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One big presentation of Because You Were Nice to Me. One day, Bob is strolling down the lane minding his own business. Then BANG! One Diving Save later, he has some guy pledging his loyalty to repay him for saving his life. The concept of owing one's life to another (often referred to as a "life-debt") is simple. Someone saves your life and you must repay them, especially if you live by a strict honor code. Often it is the case that the person who saved you doesn't want someone tagging along or that the person you saved didn't want to be saved and therefore indebted to you. Most times the person you saved becomes part of your traveling party or group of friends, and he'll stay around even after repaying you for saving him. The easiest way to repay this debt is saving your savior's life, but sometimes you can instead do something like help them get home, defeat the villain, or serve them for a period of time. If the rescued was formerly a villain in a series with a somewhat serious tone, expect them to cash in the debt in the most literal way possible, because Redemption Equals Death. A rescued animal might pay its debt back too, in fiction. When two characters owe each other their lives like this, they often become Sworn Brothers. Often source of Ho Yay. Of course, if the rescuer is a Humble Hero, this is often followed by Think Nothing of It — which is usually ineffective. Sometimes the saved person's attempts to make it up to the saver can be so annoying to them that they desperately try to find some way to get rid of them. This often overlaps with Disproportionate Reward, as they can see True Heroism in the smallest kindness. Alternatively, the rescuer might take advantage of the debt that is owed by the rescued, milking the situation well past the point where a fair and reasonable person would consider the debt repaid. If this happens, look for the saved person to try and put the rescuer in danger specifically so he can cancel the debt by rescuing him. Another variant has the "slave" coming to discover that he actually didn't save the "slave-holder". This never ends well. A standard plotline for single episodes would look like this: Character A saves the life of character B. While character A does not expect any huge return, character B insists that their strict moral code dictates that they return the favor by becoming A's servant and fulfilling their every wish. Character B's well-intended but incompetent "help" soon becomes bothersome for character A, but they are unable to make it stop. Character A and friends decide to stage a scene where B will be able to (seemingly) save A's life, thus returning the debt. For arbitrary reasons, the faux danger becomes truly life threatening, and B is able to save A's life for real. Optionally, Character B will now make Character A the slave, even though they are both even. See also: Embarrassing Rescue, Pillars of Moral Character, Rescue Romance and Defeat Means Friendship. Contrast: Ungrateful Bastard. Compare/Contrast: You Owe Me, when the rescuer invokes the debt instead of the rescued, and Saved to Enslave, where the rescuer specifically intends to forcibly enforce the debt. Shared Life Energy is related, but doesn't necessarily evoke gratitude. |
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In Pact, Blake Thorburn feels that he owes his life to his friends, as they variously saved him from a cult leader while he was homeless, helped him off the streets, or otherwise gave him help when he was badly in need of it and they had no obligation to do so. He therefore feels that he owes them a debt that he can never repay, and is hesitant to ask them for anything without ensuring that it's weighted in their favor first, which doesn't do him many favors when it comes time to break the Masquerade and tell them that magic is real, and it wants to kill him. Conversely, his friends feel that, as he's their friend, of course they'll help him with the supernatural menaces that want to kill or enslave him. | |
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Terry Sanders Jr. in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team is fiercely loyal to his commander Shiro for not only saving his life the last time his "curse" kicked in, but also for helping him break said curse when it should have fallen on him again. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) fanfiction, feeling she owes Mark Russell for saving her and her remaining team-members' lives at Outpost 32 is an additional reason why Colonel Foster is all-ears with him. | |
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In Collar 6, Michael Kappel rescues a young man lying bleeding and unconscious in the snow. The man, Gunther, turns out to be an escaped Sympathetic Sentient Weapon who attaches himself to Michael's side from then on and saves his life many times over. While Gunther does become his "slave," it happens much later as the result of a naturally-forming attachment. | |
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Subverted in The Hardy Boys Casefile #7 Deathgame. A green beret officer known only as Hammerlock saved the life of a junior officer, Oliver Brand, during The Vietnam War. Years later, when Hammerlock, who was forced out of the Army at the rank of Colonel, started his own private vigilante counterterrorist strike team, the now Major Brand joined him as his second in command. Brand however, schemes to wrest control of the strike team from Hammerlock to convert it into a mercenary organization. When Hammerlock confronts Brand and brings up the fact that Brand owes him his life, Brand scoffs that he shouldn’t expect “subservience forever�. Hammerlock retorts that he expected loyalty instead. Brand states that money is more important to him now than loyalty. | |
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In The Spirit Thief, large part of the reason behind Nico's Undying Loyalty to Josef is that he saved her life when everyone else either didn't care or actively wanted her dead. | |
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In The Witchlands, the Nomatsi people have a concept of life-debt, wherein when someone saves your life, you have to either repay them in kind or spare them if fate brings you into conflict. It brings Aeduen and Iseult many headaches, as the two Nomatsi are on opposite sides, yet keep saving each other's lives. | |
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The northern barbarian tribes in the Heralds of Valdemar novels have this as part of their code. When Darian and Keisha save Hywel's brother's life in Owlsight, Hywel incurred a life debt to them that must be cleared before he can marry or take on any other obligation. He clears it in the next novel by acting as Darian's guide. | |
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Lost Love in Times: Qing Chen saves Yuan Ling's life, so in return Yuan Ling offers to hep her get into the palace safely. | |
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In Season 5 of Samurai Jack, Ashi makes a Heel–Face Turn by pledging her life to assist Jack in his quest after he saves her from the belly of a beast. | |
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The Chaotic Masters: Some of the attendees of Roulette's auction, who happen to remember Demon World, feel that they owe Jade a favor for being instrumental in stopping the Demon Sorcerers and restoring reality. | |
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Digimon: Wizardmon's Undying Loyalty to Gatomon started after she saved him from the brink of death. | |
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Harbinger (Finmonster) (Danny Phantom, ParaNorman): Or rather, my brother's life. After Danny saves Norman from getting run over, she and Mitch go out of their way to prevent Dash from bullying him and Tucker. | |
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Dragon Age: Sten, in Dragon Age: Origins, swears himself to your service after you rescue him from a cage where he was locked up to starve or die when the Darkspawn invasion arrived. This is a subversion, as Sten believes that your mission is doomed to fail. But he would rather atone for his crimes by falling in battle than starving to death or serving as bait for the darkspawn. However, it can be doubly subverted if the Warden shows the capacity to bring an end to the Blight, fulfill their role as the Grey Warden (which is one of the surefire ways to gain Sten's respect), and most especially if they return Sten's sword which is highly important to Qunari culture to have it back in his possession. This specific subversion turns up a number of times in Origins and even more in Awakening, with multiple characters receiving the Joining in lieu of an execution. The logic is that the Joining has a reasonable chance of killing you immediately, will slowly kill you otherwise, and being a Grey Warden carries an obligation to fight the Darkspawn in every way possible. The Warden invokes this version of the trope with Duncan, and Loghain, Anders, Nathaniel, Sigrun, and Velanna all invoke it with the Warden, taking induction to the Grey Wardens over an execution for their past crimes. However, not all of them are particularly grateful about it. Played with in Dragon Age II. If Hawke is in a rivalry with Aveline and Hawke sides with the mages in the endgame, when the Templars order her to attack Hawke, she will refuse. She owes Hawke her life and thus will not kill him/her. However, by refusing to kill Hawke, she declares her debt repaid and that she wants nothing to do with him/her ever again. |
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X-Men: In Uncanny X-Men #210, Rogue has gone to Bloomingdale's for some Retail Therapy after an exhausting night of searching for Rachel Summers. Along the way, she saves the lives of two window washers whose scaffold on a high-rise fails. While at Bloomingdale's, she is confronted by an anti-mutant bigot who berates her for existing. He in turn is confronted by one of the laborers who Rogue saved, who returns the favor note even though she was in no real danger, but he couldn't have known that by offering to give the bigot an unlicensed facial deconstruction, citing this trope as part of the reason. | |
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Bleach: During the Soul Society arc, Ichigo says that the reason he's trying to rescue Rukia is because she saved his life from the Hollow in the first episode. Shuihei Hisagi's main motivation to become a Soul Reaper was to show his gratitude to then-captain, now Visored Kensei Muguruma, who saved his life when he was a young boy. During the final arc, Renji states to Ichigo that he will always support the latter, as thanks for rescuing Rukia from execution and allowing the two to be friends again. |
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In The Crystal Court, Ruby first falls for Sapphire when she accidentally bumps into her and Sapphire waved it off. As simple as this sounds, fae are not usually clumsy and Sapphire was high enough in the hierarchy to have her executed for the "insult." Because of this, Ruby feels she owes a life debt to her. | |
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In crawlersout, Grindelwald's attempt to murder Fem!Harry ends with him owing a life debt to the woman he just tried to kill. Unusually for Grindelwald, he seems to be unaware of this (Harry is the one who realized this and asked Hermione just to be sure), but that's probably because he's become obsessed with Harry and how she survived the attempt to take notice. | |
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Invoked in Attila. Flavius Aetius arranges an assassin to kill the Emperor, but personally kills the assassin as he's about to strike so the Emperor will feel indebted to him. | |
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More amusingly inverted at the end of Maximo: Ghosts to Glory. Maximo takes The Grim Reaper's "I owe you one" speech to its logical conclusion and immediately enlists him as his partner. | |
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Izetta from Izetta: The Last Witch acknowledges multiple times that her life was saved by her Only Friend Princess Finé from an angry mob that attempted to lynch her. This drives Izetta's decision to use her powers to save Princess Finé's country. | |
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Nothing would've happened in Haou Airen, had Kurumi not decided to treat Hakuron's wounds. | |
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In Season 1 of The O.C., Jerk Jock Luke starts being nicer to Ryan after Ryan saves his life. | |
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Donkey Kong Country, "Get A Life, Don't Save One!": Bluster Kong becomes DK's lackey after a life-saving experience. This doesn't go unnoticed by the series Big Bad King K. Rool, who comes under the paranoid impression that DK and Bluster are collaborating in some sort of plot against him. He subsequently has Bluster kidnapped in an effort to uncover whatever their "scheme" is, and in doing so inadvertently subverts the usual "master stages a disaster for the slave to save them from" stage of the trope. When Bluster doesn't show to save DK from a malfunctioning airplane, DK is forced to save Bluster once again from K. Rool's lair. Afterward, Bluster cuts off the debt himself, declaring that looking after DK's hide is more trouble than it's worth. | |
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In the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn books Simon saves the life of a Sitha. The Sitha, Jiriki, gives him a white arrow as a token of debt, which Simon later tries to return after Jiriki saved him. But by then Simon had saved Jiriki's hide a second time and gets told to still keep the arrow. In the Grand Finale the arrow burns up and afterwards they agree to forget the life owing business and just be friends. | |
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The Rainbow Fish episode "Bodyguard" featured this: Rainbow saves the life of an older fish, who repays him by becoming his bodyguard. Unfortunately, he was a Knight Templar who does things like attack Rainbow's school friends when they're roughhousing in the schoolyard. Rainbow eventually gets rid of him by setting up a situation in which he could save the other fish's life. | |
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: After Amina frees the Marid from the villain's magical enslavement, it shows up at a vital moment to rescue her. A golden thread of magic links them in the interim, indicating that the debt has supernatural significance. | |
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One episode Brandy & Mr. Whiskers has Whiskers pledging to serve Brandy when she once again saves his life. He even lampshades the trope. As usual she gets tired of his servitude and decides to fake a life-threatening situation so they'll be even. Unfortunately, it was at the same time that Whiskers discovered that Brandy was the one who put him in danger when she saved him. | |
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101 Dalmatians: The Series: In "The Life You Save", Dumpling believes that Lucky has saved her life and then makes herself to be Lucky's slave, annoying Lucky until he tries to get her to save his life. | |
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In the Back at the Barnyard episode, "Cow's Best Friend", Duke becomes extremely loyal to Otis after he saves his life. When Otis gets tired of Duke being nice to him, he fakes life-threatining situations to even the score, which inevitably put Duke in more danger, causing him to save him again. Eventually, Otis tells Duke the truth, but soon after is put in a real life-threatening situation requiring Duke to save him. Duke decides that since Otis' stunts almost got him killed 20 times, Otis owes him now. | |
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The Eagle (2011): Because Marcus saved Esca, the latter feels duty-bound to serve him. This despite wanting to die. | |
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In a Totally Spies! episode, Sam releases Mandy's hair from a clay pot. | |
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In Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, Selim clearly thinks he owes Delilah for saving his life. | |
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Lyrical Nanoha: Unlike most familiars, Arf's loyalty to Fate isn't because of any magical contract but rather because Fate turned her into a familiar to save her life and left the terms of their contract open-ended (familiars in Nanoha die when their contract has been fulfilled). Zest saved Agito from being experimented to death at an illegal laboratory, so she swore to follow him. This makes it all the more tragic that there is literally nothing she can do to prevent his death, so she has to settle for respecting his last wish for her to go with Signum (who was responsible for his Suicide by Cop). |
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In the Dennis the Menace episode, "The Life You Save", Margaret becomes extrememly loyal to Dennis after he saves her from a runaway shopping cart. Dennis gets annoyed with her when she gets him kicked out of a baseball game, and fakes life-threatening stunts to get her to save him so they'll be even. One of these stunts involves having Ruff in a bear-skin rug chase him, which Margaret doesn't fall for. However, the disguised Ruff attracts a real bear in a love-struck state, which Margaret scares away with her dreadful singing. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto V, heist driver Taliana Martinez needs to be rescued before you can recruit her for heists. Once she is rescued, you discover that she is very skilled and only takes a cut of 5%. | |
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Used in one Cyanide and Happiness comic, where a white guy saves a black man's life. The rescuer gets really uncomfortable when the guy he rescued swears to do his bidding and refers to him as "master". | |
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Naruto: Zabuza saves Haku's life as a child, and in repayment Haku happily spends the rest of his life as the ninja equivalent of a slave. In the end, he even dies for him, causing Zabuza to realize just how much he owed Haku, and not the other way around. | |
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In the "Descent"/"Ascension" two-parter of NCIS: Los Angeles, Marty Deeks saves Sam Hanna from drowning and then endures a round of Cold-Blooded Torture to get him to reveal if Sam's wife is an undercover agent. After it fails to break him, however, Sam admits that he'll always owe Deeks for protecting her. | |
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Subverted in Batman Begins. Saving the life of a Well-Intentioned Extremist will not slow him down in the least. | |
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The Night Unfurls: After Kyril breaks Olga and Chloe out of prison, Olga says to Kyril that she owes him for saving their lives from the Black Dogs. The entire trope is played differently in both versions of the story. Played Straight in the original version. Olga eventually brings up the rescue many chapters later, pledging to assist Kyril should he need it, as payment. Subverted in the remastered version. Olga is grateful for the rescue, but she doesn't feel obligated to help him. It's not like she would suddenly forget that Kyril was the one who put her in a cell in the first place (because they were on opposing sides of a war). If anything, the fact that she is his prisoner irks her to no end. Grace offers to become Kyril's retainer because she feels like she owes him for saving her and her friends' lives in Ansur. He accepts. |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: When Wonder Woman saves Ambassador Dendum's life from Hypnota's assassination attempt he makes it clear she's won his respect and a degree of his loyalty, saying he'll remember his debt and her honor even if the peace between the US and Saturn breaks down. | |
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In From Russia with Love, James Bond shoots a man who was about to kill a Gypsy leader. The leader declares him his honorary son. James cashes in the debt almost immediately by asking the leader to cancel a fight to the death between two young women. | |
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One of the rules of magic in the Harry Potter universe is that saving a magic-user's life creates a "life debt" which they're obliged to repay at some point in the future. According to Dumbledore, this is an unbreakable kind of magic. Not much is made of Ginny's life-debt to Harry, since they end up together anyway, but Wormtail's debt becomes a major Chekhov's Gun in book seven. This explicitly becomes the attitude of pretty much the entire Weasley family towards Harry after he saves Ginny from a basilisk, Arthur from Nagini the snake, and Ron from poisoned mead. |
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The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: In the episode "My Hero", Piglet accidentally saves Tigger's life (or so Tigger thinks) when he lands in a shallow puddle where Tigger is "drowning" and splashes all the water out. This makes Tigger become Piglet's servant. Piglet gets tired of this and tries to set himself in danger to make Tigger save him and thus even the score. | |
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Somewhat darkly inverted in Raven's case in Tales of Vesperia. It's less "I Owe You My Life" and more "You Owe Us Your Life". | |
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In Chapter 22 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant, after Ragna saves Team CRDL from Arakune/Roy, Cardin runs back to help Team RNJR, feeling obligated to do so after Ragna saved him when he had every reason to leave him to his fate. | |
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Parodied in Cwen's Quest when passing stranger Riddly Lancer saves the main character's life and quickly declares her his life slave. When asked if the life slave concept should be part of his slave's personal code of honor/culture, he responds, "We wouldn't get any life slaves that way."[1] | |
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In Jurassic World, after Blue the Velociraptor saves Rexy, the veteran T. rex, and teams up to defeat the Indominus rex, Rexy stares down at Blue and, despite her history with raptors, gives a subtle nod to her as if she's saying "thank you" before walking off. | |
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Freefall: Downplayed with the emergent moral code of AIs. They'll grant 2% of their remaining runtime to someone who saves their life, but don't feel compelled to fulfill unreasonable requests. When Florence and Sam save half a billion robots from a Mind-Reformat Death, they find out that this adds up to a lot of assets. | |
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This is why the Shadow Triad follows Ghetsis in Chrysanthemums. He saved them as children and so they follow him faithfully. It isn't until Iris befriends Cilan that this changes. | |
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Third Time Lucky: And Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World: In "Nothing Up Her Sleeve" it turns out Kali is Magdelene's servant as Magdelene had saved her life. By demon law therefore, her life belongs to Magdelene. | |
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In The Saga of Avatar Korra, Korra saves Asami's life when they encountered each other as children by giving Asami shelter and using firebending to keep her warm after she was lost. When they encounter each other again as teenagers in Republic City, Asami allows Korra to live with her when Korra does not have anywhere else to live and does everything she can to help her. | |
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In Sinnatious' The Fifth Act more subtly than usual but has an incredible impact on the plot. Accidentally-time-traveling Cloud Strife reflexively gives Genesis Rhapsodos some of the magic water from Advent Children and cures his...genetic deterioration, thereby throwing off the plot of Crisis Core entirely, since the Commander then has his life back and doesn't mount a rebellion against Shinra or leave Sephiroth even more emotionally isolated and prone to going nuts. For the rest of the story, Genesis is guided by his awareness that he owes Cloud his life. | |
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This is effectively the entire setup for Hayate the Combat Butler, and an interesting example as both Nagi and Hayate are indebted to each other. Hayate saved Nagi from kidnappers, and Nagi paid off the Yakuza so they'd stop trying to sell Hayate into slavery or sell his organs. | |
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DC Comics Bombshells: The Joker's Daughter rescued Killer Frost, Zatanna, and Raven from the Nazis when they were children and raised them, but afterwards makes them serve her and the Nazis. While Killer Frost is extremely grateful and willingly serves her, Zatanna and Raven know she is evil and repeatedly try to leave, but Joker's Daughter guilt trips them into staying by bringing up how she saved their lives. Eventually, Zatanna, Raven, and Miri Marvel defeat the Joker's Daughter and take away her powers. They spare her life and Zatanna declares their debt is repaid. | |
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In the Parrish Plessis series, the Cabal Coomera take this very seriously. If any member of the Cabal saves your life, you owe the entire Cabal goma — blood debt. And in their eyes, goma can never be fully repaid, meaning you'll owe them favors for the rest of your life. | |
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X-Men: Evolution: When Magneto was a little boy, he and his Jewish family were held in concentration camps by the Nazis. They were eventually freed by an army led by Captain America and Logan, the future Wolverine. In "Operation Rebirth", Magneto has Wolverine and his friends at his mercy, but lets them go, saying he remembered what Logan did for him all those years ago and now he is repaying his debt. Magneto had an additional reason for sparing the heroes in "Operation Rebirth": Nightcrawler also saved his life. The heroes' mission was to track down and destroy a machine (the very thing that gave Captain America his powers) that was harmful to human lives, but when Nightcrawler got the chance to destroy it, Magneto (who's in the machine and very sickly) reveals that the machine is harmful to human lives only, and it will in fact heal him. Nightcrawler chose to not destroy the machine so as to save Magneto. |
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In The Kirita Chronicles, Kirita, the genderbent version of Kirito, has saved Akio, the genderbent version of Asuna, on several occasions. Akio has stated on a few occasions that he does feel indebted to Kirita. | |
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The Andy Griffith Show: In one episode Andy saves Gomer from a fire, only to have Gomer come in and play "live-in servant", much to Andy's dismay. He gets out of it by pretending to be in danger so that Gomer can cancel the debt by "saving" him. | |
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We find out on The Big Bang Theory that the main reason Leonard puts up with a lot of Sheldon's demands is at least in part because Sheldon saved Leonard from being blown up in an elevator with a canister of poorly mixed rocket fuel. | |
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The New Archies: After Smithers is saved by Archie, he quits working for the Lodges and becomes Archie's servant. He's so overbearing, Archie does everything to get rid of him. | |
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In Claymore, Jean was on the verge of Awakening (losing control of her power and mutating into a monster), but Claire helped her revert back to humanity. As becoming an Awakened One is considered by Claymores to be a Fate Worse than Death, she vows to protect Claire until the debt is repaid. | |
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Knights of the Old Republic: Played for Horror in terms of Zaalbar's life debt to the main character. For players of Dark-Sided alignment, it is in fact a form of slavery, as he will do anything they tell him to if you remind him of the life debt. This includes killing Mission if she angers you or gets in your way, even though he's extremely protective of her. However, he won't do it unless you use Force Persuade on him, and if you take him on the Star Forge afterwards he'll attack you. Played for Drama by Hanharr in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. He despises the Wookiee tradition of life debts but feels obliged to honour it, so he seeks to kill anyone who saves his life to relieve himself of the debt. Kreia exploits this mentality by resurrecting a mortally-wounded Hanharr. She gloats, "I saved your life, beast. That makes it mine." Hanharr does not make a move to kill Kreia for this, realizing she is way out of his league. Defied in the MMO spinoff of the first two games by Jakarro and Bowdaar. Players can try to invoke the life debt with Jakarro after they free him and his droid companion from a Manaan prison, but he'll completely refuse to do anything of the sort. Bowdaar, meanwhile, joins the Smuggler's crew after receiving some back-up from them during a tough fight, but while he's grateful for the help, he'll make it clear that he doesn't owe the Smuggler a life debt (and since he just got freed after spending a century as a slave, it's understandable why he wouldn't want someone else owning his life). |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Cloak of Darkness", Luminara gratefully and gracefully tell Ahsoka she owes her life to her, while thanking Ahsoka for the rescue earlier. | |
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Tsujido, Makabe, and Niihari from Speed Grapher decided to become Suitengu's henchmen after he rescued them from the corrupt rich people who tortured them almost to death. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: This is a possible reason why The Courier might choose to side with Mr. House the autocrat of New Vegas. After all, House did send one of his Securitrons Victor to dig you up from your grave, take you to a doctor for bullet removal surgery, and then stick around to surreptitiously ensure your safe arrival at the New Vegas Strip. Of course, House can also tempt you with monetary reward as well as a vision for a technological renaissance. | |
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Subverted in Neverwinter Nights 2; after rescuing Neeshka from the soldiers, there is the conversation option of "I saved your life — that means I own you." However, the game doesn't allow the player to follow through with this statement. Of course, since the player (not the main character) can take full control of party members, it could be considered as no subversion at all. | |
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In Hussar Ballad Shura, the protagonist, saves not one but two men, each of them repaying her big time. General Balmashov saves her from Field Marshal Kutuzov's anger when she really needs saving. Vincento Salgari commits treason for her, deceiving other French officers into believing she's one of them. |
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Black Butler: Ciel owes his butler Sebastian his life — literally. At ten-years-old, Ciel was tortured and used as a sacrifice to summon a demon. Said demon offered Ciel his services until Ciel exacts revenge on the people responsible for destroying his life and his family... in exchange for Ciel's soul. Agni owes Prince Soma his life. He had him spared when he was about to be executed. In reverse of the above, Agni become's Soma's servant, and the two become fast friends. |
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Adventures in Wonderland: In the episode "From Hare to Eternity," the Queen of Hearts rescues the March Hare from a quicksand pit, so he appoints himself her bodyguard and drives her crazy trying to protect her from everything. She finally pretends to get stuck in fake quicksand so the Hare can think he's saved her, making them even. | |
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The Wolverine: Yukio informs Logan that she owes Master Yashida her life. | |
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Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Peter Parker tackled Wilson Fisk out of the way when Hobgoblin tried to shoot him. A few seasons later, Fisk cites Peter saving his life that day as the reason why he's paying for Peter's wedding to Mary Jane Watson. | |
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In the American Dad! episode, "You Debt Your Life", it is revealed that Roger lives with the Smith family because he once saved Stan's life. | |
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In one episode of Jem Rio saves Minx from nearly drowning. Afterward, her view on life changes, she states that she owes Rio her life, and she opts to make amends with Jem and the Holograms, Rio, and the Starlight Girls. Her bandmates are annoyed by how uncharacteristically sweet she is acting and they kick her out. This causes her to become suicidal, but Rio stops her from jumping. Minx starts hanging around Rio as she considers him the only person she has left. She ends up annoying Rio and the others by being overly nice and getting in the way. In the end she goes back to her old, mean personality and returns to her band after she gets mad at everyone for treating her badly. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Slave the Day", Big Billy of the Gangreen Gang does this when the Girls save him from being run over by a subway train during a brawl. Things do not go well. | |
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This specific subversion turns up a number of times in Origins and even more in Awakening, with multiple characters receiving the Joining in lieu of an execution. The logic is that the Joining has a reasonable chance of killing you immediately, will slowly kill you otherwise, and being a Grey Warden carries an obligation to fight the Darkspawn in every way possible. The Warden invokes this version of the trope with Duncan, and Loghain, Anders, Nathaniel, Sigrun, and Velanna all invoke it with the Warden, taking induction to the Grey Wardens over an execution for their past crimes. However, not all of them are particularly grateful about it. | |
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In the Dungeons & Dragons novel The Savage Caves, when newcomer Naull happens to be in the right place at the right time to rescue Lidda, Redgar, and Jozan from being killed by giant spiders, Lidda then claims she now "owes Naull one". She then begs Naull to be willing to go to anywhere but the town the trio just left, or to continue on the quest to kill all of the spiders. Unfortunately for her, Naull rather likes the whole "killing the spiders" idea. Of course, considering she didn't seem to think she owed Jozan one for saving her from being hung for thievery in said town in the first place, and everyone else seems confused by her "debt", she may have just made it up to try to weasel out of the quest she was forced into in exchange for being saved. | |
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NUMB3RS: During his time in the military, Colby Granger was rescued by his fellow soldier and close friend Dwayne Carter after their transport was bombed. Carter proceeds to exploit the hell out of Colby's sense of indebtedness after he gets involved with Chinese intelligence, although it's eventually revealed that Colby chose loyalty to his country over his debt to Dwayne and his apparent compliance was an act. Colby finally tells Carter what he really thinks in "Trust Metric". | |
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Shadow of the Conqueror: The girls that Daylen rescues from slavery aboard the Maraven are all intensely grateful to him, however he tries to hide it, with Sharra the most expressive about it. Sain is initially a Defiant Captive, but his attitude towards Daylen improves by orders of magnitude after Daylen uses his sunforging abilities to undo the sunucles that Blackheart used to hold Sain and his mother captive. During the climax, Daylen goes out of his way to save Lyrah from the ambush that the Dawnists prepare with their Depleted Phlebotinum Shells. While it certainly doesn't make her forgive him, it's a major factor in reducing the apocalyptic levels of well-deserved hate that she feels for him, to the point where she returns the favor and saves him when he falls off of the Bloodrunner. |
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A rather minor one in Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars. Candace repays Phineas for saving her from a Literal Cliffhanger by helping him defeat Darth Ferb. | |
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A flashback in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War revealed that Kaguya saved the Mass Media Club president from drowning about a year before the story began, with her mentioning to Hayasaka that she only did it so that she'd owe her a favor in the future (this was during the height of her Ice Queen days). We Want to Talk About Kaguya implies that she cashed in this favor to insure the Mass Media Club's support in Shirogane's reelection. | |
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In White Christmas, Phil saves Bob from a falling brick wall in World War II. As Bob is already an up-and-coming entertainer at that point, Phil guilts him into agreeing to be partners, and sure enough to two are quite successful. Throughout the movie Phil makes a point of grabbing his arm (which was injured in the incident) whenever trying to talk Bob into something; to his credit, Bob knows what he's doing and is clearly tired of it, quipping at one point that he wishes Phil had let that wall hit him — after all, he might have survived. | |
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A final-season episode of Gilligan's Island. Gilligan saves a drowning native girl, who becomes his slave in return for saving her life. Our asexual little buddy isn't happy with the situation, so he fakes his own death in a "duel" with Mr. Howell to be rid of her. | |
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An episode of of The Odd Couple (1970), appropriately called "You Saved My Life", has Oscar saving Felix from falling out their window. Felix spends the rest of the episode thanking Oscar for it in various ways, to Oscar's increasing annoyance. | |
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Played straight in Beyond Good & Evil. After Jade rescues Double H from an alien torture chamber, he pledges his loyalty to her and becomes one of her sidekicks. | |
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In the Arthur episode, "Tibbles to the Rescue", Timmy and Tommy are saved from a nasty fall by D.W.'s wagon of stuffed animals. The twins decide to return the favor to D.W. by saving her life, but every attempt they try just makes things worse for D.W.. The prologue to the same episode features an episode of Dark Bunny where Bananamanoman becomes loyal to Dark Bunny when the latter saves him from a giant gorilla. | |
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This definitely seems to be a belief held by the desert dwelling Chanari of Mars in Rocket Age, since it's one of the first character hooks on offer for them. | |
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The CatDog episode "All You Need Is Lube" has Cat saving Lube from a tick, prompting Lube to quit the Greasers and dedicate his life to being Cat's slave. Cat enjoys having Lube around as his muscle while Dog is annoyed by him, up until Lube becomes too overprotective of Cat that they collaborate with the Greasers to make it so Lube can save Cat's life. | |
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The Harvey Beaks episode "Life Debt", which centers on Rooter trying to repay Foo after Foo saves him. Hilarity Ensues as Foo tries to lift the burden from Rooter, only to put Rooter in another debt, this time with Harvey. Fortunately, it all works out in the end. | |
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Rocky Kwaterner: In "The Debt of Honor", Karl saves Rocky from a falling rock during a field trip, which to Rocky means he now must serve Karl as this was custom at his old tribe. Karl being Karl, he greatly abuses Rocky's new loyalty by forcing the boy to help bully others. To free Rocky from his debt, Theo and Luna trick a group of squirrels into attacking Karl so Rocky can save him, and film the whole thing as proof. | |
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In Zero no Tsukaima: Saito the Onmyoji, Saito saves Princess Henrietta from an assassination attempt. Because of this, he is entitled to any reward bar a Grant of Nobility (which would have been on the table had he risked his life in the process). After some time to think, he asks for a house. | |
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In Lost in Space (2018) this seems to be the case for the robots. Will saves one in the first episode, causing it to make a Heel–Face Turn and develop a close bond with him. Other people try to invoke this in later episodes, with varying degrees of success. | |
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Mass Effect: Should Shepard choose to spare them, the rachni will send a message to Shepard that they can count on the rachni's full support if and when the Reapers invade the galaxy. They make good on this promise in Mass Effect 3, although they have to be rescued (and spared) again before they can do so since the Reapers are trying to use them as well. The drell race has this as a species-wide motivation. The hanar rescued them from the slow death of their home planet, and so they handle all the Dirty Business which the pacifistic hanar can't do themselves. If the genophage is cured and Wrex is still alive, this essentially becomes the krogan attitude to humanity. Shepard becomes this for the geth as well, who they deem to be the first organic who is willing to listen to them and thus the only hope for them to build their own future without Reapers' intervention (and hopefully to reconcile with the quarians). And if the peace is brokered between them and the quarians or Shepard chooses the geth over the quarians, it is clear that the geth are intend to honor Shepard. If you save David Archer from Project Overlord and send him to Grissom Academy back at the second game, he will provide help to you by convincing his skeptical classmates to follow your lead, as well as unlocking a room with a gun for you to take. When she first meets Shepard, Samantha Traynor is extremely nervous around them but also very eager to prove herself to them. While part of this is due to Shepard's reputation, she later reveals that she also feels gratitude to Shepard as Traynor was on Horizon, visiting her parents, when the Collectors attacked and Shepard swooped in and saved the colony. |
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In Captain Harlock, Miime is "the woman who gave her life to Harlock" ever since he saved her life from a giant carnivorous plant. | |
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In the Nintendo Wii video game of Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ga Hoole, main owl Shard and his friends rescue an old great horned owl named Uriah from a swarm of bats holding him prisoners. In return, Uriah mentions that he knew Shard's father once and offers to become one of Shard's wingmen for the latter saving his life. | |
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Batman: In Knightfall, after Batman saves Mayor Krol's life under difficult circumstances, Krol is left in tears, muttering about how much of a Determinator Batman was. This leaves him determined to support Batman for the remainder of the story. Unfortunately, since Jean-Paul Valley is standing in for Batman for most of that time period, this has negative consequences. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: "The Bully Code": Baljeet saves Buford from choking, and thus according to the Bully Code Buford has to be Baljeet's slave. The obligatory musical number even Lampshades this as "a 70's sitcom cliché." It isn't until the end that Baljeet comes to realize the potential of ordering his sometimes friend/sometime tormentor around. A rather minor one in Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars. Candace repays Phineas for saving her from a Literal Cliffhanger by helping him defeat Darth Ferb. |
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Pretty much how the Sket Dance trio were formed, by way of Magnetic Hero Bossun. Himeko and Switch will do just about anything for Bossun as their way of showing gratitude for his guidance, although he's largely unaware of it. And we now have Katou Kiri (who is a ninja) pledging his loyalty to Tsubaki and insisting to help him in absolutely everything. Needless to say, Tsubaki finds this extremely irritating. |
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An episode of The Flintstones inverts this where a con man tricks Fred into stopping him from committing suicide, thus claiming that Fred owed him a living. | |
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The Heartstrikers: Life debts are common among dragons; since they're almost universally greedy, self-centered bastards who can't stop burning everything even when it's in their best interests, they consider these debts the only thing keeping their species from imploding. Julius, as the only nice dragon, refuses to put anyone in his debt for any reason. Therefore when he saves Frederick and his dozens of siblings, Frederick skips offering him a life debt and just swears on his fire to serve him until the debt is paid. Julius is horrified. Frederick is unsympathetic. | |
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In Traveller Aslan have an intricate web of customs regarding gratitude. In the volume Sword Worlds, an Aslan clan is too busy with a war to defend one of its client clans against aggression. A group of human political refugees provided assistance to the client. As the patron could not provide protection and the humans could, the patron had to arrange passage through Aslan space. This is more "I owe you my honor". But to a proper Aslan honor is more than life. | |
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Get Ace: After accidentally saving Athol Savage's life by shoving him out of the way of a flagpole that was about to skewer his headnote though technically Ace caused the flagpole to fall down in the first place he befriends Ace and becomes his bodyguard. This makes Ace's life worse due to Athol scaring off everyone around him. Ace spends the entire episode trying to engineer a situation where Athol can save his life. None of Ace's attempts work until the exact same flagpole accident happens with the roles reversed, making them "even". | |
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How Kato and Britt met in The Green Hornet Serials — they both refer in the first episode to Britt rescuing Kato from a mob in Singapore. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Quatre Raberba Winner had a Freak Out and went in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge after his father and his older sister's deaths. However, his friends Heero Yuy and Trowa Barton fought him, and Trowa pulled an Heroic Sacrifice to make the guy snap out of it (He got better, though). Then, Quatre spends the rest of the series as The Atoner, lampshades the present trope often by telling that Trowa was his savior, and finally repays the favor by snapping Trowa out of his own Freak Out and Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Cue to lots of happy slash fangirls (and having some non-slash fan considering the couple to be quite plausible, heh) | |
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Toy Story: Toy Story 2: Three alien toys that Mr. Potato Head saved spend the rest of the movie endlessly expressing their gratitude to him. This is echoed in Toy Story 3 when those same alien toys save the main True Companions and the Potato Heads tell them "You have saved our lives." "We are eternally grateful." |
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In the backstory of The Nerd, Rick Steadman saved Willum's life in Vietnam, and so when Rick shows up on Willum's doorstep, he feels obliged to take Rick in. | |
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The Noghri to Darth Vader, a debt that Leia to inherits/earns by virtue of being his heir. | |
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In How to Train Your Dragon 2, after Drago orders Eret's execution for failing to deliver more dragons, Astrid's dragon Stormfly shields him from dragon attack. Later, when Eret joins the Dragon Riders against Drago, he finds where Drago has imprisoned Stormfly. | |
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Girl Genius: The travelling circus initially turns Agatha away after learning she's on the run from Baron Wulfenbach himself, only to later fake her death and take her in after she risks her life to save them from a wild Clank. | |
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No Ordinary Family: Cordero begins acting much warmer toward Jim after finding out that Jim saved his life and didn't publicize the fact or bask in how heroic it was. | |
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M*A*S*H: In the episode "Operation Friendship", Klinger saves Winchester from an exploding autoclave and does the same thing Bobby Brady does. An earlier episode, "Springtime", has a grateful patient (Alex Karras) following Hawkeye around and "helping" him as payment for operating on him. |
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Rychlé Å¡Ãpy: In one story arc, a boy saves Jindra's life (or at the very least health) from snow falling from a roof. Jindra promises to fulfill any wish for him... with rather angsty consequences. It all turns out well in the end, of course. | |
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In The Fifth Element, Bad Guy Zorg was giving his Breaking Speech to Father Cornelius when he begins choking on a cherry. Father Cornelius takes a few seconds to give a smug Kirk Summation before saving him. Zorg throws him out, saying that Father Cornelius' saving of his life cancels out any obligation to kill him today. | |
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Evoked in an episode of Reboot, when Megabyte and his goons have a hostage. Bob sternly reminds him that he saved the virus's life, and Megabyte begrudgingly lets the hostage go. Even if he only did it to even the score, let it not be said Megabyte doesn't have at least some honor. | |
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The Recess episode "Copycat Kid" has Vince catch the baseball that was going to land on Mikey's face. Mikey keeps telling Vince that he saved his life and how much he admires him and wants to be like him, until finally he starts dressing like Vince and copying everything he does. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In "Avatar", Batman saves Ubu's life at one point. At the end of the episode, the villains escape and leave Batman stranded in the desert. Before he leaves, Ubu passes Batman a canteen full of water, which is enough for him to walk back to civilization. | |
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The Bridge (MLP): Destroyah serves as Xenilla's Dragon because he found and healed her after her battle with Godzilla Senior. | |
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Discussed in The Death Gate Cycle. Under Patryn law, if one Patryn saves the life of another Patryn, any and all disputes between the two of them are settled in the rescuer's favor. Patryns in general are too proud and independent-minded to offer themselves totally in service to another except in exceptional circumstances, but when a debt is there they always acknowledge and fulfill it. | |
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The main character of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, who sees himself as a follower of Bushido, swears allegiance to a mobster who saved his life in the past, and currently operates as an assassin for that mobster. | |
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The Professionals. In "The Ojuka Situation", Doyle kills a gunman who's about to shoot Bodie In the Back. | |
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Averted in the Ben 10 original series episode "Grudge Match". Ben and Kevin are teleported to a fighting arena aboard a spaceship and must battle the toughest gladiator, Technorg. Kevin then tries to kill him only to be stopped by Ben. Technorg humbly thanks Ben for sparing his life and declares him as his master, even quipping "my life belongs to you". Ben, of course, refuses and urges Technorg to escape along with everyone else. | |
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In Mulan, Mulan/Ping saves Captain Li Shang when s/he causes an avalanche on the mountain pass to decimate the Hun army. A few minutes later on in the movie after it is revealed that she is a woman, and any woman pretending to be a member of the Imperial Army must be killed. Captain Shang refuses to kill her, however, saying that by sparing her life, his debt is repaid. He still kicks her out of the Army, and leaves her on the cold mountain, though. | |
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Daredevil (2015): Agent Pointdexter saves Agent Nadeem's life during an attack on the convoy transporting Wilson Fisk from prison. In the next episode, Nadeem learns that their bosses are investigating discrepancies in Pointdexter's account of the incident and decides to tacitly warn "Dex" of what's happening. | |
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Bob's Burgers: Parodied in "It Snakes A Village", when Gene rescues his sisters after they get lost in a swamp at night. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Amok Time", Kirk acknowledges a life debt to Spock when deciding to disobey orders, thereby risking a court martial, because Spock is facing a life-threatening emergency. | |
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In the Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles chapter "Memories of a Lost City" (a retelling of RE2), while patching Leon up after he took a bullet for her, Ada tells him not to die and that she owes him for saving her life. | |
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Played with in A Song of Ice and Fire: Arya Stark is given three "lives" in exchange for saving a skin-changing assassin along with two other dangerous murderers. She manages to waste the first two for petty reasons but cleverly uses the third by asking that he kill himself, and promising to revoke this request if he can free her from the castle she was imprisoned in. | |
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One Piece: Trafalgar Law owes everything to Corazon, aka Donquixote Rocinante, the younger brother of his former boss Donquixote Doflamingo. On top of being the first person to show him compassion for his dark past, Corazon saved his life by stealing the Op-Op Fruit for him to eat — the act of which eventually cost Corazon his life. Law is so indebted to him for this that he admits that the only reason he survived to this day is to fulfill Corazon's wishes and avenge his murder by killing Doflamingo. It is his love and devotion that is the ultimate driving force of the Pirate Alliance saga. | |
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The Brady Bunch: In the episode "My Brother's Keeper", Bobby "saves" Peter from a falling ladder and subsequently exploits the latter's sense of indebtedness. | |
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The episode of Muppets Tonight where John Goodman guest stars has him saving Andy and Randy's lives by warning them not to touch live electrical wires. As a result, they decide to become his personal slaves - and since Andy and Randy are Too Dumb to Live, they end up driving John crazy. | |
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Enforced in the Rugrats episode "Driving Miss Angelica", where Angelica insists that Chuckie has to become her slave after she saves him from being run over. It gets turned against her at the end, when Chuckie saves her from being locked in the upstairs closet and Tommy and Chuckie convince her she has to become Chuckie's slave. | |
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Toy Story 2: Three alien toys that Mr. Potato Head saved spend the rest of the movie endlessly expressing their gratitude to him. | |
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Played with and implied in Spider-Man: Homecoming. When Adrian Toomes, a.k.a. The Vulture, deduces that the boy dating his daughter is actually Spider-Man, he refrains from killing him and gives him a Last Chance to Quit, out of gratitude for Spider-Man having saved his daughter's life. At the end of the film, when Mac Gargan inquires about a rumor that he knows Spider-Man's identity, Toomes lies, saying he has no idea. It's implied this is out of gratitude for Spider-Man having saved his own life. | |
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Wasurenagusa has its unnamed heroine rescued from the aftermath of the Ikeda Inn raid by The Shinsengumi. In exchange, she offers them thanks, and ends up giving the group her servitude. | |
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In Planescape: Torment, a past incarnation of the protagonist deliberately indebted both Morte and Dak'kon in this way... with the added twist that he himself can't die, so there's no way to repay the debt. It gets worse as Dak'kon's debt also flies in the face of the tenet of both his culture and their Evil Counterpart: never be enslaved again. Oh, and The Nameless One's former self knew all this and orchestrated said life debt for his personal gain. | |
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Played with in The West Wing episode "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen"- | |
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A flashback early in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind shows a young Giorno finding a man on the verge of unconsciousness in a patch of grass, bleeding from a bullet wound. The men who'd shot him arrived shortly afterwards, asking Giorno if he'd seen him. Giorno lied to the men, claiming their target had run off. The man he'd saved turned out to be a powerful Neopolitan mafioso, who repaid Giorno for saving his life by using his power and influence to help him out in various ways (for example, it's not a coincidence that Giorno's abusive stepfather became much less abusive shortly afterwards). | |
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Wishfart: As a subplot in "Gross But Noble", Puffin tries to repay Dez for saving him when he was choking on gum. Throughout the episode, Puffin tries to find situations where he can save Dez's life, despite Dez trying to tell Puffin to Think Nothing of It. In the end, Dez saves Puffin's life again, leading Puffin to declare that he is now doubly in debt to a frustrated Dez. | |
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Code Geass: A young military officer is about to be executed for theft by a bunch of Evil Chancellors that oppress his country. However, the child Empress orders to spare the man's life and free him. He's so genuinely touched by the young girl's kindness that he swears to repay the favor by taking her out to see the world and giving her the power to properly rule China... This is the story of Li Xingke (the officer) and Tianzi (the empress). | |
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe has a form of this. When Ari saves Dante's life and ends up in the hospital, everyone keeps thanking Ari and telling him he's a hero, much to his annoyance. This especially becomes a burden for Ari when Dante takes his time in the hospital to realize he's in love with him and tells him so. Ari doesn't want Dante to apologize or thank him, much less confess because of it. Thankfully for Ari, Dante's family was moving anyway so he doesn't have to deal with the fallout for long. | |
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This is how Captain Gutt rallied his army of pirates in Ice Age: Continental Drift. | |
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In Shin Super Robot Wars, Heero Yuy and Zechs Marquise for Neo Zeon because for Char Aznable had saved their lives. In the case of Zechs, Char claims that Zechs surviving was pure luck and Char was just at the right place at the right time. | |
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The Executioner. In "Canadian Crisis", Mack Bolan rescues undercover cop Andre Chebleu who doesn't like the Vigilante Man much but still feels indebted. Bolan hands Chebleu his .44 Automag and tells Cheblau to take the safety off and shoot him. When he doesn't, Bolan says, "Now I owe you my life. We're even." Bolan has a quarter million dollar open contract on his head, so it's not an idle gesture. | |
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This is the thing that starts off the plot of Hana the Fox Girl. Hana, an inari fox, was rescued by high schooler Fu prior to the story. Now she assumes human form and seeks out Fu so she can repay that kindness. | |
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In 3:10 to Yuma (1957), Dan Evans is trying to get bandit leader Ben Wade on the eponymous train to Yuma, where he will stand trial. Wade's bandit gang corners Evans at the train tracks, and all Wade has to do is duck and Wade's men will shoot Evans down. Instead, Wade yanks Evans onto the train. When an astonished Evans asks why, Wade says that it's because Evans saved his life when Ben Moons tried to lynch him back in town. | |
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In a Season 3 episode of The Greatest American Hero, Ralph saves a waiter in a Japanese restaurant from kidnappers. Throughout most of the episode, the waiter becomes a servant for Ralph and Pam, even though the kidnappers weren't even going to kill him. Later in the episode, Ralph saves the man again, but whether or not he becomes Ralph's servant again goes unresolved at the end of the episode. | |
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An episode of The Amazing World of Gumball, titled "The Debt", revolves around this. Mr. Robinson "saves" Gumball (stops his slow-moving car when Gumball was too busy panicking to get out of its path) and Gumball decides he has to save Mr. Robinson in return, nearly killing him several times. Given Gumball had just shown to be a rather dedicated fan of Mr. Robinson, the whole thing may have just been an excuse to follow him around. | |
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A minor version in Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure. Elena/Cure Soliel helps out Yuni/Cure Cosmo in rescuing Fuwa from the Notraiders due to the fact that part of that episode's plot was caused by Yuni. When Yuni immediately goes back to her Aloof Ally status and tries to bail once the day is saved, Elena stops her from leaving. When Yuni casually mentions that she's in Elena's debt, Elena immediately invokes this to get her to stop running and officially become the team's Sixth Ranger. | |
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In Woken Furies, Takeshi Kovacs became friends with Radul Segesvar by saving his life back when they were both in a gang; Radul felt he owed Kovacs a debt and spent the next 200 years paying him back in the form of favors. When he ends up betraying Kovacs, Kovacs realizes that the two of them never actually liked each other that much, and it was only the debt that had kept their friendship together for so long. It's further subverted in that a flashback shows that Takeshi was actually saving his own life at the time. Furthermore Radul betrays him because there's an Evil Knockoff of Takeshi involved (his personality from his younger, more sociopathic days downloaded into another body), so which version of Takeshi does Radul owe his life too? |
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Game of Thrones: Ser Loras Tyrell says this word-for-word to the Hound after Sandor Clegane saves him from the Mountain, and Loras decides to repay the debt by forfeiting the final round of the joust and giving the championship title (plus the substantial award money) to the Hound. Jaqen H'ghar offers to kill three people for Arya in exchange for saving his life as well as Rorge and Biter. Ser Dontos Hollard pleads this to Sansa in "Two Swords." Subverted when he turns out to be an agent of Littlefinger, motivated by his money more than gratitude. Subverted with Mirri Maz Duur. Daenerys saves her from being raped and murdered by her husband's khalasar, but she turns against them anyway, pointing out that her temple had been burned, her fellow villagers murdered, and she'd been raped three times already before Daenerys made an appearance. "What is life worth when all the rest has gone?" Robert Glover did not join the Stark restoration army because it was the Boltons that helped them liberate their lands from the Ironborn. After the battle, he asks for forgiveness knowing full well that Jon could punish him. When Jon simply responds "There is nothing to forgive", the look of relief on his face is immediately followed by Glover's declaration that he will fight behind Jon Snow from that point on. |
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In LightningOnTheWave's Saving Connor from the Arc of Sacrifices AU Harry Potter cycle, the centaurs wind up kidnapping Draco Malfoy during the first year and threatening to kill him unless Harry can break a rock with his mind. He succeeds, and then when Draco insists he owes a life debt for this, Harry says he should pay it off however he likes. Draco uses this to force Harry to come to his house for Christmas. | |
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When Tristran saves the star Yvaine's life after she escapes from his possession in Stardust, Yvaine declares that she hates him even more for it because the rules of her species dictate that she must now follow him wherever he goes, which means that she can no longer flee from him even when given the opportunity to do so. She begins hating him less and less as the novel progresses, until her feelings become something else entirely. | |
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Spider-Man: In Spider-Men II, the adult Miles Morales saved Wilson Fisk's in prison, from a gangster that had taken a drug that gave him super speed. Despite his usual tendencies, he was sincere, and they have been best friends since then. | |
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True Potential: During the Third War, Kakuzu saved the life of a Takigakure ninja who would become its J�nin Commander. Of course, Kakuzu exploits this debt in order to gain access to the village and capture Fū. | |
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Reborn! (2004): Upon saving the life of Hayato Gokudera, (who had been trying to kill him), Tsuna gains his first (and most enthusiastic) member of the Vongola Family. To a lesser degree, also happened to Yamamoto in the manga, who attempts to kill himself after an injury stops him from playing baseball. They both fall and Tsuna ends up saving both, after which, Yamamoto becomes Tsuna's second follower and Gokudera's competition for Right hand man. |
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In Kingdom of Heaven, Balian spares Nasir's life in the desert and, once Nasir has guided him to Jerusalem, Balian lets him go, with a sweet horse to boot. Nasir says "I am your prisoner — your slave if you wish it" but Balian still lets him go. This comes in handy later, at the battle at Kerak, where Nasir turns out to be a general in Saladin's Army, not some guy's servant after all. He spares Balian's life. | |
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The Neandertals in Earth's Children feel very strongly about life debts. Part of the ceremonial swearing-in for a healer involves making them responsible for the entire species, so they can't accumulate life-debts from their patients. | |
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In The Chechahcos, Dexter pulls Pierre out of a crevasse. After this, Pierre says that Dexter saved his life, so he tells Dexter that Steele (the villain) sent Pierre there to kill him. Pierre doesn't carry out the assignment, but after that he considers the debt paid, and continues to work as Steele's Mook. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Inverted in episode "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost". SpongeBob and Patrick accidentally "kill" Squidward (actually a wax sculpture). Squidward comes out of the shower in a white bathrobe, covered in talcum powder, with a cloud of steam behind him, and is understandably angry about the mess they made of his sculpture ("Look what you did to me!") They mistake him for a ghost, and Squidward convinces them to pledge to serve him as payment for killing him. Another inversion occurs in the episode, "Naughty Naughtical Neighbors", where SpongeBob and Patrick stop being friends with each other due to a misunderstanding caused by Squidward. After Patrick gives Squidward CPR when he chokes on a fork and SpongeBob fixes his back when he throws it out trying to drag Patrick home, they become extremely loyal to him. |
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Implied in Ghostbusters II. During the last half of the original movie, Louis Tully was the victim of Demonic Possession (along with Dana Barrett), and in this movie, he's now working as the Ghostbusters' accountant/tax attorney. As he's roped into serving as their defense attorney, he tells the court during his opening statements, "I don't blame them, because one time, I turned into a dog and they helped me.", much to everybody's bafflement. | |
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Musuko ga Kawaikute Shikataganai Mazoku no Hahaoya: When Fuuga was a child, he was nearly killed by his own Power Incontinence causing him to freeze himself. Fortunately for Fuuga, Lorem came and used her fire powers to thaw him out. Later, upon hearing rumors that Lorem's had a child, Fuuga seeks her out so that, if Gospel has the same kind of issues growing up, Fuuga can do for Gospel what Lorem did for him. Lorem is grateful for the offer, having gone through the same thing herself. | |
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Ace Combat: The Equestrian War: Cloud Kicker to Fluttershy. It helps they are both members of a team comprising the main heroines. The favor is returned in chapter 17. | |
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A variant shows up in The Cat Returns. Haru saves the life of a cat that turns out to be Prince Lune, son of the Cat King, but it's the rest of the cat court that showers Haru with unwanted gifts... including nearly forcing her to marry Prince Lune. As it turns out, Lune had nothing to do with the wedding, had actually been preparing to propose to a girl cat from his homeland, and ends up helping Haru escape back to the human world. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Spike at Your Service", Applejack saves Spike from some timber wolves, and he insists on fulfilling his self-made "Noble Dragon Code" by helping her out on the farm. Unfortunately for her, he's so over-eager to help out he becomes The Klutz. Following the standard plotline, Spike does end up repaying the favor, leading to this exchange: | |
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Night Train to Lisbon: Mendez let Estefania go across the border to Spain after Amadeu invokes this when the Portuguese border guards held them up. | |
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Our Man Flint gets a Grudging "Thank You" from his boss Cramden after he catches a poisoned dart meant for Flint, but Flint saves his life with on-the-spot surgery. | |
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Played very darkly in Monster: Johan feels he owes a life-debt to Temna, which he repays in various interesting fashions, the likes of which only Johan can do. The primary means is by 'fixing' Tenma's promotional woes — by killing everyone who was keeping him down. The good doctor is not particularly pleased. Worse was the fate of General Wolf, who also saved Johan's life. After finding him on the Czech/German border, he asked Johan how the boy was feeling. Johan said, "You'll see." And proceeded to kill everyone who knew General Wolf, so Wolf could properly understand Johan's sense of isolation from humanity. |
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Star Wars Rebels. In "Fighter Flight", Erza annoys Zeb by constantly bringing up how he saved his life in the previous episode. Fortunately Zeb saves Erza's life several times during the episode, causing them to become Fire-Forged Friends and agree to stop keeping score. | |
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Spoofed in the Jimmy Two-Shoes episode "Jimmy, Don't Be A Hero". Jimmy saves Lucius' life and gives a very casual, "think-nothing-of-it" kind of You Owe Me. Since no Heinous has ever owed anyone anything, Lucius desperately tries to pay him back for the rest of the episode with Jimmy being totally oblivious to it. | |
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Villains by Necessity: Despite being found out as The Mole, when Robin, due to his fear of heights and a minor head injury, falls off the edge of a cliff, landing on a small ledge and is paralyzed with fear, Blackmail "hires" Sam to help him save the centaur's life. This causes Robin to join the villains (along with wanting to save the world from destruction, which also would kill him), because, by his people's customs, he owes them a life-debt, practically saying the trope's name — "I owe you, Blackmail in particular, my life." | |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: This is the reason why Lucien has an Undying Loyalty to Tamlin. When he escaped his own family in the Autumn Court he was given a place to live in the Spring Court, and soon became best friends with the High Lord of Spring. | |
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In The Beast of War, a Jerkass soldier knocks out an Afghan rebel as he's pointing his musket at the protagonist and says, "You owe me." The protagonist doesn't bother telling him the rebel had pulled the trigger a second before. | |
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In Shadowhunters, Clary rescues Meliorn from being held captive from the Shadowhunters in "Rise Up", creating a life debt. Meliorn repays her in "This World Inverted" by opening a portal for her so that they can be on even terms again. | |
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Beast Wars: In the first two episodes, when Dinobot quits the Predacons after challenging Megatron's leadership and losing, he moves to try again with the Maximals. The Predacons then interrupt his duel with Optimus, who saves Dinobot from falling to his death. He repays the favor in the ensuing battle, but agrees to stay with the Maximals as a subordinate after seeing that Optimus is a far more honorable leader than Megatron. | |
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In Little Big Man, the life-saving action of the eponymous character just amplifies Younger Bear's hatred of him, though he cannot do anything till he repays the debt. Classic line: "I have saved your life. Now, the next time we meet, I can finally kill you without becoming an evil person. YAHOO!!" |
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The Looney Tunes Show: Yosemite Sam makes it clear that he hates owing people favors, so he decides to simply repay Bugs for changing the batteries in his smoke detector by baking him a cake... which causes a fire that forces Bugs to save him from. Yosemite Sam even references this trope, which to him means stalking Bugs all day so that he'll be around to repay the favor saving Bugs' life. | |
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Final Fantasy Tactics plays with this one when siblings Rapha and Marach argue over whether or not they owe anything to the nobleman who took them in after they were orphaned. Marach argues that they do, since he saved them from starving to death or living in poverty. Rapha, on the other hand, thinks that any obligation they might have is negated by the fact that he was the one who burned their village down and killed their parents in the first place. Oh, and it's heavily implied that he raped her. Marach eventually comes around, but it takes longer than you'd think. | |
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Deconstructed in The Batman (2022). Crime boss Carmine Falcone relates how he was shot but couldn't risk going to a hospital, so turned up at Thomas Wayne's house where he was operated on on the Wayne's dinner table. Falcone tells Bruce Wayne that he paid the debt by agreeing to murder a journalist who was going to write a smear story on Martha Wayne. Alfred however says that Thomas only asked Falcone to frighten the journalist, but Falcone saw a chance to compromise Thomas who was running for Mayor. Thomas was horrified and threatened to go to the police instead only to be murdered, possibly on Falcone's orders. | |
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In the Spiral Arm series, Donovan saves Billy Chins from a lynch mob on Harpaloon. Afterwards, Billy insists that by the custom of atangku, Billy's life now belongs to Donovan and he is obligated to become Donovan's servant. Billy is actually The Mole, and he engineered the situation in order to infiltrate Donovan's group. | |
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Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil: One episode has Kick saving the henchmen of one of his rivals, and them pledge their alliance to Kick. Besides him not actually caring, they are annoying him so he set up situations for them to save him, the problem is that they are so dumb, when trying to save kick they end in danger themselves, forcing Kick to save them and in turn they pledge an even stronger alliance. Finally Kick resorts to a different option...setting up a situation so their former leader saves them, and pledge alliance to him instead. | |
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The Rigel Black Chronicles: Harriett ends up with life debts owed from several notable people: Draco Malfoy, Tiberius Ogden and his good friend Griselda Marchbanks, Leo Hurst. She'd really rather keep a low profile, but she couldn't just let them die. | |
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In Kingsman: The Secret Service, the reason Harry Hart inducts Eggsy into the Kingsman training program is his attempt to make amends for Eggsy's dad sacrificing his life to save Harry, after Harry's mistake nearly got them all killed. | |
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The Han Solo Trilogy: Chewbacca, according to his culture, owes Han a life debt for saving him. This means he makes it his duty to serve and protect Han. While first Han finds this annoying, he slowly warms up to him and then the pair grow into friends (later Heterosexual Life-Partners). Han's stated reason for saving Chewbacca is because he feels this way about Dewlanna; he couldn't repay the debt directly to her since she had died saving him, so he paid it forward to Chewbacca. Han tries to convince Chewbacca that Chewbacca isn't in his debt because Han was really paying back a debt to someone else, but Chewbacca doesn't buy it. This carries on into New Jedi Order, where Lumpawaroo and Lowbacca vow to take up the debt, despite Han's protestations that it had been paid in full. |
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Sorata's entourage in Mouse. That's what you get for curing one's mental illness, rescuing one from an abusive guardian, and helping one get over Arrheophobia. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys establishes that Iolaus used to be a thief; Young Hercules would later elaborate that he ran with the nastiest gang in the region and was lucky to be sent to Cheiron's Academy of Adventure as part of his probation instead of sent to prison outright. It was becoming Fire-Forged Friends with Hercules that caused Iolaus to give up being a thief and turn his life around. Iolaus paid back the debt by becoming Herc's most reliable ally and dedicating his life to helping others. Through the course of their adventures, they literally saved each other's lives numerous times. | |
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In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, a legendary Demon Slayer once saving Sumiyoshi from falling prey to demons made the coal seller express utmost gratitude towards his savior, wanting to pass Yoriichi’s life story, if nothing else, to his descendants. Sumiyoshi ended up passing something more tangible to his descendants than a mere tale, in the form of the secrets for the very sword arts his savior once used to protect him. | |
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In The Mark of the Lion, Rashid pledges his life to Hadassah when she rescues him after his master leaves him to die. | |
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The Warrior Cats novella Redtail's Debt centers around this idea. Tigerclaw saves Redtail's life, and from then on Redtail repeatedly says that he owes Tigerclaw everything, that he owes him his life. Tigerclaw takes this as meaning that Redtail has to go along with everything he says, even when Tigerclaw breaks the warrior code. Eventually, since Redtail doesn't do exactly that, Tigerclaw starts to see him as being in his way of his pursuit of power, and the novella ends with him killing Redtail. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: After finding out that Tumnus was arrested, Peter asked Mr. Beaver if he can do anything to rescue him since Tumnus saved Lucy. Mr. Beaver said no, because only Aslan can help him. | |
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D'Nal Cord in the Prince Roger series becomes the eponymous prince's asi after Roger saves him from one of planet Marduk's many (many) dangerous monsters. This is standard when someone saves a Mardukan's life without some ties of clan or family obliging him to do so. He also serves the role of Old Master, aiding in Roger's Character Development. Later, he winds up getting an asi of his own in Pedi Karuse, whom he saves from pirates. They eventually get married. | |
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Absented Age: Squarebound: Double subverted. Despite orders from the church to seal Karen into a dagger, Yayoi chooses to spare Karen after she exhausts herself saving him and Hoop from a Ganger. However, he later states that this is out of pragmatism, since Karen is stronger in the real world and could kill him in retaliation even when she's unconscious. Despite his pragmatic reasoning, he and Hoop still help Karen materialize in time for the Super Live after they work together to defeat Karen Alias, with no strings attached, which shows that his gratitude is genuine. | |
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AFK: Sheena insists on helping Serena, because the latter saved her life. Afterward though she makes it clear Serena is no longer owed anything from her. | |
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Played for laughs in The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark. At one point, McQueen is rescued by a Mysterious Stranger, who explains that he owes an enormous, life-changing debt of gratitude to McQueen's sidekick Dooley. Then we get the flashback showing the momentous occasion, and it turns out to have been an extremely minor kindness that most people would quickly forget, and which Dooley himself seems to have forgotten when McQueen asks him about it later. | |
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In Dragons: Riders of Berk the two-headed dragon Barf and Belch became faithful to Hiccup after he saves them from an avalanche in episode "The Zippleback Experience", thus Hilarity Ensues. According to Gobber this is a normal behavior in their race of dragons and can only change if they pay their debt to Hiccup as it happens at the end of the episode. | |
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Played with in Dragon Age II. If Hawke is in a rivalry with Aveline and Hawke sides with the mages in the endgame, when the Templars order her to attack Hawke, she will refuse. She owes Hawke her life and thus will not kill him/her. However, by refusing to kill Hawke, she declares her debt repaid and that she wants nothing to do with him/her ever again. | |
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One possible event chain in Stellaris after scanning a toxic planet is discovering an ancient warship that the planet's atmosphere is corroding away at — the player has a limited time to send a construction ship over to restore it back to functionality, at which point its onboard AI will reawaken. It will relay that it had spent the past 4800+ years wasting away crippled on the planet and was mere days away from being non-functional entirely, and will realize that the only reason it's still there is that you rescued it. Assuming your empire does not have the Spiritualist ethic (which consider AI to be an abomination), it will join your empire as a special admiral unit out of gratitude if you allow it. | |
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Homestar Runner: Parodied in the Flash animation remake of Where My Hat Is At?; after Homestar fishes Strong Sad out of the swimming pool, the latter says "Thanks for saving me, mister! Can I obsess over you now?" | |
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Elfen Lied: One of the only positive traits shown by Bandou, who is otherwise a misogynistic, amoral Psycho for Hire, is a belief that he should fully repay any debts that he owes. When 13-year-old Mayu (accidentally) distracts Lucy at a critical moment and saves his life, he gives her his phone number and tells her to call him if she's ever in danger. He makes good on this promise later in the manga, and saves Mayu from the "Unknown Man". | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: This is the reason Fate's group of female subordinates are so fiercely loyal to him. They are all war orphans whom he took in and cared for following the last war. He offered them the chance for a normal life, with enough money to put them through good schooling, and they refused, preferring to aid him directly in his own plans. | |
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Goblins: Dies Horribly and Saves-A-Fox outwit a demoness, and inadvertantly secure the freedom of Biscuit, an orc that she kept as a slave. Biscuit informs them that he considers himself honor-bound to risk his life to save theirs if necessary, and fights to protect them first from the demoness' minions and later from the Viper Clan. | |
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Played straight in The Demon Girl Next Door, with Sakura's core within Yuko keeping the latter alive. When Yuko found out about this state of affairs, she wanted to remove Sakura's core and restore her for Momo's sake, but in Yuko's current condition, she'd die without Sakura's core. Momo demands of Yuko to not even think about removing it until she's much stronger and doesn't need Sakura's support. | |
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Hey Arnold!, as demonstrated by the above quote. Played with a little, because Arnold eventually decided to give in and just enjoy all of the work that Sid was doing for him. Sid was the one that decided they should break things off, accusing Arnold of callously taking advantage of him despite insisting to be at his beck and call. |
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Dark Shores: In her Back Story, Killian's father saved Bercola's life (by deciding not to kill her, even though he had a right to do it, as their nations were at war then) and when she recovered from her injuries, she found him and offered him her services to repay the Life Debt. He set her to look after his son. | |
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Family Guy subverts this when Stewie helps Brian out of a tight spot, reminds him of The Brady Bunch episode mentioned above...and then asks him to repay the debt by taping that episode for him. | |
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Roberto Hongo in Captain Tsubasa feels this way towards Koudai Ohzora, who saved him when he tried to commit suicide over his ruined football career. He tries to repay the debt by training his son Tsubasa and forming him into a world-class player. | |
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Naturally appears in Crusoe, the NBC series adaptation of the Robinson Crusoe story (see Literature above). In this version, after Friday tells Crusoe that he is bound to Crusoe after Crusoe saved his life, Crusoe, upset at his friend's prospective abandonment of his own past and people, attempts to return his freedom to him. Friday says it is not his decision, and the conversation is framed as Crusoe being insensitive to Friday's customs and beliefs. | |
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In the pilot of Star Trek: Voyager Tom Paris saves Chakotay and jokes that his life belongs to Tom now. Chakotay responds "Wrong tribe!" but repays the favor by keeping the rest of the Maquis from harassing Tom. | |
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Hello! Sandybell: In spite of the fact that he was a drug dealer, Sandybell still went out of her way to save Jirobi from his exploding car. He tells this to Sandybell as he allows the cops to arrest him. | |
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In The Lion Guard, three young animals kicked out of their herd due to their rowdy nature take residence near Rafiki's tree, but their loud and rowdy nature causes Rafiki to bluntly tell them to leave. But when a fire threatens his tree, the three young animals (along with the Lion Guard) put out the fire. A grateful Rafiki tells the three "There are no words" and lets them hang out near his tree anytime they'd like. | |
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The whole point of The Smurfs (1981) episode "One Good Smurf Deserves Another" is that Clumsy wants to repay Handy for saving his life, and gets his chance when a green horned monster comes out of a cave and abducts Handy. | |
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The Fugitive In "The Evil Men Do", Kimble rescues a stable owner from an out-of-control horse, and the owner –- a former mob hitman –- attempts to repay the debt by killing Lt. Gerard. Subverted when the mobster's wife points out that he's really not doing it for Kimble as much as for himself; he just plain likes killing. The concept is rejected by a mob boss in "A Clean and Quiet Town". His son explains that his men have been roughing up Kimble at the request of the One-Armed Man, who saved his life in a bar fight. The mob boss replies that you don't have to give a small time crook like that anything. |
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A Master Quest episode of Pokémon: The Original Series has the Girl of the Week enthusiastically declare this word-for-word to Ash after he saves her and her Vulpix during an attack by Team Rocket, while suggesting the possibility of something more. One of the rare times in which Ash isn't portrayed as completely Oblivious to Love, instead coming across as somewhat Allergic to Love. | |
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Taken to hilariously ludicrous degrees in the comedy game The Space Bar. Every time Alias's partner Maksh begs Alias over his PDA to hurry up and rescue him before the Big Bad does something horrible to him, there's a flashback about how Maksh risked his life to save/help Alias or Alias' mother, as a guilt trip to motivate Alias. Which ends up easily equaling over 10 different times Maksh has saved Alias' life somehow based on all the flashbacks. And it turns out that there's actually even more times beyond that, and Alias and Maksh can't even agree on which ones actually "count". | |
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Quantum Protocol: After Idol convinces Queen and Kaia to save Omega, he decides that he owes Idol a favor and joins Quantum. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: "That Wacky Robot" has Dee Dee accidentally reactivate a robot of Dexter's, who becomes her friend/servant in gratitude; she likes him until he starts getting violently protective of her... | |
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The Witcher world has a custom called the Law of Surprise. If someone saves another person's life, they may ask for either what the rescuee has, but yet is not aware of, or the first thing that greets the rescuee when they return home. If it turns out to be a child, a bond of destiny is formed between the child and the rescuer. This is the witchers' favorite recruitment method. Ciri, Geralt's adoptive daughter, was promised to him in this exact way, after he saved her father's life and invoked the Law as per witcher tradition. | |
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In the Dark Parables series, In the first game, the detective saves Princess Briar Rose from the power of her evil godmother. The two then go their separate ways and the player doesn't expect to ever see Rose again. Flash forward to the fourth game, where the detective and the members of the Red Riding Hood Sisters are all in grave danger from the Wolf Queen. Suddenly, a beautiful sorceress emerges from the shadows, reminding the detective that she once saved her life - "...and now I've come to return the favor." | |
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The Punisher (2017). In Season 2, Frank Castle risks his "Get Out of Jail Free" Card to save Rachel, but when she brings up this trope he just scoffs because she's playing the innocent Damsel in Distress. Rachel in turn rejects the idea that Frank helped her for any reason other than he was looking for an excuse. | |
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Night Court: Dan pulls Christine out of the way of a runaway car. When a grateful Christine asks what she can do to repay Dan, without missing a beat Dan answers: "Sleep with me." Christine very reluctantly consents but they barely get to First Base before Dan can't continue and calls it off. | |
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The Wheel of Time (2021): Aviendha follows Perrin on his path after he'd released her from the cage she was held in by Whitecloaks, which eventually would have meant her death, because as a result she now has a toh (an obligation) for repaying him by Aiel custom. | |
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