History Main / StockholmSyndrome

* Tobias and his torturer Taylor in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''.

* ''[[Literature/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]'' - the book. The [[FilmOfTheBook movie]] didn't display any cases of StockholmSyndrome.

* The woman John Wayne was trying to rescue in ''TheSearchers''.
** It gets a little confusing, because at first she says "These are my people" - but then, when her stepbrother sneaks into the Comanche camp to rescue her, she is happy to see him and wants to leave immediately. Of course, that could be because the Wayne character now wants to kill her (believe her to have become [[DefiledForever "defiled" by Indians]]), and her stepbrother (who is one-eighth Indian himself) has sworn to protect her.
* In ''{{Contagion}}'', Dr. Orantes is eventually kidnapped by one of her colleagues who takes her to his village so that they will be among the first to get the virus vaccine. The vaccine is developed three months later, after which we see Orantes happily working as a schoolteacher for the village children and willingly cooperates with the kidnappers in the exchange for the vaccine. Later on in the airport, she is informed that the vaccine given was actually a placebo. The last we see of her is her running away from the airport, presumably to warn the villagers.

* {{Buffalo 66}} depicts a man kidnapping ChristinaRicci in order to fool his parents into thinking he has a girlfriend. She warms up to him quickly, which may invoke this trope. Then again, he proves to be mostly harmless almost immediately and she is more or less free to go once his parents meet her so she may just have genuinely liked him.

* Elektra King in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', maybe. Bond is doubting this by the end [[spoiler:and as it turns out, it's a reversal - Elektra actually [[LimaSyndrome seduced her captor]], and he's still working for her.]]
** And in ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', Bond undergoes a hostage situation at the beginning. He [[spoiler:liberates the woman bound to a bed, but doesn't remember StockholmSyndrome, and she kills him. Fortunately it was just a [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation training scenario]]]].

* The getaway: a possible explanation for the behaviour of Fran... [[spoiler: though hardly enough to excuse her behaviour: she has sex with Rudy, the man who kidnapped her and his husband [[{{Squick}} while the latter is locked in the adiacent bathroom and forced to listen]], [[DrivenToSuicide which drives him to commit suicide.]]]]

* Ori in ''WeAreTheStrange'', according to the prologue.

* "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" seems to be [[BrokenBase argued about considerably]], differing between versions. Some versions feature a kind Beast who invokes this in a 'don't judge by appearances' Aesop, while others have a much more aggressive Beast who has to learn to treat his Beauty more kindly in order to win her love.

* Thoma Avenir from ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' suffered this one.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' when Takane gets this about ''involuntary ClothingDamage'', to the point where she gets eventually stops getting offended when the main character causes it to happen, and actually gets offended when he beats her ''without'' stripping her.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' when Takane gets this about ''involuntary ClothingDamage'', to the point where she gets eventually stops getting offended when the main character causes it to happen, and actually gets offended when he beats her ''without'' stripping her.
* In {{Scrapped Princess}}, Chris abducts Winia in hopes of luring Pacifica and the others to him. Winia eventually ends up falling in love with Chris.

* Implied in ''FrankenFran''; when Veronica is introduced, she terrorized Fran and even kills one of her subjects. Then Fran catches her and starts conducting horrible experiments offscreen. By the next chapter, she's Fran's dotting little sis.

* Hei and Suou in ''DarkerThanBlack''.

* In ''OkaneGaNai'', Kanou buys Ayase as a to work his debt off, even though he's fully aware that rape is ''not'' something you do to the one you love ([[LovingForce except in fiction]]). Ayase is understandably terrified of Kanou at first and views him as the one ruining his life, but becomes touched by Kanou's small moments of kindness and even defends him to his brother "because he's kind." Keep in mind that even ''after'' Kanou allows Ayase to do such things as going to school, he still pretty much controls every aspect of Ayase's life and continues to rape him just to remind him that he belongs to him and [[IfICantHaveYou will not give him up to anyone else]]. If that isn't Stockholm Syndrome, then nothing is.

->'''Malcolm''': Don't you know about Stockholm Syndrome? You're starting to identify with your captors.
->'''Reese''': My captors?! These guys saved my life, man!
->'''Malcolm''': Only because they decided not to kill you!
->'''Reese''': Same thing.

* May be a case with Ace and his crewmates in OnePiece. They get abducted onto Whitebeard’s ship. None of them is treated badly and old man wants just to enlarge his “family”, but it’s suggested they are not so free to leave as they should be. Ace accepts and becomes Whitebeard’s “son”, but before that makes at least 100 attempts to murder him.

* In one series of ''{{Dilbert}}'' strips in 2013, Dilbert was kidnapped by the Elbonians and put in a forced labor camp; he actually liked it much better than his regular job, and the Elbonians were much better off with him there (making this LimaSyndrome as well).

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* There was an example of this in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' cosmology that is the stuff of legend, literally. The ''short'' version: The archmage Iggwilv summoned the [[ArchdevilsAndDemonLords demon lord Graz'zt]] and held him prisoner; eventually, they became lovers (Iggwilv bearing his child, [[TheDreaded Iuz, who would grow up to become a notorious tyrant]] and acted as her advisor as she forged her empire. She never released him from his bonds, however, and eventually, it sank in that she was never going to. What made this even more humiliating - for Graz'zt - is that when they finally did come to blows, she came closer to killing him than ''anyone'' had (or has since). The fight was a knock-out draw, with his material form destroyed (leaving him unable to leave his home plane for a century) and her left half dead and powerless. Her empire crumbled, and little was seen of her for decades.

* There was an example of this in ''DungeonsAndDragons'' cosmology that is the stuff of legend, literally. The ''short'' version: The archmage Iggwilv summoned the [[ArchdevilsAndDemonLord demon lord Graz'zt and held him prisoner; eventually, they became lovers (Iggwilv bearing his child, [[TheDreaded Iuz, who would grow up to become a notorious tyrant]] and acted as her advisor as she forged her empire. She never released him from his bonds, however, and eventually, it sank in that she was never going to. What made this even more humiliating - for Graz'zt - is that when they finally did come to blows, she came closer to killing him than ''anyone'' had (or has since). The fight was a knock-out draw, with his material form destroyed (leaving him unable to leave his home plane for a century) and her left half dead and powerless. Her empire crumbled, and little was seen of her for decades.

* Creator/AlfredHitchcock film version of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps''. Note that it wasn't deliberate, they were [[ChainedHeat handcuffed together]] when he got a chance to escape and [[AccidentalKidnapping had to take her with him]]. By the time they got free, she'd started to believe he was innocent.

* Played extremely darkly in ''The Poughkeepsie Tapes'' with the character of Cheryl Dempsey. NightmareFuel indeed.

* The movie ''John Q.'' had this. Because of the title character's sympathetic ordeal (Trying to get his son a much-needed heart transplant), beating up a man who was abusing his girlfriend in the middle of the situation and letting the sickest people go without hesitation, everyone was laughing and joking with him near the end, even the guy he beat up. Even the people he let go only had nice things to say about him.

* Done intentionally in John Ringo's "The Council War" series. The lead villain, known as Paul, sets up a harem where he keeps kidnapped young women, for the express purpose of breaking them and inducing Stockholm Syndrome. The repeated rapes and hopeless nature of life in the harem inevitably take their toll on the captives. This is even explained during a short story at the end of "Emerald Sea". It is partially averted in the character of Megan, Paul's latest victim. Despite falling in love with him, she ends up killing him partway through "Against the Tide", in a particularly brutal and grisly manner.

* Watching ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19285_5-romantic-movie-gestures-that-were-actually-dick-moves.html this]] Cracked.com article illustrates how Belle falling in love with the Beast has stockholm syndrome written all over it.

* In the penultimate chapter of ''[[FanficRecs/TheLegendOfZelda Group of Weirdoes: Ocarina of Time]]'', Gate reveals that he's started to bond with Ganondorf. Of course, Gate's a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, so that might not be true.

* [[{{Batman}} Harley Quinn]], claims this to the doctors at Arkam in defense of her actions, but her miniseries shows her going crazy and falling in love with SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker long before ever meeting him.

* Averted in one short story by Creator/JRRTolkien. During the second age, when the Numenorean empire is just being founded, a numenorean colonist is captured by local tribesmen and forced to marry one of them. She tells her husband that her people will be back for revenge and that she is very glad of that.

* Not an intentional example on the part of the filmmakers but Lightning [=McQueen=] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Lost, confused, not allowed to speak to a lawyer or try to call anyone, locked up and forced into heavy labor until he ends up screaming for help from a passing pair of minivans before his view of Radiator Falls and its inhabitants does an abrupt 180.

* In [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7189428/1/Prison-Island-Break Prison Island Break]], it is clear that Shadow is obsessed with the Prison Doctor, Amy Rose, repeatedly telling her he loves her, that she is a good person, and that he will rape her for her own good. However as the fic goes on his affection becomes slightly less creepy. This is a sharp contrast to the Psychiatrist Blaze, whom he also threatens to rape, but much more savagely.