| 1 | * It can be argued that Anhura from the musical-in-album-form ''Music/RaziasShadow'' fits this trope. She argues against her father and seems to have the same sense of a greater destiny as Adakias, but she doesn't do anything about it except sit around singing wistfully (Adakias has his share of wistful singing, but he's much more proactive). She's first a damsel when [[spoiler: her father refuses to let her marry Adakias]], but Adakias rescues her by [[spoiler: eloping with her]]. This causes her to [[spoiler: grow ill]], and a third of the second act is therefore spent trying to [[spoiler: cure her illness]]. ''Then'' once they do, [[spoiler: Pallis bursts in]], and Adakias [[spoiler: sacrifices himself to save her when Pallis attempts to murder her]]. Depending what you think happened directly after the end of the song and before the narrator's epilogue, Anhura either [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn ends up with Pallis]]]], staying a damsel, just a rescued one, [[spoiler: fixes everything herself while Pallis retreats]], getting out of the trope, or [[spoiler: everything fixes itself without her help]], which keeps Anhura thoroughly useless and in this trope. |
| 2 | * Mentioned in Creator/WillSmith's song ''Film/WildWildWest'': |
| 3 | -->''Any damsel that's in distress\ |
| 4 | Be out of that dress when she meet Jim West'' |
| 5 | * "Music/HoldingOutForAHero" by Bonnie Tyler: Bonnie is quite the proverbial one in Western style in the music video, calling out to the angels for help and invoking them to send a KnightInShiningArmor to save her. |
| 6 | * Subverted in the video of ''Mean'' by Music/TaylorSwift. Taylor is shown [[ChainedToARailway tied up on railroad tracks]] by a [[DastardlyWhiplash villain]], who is all [[EvilGloating gloating]] over her predicament. Not long after, a friend of the villain's comes along, the two villains get {{dr|inkingOnDuty}}unk, fall asleep, after which Taylor simply gets out of her ropes and heads off. |
| 7 | * Sweet Sue in the movie-melodrama parody song "Along Came Jones" (sung by Music/RayStevens among others); she keeps getting menaced by [[DastardlyWhiplash Salty Sam]] and then rescued by the eponymous hero. |
| 8 | * Music/{{Aqua}}'s Lene occasionally becomes a damsel in their music videos. Sometimes she's the only one in distress ("My Oh My", [[DamselOutOfDistress until she subjugates her captors]]), other times her male compatriots [[DistressedDude share her fate]] ("Doctor Jones" and "Lollipop (Candyman)") |
| 9 | * Lampshaded in "Music/DoctorInDistress", a ProtestSong crying the 1985 decision to put ''Series/DoctorWho'' on hiatus for 18 months, with one of the lines being "Each screaming girl just hoped that a Yeti wouldn't shoot her".[[note]](Albeit there was actually only ''one'' "screaming girl" who encountered the Yeti, namely Victoria Waterfield, who accompanied Creator/PatrickTroughton's Doctor in both of the stories featuring it)[[/note]] |
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