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This trope appears in romantic works, and is featured prominently in Young Adult Literature fiction novels. The touch of a love interest will either literally or metaphorically feel like a shock of electricity. Creators of works tend to use this trope to signify to the reader that the crush is The One, or that the protagonist is making a deep and important connection to another character. In particularly blatant examples, the shock may be so strong as to cause both characters to retract their hands as if in pain. In a visual works, live-action films may employ camera work and auditory spark sounds. In animated works, this effect can be exaggerated and the characters whole body can react. If a robot, android, or cyborg are in this situation, literal sparks may fly. The French expression for instantly falling in love with someone is "coup de foudre", meaning "struck by lightning". The Lightning equivalent to Snow Means Love and Flames of Love (or Fireworks of Love). Compare to Romantic Rain if it overlaps with thunderstorms, Love at First Sight, Electric Instant Gratification, and Lightning Glare. Contrast to No Sparks and Dead Sparks. |
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Another literal case in the Logan's Run TV series. The android Rem and another android (a therapist at a long-abandoned psychiatric clinic) take a shine to one another, and are quite good at denying there's any emotional connection. They're proper androids, after all. Except for the fact there are some odd sparks from their circuitry that go off when they're with one another that are treated like a Crush Blush. | |
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: Buckaroo has saved the world! Unfortunately, although he rescued his Love Interest Penny Priddy, it wasn't in time to save her life. Thanks to a little help from the alien John Emdall, though, what Buckaroo intended as a goodbye kiss is literally electric and behaves like a defibrillator. Penny revives, and they get to do The Big Damn Kiss. | |
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In Kevin & Kell, George Fennec and Danielle Kindle discovered an electrical connection between each other when she scooped him up off the floor after he was violently rejected by a fennec he had a crush on. Their connection was weaponized in the climax of the Rabbits' Revenge story arc, which ended with the Heroic Sacrifice and death of Danielle. When a Doppelgänger came through the dimensional portal from the human world and took her form, it took a little time for the connection to remanifest itself, but it eventually did. These days, this trope is downplayed, as they wear ground wires connected to their wedding rings. | |
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This is discussed in an episode of Yo-kai Watch that parodies Shonen Hair when Nate and his friends overhear the girls talking about romance and the new "static hair" fad amongst boys: | |
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Looney Tunes: In Ding Dog Daddy, a dog falls in love with a statue of a female greyhound after kissing it when it gets struck by lightning. Near the end, when the statue is removed and melted into a bombshell for the war effort, the distraught dog tries to give "Daisy" one last kiss, causing the bomb to explode. In the Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Greyhounded Hare" he falls instantly in love with a dog track lure in the shape of a rabbit and tries to rescue it from being chased. When he finally catches "her" he kisses it, causing a jolt of electricity to shoot through his body, which he interprets as Sparks of Love. In Plane Daffy, Daffy Duck, a self-proclaimed woman-hater, gets kissed by Nazi spy Hata Mari and becomes a flailing bolt of lightning. When she tries it again, Daffy manages to resist her wiles and she gets shocked. |
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In The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dave, a physics major who experiments with Tesla coils, realizes through his budding relationship with music major Becky that the lightning from the coils makes its own kind of music. He shows this off to her one night by standing in a Faraday cage with her and playing Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" and OneRepublic's "Secrets" with the Tesla coils. See here. | |
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In the episode "Opposites" of Teen Titans Go!, Cyborg and Jinx's Dating Catwoman scenario get literally electrifying when they kiss one another. | |
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In Le Gendarme se marie, a big electric arc appears when Cruchot kisses Josépha's hand. | |
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Amazing Stories: "The Main Attraction", a Jerk Jock is given the power of magnetism by a meteor but can't turn it off. Turns out there was another one that hit a nerdy girl. Of course they are pulled together and when she tries to kiss him little sparks fly between the two. | |
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"Queen of Hearts" by Fucked Up, which is about two people falling in Love at First Sight has the following as the chorus: | |
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In Plane Daffy, Daffy Duck, a self-proclaimed woman-hater, gets kissed by Nazi spy Hata Mari and becomes a flailing bolt of lightning. When she tries it again, Daffy manages to resist her wiles and she gets shocked. | |
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Referenced in Steven Universe. Garnet is a fusion (essentially a Fusion Dance of two or more gems that serves as a rough metaphor for their relationship) whose component gems are in a romantic relationship. She has Shock and Awe powers (despite Ruby and Sapphire, her component gems, having fire and ice powers respectively). | |
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A very literal example in The Flash (2014). Iris touching Barry's hand causes sparks to jump between them. Of course this is justified in-universe as a speedster generating lightning which sparked off Barry, but it still holds the same symbolic effect. This ends up becoming a repeated Motif throughout the series, with Barry calling Iris his "lightning rod". | |
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Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: At the house party episode, Ned accidentally kisses Moze because she wore the same dress as his crush Suzy. Over the course of the series, Moze can still feel the sparks from that kiss and tries to forget all about it. When she tries to kiss her crush Famen, there were absolutely No Sparks. Upon the end of the series, with both Ned and Moze getting a Relationship Upgrade, they sealed the deal with a kiss that sends sparks that could light up a 4th of July fireworks display. In an episode about positives and negatives, Ned invoked this trope when tried to set up two emos (or is it goth) with each other. However, in the room where Ned made the attempt, Gordy made the room cry dry in an attempt to build up static electricity, so when the two eventually kissed, it caused a literal explosion of electricity. |
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In Arnold Arre's graphic novel After Eden, mixed with Romantic Rain, childhood friends Jon and Celine go for a relationship upgrade in the middle of a thunderstorm. At the end of the novel, a year after they broke up caused by their friends, they reconciled through widescreen in the middle of a thunderstorm, with the viewers joining in their starting of their relationships. | |
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Grease. Pops up in the Final Love Duet, "You're The One That I Want": | |
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In the Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Greyhounded Hare" he falls instantly in love with a dog track lure in the shape of a rabbit and tries to rescue it from being chased. When he finally catches "her" he kisses it, causing a jolt of electricity to shoot through his body, which he interprets as Sparks of Love. | |
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Raul from Hyperion Cantos had these whenever he touched Aenea, well before he realized he loves her. | |
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In Sym-Bionic Titan, when Kimmy kisses Octus, sparks fly quite literally. | |
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In the book Delirium when Lena touches the hand of the handsome security guard, she describes the feeling as: " a tiny electrical shock buzzes through me, and I pull away quickly." | |
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In WALL•E, EVE revives WALL•E with a kiss that looks like a spark. Justified, as they are both robots. | |
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Parodied in One Piece: when Absalom attempts to kidnap Nami, and she shocks him. He mistakes the electric shock for the spark of love, even saying "It's like I've been struck by lightning!" | |
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In the Futurama episode "Bendless Love," this is justified between Bender and Angleyne as both are robots. | |
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Pa's technique for testing the love interest in Bad Buddy includes touching the other person's hand to see if you feel something when you do. For her brother Pat, his then-Love Interest Ink fails this test, but confusingly, Pran passes. | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: The special "A Looney Beginning" sees Babs Bunny turned into an attractive Jessica Rabbit-Expy. When she kisses Buster, he transforms into a bolt of lightning, followed by Lustful Melt. | |
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Son of the Sannin: Due to Hinata's increased power from her Tenseigan continuing to mature, she accidentally shocks Naruto with lightning release chakra while giving him a goodbye kiss as he leaves to train under Killer Bee. This ends up being important during said training as it’s revealed that Hinata passed some of her chakra to Naruto which then manifests when he’s taming Kurama. | |
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Beast Wars: When Blackarachnia gains a Transmetal 2 body and kisses Silverbolt, she ends up shocking him. She tells him "Transmetal 2 power. Get used to it." | |
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The Twilight Saga: Bella describes this sensation upon touching Edward in their Bio class. She feels his exceptionally cold hand and feels a shock. Both Bella and Edward pull away their hands. Later on when the romance is in full bloom, Bella describes the feeling of electricity between the two of them during a movie in class when all the lights are off. They are "hyper-aware" of each other then. |
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Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: Near the end of "The Shooting of Dan McGoo", "the lady who's known as Lou" plants a kiss on Droopy, causing him to shoot into the air like a rocket. | |
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Guys Being Dudes: A logical extension from Spark's particular motif from canon. The first time Arlo pets his hair during Day 1 of Go Fest in the conversation during which they officially declare themselves as boyfriends, he gets a static shock from it. | |
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In Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia, Obelix kisses the hand of Miss Macintosh. The contact between their bodies creates a big electric arc. | |
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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: Apparently a kiss between two people who are in love will send off visible sparks of light; if the attraction isn't mutual, such as with Wallace and Todd, only one party will see them. | |
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Li'l Abner parodies this in "Oh, Happy Day": | |
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Happy Heroes: Episode 49 is about Doctor H. being given an electric touch after an accident during a routine hairstyling to help him look good for his date with Miss Peach. At the end of the episode, after Doctor H.'s static touch wears off, a single blink from Miss Peach sends a (presumably metaphorical) shock to Doctor H. that leaves him motionless on the ground, smiling and with heart-shaped eyes. | |
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