History Main / AbductionIsLove

* ''ComicBook/TheEaglesOfRome'': When chieftan Segestes refuses to marry off his daughter Thusnelda to Arminius, Arminius and his men sneak into Segestes' town and kidnap Thusnelda so they can elope together. Since they're already head over heels in love with each other prior to this incident, she's very happy with this state of affairs. Segestes later resigns himself to the reality that Arminius is now his son-in-law.

* ''ComicBook/TheEaglesOfRome'': When chieftan Segestes refuses to marry off his daughter Thusnelda to Arminius, he and his men sneak into Segestes' town and kidnap Thusnelda so they can elope together. Since they're already head over heels in love with each other prior to this incident, she's very happy with this state of affairs. Segestes later resigns himself to the reality that Arminius is now his son-in-law.

* ''ComicBook/TheEaglesOfRome'': When Segestes refuses to marry off Thusnelda to Arminius, he and his men sneak into Segestes' town and kidnap Thusnelda so they can elope together. Since they're already head over heels in love with each other prior to this incident, she's very happy with this state of affairs.

** When Hades fell in love with Persephone, he kidnapped her and took her to his underground kingdom. Persephone’s own feelings on the whole matter and whether or not she was later tricked into eating the pomegranate seeds vary between different versions of the myth. However, the fact remains that these two ended up as one of the most stable marriages in Greek mythology.

* In the ''Literature/CampHalfBlood'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheyllNameACityAfterUs'' the sun god Apollo falls in love with the GenderFlip Percy Jackson and abducts her once the events of the first five books are over.

* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}: In his Arc debut, Wolf Demon Kouga kidnaps Kagome with the intention of making her his mate. After she escapes, he becomes an on-and-off ally who flirts with her while Kagome plays along if only to rile up Inuyasha.

* In ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', the few surviving soldiers seem to at least understand that 'borrowing' the last two uninfected women in England and keeping them against their will as breeding stock and female company is quite possibly immoral. They just don't care anymore. They seem to think treating them with a thin veneer of decency will eventually make them warm to the concept, but it's just about enough to get them all [[KarmicDeath slaughtered horribly]] anyway.

This should go without saying, but...DontTryThisAtHome. Seriously, just don't.

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Somehow, averted. This is oddly enough, one of the things that ''doesn't'' happen for love, despite people in the cast believing slashing, manipulating, getting plastic surgery, and lying are good ways to express one's feelings. The only times kidnapping does happen is not for romantic reasons, not even in Kasane's case, since she kidnapped [[spoiler:Shinra]] for business purposes and not out of love.

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

* 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]].

* In a hidden plotline in ''VisualNovel/UnderTheMoon'', the heroine, Ashe, gets carried off by an allegedly [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless boy]] who is trying to prevent her from falling in love. It's a vague sort of UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome; Ashe is not exactly his captive but he is the only person she has to interact with. One thing leads to another, Ashe [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts the ice prince]], ''and'' discovers that he's [[CasualKink a bit kinky]].

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

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Issue #200, where ComicBook/CarolDanvers learns she was kidnapped, brainwashed, and raped... and nobody sees this as a bad thing. A year later her creator Creator/ChrisClaremont wrote the Annual #10, where it turns out she'd stayed out of contact with the Avengers due to their betraying her by letting her go off with her rapist, not realizing she was still brainwashed when she said she wanted to.

* ''Literature/TheAbandonTrilogy'': Subverted in that Pierce started falling for John ''before'' he [[spoiler: took her to the Underworld]] the second time, and she's less than happy about the situation. He starts regretting the decision when he realizes that he's causing her parents anguish, and lets her return to Isla de los Huesos in ''Underworld'' to [[spoiler: stop Alex from dying.]]

* ''Literature/TheFarawayPaladin'': {{Justified}} in volume 5 when Will and his friends arrange a bridenapping of Anna so she can get married to Reystov. It's a love match and they were just helping her adoptive father Bishop Bagley save face with the nobles of Whitesails, who wouldn't have approved of his daughter marrying a common sellsword.

* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Emily and Zander got started when he kidnapped her after being falsely accused of killing a cop. While on the run, they bonded, probably simultaneously developing StockholmSyndrome and LimaSyndrome and began dating once he was cleared of charges.

** The myths are unclear, even contradictory, regarding whether Helen was kidnapped by Paris or willingly eloped with him, either way, it kicked off the UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar.

* In a hidden plotline in ''VisualNovel/UnderTheMoon'', the heroine, Ashe, gets carried off by an allegedly [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless boy]] who is trying to prevent her from falling in love. It's a vague sort of StockholmSyndrome; Ashe is not exactly his captive but he is the only person she has to interact with. One thing leads to another, Ashe [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosts the ice prince]], ''and'' discovers that he's [[CasualKink a bit kinky]].

* Deconstructed when Hyper Fangirl kidnapped WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and held him as a CaptiveDate for two weeks. Even after she had a VillainousBreakdown and disappeared for a few months, it fucked him up and invoked StockholmSyndrome while also considering it to be her MoralEventHorizon.

* Inverted in the [[{{Hentai} h-manga}]] ''Mating with Oni''. A young man named Sochiro moves back to the village his grandparents, who raised him, live in and while playing outside with Momiji, a young red-oni, she takes him back to her house while Kaede, her mother and a red-oni, takes care of some business. When Kaede returns, she finds Soichiro asking Momiji to untie him and to play another game, and Kaede thinks Momijo wants to kill him and eat him. Momiji clarifies that she likes Soichiro, and after Soichiro says he likes her too, Kaede explains that oni tradition states that if an oni falls in love with a human then that human will be abducted and forced into marriage. Soichiro at first tried to resist, but eventually accepted his marriage, and even takes Kaede as a bride as well. When Socihiro is gathering plants in the forest, two onis from the rival blue clan, Ruri and Hari, kidnap him and when he tries to walk away and go home, he's hypnotized and they seduce him. After he's rescued and reunited with his wives, and months later, a pregant Momiji is still trying to prevent Ruri and Hari from kidnapping him again.

* The infamous issue #200 of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', where ComicBook/CarolDanvers learns she was kidnapped, brainwashed, and raped... and we're supposed to see this as a good thing. A year later her creator Creator/ChrisClaremont fought back in ''Avengers Annual #10'', where it turns out she'd stayed out of contact with the Avengers due to their betraying her by letting her go off with her rapist, not realizing she was still brainwashed when she said she wanted to. She proceeds to epically chew them out and refuse to return to the team, opting to join the ComicBook/XMen instead.

* In ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20070519223345/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 ''Literature/TheFireBirdTheHorseOfPowerAndThePrincessVasilissa'', the princess dislikes the tsar she has been abducted for because he is old but falls in love with the archer who abducted her.
* In ''Literature/TsarevitchIvanTheFireBirdAndTheGrayWolf'', the Wolf carries off Helena the Beautiful, but dries her tears when she sees the handsome Ivan, and soon they love each other. Given that he had kidnapped her because another king had demanded her -- it's a good thing they have the wolf on their side.

* In ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20070519225124/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.

* ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'': The page quote comes from the song "Sobbin' Women". The movie features a brood of socially awkward men who kidnap some townswomen they take a shining to during a town dance. They draw the inspiration for their act from a book that detailed the history of the Sabine women (see Mythology and Religion, below). Of course, the brothers, being ignorant hicks, misinterpret the word ''Sabine'' as "Sobbin'"'. They also make a few other ignorant presumptions about how things would turn out. Fortunately for them, the girls they kidnapped do eventually fall in love with them (''after'' putting them all through the wringer for what they did...)

* All over the place in Myth/BetiPahuinMythology. Brides could be very expensive in Fang-Beti culture, so many men chose to just grab a girl, run away, and hope her family didn't kill him. Women performed the bulk of food production, so more wives meant more workers and more food and by extension more influence. A insignificant portion of wars real and mythical were fought for the purpose of kidnapping and/or rescuing women. The family drama of Ekang Nna all began with his abduction of Aloume Ndong Minko.
* 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 Sabines of Cures and three other tribes (either Sabines or Latins depending on the source) to a big festival (according to most myths, a footrace). At his signal, each Roman picked a guest 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 of Cures (who had waited for the other tribes to be defeated and weaken the Romans in the process) 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 PuppyDogEyes before laying a hand on them.
* In the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical Old Testament]]:
** [[Literature/BookOfJudges 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.
** Earlier, the Bible had Shechem kidnap, rape, and decide to marry Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. Her brothers agreed to the marriage only if Shechem and all his countrymen agreed to be circumcised. Three days after the countrymen comply, her brothers turn out [[LeaveNoSurvivors not to like this trope very much]].

* This trope is prevalent in Myth/ClassicalMythology:

*** Speaking of Helen, the myths are unclear, even contradictory, regarding whether Helen was kidnapped by Paris or willingly eloped with him, either way, it kicked off the UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar.

* Justified in the Caucasian Myth/NartSagas; bride abduction was a marriage ritual in the North Caucasus. That said, it was often pre-arranged with the woman's family, and a non-consensual abduction would be seen as a serious breach of social norms. In some of the tales themselves, it's can be difficult to tell just how consensual some of these encounters are.
* The wicked priests of King Noah in ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'' were hiding in the wilderness, having abandoned their people as the Lamanites conquered their land, when they stumbled across a group of daughters of the Lamanites dancing in the woods. They captured these daughters and made them their wives. Presumably, love followed because the next we hear of these daughters is their (and their children) pleading with an army of Lamanites not to kill their husbands.

* In the Creator/PiersAnthony series ''Literature/BioOfASpaceTyrant'', during his time in the SpaceNavy, the protagonist, Hope Hubris, has to make a truce with the local pirate fleet. To do so requires him to form a Pirate Marriage with Rue, the daughter of the pirate leader. While most of the abduction/rape scenarios in the pirate fleet are merely for show, this time Hope must actually perform, otherwise she is set to kill him, for real.

* ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'' has Iason kidnapping Riki so they can be together.

** 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.

* TheAlcoholic: Laura drinks a ''lot'' of alcohol and gets drunk and/or hungover several times per book. When things start going wrong with her life, she tends to [[DrowningMySorrows reach for the booze]].