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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', Belle willingly trades places with her father in the
* ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' shows this with the main character and the friends that he makes along the way:
* In ''[[The Mummy (1999 film)|The Mummy]]'' series, both Evie and her son demonstrate this in the first film and sequel. Evie may just be a clumsy librarian, but she's tougher than she looks, as Imhotep found out the hard way when trying to sacrifice her to bring back his beloved. Likewise, Imhotep and his men kidnap Alex after he gets a MacGuffin bracelet attached to his arm in the sequel, and Alex sasses them. They can only shut him up by showing that the bracelet will kill him if they don't get it off before sunrise in a few days. ▼
** Indy himself does not comply with his captors, or make it easy for them. He'll snark and resist, and improvise means to escape. The only way to get him to cave is if one of his loved ones is threatened, like Marion.
** Marion is not a fun prisoner. She'll always think of how to escape, like outdrinking a captor that lets her change into a beautiful dress, or knowing when to steal a gun. This didn't change when she {{spoiler|had Mutt a short while after Indy left her at the wedding aisle; while being threatened with death, she was more worried about the fact that Mutt came to rescue her and got captured in turn}}.
** Henry Jones, Sr., endured captivity at Nazi hands for months for his knowledge on the Holy Grail. He refused to cough up any information, and was willing to hit any guards with a vase, as long as it's not Ming. Later, he makes great use of a fountain pen to blind a soldier maneuvering a tank; "The pen is mightier than the sword," indeed.
** Mutt has this reaction when Irina Spalko threatens him at swordpoint to get Indiana to cooperate. He takes time to comb his hair, showing that it's not a weapon, and looks her straight in the eye while telling Indiana to not "Give these pigs anything".
▲* In ''[[The Mummy (1999 film)|The Mummy]]'' series, both Evie and her son demonstrate this in the first film and sequel. Evie may just
* Both films in ''The Rescuers'' show this with the kid captives:
** Penny in ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'' is revealed to be a [[Plucky Girl]]. She talks back to Snoops, the mook put in charge of watching her when [[Big Bad]] Medusa is in New York, and tries to run away regularly. She also shows no fear of the alligators Brutus and Nero that are sent to fetch her. While she does cry in the privacy of her "bedroom," she keeps maintaining hope that someone will come help her. When Bernard and Bianca appear and says they got her [[Message in a Bottle]], she gains her spirit and helps brainstorm a plan of escape.
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* This is a common trope in ''[[Star Wars]]''
** In the first film ''[[A New Hope]]'', Leia has a contemptuous expression for both Vader and Commander Tarkin when they board her ship and take her prisoner. She sasses them and refuses to give them the information they desire. The only time the mask slips is when Tarkin threatens her home Alderaan with the Death Star. Later in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', she takes the first opportunity to strangle Jabba after he "hires" her as a new servant girl and Luke's melee distracts him.
** Han Solo does not make captivity easy for the prisoners. In ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' when he realizes that Vader invaded Cloud City and blackmailed Lando into betraying them, his first reaction is to shoot Vader. (Doesn't work, but points for trying and it's implied Vader respects him for the sheer audacity.) ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' has his snark return if not his sight completely when Leia frees him, only for them to get captured by Jabba's men and Jabba sentences him as well as Luke to death.
** Lando has the same reaction when he at least tries to keep Leia safe since she wasn't the target of Vader's machinations this time, as well as his people. On a rewatch it's clear that he was told comply or the citizens of Cloud City would suffer, so as he tells the heroes, he didn't have a choice but to lead them into a trap. When Vader refuses to free the citizens however, and plans to take Leia captive again because she's useful to his plans to capture Luke, Lando quickly machinates an opportunity to free Leia, C3PO, R2D2 and Chewbacca, getting a strangling for his trouble. He also orders all the citizens to evacuate so they can no longer be used as leverage against him.
** Poe Dameron in ''[[The Force Awakens]]'' takes after Leia. When realizing that he can't leave Jakku to the mercy of Kylo Ren, he gives BB8 the message about Luke's location and tells the droid to run, while he fires on the Stormtroopers to distract them. It goes about as well as you expect, especially since Kylo Ren can stop laser blasts in mid-air, but he snarks how Kylo Ren seems to enjoy being the dark and broody type. Kylo Ren manages to get BB8's location out of him with a mind probe, but Poe fights it with all his willpower.
** Rey does the same thing when Kylo Ren recognizes her as the scavenger girl that helped the droid, knocks her out, and takes her to his ship for interrogation. She manages to resist the mind probe fully, and then improvises a Jedi Mind trick to convince a Stormtrooper to free her, leave the cell door unattended, and drop his weapon for her.
== [[Literature]] ==
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