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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"...and though they may be sobbin' for a while
''We gonna make them sobbin' women smile!"''
|''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers''}}
Are you and your buddies looking for female companionship, but are denied the chance to interact with women in a normal manner because of your location, your occupation, or the fact that you all have [[No Social Skills]]?
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Hopefully this will happen ''before'' the girls' fathers and brothers find out where you live and turn you and your buddies into tomato paste. If you've behaved yourself and acted properly towards the women, you may get lucky and find yourself wed to your new sweethearts in a [[Shotgun Wedding]]. If not, then... it's best ''not to think about'' what will happen to you...
The extreme end of this idea of this includes [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] and [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]. See also [[Stockholm Syndrome]] and [[Captive Date]]. Technically the same thing as [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]], but in very different context.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The whole plot of two ''[[Ranma
** The antagonist in the third PC-Engine video game, ''Toraware no Hanayome'', turns the tables and kidnaps female Ranma instead.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' had an instance of this. A fake psychic kidnapped [[Attempted Rape|and potentially tried to rape]] Anzu Mazaki. Don't worry, though. Yami saves her.
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* In ''[[Bleach]]'', the Ulqui/Hime pairing is based around this trope.
* This is a common explanation for Russia's affectionate abuse of the Baltics, particularly Lithunania, in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''.
* ''[[Rental Magica]]'' had a comedy side-plot when [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Addie and Honami]] had a wedding… [[Bait and Switch Lesbians|for magical purposes]]. So Itsuki dragged off them ''both'', resulting in some excitement on their part. And amusement from Diana witnessing all this nonsense.
* An odd In-Universe example happens in ''[[Monster Musume no Ichijirou No]]'', where a gang of Orcs (the Pioneer Orc Renaissance Kinsmen, or [[Fun with Acronyms|P.O.R.K.]]) take hostages at a bookstore; their demand for releasing the hostages is that erotic manga and light novels must start to have more Orc protagonists, with this theme more prevailent. [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!|The reaction from the police isn't quite what they expected.]]
== Comic Books ==
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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
* 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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* Used in ''[[Watership Down]]'', of all things, when the buck rabbits of Hazel's new warren conspire to get does from other warrens. Subverted in that Hazel's looking for volunteers and the does of Efrafra are more than happy to emigrate, and also in that, unlike other uses of this trope, actual ''lust'' is not a motive: with no estrus females around, the bucks all preoccupy themselves with thoughts of food instead of sex, so it's up to forward-thinking Hazel to realize their warren needs breeders if it's to outlive its all-male discoverers.
* 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 film as [[The Musical]] ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]''.
▲* 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 ==
* The reference to the Sabine women (and the [[Truth in Television|ancient accepted practice of bride-kidnapping]] among conquering civilizations) makes this [[Older Than Feudalism]]. In the Roman story, Romulus realized that the band of settlers on the hills of Rome was awful short on women, so he took it upon himself to invite the nearby Sabine people to a big festival (according to most myths, a footrace). At his signal, each Roman picked a Sabine woman and ran off with her. In general, they turned out to be OK with it eventually. By the time the war with the Sabines ,and the other nations who had been defeated by this point, had reached the Capitoline, the warring fathers were now grandfathers. The fighting finally ended in the marsh between the Capitoline and Palatine Hills, where the daughters rushed out with children and begged for them to stop.
** It's worth noting that while it's best known as [[Names to Run Away From|The Rape of the Sabine Women]], this is an example of this trope but
* In the [[The Bible|Biblical Old Testament]], Judges 21:10-24, men from the tribe of Benjamen find themselves with no women to marry, so they abduct women from Shiloh to be their wives. When the fathers and brothers of the kidnapped women come to retrieve the women, the Israelites ask for permission to keep them, "...for we didn't find enough wives for them [the Benjaminites] when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead." No word though on whether the captive women ever warmed up to their captors at all.
** Earlier, the Bible had Shechem kidnap, rape, and decide to marry Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. Her brothers agreed to the marriage if Shechem and all his countrymen agreed to be circumcised. Three days after the countrymen comply, her brothers turn out [[Kill'Em All|not to like this trope very much]].
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* The Neathar, a culture of Neolithic [[Noble Savage]] tribesfolk in [[Mystara]]'s Hollow World, routinely abduct brides from neighboring Neathar tribes.
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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.)
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* In the ''[[Mario]]'' games, Bowser's reasons for kidnapping Peach usually boil down to his having a crush on her.
* ''[[Bahamut Lagoon]]'', Palpaleos kidnaps Princess Yoyo, and then they fall in love.
* In ''[[Yandere Simulator]]'', this is how the protagonist's parents met; her mother was a ''successful'' Yandere. While Yan-chan herself doesn't have to abduct Senpai to meet her goal, it's certainly a possibility.
== Web Original ==
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* In ''[[Adventure Time]]'' this is pretty much the Ice King's modus operandi.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Heloise has chained Jimmy up, [[Harmless Freezing|frozen him solid]], and swept him away with a [[Humongous Mecha]], all to keep him close to her. And she's still [[Ship Tease|the most likely candidate]] for his heart.
* [[Genki Girl|Yo]] from ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]'' is ''obsessed'' with the latter protagonist. In the first season, there were 3 episodes in which her attempts to kidnap Chum Chum were a major plot point.
== Real Life ==
* Was quite widespread from times immemorial and [[wikipedia:Bride kidnapping|still a tradition in many parts of the world today]], including the below-mentioned Eurasian steppe. Quite often it's ''de facto'' overt eloping — obviously, abduction works much better if the "abductee" actively cooperates or at very least has no objections… more so in the places where [[Everyone Is Armed]] and the perpetrator takes a serious risk if any complications arise. Aside of the show-off (the guy demonstrates willingness to take risk for the abductee and usually horsemanship), it's done to avoid dealing with other once-widespread customs that [[Forbidden Fruit|tend to]] [[Star-Crossed Lovers|get in the way of courtship]], such as [[Feuding Families|clan feuds]] or paying compensation to the bride's family — thus appeared as a result of these. Where it turns from that point may vary, of course.
* In the early nineteenth-century, long after [[Real Life]] abduction was growing, er "less fashionable" in the American backcountry, it was common for there to be a ritualized abduction at weddings. This custom was descended from the Scottish [[Grim Up North|border country]]. Similar customs are known in various parts of the world.
* This was a popular way for nomads of the Eurasian steppe to get a wife. This was especially the case since in order to get a wife, you generally had to work for her family for a year, so the poor and unconnected couldn't do so. This was the case of the Mongols, as Genghis Khan's mother was taken this way by his father. He however outlawed it once he became Great Khan, as he recognized the damage it did to a tribal society he was trying to unite, as well as the fact his wife Borte was kidnapped by a rival tribe, and impregnated before he was able to rescue her.
** Although whether or not she was impregnated by them or by him is up for debate.
** In Sparta this actually became ritualized; after formalizing an engagement men would break into their brides' houses and "kidnap" them from their (willing) families as part of the wedding ceremony.
* Some sources claim the original female population of Iceland was mostly kidnapped from Ireland and/or Scotland.
* [[Truth in Television]], as the original reason a groom needed a best man was to help protect the bride from being kidnapped (or possibly stolen ''back'' by her family.)
** Ironically enough, in modern military weddings where the groom wears his sword (traditionally on the left side) he will stand on the left so that the sword doesn't (literally) come between them.
* Still a common practice in many parts of the world. In some places this is combined with [[Victim Falls For Rapist|rape]] to force the woman to agree to the marriage; in others the woman is expected to voluntarily submit to the marriage without sexual violence (and will be returned if she can convince her captors that she doesn't want the marriage, at least in theory).
* This is, in fact, the origin of the "honeymoon"
** Or until she got pregnant, (this was back in the day when being a single mother was very taboo).
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