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** Unlike in the source material, where Calliope was a [[Broken Bird]] after decades in captivity, this Calliope remains willful despite {{spoiler|Erasmus Fry and later Richard Madoc raping her for ideas to finish their books}}. She tells Richard outright that muses reward worshippers, and don't respond to bribes of flowers or perfume when he attempts that. When the Fates tell her that only Dream can free her, and Dream is in captivity she figures out Plan B: play [[The Long Game]] by waiting until Dream gets free a few years later and sending a [[Distress Call]] to him. Richard sees her writing Morpheus on a piece of paper and says the name aloud before burning it, not knowing that saying Morpheus summons him, and so does the smoke from his chimney. When Dream comes to help Calliope, he says he will if she lets him, and not because they used to be married but because Richard hurt her. Calliope specifies she doesn't want Richard hurt, just persuaded to free her because technically he broke no pre-established law and he has to free her of his volition. {{spoiler|Dream curses Richard with an abundance of ideas, when Richard refuses to release Calliope, saying he needs her inspiration, until he agrees to release the muse}}. When Richard feels the onset of the curse and confronts Calliope, asking what that strange man in a nightmare did to him, she gives a defiant smile before revealing he met ''The King of Dreams'' and the father of her son Orpheus. She said she didn't want Richard hurt, and technically Dream does not hurt him. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN4phCOfm88 View the scene in its gloriousness].

* While James West is taken prisoner [[Once Per Episode]] in the TV version of ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'', it usually isn't for long. This trope comes into play during the second season episode "The Night of the Bottomless Pit" when he's tossed into the titular pit in the prison on [[wikipedia:Devil's Island|Devil's Island]].

* ''Umbrella Academy'' has instances of this:

** Reginald locked up Klaus {{spoiler|and pre-transitional Viktor}} on a regular basis when they were kids. While this gave Klaus immense trauma, driving him to drugs to block the ghosts, {{spoiler|Viktor apparently reacted so terribly that Reginald used Allison to Rumor Viktor into thinking he was ordinary}}. In the present day, {{spoiler|Luther locking up Viktor in the same room after he slashed Allison's throat mid nervous-breakdown causes Viktor to snap, use his heartbeat to break out of the room, crucify Pogo for hiding this important secret and bring down the entire mansion}}.

** When Hazel and Cha-Cha kidnap Klaus, to interrogate him about "the boy" Five and not the old man they thought Five still was, he mocks them for thinking that choking him would phase him; he loves kinky sex. Also, he doesn't know what Five's plans were. It's not until they eat his laced chocolate that he tells them what little he knows. Ben's ghost convinces Klaus, who starts undergoing withdrawal, to use the pairs' victims who start appearing in ghost form so as to psych them.

** In season three, the Sparrow Academy kidnaps Luther when they think that the Umbrellas did something to Marcus. Alternate [[Jerkass]] Ben expects Luther to be scared. Instead, Luther while eating breakfast in their kitchen smiles and says in [[Sincerity Mode]] that it's nice to see Ben, since he's been dead for more than a decade. Alternate Ben struggles for the rest of the arc about the fact that these new "assholes" are comparing him to a nicer Ben that once existed.

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