Bedouin Rescue Service: Difference between revisions

* Happens in the ''[[Saiyuki]]'' manga. ''Twice''.

* Happens to the photojournalist Rocky in the ''[[Area 88]]'' manga after his helicopter is shot down. This leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] {{spoiler|when the nomads' camp is attacked and he rams a tank with a Jeep}}.

* In the backstory of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', {{spoiler|when Hohenheim is aimlessly wandering the great desert in [[Heroic BSOD]] after unwittingly destroying his homeland of Xerxes, he's rescued by a caravan of Xingese traders, with the implication he was taken back to Xing and taught them alkahestry}}.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[The Hulk|Bruce Banner]] was rescued in the Arabian desert at one point by a local sheik who then became [[Captain Ethnic|the Arabian Knight]] almost as a side-effect of this.

* At the end of the DCU's ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', all that's left of the robot Red Tornado is a head that can only say [[Arc Words|"52!"]] which lands in Australia. He is not only found by aboriginals, but taken to a auto repair shop/metalworking studio where the local welder attempts to build him a new body.

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Star Wars]]:'' C-3PO and R2-D2 are "rescued" in the desert by Jawas who want to sell them.

* Subverted in ''[[The Flight of the Phoenix]]'', the nomads prove to be hostile.

* Interestingly treated in ''[[The Proposition]]'': Charlie, while on a mission into the Australian Outback to kill [[Cain and Abel|his brother]], gets "speared by a savage! How extraordinarily quaint!" The rescue service comes in the form of... his brother. Awkward.

* ''[[The English Patient]]'': When the protagonist crashes down in the Sahara at the beginning of the story.

* In the film ''[[Walkabout]]'' a girl and her brother, stranded in the Australian outback, are rescued by an Aboriginal boy on walkabout.

* Subverted in ''[[Bran Nu Dae]]'', when the Aboriginal characters are ''dumped'' in the outback by their previously gullible marks, one of them uses "magic" to make their van break down. To the surprise of ''everyone''.

** Who were actually looking for him, too.

* Subverted in ''[[Gladiator]],'' when Russell Crowe's character is "rescued," but then sold into slavery.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** Vimes later rescues a native Klatchian...technically. The son of Mr. Gorif from back home, who had moved his family back to Klatch in order to escape anti-Klatchian sentiment, had been conscripted into the D'Reg army and sent into the desert to 'get' the Ankh-Morpork invaders. Side-switching ensues.

* This happens to [[Badass and Child Duo|two characters]] in [[Sherlock Holmes|''A Study in Scarlet'']]. Just after they [[Tear Jerker|resign themselves to dying of thirst]] they are rescued by a caravan of Mormons heading [[Wild West|west]] to Utah.

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

** They knew he was out there and saw the cause of the trouble coming in to begin with... if we're thinking of the same rescue.

*** The episode even did the whole "Mulder's spirit communicating with his ancestors to determine if he should stay in this world or move on to the next life." thing.

* Justified in ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak 3]]'', as Jak happened to be carrying a homing beacon used by the Wastelanders who rescued him.

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' 7 starts with the player character passing out from exhaustion and being rescued by Lyn, the last survivor of a nomad tribe. She even lives in a yurt.

** Chun-soft later ripped off this intro frame-for-frame in their own dungeon crawler ''[[Shiren the Wanderer|Furai no Shiren GB2]]''

* Attempting to enter the [[Final Fantasy VII|Corel Desert]] without a chocobo and wandering around for a few screens ends up with you passing out and being rescued by a chocobo-driven caravan. You also get picked up by a mountain man when trying to find Gaea's Cliff for the first time and failing.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Justified in a ''[[Wandering Ones]]'' sidestory: the rescuer had been following the victim all day to see if he could survive in the desert on his own.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Timon and Pumba in "[[The Lion King]]".

* Subverted in ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'', where after hiking off on her own, Eliza succumbs to altitude sickness and comes very well near death. That is until she wakes up to find herself inside an igloo and being handed hot cocoa by a friendly Inca. However, it is soon revealed that it was her father (whom she pretty much had been treating like a jerk all day) who had found her and build the igloo from scratch (actually something of an inversion, because it turned out the Incas were lost as well).