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{{quote|'''Catalina:''' This is the sweetest, most justified kidnapping I've ever seen.
'''Randy:''' How many ''have'' you seen?
'''Catalina:''' [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|Five or so.]]
|'''''[[My Name Is Earl]]'''''}}
This is when a character is forcibly brought to meet someone who, as a plot twist, turns out to have no intentions beyond just having a chat, and who is often actually the kidnapped character's ally or employer. Say, for example, someone gets kidnapped at gunpoint in the middle of the night so that they can be bundled into a car and taken to a deserted warehouse to meet... their boss, who has details on their next mission.
Sometimes this has valid in-story
In some cases, it can be a case of [[Poor Communication Kills]] and/or [[
{{examples}}
* In the CLAMP manga ''[[Suki]]'' the main character is frequently used as a hostage to get money out of her rich father. Then, one of her best friends,
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* In the CLAMP manga ''[[Suki]]'' the main character is frequently used as a hostage to get money out of her rich father. Then, one of her best friends, who's family was apparently having monetary troubles, kidnapped her.
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', {{spoiler|[[Action Girl|Kallen]] is captured in battle. As a high-ranking member of [[La Résistance]], she expects to be executed or brutally interrogated. Instead, she's turned over to Viceroy [[The Woobie|Nunnally]], one of the few pacifists with any sort of authority. They mostly reminisce about Lelouch, Nunnally's missing brother and Kallen's former classmate.}}
* In the beginning of the ''[[Witchblade (
* Happens to Tenma in ''[[Monster (
== Comic Books ==
* Kind of in the ''[[Tintin
* In ''[[
== Film ==
* [[James Bond (
** In ''[[
** In ''[[The Man
** In ''[[
** ''[[
** In ''[[For Your Eyes Only (
*** {{spoiler|This is also before [[The Reveal]] that Kristatos is the [[Big Bad]], at this point we believe that it is 'the dove'. It's after Bond meets him that it is cleared out.}}
* In ''Bad Company'' (the one with Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins), Rock's character is grabbed out of bed and kidnapped as part of a training exercise. Hopkins begins to tell him how, in that situation, his mental faculties shut down in a panic when Rock interrupts, saying he knew what was going on because he identified the agents, one through his breath, one because he could feel her breasts when she grabbed him, and one because he ''stole his wallet'' while they were grabbing him.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''Time For Yesterday'', a local warlord captures an enemy priestess and proposes marriage.
* Happens to [[The Elric Saga|Elric of Melnibone]] in ''The Sleeping Sorceress''. He successfully fights off the attempt, then stumbles onto the person who arranged it anyway.
* Rincewind is kidnapped by the Revolutionaries in ''[[
* Mel Beeby is a victim of this in the [[Agent Angel]] / [[Angels Unlimited]] series of books. It has been speculated this was mainly for the [[Fetish Fuel|benefit of older readers]], considering who kidnapped her.
*
▲== Live Action TV ==
* On ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' Chase got kidnapped for his bachelor party and he sort of knew what was going on.▼
▲* Page quote comes from an episode of [[My Name Is Earl]], where Earl snatches his friend's mother so he can convince her to quit smoking cold turkey.
▲* On ''[[House (TV)|House]]'' Chase got kidnapped for his bachelor party and he sort of knew what was going on.
** That was so he had a handy excuse to use if his fiance complained about it. Of course, she knew exactly what was going on.
** In Season 4, House himself was basically abducted by the CIA for most of an episode, for an emergency diagnosis on a covert agent.
* [[Dexter]] is also kidnapped for his bachelor party. This results in him accidentally punching his friend Masuka when he is released from the carboot, as he (and the audience) genuinely believed he had been taken by the season's [[Big Bad]], the Skinner.
* Happens on ''[[Life]]'', when Crews tries to pull a [[Not My Driver]] on Mickey Raybourne, whose bodyguard then smashes through the window and kidnaps Crews. And then Raybourne lets him go at the beginning of the next episode with an apology and an invitation for drinks.
* Subverted in the ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'' episode "Elixir." Zedd is captured by a group of mercenaries, and brought, bound, to their boss...who happens to be an old friend of Zedd's, who promptly sets him free and explains he grabbed him because he heard a wizard was in town, but thought it might be one working for [[Big Bad|Darken Rahl]]. The subversion comes when he explains his plans to fight Rahl, which involves, essentially, magic drug trafficking. When Zedd objects, his old friend binds him again, and tries to strip him of his magic.
* In the first season of [[Heroes]] Hiro ends up kidnapped by {{spoiler|employees of his father, ostensibly wanting to bring him home and end his journey, but his berating is really a [[Secret Test of Character]].}}
* In ''[[Sherlock]]'', the man who's stalking John through CCTV and has him kidnapped and taken to a warehouse is actually {{spoiler|Mycroft, rather than Moriarty, and his offer to pay John to spy on Sherlock is not the action of an Evil Overlord, but of a loving, if creepy, older brother (who is ''also'' something of a secret evil overlord - at least, Sherlock seems to think so).}}
* [[
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''Pursuit to Kadath''. While investigating the mysterious disappearance of Nils Lindstrom, the investigators are kidnapped by a group of armed men and taken to a railway car. There they meet U.S. Senator Harold Lindstrom, who wants to hire them to find his son Nils.
== Video Games ==
* The start of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' has the main characters trying to kidnap Garnet for their employer Cid in Lindblum, while at the same time she's trying to escape her Alexandria to reach Cid.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has done this a few times.
** A specific example: Marge enlists Willy's help to kidnap Homer, Bart and Lisa when the latter were brainwashed by a cult.
* All that [[Totally Spies!|whooping]] qualifies as the speed variant.
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' and his friends in the Rescue Jet Fusion special.
* Used by SHIELD in ''[[Spider-Man:
* ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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