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*** 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 [[Rescue Arc]], with a couple of subversions along the way. {{spoiler|First, the rescuee manages to escape on her own before the rescue attempt even begins, but naturally the [[Big Bad]] can't have that so we get a "for real" rescue during the film's climax. And instead of simply waiting to be rescued the second time, the rescuee goes about trying to sabotage the Big Bad's plan.}}
* The manga ''[[Wa gaGa Na waWa Umishi]]'' is made up of one [[Rescue Arc]] after another, although it's almost never a human being being rescued.
* ''[[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 Aa 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 [[Wangst|wangsting]] were from the [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v16/c142/8.html/ jailers] not the captive, he was keeping a mostly level head while plot bombs were dropped.
** 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 climax of the first and second halves of ''[[Read or Die (Anime)|R.O.D. The TV Series]]''.
* The entire plot of ''[[Tokyo Underground (Anime)|Tokyo Underground]]'' is pretty much just one long rescue arc.
* 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''.
* ''[[Get BackersGetBackers]]''' [[Overtook the Manga|anime-only]] final arc was about rescuing Makubex, who was kidnapped by [[The Mole|Masaki]] and Brain Trust for knowing too much about the various secrets of the series. Ginji {{spoiler|barely stopped him from making a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}} The ''manga'' has two arcs like this: the goal of the Eternal Bond arc was to rescue [[Distressed Damsel|Madoka]] and goals of the final Lost Time arc included rescuing Himiko, Juubei, Toshiki and Sakura.
* 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 second half of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'', which also involved rescuing {{spoiler|Nanoha and Fate's daughter as well as Subaru's sister}} in addition to stopping the [[Big Bad]].
* The Zoldyck family arc in ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' is about Gon trying to rescue Killua from his family. However, unlike most Rescue Arcs, the problem is resolved without much violence.
* Most of the plot of ''[[B't X (Anime)|B't X]]'' works like one of these.
** ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', the series Kurumada made before [[B't X (Anime)|Bt X]], was what popularized this kind of arc.
* A good portion of the Phantom Arc of ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' involves rescuing Lucy after she's kidnapped (twice), with the enemy planning to hold her for ransom for her family fortune.
** The next arc starts off like this, but with Erza being... [[Lady of War|Erza]], she doesn't play the role of the distressed damsel for very long.
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* ''[[The Silver Chair]]'' in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' series
* ''The Castle of Llyr'' from the ''[[Prydain Chronicles]]'' has Taran and his [[True Companions]] journeying forth to rescue Eilonwy.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[A Witch Shall Be Born (Literature)|A Witch Shall Be Born]]", as soon as Valerius finds that Taramis is not possessed by a demon but a prisoner (with a [[Fake King|Fake Queen]] substitute), he goes for this.
* Anything by David Eddings.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* All [[Save the Princess]] plots, obviously, by definition.
* ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'''s first arc, before its shift to a [[Gotta Catch Them All]] plot, involved Vyse and Aika sneaking into Valua to save Vyse's father and [[Mysterious Waif|Fina]].
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' had several arcs where Colette had to be rescued, and one early one where Lloyd himself had to be (although it was still played from his perspective). Towards the end, whichever party member is [[Relationship Values|Lloyd's closest friend]] is possessed by the [[Big Bad]] and has to be saved before the move to the endgame.
* ''[[Maniac Mansion]]''.
* ''[[Halo]] 3'' The level "Cortana" is a rescue mission to save the eponymous character.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. A lot of people forget that all the [[Save the World|world saving]], [[Sidequest|side questing]] and [[Contemplate Our Navels|philosophizing]] are just byproducts of Sora trying to rescue his friends.
* The ''[[MegamanMega Man Battle Network]]'' series loves this trope. There's at least one or two of these arcs in each game. The last game is especially notable in having ''three'' rescue arcs that involve rescuing player character [[Cutscene Incompetence|Megaman]]!
** First arc occurs when Megaman is forced to seal either [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can|Gregar or Falzar]] (which one [[One Game for Thethe Price of Two|depends on the version]]) within his own body. Cue having to control a friend to find something that helps him fight off the sealed beast and retain control of his body.
** Second arc occurs when some worshippers of Falzar and Gregar capture Megaman. Cue having to control a friend to storm their shrine and rescue him.
** Third arc occurs when the [[Oddly Small Organization]] sets a trap for Megaman and captures him (again). Cue Megaman losing control to the sealed beast and escaping, with you having to control yet another friend to chase him down and hopefully [[Bright Slap]] him back into control before they find him again.
* Rescuing the princess in ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' is one of the two main jobs you do in the game, but it's subverted that you can totally ignore her. Oops...
** A part of ''[[Dragon Quest V (Video Game)|Dragon Quest V]]'' is about your wife being kidnapped by bad guys.
* The first half of ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]] II: Shadows of Amn'' is spent trying to rescue the player character's childhood friend Imoen after she's imprisoned together with the [[Big Bad]] for illegal use of magic. (For those protagonists who aren't inclined to such nice motives, there's the option of going after the [[Big Bad]] for revenge or to gain power from him, but that leads to the same direction.)
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* Subverted in [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090221.html this] ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' strip.
* The rescuing of Fumbles in ''[[Goblins]]''.
* [[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]] did this in its Painted Black arc.
* Faen's rescue in ''[[Drow TalesDrowtales]]''.
 
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