Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,907
edits
(Import from TV Tropes TVT:PlayingWith.HostageForMacGuffin 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:PlayingWith.HostageForMacGuffin, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (removed Category:Alice and Bob using HotCat) |
||
(2 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
'''Basic Trope''': The villain has captured one of the good guys, and demands that the other heroes give him the [[MacGuffin]] in exchange for their friend.
* '''Straight''': Alice is captured by the [[Big Bad]], but the
* '''Exaggerated''': The
** The Big Bad threatens to crash an asteroid into Earth if he doesn't hand over the MacGuffin, so everyone on the planet, including him, is a hostage.
* '''Justified''': [[The Hero]] is too good hearted to be bribed or blackmailed, but he would do anything to protect his friends.
* '''Inverted''': The
* '''Subverted''': The
** The "hostage" is [[Bruce Wayne Held Hostage|Captain Awesome's]] [[Secret Identity]].
** Bob ''tries'' to give the
* '''Double Subverted''': ... So he captures Carol who just conveniently showed up instead.
* '''Parodied''': The villain is willing to trade a jar favorite strawberry jam, from a company called ''MacGuffin Jams'', for the hostage.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob hands his MacGuffin — a precious family heirloom passed down through generations — to the Big Bad in exchange for Alice. This causes many of his family members to be mad, and Bob desperately argues that a life is worth more than a heirloom and that heritage is only an imagined object. Bob is slowly rejected by his family members, who believe that their heritage and heirloom is important and defines what they are.
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Zig Zagged''': The Big Bad can't decide whether he wants cash or the MacGuffin for the hostage. They keep sending Bob mixed messages, some demanding cash, others demanding the MacGuffin. They finally settle on the MacGuffin, but now is choosing what MacGuffin they want. During this time, Alice escapes, but the Big Bad hunts down Alice and captures her again.
* '''Averted''': The villain has captured a hostage, but keeps them around only for power in negotiations, never opting to trade the hostage for an object they want.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': "Let me guess, I have to give you the item if I want her back safely, right?"
* '''Invoked''': Bob and the [[Big Bad]] are both trying to find the [[MacGuffin]], so the villain captures Alice and keeps her hostage so he will have a back-up plan just in case Bob happens to find the [[MacGuffin]] first.
* '''Defied''': Realising what the [[Big Bad]] is about to do, Alice breaks free on her own before the [[Big Bad]] can make his demands for the [[MacGuffin]].
**
* '''Discussed''': "Why does he want my family heirloom anyway? Why can't he just let Alice go?
* '''Conversed''': "You know, if Sir Evul really wanted to get rich in ''All the Tropers: The Movie'', he could just have demanded money, instead of the MacGuffin."
----
Line 28 ⟶ 29:
[[Category:Hostage For Mac Guffin]]
[[Category:Playing With]]
[[Category:Hostage for Macguffin]]
|