History Main / AbductionIsLove

** Shio's manager when she worked at the Princess Imperial is revealed to have kidnapped Satou's coworker Mitsuboshi, molesting him as an attempt to get him to love her.

* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'' has Han abduct Leia. [[spoiler: (Unlike most examples of this trope, it eventually worked; she married him.)]]

* GenderFlipped in the 1926 ''Eve's Leaves''. The titular character is a [[PirateGirl pirate]] who [[LoveAtFirstSight meets]] a guy named Bill Stanley while her father's ship is docked in China. She abducts him partly out of infatuation and partly to gather more crewmen to serve on the ship when bandits attack.

* Zaida from ''She's a Sheikh''. The adoptive daughter of a chieftain, she kidnaps Captain Colton of the French Foreign Legion in an effort to woo him.

* The lost film, ''She's a Sheikh,'' has Zaida, daughter of a chieftain, kidnap Captain Colton of the French Foreign Legion in an effort to woo him.

* Discussed and brutally deconstructed in Pop Culture Detective's video essay [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xL7w1POZ0 "Abduction is Love"]

%%* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', this is pretty much the Ice King's modus operandi.

%%* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', the gang run past the trope image when in a museum.

The extreme end of this idea of this includes AndNowYouMustMarryMe. See AMatchMadeInStockholm when the kidnapping is done for other reasons than love while the end result is the same. See also StockholmSyndrome, ImTakingHerHomeWithMe, and CaptiveDate. Obviously, DontTryThisAtHome.

* In ''Film/MarketaLazarova'', where [[spoiler:Mikolas]] takes [[spoiler:Marketa]] to be his concubine/slave. She eventually falls in love and marries him.

The extreme end of this idea of this includes AndNowYouMustMarryMe. See also StockholmSyndrome, ImTakingHerHomeWithMe, and CaptiveDate. Obviously, DontTryThisAtHome.

%%* Attempted by a couple antagonists in ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}},'' with a garbled reference to the Tribe of Benjamin. It doesn't work for them.

* The Fukawa operation in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' wasn't romantically motivated, but nonetheless uses the imagery of the trope. Basically, Fukawa...convinced...the [[TrueCompanions Phantom Thieves]] to "steal her heart" because she couldn't get the medical treatment she needed alone. And part of her (manifesting psychologically as [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind the minions they must fight]] to ''get'' to Fukawa's heart) doesn't believe she deserves treatment at all. In the end, she joins their group pretty readily.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Rhaegar Targaryen allegedly abducted Lyanna Stark, stealing her from her family and fiance. Whether he did it out of lust or love, it has yet to be discovered. TheReveal that Lyanna died giving birth to his son and begging her brother to protect the child despite having fought a war against Rhaegar heavily implies a love affair was involved. Turns out it was consensual, and that Lyanna loved him over Robert.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' Zidane kidnaps Garnet, only for him to start to like her. Garnet/Dagger, meanwhile, doesn't like him back until [[RescueRomance he personally help her with her problems.]] Also played with in the sense that Garnet specifically ''requests Zidane to kidnap her'' in order to get her away from her [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen megalomaniac mother]]. Granted, the plan was already set in motion to kidnap her anyway, but her willingly going along with it makes things less coercive.

%%* ''VisualNovel/War13thDay'': In one ending, Chase carries off Ambrosia with him onto a ship and sets sail.

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', part of the Aiel wedding ritual is for the bridegroom to "capture" his fiancée in a melee with friends from both sides getting involved. Although the whole affair is arranged in advance with mutual consent and no lethal force is used, the Aiel are a {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} who expect the wedding party to be ''very'' enthusiastic in proving their intentions -- one bride leaves her beloved quite concussed for the wedding,

* Kagome in ''Manga/InuYasha'' gets to experience this from quite a few demons lusting for her. The most notable example is Kouga when he first meets her.
* This is a common explanation for Russia's affectionate abuse of the Baltics, particularly Lithuania, in ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia''.
* Arima of ''Manga/KareKano'' has a dark side that once imagined tying his girlfriend Yukino in chains.
* [[{{Yandere}} Yuno]] of ''Manga/FutureDiary'' believes this. [[spoiler: Yukiteru, on the other hand, does not]].

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' had an instance of this. A fake psychic kidnapped [[AttemptedRape and potentially tried to rape]] Anzu Mazaki. Don't worry, though. Yami saves her.

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* A GettingCrapPastTheRadar RunningGag in the newspaper comic version of ''Literature/TheMoomins'' (which isn't outright child-inappropriate, but has more ParentalBonus than the novels) has Moomin's girlfriend the Snork Maiden blatantly having this as a sexual fantasy, and getting frustrated with his failure to pick up her hints that she'd like to roleplay it with him.
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** In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/direach.html MacIain Direach]]'', [=MacIain=] Direach must kidnap the princess to break a spell, so he lures her on shipboard and sails off before she realizes, but she reacts quickly.

** In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/birdgrip.html The Bird Grip]]'', the princess's feelings are not touched on until his brothers kill the prince who abducted her, but then she weeps bitterly.
** In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/goldbird.html The Golden Bird]]'', the princess tricks the prince into letting her rouse the castle. The king, however, sets him an EngagementChallenge, and when he succeeds, gives him the princess. Later, when his brothers kill him, she weeps all the time.
** In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/greekprincess.html The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener]]'', the princess again manages to rouse the castle, but when the youth gets an EngagementChallenge, she hopes he succeeds in it.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', the [[TheDragon Ulquiorra]] [[TheHeartless Schiffer]]/[[TheChick Orihime]] [[TheHeart Inoue]] pairing is based around this trope.
* Averted in the Batman fanfic ''FanFic/BruceHasAProblem'' when Roxy abducts Dr. Resch and Dr. Resch makes it clear that he has no romantic interest in her.
* In the Literature/LordOfTheFlies fanfic ''FanFic/TwelveGirlsThirteenBoysAndSavages'', the twelve older boys do this to the twelve girls that have washed up on the island. Averted with most of the girls, since they have no interest in the boys, but subverted with Carly who shows attraction to the boys, but eventually played straight when Katie actually falls for Jack.

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* [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] in ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic''. Dawn falls in love with [[EvilOverLord The Bog King]] who has her kidnapped as a hostage, but this is due to the effects of a {{love potion}}. [[spoiler: Her sister who breaks in to rescue her does fall in love with him, so its more of a case of Abduction of Family Members is love.]]
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* Spoofed in ''Film/{{Borat}}''; see RealLife below.

* ''Film/JewelRobbery'': In order for the Robber to get Baroness Teri alone and away from her husband, he kidnaps her under the false pretenses of being arrested by a detective.

* Used in ''Film/{{Stardust}}'' when Tristan accidentally is teleported by Babylon candle to Yvaine instead of to his mother and realizes that Yvaine is the fallen star:
-->'''Tristan:''' Oh, I, may I just say in advance that I'm sorry.
-->'''Yvaine:''' Sorry for what?
-->'''Tristan:''' For this. ''[Tristan takes out the enchanted chain and ties it around Yvaine's wrist]'' Now, if I'm not mistaken this means you have to come with me. You're going to be a birthday gift for Victoria, my true love.
-->'''Yvaine:''' ''[sarcastically]'' But of course! Nothing says "romance" like the gift of a kidnapped injured woman! I'm not going anywhere with you!

* In ''Film/{{Oyayubihime}}'', Saiko goes out of her way to treat Yuichi with love and affection after shrinking him in the hopes that he'll reciprocate her feelings towards him.
* A milder, comedic example forms the plot of ''Film/{{Overboard}}''.

* Arguably the case with Frank and Sarah in ''Film/{{Red}}''. He does it to try to protect her, but still...

* Edward's breaking of Bella's truck so she cannot escape him in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is portrayed as an act of love. Come to that, Bella and Edward's entire relationship is based on Edward doing manipulative, controlling, or just plain creepy things with Bella (and the narrator) deciding that [[StalkingIsLove this is somehow endearing and romantic]]. YMMV on how creepy this is, because Edward ''probably'' means well and would probably be doing a lot better at this [[ThereAreNoTherapists if someone would bother to get him some counselling.]]

* Attempted by a couple antagonists in ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}},'' with a garbled reference to the Tribe of Benjamin. It doesn't work for them.

** Many cultures practice this, including the wildlings, the Ironborn, and probably the Dothraki as well. Bride capture is ingrained in wildling society; a wildling woman won't even respect a potential mate unless he kidnaps her, [[AccidentalMarriage something Jon Snow finds out by accident only after he performs what he thought was standard captive-taking and the wildlings considered a binding proposal]]. The differences in marital traditions north and south of the Wall become particularly evident when Stannis' southron knights become convinced that they can simply wed the wildling Princess Val and expect her to settle down as a respectable courtly wife, no matter how many times they're told she would never have an ounce of respect for someone who didn't best her first.

* Used in ''Literature/WatershipDown'', of all things, when the buck rabbits of Hazel's new warren conspire to get does from other warrens. Subverted in that Hazel's looking for volunteers and the does of Efrafra are more than happy to emigrate, and also in that, unlike other uses of this trope, actual ''lust'' is not a motive: with no estrus females around, the bucks all preoccupy themselves with thoughts of food instead of sex, so it's up to forward-thinking Hazel to realize their warren needs breeders if it's to outlive its all-male founders.
* The third book in the ''Literature/WindOnFire'' series, ''Firesong'', features the young women of the group being kidnapped by nomadic warriors. Fortunately, due to a mixture of mind-reading and very lucky coincidence, they manage to escape and seal the warriors in their crater home perpetually. Little given away, as it is very, very good.

* In ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', Erik (the Phantom) becomes jealous when he sees the growing attraction between Raoul and Christine, so he kidnaps Christine and tries to force her to marry him by threatening to kill Raoul if she doesn't. To save Raoul's life, Christine agrees to marry Erik and gives him a kiss. Erik, who has never been kissed before (even his own mother wouldn't kiss him because of his deformed face), is so overcome with emotion that he [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy lets Christine go and tells her to marry Raoul]]. All he asks in return is that when he dies she will come back and bury him.
* In ''Literature/{{Edenborn}}'', [[spoiler:Deuce]] tries this on [[spoiler:Penny.]] Lucky for him, she's really into it.

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* Depending on your interpretation, it's disturbingly likely that the StalkerWithACrush from Music/{{Evanescence}}'s song ''Snow White Queen'' [[ParanoiaFuel would attempt this with his "beloved" given the opportunity]].
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* The reference to the Sabine women (and the [[TruthInTelevision ancient accepted practice of bride-kidnapping]] among conquering civilizations) makes this OlderThanFeudalism. In the Roman story, Romulus realized that the band of settlers on the hills of Rome was awful short on women, so he took it upon himself to invite the nearby Sabine people to a big festival (according to most myths, a footrace). At his signal, each Roman picked a Sabine woman and ran off with her. In general, they turned out to be OK with it eventually. By the time the war with the Sabines (and the other nations who had been defeated by this point) had reached the Capitoline, the warring fathers were now grandfathers. The fighting finally ended in the marsh between the Capitoline and Palatine Hills, where the daughters rushed out with children and begged for them to stop.
** This is usually referred to as "the rape of the Sabine women", but the original meaning of "rape" was just "to seize or carry off" (from Latin ''rapere'') and doesn't necessarily mean anything other than that (though it often did imply sexual violence, which is how the word acquired its current meaning). Livy, who wrote Rome's history under Augustus, claimed that the Roman men won the Sabine women's hearts with blandishments and puppy dog eyes before laying a hand on them.
* In the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical Old Testament]], Judges 21:10-24, men from the tribe of Benjamin find themselves with no women to marry, so they abduct women from Shiloh to be their wives. When the fathers and brothers of the kidnapped women come to retrieve the women, the Israelites ask for permission to keep them, "...for we didn't find enough wives for them [the Benjaminites] when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead." No word though on whether the captive women ever warmed up to their captors at all.

* Old legends about {{selkies|AndWereseals}} sometimes featured this. A selkie, in mythology, is a seal that can remove its seal skin revealing itself to be a beautiful woman underneath. In the old legends, men would find a selkie woman sunbathing without her skin. By stealing the skin and hiding it, they can get the selkie woman to marry them, have kids, and live happily for years. However, if the woman finds the skin, she'll take it and go off into the sea, never to return again.
** This myth is surprisingly prevalent among cultures. Swan-women and celestial maidens could also be wooed by stealing their magical garments, and would likewise flee if they recovered them.
** And in a gender-inverted version, there is one story of a clever girl tricking a [[HellishHorse kelpie]] out of the bridle that gave him his shapeshifting powers and ''putting him to work as a draft horse for ten years'', at the end of which the kelpie marries her and is baptized as a Christian, turning him human forever.

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* In the fall of 1999, Wrestling/TripleH was antagonizing Wrestling/VinceMcMahon and his family. One way he did that was by secretly marrying his daughter Wrestling/{{Stephanie|McMahon}}. At Wrestling/ArmageddonWrestling that year, Triple H faced Vince in a match with the stipulation that he would annul the marriage if he lost. Stephanie cost Vince the match, beginning the [=McMahon=]-Helmsley regime. [[LifeImitatesArt They later got married in]] RealLife.
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* ''Theatre/TheDesertSong'': Margot is kidnapped by the Red Shadow.

* Platonic example - Big Boss's mass kidnapping of soldiers in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker''. They start out as his enemies, but after being knocked out, captured and intimidated into joining him, they become legendarily loyal and willing to die for him. In the latter game, 'hostility' (resistance to joining Big Boss) is [[BrainWashed labelled in the menu as a 'Sickness']], although some soldiers will retain profile quotes about how they don't quite trust Big Boss yet.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' with Zidane kidnapping Garnet, only for him to start to like her. Garnet/Dagger, meanwhile, doesn't like him back until [[RescueRomance he personally help her with her problems.]]
** Also played with in the sense that Garnet specifically ''requests Zidane to kidnap her'' in order to get her away from her [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen megalomaniac mother]]. Granted, the plan was already set in motion to kidnap her anyway, but her willingly going along with it makes things less coercive.
* ''VideoGame/HeartNoKuniNoAlice'': Peter certainly seems to think this trope is true.

* ''VisualNovel/War13thDay'': In one ending, Chase carries off Ambrosia with him onto a ship and sets sail.

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* In ''Webcomic/RasputinBarxotka'', this happens on several occasions:
** Marlborina resents the fact that Camello was unable to kidnap her before marrying Lucky.
** When Camello offered himself for alien abduction and far more nefarious activities to the Zetas.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', this is pretty much the Ice King's modus operandi.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', the gang run past the trope image when in a museum.