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** Played with in one instance: one of the maidens you need to save [[spoiler: [[DecoyDamsel turns out to be the leader of a band of brigands, Blind The Thief]]. Once you defeat him you save the ''real'' maiden as usual, though.]]
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** Played with in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', one of the maidens you need to save [[spoiler: [[DecoyDamsel turns out to be the leader of a band of brigands, Blind The Thief]]. Once you defeat him you save the ''real'' maiden as usual, though.]]
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*** Zelda starts out already kidnapped at the beginning of the game and you rescue her during the game's opening sequence. When you get the Master Sword after completing the first set of dungeons, Zelda gets kidnapped a second time and placed in a crystal.
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*** Zelda starts out already kidnapped at the beginning of the game and you rescue her during the game's opening sequence. When you get the Master Sword after completing the first set of dungeons, Zelda gets kidnapped a second time and placed in a crystal.
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* ''VideoGame/MilonsSecretCastle'': Technically, you are actually trying to save a ''queen'', but it's the same principal.
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* A literal example in ''{{Anime/One Piece}}'' during their BigDamnHeroes, when Luffy and Pell emerge from the sky to save princess Vivi after Crocodile drops her.
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* [[Website/Questden TGChan]] Presents: [[https://questden.org/kusaba/tg/res/10458.html Princess, I've Come For You!]] A compilation of what happens when the rescuing knight MEETS the princess. Warning, NSFW (a little).
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* In ''Literature/TheLostPrincessOfOz'', Princess Ozma of Oz suddenly goes missing along with all of the most powerful artifacts of Oz. Search parties are organized to scour Oz for any sign of her. [[spoiler: It turns out she was kidnapped by a shoemaker-turned-wizard named Ugu and imprisoned in a golden peach pit, which luckily one of the characters in the search party, Button-Bright, happens upon mid-way through the book, never knowing she was trapped inside until after the villain's defeat.]]
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Sometime after the arcade era, it became a DeadHorseTrope. While video games still feature the occasional princess in peril, rescuing them is only part of the overall plot; either that, or it's covered by the GrandfatherClause. In his book ''Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life'', Chris Kohler credits this progress to some [[GamerChick Girl Gamers]] who wrote to Creator/{{Nintendo}} in TheEighties to say they were tired of saving princesses; Nintendo eventually announced they'd stop using it as a final goal except in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series.
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Sometime after the arcade era, it became a DeadHorseTrope. While video games still feature the occasional princess in peril, rescuing them is only part of the overall plot; either that, or it's covered by the GrandfatherClause. In his book ''Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life'', Chris Kohler credits this progress to some [[GamerChick Girl Gamers]] who wrote to Creator/{{Nintendo}} in TheEighties to say they were tired of saving princesses; Nintendo eventually announced they'd stop using it as a final goal except in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series.
series. The trope's inversion, PrincessProtagonist, where the princess is the main character, has grown in popularity as a way to keep making games about princesses while avoiding these criticisms.
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** The original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' and ''3'' both have this plot, as does the Japanese version of ''2'' (''The Lost Levels''), ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', the first half of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', the second half of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games (excluding ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', where Peach is a playable character), ''and'' every ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' [[note]]''1'', ''Wii'', ''2'', ''U'', and ''Luigi U''[[/note]] Bowser must really dig Peach...
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** At the very beginning of the Mario franchise, Pauline in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'', who gets kidnapped again in the UsefulNotes/GameBoy version and in most ''VideoGame/MarioVsDonkeyKong'' games.
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* Subverted in ''Fanfic/AGameOfCastles''. Mario thinks that Peach needs saving, but she doesn't. Her kingdom is aware that she's with Bowser as a royal guest after she mysteriously turned up in the Koopa Kingdom.
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* In ''Literature/UserUnfriendly'', the main quest of the game the heroes play is to rescue a princess, Dorinda, after she goes missing and a member of her Royal Guard is found slain by orc arrows. [[spoiler:The princess actually turns out to be the Big Bad in the end]].
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** At the very beginning of the Mario franchise, Pauline in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'', who gets kidnapped again in the GameBoy version and in most ''VideoGame/MarioVsDonkeyKong'' games.
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* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': Arguably the most famous example. The franchise '''is named''' after the princess.
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* In ''DarthWiki/RoyalRomance'', Prince Lech saves Princess Mira from a German monster named Gilbert.
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* The main subplot of the Greenhorne region in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' is to save it's Princess, whose face has been stolen by the Dark Lord.
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* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': Steve Trevor occasionally gets a chance to try to do this, but generally fails because Princess Diana saves herself instead.
** In "Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman", Wonder Woman is captured by the Nazis and taken behind enemy lines. Steve disobeys the order to not go after her but obeys the order to take a vacation...so he can go rescue her. [[spoiler: He arrives just after Wonder Woman escapes and [[DistressedDude gets captured himself]]]]
** In "Judgement from Outer Space", Wonder Woman is hit by poison gas. Steve does get to take her to the hospital, but she fights off the poison herself.
** In "Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman", Wonder Woman is captured by the Nazis and taken behind enemy lines. Steve disobeys the order to not go after her but obeys the order to take a vacation...so he can go rescue her. [[spoiler: He arrives just after Wonder Woman escapes and [[DistressedDude gets captured himself]]]]
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* This is the initial premise of ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}''. [[spoiler:The endings will make you wish you hadn't saved her.]]
** This was uncannily anticipated by the ending of ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'': [[spoiler:"But, the princess became a monster. And, more monsters followed her."]] In that case, though, it was AllJustADream...[[OrWasItADream in one country's version, at least]].
** This was uncannily anticipated by the ending of ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'': [[spoiler:"But, the princess became a monster. And, more monsters followed her."]] In that case, though, it was AllJustADream...[[OrWasItADream in one country's version, at least]].
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** This was uncannily anticipated by the ending of ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'': [[spoiler:"But, the princess became a monster. And, more monsters followed her."]] In that case, though, it was AllJustADream...[[OrWasItADream inbecome one country's version, at least]].as well so no big deal]].
** This was uncannily anticipated by the ending of ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'': [[spoiler:"But, the princess became a monster. And, more monsters followed her."]] In that case, though, it was AllJustADream...[[OrWasItADream in
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* Being an AffectionateParody of RPG cliches, ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'' naturally uses this as it's main plot.
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* Being an AffectionateParody of RPG cliches, ''VideoGame/TheBardsTale'' naturally uses this as it's main plot. Being the {{Jerkass}} that he is, the Bard isn't interested until he's offered [[RescueSex access to the princess' panties]] as a reward.
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* ''Series/KingdomAdventure'': For most of the series, the Princess is kept in Lumia Castle, technically under the guard of Pitts (who is one of [[BigBad Zordock's]] minions), but she's still considered to be safe there. However, Zordock manages to steal the Princess's ring, kidnap her, and take her to the Dark Wood. Pokum, Gigag, Vibes, and [[spoiler: Magistrate Kendrick in his Gulp-form]] go to rescue her.
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* ''Film/ShanghaiNoon'' revolvs around a group of Chinese imperial guards being sent to America to pay ransom for their captive princess. However, after seeing how Chinese immigrants are treated in America (along with her ArrangedMarriage to a homely man back home) makes the princess not so eager to return.
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* In ''Film/ANewHope'', Luke Skywalker's CallToAdventure is motivated in large part by a message recorded in distress by Princess Leia. He rescues her, of course, but this turns out to be just a small victory in the [[EarthShatteringKaboom literally world-shattering]] conflict between the Rebel Alliance and TheEmpire.
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* In ''Film/ANewHope'', Luke Skywalker's CallToAdventure is motivated in large part by a message recorded in distress by Princess Leia. He rescues her, of course, but this turns out to be just a small victory in the [[EarthShatteringKaboom literally world-shattering]] conflict between the Rebel Alliance and TheEmpire.
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* ''Recap/BlackMirrorTheNationalAnthem'' is a modern take on the trope, and PlayedForDrama. An English princess is kidnapped and the kidnapper has only one demand: the Prime Minister must [[{{Squick}} have sex with a pig]] on live TV or she will be executed. [[spoiler:He does go through with the deed, and worse, it turns out ''he didn't need to'': the kidnapper was just a MadArtist who ''planned the whole thing as a social commentary'', and he had no intention of truly harming her.]]
