I Have Your Wife: Difference between revisions

** Zoisite ''loves'' this strategy in the anime. Zoisite has his youma kidnap Naru in order to threaten Nephrite, as he's figured out Nephrite is obsessed with her, and tries to ransom her for the Black Crystal using three powerful youma. Nephrite just proceeds to beat up the youma and take Naru back, though Zoisite ends up killing him a little while later anyway. Later in the season, Zoisite uses Naru ''again'' to threaten Sailor Moon into giving up the only rainbow crystal the Sailor Senshi have collected, this time by having a youma suffocate her until Sailor Moon gives up and hands it over (though he ''initially'' planned to just turn Naru into a youma and threaten her that way, but he missed his attack and hit a [[Power Ranger]] parody instead.) Finally, Zoisite captured the Sailor Senshi through a convoluted scheme in order to force Tuxedo Mask to give up the rainbow crystals which ''he'' had collected. This is the only time he actually failed because Sailor Venus made her first appearance in this episode, thus avoiding his trap...though he still got information on Tuxedo Mask's true identity in the process.

** Rubeus captures all four of the Guardian Senshi during ''Sailor Moon R'' and demands Sailor Moon arrive in his UFO to hand over Chibiusa and the ginzuishou if she wants them back.

* In ''[[Wolf Guy|Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'', with a [[Complete Monster]] like Haguro in charge, it's less about having the wife and move about {{spoiler|kidnapping the [[Hot Teacher]] that is the [[Anti-Hero]]'s [[Morality Chain]], violently torture and rape her for several hours, videotaping this and threaten said [[Anti-Hero]] with sending copies of said sexual acts to completely smear her fame.}}

* This is used quite a bit in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]''. Pegasus takes Yugi's grandfather's soul to make him compete in his tournament. Then there's the Joey anchor duel. [[Rule of Three|Then]] Duke Devlin humiliates Joey and makes Yugi duel to get him out of the dog suit. I'm sure there's more.

* In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'', Baron de Valois captures Bartolomeo's wife and tries to make him surrender.

* [[Subverted]] in ''[[Baldur's Gate]] II: Shadows of Amn'': Bodhi will warn you against continuing to oppose her lest you lose everything dear to you, and kidnap your love interest character, if any—but will offer no deal not to hurt them if you yield, presumably because she knows you have no choice but to follow her anyway and because she likes to be sadistic.

* In ''[[Clash at Demonhead]]'', Bang is told that his girlfriend has been kidnapped and instructed to meet one of the bad guys at a specific location. {{spoiler|It's a lie; she was never kidnapped.}}

* The plot of the original ''[[Double Dragon]]'' is about Billy and Jimmy being forced to fight their way into the Black Warriors' turf to save Billy's girlfriend Marian.