History Main / SavingTheOrphanage

* In the latter part of the British miniseries [[Series/TakinOverTheAsylum]], this is attempted with the Mental Hospital's radio station. [[spoiler: They sadly fail and the station is shut down while they were in the middle of the fundraiser.]]

* In the latter part of the British miniseries TakinOverTheAsylum, this is attempted with the Mental Hospital's radio station. [[spoiler: They sadly fail and the station is shut down while they were in the middle of the fundraiser.]]

* If it's a summer camp, it will inevitably involve a [[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28032 contest with someone rich]].

* ''Manga/FutsuuNoJoshikouseiGaLocodolYattemita'': Save the town.

* In ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'' There is a side quest where your meet [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Erutus Profiteur]] who after losing his fortune in [[VideoGame/BravelyDefault the last game]] informs you of a plan to built the entire inlet so he can build a port for tried to help the economy. But he need the ownership of the seaside house that’s owned by an old man and his granddaughter. As you learn more you meet [[WhiteMage Holly Whyte]] who steps in to say how offensive and wrong Erutus decision is. In a neat twist you can decide witch outcome you would like do. Tear down the home and allow the original owners to get a fine job in the city or allow the home to stay up so the two owners can live happily ether way you give your team new abilities.

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* In ''VideoGames/BravelySecond'' There is a side quest where your meet [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Erutus Profiteur]] who after loosing his fortune in [[VideoGame/BravelyDefault the last game]] informs you of a plan to built the entire inlet so he can build a port for tried to help the economy. But he need the ownership of the seaside house that’s owned by a old man and his granddaughter. As you learn more you meet [[WhiteMage Holly Whyte]] who steps in to say how offensive and wrong Erutus decision is. In a neat twist you can decide witch outcome you would like do. Tear down the home and allow the original owners to get a fine job in the city or allow the home to stay up so the two owners can live happily ether way you give your team new abilities.

This plot doesn't ''have'' to center around an orphanage. Another popular variant is saving a family farm, followed closely by a youth or community center. Really though, as long as the building has someone's welfare tied up into it, there's probably an evil developer lurking in the shadows and planning its demise.

* In ''VideoGames/BravelySecond'' There is a side quest where your where Erutus Profiteur after loosing his fortune in [[VideoGame/BravilyDefault the last game]]

* The ''Franchise/LoveLive'' franchise tends to use this as a common plot:

* ''Franchise/LoveLive'': Save the school.
* ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'': Save the school (again).

-->-- WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic (Jem and the Holograms review)

* The plot of ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange'' was to save the farm the animals lived on lest they be shipped off to a meat-packing plant.

This trope serves a a popular stock plot for a number of reasons. It's a simple enough goal for the audience to grasp and support, plus it's a pretty easy way to establish a [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white, good vs. evil theme]]. After all, who but a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness truly good person]] would devote their time and welfare to saving an orphanage that can't offer much in the way of reward but its gratitude? And who but a [[CardCarryingVillain truly evil person]] would dump a bunch of orphans onto the street so they can build a hotel/casino/oil rig/parking lot over it?

This trope serves a a popular stock plot for a number of reasons. It's a simple enough goal for the audience to grasp and support, plus it's a pretty easy way to establish a [[BlackAndWhiteMorality black and white good vs. evil theme]]. After all, who but a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness truly good person]] would devote their time and welfare to saving an orphanage that can't offer much in the way of reward but its gratitude? And who but a [[CardCarryingVillain truly evil person]] would dump a bunch of orphans onto the street so they can build a hotel/casino/oil rig/parking lot over it?

* ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges The Three Stooges]]'' videogame on the NES (yes, this actually existed) was all about trying to raise money to save an orphanage. [[ExcusePlot (Well, sort of.)]] Predated the movie based around the same trope by decades.

* There was a plot or three of this in ''Series/MacGyver''.

* ''Film/TurkeyHollow"' has kids trying to save their great aunt's farm by taking a picture of a bigfoot-type monster and collecting the reward money.

* On ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'', the Kratt brothers occasionally need to save imperiled animals' habitat from threats, as a change of pace from saving the animals themselves. Paisley Paver, a villain introduced in Season Three, has habitat-destruction as her agenda.

* In the appropriately-named film ''Film/TheOrphanage'', Laura moves into her childhood home in the hope of turning it into an orphanage for handicapped children.

* Played with in ''Film/CockneysVsZombies'', which starts out with the brothers planning a bank robbery to save their grandfather's elder care home. Subverted when they end up having to save the care home's residents from a zombie plague instead.