The Distressed Damsel is in the clutches of the villain, but the villain decides that chains, cages, cells, and other ways of containment are too unreliable. The hardest chain for The Hero to break while freeing this prisoner is in the damsel's own mind. Thus the villain Hypnotizes the damsel. As with Save the Princess, this need not be a princess or even a lady. Of course, Freud Was Right, and such brainwashing is inevitably Fetish Fuel for some and subject to Rule 34. Examples of Hypnotize the Princess include: