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* In ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'', any Christian can save lost souls from certain damnation, casting out evil spirits along the way. Of course, given that it's [[AuthorTract Chick Tracts]], some can go the extra mile to SoulSavingCrusader.
* The fourth and fifth book of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' revolves around this trope. The fourth being ''Season of Mist'', with Morpheus trying to save his lover from Hell. Not out of love, however, but due to guilt and the realization that he messed up. He had condemned her to hell quite some time ago because she refused his marriage proposal. In terms of moral improvement, he saved (or at least improved) ''himself''.

* ''VideoGame/TheBlackwellSeries'': Lauren Blackwell (in the 1970s), her niece Rosangela Blackwell (in the mid-2000s), and [[spoiler:Jocelyn Contiss (in the 1930s)]] are all spirit mediums that can communicate with ghosts, and are bonded with a spiritual mentor that helps them in their tasks of helping souls move on to the Afterlife. Rosangela is even called in-universe a "Bestower of Eternity".

* When the Soul Reapers from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' destroy a Hollow, they allow its soul to pass on to the Soul Society, so that their souls can later be reborn. Quincys, however, are the antitheses of this trope - when they destroy a Hollow they destroy the soul, too.
** For a given value of destroy. Since the Soul Society's job is to keep the balance of spiritual power in both worlds, and they do this by deciding who gets reincarnated when, the Quincies have an annoying habit of just leaving the Hollow's spirit energy in the world of the living.

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* In ''Literature/{{Inferno}}'', Benito Mussolini tries to save the souls of people in Hell by helping them escape. At the end of the novel Allan Carpentier takes over his role.

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}''. The psychic Tangina helps a group of ghosts (lost souls) trapped in the astral plane go into the Light.

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* ''Series/GhostWhisperer'' goes around helping ghosts resolve their conflicts and send them into the light.

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* In ''Videogame/FallenLondon'', an optional subplot leads to your character becoming one of these, literally rescuing people's {{Soul Jar}}s from devils and returning them to their owners.

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A religious version of TheSoulsaver is different from a SoulsavingCrusader in that a Soulsaver does not use the harsh methods that a Soulsaving Crusader employs to "save" people.

** Inverted in the story "The Warrior", in which one of the daughters of Michael Carpenter, a retired Knight, is abducted and held hostage. When he and Harry apprehend the culprit, Michael is so furious that ''Harry'' has to play TheSoulsaver, talking his friend down and even offering to kill the kidnapper himself if it ''has'' to be done, so long as '''Michael''' doesn't befoul his righteous status for the sake of revenge.

* In ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'', any Christian can save lost souls from certain damnation, casting out evil spirits along the way.

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* The exorcists in ''DGrayMan'', especially Allen. The [[TheHeartless akuma]] they're fighting are powered by the souls of the dead, and unless they're destroyed using [[HolyHandGrenade Innocence]], they disappear instead of being redeemed. Some of the organization is a lot more focused on destroying Akuma than saving their souls, though.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[spoiler: is essentially what the title character becomes at the end of the series. She prevents magical girls being consumed by despair and becoming Witches by taking them and the witches they would have become with her.]]

*** For a given value of destroy. Since the Soul Society's job is to keep the balance of spiritual power in both worlds, and they do this by deciding who gets reincarnated when, the Quincies have an annoying habit of just leaving the Hollow's spirit energy in the world of the living.

A religious version of TheSoulsaver is different from a SoulsavingCrusader by not using such harsh methods.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[spoiler: is essentially what the title character becomes at the end of the series. She prevents magical girls being consumed by despair and becoming Witches by cleansing their souls as they die.]]

* The exorcists in ''DGrayMan'', especially [[TheMessiah Allen]]. The [[TheHeartless akuma]] they're fighting are powered by the souls of the dead, and unless they're destroyed using [[HolyHandGrenade Innocence]], they disappear instead of being redeemed. Some of the organization is a lot more focused on destroying Akuma than saving their souls, though.

* According to Literature/TheBible Jesus dying on the cross saved the souls of all who believe in Him, both those who had died before Him like Abraham and people who came after Him. (Some interpretations have him literally going ToHellAndBack to retrieve the righteous dead.)

* In ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'', any christian can save lost souls from certain damnation, casting out evil spirits along the way.

* In Creator/LarryNiven and Jerry Pournelle's SF novel ''Literature/{{Inferno}}'', Benito Mussolini tries to save the souls of people in Hell by helping them escape. At the end of the novel Allan Carpentier takes over his role.

* LarryNiven and Jerry Pournelle's SF novel ''Literature/{{Inferno}}''. Benito Mussolini tries to save the souls of people in Hell by helping them escape. At the end of the novel Allan Carpentier takes over his role.

* In the original ''{{Dracula}}'', the vampire-hunting protagonists are said to be saving the souls of the undead from a presumably rather uncomfortable state of limbo.
* Lyra and her daemon, Pan, in ''HisDarkMaterials''. She sets free the severed daemons of Bolvangar, and even better, saves the rest of the children from that same fate. It turns out [[spoiler: her eventual destiny is to open the world of the dead, and its numberless billions of souls, to the rest of the multiverse.]]

* This is the purpose of the Knights of the Cross in ''TheDresdenFiles''. They will fight people who succumb to DemonicPossession and kill them if necessary, but if they surrender, throw their demonic powers away, and show a desire to atone and repent the Knights are oath-bound to help them with it ([[ISurrenderSuckers even if they're not genuine about it]]). [[spoiler:Sanya, one of the knights, is one of their success stories.]]

* In ''WorldOfWarcraft'' [[OurAngelsAreDifferent A'dal]] appears to save a dying crusader from being transformed into one of the Scourge by sending his soul directly to the Light.