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Love Before First Sight
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When a character is in love with someone they haven't met yet. The character knows what their beloved looks like, or knows their name, or sometimes both. But for one reason or another, the infatuated one has never seen the person they love in real life. They know that they'll meet someday, Because Destiny Says So, and they'll wait for their beloved to make an appearance. Traditionally, the beloved was seen in a dream or premonition, was foretold by a fortuneteller, described by a third party, or seen in a portrait, sculpture, or drawing. New technology has added photos, videos, e-mail, phone conversations, chat, or online gaming sessions, and radio, tv, or movies to the possibilities. Rarer methods involve finding an item of clothing, a book, or some other personal possession of the beloved one. May result in the character becoming a Stalker with a Crush. Can be the result of a Reincarnation Romance. Girl of My Dreams is the subtrope that covers specifically dreaming of the beloved before actually seeing them. Compare with Love at First Sight. |
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Professor Madblood of Narbonic fell in love with Helen when he read about her development as a clone as a project. He went mad as a teenager and saw a Commonality Connection. | |
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In Belgarath the Sorcerer (the prequel to Belgariad), King Riva has interesting dreams about a particular girl — who turns out to be the titular sorcerer's daughter - the younger, mortal one Beldaran. They get married and start the line that leads to the protagonist of the main series. | |
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Emma: Emma Woodhouse feels Attraction Before First Sight towards Mr Frank Churchill. He's the son of her close family friend, though they have never met each other. They are socially equal and close in age, and both are intelligent, charming, and handsome. | |
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Tristan and Iseult: Played with. King Mark insists on marrying the girl who left a single blonde hair on the edge of his window except that the only reason he's thinking about marriage at all is that the barons want him to be, so he decides to choose someone impossible. But his nephew Tristan guesses that the girl must be the blonde Iseult, and he brings her to the king. | |
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In Black Jack, the titular doctor performs a retinal transplant on a blind girl, allowing her to see. She starts getting visions of a young man, who she becomes curious about and gradually falls in love with. It nearly goes very badly when it's discovered that the man she's seeing is an imprint of what the previous owner of the retinas saw, and that said previous owner saw him because he'd murdered her and was quite willing to murder again to hide what he did. | |
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A very dark example in Don't Take This Risk: you're called by a complete stranger who was trying to phone the suicide hotline and if you don't tell him you love him and agree to see him, he'll kill himself because he believes that no one will ever love him. Depending on your choices, it becomes clear that either the character you play as doesn't truly love him, only said so to prevent him from committing suicide, and has to decide whether to try letting him down gently or stay with him to give him a reason to keep living, or the character you play as is genuinely crazy and/or lonely enough to believe herself to be in love with him just from hearing his voice over the phone. | |
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On Angel, Wesley says this about Fred: | |
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Dates: Kate, spying Erica from the bar when she first walks in. | |
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Downplayed in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Paya was raised on tales of Link's heroism and his coming reawakening, and upon meeting him for the first time deems him "the very picture of the hero I always imagined," but it wasn't until actually seeing him in-person that she becomes truly enamored with him. | |
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In the Wings episode "Ms. Write", Brian falls in love with "R", the author of some very passionate, poetic love letters delivered to his house by mistake. He eventually meets "R", who turns out to be a 12-year-old girl. | |
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The premise of The Simpsons episode "Bart the Lover". Bart writes fake love letters to Mrs. Krabappel pretending to be a man named "Woodrow". He know just what buttons to press to make her think he's her dream man, such as raving about how much he shares her hatred of yo-yo's. | |
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Kevin Kindle and Kell Dewclaw of Kevin & Kell met and dated online long before they met in person. This enabled them to get over the fact that Kevin is a rabbit and Kell is a wolf. The story starts one year after they got married, and they are still together 16 years later. | |
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Carly Rae Jepsen: "Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad..." | |
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Dash & Lily: Lily and Dash develop feelings for each other through their interactions in the notebook that they pass to and from each other, but neither knows what the other looks like, and Dash only knows Lily's name. Deconstructed — they had both idealized the other in their head so when their actual first meeting where they know each others' identities happens under less-than-favorable conditions both are upset and disappointed. | |
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A bit downplayed in MirrorMask, where Valentine is Helena's deuteragonist throughout her dream sequence, and she meets his real-life counterpart afterward. However, there's no explicit romance between them. At the least, it's friendship before first sight, with hints that a stronger relationship may grow later. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, Mei Chan develops a crush (and claims she's "in love" with and wishes to marry) Edward Elric, after misinterpreting a description of the Fullmetal Alchemist and his legendary exploits. She sets off in search of him... and unfortunately, the real thing doesn't look at all like the one she imagined. She ends up falling in love with Ed's younger brother Al, which is a bit of an unusual variation of this trope, because although she's "met" Al, he's actually just a disembodied soul alchemically bound to a massive empty suit of armor, on a quest to get his physical body back. He has a great personality, though. | |
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The Shop Around the Corner has the two leads fall in love with another just by reading their letters/emails. The Setting Update, You've Got Mail, has Meg Ryan's character fall in love with a guy she's online dating. | |
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The romance in A Matter of Life and Death starts with them meeting over an SOS call. | |
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Played with in Les Misérables. Marius and Cosette have only seen each other and not actually spoken, but they fall in love somehow. When Jean Valjean moves and takes Cosette away with him, Marius gets so depressed he does everything he can to find her, even though they've still exchanged nothing more than a few glances. | |
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Love O2O: A variant. Wei Wei and Xiao Nai met in person before they fell in love through their online interactions, but they only learn who they are after falling in love. | |
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This was Tatiana Romanova's cover story in From Russia with Love, which was the reason that the only agent who could extract her was James Bond. | |
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In The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold, Bergon falls in love with Iselle when Cazaril describes her to him. Upon meeting, she quickly reciprocates. | |
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In Isle of Dogs, Tracy and Atari don't meet for most of the movie, but as Tracy uncovers Atari's efforts to find Spots, she finds it difficult to organize her thoughts about him. | |
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Yandere Simulator reveals in 1980s Mode that this is how Ryoba ended up falling for Jokichi. She had recurring dreams of falling in love with a certain guy and marrying him, and finally seeing said guy in her school convinced her that she was Dreaming of Things to Come and had to make it come true. | |
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Another sci-fi twist in Oblivion (2013), combined with Girl of My Dreams. Turns out the protagonist is part of a Clone Army created for an Alien Invasion, a fact that he's unaware of. The woman he's dreaming of is actually the wife of the original subject he was cloned from. After discovering the truth, he realises it's a case of this trope and makes a Love Confession to her. | |
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In love stories within the Arabian Nights corpus, love before first sight is ubiquitous—for the practical reason that there was no way a man could have set eyes on an unmarried upper-class female. So, in this version of the Cinderella story, the young man can only identify his beloved by the slim ankles that led to her dropping an ankle bracelet; he has not yet seen her face. A somewhat more believable variant is a man falling in love with his mother's description of a woman - at least, the mother actually knows the woman in question - in some versions, it is her Really 700 Years Old best childhood friend. |
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In King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne, Graham sees Valanice in the Magic Mirror, and sets off to find and marry her without having met her. (The Fan Remake adds an element of Mindlink Mates to this). | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Anzu first fell for Yami Yugi when he saved her from a hostage situation in which she was blindfolded. She finds out later that he's a spirit inhabiting the body of her friend Yugi. | |
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In Scott Pilgrim, Scott dreams of Ramona and becomes infatuated with her before they meet, because Ramona's using his head as a Warp Zone. | |
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In Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, Nyarko fell head-over-heels for Mahiro the moment she read the mission report about him and immediately begged to be assigned to his case. When she actually tells Mahiro this, he's more than a little surprised...mainly since she's already progressed to "Desire to Bear Enough of His Kids to Start a Soccer Team Before First Sight"... | |
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Though of debatable merit, some characters may have predicted that Hayate would fall for Hinagiku in Hayate the Combat Butler before she was even introduced in the manga. Given that Even the Girls Want Her and she falls for him when she does first meet him, this is plausibly explainable. | |
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Guilty Crown: Shu's older sister Mana. After Mana was infected with the Apocalypse Virus, she turned into "Eve" in order to give birth to a new race of humans, and decided that she wanted her little brother to be her "Adam" before he was even born. It's left unclear to what extent her feelings for Shu are caused by the Apocalypse Virus driving her insane. | |
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Ayakashi Triangle: Lu only knows her friend Matsuri as a girl, but he was male until shortly before they met. When Matsuri sends a Soul Fragment into Lu to exorcist an evil spirit, he appears before her in his original male form. Later on, Lu encounters Shirogane shapeshifted into male Matsuri. She ends up falling in love with "Shiromatsu" (who she thinks is an alien), having still never physically met Matsuri's original identity. | |
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Homestuck: Kanaya initially hero-worships Rose Lalonde based on a GameFAQs walkthrough written by the latter. Whether this is romantic is not canonically addressed. They do later become an unofficial item and go on outings that both carefully avoid referring to as dates except when Rose's newfound drinking problem makes her late for one. Vriska goes on to get a crush on Nic Cage, and then, more seriously, John. Jane, Dirk, and to a lesser extent Roxy all fell for Jake just from chatting with him over pesterchum, plus Roxy for Dirk as well. It's even worse in Dirk's case, as he's separated from Jake not only by distance but by hundreds of years of time. |
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One chapter of Dandelion Wine has a man fall in love with a beautiful girl by her photo alone, only to find out that the photo was taken a long time ago and that the girl is now an old woman. | |
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In Jack: The American Ghost it's revealed that Jack and Go-Eun were at the same mental hospital for a while, and he fell in love with her by hearing her sing, despite not knowing who she was or what she looked like. | |
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Maoyu: While her exact age is unknown, the Demon Queen is implied to be at least a couple centuries old (though she's young for her race's standards). She'd been waiting for the day to meet the Hero in person since he was born. | |
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The Tale of Genji: Heian gallants were quite capable of falling in love with a girl's handwriting or even a description. | |
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In Ready Player One, Wade has a crush on Art3mis from reading her blog, which grows into a full-blown infatuation when their avatars meet in the Oasis. They don't meet face-to-face until the last pages of the book. | |
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In The Vampire Diaries, Elena's best friend Bonnie, who is a psychic, reads Elena's palm and tells her that in the future, she is going to meet a "tall, dark, and handsome" stranger. A few minutes later, Elena sees Stefan for the first time. Elena instantly and immediately falls in love with Stefan the moment she sees him. | |
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The Expanse Detective Miller falls very in love with the subject of his investigation, Julie Mao particularly after seeing her determination and how she defied her father. She replaces his ex-wife as the imaginary woman he talks his cases over with. He's fully aware that he's in love more with the concept of her but it does help him realize that Julie is in control of Eros. He doesn't attempt to make any romantic overtures when he finally meets her. | |
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Mint na Bokura has Yoshiaki, who fell for Maria after hearing his brother talking about her. When they finally meet, he promptly asks her out. | |
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In A Brother's Price, men are rare, and unmarried men are chaperoned by their sisters, for STD Immunity is thoroughly averted, and a man who is not pure anymore would be unmarriageable. As a result of this, falling in love with a description is not all that unusual. Therefore, it is no surprise that Ren spends the night in the kitchen in the hopes of meeting Jerin, of whose beauty she knows only from the description of her sister Odelia. She does meet him, and is just as smitten with him as Odelia. | |
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From Russia with Love. An Invoked Trope in the Evil Plan by SMERSH, where a Russian cypher clerk has supposedly fallen in love with Bond's picture in his file. Bond and M are skeptical, but can't resist the bait when she promises to deliver a cypher machine in exchange for meeting Bond. | |
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Fushigi Yuugi: Hotohori as a child already wondered if the priestess of Suzaku "could love him one day". He did not change his opinion by meeting her but it's subverted because it is not with him that Miaka is in love. | |
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In The Most Happy Fella, Tony falls in Love at First Sight with a waitress who can't recall his face, not even after he leaves her a tie-pin and a love letter as a tip. A few months of correspondence later, she travels to the Napa Valley to marry him, with a picture of the handsome young man she assumes is Tony but unfortunately isn't. | |
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During the Culture Festival arc of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, it's revealed that Fujiwara's little sister Moeha has fallen in love with Shirogane due to being best friends with his little sister Kei and having often heard stories about him. | |
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Flirting Scholar: The beautiful Chou-Heung falls in love with an artist before meeting him, because of his paintings and poetry. | |
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In Archer, Katya Kasanova betrays the KGB because she fell in love with Archer during training, while being briefed on enemy agents and seeing his photo. | |
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In Don Juan De Marco, the title character falls, hard, for a centerfold model he's only seen in a magazine. After many attempts he manages to phone her- when she tells him to bug off, his response is rather disproportionate. | |
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A quest in Fable II involves a man who has fallen in love with the long-dead Lady Elvira Grey. The player helps him by collecting her scattered body parts so she can be revived, Frankenstein-style. | |
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In Noob, Arthéon is implied to have never met Kary, his Season 4 girlfriend, in real life. | |
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In Mars Red, Episode 7 shows that Nakajima Misaki was already pretty smitten with her fiancé Lt. Col. Maeda just from exchanging letters with him. Their first meeting in person was after she has been turned into a vampire and lost her sanity, and she dies shortly afterward. | |
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The Victorious time travel AU fic "Across the Years" features this for Jade and Tori; Jade lived in the present while Tori lived in the mid-nineteenth century, but after Jade finds Tori's picture and diaries in an antique shop, she finds herself falling in love with Tori based on what she reads in the diaries, eventually driving her to use a prototype time machine to go back and try to save Tori's life, having learned that Tori will die in childbirth (giving birth to a stillborn baby) and her husband would swiftly marry his mistress. | |
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At the start of Bravely Default, Ringabel is strongly attracted towards Edea before meeting her, due to what is written about her in his mysterious journal that predicts the future. Needless to say, her actual personality is a bit different than what the writings implied. | |
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The song "Mystery" from A Bit of Fry and Laurie is all about the singer's love for someone who happens to live in a different country... and to be dead. And who probably wouldn't have liked him anyway. Hence the title. | |
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In some versions of Donkeyskin, the princess has never seen the prince before being asked to bake a cake for him. But she still puts her ring in the cake so he can find her later, ultimately marrying him. | |
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The main couple in Dreamless live on different continents, but see through each other's eyes instead of dreaming when they sleep. Living each other's lives, they fall in love. He's Japanese, she's American... and it's the 1940s. When Elanor asks her father why he never wondered about her speaking Japanese, his reply is that he speaks German for the same reason. It didn't work out for him. | |
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Space Quest plays this. After a big mess involving Time Travel, Roger's Kid from the Future shows him a holographic projection of Beatrice Wankmeister. Roger is instantly smitten, and (contrary to what his kid states) doesn't forget his trip to the future. At the opening of Space Quest V, Roger still can't quite get Beatrice out of his mind. In the course of the game, he meets her, and the pair start up a romance. | |
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Shawn of Boy Meets World finds a lost purse and, from its contents, becomes convinced that the purse's owner is the perfect woman for him. He's actually already met the owner of the purse's contents (the owner of the actual purse didn't own the contents) but didn't get to know her well enough to start a long-term relationship. | |
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In The Terminator, Reese claims to have been in love with Sarah ever since seeing her picture, which kind of comes off as being creepy. This takes a strange turn when it's revealed that John Connor, Sarah's son from the future, chose Reese to go back in time to become his father. | |
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In Descendants of Darkness, the evil Dr. Muraki fell in love with Tsuzuki at first sight... from his photo. He further became obsessed with him when he read his grandfather's (who was Tsuzuki's doctor) records of Tsuzuki's symptoms and mental health. | |
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Virginia for Lorenzo in The Monk. | |
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Dollhouse: Paul falls for Echo after seeing a picture of her — though after he's told it's pathetic, he really does try to return to real life. Eventually he turns out to be right about Echo and him. Both Topher and Bennett had crushes on each other before they even saw each other, having "known" each other through their various scientific achievements. After their first kiss, Topher admits he even had a crush on Bennett "back when I thought you were a dude." |
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This is one of the triggers for the plot of Somewhere in Time. The main character falls in love with an actress after seeing an old picture of her, making him use Mental Time Travel to meet her after he learned that she'd already died of old age. | |
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The Ming-dynasty play The Peony Pavilion (MÇ”dÄ�ntÃng) is about two people who fall in love without ever meeting one another: The girl Du-Liniang falls deeply in love the boy Liu-Mengmei in a dream and, knowing that there is no way the love can be requited, dies of a broken heart. She, however, leaves her portrait near the titular Pavilion. Years later, the actual Liu-Mengmei comes upon the portrait and gets romantically smitten. Du-Liniang is brought back to life by The Power of Love, and everyone is happy. | |
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In Ouran High School Host Club Rich Bitch Eclair actually had fallen in love with Tamaki through the stories of her housekeeper... Tamaki's mother. | |
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Parodied when Ron eats chocolates laced with a love potion in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. | |
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The Thirteenth Floor puts Love Before First Sight and Love at First Sight in a cocktail shaker and mixes with glee. The two main characters have never met, but fall instantly in love in what one of them explicitly says is love at first sight. Plot twist: the main character is a simulated reflection of the other one's husband - which means he's similar, but not identical. So she's seen him before, but not *really* him. She's been following his life for a while, and explicitly says she fell in love before they met. Which of the two tropes to apply is left as an exercise to the reader. | |
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Bryce and Keiko in FlashForward (2009). Each even makes a trip to the other's home country in an effort to find each other. | |
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It can't be more fitting for Mitsuha & Taki in Your Name. Both first learnt of each other's existence through the body-swapping. Their only way of communicating with each other is via leaving notes on their respective phones during the body-swapping. Both already fell for each other by the time they met each other for the first time at the top of the hill as their respective original bodies. This trope even repeats itself when they lost memory of each other after leaving "the underworld", making them yearn for each other, despite not knowing who or what it is. At the end of the film, their reunion after several years brings out the tearful joy in each other, & prompts them to ask each other's names. | |
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In She Loves Me, Amalia Balash falls in love through correspondence with Georg Nowack in which they address each other only as "Dear Friend," not knowing that he also works for Maraczek's Parfumerie. Actually, at the time of their first date, he no longer works there, having quit because he found her too frustrating to work with. | |
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In Enchanted, Giselle sees her true love in a dream, and builds a statue of him, being certain that he both exists and that he wouldn't find this creepy. The statue looks as much like Edward as Robert, anyway (dark-haired guy with light eyes). | |
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Bequeathed from Pale Estates: Invoked by the Starks (particularly Ned and Lyarra) in the case of Sansa and Domeric Bolton. Sansa was originally set to be betrothed to Joffrey, but after a public display of his madness that got him essentially disqualified from the line of succession, Ned refuses the offer. Instead, he and Lyarra make a coordinated effort to turn her affections to Domeric, writing of his gallant deeds and sending her sketches of his good looks. It works. By the time Ned returns to Winterfell, Sansa was ready to ask for the match herself, and when she and Domeric finally meet, they immediately hit it off and are smitten within months of their courtship. | |
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The whole plot of Sleepless in Seattle. The official couple, Annie and Sam, meet face-to-face only in the very last scene. Annie is engaged, and she has never seen Sam; she only knows his voice, thanks to radio. This doesn't stop her from breaking off her engagement for a guy she doesn't know yet. | |
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Britomart for Artegall in The Faerie Queene after seeing him in a crystal ball. | |
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The whole premise of Ben X is romance in an MMORPG. The main couple meet in RL only in the last scene. | |
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This occurs in "Palla", a two-set book you can find and read in Morrowind. The story's narrator falls in love with Pal La after seeing a statue of her fighting the monster that ultimately killed her; being a necromancer, he sets about the monumental task of bringing Pal La back to life, so they can live happily and in love ever after. He finally succeeds, but before he can join his beloved, he finds out that Pal La was the monster. Who is happy to meet him. | |
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The song "I Knew I Loved You" by Savage Garden. | |
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Robert Browning has been reading Elizabeth Barrett's poetry and exchanging letters with her. When he finally meets her, tells her he's fallen in love with her. Real Life turned out pretty much the same way. | |
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Eragon plays with this a bit with the title character having visions of a girl in prison. He crushes on her and rescues her, but she's not interested in him in that way. | |
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In Only You, 11 years old Faith hears in a spiritualism session her soulmate will be named Damon Bradley. Ten years later, on her wedding day, she gets a call from a guy named Damon Bradley. Naturally, she drops everything to go meet him. | |
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Doctor Who: A Forgotten First Meeting and various time travel weirdness notwithstanding, the first time the Doctor properly becomes aware of Clara's existence, he could neither see nor touch her because she, or rather the particular version of her was currently in denial over having been forcibly converted into a Dalek. Her voice over the intercom was enough for her to impress him with her intelligence and willpower, and do lots of flirting. This is also why he doesn't immediately recognize the next version of her that he comes across; by the time he realized that they are basically the same person, they had already kissed. | |
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Chulip: The beginning sequence wherein the player character and his love interest are named turn out to be a dream sequence that occurs when said character and his father are moving into Long Life Town for the very first time. | |
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Explained by Don Quixote de la Mancha himself in Man of La Mancha during the song "Dulcinea": | |
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In Criminal Minds, Reid's Love Interest in Season 8, Maeve, is being stalked. Therefore, she's afraid to leave her apartment and even more afraid of being seen in public with him, fearing the stalker will go after him. Thus, they talk on the phone and exchange emails, but they never meet in person (or even exchange pictures). Reid is even afraid to meet her because he doesn't want something as superficial as appearance to come between them. They do get one chance to see each other when her stalker kidnaps them both, but it only lasts about five minutes before the stalker takes out Maeve in a murder-suicide. | |
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In Quest for Glory IV it's possible for the hero to fall in love with a woman that he's only met in dream sequences. Also, for the first four games in the series, she's dead - but it's possible to bring her back to life and eventually marry her in the fifth. | |
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Alice and Jasper in The Twilight Saga. Alice can see the future, which is how she knew where to meet him in the first place. | |
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Arguably in Just Like Heaven, one of the main characters is or seems to be a ghost. They meet because the other character rents her former apartment. Near the end of the film, they have fallen in love, but still technically never have met in person. When they do, it seems to be a Downer Ending as she doesn't remember him, but their hands touch and she remembers him. | |
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Subverted in The Sandman (1989), in which a woodsman brings a locket containing a portrait of a princess to the princess, meeting several strangers along the way. When he finally meets the princess, he gives her the locket... and leaves. | |
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In 86 EIGHTY-SIX's anime adaptation, a lot of anime-original scenes make it clear Vladilena is rapidly falling hard for Shin just from their daily talks over the Para-RAID commlink, long before they've met in person or even know each other's faces. It takes a bit longer in the light novels, where their feelings develop slowly and gradually change from being antagonistic strangers, to comrades, to friends, and finally to full-blown romantic partners. | |
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Kanaya initially hero-worships Rose Lalonde based on a GameFAQs walkthrough written by the latter. Whether this is romantic is not canonically addressed. They do later become an unofficial item and go on outings that both carefully avoid referring to as dates except when Rose's newfound drinking problem makes her late for one. |
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A somewhat twisted example from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Oz and Veruca, who are both werewolves. | |
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In Bells Are Ringing, Ella, as Jeff's telephone answering service girl, falls in love with his voice before meeting him in person. | |
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In Inazuma Eleven Orion no Kokuin, Iwato starting writing love letters to a person named Hikaru before he even knew their gender. He is shocked to discover through a reply that Hikaru is actually a guy, which is not what Iwato is attracted to. | |
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In W.I.T.C.H. (unlike in the Animated Adaptation) Cornelia first sees Caleb in her dreams, and meets him for real later; the feeling became reciprocal. Ultimately they can't make it work due to their differences and never getting around knowing each other, so they (amiably) break up. The Oracle later make them dream what would have happened had they taken different decisions (Cornelia dreaming to go to Meridian and stay there and Caleb dreaming of moving to Earth), with rather tragic consequences. | |
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Terriers, of all shows, uses this one. Britt saw pictures of Katie when he robbed her apartment, tracked her down at the bar where she worked and asked her out. And immediately gave up burglary. | |
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Edmond Rostand (better known for Cyrano de Bergerac) wrote a play La princesse lointaine based on the story of Jaufré Rudel (see "Folklore", above). | |
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Fate/hollow ataraxia: Bazett has had a crush on Lancer (aka Cu Chulainn) long before she summoned him — She fell in love with him when she read the Ulster Cycle as a child, and joined the Holy Grail War in hopes that she could rescue him from his early, unpleasant death. In the original game, she was instead murdered and her command spells stolen, but in ataraxia she gets a different try. | |
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In The Little Mermaid (1989), after she saves him from drowning, Eric doesn't see Ariel but hears her beautiful singing voice and becomes determined to find this mysterious girl. Ursula uses the fact that Eric doesn't know Ariel's identity to her advantage in her deal to make Ariel human by requiring Ariel to become a mute as the price, minimizing her chances of making Eric fall in love with her. When Eric starts to fall in love with Ariel regardless, Ursula decides to disguise herself as a beautiful maiden and use Ariel's voice to bewitch Eric into believing she was the mysterious woman. Upon the spell being broken and Ariel regaining her voice, Eric finally realizes she was the one he was looking for, solidfying his love for her. | |
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Phil falls for Keely in Phil of the Future before they officially met in the first episode; his family comes to 2003 during Christmas, and Keely walks by. He becomes so infatuated that he goes back in time several times to fix a glass star Keely was responsible for as Pickford Yultide Princess that Pim broke (and keeps getting broken). | |
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In the French movie Witch Way Love, Hot Witch Morgane tells her infant son Arthur the story of a little witch. This witch fell in love with the portrait of a young man and found a magic spell that would get her pregnant by him without actually requiring his presence. Then the little witch was punished with a mindwipe, and the portrait was also erased, save the eyes of the man. Later, Morgan meets and falls in love with inventor Michael. Suddenly, we guess: Arthur was never seen with a father around him, and there is a portrait with only the eyes visible in Morgane's room. Said eyes are identical to those of Michael. | |
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In the movie The Lake House, the main female character has not met the man she is writing letters to, as he is two years behind her time. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In episode "Haven", it is revealed that Troi is due for an Arranged Marriage. When she meets her husband to be, she sees a bunch of drawings he made showing a woman's face from childhood to adult. The groom claims this is a woman who has been appearing in his dreams from a young age and always assumed it was Troi. Sure enough, said woman turns up later in the episode, prompting the groom to run off with her returning us to status quo. Geordi LaForge falls in love with starship designer Leah Brahms after working with a holographic version of her. It makes things really awkward when he meets the real (and already-married) Dr. Brahms who unlike the hologram turns out to be bossy, cold, and highly critical of Geordi's work (to makes things worse, she gets really pissed when she finds out about the hologram). However, they manage to become friends, and the final episode suggests they end up getting married in at least one timeline. |
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