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** In ''[[King's Quest II]]'', Graham has to rescue Lady Valanice, who is kept in a tower by an evil witch.

** In ''[[King's Quest VI]]'', Alexander has to rescue Princess Cassima, who is being forced into marriage to [[Evil Chancellor|the Grand Vizier]].

** In ''[[King's Quest III]]'', the Oracle of Llewdor first lets "Gwydion" know about about the three-headed dragon terrorizing the faraway land of Daventry, and the young princess sent as its latest sacrifice. The Oracle then drops the second bombshell ({{spoiler|she's his sister, meaning he's the lost prince}}), and the third ({{spoiler|his name's not Gwydion at all}}).

** And inverted in ''[[King's Quest IV]]'' and ''[[King's Quest VII]]'' where it's the princess ''doing the rescuing.''

* ''[[Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom]]''. The princess to be rescued (by a heroic cucumber) is the one in the title.

* ''[[Fantasy Quest]]'' has this as its excuse plot, but a twist awaits players who make it to the end. In the sequel, you are tasked with rescuing ''dozens'' of princesses.

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== [[Role Playing Game]] ==

* The first ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' essentially has only two objectives: [[Save the Princess]], and kill the Dragonlord. Unlike most [[Save the Princess]] games, however, you actually rescue the princess from a dragon (usually the first one you kill) in the Marsh Cave long before you beat the [[Big Bad]].

* Your ''very first'' objective in ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'' is to rescue Princess Sara of Coneria/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Cornelia]]/[[8-Bit Theater ~~(Webcomic)~~|Corneria]], who has been taken by good-knight-gone-bad Garland.

* Your ''very first'' objective in ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'' is to rescue Princess Sara of Coneria/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Cornelia]]/[[8-Bit Theater|Corneria]], who has been taken by good-knight-gone-bad Garland.

** Similarly, ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' starts off with you needing to rescue Princess Ovelia. Then it [[Gambit Pileup|gets complicated.]]

* There is a mission in ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' where your squad has to quite literally save the princess after a kidnap attempt.

* Being an [[Affectionate Parody]] of RPG cliches, ''[[The Bard's Tale]]'' naturally uses this as it's main plot.

* One segment of the main plot in [[Dragon Age]]: Origins has the Warden breaking into Arl Howe's estate to rescue Queen Anora, who is kept there by her father against her will. The Rescue the Princess aspect is really overshadowed by the [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Fort Drakon escape following it]] and the fact that [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|Howe finally gets what's coming to him]].

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Sapphire: * [[Groin Attack]]*

Almaz: The princess! She touched me! I can die happy now... }}

** ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]'' also looks at it more seriously with the reasoning behind its [[Inverted|Inversion]]: Princess Sapphire has seen far too many people go off and die all in the name of protecting her. So she became a [[Badass Princess]] capable of destroying anything that might kill a hero.

** ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' also looks at it more seriously with the reasoning behind its [[Inverted|Inversion]]: Princess Sapphire has seen far too many people go off and die all in the name of protecting her. So she became a [[Badass Princess]] capable of destroying anything that might kill a hero.

** The ''Cursed Memories'' take involves Axel kidnapping Taro and Hanako as bait for the 'wild tribesman' Adell so he can "rescue" Rozalin.

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: The Sword of Seal'' gives you two "save the princess" missions, one with Princess Guinevere of Bern (the [[Cain and Abel|half-sister]] of the [[Big Bad]], who becomes your protegé) and the other with Princess Lilina of Ostia (who joins your troupe as a [[Magic Knight]] as soon as she's rescued)

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* The game that Radd is from in the webcomic ''[[Kid Radd]]'' has this plotline. Interestingly, due to the premise of game sprites as sentient beings who are created for the express purpose of being in games, Radd has no idea he even ''has'' a girlfriend until the narrator tells him so.

* This is how ''[[Exiern]]'' starts.

* Swap out "Princess" with "CEO and former [[Magical Girl Warrior]]", and we've got the main plot for ''[[Last Res0rt]]''. Of course, both halves of the rescuer/rescuee equation are female (and said Rescuee is reasonably capable of saving herself), so...

* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3554 Fuschia reads the damned a story about rescuing the princess from the dragon.]