History Main / BringItBackAlive

* ''Film/KingKong1933'' is the TropeCodifier.

* The goal of the villains in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' had this done with a {{Kaiju}}, [[{{Expy}} The]] [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Zillo]] [[RentAZilla Beast]]. It ends as well as you might expect when they bring it back to Coruscant (a planet-wide city and capital of the galactic republic) of all places.

* Much like in the original ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' miniseries, this is the main goal of Prehistoric Park in most fanfiction about it such as ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'', ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkExtinctionWord'', ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReturnedFromExtinction'', and ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth''.

* Much like in the original ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' miniseries, this is the main goal of Prehistoric Park in ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined''.

* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' is this trope in effect.

* Some early-modern explorers did this to ''people'': they would grab a native and take him back to show off as a specimen. And yes that does sound suspiciously [[TheGreys like this]].

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* ''Film/KingKong1933'' is the TropeCodifier.

* ''Film/{{Gorgo}}'' has this occur intentionally, and the animal is put on display at a circus (to the scientists' great annoyance). Then [[MamaBear its mother shows up]]...
* The goal of the exploration group in the 1948 film ''Film/UnknownIsland''.

* The goal of the villains in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.
* The film ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' has one greedy company guy who wants to bring back a live xenomorph for study, versus the people who just want to kill it before it kills them. In later films, other representatives of the company express interest in capturing a live specimens...one way or another.
** It goes so far that in [[Film/AlienResurrection the fourth film]], the military brings the last known xenomorph queen BackFromTheDead and hijacks a corporate passenger ship to provide implantation specimens in order to create their own pet xenos, ''two hundred years after said queen is killed by a TakingYouWithMe HeroicSacrifice''. Unfortunately for them, the xenos have no intention of being bootlickers and are too smart to not figure out a way to escape. Fortunately for everyone else, resurrecting the queen brought back [[OneManArmy Ripley]] as well...

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* The entire point of the series ''Series/BringEmBackAlive''.
* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' is this trope in effect.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor and U.N.I.T. attempt to capture one of the eponymous dinosaurs alive in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'' so the Doctor can examine it and work out where they are coming from.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Bestiary'' had two pages of rules on live capture of animals.

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* Some early-modern explorers did this to ''people'': they would grab a native and take him back to show off as a specimen. And yes that does sound suspiciously [[TheGreys like this]].

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* Clayton, the EgomaniacHunter antagonist in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' aims to do this with Tarzan's gorilla family.

* Clayton, the EgomaniacHunter antagonist in ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'' aims to do this with Tarzan's gorilla family.

* ''Film/MightyJoeYoung'' has this occur as a publicity stunt for a night club--the owner hires '''[[CrazyAwesome cowboys to lasso lions]]''', and finds the title character along the way.

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* Literally TruthInTelevision for the young DavidAttenborough, whose early ''Zoo Quest'' programmes were about trapping animals in exotic locations so they could be brought back to London Zoo.

* ''{{GURPS}} Bestiary'' had two pages of rules on live capture of animals.

* The primary antagonist of the [[FrancoBelgianComics Franco-Belgian comic book]] ''Franchise/{{Marsupilami}}'' is named Bring M. Backalive in the original French version (or Bring de Backalive in the comic) and, as expected, attempts to capture a live specimen of the eponymous animal.

* ''{{Primeval}}'' seems to have 'take it alive' as the secondary aim of dealing with incursions, if for some reason the primary aim (return creature to time period) falls through. Of course, if they can't do that, they kill it rather than let it run rampant in the modern era. Sometimes wind up being the target of Lester's [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snark]] "...And what am I meant to do with a mammoth?"

* ''PrehistoricPark'' is this trope in effect.

* Classic ''{{Traveller}}''

* ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'' had this done with a {{Kaiju}}, [[{{Expy}} The]] [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Zillo]] [[RentAZilla Beast]]. It ends as well as you might expect when they bring it back to Coruscant (a planet-wide city and capital of the galactic republic) of all places.

* ''Film/KingKong'' is the TropeCodifier.
* ''MightyJoeYoung'' has this occur as a publicity stunt for a night club--the owner hires '''[[CrazyAwesome cowboys to lasso lions]]''', and finds the title character along the way.

* Clayton, the EgomaniacHunter antagonist in ''Disney/Tarzan'' aims to do this with Tarzan's gorilla family.