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{{trope}}
Second in popularity only to the [[Tournament Arc]], the
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.
The rescuee is [[Save the Princess|usually female]] and sometimes a [[Love Interests|love interest]], but not always. A bizarrely common thread in these plots is that the rescuee doesn't ''[[Unwanted Rescue|want]]'' to be rescued (or believes they don't deserve to be), and has to be talked into returning by the hero. Expect lots of shots of them moping about in a cell, [[
[[Storming the Castle]] is usually the climax to this plot.
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** 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.}}
** Movie 10 is a feature-length
* The manga ''[[Wa Ga Na Wa Umishi]]'' is made up of one
* ''[[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]]}}.
** Note: Slight Subversion that in the [[Bad Future]] most of the [[
** 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.}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Star Wars]] is boardline Example where the ending of [[The Empire Strikes Back]] and the beginning of [[Return of the Jedi]], being The
== [[Literature]] ==
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Index to The Rescue]]
[[Category:Plots]]
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