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* In the CLAMP manga ''[[Suki]]'' the main character is frequently used as a hostage to get money out of her rich father. Then, one of her best friends, who's family was apparently having monetary troubles, kidnapped her.
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', {{spoiler|[[Action Girl|Kallen]] is captured in battle. As a high-ranking member of [[La Résistance]], she expects to be executed or brutally interrogated. Instead, she's turned over to Viceroy [[The Woobie|Nunnally]], one of the few pacifists with any sort of authority. They mostly reminisce about Lelouch, Nunnally's missing brother and Kallen's former classmate.}}
* In the beginning of the ''[[Witchblade (Animeanime)|Witchblade]]'' Masane got kidnapped with the help of a tranquilizing gun by {{spoiler|an assistant of her would-be employer}}. Looks like a risk, given how much could go wrong <ref>starting from the needle being simply deflected by the armor</ref> and that they knew there's no way to stop a Witchblade user if she would as much as panicked from waking up in an unknown place later.
* Happens to Tenma in ''[[Monster (Animemanga)|Monster]]''.
 
 
== Comic Books ==
* Kind of in the ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'' book [[Tintin (Comic Book)/Recap/Destination Moon|Destination Moon]]. They're following an invitation that ends with them ending up in an armored car getting taken through checkpoints to what looks like a military base in what they expect is a sinister kidnapping. Actually, Professor Calculus just wants them to join him working on the moon project. Calculus is their friend, but the supervisors who send the invitation aren't, so it might not count.
* In ''[[Ultimate Spider Man|Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', Spidey is kidnapped and held prisoner by Carol Danvers after Norman Osborn escapes prison. She later explains that it was partly to protect Spiderman, who Osborn would surely go after (and partly to try to lure Osborn back to jail).
 
 
== Film ==
* [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] encounters this more than once:
** In ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]'', the director of the Japanese intelligence service (already named as an ally, and who remains an ally throughout the film) feels a need to have Bond lured down a corridor so he can fall through a trapdoor and down a chute which dumps him in a chair in the director's office. One can't help feeling that giving Bond a quiet invitation and directions to the stairs would have been less of a bother for both parties.
** In ''[[The Man With the Golden Gun (Film)|The Man Withwith the Golden Gun]]'', Lieutenant Hip doesn't seem to feel any need to inform Bond that the reason he's being arrested and taken out on a police launch to the middle of nowhere ''isn't'' so that they can dispose of him with no witnesses - it's so that he get a mission assignment from his boss, who is cleverly concealed in a shipwreck.
** In ''[[The Living Daylights (Film)|The Living Daylights]]'', Bond is brought to someone at gunpoint. A villain? No, it's his old friend Felix Leiter, who just wants to ask what's going on. Justified this time, as 007 had just been seen shooting a senior KGB official in front of several dozen witnesses {{spoiler|and Leiter had know way of knowing it was being staged.}}
** ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Film)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]''. After Bond saves Tracy's life, he's kidnapped by several men and taken to see crime lord Draco. It turns out that Draco is Tracy's father and wants Bond to marry her.
** In ''[[For Your Eyes Only (Filmfilm)|For Your Eyes Only]]'', {{spoiler|Bond is kidnapped by 'the dove' who is actually the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Enemy Mine|old rival]].}}
*** {{spoiler|This is also before [[The Reveal]] that Kristatos is the [[Big Bad]], at this point we believe that it is 'the dove'. It's after Bond meets him that it is cleared out.}}
* In ''Bad Company'' (the one with Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins), Rock's character is grabbed out of bed and kidnapped as part of a training exercise. Hopkins begins to tell him how, in that situation, his mental faculties shut down in a panic when Rock interrupts, saying he knew what was going on because he identified the agents, one through his breath, one because he could feel her breasts when she grabbed him, and one because he ''stole his wallet'' while they were grabbing him.
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* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''Time For Yesterday'', a local warlord captures an enemy priestess and proposes marriage.
* Happens to [[The Elric Saga|Elric of Melnibone]] in ''The Sleeping Sorceress''. He successfully fights off the attempt, then stumbles onto the person who arranged it anyway.
* Rincewind is kidnapped by the Revolutionaries in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]''.
* Mel Beeby is a victim of this in the [[Agent Angel]] / [[Angels Unlimited]] series of books. It has been speculated this was mainly for the [[Fetish Fuel|benefit of older readers]], considering who kidnapped her.
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* Page quote comes from an episode of [[My Name Is Earl]], where Earl snatches his friend's mother so he can convince her to quit smoking cold turkey.
* On ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' Chase got kidnapped for his bachelor party and he sort of knew what was going on.
** That was so he had a handy excuse to use if his fiance complained about it. Of course, she knew exactly what was going on.
** In Season 4, House himself was basically abducted by the CIA for most of an episode, for an emergency diagnosis on a covert agent.
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* In the first season of [[Heroes]] Hiro ends up kidnapped by {{spoiler|employees of his father, ostensibly wanting to bring him home and end his journey, but his berating is really a [[Secret Test of Character]].}}
* In ''[[Sherlock]]'', the man who's stalking John through CCTV and has him kidnapped and taken to a warehouse is actually {{spoiler|Mycroft, rather than Moriarty, and his offer to pay John to spy on Sherlock is not the action of an Evil Overlord, but of a loving, if creepy, older brother (who is ''also'' something of a secret evil overlord - at least, Sherlock seems to think so).}}
* [[Jonathan Creek (TV)|Jonathan Creek]] experiences an accidental example in one episode, in which his unique talents were called upon by a senior police officer. Apparently there was a bit of a breakdown in communications, because the two officers sent to bring him to the police station were under the impression that he was actually a suspect. The inspector was most apologetic about it.
 
 
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* All that [[Totally Spies|whooping]] qualifies as the speed variant.
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' and his friends in the Rescue Jet Fusion special.
* Used by SHIELD in ''[[Spider-Man: theThe Animated Series]]''. If Nick Fury wants to have a chat with you, expect your next taxi to be one of their disguised flying cars.
* [[Re Boot]]: Hexadecimal (post [[Heel Face Turn]]) kidnaps Bob in the middle of an infected guardian invasion simply to chat. (She gets bored easily.)
 
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