Index to The Rescue

The index of tropes about rescues: the types that exist, the ways they're enacted, and and the ways they can go awry.

You'll also see tropes about rescuers, those dashing heroic types doing all the hard saving work, as well as the bothersome rescuees (or their more grammatical equivalents) who got themselves In Harms Way in the first place.

For our purposes, a rescue is a situation in which a character in danger is saved from it by another character. A Badass in Distress who saves herself with no help doesn't count. Neither does the escape of a Distressed Dude after the Villains are suddenly crushed by a falling bridge--unless The Hero deliberately toppled that bridge as a Conveniently Timed Attack From Behind.

Often overlaps with Just in Time, since the Big Damn Heroes swooping in at the last minute is dramatic. However, a rescue doesn't have to be last minute, and doom averted in the nick of time isn't always a rescue.

Contrast I Have Your Index.

Compare: Contrast:
 * Just in Time
 * The Index Team
 * I Have Your Index


 * Always a Bigger Fish
 * Summon Bigger Fish
 * Always Save the Girl
 * America Saves the Day
 * Badass in Distress
 * Bedouin Rescue Service
 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Breaking Out the Boss
 * Burning Building Rescue
 * Catch a Falling Star
 * Cat Up a Tree
 * The Cavalry
 * Chain of People
 * Changed My Mind Kid
 * Come With Me If You Want to Live
 * Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
 * Conveniently Timed Attack From Behind
 * Dead Ex Machina
 * Deus Ex Machina
 * Distress Ball
 * Distressed Damsel
 * Distressed Dude
 * Diving Save
 * Embarrassing Rescue
 * Firemans Safety Net
 * Gunship Rescue
 * Hands Off My Fluffy
 * Hanging By the Fingers
 * Heroic Fire Rescue
 * I Was Just Passing Through
 * Jump Ill Catch You
 * Just Whistle
 * Last Minute Reprieve
 * No One Gets Left Behind
 * Not the Fall That Kills You
 * Giant Robot Hands Save Lives
 * Orphean Rescue
 * Parents in Distress
 * Passive Rescue
 * Protected By a Child
 * Redundant Rescue
 * Rescue Arc
 * Rescue Introduction
 * Rescue Romance
 * Rescue Sex
 * Roaring Rampage of Rescue
 * Save the Villain
 * She Will Come for Me
 * Stab the Scorpion
 * Take My Hand
 * Terrifying Rescuer
 * Unwanted Rescue
 * Villainous Rescue
 * What Kept You

Meta-Examples:

 * Network to The Rescue
 * Rescued From the Scrappy Heap