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A group of bad guys with a bone to pick have rounded up a group of [[Innocent Bystander
"Either [[The Hero|Captain Hero]] shows up to settle the score with us or these people get it! He has 15 minutes!"
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* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'', Lance Hunt AKA Captain Amazing is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, who knows exactly who he is. Everyone else doesn't, and thus [[Holding Out for a Hero|expects the Captain to come to his rescue.]]
* Averted in the ''[[Green Hornet]]'' film with Seth Rogen. In a move which seems unusually thoughtful for Rogen, Rogen has included a scene where Britt Reid specifically states that he will pretend to operate as a criminal for profit, so that his enemies will never think of taking innocent people as hostages or attacking innocent people to get his attention.
** Played almost straight in one of the radio dramas. "Straight" in that Britt had to don the Hornet's mask and trenchcoat, pretend he was cutting in on the kidnapping of Britt Reid, then (after gassing all the crooks) ditch the Hornet disguise and have Kato tie him back up so no one would suspect. "Almost" in that the crooks weren't trying to lure the Hornet
** Another near miss example, occurred on the TV show. A group of mobsters wanted Britt Reid kidnapped so they could intimidate him into calling off his newspaper's reports on their activities, as well as to extort a ransom for him. Of course, since as the Green Hornet, Reid pretended to operate as a criminal for profit, he appeared to these criminals as the Green Hornet and agreed to abduct Reid for them. The mobsters, of course, revealed to him the location of their base where they wanted him to deliver Reid. Reid had Kato drive the Black Beauty to this location and dump him out of it (obviously in his civilian guise). Kato then used the Black Beauty's weapons to assault the mobsters and played a previously made recording of Reid speaking in character as the Green Hornet, claiming he now wanted half of the ransom. Reid used the diversion, as planned, to contact the police, who came and arrested the mobsters. Again, the mobsters had a grudge against Britt, not the Hornet, or at least not until after he demanded half the ransom money.
* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight]]'', Bruce Wayne just barely manages to ''not'' be part of the hostages as he has just walked out of the room when the Joker comes in and takes the fundraiser party hostage. Though this time, the Joker is looking for Harvey Dent, and Wayne manages to knock Dent out and hide him before ducking into his panic room/back-up bat-cave and come back to the party as Batman.
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