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* PoliticalHostage

* HypnotizeThePrincess

* KidnappersKFC: A kidnapper buys fast food for his hostages while fleeing the police.

^ TheTeamGetsCaptured : The Hero's Friends/Family/Allies are captured and it's up to the hero to save them.

** AlienAbducteesFightBack: When the captured human resists and tells the [=ETs=] to go screw themselves.

** BruceWayneHeldHostage: The hero's [[SecretIdentity civilian identity]] gets held hostage in a misguided attempt to draw the hero out from hiding.

** DamselOutOfDistress: When she decides to escape on her own without waiting for a hero to rescue her.
** DamselScrappy: A character who is disliked by audiences for always needing to be rescued.
** DecoyDamsel: When the "[[WoundedGazelleGambit distressed]]" damsel is actually just trying to lure the hero into a trap.
** DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: When she ''intentionally'' gets herself captured or into trouble.
** DragonsPreferPrincesses: A dragon has captured a princess, requiring a brave hero to save her.
** HypnotizeThePrincess
** SaveThePrincess

** AuthenticationByNewspaper

** BulletproofHumanShield: Grabbing someone as a living meat shield to force them to take the brunt of enemy attacks for you.

** ChangelingTale: [[TheFairFolk Fairy]] [[OurFairiesAreDifferent creatures]] abduct human babies and replace them with [[HumanDisguise disguised impostors]].

** KidnappedDoctor: A physician or other medical professional is kidnapped so they can be forced to treat someone's health problems.

** HumanTraffickers: These criminals often take live people in captivity, usually to sell them off as slaves.
** SexSlave: The abductee is captured for the purpose of being forced to have sex with their kidnapper, or to be sold into involuntary prostitution.
*** BreedingSlave: The captive victim is forced to have sex with their abductor in order to produce children.

** LimaSyndrome: The {{invers|ion}}e of the above; when the captor starts to sympathize with their captive.
** AMatchMadeInStockholm: When both sides of the kidnapping develop Stockholm/Lima syndrome to the point that they fall in love with each other.

** DecoyDamsel
** DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel

* GoGoEnslavement: Forcing captives to act as exotic dancers.

* HostageSituation: The bad guys take people as hostages to use them as bargaining chips.

* KidnappedDoctor

* KidnappedScientist

* LockedUpAndLeftBehind: When the kidnapper [[LeftForDead leaves the hostage to die]] and locks them up.

* AbductionIsLove

* ILied

* PrisonerExchange: Captors release their hostage in exchange for the freedom of one of their own people who was also captured by their enemies.

* StopOrIShootMyself

* AlienAbduction: Humans getting kidnapped by extraterrestrial beings.
** AlienAbducteesFightBack

* CaptiveAudience

* PityTheKidnapper

* PregnantHostage

* BagOfKidnapping

* TheCaptivityNarrative

* ChangelingTale

* HostageSituation

* HostageVideo

** BulletproofHumanShield
* HypnotizeThePrincess

* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Kidnapping young children.

* SaveThePrincess

** AMatchMadeInStockholm

* FakedKidnapping

** LimaSyndrome: The inverse of the above; when a kidnapper starts to sympathize with their hostage.

* BruceWayneHeldHostage: The hero's civilian identity gets held hostage in a misguided attempt to draw the hero from hiding.

* BadassInDistress: A {{badass|Tropes}} character who would normally be able to defend themselves still gets captivated by the enemy anyways.

* BadassInDistress

* DamselInDistress: A female character whose main purpose is to get in trouble so the hero can save her.
* DamselScrappy: A character who is disliked by audiences for always needing to be rescued.
* DecoyDamsel

* DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel

* DistressedDude: A male character is held prisoner.
* DragonsPreferPrincesses: A dragon has captured a princess, requiring a brave hero to save her.

* HumanShield

* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers

* LimaSyndrome

* AMatchMadeInStockholm

* RecklessSidekick

* RoguishRomani

* StockholmSyndrome

* DragonsPreferPrincesses: Rescuing princess from dragons.

'''Categories:'''
+ EscapeTropes
+ IndexToTheRescue
+ ARestrainedIndex

* MadeASlave: A victim is abducted with the sole intention of being forced to work, unwillingly and likely with the threat of violence, for the kidnapper.
** SexSlave: A person is enslaved for the purpose of having sex.
*** BreedingSlave: The slave is forced to have sex with the one enslaving them in order to produce children.

* BreedingSlave: The slave is forced to have sex with the one enslaving them in order to produce children.

* SexSlave: A person is enslaved for the purpose of having sex.

+ IndexToTheRescue

* PrisonerExchange

* AlienAbducteesFightBack

+ PrisonTropes
+ SealedIndexInACan