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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' had a variation on this. Scar, the neighborhood serial killer, comes out to violently attack our heroes. Mei Chan attacks the Elrics when they try for a finishing blow, and runs off with an injured Scar.
* In ''[[El -Hazard: theThe Magnificent World]]'', Fujisawa-sensei "rescues" Miz from her monstrous manservant. He turned out to be safe, and Miz decided to go with it since it might result in [[Rescue Romance]].
* One of the first stories in ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'' has the daughter of an alien diplomat trying to rescue her unknown massive alien being. Gin cuts it up.
** Inverted later when Shinpachi thinks Kagura's new alien giant dog is playing with her, Gin informs him that the dog's attacking her and she's too powerful to notice.
* ''[[Bleach (Manga)|Bleach]]'' introduces Nel in this fashion. Ichigo "rescues" her from a group of arrancar who turn out to be her friends.
** Incidentally, Nel is playing "endless tag" with her friends, and since "[[Third Person Person|Nel]] is a masochist" (and a [[Token Mini-Moe|loli]] with her arrancar mask covered), their "game" looked an awful lot like three hollows chasing a sobbing little girl. Actually, that's exactly what it was.
* In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', this probably would have happened with Antylamon (the last Deva yet to be revealed) had Shiuchon not been given her Digivice before Takato and Jenrya could think of attacking. And Zhuqiaomon reverts him to Lopmon shortly afterwards, confirming (see [[Redemption Demotion]]) his [[Heel Face Turn]].
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* While Hagrid from ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is far from a cute young girl, his attachment to his exotic pets does fit. He names the three-headed dog Fluffy, he is upset when he has to send his baby dragon Norbert away, and he cries buckets when the giant spider (Acromantula) Aragog dies. He was expelled from Hogwarts for keeping dangerous critters as pets, including Aragog. Harry and Ron are often at a loss to understand him, though the Trio does recognize why he is upset over the scheduled execution of an innocent hippogriff.
** Hagrid ''himself'' is a version of this. Giant hairy scary guy who can bend rifle barrels with one hand comes knocking down the door? If the Dursley's were proper foster parents instead of assholes who didn't give a crap about Harry, they'd probably freak out when Hagrid approached Harry. And when Hagrid is outed as a half-giant, many wizarding parents are terrified that he's a vicious monster who'll hurt their kids, when he's actually one of the gentlest, sweetest characters in the entire series.
* Almost happens in ''[[EarthsEarth's Children]]'', when the lion Ayla raised from a cub comes back to visit her in the human village she has moved to. She manages to stop the hunters before they harm the lion.
* [[The Enchanted Forest Chronicles]] contain multiple examples, especially in the first book, ''Dealing With Dragons''. A princess, Cimorene, runs away and volunteers to be the captive of a dragon; she then spends her time trying to stop knights from fighting the dragon because she doesn't want them to rescue her.
* In ''[[Myth Adventures|Something MYTH Inc]].'', Gleep the baby dragon gets accidentally shot because a trigger-happy bowman thinks he's attacking when he just wants to play.
* In ''Keeper of the Isis Light'', the main character's gigantic pet is killed when it tries to engage a human in a game of fetch.
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms|One Good Knight]]'' provides a borderline example. While the Dragon in question ''did'' ravage [[The Kingdom]] of Arcadia until provided with weekly virgin sacrifices, it turns out that it was operating under a Tradition-reenforced geas and [[Literal Genie|took pains to avoid harming any thinking creature]]... including the impromptu phalanx of dragonbait *ahem* [[Amazon Brigade|maidens]] that confronted the heroes when they tracked said beast to it's lair.
* In [[Tanith Lee]]'s ''[[The Dragon Hoard (Literature)|The Dragon Hoard]]'', early, while Jasleth is looking for a quest to join or a monster to slay, he comes across a prince tussling with a two-headed monster, but it turns out that the monster is the prince's pet, they were just playing, and neither appreciates Jasleth's offer of assistance.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' story ''The Rescue'', the relationship between 20th century companion Barbara and 25th century companion Vicki starts off badly when Barbara "rescues" Vicki from being "attacked" by a 6-foot-long, tooth-baring (vegetarian) lobster-monster... by shooting it in the face with a flare gun.
* A sketch on ''[[The Dave Allen Show]]'' had a slavering werewolf doing a typical horror movie stalk of a Distressed Damsel. When he finally cornered her, she holds up a leash and calls "Walkies!" while the werewolf bounds about like an excited puppy.
* Happened with ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' in one episode. A pregnant woman was being followed by an armor-plated demon. Angel kills the demon but discovers that it was protecting her from other demons.
** A nice [[Double Subversion]]: Cordelia, trapped in a unknown dimension ends up being chased by a vicious beast who catches her and... ''licks her face?''. '''Whew.''' Then the pet's owner showed up, congratulated the "dog" and chained Cordelia. Unfortunately, it turns out that while the beast was a pet, it was a '''hound''' hunting... humans.
 
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* The June 2009 trailer for [[Team Ico Series|Team Ico's]] ''The Last Guardian'' sets this up.
* Subverted in ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant''. A [[Mega Neko|giant cat]] attacks you at one point. This is Lucia and Carla's pet, Andre... but they don't mind you beating up their cat because, frankly, the cat didn't have a reason to hurt you and you were just defending yourself.
* [[H Game-game]] ''[[Nocturnal Illusion]]''. To wit: {{spoiler|A girl named Yuka lives in a shrine on the mansion grounds where the game takes place, and her story arc begins with your character reacting in horror as she's having sex with what looks like a demon. Willingly. It only get more disturbing when you find out the demon used to be human being, namely her [[Ill Boy]] brother who she fell in love with and who became a demon instead of dying. Oddly enough, it was the love between them that let him retain enough humanity she not only became his [[Morality Chain]] (albeit only to the point she is safe from harm), but the reason they fell for each other was because he was ostracized by his family for his disease and she was the only one who watched him during his final days to the point he grew to love her because she was literally all he had, and she fell for him because he was so devoted to her. However, he's still a demon and the whole [[Brother-Sister Incest]] thing is just chock full of Squick, so you have to put the demon out of its misery and help Yuka readjust to a normal life afterwards.}}
* Becomes a major character-driving plot point for one villain in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', where the monster in question was the [[Raised Byby Wolves|adoptive mother]] of the little girl, who naturally spends the game trying to avenge her giant carnivorous mommy.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the [[Pilot Movie]] of ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', Eduardo saves Mac (whom he had followed around, since he's too shy to introduce himself) from an Extremesaur. Bloo thinks Ed is attacking Mac and jumps him. Eduardo would have easily dispatched Bloo if he wasn't such a [[Cowardly Lion|scaredy-cat]]...
* An episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' had Aang trying to find a crazy king's lost pet Flopsie as one of three deadly challanges. He thinks it's the cute and cuddly rabbit being chased by the 7 foot tall gorilla-goat thing. He eventually figures out the trick and even learns an Aesop about it (after the climatic fight with the king, of course).
 
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