Basic Trope: A character that villains target significantly more than anyone else.
- Straight: Princess Cherry finds herself being targeted by the Monster of the Week more so than any other member of her Five-Man Band.
- Exaggerated: Princess Cherry is literally the only person the Monster of the Week ever goes after.
- Downplayed: Princess Cherry is often considered a target, but it's pretty balanced overall.
- Justified:
- Princess Cherry is considered to be the biggest threat out of all the main protagonists, and thus getting rid of her would be more worthwhile.
- Princess Cherry is The Heart of the group, and the villains believe that, without her, the Five-Man Band will fall apart.
- Princess Cherry is the resident Butt-Monkey of the group, being kidnapped over and over again is just one of her many misfortunes.
- Princess Cherry is a Hostage MacGuffin.
- The monsters have Monster Misogyny or Mars Needs Women, and Cherry is the only woman in the group.
- Inverted: Princess Cherry is never targeted by the Monster of the Week, in contrast to everyone else in the Five-Man Band.
- Subverted: Princess Cherry appears to be frequently kidnapped by the Big Bad, but it turns out that this is so they can meet in private and carry out their passionate love affair.
- Double Subverted: It turns out that Cherry was being brainwashed into this affair, and thus the Big Bad is effectively raping her.
- Parodied: The villains form a "We All Hate Princess Cherry" alliance, and explicitly ignore everyone else in their attempts to capture her.
- Zig Zagged: Princess Cherry's Designated Victim status varies drastically at the writer's whim.
- Averted: Cherry is targeted more or less the same amount as everyone else.
- Enforced: The Producers insist that Cherry be put into danger every episode because that's what gets good ratings.
- Lampshaded:
- "Why do they always go after me?"
- "Who programmed me to go after the girl?"
- Invoked: Cherry is always going out of her way to get captured by the Monster of the Week, either to protect the others, or to provoke the heroes into action.
- Exploited:
- Cherry uses herself to bait a trap for the MotW.
- Cherry lets herself to be kidnapped in order to infiltrate the prison from within.
- Defied: Cherry takes self defense classes, and suddenly, the villains don't want to approach her anymore.
- Discussed: "Cherry has been kidnapped and being tied up, that's how her life always goes."
- Conversed: A viewer remarks that the heroes might as well let ditch Cherry, as her only "contribution" to the group is needing a lot of rescues.
- Deconstructed:
- Cherry is so sick of being targeted all the time that she grows tired of being good and does a Face–Heel Turn.
- Cherry becomes so preoccupied with her safety that she leaves the Five-Man Band to go in hiding.
- Cherry has been targeted so many times to the point the heros consider her no longer worth saving, they even urged the Big Bad to outright kill her.
- Cherry ends up letting the MotW kill her so she won't be a burden to the group any more.
- Reconstructed:
- Even after her Face–Heel Turn she's targeted just as much as ever, so she decides to return to being good once again.
- While in hiding, Cherry undergoes strenuous training to better handle her Designated Victim status. When getting back in action, she baits her enemies, then completely overwhelms them with her newfound abilities.
- Played For Laughs:
- Cherry reacts to her constant kidnappings with dry sarcasm.
Cherry: Yeah... a monster abducting me. Never Heard That One Before.- Cherry starts eating lots of garlic and bathing in dirt. If the villains are going to kidnap her, she might as well make it as unpleasant for them as possible.
- Played For Drama: Cherry angsts about her constant kidnappings: Why do the monsters always target her? Are the heroes truly okay with having to rescue her over and over, or are they actually sick of it and just pretending they're not because they don't want to hurt her feelings? Could she make their lives easier by leaving the Five-Man Band?
- Played for Drama: Cherry has been a victim of every Investigation cases which the suspect is yet a Big Bad to go after on every six cases of the same victim.
- Implied: Cherry was thought to be kidnapped every day but she actually wasn't.
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