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Gus: Your annoyances may vary.

Seth: Wow indexy

Ununnilium: Took out the Faux Action Girl link, because Peach is really the opposite of that — she's a Distressed Damsel who can temporarily transform into a true Action Girl if the game creators decide they need a playable female character from the Super Mario Bros franchise. It's weird.

Scrounge: I've come to the conclusion that Peach just likes being rescued. There's probably some sort of technical name for it, some variety of complex or the other, but in a nutshell? She's there waiting calmly at the end of the gam because she knows that she can fend for herself if she has to, but she'd feel much better letting Mario sweep her off her feet and carry her off into the sunset. Seriously, what other explanation is there?

Lale: Call her a Genre Savvy Neutral Female.

Bob La Rice: "Doesn't work as well if the audience has grown annoyed by the character and doesn't mind her dying (Fred on Angel, episode "Shells"), " Boooooo.

Chris X: Shouldn't Ion be placed in James Bondage, considering... well... he's a guy? He's really girly, I know, but he's still a guy.

So It Begins: Funny, but everyone seems to forget the subversion where the villain pretends to be a Damsel In Distress.

Nerem: Editted out the Lamia Loveless example, because that's an example of Brainwashed And Crazy, with a heaping helping of her being a huge pain to fight. She is in no way distressed or a damsel, and she rescues herself both times, with minimal help.

• Chris X: Again I ask... WHEN? First time, Kyosuke pulled her out. Second time, Axel pulled her out. Minimal Help Indeed. And maybe it's just this experience, but she was NEVER a pain to fight against.

Moved the Ion and Richter Belmont examples to the James Bondage page.

Cromage: Changed the Die Hard and Pirates Of The Caribbean examples, which aren't really subversions so much as straight examples that have been updated to "modern" tastes. Lucy and first-movie Elizabeth still play the role of damsel-in-distress, even if they don't like it.

Chris X: Further more... I suppose being just Brainwashed And Crazy and needs to be rescued DOES count as a distress. If Richter becomes counted as James Bondage when all he does was getting Brainwashed And Crazy by Dracula's followers, Lamia should've counted as well. It's practically the SAME THING.

So, if there is no protest so far, I shall re-add Lamia. If you want to delete it again, be sure to remove Richter from the James Bondage entry, because apparently, being Brainwashed And Crazy and urges your friend to save you does not count being a Distressed Damsel or James Bondage.

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Johnny E: Is there a reason Damsel In Distress isn't the main title? I don't see how Distressed Damsel is a better title, and not just different for difference's sake.

Reecer6: I lean more towards the title being The Peach. Because Princess Peach is the queen of Damsels in Distress.

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Dragon Quest Z: I changed the picture because it doesn't really show the trope that much. Not that the character isn't an example, just the picture doesn't show the concept that well. But I am keeping it here if someone finds a page it does fit.