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The [[
Usually it'll only be temporary until someone fills the rescuee in on current events, although it may lead to [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like]]. Sometimes it'll turn out they actually ''are'' in worse danger now such as with a [[Villainous Rescue]] or [[Destructive Savior]].
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Compare [[Stockholm Syndrome]], [[Unwanted Rescue]], [[Embarrassing Rescue]].
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== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP
* 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
== [[
* 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 ''[[
* In the ''[[New 52]]'', Superman has a sad flashback of a time when he saved a little boy from getting hit by a truck. The boy was utterly terrified of him and struggled to get out of his arms. The neighborhood immediately forms an angry mob and attack him, and he is forced to flee to avoid harming them.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Terminator (
* [[Zig Zagged]] in the original ''[[Shrek]]'' movie: at first, Fiona is not happy about being rescued by an ogre, but then comes to like Shrek. Then a gang of a handsome [[Robin Hood]]-wannabes attack them, ostensibly with intent of saving Fiona from the "beast", but she dislikes him even more than she disliked Shrek. However, instead of calling for help, she [[Let's Get Dangerous|dispatches all the attackers herself]], leaving Shrek awed.
* Subverted in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode IV: [[A New Hope]]''.
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'''Luke Skywalker''': Huh? Oh! The uniform... I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm here to rescue you.
'''Leia''': You're who? }}
* During ''[[The Great Raid]]'' (both the film and [[Real Life]]) some of the prisoners did not recognize the uniforms of their rescuers, and had to be coaxed out of their huts. One even hid until after the raid was over.
* In ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'', Jane falls off a great height as she is chased by baboons and Tarzan catches her. She looks up at the half-naked wild man grabbing her by the waist and lets out a scream.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Early in ''[[
* In Charles Stross' ''The Atrocity Archives'', Mo describes being rescued from terrorists by a SWAT team:
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* In ''[[Forgotten Realms
== [[Live
* 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).
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' special webisode ''The Night of the Doctor'', the [[Doctor_Who/Characters/Doctors#Eighth_Doctor|Eighth Doctor]] becomes this once his rescuee realises he is a Time Lord.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Star Wars:
* In the ''[[
** In the episode "Unmasked", Batman tries to pull a kid out of a burning building, but the boy keeps crawling away and accuses him of being a monster. Batman has no choice but to remove his mask to make the boy take his hand.
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