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* In ''[[Red Eye (film)|Red Eye]]'', Jackson Rippner holds Lisa "hostage" on their flight to get her to assist him in an assassination plot. It's implied that he developed feelings for her in the eight weeks he had to watch her prior to this and even ambiguously tells her that when they get out of this, he may have to "steal" her.
* The page quote comes from ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]].'' The movie features a brood of socially awkward men who kidnap some townswomen they took a shining to during a town dance. They drew the inspiration for their act from a book which detailed the history of the Sabine women—a group of women who had been kidnapped in a similar manner to populate the fledgling city of Ancient Rome. Of course, the brothers, being ignorant hicks, misinterpreted the word Sabine as Sobbin'. They also made a few other ignorant presumptions about how things would turn out. Fortunately for them, the girls they kidnapped did [[Stockholm Syndrome|eventually fall in love with them]] (''after'' putting them all through the wringer for what they did...) Yes, it is ''rife'' with [[Unfortunate Implications]]; much of the parody aspect of the original story by Stephen Vincent Benét (mentioned in ''Literature'', below) seems to have been lost in the transition to the screen, where it becomes instead a paean to a sort of mild form of [[Rated "M" for Manly]].
* In ''[[28 Days Later]]'', the few surviving soldiers seem to at least understand that 'borrowing' the last two uninfected women in England and keeping them against their will as breeding stock and female company is quite possibly immoral. They just don't care any more. They seem to think treating them with a thin veneer of decency will eventually make them warm to the concept, but it's just about enough to get them all [[Karmic Death|slaughtered horribly]] anyway.
* Spoofed in ''[[Borat]]''; see [[Real Life]] below.
* The plot of ''Tie me up! Tie me down!'' (or ''Átame!'' in Spanish) revolves around a former psychiatric inmate trying to make a woman love him by abducting her and tying her to her bed. {{spoiler|And he succeeds, too. Well, [[Bittersweet Ending|sort of.]]}}
* The most famous example is arguably ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]''. While the Beast does not actively go out to kidnap her, the rest of the trope is played straight.▼
== Literature ==
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* The third book in the ''[[Wind on Fire]]'' series, ''Firesong'', features the young women of the group being kidnapped by nomadic warriors. Fortunately, due to a mixture of mind-reading and very lucky coincidence, they manage to escape and seal the warriors in their crater home perpetually. Little given away, as it is very, very good.
* In the third Colossus book (''Colossus and the Crab'') the super-computer that rules the world starts running people through experiments to understand people (i.e. takes a guy up on his word that he would "die for his people's independence"). Colossus then kidnaps the wife of the main character (and designer of the US half of Colossus) and hands her over to an unwashed peasant who slaps her down if she asserts herself and rapes her when she doesn't cooperate. {{spoiler|Eventually she begins to warm to him because he's just a big old (raping) baby who doesn't know any better. When he's killed for refusing to give her up when the "experiment" is over, she's devastated and, when put back in contact with her husband, sneers at him because he's obviously a weakling who couldn't take her from her more elemental captor.}}
* [[Stephen Vincent Benét]] wrote a story parodying [[w:The Rape of the Sabine Women|the rape of the Sabine Women]], called "The Sobbin' Women", in which six crude but well-meaning backwoodsmen kidnap women of their own after their seventh brother gets married and suggests they do the same. The women are initially rather put out by this, as one might expect, but are eventually won over by their suitors. This story was eventually adapted for
▲* The most famous example is arguably ''[[Beauty and
== Live
* ''[[Into the West]]'' plays with this.
* Grilka to Quark in [[Deep Space Nine]] with Grilka as abductor
== Music ==
* Depending on your interpretation, it's disturbingly likely that the [[Stalker with a Crush]] from [[Evanescence|Evanescence's]] song ''Snow White Queen'' [[Paranoia Fuel|would attempt this with his "beloved" given the opportunity]].
== Mythology and Religion ==
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* ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' operetta (as well as the modernized adaptation''The Pirate Movie'', based on it) feature a band of matrimonially minded pirates who try to woo/capture the daughters of a Major-General. (It's a good thing the number of pirates and the number of daughters matched up and that, in the movie, the ugly daughter was willing to be matched with the ugly pirate.)
* In ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', Petruchio kidnaps Kate after their wedding ceremony. It's really more for show than anything else, since she was going to go with him anyway, but she still doesn't enjoy it.
== Video Games ==
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