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Road Trip Romance
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A pair of mismatched characters, often a world-wise man and a high society woman (though the gender roles can be altered) find themselves in a situation where they must travel together to reach a goal. For the woman it will often mean returning home, while the man will often travel for the sake of some kind of reward for his troubles. They won’t like each other at first, there will be squabbles because of their class differences, but over time they find a common bond and slowly fall in love. The climax will often be after the couple has exchanged their First Kiss, Almost Kiss, or make love. The man will sneak off in the night to take care of Unfinished Business towards their mutual benefit, only for the woman to wake up alone. She feels betrayed, and finishes the journey on her own. The man will forgo his reward and make a dash after her for the sake of true love, maybe even defeat the Big Bad, and eventually they live Happily Ever After. So pack your bags; first stop adventure, last stop romance, and we'll pick up some tropes along the way! May or may not be necessitated by Chained Heat. Think of this as Buddy Love Meets A Road Trip Plot. |
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Country Strong has a quasi example. The plot is about a country music star going on a comeback tour. Two of the musicians opening for her fall for each other as the tour goes on. | |
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In Wristcutters: A Love Story the hero and his friend go on a road trip in the afterlife to find the ex-girlfriend he killed himself over, but pick up a new Love Interest for him along the way. | |
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Corvette Summer, early '70s film starring Mark Hamill & Annie Potts. Both lower class: He's a just-graduated high school senior searching for a stolen Corvette, she's a self-proclaimed "prostitute in training." | |
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The iCarly fandom has this as a relatively common Fandom-Specific Plot. Generally it involves the two people in the pairing going to visit the third. Occasionally it involves the pairing tagging along on a trip with the third member of the trio and whoever they are already involved in a relationship with. iHit The Open Road is an example of a well written Creddie story of the first type. | |
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The Princess and the Frog: Gender Role Reversal; Tiana is a low-class working girl with the skills to know how to travel while Naveen is a spoiled prince. Over time they fall in love and Naveen is willing to forgo returning the human form and restoring his wealth in order to marry Tiana. However, he is captured by Faciler’s demons in the middle of the night, and Tiana thinks he has left her in favor of Charlotte. Ray corrects the misinformation, and she rushes to save him, and they live happily ever after. | |
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Princess Evangile: The first chapter of Tamie's route has several elements of this kind of plot. Namely: the class differences between Masaya, a formerly-working class student, and Tamie, a high-class girl, ensuing hilarity and awkwardness between them, and eventual feelings for one another blossoming. However, the last one is tragically cut short when Tamie suffers an accident and is hospitalized at the end of the chapter. | |
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Rio. Blu is a domesticated, human-dependent, flight-challenged bird, while Jewel is an independent, free-spirited, highly-aerial bird. They are being matched to save their species, then being chained together, escape from an Evil Poacher. They meet friends who help them along the way and the two gradually fall in love, to the point where they Almost Kiss at their Dance of Romance. Sadly, because of a falling out between them, the two lovebirds begin to part ways once their chain is off. Jewel gets captured by Nigel again, Blu and the others rush to save her only to be caught themselves. Blu and Jewel break everyone out, Nigel and the smugglers are defeated, Blu learns to fly after he and Jewel kiss, they have children and live Happily Ever After. | |
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Chasing Liberty: She's the daughter of the US President, who's given her entourage the slip so she can have a holiday as a normal person. He's a free-spirited drifter she picks up along the way (but actually he's an undercover Secret Service bodyguard who set up a Meet Cute so she'd have somebody keeping an eye on her). Romance ensues. | |
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The Yellow Handkerchief uniquely has three characters in the Road Trip Plot, but avoids a Love Triangle (since the characters are fifteen, seventeen, and fifty-something respectively). The two teens are both lonely and dysfunctional but fall in love over the course of the journey. | |
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One episode of The Saint, "The Golden Journey", was loosely based on this idea. Simon Templar manipulated circumstances in such a way that the spoilt, entitled fiancee of his friend would be compelled to travel rough with him and learn to be more kind and sensitive. | |
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Frozen, Princess Anna recruits mountain man Kristoff as a guide for her quest to find Queen Elsa and stop the Endless Winter. They gradually fall in love, but sadly say it can't work because Anna is with Prince Hans. Hans turns out to be the true villain of the film and never really loved Anna. After he is defeated, Anna and Kristoff start dating. | |
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Romancing the Stone is a genre-savvy film given that the character played by Kathleen Turner, the female romantic lead, is supposed to be a romance writer whose works frequently involve the sort of situation the writer finds herself in. | |
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The African Queen has a British missionary in Africa deciding to convert a tramp steamer (the titular African Queen) into an impromptu torpedo launcher and sink a German gunboat (the story is set during World War I). Throughout the course of the journey, she falls in love with the steamer's captain and this culminates in a hilarious climax. They're caught by the Germans and request to be married before they're both executed. The torpedos blow up the enemy ship during the marriage ceremony, thus giving the couple a happily ever after. | |
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In Nightshade, this happens to Enju and the respective love interest, minus the Belligerent Sexual Tension, as she and the love interest would grow closer while on the run as fugitives and eventually fall in love. Noticeably averted in Chojiro's route as he spends a good portion of his route apart from Enju and actively trying to hunt her down under Kondo's orders. | |
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Leap Year: Anna is trying to propose to her non-committal boyfriend in Ireland on leap year, as is supposed "tradition". However, she lands on the wrong side of the Emerald Isle and has to take a road trip across the country with Declan, who annoys her to no end. You can guess how the story goes from there. | |
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Shrek: Shrek, an ugly ogre, risks life and limb to save Princess Fiona so that he can get his swamp back from Lord Farquaad. After misinterpreting Fiona’s conversation with Donkey about "an ugly beast", Shrek sneaks off in the night to bring Farquaad to her. Donkey clears up the misunderstanding and Shrek runs back to tell Fiona he loves her at the wedding. | |
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The Sure Thing is a variation. The two romantic leads, Gib and Allison, are basically the same social class, but he is a would-be party animal and she is a compulsive planner. They are traveling together from the east coast to California, her to meet her fiance and him to hook up with a woman who is guaranteed to sleep with him. Much Belligerent Sexual Tension is generated between them on the way. It's not till they return home that it's resolved. | |
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Stardust: Tristan captures the Fallen Star Yvaine, to take back as a present for his beloved Victoria. After many adventures, the two make love. Tristian takes a lock of her hair to Victoria, as a way of fulfilling his promise to her, but admitting that he really loves Yvaine instead. Tristian goes back, fights the Big Bad, the two are reunited and marry. | |
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Overnight Delivery has the hero, accompanied by a stripper named Ivy, driving cross-country to retrieve a break-up video he sent to his girlfriend when he was under the impression she had cheated on him. Along the way, he and Ivy of course develop an interest in one another; by the end he discovers that his girlfriend did cheat on him and he ends up with Ivy. | |
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The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal falls directly into this plotline with the story following the two titular characters on the road from California to Providence, Rhode Island after Amal agrees to drive TJ while on a bender. | |
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Sex Drive has protagonist Ian and his longtime friend Felicia falling in love with one another as they drive to the home of "Ms. Tasty" with whom Ian is supposed to have sex. | |
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Spice and Wolf: An awkward traveling merchant and a haughty wolf spirit team up to travel to her ancient homeland in the north, the both of them developing feelings for one another along the way. | |
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Averted in Lolita. Humbert's wanderings around the United States with Dolores as his abductee are aimless, with the simple goal of keeping Dolores compliant from one day to the next through sightseeing while Humbert molests her in an endless number of cheap motels. | |
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Cherry 2000. After the End, Sam's prize possession is a Robot Girl, the Cherry 2000. When the robot is damaged beyond repair, he ends up hiring a tracker, Edith "E" Johnson, to go into the restricted Zone 7 with him to find a replacement body/chassis. In the end, while escaping from Lester's gang, he finds the robot's personality to be too artificial and he returns to rescue Edith and dump Cherry. | |
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Anastasia: Dimitri plans to pass off Anya as a "fake" Anastasia in order to gain a substantial reward, not realizing until later that she is the real deal. Upon learning of Dimitri's role as a con artist, she leaves him. However Dimitri refuses payment in the end, and once the Big Bad is dead (again) they elope. | |
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Tangled: Flynn Rider is captured by Princess Rapunzel (though she doesn’t know she is a princess) and made take her to see the floating lanterns in return for the tiara he had stolen. The two slowly fall in love to the point of an Almost Kiss. Flynn sneaks off in the night to forgo his reward by returning the tiara to the Stabbington Brothers, who, along with Mother Gothel, turn him over the Royal Guard. Rapunzel thinks Flynn has left her and she returns home with Mother Gothel. Flynn, realizing the scheme, escapes from prison and rides off to save her. Once the Big Bad is defeated, they have the first kiss, and after years and years of asking, he finally said yes to her marriage proposal. | |
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Spaceballs. Lone Starr saves Princess Vespa in order to get the Million Space Bucks reward but forgoes it in the end. Eventually he learns that he is really a prince and races back to marry Vespa. | |
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