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* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica2004'': A very twisted villainous version happens in ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica2005''. Sin, the Red Skull's daughter was captured by SHIELD and held in a facility where she was subjected to HeelFaceBrainwashing to turn her into a normal, well-adjusted All American girl. Skull's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Crossbones fought his way into the facility, abducted her and fought his way back out (killing dozens of {{Red Shirt}}s in the process), then imprisoned and [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil tortured]] her until her true memories and personality were restored. Then they fell in love. To an outside observer, this was all horrifying but from their perspective, he had rescued her from enemy captivity and freed her from nefarious mind control.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': A very twisted villainous version happens in ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica2005''. Sin, the Red Skull's daughter was captured by SHIELD and held in a facility where she was subjected to HeelFaceBrainwashing to turn her into a normal, well-adjusted All American girl. Skull's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Crossbones fought his way into the facility, abducted her and fought his way back out (killing dozens of {{Red Shirt}}s in the process), then imprisoned and [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil tortured]] her until her true memories and personality were restored. Then they fell in love. To an outside observer, this was all horrifying but from their perspective, he had rescued her from enemy captivity and freed her from nefarious mind control.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'', this is the nature of Blacksad's past relationship with the deceased Natalia Wilford, as he helped her get rid of a stalker. They started a relationship afterwards but it wore off after some time, and they broke up before her untimely death.
* A very twisted villainous version from the pages of ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''. Sin, the Red Skull's daughter was captured by SHIELD and held in a facility where she was subjected to HeelFaceBrainwashing to turn her into a normal, well-adjusted All American girl. Skull's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Crossbones fought his way into the facility, abducted her and fought his way back out (killing dozens of {{Red Shirt}}s in the process), then imprisoned and [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil tortured]] her until her true memories and personality were restored. Then they fell in love. To an outside observer, this was all horrifying but from their perspective, he had rescued her from enemy captivity and freed her from nefarious mind control.

* The comic continuations of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' featured Lexington and Staghart rescuing each other. The ''Bad Guys'' series also featured Dingo rescuing Hunter and her him. WordOfGod says Hunter and Dingo will be together. Jury's still out on Staghart and Lexington. (But SlashFic writers can dream....)
* In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueElite'', Kasumi grows infatuated with Coldcast after he keeps saving her when their missions keep going horribly wrong.
* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse also has a LesYay[=/=]Friendship variation of this. After [[Characters/MarvelComicsRogue Rogue]] drained her powers, [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] was rescued by the first Characters/SpiderWoman and was counseled to get over her trauma/pain of power-loss, which is the beginning of their friendship... or LesYay. Speaking of Jessica Drew, her close friendship with Lindsey [=McCabe=] began after Lindsey stood up for her during a humiliating group therapy session.

* [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] fell in love with Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} when she rescued him after he crashed his plane in the ocean off Paradise Island. Diana found him attractive while nursing him back to health, but doesn't reciprocate until they started fighting Nazis together after she returned him to the US.
* Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}}'s first encounter with [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] ComicBook/PostCrisis was the rescue of a space shuttle she was on. It sorta became a RunningGag [=/=] InJoke between the two. In their original [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] meeting (at least when he was in costume), Superman saves Lois from some gangsters who aren't happy about Lois', erm, professional dedication.

* ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': Jack rescues Rose when she attempts suicide. She falls for him, and upon telling her story 84 years later, says that he saved her in every way a person could be saved.

** Deconstructed in "Masters of All Time"; In the alternate timeline, Vlad saved Maddie from the malfunctioning portal, earning her affection, eventually marrying. However, Vlad is overly controlling and possessive of Maddie, even having forbidden her from pursuing ghost hunting, and had lied to her, saying that Jack (who had suffered the ecto-acne accident in this timeline), didn't want anything to do with her. Maddie, unwilling to give up her life's work, resorted to ghost-hunting behind his back, clearly resenting him for it. Whether she felt obligated to marry him out of gratitude or simply overestimated his character based on that one seemingly noble act, rescue was clearly not good enough grounds for a lasting romance.

* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse also has a LesYay[=/=]Friendship variation of this. After [[Characters/MarvelComicsRogue Rogue]] drained her powers, [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] was rescued by the first [[Characters/SpiderWomanTitleCharacter Spider-Woman]] and was counseled to get over her trauma/pain of power-loss, which is the beginning of their friendship... or LesYay. Speaking of Jessica Drew, her close friendship with Lindsey [=McCabe=] began after Lindsey stood up for her during a humiliating group therapy session.

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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14161991/6/Harry-Potter-the-Metamorphmagus Harry Potter the Metamorphmagus]]'': Sirius met his wife Calliope when he saved her from slavers.

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** In addition to the canon example of Naruto and Hinata above, ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' has Natsu Hyuga develop an attraction for Itachi Uchiha after he comes to help her and several other Hyugas during the Akatsuki invasion. In the aftermath, she visits him at his home to give him a gift as thanks for saving her before.

** In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Marty tries to set his parents up by engineering a situation where George saves Lorraine from sexual assault (namely, by Marty himself). It goes off the rails when Lorraine is more eager than Marty is, only to be set right when Biff intervenes, genuinely tries to assault Lorraine, and George ends up genuinely saving her by punching Biff out.

* In addition to the canon example of Naruto and Hinata above, ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' has Natsu Hyuga develop an attraction for Itachi Uchiha after he comes to help her and several other Hyugas during the Akatsuki invasion. In the aftermath, she visits him at his home to give him a gift as thanks for saving her before.