
So the villain, the poor guy's date, and the crowd want him to transform and try to save the day, while he tries to convince everyone he's not the superhero.
Except he's not Moldiver, Hiroshi just modelled its physique after him because he wanted to look buff. This is because he thinks Moldiver is in the crowd - specifically an old student of his and a close friend of Hiroshi, who looks just like you'd think Moldiver would look without a suit. Machinegal tries to steal the shuttle and takes the crowd hostage, and dares Moldiver to stop him.
A curious inversion happens in Moldiver, during the episode with the space shuttle. It also happens when Euphemia is kidnapped along a bunch of students from Ashford Academy.
These unfortunate fools robbed the very same bank that Lelouch, Suzaku, and Kallen were visiting at the time.
#Tv tropes shoot the hostage code
One of the DVD extras for Code Geass had a bank robbery involving a couple of idiots. In Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok, Loki makes a game of it at one point letting Yamino solve the mystery of where he is, and amusing himself by playing the role of Creepy Child to the hilt with his captors. In Death Note, Light deliberately invokes this to make it look like he isn't Kira to the man following him. until Minako arrives as "Sailor Moon" via the disguise pen. Kaolinite gloats about this in front of Haruka and Michiru, with poor Usagi unable to transform. The third season had Usagi's brooch stolen and herself kidnapped by Kaolinite on suspicion of being Sailor Moon. She ends up revealing her identity to the both of them. The first season of Sailor Moon had Zoisite trap Mamoru, and Usagi by accident, in a building and chased them with intent to kill as a trap for Tuxedo Kamen Usagi, not filled in on all the details, thinks he's after her and Mamoru is the innocent hostage. Tantei Opera Milky Holmes twists this brilliantly in the finale, in which Master Thief Arsene kidnaps her own alter ego.