People point out that Sarkeesian says nothing new, that the damsel in distress trope is well-known.
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She presents examples of the damsel in distress trope in video games concisely and effectively.
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Lara Croft is a damsel in distress and a heroine, and the very gameplay itself reflects this.
In the ponds and flooded areas, they're hoping for frogs, toads, newts, aquatic plants, damsel flies and dragonflies.
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But every time he reaches his distressed damsel, Donkey Kong whisks her away.
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Many of these early silent films involved a damsel-in-distress telephone operator calling for help in the midst of a robbery.
Lyra is a fearless little preteen damsel, who does not like even the suggestion that she might ever be a damsel in distress.
As tough as she was, she had a damsel quality an elusive aspect that made people want to take care of her.
Last year, most were too busy playing MacGyver to their damsel-in-distress economies.
Recently, a white knight rode in to rescue the damsel in distress.
Today more than ever, like the archetypal damsel-in-distress strapped to the rails, it seems doomed to perish under the wheels of an onrushing political locomotive.
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Yet, that game was responsible for invoking the Damsel in Distress tropes in one of the most violent and horrifying ways I have ever seen.
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Fortunately, this particular story is not a damsel in distress trope.
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We also have a brief scene between Sansa and Littlefinger, as he plots and plots some more and our damsel in distress hopes and wishes for a way to escape.
Women seem to be searching for their own Prince Charming and men seem to be searching for the damsel Princess in distress who needs to be saved (thanks for that Disney).
If Best Buy was the proverbial damsel in distress and Schulze the knight, then he has surely put his spurs into his mare and retreated, leaving the maid exactly as she was.
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Never mind that she spends the first act being leered at by the villain mostly to make Tony Stark oh-so-jealous, never mind that she spends literally the entire second half of the film as a damsel-in-distress.
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