History Main / SavedToEnslave

* ''Series/BreakingBad: [[spoiler:Todd convinces Uncle Jack not to kill a captive Jesse for being a rat in favor of forcing him to cook meth under inhumane living conditions, killing his girlfriend Andrea when he tries to escape.]]

* Jedah in [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Vampire Savior]] fits this to a T. Not only did he save Lilith from the prison Belial gave her just to use her in his [[RewritingReality plan for recreating Makai]], but Lilith realizing this was enough to [[DeceptiveDisciple get her to double-cross him]] too.

* Jedah in ''Vampire Savior'' fits this to a T. Not only did he save Lilith from the prison Belial gave her just to use her in his [[RewritingReality plan for recreating Makai]], but Lilith realizing this was enough to [[DeceptiveDisciple get her to double-cross him]] too.

Can overlap with RecruitedFromTheGutter, StockholmSyndrome, or ({{Squick}}) RescueRomance.

* A gameplay mechanic in ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}''. Occasionally, somebody's transport pod will end up crashlanding in your base, leaving its passenger mortally wounded. You can choose to help them, or take them prisoner, depending on your relative factions, your pawns' religious views, and your own sense of morality.

* ''Literature/{{Gor}]'': Gorean convention has it that if a man saves the life of a free woman, he has the option to enslave her.

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* The [[{{Hentai}} H-manga]] ''Black Moon Prophecy'' is kicked off by an {{Otaku}} who hires a prostitute to lose his virginty, only for her to reaveal herself as [[ImAHumanitarian a succubus with a taste for human flesh]]. As she slaughters him, the heroine, a sorceress, appears, kills the succubus, and transports him back to her world where after he recovers from being gutted and dismembered, she forces him him to be her [[{{Familiar}} familiar]]/[[SexSlave sex toy]].

* Pulp hero ''Radio/TheShadow'' has a VigilanteMilitia of agents whom he expects to obey all orders. While some joined voluntarily, others were persons he rescued and then 'impressed.'

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->''"I've saved your life, Roy Tam - it now belongs to me!"''

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Compare YouOweMe (Bob reminds Alice that he did her a favor in order to get her to do something she's reluctant to do), LeonineContract (Bob gets Alice to agree to something when she's in no real position to say 'no'), and VillainousRescue. Contrast IOweYouMyLife, where ''Alice'' insists on serving Bob without any external compulsion or threat of force to make her do so.

-->'''The Shadow:''' I've saved your life, Roy Tam - it now belongs to me!
--->-- ''Film/TheShadow''

* The film version of ''Film/TheShadow'' has Cranston putting anyone he saves into his debt -- and service -- claiming that saving their lives means he now owns them.
* In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', after an armless and confused Thor arrives on Sakaar, Valkyrie saves him from his attackers. Then she immediately subdues him with a device that releases neurotoxins and delivers him to the Grandmaster as a slave for sale. She gets a hefty sum for her efforts, and Thor is forced to participate in the Grandmaster's gladiator games.

* Before Emancipation, nobles of USefulNotes/ImperialRussia were able to take in orphans and make them into serfs if they were under the age of eight.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Fenris' personal quest "A Bitter Pill" ends with [[PlayerCharacter Hawke]] rescuing an [[EnslavedElves elf]] named Orianne. Should Hawke offer her work at the Hawke Manor, Fenris, a former slave, will deride him or her for taking her in as a slave. The player's reaction, however, determines if this trope is PlayedStraight or {{subverted}} (by paying Orianne for her work).

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAge2'', Fenris' personal quest ''A Bitter Pill'' ends with [[PlayerCharacter Hawke]] rescuing an [[EnslavedElves elf]] named Orianne. Should Hawke offer her work at the Hawke Manor, Fenris, a former slave, will deride him or her for taking her in as a slave. The player's reaction, however, determines if this trope is PlayedStraight or {{subverted}}.

* ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'': Returning from the Crusades, {{the cynic}}al AntiHero Jons saves a woman from an AttemptedRape, then remembers he needs a new housekeeper and orders her to come with him. He admits that he could have raped her himself had he not already grown tired of such things.

* Before Emancipation, nobles of USefulNotes/ImperialRussia were able to take in orphans and make them into serfs if they were under the age of eight.

* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', the githzerai live in a world of chaos shaped purely by their thoughts, a world in which self-doubt can be deadly. The Practical Incarnation [[LeonineContract entrapped]] a githzerai in this way, saving him psychologically by giving him the scripture of Zerthimon. The githzerai swore obedience until the Practical Incarnation's death...but what he didn't know was that the Practical Incarnation was immortal.