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* ''CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Pursuit to Kadath''. While investigating the mysterious disappearance of Nils Lindstrom, the investigators are kidnapped by a group of armed men and taken to a railway car. There they meet U.S. Senator Harold Lindstrom, who wants to hire them to find his son Nils.

* ''Film/RiseOfTheGuardians''

In some cases, it can be a case of PoorCommunicationKills and/or WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis. A ScarySurpriseParty is often a specific type of this.

* All that [[TotallySpies whooping]] qualifies as the speed variant.

* Film/JamesBond encounters this more than once:

** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. After Bond saves Tracy's life, he's kidnapped by several men and taken to see crime lord Draco. It turns out that Draco is Tracy's father and wants Bond to marry her.
** In ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', [[spoiler: Bond is kidnapped by 'the dove' who is actually the BigBad's [[EnemyMine old rival]].]]
*** [[spoiler: This is also before TheReveal that Kristatos is the BigBad, at this point we believe that it is 'the dove'. It's after Bond meets him that it is cleared out.]]

* In the CLAMP manga ''{{Suki}}'' the main character is frequently used as a hostage to get money out of her rich father. Then, one of her best friends, who's family was apparently having monetary troubles, kidnapped her.

** In ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', Bond is brought to someone at gunpoint. A villain? No, it's his old friend Felix Leiter, who just wants to ask what's going on. Justified this time, as 007 had just been seen shooting a senior KGB official in front of several dozen witnesses [[spoiler:and Leiter had know way of knowing it was being staged.]]

* In the ''StarTrek'' novel ''Time For Yesterday'', a local warlord captures an enemy priestess and proposes marriage.

** In ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'', the director of the Japanese intelligence service (already named as an ally, and who remains an ally throughout the film) feels a need to have Bond lured down a corridor so he can fall through a trapdoor and down a chute which dumps him in a chair in the director's office. One can't help feeling that giving Bond a quiet invitation and directions to the stairs would have been less of a bother for both parties.
** In ''TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', Lieutenant Hip doesn't seem to feel any need to inform Bond that the reason he's being arrested and taken out on a police launch to the middle of nowhere ''isn't'' so that they can dispose of him with no witnesses - it's so that he get a mission assignment from his boss, who is cleverly concealed in a shipwreck.
** In ''TheLivingDaylights'', Bond is brought to someone at gunpoint. A villain? No, it's his old friend Felix Leiter, who just wants to ask what's going on. Justified this time, as 007 had just been seen shooting a senior KGB official in front of several dozen witnesses [[spoiler:and Leiter had know way of knowing it was being staged.]]
** ''OnHerMajestysSecretService''. After Bond saves Tracy's life, he's kidnapped by several men and taken to see crime lord Draco. It turns out that Draco is Tracy's father and wants Bond to marry her.

* Kind of in the ''{{Tintin}}'' book Destination Moon. They're following an invitation that ends with them ending up in an armored car getting taken through checkpoints to what looks like a military base in what they expect is a sinister kidnapping. Actually, Professor Calculus just wants them to join him working on the moon project. Calculus is their friend, but the supervisors who send the invitation aren't, so it might not count.

* In the first season of Heroes Hiro ends up kidnapped by [[spoiler: employees of his father, ostensibly wanting to bring him home and end his journey, but his berating is really a SecretTestOfCharacter.]]

* On ''{{House}}'' Chase got kidnapped for his bachelor party and he sort of knew what was going on.

* JamesBond encounters this more than once:
** In ''{{You Only Live Twice}}'', the director of the Japanese intelligence service (already named as an ally, and who remains an ally throughout the film) feels a need to have Bond lured down a corridor so he can fall through a trapdoor and down a chute which dumps him in a chair in the director's office. One can't help feeling that giving Bond a quiet invitation and directions to the stairs would have been less of a bother for both parties.
** In ''{{The Man With The Golden Gun}}'', Lieutenant Hip doesn't seem to feel any need to inform Bond that the reason he's being arrested and taken out on a police launch to the middle of nowhere ''isn't'' so that they can dispose of him with no witnesses - it's so that he get a mission assignment from his boss, who is cleverly concealed in a shipwreck.
** In ''{{The Living Daylights}}'', Bond is brought to someone at gunpoint. A villain? No, it's his old friend Felix Leiter, who just wants to ask what's going on. Justified this time, as 007 had just been seen shooting a senior KGB official in front of several dozen witnesses [[spoiler:and Leiter had know way of knowing it was being staged.]]

** In ''ForYourEyesOnly'', [[spoiler: Bond is kidnapped by 'the dove' who is actually the BigBad's [[EnemyMine old rival]].]]

* JonathanCreek experiences an accidental example in one episode, in which his unique talents were called upon by a senior police officer. Apparently there was a bit of a breakdown in communications, because the two officers sent to bring him to the police station were under the impression that he was actually a suspect. The inspector was most apologetic about it.

** In ''{{The Living Daylights}}'', Bond is brought to someone at gunpoint. A villain? No, it's his old friend Felix Leiter, who just wants to ask what's going on.

* After Martin Luther came under[[HolyRomanEmpire Imperial]] ban by the Imperial Diet, his supporter Prince-Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony (also "his" prince since Luther was Saxon, making him a ReasonableAuthorityFigure ) had him kidnapped, reported dead and held in Wartburg Castle to keep him hidden from imperial authorities.

* Happened in ''BadCompany''.

* After Martin Luther was declared a heretic by the Catholic authorities, his allies in the German nobility had him kidnapped and held in Wartburg Castle to keep him hidden from Catholic authorities.

* In ''CodeGeass'', [[spoiler: [[ActionGirl Kallen]] is captured, only to be turned over to [[TheWoobie Nunnally]].]]

-->--'''MyNameIsEarl'''

Sometimes this has valid in-story reasons - if secrecy is paramount, for example, it may be deemed necessary for the sake of maintaining a cover. Other times, though, it just seems to be a plot twist for the sake of a plot twist - approaching the person peacefully would have worked just as well, but that way, we wouldn't have had all that lovely dramatic tension. Can come across as stupid if the one of defining traits of the character approached this way is an [[PersonOfMassDestruction ability to cause massive losses and damages]] - see StupidSurrender.

* Mel Beeby is a victim of this in the Agent Angel/Angels Unlimited series of books. It has been speculated this was mainly for the [[FetishFuel benefit of older readers]], considering who kidnapped her.

* Happens to Tenma in ''{{Monster}}''.

Sometimes this has valid in-story reasons - if secrecy is paramount, for example, it may be deemed necessary for the sake of maintaining a cover. Other times, though, it just seems to be a plot twist for the sake of a plot twist - approaching the person peacefully would have worked just as well, but that way, we wouldn't have had all that lovely dramatic tension. Can be a WallBanger if the one of defining traits of the character approached this way is an [[PersonOfMassDestruction ability to cause massive losses and damages]] - see StupidSurrender.