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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.
* ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'' revolves around six of the titular brothers kidnapping sevensix women (who already had beaux) and essentially holding them prisoner over the winter, [[Stockholm Syndrome|during which they fall in love with their abductors]]. Yes, it is ''rife'' with [[Unfortunate Implications]]; whatmuch doof youthe expectparody fromaspect aof fun familythe musicaloriginal inspiredstory by (andStephen explicitlyVincent referencingBenét at(mentioned onein ''Literature'', pointabove) [[w:Theseems Rapeto ofhave thebeen Sabinelost in Women|the Rapetransition ofto the Sabinestage Women]](and later screen), albeitwhere indirectly?it becomes instead a paean to a sort of mild form of [[Rated "M" for Manly]].
 
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