History Main / AMatchMadeInStockholm

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2CLODY4uEo&t=1000s this video]] titled "The girl from the disciplinary committee was a MENHERA...!!!" A slacker frequently ditches class to goof off, to the detriment of the disciplinary committee's president. One day she handcuffs them tohheter, and when she trick jim into going into her huse, eh tells her that his parents will look for him, only for her to respond that his parents gave her permision to reform his lazy ways, and after he sees that she locked him in using an electric lock whose combination only she knows, he accepts his fate and lives alongsice her, and he does stop ditching class and his grades improve. When she gets sick and becomes bedridden, he asks for the combination of the front door lock, but she refuses because he'll run way and escape, but he convicnes her that as soon as he gets what he needs, he'll come back, which he does, and when he nurses her back to health they admit their feelings for each other, and become a couple.

* ''SachiiroNoOneRoom'' follows the story of a man who kidnaps a 14 year old middle school girl. There's no bad blood in her though; she considers it a major trade up from her life with her AbusiveParents and her being on the receiving end of AllTheOtherReindeer from her peers on top of one of her teachers taking advantage of her trust when she confided to him about the abuse and [[RapeAsDrama sexually assault her]], and thus she had always been planning to run away so she took the chance to leave when the man tells her that he is going to kidnap her. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that the girl was in the verge of actually trying to kill herself due to her life and the man announced his intention to her to stop it and [[BungledSuicide eventually succeeded in the manga]]... Except unlike most of the examples here, the man died at the finale to save her from being shot by her abusive mother and the girl instead moves on and was able to properly recover on her own accord, the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue showing her to become an accomplished photographer and is HappilyAdopted by Detective Matsubase, who was the first adult since her AbusiveParents and pedophilic teacher to believe in the abuse she experienced and genuinely wished to help her.]]

* ''The Detachment'' by Creator/BarryEisler. Dox and Rain are [[AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed betrayed by their employer]] Colonel Horton, so they [[IHaveYourWife kidnap his daughter for ransom]]. Dox releases her early because he's worried a TokenEvilTeammate will kill her, and they have a discussion over Stockholm Syndrome, pointing out that "it works both ways". The woman denies she would throw herself in front of a SWAT Team to save Dox, but ends up hugging him goodbye (which Dox finds himself enjoying more than he should) and asking Dox to call her. Dox knows better than to do so, but persuades Rain not to take vengeance on Horton like they planned, saying his daughter has suffered enough from their acts.

* ''Sachiiro no One Room'' follows the story of a man who kidnaps a 14 year old middle school girl. There's no bad blood in her though; she considers it a major trade up from her life with her AbusiveParents and her being on the receiving end of AllTheOtherReindeer from her peers on top of one of her teachers taking advantage of her trust when she confided to him about the abuse and [[RapeAsDrama sexually assault her]], and thus she had always been planning to run away so she took the chance to leave when the man tells her that he is going to kidnap her. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that the girl was in the verge of actually trying to kill herself due to her life and the man announced his intention to her to stop it and [[BungledSuicide eventually succeeded in the manga]]... Except unlike most of the examples here, the man died at the finale to save her from being shot by her abusive mother and the girl instead moves on and was able to properly recover on her own accord, the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue showing her to become an accomplished photographer and is HappilyAdopted by Detective Matsubase, who was the first adult since her AbusiveParents and pedophilic teacher to believe in the abuse she experienced and genuinely wished to help her.]]

* "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast" has Beauty agree to stay with the Beast because he threatened to kill her father for stealing one of his roses if she didn't take his place and she, of course, falls in love with him -- which was the Beast's secret intention all along, as he needed a woman to love him to break his curse. Whether or not this could qualify as UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome varies from telling to telling, though it should be noted that almost all tellings have the Beast willingly let Beauty go back to her family at some point and she doesn't come back to him (and in some cases, even ''forgets'' her promise to return within a set time) until she learns his life is in danger. It should be noted that to the original audience of "Beauty and the Beast" and related tales would likely understand the story as an allegory about arranged marriages rather than anything we would recognize as UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome. The moral would likely be interpreted as a physically undesirable husband (as he was likely to be older than the bride) could still be kind and gentle.

* Candayce thinks that this is what's going on in ''Literature/{{Dinoverse}}'' when her Leptoceratops admirers abduct her away from the company of the other kids-in-dinosaur-bodies. She soon finds that it's closer to an attempt at a RescueRomance -- they admire her and thought that she was addled or being kept as food for Mike or something.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/Drakengard2'', where [[TheHero Nowe's]] first real experience with Manah is taking and holding her captive. In the brief conversation that follows, ''she'' turns ''his'' entire worldview upside down, and he defects the army to join her rebellion and eventually become her LoveInterest immediately after her escape. [[spoiler:Deconstructed in the supplemental material; they eventually broke up because they couldn't come to terms with all the traumatizing stuff that gave them LimaSyndrome (inverted UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome) in the first place.]]

* In ''Kichikujima'' This happens to Ami Murata after she met Kaoru. Believing her to be related to Zanta Maria somehow, Kaoru had her face stitched to a pig mask and play house with her growing more fond of her. After Kaoru kills her dad twice first as a human and [[spoiler: as a zombie]] Ami eventually starts to have feelings for him as of the end of part 1 accepting Kaoru as her husband.

* Non-romantic example: in ''A Perfect World'', Kevin Costner plays a jail inmate who escapes and takes a little boy hostage. Gradually they develop a father-child relationship, to the point where the boy voluntarily stays with him.

* ''The Detachment'' by Creator/BarryEisler. Dox and Rain are [[AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed betrayed by their employer]] Colonel Horton, so they [[IHaveYourWife kidnap his daughter for ransom]]. Dox releases the woman early because he's worried a TokenEvilTeammate will kill her regardless, and Dox and the hostage have a discussion over Stockholm Syndrome, pointing out that "it works both ways". The woman denies she would throw herself in front of a SWAT Team to save Dox, but ends up hugging him goodbye which Dox finds himself enjoying more than he should. At the end of the novel, Dox persuades Rain not to take vengeance on Horton like they planned, saying his daughter has suffered enough from their acts.

* A rather complex example happens in ''Film/{{Split}}'' and ''Film/{{Glass}}''. From an outsider's perspective, Casey showing concern for the health of the person who kidnapped her and [[IAmAHumanitarian ate]] her classmates would be a textbook example. However, the kidnapper Kevin has 24 personalities, with the original personality so far from the dominant personality that his last memory is two years ago. At least half the personalities at any time are innocent being dragged into the schemes of the [[SplitPersonalityTakeover Horde]]. Kevin himself was shocked by the deaths his alters had caused and [[spoiler: begged Casey to kill him in the middle of her kidnapping. It also helps that the [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Beast]] spared Casey when he saw she was clearly [[CommonalityConnection also abused]], meaning not even the most violent of Kevin's personalities wants to hurt her in ''Film/{{Glass}}''.]]

* ''Film/{{Kate}}'' kidnaps Ani, the teenage nephew of a Yakuza boss, to draw him out of hiding. She's understandably bratty about this until a rival Yakuza faction decides it's more convenient if Ani doesn't survive the experience. Kate saves her life instead and she becomes rather enamored of this badass MysteriousProtector, imagining her as the mother she never had and helping her track down the rest of her clan. Unfortunately, Kate had shot dead Ani's father a few days before, [[YouKilledMyFather so she doesn't react well]] on finding out the truth.

* ''Sachiiro no One Room'' follows the romance of a man who kidnaps a 14 year old middle school girl. There's no bad blood in her though; she considers it a major trade up from her life with her AbusiveParents and her being on the receiving end of AllTheOtherReindeer from her peers on top of one of her teachers taking advantage of her trust when she confided to him about the abuse and [[RapeAsDrama sexually assault her]], and thus she had always been planning to run away so she took the chance to leave when the man tells her that he is going to kidnap her. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that the girl was in the verge of actually trying to kill herself due to her life and the man announced his intention to her to stop it and [[BungledSuicide eventually succeeded in the manga]].]]

* ''Sachiiro no One Room'' follows the romance of a guy who kidnaps a 14 year old middle school girl. There's no bad blood in her though; she considers it a major trade up from her life with her AbusiveParents and her being on the receiving end of AllTheOtherReindeer from her peers on top of one of her teachers taking advantage of her trust when she confided to him about the abuse and [[RapeAsDrama sexually assault her]], and thus she had always been planning to run away so she took the chance to JumpAtTheCall when the mister tells her that he is going to kidnap her.