Captured and Deprived

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Captured adjective - Taken and held prisoner.

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Deprived and captured are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Deprived" instead a verb "Captured".

Nearby Words: capture, capturing

Deprived adjective - Kept from having the necessities of life or a healthful environment.

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Captured and deprived are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Captured" instead a verb "Deprived".

Nearby Words: deprivation, depriving

Merely being captured isn't sufficient for the trope though, it's being deprived of agency, heroes get captured all the time but the difference between them and the damsel is agency.

Source: Damsel in Distress
One of these pilots was shot down, captured, and deprived of his military identification by German troops.

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To add "Birdman is captured by the villain and saved by Avenger" and "Birdman is caught in the dark and deprived of his powers" to the list would be only mild exaggerations.

Source: Once per Episode

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