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{{quote|'''Military Commander:''' Tim, they've got your wife!
'''[[Action Hero|Tim:]]''' But I'm not married!
'''Military Commander:''' You are now... To '''[[Eagle Land|AMERICA!]]'''
|''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', "Exploder" commercial on ''[[GTA Radio|V-Rock]]''.}}
The [[Big Bad]] tries to get the hero (or someone else) to [[An Offer You Can't Refuse|do his bidding]] by taking someone precious from him and essentially holding them to ransom. It's often a significant other, frequently a wife or girlfriend.
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If this is the reason why the villain is doing it, then it's a case of [[The Commies Made Me Do It]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Griffith from ''[[Berserk]]'' does this with one of the Queen's mooks in order to blackmail him into helping Griffith kill the Queen, only the hostage is the mook's young daughter.
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* ''[[All He Ever Wanted]]''. In one of the most polemic parts of the fic, the [[Complete Monster]] [[Big Bad]] keeps the [[Action Girl]]'s [[Non-Action Guy]] ex-husband hostage and uses this not just to have her pull a [[Face Heel Turn]], but to actually ''torture and rape her in front of him to show off his power''.
* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now]]'': {{spoiler|Walter. In ''[[Hellsing]]'', he pulls a [[Face Heel Turn]] which is never adequately explained. Here, the bad guys have his daughter, Maggie (imported from ''[[Read or Die]]''). How far he will go to keep her safe remains to be seen.}}
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** ''24'' loves this trope so much it was parodied [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bc0mG5omTo by Derrick Comedy].
* In ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' series 2, in order for Sark to give her an antidote to save Vaughn from a deadly illness, Sydney was forced to assassinate (or rather attempt, it turned out to be a ploy for the two to work together) Arvin Sloane. This is a slight variation on the scenario.
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* After playing it straight multiple times, there is a spot of [[Lampshade Hanging]] on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Harmony claims to have the perfect plan to defeat Buffy, but when Spike outlines the above plan as a guess, she steals the idea. Of course, it fails miserably.
* In the ''[[Burn Notice]]'' episode "End Run", Michael is controlled by threats against his brother who, ironically, is completely unaware of his danger {{spoiler|right up until Brennen ''shoots him''.}}
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* In ''[[The Force Unleashed]] 2'', Darth Vader tries to force Starkiller to work for him again by kidnapping Juno Eclipse, the woman he loves.
{{quote|'''Vader''': Find and kill General Kota. If you refuse, the woman dies. You will return to me and give yourself to The Dark Side. If you resist, she dies. And when your training is complete, you will hunt down and execute the rebel leaders. If you FAIL, SHE DIES! }}
* The motivation for the protagonist in ''The Getaway''. Hilariously parodied by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120514185058/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/520-The-Getaway Unskippable crew]:
{{quote|'''Charlie Jolson''': I ring you, you do the job. You don't do what I tell you, the kid dies. You don't do it where I tell you, the kid dies. You don't do it when I tell you, the kid dies! Are you getting my drift? Now you want to see your kid again, you do exactly what I say. You talk to anyone, you're late, or you let me down, your kid dies! Do I make myself clear?
'''Paul Saunders''' (as Mark): But what if I go skydiving?
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* A [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] takes Lilah hostage in ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]].'' To get her back, Ethan must surrender his crown as the King of Wintereenmas. In what can only be regarded as his personal [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], Ethan throws the crown on the floor before the guy can finish making the demand.
* The Fallen tries this in the ''[[Insecticomics]]'', kidnapping Lazorbeak in order to manipulate Kickback. Kickback simply waits for Lazorbeak to rescue herself, which she does with great glee.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' episode "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130117023535/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/3327-Ransom Ransom]" took it to its illogical extreme. The villain kidnaps the hero's girlfriend and calls him with the demands. The hero counters by kidnapping the villain's henchmen. The villain escalates by kidnapping the hero's mother which the hero counters by capturing the villain's deaf brother. All this takes place in the span of five minutes with the hero and villain still engaged in the original phone conversation. The villain tries to end things by kidnapping the hero but the hero responds by kidnapping the villain (while still tied up in the villain's lair).
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* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' where in a flashback, Lois is captured by criminals who demand a ransom of her rich father. They put her on the line. His response: "Now honey, you know family policy, we don't negotiate with kidnappers."
* The whole problem between [[The Hero|Zachary Foxx]] and [[God Save Us From the Queen|Queen of the Crown]] in ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]''. Zach has Eliza's body in stasis. The Queen has her [[Life Energy]] decorating her living room as a little red crystal, and a one-sided case of [[Foe Yay]]. Acts mostly as a subversion, as Eliza's the only human psychocrystal and just too good a tool to actually destroy. The closest it came to this was "Psychocrypt," where the Queen's relentless [[Mind Rape]] against both of them caused Zach to make a suicidal run to get his wife back.
* The [[Christmas Special]] ''[[Santa Claus
* The penultimate episode of ''[[Static Shock]]'': Omnara kidnaps Static's father. Richie, Static's best friend and sidekick, also has the tendency to get kidnapped a lot.
* The first season finale of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': {{spoiler|Slade injects Robin's ''four'' teammates with potentially deadly nanoprobes and has his finger on the button, forcing Robin to become his sidekick. The scheme falls apart when Slade cows Robin by engaging the probes on a limited setting; the combination of this sudden inexplicable pain that seems to be under Slade's control and Robin's frantic reaction to it tips off the Titans that they are being used as hostages to control their friend. And then Robin puts the nanoprobes in himself when Slade is about to kill his friends, and since they aren't selective, he'd die too.}}
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** For the curious, Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu (founding the Han Dynasty in the process), and Liu's father didn't get the least bit boiled.
* Another historical example, this time from 12th century England, concerns King Stephen threatening to hang the small son of one John Marshal if he doesn't surrender his castle. John replies, rather crudely, that he still has the hammer and anvil to make even better sons. In justice to John, King Stephen was a marshmallow (sweet and soft) and everybody knew it. Little William Marshal was ''not'' hanged and grew up to be the most famous knight in England and France.
* During the Spanish Civil War, the Republicans, (no, not those republicans), captured the son of José Moscardó e Ituarte, the Nationalist commandant during the [[wikipedia:Siege of the Alcázar|Siege of Alcázar.]] The Republican forces called Moscardó on the telephone, and demanded he surrender or they would kill his son. Moscardó asked to speak to his son, who he told; [[Screw Your Ultimatum|"Commend your soul to God and die like a patriot,]] shouting [[Say Your Prayers|'Long live Christ King']] and 'Long live Spain.'" His son's reply? [[Defiant to the End|"That, I can do."]]'
* Hostage taking was normal practice in the times of dynastic politics as a guarantee of peaceful behavior. It was so much worked into the noble's code of honor, that it was treated as routine and hostages were considered normal courtiers until their kin broke their word.
* In [[World War 2]] the Nazis revived the practice (which had been defunct for some time) and being Nazis did not carry it out with such style as princely warriors and rulers had. This could include such logical extensions as indulging in massacres whenever the Resistance blew something up, or torturing captured couples to death in each other's sight (which is why the [[SOE]] never sent married agents on the same mission). In point of fact this made the Resistance far less effective than legend paints except in such regions where the Germans [[Kill'Em All|made sure]] there was nothing to lose, or except with Communists who were rather bloody minded about the whole thing anyway.
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