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Well, in this case, she actually is.
While this character may look like a [[Damsel Scrappy]] at first glance, she's actually using [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. Whether she's pulling a [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]], playing [[Gambit Roulette]], or just into [[Too Kinky to Torture|this]] [[Fetish|sort]] [[Bound and Gagged|of]] [[Casual Kink|thing,]] she doesn't get captured because she's weak, she gets captured because she wants to. She may even [[What Kept You?|have the skills]] [[Hidden Badass|to get out of the scrape she's in herself]] if she wanted to. If this is the case, expect her to say [[Let's Get Dangerous]] at some point.
If she's getting captured because she's into it, she may be a case of [[Best Her to Bed Her]]. Expect her not to have much regard for [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]].
Compare [[I Surrender, Suckers]], and [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?]]. Compare and contrast [[Decoy Damsel]], which is a villainous variation on this trope.
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== [[Anime]]
* Happened in ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'', with [[Tomboy Princess]] Maria Louise of France playing this role. [[Wrong Genre Savvy|It backfires SPECTACULARLY]].
* Rukia Kuchiki in the ''Soul Society'' arc in ''[[Bleach]]''. {{spoiler|In this case, however, it's because she's ''suicidal'', and wants to die to [[The Atoner|atone]] for killing her sub-captain and first (unrequited) love in self defence after he was possessed by a hollow. The fact circumstances have prevented her from regaining the power she lost in the first episode don't help.}}
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* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]],'' Bella thinks that she can [[Mindlink Mates|psychically connect with her ex-boyfriend]] Edward if she gets an adrenaline rush, and purposefully puts herself in near-death situations to bring them on.
** One of the parodies of it, ''New Moan'', has Heffa (the parody of Bella) hoping Teddy (Edward) and Joe (Jacob) will fight over her, and tries to edge them into doing so.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Played with in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]''. {{spoiler|Though Zelda herself certainly doesn't choose to be kidnapped, it's later revealed that her plight was part of a plan set in motion by her previous incarnation. In her past life as the goddess Hylia, she predicted that putting her human self in danger would be a surefire way to spur Link into action.}}
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
* {{spoiler|Jessica}} in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]''. {{spoiler|While she ''is'' an asthmatic [[Ill Girl]], she more than once pretends to be more ill than she truly is.}}
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* [[Conversational Troping|Mentioned]] in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' to parody the [[Damsel in Distress]]:
{{quote|'''Grace:'''"[discussing why a video game princess keeps getting kidnapped] Oh, it's like foreplay to her. She's kind of evil that way."}}
* ''[[Virtual Shackles]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130815205822/http://www.virtualshackles.com/112 show] [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser]] and ''very'' disappointed Daisy.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Gender Inverted]] in the ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' episode "The Duelist and the Drifter" [[Adventure Towns]] resident and habitual [[Dude in Distress]] the Drifter gets [[Unwilling Suspension|snagged]] on high fences [[Rule of Three|three times]], each time enlisting protagonist Lion-O's help to get down. This would be innocuous but for the fact that the Drifter possesses [[Not Quite Flight]], and readily exploits these encounters to offer [[Adventure Rebuff]]s and unsolicited, [[Aloof Ally|passive-aggressive]] advice on Lion-O's own increasing problems while elaborately feigning disinterest.
== Other Media ==
* A very mild version of this is when a woman will drop her handkerchief in hopes that the man in question will pick it up and return it to her, which I've [[Seen It a Million Times|Seen A Million Times]].
** Played with in ''[[Monkey Business]]'', where a woman drops a handkerchief in front of Zeppo, who pockets it and then drops one for her to pick up.
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