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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Aladdin (1992 Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' shows the title character, Jasmine, and various characters reacting this way when they are held captive at different points in the film.
** Aladdin uses his wits for [[Casual Danger Dialog]] around the palace guards if Razoul finds him and has an [[Angry Collar Grab]] on his shirt. When Jafar in snake form grabs Aladdin and forces him to watch Jasmine being [[Buried Alive]] by sand in an hourglass, Aladdin realizes they have one last trump card-- Jafar's ego and the genie-- and goads him that the genie is more powerful than Jafar will ever be because genie isn't human, all the while struggling to breathe. It works, because Jafar uses his last wish to become a genie and forgets one thing: genies are prisoners in their lamps.
** When Jafar takes over Agrabah using his witches, chains up Jasmine and lets Iago torment the sultan with dry crackers, he offers to free her if she agrees to marry him. Jasmine's response is to splash a drink in his face and give a definite refusal. She only pretends to agree when seeing Aladdin and Abu sneak into the throne room and signal her to cause a distraction. When the ruse fails, her next response is to try and grapple with him so Aladdin can grab the lamp.
** Genie is unable to disobey Jafar's wishes when the sorcerer utters them. He is still a [[Nice Guy]] but does what he can to rebel. For example, when Jafar tries to use his last wish to make Jasmine fall in love with him, Genie refuses and cites that it's against the rule for wishes; this distraction allows Aladdin and Abu to signal Jasmine, as mentioned above. He also knocks out Iago at a convenient time, and becomes a cheerleading squad when Aladdin manages to whack Jafar in snake form with a sword. When Jafar tells him to stay out of it, Genie grudgingly says, "Jafar, Jafar, he's our man, if he can't do it, GREAT!
* ''[[Aladdin (2019 film)|Aladdin]]'' also has this with Will Smith's genie, who is much snarkier and more cynical than the Robin Williams interpretation. He is nice enough to warn Aladdin, when the latter is asking about if he can make Aladdin a prince, that wishes have grey areas that genies can deliberately misinterpret. Jafar forces him to grant his first two wishes while banishing Aladdin and Abu to an icy tundra using new powers, but Genie surreptitiously teleports Carpet to the same area to rescue his former master. He's also not happy that his [[Love Interest]] lady-in-waiting Dalia is also a hostage for Jafar to use against him and Jasmine. Later, Aladdin while being tortured telegraphs his plan as he tells Jafar that he will always be second to the Genie, remembering what Genie said about "grey area". While at first horrified, Genie catches on and gains a very angry smile, turning Jafar into a genie when the latter asks to become "the most powerful being in the world, more powerful than you". Basically, do ''not'' hurt the people that Genie cares about if you want wishes from him.
* In ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'', Belle willingly trades places with her father in the Beast's castle, but she's not happy about it. She refuses to dine with the Beast, saying she's not hungry, and outright calls him a bully in the stage musical. When the Beast seems to threaten her life after she enters the West Wing, she decides a promise isn't worth her safety and leaves. While she comes back to the castle willingly to help the Beast after he gets injured rescuing her and Philippe from wolves, she still asserts that while she made mistakes by breaking the rule about the West Wing, ''he'' should learn to control his temper. It's not until she sincerely thanks the Beast for saving her life that they call truce, and their bond truly starts. Later, when Gaston locks her and her father in their cellar when he gets it in his mind to kill the Beast, Belle is fighting the whole time he's got a grip on her arm, and tries to break a cellar window to escape.
* ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' shows this with the main character and the friends that he makes along the way:
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* 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.
** Likewise, Cody in ''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'' may be lacking in a few survival skills, due to outright accusing a man with a gun of being a poacher after falling into his traps instead of
* 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.
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