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1->''"Thanks for saving me, mister! Can I obsess over you now?"''
2-->-- '''Strong Sad''', ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''
3
4->''"Looks like your new shadow [[SmallNameBigEgo parts its hair in the middle]]."''
5-->-- '''Cranky Kong''' regarding Bluster being VideoGame/DonkeyKong's protector, ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry''
6
7->''"A life for a life. My debt is repaid."''
8-->-- '''Shang''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''
9
10->''"You have saved our lives. We are eternally grateful."''
11-->-- '''The Squeeze Toy Aliens''' to Mr. Potato Head, ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''. [[RescueReversal Reversed]] in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''
12
13->''"I will spare someone who saved my life sometime in the past. This is only reasonable as it encourages others to do so. However, the offer is good one time only. If they want me to spare them again, they'd better save my life again."''
14-->-- '''The EvilOverlordList''', ''Rule 68''
15
16->'''Brandy:''' [[LampshadeHanging This isn't that "I saved your life so you become hopelessly, annoyingly devoted to me" plot, is it?]]\
17'''Whiskers:''' It is. Sorry, we had to do it sooner or later.
18-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers''
19
20->''Well the story is old,\
21It's a seventies sitcom cliche,\
22He thinks he's in my debt, but I wish he'd forget,\
23He'll do anything for me, anything but go away.''
24-->--''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
25
26->''"On Galador, to owe one's life to another is a sacred responsibility... linking two individuals as surely marriage links lovers!"''
27---> '''Rom''', ''ComicBook/ROMSpaceKnight'', Issue 4.
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29
30->"''Ever since my childhood, I was raised following this creed...''
31->“''Engrave gratefulness in the stone, wash away grudge through the water.''”
32->[[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Salamat, kapatid...]] ''Thank you, brother...''"
33-->-- '''Boy''', to [[spoiler: the protagonist]], ''VisualNovel/{{Yarudora}}'' series vol.3: ''VisualNovel/{{Sampaguita}}''
34
35->'''Enright:''' I owed the man something, Vic. Four years ago, in a Detroit bar, he stopped a drunk from putting a knife through me. A few months ago, I meet him on the street. He's broke, needs a job. I figured I owed him that much.
36->'''Victor Luchek:''' A punk like that, you don't give the time of day to, no matter what you owe him.
37-->-- ''Series/TheFugitive'', "A Clean and Quiet Town"
38
39->''[[CruelMercy "I have saved your life, beast. That makes it mine."]]''
40-->-- '''[[MagnificentBitch Kreia]]''' [[ExploitedTrope exploiting the Wookie Life Debt]], ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''
41
42-> '''Lars:''' But ''you've'' gotta go back.\
43'''Steven:''' But it doesn't feel right to just leave you here!\
44'''Lars:''' You said yourself that everyone on this planet is out to get you! You won't be safe until you're back on Earth!\
45'''Steven:''' But... Lars!\
46'''Lars:''' DON'T ARGUE WITH ME! You're always trying to help me! You [[spoiler: brought me [[BackFromTheDead back to life]]]]! Just... [[TheAtoner Let me be somebody who deserved it]].
47-->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "Off Colors"
48
49->'''Dany:''' [[YouOweMe I spoke for you. I saved you.]]
50->'''Mirri:''' Saved me? Three of those riders had already raped me before you saved me, girl. I saw my God's house burn, there where I had healed men and women beyond counting. In the streets I saw piles of heads ... the head of the baker who makes my bread, the head of a young boy that I had cured of fever just three moons past. So tell me again exactly what it was that you saved?
51->'''Dany:''' [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency Your life]]!
52->'''Mirri:''' Why don't you take a [[EmptyShell look at your Khal]]... Then you will see exactly what life is worth when all the rest has gone.
53-->-- ''Series/GameOfThrones'', "Fire and Blood"
54
55->'''Puss:''' Stop, ogre! I have misjudged you.\
56'''Shrek:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Join the club; we've got jackets.]]\
57'''Puss:''' On my honor, I am obliged to accompany you until I have saved your life as you have spared me mine.
58-->-- ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2''
59
60->'''Young Hercules:''' Well, [[OvershadowedByAwesome if I'm just so hard to be around]], why don't you just leave?\
61'''Young Iolaus:''' Because I'm a better person for knowing you. Hey, I used to be a thief. Remember?
62-->-- ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', "Medea Culpa"
63
64->'''Arthur Morgan''': I'm sorry you got dragged into [[TraumaCongaLine this]]...into [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits us]]...\
65'''Sadie Adler''': Listen, if you hadn't shown up at my house that night, I'd be dead, and even this bullshit beats dead.
66-->-- ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2''
67
68->'''Robin Hood''': Farewell, friend. God speed you on your way.\
69'''[[ReligiousBruiser Azeem]]''': Our way lies together, with the speed of Allah.\
70'''Robin''': What?\
71'''Azeem''': You have saved my life, Christian. Now I will follow you until I have saved yours, that is my vow.\
72'''Robin''': Thanks, but I go to England. I relieve you of your obligation.\
73'''Azeem''': Only Allah can do that.\
74'''Robin''': What if I say no?\
75'''Azeem''': You have no choice.
76-->--''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''
77
78->'''Martin Riggs''': What did he mean when he said you owed him?\
79'''Roger Murtaugh''': We served together in '65. Ia Drang Valley. Saved my life. Took a bayonet in the lungs.
80-->--''Film/LethalWeapon1987''
81
82->'''The Doctor:''' Dan, you don't have to do this.
83->'''Dan Lewis:''' I know. But you saved the entire universe last week. I think I owe you one.
84-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Eve of the Daleks"
85
86->"I can't let Spock die, can I, Bones? And he will if we go to Altair. I owe him my life a dozen times over. Isn't that worth a career? He's my friend."
87-->-- '''Captain Kirk''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "Amok Time"
88
89-> "I hate everything you stand for. Everything you are. But you saved me, and for that I must serve you."
90-->-- '''Esca''', ''Film/TheEagle2011''

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