--- title: Supercut Video: Heroes Tell Bad Guys Let Her Go in Action Movies description: One of the greatest cinematic cliches of our time canonical: https://time.com/3452616/supercut-of-let-her-go-in-movies/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-01T15:15:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:30.612Z og:title: Supercut Video: Heroes Tell Bad Guys Let Her Go in Action Movies og:description: One of the greatest cinematic cliches of our time og:url: https://time.com/3452616/supercut-of-let-her-go-in-movies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a510dbab7e0124c/6986a6513bc999584f1a5a02/screen-shot-2014-10-01-at-10-14-05-am.png?branch=production&width=922&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 922 og:image:height: 519 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-10-01 at 10.14.05 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Supercut Video: Heroes Tell Bad Guys Let Her Go in Action Movies twitter:description: One of the greatest cinematic cliches of our time twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a510dbab7e0124c/6986a6513bc999584f1a5a02/screen-shot-2014-10-01-at-10-14-05-am.png?branch=production&width=922&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's a Supercut of Men Telling Bad Guys to "Let Her Go" in Action Movies > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 1, 2014 3:15 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 1, 2014 3:15 PM UTC The damsel in distress is one of Hollywood’s best-known (and most sexist) cliches, and the folks over at _Huffington Post_ noticed [one little phrase](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/30/let-her-go%5Fn%5F5908396.html) most commonly associated with that role: “Let her go.” Male protagonists utter these words, often in a low, even voice paired with a determined stare, to get the bad guy to free the beautiful lady. This is often followed by a frantic kiss and then a firefight and maybe a small to midsize explosion. They put together the above supercut to show just how often heroes say this phrase, featuring scenes from movies like _Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars,_ and _Men in Black_. 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