History Main / LimaSyndrome

* Literature/VanasHeritage: As'Saif and some of his mercenaries have pity for their captive Nirvy. It does spark conflict with their master, but it's not enough for them to betray him.

* ''Series/TheKillPoint'': Most of the hostage-takers show a great deal of care for the hostages, and do whatever they can to make their situation more comfortable under the circumstances. The only one to routinely avoid it is [[ShellshockedVeteran Mr. Rabbit]], the more violent member of the team. Mr. Wolf is also still prepared to execute one of them to make good on his threat to the police, however.

Keep in mind that these two syndromes depend on who falls in love first - if the captor is kind to their captive with no manipulative intent, and releases them, it is Lima Syndrome even if they fall in love ''afterwards''.

* In Creator/PiersAnthony's novel ''Literature/AndEternity'', the three main characters have to save a spaceship full of people, by building the start of true love between a hostage and one of her captors, invoking this trope.
* In ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' Belle comes to befriend the Beast, then falls in love with him thanks to a little Lima Syndrome on his part. This is true in ALL versions of the story, right back to the original 1740 story.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Blaze}}'', a mentally challenged con man kidnaps a millionaire's infant for ransom but eventually finds himself bonding with the child.

* In ''The Confessions of Literature/ArseneLupin'', Lupin is captured by a mother-and-son team seeking revenge. The son, who was [[FlorenceNightingaleEffect tending his wounds]], ends up setting him free, because [[spoiler:he was actually a woman in disguise, and had fallen in love with Lupin]].
* Implied to have happened along with Stockholm Syndrome in the backstory to ''Literature/ABrothersPrice''. The Whistlers didn't let Prince Alannon go - since the rest of his family was executed and he was reported missing, he decided to be philosophical about it - but they did "run themselves ragged" doing what they could to make him happy.

* ''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". 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.
* An InvokedTrope in ''Literature/{{Friday}}'', which opens with the title character being gang-raped as an interrogation technique. As an ArtificialHuman she's been brought up not to have any sexual hang-ups and has even been trained to pretend to enjoy it to create disruption and sympathy among her captors.

* In the book series ''[[Literature/OnTheRun Kidnapped]]'', 11-year-old Meg tries to invoke this in one of her captors, partly in the hopes of eventually turning him against the other two captors. It works.

* ''Red Fox'' by Gerald Seymour. A hard-headed British businessman is kidnapped by a teenage terrorist, and after his initial attempts to escape fail, starts putting into practice the methods he'd been taught in a hostage seminar (which he'd walked out of thinking it was all rubbish). He's therefore able to postpone his death until the authorities find him and is [[UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome quite distraught]] when the terrorist is shot by a sniper.

* In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Maedhros and Maglor take captive Elrond and Elros, who are only children, but Maglor (or Maedhros in some versions) ends up fostering them. Maedhros and Maglor are [[AntiVillain reluctant villains]]. Maedhros in particular deeply regrets the murder of the boys' uncles when they too were children. Maglor is more of a tortured artist who just doesn't like all the killing.
-->"...Maglor took pity upon Elros and Elrond, and he cherished them, and love grew after between them, as little might be thought." ''The Silmarillion'', Creator/JRRTolkien.
** May be an invoked trope since Elrond and Elros inherited Lúthien's magical manipulation powers.

* In ''Literature/TheThiefLord,'' the street children keep Victor Getz, a private detective searching for Prosper and Bo, as their prisoner. Initially they are very hostile to him as they believe he will drive them out of their home, but they quickly warm to him as he proves to be both useful and empathetic to their plight. Eventually he becomes something of a TeamDad as the book goes on.

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', the off-kilter Hanji Zoe becomes super attached to two captive Titans she dubs "Sawney" and "Bean". Even breaking into bizarre hysterics when testing to see if they could feel pain. [[spoiler:She has a massive freak out and sobs when the two get murdered later.]]

* In ''WebVideo/SMPLive'', Connor kidnaps Gold's bird, Rye, and gets attached to it.

--> '''Connor:''' We stole his son and then it died, and now I'm really pissed at him!