History Main / BedouinRescueService

* ''Series/{{Branded}}'': In "Survival", [=McCord=] rescues a man named Colbee he finds near death in the ThirstyDesert and the pair strike out together to attempt to make the next town before their water runs out. Colbee a family man with a wife and daughter and his fear of not seeing them again forces him to steal the horse and water and leave Jason in the desert. After he collapse from dehydration, [=McCord=] is rescued by a elderly Navajo who takes him to the town so he can have his revenge on Colbee.

* In ''Literature/TheFarthestShore'', Ged is badly wounded and the heroes run out of water. They are stranded in the middle of the ocean, but fortunately, there is a tribe of [[OceanPunk nomadic raft dwellers]] who happen to pass nearby.

* In the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' episode ''The Singing Wire'', thanks to sabotage Luke and the telegraph workers he was escorting are stuck without water in the salt desert. Just when Luke is about to engage on a desperate suicide mission to find help they are found by a caravan of Mormons led by Joseph Smith himself. However this was no happenstance; Smith knew of their coming and decided to meet them halfway.

[[CrossingTheDesert Our heroes are in the desert]] [[ThirstyDesert without food or water]] for some reason. Maybe they are escaping from the BigBad, who has stolen their supplies. Maybe their vehicle broke down, and they had to abandon the water for some reason. Or maybe it's been a long trek under the glaring sun and the water is just spent.

[[CrossingTheDesert Our heroes are in the desert]] [[ThirstyDesert without food or water]] for some reason. Maybe the BigBad has stolen their supplies. Maybe their car needed repair, and they had to abandon the water for some reason. Or maybe the water is just spent.

This happens often enough that one may wonder whether dying people are a magnet for bedouins. Of course, a {{Doylist}} will point to the AnthropicPrinciple as an explanation.

If not in a desert, substitute: friendly NobleSavage natives on the American plains or in the jungle, Sherpas or Buddhist monks in the mountains, Aborigines in Australia, Inuit or Aleuts in the frozen north, or Bushmen in South Africa. In SpeculativeFiction, any FantasyCounterpartCulture for the above can fill in. Any of these groups may try to teach the hero something as he recovers. For shipwrecked people in the ocean, native fishermen or even [[DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere dolphins]] might pitch in.

When the bedouins or other firstcomers are actually just there to rob our heroes blind, they're DesertBandits.

Note that actual aloof, practical, eccentric but ultimately noble bedouins in modern settings have been supplanted in pop culture and the minds of western audience by Kalashnikov-waving insurgents or Mujahadeen, for however accurate or inaccurate that might be. Also, notice that this trope [[TruthInTelevision has its roots in real life]]; since in harsh environments a person never knows when they might fall in need of help, it is in society's interest to have such a code.

Anyway, our heroes have been walking for days without drinking a single drop. They faint and the screen turns to black. This is the end of our heroes, right?

Wrong: It turns out that our heroes were rescued by a traveling caravan and are now [[SacredHospitality safe again]].

* Happens to the photojournalist Rocky in the ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' manga after his helicopter is shot down.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', Tintin and Haddock are rescued by mounted police troops after falling unconscious in the Sahara desert.

* This happens to [[BadassAndChildDuo two characters]] in ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''. Just after they resign themselves to dying of thirst they are rescued by a caravan of Mormons heading [[TheWildWest west]] to Utah. [[OnceAcceptableTargets The evil Mormon leader however only agrees to help them if they convert to his religion.]]

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* The Seaponies of the original ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' cartoon do this with Applejack and Meghan, though not without first telling the plot to take five while they treat the duo to a DisneyAcidSequence. Applejack and Meghan are [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment just as confused as the audience]].

* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'': Bruce Banner was rescued in the Arabian desert at one point by a local sheik who then became [[CaptainEthnic the Arabian Knight]] almost as a side-effect of this.

* Towards the beginning of season 2 of ''Series/{{Tyrant}}'', Bassam is rescued by Bedouins after being dumped in the desert by Jamal.

* Subverted in ''Film/BranNuDae'', when the Aboriginal characters are ''dumped'' in the outback by their previously gullible marks, one of them uses "magic" to make their van break down. To the surprise of ''everyone''.

* Hilariously featured in ''Film/TheAdventuresofPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'': the three protagonists are stuck in the Outback after their bus breaks down on a cross-country trip. They're in the middle of rehearsing their drag show when one of them suddenly turns and notices an Aborigine called Alan watching them. They both scream, but Alan ends up helping them out.

* Played with in the ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' TieInNovel ''Scimitar''. Abandoned by his guide in the Arabian desert, Duncan MacLeod travels on, hoping to find the tribe of Bedouins he's searching for before he dies of thirst. He doesn't quite make it, but being Immortal, he revives none the worse for wear just as a band of tribesmen find him.

* TheAmazon equivalent happens in ''Film/{{Jungle}}'' when local fisherman pull Kevin's barely alive body out of the river and take him back to their village. Yossi is not so lucky and spends three weeks hacking his way through the jungle.

* In the CG animated movie of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin'', Tintin and Haddock crash land in the desert with a stolen plane and are forced to trudge through the blazing hot sand. They are later saved by a passing group of soldiers who were notified by Snowy's barking.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Classic adventure ''Duneraiders'' by Gamelords. The PlayerCharacters's orecrawler vehicle will be disabled or destroyed during the adventure, forcing them to travel through the desert to return to civilization. The referee (gamemaster) is ordered to have the PCs meet the title duneraiders (desert dwellers) so they can be rescued.