Deliberately Distressed Damsel: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]],'' Bella thinks that she can [[Mindlink Mates|psychically connect with her ex-boyfriend]] Edward if she gets an adrenaline rush, and purposefully puts herself in near-death situations to bring them on.

** One of the parodies of it, ''New Moan'', has Heffa (the parody of Bella) hoping Teddy (Edward) and Joe (Jacob) will fight over her, and tries to edge them into doing so.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Played with in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]''. {{spoiler|Though Zelda herself certainly doesn't choose to be kidnapped, it's later revealed that her plight was part of a plan set in motion by her previous incarnation. In her past life as the goddess Hylia, she predicted that putting her human self in danger would be a surefire way to spur Link into action.}}

 

* {{spoiler|Jessica}} in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]''. {{spoiler|While she ''is'' an asthmatic [[Ill Girl]], she more than once pretends to be more ill than she truly is.}}

 

* [[Gender Inverted]] in the ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' episode "The Duelist and the Drifter" [[Adventure Towns]] resident and habitual [[Dude in Distress]] the Drifter gets [[Unwilling Suspension|snagged]] on high fences [[Rule of Three|three times]], each time enlisting protagonist Lion-O's help to get down. This would be innocuous but for the fact that the Drifter possesses [[Not Quite Flight]], and readily exploits these encounters to offer [[Adventure Rebuff]]s and unsolicited, [[Aloof Ally|passive-aggressive]] advice on Lion-O's own increasing problems while elaborately feigning disinterest.

 

* A very mild version of this is when a woman will drop her handkerchief in hopes that the man in question will pick it up and return it to her, which I've [[Seen It a Million Times|Seen A Million Times]].

** Played with in ''[[Monkey Business]]'', where a woman drops a handkerchief in front of Zeppo, who pockets it and then drops one for her to pick up.

 

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