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* WeJustNeedToWaitForRescue: A character insists on sitting back and waiting to be rescued from some disaster.
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* IFoundYouLikeThis: The rescuer finds the rescuee at near-death or unconscious and takes them to their home to heal them back to health.
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* IFoundYouLikeThis: The rescuer finds the rescuee at near-death or unconscious and takes them to their home to heal them back to health.
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The index of tropes about rescues: the types that exist, the ways they're enacted, [[PlayingWithATrope and the ways they can go awry]].
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The index of tropes about rescues: {{rescue}}s: the types that exist, the ways they're enacted, [[PlayingWithATrope and the ways they can go awry]].
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* IFoundYouLikeThis: The rescuer finds the rescuee at near-death or unconscious and takes them to their home to heal them back to health.
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** ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: The audience sees the DirtyCoward enjoy their freedom from responsibility, but at some point they will make the decision to go back and help to make things right.
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* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: The audience sees the DirtyCoward enjoy their freedom from responsibility, but at some point they will make the decision to go back and help to make things right.
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* TeleportationRescue: Saving someone via {{Teleportation}}.
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* TeleportationRescue: Saving someone via {{Teleportation}}.teleportation.
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* GotOverRapeInstantly: The rescuee is saved from sexual assault and immediately offers sexual or romantic interest to their rescuer with no further mention of the trauma.
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* ImprobableFallingSave: Catching a falling person without their weight and momentum injuring you or pulling you down with them.
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* FrivolousSummoning: You needed my help for ''that?!''
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* EmbarrassingRescue
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* EmbarrassingRescueEmbarrassingRescue: A villain is embarrassed at being saved by a hero.
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* FiremansSafetyNet
FiremansSafetyNet: A trampoline is used to save a character who jumped from a height (whether due to suicidality or the building being unsafe).
*FollowingInTheirRescuersFootsteps FollowingInTheirRescuersFootsteps: Someone chooses their job due to having been saved by someone with that job.
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* GiveChaseWithAngryNatives
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* GottaRescueThemAll
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* GiveChaseWithAngryNatives
GiantRobotHandsSaveLives: A falling character is caught by a giant robot.
*GottaRescueThemAll
GiveChaseWithAngryNatives: Someone is being chased and tries to throw the chaser off by riling up people who could attack either or both parties.
*GunshipRescue
GottaRescueThemAll: A video game where you need to rescue multiple characters one by one.
*HandsOffMyFluffy
GunshipRescue: A gunship (usually an aircraft) saves the bacon of one or more main characters in a tough situation.
*HangingByTheFingers
HandsOffMyFluffy: Somebody tries to save someone else from an animal, but it turns out the animal was the other person's pet.
*HelpMistakenForAttackHangingByTheFingers: A character is dangling from a ledge or rope by their fingers and is in danger of falling.
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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind
* NotTheFallThatKillsYou
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* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay
* ParentsInDistress
* PassiveRescue
* PetGetsTheKeys
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* HerosFirstRescue
HerosFirstRescue: Someone who's recently gained powers sees people in danger, realises they could rescue them with their powers, does so, and usually goes on to become a superhero.
*IWasJustPassingThrough
IWasJustPassingThrough: Somebody saves, or tries to save, their rival, but makes an excuse to save face.
*IWillFindYou
IWillFindYou: Someone is on a determined quest to find a missing lover, relative, or friend.
*JumpIllCatchYou
JumpIllCatchYou: A character has another, who is stuck in a high place, jump into their arms.
*JustWhistle
JustWhistle: A character saves another and gives them a whistle to blow if they need saving again.
*LastMinuteReprieve
LastMinuteReprieve: Someone is just about to be executed, only to be pardoned in the nick of time.
*NewcomerSavesTheDay
NewcomerSavesTheDay: A character joins a team, then earns their membership by saving everybody else.
*NoOneGetsLeftBehind
NoOneGetsLeftBehind: A character refuses to leave behind an injured friend or a dead body, no matter how dire the situation is.
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NotTheFallThatKillsYou: A character is plummeting, but can survive uninjured as long as they don't actually hit the ground.
*NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay
NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: A character is saved by another, who either died and came back, died but the one being saved hallucinated them, or was [[DisneyDeath mistaken for dead]].
*ParentsInDistress
ParentsInDistress: Children save their parents from danger.
*PassiveRescue
PassiveRescue: A character is imprisoned, so someone else sneakily gives them the means to escape.
*PetGetsTheKeys
PetGetsTheKeys: A pet gives some trapped characters a means to escape.
*ProhibitedHeroSavesTheDayProhibitedHeroSavesTheDay: A character was not allowed to join a group of heroes, but then has to save them when the group gets endangered.
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RecruitedFromTheGutter: Two characters work together because one saved the other from a bad life.
*RecruitmentByRescue
RecruitmentByRescue: A character needs help saving the day, so they must save people and then recruit them.
*RedundantRescueRedundantRescue: A character is rescued even though logically they shouldn't need it. Sometimes this is an intentional gag, other times it's just a PlotHole.
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* RescueReversal
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* RescueReversalRescueReversal: Characters try to rescue another, only for that character to save themselves, and the would-be rescuers to end up needing rescue instead.
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* RestrictedRescueOperation
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* RestrictedRescueOperationRestrictedRescueOperation: Somebody plans a rescue, but lacks the necessary supplies, needs to keep it secret, or isn't allowed to do it.
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RoadsideSurgery: A character operates on another in an area that's not an operating room.
*RoaringRampageOfRescue
RoaringRampageOfRescue: A character goes on an aggressive, determined rampage to save another.
*SaintBernardRescueSaintBernardRescue: A Saint Bernard brings a hypothermic character a barrel of brandy.
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SavingTheWorldWithArt: Making art as a rescue.
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SheWillComeForMe: Someone is in danger and muses that they will, or won't, be saved by a second character, who does save them regardless of what the endangered one thought.
*ShutUpAndSaveMeShutUpAndSaveMe: A character in danger reminds a distracted hero to save them.
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StabTheScorpion: A character appears to be attacking another, but really they're killing a dangerous animal and saving the other character.
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SummonBiggerFish: Summoning a monster/god/etc to defeat another, evil one.
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TeleportationRescue: Saving someone via {{Teleportation}}.
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TerrifyingRescuer: A scary character rescues someone.
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ThirdPartyStopsAttack: Somebody tries to attack someone else, but a third character interrupts the would-be attacker.
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TuckAndCover: A character saves another from an explosion or something similar by blocking the way with their body.
*UnwantedRescue
UnwantedRescue: A character saves another, who didn't want to be rescued.
*TheVictimMustBeConfused
TheVictimMustBeConfused: Somebody assumes someone else was kidnapped by another, but the "victim" claims they're not kidnapped.
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* RevoltingRescue: A heroic, but gross, act.
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* DivingSaveDivingSave: Plowing right into someone to save their life.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Saving someone's life, even if it means providing risk for yourself.
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* TakingTheBullet: Someone is about to be attacked, but another character jumps right in front of them and takes the hit.
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* SaveTheJerk: The hero rescues someone who gets on their nerves.
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* RescueSex: TheHero rescues the DamselInDistress, and she rewards him by having sex with him.
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* RescueSex: TheHero rescues the DamselInDistress, and she rewards him by having sex with him. spending the night in bed together.
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* EscapeTropes
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* SlaveLiberation: Rescuing people who are trapped in forced labor or servitude.
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* SaveTheVillain SaveTheVillain: The hero rescues one of their enemies.
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* AccidentalHero: A character becomes a hero after unknowingly saving the day.
