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* In "Series/{{BeingHuman(U.S.)}}", Aidan is accosted by a group of vampires, has a bag thrown over his head, and is thrown into the back of the van to be transported to a secondary location. When they arrive, he is dragged out of the van and the bag is roughly snatched off his head. Aiden struggles the whole time until he sees who is in front of him: Kenny, the vampire Aidan sired. Kenny is confused by Aidan's trussed up state. He is exasperated at his henchmen, insisting that he only wanted them to escort Aidan safely to Kenny's headquarters '''not''' [[PoorCommunicationKills roughly kidnap him]].

* In ''Bad Company'' (the one with Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins), Rock's character is grabbed out of bed and kidnapped as part of a training exercise. Hopkins begins to tell him how, in that situation, his mental faculties shut down in a panic when Rock interrupts, saying he knew what was going on because he identified the agents, one through his breath, one because he could feel her breasts when she grabbed him, and one because he ''stole his wallet'' while they were grabbing him.

* Page quote comes from an episode of MyNameIsEarl, where Earl snatches his friend's mother so he can convince her to quit smoking cold turkey.

* Subverted in the ''LegendOfTheSeeker'' episode "Elixir." Zedd is captured by a group of mercenaries, and brought, bound, to their boss...who happens to be an old friend of Zedd's, who promptly sets him free and explains he grabbed him because he heard a wizard was in town, but thought it might be one working for [[BigBad Darken Rahl]]. The subversion comes when he explains his plans to fight Rahl, which involves, essentially, magic drug trafficking. When Zedd objects, his old friend binds him again, and tries to strip him of his magic.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Avdol dognaps Iggy into an extra ally. Meanwhile on the villain's side, [[Main/Cowboy Hol Horse]] kidnaps [[TheSeer Boingo]] into his final chance to sabotage the heroes.

* Happens to [[TheElricSaga Elric of Melnibone]] in ''The Sleeping Sorceress''. He successfully fights off the attempt, then stumbles onto the person who arranged it anyway.

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.

* ''TheSimpsons'' has done this a few times.
** A specific example: Marge enlists Willy's help to kidnap Homer, Bart and Lisa when the latter were brainwashed by a cult.
* All that [[TotallySpies whooping]] qualifies as the speed variant. OnceAnEpisode, and regularly lampshaded.
* ''JimmyNeutron'' and his friends in the Rescue Jet Fusion special.
* Used by [=SHIELD=] in ''{{Spider-Man The Animated Series}}''. If Nick Fury wants to have a chat with you, expect your next taxi to be one of their disguised flying cars.
* ''ReBoot'': Hexadecimal (post HeelFaceTurn) kidnaps Bob in the middle of an infected guardian invasion simply to chat. (She gets bored easily.)

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* WesternAnimation/KimPossible is introduced to Global Justice by being suddenly dropped down a trapdoor into a pneumatic tube and brought to the agency's headquarters.

* {{Dexter}} is also kidnapped for his bachelor party. This results in him accidentally punching his friend Masuka when he is released from the carboot, as he (and the audience) genuinely believed he had been taken by the season's BigBad, the Skinner.

* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' Barney is kidnapped for his own birthday party by Ted and Marshall

* On ''How I Met Your Mother'' Barney is kidnapped for his own birthday party by Ted and Marshall

-->--'''''Series/MyNameIsEarl'''''

* The start of ''FinalFantasyIX'' has the main characters trying to kidnap Garnet for their employer Cid in Lindblum, while at the same time she's trying to escape her Alexandria to reach Cid.
* ''StarOcean 3'' has this near the beginning. Fayt is marooned on a planet, and has little hope of actually getting off of it. A few plot events later, when Fayt is facing the first boss of the game, who has a gun and can easily kill Fayt, Immune-to-phasers Cliff shows up to kidnap Fayt to take him to Maria, solving both the "stuck on a planet" and the first boss problems at the same time. Fayt had to be told repeatedly that Cliff was there to kidnap him.

In some cases, it can be a case of PoorCommunicationKills. A ScarySurpriseParty is often a specific type of this. Not to be confused with TheKindnapper.

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

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

* In the beginning of the ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' Masane got kidnapped with the help of a tranquilizing gun by [[spoiler:an assistant of her would-be employer]]. Looks like a risk, given how much could go wrong [[hottip:*:starting from the needle being simply deflected by the armor]] and that they knew there's no way to stop a Witchblade user if she would as much as panicked from waking up in an unknown place later.

* In ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', the man who's stalking John through CCTV and has him kidnapped and taken to a warehouse is actually M[[spoiler:ycroft, rather than Moriarty, and his offer to pay John to spy on Sherlock is not the action of a criminal mastermind but of a loving, if creepy, older brother (who is ''also'' something of a criminal mastermind - at least, Sherlock seems to think so).]]

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

* 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.]]

* ReBoot: Hexadecimal (post HeelFaceTurn) kidnaps Bob in the middle of an infected guardian invasion simply to chat. (She gets bored easily.)

* In ''{{Sherlock}}'', the man who's stalking John through CCTV and has him kidnapped and taken to a warehouse is actually [[spoiler:Mycroft, rather than Moriarty, and his offer to pay John to spy on Sherlock is not the action of an Evil Overlord, but of a loving, if creepy, older brother (who is ''also'' something of a secret evil overlord - at least, Sherlock seems to think so).]]

* [[spoiler:Mrs. Bradley]] in ''FullmetalAlchemist'', who is kidnapped by [[spoiler:Roy Mustang and his subordinates]] during the Promised Day. She doesn't know quite what's going on, but once [[spoiler:her husband's own followers]] attempt to kill her and she realizes her kidnappers are actually ''protecting'' her, she only too gladly joins their cause.

* In ''[[UltimateSpiderMan Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', Spidey is kidnapped and held prisoner by Carol Danvers after Norman Osborn escapes prison. She later explains that it was partly to protect Spiderman, who Osborn would surely go after (and partly to try to lure Osborn back to jail).

* Happens to the protagonist in ''{{Dreamland}}''. The agents in question are very amicable about the whole thing.