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'''She Will Come for Me:''' Bob the DistressedDude is kidnapped by the BigBad, who gloats that Bob's rescue is impossible since NothingCanStopUsNow. But Bob has faith in [[TheHero Alice]] and says that "She Will Come For Me" in the face of danger. Sure enough, Alice shows up JustInTime for a BigDamnHeroes rescue, vindicating Bob's faith. Cue a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment]] and Bob likely declaring "I knew you'd come back!" or [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike "It took you long enough!"]]

'''She Won't Come for Me:''' Bob the DistressedDude is kidnapped by the BigBad, who plans to lure [[TheHero Alice]] into a trap by telling her [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Bob]]. But maybe Alice is a {{Jerkass}} DesignatedHero who's made it clear she thinks Bob is TheLoad. Or maybe Bob is TheAtoner who's spun the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor so many times he doesn't think that he deserves to be saved. Either way, Bob declares that he's useless as a hostage since She Won't Come For Me. Cue a double [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment]] and Bob's shock when Alice [[ChangedMyMindKid shows up anyway]] for a BigDamnHeroes rescue, proving that Alice is really a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and that Bob does have people who care about him.

A guaranteed {{Tearjerker}} is to [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this trope: a Distressed Designee believing that They Will Come For Me when TheHero ''doesn't'' come or [[YouAreTooLate arrives much too late]], turning the whole thing into a cruel HopeSpot with the Distressed Designee often DyingAlone. There may be versions where TheHero doesn't come and the Distressed Designee didn't expect them to, but expect that variation to be [[ShootTheShaggyDog pointless and depressing]].

--->'''Buttercup:''' ''(hearing the sounds of fighting)'' Here comes my Westley now.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Film/SupermanReturns'':

-->'''Spike:''' ''(whispering)'' [[SurvivalMantra She will come for me... She will come for me... She will come for me...]]

--> '''Cyberman!Bill''':[[AC: i. waited. for. you.]]

* ''Film/MortalKombat'': Sonya Blade shows that she has learned to overcome her reluctance to rely on others when she refuses Shang Tsung's challenge to the final battle (it's a MortonsFork: if she refuses, Earth forfeits and loses, but she has no hope of defeating Shang Tsung, so if she accepts, Earth loses anyway), instead holding out for her friends (including Liu Kang, who ''does'' have a chance against Shang Tsung) to come for her.

** Spike says it repeatedly over the Season 7 episodes "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E10BringOnTheNight}} Bring on the Night]]" and "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E11Showtime}} Showtime]]".

* ''Series/{{Teen Wolf}}'' has a non-romantic variant. When Stiles is captured by the werewolf hunters, he tells them that Scott will come for him.

* In ''VideoGame/FatalFrame 2'', a flashback to [[BigBad Sae]] and Yae's attempted escape from the village shows Sae thinking this while she is in captivity.

--> Cyberman!Bill:[[AC: I. WAITED. FOR. YOU.]]

** Subverted in "World Enough and me"

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* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. Agent Madani tries to convince Dr. Dumont that her boyfriend Billy Russo abandoned her, and [[TimeDelayedDeath will soon be dead anyway]]. Dumont is confident that Russo is [[MadeOfIron strong enough to survive anything]], and when he does he'll come back for her. Unfortunately for her, RealityEnsues once Frank Castle catches up with Russo which he does shortly afterwards.

A Rescue Trope with the {{Distressed Damsel}}/Dude invoking the likelihood of rescue by a specific person or small group. She Will Come for Me is the most basic version, followed by variations. The Distressed Damsel/Dude has usually been kidnapped, but that's not required — they can fall down a well, be waiting for the Hero at a rendezvous point, whatever, and the principle is the same.

A Rescue Trope with the [[Distressed Damsel]]/Dude invoking the likelihood of rescue by a specific person or small group. She Will Come for Me is the most basic version, followed by variations. The Distressed Damsel/Dude has usually been kidnapped, but that's not required — they can fall down a well, be waiting for the Hero at a rendezvous point, whatever, and the principle is the same.

A Rescue Trope with the Distressed Damsel/Dude invoking the likelihood of rescue by a specific person or small group. She Will Come for Me is the most basic version, followed by variations.
The Distressed Damsel/Dude has usually been kidnapped but that's not required--they can fall down a well, be waiting for the Hero at a rendezvous point, whatever, and the principle is the same.

Like ConscienceMakesYouGoBack MUST contain the rescuer characters "stopping on their way and realizing they have to (go back to the rescue)," '''She Will/Won't Come For Me MUST contain the Distressed characters invoking the likelihood of rescue by someone specific''': they will argue about it with the Bad Guy, discuss it with their fellow Distressed Designees, or even just think about it in their internal monologue. She Will/Won't Come For Me can overlap with ChangedMyMindKid when it focuses on the Kid's expectation of whether the Changing Of Mind will occur.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Used to great effect when [[spoiler:Rachel and Harvey]] are kidnapped. It turns into a HopeSpot by playing straight [[spoiler:Rachel's faith to the last second that Batman Will Come For Us]], but subverting the BigDamnHeroes moment expected to follow. That juxtaposition is what makes it so sad. Even better, [[spoiler: Rachel ''knows'' that Batman is coming to save her, but he's not because the Joker, being savvy enough to know Batman will save Rachel instead of Harvey, switches up the addresses. So Batman saves Harvey instead.]]
* ''Film/PitchBlack'': Jack says "He's not coming back, is he?" when [[spoiler:Riddick leaves Jack and Imam in the cave]]. [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]] when [[spoiler:Riddick WAS going to leave them to die, but Fry convinces him otherwise. Their return prompts Jack to say, "Never had a doubt!"]]

** Of course in the end, Westley doesn't show up on time, causing Buttercup to almost have a HeroicBSOD: "He didn't come..." Then he shows up after all, late for the wedding but JustInTime to face Humperdinck in the bedroom.

-->'''Lois:''' Superman will stop y--

* ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'': Enola is kidnapped by evil smokers, who taunt her that the surly Mariner won't rescue her: "He's not here. And he ain't coming. And no one's gonna save you." Enola retorts that "He'll Come For Me, he will," and gives a speech about the Mariner being a MemeticBadass who will kill them all in their sleep. [[spoiler:Of course the Mariner shows up and blows the smokers' base sky-high to save Enola, because [[PowerOfFriendship "She's my friend."]]]]

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice,'' Jerin Whistler has nearly thirty sisters, and [[spoiler: is married to five adult wives]]. When he is kidnapped, he is very certain that at the very least a couple of them will come to his rescue. His only angst is about being DefiledForever before this happens.

* Subverted in the ''[[Franchise/BattletechExpandedUniverse [=BattleTech=]]]'' novel ''Bred for War''. Not only does the "hero" of the [[spoiler:Zurich]] subplot not come for [[spoiler:his girlfriend, who honestly believed he would]], it turns out that [[spoiler:he never intended to and instead purposefully sacrificed her to distract his enemies' attention long enough for him to take them out as he'd planned to all along.]]

** Inverted when Khat is [[spoiler:abducted by Lushan's thugs]]—he is rescued ([[OutOfTheFryingPan sort of]]) by Sagai, whom he had explicitly told ''not'' to come after him.

* Towards the end of ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', Elizabeth ends up getting re-captured by the Songbird and taken back to her father. Booker immediately gives chase, intent on rescuing her... [[spoiler: only for trans-dimensional hijinks to transport him to a reality where the BadFuture results of Elizabeth's capture play out: this version of Elizabeth spent months, possibly even years, insisting that Booker would eventually come for her and enduring every possible torture Comstock could devise for her in the meantime. Unknown to her, this version of Booker was killed by Songbird before he could reach her; because of this, she eventually came to believe that Booker had abandoned her and [[TheBadGuyWins gave in to her father's demands]], becoming his successor ''and'' ApocalypseMaiden. Worse still, it turns out that this sequence of events ''keeps playing out'' across dimensions - and the very reason why the PlayerCharacter edition of Booker ended up getting transported to this reality in the first place was so that BadFuture!Elizabeth could give him a means of stopping Songbird.]]
* During the CliffHanger ending to ''VideoGame/WindChildBlack'', Alexia is imprisoned by Commander Set for aiding the Black Knight (all she did was survive his attack on a fortress), she defiantly says that her friends will break her out. She's crushed when Set informs her that her friends were all killed when the Black Knight attacked their airship. [[spoiler: Luckily, they all survived, but they're stranded with no way of getting to her until the sequel gets released.]]
* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' [[spoiler: Jack the Ripper DLC, when Jacob realizes he can't stop Jack and that he's Jack's target, he writes to his sister Evie and summons her back from India to save not only him, but the London Assassins and London itself.]]

* In ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany'', as Sal is being hauled off for execution she begins fretting. [[DarkActionGirl Sue]] tells her to cut the act, saying she knows Sal is expecting [[TrueCompanions the pirates]] to save her. Sue is partially right. Sal knows the pirates will try, but she [[AwesomeByAnalysis calculated]] the odds of their success. [[DespairEventHorizon It was 0%]]. [[spoiler: She's fretting because she made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with General Izor]] to spare them.]]
* In ''Webcomic/LsEmpire,'' Timpani is confident that her husband will come rescue her after she's kidnapped by the Pixl Queen's army, saying that they have no idea how far he'd go for her (for those not in the know, [[VideoGame/SuperPaperMario the last time she disappeared]] he went on a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum when he couldn't find her.) Subverted since Indx didn't let him come along and demanded he get some therapy after having ''another'' SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum. Timpani is rescued, but it was [[spoiler: Daisy (who had also been kidnapped)]] that rescued her.

'''She Will Come For Me:''' Bob the DistressedDude is kidnapped by the BigBad, who gloats that Bob's rescue is impossible since NothingCanStopUsNow. But Bob has faith in [[TheHero Alice]] and says that "She Will Come For Me" in the face of danger. Sure enough, Alice shows up JustInTime for a BigDamnHeroes rescue, vindicating Bob's faith. Cue a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment]] and Bob likely declaring "I knew you'd come back!" or [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike "It took you long enough!"]]

'''She Won't Come For Me:''' Bob the DistressedDude is kidnapped by the BigBad, who plans to lure [[TheHero Alice]] into a trap by telling her [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Bob]]. But maybe Alice is a {{Jerkass}} DesignatedHero who's made it clear she thinks Bob is TheLoad. Or maybe Bob is TheAtoner who's spun the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor so many times he doesn't think that he deserves to be saved. Either way, Bob declares that he's useless as a hostage since She Won't Come For Me. Cue a double [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment]] and Bob's shock when Alice [[ChangedMyMindKid shows up anyway]] for a BigDamnHeroes rescue, proving that Alice is really a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and that Bob does have people who care about him.

A Rescue Trope with the Distressed Damsel/Dude invoking the likelihood of rescue by a specific person or small group. She Will Come For Me is the most basic version, followed by variations.

* In''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' [[spoiler: Jack the Ripper DLC, when Jacob realizes he can't stop Jack and that he's Jack's target, he writes to his sister Evie and summons her back from India to save not only him, but the London Assassins and London itself.]]

'''She Won't Come For Me:''' Bob the DistressedDude is kidnapped by the BigBad, who plans to lure [[TheHero Alice]] into a trap by telling her [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Bob]]. But maybe Alice is a {{Jerkass}} DesignatedHero who's made it clear she thinks Bob is TheLoad. Or maybe Bob is TheAtoner who's spun the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor so many times he doesn't think that he deserves to be saved. Either way, Bob declares that he's useless as a hostage, since She Won't Come For Me. Cue a double [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming moment]] and Bob's shock when Alice [[ChangedMyMindKid shows up anyway]] for a BigDamnHeroes rescue, proving that Alice is really a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and that Bob does have people who care about him.

* ''Manga/{{Togari}}'': The first time Itsuki is held hostage to threaten Tobe, [[YouCanKeepHer Tobe couldn't care less about her]]. The second time, [[http://i54.tinypic.com/r76r2b.jpg the now-cynical Itsuki]] is [[http://i54.tinypic.com/2qd9xj7.jpg openly scornful]] of her kidnapper, since of course Tobe Won't Come For Her. [[spoiler:And of course Tobe comes to the rescue, thanks to CharacterDevelopment]]. An excellent example of this trope, and explicitly a CallBack.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Used to great effect when [[spoiler:Rachel and Harvey]] are kidnapped. It turns into a HopeSpot by playing straight [[spoiler:Rachel's faith to the last second that Batman Will Come For Us]], but subverting the BigDamnHeroes moment expected to follow. That juxtaposition is what makes it so sad. Even better, [[spoiler: Rachel ''knows'' that Batman is coming to save her, but he's not, because the Joker, being savvy enough to know Batman will save Rachel instead of Harvey, switches up the addresses. So Batman saves Harvey instead.]]

* Sparhawk, the Queen's Champion, spends the first two and a third books of the ''Literature/{{Elenium}}'' searching for what's needed to save Queen Ehlana from a fatal poisoning; she's being sustained by magic. The first thing she says, when she's finally able to speak to him, is that she knew he would come. They haven't seen each other since she was ''eight'', making her faith in him rather impressive.

** "[[Recap/TheATeamS3E22Bounty Bounty]]": An example which involves the hero talking to another hero and not to the villain. While at Kelly's, Murdock keeps fiddling with the radio, trying to find the transmission the others will probably use to locate him. Kelly says that he should relax and that they'll find him, and Murdock replies that he knows.

* Disney's ''Disney/PeterPan'': Wendy assures the boys that "Peter Pan will save us" from Captain Hook, who then explains to her his plan to kill him with a TimeBomb. [[spoiler:It should probably come as no surprise that Pan survives the blast (thanks to Tinkerbell, who was tricked into helping him in this evil scheme, saving his life at the near cost of her own) and comes to the rescue.]]

The Distressed Damsel/Dude has usually been kidnapped but that's not required--s/he can fall down a well, be waiting for the Hero at a rendezvous point, whatever, and the principle is the same.

A guaranteed {{Tearjerker}} is to [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this trope: a Distressed Designee believing that S/He Will Come For Me when TheHero ''doesn't'' come or [[YouAreTooLate arrives much too late]], turning the whole thing into a cruel HopeSpot with the Distressed Designee often DyingAlone. There may be versions where TheHero doesn't come and the Distressed Designee didn't expect them to, but expect that variation to be [[ShootTheShaggyDog pointless and depressing]].

-->'''[[spoiler:The First Evil (taking the form of Buffy):]]'' ... No I won't.

* Disney's ''Disney/PeterPan'': Wendy assures the boys that "Peter Pan will save us" from Captain Hook, who then explains to her his plan to kill him with a TimeBomb. [[spoiler:It should probably come as no surprise that Pan survives the blast and comes to the rescue.]]

* Chase Meridian makes a comment about Batman coming to save her in ''Film/BatmanForever''. Riddler replies that he's counting on it.

* ''Film/MortalKombat'': Sonya Blade shows that she has learned to overcome her reluctance to rely on others when she refuses Shan Tsung's challenge to the final battle (it's a MortonsFork: if she refuses, Earth forfeits and loses, but she has no hope of defeating Shan Tsung, so if she accepts, Earth loses anyway), instead holding out for her friends (including Lue Kang, who ''does'' have a chance against Shan Tsung) to come for her.

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'': Catwoman once held Batgirl captive to lure Batman out of the way. Batgirl said he'd not save her because stopping Catwoman would be a priority. Batman [[TakeAThirdOption sent somebody else to rescue Batgirl]].