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Lima Syndrome is usually just A Match Made in Stockholm from the other POV. And by "other POV" I don't mean depending on who's POV the story is told from. I mean the exact same event from the exact same story, listed under both, saying "it would be Lima from Bob's POV".

     Literally both are listed (29) 
  1. A Brother's Price:
    1. Lima Syndrome: Implied to have happened with the Whistler Grandmothers. 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.
    2. A Match Made in Stockholm: Decades ago, Jerin's grandfather Prince Allanon was abducted by the Whistlers, a band of soldier-spy True Companions calling themselves sisters, much to his dismay. Since this was part of a Civil War and not long after that the entire side of the prince's family was executed for treason, he decided there wasn't much point in going back. Later such 'husband raids' became illegal.
  2. A Simple Survey
    1. Lima Syndrome: In File 03, the interrogator Sagittarius comes to the conclusion that his colleague is actually working against him, and pulls a gun on him. Said colleague claims that Sagittarius has fallen victim to this syndrome, but it's unclear whether or not this is the case.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: File 03 features an interrogator nicknamed Sagittarius, who specializes in using this to gain information from his targets. However, in that story, it's implied that he may have fallen victim to the reverse.
  3. Ai no Kusabi: They're commented out ZCE, but both are listed
    1. A Match Made in Stockholm: Riki and Iason.
    2. Lima Syndrome: Iason and Riki, respectively.
  4. Bel Canto: ...a bunch of hostages from all across the globe who the terrorists refuse to release, leading to a long hostage situation with lots of Stockholm Syndrome, Lima Syndrome, Star-Crossed Lovers and the heavy, inevitable weight of a tragic showdown as the army prepares to storm the mansion.
  5. Dragonskin Slippers
    1. Stockholm Syndrome / Lima Syndrome: Peder No-People grows rather fond of Shardas's group, and shows some reluctance to return to his mother. On their end, his captors feel badly for him, and only keep him prisoner to protect themselves from discovery. By the time he is released, he and Roginet are shown to have become rather fond of each other.
  6. Everlost
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: Allie does grow to sympathize with the McGill a little.
    2. Lima Syndrome: The McGill/Mikey McGill to Allie. This, along with his Pet the Dog moments and considering her a Worthy Opponent, causes him to he makes a Heel–Face Turn and become The Sixth Ranger.
  7. Heart of Steel: ZCE and commented out, but A Match Made in Stockholm and Lima Syndrome are both listed.
  8. Island of the Aunts
    1. Lima Syndrome: The aunts were never malicious, but they do grow fond of the kids and become a bit more realistic about the whole kidnapping business.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: It doesn't take the children long to enjoy living on the island and helping the aunts. It helps that the aunts are considerably more caring than the children's own guardians are. This is lampshaded at one point when Minette asks Fabio if they shouldn't be planning an escape from the island, but they enjoy living there too much to think about running away.
  9. Jesse Stone:
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: It's heavily implied that Crow and the women he kidnapped had a bit of this going, partly because he made sure that none of them were hurt. It's also possible that he developed Lima Syndrome, and even has a one-night stand with one of the women years later.
  10. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, ''Son of the Shadows'
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: Liadan falls in love with the leader of the mercenaries who kidnap her. The reverse is also true, with apparently the entire crew experiencing Lima Syndrome.
  11. The Bone Season
    1. Lima Syndrome: Warden's treatment of Paige is singularly humane and considerate, which seems incongruous until we learn that he's a dissident of the Sargas regime and unsympathetic toward the violent colonization of Sheol I. He always intended to make an ally of her, should she prove trustworthy. But by looking through her memories to determine whether or not she's likely to betray him, he comes to empathize with Paige on a deeply personal level and eventually to desire more than alliance from her.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: Downplayed. Paige distrusts and despises Warden for being her personal jailor, reacting with hostility to his every overture of kindness, and only comes to sympathize with him when she learns that he is a. one of the scarred ones, b. as much Nashira's prisoner as she is, and c. going to help her organize a prison break. They become friends and co-conspirators soon afterward. By the Bicentenary, she has developed romantic feelings for him and is reluctant to part ways with him.
  12. The Collector
    1. Lima Syndrome: Frederick literally adores his captive.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: Miranda tries very hard to fight it, but she confesses in her diary to feeling grateful at some of the things Frederick does.
  13. The Folk of the Air
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: Jude and Taryn have grown to love Madoc like a father while resenting him for killing their parents at the same time.
    2. Lima Syndrome: Madoc grew to love Jude and Taryn as his own daughters, despite murdering their parents and dragging them to Faerie against their will due to his own sense of honor and responsibility. Orianna remarks at one point that he is completely "besotted" with them.
  14. The Season to Be Wary
    1. Lima Syndrome/Stockholm Syndrome: A really weird example with Lansing and Zamorski. Zamorski was one of Lansing's torture victims in the camps, and he escapes with him— because who would expect a Nazi to be traveling with one of the Jews he victimized? Lansing regards Zamorski as a kind of pet (or maybe a favorite toy that he played with), and Zamorski seems content to stay with Lansing. Though it turns out that Zamorski may have just been playing a really long game...
  15. The Sheik
    1. A Match Made in Stockholm: The entire story is this trope Played for Drama.
    2. Lima Syndrome: The Sheik winds up with this for Diana. After he's tortured her for around four months, he starts wondering why her pain gives him no satisfaction. "Guilt" isn't a word that figures into his vocabulary until much later.
  16. The Way to Protect the Female Lead's Older Brother
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: Arguably Cassis towards Roxana, although she was not responsible for his kidnapping, saved him from her family and ultimately helped him escape the Agriche estate. However, he's still unaware she manipulated some events to make his situation seem more hopeless in order to make him feel more indebted to her.
    2. Lima Syndrome: Roxana towards Cassis in the original novel. However, she was powerless to save him from being ultimately killed by her relatives.
  17. White Blood
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: Averted on Maryn's part, though she fakes it at a few points attempting to invoke Lima Syndrome.
    2. Lima Syndrome: Averted on Carlich's part, though Maryn tries to invoke it.
  18. Arachnid:
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: Alice starts thinking of her kidnapper Kumo as a father figure while he trains her. Kumo does return the feelings, but still goes through with his plan to make her kill him.
  19. Black Sun: Doreiou
    1. Lima Syndrome: Jamal decided to keep Leonard captive as a Sex Slave, though it doesn't take long for him to become genuinely attached to Leonard to the extent that he'd even challenge almost the entire royal family to have Leonard by his side.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: Downplayed. Leonard holds no illusions over how the first few times Jamal had his way with him were done without his consent whatsoever; but even then, Leonard still can't bring himself to hate Jamal and still harbors respect towards the man for his accomplishments in battle. He eventually reconciles with the fact that what he feels for Jamal is anything but hate by the time Chapter 9 rolls in.
  20. Sakura Gari
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: Masataka developing feelings for Souma after being forced to stay with him after being blackmailed with his brother's debt. Lampshaded by Masataka himself when he wonders why does he keep coming back to the Saikis, even after all that has happened.
    2. Lima Syndrome: Souma, in return, develops genuine feelings for Masataka as time passes.
  21. The Kindaichi Case Files
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: Reika Hayami is revealed to have been a kidnapping victim as a very young child, and ended up treating her kidnapper as her father. Fortunately for her, the kidnapper developed Lima Syndrome and genuinely loves her as a daughter. Justified, seeing as Reika either forgot or repressed her memories of the kidnapping, and thus thought the guy really was her father.
  22. Eigen Kweek
    1. Lima Syndrome: Bernard, the henchman of "Den Hollander", develops this for Julita as they bond over their respective families. He eventually ends up romantically involved with Julita's sister, Nenita. "Den hollander" and Bernard even discuss it as they keep Julita captive.
      "Den Hollander" [after observing how close Bernard and Julita are getting]: What is this? Some sort of reverse Stockholm syndrome?!
      Bernard: Lima syndrome, you mean... I dunno.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: Frank and Ria suspect Julita of having stockholm syndrome, after seeing her at the hangar with Bernard. They call it "Stockholm sickness", however. Then again, Julita and Bernard do end up becoming good friends (and even in-laws), despite the entire kidnapping situation.
      Ria [to Julita]: Is it true? Are you "sick from Stockholm"?
  23. Homeland
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: The reason Carrie believes Brody is a Turn Coat or Manchurian Agent.
    2. Lima Syndrome: Carrie falls in love with Brody over the course of her surveillance, despite the fact that she believes he's a terrorist.
  24. 'New Tricks
    1. A Match Made in Stockholm: In "Trust Me", Hannah Taylor was kidnapped by a young man with a grudge against her mother, a then-alcoholic doctor whom he blamed for his mother's death. After Paul talked with Hannah for a while, he came to his senses and decided to release her and go on the run, not even bothering to collect the ransom he'd asked for. But Hannah, who hated her mother as much as Paul did, chose to come with him. 13 years later they're Happily Married with a child.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: Combined with Lima Syndrome in "Trust Me". Hannah Taylor was kidnapped by a young man with a grudge against her mother, a then-alcoholic doctor whom he blamed for his mother's death. After Paul talked with Hannah for a while, he came to his senses and decided to release her and go on the run, not even bothering to collect the ransom he'd asked for. But Hannah, who hated her mother as much as Paul did, chose to come with him. 13 years later they're Happily Married with a child.
    3. Lima Syndrome: Combined with Stockholm Syndrome in "Trust Me". Hannah Taylor was kidnapped by a young man with a grudge against her mother, a then-alcoholic doctor whom he blamed for his mother's death. After Paul talked with Hannah for a while, he came to his senses and decided to release her and go on the run, not even bothering to collect the ransom he'd asked for. But Hannah, who hated her mother as much as Paul did, chose to come with him. 13 years later they're Happily Married with a child.
  25. Snowdrop (2021):
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: Bun-ok is this to Joo Gyeok-chan, one of the North's spies who taken her and the dormitory residents as hostages, due to his fierceness. In return, Gyeok-chan also felt the same way to Bun-ok.
  26. Killing Stalking
    1. Lima Syndrome: Downplayed; Sangwoo cares about Bum to some small extent, although it's only because Bum is easily to manipulate he reminds Sangwoo of his mother.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: Despite Bum actually loving Sangwoo at first, the moment he realized who Sangwoo actually was, he tried to escape several times, even trying to get help but with nobody believing him, and was basically forced to stay with him, with Sangwoo lashing out severe abuse on Bum and making him his unwilling replacement of his mother. Despite Sangwoo being severely abusive to Bum, Bum still feels empathy and sympathy towards Sangwoo when he acts "kinder" for once. Bum always tried to see the good in Sangwoo, and often thought of ways to change him, but finally realized once and for all at the end that his "love" would never come to be. The last chapters showcased how severe the Stockholm Syndrome got. Bum (finally) realized in the hospital that Sangwoo never loved him after Sangwoo tried to stab him to death, and despite the fact that the trauma Bum had because of Sangwoo was so severe that he forgot how Sangwoo looks like, Bum still wanted to see him.
  27. Stalker x Stalker: ...the ongoing arc about her and Kiyoshi’s first meeting seems to imply that either Stockholm Syndrome or Lima Syndrome is in play in their relationship.
  28. Shall We Date?: Blood In Roses
    1. Stockholm Syndrome: The heroine inevitably falls for the man she chooses, especially since she has to love and be loved by her selected guy in order to get into the Rose Garden. Depending on which ending you get, she may not care about the garden in the end.
    2. Lima Syndrome: In return, the man will also develop feelings for her.
  29. Viridescent:
    1. Lima Syndrome: Himiko meets Izuku when he's taken as a prisoner by the criminal organization she belongs to, and they slowly forge a close bond. This bond is only deepened when Izuku promises to save her, and protects Himiko from his father when Hisashi threatened to attack her.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: Since Himiko was around his age, Affably Evil when not too excited and potentially a way to escape, Izuku let his guard down around her. When he's finally rescued, he's disinclined to see her as a true villain, arguing she needs help.

     It sounds like both are going on (4) 
  1. Drake Maijstral: In The Crown Jewels, Tvi, one of the pair who kidnapped Drake's client, Amalia Jensen, discovers that she likes Amalia a whole lot more than she likes her own violent, brutish partner. They develop an actual friendship, and, when the inevitable rescue attempt happens, Tvi finds herself quite conflicted, while Amalia shows a surprising amount of concern for what happens to Tvi (while being absolutely fine with whatever the rescuers might want to do to the other kidnapper, Khotvinn).
  2. Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun: A weirdly sympathetic example: Sullivan is guilty of buying a kid and ripping away from his home without consent, but he wants a grandchild he can care for. Iruma staying with him is definitely an improvement compared to his biological parents.
  3. Babes in the Wood: In the final episode of the series, a burglar busts into the girl's apartment and is captured by them. Whilst they're waiting for the police to show up, they form a bond with the burglar, and they end up outright rooting for him not to be captured by the police at the end.
  4. Suikoden V: It's implied Lelei fell for Lucretia while guarding her cell. Cius also qualifies, as he was a hard-lined Rules Lawyer, and yet he broke the rules to keep Lucretia informed, and ultimately broke her out of prison.

     Unreciprocated fondness for hostage (7) 
  1. Arsène Lupin: In The Confessions of Arsène Lupin, Lupin is captured by a mother-and-son team seeking revenge. The son, who was tending his wounds, ends up setting him free, because he was actually a woman in disguise, and had fallen in love with Lupin.
  2. Before We Disappear: Teddy genuinely believes that he loves Wilhelm and sees him as a son, and that Wil should see him as a father figure in return. Teddy is so thoroughly twisted, however, that he doesn't realize that his way of treating Wilhelm is genuinely abusive and horrifying.
  3. Revan: While not romantic, Lord Scourge becomes steadily obsessed with Revan as he continues to visit him in prison.
  4. Who Is The Prey
    1. Lima Syndrome: Fu Shenxing develops real feelings for He Yan, although this only makes him far, far worse.
    2. Stockholm Syndrome: Completely averted. He Yan never feels anything but hate for Fu Shenxing because of all he does to her.
  5. Basara
    1. Lima Syndrome: General Kazan actually falls in love with his captive Chigusa- whose child is his king’s sworn enemy- and betrays his king in his efforts to keep her safe.
    2. Unrequited Love: General Kazan loves his captive Chigusa, who thinks he’s being very nice to her under the circumstances but still wants him dead because he killed her husband and son. She admits she can’t hate him several volumes after his death.
  6. Dear White People: Al falls in love with Sorbet, Kelsey's dog, after kidnapping her. Sorbet escapes the first chance she gets.
  7. The OA: Hap occasionally shows fondness for OA while he has her under his control. She does not return it.

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