They Were Holding You Back: Difference between revisions

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Subtrope to [[The Call Knows Where You Live]].

== Anime & Manga ==

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* This is what the [[Complete Monster|villain]] of ''Decorator'' intends to do to [[Erast Fandorin]] in the end. {{spoiler|Luckily, he fails.}}

* Thufir Hawat in ''[[Dune]]''.

* The origin of one protagonist in Vladislav Krapivin's [[The Multiverse|Crystal-verse]] series. One secret society is dedicated to protecting and teaching kids with unusual abilities, which [[Dark and Troubled Past]] makes more obvious, and they run a boarding school, so they only watch [[Department of Child Disservices|the bureaucracy of social services]] and push some levers... Either that, or find children they want to acquire, remove their parents making it look like an accident, ''then'' ride in on a white horse when bureaucrats "for some reason" deny custody to other relatives. Good news is that [[Well Intentioned Extremist|well intentioned extremists]] prefer "humane" methods of making people vanish: interspacial travel in the setting is anisotropic, so even if exiles know anything of this fringe discipline and somehow can make proper equipment in the world where they were dumped, good luck with finding a way back.

* The origin of one protagonist in Vladislav Krapivin's [[The Multiverse|Crystal-verse]] series. One secret society is dedicated to protecting and teaching kids with unusual abilities, which [[Dark and Troubled Past]] makes more obvious, and they run a boarding school, so they only watch [[Department of Child Disservices|the bureaucracy of social services]] and push some levers... Either that, or find children they want to acquire, remove their parents making it look like an accident, ''then'' ride in on a white horse when bureaucrats "for some reason" deny custody to other relatives. Good news is that [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|well intentioned extremists]] prefer "humane" methods of making people vanish: interspacial travel in the setting is anisotropic, so even if exiles know anything of this fringe discipline and somehow can make proper equipment in the world where they were dumped, good luck with finding a way back.

* In ''Windmills of the Gods'' by [[Sidney Sheldon]], the heroine turns down an offer from the President to become a US Ambassador. Unfortunately for her, the villain really wants her to take the job, so arranges for her husband to die in a tragic car crash, so that she will be free to accept.