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* Similarly subverted for comic effect in Creator/MelBrooks' movie ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': When the entire town of Rock Ridge draws its guns on Bart, he draws his own gun, holds it to his head, and plays both the hostage and the hostage-taker using two different voices. As the townspeople immediately fall for this trick, he drags himself off to the town jail, where, in an inspired bit of mime, he yanks himself inside by the neck just as he's making another plea for help.
--> "Oh baby, you're so talented. And they're so ''dumb!''"

** In a desperate bid to not be brutally dismembered like all the other gunmen in the ballroom, the last one points his gun at All Might and tries to force the Slayer to surrender lest All Might dies. The Slayer kicks a chair into his face midway through his demand, grab the perp and [[Jawbreaker end the gunman with extreme brutality]].

* ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'' (crossover between ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' and ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}''): The entire Steel Sabers Arc is this for the heroes. The Steel Sabers take control of I-Island, holding everyone there hostage, including several UA students, 13 heroes, including All Might, and all the island's scientists. The heroes don't know how to approach it without getting the hostages killed, and by this point, aren't sure if they can do it without getting all the hostages killed. [[OneManArmy The Doom Slayer]] and [[BenevolentAI VEGA]] decides to solve the situation themselves in the way they know how. By the time the mainland heroes arrive to I-Island, the Slayer has successfully killed off the entire Steel Sabers organization, wiped out Wolfram's group, forced Curator and the Volcano Thieves to retreat, rescued all the hostages with minimal physical harm (mental trauma given by the truckload) and I-Island is reduced to a blood-infested wasteland or a blazing inferno.

* ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'' (crossover between '"VideoGame/Doom2016'', ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' and ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}): The entire Steel Sabers Arc is this for the heroes. The Steel Sabers take control of I-Island, holding everyone there hostage, including several UA students, 13 heroes, including All Might, and all the island's scientists. The heroes don't know how to approach it without getting the hostages killed, and by this point, aren't sure if they can do it without getting all the hostages killed. [[OneManArmy The Doom Slayer]] and [[BenevolentAI VEGA]] decides to solve the situation themselves in the way they know how. By the time the mainland heroes arrive to I-Island, the Slayer has successfully killed off the entire Steel Sabers organization, wiped out Wolfram's group, forced Curator and the Volcano Thieves to retreat, rescued all the hostages with minimal physical harm (mental trauma given by the truckload) and I-Island is reduced to a blood-infested wasteland or a blazing inferno.

The situation for the bad guys has gone so far sideways that they're trapped by law enforcement, and the only way out is to trade hostages for a means of transportation and free passage. The true gauge of their desperation, that no degree of GenreBlindness can excuse the bad guys from knowing, is that their demands for a helicopter or jet plane are never met by the police.

* ''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire'': After nearly being caught by Heroes in a sting operation, [[VillainProtagonist Izuku/Mastermind]] takes the top 50 Pro Heroes in Japan hostage by threatening to release plans to kill them if he is captured or killed.
* Another ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' fic, ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2273582 Makes Us Stronger]]'', is a bank robbery that is also one of these. One villain has a force field quirk that makes it hard for heroes and police to get in and the leader has a quirk that forces others to activate their quirks. Aizawa is shot and forced to keep using Erasure far too much for his body to take. Midoriya and his mom are also there and Shinsou. There is a bomb under the bank too. Eventually the villains run and take Aizawa with them. The bomb goes off and people die, but Midoriya and Shinso already left to chase the villains (with permission from Midnight and orders not to engage) and Inko is shielded by All Might. The villains end up crashing their car but are caught and Aizawa survives.
* Another ''[=MHA=]'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24184402/ Gentle and Explosive]]'' has Bakugo and Eri walk into a trap set for Aizawa. Everyone in the store they go into is taken hostage and Bakugo pulls a BigBrotherInstinct TakeMeInstead as he’s adopted by Aizawa and Present Mic and Eri is his little sister and he isn’t letting her be hurt. He gets beaten, stabbed through the hands and strapped to a bomb but survives.

* In a season four episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', Castle and Martha are taken hostage during a bank robbery by a crew of robbers disguised as TV doctors. Beckett was on the outside negotiating. Of course it turned out to be a distraction from something much bigger.

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-->-- ''Series/BurnNotice'', "Bad Breaks"

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E22HostageCrisis "Hostage Crisis"]] naturally features one: BountyHunter Cad Bane breaks into the Senate building and takes several senators hostage, as well as having his [[TheCracker cracker]] lock down the entire building, in order to [[spoiler:have crime lord Ziro the Hutt released from prison]]. [[TheBadGuyWins He succeeds.]]

* The Van Ryder Games game ''Hostage Negotiator'' has you as the titular negotiator, trying to save as many hostages as possible and either talk their abductor into surrendering or eliminate them. The base game has three Abductors (Arkayne, a terrorist leader who wants his men released; Donna, a college professor who took her class hostage after being denied tenure; and Edward, a desperate man who [[HealthcareMotivation took a hospital hostage to get medical care for his son]]). Expansions introduce new mechanics, like a pair of Abductors (who can potentially be turned against each other) or hostages suffering Stockholm Syndrome.

* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' had a segment in Episode 4, where Karamatsu Matsuno is strung up for ransom by an unknown assailant and his family is contacted to extort money form them in exchange for his life. Not only do they ''not'' care that he's been captured, they actively ignore the threats and continue having a good time without him. Even by the end of the episode they haven't come back for him.