Damsel Fight-and-Flight Response: Difference between revisions

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* In the movie ''[[The Watcher (Filmfilm)|The Watcher]]'', the only person who bothered to fight back against David Allen Griffin (the [[Serial Killer]] and [[Keanu Reeves]]' character) was the homeless girl, who smacked him ''hard'' in the head with her boombox and runs. Unfortunately, just as according to this trope, it hardly fazes him much, and he's after her, managing to chase her down and kill her.

* Subverted in the remake of ''[[House of Wax (Film)|House of Wax]]''. {{spoiler|The heroine gets a hold of a baseball bat and smacks one of the killers down. It's set up to look like she'll run off like pretty much every other horror movie. But after a pause she continues to hit him until he dies. And then some.}}

* Happened to Lex's girlfriend in season 2 of ''[[Smallville (TV)|Smallville]]''.

* There's a ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'' episode where a [[DistressedDamsel Damselin Distress]], in the last third or quarter, decides to fight back against a pair of [[Siblings in Crime]] when she gets ahold of a knife. She manages to stab one repeatedly, then after a little baiting, waits for the other one in a tree, pouncing on him when he gets close, stabbing him twice in the back... then getting off of him and running away, with his bow and already pissed off, no less. Lucky for her the FBI arrived [[Just in Time]].

* An especially egregious instance is the first time Miaka gets cornered alone in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi (Manga)|Fushigi Yuugi]]''. When it dawns on her that she's in another world, away from any legal consequences for hooliganism, she proceeds to singlehandedly mop the floor with an entire street gang and nearly run away… Until one of them reaches up from the ground to [[Standard Female Grab Area|grab her ankle, paralyzing her]]. From that point on, she's Tamahome's [[Damsel in Distress]] par excellence.

* Parodied in the ''[[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]'' short "[[The Dover Boys]]," where [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]] [[Uncanny Valley Girl|Dora]] beats [[Dastardly Whiplash|Dan Backslide]] to a pulp [[Offhand Backhand|while calling for the Dover Boys to save her.]] Before long, [[Pity the Kidnapper|Dan Backslide is shouting for the Dover Boys to save]] ''[[Pity the Kidnapper|him.]]''

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