Prettiest Damsel You've Ever Rescued

[Ascending Wordsmith]

If there's one thing that bad guys excel at, it's kidnapping damsels. Women make the best hostages. As Frank Drebin said, "They're smaller, easy to take along, eat less, smell nice." Apparently many video game villains agree, so they go on to abduct a woman and dangle her in your face as bait. You, being the hero, take the bait and go against the evil forces that hold her captive. You eventually triumph by killing numerous minions and the kingpin. The lady has been rescued by you. Yay.

Think of all the games you've played where you had to face huge opposition to free a damsel from distress. Of all the ladies you've freed from captivity, which one was the prettiest?

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She's a blond and wears red pumps. Jessica from Final Fight gets my vote for prettiest damsel to be rescued. Unfortunately, Cody landed himself in jail before she could ask him about marriage. I heard Guy moved in with her. ;)

*I would've considered Marian from Double Dragon but since she got blown away by an M-60 machine gun, I kinda doubt her ability to look attractive.

[Kid Fenris]

Jessica was a source of much amusement for me, and not only because of that background from Street Fighter Alpha 2 in which she jealously slaps Cody across the face. I also thought it was hysterically funny when she appeared in the Final Fight episode of the USA Network's horrid Street Fighter cartoon. Whether intentionally or not, the animators actually made her look bigger and tougher than the thugs who were kidnapping her, leading the viewer to speculate that perhaps Jessica wanted to be nabbed by the gang as part of some insurance scan or something.

Ah, the Street Fighter cartoon. It was pure comedic brilliance.

Anyway, my vote goes to Artemis from Phelios.

Oh wait. (http://www.geocities.com/opcfg3/phelios.html)

Never mind. Blech.

I think I'll pick Tifa from Final Fantasy VII, specifically from the scene where Cloud had to rescue her from Don Corneo. Tifa, of course, needed rescuing about as much as a monkey needs a machine gun.

http://www.kidfenris.com/tifa.jpg

[lionforce]

The female you had to rescue on one of your quests in Pirates! Gold for the Genesis was gorgeous, that game had some ugly women but it also had some hot women and sometimes you ended up marrying the ugly ones ahhhhhhhhhh :/

[IntvGene]

Well, I just saved her a couple of days ago, now that I've reclaimed a 3D0, Talana from StarCon 2:

http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/sc2/images/syreen-laying.gif

Maybe it's the Riker in me, but I dig the aliens the most.

[Sniderman]

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Firey redhead Kimberly from Space Ace. She wears a miniskirt and boots for Pete's Sake! Ah, the old hotness....