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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|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]]
* 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
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* 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!"]]
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* [[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.
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* Early in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', Perrin is captured by Whitecloaks and sentenced to execution. When Lan violently bursts into his tent and cuts down his guards, Perrin inadvertently tries to scream a warning to his captors.
* In Charles Stross' ''The Atrocity Archives'', Mo describes being rescued from terrorists by a SWAT team:
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* 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"
== [[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.
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