History Main / UnwantedRescue

* In ''Webcomic/PrincessPrincess'', the two eponymous princesses come across a prince who obviously needs help, but doesn't want to be rescued by women.

* Lieutenant Dan Taylor in ''Film/ForrestGump'', as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jYcmJNYIMw this video]] will show.

Whatever reason, the "victim" is severely pissed off at the unwanted heroes who are left [[DudeWheresMyReward stunned by their ungratefulness]]. [[DownerEnding No one goes home happy this time]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'': During the "Diary of Adam & Eve" segment, Eve falls into a pond and after getting "strangled" by the water, she concludes that the fish are also uncomfortable and takes them out. As Adam notes, the fish aren't much happier on dry land, "only quieter."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' has Oliver Sansweet, who sues Mr. Incredible for foiling his suicide attempt.

** Followed by a class-action lawsuit by the passengers of a train that Mr. Incredible stopped from falling off the rails by jumping in its way, causing several injuries from the sudden stop. And then a spree of lawsuits by other rescuees against their rescuers that results in all the world's superheroes hanging up their capes for fifteen years.

* In ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'', a MadScientist doctor accidentally kills his girlfriend in a car accident. He takes her [[BrainInAJar decapitated head and revives it]], but she is none too happy about the situation and begs for death.

** When the Straw Hats go to save [[BrokenBird Robin]] after she decides to surrender to the World Government, she not only complains, she uses [[MultiarmedAndDangerous her powers]] violently on her comrade Usopp to make him and all the other Straw Hats understand that she [[DeathSeeker wants to die]]. However, it turns out her resistance is due to two major reasons. One, she's afraid of the Straw Hats being wiped out in their effort to save her, and two, she fears that if she stays with them, they'll eventually betray her like everyone who took her in since she was eightd did. Only when they go ''all in'' and declare war on the World Government itself does she realize there is no way back for them, and that they'll never betray her. She then gives them the green light to save her, and it becomes a HappilyFailedSuicide.

** When the Straw Hats go to save [[BrokenBird Robin]] after she decides to surrender to the World Government, she not only complains, she uses [[MultiarmedAndDangerous her powers]] violently on her comrade Usopp to make him and all the other Straw Hats understand that she [[DeathSeeker wants to die]]. However, it turns out her resistance is because she's afraid of the Straw Hats being wiped out in their effort to save her—only when they go ''all in'' and declare war on the World Government itself does she realize there is no way back for them. She then gives them the green light to save her, and it becomes a HappilyFailedSuicide.

* A 'misunderstanding' example in the third season ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode" One Life to Lose", where Castle believes his mother is being threatened with a knife by the man he believes is the murderer. When he and Beckett burst in on them, though, it turns out the knife the suspect was holding was only a plastic prop, and they were acting out a scene. (Castle's mother picked out a suitable apology in a catalog later that night.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Inhuman Torch," Fry resists being rescued by Bender from the burning Planet Express building because he suspects him of having [[EngineeredHeroics started the fire in the first place]]. Bender resorts to a CrisisCatchAndCarry.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Cyborg is accidentally sent back in time and befriends some medieval villagers. He agrees to help them defend their town against invading monsters, but gets brought back to the present by Raven the moment the battle begins. As soon as he arrives home, the first thing he does is yell at the team to send him back. [[spoiler: He feels better, though, once he sees a history book and learns that the villagers won the battle.]]

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* ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith''. After Darth Vader is swept away by a GiantWallOfWateryDoom, the Inquisitors commandeer a submarine and go after him. Vader however just wants so know if they've found the Jedi they're hunting, because if they haven't then they should not have wasted time coming after him.

* ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith''. After Darth Vader is swept away by a GiantWallOfWateryDoom, the Inquisitorius commandeer a submarine and go after him. Vader however just wants so know if they've found the Jedi they're hunting, because if they haven't then they should not have wasted time coming after him.

* ''Literature/BlottOnTheLandscape'': On the night of Lady Maud's attempted seduction of Dundridge, her adoring gardener Blott mistakes her laughter for cries of distress, and rushes over with his shotgun and [[PyjamaCladHero bedroom slippers]] to defend her. He finds her alone, unharmed and in danger of nothing except [[NakedPeopleAreFunny getting cold]]. She gives him a rather haughty dressing-down and sends him off.

* The rescuer is actually a villain, and they are oblivious to that fact. The captor is actually heroic, and the captive knows this, which is why they are siding with them to begin with. The villain just has skewed ideas of who is good and bad, so, by trying to be "heroic," they show their true colors as they horrible person that they are.