm. Perhaps I should consider keeping him on a leash.

Astonishingly averted in, where nobody even considers grabbing the kid. If counts as kidnapping, Yugi's grandpa qualifies in the Duelist Kingdom arc. So do several characters in Season 4, including Yugi himself. Kuwabara in the Sensui arc of where id kidnapped by the that want his power of cut dimensional barrier. Rohan Kishibe from where he falls into a trap by Highway Star and gets held captive until Josuke hunts down and defeats the Stand user. Koichi was earlier taken captive by Keicho Nijimura. Likewise, Josuke also had to rescue him.

He also gets kidnapped by Yukako but frees himself after defeating her. Josuke himself needed rescuing when he and Koichi were captured by Terunosuke Miyamoto and his Stand, Enigma. Interestingly enough, the one to do the rescuing was Yuya Fungami - the one who actually held Rohan captive previously. In the ' (Child #39), Fair Janet rescues Tam Lin from. In the Child Ballad ', the young lord saves his life by promising to never to tell that his servant robbed him; the servant turns him into a servant, until the daughter of a local lord figures out how to get the story out of him.

( version of the in ). In the Child Ballad 'Geordie' (Child #209), a woman pleads for her husband Geordie who is condemned to hang, convincing the King to commute the sentence to a fine. In the Scottish version sung by Maddy Prior and June Tabor (as the Silly Sisters), she doesn't merely plead— she brings all the fighting men of Clan Gordon ready for action, to make sure the King listens. In Joan Baez's version, presumably related to others called 'The Death of Geordie', her plea fails. See also. There are versions of Child Ballad #95, 'The Maid Freed from the Gallows', where the condemned is male, ransomed by his female lover.

In the, the hero is imprisoned and must be saved by the heroine.:. Getafix the druid is sometimes captured by the Romans or Goths, because they want his potion. Cacofonix gets captured by the Romans a few times and gets at the end of most stories.

In most cases, the kidnappers want to give him back.:. Dick Grayson used to get captured and tied up a lot during his old days, in order to play the in danger and get rescued.

Now, as, this has evolved into a tendency to end up bound and by the. Lampshaded in (IIRC) The Dark Knight Returns comic, when Joker refers to 'Robin, the Boy Hostage'. Hey, Dick isn't the only one who gets tied up. Even ◊ gets it sometimes. A common premise for pre-Crisis stories featuring was her saving her love interest (and eventual husband) Larry.

has been full of this since the dawn of time, but special mention goes to the New 52 run that, thus far, has been chock full of our two leads getting captured (by the Sinestro Corps, Indigo Tribe.). In the climax of one issue of, Chase is captured and held at knifepoint by Geoffrey Wilder, while trying to see if Nico and Xavin escaped from the burning planetarium. He's rescued by Gertrude.

Unfortunately, Geoffrey decides to just kill Gert instead, making it a on her part. Bob Reynolds, the boyfriend of, spent most of his time having to be rescued by Sheena. Pick an issue of Will Eisner's.:. Wonder Woman's old boyfriend Steve Trevor tended to get into quite a fair share of trouble. His competence level varied from bumbling idiot, to experienced soldier, to commando superspy badass enough to be part of the,. His tendency to need rescuing, though, is pretty constant.

A more recent boyfriend, Tom Tresser a.k.a. Nemesis, is generally portrayed as more competent, if not outright badass. But he's still not in WW's league, and thus still needs saving on occasion. Ronno the Mer-Boy in the Silver Age comics also qualifies, partly due to him always putting himself in harm's way just to impress Diana, and partly because, being a merman, he is pretty much helpless on land.: Yorick Brown frequently needs to be rescued by 355. And in the 'Safeword' arc, the bondage gets.

Rather literal. He's also a trained, so he can free himself at least some of the time.: Rictor's first appearance in comics consisted of his being saved from the, who'd kidnapped him in order to use his powers to wreak havoc on San Francisco. Since then, in his two stints in X-Factor and his time in X-Force, he's often the go-to guy to be kidnapped. 'The Search for the Lost Husband': The heroine and her husband is lost to magic. She must track him down and rescue him.

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'The Girl Helps the Hero Flee': a hero falls under the villain's power. The heroine, often the villain's daughter, tells him how to escape the impossible tasks, or performs the magic to allow his escape, and usually both. Afterward, he often and she must disenchant him.

'. '. '. '. ' saves a prince from. In ', the heroine must find the prince, who has been enchanted into forgetting her, and break the spell.

'The Brothers As Birds': the heroine's brothers have been, and she must rescue them. This can range from to making magical shirts to disenchant them, remaining silent the whole time. '.

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In ', Koshchei chops Prince Ivan into little pieces, throws them into a barrel, and throws the barrel into the sea. His brothers-in-law must retrieve the barrel and fetch the Water of Death to put him back together and the Water of Life to revive him. 's ': Kay is rescued by Gerda, who, before she finds him, obtains some features of an. Princess Eliza does the same (though in the non-action way) to her brothers, transformed into wild swans by their stepmother. Goes into great detail on the symbolism behind his bondage, and the symbolism inherent in the heroine coming to free him. Hansel from ' is put in a cage, and it is up to his sister Gretel to kill the witch and rescue him.

In, the prince falls into a witch's power. In, Finist is wounded by the sisters' knives. fanfic: Between being beaten, and being bullied all in the same night, Italy sure is this.

Holmes is definitely this. Culverton Smith and Good thing Who knows where he'd be without him. Probably dead by now. The captured criminal reveals playing in what happened to him- Unfortunately,. A 30-year in fandom states that there are only two types of Avon fanfic; and trash. 'Trash' being an example of this trope. The fandom seems to have a thing for Aziraphale being dragged into Hell for some torture scenes with the option of making Aziraphale Fall.

This got parodied in, where, which was an incredibly fluffy flashback. The fandom has been making the Critic the Distressed Dude long before he got captured canonically. Mostly justified, seeing as how the fics usually also have in power and that usually means no happy fun times for the Critic. But other times it's just because he's so very pretty when suffering.

In the story Chrysalis, Niko was the only one who managed to escape the — meaning she had three to rescue on a return trip. How much fanfiction has either Aragorn or Legolas in danger, kidnapped, tortured or out of commission so the other has to rescue him? Answer: lots. Parodied in this fic. The Doctor's tendency to get tied up, handcuffed, etc by the villain of the week means bondage no longer does anything for him. In the fanfic, Balthier gets kidnapped, and almost succeeds in freeing himself.

This crops up quote a lot in fanfiction. They tend to fall into one of two camps:. The nations are discovered by the public at large or some shady organization, and are abducted and imprisoned. This usually leads to some sort of experimentation on them. One or more of the nations kidnaps another or several nations and holds them hostage, usually for some dark and disturbing purposes.

This can be used to represent historic events, like an occupation or invasion. (NSFW) has written some of the more graphic ones, including Debt and '. In the original, Sonic rescued Amy from Metal Sonic. In, though, Rosy is the one who rescues Sonic from his doppelganger. Joey Wheeler in, though he manages to get himself out of the immediate danger only, any outside forces he's still gotta get saved from. Like dying from smoke inhalation, being beaten up, beaing beaten up again, being trapped in a dream world, etc. Prince Cor, the of, is usually quite capable and as badass as anyone, but when he is kidnapped and, Aravis has to go into mode and pull to rescue him.:.

Calvin's father in 'The Return of Dr. Brainstorm', though they were asleep the whole time. Calvin and Hobbes get stuck in a in 'An MTM Episode'.

Socrates tends to get kidnapped a lot - he's held for ransom by Dr. Brainstorm twice (though Calvin shows little concern) and the being in 'Nocturnals' says that a returning character is after him, to his surprise. In, the Disney Villains capture all of the princes except for Charming at one point. Syaoran in by virtue of. R!Syaoran in when he is kidnapped and later tortured by during an outing with Fai.

In, Mega Man is captured for the latter half of Episode 13, and Roll, ProtoMan, and Kalinka set out to rescue him. Tron Bonne also tags along, unbeknownst to the other characters.: On two occasions, Michael note the Tactician is captured by the group's enemies and has to be saved by Lyn. After the second incident, he starts taking fighting lessons from Lyn to avoid any future hostage situations. subverts this when. At first, it seems that kidnapped him, and are intending to make him, but it's later revealed to be in disguise. In the fanfiction (a loose adaptation of both the famous Norwegian fairytale and the Greek myth Cupid and Psyche) Spike is captured by the and held captive in another dimension. Buffy has to go and rescue him.

At the moment, Bucky/ the Winter Soldier is probably the most popular Distressed Dude in fanworks, but people are also fond of beating up on Tony, Clint, and Loki. In fanfic, Pippin is kidnapped by a former innkeeper and his accomplice.

Since the story is set AFTER the War of the Ring, and his kidnappers are nowhere near as dangerous as Orcs, it takes no time at all for Pippin to free himself and turn the tables on his captors. Thanks in no small part to his injured arm and the Woody is this for most of. Princess Aurora/Briar Rose is the in 's, but her boyfriend Prince Philip does spend a while as a Distressed Dude when the Maleficient captures and chains him to keep the guy from giving Aurora the required to break her. The Fairies have to break him out and give him the weapons he needed to win his fight. In, Rapunzel's interventions did save Flynn on a few occasions, most notably during the Snuggly Duckling scene. That said, he is able to hold his ground against the palace guards and he kind of repayed the favor, by performing a Heroic Sacrifice, thereby freeing Rapunzel from Gothel. has no less than three men who are in need of rescuing by a woman.

Who are they? The Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion, to be saved by Dorothy Gale. Indy: Oh, Marion.

You had to go and get yourself kidnapped. Marion: Well, you didn't do any better yourself. Ethan in finds himself in several dicey situations requiring his rescue by the Maiden of Might. In the first movie, Agent Smith and a few other agents ambushed Morpheus's crew in an old building. The rest of the crew (except for the dearly departed Mouse) escape, but Morpheus was abducted. With him in his custody, Agent Smith attempted to interrogate him into giving them the codes to get into Zion's mainframe. Luckily, Neo and Trinity were on their way to rescue him.

Happens at the end of, after Tom Cruise's character electrocutes himself to short out the bomb in his head (yes, really), the Love Interest he just rescued has to revive him, but before doing so has to take out the Big Bad and his mooks all by her lonesome while the hero lies prone and unconscious.: In what's probably a nod to the original show (see below), is captured by bad guys and tied up in tires while wearing nothing but an open bathrobe. Also Hannibal at the very beginning of the movie, getting punched by two Mexican cops while handcuffed. Unfortunately for their boss, they're dumb enough to leave him alive.

This ends badly for them. 's character has gotten captured and beat up to varying degrees of seriousness in all three films.

He's escaped from them in a variety of ways, ranging from his own quick thinking,. This happens to the character of Kale in the movie, and his Ashley rescues him. ' is exactly this trope. When the character of Bobby is kidnapped by Rusty Nails, his fiance Melissa must save him.

Later on the other male protagonist is kidnapped. The eponymous has this happen to them a lot. In, Dave and Big Daddy get tortured on streaming video, before Hit Girl arrives to stop the show. One of the that the girl from the South Korean movie shows to Gyeon-Woo is of a traveling back in time to rescue her, who has been captured by the enemy. The first three films share the In Distress role around a bit between the original 3 leads- Elizabeth gets more time in it than anyone else, true, but the other two get it sometimes, and as they're both male.:. Bucky from; being captured is what prompts Steve to act, and defy his orders to launch a rescue mission that saves Bucky, and nearly two-hundred other captured soldiers.

Later in the film, Bucky is once more in danger, causing him to fall out of a train and dangle from the side above a cliff. In, Hawkeye's primary use in the film is to motivate Black Widow, his partner in the field, to rescue him as he's been captured by Loki and used as a weapon, leading to her helping to form the Avengers. Due to the nature of how he's been captured, she basically ends up saving him from himself through a, and once rescued and given time to recover, Hawkeye helps the others in the final fight, which allows them to save the other, Selvig. In, Steve realizes half-way through the film that the title villain is none other than Bucky, brainwashed and used as a living weapon by HYDRA; and thus, he goes through a similar experience as Widow went through in Avengers., though Pepper is the one who spends most of the film in danger, and thus is a, Tony's pal Rhodey is also briefly captured by AIM, who pry off his armor and use it as part of a plan (though, had it not been for their Extremis powers, they'd have probably had difficulty holding him as see by his brief escape attempt). Said plan, funnily enough, involves capturing the President and executing him live, forcing Tony and Rhodey to work together to save him, making him another example.

Funnily enough, before that, in the first two Iron Man films, both Tony and Rhodey act like this at different points. In, Tony is captured at the beginning by the terrorist group The Ten Rings, and forced to make a missile for them; it's this capture, combined with giving him access to a box of scraps, which leads to him building the Iron Man armor in the first place.

Later, the villain Obidiah Stane catches Tony by surprise in his home and takes out his Arc Reactor, which Tony now needs to live, putting him into Cardiac Arrest until he can get to his older, less powerful Arc Reactor. In, Rhodey, now using the War Machine armor, has his armor hacked by Ivan Vanko and is trapped inside the armor as it attacks Tony, putting him in danger until Black Widow can re-hack it and free him. In, Valerie rescues her brother Eagle first from being chained in the town square, and then from being handcuffed in the middle of a river. Steve in the opening to the first is an extreme example. gives double trouble with a damsel & a dude in distress(Kimberly & Jason).

Not to mention Bulk & Skull.: After falling into the Cirque world, the Aerialist is captured by the Archers and Spearmen from and taken to the Counselor. In film, Jonathan is a fugitive suspected of murder, in desperate need of help. His ex-girlfriend Eve shelters him and sets out to prove his innocence. Peeta is taken hostage by the Capitol at the end of and held prisoner throughout most of. Charles Xavier is put through what could be considered an even worse hell in compared to the two previous films in the rebooted series. When Apocalypse manages to connect to him via Cerebro (only because Charles was appealing to Erik and didn't realise he was there) in order to set off the entire world's nuclear missiles, his great awe at Charles's mutant powers instantly turns into kidnapping and near-successful in his need to transfer his consciousness to him since Charles's powerful telepathic abilities would enable him to have access to everyone on the planet. Even a fight on the astral plane leaves Charles battered and bloodied due to Apocalypse's of him, at which point he calls on Jean to unleash the Phoenix Force to disintegrate the god-like mutant.: Pygar the angel is extremely ill-equipped to deal with the evil and insanity of the city of Sogo, leading to Barbarella having to save him a couple of times; from a group of Sogoites who want to shred his wings and stab him with a scythe, and from the Black Queen who holds him hostage and crucifies him.: We first meet Steve trapped in his sinking plane, rescued at the last second by Diana.

Then she has to save him a second time from her own people. It happens a third time in London when German soldiers try to steal back something he stole on his earlier mission. He's not useless in the slightest, but, yes, he needs a lot of saving.: Rambo gets captured by the bad guys and has to be rescued by his teammate. The video of the Brandon Flowers song - has the guy repeatedly rescued from ninjas by the female leader. In all fairness, most guys would probably be willing to be captured over and over if Charlize Theron is the one rescuing them. 's ' depicts a girl rescuing her boyfriend from a dungeon and slaying monsters along the way. The Presidents Of The USA song ', depicts a super-heroine ladybug rescuing her boyfriend from an evil centipede.

The music video for Miike Snow's ' has the hero captured and tied to a table a la James Bond.: In what may be the first recorded example of this trope, a central point of Ancient Egyptian religion is the rescue of Osiris by, after he's killed by his brother Set.: Prometheus, rescued by Hercules — eventually. This has featured in literature from (attributed to ) to Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. Stavr Godinovich from, a wealthy merchant and a bard. He offends court when he boasts that his wife is smarter than the Prince and all his nobles combined. Vladimir throws Stavr into a dungeon. And guess what, Stavr's wife soon tricks him back to freedom, outwitting Vladimir and all his nobles. After lost his job as general manager of, he tried to maintain his power in the company by having kidnap, hoping that in doing so they could control, who had just returned to his zombie.

On one edition of Impact, was jumped by masked men in black while in the parking lot and loaded into a van, which sped away. Kidnapped by ninjas after the commentators innocuously pointed out Joe wasn't returning anyone's calls in following weeks.

BJ Whitmer was captured and tortured by the roster during the promotion's war against. hired many masked men to kidnap in his final effort to continue The Age Of The Fall. This ended up being the end of The Age Of The Fall when, and came out to stop him.

During a most surreal Raw segment, ordered his cohorts Luke Gallows and Serena Deeb out into the audience in order capture Jared Fogal, Subway Sandwich spokesman, to force him into the after Fogal politely declined. In their effort to takeover TNA, once loaded unto the back of a pickup truck, though he got away on his own. and Seiya Sanada once kidnapped Manik straight from the Impact Zone, then took him to a shed in the backwoods in order to him. Seth Rollins once put retired wrestler atop cinder blocks on and threatened to hill him unless were reinstated.

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Easily create, build, and share your recipe collection. Make notes about your favorite wines; plan meals for a day or a week and then sync to iCal. Get the nutritional values of foods, recipes and individual servings by accessing the USDA database included in MacGourmet. Print out shopping lists or export them to your PDA. Find recipes online and add them to your collection using MacGourmet's intuitive features. Publish recipes to your blog or.mac account. Even use your family recipes to create a high-res PDF or your own professional-looking, bound cookbook.