Damsels in distress

Disney cartoon character who is often the girlfriend of Mickey Mouse

Ethiopian princess in Greek mythology

2001 film by David Lynch

1933 American monster adventure film

fictional character created by Robert E. Howard

fictional character from the Mario franchise

Thumbelina (; ) is a literary fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published by C. A. Reitzel on 16 December 1835 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with "The Naughty Boy" and "The Travelling Companion" in the second installment of Fairy Tales Told for Children. Thumbelina is about a tiny girl and her adventures with marriage-minded toads, moles, and cockchafers. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size.

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner and starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, André the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. Adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his kidnapped true love Princess Buttercup from the evil Prince Humperdinck. The film preserves the novel's metafictional narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather to his sick grandson.

1976 film directed by John Guillermin

1954 American monster film

title character of Disney's 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid and its franchise

fictional character from the Mario franchise

early 16th century novel

fictional character from 1992 Disney film Aladdin and its franchise

theme in storytelling, stock character; a noble Lady in need of rescue, traditionally from dragons

thumb|280px|The marriage of Telamon and Hesione or Hesione's farewell to her brother [[Priam under the attention of Heracles and Telamon on the right, detail of fresco from the triclinium of the House of Octavius Quartio at Pompeii]] thumb|Heracles saves Hesione from the sea monster; 15th-century miniature In Greek mythology and later art, the name Hesione (/hɪˈsaɪ.əniː/; Ancient Greek: Ἡσιόνη) refers to various mythological figures, of whom the Trojan princess Hesione is most known.

fictional character and protagonist/heroine of Disney's 1991 animated feature "Beauty and the Beast"

stock character

Title character of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

1986 role-playing video game

fictional protagonist of many of the Oz novels by the American author L. Frank Baum

1928 Mickey Mouse short film

fictional character on Scooby-Doo

fictional character from Disney's Tangled franchise

Woman known for her work in horror films

stock character; "last girl standing" in a horror film

fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise

legendary medieval figure

thumb|The Knight Errant (painting)|The Knight Errant by [[John Everett Millais (1870)]]

character created by J.M. Barrie

1989 American TV series

protagonist from Disney's The Princess and the Frog

1914 film

1914 film serial featuring Pearl White directed by Louis J. Gasnier

fictional character from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

titular protagonist of the 1995 Disney film of the same name

character from Popeye

BDSM sex toy

painting by Rembrandt

2020 song by Camila Cabello

pulp science fiction magazine

Nintendo character

1944 film by Samuel Goldwyn, Allen Boretz, Sidney Lanfield, David Butler

American animated anthropomorphic superhero mouse

fictional character from DC Comics

1962 film by Irwin Allen

1913 film by Mack Sennett

fictional character in the American animated television series Adventure Time

1942 animated short film directed by Chuck Jones

animated television series

series of computer games

fictional character

right|thumb|Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan|D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers.

1983 film by Ferdinand Fairfax

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1906 film by Georges Méliès

1917 film by Clarence G. Badger

1914 - 1917 film serial / series

2005 film by Russell Mulcahy

fictional character created by J. M. Barrie