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The trope is gender-neutral in itself but is almost AlwaysFemale for various reasons. Since MenAreTheExpendableGender, only a physically challenged man or a very young ChildSoldier could use it effectively. Otherwise, because women are on average less physically powerful than men in a direct battle, the effect is way more potent if a woman does it to motivate the troops she may or may not be a part of. The point being, the individual invoking this trope must be weaker than his comrades and not in charge, else it doesn't work.

* In the beginning of the WorldWarIII arc of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', [[LadyOfWar Second Princess Carissa]], who was leading British forces against the magicians of France, engaged in this, thinking the Knights of England weren't giving their all.

* In the first story arc of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', Kaname - realizing that the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Lambda Driver]] in Sousuke's new HumongousMecha works based on emotion - helps him get it to work by telling him that if he loses the battle, the villain will capture, rape, and torture her. Imagining it makes him angry and determined enough to activate the Lamdba Driver and win the fight.

The role of the [[DistressedDamsel helpless innocent victim]] is hard to combine with taking drastic action yourself. But it can be the perfect role if your goal is to let ''others'' take action: your plight may give them the adrenaline rush or whatever they need to take action and strike down your foes.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s backstory has this happen in the finale of the Battle of Terra. The Emperor is unwilling to hurt Horus because Horus is his favorite son, and he still [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight believes that he can be redeemed from what he's done.]] Horus rips off one of his arms and severely injures him, after already killing one of his "brothers", the primarch Sanguinius. One Imperium soldier (an ordinary human, temporarily retconned as one of the Emperor's bodyguards) tries to save the Emperor by attacking Horus, only to be obliterated with a glance. The Emperor takes this to mean that Horus is too far gone and destroys Horus' body, mind, and ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill soul.]]''

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* In the first story arc of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', Kaname - realizing that the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Lambda Driver]] in Sousuke's new HumongousMecha works based on emotion - helps him get it to work by telling him that if he loses the battle, the villain will capture, rape, and torture her. Imagining it makes him angry and determined enough to activate the Lamdba Driver and win the fight.

--> '''Carissa''': Oh, no. At this rate, those French bastards are going to capture me and then [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil gang rape me to death]].

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* The death of [[spoiler: Agent Coulson]] at Loki's hand in ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' rallies the heroes to stop their in-fighting and work as a team to ''avenge'' him. After Nick Fury shows them a blood-spattered TragicKeepsake and the heroes rush off to save the day, another agent points out how Fury invoked this trope with some FridgeLogic about how the departed comrade never kept that keepsake on his person so Fury must have taken it from his locker and put the blood on there intentionally.

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* In Dante's ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Divine Comedy]]'', Helen of Troy in hell can be interpreted as having been this trope in life, rather than the passive object of desire she was in ''Literature/TheIliad''. Dante gives her the full blame for the Trojan War, as if she got herself kidnapped by the Trojan prince on purpose in order to give her own nation an excuse to invade Troy.

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* Done in an interesting way in ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors''. [[spoiler: June]] acts more helpless than she really is in order to motivate Junpei into trying to protect her, [[spoiler: as well as to throw suspicion off of herself. Also, she's trying to get him to save her ''twice''. See TemporalParadox.]]

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Melissa takes the "warcry" part quite literally; when encountering a monster, she pulls a hysterical ScreamingWoman act -- to alert her super-powered boyfriend to come and handle the monster, which she knows he's capable of.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996'': A non-battle example in "Innocent Blood". Hulk was trapped under rubble, turning back into Bruce Banner, and affected by a faulty tranquilizer, which would kill him if he returned to human form before it wore off. To make him turn into the Hulk and save himself, Rick Jones pretended to be hurt and called for help.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "Michaelangelo Meets Bugman Again", the [[VillainOfTheWeek villain of the week]], the Swatter, an obvious ripoff of the Shredder, is causing destruction all over the city with his remote-controlled termites, and Michaelangelo tries to get Brick Bradley angry at the idea of April being in danger, which almost works, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero only for her to show up just in time before he can transform into Bugman]], but then [[HypocriticalHumor he gets angry anyway after she insults him for his white loincloth that is supposed to represent the ability to have inner peace]], and then he transforms into Bugman.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' plays with this trope. acknowledging that he's already a hundred years late when it comes to his role as the link between worlds, Aang agrees to work with an Earth Nation general in order to trigger the avatar state at will and face the firelord prematurely. Nothing works until said general made it seem as though he was burying Katara alive at which point Aang enters the state nigh instantly but we ultimately learn that if Aang dies while in the Avatar State the Avatar won't exist anymore.