The Distress Ball trope as used in popular culture. When a writer needs to have a character put in trouble so she (and it's almost always a "she") can be …

Counterpart of the Damsel in Distress. He's usually the sidekick to a butt-kicking Action Girl, always getting himself captured for the female lead to save.

The nature of the distress varies. The classic damsel has been kidnapped or captured and is locked away, awaiting rescue and afraid for her life and virtue. She ... Damsel out of Distress · Save the Princess · Western Animation · Anime & Manga

"Badass In Distress" is a major genre of Fan Fiction, even — or perhaps especially — when the Badass is so Bad that it requires a lot of Applied Phlebotinum to ...

The heroes are summoned to respond to a distress call, or occasionally, a non-emergency yet still foreboding request for assistance from an expedition.

This trope occurs when the damsel escapes on her own or at least makes significant progress towards it before the hero can find her.

Distress is a 1995 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. In the year 2055, investigative reporter Andrew Worth travels to the artificial island of Stateless …

A woman has large breasts and hates them. Maybe not all the time, but she acknowledges they can cause her problems. Some common reasons for this are:.

She picks up the Distress Ball and, like a true Damsel Scrappy, scores on her own team with it. And worse, she seems like she's enjoying it.

The Parents in Distress trope as used in popular culture. Kids have this tendency to get themselves in trouble, often requiring their parental figures to …