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* Spoofed in the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
** He does however have an aunt and a dog. At least one person considers it for the dog.
** Later, Vimes does get a variation of this, albeit in a nontraditional way. He rescues a virgin aristocrat (old maid Sybil Ramkin) from the
*** To say nothing of what the Watch hero who actually ''defeated'' the dragon got out of the deal: {{spoiler|he '''married the dragon'''. The King was bested by Errol the swamp dragon in air-to-air combat, and turned out to be a female for whom [[Love At First Punch]] evidently applied.}}
* Invoked in [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''Five Hundred Kingdoms'' series. The 500 kingdoms quite literally run on fairy tale tropes. In a stroke of [[Genre Savvy|genre savviness]], one of the kings hires a sorcerer to "kidnap" his daughter (even though she just plays around when she's "held captive") and offers her hand to the man who rescues her. This is because he knows that the only one who can overcome the sorcerer's trials will be clever, compassionate and heroic, and thus an ideal heir for his throne.
* In ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing]]'', the title character is offered the princess's hand for saving her and the king. But when they decide to consummate their love, Apropos finds they share [[Brother-Sister Incest|peculiarly similar birthmarks]]
* In many variants of the medieval [[Chivalric Romance]] ''Robert The Devil'', while working at a menial job at court, the hero rescues the princess and so gets to marry her. (He had deliberately taken a job beneath him, as penance for evil.)
* In the [[Chivalric Romance]]s ''King Horn'', ''Beves of Hampton'', and ''Guy of Warwick'', the heroes all win the hand of a princess by their feats. Unfortunately, Horn is in exile from the court of his true love because of a false accusation, and Beves and Guy are both seeking to win renown so that the princess he is in love with will find him worthy, despite his low birth.
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