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Everyone likes Susan. She's such a [[Nice Girl]], on top of being [[Team Mom]] and [[Love Interest]] to Bob! But alas, tragedy has befallen her in the form of a very unusual "kidnapping", one where she's been removed (usually) against her will and taken some place beyond mortal ken and reckoning. It can be a physical kidnapping as she's dragged into [[The Underworld]], or even a willing one if she's [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence]]. Sometimes it's not the body that's gone but the mind or soul, which can happen if she suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] and she's put into a [[Convenient Coma]] after getting lost in [[Cyberspace]] or a [[Dream Within a Dream]]. Maliciously, she may have been trapped in a [[Lotus Eater Machine]] or [[Psychological Torment Zone]], or had her [[Soul]] taken into the [[Spirit World]]. Or she could be plain old ''dead.''
Point is, she's gone in a very real sense from this physical plane, but in a way that doesn't preclude recovery.
So Bob and his allies decide to rescue Susan by going on an Orphean Rescue Mission. Much like [[Greek Mythology|Orpheus]] and his trip to the Underworld, the heroes will travel into a strange, otherworldy realm. It may be a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]], Susan's soul, a [[Time Travel|different era]], another planet, a [[Down the Rabbit Hole|rabbit hole]], the [[Spirit World]], Purgatory, [[Limbo]], [[Hell]], the Underworld (again) or even ''[[Heaven]]'' ([[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|or a reasonable facsimile]]).
On their quest, they probably have to fight [[Threshold Guardians]] appropriate to Susan's subconscious/[[Dark and Troubled Past]] (trust us, no matter how happy go lucky Susan [honestly] is, she's going to have at least ''some'' skeletons in her closet) or whoever/whatever is holding her captive. Freeing her may require that she help in the process, with a rather more literal use of an [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]], or helping her see the door in her [[Epiphanic Prison]].
Once Susan wakes up, she probably won't remember anything, except as a vague distorted dream that leaves her with an urge to hug her friends and kick ass.
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== Anime And Manga ==
* ''[[
* The first two major arcs of ''[[Bleach]]'' both manage to be examples of this: First Rukia is taken to Soul Society (where, in spite of it being the afterlife, she is to be executed), then Orihime is kidnapped by the Arrancar and taken to Hueco Mundo.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Early in the series, Kagome doesn't ''enter'' hell, but gets very close to the entrance to save a child's soul who had died.
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3667 seemed] to be going in this direction after [[Hollywood Nerd|Criminy]] started digging his way to hell in search of [[Reluctant Monster|Fuchsia]], but it led to a [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3675 subversion].
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' has something like this for Church following Tex {{spoiler|into the capture unit}} at the end of Season 8 and into Season 9, followed by the rest of the squad trying to save him as well throughout the present timeline of Nine. {{spoiler|Church is eventually saved... after he [[Wham! Line|comes to peace with Tex's death and erases his memory of her.]]}}
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' has Robin do this for Raven in the Season Four finale.
* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (
* In ''[[Adventure Time]]'', Finn and Jake do this ''for a plant''.
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