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* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9868669/7/Game-of-Doctors ''Game of Doctors'' Chapter 7]] the Doctor's companion Norine is BoundAndGagged by the Petrans and held hostage for the Doctor to give up a piece of equipment, the Petran Leader threatening to shoot her in the head if the Doctor doesn't give himself up on the count of 10.

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* In [[https://www.Chapter 7 of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9868669/7/Game-of-Doctors ''Game Game of Doctors'' Chapter 7]] Doctors]]'', the Doctor's companion Norine is BoundAndGagged by the Petrans and held hostage for the Doctor to give up a piece of equipment, the Petran Leader threatening to shoot her in the head if the Doctor doesn't give himself up on the count of 10.10.
* ''Fanfic/InWhichTheFoxFlees'': Game Over takes Lila hostage over her initial Ladyblog video, where she claimed she and Ladybug were BFFs. Not only is something like this what Ladybug was worried about when she chewed out Lila for the video in front of Adrien, it becomes IHaveYourWife because she and Marinette have already gotten together.
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* {{Inverted|Trope}} in the climax of ''Literature/{[The Hike|2023}}''; [[spoiler:Vilhelm]] is holding Maggie at gunpoint, but Joni grabs hold of his backpack stuffed with [[spoiler:cocaine]] and threatens to throw it off the mountain unless [[spoiler:Vilhelm]] releases Maggie and drops the gun. She knows that [[spoiler:Vilhelm]] won't be willing to risk losing [[spoiler:a fortune in cocaine]] - especially as [[spoiler:the other traffickers]] he works for will ''not'' take it well - so she's able to persuade him to do as she asks, though she also anticipates he'll still try to kill them all anyway; it'll just be much harder without the gun.

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* {{Inverted|Trope}} in the climax of ''Literature/{[The ''Literature/{{The Hike|2023}}''; [[spoiler:Vilhelm]] is holding Maggie at gunpoint, but Joni grabs hold of his backpack stuffed with [[spoiler:cocaine]] and threatens to throw it off the mountain unless [[spoiler:Vilhelm]] releases Maggie and drops the gun. She knows that [[spoiler:Vilhelm]] won't be willing to risk losing [[spoiler:a fortune in cocaine]] - especially as [[spoiler:the other traffickers]] he works for will ''not'' take it well - so she's able to persuade him to do as she asks, though she also anticipates he'll still try to kill them all anyway; it'll just be much harder without the gun.
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* {{Inverted|Trope}} in the climax of ''Literature/{[The Hike|2023}}''; [[spoiler:Vilhelm]] is holding Maggie at gunpoint, but Joni grabs hold of his backpack stuffed with [[spoiler:cocaine]] and threatens to throw it off the mountain unless [[spoiler:Vilhelm]] releases Maggie and drops the gun. She knows that [[spoiler:Vilhelm]] won't be willing to risk losing [[spoiler:a fortune in cocaine]] - especially as [[spoiler:the other traffickers]] he works for will ''not'' take it well - so she's able to persuade him to do as she asks, though she also anticipates he'll still try to kill them all anyway; it'll just be much harder without the gun.
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* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', [[spoiler:Sayu Yagami is taken hostage by Mello and traded for the Death Note. Uncharacteristically, Mello takes precautions so that the Note cannot be traced by the SPK or Japanese police, but makes no attempt to kill the hostage or Souchiro (who delivered the Note) after the trade -- this makes a lot more sense in the manga, where he later blackmails Souchiro for information about the police investigation.]]

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* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', [[spoiler:Sayu Yagami is taken hostage by Mello Mello]] and traded for the Death Note. Uncharacteristically, Mello [[spoiler:Mello takes precautions so that the Note cannot be traced by the SPK or Japanese police, but makes no attempt to kill the hostage or Souchiro Soichiro (who delivered the Note) after the trade -- this makes a lot more sense in the manga, where he later blackmails Souchiro Sou\ichiro for information about the police investigation.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': One episode has Kingpin demand that Spider-Man hand over a sample of an extremely volitile mineral that was collected by a space probe in exchange for someone he's keeping hostage. Spider-Man actually agrees to this, and Kingpin keeps his word and releases the hostage only to find after Spider-Man and the hostage have left that the sample has decayed to the point that it's useless. Kingpin realizes that Spider-Man knew this would happen, which must have been why he was so willing to turn over something so dangerous.

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