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* ''Literature/YouCabBeACyborgWhenYoureOlder'' by Richard Roberts: Vanity Rose gets involved in cyberpunk corporate warfare and high stakes theft (at age fouryeen) to prevent this happening to Ms. Understanding's orphanage. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she's misread the situation and it was unnecessary.]]



* ''Literature/YouCabBeACyborgWhenYoureOlder'' by Richard Roberts: Vanity Rose gets involved in cyberpunk corporate warfare and high stakes theft (at age fouryeen) to prevent this happening to Ms. Understanding's orphanage. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she's misread the situation and it was unnecessary.]]

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* ''Literature/YouCabBeACyborgWhenYoureOlder'' by Richard Roberts: Vanity Rose gets involved in cyberpunk corporate warfare and high stakes theft (at age fouryeen) to prevent this happening to Ms. Understanding's orphanage. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she's misread the situation and it was unnecessary.]]
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* ''Literature/YouCabBeACyborgWhenYoureOlder'' by Richard Roberts: Vanity Rose gets involved in cyberpunk corporate warfare and high stakes theft (at age fouryeen) to prevent this happening to Ms. Understanding's orphanage. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she's misread the situation and it was unnecessary.]]
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* A sub-plot in ''Literature/NothingButTheTruth'' focuses on attempts to ensure that Harrison High's budget doesn't get cut further than it already has, as that could spell disaster for the school. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, thanks to Philip hitting the school staff with MaliciousSlander, it's doomed to failure.]]
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* ''Film/TheGoonies'' takes this variation UpToEleven. The titular kids seek out the treasure of One-Eyed Willy to pay off the mortgage on the entire ''neighborhood''. A land developer is planning to turn the Goon Docks into a golf course.

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* ''Film/TheGoonies'' takes this variation UpToEleven. ''Film/TheGoonies'': The titular kids seek out the treasure of One-Eyed Willy to pay off the mortgage on the entire ''neighborhood''. A land developer is planning to turn the Goon Docks into a golf course.
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* ''VideoGame/AlbaAWildlifeAdventure'': Alba and Ines want to save the wildlife reserve from being turned into a luxury hotel, by getting fifty people to sign a petition.
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* ''Literature/MuchAdoAboutGrubstake'': Morgan works for Lockwood to make money for the orphanage he grew up in. He acknowledges that it isn't a great place, but says it's better than the streets.]]
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* ''Film/FightingMad1976'' is about farmers and ranchers in a rural community in Arkansas resisting efforts by developers to strip mine their land and build a power plant.

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* In the RomanticComedy ''Film/TwoWeeksNotice'', Sandra Bullock's GranolaGirl works for Hugh Grant's CorruptCorporateExecutive in order to stop his company from tearing down a community center.

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* In Played with in ''Film/CockneysVsZombies'', which starts out with the RomanticComedy ''Film/TwoWeeksNotice'', Sandra Bullock's GranolaGirl works for Hugh Grant's CorruptCorporateExecutive in order brothers planning a bank robbery to stop his company save their grandfather's eldercare home. Subverted when they end up having to save the care home's residents from tearing down a community center.zombie plague instead.
* ''Film/TheStrawberryStatement'' has university students protesting the university's plans to replace a rec center and a playground in a mostly black neighborhood with a gymnasium for tax reasons.



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

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* Played with in ''Film/CockneysVsZombies'', which starts out with In the brothers planning a bank robbery RomanticComedy ''Film/TwoWeeksNotice'', Sandra Bullock's GranolaGirl works for Hugh Grant's CorruptCorporateExecutive in order to save their grandfather's eldercare home. Subverted when they end up having to save the care home's residents stop his company from tearing down a zombie plague instead. community center.
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* There was a plot or three of this in ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}''.

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** ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestivalAllStars'': Saving the School Idol Festival.

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** ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestivalAllStars'': Saving Save the School Idol Festival.Festival. The school itself isn't in danger because it's far too well funded.
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** ''VideoGame/LoveLiveNijigasakiHighSchoolIdolClub'': Saving the School Idol Festival.

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** ''VideoGame/LoveLiveNijigasakiHighSchoolIdolClub'': ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestivalAllStars'': Saving the School Idol Festival.
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** ''VideoGame/LoveLiveNijigasakiHighSchoolIdolClub'': Saving the School Idol Festival.
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** ''Anime/LoveLiveSuperstar'' inverts this; the school was re-opened as a brand new institution when the previous school that stood in its place was about to be demolished. In this case, the girls become idols to attract more students so it stays open.

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** ''Anime/LoveLiveSuperstar'' inverts this; the school was re-opened as a brand new institution when the previous school that stood in its place was about to be demolished. In this case, [[spoiler:A proper "saving the girls become idols school" plot point is brought up later in Season 1 when it's revealed that the family that bought the school is out of money, but it is quickly resolved when Ren's father intervenes and sends enough money to attract more students so it stays keep the school open.]]
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* ''Literature/TheRoosevelt'': In the second book, changes to state laws have put the titular assisted living facility in financial trouble. Emmet persuades his employer, Workiva, to start a program to give The Roosevelt's residents part-time jobs to help pay for their room and board. Emmet, Jeremey, David, and Darren also go to the Ames City Council for backing, where Emmet discovers and corrects the misleading math used by a manipulative councilman who wants to cut funding. The four also go on a speaking tour, along with Jeremey's new service dog Mai, to fight a new bill that would award more contracts to private companies and make it harder for places like The Roosevelt to exist. [[spoiler:The bill passes, but the tour, and especially the dance routine the protagonists do to "[[Music/{{Shakira}} Try Everything]]" while dressed as Film/TheBluesBrothers, results in so much publicity, including a celebrity endorsement from Creator/DanAykroyd, that they raise all the money they need and more, enough to fund a Roosevelt Foundation to open similar facilities across Iowa.]]
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* ''Literature/TheEagleTree'' has an autistic teenager campaigning to save a forest, which includes a huge, ancient Ponderosa Pine that he wants to climb, from being bulldozed by developers. [[spoiler:He successfully gets the forest turned into a park, but the tree is rotten from the inside and can't be saved.]]
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* The 1989 film ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan1989'' (not to be confused with the [[Film/CatchMeIfYouCan Hanks-Decaprio film]]) revolved around efforts of a high school class president to keep the school from closing through fund raising. The protagonist tries to raise the money himself by street racing.

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* The 1989 film ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan1989'' (not to be confused with the [[Film/CatchMeIfYouCan Hanks-Decaprio film]]) revolved around efforts of a high school class president to keep the school from closing through fund raising. The protagonist tries to raise the money himself by street racing.

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* The children's series about the [[TalkingAnimal talking dog]] called [[ADogNamedDog Himself]] by Kenneth and Adrian Bird. Half the stories involved the need to raise money for an orphanage run by a priest friend of the protagonist and his owner.



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* The children's series about the [[TalkingAnimal talking dog]] called [[ADogNamedDog Himself]] by Kenneth and Adrian Bird. Half the stories involved the need to raise money for an orphanage run by a priest friend of the protagonist and his owner.




* The David Giancola "classic" ''Woodhead Saves The Farm''.

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* ''Sunday School Musical'', Creator/TheAsylum rip-off of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', involves saving a church that's about to run out of operating funds unless they win a state choir competition.
* ''Teen Musical: The Movie'' revolves around a bunch of teenagers and a counselor having to save an activity center.

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* ''Sunday School Musical'', ''Film/SundaySchoolMusical'', Creator/TheAsylum rip-off of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', involves saving a church that's about to run out of operating funds unless they win a state choir competition.
* ''Teen Musical: The Movie'' ''Film/TeenMusicalTheMovie'' revolves around a bunch of teenagers and a counselor having to save an activity center.



* The 1989 film ''Catch Me If You Can'' (not to be confused with the [[Film/CatchMeIfYouCan Hanks-Decaprio film]]) revolved around efforts of a high school class president to keep the school from closing through fund raising. The protagonist tries to raise the money himself by street racing.

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* The 1989 film ''Catch Me If You Can'' ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan1989'' (not to be confused with the [[Film/CatchMeIfYouCan Hanks-Decaprio film]]) revolved around efforts of a high school class president to keep the school from closing through fund raising. The protagonist tries to raise the money himself by street racing.



* ''The Dirt Bike Kid'': An evil banker wants to tear down a local restaurant.

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* ''The Dirt Bike Kid'': ''Film/TheDirtBikeKid'': An evil banker wants to tear down a local restaurant.


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* ''Film/GoingShopping'': Holly has a tumultuous weekend sale to save her struggling antique shop.
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* ''Film/TheFairlyOddParents'': Hugh J. Magnate tried to destroy Dimmsdale Park.

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* ''Film/TheFairlyOddParents'': ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Hugh J. Magnate tried to destroy Dimmsdale Park.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rumble}}'', BigBad Tentacular, out of a desire to get out of the shadow of famous monster wrestler Rayburn, plans to buy the stadium he and his coach built and have it demolished, even though doing so will financially ruin the town it's located in. This necessitates the heroes challenging him to a wrestling match with the ownership of the stadium on the line.




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* An episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' had the characters save a park from being bulldozed after finding evidence that it was a meeting place for the planners of the Boston Tea Party, making it a historical landmark.
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** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTempestTossed'': The person behind the disappearances is first revealed when his development company starts kicking people out of a local park. While Di and her friends try to protest he uses underhanded and questionably legal tactics to buy the rights to develop it anyway, but gets caught for his practice of "removing" undesirable people from the neighborhood and selling those who happen to be attractive.

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** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTempestTossed'': The person behind local park is under the disappearances is first revealed when his development company starts kicking people eye of a developer who has been trying to kick "undesirables" out of the neighborhood. The park includes a community garden and the local park. While Di children and her friends try to protest he uses underhanded and questionably legal tactics to buy others get free lunches there made by others in the rights community. Diana ends up arrested when she tries to develop it anyway, but gets caught for his practice of "removing" undesirable people fight goons from the neighborhood developer who stomp in to toss the lunches and selling those who happen to be attractive.
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** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Holliday College is under threat of being bought up by a man who despises it for being an all girls school and encouraging women to be something other than submissive housewives. The Holliday Girls run a festival fundraiser and carry out some supposed impossible tasks to save their school.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTempestTossed'': The person behind the disappearances is first revealed when his development company starts kicking people out of a local park. While Di and her friends try to protest he uses underhanded and questionably legal tactics to buy the rights to develop it anyway, but gets caught for his practice of "removing" undesirable people from the neighborhood and selling those who happen to be attractive.
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* In ''Film/TheGhostGoesGear'', Music/TheSpencerDavisGroup learn that their manager's family manor has fallen into disrepair due to the family being ImpoverishedPatricians. On the band's advice, the owners of the manor open it to the public, then later throw a "gear garden party" to raise money. Almost the entire second half of the movie consists of music videos of various bands performing at the party.

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* In ''Film/TheGhostGoesGear'', Music/TheSpencerDavisGroup learn that their manager's family manor has fallen into disrepair due to the family being ImpoverishedPatricians.{{impoverished patrician}}s. On the band's advice, the owners of the manor open it to the public, then later throw a "gear garden party" to raise money. Almost the entire second half of the movie consists of music videos of various bands performing at the party.
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* In ''Film/TheGhostGoesGear'', Music/TheSpencerDavisGroup learn that their manager's family manor has fallen into disrepair due to the family being ImpoverishedPatricians. On the band's advice, the owners of the manor open it to the public, then later throw a "gear garden party" to raise money. Almost the entire second half of the movie consists of music videos of various bands performing at the party.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' has Webby attempt to use this trope as a cover story, saying she's a girl named Alexa trying to stop a greedy land developer from shutting down summer camp.



* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "The Bounce Lounge", Star and Ponyhead learn their favorite hang-out, the Bounce Lounge, is going to close down, so they get together with some of their old friends and hold a benefit to help the owner pay off the mortgage. [[spoiler: They manage to raise the money but Miss Sparkles, the owner of the Bounce Lounge, has been in business for literally ''thousands'' of years and is desperate to retire, so she closes the Bounce Lounge anyway.]]

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "The Bounce Lounge", Star and Ponyhead learn their favorite hang-out, the Bounce Lounge, is going to close down, so they get together with some of their old friends and hold a benefit to help the owner pay off the mortgage. [[spoiler: They manage to raise the money but Miss Sparkles, the owner of the Bounce Lounge, has been in business for literally ''thousands'' of years and is desperate to retire, so she closes the Bounce Lounge anyway.anyway, and takes the money with her.]]
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* In ''Film/YouAndYourStupidMate'', Jeffrey and Philip try to prevent the caravan park where they live from being bulldozed to make room for a freeway.
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* ''Teen Musical: The Movie'' revolves around a bunch of teenagers and a counselor having to save an activity center.
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* ''Film/FlyAwayHome'' featured housing developers who want to tear down a bird sanctuary to build a housing complex.

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* ''Film/FlyAwayHome'' featured housing developers who want to tear down a bird sanctuary to build a housing complex. The agreement is that they can proceed if and only if no birds take up residence there before nightfall on November 1st, so when a local environmentalist and bird lover learns that Amy and Thomas are looking for a place to settle a flock of geese for the winter, he suggests that they bring the geese to the sanctuary as a win-win -- the geese will have a safe place to spend the winter, and their presence will prevent the sanctuary from being demolished.
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* ''Film/TheBorrowers1997'': The villain attempts to swindle the Lender family out of their house (which the Borrowers also live in) so he can destroy it and build condos. The Borrowers have to steal the previous owner's will back from him.
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* In ''Film/DogDays2018'', the dog shelter New Tricks' landlord sells the building out from under them. Garrett, Tara, and Dr. Mike work together to host a fundraiser party/concert so they can afford a new place to move the dogs to.

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