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== Live-Action TV == |
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* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in ''[[Battlestar Galactica |
* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' when the Cylons on Caprica are trying to get Helo to fall in love with Sharon so she'll get pregnant with a hybrid. They stage a Centurion attack wherein Sharon gets "captured" and lead him to track her down and "rescue" her. This gives their already developing relationship a significant push. |
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* In an episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', the team encounter an agency that does mock kidnappings with this sort of thing (although the participants are further down the path) in mind. Girl gets "kidnapped", boyfriend "pays ransom" and/or "rescues her", they have sex (because "rescue sex is the best kind of sex"). This being the [[CSI Verse]], it doesn't quite work out like that... |
* In an episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', the team encounter an agency that does mock kidnappings with this sort of thing (although the participants are further down the path) in mind. Girl gets "kidnapped", boyfriend "pays ransom" and/or "rescues her", they have sex (because "rescue sex is the best kind of sex"). This being the [[CSI Verse]], it doesn't quite work out like that... |
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** An episode of ''[[CSI New York]]'' also takes a spin on the trope with a woman who, it initially appears, gets back together with her ex after he saves her from being kidnapped and assaulted. It turns out that the "abduction" was a fetish game she and her current partner had knowingly staged, and her ex killed her lover in a fit of jealousy - she just found it hot that he would go that far for her. |
** An episode of ''[[CSI New York]]'' also takes a spin on the trope with a woman who, it initially appears, gets back together with her ex after he saves her from being kidnapped and assaulted. It turns out that the "abduction" was a fetish game she and her current partner had knowingly staged, and her ex killed her lover in a fit of jealousy - she just found it hot that he would go that far for her. |
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