Rescue Arc: Difference between revisions

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Usually, the villains of the [[Arc]] want to use the friend for some higher purpose or task, but the hero's rescue effort is motivated solely by a sense of duty and friendship. Since [[The Power of Friendship|friendship always wins out]], this means that the protagonist usually ends up on the victorious side.

 

 

[[Storming the Castle]] is usually the climax to this plot.

** Later on, the series actually manages to do a storyline that is both a Rescue Arc and a [[War Arc]]. Luffy storms the World Government's maximum-security prison in order to rescue {{spoiler|his older brother Ace.}} At first it seems like a traditional rescue arc, but it turns out that {{spoiler|Ace isn't even in the prison; his execution is already starting}}. Thus Luffy is forced to {{spoiler|literally drop into the middle of a war zone and join up with Whitebeard's massive armada, who are also trying to storm Marine HQ and save Ace.}}

*** Perhaps the biggest departure from a typical rescue arc is that {{spoiler|the rescue fails. Ace is freed, but is killed shortly afterward.}}

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'''s Duelist Kingdom arc is a rescue arc for both Yugi, the main character, and Kaiba, his [[The Rival|rival]] (although they're looking for different people).

* The second half of Season 3 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''

* ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. [[Subverted Trope|Sort of]].

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' interrupted its [[School Festival]] arc with a short [[Bad Future]] mini-arc inversion where the [[True Companions]] had to rescue ''[[James Bondage|the hero]]''. Earlier had a straighter example with [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl|Konoka]] being used as a [[MacGuffin]] to unleash a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]. Even later in the series reveals that {{spoiler|Nagi Springfield and his group the Ala Rubra had to rescue main girl [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl|Asuna]] from being used to destroy the entire [[Magical Land|Mundus Magicus]]}}.

** Seems like {{spoiler|history is going to repeat itself, as soon as someone figures out that Asuna and Anya have both been captured by Fate.}}

** Ala Rubra also had to rescue {{spoiler|Arika, when the Megalomesembrian senate tried to have her executed.}}

* The reason for Kenshiro's [[Walking the Earth]] in the Southern Cross arc of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' was to rescue Yuria from Shin.

** Kenshiro's objective during the later ''Shura'' arc is to rescue Lin from the ''Rasho''.

* Aside from Hiei kidnapping Keiko for one episode, ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has a short arc (about four episodes) about rescuing Yukina. Unusually, she wasn't a friend of the heroes at the time, but Yusuke's pretty much stuck doing what Koenma says to do and Kuwabara fell in love with her at first sight. (Coincidentally, he ran off and missed [[Locked Out of the Loop|the biggest not-secret the series]]: ''[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Yukina is Hiei's sister!!]]'')

** And in the Sensui arc, with Kuwabara

* The latter half of the Conviction arc in ''[[Berserk]]'' centers around Guts looking for and rescuing his lover Casca from being executed as a witch by the quasi-Apostle Mozgus.

** [[Berserk]] also has the Griffith rescue arc close to the end of the Golden Age saga. Guts had left the Hawks due to irreconcilable differences between him and Griffith. After Griffith was defeated in their second duel, Griffith, in the throes of [[Heroic BSOD]], paid a visit to Princess Charlotte's bedchamber and had sex with her. This ROYALLY pissed off the King, who had him arrested and sent to the Tower of Rebirth to be put to the torture and had the rest of the Hawks declared outlaw. After the Skull Knight persuades Guts to return, he finds Casca in charge of the Hawks, and together with the Hawks, they head to the Tower of Rebirth to rescue Griffith. The state Guts finds Griffith in sends him into one of the greatest examples of [[Unstoppable Rage]] in the series, as he kills his way through every last Midland guard standing between them and the way out. Unfortunately for everyone, Griffith has grown to hate Guts during the year that he was in the Tower, and this, along with other factors, would ultimately lead to the events of the Eclipse.

** Before that, Team MAR had to save [[The Chick|Snow]] twice. The first time was a minor plot at the beginning of the series and the second time at the end where she gets captured during the semi-finals because of letting her guard down against her opponent.

 

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