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The Dulcinea Effect

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The Dulcinea Effect	comment	The Dulcinea Effect is the compulsion many male heroes have to champion, quest for, or die for girls they met five minutes ago. Dulcinea is the name Don Quixote gives to the (blissfully unaware) noblewomannote Actually just a peasant called Aldonza of whom he is the self-appointed champion, ready to quest for her honor and die for her name. (He read too many books on chivalry, you see.) In the Spanish of the time, "Dulcinea" is an overly elegant way to say "sweetness", and the name persists as code for the object of one's hopeless devotion and idealized love. The Knight in Shining Armor (in non-medieval settings, The Cape) is a frequent user of this trope, with The Lady's Favour being its primary indicator. Medieval chivalric romances, indeed, portrayed knights who fell in love with a princesse lointaine (faraway princess) merely on hearing her described. The Dulcinea Effect is often used to hook a hero into the story or steer him in a particular plot direction. Championing the Damsel in Distress is often an excuse for the hero to become involved in righting a larger injustice or confronting the Big Bad or foiling the Evil Plan when he otherwise might have simply walked away. Sometimes his devotion to her is a transparent excuse to justify his usual habit of traveling In Harm's Way. By application of the effect, the Damsel in Distress usually becomes the protagonist's Love Interest. This is not to say that the motivation involved is solely (or even partially) out of lust or love. In championing the girl involved, the hero may have no other motivation than acting in support of an ideal, particularly in Romantic Era examples and those inspired by it. This trope is, after all, Older Than Print. The Failure Knight may be motivated by a desire to atone and Big Brother Instinct is possible if the Dulcinea is much younger than him. Additionally, heroes under The Dulcinea Effect in more cynical settings (particularly Film Noir) tend to fall prey to a Wounded Gazelle Gambit set up by a Femme Fatale or The Vamp, who generally know about this effect and take advantage of it in the evilest way possible. Seldom gets Gender Flip; after all, Men Are the Expendable Gender but it happens nonetheless. The Dulcinea Effect is also the main reason that women are put into a fridge in order to cause the male character angst and push him to drive the plot forward. Compare Loving a Shadow, which is being in love with the idea of someone rather than the actual person. Contrast Magnetic Hero, for a hero's ability to pull this on followers. Chronic Hero Syndrome is when the hero does this for any random stranger. If this leads to a highly implausible romance, it's a case of Strangled by the Red String. See also Living MacGuffin. It's quite possibly related to Love Makes You Dumb. If the woman has little to no personality and this is her only purpose in the plot, it's a variant of Excuse Plot. Examples
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_10cabd7f	comment	Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid: When Gail gets attacked by a crocodile, rather than grabbing a rifle, Bill simply jumps into the water and starts wrestling the crocodile with a knife. Lampshaded:
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_114bbb1f	comment	Same in Ōkamiden. Your first partner, Kuni, actually believes that it is his duty as a swordsman and son of Susano to help out any damsel in distress he sees, despite initially being too afraid of demons to face up to them. Kurow also seems to display this, despite his Establishing Character Moment showing him to be a bit of a jerk and possibly a criminal.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_122bfae1	comment	In Midori Days, Seiji is shown to be afflicted with this towards... Kouta in a drag. Unfortunately for poor Kouta, such feelings don't transfer over when he's dressed normally as a boy.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_145d9b29	comment	In Star Ocean: The Second Story, Claude winds up on an alien planet where he's absolutely not allowed to use his superior technology. The first thing he does is use that technology to save the cute blue-haired chick from a monster. note The player can TRY to kill the monster with Claude's bare hands, and in fact, Claude DOES start with Good Old Fisticuffs in the manga adaptation. Unfortunately, it does next to no good in either version, so he'll be using his awesome laser gun anyway.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_14da024c	comment	The Rainmaker: Rudy Baylor does this even to the point where he tells himself in the first stages of his relationship with Kelly, the Love Interest, that doing so is a bad idea.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_17d59b39	comment	Justified and averted in two instances in Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney. Phoenix is more than willing to defend Espella from accusations of witchcraft even though he's known her for less than a week, but he'd been given fake memories of knowing her for five years. And the second instance: when Maya is accused, Luke Triton is more than willing to testify against her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_19b7bfc4	comment	In Breaking Dawn, Renesmee. The plot of the latter half of the book was to rally up vampires to protect this one child that none of them even know. All of them agree to put their lives in danger for Renesmee the second they see her, without any logical reason as to why they even should endanger themselves to protect someone they only just met. Word of God says that vampires are extremely apathetic and, especially those that drink human blood, feel no affection for other vampires other than the one or two that travel with them.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_1b260e31	comment	Orlando Furioso: Sacripant is in love with Angelica and will do whatever he needs to protect her, and she's self-interestedly using him for protection and unwilling to consider his romantic advances. Orlando himself, who is even more devoted to her, goes all ORLANDO SMASH! when he finds out that he can't have her and that she's not perfect.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Seems to be part of the Quincy honour code that Ishida lives by. He fights a shinigami vice-captain to protect Rukia, despite having professed to hate her only a few days beforehand and gets outraged at Mayuri's treatment of his daughter Nemu despite the fact that Nemu attacked him. It's lampshaded by Mayuri himself. Ichigo gets it too. While he had a month to get to know Rukia, and even longer for Orihime, he was willing to risk his life for Nel after knowing her for a few hours, despite her status as an Arrancar and thus technically being his enemy. It's even more egregious in the first movie with Senna. After knowing her for about two days, he is more than willing to go on a rescue mission in an unstable region within enemy territory, despite warnings that this equates to a Suicide Mission. This is justified, as he lost his mother when he was 9, he believed it was his fault for years, and he decided to become someone who can protect people. In the case of Nel, she has the appearance of a child, is harmless when she's not in her original form and she helps Ichigo.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_1f76648	comment	Touma in A Certain Magical Index succumbs to The Dulcinea Effect throughout the series. This is even discussed at one point by his Harem, who is mostly made up of girls he's rescued earlier.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_1ffa9e7	comment	Now and Then, Here and There: Shu starts the series by talking to a blue-haired girl he barely even knows, then spends the rest of the series paying for it.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: In "Billy", Angel turns up at Lilah's door to confront her about the consequences of her evil actions. He kicks down the door and threatens her- until she steps into the light, and he sees that she has black eyes and is covered in bruises. Suddenly, Angel turns from threatening Lilah to saying he's going to go have a talk with the man who did this to her. Played with, as Lilah calls him out on it, pointing out that this sudden change of tone and outrage on her behalf is coming from someone who she knows hates her and came to see her with rather violent intentions himself.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: In the sixth season episode "The Finder" (a Poorly Disguised Pilot for the series of the same name), Walter, the title character of the episode, becomes obsessed with finding out who killed a woman he only talked to for one night.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck has a Gender Flip example. It may be Sarah's job to protect the Intersect, but her feelings for Chuck provide the motivation for just how seriously she takes his safety. In Season 3, she admits she fell in love with Chuck "sometime between his fixing her phone and defusing a bomb" when they first met.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2231f712	comment	In an episode of the '90s version of Cupid, a nutcase who thinks he is Don Quixote singles out a bewildered sex worker as literally his Dulcinea.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild subverts this. Assuming you select the more proactive dialogue options in the opening Great Plateau section, it can seem like Link is perfectly willing to follow the lead of the unfamiliar woman's telepathic voice that greets him when he wakes up in the Shrine of Resurrection. But it turns out that he had become good friends with Zelda before losing his memories, and he's so willing to fight for her without them due to Amnesiac Resonance.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2250e67e	comment	In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Rogue Planet", a race of shapeshifters is being hunted like animals. A member of this race transforms into a beautiful woman, meets with Captain Archer, and begs for help. Captain Archer immediately agrees to drop everything he was doing to help her and her people, acting like a man in love. T'Pol lampshades Archer's behavior by asking if he would be so eager to help if the shapeshifter came to him in the form of a man. Later, everyone finds out the alien read Archer's mind and transformed into his image of the ideal woman that he imagined when he listened to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" as a child. When the day is saved, the "woman" thanks Archer and turns back to her true form, which looks like a giant slug. Archer is shocked, but they part on friendly terms.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2275c659	comment	House: Lampshaded when Thirteen points out to Foreman how foolhardy he was to risk his medical license on a two-week-old relationship. She was the proverbial Dulcinea. Wilson was unbelievably devastated by the death of his girlfriend, who he had known only for four months, and dated for a few weeks. He asked his best friend of many years (House) to risk his life for her. He's still devastated by her death about a year later because she was the only person he had "loved in a long time". Season 4 was shortened, and if it had gone as the writers intended, they would have been dating for 6 months or so. Also, Wilson deeply attaches himself to girlfriends with pathological ease.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_22fa3992	comment	The Expanse: Detective Miller is assigned to find Julie Mao, the runaway daughter of a major Star Helix stockholder. He quickly becomes obsessed with her and even thinks he's in love with her despite their never meeting, while she's alive and/or human anyways. Its even lampshaded; "Dulcinea" is the title of the pilot.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_26541dd6	comment	In Ex Machina, Caleb falls in love with Ava and is willing to risk everything to rescue her within days of meeting her. Nathan and Ava are separately manipulating him to evoke this exact response.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2a4482ad	comment	An instance of this is optional in The Secret of Monkey Island. If Guybrush completes the "Trial of Thievery" last (stealing the Idol of Many Hands from Elaine's mansion), he gets up from attempted drowning by Fester Shinetop (LeChuck in disguise) to see LeChuck's ship disappearing and being informed by the Lookout that Elaine has been kidnapped by LeChuck. Guybrush then proclaims his love for her, even though he mumbled incoherently towards her just prior. If Guybrush doesn't complete the "Trial of Thievery" last, Guybrush and Elaine profess their love for one another and Guybrush still vows to rescue her when she's eventually kidnapped, averting this.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2a842e3a	comment	Doctor Who Expanded Universe: The Fourth Doctor novella Ghost Ship shows the Doctor having a Heroic BSoD when he fails to prevent the death of a woman he spoke to twice, even though he took every reasonable precaution to protect her (keeping an eye out for her, checking in on how she was feeling, and telling her when he experienced a premonition that she would die in water, suggesting that she avoid the swimming pool). It's justified in that he is not in a healthy psychological state during the story, due to a combination of depression and the Mind Rape effects of the Negative Space Wedgie in the place he landed; that he admits to himself that he isn't in pain out of sympathy but out of selfishness and frustration with his own incompetence; and that a plotline of this kind is the kind of thing included in the Gothic Horror novels that the story is pastiching. The Doctor also notes in the opening paragraphs of the story that he is consciously trying to write a gothic horror story and is also a shameless Unreliable Narrator, so it's also possible he's heavily altering the story to make it more romantic and genre-appropriate.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes: Peter Petrelli often fulfills this trope, given his quest to prevent a viral apocalypse in the second season is really more about saving the life of a girl he knew only briefly. Matt Parkman risks his life — several times — to save a super-villainess he just met yesterday, all because he had a psychic vision of them being married in the future. You may be forgiven for thinking that "Hiro Rule" in the page quote refers to Hiro Nakamura. He goes through an awful lot of effort for Charlie, whom he hadn't known for a long time. Then again, this is pretty in character, given that he seems to view life as a comic book. Also in his case, it may be more a case of simply wanting to save her, because he wants to save EVERYONE (it's what heroes do, after all), and it's only in the process of trying to save her that she becomes more than just another innocent civilian that needs saving. While the Dulcinea Effect is falling in love (lust) and then helping, in Hiro's case, he was helping and then fell in love. He followed much the same pattern with Yaeko as well.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph: Felix is determined to keep Calhoun safe even though he barely met her 24 hours ago â€” and she's the better fighter of the two. It's justified in that being a "good guy" and helping people are in his coding. It's simply what comes naturally to him. Also, they happen to share a similar goal (find Ralph and/or the Cy-bug) so it's logical for them to help each other.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2e97466d	comment	Ys: Most of these women save Adol Christin's life in the first place because he is almost always shipwrecked at the start of games. Then he spends the rest of them protecting them.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: After her quest for the Jewel Seeds leads her to get blasted into unconsciousness by Fate Testarossa, Nanoha Takamachi makes it her sole priority to help get rid of the sadness she saw in the other girl's eyes, with the Jewel Seeds becoming secondary. Thoma goes through quite a bit of trouble to help out Lily in Force, breaking into a lab and almost getting incinerated, becoming a fugitive from the TSAB, getting sought after by the HÃ¼ckebein, and slowly losing control of himself, and gets involved merely as a result of hearing her calling for help.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_2fada0ac	comment	Maidenless No Longer: Melina notes that the Tarnished is clearly going out of his way to save every woman in the Lands Between, even though she has no idea how he knows where most of these women are. Since we don't see his thoughts, it's hard to be sure, but the author's notes imply it isn't quite as simple as him just being obsessed with rescuing pretty girls. The implication is that, over his many resets of the timeline, he fell in love with each woman in turn, but lost them as their stories inevitably ended tragically. Now, he's finally strong enough to save all of them.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_303001f1	comment	In the My-HiME manga, Yuuichi almost immediately becomes the Key, or most important person, of Mai and Natsuki. By contrast, in the anime, it takes over half the series to get close to that status for Mai, and it is also implied that Yuuichi became most important to Mai partly because a rift formed between Mai and Takumi over his decision to go to America for surgery alone shortly before his death.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto, immediately after Rock Lee meets Sakura, he asks her to be his girlfriend and promises to protect her with his life, an offer she just as promptly rejects. Less than 48 hours later, he ends up defending her against three Sound Ninja in the Forest of Death, despite her being on an opposing team, and Sakura recognizes that he meant what he said.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_33acebd8	comment	Deconstructed in one of Guilty Gear's Radio CDs; Ky Kiske charges into a group of Gears in an attempt to save a woman. He dies horribly, starting a chain of events that lead to a Bad Future. And the woman, a time-hopping witch, was counting on it, and laughs in his face as he dies.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_349a63d5	comment	Time Stop Hero: Kuzuno Sekai has a real weakness for pretty girls and will always try to help them. His party comments on how this is pretty much the only way to motivate him.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_36065097	comment	The Hunger Games: Peeta may have known Katniss since the age of five but he only actually interacted with her once before being reaped with her and never speaks to her until they've become tributes. All the same, he's so determined to die for her survival's sake that Haymitch notes it's not even worth trying to save Peeta in the arena.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_3932a05b	comment	In The Magic Flute, Tamino sings his main aria to a picture of the heroine her mother has given him as an incentive to rescue her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_39c20861	comment	Played with in the Highlander: The Series episode "Chivalry". Richie falls for Kristin, a beautiful Immortal who becomes murderously jealous when jilted, as Duncan knows from past experience. As she plays the weak and helpless damsel when defeated, neither Duncan nor Richie can bring themselves to take her head. That doesn't stop Methos:
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in G.I. Jane. Master Chief John James, who was tasked with training Lt. Jordan O'Neill to be the first female Navy SEAL, tells her that he has his doubts that the experiment will result in success, stating that the Israeli army tried a similar program years ago, and scrapped it when they tried it in combat situations. The Master Chief states the program was abandoned because the male soldiers couldn't stand the sight of dead women on the battlefield and would actively endanger missions to protect them. Ironically, he ends up falling victim to it himself during the mission in Libya, when he attempts a Heroic Sacrifice to save O'Neill's life.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_3e1e745c	comment	Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Invoked and then defied in Talking to Dragons. When Shiara and Daystar are trapped in a hedge circle and Daystar is able to get in and out (because he's polite to the bushes), Shiara demands that he tell the hedge to open and let her out. Daystar, who is the son of the very Genre Savvy Cimorene, sensibly points out that it's getting dark and thus impractical to leave at that moment, plus he doesn't know Shiara from Adam and thus is uncertain as to whether or not he wants to rescue her. Shiara replies that she had been hoping he was a hero, as one can "talk them into anything".
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_3f445492	comment	In the Arabian Nights, a prince falls in love with the princess of another kingdom on hearsay alone. It's played straight a few other times throughout the novel also. This may be an Ur-Example, though there may be even older mythological examples that aren't on this page yet.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_3f44e3d7	comment	Gender inverted in Princess Tutu, where Ahiru is talked into becoming Princess Tutu (and thus roping herself into a fairytale charging straight for a Downer Ending) to restore Mytho's heart after little more than a single encounter. She thinks it's Love at First Sight, but later starts having her doubts and goes on to confess to Mytho's companion Fakir that she doesn't really know why she loves Mytho, other than because he's pretty. The answer is that she doesn't. The girl who does love him that way is Ahiru's opponent, Rue/Princess Kraehe, who pulls a Heroic Sacrifice for him and ends up becoming his Princess. Something that Ahiru comes to acknowledge, saying that she would have not been strong and selfless enough to do the same since it would also involve giving up on her chance to stay as a human.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_4110f1d0	comment	Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean has a Double Subversion. When the player character sneaks into Rodolfo's mansion, it can suggest saving Xelha, but Kalas just gets annoyed with you if you do. After exploring a bit, he finds a gate he can't figure out how to open, but Xelha can.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_413aa2f7	comment	Don Quixote, the Trope Namer, is a parody of this trope. The hero Don Quixote, who believes himself to be a knight, claims to serve a beautiful, virtuous young lady, Dulcinea (really named Aldonza, but Don Quixote doesn't care), who is, in fact, nothing more than a peasant from his hometown, and, in some adaptations, a whore. Interestingly, in the original novel as well as in most adaptations, the actual character Dulcinea makes not a single appearance. He knows that the lady is nothing more than an excuse for the hero to have adventures, so he imagines his lady and begins to live his dreams!
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_4141af74	comment	Yukiteru "Yukki" Amano from Future Diary is shown to act this way towards Tsubaki Kasugano, a beautiful and gentle Damsel in Distress from the Omekata cult, quickly jumping in to save her and escape with her despite having just met her. When given a choice to trust her or his partner Yuno Gasai, he chooses Tsubaki (though you can't blame him because Yuno is a Yandere). It's not until she makes it obvious that she's actually a Manipulative Bitch (mixed with Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds) that wants to kill him that he decides to go back to teaming up with Yuno. Tsubaki ends up disarmed by Yuno and killed by Yukki. In the Alternate Universe spin-off, Mirai Nikki: Paradox, Akise Aru is shown acting this way towards Yukki himself. Apparently, Akise falls in love with Yukiteru at first sight, and decides to take Yukiteru's place as the Diary Holder so he can fight off all the enemies and allow Yukiteru to become God. All this being decided after just having met Yukiteru.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden will help any woman who needs it, regardless of common sense, even if they haven't asked for help. In the first book, he complains about Murphy "pulling my old fashioned chain" by invoking this. Eventually, he learns to use his brain first and spot when this tendency is being used against him, as Sheila/Lasciel did at one point. Yet despite this new ability, Harry still doesn't seem able to prevent himself from going into auto-chivalrous mode anyway. He recognizes that this tendency is dangerous, possibly lethal... but he can't stop it. He even refers to it as his sexist Neanderthal instincts, and they're just as uncontrollably automatic as his snarking in the face of certain death.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_44df254e	comment	In Summer Celebration, stoic robber Misha Barkhasid sends away everyone around him to listen to Miriam Helenâ€™s story about how notorious criminal Woldarski seduced her and tried to blackmail her into prostitution. He agrees to help her, despite her story being just one of many stories about Woldarski, and eventually fights him and takes a knife to the lung and narrowly escapes death for her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_44fe781e	comment	In the first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shinji initially refuses to pilot the Eva until Rei is brought in and he realizes that if he doesn't do it, she's going to have to. In a twist, this seems to be more from empathy than from chivalry, since Rei is already seriously injured from an earlier attack.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_4522fd1	comment	In the Whateley Universe, Stalwart declares his undying love for Fey only seconds after seeing her. To make it extra-uncomfortable, he does it in the middle of the Whateley Academy quad, while Fey's father is standing right there. Fey throws him across the quad, but he doesn't give up. His Dogged Nice Guy behavior eventually saves Fey's life, and he gets several dates with her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_495f277f	comment	Hayate the Combat Butler: Hayate Ayasaki's big brother, Ikusa, is a guy who'd always help anybody in need... unless it's his parents. He'll help out his little brother on those occasions he's around). He's kind of a powered-up version of Hayate — he just can.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_4a2b34ad	comment	Star Fox Adventures: Fox gets a few psychic message things from Krystal and sees her suspended in the Krazoa Palace and he's more than willing to do everything he can and risk his life to save her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_4b4a9fd6	comment	Slumdog Millionaire: Jamal scrapes by as an orphan from the slums and gets into some very nasty situations, but never gives up looking for the girl he was friends with for a short time during his childhood.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_4b8906a8	comment	Ever17: The Kid fell in love with Coco at first sight. He then spent the next 17 years of his life learning to imitate his role model Takeshi as exactly as possible. He does this based on a story that You tells him involving the personification of the perception of time. He doesn't even get the girl because by this point he looks 20 and is actually 32 while she's 14, acts about 8 and considers herself to be the girlfriend of said personification. The Drama CDs show that after the incident, he got over Coco, got a job, and ended up with Sora, so it seems he's all right.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_4ddcf970	comment	Recca from Flame of Recca is the equivalent of an Anime Don Quixote. He plays at being a Ninja (though later he does become one) and determines at first sight of Yanagi that he will protect her and follow her every order from now on. He even calls her "Princess," and lets her know that she is now his master.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_501187ca	comment	The Incredible Hulk (1962): In issue #5, the Hulk, generally an Anti-Hero at best up to this point, allows himself to be enslaved by Tyrannus holding Betty Ross captive. Compare that to Bruce Banner, who barely acknowledges Betty even exists.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_513c73f3	comment	A rare female example crops up in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World — Marta is infatuated with Emil from the moment he "saves" her — so infatuated, in fact, that she sets an ancient guardian monster to stalk him for several months, and when she does reunite with him, offers to hand herself in to be executed in order to spare his village (and his guilt). All for a guy whose name she had learned only an hour or two ago.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5261d625	comment	Samurai Champloo zigzags the trope throughout the series: In the first episode, Mugen offers, unprompted, to help Fuu with her teahouse's thug problem... in exchange for food. When said thugs threaten to cut off her fingers, Mugen lounges on his table until Fuu promises him an absurd amount of dumplings to save her. As early as the second episode, Mugen nearly verges into Always Save the Girl status, barely reacting to the woman who poisoned him until she mentions that Fuu is in danger and killing anyone who gets in between himself and Fuu (including Oniwakamaru, who would have surrendered). Played perfectly straight in episode eleven with Shino, whom Jin immediately falls in love with.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_526d4c5c	comment	Knights of the Old Republic: Justified by having the girl the player has never met being his commanding officer and possibly the key to winning the war with the Sith. Gender-flipped in the sequel with Visas and the Handmaiden if the player is male, and played straight with Atton and the Disciple if the player is female. Though certain later events put it in a new context.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_54de4a00	comment	When Lance from Gold Coin Comics first meets Silvia, they encounter a wolf-boss. He is willing to stand in front of Silvia to protect her, even though they met a few minutes earlier.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5578c87d	comment	In King of Thorn, it's revealed that all the survivors (except Kasumi) were implanted with "keys" in their minds - and one of the "keys" was to "protect a weak Japanese woman with your life." Meaning that all the survivors were under The Dulcinea Effect, having the idea ingrained in them that they must irrationally protect Kasumi with their lives, even if they had never met her before.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5755b96a	comment	Gender-reversed in The Order of the Stick. Therkla is a ninja assassin who is ordered to kill Hinjo and his guards, yet when she encounters Elan (on whom she quickly gains a massive crush), she ends up helping him slay some sea trolls that had attacked the fleet. She ends up helping him several more times, the last of which results in her death at the hands of her master.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5908ee91	comment	The The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim quest "In My Time of Need" involves a group of Alik'r warriors looking for a Redguard woman they claim betrayed her family and a Redguard city to the Aldmeri Dominion. The woman herself claims she spoke out against the Dominion who hired the Alik'r to hunt her down an assassinate her. The player can either play the trope straight by killing the Alik'r or defy it by luring Saadia outside Whiterun where the Alik'r will capture her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_59091c4c	comment	Liar Game: Despite initial reluctance and starting to play for money, Akiyama quickly ends up stuck in the game by protecting Nao.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5a3fd479	comment	In Hobo With a Shotgun, the Hobo steadfastly refuses to get involved in any of the crime that is going on on the streets of the Wretched Hive of Scum Town, until he sees Slick attempting to abduct Abby, when he steps up and makes a stand.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5a4e8217	comment	White Trash Warlock: Played with. At the beginning of the first novel, Adam uses a dangerous spell that uses his own life and he wasn't even sure would work to save Vic, a cute guy he had just met earlier that day. When a Reaper questions why he is doing it, Adam jokes that he just thinks Vic is hot. That said, when Vic himself pushes this question again, Adam admits he would have saved anybody in that situation, because he thinks nobody should have died then.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond acts under the influence of this trope all the time, but somehow always manages to fulfill his organization's objectives in the course of doing so. That's not the only thing he fulfills in the course of doing so... Or the only thing he acts under... This is a stronger trait in Pierce Brosnan's Bond because it's made explicit in GoldenEye that he's constantly trying to atone for the women whose lives he wasn't able to save. He is protective towards all of the good (and two who pretend to be good) Bond Girls.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5b42bbed	comment	In Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, Almaz decides that the best way to impress a girl he likes is to descend into hell on a nigh-suicidal mission to defeat the Overlord — for a girl that at least as far as he knows isn't even aware of his existence. Mao finds this all rather very silly.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5c66fff9	comment	A male player in the Neverwinter Nights 2 community module Dark Avenger can behave like this towards Contessa Mignet. Her being madly in love with a Casanova character who is trying to get rid of her for being too clingy doesn't help.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5e1213a8	comment	Neverwhere: Richard goes out of his way to help a girl he sees for the first time in his life, leading his fiancÃ©e to break up with him. Although Richard doesn't help the girl because he's in love with her, he helps her because she's lying in the street alone and bleeding. His fiancÃ©e breaks up with him because she's upset that Richard doesn't care about the fact that helping the girl would make them late for dinner.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5e91c7b	comment	Leon in Resident Evil 2 goes out of his way to escort and protect Ada no matter how many times she tries to ditch him. Even when Ada is being shot at, he takes a bullet for her! note Since Leon is a police officer and it was his first day, he most likely felt it was his duty to protect Ada, although it's implied he may have fallen in love with her as well. After Leon hears Ada is a spy for the Umbrella corporation, he refuses to believe it until Ada confirms it herself (in scenario A anyway). Since then, Leon and Ada have a "it's complicated" relationship in later games where Ada will help Leon when she can, but she will still hinder his progress if she is ordered to (though she won't harm him).
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5f6f0132	comment	Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: while Adell's initial promise to protect and return Rozalin to her father probably doesn't raise any eyebrows at first (he's borderline Lawful Stupid, and clearly feels responsible for her Fallen Princess predicament), the Dulcinea Effect becomes apparent when he insists on keeping it in even the most suicidal circumstances, and he doesn't even like girls.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_5fcf37d5	comment	Fujiko is also responsible for causing the Dulcinea effect on Lupin; the story with Pycal began this way, and she used it on both Lupin and Goemon to get them to kill each other in Lupin III: Part 1.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_638624c8	comment	Slayers, as with so many others, lampshades this. When Gourry first meets Lina, he proclaims it is his duty as a knight to escort and protect Lina, despite knowing nothing about her (largely in part to his own lack of awareness).
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_63935537	comment	Ivanhoe from the Walter Scott novel has one of these. Ivanhoe champions for Rebecca, a girl who is not his Love Interest. It was a fair exchange since she healed his injuries and was accused of witchcraft for that and for being Jewish. Ivanhoe and Rebecca may not be the Official Couple, but they are very much the Fan-Preferred Couple... even by the author.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_6646d035	comment	The PK Girl: The Protagonist just came into the mall for some ice cream. Before he knows it, a girl he's never even met has been kidnapped, and her sister, whom he's also never met, begs for his help in saving her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_67b3873f	comment	Runaway: After noting how attractive she is, Sgt. Ramsey charges in to save Jackie from being zapped by a malfunctioning security robot, instead of returning to his car to suit up in protective gear. He gets zapped repeatedly, snarked at by both Jackie and his partner Thompson, and ends up smashing the expensive robot with a chair.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_6bcd58c7	comment	Sin City: Most of the antiheroes are afflicted with this trope to some degree. Several characters compare themselves to knights, with Dwight being Lancelot, and Hartigan "charging in like Galahad." Marv goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge for a woman with which he spent only one night in the original graphic novel. He overlaps with Because You Were Nice to Me. Wallace from "Hell and Back" goes through hell and high water to rescue a woman whom he saved from suicide at the start of the story. Hartigan from "That Yellow Bastard" goes through even worse hell than Wallace for the sake of a little girl who grows up to be one of Sin City's best-known strippers. It's more the fact that this is all Unfinished Business (he originally saved her when she was a child), and until he meets her, it doesn't truly occur to him that's she's no longer a child. Hartigan was more in it to protect the innocent. It just so happen that the innocent was a girl. Dwight McCarthy would also qualify — the woman in question is someone who burned him in the past, but when it turns out she's in danger, Dwight rushes in to save her. Dwight's adherence to this trope is lampshaded by his lover Gail. True to the series' Film Noir roots, it's a Wounded Gazelle Gambit on the part of Ava to get Dwight to murder her husband so that she can get his hands on all his money. Dwight himself lampshades this weakness in "The Babe Wore Red", when he first finds the titular babe and thinks "One look at her and I know I'm in trouble deep." He risks his life once more to save this woman.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_6c519c14	comment	Knight and Rogue Series: Subverted in The Last Knight, when it turns out that the apparent Damsel in Distress the hero just rescued from the tower is actually a murder suspect locked in the tower awaiting trial. (There's no indication that the hero is attracted to her; he just considers it his duty to help people.)
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_6cd3b44f	comment	In one episode of Black Lagoon, Rock speaks out of turn to Balalaika (an act that is generally considered to be somewhere between extremely ill-advised and suicidally moronic, as Revy herself outright states in her very profanity-laden rant following this) in order to speak out for a girl he just met a few days ago. The girl in question, Yukio Washimine, repays him by trying to have him killed.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_72a832ed	comment	In Aria the Scarlet Ammo, Kinji inherited this genetically. It's a side effect of his Super Mode. He can't not help a girl in trouble.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_72a9864b	comment	A rare guy on guy version: in the Ramayana, Hanuman devoted himself to Rama after their first encounter.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_73383fee	comment	Invoked in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Makoto Naegi has this in regards to Sayaka Maizono, who he has been pining for her since childhood, and he is willing to do anything to protect her during Monokuma's game of High School Life of Mutual Killing. It turns out that she's using the DE as a way to frame him for murder when she tries to kill Leon so she can escape from the school, but Leon kills her before she can do so.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_74f7210c	comment	Several games in The Legend of Zelda series fall under this trope, as they show Link going off on a quest for Princess Zelda after knowing her for only a few minutes or, such as in the original The Legend of Zelda game, never having met her at all. Although, given that she's his sovereign ruler, it's probably illegal for him not to quest or something, and if he ever did say no, she'd probably just keep asking him. The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages: Link goes and saves Impa from some attacking monsters (while he does know Impa, he doesn't seem to know her when he saves her). He then accompanies her to find the girl Impa was looking for. Once they find said girl, it turns out that Impa was actually possessed by an evil sorceress, the girl was the Oracle of Ages, and the sorceress has now possessed her. Well done, Link. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time subverts this as the dying Great Deku Tree explicitly tells Link to take the Kokiri Emerald to Hyrule Castle and speak to Princess Zelda. Once he gets there and past the guards, Zelda gives him the details about the sorcerer who cursed the Great Deku Tree to die (aka Ganondorf), explains her own prophetic dreams about Ganondorf's plans obtain the godly power of the Triforce to Take Over the World, and finally ropes him into her plan to stop Ganondorf from getting the other Sacred Stones in order to enter the Sacred Realm and get the Triforce. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess mostly avert it. In Wind Waker, Link starts his quest because his little sister was taken by a giant bird, and finishes Because Destiny Says So. Twilight Princess has Link trying to save the kids from the village; at first, he's helping Midna because she's helping him. Those first 3 dungeons are by no means short (especially the third one), so by the second half of the game, he and Midna have had time to bond. Ganondorf just happens to know how to push Link's Berserk Button at the end. If you look at the gender-flipped version for Twilight Princess, Midna rescues Link from Zant's dungeon, after seeing him for five minutes. It turns out that she only did so because it was foretold that he'd help her overthrow Zant, and she later apologizes for this. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword averts this completely, as Zelda and Link are best friends who have actually known each other for years in that game. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild subverts this. Assuming you select the more proactive dialogue options in the opening Great Plateau section, it can seem like Link is perfectly willing to follow the lead of the unfamiliar woman's telepathic voice that greets him when he wakes up in the Shrine of Resurrection. But it turns out that he had become good friends with Zelda before losing his memories, and he's so willing to fight for her without them due to Amnesiac Resonance.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_7616a253	comment	In Ã—Ã—Ã—HOLiC, Watanuki is this all the way - as long as it's a pretty girl in trouble, he's willing to risk his life to help her, even if they just met. In one case, he was shown to even be willing to continue meeting a lady, despite knowing that doing so was slowly killing him, because "she's lonely." (Granted, the lady reminded him of a mother figure he lacked, but still, they had just met and only talked a little.) It's a deconstruction because it shows he places no worth on his own existence or how he himself affects the lives of others, which brings him great damage and upsets the persons whom he wants to help. Example: he sacrifices an eye to help Doumeki when he's going blind before investigating his other options, Doumeki (who didn't want Watanuki to do such a thing in the first place), understandably gets pissed off at him, and a spirit that Watanuki had befriended almost dies trying to fix the mess. Watanuki is a replacement clone and deep down knows he is not supposed to exist, thus his Chronic Hero Syndrome; he's subconsciously suicidal. A large purpose of him being at the shop was to gain self-worth so when the time came, he wouldn't vanish and the Timey-Wimey Ball would remain intact.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_76885dcf	comment	In an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, a boy gets sucked into a pinball game where he has to battle a witch and crown the princess. The princess is represented by a woman he had met at the mall only five minutes ago and who only spoke to him because he was standing in for a repair shop owner. And yet the guy comes to her rescue with the zeal of someone fighting for his true love. Admittedly, he was probably also fighting with all the zeal of someone who just got sucked into a killer pinball machine. He didn't even get to escape in the end.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_78fbf83e	comment	Agarest Senki: Leonhardt plays this so straight, the first time he does this, he gets killed (curiously, the first time he did this, the girl in question is not a Love Interest seeing as she's just twelve years old). He recovered, though, and does this trope again to two women.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_7ae78fc7	comment	Koyomi Araragi of Bakemonogatari suffers from this, even going so far as to risk his life to save a girl he barely knows when the sole reason she is in trouble in the first place is that she subconsciously wants to kill him. Specifically referenced in Nekomonogatari (Black), where Araragi tries to make sense of his feelings for Hanekawa. He realizes that, rather than wanting to date her, he likes her so much that he might want to die for her instead. This is followed shortly by getting himself PUNCHED IN HALF as part of a gambit to save her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_7b00fd5a	comment	In Gemini Rue, Azriel Odin/Delta-Six has this for Saiyuri/Epsilon-Five. Even multiple mindwipes don't stop him from instinctively trying to protect her, nor do they stop her from trying to do the same for him. It's implied that she was someone important to him in the past.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_7b5f914a	comment	In Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd's odyssey to return the briefcase of a woman he drove to the airport (he can be forgiven for thinking with the wrong head, though, given that the other head isn't good for much).
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_7dc73376	comment	The Force Unleashed II plays this trope straight but with an added Gender Flip. Starkiller and Juno spend quite a bit of time together in the first game but their mild flirtations never seemed all that serious and were closer to crush status than genuine love. Then in the next game, without having spent any more additional time with each other, both characters are throwing themselves in front of buses to try and save the other — Starkiller more than Juno, but she does some crazy shit too (like trying to stab Darth Vader with a lightsaber!).
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_7ddbc888	comment	Eureka Seven: Renton Thurston joined on an outlaw ship with a crew that constantly abuses him for the sake of a girl he had just met. Then, she has jealousy issues not over him but the fact that he pilots her mech. Then on top of that, she shows little romantic interest in him at all for about the first twenty episodes and admits to using him for the mecha. What does Renton do about this? Sulk about how he wants to continue to protect this girl and continue to take abuse.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_7e850e47	comment	Bravely Default: Tiz agrees instantly to help AgnÃ¨s in her journey despite a military coming after her because she's a Vestal and she made the vow to seal the Great Chasm (restoring Tiz's hometown Norende to normality). It's played straight with Ringabel, who joins the party because he feels an intense and inexplicable urge to protect Edea. It is hinted during the game that Ringabel subconsciously helps Tiz, AgnÃ¨s, and Edea because he wants to avoid them dying at the hands of Airy like the previous cycle. Then again, Alternis has a huge crush on Edea anyway...
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_7f2f5e71	comment	Invoked in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016). As Link was literally born to be The Champion of Hyrule's Abstract Apotheosis, Princess Zelda, he has what's implied to be a divinely imposed compulsion to serve and protect her long before they even meet, and he carries an Intrinsic Vow to never cause her harm—a fact Ganondorf gleefully exploits by possessing Zelda's body to beat the crap out of him, knowing he can't fight back. Ironically, Link's not romantically attracted to her in the slightest, and instead falls head-over-heels for Midna.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_82bd6a04	comment	Akuma no Riddle: Tokaku is a high-school assassin who's pretty quick to risk death and openly declare her intentions to a room full of fellow killers to protect a girl she's only recently met. Said "girl she's only recently met" actually has the ability to induce this in nearby people, whether she wants to or not. This revelation causes Tokaku to seriously question why she wants to protect Haru.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape: Invoked during the "Death of Chivalry" quest as you come across a woman named Dawn, who is held captive by the Black Knight faction under the control of Captain Dulcin. It is later revealed that Dawn has secretly killed Dulcin long ago in a plan that ultimately has the Player Character and/or his companion Sir Owen complete a series of tests of chivalry so that she may obtain an artifact of power.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_855fd453	comment	In Brave10, the first time Saizo saved Isanami was just self-defense. And the second time, too. And the third...
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_857f68a4	comment	Laughing Under the Clouds: Subverted. In the backstory told in Utakata ni Warau this is what it looks like when Hirari meets Botan at random in the street, follows her and supposedly saves her from a bunch of thugs (which she was about to get rid of anyway) and promptly declares he loves her and will marry her and protect her. Botan's initially having none of it, but it is later revealed that when Hirari was a child, Botan was the only one who did not treat him like a pariah, and that is the true reason he falls for her when they meet again.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV: A very short time after Cecil finds Rydia, and witnesses her summon a monster that appeared to kill his best friend Kain, he immediately throws away his career to protect Rydia by killing the troops sent by his king to arrest and execute her. This can be considered a Justified Trope, as he was already suffering a crisis of conscience against his kingdom of Baron due to the immoral acts the king had ordered him to commit, which included unwittingly destroying Rydia's village by delivering a deadly item there.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX has Zidane, who is trying to kidnap the princess at the start of the game. Then he becomes her escort for the rest of it. This is even part of his skill-set. He has the in-game ability 'Protect Girls.' If there's a female in the party who gets attacked, Zidane will jump in front of her and take the hit. This does not, however, prevent him from grabbing the princess's butt while climbing a ladder. In Duodecim, talking to Zidane on the world map at one point has him say that collecting the crystals is a pain and he wouldn't do it if Cosmos wasn't hot. He says that he's joking, but Squall doesn't believe him.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI: Locke is very quick to pledge his unfaltering protection to Terra and later Celes, two complete strangers who had once worked for the Empire. The reason for this is tragic. He lost the love of his life, Rachel, in an Imperial attack that he wasn't there to protect her from. Terra's amnesia hits especially close because Rachel contracted amnesia as the result of a trip he took her on. Rachel's amnesia and death are his greatest failures, and so he vows to protect Terra and Celes because he refuses to fail another woman like he did Rachel.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_86c3beca	comment	Gil from Girl Genius is an interesting case. First time we met him, he jumped on Agatha to save her from an explosion. Later, he is revealed to have rescued Zola many times in Paris. But Gil has absolutely no romantic interest in Zola. His initial rescue of Agatha likely was because he was a nice guy who felt sorry for her (she was clearly upset by everything that just happened). His later decision to bring her along to the airship was because he suspected that she was a Spark, and from there, his desire to keep her around was because he liked having someone his intellectual equal to work with.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_88a2a2df	comment	Sporadic Phantoms: Kyle immediately throws his lot in with Elizabeth shortly after meeting her, getting highly defensive about her and her methods in The Sharing, and is convinced that other Full Members are trying to oust her. It's what starts driving a rift between him and the others.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_88ce9bf2	comment	Rune Soldier Louie: The Idiot Hero is very susceptible to this, which Celecia shamelessly exploits all the time; much to the annoyance of his female teammates.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Percy is awfully quick to label friends he met a few days ago as "family". This is because they ARE family (in a twisted, mythical not-exactly-blood-relations kind of way). Virtually every major character in the stories is the descendant of one of the ancient Greek gods, who are themselves one big dysfunctional family. The series puts a lot of emphasis on the tragic flaws of heroes, so you might have an example of this trope show up, but it's explicitly stated that Percy's flaw is that he can't make sacrifices when it comes to his friends (male or female), even for the greater good.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_89f6bbe1	comment	Inspector Clouseau in A Shot in the Dark is unshakably convinced that the beautiful Maria Gambrelli is innocent of murder despite the overwhelming mass of evidence that she is the killer. She actually is innocent, but Clouseau was certainly acting under the influence of this trope.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	Luke Skywalker after he sees the hologram of Princess Leia in A New Hope. While trapped in the Death Star, he takes an enormous risk to rescue her. Later materials imply that he subconsciously recognized his sister.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_8c87469c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword averts this completely, as Zelda and Link are best friends who have actually known each other for years in that game.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_8d6ce4b0	comment	In Runaway Wind, Ventus wakes up in Castle Oblivion during the events of the original Kingdom Hearts and runs into NaminÃ©. After barely a minute of conversation, he considers her a friend and has agreed to help her escape the castle and hide her from the Organization.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_8d817ccb	comment	In Lost, Jack barely knows Kate for a couple of days before he's growing protective about her safety and looking out for her. This includes trying to convince her she shouldn't come with him (or anyone else) on treks into the jungle because it could be dangerous, despite her seeming no less capable than the others (and more so than some). This continues in the third episode, even when he sees her mug shot in the possession of a police officer - who keeps ranting about how dangerous she is!
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9058ad7e	comment	The Terminator. Kyle Reese volunteers to go back in time to protect Sarah Connor, who he fell in love with only from stories and a picture he was given by John Connor, knowing there is absolutely no way back and that going up against a Terminator programmed to kill Sarah will most likely result in a violent death. The line in question: "John gave me a picture of you once. I memorised every line. Every curve. I came across time for you, Sarah." Though considering the alternative in the future... and John Connor gave the picture of Sarah to Kyle specifically to elicit this effect... Kyle being his father thanks to time Travel, and all.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_90f42a9b	comment	In Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time: Gareth Bryne's chasing down Siuan might count as this trope. He certainly believes he does at first, lampshading that he's too old to be chasing after pretty girls, much less when he can't figure out the reason (beyond the money/service she owed). In a gender inversion, the members of Rand's harem are all inextricably in love with him at first sight, though their reactions differ (Min plays this straightest, while Aviendha tries to run in horror). In Shienar they have a saying: "A man who is not willing to give his life to save a woman is not a man."
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_91e45f5	comment	In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney's backstory, it is revealed that Phoenix adopted Trucy quickly after meeting her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_924b6d63	comment	Xenogears gets away with this by turning it into a part of a larger plot point: the hero not only leaps unreasonably to the heroine's defense, but he also shouts her name in the process before he's told it. Dun dun DUUUUN! They'd been lovers over several incarnations, the latest being the one we see in-game.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_924bb56e	comment	Dollhouse: Victor's feelings for Sierra are just as much about this — he tries to save her and take care of her even in personalities that don't know her. However, just like Echo and Paul, they eventually fall in love and turn out to be just right for each other.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_92916f5a	comment	Shrek: This is parodied when Lord Farquaad (who is looking for a royal bride purely because he needs the marriage in order to upgrade his noble title) chooses Princess Fiona when she's clearly a princesse lointaine he has never met, only been given a picture and description by the magic mirror. However, Farquaad can't be bothered to go on the quest himself, and holds a tournament to select a knight to do the job for him. When Shrek beats up all the knights, Shrek ends up going on the quest (but only to get his swamp back).
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_92a56bcb	comment	Masters of Horror: In "Valerie on the Stairs", Rob is rather drawn to Valerie, the woman who begs him to save her from a monster, even though he knows nothing about her. This is later explained to be because they're both fictional characters who were written that way. Valerie specifically has no personality attributes beyond her status as a damsel in distress because she's defined solely by her relationship to Rob.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_95f7353a	comment	In The Lone Gunmen, John Byers gets hit with this hard when he sees Suzanne Modeski. He ends up throwing away his career, his respectability, and most of his illusions about the country he loves in the process. The other two Gunmen see Modeski as little more than a Femme Fatale. The truth is... somewhere between the poles.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_967347ea	comment	Gender flipped, inverted, and otherwise played with in Revolutionary Girl Utena. Screwing with this trope might be the point of the story, as Prince Dios became the Big Bad Akio when he was abandoned by the crowds after he wasn't able to save all the girls who needed it, then ropes Utena into coming to Ohtori by first saving her under the guise of the Prince he used to be, and then setting his much-abused sister Anthy aka the Rose Bride in situations that would make Utena invoke this trope on her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_982fa89f	comment	Robin Hood: Much takes one look at Kate and is instantly in love, even though she treats him with mild contempt. All of a sudden, Kate is the centre of Much's universe (and all the outlaws, thanks to the Always Save the Girl principle). Oddly though, in a mid-season episode Much laments the fact that Kate has been captured and says: "I'd do anything for her." Yet he doesn't stop what he's doing in order to go and rescue her, so this is a subversion.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_994af351	comment	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Phoenix is a sucker for Damsels in Distress in general, male or female, whether or not they have any way of paying for his services. Phoenix first meets Maya next to a dead body and he immediately takes her case when she's accused of murder. Though it's justified as she is the younger sister of his recently deceased mentor. He does the same for Lana later on (taking her case right after meeting her) and keeps defending her even when the culprit starts personally threatening him. In Trials and Tribulations case 5, there is no evidence that Godot had ever met Maya before risking life and limb to protect her. He had a pretty good excuse, though: she is his dead girlfriend's sister, after all. That, and the one after her was essentially his girlfriend's arch-nemesis, who was responsible for ruining Godot's life too. At the same time this is also horribly Deconstructed. Godot actually learned of the plot well beforehand but, rather then alerting her to the danger, he jumps at the opportunity to try and make up for being unable to protect Mia and causes a chain of events that culminate in him killing their mother. By the end he admits he was more driven by his own selfishness than any real desire to protect Maya. In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney's backstory, it is revealed that Phoenix adopted Trucy quickly after meeting her. Justified and averted in two instances in Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney. Phoenix is more than willing to defend Espella from accusations of witchcraft even though he's known her for less than a week, but he'd been given fake memories of knowing her for five years. And the second instance: when Maya is accused, Luke Triton is more than willing to testify against her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_99beaff4	comment	Demo Reel: Tacoma hears about Rebecca's Rape as Backstory and she cries against him when she's high, so from that point he tries desperately to protect her. One problem? She's a badass Gun Nut with Nerves of Steel, and he's the one who gets beaten up by the bad guys.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9a7088bc	comment	In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Requiem for Methuselah", Kirk goes down to a planet where he only has four hours to obtain some material for a vaccine. He promptly falls so in love with the girl he meets down there that Spock is forced to erase her from his memory when he's left too heartbroken to go on after being forced to leave her. Even for the notoriously womanizing Kirk, this is a severe example.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9ab42577	comment	White Knight Chronicles: Leonard had only met the princess, Cisna, once before, when they were kids (and she wasn't even interested in him, but in the butterfly on his head), but he falls in love with her the moment he sees her again (and she with him) and is willing to rush off and confront a hostile nation searching for destructive lost technology after they kidnap her (dragging his Unlucky Childhood Friend and the Heroic Mime with him).
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9aeeca73	comment	Subverted in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, where you meet an elf girl accused of luring town guards to their death. When you do the investigation, it turns out that she was completely responsible. If you defend her, as "thanks", she'll lead you to an ambush.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9b2d45ef	comment	The central plot of Freedom Project involves the main character traveling from the Moon to the Earth - and then across the entire United States - just to meet a girl in a photograph.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9bb5aad4	comment	Edo Phoenix in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX himself is slightly confused when he decides to have a duel to the death with Amon Garam over a woman he doesn't much care about and only talked to once before this because he doesn't realize he's the Anti-Hero in a Deconstructor Fleet that's made a point of demonstrating the absurdity and danger of myriad shounen and Super Hero tropes.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Robert Baratheon's relationship with Lyanna Stark. 15 years later, she was the love of his life and he went to war for her. Her brother Eddard says that for all his talk, Robert barely knew her, and Lyanna had acknowledged before her death that being married to her would not change Robert's womanizing ways.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: A platonic version is basically why the Straw Hats manage to make waves despite their Heroic Neutrality: They fight evil only when it hurts their friends, but consider friends they've just made as worth fighting for. Since villains who aren't targeting the Straw Hats tend to threaten every innocent person in the vicinity, conflict between the two forces is pretty much inevitable. Sanji is a Chivalrous Pervert so willing to fight to help any pretty lady he comes across that he's developed a "damsel-in-distress" sixth sense. Baby 5 is a gender-inverted example that takes the trope to the point of an Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! in-universe and a parodically exaggerated deconstruction out-of-universe. She wants so badly to be wanted that she compulsively throws herself into any situation where she feels she might be useful- a problem compounded by her devil fruit powers making her a Shapeshifter Weapon capable of becoming anything from a BFS to a high-yield bomb.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9e32f21b	comment	In The Castle of Cagliostro, Lupin's original intention is a simple snatch and grab of the high-quality plates used to make near-perfect counterfeit bills, then a pretty girl is chased past him by bad men with guns and the movie happens.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_9f343695	comment	Played for laughs in the Jeeves and Wooster stories, where Bertie's insistence on gallantry gets him into a lot of trouble. Luckily, he has Jeeves there to extricate him from the soup. In one short story, Bertie even idly hopes while strolling in the park that a girl will pop up and need help with assassins or somesuch. He instead immediately bumps into his fellow Upper-Class Twit Bingo Little and gets dragged into trying to assist the latter's latest doomed romance.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a196e5c4	comment	This is quite common in White Dark Life, with several couples starting out this way. The backstory also has Brendan and Nino, Lindsay's grandparents, getting hitched this way, and Lindsay's parents, Lloyd and Lyndis, and her aunt and uncle, Linus and Esther, have their relationships start like this. Linus notably nearly got himself killed Cement Shoes-style.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a22b10c7	comment	Falcon Quinn: Pearl is both a gender-flipped and a platonic example, in that she is only too willing to declare herself the "Sworn Friend" of numerous people she's only just met, and vows that she's willing to give her life defending them. Being Hot-Blooded is part of her schtick.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a2dee471	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess mostly avert it. In Wind Waker, Link starts his quest because his little sister was taken by a giant bird, and finishes Because Destiny Says So. Twilight Princess has Link trying to save the kids from the village; at first, he's helping Midna because she's helping him. Those first 3 dungeons are by no means short (especially the third one), so by the second half of the game, he and Midna have had time to bond. Ganondorf just happens to know how to push Link's Berserk Button at the end. If you look at the gender-flipped version for Twilight Princess, Midna rescues Link from Zant's dungeon, after seeing him for five minutes. It turns out that she only did so because it was foretold that he'd help her overthrow Zant, and she later apologizes for this.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a33d74a4	comment	Sword of Truth: In Wizard's First Rule, Richard's entire quest starts when he sees some random lady running off in the distance, then sees a group of armed men stalking her. In The Law of Nines, a modern-day "reboot/continuation" of the story, the book ends with the main character being asked by an ally to tell him how the whole conflict started.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a45145a2	comment	ICO: A childish innocence is the driving force because Ico and Yorda are kids. The game's minimalism leaves a lot open to interpretation, but Ico clearly cares for Yorda, who implicitly trusts Ico with her life. It helps avoid any cliche by the fact that the game is so well done that the player comes to love both Yorda and Ico as much as they love each other. It also helps that A) One of the first things Ico sees of Yorda is her ability to open locked doors; doors which surround the castle they're trapped in there's also one at the end of the giant bridge, assuming you don't turn around and try to jump back for Yorda the second the queen tries to capture her, and B) he has a vague idea of why he himself was trapped in the castle, and knows it's a bad idea for anyone to stick around there.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a68aab11	comment	Daimos: In the first episode, Kazuya, while piloting the titular mecha robot, discovers a mysterious girl on the cliffs and falls in love with her. The mysterious woman, though amnesiac, turns out to be the Princess of the Baam-seijin, the very aliens that are warring with Planet Earth at the moment. She feels ashamed that Kazuya fell in love with her because of the fact that not only are their races warring, but her own brother, Prince Richter, is the one heading the Alien Invasion and genocide against humans. However, Kazuya tells her he loves anyway, making her very happy.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a68c19b8	comment	Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War: Played straight with Sigurd and Deirdre (or Diadora, depending on who your translator is). Gender-swapped in the same game...with Deirdre and Sigurd. Yes, they both immediately fall madly for each other. It sadly doesn't end well, in part due to Deirdre's status as a Living Macguffin and the schemes of the main antagonist.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a75070db	comment	"John Smith" from Last Man Standing (1996) is a retired gunman for hire who is possibly on the run from something, but he decides to stop in a mostly abandoned town near the Mexican border taken over by two Mafia gangs, the Irish and the Italians. He plays both sides against each other to make money, but things get personal for him when he discovers a Mexican woman being forced to be the Irish mob leader's girlfriend. He decides to risk everything to free her in secret but is found out and nearly beaten to death before escaping to recover and get revenge.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a796bde8	comment	In Metal Gear Solid, Snake devotes himself to saving Meryl when she's only around for one boss battle before she gets shot. Lampshaded in one parody, as seen here. It wasn't one-sided, either — when the two finally meet up, Meryl tells Snake that she had been given psychotherapy to destroy her interest in men, and then not ten minutes later the boss from that one battle before she gets shot is telling Snake with his dying breath that he has "a large part" in her heart.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a7a0b48b	comment	2B from NieR: Automata forms a close bond with 9S in the middle of their first mission, to the point of not minding pulling a Heroic Sacrifice with him (granted, Death is Cheap for YoRHa androids, but even then she had no idea if she'd even remember 9S afterwards due to thinking her memories during the mission weren't backed up.) This is justified later on with the revelation that this was far from her first mission with 9S. It's just the first one the player is privy to, and due to 2B being tasked with regularly rewriting 9S' memories, it's the first one that he remembers.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a90d239a	comment	Psychonauts: Raz goes down into the lake, fights the Lungfish, enters its mind to bring it back from being brainwashed by Oleander, and also fights Oleander while there, cures all four asylum inmates to collect pieces for his costume so he can get inside the tower, climbs that hellish tower. All so he can get up to the top and save Lili. It's both downplayed and justified as Raz has multiple reasons for wanting to get up the tower and the game never explicitly makes any of them the only reason.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_a9edfc69	comment	In Gnoph, Abbey and Will are traveling through a forest when they come across a soldier pursuing a young woman. Abbey is not at all surprised that Will decides to intervene on the woman's behalf, and pointedly refuses to help him in the ensuing fight. In a subversion, it is the soldier who ends up joining the heroes, while the woman is never seen again.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_aba7ffb9	comment	Rean Schwarzer from The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel does this to Alisa after both them and their future classmates fall through a Trap Door on their first day in class. Rean goes out of his way to save her and ends up getting a chest in his face. It also a subtle way to introduce Rean as a Martyr Without a Cause.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_ac719b97	comment	Daniel Jackson in Stargate. He had just ended up in an Accidental Marriage with her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time subverts this as the dying Great Deku Tree explicitly tells Link to take the Kokiri Emerald to Hyrule Castle and speak to Princess Zelda. Once he gets there and past the guards, Zelda gives him the details about the sorcerer who cursed the Great Deku Tree to die (aka Ganondorf), explains her own prophetic dreams about Ganondorf's plans obtain the godly power of the Triforce to Take Over the World, and finally ropes him into her plan to stop Ganondorf from getting the other Sacred Stones in order to enter the Sacred Realm and get the Triforce.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_af78b7bd	comment	The Exile's Violin: Clay meets Jacquie when she's in the process of stealing from an auction. After she explains herself, he says (paraphrased) "I'll help you." This is because he is bored, but later he becomes genuinely protective of her and she finds this smothering.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_afe3a134	comment	As one might garner from the page quote, this trope tends to show up a lot in video games. However, Hiro from Lunar: Eternal Blue is the smack-bang-in-the-centre example of the videogame version of this trope. It's even the Trope Namer in The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game ClichÃ©s, as seen at the top of this page. One might think that he only did this for Lucia because she's a mysterious beauty who he's clearly smitten with at first sight, but the manga "Lunar: Younenki no owari" shows that he will literally do this for ANY girl he met 5 minutes ago, making his more of a case of Chronic Hero Syndrome.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_b0666b59	comment	Neverwinter Nights: The 'good' responses during most of Aribeth's dialogue in the first chapter suggest a male hero is falling victim to this trope. A male hero of Hordes of the Underdark can fall victim to this as well, with either Nathyrra or Aribeth.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_b21cd2c3	comment	Played straight in The Faerie Queene. Redcrosse utterly fails at it, at first, but it's his first mission — one doesn't become a Knight in Shining Armor overnight. The Sweet Polly Oliver Britomart demonstrates this for her fiancÃ©, too.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_b29c63f7	comment	Excalibur: Queen Guinevere stands accused by Sir Gawain of treason by adultery and was to have Sir Lancelot champion her in trial by combat. Sir Lancelot is late to the field and King Arthur is dismayed when no other individual is willing to champion Guinevere — except for the newly arrived, unarmored, untrained (and, so far, unnamed) apprentice, who asks to champion Guinevere and is knighted by King Arthur for that purpose. He then readies himself to charge a fully armored, battle-hardened Sir Gawain when (fortunately) Lancelot shows up to prevent it from happening.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_b3704ed0	comment	In the online tie-in game for the movie Salt, the player is led to believe that Salt is being set up by the bad guys and she needs your help to clear her name. In reality, she is a Soviet mole and is using you to eliminate some loose ends. She later betrays the player to his (it's always shown as a male player) bosses in the CIA.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_b3a8ec57	comment	Sasuke from Ikemen Sengoku briefly met the female main character just before they got flung back to Japan's Sengoku era by a wormhole and got separated for four years. Despite that long period of time after their first meeting and them being total strangers who barely said three sentences to one another during that meeting, he never forgot about her and vowed to find her and do anything needed to ensure that she'd stay safe and be able to return to their original time. The MC even notes on his route that while he's a Nice Guy, that alone doesn't explain his complete devotion to protecting someone he had only about ten seconds of interaction with four years ago. However, it turns out there's a better reason for his devotion to her than just Chronic Hero Syndrome or Love at First Sight — during their first meeting, she pushed him out of the way of a lightning bolt strike and while it happened so quickly that she forgot about it, he never forgot that he would have been dead if not for her quick and brave action and he vowed to repay her for it.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_b66371ca	comment	The Bard's Tale: The female shows up as an unreal owner of boob, so he immediately works for her although his tasks mess up his life severely. Later we "find" out that she is a demon.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_b69b9a9	comment	In episode 4 of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Bell is going about his business when he sees an unknown woman (Liliruca) being attacked by a sword-wielding stranger. He immediately rushes in to protect her, and when the attacker asks why he got involved in someone else's dispute, he replies "because she's a girl". Even Liliruca is taken aback by this, and asks him "Will you save any woman just because she's a woman?"
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_b704a08a	comment	In Reborn! (2004), Tsuna is shown to be willing to die for Kyoko. He hardly ever really talks with her or knows her, and apparently the whole reason he has a crush on her in the first place was that she was the only girl that bothered talking to him in twelve months. His relationship with Uni too. The series seems to fully be implying a sort of Tsuna = Knight in shining armor who protects and "champions" for Uni (the Damsel in Distress). Tsuna seems to like the idea - he's certainly blushing a lot every time she says anything. His decision to take her under his wing seemed to mainly be influenced by the tragic, self-sacrificing expression in her eyes. Directly lampshaded by Byakuran, who mocks Tsuna by asking him if he's trying to be Uni's "Knight in Shining Armor".
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_b9c5943b	comment	In Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, private detective Lionel Whitney (Jeff Goldblum) is prone to this with the Girl of the Week. It's worth noting that a key reason he gave up his job as a stockbroker to became a detective was to live out his longstanding fantasies of being "Mark Savage", the 1940s-style private eye protagonist of the pulpy novels he devours. This trope gets him into particular trouble in "Savage Says: There's No Free Lunch" because that week's Dulcinea is actually The Vamp. Even better? The novel he's working his way through at the time sees Savage similarly deceived, but it isn't until Lionel's recovering in the hospital that he finishes it and realizes how strong the Plot Parallel was.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In William King's Warhammer 40,000 Space Wolf novel Wolfblade, Torin warns Ragnar that the conversation he overheard may have been to induce him to assassinate a lord to protect a young woman — and that the woman may have been part to such a plot.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_be0ba0f9	comment	Kiri of The Severing Crime Edge knew Iwai for approximately 48 hours at the point he decides to defend her from the serial killers out to murder her. No, not kidnap and sacrifice her, but kill her on the spot. Whoever does manage to gets the power to break the laws of nature, and presumably have one of their wishes granted. Admittedly, it doesn't take much to want to prevent a young girl from being brutally murdered.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_bf0710c5	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides gives us a straight and justifiable male example, but an inversion as well, with the love interest herself. Philip shows the most kindness for Syrena after she's taken captive by Blackbeard as a means to harvest a tear for the Fountain of Youth, but as a clergyman, you can understand that his acts of kindness are mostly motivated by his view on the value of all life, and he's wary about Syrena possibly killing him since their first meeting was just after the mermaids attacked the entire crew. Once Syrena reveals that Philip has no reason to fear her, she gives a straighter example of this trope by revealing that her "attack" on Philip was an act to save his life, stating that her reason was that he was different from the other men. She didn't show up prior to her introduction when the mermaids came about. It's after that moment that Philip is willing to risk his life for her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_bff448a5	comment	In The Ambulance, the main character sees an attractive woman walking down the street and attempts to hit on her, she rebuffs him, he follows her and continues hitting on her, she collapses, and the titular ambulance picks her up. He then spends the rest of the movie risking life and limb, fighting a sociopathic doctor constantly trying to run him down with an ambulance, and he never even got her name. After he rescues her from certain excruciating death and declares he did it for true love which he recognized at first, she asks him to call her boyfriend and let him know that she's okay.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger opens this way, when Crono follows Marle through the mysterious portal triggered by the malfunctioning telepods, after meeting her that day. Although after she disappears, the game prevents you from leaving the scene any other way, so it's forced. Lucca says it best: "Crono! You brought her here, you get her back!" And she's kind of got a point; what sort of person would bring a new acquaintance to something that goes terribly wrong — and then just abandon them to who knows what?
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_c1632d4d	comment	Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia: Lyner has no hesitation in helping any Squishy Witch of the Reyvateil race, which only consist of girls. Lyner's keeping up with this trope so much that he will have no hesitation in "saving" a Big Bad in the final battle, who appears to be an over-abused Reyvateil.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_c2d34f7f	comment	The main plot of Sands of Destruction kicks off this way: Kyrie is ecstatic when Morte decides to drag him around the world in order to convince him it's an awful place mere moments after breaking him out of the Sky Gaol and soon promises to help her in whatever she needs, including ending the world. He's obviously not thinking clearly at that moment.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Steven sees a young woman, Anne, getting chased by guards in the first episode of "The Massacre of Saint Bartholemew's Eve" and becomes immediately fixated on saving her. When the Doctor leaves the time period without doing anything to prevent the massacre, he focuses most of his grief on the fact that they'd left Anne to die. In "The War Machines", Ben's brooding is broken up when he sees a man is being a nuisance to Polly. When the man starts a fight, Ben does not back down. (Then, he's brooding because he's on a shore posting, so there may be a touch of In Harm's Way to it.) In "The Evil of the Daleks", the Daleks' plan relies on Jamie being prepared to risk his life to rescue Victoria, whom he hasn't even met at that point. He does. "The Girl in the Fireplace": The Doctor nearly gets himself Trapped in the Past without the TARDIS defending Reinette from the clockwork droids, when he's only known her for the length of a party. In "The Night of the Doctor", it is revealed that the Eighth Doctor's death and eventual regeneration was caused by him choosing to risk his life for a cute girl he met five seconds ago, whose name gets mentioned dramatically at the end of his list of companions as if it is the most special one of them all. It's justified in that the Eighth Doctor is one of the most innocent, optimistic and All-Loving Hero incarnations of the Doctor, so it serves as a decisive Break the Cutie for him. In the Tenth Doctor audio story "Dead Air", the Hush's plan depends on the Doctor being willing to take a beautiful young woman onboard the TARDIS despite hardly knowing her. The Doctor even lampshades this in the narration. It's completely in character for him.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_c70a1171	comment	In the Conan the Barbarian stories "Shadows In Zamboula", "Iron Shadows in the Moon", and "The Pool of the Black One", Conan fights for unknown women on little provocation. Then again, he's prone to fight on little provocation anyway.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_c7b62e5f	comment	The quoted musical, Man of La Mancha, as well as the classical novel Don Quixote, upon which it was based, parody this very trope, when the self-proclaimed knight Don Quixote falls instantly in love with a beautiful damsel (in fact, a barmaid moonlighting as a prostitute) and refuses to be convinced by any means that his lady "Dulcinea" (a name he gave her, because her real name, Aldonza, was ill-fitting for a lady of her splendor) was anything less than the beautiful and virtuous lady he imagined her to be. In this particular musical, Don Quixote's high (if misguided) opinion of Aldonza eventually causes her to realize that she is not living up to her potential, and makes it her business to take more pride in herself and become her own Dulcinea.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_c832776	comment	In Gundam SEED Destiny, Shinn risks his military career and possible execution to save Stellar, an enemy Super-Soldier and Tyke Bomb who he met once before he found this out. Slightly justified in that she reminds him of his late little sister, and it's hinted that he loves her more as a Replacement Goldfish than anything else.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_c9d6c480	comment	Hercule Poirot: Captain Hastings suffers from this a great deal. He will always leap to the assistance of a young lady (especially a redhead), and will generally ignore any evidence pointing to her as the murderer. One such woman is even named Dulcie.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_cba3559b	comment	Deconstructed in V6 of Survival of the Fittest: Brendan Harte sees two boys holding a girl hostage and threatening to kill her. Believing her to be a typical Damsel in Distress, he rushes in, stabs one of the boys in the neck, and saves the girl's life. Her name was Nancy Kyle, and once Brendan's fuck-up is spelt out to him later on, all he can do is hysterically laugh.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_cbdfd7d4	comment	Planet of Adventure. Anacho calls out the protagonist Adam Reith on this in the first novel, pointing out that he's oblivious to all the other suffering that's going on in the world, yet he's risking all to save a single pretty girl, who is just one prisoner in a caravan of slaves. Reith can only give a shamefaced grin and say that one man can't do everything, so he may as well start with the Damsel in Distress.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_cceb25de	comment	The Locked Tomb: The aptly named Dulcinea Septimus in Gideon the Ninth, thanks to her terminal illness. Gideon feels compelled to protect her from the moment they meet. It also turns out that Palamedes has devoted his life to trying to rescue her from her illness ever since he began trading letters with her twelve years ago. He never even needed to meet her in person to fall in love with her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_cd8905f6	comment	Baccano!: Jacuzzi gets a ransom note for a woman he met earlier that day. His response is to turn in himself for the money the mob put on his head. However, he's shown to be like this towards everyone. He was, at one point, more concerned about the safety of some Russo mafia mooks than he was over the fact that said mooks were about to kill him. Claire Stanfield, a man who insists on devoting himself completely and utterly to the first cute girl he finds that doesn't say no. Considering he's the series' resident Ax-Crazy Sociopathic Hero, Chane now has either the most awesome or the most terrifying boyfriend in existence.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_ce133407	comment	In a strange variation on this trope, Isaac from Crystal Heroes decides to join the expedition into a dangerous dungeon immediately after Garrett volunteers to join, on the grounds that he's "so hot." So, rather than risking his life for the sake of aiding someone he just met and finds attractive, he risks his life just to spend time with one of the other party members who he just met and finds attractive.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_cf8e87c8	comment	In Re:Zero, Subaru practically invokes this after getting Trapped in Another World; being Wrong Genre Savvy, he figures he must be there to protect some cute girl, and after seeing Emilia searching for her insignia, he figures it must be her and decides to help her. The trope doesn't truly kick in until the two of them are murdered by Elsa the Bowel Hunter, triggering Subaru's Return by Death for the first time, at which point Subaru becomes determined to (and eventually unhealthily obsessed with) helping and protecting her. Ram and Rem come to feel that Subaru is acting like this towards them but in their case, they have only known him for a day, but Subaru (and the audience) has actually known them for quite a bit longer. This being a Deconstruction, he's called out on this trope at every turn, even by Emilia herself, and ends up going through absolute hell.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	The Twilight Saga: Edward knows Bella as a person and not prey for maybe a month before he wants to spend the rest of his (non)-life protecting her from every other vampire in the world. In Breaking Dawn, Renesmee. The plot of the latter half of the book was to rally up vampires to protect this one child that none of them even know. All of them agree to put their lives in danger for Renesmee the second they see her, without any logical reason as to why they even should endanger themselves to protect someone they only just met. Word of God says that vampires are extremely apathetic and, especially those that drink human blood, feel no affection for other vampires other than the one or two that travel with them.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d30f13f0	comment	In Deadman Wonderland, Ganta quickly becomes this way with apparent Shrinking Violet Minatsuki, feeling the need to protect her with his life and break out of Deadman Wonderland together with her. However, it turns out that Minatsuki is Ax-Crazy and counted on The Dulcinea Effect kicking in. She tried to use his protectiveness to injure him and make it easier for her to kill him. To put it in her words: "I'm sorry, but the whole virgin knight thing is fucking disgusting."
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: Peeta Mellark has known who Katniss is since he was five years old, but the first time he actually speaks with her is after the reaping. Still, he's willing to die and kill for her without the slightest hesitation, to the point where their mentor Haymitch realizes there's no point in trying to keep Peeta alive since he's just going to sacrifice himself for Katniss anyway. Even before they both became tributes, he willingly took a beating from his abusive mother so he could give Katniss some bread, when he was just eleven years old.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d36b8ea7	comment	The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages: Link goes and saves Impa from some attacking monsters (while he does know Impa, he doesn't seem to know her when he saves her). He then accompanies her to find the girl Impa was looking for. Once they find said girl, it turns out that Impa was actually possessed by an evil sorceress, the girl was the Oracle of Ages, and the sorceress has now possessed her. Well done, Link.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d57d722e	comment	Ōkami: Obviously, given that you're the omnibenevolent sun god and all. Issun tends to be more cynical than Ammy but is also a huge sucker for a pretty face. Same in Ōkamiden. Your first partner, Kuni, actually believes that it is his duty as a swordsman and son of Susano to help out any damsel in distress he sees, despite initially being too afraid of demons to face up to them. Kurow also seems to display this, despite his Establishing Character Moment showing him to be a bit of a jerk and possibly a criminal.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d6423831	comment	John Carter of Mars: In The Gods of Mars, John Carter starts a Gladiator Revolt at the sight of women being thrown to monsters — and most of the gladiators follow him. Largely justified, as it's made clear from the first novel that John's culture and values compel him to rescue any woman from danger. Who they are is largely irrelevant. In Thuvia, Maid of Mars, hearing a woman scream draws Carthoris from his sabotaged airship.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d7c4626a	comment	Subverted in the Sandman tale "The Hunt", in which the protagonist travels long and far to find a beautiful noblewoman whose picture he's seen on a necklace, only to end up returning the necklace to her and walking away to marry someone else. The tale ends with the wisdom that some goals are better not attained.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d8bda674	comment	X/1999: Sorata Arisugawa decides to protect Arashi Kishuu with his life, immediately when he meets her for the first time. This is justified because Sora knows that he is fated to die for a woman. And the reason why he chooses Arashi is that he wants to die for a beautiful girl. Though he actually does fall for Arashi's actual person when he gets to know her, and she falls in love with him as well. It happens both in the anime movie and in the anime series, while the manga is never finished but was implied to be going the same way.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, if the resident Cowardly Lion Zenitsu canâ€™t muster the inner courage, he has to surpass all of his cowardice on the surface. A good way to make him focus and be brave — or at least try to — is to find himself in a situation where thereâ€™s a woman in peril; Zenitsu will stop his complaining right away and go for the rescue.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_d9c602eb	comment	Lampshaded in South Park: Jimmy is aware that Leslie isn't even human, but she's enough of a manipulative Fille Fatale that he starts thinking that he should save her from her captors anyway.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_da13d925	comment	Many women in The Mark of the Lion wish they had this effect on the gladiators, but Julia is the one to have it (accidentally) on Atretes.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_da6e9f88	comment	In Peacebreakers, Jackson kills Kiera's stalker, gets her sober, and dies to save her from zombies after knowing her for a few months and dating her for two.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_da7c0f6e	comment	Lupin III: Episode 0: First Contact is another example of Fujiko tricking Lupin into letting her get her way, making him believe she's escaped from Galvez.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_dde91ea5	comment	In A Knight's Tale, Jocelyn makes William feel like a poet even though he doesn't know her name. Later, Jocelyn demands that William prove his love by losing an important joust for her. After watching him get knocked around for a while, she changes her mind and sends word that he must prove his love by winning the joust. William is very obviously pissed and, when Chaucer tries to motivate him by pointing out Jocelyn in the stands, William growls "And how I hate her!" He meets her that night and has apparently forgiven her, but when she sees his injuries and says that it's all her fault, he gives a very unromantic "Yes, it is."
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_dff248f8	comment	The Adventures of Puss in Boots plays this a little obviously, as the character involved is literally named Dulcinea. For bonus points, she's revealed in the finale to be a Tulpa, which means like her namesake, she is imaginary (albeit in a slightly different way).
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_e199d649	comment	Inheritance Cycle: Eragon is only too ready to give his life saving a girl he met moments ago, who's spent the entire time he's known her in a coma. All he had to work with was a dream of a beautiful woman being held in a dungeon.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_e5feb1e	comment	Male-on-male example: In Ace Attorney fanfic Dirty Sympathy, Klavier only knew Apollo for a night before deciding he will try to save him from his brother. Justified in that Klavier knows what kind of man his brother is and he would have been in Apollo's place if he hadn't run away the first chance he got. There is also an implication that Klavier is projecting his feelings on his bad situation onto Apollo.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_e6275a02	comment	In Looking for Group, there is a Playing with a Trope example. Cale is revived by a priestess (Benny) after being incinerated by Richard the warlock and almost immediately devotes his life to her. While this sounds like I Owe You My Life, he was pretty inclined to risk his life for her before being revived (she was being ganged up upon by some thugs and Richard and Cale's ashes watched as she fought them off). This ultimately leads to the forming of the group and their ultimate coupling. It had less to do with protecting the girl and more to do with his view of ultimate pure good and wanting to help everyone and everything and saving those who save him.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_e8595ff9	comment	Tangled: Despite Flynn being strong-armed into escorting Rapunzel to the lantern festival, and doing everything he can to weasel out of it, including trying to scare her by taking her to a bar full of scary thugs, he does try to protect her the moment he thinks she might actually be in danger and seems genuinely concerned when the head thug is bearing down on her.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_e9c7b01b	comment	In Duodecim, talking to Zidane on the world map at one point has him say that collecting the crystals is a pain and he wouldn't do it if Cosmos wasn't hot. He says that he's joking, but Squall doesn't believe him.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_ecd2d797	comment	Baldur's Gate allows a justification of the trope, where you find a drow woman being pursued by a member of the Flaming Fist (a mercenary company that acts as law and order for the region). He says she is accused of murder, and he's going to kill her... without the messiness of a trial or any of that because she's a drow. She is evil and may well be guilty, but your character can protest that the law should be obeyed. The mercenary comes after you for it, and you get to fight him (with no loss of reputation, as would happen if you killed any other Flaming Fist soldier in the game). You do, however, lose 2 reputation points if you let her join your party.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_eedac02b	comment	Durarara!!: Mikado is compelled to save Anri from the delinquents harassing her. Chikage takes this trope to its logical extreme by being willing to risk his life for any girl ever. Mikado also saves Mika from Celty, no questions asked—until later.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_eef62751	comment	Tales of Destiny 2: Mixed with Jumped at the Call. As soon as Reala emerges from a giant Lens, Kyle is determined to become her hero and pursues her across the continent to do so. This is often lampshaded by his adopted brother, Loni, who is also roped into the adventure as a result.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes: This was clearly a reasonable thing to expect, if the woman was English like himself. Thus it's proof that nationalism was a lot stronger in the 1890s: if a character in 21st-century fiction drops everything to help out a random stranger who happens to be from his home country, nobody would buy it.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_eff2c0c4	comment	In Thistil Mistil Kistil, Coal can give no very coherent account of why he rescued Hedda.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_f0d055dd	comment	Daphne in the Brilliant Blue: Gender flipped. Shizuka finds a guy injured near trash cans and quickly becomes attached to and protective of him. The guy's a con artist and calls this his "lonely enigmatic spy" routine.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_f31ebb02	comment	Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a rather extreme example. When Abe first meets Damsel in Distress Nuala, she presumes him to be an Enemy. He uses his Touch Telepathy to prove he isn't, but during this split-second mind contact, they both fall completely in love. After this moment, they have barely any interaction before the Big Bad kidnaps Nuala and demands the last key to control the titular Golden Army for her return. And although Abe knows the Big Bad plans to Kill All Humans with this army, and that he is Nuala's twin brother and will magically suffer any injury he might inflict on her, Abe goes behind his friend's back and gives up the MacGuffin, with no plan to stop the Big Bad afterwards.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_f3e1f424	comment	Merlin: This is in full effect in the episode "The Lady of the Lake". Merlin merely glimpses Freya and instantly decides he must risk everything to save her. The fact that she's being persecuted for magic use might have something to do with it, but it still fits the straight version.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_f62e4f3	comment	There is a same-gender, Platonic example in Anecdote of Error. Luntsha decides to rescue Zeya from prison, after meeting her just once when Zeya tried to kill her and her friends, because she doesnâ€™t want to be responsible for Zeya getting executed. She does this despite knowing that, if caught, at best sheâ€™ll be expelled and at worst sheâ€™ll be killed.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_f84c42c0	comment	Lupin III: In The Castle of Cagliostro, Lupin's original intention is a simple snatch and grab of the high-quality plates used to make near-perfect counterfeit bills, then a pretty girl is chased past him by bad men with guns and the movie happens. Fujiko is also responsible for causing the Dulcinea effect on Lupin; the story with Pycal began this way, and she used it on both Lupin and Goemon to get them to kill each other in Lupin III: Part 1. Lupin III: Episode 0: First Contact is another example of Fujiko tricking Lupin into letting her get her way, making him believe she's escaped from Galvez.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_f887f99b	comment	In Heart of Steel, Alistair is willing to do some crazy(er) things for the sake of Julia, whom he barely knows. Justified in that she's the first meaningful human companionship he's had in ten years.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_f953dbb1	comment	Thoma goes through quite a bit of trouble to help out Lily in Force, breaking into a lab and almost getting incinerated, becoming a fugitive from the TSAB, getting sought after by the HÃ¼ckebein, and slowly losing control of himself, and gets involved merely as a result of hearing her calling for help.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_fcf34eec	comment	Full Metal Panic!: In the first season, Sousuke goes AWOL and abandons his post under a hostage situation to recover Kaname from the villains. Granted, she was the VIP he was specifically assigned to protect while the rest of the plane's occupants were not (and he had known her for a bit longer than most examples of this trope), but he was still ordered to stay with the other hostages by his superior officer. As to remove any doubt that he was planning to disobey that order, said officer also states that Sousuke's professionalism meant he'd definitely not do emotional things like charging off after the Damsel in Distress. An interesting female version of this is shown with Grace Weissman (AKA Gray). She hardly knows much about Sousuke (who temporarily joined her team in a mission), yet immediately defends him and, in a way, "champions" for him against her skeptical teammates' suspicions about him (who dislike him due to him only being 16, yet being an equal in their mission). Her passionately defending him eventually made one of her teammates ask her if she's going that far because she has the hots for him. Even till the end when she's killed by Gauron, her last thoughts are for Sousuke not to worry about her, and that she hopes he will be able to return safely. Considering Sousuke's track record, it isn't far off in saying Gray might've had at least some attraction to him.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_fe08cb30	comment	The Punisher (2017). In Season 2, Frank Castle has a clean slate from the authorities who have wiped his record, but risks throwing that away to help a teenage girl being attacked by Pilgrim's mercenaries. However when they discuss this trope afterwards, with Frank claiming that he wouldn't have helped her if she was a man, she suggests this is a lie and he was just looking for an excuse to get into a fight.
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The Dulcinea Effect / int_ff6a8d79	comment	Babylon: Manny falls in love with Nellie the moment he meets her and they befriend each over the course of the night. However, they only see each other again when Manny happens to run into Nellie in New York months later, and it's implied that they have similar sporadic encounters until Manny becomes a studio executive and is able to work much more closely with her. Nonetheless, he still remains both hopelessly in love and unquestionably devoted to her, risking both his career and his life for the sake of helping her. Eventually, Nellie ends up leaving him because she knows she's a bad influence on him and that his sheer devotion towards her is unhealthy and only brings them more pain.
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Dinosaur King / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Freedom Project / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Guilty Crown / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Millennium Actress / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Now and Then, Here and There / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Origin: Spirits of the Past / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Plastic Little / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Samurai Champloo / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Castle of Cagliostro / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Barbe-Rouge (Comic Book) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Sin City (Comic Book) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Sky Doll (Comic Book) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Scrameustache (Comic Book) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Walking Dead (Comic Book) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Hercules / Disney / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Cardcaptor Rad / Fan Fic / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
LuminaryUprise	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
Olivine Romance / Fan Fic / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Belladonna Lilies (Fanfic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A high school library? (Fanfic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Danganronpa Yakuza Arc (Fanfic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Equestrylvania (Fanfic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Mass Effect: Human Revolution (Fanfic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
My Little Denarians (Fanfic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Heart Trilogy (Fanfic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
To Aruverse Rewrite Project (Fanfic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
A Knight's Tale / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
A New Hope / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Babylon (2022) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Beverly Hills Ninja / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Blue Velvet / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Caboblanco / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Chaos Walking (2021) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Civil War (2024) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Collateral / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Color Out of Space (2020) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Constantine (2005) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Defendor / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Doctor Zhivago / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Drive (2011) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Edge of Tomorrow / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
El Mariachi / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Ex Machina / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Excalibur / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
G.I. Jane / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Hammer Horror / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
His Only Son / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Hitman / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Hobo With a Shotgun / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Inglourious Basterds / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Le Capitan / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Monty Python and the Holy Grail / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Moon Warriors / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
My Favorite Year / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Noah / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Picnic at Hanging Rock / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Runaway / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
San Andreas / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Slumdog Millionaire / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Solomon Kane / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Stonehearst Asylum / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Taxi Driver / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Accountant (2016) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Bravery of Dora / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Expendables / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Limehouse Golem / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Lord of the Rings / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Mask / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Terminator / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Town / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
They Live! / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Tomorrow Never Dies / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Under the Silver Lake / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Zombieland / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Super Sentai (Franchise) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
cosmicPostman (Lets Play) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Aria the Scarlet Ammo / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Rebuild World / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
A Certain Magical Index / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Aria the Scarlet Ammo / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Assassin's Pride / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
BlazBlue: Phase Shift / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Delicate Fire / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Don Quixote / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
ExilesViolin	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
Gideon the Ninth / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
I Miss You, I Miss You / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
If This Goes On— / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Ivanhoe / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
John Carter of Mars / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Lodgeworld / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Man Eaters of Zamboula / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Moab Is My Washpot / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Mort / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Of Cinder and Bone / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Orlando Furioso / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Planet of Adventure / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Re:Zero / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Rebuild World / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Revolving Door / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Samaria / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Scrapped Princess / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Sharpe's Triumph / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Shattered Continent / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Sorcerer To The Crown / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Summer Celebration	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
Sword of Truth / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Elder Scrolls / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
TheExilesViolin	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
The Familiar of Zero / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Heroes of Olympus / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Idiot / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Lovers / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Orphan's Tales / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Twilight Saga / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Vampire Diaries / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Villager A Wants to Save the Villainess No Matter What! / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Waverley / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
White Trash Warlock / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Console RPG Clichés 1 to 24 / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
IWillProtectHer	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
Ptitlejsycb8gxibrd	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
SummerCelebration	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
White Knighting	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
A Town Where You Live (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Blade of the Immortal (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Deadman Wonderland (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Flame of Recca (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Future Diary (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Good Luck Girl! (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Laughing Under the Clouds (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Parallel Paradise (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Ten Yori Mo, Hoshi Yori Mo (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016) (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Severing Crime Edge (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
To Love Ru (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Voice Over! Seiyu Academy (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
×××HOLiC (Manga)	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
Ya Boy Kongming! (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Sporadic Phantoms (Podcast) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Amalgam Unlimited (Roleplay) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Darwin's Soldiers (Roleplay) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Persona: HEAVEN (Afreaknamedpete) (Roleplay) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Baptiste / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Dollhouse / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Dream High / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Fringe / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
House / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Into The West / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Keen Eddie / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Kikaider / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Kousoku Sentai Turboranger / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Life on Mars (2006) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
María la del barrio / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
My So-Called Life / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Power Rangers Ninja Storm / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Primeval / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Shut Up Flower Boy Band / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Survivor / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Order / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Steve Wilkos Show / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
24 / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Westworld / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Love in Hate Nation (Theatre) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Man of La Mancha (Theatre) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
On the Town (Theatre) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatre) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Twelfth Night (Theatre) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Drakengard (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Eternal Legacy (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Gemini Rue (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
LostMagic (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Lunar: Eternal Blue (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
SaGa Frontier (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Sands of Destruction (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Tales of Xillia 2 (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Last Story (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Xenogears (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
YsSEVEN	seeAlso	The Dulcinea Effect
Akatsuki no Goei (Visual Novel) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Because We're Here (Visual Novel) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Bloodbound (Visual Novel) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Hakuouki (Visual Novel) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (Visual Novel) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Zodiac Axis (Visual Novel) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Scream of the Shalka (Web Animation) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Anecdote of Error (Webcomic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
RPG World (Webcomic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
James Bond Jr. / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
ReBoot / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Adventures of Puss in Boots / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Toy Story 3 / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Fractale / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
×××HOLiC (Manga) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Prince of Persia (2008) (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
White Knight Chronicles (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Ys (Video Game) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Gold Coin Comics (Webcomic) / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect

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