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** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and averted in ''[[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 the first film]]'', especially in a scene where Robin Hood and his Merry Men try to "rescue" Fiona from the ogre they believe has kidnapped her, only to have her rebuff him and beat up all his men in a combination of styles from ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and ''Film/TheMatrix''.
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** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and averted in ''[[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 [[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 the first film]]'', film]], especially in a scene where Robin Hood and his Merry Men try to "rescue" Fiona from the ogre they believe has kidnapped her, only to have her rebuff him and beat up all his men in a combination of styles from ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and ''Film/TheMatrix''.
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* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', especially in a scene where Robin Hood and his Merry Men try to "rescue" Fiona from the ogre they believe has kidnapped her, only to have her rebuff him and beat up all his men in a combination of styles from ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and ''Film/TheMatrix''.
** And in ''Shrek Forever After'', where in an alternate universe where Shrek was never born and never came for her, Fiona eventually decided to rescue ''herself''.
** And in ''Shrek Forever After'', where in an alternate universe where Shrek was never born and never came for her, Fiona eventually decided to rescue ''herself''.
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** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and averted in''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', ''[[WesternAnimation/Shrek1 the first film]]'', especially in a scene where Robin Hood and his Merry Men try to "rescue" Fiona from the ogre they believe has kidnapped her, only to have her rebuff him and beat up all his men in a combination of styles from ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and ''Film/TheMatrix''.
**And in ''Shrek Forever After'', where In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', in an alternate universe where Shrek was never born and never came for her, Fiona eventually decided to rescue ''herself''.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', Andy purposely has Bo Peep play this role, so Woody could save her. [[SickeninglySweethearts Not that she minds]]...
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', Andy purposely has Bo Peep play this role, so Woody could save her. [[SickeninglySweethearts Not that she minds]]...
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** Parodied in Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}''.
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** Parodied in Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}''.''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''.
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** A more recent straight example would be [[spoiler: Kida]] from 2001's ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', who spends the last third of the film crystallized by the villain, and that her boyfriend and his teammates actually had to rescue her and change her back.
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** A more recent straight example would be [[spoiler: Kida]] from 2001's ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', who spends the last third of the film crystallized by the villain, and that her boyfriend and his teammates actually had to rescue her and change her back.
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* ''Anime/LupinIIITheColumbusFiles'' shows an example of Fujiko being a DamselInDistress ''and'' a {{Badass}}, but without being a BadassInDistress. During the opening, she loses her memory, and her entire personality changes. She's terrified of nearly everything, and everyone is a stranger to her. When she contributed to part of her rescue via pure Muscle Memory, that also terrifies her.
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* ''Anime/LupinIIITheColumbusFiles'' shows an example of Fujiko being a DamselInDistress ''and'' a {{Badass}}, badass, but without being a BadassInDistress. During the opening, she loses her memory, and her entire personality changes. She's terrified of nearly everything, and everyone is a stranger to her. When she contributed to part of her rescue via pure Muscle Memory, that also terrifies her.
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** Played straight at first but later subverted with Fiona in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'', who at first is helpless after Thelonius kidnaps her, but eventually gains the upper hand and beats him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': Dawn, being a {{Princess Classic}} is kidnapped by [[EvilOverLord The Bog King]] as a hostage to exchange for a stolen {{love potion}}.
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** A more recent straight example would be [[spoiler: Kida]] from 2001's ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', who spends the last third of the film crystallized by the villain, and that her boyfriend and his teammates actually had to rescue her and change her back.
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** A more recent straight example would be [[spoiler: Kida]] from 2001's ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', who spends the last third of the film crystallized by the villain, and that her boyfriend and his teammates actually had to rescue her and change her back.
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* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/HappilyNEverAfter'', in which The Prince (whose name is revealed to be Humperdink) is searching for one of these (or a lady in waiting or whatever else is a typical princess) and sounds excited that [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} Ella]] could be one of those things. When he asks if she's a damsel in distress, her response is "I will be. Kind of. At midnight". To say the least, Ella does more ass-kicking than servant boy Rick or Humperdink.
* Straight example in ''{{Hoodwinked}}'', where Red Puckett is BoundAndGagged and loaded into a tramway cabin filled with dynamite, and it's up to Granny to rescue her.
* Michelle, the little badger from ''OnceUponAForest'', inhales a poisonous gas and falls ill. Thus, it's up to her friends Edgar, Russel, and Abigail to find the herbs to heal her. Her damsel status stands in a bit of contrast to Abigail, an ActionGirl who fights an owl while trying to save her.
* Subverted with Odette from ''TheSwanPrincess''. Rothbart does have her under an enchantment that causes her to turn into a swan when moonlight leaves the lake by his castle in the morning and she needs Derek to break the enchantment, but she also turns down Rothbart's marriage proposals without a hint of remorse or fear even though she knows he's a powerful sorcerer and he ''killed'' her father. Also, she doesn't exactly wait for Derek to show up and does everything she can to try and let him know where she is and what he has to do.
* Straight example in ''{{Hoodwinked}}'', where Red Puckett is BoundAndGagged and loaded into a tramway cabin filled with dynamite, and it's up to Granny to rescue her.
* Michelle, the little badger from ''OnceUponAForest'', inhales a poisonous gas and falls ill. Thus, it's up to her friends Edgar, Russel, and Abigail to find the herbs to heal her. Her damsel status stands in a bit of contrast to Abigail, an ActionGirl who fights an owl while trying to save her.
* Subverted with Odette from ''TheSwanPrincess''. Rothbart does have her under an enchantment that causes her to turn into a swan when moonlight leaves the lake by his castle in the morning and she needs Derek to break the enchantment, but she also turns down Rothbart's marriage proposals without a hint of remorse or fear even though she knows he's a powerful sorcerer and he ''killed'' her father. Also, she doesn't exactly wait for Derek to show up and does everything she can to try and let him know where she is and what he has to do.
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* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/HappilyNEverAfter'', ''WesternAnimation/HappilyNeverAfter'', in which The Prince (whose name is revealed to be Humperdink) is searching for one of these (or a lady in waiting or whatever else is a typical princess) and sounds excited that [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} Ella]] could be one of those things. When he asks if she's a damsel in distress, her response is "I will be. Kind of. At midnight". To say the least, Ella does more ass-kicking than servant boy Rick or Humperdink.
* Straight example in''{{Hoodwinked}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'', where Red Puckett is BoundAndGagged and loaded into a tramway cabin filled with dynamite, and it's up to Granny to rescue her.
* Michelle, the little badger from''OnceUponAForest'', ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', inhales a poisonous gas and falls ill. Thus, it's up to her friends Edgar, Russel, and Abigail to find the herbs to heal her. Her damsel status stands in a bit of contrast to Abigail, an ActionGirl who fights an owl while trying to save her.
*Subverted with Odette from ''TheSwanPrincess''. Rothbart does have her ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' is under an enchantment by Rothbart that causes her to turn into a swan when moonlight leaves the lake by his castle in the morning and she needs Derek to break the enchantment, but she also turns down Rothbart's marriage proposals without a hint of remorse or fear even though she knows he's a powerful sorcerer and he ''killed'' her father. Also, she doesn't exactly wait for Derek to show up and does everything she can to try and let him know where she is and what he has to do.do.
* ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'': Murasaki, who twice found herself the target of kidnapping and/or traps. The first was when she was captured by a Fuma Ninja during her wedding, and demanded the MacGuffin in exchange for her life. The demand motivated Goemon and company to steal the vase and deliver it to the Fuma.
* ''Anime/LupinIIITheColumbusFiles'' shows an example of Fujiko being a DamselInDistress ''and'' a {{Badass}}, but without being a BadassInDistress. During the opening, she loses her memory, and her entire personality changes. She's terrified of nearly everything, and everyone is a stranger to her. When she contributed to part of her rescue via pure Muscle Memory, that also terrifies her.
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* ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy'': Murasaki, who twice found herself the target of kidnapping and/or traps. The first was when she was captured by a Fuma Ninja during her wedding, and demanded the MacGuffin in exchange for her life. The demand motivated Goemon and company to steal the vase and deliver it to the Fuma.
* ''Anime/LupinIIITheColumbusFiles'' shows an example of Fujiko being a DamselInDistress ''and'' a {{Badass}}, but without being a BadassInDistress. During the opening, she loses her memory, and her entire personality changes. She's terrified of nearly everything, and everyone is a stranger to her. When she contributed to part of her rescue via pure Muscle Memory, that also terrifies her.
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Cinderella was in no way ever a damsel, and the other two were physically unable to help themselves thanks to spells. Plenty of the newer heroines (ironically as they;re meant to be proactive and self-reliant) have damsel moments though.
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* Disney is rather infamous for this in their earlier princess movies (''Disney/SnowWhite'', ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', etc.).
** Aurora (sleeping beauty) has the excuse of being in a magical sleep at the time, though.
** Aurora (sleeping beauty) has the excuse of being in a magical sleep at the time, though.
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* Disney is rather infamous for this in their earlier princess movies (''Disney/SnowWhite'', ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', etc.).
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** Aurora (sleeping beauty) has the excuse of being in a magical sleep at the time, though.
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'''Megara:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments I'm a damsel... I'm in distress... I can handle this. Have a nice day.]]
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'''Megara:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I'm a damsel... I'm in distress... I can handle this. Have a nice day.]]
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* Played with in ''HappilyNEverAfter'', in which The Prince (whose name is revealed to be Humperdink) is searching for one of these (or a lady in waiting or whatever else is a typical princess) and sounds excited that [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} Ella]] could be one of those things. When he asks if she's a damsel in distress, her response is "I will be. Kind of. At midnight". To say the least, Ella does more ass-kicking than servant boy Rick or Humperdink.
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* Played with in ''HappilyNEverAfter'', ''WesternAnimation/HappilyNEverAfter'', in which The Prince (whose name is revealed to be Humperdink) is searching for one of these (or a lady in waiting or whatever else is a typical princess) and sounds excited that [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} Ella]] could be one of those things. When he asks if she's a damsel in distress, her response is "I will be. Kind of. At midnight". To say the least, Ella does more ass-kicking than servant boy Rick or Humperdink.
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* Subverted with Odette from ''TheSwanPrincess''. Rothbart does have her under an enchantment that causes her to turn into a swan when moonlight leaves the lake by his castle in the morning and she needs Derek to break the enchantment, but she also turns down Rothbart's marriage proposals without a hint of remorse or fear even though she knows he's a powerful sorcerer and he ''killed'' her father. Also, she doesn't exactly wait for Derek to show up and does everything she can to try and let him know where she is and what he has to do.
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* Straight example in ''{{Hoodwinked}}'', where Red Puckett is BoundAndGagged and loaded into a tramway cabin filled with dynamite, and it's up to Granny to rescue her.
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* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', especially in a scene where Robin Hood and his Merry Men try to "rescue" Fiona from the ogre they believe has kidnapped her, only to have her rebuff him and beat up all his men in a combination of styles from ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and ''Film/TheMatrix''.
** And in ''Shrek Forever After'', where in an alternate universe where Shrek was never born and never came for her, Fiona eventually decided to rescue ''herself''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', Andy purposely has Bo Peep play this role, so Woody could save her. [[SickeninglySweethearts Not that she minds]]...
* Disney is rather infamous for this in their earlier princess movies (''Disney/SnowWhite'', ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', etc.).
** Aurora (sleeping beauty) has the excuse of being in a magical sleep at the time, though.
** Parodied in Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}''.
--->'''Hercules:''' Aren't you a damsel in distress?\\
'''Megara:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I'm a damsel... I'm in distress... I can handle this. Have a nice day.]]
** A more recent straight example would be [[spoiler: Kida]] from 2001's ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', who spends the last third of the film crystallized by the villain, and that her boyfriend and his teammates actually had to rescue her and change her back.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'', when Akima is jettisoned into space, captured, and held to be sold into slavery. The rest of the crew undergoes a makeshift rescue operation, only to find out that she [[RedundantRescue successfully knocked out all]] of her captors and is patiently waiting to be picked up.
* Played with in ''HappilyNEverAfter'', in which The Prince (whose name is revealed to be Humperdink) is searching for one of these (or a lady in waiting or whatever else is a typical princess) and sounds excited that [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} Ella]] could be one of those things. When he asks if she's a damsel in distress, her response is "I will be. Kind of. At midnight". To say the least, Ella does more ass-kicking than servant boy Rick or Humperdink.
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** And in ''Shrek Forever After'', where in an alternate universe where Shrek was never born and never came for her, Fiona eventually decided to rescue ''herself''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', Andy purposely has Bo Peep play this role, so Woody could save her. [[SickeninglySweethearts Not that she minds]]...
* Disney is rather infamous for this in their earlier princess movies (''Disney/SnowWhite'', ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'', etc.).
** Aurora (sleeping beauty) has the excuse of being in a magical sleep at the time, though.
** Parodied in Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}''.
--->'''Hercules:''' Aren't you a damsel in distress?\\
'''Megara:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I'm a damsel... I'm in distress... I can handle this. Have a nice day.]]
** A more recent straight example would be [[spoiler: Kida]] from 2001's ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', who spends the last third of the film crystallized by the villain, and that her boyfriend and his teammates actually had to rescue her and change her back.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'', when Akima is jettisoned into space, captured, and held to be sold into slavery. The rest of the crew undergoes a makeshift rescue operation, only to find out that she [[RedundantRescue successfully knocked out all]] of her captors and is patiently waiting to be picked up.
* Played with in ''HappilyNEverAfter'', in which The Prince (whose name is revealed to be Humperdink) is searching for one of these (or a lady in waiting or whatever else is a typical princess) and sounds excited that [[Literature/{{Cinderella}} Ella]] could be one of those things. When he asks if she's a damsel in distress, her response is "I will be. Kind of. At midnight". To say the least, Ella does more ass-kicking than servant boy Rick or Humperdink.
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