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== Literature ==
* Ellen Emerson White has the ''President's Daughter'' series of books, most of which were written in the 80's and then updated. Meg is not a plot device, but she is the first female president's daughter and in the third book, ''Long Live The Queen,'' she {{spoiler|gets kidnapped and has her knee and hand smashed to bits.}} The fourth book, ''Long May She Reign,'' deals with the aftermath of these events and is very good.
* Coral, in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s Merlin saga of the ''[[Book of Amber]]'' series, especially after she gets her... unusual surgery.
* ''[[Redwall]]'': Gabool the Wild intends to use Mariel as a hostage to {{spoiler|force her father Joseph to design and build a belltower for him}}. Things do not go quite according to plan.
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* In ''[[Neverwhere]]'', Door spends most of the book being chased by everyone in sight because a) she's Lord Portico's daughter and b) she has the family ability to open doors. [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|This is a lot more valuable than it sounds]].
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos|The Orphans of Chaos]]'', the hostages' abilities are extremely inconvenient because their captors want to treat them as this (Amelia deduces they don't come from democracies because of the extent of their hostage value).
* In Richard Hoyt's ''Japanese Game,'' the Vice-President's young daughter and a friend are kidnapped during a trip abroad, with the intent to sell them off as sex slaves if the VP doesn't cooperate. Or maybe even if he does ...
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Human Target]]'', episode "Victoria", the ''Queen's'' daughter is targeted as she wants to drop her husband for an EMT, which would bring great shame to her family.
* Zoey Bartlett was kidnapped in ''[[The West Wing]]'s'' Season Four finale. She's rescued in the second episode of S5 with next to nothing revealed about who kidnapped her or why.
** Unlike many examples, Zoey was a legitimate character long before any kidnappings.
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* River Tam from ''[[Firefly]]''. Seems like everyone and their local mob boss wants to get their hands on her.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' used this with Hera, the first successful Cylon/Human hybrid. She was kidnapped by both sides, fought over, hidden from her parents and even "killed" in the service of filling this trope.
* In the [[Seinfeld]] episode ''[[wikipedia:The Pool Guy|The Pool Guy]]'', the plot of the [[Show Within a Show|movie with in the show]] '''Chunnel''' involves the President's daughter being kidnapped.
* In ''[[Connor Undercover]]'', Connor is given the responsibility of looking after the daughter of the (fictional) Cordoban president.
* In an episode of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' Lady Morgana is ambushed and captured, knowing that she is the beloved ward of King Uther.
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== Western Animation ==
* An episode of ''[[Totally Spies!]]''. Though that President's daughter was more of a little girl—and a [[Spoiled Brat]]—than a young woman, like Ashley.
* In the "Corey and Corey Save the World" sketch from the ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' episode "Federated Resources", Corey Feldman and Corey Haim are sent to rescue President George W. Bush's daughters.
* Sasha in [[Titan Maximum]], who is a spoiled bitch whose father feels little more than barely restrained rage towards her.
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