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| - A Rescue Trope with the Distressed Damsel/Dude invoking the likelihood of rescue by a specific person or small group. She Will Come For Me is the most basic version, followed by variations. The Distressed Damsel/Dude has usually been kidnapped but that's not required--s/he can fall down a well, be waiting for the Hero at a rendezvous point, whatever, and the principle is the same. Compare Big Damn Heroes, Changed My Mind, Kid, Conscience Makes You Go Back. Examples of She Will Come for Me include:
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| - A Rescue Trope with the Distressed Damsel/Dude invoking the likelihood of rescue by a specific person or small group. She Will Come For Me is the most basic version, followed by variations. The Distressed Damsel/Dude has usually been kidnapped but that's not required--s/he can fall down a well, be waiting for the Hero at a rendezvous point, whatever, and the principle is the same. She Will Come For Me: Bob the Distressed Dude is kidnapped by the Big Bad, who gloats that Bob's rescue is impossible since Nothing Can Stop Us Now. But Bob has faith in Alice and says that She Will Come for Me in the face of danger. Sure enough, Alice shows up Just in Time for a Big Damn Heroes rescue, vindicating Bob's faith. Cue Crowning Moment of Heartwarming and Bob likely declaring "I knew you'd come back!" or "It took you long enough!" She Won't Come For Me: Bob the Distressed Dude is kidnapped by the Big Bad, who plans to lure Alice into a trap by telling her I Have Your Bob. But maybe Alice is a Jerkass Designated Hero who's made it clear she thinks Bob is The Load. Or maybe Bob is The Atoner who's spun the Heel Face Revolving Door so many times he doesn't think that he deserves to be saved. Either way, Bob declares that he's useless as a hostage, since She Won't Come For Me. Cue double Crowning Moment of Heartwarming and Bob's shock when Alice shows up anyway for a Big Damn Heroes rescue, proving that Alice is really a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and that Bob does have people who care about him. She Will Come For Me often indicates a character Genre Savvy enough to be sure the hero will show up Just in Time. She Won't Come For Me is a subtrope of Nothing Can Save Us Now in which the character despairs of rescue by a specific person (or small group of people), rather than despairing of being saved in general by rocks falling from the sky, thinking up a daring escape plan, and such. However, She Will Come / She Won't Come For Me are not subversions or inversions of each other; they are equal facets of the same trope. Like Conscience Makes You Go Back MUST contain the rescuer characters "stopping on their way and realizing they have to (go back to the rescue)," She Will/Won't Come For Me MUST contain the Distressed characters invoking the likelihood of rescue by someone specific: they will argue about it with the Bad Guy, discuss it with their fellow Distressed Designees, or even just think about it in their internal monologue. She Will/Won't Come For Me can overlap with Changed My Mind, Kid when it focuses on the Kid's expectation of whether the Changing Of Mind will occur. A guaranteed Tear Jerker is to subvert this trope: a Distressed Designee believing that S/He Will Come For Me when The Hero doesn't come or arrives much too late, turning the whole thing into a cruel Hope Spot with the Distressed Designee often Dying Alone. There may be versions where The Hero doesn't come and the Distressed Designee didn't expect them to, but expect that variation to be pointless and depressing. Compare Big Damn Heroes, Changed My Mind, Kid, Conscience Makes You Go Back. Examples of She Will Come for Me include:
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