7 Dudes in Distress Who Needed Saving

...  Farscape's John Crichton and Once's Capt. Hook (seriously, Killian, how did you get cursed AGAIN?!) wonder how they were not included on this list.   Heh.  :)

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7(+) Dudes in Distress

Traditionally, it's damsels who need saving, what with their pretty dresses, bosoms and emotions. Men, on the other hand, are theoretically strong and self-sufficient… which is why it's so satisfying whenever these tables turned. Here are seven dudes who would be dead without their infinitely more competent damsels.

1) Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games
Has there ever been a dude who was more constantly in distress than Peeta? Here's a list of things that happens to Peeta in the two Hunger Games he enters: Stabbed in the thigh, gets blood poisoning, is only prevented from eating poison berries by Katniss, nearly killed by a Career, walks into a Force Field and momentarily dies, covered in boils from a poisonous fog, enrages a group of killer monkeys, and more. Without Katniss, he would be dead a dozen times over, and that's before Katniss sets off to rescue him in Mockingjay. About the only thing Petta is good at is baking and manipulating the audiences of the Games, which is probably good since Katniss completely sucks at that.

2) Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Moon {...}

3) Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman
For every time Lois Lane was captured in Superman comics, Steve Trevor was also being tied to a chair and forced to wait for Wonder Woman to save his sorry ass.{...}

4) Flynn Rider, Tangled
Dashing, clever and agile, the thief Flynn Rider still managed to need saving throughout the entirety of Tangled. Whether Rapunzel is singing to distract the patrons of the Snuggly Duckling to keep Flynn from being captured, using her hair to help them down a cliff before pursuers arrive, arguing with Maximus the horse to continue to keep Flynn from being captured, the only thing keeping Flynn from the gallows is his new companion. Sure, he helped Rapunzel escape her tower, but Rapunzel actually helps Flynn escape death, so advantage: Rapunzel.

3) Iron Man, Iron Man 3
Iron Man doesn't often need rescuing, but he does rescue his CEO/gal pal Pepper Potts with some regularity. At the end of Iron Man 3, though, Tony Stark blows through nearly 50 suits of Iron Man armor to save Pepper, only to have the oil rig they and Adrich Killian are standing often collapse, Pepper fall to her death, and the Extremis-powered Killian about to turn Stark into a sardonic smear of blood. Instead, the Extremis-powered Pepper grabs an arm off some armor, punches the hell out of Killian, and blows him up, all while Tony lies on the ground and watches.

6) Fox Mulder, The X-Files
FBI Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are pretty different, but they have one thing in common — a propensity to finding themselves in constant mortal danger. But Mulder, perhaps because of his willingness to believe and accompanying inability to think things through, more often needed rescuing than Scully. Scully rescued him from a military base in The X-Files' second episode and then managed to save his ass in a ridiculous virtual reality online game that kills people in real life in the seventh season, and dozens of times in-between.

7) Every Single Male In Buffy Summers' Life, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel. Xander. Giles. Spike. If you hung out with Buffy Summers on any kind of regular basis during Buffy the Vampire Slayer and had a penis, then chances are Buffy saved your ass on multiple occasions. Angel and Spike's vampire powers don't really help, so reasonable normal humans like Xander and Giles have no chance, whether they're being accosted by giant praying mantis people or getting their butts kicked by Angel's evil version Angelus, respectively. Buffy gave Angel her blood when he was poisoned, and she saved Spike… well, it's hard to think of an episode where she didn't save Spike, especially when he had that chip in his head that kept him from committing evil. To be fair, everyone around Buffy needed saving pretty much constantly, and that occasionally included Buffy herself. But given that the main female characters were Slayers and witches, the less powered male characters were easy pickings for the bad guys.

Harper Lee's Sister Alice Dies at 103 years old

From AL.com

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2014/11/alice_lee_sister_of_to_kill_a.html#incart_river

Alice Lee, acclaimed lawyer and sister of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author Harper Lee, dies at 103

MONROEVILLE, Alabama -- Alice Lee, sister of "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee and trailblazing Alabama lawyer, died on Tuesday at the age of 103.

Johnson Funeral Home and Monuments in Monroeville posted an online notice of her death, which happened on Monday. The funeral home did not say how Alice Lee died. As of Tuesday morning, funeral arrangements had not been completed.

Alice Lee was born on Sept. 11, 1911 and grew up in Monroeville.

As Harper Lee's attorney, Alice Lee was well-known as the gatekeeper for her reclusive sister. She was also celebrated as a trailblazer, one of the few women who practiced law in Alabama before World War II, and a church leader.

In 1992, the Alabama-West Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church started awarding the annual Alice Lee Award to women who showed commitment to God while breaking barriers for women through leadership. Named in her honor, she was the first recipient of the award.

In 2012, at the age of 100, she was the oldest attorney still practicing law in Alabama.

"I would consider I've had a good life," she told the Press-Register in 2011. "A good life to me is one that has been happy, one that has been productive. Things I have done have been good for other people. I've tried to be a good citizen in my community."

Monroe County Probate Judge Greg Norris knew Alice Lee all his life. He said she handled the cases of many people he knew and later, after he was elected judge, he worked with her in the courtroom.

"She was wonderful, very bright," he said. "She had a good sense of humor and she was always willing to teach me.

"She lived her life where everybody could see her."

She stopped practicing law after she turned 100, according to Mark Childress, an author and acquaintance of Alice Lee's.

On Tuesday, he took to social media to share his memories. He met Alice Lee as a child while she was working on a case for his father.

"She told me she modeled her career on that of her father, Mr. Amasa Coleman Lee, who was of course the model of Atticus Finch," he wrote. "I don't think there's any reason to feel sad about the end of a life so richly and completely lived."