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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]] ==
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** 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.
* Interesting subversion in ''[[Twentieth Century Boys (Manga)|Twentieth Century Boys]]''; the bad guys kidnap the daughter of a scientist whose help they need; however {{spoiler|over his ensuing years of work, she becomes converted to their side, and is a minor villain throughout the rest of the series.}}
* In ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest (Manga)|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
* 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.
* Done in ''[[Full Metal Panic (Light Novel)|Full Metal Panic]] Fumoffu'' when someone tells Sousuke that they have Chidori kidnapped. So before showing up to make a deal with the bad guys he kidnaps or threatens EVERY SINGLE [[Mook|MOOK'S]] MOST PRECIOUS SIGNIFICANT OTHER to force them to give up Chidori. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] indeed.
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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* ''[[All He Ever Wanted (Fanfic)|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
* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now (Webcomic)|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 (Anime)|Read or Die]]''). How far he will go to keep her safe remains to be seen.}}
* One of the villains in the [[LXG]] fic series "[[Troper Works/The Private Diary Of Elizabeth Quatermain|The Private Diary Of Elizabeth Quatermain]]" forces the title character's cooperation by taking her best friend hostage. {{spoiler|Unfortunately for him, the rest of the [[True Companions]] find out...}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* Gary Oldman ups this trope's usual ante in ''[[Air Force One (Film)|Air Force One]]'': "When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security advisor, his classified papers - ''[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and his baseball glove]]''!"
** Only Tim Curry could have delivered that line any better.
* Bayard the bloodhound, in [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', reluctantly serves the Red Queen because she's holding his wife and their pups in her dungeon.
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* [[Complete Monster|High Lord Kalarus]] in the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' likes this tactic. When he rebels against Gaius, he kidnaps the High Lady Placida and other people who were loved ones of important nobles. But the most despicable example was probably holding Rook's daughter hostage to ensure her cooperation... and then locking her in the same room as Placida, with his security systems set to go for the kid first if she tried to escape. Placida is a [[Person of Mass Destruction]] in her own right so she probably could have escaped on her own, but she wouldn't be powerful enough to protect the kid ''and'' herself.
* In the book, play and movie ''The Desperate Hours'', three escaped cons take the protagonist's family hostage in their own home.
* It happens in a quite interesting way in ''[[The Devil to Pay In The Backlands]]'', because it's the [[Anti
* [[Doc Savage]] gives this as the reason why he doesn't form relationships. Of course that hasn't stopped people from speculating that the 1930's hero has [[Ho Yay|other reasons...]].
{{quote| Savage: "Ah, there's no room in my life for love, Mona."<br />
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Savage: "There was a girl once. We were to be married. She was kidnapped by the men I had been pursuing--they threatened to kill her if I didn't drop the chase. I gave in. I had to. Later, when she was returned safely to me, I realized there could never be a future for us. [[Its Not You Its My Enemies|I realized if I were to do what I had chosen with my life, there could never be a loved one who could be used against me. Or harmed because of me. Do you understand?]]" }}
* This is why Wellington Yueh betrays the Atreides in ''[[Dune]]'', with a twist: the Harkonnens have Yueh's wife Wanna (of course), and they are torturing her. Constantly. Yueh's deal with the Baron is that the Baron will ''kill'' Wanna, putting an end to her miserable existence. {{spoiler|This is why Yueh also sacrifices his life to assassinate the Baron; the plan fails, but it's kind of sweet.}}
* In ''Fangs of K'aath 2: Guardians of Light'', the villain Tzu-Khan has the good Shah Raschid's wives kidnapped. With them in his clutches, he makes contact to the Raschid through a magic mirror about how he intends to have them horrifically [[Cold
* A [[Greg Egan]] short story changes this to I Stole A Copy Of Your Wife's [[Brain Uploading|Brain Upload]].
* In ''[[The Guardians]]'', demons are fond of this tactic to coerce humans into a [[Deal With the Devil]]. {{spoiler|Deacon}} betrays his friends and gets several of them killed trying to ensure his lovers' safety. [[You Said You Would Let Them Go|It was all in vain.]]
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* In ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (Literature)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'', Chauvelin gets Marguerite to help him because he has taken her brother, Armand.
** In one of the sequels, ''Eldorado'', Armand betrays the Pimpernel to Chauvelin in exchange for the freedom of Armand's lover, Jeanne L'Ange, who had been arrested for helping him elude capture; ironically, the Pimpernel {{spoiler|has already freed Jeanne from prison}}.
* The third ''Soldiers of Barrabas'' (a [[Heroes
* [[The Stainless Steel Rat]]'s wife was once held hostage by the tax office to get him to pay his arrears. She went quietly so as to give him time to think of something. Normal thugs are [[Dark Action Girl|not advised to attempt this]]. Really.
** Happens all the time actually, though it's not always shown how. Though there's usually a mention later of a number of mooks being bumped off in the process by Jim's armed and psychopathic wife.
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* 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.
* At one point in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', a rebel mage group kidnaps one of your party members - usually your love interest or sibling, but if neither of those are available, they'll go for the companion you have maximum friendship with - and demands you aid them to secure their safe return.
* Done by the [[Anti
* In the [[Attract Mode]] for ''[[Final Fight]]'', Damnd (the Round 1 boss) calls Haggar and tells him to turn on the TV. It reveals his daughter Jessica with her hands tied behind her back.
{{quote| '''Haggar:''' What have you done to her?!<br />
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* Sophitia Alexandra in ''[[Soul Calibur]] 4'' is a sacred woman, loving mother and a holy fighter. Then her children get infected with the evil sword Soul Edge and it told her to destroy all its enemies, otherwise her kids die. This drives Sophitia's [[Mama Bear]] qualities that she ends up betraying everything she stood for to protect her kids. {{spoiler|She gets better... thanks to [[Big Bad|Algol]] suddenly growing sympathy for her and helping her destroy Soul Edge.}}
* In ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny]]'', the reason why Leon Magnus betrays Stahn is because his foster father Hugo Gilchrist took hostage of Leon's favorite maid/mother figure Marian; {{spoiler|forcing him to fight Stahn off and the surrounding circumstances ended up killed him.}}
* Eddy Gordo in ''[[Tekken]]'' is mostly a normal guy, who does love his mentor. In ''5''. mentor goes out of jail, but is sickly. He fought in the 5th tournament to get the cure, failed to win. Then, Jin Kazama, after apparently having a [[Face Heel Turn]] as the new boss of Mishima Zaibatsu, moved his mentor to his hospital and offered Eddy the cure if he works for him in the upcoming war with the world. Eddy reluctantly accepted, but in the end, he found out that Jin was lying and his mentor is dead. Even though Jin turns out to be executing [[The Plan]] for a greater good, [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|that's the last straw for Eddy and he quits the Zaibatsu]].
* Inverted in ''[[Wing Commander (Video Game)|Wing Commander]] II'', the traitor attempts to hold Spirit's fiancée for ransom. It doesn't quite work.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', Cait Sith holds Barret's adopted daughter Marlene hostage in order to force the party to continue working with him as they head to the Temple of the Ancients, {{spoiler|at least, sort of. He ends up working with the party, and protects Marlene when Midgar is in danger on Discs 2 and 3.}}
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