Terrifying Rescuer: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Stockholm Syndrome]], [[Unwanted Rescue]], [[Embarrassing Rescue]].

 

* In ''[[Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic|Magi Labyrinth of Magic]]'', Aladdin's djinn Uugo tends to scare the crap out of whoever he's rescuing or protecting, what with him missing his head and all.

* ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP|Tenchi Muyo GXP]]'': Protagonist Seina is only rescued from the [[Space Pirate]] Tarant Shank ([[Knight of Cerebus]].<ref>[[Villain Decay|you'd think, anyway]]</ref> and [[Knife Nut]]) by [[Betty and Veronica|the Betty]] of his [[Love Dodecahedron]], Kiriko -- [[Let's Get Dangerous|covered in the blood of every mook between her and Seina]]. His first reaction is terror—which upsets her, and Seina spends most of his screentime in the rest of the episode upset at himself ''for'' being scared of his childhood friend/crush when she'd just saved his life.

* Done a lot in [[One Piece]]. We have [[The Berserker|Monster Point Chopper]] in the Enies Lobby arc, inadvertently saving many of his [[True Companions]] while also trying to kill them. Aokiji saves Robin in her backstory, while killing his own ally right in front of her. Crocodile gets Luffy out of Impel Down and—while that had a reason; he wanted out too—he later takes blows for Luffy and orders Mr. 1 to do the same as they attempt to rescue Ace. This is partially because he's done a... well, a "Heel Neutral Turn," and partly because Luffy just has that much charisma.

 

* A ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' comic has Blue Devil suffer a [[Heroic BSOD]] when he tries to save a child who's too scared of his demonic appearance to go with him. Dr. Fate tries to cheer him up by telling him that ''[[Superman]]'' actually had the same problem once, while trying to save a girl from a flaming plane wreck.

* In one ''[[Hellblazer]]'' story, a little girl is kidnapped by a demon and kept caged inside his body. John is allowed to see her, and as he's being removed, reaches towards her yelling [[Big Damn Heroes|"We're coming to get you!"]] and wondering why she's backing away as far as the cage allows. [[Fridge Horror|Only later does he realize]] that what the girl saw was [[Womb Level|an indistinct shape covered in slime]] reaching towards her yelling [[Nightmare Fuel|"We're coming to get you!"]]

* In ''[[Forgotten Realms|Wywern's Spur]]'' an old adventurer told the stories of Cole Wyvernspur. One of the stories was about the carpenter's daughter who refused the mad red wizard and then was kidnapped and imprisoned by him. Cole who jumped to the rescue "looked so fierce when he arrived that Bette mistook him for one of Yawataht's minions and smacked him on the head with a hammer". In another Cole entered a hydra's lair unarmed and when he left a hour later, the monster was "everywhere"—in pieces. {{spoiler|He was turned into a ''big'' wyvern.}}

 

* In the ''[[Bones]]'' episode "The Woman in the Car", where the child Booth was rescuing was terrified until Booth told him his father's code word (Paladin).

 

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