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->''"Do '''not''' eat me when I set you free!"''
-->-- '''D'leh''' to a giant [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology Sabretooth "Tiger"]] in ''Film/TenThousandBC''
Just as in the [[OlderThanFeudalism ancient]] [[Literature/AesopsFables fable]] of Androcles and the Lion, a character befriends or [[PetTheDog aids a wild creature]]. In a moment of need, the creature returns the favor. Sometimes the creature was a PetBabyWildAnimal, and the character wonders "[[WhyIsntItAttacking Why Isn't It Attacking?]]" before recognizing it.
While a pessimist will claim that NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished, this Trope can often prove the exact opposite, and sometimes save the hero from certain doom.
HitchhikerHeroes often acquire animals like this; they are often {{Talking Animal}}s, perhaps even humans [[ShapeshifterModeLock trapped]] in an [[{{Animorphism}} animal's]] [[BalefulPolymorph body]].
This also applies to humans and other sentient creatures.
See also: InterspeciesFriendship, IOweYouMyLife, DisproportionateReward, CharacterWitness, RampageFromANail, LaserGuidedKarma, BecauseYouWereNiceToMe, and ComeBackMyPet. Contrast with TheFarmerAndTheViper.
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[[folder: Advertising]]
* In a tire commercial, a driver brakes suddenly to avoid running over a beaver. Returning to the same road in a rainstorm, he brakes to avoid hitting a tree that falls in his path. Looking out the window, he sees the bridge up ahead being washed away, as the beaver (who's just saved him from an unplanned swim) salutes him from beside a gnawed-through tree stump.
[[folder: Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', episode 6, a bear cub rescued by Nagisa stands between the girls and its demon-possessed mother long enough for them to figure out a plan.
* In one episode of ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', a young wild cat Sakaki had befriended in Okinawa tracks her all the way back home after its mother dies, and shows up just in time to save her from a pack of cats led by Kamineko.
* Momo-chan, the dolphin that Lucia and her friends free early in ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', shows up later to take Kaito to bail them out at Lucia's palace.
* A lot of Ash's ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' tend to be acquired in this fashion. As well, there's Ash's Charizard, who was completely disobedient until Ash saved its life, again.
** In particular, Pikachu warmed to Ash (and saved his butt) when Ash [[GoThroughMe protected him]] from a flock of pissed-off Spearow.
** Also, when the Team Rocket scientist Dr. Namba kidnapped Lugia's child in order to capture the parent, Ash and his entourage, along with James and Jesse (who sympathized with it) helped rescue the young Pokémon, and the adult Lugia later became an AndroclesLion towards all of them.
* In ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'', Pearl helps a Luxio redeem itself in front of its pack and it eventually ends up saving his life twice before officially joining his team.
** A bunch of Unown that the Sinnoh trio rescue later helps Pearl break into the Veilstone Galactic Building by performing a ZergRush to distract the guards.
* ''Manga/NatsumeYuujinchou'': An extremely powerful Youkai jumps to Natsume's defence against an evil Ayakashi, because Natsume helped him earlier in the episode. This is a pretty big reward considering all Natsume did was [[spoiler: cover up a puddle in the road so that his servants could pass ? despite the fact they could just as easily have ''walked around it''...]]
* Alucard and Integra ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' first meet this way. Later, Alucard pulls their relationship into PoisonousFriend category, amplifying Integra's ChurchMilitant tendencies.
* ''VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou'' subverts this as a running gag, with Chouhi keeps bumping into the animals her father saved, supposedly - only to discover too late that they aren't.
* [[HairRaisingHare The lapins]] in ''Manga/OnePiece''. During the Drum Island arc, Luffy pulls a mother lapin free from the snow after an avalanche. Later, the lapins protect Luffy from attacking villains. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, while allowing Luffy to get his TrueCompanions to safety, they end up viciously beaten for their trouble.]]
* In an early issue of the ''[[Anime/TenchiMuyo No Need For Tenchi]]'' manga, Sasami finds and tends to a wounded wolf that had escaped from a truck, whom she affectionately calls "Doggy". It protects her from a group of wild wolves and, many years IRL-time later, returns to help tend to a group of abandoned raccoon cubs in her school.
[[folder: Comic Books]]
* Played darkly in the "Valley Forge, Valley Forge" arc of ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX''. A group of soldiers have been tasked by to bring down Frank Castle, knowing [[WouldNotShootAGoodGuy he won't use deadly force against them]], by a cabal of corrupt U.S. generals. In the end it turns out that [[spoiler: the Colonel tasked with leading the soldiers was once a soldier in Vietnam who had been rescued by Frank's Marine Recon squad]]. When the generals come around to view their "''prize''", they find [[spoiler: an untied Frank with a fully loaded 1911. You can guess what happens next.]] Mildly subverted in that [[spoiler:the Colonel covered up the corrupt generals' crimes in the process]][[note]]he outright declares that he won't have the armed forces' reputation sullied publicly, and explicitly refuses to use the evidence to publicly expose them[[/note]], and that [[spoiler:Frank Castle wanted them dead more than he wanted their crimes exposed.]]
** It turns out that [[spoiler:the Colonel wanted the Punisher ''stopped'', but the generals wanted the Punisher ''dead'' -- so the Colonel actually volunteered for the task to ensure the former]].
* In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', Superman keeps a baby [[PlanetEater sun-eater]] as a pet. After he releases it, it comes back to save him when he is battling [[GeniusLoci Solaris,]] [[PlotTailoredToTheParty The Tyrant Sun]].
* Shows up in ''{{Bone}}'', where the heroes befriend a baby rat creature whom Smiley Bone names "Bartleby". In part because it's dangerous for a rat creature to be near humans, in part because they figure he belongs with his own kind (never understood that reasoning when "his own kind" is AlwaysChaoticEvil), they manage to get him back in the company of rat creatures. [[spoiler:Of course, later on, when they need the help, one of the rat creatures turns out to be Bartleby, and by the end he's their travel companion for keeps.]]
* In ''ComicBook/RedSonja: Beserker'', Sonja rescues a polar bear cub from a pair of sadistic hunters who were tormenting it. The bear stays with her through winter. Years later, Sonja has been sentenced to [[GladiatorGames die in the arena]] and a bear is unleashed against her. It turns out to be the same bear and refuses to attack her. The two team up and escape the arena.
[[folder: Fairy Tales]]
* This tends to be a stock element of Fairy Tales in general.
* In ''Literature/TsarevitchIvanTheFireBirdAndTheGrayWolf'', the hungry gray wolf eats Ivan's horse, and in amends helps him.
* In ''Golden Fish'' an old fisher catches a titular Golden Fish who asks him to let it go and promises all kinds of favors in return... We-ell, it didn't work out eventually, but it was not its fault.
* In ''Frog-Princess'' while on his quest to free the imprisoned princess from evil Koshey, Tsarevich Ivan captures various animals for food but releases them when they beg for their lives and promise to do him a favor in return. They later help him to obtains Koshey's SoulJar.
* In ''Magick Rng'' the main hero literally gives a shirt off his back to buy a dog, a cat and a snake from a cruel owner. That works out PERFECTLY!
* In ''Golden Antelope'' a boy helps all kinds of animals, getting transportation, guidance, protection and even fundraising in return.
* In ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/392.htm The Golden Mermaid]]'', the prince actively offers his horse to the starving wolf, and gets its aid.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pussboots/stories/donpear.html Don Joseph Pear]]'', the hero spares the fox's life when he catches it stealing, and it plays a ChessmasterSidekick role for him.
* In ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/117.htm The Death of Koshchei The Deathless]]'', Prince Ivan spares several animals and they help him against Baba Yaga.
* Similarly in [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimms']] ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/60twobrothers.html The Two Brothers]]'', and in ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/079.htm The Three Princes and Their Beasts]]''.
* Subverted in some versions of "Literature/TheFrogPrince" or "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon"; the girl does not only not wish to set the animal free, she ''bashes it against the wall'' and has to make amends.
* In "Literature/TheGratefulBeasts", Ferko magically cures some animals; in return, they perform his {{impossible task}}s.
* A traditional tale of the Kamba people from Kenya tells the story of a man who cultivated a field. The crops attracted gazelles so he put traps to defend his crops. One day he saw a lion had fallen in one of the traps. He freed the lion after making him promise that he would not hurt him. Once free, however, [[TheFarmerAndTheViper the lion]] [[ILied attacked him]]. Then the man convinced the lion to let him go after promising that he would give him the heart of every animal that fell on his traps from then on. One day his wife accidentally fell on one of the traps, and just as the man ran to free her the lion appeared and demanded the wife's heart as part of their agreement. The man refused saying that this wasn't part of the deal, so the lion killed the wife and badly injured the man. Moral of the story: [[SubvertedTrope Don't trust lions]]. [[DeconstructorFleet They f*cking eat people]].
[[folder: Fan Works]]
* This trope is how [[AuthorAvatar Adam]] [[PteroSoarer Squall]] is introduced to the namesake family of ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces,'' specifically after Sarah frees him from [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Aperture's]] MindControlDevice. While it's true that all of the family members are humans, Adam is the only PrehistoricMonster[[OneWingedAngel -turned-]][[HumanityEnsues human]] protagonist.
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8157409/1/Friendship_Is_Magic_Prime_Act_III Friendship Is Magic: Prime: Act III]]'', Fluttershy saves an Insecticon from getting eaten alive by a Scraplet, and the Insecticon (which she names Bob) becomes ever-faithful to her.
* In several Literature/HarryPotter fanfics like the ''Fanfic/DangerVerse'' universe or the Alpha series, Harry helps the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets to survive (instead of killing it as in the books) or to get rid of Riddle's influence, and the basilisk ends up helping defend the castle.
* In ''FanFic/TheJadedEyesSeries'' [[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry]]/Tristan befriends [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Alucard]] after giving him a bite to drink and freeing him from the alchemical leash put on him by the Hellsing family.
* The ''MyLittlePony'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheCadanceverse'' has the main characters run into a kraken as they journey through the Everfree. Most of the group wants to fight or run, but Lyra realizes that the kraken is trapped and in pain, and convinces the group to help out. When they remove the stakes fixing the kraken to the lakebed, the kraken is so grateful that it gives them a ride across the lake.
[[folder: Film]]
* Creator/GeorgeLucas claims in the commentary for ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' that Yoda is based on a myth about a magical frog that sits on the side of the road, teaching things to people who are kind to him.
** Also, behind-the-scenes footage of filming the Ewok village scenes in ''Film/Return of the Jedi'' show Lucas also intended a similar idea for that movie. Since Luke convinces the others not to harm the Ewoks and surrender, they return the favor by saving the Rebels from the Imperials during the planetside part of the final battle.
** In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Qui-Gon Jinn saves Jar-Jar Binks (albeit inadvertently) from a Trade Federation battalion, prompting Jar-Jar to offer himself as a servant in a life debt. Later, it is thanks to Jar-Jar that they persuade Jar-Jar's people, the Gungans, to help the people of Naboo fight and defeat the Trade Federation.
* D'leh in ''Film/TenThousandBC'' had second thoughts before his concern over an about-to-drown Sabretooth Tiger led him to release it from where it was pinned under some trees, since falling rain would quickly drown it. For the record, it saves his and his father figure's asses later and marks him as TheChosenOne to bring down TheEmpire.
* In ''Film/{{Anchorman}}'', Baxter (Ron Burgundy's dog) befriends a wild bear in his travels. This comes in very handy when the main characters are confronted with that bear's cousin and Baxter is able to talk him down.
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''. Sarah rescues Ludo from some Goblins. Later on he saves her from attack in the Goblin City by "calling the rocks" and sending the Goblins flying like tenpins.
* In ''Film/ItCouldHappenToYou'', Charlie loses all his money in court to his ex-wife but feeds a homeless man and even gives him bus fare. The homeless guy is actually an undercover reporter (and the movie's narrator). He writes about Charlie's generosity in the paper which is so touching that people donate money to him. [[LaserGuidedKarma Meanwhile, his ex-wife marries another "millionaire" who turns out to be a con man who steals all her money, forcing her to move in with her mother and go back to her old job in a nail salon.]]
* Played for equal parts RuleOfFunny and {{squick}} in the ''Film/LandOfTheLost'' movie when Rick Marshall [[spoiler: is swallowed by "Grumpy" the exceptionally intelligent T-rex who's been chasing him for most of the movie. He later shows up to [[BigDamnHeroes rescue Will and Holly]] by [[CrowningMomentofAwesome riding Grumpy into a pack of Sleestaks]]. It turns out that he... er... escaped through the back door, and in the process removed some intestinal blockage, for which Grumpy was very grateful.]]
* In ''NightAtTheMuseum 2'', Larry gives a [[EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods Giant Octopus]] the water it desperately searches for. They instantly become friends, and the Octopus helps out in the FinalBattle against Kahmunrah.
* The Bandersnatch in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' helps Alice after she gives it back its disembodied eye, [[spoiler: by licking the scratch wounds it inflicted on Alice's arm earlier and healing it, lest it (quoeth Cheshire Cat) "festers and putrefies". It later serves as her mount in the FinalBattle against the Jabberwock.]]
* ''TwoBrothers'' has two tigers that fail to attack the humans that used to own them, even though everyone else is convinced the tigers are dangerous.
* Natty in ''TheJourneyOfNattyGann'' befriends a wolf by opening a door for it to escape a dogfight and later giving it some of her food. The wolf subsequently returns the favor by bringing her a freshly-killed rabbit when she's lost and hungry in the woods, and accompanies her for most of the rest of her travels.
* In the short ''{{Sintel}}'', the title character rescues and befriends an injured baby dragon she calls Scales. Later, [[spoiler: adult]] Scales recognizes and hesitates to harm Sintel, [[spoiler: who [[TearJerker doesn't recognize Scales and strikes her down]].]]
* In ''CrankHighVoltage'', Chev Chelios saves a dog that was being tortured by two assholes with a ShockCollar. The dog returns the favor by assaulting someone who was about to attack Chev from behind.
* Hiccup and Toothless in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''. Hiccup downs Toothless with a catapult, and initially wants to kill him, but realizes the creature is just as scared as he is. They befriend each other and Hiccup invents a rudder-like device to function as a tail for Toothless, since his is partially damaged/deformed.
* In ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', James Bond and Kara fight their way out of a corrupt prison in Afghanistan. While escaping, they free the prisoner in the next cell on a whim. The prisoner turns out to be a leader of the Afghan Resistance, and becomes a valuable ally.
* A variation in ''Film/TheAvengers'': Tony Stark's kindness towards Bruce Banner, and his lack of fear and suspicion of the Hulk, pays off later on, when the Hulk, previously described as a "mindless beast" consciously and deliberately [[spoiler: saves Tony's life during the final battle.]]
* In ''{{Film/Riddick}}'', Riddick is attacked by a dog-like beast on the planet on which he is marooned. He takes his belt buckle and tosses it, and the animal [[AllAnimalsAreDogs goes to fetch it]] and eventually becomes something of a pet to him.
* In ''Film/ShanghaiNoon'', Chon Wang saves a young Sioux Indian boy from an enemy tribe. Impressed by his skills, he gets welcomed as a tribe member, [[AccidentalMarriage even accidentally marrying the chief's daughter]], who provides BigDamnHeroes moments throughout the rest of the movie, especially in the end with the rest of the tribe.
* DoubleSubversion in ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle''. Despite Harold's protests, the titular pair picks up a hitchhiker that turns out to be Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, [[AdamWesting borderline crazy from drugs]], who ends up stealing their car, which only adds on to the problems they were already facing trying to get to White Castle. In the end, when they finally arrive at White Castle, Harold realizes he has no money (he was unknowingly robbed), so Neil, who's also there, pays for their meal.
* ''{{Film/Maleficent}}'' receives the services and [[UndyingLoyalty undying loyalty]] of the raven, Diaval, after she saves him from a farmers net.
[[folder: Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** Played with by Creator/TerryPratchett in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/SmallGods''. The hero saves a predator, who (now bound by [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality Narrative Convention]] to do the Androcles) tracks the hero down to symbolically not kill him. However, as is noted, ''other'' people didn't save it, and so are fair game.
** Played more straight with a yeti in ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime''. When Lobsang and Lu-Tze save a yeti from poachers, it repays them by helping them down the mountain and [[ItMakesSenseInContext allowing them to chop its head off]].
* Kit removes a bit of wreckage from around the axle of a sentient Lotus in the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' novel ''So You Want to Be a Wizard'', and the Lotus ends up becoming a friend and helper to them. [[spoiler:It pulls a SenselessSacrifice against the [[BigBad Lone Power]], trying to buy them some time to run. It later shows up in Timeheart.]]
* ''The Book of Three'' (1964), the first of Creator/LloydAlexander's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfPrydain'' novels. Taran helps a wounded baby gwythaint (a species of gigantic dangerous bird creatures forced to serve the BigBad Arawn). The favor is repaid twice; once in the first book when the gwythaint tells Gwydion where to find Taran and the Horned King, and [[HeroicSacrifice more significantly]] at the end of the fifth and final book.
* ''Literature/WatershipDown'':
** Invoked by Hazel, who realizes that the rabbits will need friends and allies in their new home. It ends up earning them the friendship of a mouse, who tells them about a good feeding place, gives them information on the proximity of men, [[spoiler:and gives them advance warning when the Efrafans come to attack]]; and later nets Kehaar, a gull, as a very useful ally and scout.
** In one of the El-ahrairah stories (The Story of King Fur-Rocious) in ''Tales of WatershipDown'', on his quest to win a nearly hopeless war against the titular King, El-ahrairah befriends a cat (who jumps into his ear), saves a flock of crows (who also jump into his ear), helps out a nest of ants (into the ear again), and even enlists the help of a river (the other ear, this time). This pays off when, on three consecutive nights, El-ahrairah challenges the King and is shut up with the Rabid Rats (taken care of by the cat), the Wildcat Weasels (killed by the crows), and the Savage Stoats (chased off by the ant nest). The ''fourth'' night, King Fur-Rocious decides to have El-ahrairah tied up next to his sleeping place so he can figure out what's going on. For his pains, he eats the full might of the river, and promptly leaves thereafter. That was the only war El-ahrairah ever fought, and that was how he won it. Question: [[{{Hammerspace}} How big]] are his ears, anyway?! They ''are'' woven from starlight.
** In "The Fox in the Water", El-ahrairah altruistically gives advice to many creatures. A snake he helps, having heard of his other deeds, gives El-ahrairah the power of hypnotic eyes temporarily, which he uses to defeat a family of foxes that had been causing problems for his warren.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** In "Chamber of Secrets", Harry frees a House Elf named Dobby, who ironically had tried to covertly save Harry's life in a rather...roundabout way. Many books later, Dobby makes a HeroicSacrifice to save the lives of Harry and his friends when they are imprisoned in Malfoy Manor and trying to escape.
** When he was a student, Hagrid kept hidden and saved the life of a baby [[GiantSpider Acromantula]] named Aragog. The giant talking spider therefore feels a debt of gratitude to Hagrid: he has forbidden his children from ever harming Hagrid, and has personally refrained from eating humans. However, this is as far as his kindness extends: any other human who wanders into his neck of the woods is fair game.
* In Jean Auel's ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' series, Ayla adopts a cave lion and raises it from a cub. Later on, after [[spoiler: the same cave lion kills Thonolan, she's able to calm it down and preventing it from killing Jondalar. Also, she saves the life of someone else in a similar fashion in the next book (same lion).]]
* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth''.
** Richard's pet Gar (named, originally, Gar). He's only called that by Richard until he tells Richard his real name, "Gratch". And once Richard realizes Gratch's intelligence, he's more of a friend than a pet.
** Scarlett the Red Dragon and her son. Richard helps Scarlett rescue her egg (which Darken Rahl was using to force her into servitude). Scarlett (and her son) later aid(s) Richard several times at critical junctures throughout the series when a dragon of her species would ordinarily just eat him regardless.
* In ''[[Literature/TheEdgeChronicles Beyond the Deepwoods]]'', Twig removes a rotten tooth from a mouth of a Banderbear, a species normally nonthreatening but not very social, and befriends it, and even after [[spoiler:it dies]], he keeps the tooth as a charm and manages to more or less befriend ''the whole species''.
* Literature/{{Psmith}} tells a version of this story in ''Mike and Psmith'', although he seems to believe that it was a pterodactyl Androcles encountered.
* In ''SnowCrash'', Y.T. shows kindness towards a Rat-Thing, a monstrous cybernetic killing machine. This, as well as taking care of a stray dog with a bullet wound, results in some LaserGuidedKarma at the end of the book.
* It might not apply, but in ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', Mowgli's ability to remove painful thorns from the paws of his wolf pack brothers makes him a popular fellow among them. At the same time, however, this is seen as a point of shame among some of the wolves; a fact which Shere Khan uses to turn the pack against Mowgli.
* Subverted in the Chinese short story ''The Story of the Zhung-Shan Wolf'' by Ma Zhung-Shi: the wolf pleads a scholar to conceal him from a hunting party, promising to be grateful afterwards. When the hunters are gone, the wolf reveals its true nature and threatens to devour the scholar. Luckily, an old wise-man passes by and tricks the wolf, which the scholar then kills.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
** In ''The Message'', the fourth book in the series, the kids help a humpback whale that is being attacked by sharks. At the end of the book, the whale shows up and drives off Visser Three (who was attacking the kids in the form of an alien sea-monster).
** This trope is recycled in the thirty-ninth book, ''The Hidden'', which is perhaps not-so-coincidentally another Cassie book.
* ''Literature/TheHobbit''. The Eagle saves Gandalf, Bilbo, and the Dwarves because Gandalf once helped him heal his wounded wing.
* In the ''Lords of Deliverance'' book "Eternal Rider'' by Larissa Ione, Cara Thornhart earns a {{hellhound}}'s love and respect after she heals it from a bullet wound.
* In the book ''Literature/KingCrow'', a crow helps the hero, Cormac, by bringing him news. It does this because Cormac pulled an arrow out of its wing.
* Literature/FirebirdLackey: Ilya gets help from a horse, nightingale, fox and the titular Firebird by saving their lives (or tasty apples, in the horse's case).
* In ''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'' book "Monster Hunter Vendetta", the readers learn that young Julie befriended a shoggoth. Later, the creature throws off the BigBad's mind control and refuses to hurt her. This shocks everyone, as shoggothes were previously classified as AlwaysChaoticEvil.
[[folder: Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/BernardsWatch'': the eponymous Bernard used his time stopping watch to remove a tack from an old man's foot. When he is later sent to the new Headmaster, a Mr Lion, who turns out to be the old Man, and instead helps Bernard escape punishment.
* ''{{Grimm}}'': Averted in "Last Grimm Standing" where Monroe helps pull a nail out from the hand of a gladiator shortly before they are set to fight each other. But the gladiator had no problem trying to kill Monroe and probably would have if Nick didn't intervene.
* ''Series/{{House}}'': In one episode, House heals his crazy cellmate's pet cricket that got sick from a pesticide. Towards the end of the episode, when another inmate is about to [[KnifeNut stab House with a knife]], House's cellmate bashes the other guy in the head with a chair.
* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'': Inverted, in which it is the dragon who gives advice and aid to Merlin whenever he's in trouble, and eventually extracts a promise from ''him'' that he'll eventually set him free from the dungeon under the castle. When Merlin finally gets around to destroying his chains, the dragon promptly lays waste to Camelot.
* ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'': Invoked when Tyzonn the Mercury Ranger removes an improbably long spike from the foot of Norg, a Yeti sharing his cave with one of the {{Big Bad}}s. While it does mark the beginning of Norg's shifting loyalties, the fact that he hardly counts as a villain to begin with makes it more a case of [[ButtMonkey Butt]] [[HeelFaceTurn Face Turn.]]
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': AvertedTrope. In "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E2ChainedHeat Chained Heat]]", The bounty hunter Charlie persuades Miles to spare later on hands them over to the militia. Later, in the episode "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E4ThePlagueDogs The Plague Dogs]]", Danny manages to save Tom Neville from certain death and still ends up being rearrested.
* ''{{Scrubs}}'': Referenced in an episode, when JD removes a splinter from the Janitor's toe (though he mixes it up slightly with the story of the mouse and the lion). When JD tries telling it, the Janitor cheerfully cuts him off with "Oh yeah, and then the lion kills and eats him anyway!" Funnily, the Janitor does try to repay JD with unwanted help, causing JD to waste the favor by asking the Janitor to do something trivial. The Janitor notes afterward that JD could have asked to not be hassled for a year.
* ''Series/{{Sinbad}}'': In the 2012 miniseries, Sinbad gives water to a chained-up Roc, for which it lets him pass and leave his prison, and later gets the key to its chains and releases it. In return, it saves him from a probably fatal fall, capsizes a boat full of people out to kill him, and beats its wings to provide enough wind for his ship to get on its way.
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': The story is referenced by the main characters. Sheppard and Teyla get kidnapped by a wild-looking man who has a Wraith tracker implanted in his back. Sheppard gets the expedition doctor to remove it and in exchange, the wild-looking man, Ronon, attempts to capture a member of the team who had gone AWOL. He fails, but eventually joins the expedition.
** Also in ''Atlantis'', Sheppard is kidnapped by Genii and imprisoned along with a Wraith. They form a truce with each other long enough for the pair to escape, and later the Wraith, "Todd", becomes a valuable ally in the fight against all the Wraith hives, and a (relatively) moderating influence within his own.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Daniel Jackson makes reference to this story during an episode when he is the captive of an injured Unas and helps its recover from its wounds. Along with other interactions, this develops into a sort-of respect, and the Unas saves his life.
[[folder: Mythology]]
* In a tale about a frog princess, the hero successively spares a bear, a rabbit, a duck, and a pike, and gets help from each of them at the end of the story to get BigBad Koschei the Deathless' SoulJar: The bear tears down the tree, the hare kills the hare, the duck strikes the duck, and the pike retrieves the egg from the pond it had fallen into.
* One of the most frequent plotlines in the entirety of ancient folklore, to judge by the number of times it pops up in ''Grimm's Tales'' and other sources. Typically, while on his way to rescue the princess, the hero assists several small critters in succession; later, when the villain places seemingly-impossible tasks in his way, the grateful critters return to complete them for him (for instance, when charged with sorting an enormous heap of mixed grains, the hero of one tale is helped by the ants he'd rescued.) It can be guaranteed to work if someone else (preferably an older sibling) ignores the metaphorical lion first.
* In Creator/ChretienDeTroyes' ''Yvain, the Knight of the Lion'', Yvain helps a lion fight a giant serpent. The grateful feline then follows Yvain, saving his butt quite a few times.
* ''Literature/AesopsFables'':
** "The Lion and the Mouse" begins with a ''lion'' sparing a mouse, who then later returns the favor by freeing him from a hunter's net.
** "Androcles and the Lion", [[TropeNamer of course]]. He took the thorn from its paw, which rather helped when they met in GladiatorGames.
* In the old tale "The Golden-Headed Fish," an Egyptian prince is sent on a mission to capture the title animal, which is the only thing which can save his father from a deadly illness. He succeeds, but can't bring himself to kill the beautiful creature and sets it free. His father (who recovers anyway) banishes him from the realm. Out in the world, he encounters a strange man who wishes to work as his servant, and accompanies him on a number of adventures, saving his life frequently. After the prince's father dies, his mother summons him back to take his rightful place as king, at which time the servant requests permission to leave.
-->'''Prince:''' If it were not for you, I should long ago have been dead.
-->'''Servant:''' And if not for you, I too should long ago have been dead. For I am the golden-headed fish.
* St. Jerome also tames a lion by removing a thorn from its paw.
* There is a story that says that when [[Literature/TheBible when King David was on the run from King Saul]], he went to hide in a cave, where he saw a spider he was going to kill, before the spider could stop him, saying hed help him somehow. King David laughed, but spared it anyway. The spider formed a web around the caves opening, so when King Saul came by the cave, he said there is probably no-one in there, as theyd have to tear through the cobweb to get in. He left, and King David blessed the spider.
* An almost identical story is told of [[TheProphetMuhammad Muhammad]], albeit different in an important way: the cave that he and his friend Abu Bakr were hiding in during the Hijra (flight from Mecca to Medina) had a spider in it, which Abu Bakr was about to absentmindedly kill but which the Prophet had him spare. The spider made a cobweb over the opening, and some birds nested, leading Quraish (the pursuing Meccans) to look elsewhere.
* A similar story tells of how King Solomon was stung by a bee once and wanted to kill it, but it asked him to spare her so shed help him some day. King Solomon reacted the same as David. Later, when the Queen of Sheba came over to test King Solomons famous wisdom, she asked him to pick the real flower out of three―the other two were impeccably fabricated. The King was stumped, when the bee came over and sat on the real flower. ([[FridgeLogic So apparently the bee gave her life for the hell of it, and made a heroic sacrifice to make amends.]] [[MST3KMantra Ah well.]])
** [[FridgeBrilliance That was a queen bee - some queen bees can actually sting multiple times without dying.]]
* In the ''{{Mahabharata}}'', Yuddhisthra makes it up the mountain to {{Heaven}} (and is indeed the only one of the Pandavas to do so), because he refused to leave behind a dog that followed him. [[spoiler: It turns out the dog is a reincarnation of his father, Dharma.]]
* Melampus from ClassicalMythology was a soothsayer and healer who gained fame and fortune simply by being kind to animals. In one version of the myth he saved a pair of orphan baby snakes. In gratitude they licked his ears, giving him the power to understand animals.
* Maud and the Wyvern - The Wyvern killed almost everyone in the village that it lived in... except for one, Maud, who he sees as its only friend.
[[folder: Stand-Up Comedy]]
* Dane Cook once did a comedy bit about this, noting how if there's someone at work with a creepy, outsider-vibe to them, it's best to be nice to them so they'll spare you when they finally show up at the office with a shotgun.
-->"You know that one fat guy in work who's always shunned and made fun of? I always give that guy a Snicker's bar, because the day when he inevitably snaps and storms the office shooting everyone and finds me, he'll go 'Thanks for the candy' and walk away." -- Paraphrased version of the routine
[[folder: {{Theatre}}]]
* Subverted in ''The Hairy Ape''--the ape in question [[spoiler:kills the main character after he frees it.]]
* Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw's ''Androcles and the Lion'' plays this as straight as you'd expect from the title.
* Subverted in ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'': [[spoiler: as a student at Shiz, Elphaba (who will later become the Wicked Witch) rescues a lion cub from experimentation and frees it from its cage. This cub grows up to be the Cowardly Lion, who apparently holds Elphaba responsible for his cowardice and helps Dorothy and the Tin Man to hunt her down.]]
[[folder: Video Games]]
* Early in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon Kennedy encounters a dog caught in a bear trap. If the player has him free the wolf, it returns later to help Leon fight his battle against the first "El Gigante" boss by distracting the monster.
* At the end of ''Super VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'', the baby Metroid which Samus spared at the end of ''Metroid II'' sacrifices itself to rescue Samus from Mother Brain, after having imprinted on Samus beforehand, seeing her as its mother.
** Metroid also has an example that transcends games with the Etecoons and Dachoras. In Super Metroid, they were friendly creatures who helped Samus by teaching her techniques like the Wall Jump and the Shinespark. At the end of the game when you're trying to escape the [[EarthShatteringKaboom Zebes-Shatttering Kaboom]], you can take a slight detour to find them trapped in a room with rising acid. You can then blast a hole in the wall that allows them to escape, and if you do so you'll see a tiny dot escaping the explosion in the ending sequence.
*** Later on, in MetroidFusion, you'll find them in a containment hold in the BSL labs partway through the game, and you set them loose. At the end of the game, Samus sets the BSL space station on a collision course with the planet SR388 in order to wipe out the [[TheVirus X Parasites]] once and for all, and has about three minutes to escape before impact. She heads to the docking bay only to find that her ship is not there. She soon discovers the reason: an Omega Metroid comes crashing through the wall in order to serve as the FinalBoss. After she defeats the Omega with the help of a VillainousRescue by the SA-X, the Etecoons and Dachoras return the favour she provided on Zebes by piloting her ship into the docking bay (with the help of her computerised CO, Adam), allowing her to escape the station just before it made planetfall.
* Speaking of Samus, Pikachu plays this role with her in ''SuperSmashBros Brawl''. In the Subspace Emissary story, after she rescues him from a generator, he accompanies her through the enemy base, helping her get her suit back, [[spoiler: and finally saving her ass when Ridley tries to smear her across the wall]].
* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestV'', a rat that Graham saves by throwing a boot at the cat that's chasing it returns the favor by gnawing through Graham's ropes when he's tied up in a cellar, about to be killed. Of course, this becomes less sweet when you figure in the gameplay mechanics: if you [[GuideDangIt don't think to throw the boot]] when the cat and the rat unexpectedly, briefly appear the first time you enter a certain location, [[{{Unwinnable}} you're in a bit of trouble when you're trapped in the cellar...]]
** In the same game, you are required to feed a starving eagle on the mountain range when you only have two food rations left. Failure to do so means he won't save you from the Roc that plucks you away at the end of the chapter.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Exile}}'' and the first three ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'' games. There are a few minor encounters where freeing a trapped monster will result in said monster trying to kill you because they're "nowhere near bright enough to comprehend the idea of gratitude." However, the later ''Avernum'' games do toss in a few hungry animals who will follow you around briefly and help during fights after you feed them.
* In ''NeverwinterNights2'', you can choose to help out a hungry giant spider by feeding it some bugs. When you are given ownership of Crossroads Keep later in the chapter, it will take up residence in the castle's basement and knit you some spider-silk clothing in gratitude.
* During an early stage in ''VideoGame/StarTropics'', Mike rescues a dolphin. At the end of the game, [[spoiler:the dolphin saves him, taking him back to C-Island]].
* Played straight in ''CrusaderOfCenty'', where many of your animal companions must be saved from a horrible fate. Three were held captive by bosses, and two were hopelessly stuck somewhere awaiting death.
* In the first ''VideoGame/ClockTower'', Jennifer can rescue a crow from being imprisoned in the Barrows Mansion. It's the only way to achieve one of the better endings [[spoiler: when Mary tries to kill Jennifer at the top of the clock tower, but is assaulted by a group of crows who cause her to fall to her death]].
** They can also [[spoiler:attack Bobby (if he's chasing Jennifer) if you lead him into the room you free the original crow from.]]
* Inverted quite magnificently in ''{{Okami}}'': the player is the wolf (actually Amaterasu, goddess of the sun) who runs around assisting helpless villagers -- in her time of need they restore her to strength and health by praying for her.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Commander Shepard has the option of letting the [[spoiler: last [[BugWar Rachni queen]] go free. She's captured ''[[DamselInDistress again]]'' in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', this time by the Reapers. Shepard can once again set her free, leading the Queen to send Rachni workers to aid in the construction of the Crucible project.]]
* In ''{{Terranigma}}'', early on, you [[EscortMission help Liam, a young lion cub, pass a test]] - to descend into a valley of death, and return alive. Later on, [[spoiler: after Beruga wipes out Neo-Tokio with a bio-weapon,]] you encounter a girl in the sewers being menaced by a lion. Guess who it is!
** Inverted and then played straight during Liam's escorting mission, as the monster that acts as the stage boss pleads for its life and offers a "treasure" to Ark if he lets it go. The treasure chest is a booby trap, but before the monster could catch Ark off guard, Liam kills it offscreen and then guides Ark back to the safety of the lion den, where his kin welcome Ark as one of them.
* In the SEGA TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} game, Joshua saves Licourtrix, a dragon, from a squad of hunters sent by [[MegaCorp Renraku]]. In thanks Licourtrix offers Joshua a scale, which is needed by a shaman to cast a spell. [[spoiler:He also pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment during the final battle, binding [[BigBad Thon]] with his magic and offering Joshua a strategy to destroy him.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', the boss of the first dungeon (Gohma) is tormenting the tail of the resident guardian spirit, the dragon Valoo. Once Link has put paid to that monster, Valoo expresses his gratitude. Later, when Link is captured by Ganon, Valoo pulls a BigDamnHeroes and brings help, then [[AwesomeMoments blasts Ganon with a gout of flame]].
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', the first miniboss is a possessed baboon named Ook. After Link [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim beats the insect possessing him off of Ook]], he returns the favor by helping Link in the fight against the dungeon's boss Diababa.
*** Even before that, all of the monkeys that he saves in the same dungeon are quick to return the favor, proving themselves to be vital to progressing through said dungeon and, ultimately, reaching Diababa's lair.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', you come across a dog and a wastelander fighting some raiders in a junkyard. The wastelander always dies, but if you save the dog's life it becomes a useful companion.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' features a variant of this, where some one is kidnapping Wyvern babies. They follow you around for a little while after you save them, then seem to leave. After you fight a miniboss, the person who captured them, [[BrickJoke the wyverns then reappear, attack the boss, carry him off a cliff, then drop him.]]
* In ''League of Light: Dark Omens'' a mama griffin who had her injured baby returned to her by the player character shows up at the end to transport the hero and the {{Damsel in Distress}} to safety.
* In ''BanjoKazooie'', the various Jinjos you've spent the game rescuing will turn up to help you during the final battle with Gruntilda.
* Chuck in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' can tame one of the bosses, a hungry tiger named Snowflake, by finding pieces of steak in the casino where she lives and feeding them to her. After which she becomes a very useful follower, protecting Chuck from the zombies that have infested Fortune City and can be given to Chuck's daughter Katey as a pet.
* In ''Revived Legends: Road of the Kings'' giving a mama roc her lost baby results in her acting as a living bridge across an impassible chasm.
[[folder: Webcomics]]
* Torg does this for the demon Mosp in [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=011030 this]] ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' strip. This ends up saving his life when the "That Which Redeems" arc rolls around.
* One of the rare worksafe pages of ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' deconstructs the "kindly hunter" version of the story. The hunter releases a deer, a rabbit, and [[RuleOfFunny a sandwich]] upon their requests, and then keels over and starves to death. In the last panel, the creatures gather around his grave and wonder if there wasn't something they could have done.
* In ''{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/comic/8-08/ Vandric recognizes Kyri in the arena.]]
* In ''Webcomic/DocRat'', [[http://www.docrat.com.au/default.asp?thisItem=646 they discuss but do not push this trope with Charmane.]]
* Belkar in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' released an allosaurus that was being held in a cage in the Empire of Blood's arena. Even though it was sedated and returned to the cage, it seems to remember Belkar's deed; in a later scene when one of the Empire's soldiers uses it as a steed during an attack on the Order, it obeys Belkar's command not to eat Roy, and helps drive away the other soldiers. {{Justified}}, as Belkar is a ranger with the Wild Empathy ability, making it easier for him to tame and command wild animals.
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "Dog of Death," Santa's Little Helper takes on the role of the fearsome, bloodthirsty lion who shows mercy when he refuses to attack Bart, on Mr. Burns' command and in the process, drives off the other dogs and turns them into whimpering cowards. This is despite the family treating SLH like dirt as they struggle to regain their financial footing to pay for emergency surgery on the dog.
** In another episode, Homer tells Bart the story of "Hercules and the Lion." Hercules is able to pull a thorn out of a lion's paw, and the lion in turn grants him riches. When Bart points out the obvious flaw in that story and asks how a lion could somehow get rich, Homer simply replies that it was back in "the olden days."
* Almost anything ever made by {{Disney}}.
** However, it's [[DoubleSubversion double-subverted]] in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', where Buzz and his zoologist love interest help a dangerous predator... which, despite Buzz citing the Androcles myth, immediately turns to try to eat them. Afterwards, the zoologist even chastises Buzz for being irresponsible for expecting human behavior from a wild animal, instead of accepting it as it is. It still does help them later in a moment of need -- keeping it from being a full subversion -- but this is treated as entirely coincidental, with Buzz's assumption that it's "returning their kindness" being overly romantic.
** Played straight in ''LambertTheSheepishLion'' about a lion raised by a sheep.
* ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'', "Where Rovers Dare". While the Rovers are busy stopping a weapons dealer from starting a WarForFunAndProfit, Colleen takes in, and fixes up, an [[FurryConfusion injured wolf]]. While the bad guys have cornered her and her all-male teammates, the wolf howls and next thing you know tons of wolves have shown up, allowing the UN to easily capture the baddies.
* Fractured Fairy Tales on the ''RockyAndBullwinkle'' show had an episode titled Androcles and the Lion. Unfortunately, by the time Androcles met the lion in the arena it'd been starved by the Romans, and the score was soon Lion:1, Androcles: 0.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Numbuhs 2 and 3 adopt a baby skunk. Although Numbuh 1 doesn't like this, it ends up helping them in their mission to infiltrate a camp, and even makes a TomatoSurprise cameo in another episode two seasons later.
** The skunk's parents also play this Trope. They reward the KND for keeping their son safe by showing up and saving them when they're in trouble.
* A version of this happens in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''Roman Legion-hare''. After chasing Bugs Bunny through the lion cages beneath the Colosseum and in the process infuriating all the lions (and being comically mauled a few times), Captain of the Guard Yosemite Sam throws Bugs into the arena so that Nero can watch a victim be eaten. Instead, the lions rush past Bugs, jump up the stands, and go after Sam and Nero. Its thanks to Bugs providing them with the tools needed to dismantle Sam's stilts beforehand.
* A plot device in many {{Hanna-Barbera}} cartoons (those which they produced for TV as well as in the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts).
** Speaking of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', also used in at least one Creator/ChuckJones' Tom and Jerry cartoon ("Much Ado About Mousing").
** Spike the Bulldog was usually the "lion", who would protect Jerry from Tom after Jerry got him out of trouble. In one short Jerry pulls a tack out of Spike's paw, a deliberate call-out to the old Aesop fable.
*** A truly bizarre variation occurs in Creator/TexAvery's {{MGM}} cartoon "King Sized Canary"; as a hungry cat stalks a mouse, the mouse says, "Hey, [[BreakingTheFourthWall I just sat through this picture]], and if you're smart you won't eat me, because later in this picture I'll save your life." He does too.
* Diego the sabre-tooth cat in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' does a HeelFaceTurn after his soon-to-be TrueCompanions save him from falling into lava. Granted, most characters were animals, but Diego was the only carnivore protagonist.
* In the final episode of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}}'' cartoon series, the kids figure out that Allen has to pull out a thorn from a lion's paw to escape from Jumanji once and for all.
* This was the plot to one of ''WesternAnimation/TheAntAndTheAardvark'' cartoons, where the Tiger agrees to protect Ant and his gang from the hungry Aardvark after he pulled a thorn off his foot. In the end, the Tiger steps on another thorn and this time the Aardvark pulls it off. You can guess what happens next.
** And few years earlier this happened with ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther''. A man pulls a nail off of the Panther's foot and he becomes his slave. The man was annoyed at first but found helpful when he realized that he can use him to scare his shrewd wife and her mother. After many attempts at getting rid of the pink cat, the wife gives up and decides to leave home...[[spoiler: only for the Panther to step on another nail, with the wife pulling it out of his foot. Again, you can guess what happens next.]]
* [[TropeNamer The]] BigLippedAlligatorMoment in ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' is there to [[ChekhovsGun set up]] the gator coming in at the end to [[BigDamnHeroes save Charlie's skin]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''.
** "A Small Matter of Pygmies". A pygmy is being punished by the other pygmies by being tied to a stake so he can be eaten by a panther. Race, Jonny, and Hadji save him by shooting the panther and releasing him. When they're captured by the other pygmies, he returns the favor by releasing them.
** "Treasure of the Temple". The Quest team releases an Indian who had been staked out to die by the BigBad and his {{mooks}}. When the team is captured by the BigBad, the Indian gets them out of their cell to freedom.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Roger apparently raised a wolf from when it was a cub and released it in the wild, and later, finds a wolf while he's stranded with the family in the middle of a desert ([[spoiler:which is owned by Stan's cousin]]). [[SubvertedTrope It's not the]] [[HilarityEnsues same wolf]].
* Deliberately referenced in the opening two-parter of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', with Fluttershy and a (very lion-like) Manticore, resulting form Fluttershy's special connection with animals.
** And then with Rarity and the flamboyant river serpent who happened to be sentient.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'', Lion-O saves a pair of [[LizardFolk Lizard]] [[MadeASlave prisoners]] from a [[VigilanteExecution lynch]] [[TorchesAndPitchforks mob]] and [[SlaveLiberation sets them free]]. Later, when Lion-O and Tygra are LockedInTheDungeon during TheSiege of Thundera, the more ''antagonistic'' of the two repays the favor [[spoiler:sneaking Tygra and Lion-O the key to their cell [[JailBake in some soup]].]]
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Avatar", Ra's al Ghul leaves Batman stranded in the desert. Ra's [[TheDragon enforcer]], Ubu, who was grateful that Batman saved his life earlier, passes him a canteen.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'', Prince Adam frees a dragon that was buried by a cave-in. Later, He-Man is fighting some dragons and is nearly killed. The dragon from earlier (the mother of the other two) recognizes him from his scent and calls her children off. Then, when Skeletor attacks Greyskull, she later comes back to help him.
** The mother dragon comes back in a later episode, helping He-Man again, when a crisis happens that requires him to tranverse Eternia faster than Battle Cat can handle. Fortunately, she can fly ''much'' faster than any landbound mount can. (Unfortunately, she can't swim, the one thing that still made He-Man's job hard.)
* There was an old ''Conan The Barbarian'' series that played this up. In one episode, Conan encounters a dragon that acts much like a genie (Conan fond a MacGuffin, and the Dragon had to swear loyalty and grant wishes to whoever held it). When the Dragon calls Conan "Master", Conan declares that he is master of no man... or beast, and tells the Dragon he is free. Fast forward to the end of the season and the giant climatic battle, the Dragon appears out of nowhere to aid Conan and his allies.
* In the "Commander [=McBragg=]" segment of ''WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales'', [=McBragg=] has a story like this, and it's one of the few times he has actual evidence to prove it. According to him, he is captured by "stange men" after his plane crashes in a remote valley, and left as a HumanSacrifice to appease a giant who is angry. [=McBragg=] quickly discovers that a thorn is lodged in the giant's foot, and that he's not angry, but in pain; so he dislodges the thorn, gaining the giant's friendship. (The proof? A large, metal ring that the giant gave him from his little finger, which [=McBragg=] now uses as a hula-hoop.)
* ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' is a FriendToAllLivingThings, so he tends to get this treatment whether he has a history with the particular animal in question or not. However, in one episode, he was saved by a lion and explains that "George once took thorn from his paw," and then saved ''again,'' this time by a ManEatingPlant, with the explanation, "George once took paw from his thorn."
* Korra from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' accidentally injures a baby dragon bird and then helps it back to its nest. [[LaserGuidedKarma In return]], the adult dragon bird gives her a lift to the spirit portals and then saves her from Unalaq by giving him a big TailSlap.
[[folder: Real Life]]
* It ''seriously'' needs to be pointed out that this can be a very bad idea in real life. Approaching a wild animal in distress and trying to help it, unless you are fully prepared and know exactly what you are doing, can be ''lethal''.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqhJuwUukX8 Christian the Lion]] and [[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20215715,00.html the men]] who set him free.
** Another lion story - in the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, one of the lions turned on its trainer for an unknown reason... however the lioness went and started biting at the lion's tail and chased him away from the trainer to save him while the trainer escaped.
* Wojtek, the soldier bear. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, some Polish soldiers bought a (abandoned) bear cub during their stay in Iran from a local boy. After raising him and taking him with them on their deployment to Italy, Wojtek helped the soldiers carry artillery ammo.
* Subversion with most RealLife wild animals- because not AllAnimalsAreDomesticated, as some people found out. Also subverted with some RealLife domestic animals. And, of course, also played straight with some wild animals--though without the kind of expert knowledge to reliably know when it will or will not work (and how to do it right), it's quite a gamble to take. Many people take a reasonable compromise by helping the animal enough to save it/get it out of trouble, but will do everything to keep themselves safe while doing so (such as keeping their distance, using long tools and various things for protection in case the animal reacts negatively, always erring on the side of caution, etc).
* TruthInTelevision, though what degree depends on the animal and the circumstances. The extreme loyalty of some dogs is particularly noteworthy--there's a ''reason'' dogs are called Man's Best Friend.
* In humans, this is an instinctive behavior that manifested due to the obvious benefits it provides. Since you aren't always at the top of your game, and you are not infallible, having someone go out of their way to help you is a HUGE bonus in your survival odds--and returning the favor keeps that relationship going for both individuals.
* Played disturbingly straight during the Columbine Massacre, when Eric Harris encountered Brooks Brown. Harris instructed Brown to leave the school, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe citing their recently created friendship]]. Minutes after this, Harris and Klebold would go on to murder 13 people.
[[folder: Other]]
* Subverted (and double subverted) in a classic joke. A man saves an elephant with a thorn in its foot. The elephant takes a long look at the man and the hurries off. Some years later, the man sees the elephant in a local circus. Since elephants never forget, the man decides to enter into the elephant's enclosure to comfort his old friend the elephant. He is promptly crushed to death, at which point the narrator usually points out that it was probably not the same elephant.
* In ''Literature/HitherbyDragons'', "[[http://imago.hitherby.com/2004/08/a-succession-of-magical-fish/ A succession of magical fish]]" a woman gets offered her heart's desire from various fish. But it turns out, she's just being kind for the sake of it. She gets ice cream, though.
* The Steampunk Tarot deck shows said lion on the "Strength" card, instead of the usual gentle-control that said card usual shows. It still fits the card's archetype, being of intelligence triumphant over base instinct.


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— Beneath a circus tent supplied by the federal government, residents of this map dot on the High Plains met night after night to plot a course for their town's future.
Eventually a vision emerged of an eco-friendly town that would attract visitors and, despite demographic trends that have long seen rural Americans fleeing to urban centers, bring jobs and workers back to town.
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Greensburg, KS 67054, USA
Woodward, OK 73801, USA
Washington, IL, USA
Gifford, IL, USA
The goal was ambitious for a city that had a declining population even before 95 percent of its buildings blew away in the night, casualties of a 2007 tornado that claimed 11 lives in town. But today's Greensburg is very much a product of what its people imagined in the months after the storm, Mayor Bob Dixson said.
The Illinois towns of Washington and Gifford now face the same challenge of drawing plans for the future after tornadoes in November shredded neighborhoods and businesses. With much of the rubble cleared away, residents are preparing for construction season.
What folks there decide to do next, the Kansas mayor said, will go a long way toward determining what the cities look like years from now.
His advice?
"Plan. Plan. Plan. And do it as a community," Dixson said. "Know what you are as a community. Know what your assets are. There's no boilerplate plan, but it has to be what the community thinks."
A drive through Greensburg reveals the fruits of the plans hatched under that circus tent. There's a gleaming arts center defiantly named 5.4.7 in reference to the May night the storm struck, a sprawling new school with a wind turbine and bioswales designed to conserve water outside City Hall.
But not far from the environmentally friendly civic buildings and recently constructed houses are indications that not everything has gone as hoped. Entire blocks contain little more than brown grass and driveways to nowhere.
Kaye Hardinger raised her family on one of those now-empty lots. About a week after the tornado, she charmed President George W. Bush when he stopped by the wreckage of her house, joking that she'd invite him inside for coffee if only she had remembered to dust.
At first, Hardinger planned to rebuild and move back to town. But as the months passed, she said it became clear that her future was outside Greensburg city limits. She was hardly alone. About 850 people live in Greensburg today, Dixson estimates, not even two-thirds of the pre-storm total.
Rebuilding can involve a range of emotions and economic realities that send people in directions they hadn't expected.
When a tornado hit Woodward, Okla., in April 2012, Sterling Parks rushed to help at a trailer park where three people — a father and two daughters — were later found dead. The storm struck just after midnight and knocked out the city's sirens before they had a chance to warn of the coming danger.
After an exhausting night, the Woodward police officer returned home to find his yard filled with debris and his house badly damaged. But instead of fixating on that, Parks noticed his neighbors picking up the wreckage and cleaning the cul-de-sac.
"That was the best part," said Parks, who had been thinking before the storm about leaving his hometown for a larger city. "There's definitely been a lot of bonds built."
The house wasn't a total loss, but it was more than a year before he was able to move back in. Though some lots in his neighborhood remain empty, most are now filled with new or fixed-up homes. And after his neighbors helped him through the rebuilding process, Parks scrapped plans to move to the Oklahoma City area.
"It's home," said Parks, now a Woodward firefighter. "I don't know anywhere else where people would help me like that."
Talk to folks in Greensburg, and you hear similar stories of the recovery process strengthening already tight connections between friends and neighbors. But Dixson suggests that before rebuilding begins in earnest, residents should commit to a vision for a city's future that can be sustained after construction ends.
"I caution other communities, don't make life decisions rapidly," the Kansas mayor said. "When you get past the initial rush of building the buildings, you tend to lean back a little. That's the challenge, I think, at this point: To not just try to survive, to continue to be a thriving community."
For a time, Greensburg's sustainable recovery plan made the city a darling of Washington, D.C., and television. The idea of a country town in west-central Kansas rising from the rubble to become a hub of the environmental movement resonated with people. It also didn't hurt that the city's name started with "Green."

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They started going steady then. They exchanged love notes at their lockers and spent four years dating. Before Ralph graduated high school, they went on dates to drive-in movies, and drive-in restaurants.
"We just wanted to be together," Ralph said. "It didn't matter where we were."
He knew almost immediately that he wanted to marry Rita.
"I knew that she was the one," he said. "She was really pretty, and she was always helping people. And that hasn't changed."
Ralph asked her to marry him several times, but he never got a definite yes from Rita.
"I wasn't ready for that yet," Rita said. "To commit your life to somebody, that's a big step. I knew I was crazy about him, but I had to know it was what the Lord wanted me to do. When the Lord tells me, I'll know."
When Ralph left for six weeks for basic training at Fort Knox after he graduated from high school, Rita knew she was ready to marry him.
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She took a bus from Kokomo to Fort Knox to surprise him. She had never traveled anywhere by herself before, and by the time she arrived in Indianapolis it was 1 a.m. She rode all night and saw the sun come up before she arrived at the base in Kentucky.
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Constructing an Irish family tree poses particular challenges. First, there's the dearth of written records. Not only were the most fruitful life events—birth, marriage, death—not recorded until 1864, many of those records were lost to fire during Ireland's 1922 Civil War and to other calamities (including being pulped to support war effort in World War I).
And in many Irish-American families, roots run deep and wide. Siblings were separated, by oceans or land, as they sought new opportunities. For some, contact became sporadic and eventually faded to black. The prejudice the new immigrants encountered in America propelled them to quickly shed their Irishness and with their self-imposed rapid Americanization, family histories were lost in the silence. For modern family historians, those roots remain hidden from view, sometimes forever, sometimes until some fate intervenes.
In the 21st century, fate uses social media: You suddenly come across photos of your great grandparents on flickr.com or read familiar names in a post on a genealogy page on Facebook that you stumbled upon.
It was social media that finally brought the roots of Marianne MacDonald's mother's family, the Murphys of Tuosist, Collorus Point, County Kerry, to the surface, and a couple of weeks ago, she gathered about a dozen long-lost cousins from Florida, Tennessee, New York, and North Jersey at the Commodore Barry Club (The Irish Center) in Philadelphia where they shared their separate "bits and pieces" of family history.
Including letters from the girls their Great-Aunt Peggie met when she lived for a time in Ireland with an aunt, after the death of her mother. And photos of the Murphy headstones in Tuosist, some barely legible, that cousin Ellen Dyal of Jacksonville, Florida, took when she was in Ireland last year.
It was when Dyal was preparing for her trip, her second, that she came across a Facebook page dedicated to Tuosist, the parish on the scenic Beara Peninsula where the Murphy clan lived. There, she saw Marianne MacDonald's post seeking information about her grandmother, Julia, Peggie Murphy's sister. And the sister of Dyal's grandfather, Patrick.
"I read it and thought, oh my God, my sister had just given me a piece of paper with a lot of the family names and Julia's name was on it," says Dyal. "I realized that she was the sister of my grandfather, Patrick Murphy. I tried to message Marianne and Facebook told me it would cost me $1 to send a message to her since I didn't know her and I decided to pay the dollar. Five minutes later I heard from her. 'Oh my God, we're cousins!'"
The two got on the phone and talked for an hour and a half. MacDonald, a special education teacher from Mantua, NJ, who hosts the "Come West Along the Road" Irish radio hour every Sunday on WTMR, 80 FM, was able to hook Dyal up with people in Tuosist she met during her many trips back who knew the Murphy family. That included the postmistress, Maureen O' Sullivan, who helped Dyal find the family home, a large, rambling house on secluded wooded point that had been vacant for many years before being turned into a holiday home. "She even remembered my grandfather going back every year," says Dyal.
During her last trip, MacDonald says, she spent two hours talking to O'Sullivan whose prodigious memory turned up another cousin, Ed Murphy of Monmouth County, NJ, who attended the Philadelphia reunion. "She said to me, there was another Murphy here a couple of years ago and she pulled out a big ledger, and there was his address and phone number, so I called him."
It turned out that their paths had likely crossed before. "We started talking and realized that we had been at the same Irish events at the same time," says MacDonald, laughing. They just don't remember meeting.
That wasn't the only coincidence these Murphy descendants uncovered. When MacDonald was looking for her grandmother on the 1930 US Census, she discovered that Dyal's grandfather, Patrick Murphy, was rooming with her grandparents in New York. And Ellen found a letter from her grandfather, written after MacDonald's grandmother's death, saying, Julia, had been his "favorite sister."
The family lost touch for many reasons. For one, there were 10 children scattered all over, some across the country, others in Ireland and England. There's no information on two of the siblings at all. Dyal's mother married a man named Shapiro and was, for a time, ostracized by the family for marrying out of the Catholic faith. Her grandfather, Patrick Murphy, had only daughters, so their Murphy line was subsumed by other family names.
Not all the Murphys could make the Philadelphia reunion, including Kevin, whom MacDonald met via email several years ago after he saw her photos from Collarus Point on flickr.com, a photo storage site.
But they're planning another one. "We were all so thrilled to meet each other—it was the best thing eve," says MacDonald, "so we're thinking of going to Ireland next spring. Ellen is in touch with the cousins in England, so they may come."
In Irish genealogy circles, that's what's known as a sublimely happy ending.
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Al llegar al Charco, tendras que caminar un poco , como podras ver en el mapa, tienes que caminar unos 15 minutos desde el estacionamiento.Un lugar muy bonito.
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North America includes Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Gotham City.
The region temporarily existed as a Protectorate of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, with its capital being the city of San Francisco. Sadly, this term of benevolent ebullience lasted a brief two decades and ended c. 1880.
The United States is now the dominant country of North America. It arose as a nation only 225 years ago after a successful rebellion against the British government under King George III.
From a distance, it appears that the eastern coastlines of North and South America fit exactly into the west coast of Africa. In fact, about 250 million years ago these continents really were all connected in one land mass that we have named Pangaea.
With such a foundation in tectonic unity, there is no doubt that someday soon the people on every continent of earth will realize their fundamental similarities. Expect massive leaps in creative output in your area!
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As of a few months ago, things couldn't get much worse for Alshon Jeffery. The former South Carolina wide receiver was fighting off rumors of weight gain and a disastrously low 40-time to go along with the perception that he would not be able to separate from defenders in the NFL.
Jeffery lost some weight at the combine, but he did not run the 40-yard dash, instead waiting until today's pro day at the University of South Carolina to put his speed on display.
It was worth the wait.
Standing in at 6-feet-4-inches tall and weighing 213 pounds, considerably slimmer than he was this fall, Jeffery ran his 40-yard dash in the high 4.4 to low 4.5 range, according to Pro Football Talk.
Considering some of the false rumors being tossed around, Jeffery's 40 time may come as a bit of a surprise. Although many have questioned his ability to separate in the NFL, there is no questioning Jeffery's big play ability down the field. Throughout his career as a Gamecock, Jeffery showed an ability to make plays down the field and win jump balls.
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Singer Little Richard, a self-proclaimed architect of rock 'n' roll, was involved in a car accident in Tennessee, but police said there were no injuries.
Pikachu and Link will be among the first characters coming to "amiibo."
Joan Rivers remained in a New York City hospital Friday, one day after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor's office.
California prosecutors say platinum-selling rapper Young Jeezy has pleaded not guilty to possessing an illegal assault weapon during an investigation into a fatal shooting at a rap concert.
The advocacy group for the adult film industry has called for an industrywide production moratorium after a performer tested positive for HIV.
The young homeless man who accompanied Miley Cyrus to the MTV Video Music Awards has a warrant out for his arrest in Oregon.
Neo-Nazis rallying in the Swedish city of Norrkoping have been greeted by the theme song from "Schindler's List" ringing from the bells of city hall.
CBS Sports Network will air an all-women sports show starting next month.
The corporate parent of CNN, TNT and TBS on Tuesday offered voluntary buyouts to 600 veteran employees, part of an overall cost-cutting effort at the Atlanta-based broadcasting company founded by Ted Turner.
Robert Hass, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, has received a $100,000 lifetime achievement award.
ABC News is making leadership changes behind the scenes at its top two broadcasts.
It has Al Pacino and zombie girlfriends, Owen Wilson and Lars von Trier.
Aaron Paul toted his Emmy into the AMC party celebrating a victorious finale for "Breaking Bad."
'Breaking Bad' wins Emmy Award for best drama series.
'Modern Family' wins Emmy Award for best comedy series.
Bryan Cranston, the memorable meth kingpin Walter White on "Breaking Bad," is the winner of his fourth Emmy Award for best actor in a drama.
Julianna Margulies, the embattled lawyer, mom and mate on "The Good Wife," is the winner of her second Emmy Award for best actress in a drama series.
Alec Baldwin took on a new role at the U.S. Open — the actor played a star athlete, snagging a stray ball that flew into the stands.
Platinum-selling rapper Young Jeezy has been arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal firearms during an investigation into a fatal shooting at a rap concert in Silicon Valley, authorities said.
Amazon is hoping to become the ESPN of video games.
Here's a sign more households are going without cable or satellite TV: TiVo Inc. is making a digital video recorder just for so-called cord-cutters.
Los Angeles County detectives are reviewing security camera footage and seeking witnesses to a shooting at a packed nightclub that injured three people, including Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight.
A rare, nearly flawless copy of Superman's comic-book debut has sold for a super-powered price: $3.2 million.
Archaeologists excavating an ancient tomb under a massive burial mound in northern Greece have entered the underground structure, which appears to have been looted in antiquity.
Several civil rights leaders and celebrities were among thousands of mourners who turned out for the funeral of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Missouri.
"Modern Family" and "Breaking Bad" triumphed at Monday's Emmy Awards, proving that established broadcast and cable fare retains the power to fend off challenges from upstart online series such as "Orange Is the New Black."
Prince is releasing a new album on Sept. 30.
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American soccer hero and international celebrity Tim Howard has advanced to the next round of fame: a book deal.
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Diversion for works
3:00pm Sunday 19th January 2014 in News
Diversion for works
Skilling Hill Road in Bridport and Broad Lane in Eype will be closed from next Tuesday, January 28 until January 30 for road maintenance.
The closure is between 9am and 3pm, but the road will be opened at night. A diversion will be in place.
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