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** Katara is not impressed when her jealousy that Aang masters a waterbending scroll causes Zuko and the pirates that originally had the scroll to capture her; Zuko attempts to coerce her into revealing Aang's location by offering back her mother's necklace, which she lost on the earthbending prison barge. She tells him to jump in the river. For a long time, even after Zuko switches sides, she holds a grudge with him about this.
** Don't take Sokka prisoner. If you ''do'' take Sokka prisoner, make sure he can't talk his way out of it. He convinces the pirates allied with Zuko that they would earn more if they handed over the Avatar to the Firelord, starting a melee between the two parties that allow him, Aang and Katara to escape. Later, when Azula and her friends stage a coup against the Earth King, only taking the king hostage makes Sokka surrender.
* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' had this once or twice:
** During the "A Better World" two-parter, the Justice Lords capture the League and attempt to "reform" their world. They're all fighting back while in captivity with heart monitors and motion sensors strapped to them, with Flash outright sassing Justice Lord Batman who looks at him with uncharacteristic fondness while apologizing for Hawk-Girl being in the hospital. Justice League Batman and Flash respectively figured out that alternate Flash's death was what caused the League to become the Justice Lords; Batman says he can't free them because his parallel self would have thought of everything, but Flash gets an idea. They don't have an alternate Flash to outthink ''him''. He fakes a heart attack using his [[Super Speed]] and feigns unconsciousness; when Justice Lord Batman checks on him, Flash takes the opportunity to reset his heart rate, punch Justice Lord Batman in the face, and strap him in the same cell. Justice League Batman reveals that was his plan; no can ever predict what Flash will do, not even him.
** While Batman surrenders to Justice Lord Batman when the latter is hunting him in the parallel universe Batcave, he takes time to point out that their parents didn't want a world where a man could get arrested for arguing about an unfair receipt. Justice Lord Batman thinks about this and realizes that Justice League Batman is right, pulling a [[Heel Face Turn]].
** When Question attempts to kill Lex Luthor, having found out that Justice Lord Superman killing Lex is what caused the [[Bad Future]] for the Justice Lords, he fails, gets captured and tortured by Dr. Moon. During the whole time, Question, being Question, trolls him by telling him what aglets are.
* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' follows this up with the new blood; ironically, Korra is the most likely to not be this when captured, usually trying to reason with the people holding her hostage. It's only when they won't listen to reason that she'll use her fists.
** If Asami gets captured, she's usually the first one to try to escape her bonds and find an escape route. She doesn't need powers to be a threat. It's why Korra trusted her to watch her body when the Red Lotus and Earth Queen's goons were after Korra and the latter entered the Spirit World for a truce talk with Zaheer, knowing in the worst-case scenario, Asami would get them out of captivity.
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