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Defiant Captives in Anime and Manga.


  • Happened in the 2003 version of Astro Boy in the episode "Reviving Jumbo"; Astro's teacher, Miss Miyoki, gets kidnapped by Skunk's goons when they plan to use the titular giant robot to break him out of prison, and even Bound and Gagged, gives them quite a hard time of it.
  • Bleach:
    • Rukia's captivity began with her behaving aggressively towards Renji and smack-talking Ichigo when he came to rescue her. However, as her captivity draws on, she becomes more withdrawn and depressed and moves away from this trope completely, eventually resulting in her having a complete breakdown when Gin tricks her into believing he wants to rescue her.
    • Orihime also initially dealt boldly with captivity. She was able to talk down her Hollowfied older brother, stand up for herself and Tatsuki to Numb Chandelier and biting the 11th Division 10th seat when he tries to carry her away to his squad's barracks. This culminates her trying to outlast her captivity with the Arrancars by passively-aggressively accepting Ulquiorra's threats. However, as her captivity draws on, physical and emotional abuse against her begins to escalate and the abuse her friends undergo trying to save her gets worse, eventually culminating with her complete breakdown when Ulquiorra's threat level forces Ichigo into a monstrous form to try and save her.
  • Kallen from Code Geass resists Suzaku's attempts at forcing Zero's identity out of her when she's held captive, even when he threatens to inject her with Refrain.
  • Tsurugi Kyousuke from Inazuma Eleven.
    • In season 3 of GO, he is captured by enemy's planet and forced to marry their queen. He immediately refuses the offer right in front of the queen's face. Until he finds out the queen is not the Big Bad, and eventually agrees to help her saving her doomed planet.
    • In the first series (game only event), he is also taken away by SEED members from Academy Kaiou to receive his punishment for his betrayal. He shows the exact defiant to his captors.
  • Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha would find herself in captivity rather often in the earlier arcs, having not been trained in martial arts before she got Trapped in Another World. Nonetheless, she still managed to help Inuyasha out a lot and even talked back at her captors frequently. Then she Took a Level in Badass.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Relena, oh Relena Peacecraft. Sure, she can't fight as well as other girls, but she can talk her way out wonderfully and pulls more than one Go Through Me to defend her friends, her Kingdom, or her beliefs. She does this again in The Movie where she steals the villain's communications in order to encourage the Muggles to stop Holding Out for a Hero and do something themselves.
  • One Piece:
    • Franky in Enies Lobby. Even though his captor, Spandam, mocks him and his father figure and kicks him while he is tied up, Franky defies him thrice. First he bites him, then he nearly escapes with a Coup de Boo while tricking him, and then burns the blueprints of Pluton in front of his eyes, all but aware that the last one would get him thrown out of the top of the building he is in. Similarly, Robin, after she is inspired by the Straw Hats, succeeds at escaping Spandam's grasp twice, the second time even delaying him by biting the curb. Even beforehand, she talks back to him in a way that causes him to completely lose his cool.
    • Ace in Impel Down. He fought off a few Marines while in Seastone cuffs, and Warden Magellan had to subdue him himself.
    • Monkey D. Luffy and Eustass Kid are very defiant while imprisoned by Kaido in Wano. They talk back to the wardens and even attack them in self defense, or in Luffy's case to defend an old man he befriended. They do this even under the threat of bein dismembered or executed.
    • During the same arc, Nami falls foul of Ulti, one of Kaido's strongest fighters. While Nami has no qualms to beg to save her life, she will not insult Luffy her captain, in order to be spared. She defiantly tells Ulti to her face that Luffy will definitely become Pirate King, infuriating the other woman.
  • The Prince of Tennis: Little Miss Badass Miyuki Chitose is used as a hostage to force a recovering Tezuka into a hopeless tennis match with some arrogant Jerkasses. She decides to yell at her captors and challenge them to a match, despite suffering from the yips herself.
    Miyuki: Let go of me, you gorilla!
  • Kaoru Kamiya from Rurouni Kenshin. She talks back to Jin-e when he abducts her, later manages to undo her soon-to-be Cruel and Unusual Death by paralysis when it seems that Kenshin will fully unleash his Superpowered Evil Side and break his Thou Shall Not Kill vow solely to save her. Also, she does her best to handle herself when kidnapped by Enishi.
  • Iwai from The Severing Crime Edge is captured by the student council president of her school's high-school division. They torture her, but all she does is glare at them with eyes that say "I will not break". Unfortunately this defiance doesn't last very long once they use her love against her.
  • Princess Odette in Swan Lake (1981). Despite having been his prisoner for three years after he cursed her to be a swan, she continually refuses Rothbart's marriage proposals. It's only when Prince Siegfried's life is endangered that she finally gives in.
  • Asuna from Sword Art Online pretends to be cowed and helpless, just long enough to memorize her cell's passcode. The moment she has a chance, she breaks out and tries to find a control panel from which she can log out. Even when she's caught and nearly molested she manages to get and hide a card that grants admin status.
  • Nia Teppelin of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann will tell you she's not going to die. To your face. While you're shoving a pistol into her forehead. Or about to snap her in half with your claws. Or about to dematerialize her. She may not be able to fight you, but she will tell you to fuck off (very politely), because Simon's on his way, and that's a wave of pain you don't want to happen.


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