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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
KD
Since: May, 2009
2025-05-02 11:19:58
Always a Bigger Fish + Out of the Frying Pan
Also consider Villainous Rescue if the monsters are villains rather than just, say, wild animals.
MrEintheMorning
(The New Guy)
2025-05-02 15:17:45
Out of the Frying Pan is what I'm looking for. Getting out of one dangerous situation right into another one. Thanks.

I'm not sure if this is Always a Bigger Fish, Hope Spot, or something else. Basically, our characters are being threatened by something or someone dangerous, and then an even bigger monster defeats the first one...only to then start menacing the characters itself.
Think Dennis being crushed by the Cyclops in the Spongebob Squarepants Movie. Then right after they "thank" him, he abducts them himself.