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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })There is a piece of vital information that would clear up a character's problems, whether it is a misunderstanding of romance or combat. If the character would just spit it out already, it would save entire episodes', if not entire seasons' worth of trouble and tears. ...so, naturally, they don't. Whether it's due to embarrassment, ego, or just plain stupidity, they rush into whatever situation is going on. Sometimes this leads to a moral about the benefits of clear-headed conversation over fighting needlessly. However, most of the time it's just to provide padding to the series. Sometimes, one reason for this is because the other side won't let them, or else they seem to have a wall around their mind against the information. Other times the character is just an ass. Although the Ineffectual Loner has many chances to clarify his role, most of the time he'll just tell the heroes to figure it out themselves. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Another case is where a problem that would be easy to talk through has gotten mixed up in something they're less willing (or strictly unable) to share. It could be a Dark Secret, the Masquerade, a Secret Identity, or even something mundane — but explaining the easy problem means explaining the hidden one, so the ignorant side must be kept in the dark on both, whether the knowledgeable side likes it or not. This tends to be how the Masquerade starts to kill your dating life... or worse, kill the date themselves. Of course, any time someone finally summons up the courage to actually say it, they will be interrupted. It could be sudden events in the plot taking priority, or another of their circle of friends suddenly feels the need to announce some unimportant item that needs everyone's attention right now. The moment is lost, and even when it isn't, they likely won't be believed anyway. Sometimes, most tragically of all, the character or the person to whom this needs to be said will die or be otherwise lost forever just as the character has gotten up the courage to make his or her feelings known. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Thinking you have courage enough and finding yourself indulging in Talk About the Weather or other chitchat is also common. Sometimes overcome by the Green-Eyed Monster, or by Converse with the Unconscious or (worst case) Talking to the Dead. If a character derives pleasure from withholding information and puzzling others, it is Loves Secrecy. If it's a magical curse that prevents the character from sharing information, then that character may be Tongue-Tied. If it's simply too personal for the character to talk about, they're Emotionally Tongue-Tied. If both members of a romantic pairing can't spit it out, they're Twice Shy. Should the character find saying whatever it is so alien and repugnant that they are practically incapable of saying it, it's probably Gagging on Your Words. If they're too damn mad to get the words out, you're dealing with a case of Angrish. In an Unresolved Sexual Tension or Belligerent Sexual Tension situation, or if All Love Is Unrequited, this trope is often vital to maintaining the status quo. Real Life Cannot Spit It Out is known as Alexithymia, which is an inability to describe or process emotions. Sometimes a trait of introverted people whether or not they have this condition. See also Aborted Declaration of Love, Interrupted Declaration of Love, You Didn't Ask, Idiot Plot, Mistaken for Index, Hint Dropping, Dug in Deeper. A specific sub-trope of Poor Communication Kills. Sister trope of Tongue Twister. Has nothing to do with being unable to clear one's mouth of a disgusting flavor. Everyone Can See It is what happens when the information is romantically related and blatantly obvious to everyone except those who can't spit it out. |
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Dave and Helen from Narbonic gradually become attracted to each other. This week of strips gives you a good idea of their relationship. Eventually, they end up together. Then break up. Then almost destroy the world. Then get back together. Then plot to destroy the world together. | |
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Red String and Reika and Eiji. Despite the massive piling of sexual tension, despite Eiji beating the hell out of his former best friend for impugning her honor, despite even getting a book cover together, it took thirty-seven chapters for them to become a couple, although it was obvious that they were going to hook up as early as the third or fourth chapter. The situation was lampshaded when Fuuko asked Miharu point blank if they'd hooked up yet and a weary Miharu answered in the negative. | |
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In Twig, Jamie advises Lillian against following this trope with her feelings for Sy, since none of them want that kind of regret on their shoulders. Then, noting his own hypocrisy there, he admits that he's also in love with Sy, who is shocked and cannot reciprocate. | |
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One of the protagonists of Better Than Chocolate keeps starting to come out of the closet to her mother, only to have her mother interrupt, assuming she was trying to disclose something else. | |
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Tripping Over You: Played with, because Milo does make his big confession to his friend Liam in the very first chapter... then admits that he's been in love with him for a good two years. Which was fairly obvious to everyone but Liam. | |
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In Rascals, Reiko when she tries to tell Skye that she loves him on this page here . | |
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In ''Blind Man's Bluff", Nick just can't confess his feelings for Ellis. He truly loves him, and God forbid if you ever hurt Ellis in front of Nick, but due to his general standoffish nature and his residual trust issues from his rocky divorce, he finds it difficult to express his feelings. | |
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Jreg: In The Mental Illnesses, Anxiety tries to confess to Depression in "The Mental Illnesses 4", possibly an Interrupted Declaration of Love. | |
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Pretentious Game: The blue square is willing to climb mountains, leap cliffs, dodge fire, and use whatever is necessary in the pursuit of the pink square...but is also unable to confess his love to her. | |
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The Mighty Thor: Odin does in fact love his sons Thor and, despite everything, Loki, but it would take a truly phenomenal effort for him to say it. He does eventually say it during Loki: Agent of Asgard, much to the infuriation of an older version of Loki, who bellows that Odin never said that to them. And seconds later Odin gets angry and refuses to say any more on the subject. He says it again to Loki later in that series, when they're in a very dark place (issue #11), together with a lot of other stuff fitting under Vagueness Is Coming. | |
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Advice and Trust: Subverted. In the prologue Misato thinks Shinji is incapable to confess his feelings to Asuka and she tries to encourage him to admit them to her. Shinji answers the usual excuses: he does not think that Asuka loves him back, he likes things the way they are right now... in reality they had got together several weeks ago and were keeping their relationship secret. Before that, though, they HAD been unable to spit it out: Shinji did not believe that Asuka liked him, Asuka was too proud to admit that she had fallen for him and both were frightened of rejection. A bit of Ascended Fanon revealed that the entire human/angel war was set in motion by this. Adam and Lilith were originally in love with each other, but never confessed their feelings before they were converted into carriers for the FAR souls. Lilith's desire to be with Adam caused her to subconsciously follow him to Earth. |
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Dragon Age: Not even remotely romantic, but the Arishok in Dragon Age II is utterly unable to directly compliment people who are not followers of his religion outside exceptional circumstances, and even then he seems to understate a lot. One of the earliest 'compliments' you hear from his mouth is: "I have a growing lack of disgust for you." And on the romance side, Aveline's ridiculously awkward attempts to woo Donnic. In all fairness, she is his superior at this point, so it's not like she can just ask him out for a drink, but it's still hilarious. Dragon Age: Inquisition has a significantly less cheerful romance example: Solas's inability to admit that he is the Dread Wolf during his final romance scene is at least part of why he breaks up with the Inquisitor, and ultimately ends up leaving the Inquisition. |
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RENT: Roger spends much of the first act wanting to tell Mimi that the reason he's rejecting her is that he's HIV positive, but he's unable to muster the words; the closest he comes is saying there's something he should tell her before abruptly shutting down. What he therefore doesn't find out until almost the end of the act is that Mimi is HIV positive too, making his concerns moot. | |
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Sluggy Freelance In the second part of the Love Potion arc, Gwynn curses Torg by causing him to bray and start turning into a donkey every time he tries to say something important in order to make sure that he does not tell anyone about her plan. Unfortunately, while Torg is on a date with Zoë, Oasis arrives and abducts him, kicking Zoë in the face in the process. Under the curse, Torg is unable to tell anyone what happened, causing Gwynn to believe he mistreated Zoë, but he eventually manages to get Riff to find out the truth. By writing it down. In "The Immortal King", it's revealed that the demon K'Z'K spent time in the Never as Rithuly's guest. Rithuly fell in love with him, but wasn't able to confess it until the moment when K'Z'K was finally summoned away. This quite possibly happened just so that Rithuly, a Cthulhumanoid Eldritch Abomination parody, could utter the pun that he wasn't skilled in the "love-craft". |
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Frankenstein: Victor keeps the monster a secret, justifying this by saying that people wouldn't believe him anyway or call him mad. He still refuses to divulge the truth when Justine is tried for the monster's actions and eventually executed. | |
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Forever And A Mile: One morning, Octavia runs into Oprah, who is surprised that she's at work early. Octavia realizes that she could tell Oprah about her entire strife with O'Brian, even though the last agent that did that apparently got sent to the moon by O'Brian himself, but instead, all she does is give a sheepish chuckle and wish her boss a good morning. Later on, when assigning her a case regarding the World's Largest String Cheese being stolen, Oprah tells Octavia to talk to her if she needs anything, and Octavia simply adopts a hesitant face expression as she lies and tells her boss that she's okay. | |
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In Entirely Presenting You, Alexis can't tell her closest family and friends about her secret-identity as the bloodsucking-superhero known as Blank Face. | |
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In Solatorobo, this is pretty much the only reason that Red and Elh aren't together by the end of the game. Merveille designs a virtual simulation to invoke a Rescue Romance to get them to admit their feelings, but the program ends too quickly and Red forgets what he was going to say. There's also a minor, nameless female NPC who constantly tries to tell herself to spit something out to another male NPC. Subverted when the guy just owes her some money. | |
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Seregil from Nightrunner takes at least a book and a half to spit out anything: the secret of his protege's heritage, his true feelings for his protege, his own murky past.... | |
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Mipha from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild had multiple chances where she could have made her feelings about Link known to him but didn't. "The Champions' Ballad" reveals that the scene where the two talk atop Vah Ruta was originally intended to be when she would have presented the Zora Armor to him (the traditional method for Zora princesses to propose to their intended husbands), but she didn't. The scene where she was about to advise Zelda on awakening her powers is implied to be her admitting that she thinks about Link when using her healing magic, but she brings the topic up so haltingly that she can't get to that part before Calamity Ganon returns. And each time you fight against Waterblight Ganon in the Illusory Realm, she'll bring up the times they spent together and the Zora Armor but always stop short of saying she loves him; she'll even demand in an uncharacteristically angry manner that he not read her diary, which does explicitly mention her love for him. | |
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Same with "When You Walk in the Room", most famously covered by The Searchers. "Wish I could tell you how much I care / But I only have the nerve to stare". | |
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Valkyria Chronicles 4 has Raz trying to confess to Kai. When he actually DOES get it out, and makes it to the end of the conversation without being shot down, he's left laughing jubilantly in relief. | |
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Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier). The heroine is convinced that she's a complete failure compared to Rebecca, her husband's first (dead) wife, until she finds out that Rebecca was evil and the husband never loved her and murdered her. Which cheers her up immensely. | |
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The Windwater Pack: Cian is a bit tongue-tied when he finally tells Moira he loves her. As she put it: “It’s a good thing you’re cute, because that has got to be the most awkward proposal in the history of wolves.” | |
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Amy Rose's Boom counterpart, like the main universe version, is in love with Sonic. But Boom!Amy tries to keep this to herself rather than obviously fawn over him. In "Translate This", Amy is actually visibly horrified when the Universal Translator nearly blurts out her crush for her, so she smashes it with her hammer. | |
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The Homeward Bounders: No Homeward Bounder is allowed to tell anyone else still in play about what they really are, and who They are. Jamie also repeatedly mentions how well it turned out that he never tells Helen about Him On His Rock, though there were situations where he nearly did. |
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In Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold is unable to confess his love for Maria until the very end. | |
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In The Name of the Wind, Kvothe finds himself unable to tell Denna how he feels, at first out of mischance (and her frequent, frustrating absences), but later it is because he fears he has nothing to offer her, and that if he were to pursue a romantic relationship with her it will end badly, as most of her relationships apparently do. Instead of trying to work up the courage anyway, he ends the book as an Unlucky Childhood Friend. Of course, this is only the first part.... | |
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In the Echo Chamber episode Dumbass Has a Point, Dana has a bit of trouble apologizing: | |
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Winx Club Flora is unable to tell Helia about her feelings for him. And when she finally does it turns out he felt the same way all the time... | |
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"First Love Picture Book" from HoneyWorks' Confession Executive Committee ~Love Series~ tells the story of Mio Aida, who fell in love with her school mate Haruki, and the two were really close, but she never found the courage to "close the last 10cm distance" between them, and they eventually parted ways and moved on from each other. Tragically, Haruki's song, "Goodbye, Our Mutual Unrequited Love" reveals that he actually feels the same way about Mio, but likewise was too scared to actually confess to her. | |
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In The Whole Town's Talking, Jones never mentions his undying love for Miss Clark — only when drunk. | |
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Almost literally in Ah! My Goddess fanfiction Haloes. While Urd and Keichi are obviously developing feelings to each other, a nasty bout with aphasia robs the former of her ability to use written and spoken language. Her later Anguished Declaration of Love has the mute goddess develop and entire Starfish Language made of music and translate it in words just to relearn how to speak. | |
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The titular heroine of Miraculous Ladybug suffers from a combo of this and an Unrequited Love Switcheroo with her crime fighting partner, Chat Noir. What makes it really frustrating is that their identities are only covered by a Domino Mask for each of them. This is handwaved by a magical ability that the costumes have, but it still kinda makes you want to go inside the TV and tell them yourself. | |
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Tales Series: In Tales of Symphonia, a character refuses to be rescued from a dungeon when the Boss mentions Lloyd "killed her grandmother," referring to the game's second Boss Battle against a friend of Genis' who had been turned into a monster. Lloyd hangs his head in shame, the girl lets the bad guys take her away and the party has to track her through two other dungeons to rescue her again, much later in the game. All he had to do was let the girl know that her grandmother was very much alive after the battle, that she came to her senses after being defeated (which was the only reason they even knew the monster was her) and died saving them from the villain who had transformed her. Whether we're talking about the above, Judith in Tales of Vesperia, or Arietta in Tales of the Abyss, this is one of Tales' writers favorite tactics when they want to preserve conflict that could be cooled off just by the characters sharing facts, explaining things, or saying what they're thinking. Of course, if they do manage to spit it out, and the writers want that conflict, they'll be met with some half-baked Hand Wave (if the character that needs convincing is calm and collected) or rage-filled dismissal (if the character is not) anyways, so... |
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Green: This is the main thing keeping Fluttershy and Rarity's burgeoning romance from being realized. Rarity loves Fluttershy but is worried about what would happen to their friendship if Fluttershy doesn't feel the same way. Fluttershy finds herself in the exact same position. Eventually, Rarity decides to get her feelings off her chest by way of an anonymous love letter, delivered in the dark of the night. She doesn't do a good job covering her tracks, though, and between her signature scent on the letter and Angel Bunny spotting her in the act, Fluttershy is able to deduce who the letter was really from, which gives her the courage to finally give Rarity The Big Damn Kiss. | |
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A Diplomatic Visit: In chapter 24, Moondancer confesses to Princess Celestia that she kept sending hints Twilight's way, but Twilight never figured out what Moondancer was trying to say - that she was in love with Twilight. | |
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This drives the entire plot of Emily Is Away. You keep backing out of telling Emily how you really feel about her, and that leads to her getting together with Brad, even after a brief breakup, and you losing the only other girl you showed interest in. | |
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In Fire Emblem, Hector and Florina's entire support conversation set is based on Florina being unable to say two words to Hector, when all she wants to do is thank him for saving her from certain doom in Laus. It takes Hector and her pegasus fighting to get her to finally spit it out. Of course, her androphobia didn't exactly help... | |
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In MirrorMask, Valentine is almost physically incapable of saying outright that he's sorry. | |
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In Pokémon Live!, Misty can't tell Ash she loves him because she thinks he's too busy with Pokemon to notice her. | |
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RWBY has this problem with Team JNPR as the girls, Pyrrha and Nora, are in love with the boys, Jaune and Ren, but they don't come out and say it normally. It's much more noticeable, especially with Nora, in their respective Image Songs, "Dreams Come True" and "Boop". In the Volume 3 finale, Pyrrha finally is able to fully express to Jaune how she feels about him... just before she goes off to what turns out to be her death. RWBY Chibi parodies this for all it's worth. | |
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In A Wolf in the Soul, Greg can't summon up the courage to tell anybody about the weirdness happening around him for the entire first two-thirds of the book. He even blames others for not seeing the pain he's working so hard to keep under wraps. At least in the last third of the book he gets better, but he can still barely bring himself to tell the people from whom he's begging for help unless they tell him they already know he's a werewolf. | |
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Fate/Gamers Only: During the first Halloween event, Rikku prepares to respond to Kiyohime calling her husband by saying that her wife is Mash, but cuts herself off before she can finish saying her kohai's name. Mash gets disappointed because she was interested in finding out what Rikku's type was, but Dr. Roman assures her that she doesn't have to worry. | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) Spike, when confronted by Nightmare Rarity, can't quite bring himself to admit his feelings for her. This is immediately lampshaded by Nightmare Rarity, who coldly mocks him for it. | |
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A non-romantic variant. In the very first issue of X-Men Unlimited, it was revealed that Cyclops was so courteous to Professor X he literally cannot call him "Charles". He'll call him "Professor" or "Xavier" or "Professor Xavier", but he'll never call him "Charles". | |
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Deathstroke's buddy Billy Wintergreen hypothesizes in the Rebirth series that Slade loves his kids more than anything in the world and is eaten up with guilt for not being the dad that they need but is too fundamentally broken to tell them that. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition has a significantly less cheerful romance example: Solas's inability to admit that he is the Dread Wolf during his final romance scene is at least part of why he breaks up with the Inquisitor, and ultimately ends up leaving the Inquisition. | |
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Yo-Jin-Bo is absolutely full of this trope. Jin is the worst about it, but all of the guys do it. Even when confessing their feelings, it often comes out as "I "Uh" You, Too" and You Should Know This Already. | |
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Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ginny is about to blurt out her Big Secret (also the solution to the deadly mystery at the center of the story) to Harry and Ron when Percy comes blundering in and scares her off. In the Half-Blood Prince, a large part of the story is getting a memory (essentially, a magical retelling of events) from a man who fudged the version he originally gave. This memory is considered very vital by Dumbledore for understanding Voldemort. However, it takes a potion of felix felicis to get the memory from him. Horace was unwilling to part with the proper version of events because he was horrified and ashamed of what he had done, believing he had done "great damage". And let's not forget Order of the Phoenix, where the adults' unwillingness to tell Harry about his connection with Voldemort and all that it entails is largely responsible for Sirius's death. Snape doing this arguably sets off the entire story. After he calls Lily a "Mudblood" in a fit of anger, he tries to apologize, but Lily points out that he acts prejudiced towards all Muggleborns, asking flat-out, "Why should I be any different?" Snape seems about to answer for a moment, but ultimately remains silent, and they break off their friendship. This, of course, leads directly to Snape's Face–Heel Turn, which itself leads to Voldemort learning of the prophecy and trying to kill Harry as a child. Harry finds out in the last book that Dumbledore had been eaten up with self loathing for causing his sister’s death for about a century. He let his brother Aberforth continue to (understandably) resent him for that long. Aberforth had just assumed he was able to move on with his life and become the best wizard of the era. Harry has to be the one to explain to Aberforth that he was “never free” from it all because he could never bring himself to apologize to Aberforth or tell him that he loved him and their sister. |
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Evangelion 303: Asuka kept her real feelings for Shinji secret. She finally managed spitting it out after getting engaged, but even then she was still frightened to say it. | |
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Whether we're talking about the above, Judith in Tales of Vesperia, or Arietta in Tales of the Abyss, this is one of Tales' writers favorite tactics when they want to preserve conflict that could be cooled off just by the characters sharing facts, explaining things, or saying what they're thinking. Of course, if they do manage to spit it out, and the writers want that conflict, they'll be met with some half-baked Hand Wave (if the character that needs convincing is calm and collected) or rage-filled dismissal (if the character is not) anyways, so... | |
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The Imagine Dragons song "On Top Of The World" is about telling those you love you love them before they leave. | |
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Pyrrha in BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant has this problem like she did in her home series, only this time, Yang is the one she's in love with. A major reason why she has trouble confessing her feelings is because Yang is the first genuine friendship she's ever had, and while she'd like for it to become something more, she's also terrified of ruining it. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide: Shinji didn't dare spit his feelings out because he thought Asuka hated him. On the other hand, Asuka thought that he wasn't interested in her and he hated her. | |
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This happens a lot throughout The Dresden Files: Harry not telling mundanes about the magical world because they can't handle the truth or knowing can put them in danger. In Dead Beat Mavra telling Harry that if he asks for help in getting the Word of Kemmler she'll come down like the sword of Damocles on them. |
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Harry Driscoll from The Frog King hates the word "love" at first, then when he has the chance to attempt to redeem himself to his ex-girlfriend and show how much she means to him... he abuses her and her new author/boyfriend and only realises he never said he loved her until it's too late. | |
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In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: Jay's trying to figure out where their monkey's being taken. Silent Bob spots a sign on the back of the leaving car reading "Critters of Hollywood." Silent Bob gestures wildly to Jay, who can't figure out what the hell Silent Bob's saying. Until finally... | |
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In the Discworld novel Soul Music, Quoth the Raven has trouble revealing that Susan's grandfather is Death, going "Dah Dah Dah Dea" (as part of a dramatic build-up). At which point Susan assumes that he's bothering her to inform her that a grandfather that she's never knowingly met is DEAF. | |
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No Pink Ponies. Jess's inability to "Spit It Out" is taken to ridiculous lengths. And heights. And, eventually, depths. | |
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Metalocalypse: Nathan Explosion has an "apology problem," in that he finds it hard to say that he's sorry for his actions. This turns out to be an actual physical incapability during Roy Cornickelson's funeral: as he tries to apologize to Pickles, he stammers over the phrase and even vomits blood before he can finally spit it out. | |
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In Charby the Vampirate Nikodemus keeps delaying informing Vita of his feelings for her even after a coworker has informed her of his very obvious crush. Her annoyance with his hesitation eventually leads her to turn her attention to Quixoto. | |
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Final Fantasy VII Cloud is convinced he used to be a member of SOLDIER, and all evidence points towards this — he has the uniform, the sword, the skills, and the glowing eyes. However, after leaving town to join SOLDIER, he failed to get in, and instead enrolled as a basic grunt. After a mission that took place in his hometown in which his idol Sephiroth, went insane and burned it all down, maimed the closest thing he had to a childhood friend, nearly killed his best friend, and stabbed him through the chest, he was patched up by Evilutionary Biologist Hojo as part of an experiment. However, the combination of the drugs and trauma completely destroyed his mind, and when they escaped and his friend Zack died defending him he utterly snapped, adopting an elaborate system of Fake Memories and osmosed identity from Zack, who actually was in SOLDIER. And so Cloud relates the events of that day as if he was in Zack's position. Aforementioned childhood friend Tifa, is spooked by the fact that Cloud can tell the story accurately despite him apparently not being there. Little does she know that Cloud was with them on that mission, but disguised as a Shinra grunt. The discrepancy causes Tifa so much confusion, doubt and worry for what might happen if she confronts Cloud over this that she chooses to bottle up her concerns. The end result of this is when Sephiroth starts telling Cloud various half-truths in order to drive him insane, Tifa's lack of understanding of the situation finds her unable to refute any of Sephiroth's claims. On another note, Tifa's inability to tell Cloud her feelings for him is a definite Cannot Spit It Out as well. |
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This happens in World of Warcraft fanfic Children of the Stars, where Keleria - madly in love with Ayuri and most certainly wanting to express her feelings - won't allow herself to spit it out rather than wanting to and just getting cold feet. | |
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In Rhythm Doctor, there are two young patients named Logan and Hailey who obviously love each other, but cannot bring themselves to say it. | |
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Lilac and Aiden from Of Fear and Faith fall for each other immediately but can't spit it out due to fear (of being rejected and getting attached, respectively). Aiden, naturally, still flirts with Lilac and she eventually musters up the nerve to flirt back, but they both try to pretend they don't have deeper feelings. | |
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Dr. Frost: As the story develops, The Watson character Yoon develops an obvious crush on the Sherlock Homage character of Frost, which is made clear in every way except a straight confession. | |
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In Watch It, John can't tell Ann how he feels; the closest he gets is after she gets back together with Michael, and John says to her, "I don't know that I don't love you." He immediately realizes how ridiculous it sounds, and of course, she doesn't believe him either. | |
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And let's not forget Order of the Phoenix, where the adults' unwillingness to tell Harry about his connection with Voldemort and all that it entails is largely responsible for Sirius's death. | |
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The Child of Love: Asuka could not spit it out because she was afraid of admitting she loved and needed Shinji, and she did not believe he was really in love with her. Shinji could not spit it out for a while because he thought she did not love him back. Finally they spat it out in chapter 5. | |
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Homestuck: Jane has it so bad that even when the friend she has feelings for outright asks her whether she has a crush on him she panics and instinctively denies it, a rejection he takes at face value. Dirk theoretically averts this as he's apparently planning an Anguished Declaration of Love towards the person he's in love with, but even he's been crushing on him for three years (to the point where his autoresponder seems to be trying to provoke him into action) and he's noticeably tight-lipped about the exact details, or even if he's really going to go through with it at all. Also, Nepeta never got around to telling Karkat that she liked him (though he does indeed know, and doesn't reciprocate), nor Kanaya with Vriska before she found out that Vriska liked Tavros instead and bitterly gave up. Karkat and Terezi seemed to have similar problems. Eridan also was this. He's in a moirallegiance with Feferi, and their dialogue implies that they've know each other for a long time. But their moirallegiance goes badly, and by the time Eridan's got up the courage to confess that his feelings for her are romantic, Feferi wants to break up with him and is too emotionally exhausted to consider a romantic relationship. Karkat has a great deal of trouble spitting out tragic events to his friends, such as the deaths of some of the other trolls and Gamzee going insane. |
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In Vampire Academy, Dimitri's feelings for Rose are intense and genuine, but boy does he take his time to admit to them. | |
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Irregular Webcomic!: Shakespeare. Ophelia. Does it really have to be spelled out? | |
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Sonic Boom: Amy Rose's Boom counterpart, like the main universe version, is in love with Sonic. But Boom!Amy tries to keep this to herself rather than obviously fawn over him. In "Translate This", Amy is actually visibly horrified when the Universal Translator nearly blurts out her crush for her, so she smashes it with her hammer. In "Fortress of Squallitude", after the team comes to rescue Amy from Eggman's lair: |
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The Order of the Stick: Haley is unable to confess her love for Elan for the first several hundred chapters. Elan, being the resident Cloudcuckoolander, is the only one oblivious to her feelings. Taken Up to Eleven when she is struck with aphasia, and takes advantage of the situation to confess multiple times to Elan's face, secure in the knowledge that he can't understand a word, when actually confessing (say, through writing, or just grabbing him and smooching) would cure her. | |
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Save the Date: Sarah tries multiple times to tell Jonathan she's pregnant by him, but can't bring herself to. The end comes right before it's implied she finally does. | |
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HERZ: Shinji and Asuka’s inability to express their feelings openly and clearly was an additional source of pain. In chapter 2 Asuka remembers their relationship finally improved when she managed to open up to him. | |
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Neverwinter Nights 2: Casavir has this problem. He can't even admit his feelings to people who aren't the one he's in love with, though said feelings are painfully obvious to the rival... Said rival is an even more extreme version, in that he won't admit to himself that he might just be attracted to the Player Character...until the endgame, where he strongly implies that he did indeed feel affection for her. Shame he had to betray her first. Gann in the expansion defies this trope, swearing that if he is ever in love, he'll say so. Elanee in the official campaign is very reserved. It takes the foundations of her world being ripped from under her and the only person she has left being set to duel a really nasty giant evil guy to force her to admit she cares about him. Shandra's severe embarrassment when Grobnar inadvertently reveals her extreme concern for the PC's fate before said duel also probably qualifies her for this. Nathyrra in the original game has a bit of trouble with this. Anden in the fan module A Dance with Rogues has severe issues with this trope, probably due to his extremely straight-laced attitude in a world of Black-and-Grey Morality. |
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In Shiny Days nobody can ever say anything important when it would be appropriate. Surprisingly given the genre, the one who's worst about this is actually Setsuna after she's started dating Makoto. She never takes the opportunity to tell Kotonoha that she's dating Makoto even though Kotonoha is one of the girls nice enough to instantly back off if her crush is taken. She also won't tell Makoto that the new substitute manager at Radish is her father, not her ex boyfriend. While Makoto's reaction is way overboard and rather dickish, the whole problem could have been resolved if she could just say four simple words: "Shun is my dad." | |
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Spider-Man 3: Harry Osborne has a terrible grudge against Spider-Man, as he believes he was responsible for the death of his father, Norman. As one of the only people who knows Spider-Man's real identity, he spends the greater part of the movie making things difficult for Peter Parker, battles Spider-Man a few times as the Green Goblin, and eventually, in one of said battles, gets injured. Later in the movie, Peter asks Harry to help fight the team of Venom and the Sandman, but Harry declines the offer. At this point, the Osborne family's loyal butler Bernard arrives, and tells Harry that Spider-Man was really never responsible for Norman's death, and that he died of his own folly. Apparently, the butler knew this all along, but still allowed Harry to play out his vendetta against Spider-Man. According to the DVD extras, the butler was a hallucination for Harry to justify himself. Note how only Harry sees him during the entire movie. There's also Mary Jane. If she had just said that she got fired from her job, about half of the conflict in the movie would disappear. Peter is unable to tell Aunt May about how Uncle Ben died until late in the second movie. Justified in that he was partly responsible. |
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A Cable series tends to get sapped of any and all momentum it may have built up at least once an issue, as all the conflict roots from Bishop's complete inability to simply explain his apparent Face–Heel Turn to the X-Men he's been working with for years, despite countless opportunities to do so. | |
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The One I Love Is...: Asuka had a very hard time confessing openly her feelings to Shinji. And the fact of Shinji has also a very hard time with this is part of what moves the plot forward. | |
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Most of the problems in the last act of Phantom of Inferno could have been solved early on if Reiji had done what most normal people would have done and greeted Cal as joyfully and warmly as what he had expressed in his monologue and explained to her why he ran instead of using the opportunities that she gave him to speak to be confrontational and non-expressive. ( "...Leave Elen out of this." "Cal..." "..." "Wait, Cal!" etc., etc., etc.) Made doubly frustrating because she approached him looking for an excuse to drop her vendetta. | |
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In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!, potential couple Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne suffer from this. By the time Hank works up the courage to say anything, he goes unconscious right after saying the word "love". He doesn't manage to actually proclaim his feelings for Jan until after she goes unconscious. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Vegeta being forced to ask for help and swallow his pride at the Earthlings that contributed to beating him. | |
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In Thousand Shinji: Rei had feelings for Shinji but she couldn't spit them out because she was frightened of being rejected since she was Shinji's mother's clon, and he was dating someone else, anyway. Asuka couldn't initially confess that she liked Shinji because she was frightened of opening herself up and getting hurt. Shinji fell for Asuka as soon as he met her, but he didn't confess for a while because he didn't think that she would accept him. |
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The fall and damnation of Satan, the eternal struggle between heaven and hell, and the loss of quite a few demigods is due to all the characters in To Reign in Hell performing an extended dance remix of this trope. | |
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Arlo the Alligator Boy: Arlo manages to reach the Met Gala and get Ansel's attention, ready to demand the truth if he's his father, but because of his worries that he may get rejected again, he gets nervous and cannot get one word out. Fortunately, advice from Bertie allows him to break into song about it and get over his nerves. | |
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7th Heaven: Chico has asked Diane to marry him, but she wants him to say he loves her first. | |
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The Sandman In "Death: At Death's Door", Despair and the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe like each other, but can't admit it. | |
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Once More with Feeling: Shinji can't spit two things out to Asuka: his feelings towards her (because he is certain of she'll run for the hills if he confesses too soon); and the bit about him being a time-traveler and being awfully sorry for all what he did and did not to her (because her life and safety depends on him keeping his mouth closed). | |
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In the book Destiny (book 3 of the Rhapsody series), dragon-blooded character Ashe cannot reveal the identity of his new wife to his soulmate, the equally self-centered lead character, Rhapsody, for reasons that were never made very clear. | |
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In X-Men: The Early Years, Scott doesn't dare to confess his feelings because he believes Jean doesn’t like him back, isn't interested in a serious relationship and a romance between them would tear the team apart. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Aang. Oh, Aang. Someday you'll be able to tell Katara how you feel. Naturally, that time was the end of the Grand Finale. | |
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Ships Ahoy!: Oscar is unable to tell Olive about him planning on being a Lab Director and how he wants to remain an Investigation agent to help her achieve her full potential despite Oprah's repeated requests for him to tell her, and it causes major strife in how they see each other. When Olive does manage to find out that Oscar is becoming a Lab Director, it's from his cousin Polly Graph, and the realization hits her like a truck as she believes that he never cared about her and heads back to Headquarters just in time to see him be promoted to the position. | |
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Split Screen: Jeremy wouldn't confess his feelings for Jan because he feels he's not good enough for her and he'd hold her back on her career path. She's too stubbornly prideful to just ask him how he felt. This went on for more than a decade. | |
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Kaidan, at least in Mass Effect. He shows interest in a female Shepard early on, but has difficulty spelling it out. The third game revealed that he had an even harder time spitting it out if Shepard is a man. Shepard being Oblivious to Love did not help. Shepard can call him on it, too: | |
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Amazingly subverted in Mass Effect 3 when you are asked to betray your teammates and keep the genophage from being cured. If you attempt to inform your teammates to prevent the sabotage, the shuttle you're on suddenly hits turbulence and interrupts you, making it look like a straight example of this trope. You're given a second chance a couple of combat sequences later, and a third chance (to tell Mordin / Padok specifically) right before the curse is released. | |
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Ghosts of Evangelion: Shinji doesn’t confess his feelings until he is eighteen because he thought that Asuka would reject him. | |
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One Forgotten Realms fanfiction had Drizzt trying to tell Catti-brie how he feels about her at the most perfect moment — on a balcony during a ball — only to be interrupted because Delly was having a baby. | |
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Used in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back to comedic effect. C-3PO notices that the hyperdrive motivator had been damaged by blaster fire and tries to tell Han Solo a few times. Each time Solo shuts him up, so when they try to escape from an Imperial Star Destroyer by escaping to hyperspace and then drive Peter out, 3PO says the equivalent of "I told you so" and Solo gets a look of extreme embarrassment and moves off to fix the hyperdrive. | |
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In Tales of Symphonia, a character refuses to be rescued from a dungeon when the Boss mentions Lloyd "killed her grandmother," referring to the game's second Boss Battle against a friend of Genis' who had been turned into a monster. Lloyd hangs his head in shame, the girl lets the bad guys take her away and the party has to track her through two other dungeons to rescue her again, much later in the game. All he had to do was let the girl know that her grandmother was very much alive after the battle, that she came to her senses after being defeated (which was the only reason they even knew the monster was her) and died saving them from the villain who had transformed her. | |
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Peter and MJ both in Spider-Man: Far From Home. They care about each other, but aren't comfortable putting it into words quite yet. Peter has psyched himself up by planning out a Love Confession, which keeps getting derailed by his life as Spider-Man. When they're finally alone together and he's about to tell her, he's thrown off-guard by MJ revealing she knows his secret identity. She then accidentally devastates him by claiming that her interest in him was only about seeing if her theory was correct, but bigger problems emerge before she can explain that wasn't what she meant. After Mysterio has been defeated and they reunite, they finally tell each other how they feel and they have their First Kiss. By the denouement, they're a couple. | |
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In Space Glass, even alone on the Aggressor in cozy conversation, Amy can't bring herself to tell Bob about her crush on him. | |
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In Amélie, the titular protagonist plays numerous games with her Love Interest, ostensibly in order to whet his curiosity about her, but actually because she's painfully shy and terrified of the prospect of actually making a connection with him. The two times she attempts to set up a meeting with him with the genuine intent of introducing herself to him, her shyness causes her to freeze up and she finds herself incapable of approaching him. | |
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Sadira of Vanguard Bandits has a huge crush on the Hero Bastion that everyone can see(including him if the player chooses). If the player decides to go after her ending, she finally manages to work herself out to say it though. | |
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Try as she might, Isabella from Phineas and Ferb can't work up the courage to tell Phineas how she really feels about him. He can't tell her either. | |
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In Galaxy Quest, when they couldn't stop the self-destruct countdown, Jason was just about to confess his feelings for Gwen... when the countdown stopped on its own at 00:01. ("It always stopped at 1 on the show!") Gwen then briefly chases him down, asking "What were you about to say?" | |
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Class of the Titans: Archie has this for fellow hero Atlanta, and pretty much everyone can see it. Theresa and Jay both have their moments as well until the finale. | |
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In Dead Beat Mavra telling Harry that if he asks for help in getting the Word of Kemmler she'll come down like the sword of Damocles on them. | |
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Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince had a particularly silly version of this. The Princess's evil aunt places a spell on her where she is unable to speak straight. Despite trying her hardest to explain that "Tant Aminella" (Aunt Taminella) is the evil witch, no one catches on. | |
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Sophie Hatter in Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones is cursed to take the form of a 90-years-old woman — and part of the curse is that she can't tell anyone. If she tries to, she's either interrupted or people misunderstand her. | |
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Mouse Guard: Incredibly, it's the Hot-Blooded Boisterous Bruiser Saxon who embodies this trope. In Winter, we learn that he's been sitting on his feelings for Gwendolyn for years. He spits in the denouement. | |
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Just about every single heroic character in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and its sequel series The Heroes of Olympus, suffers from this. Nobody who has any sort of vital information about anything can reveal it straight away, either because they for various reasons Cannot Spit It Out or because they're interrupted by someone else arriving or something important happening. The single exception to this rule is Butch, a minor character from The Lost Hero, who at his first appearance explains exactly what's going on the moment he's asked. | |
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A lot of harm could have been avoided in The Traitor Game if Michael confronted Francis properly about his supposed betrayal or if Francis managed to tell Michael that he is gay sooner. | |
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In Hyperion Cantos: The Rise of Endymion, the main character spends a great deal of energy angsting over a period of time that his love spent unaccounted for while he was off touring planets, having kidney stones, and eluding the Space Pope. No, really. He deduces that this time was spent with another man, and angsts accordingly. At length. Of course, he can't bear to ask her about it; otherwise she might have told him that thanks to some time travel tomfoolery, the other man was him. However, considering how much of the plot's pacing hinges on said lover's constant reluctance to give information that would explain anything to anyone, maybe not. | |
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The gay action series Cut and Run by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux has this in spades, as befits a pair of troubled FBI tough guys who enjoy antagonizing each other almost as much as sex, and whose relationship is shaped by brutal, successive traumas. Ty (who's never been in love) and Zane (whose long-dead wife was the love of his life, or so he thought) can't manage to acknowledge to themselves that they're in love, much less to each other. Ty admits it to himself late in book two and to Zane deep into book three, but Zane doesn't come clean to Ty until well into book four. | |
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In Pride and Prejudice, the first thing Darcy says about Elizabeth is that she's not pretty enough to dance with (which she overhears). When she walks to Netherfield to visit her ill sister, his opinion of her starts to change, but he doesn't do anything beyond Longing Looks until he tries to propose to her many months later, fully expecting that she was hoping for it. He did have a good reason for keeping his feelings quiet; as he helpfully explains, he was trying to reason himself out of wanting to connect himself with her inferior family. How odd, then, that she should refuse him! Of course, after Elizabeth's refusal, Darcy takes stock of himself based on her complaints about him and starts to shape up, becoming a much more polite and empathetic person. This causes Elizabeth to begin loving him, but feels incredibly awkward about it given how violently she refused him, and also feels guilty because half of the jerkish acts she accused him of weren't even true. So she says nothing to him about it, partly due to the awkwardness and partly because she feels like he couldn't possibly love her back after the crap she gave him. Then Lydia elopes with Wickham, exposing the Bennet family to potential, devastating shame which would make Darcy's marrying Elizabeth social suicide on his part, and complicates it all even further. | |
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Happens several times in the Squadron Supreme limited series. Sometimes it's sheer plot convenience, as a character is found withholding information that could've averted a problem later on. Other times, it's due to higher-priority instructions given during brainwashing... | |
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Doing It Right This Time: In the original timeline Shinji thought Asuka did not like him back, Asuka thought Shinji did not like her back and he loved Rei instead, and Rei was unable to recognize her own emotions. In the altered timeline neither of them confessed for a while since Asuka was confused because she also started liking Rei, Rei was unsure about her feelings towards Shinji and Asuka, and Shinji thought he would have to choose between both. | |
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Immortal Souls has John unable to bring himself to tell his Love Interest Allison that he's a vampire, that he's the one who accidentally caused her brother's coma, or even just admit that he is in love with her. This causes him all manner of problems, as since he's a Heroic Neutral, both the bad and (Manipulative Bastard) good guys take advantage of the matter on a regular basis. As a result he's constantly forced to choose between keeping his secrets, protecting Allison, and/or going along with whatever scheme either side has cooked up for him. | |
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Peter in The Amazing Spider-Man is the absolute definition of this trope. Despite being a budding scientific genius, plus highly articulate and witty when it comes to taunting criminals he's captured and stupid cops, whenever he tries to speak to Gwen he deteriorates into gibberish. He ends up getting around this by revealing his webbing rather than outright saying it, allowing her to put the clues together. | |
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Shazam!: For most of his super heroing career, Captain Marvel Jr couldn't tell anyone his name, because it happened to also be his transformation phrase (minus the "Jr"). He's now known as Shazam, having taken over for Billy Batson, who took over for the Wizard Shazam as guardian of The Rock of Ages. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ginny is about to blurt out her Big Secret (also the solution to the deadly mystery at the center of the story) to Harry and Ron when Percy comes blundering in and scares her off. | |
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In Jimmy Neutron, Cindy and Jimmy do this with each other all the time, with a handful of Suspiciously Specific Denial thrown in for good measure. Especially Cindy in "The N-Men". She tries to calm Jimmy down by admitting her feelings for him, but goes "I l-l...I l-l-ll..." and then faints. Jimmy is understandably curious. | |
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This is subverted in the Ultimate Spider-Man series, where Peter reveals that he's Spider-Man to Mary Jane in issue #13. Mind you, that's really early in the series by Bendis standards. Then again, it takes him nearly a hundred to tell this to Aunt May. | |
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In the Craig of the Creek episode "Breaking the Ice", Wildernessa has trouble trying to tell Craig how she feels about him, so she tells him through a birdlike mating dance, which just confuses him. | |
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Eric (one of the Loserz webcomic's protagonists) has this problem with Alice, even after she told him she liked him. See here. | |
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Spider-Man: Peter Parker is unwilling to reveal his dual identity to his Aunt May, because he fears the shock will kill her, and later because he doesn't want her constantly worrying about him risking his life as Spider-Man. It became even worse when Peter wouldn't tell his first girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, the secret either. He never told Mary Jane while they were dating, either — she had to tell him that she knew his secret. When May does find out and talks to Peter, it's one of the most touching scenes in comics, including the part where she specifically points out that she's a big girl and she won't just keel over, and that she will be worried, but he has her blessing. Unfortunately Retcon'd by One More Day. This is subverted in the Ultimate Spider-Man series, where Peter reveals that he's Spider-Man to Mary Jane in issue #13. Mind you, that's really early in the series by Bendis standards. Then again, it takes him nearly a hundred to tell this to Aunt May. |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Had Doran Martell told his plans to his nieces and daughter that he wants to help the remaining Targaryens reclaim the throne as their revenge against the Lannisters, then Myrcella wouldn't have lost an ear and Ser Arys Oakheart wouldn't have died, which would have prevented Qyburn in providing Cersei's Kingsguard champion for her upcoming trial. In fact, this is Doran's weakness, which Ser Barristan Selmy acknowledged to Quentyn Martell that had he revealed it earlier, then Daenarys Targaryen wouldn't have stayed in Meereen and married one of the nobles to stabilize the city, something which Quentyn came too late to prevent. Likewise to his daughter, Arianne. Had she confronted him about the letter regarding her inheritance, then she wouldn't be brooding about it for years, which resulted in her failed coup, Myrcella's injury, and Arys' death. |
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Gaunt's Ghosts: Kolea cannot bring himself to admit to Dalin that he is his real birth father. Gaunt and Curth, during a series that has spanned well over a decade, have only come close to saying how they feel about each other a handful of times. |
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Jeeves and Wooster: Most, if not all, of Bertie Wooster's problems can be traced back to this trope, combined with his being an Extreme Doormat. Besides being unable to correct any girl who thinks she's engaged to him, at the end of The Inimitable Jeeves he can't work up the courage to fire Jeeves, or even tell him off, after Jeeves has fooled one too many influential people into thinking he's insane. He tries to start a conversation to that purpose several times, but repeatedly ends up saying, "Oh, nothing!". | |
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In one of the saddest moments of Mother 3, Bronson brings news to Flint, the father of Lucas and Claus, but has trouble getting it out. | |
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Last Child of Krypton: Shinji did not dare to confess his feelings to Asuka because he was afraid that she would not love him back or she would find out about his Secret Identity and regard him as something was above her rather just Shinji. Asuka did not dare to confess her feelings because she was afraid to open up and get rejected. | |
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In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter stumbles on his words in nearly every conversation he has with Liz Allan, and is staring at his feet when he finally tells her about his crush on her. However, she's already figured it out and offers to be his date to the school dance. | |
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Tragically used in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Shu Lien and Li Mubai are deeply in love with each other and pretty much everyone knows, including themselves, but Shu Lien's first love and fiancé was actually Li Mubai's best friend, and he tragically perished in an event that Mubai still blames himself for. Therefore, to not shame the dead guy's memory, they can't act on their love. And don't do so until Li Mubai is fatally poisoned and, in his last moments, he shares a Last Kiss with Shu Lien. | |
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The hero of Shock Corridor experiences speaking impairment in critical situations as a result of the electroshock therapy he received. | |
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It's revealed in Sugarcarthesis that Sugarcoat had a crush on Twilight and never told her while she was at Crystal Prep because, well, Crystal Prep is all about academia. By the time she finally does confess, Twilight has ingratiated herself with her Canterlot High friends and has no idea how to react... | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: In chapter 6, Japan was about to confess to Italy only to cut himself short. Nerves got to him. Subverted later on. | |
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In Mega Man Zero 3, Cyber-elf X seems to be hiding a very important piece of information from his best friend Zero (even though X doesn't have a problem revealing it to someone else; what were you thinking, X?!). It was the Big Bad that revealed the secret behind Zero that X was trying to hide: Zero is using a clone body and Ax-Crazy Omega Zero is the original body. Naturally for Zero, he still doesn't care about it when he finds out. | |
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Nightvee: Creamarina has a crush on Nightvee, but she's too shy to tell him about it. | |
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The Dreamland Chronicles: Silly girl just say something | |
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In Children of an Elder God, Shinji liked both Asuka and Rei, but he didn't say anything because he wasn't sure about his feelings or theirs... until Asuka kissed him. | |
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In Sakana, Jiro, who is already unlucky enough, simply can't build up his courage to talk to "Cashier Girl" , who is working across from him and who he's been in love with for two years without even knowing her name. They do go on a date together after some time, but only after Jiro had some help from his big brother and his best friend. | |
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Final Fantasy: Faris of Final Fantasy V can't bring herself to admit that Lenna is her sister until they're about to (make a failed attempt to) save the last crystal on their world. Final Fantasy VII Cloud is convinced he used to be a member of SOLDIER, and all evidence points towards this — he has the uniform, the sword, the skills, and the glowing eyes. However, after leaving town to join SOLDIER, he failed to get in, and instead enrolled as a basic grunt. After a mission that took place in his hometown in which his idol Sephiroth, went insane and burned it all down, maimed the closest thing he had to a childhood friend, nearly killed his best friend, and stabbed him through the chest, he was patched up by Evilutionary Biologist Hojo as part of an experiment. However, the combination of the drugs and trauma completely destroyed his mind, and when they escaped and his friend Zack died defending him he utterly snapped, adopting an elaborate system of Fake Memories and osmosed identity from Zack, who actually was in SOLDIER. And so Cloud relates the events of that day as if he was in Zack's position. Aforementioned childhood friend Tifa, is spooked by the fact that Cloud can tell the story accurately despite him apparently not being there. Little does she know that Cloud was with them on that mission, but disguised as a Shinra grunt. The discrepancy causes Tifa so much confusion, doubt and worry for what might happen if she confronts Cloud over this that she chooses to bottle up her concerns. The end result of this is when Sephiroth starts telling Cloud various half-truths in order to drive him insane, Tifa's lack of understanding of the situation finds her unable to refute any of Sephiroth's claims. On another note, Tifa's inability to tell Cloud her feelings for him is a definite Cannot Spit It Out as well. There's also Irvine's inability to mention his past association with the other main characters and even the villain in Final Fantasy VIII. He alludes to it for a while, but it takes a rather random event to make him open up with it. In Final Fantasy XIII, due to being just a Tagalong Kid in a series of horrible events and emotional trauma, Hope cannot bring himself to confront Snow about his mother's death for over half of the game's story. |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, Juna Crawford wants to thank her instructor, Rean Schwarzer, for saving her and her siblings during Calvard's failed attempt at invading Crossbell. This is despite her friends even setting an opportunity for her to do it and in part because her feelings about Rean are complicated, due to him being a hero of the Erebonian Empire and the Empire having annexed Crossbell. She finally gets up the nerve to thank him in Cold Steel IV, thinking that he doesn't even remember the incident. As it turns out, though, not only does he remember it, but he knows that it's been weighing on her. | |
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In Parzival, this is the cause of Parzival's problems: when he first sees the Grail, he thinks of the question he should ask, but fails to ask it, setting in motion the rest of the plot. | |
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Non-romantic version in If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, when Magnus asks Kitten for the reason behind the latter's resignation. Kitten tries to explain it to him, but realizes that Magnus doesn't remember a thing from his mad rampage which caused Kitten to make the Deal with the Devil to stop him, and decides to hide the fact, mangling the account immensely. | |
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Charlie Brown's inability to talk to the Little Red-Haired Girl in Peanuts was inspired by the rejection of a proposal to marriage Charles M. Schulz offered his girlfriend in 1947. The woman later married a fireman, the woman and Schulz remained friends for life, but Schulz was significantly affected by the rejection. Unrequited Love was a constant theme in Peanuts. | |
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In Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Feli finds Lemres and tries asking him out on a date. She struggles to say it and ultimately winds up asking for a "delicious" Puyo battle from him instead. | |
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Exam: Poor Deaf has a terrible stutter, and he only speaks French. They're only able to understand parts of what he says. | |
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Corpse Party: Poor Naomi! Not only is she unable to spit out her feelings for Satoshi, but because of her Tsundere nature, she is unable to apologize when she knows she's gone too far, so neither her nor Seiko feel any better and they end up separating which leads to Seiko's death. In Book of Shadows, Naomi actually has a coughing fit. | |
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Anden in the fan module A Dance with Rogues has severe issues with this trope, probably due to his extremely straight-laced attitude in a world of Black-and-Grey Morality. | |
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"The Chase" by Kane (Christian Kane's band) is about how this causes a breakup. | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: The entire reason Dr. Horrible wanted to make a Freeze Ray was so that he could work up the courage to talk to Penny. Unfortunately, due to his own terminal shyness and his later vendetta against Captain Hammer, he never does get to tell her how he feels about her. And then Penny dies. | |
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Fate/stay night: Sakura eats, cooks and does the next-closest thing to living in Shirou's house for 2 years and is completely smitten with him, but due to her completely non-existent self-esteem, she absolutely cannot let him know how she feels. | |
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Critical Role: Percy Vex'Ahlia dance around this for 70+ episodes! He builds stuff for her and calls her his "favorite," while she gives him kisses on the cheek in return for the projects he builds for her and calls him "dear," but neither of them tell each other about their feelings because of the trauma in their pasts. He thinks he's no good for her, and she thinks she's below his station. Not until Percy dies in Episode 69 does she confirm her feelings, and he doesn't hear them then. He spends the next two episodes only just then considering telling her, and then gives her The Big Damn Kiss to end Episode 72. | |
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This is basically the entire plot of While You Were Sleeping. | |
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Sam too, from Danny Phantom. She's outspoken on so many things... except her obvious crush on Danny. She's had a lot of close calls with other romantic rivalries as a result. They (predictably) got together in the end. | |
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The chorus of "If I Loved You" from Carousel describes an inability to overcome nervousness and proclaim your love to someone. | |
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A fair chunk of the early portion of Their Story focused on Sun Jing's efforts to befriend the girl she has a crush on, Qiu Tong. She loses her nerve and ends up walking away after stammering out a "hi" each time, and her suspicious behaviour causes Qiu Tong avoid her, out of fear that Sun Jing wants to beat her up. This lasts until chapter 81 when Sun Jing finally confesses to Qiu Tong and makes her romantic interest clear. | |
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Used rather movingly in Batman (1989). Bruce tries to tell Vicki he's Batman, but he just can't bring himself to actually say it. When she walks away to answer the door, he disgustedly mouths "I'm Batman" to himself. | |
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Faris of Final Fantasy V can't bring herself to admit that Lenna is her sister until they're about to (make a failed attempt to) save the last crystal on their world. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "Green Isn't Your Color": Fluttershy makes it big as a fashion model, and Rarity is jealous, but trying not to show it and being supportive so Fluttershy can have her chance to shine. Meanwhile, Shrinking Violet Fluttershy is quickly growing tired of the unwanted attention that comes with fame, but trying not to show it because she thinks Rarity would be disappointed if she gave up. Both of them confide to Twilight Sparkle... but unfortunately for everyone involved they make Twilight swear to secrecy. Twilight promptly drives herself crazy trying to keep their respective secrets even though it would save everyone a lot of trouble if she didn't keep said secrets. Another example: from 'A Bird In The Hoof', Princess Celestia meets Twilight's friends for the first time in person. She's been told about them and what they do. When Fluttershy is introduced to Philomeena, Celestia merely asks Fluttershy "Isn't she lovely?" Cue the bird losing a few feathers off of her already near-featherless body and making a horrible hacking cough as though she's dying (She is. She gets better.). Long story short, the entire episode could have been skipped if Celestia had simply thought to mention to Fluttershy that Philomeena is a phoenix. |
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Oh dear. Lucy from Bittersweet Candy Bowl spends YEARS — both in-world and in real life — trying to come to terms with her feelings before she finally announces how she feels. Disappointingly, she left it just a bit too late. | |
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Initially played for laughs, then played for drama in Star Wars Rebels episode "Jedi Night". Hera, who is a bit delirious due to being given a Truth Serum while being interrogated by the Empire, spends the entire episode trying to tell Kanan something while he breaks her out of jail, only to Bait-and-Switch to something silly ("I have to tell you something... I hate your hair."). At the end of the episode, she finally manages to tell him that she loves him... and then he dies right afterwards, leading to her anguishing over why didn't she tell him sooner. The Grand Finale later heavily suggests, however, that she was trying to tell him something else — she's pregnant. | |
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Ultimate Galactus Trilogy: Danvers has to report the results of her interrogation of Lawson. She's visibly ashamed to open her mouth and say "His name's Captain Marvel and he's a spaceman from the Cree Indian tribe, sir". | |
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Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: After realizing he loved Asuka Shinji did not tell her right away because he wanted to wait for the right time to ask her out. Asuka did not tell Shinji she liked him because she was in self-denial for a long time. | |
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Strange Magic: Marianne and The Bog King are obviously in love with each other by the end of the film but aren't willing to confess. Both really want the other to take the first step while giving weak platitudes about how much their time together has changed them, much to the frustration of everyone around them. It takes a full on Crowd Song to force them to confess. | |
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The Backstagers: Beckett, for Bailey Brentwood. The subtext is that Beckett fears he'll be rejected for being trans. | |
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In Mini Monsters, we have Frank and Henrietta. They definitely love each other, but they can't tell their feelings because of shyness. Also, Henrietta's alter-ego Miss Hit does not help at all. Unsurprisingly, all people think they're a couple, and Frank constantly denies it. | |
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In Exo Squad, not only are Nara and Marsala both unable to express their feelings for each other, they each have instances where they unknowingly slap the other down. | |
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In April Showers, Sean cannot seem to tell April he loves her. And then she dies in the school shooting, meaning he'll never get the chance to. | |
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In Shadow of the Templar, Simon and Jeremy are a perfect example. Despite spending years in an exclusive Secret Relationship and risking their lives for each other multiple times, they are apparently incapable of expressing their feelings for each other. Jeremy just acts like a Tease, and Simon hesitates to even think of Jeremy as his friend. | |
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Red Panda Adventures: This pretty much sums up the entire relationship between the Red Panda and the Flying Squirrel. For all her flirtation, the Flying Squirrel can't bring herself to say what she feels. By the same token, the Red Panda can't voice his own feelings and he thinks the Squirrel is just kidding around. At the end of Season 3, everything comes out into the open when the Red Panda thinks the Squirrel's been killed and plants a "Shut Up" Kiss on her when she reveals she's alive. Season four's intro proceeds to introduce the Flying Squirrel as the Red Panda's fiance, and season five onward introduces her as his wife. In the Season 3 episode "The Terrible Two", supervillains the Mad Monkey and Jackrabbit team up. Upon capture, the two declare their love for one another, the Mad Monkey even forgoing his chance to escape since he can't do it without leaving her. The Flying Squirrel is utterly flabbergasted that they can just come out and say it. |
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A man in love with a woman thinking she's already married because she mentions she loves another man when really she's just talking about how she loves her brother (Tarzan at the Earth's Core). | |
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In Blonde Crazy, Bert can't express his feelings to Anne much to his detriment. | |
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A character fighting alongside another for several days before realizing the other character is his long lost father (The Gods of Mars). | |
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In Codename: Kids Next Door, it's a cute Running Gag between Numbuh 4 and Numbuh 3. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Mittens has trouble admitting her feelings for Bolt to Rhino in “The Ship.” | |
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Carrie to Devin in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race for most of the series until sthe gives up on him and decides to just focus on the competition. Which happens just in time for him to realise he's in love with her and suffer from this trope as well! | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has a bartender keep a letter from Bobbery's deceased wife away from him for several DECADES. It's not until the player needs the Bob-omb that the bartender gives you the letter to give to the ex-sailor. | |
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse: It's hinted by her older brother and confirmed by her human soul that Rottytops harbours a secret admiration for the titular heroine and genuinely wants to be friends with her, but never gets around to admitting it. | |
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Justified in The Trials of Apollo — while Apollo has clearly figured out some plot important information, he forgets it at the worst possible moment due to him being Brought Down to Normal. Of course, Apollo gets frustrated at how often this happens. | |
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Not even remotely romantic, but the Arishok in Dragon Age II is utterly unable to directly compliment people who are not followers of his religion outside exceptional circumstances, and even then he seems to understate a lot. One of the earliest 'compliments' you hear from his mouth is: "I have a growing lack of disgust for you." | |
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Toward the end of Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Toadbert recovers his memory, and becomes frightened by the brothers? gathering the Cobalt Star shards, but runs away before he can tell anything. He tells the brothers to rub some dirt off the sketch he had given to them earlier, which reveals the other Shroob Princess, but gets turned into a mushroom before he can say anything else. Peach is about to tell the brothers about the Cobalt Shard before a flying saucer attacks, and misses several opportunities to tell them before Bowser pieces together the shards, freeing the elder Shroob Princess. | |
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A magically-induced variation of this trope figures in the origin of Doctor Strange. When Dr. Stephen Strange was staying at the Ancient One's retreat, he discovered that the Ancient One's disciple Baron Mordo was trying to kill his master. Mordo found out and placed a spell on Strange, magically gagging him whenever he tried to warn Mordo's master. Recognizing Mordo's evil and the need to counter it, Strange offered himself as the Ancient One's new disciple. The first thing the Ancient One did was remove Mordo's enchantment from Strange, which he knew about all along ("A student can have no secrets from his master.") | |
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Megatokyo: It took years (real-time) for Piro and Kimiko to admit that they had feelings for one another, even if it was only about a week in comic time (or about seven weeks if you count Chapter 0). Depending on how you look at it, it may have taken even longer in the case of Largo and Erika. Even though it's pretty much a given that they're a couple, neither one has ever voiced his or her feelings for the other in-comic. Even more mysterious is the Yuki/Kobayashi relationship, such as it is. It's been intimated that he's spent years pining for her, and that just about everyone other than Yuki was aware of the fact, but it remains unclear whether she considers him a potential romantic interest or "just a friend". Either way, she isn't telling. |
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A Growing Affection has this as part of Konan and Nagato's backstory. Things might have gone differently if Nagato had not suffered from this. | |
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Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!: This sums up Sprx and Nova's relationship fairly well, especially in Sprx's case; it's obvious he loves her, and comes fairly close to saying it a couple of times, only for something to interrupt or chicken out at the last second. In the final episode, it's Nova who finally spits it out, in order to break Sprx out of his Brainwashed and Crazy state. | |
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In X-Ray & Vav, X-Ray has this problem towards his pal, Vav — Vav's head over heels in love with Intrepid Reporter Ash Samaya and X-Ray is both insanely jealous of him and insanely terrified of losing his pal to a girl. Vav is completely clueless to this (and other things) that he thinks that X-Ray's being an asshole with Hilda frustrated that the two just won't sit down and talk lest their egos clash. Doesn't help that The Mad King used this against them. Thankfully, they get this worked out in the end. | |
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In Children of Time, Sherlock Holmes can't even seem to process his feelings towards Beth Lestrade, let alone spit them out. After she makes a thinly veiled Anguished Declaration of Love, he can only say, "Good night, Beth." | |
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Averted in Ghost Rider: Johnny's love interest confronts him about breaking their date... so he tells her that he turned into a burning biker skeleton possessed by a spirit of vengeance. Naturally, she finds this preposterous, but when she sees proof that he was telling her the truth, she unhesitatingly steps up to help him. | |
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Helga in Hey Arnold! in regards to her crush on the title character. She does finally admit it in Hey Arnold! The Movie, but the two later agreed that it was just "the heat of the moment". | |
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In The Perfect Score, Desmond finds it hard to voice his opinion to his mom. Roy calls him out: | |
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Subverted to an extent in Family Guy. Brian has confessed his feelings to Lois (and in one instance at least to her husband, and Brian's best friend, Peter) on more than one occasion, but she always turns him down (it has been implied that she has always known of Brian's romantic feelings for her; ironically she seems oblivious to next door neighbor Quagmire's naked lust for her despite his repeated and shameless advances). | |
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There's also Irvine's inability to mention his past association with the other main characters and even the villain in Final Fantasy VIII. He alludes to it for a while, but it takes a rather random event to make him open up with it. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIII, due to being just a Tagalong Kid in a series of horrible events and emotional trauma, Hope cannot bring himself to confront Snow about his mother's death for over half of the game's story. | |
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Doug does this a lot when it comes to Patty. She can't spit it out, either. | |
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Higher Learning: Shinji was afraid of confessing Asuka because he is a shy kid who did not think she liked him. Asuka was frightened of confessing Shinji because she is afraid of opening up to other people, and he had ignored all hints she dropped. It took a bottle of sake for them reaching each other out and blurting their feelings out. | |
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A Crown of Stars: Shinji and Asuka got together after he said to her that he loved her. However Asuka was still very confused, frightened and insecure of herself and her feelings. So it took a while until she was ready to admit to herself and him that she needed him and loved him back. | |
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One rare example in ElfQuest (rare because the elves tend to practise Brutal Honesty): Zhantee keeps his love for Leetah a secret, likely because Leetah is lifemated to their chief, Cutter. He's open about his respect and admiration for her, but never says that his feelings are romantic. When Cutter finds out, he tells Zhantee that they could have been a threesome centuries ago if Zhantee had only told him. Too bad this is moments before Zhantee dies. | |
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Used absolutely heartbreakingly in Prey (2006). Tommy asks himself in the mirror why he won't just tell Jem he loves her. He eventually does after having had to kill her. | |
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According to the Yu-Gi-Oh! "Master Guide", Gorg seems to have a crush on Meanae but can't express his feelings due to his stone-face nature and lack of emotions. | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: Quicksilver just can't tell Magneto that the latter is his father. Peter knows he'll say it to him some day, but just couldn't do it even when standing right in front of him at a moment where doing so could've convinced Erik to fight against Apocalypse sooner. | |
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Happens twice in the Elizabeth Quatermain series. First, when one character proposes to the woman he loves, he can't quite bring himself to actually ask the question (luckily, she answers it anyway). The second time, another character just can't say the words until he's practically arguing with the object of his affections, finally blurting it out in an Anguished Declaration of Love. | |
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A character thinking he's a genetically engineered monstrosity when really he's a totally normal amnesiac human (The Monster Men). | |
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In the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode "Good Times, Bat Times", Chip tries to reveal his feelings to Gadget. Twice. He always fails. | |
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In the Half-Blood Prince, a large part of the story is getting a memory (essentially, a magical retelling of events) from a man who fudged the version he originally gave. This memory is considered very vital by Dumbledore for understanding Voldemort. However, it takes a potion of felix felicis to get the memory from him. Horace was unwilling to part with the proper version of events because he was horrified and ashamed of what he had done, believing he had done "great damage". | |
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The Second Try: A humorous subversion. Hikari goads Asuka into confessing her feelings for Shinji, believing she is unable to. The audience, however, knows that Asuka had gotten WAY past that step several years ago (or, depending on the point of view, several years later... Time travel is migraine-inducing). Played in an interesting manner in "Love": after an argument in which Asuka told Shinji that he would be unable to notice if someone had feelings for him but was unable to express them, the two have a bit of pillow talk where Asuka timidly points out that she was talking about herself, to which Shinji answers that he understood and has the same feelings for her. Yet, in spite of having finally spit it out, they both tiptoe around each other for the next few days, afraid of making the next move, until Asuka eventually gets fed up with it and decides to tackle the issue, leading to the First Kiss of their relationship. |
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Spongebob Squarepants: In the episode "Fools in April", after Squidward has played a prank on SpongeBob, he realizes how much he's humiliated him and goes to his house to apologize... but because of his despise toward him, every time he tries to say "I'm sorry", he just can't pull it off without doing weird cartoon-takes. In "Krusty Love" Mr. Krabs becomes enamoured with Mrs. Puff when he saw her in his restaurant. Spongebob encourages him to ask her out, but he is unable to form any real words and needs Spongebob to "translate" for him. |
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Catherine's Vincent can't spit anything out. As the game involves him getting into an unintentional affair, this causes some problems. | |
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In Black Maria, the protagonist Mig spends a good part of the book trying to convince her mother that the evil Aunt Maria has turned Mig's brother into a wolf. The mother refuses to believe this and continues to insist that he's just around the corner, mostly because Maria also enchanted the mother to basically hang around and be a housekeeper. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: Poor Sally can't tell Jack that she considers him more than Just Friends. | |
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A few of the minor spirits never seem to get around to telling Yuuto how they feel in Aselia the Eternal - The Spirit of Eternity Sword. Unless they do it during the sex scenes, which aren't part of the English release. On a more important note, neither Kyouko or Kouin ever confessed to the other despite the two actually dating. Both have their own reasons. | |
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In the Mob Psycho 100 fanfic The Best Laid Plans Teru plans to confess his feeling to Mob over a very fancy dinner date. His plans are derailed when he finds that he forgot his wallet at home, doesn't have enough to pay for their dinner, and falls into a stream. Eventually he does spit it out, though, and it's adorable. | |
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In Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart, Jack has to recruit the help of Méliès to communicate his feelings for Miss Acacia in the form of a puppet show, since the words get caught in his throat when he tries to say it out loud. | |
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