Stockholm syndrome theme
A hostage victim comes to feel affection for their captor.
Examples
Beverly came to empathize with her kidnapper, the terrorist leader Kyril Finn, in tng3x12 "The High Ground".
7 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 4 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | choice | Colonel Nicholson was tortured for several days and nearly died without giving into the Colonel Saito's demands. When Saito relented and let him out in exchange merely for cooperation, Nicholson became obsessed with helping the Japanese military to the very best of his and his own men's ability. |
| tng3x12 | major | Beverly became attached to her captor |
| tng4x04 | major | Jono :: Beverly suspected Jono had Stockholm Syndrome |
| blackmirror5x02 | minor | Jaden came to sympathize with Chris and he tried to stop Chris from committing suicide. |
| movie: 12 Monkeys (1995) | minor | A police investigator suggested to Kathryn that she was suffering from this condition after she defended her abductor Cole. |
| movie: Assassin 33 AD (2020) | minor | Ram speculated that Ahmed was working with the very terrorists who killed his parents owning to this syndrome. |
| tz2019e1x10 | minor | A guy in beginning mentioned this syndrome. |