Basic Trope: A rescue-ee has sex with their rescuer to express gratitude.
- Straight: Bob rescues Alice from Emperor Evulz, killing him in the process. Alice rewards Bob by having sex with him.
- Exaggerated: Bob rescues Alice from Evulz. Alice has sex in every imaginable position with him right then and there.
- Downplayed: Alice already loved Bob, and missed him while she was captured, and begins making out with him.
- Justified: Rescue Romance.
- Bob and Alice are the main characters of an Adam and Eve Plot, and Evulz poisoned Bob, giving him only days to live.
- Inverted: After having sex with Bob, Alice is captured by Evulz.
- Subverted: Bob rescues Alice, and the two don't have sex.
- Double Subverted: ...until they get home, that is.
- Parodied: Bob saves Alice from jail by paying off her traffic ticket, and Alice has sex with him in court, causing the judge to throw them both in jail for indecent exposure.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice offers to have sex with Bob if he rescues her.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice appreciates Bob rescuing her, but doesn't have sex with him for personal reasons.
- Bob, Alice or both are gay or asexual.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: After Bob rescues Alice, she offers to thank him in his tent or room. The audience isn't shown exactly how she thanks him.
- Deconstructed: After he rescues her, Alice believes she's fallen in love with Bob, and wants to have sex with him as a token of her love. But those emotions were just her gratitude towards him showing. In truth, they're far too different to have an actual relationship.
- Reconstructed: But that doesn't mean they can't be friends with benefits.
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: The sex gets Alice pregnant.
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