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True Love's Kiss

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True Love's Kiss	comment	The Power of Love in its purest form. Fairy Tales, especially the edited Disney versions, usually have a few things in common: The Rule of Three, and the True Love's Kiss. Finding your true love will cure 99.9% of magical maladies and curses, restores memories and washes your windows, or your money back! Except in the case of the page quote, where you'll get turned into a polyp. This trope is so ingrained in the psyche of western audiences it will never really be discredited, but often subverted. It's actually a Dead Unicorn Trope that's Newer Than They Think — notice how many of the original versions of the stories listed below had nothing to do with a "kiss". It is also often modified to True Love's "First" Kiss as an Anvilicious lesson about chastity. Subtrope and most common form of Magic Kiss. Has a tendency to be The Big Damn Kiss. Can overlap with Dude, She's Like in a Coma. Started gradually being replaced by the Act of True Love from The '90s onward.
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True Love's Kiss / int_100d4e39	comment	Aladdin: The Series: In Sadira's altered reality where she takes Jasmine's place. When Aladdin and Jasmine meet again, they realize their true intertwined destinies and that the current reality wasn't right. Once they share a kiss, the reality is reverted back the way it once was. Played with in Sadira's third scheme to claim Aladdin for herself where she uses a spell to brainwash him into thinking he's her knight in shining armor, but then wanders off into the desert. The spell was made to end once he kisses Sadira, much to Jasmine's annoyance. Discussed in Forget me lots. Jasmine, under a spell, became a Criminal Amnesiac. Aladdin wonders if it is the kind of spell that can be broken by a true love's kiss. However, she gets her memories back when she has heard Aladdin telling her that he loves her.
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True Love's Kiss / int_1096286b	comment	Superman: Brainiac Attacks: How Superman wake Lois from her coma, and really look like this, even if it is actually the residue of the serum in him that cured her.
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True Love's Kiss / int_11d0af1	comment	His Dark Materials: Lyra and Will save the multiverse from falling apart with their First Kiss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_13134b01	comment	In Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier (a show that makes fun of a lot of Disney stuff), the Princess discusses and deconstructs this trope.
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True Love's Kiss / int_1858fe06	comment	In the 50th issue of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Sonic's kiss wakes Princess Sally from a coma.
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True Love's Kiss / int_187d570a	comment	Subverted in Devil May Cry 4. The Big Bad has been defeated, Dante and Nero have made their peace, and Kyrie is safe. Nero and Kyrie lean in, sunset in the background, for the big moment... and suddenly Nero pulls out his gun (no, seriously, the revolver) and blasts a demon. He looks up to find a horde of the game's weakest enemy coming at himself and his love, asks her to wait, and then spends the credits kicking their asses. You never actually see the kiss happen.
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True Love's Kiss / int_18f31cab	comment	Parodied in Amanda Bynes' Sydney White. After Sydney's files are erased by the Computer Virus "The Poison Apple", Sydney is exhausted from staying up all night rewriting her paper and falls asleep in the library, causing her to almost miss the presidential debate and be disqualified for not showing up. Love Interest Tyler Prince finds her and treats it as if she would never wake up, culminating with the kiss to "break the spell".
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True Love's Kiss / int_1b386512	comment	In Ranma ½, Shampoo got captured by Maomolin (a giant ghost cat) to be cursed to be its bride. However Shampoo manages to make a deal with it to be able to break it with a kiss from her true love, intending it to be Ranma. Hilarity Ensues as Ranma is joined by Mousse and Akane to help her but they spend more time fighting each other than Maomolin on whether to allow Ranma the kiss or not.
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True Love's Kiss / int_1b3de4bc	comment	Brigadoon: Marin and Melan: Kissing is powerful stuff indeed. Marin uses a kiss to break through Melan's brainwashing and remind him of who she is to him.
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True Love's Kiss / int_1b6759eb	comment	Subverted in My Hero (2000): George, attempting to break through a villain's mind control over Janet, announces that he's giving her a True Love's Kiss, but later confesses that what actually broke the mind control was him using the kiss to covertly slip her the antidote to the Phlebotinum the villain had been using on her.
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True Love's Kiss / int_1c5e55fc	comment	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Buckaroo uses this (with a little help from the Black Lectroids) to resurrect Penny Priddy.
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True Love's Kiss / int_1e47fbb	comment	Punky Brewster: "Punky, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" has Snow White and Henry put to sleep from an apple pie spiked by a disguised wicked queen. Brandon's lick awakens Snow White, but it doesn't work on Henry. Punky sadly kisses Henry on the cheek and sobs into his chest, and he suddenly awakens.
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True Love's Kiss / int_1ef8b483	comment	Turns out that true love's kiss is the way to awaken Nanashi's receptivity to physical stimuli and getting her memories back in Duel Savior Destiny. It's a little more complex than just a kiss, but that's an essential step. The idea is that a kiss from someone she trusts utterly lets her know that the situation makes it safe to come out.
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True Love's Kiss / int_222c2051	comment	In the series finale of Chuck, It's implied by Morgan that this kind of kiss will help restore an amnesiac Sarahnote who had lost her memories thanks to some mind manipulation and a faulty Intersect. back to normal. Chuck decides to put this to the test after Sarah invites him to kiss her, and it's left to the viewer to decide if the kiss truly did work.
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True Love's Kiss / int_2268de37	comment	Played with in Grimm when Juliette falls into a magical coma and she needs a kiss from someone pure of heart to wake her up. Unfortunately, her longtime boyfriend Nick, one of the nicest, most genuinely decent people seen in the show, doesn't fit the other requirement of being royal blood. In the end, Captain Renard, a virtual stranger to her, is able to wake her, since he is a prince and has taken a potion to make himself pure enough to do it. This leads to Juliette and Renard both experiencing some unbidden yearnings for each other as a side effect for a while until it eventually fades away.
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True Love's Kiss / int_226f6b3f	comment	In Haven, Audrey's cheek kiss to Nathan awakens his ability to feel touch, though only hers.
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True Love's Kiss / int_23945975	comment	Disney Animated Canon: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is what actually started the variant where True Love's Kiss awakens the titular character (though referred to as Love's First Kiss in that film). See the Fairy Tales section for the original version, which does not do this at all. Sleeping Beauty is arguably the Trope Namer. It's also the best known of the versions where the titular character awakens from a kiss. The Little Mermaid plays around with the trope: Ursula, as quoted above, informs Ariel that she must receive True Love's Kiss from Prince Eric in order to remain human. Thanks to Ursula's meddling, while Eric is willing to give Ariel a kiss, he fails to do this before Ariel's three days are up; though he was damn close twice. Things work out in the end, though, no thanks to any kissing. It takes Eric killing Ursula and King Triton using his powers on Ariel to make it work, instead. The kiss shown in the page image occurs in Beauty and the Beast, after Belle's Dying Declaration of Love resurrects a just deceased Beast as a human prince. Additionally, the magic emitted from their kiss transforms the castle's servants back into humans. The Princess and the Frog has fun with playing this trope to the letter. Technically, Prince Naveen can kiss any princess - whether he loves her or not. Even the Princess of Mardi Gras counts as she's technically a princess for the night. This does not work when Mardi Gras is over and she is no longer a Princess. Fortunately for our heroes, Tiana marrying Naveen, even as a frog, technically makes her a princess and their problem is solved when they kiss as husband and wife. In Frozen, Anna is dying from a curse and a wise old troll tells her that the curse can only be broken by "an act of true love". Another troll immediately says, "Like true love's kiss!", and off Anna goes to her true love for that kiss—only to be betrayed, as it turns out that man doesn't really love her, and was only using her as a path to the Arendellian throne. She then goes to find Kristoff, who she realizes is her true love—but before she can reach him, she sacrifices her own life to save her sister Elsa, which turns out to be the act of true love that was called for. Part of the success of Frozen's uses of subversion, was because the audience was set up to expect one subversion (Namely that the kiss between Anna and Hans would happen, but wouldn't work) and was caught off guard when the expected subversion was in and of itself truly doubly subverted. Many first time watchers expected something similar to Enchanted, as described below, when Anna finally meets Hans.
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True Love's Kiss / int_27777760	comment	Subverted in Eureka, when Carter's hippie sister suggests that he kiss Allison as a way to stop a time loop. Since they live in Eureka, Land of Science, this doesn't work the way it does in the movies (or at all). Justified with Technobabble in another episode, "Primal". Rampaging Nanomachines who are trying to take over the world, as they are being controlled by Stark's subconscious. The only way to defeat them is to piss Stark off, so Carter needs to kiss Allison to achieve this. It works.
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True Love's Kiss / int_28d1c451	comment	Subverted in Kidd Video. The kiss that undoes a spell on the main guys is given by... the Fairy Companion, since the only real requirement is to being kissed by a Princess (not specifying love) and since she's a princess of the local fairy tribe...
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True Love's Kiss / int_293ae150	comment	In one Underdog cartoon, an unnamed Wicked Witch kidnapped Sweet Polly and put her under the typical thousand-year sleeping princess spell that had this type of cure, but it had a twist; the witch knew that, but she only told Polly, lying to Underdog later (saying that only she could reverse the spell) so she could blackmail him into doing her evil deeds for her. Underdog found loopholes to complete two of her demands without hurting anyone, but with the third - helping her conquer the world - he saw no way to do without compromising his morals, so he decided he had no choice but to leave Sweet Polly as she was... After beating the tar out of the witch, of course. A fierce battle later, the witch perished when her broom - a Soul Jar, of sorts - was destroyed - and her now-free formerly oppressed subjects made a promise to Underdog that they and all their descendants would watch Polly for as long as they had to until the thousand-year curse expired. Believing that was the best he could hope for, the hero decided to leave with a final kiss. By pure luck, he discovered the cure.
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True Love's Kiss / int_29efc2f3	comment	Sleeping Beauty is arguably the Trope Namer. It's also the best known of the versions where the titular character awakens from a kiss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_2a15962e	comment	Beelzebub: Played for Laughs. This is supposedly the cure to Hilda's magic-induced memory-loss, and everyone at Ishiyama have reason to believe that the Prince Charming with the magic lips is her "husband", Oga; he doesn't want anything to do with it. Hilarity Ensues. Especially when it turns out that Baby Beelzebub was Hilda's Prince Charming!
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True Love's Kiss / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: How Ladybug cures Chat Noir from a Hate Plague on Valentine's Day. She remembers her literature class about fairy tales. However, as far as Ladybug knows, she is not in love with Chat Noir and is still unaware of the latter's feelings towards her at this point. So, how did such an idea ever cross her mind if it should not have worked? Only the viewer knows that it actually worked because they're technically - albeit unaware of it — in love.
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True Love's Kiss / int_2ba1d958	comment	The Matrix: After Neo is killed by Agent Smith in the Matrix, Trinity brings him back to life with a kiss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Spoofed in the Looney Tunes cartoon "Bewitched Bunny". Bugs is drugged with a carrot full of sleeping potion by Witch Hazel, and is rescued by Prince Charming showing up and kissing him on the hand. Though Bugs is grateful, he points out to the prince that they're doing a parody of Hansel and Gretel, not Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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True Love's Kiss / int_2cae0547	comment	Subverted in Surviving Romance. In Episode 5 Chaerin attempts one on Jeha in hopes it would break the "Groundhog Day" Loop. It only leads to them being run over by a bus due to doing it in the middle of the street.
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True Love's Kiss / int_2e79ce7a	comment	Played with in Odin Sphere when Odin places his daughter Gwendolyn in an enchanted sleep as part of her banishment ceremony and promises her to Oswald in return for Oswald slaying a dragon. Oswald ends up refusing to kiss Gwendolyn in order to wake her until he's sure that the spell on her won't force her to love him. It's a moot point anyways, since the kiss is only meant to wake her up. The "love spell" doesn't actually exist (or at bare minimum Odin didn't cast it in this instance) and was simply Odin being a Manipulative Bastard to both appease his watching and listening subjects and to rope Gwendolyn into a Batman Gambit of his designs (along with some genuine regret at putting Gwendolyn into the situation that made the banishment and enchanted sleep necessary).
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True Love's Kiss / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "Flight to Cloud Castle", Ariel is in an enchanted sleep that can only be broken by the kiss of her true love. Ariel herself, however, sees no real reason to fall in love with someone just for doing this, and isn't very enthusiastic about following this trope's usual conclusion once she wakes up. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2" has a variant with Shining Armor and Princess Cadance not kissing, but touching horns, with all the accompanying spectacle associated with this trope. It restores Shining Armor's ability to cast his protection spell (which had been drained by Queen Chrysalis) and combines it with Cadance's love magic to repel all the changelings while filling everypony with a sense of wellbeing.
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True Love's Kiss / int_300272c4	comment	In The Student Prince, as in "Sweet Dreams", this is needed to undo the effects of a love potion on Arthur; however, unlike in canon, it's Merlin's kiss and not Gwen's that reverses the effects.
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True Love's Kiss / int_32d53ae1	comment	Majyk by Accident: In Majyk by Design, the magician-protagonist's estranged wife asks him to turn himself into a frog, so she can use this to prove her point that she still loves him.
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True Love's Kiss / int_3651bc0c	comment	The Princess and the Frog has fun with playing this trope to the letter. Technically, Prince Naveen can kiss any princess - whether he loves her or not. Even the Princess of Mardi Gras counts as she's technically a princess for the night. This does not work when Mardi Gras is over and she is no longer a Princess. Fortunately for our heroes, Tiana marrying Naveen, even as a frog, technically makes her a princess and their problem is solved when they kiss as husband and wife.
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True Love's Kiss / int_36a99a80	comment	Shrek: The first film plays it straight as part of a larger subversion. The female lead has a curse which turns her into an ogre by night, which can only be broken by True Love's Kiss. However, when said love, the ogre Shrek, kisses her, she becomes an ogre permanently — which she preferred. Of course, there is the opening monologue, which mocks this trope lightly; you can see how seriously Shrek takes it. When Shrek first meets Fiona, Fiona is faking a "Sleeping Beauty" pose, and expects Shrek to wake her up by kissing hernote Her lips can be seen pushing out to accept his kiss. Instead, he violently shakes her. In the sequel this is mentioned twice. Once as the only thing that can seal a "Happily Ever After" potion, and again in relation to Fiona's father, the Frog Prince. And then in the fourth movie, the only way to undo the Bad Future was a True Love's Kiss. Shrek spends a great deal of the movie trying to get Fiona to fall in love with him all over again and kiss him. She does (angrily and only to get him to stop asking her to do it) in the middle of the film, but it doesn't work because now she doesn't love him. Later she kisses him again as he is fading away and realizes after that her curse is broken when she remains an ogre after the sun rises. The kiss also satisfies the conditions of Shrek's Curse Escape Clause and the world reverts to its original timeline and he and Fiona are happy and married.
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True Love's Kiss / int_38c87187	comment	Lampshaded in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. The man kisses the sleeping princess. Nothing happens, and he realizes that he just kissed a woman who had never consented to it.
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True Love's Kiss / int_3ac755dd	comment	The kiss shown in the page image occurs in Beauty and the Beast, after Belle's Dying Declaration of Love resurrects a just deceased Beast as a human prince. Additionally, the magic emitted from their kiss transforms the castle's servants back into humans.
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True Love's Kiss / int_3b11106f	comment	Played with in Flash Gordon. Princess Aura lies to Flash, telling him that she brought him back to life with a kiss after his execution. She actually had a doctor give him a drug that simulated death before the execution and another wake-up shot later.
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True Love's Kiss / int_3cc97272	comment	Date A Live: Shido can seal a Spirit's powers via a kiss, but she has to be in love with him for it to work. Later, he manages to banish Tohka's Superpowered Evil Side with a kiss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in Porco Rosso. Fio suggests that her kissing Porco may break his curse, even citing the Frog Prince fairy tale, and offers to do so. Porco rejects the offer; partly because he's too cynical to really believe it would work, partly because Fio's a lot younger than him and he's not the sort to take advantage of a young girl. At the end of the movie, however, she does sneak a kiss from him as they say goodbye and shortly afterwards Porco's curse is indicated to be broken. It is left ambiguous whether this is because of the kiss, or simply because of Porco finally letting go of the selfishness and disillusionment that possibly led to him getting cursed to begin with.
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True Love's Kiss / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: In a tragic variant, it is Mikasa giving Eren this after killing him that convinces Ymir to remove the Power of the Titans from the world, reverting all the Titans back into human form.
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True Love's Kiss / int_40ef1034	comment	The Seven Deadly Sins: When Griamore is turned into a child, Veronica (whom he had some Ship Tease with as an adult) ends up accidentally turning him back by giving him an innocent kiss on the forehead. Sadly, since they had no idea that would happen, and Griamore ended up naked after tearing through his child sized clothes, it leads to a misunderstanding and Guila beating him up.
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True Love's Kiss / int_4123aeca	comment	Gankutsuou: In the finale, apparently Albert kissing The Count (on the cheek, but the whole mood of it under the moonlight still making it very Ho Yay-ish) manages to save The Count and make him overpower Gankutsuou, reverting back to being human and thus saving the day.
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True Love's Kiss / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files this concept does exist and can be the bane of certain magical creatures or spells. House Raith of the White Court of vampires are incubi and succubi feeding primarily on Lust. If they try to feed on a person who is in a genuine loving relationship, of mutual sacrifice and trust, that person is protected by love and it burns the vampire. In Turn Coat one woman who is protected by Love magic uses her kiss to burn a succubus which threatened to attack her (after her incubus love beat down the succubus first). Jenny Greenteeth puts Georgia under a "Sleeping Beauty" type spell in a plot of Bride and Switch. What is truly dangerous is if Will Borden had married Jenny and kissed her at the end of the ceremony not only would the groom have bound himself in a deep contract with this dangerous fae, but the groom's True Love's Kiss would have not woken his true bride upon discovering the deceit. It isn't a True Love's Kiss, by the rules of the universe, as he married another first, so he really didn't love the real one.
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True Love's Kiss / int_43a79959	comment	Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!: Spoofed in the last episode. Momoyo apparently dies in the final battle, so Yamato gives her a Last Kiss. The instant his lips touch hers, Momoyo's Healing Factor kicks in and her body recovers in a second. Momoyo then invokes this trope, and the rest of Yamato's harem get mad at her for faking it.
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True Love's Kiss / int_492ccf58	comment	Kosumo restores a mindwiped and brainwashed Hitsuji's memories via this in Towa Kamo Shirenai. Sort of a justified trope in this case: she deduces that she can use her powers to unbrainwash Hitsuji, but to do so she needs to have close skin contact with him. What would be better than a kiss on the mouth, huh?
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True Love's Kiss / int_4ab60cf9	comment	"Snow White": In the Brothers Grimm tale, the dwarfs dropped the coffin and the piece of poison apple fell out of Snow White's mouth, which revived her. The revival-by-kiss has been popularized especially by Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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True Love's Kiss / int_4c6be79a	comment	Played with in Love Potion Number Nine. Paul is told by the gypsy who gave him the titular Love Potion that the only way he can break the Romantic False Lead's use of it on Diane is to drink the antidote and then kiss her. He does so and then waits for her to come back to him. And waits. And waits. When it becomes clear that the kiss didn't work as expected, he sadly narrates, "I'd like to tell you that five minutes after I kissed Diane, she came running out into my arms and that we fell in love forever, but that's not what happened." Then the camera cuts to a shot of Diane happily running towards him and he adds, "It took six minutes."
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True Love's Kiss / int_50b9a0e2	comment	Rare platonic variety in The Phantom of the Opera. The original novel is pretty clear on the fact that Christine is not in love with Erik, but she still cares for him deeply and gives him a genuine kiss on the forehead of pure compassion; this gesture alone is enough for him to pull a Heel–Face Turn, as no one had shown him such kindness before.
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True Love's Kiss / int_53cc8fb	comment	Grimms Fairytale Classics: The series' version of Briar Rose/Sleeping Beauty subverts this trope: what wakes up Briar Rose isn't a kiss but the arrival of the prince destined to wake her up from her curse. They do share a very cute The Big Damn Kiss after she wakes up, however. Its version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves averts this, again following the original tale (mentioned below).
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True Love's Kiss / int_5841681f	comment	The Middle: Axl's initial first kiss with Lexie in "The Par-tay" has him saying that she needs to brush her teeth, but then declaring that he doesn't care and kissing her again anyway.
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True Love's Kiss / int_59303db8	comment	A Certain Scientific Railgun: Parodied. Mikoto Misaka is taking a nap on a bench when Kuroko Shirai walks up and declares she will wake her with True Love's Kiss. Mikoto wakes up at the last second and beats up Kuroko for being a pervert.
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True Love's Kiss / int_5c783167	comment	Given an Affectionate Parody in The Worst Witch series finale. The girls accidentally summon the Wicked Witch from Sleeping Beauty and she puts everyone to sleep. Mildred is able to make her drawing of Prince Percy come to life to wake everyone with his kiss. Hilariously, that means he had to kiss the entire four years' worth of girls to wake them up - including the teachers.
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True Love's Kiss / int_5f4cd4c	comment	In Out of the Dead Land, Bucky is able to break through Steve's brainwashing during their "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight by kissing him.
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True Love's Kiss / int_615c5032	comment	Maleficent plays with this trope. When the fairies drag Philip to Aurora's bedroom and tell him to kiss her, he points out that he has only spoken to her once, isn't sure whether it is appropriate to talk of love so early on, and really doesn't feel it is right to kiss her. The true love of the kiss is not Philip's romantic desire for Aurora, but the more maternal love that the title character felt for her. Also, Maleficent had herself specified "true love's kiss" as the Curse Escape Clause because she firmly believed at the time that there was no such thing as true love.
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True Love's Kiss / int_682f2c6c	comment	Mr. Young: In "Mr. Kidd", Echo kissing Adam is how she gets her memory back. Adam had to end up doing it for everybody whose memory was wiped, but that's not seen and the fact that the love between him and Echo is what saved the day still counts.
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True Love's Kiss / int_6a2e8d39	comment	The ending to Prétear where Hayate kisses Himeno to revive her after she wins the final fight at the cost of her life. It is no surprise considering that it's explicitly based on "Snow White". It only happens in the anime version, though, not in the original manga.
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True Love's Kiss / int_6c31c39f	comment	This is spoofed in Beetleborgs, where a kiss "from a maiden with a pure heart" can cure vampirism; Jo fits the bill when such a kiss is needed for Trip and Van, but she's understandably revolted by having to do it. (It's not very pleasant for them either.)
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True Love's Kiss / int_6c4031ea	comment	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is what actually started the variant where True Love's Kiss awakens the titular character (though referred to as Love's First Kiss in that film). See the Fairy Tales section for the original version, which does not do this at all.
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True Love's Kiss / int_6e4a2633	comment	Shusterman also did this is the second book of The Skinjacker Trilogy, Everwild. Allie brings Mikey McGill, who reverted to his monstrous state out of jealousy, back to human form by kissing him even when he looks his most indescribably hideous.
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True Love's Kiss / int_7114275c	comment	Descendants: At some point in the second movie Evie and Mal discuss the trope, saying it works every time. A Foreshadowing to the Cotillion scene, when Mal manages to take Ben (who's under a love spell by Uma) back to his senses thanks to a kiss. It's also utilized in the third film, when Evie finds Doug under Audrey's sleeping spell, and must come to terms with her first kiss, thanks, in no part, to a musical number.
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True Love's Kiss / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Aang and Katara are lost in a maze and a folk tale says they have to "let love lead the way" to get back out. One of them suggests a True Love's Kiss, but they don't decide to go for it until their torches are almost gone. They lean in, the light goes out... and crystals in the ceiling begin glowing, marking a path. Katara guesses that the lovers from the folk tale just put their torches out to see the crystals and find their way, and love had nothing to do with it. (We aren't shown if they actually kissed or not - can you say Ship Tease?) Katara's voice actor claims they kissed, but whether this really qualifies as Word of God or Word of Saint Paul is debatable. Later, the Genre Savvy Sokka teasingly suggests Katara can cure the Manchurian Agent Jet by kissing him, a suggestion Katara and Aang vehemently shoot down. Katara and Aang finally overcome their Unresolved Sexual Tension and give each other a fully-committed kiss in the final scene of the series.
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True Love's Kiss / int_74828f14	comment	Hekikai no AiON: Referenced for laughs. Seine is under a deep sleep caused by one of the mermaids, Tatsuya is desperate to help her, so this trope ensues. Of course, Tatsuya blushes at the mere thought of it.
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True Love's Kiss / int_749f75a5	comment	In Prince Charming, true love's kiss can break any curse. Unfortunately for Prince Adrien, the thing that's ruining his life is technically a blessing. While he is under a curse, the curse is the only thing that mitigates the effects of his blessing and makes his life at all bearable. Cue major angsting when he realizes that he can never kiss the girl he loves, or his curse will be broken and his blessing will destroy his beloved's mind.
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True Love's Kiss / int_755fadab	comment	Haruhi Suzumiya: In the last airing-order episode of the first season, Kyon saved the universe with one of these. Confused? Watch the series. He notably refuses to "try the same method" when faced with the world ending again, though, and the series continues for quite a while after the kiss with no romantic resolution due to one of the people involved thinking it was all a dream and the other being in denial.
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True Love's Kiss / int_777f5867	comment	Absolute Boyfriend: Subverted. When Night stops working, Riiko attempts to revive him with several kisses, as that was how she first woke him up, but it doesn't work; he's really dead.
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True Love's Kiss / int_7ddbc888	comment	Eureka Seven: The final episode, Renton and Eureka kiss for the very first time and save their planet from destruction and are given a chance to go back to their planet to live together.
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True Love's Kiss / int_7e438bd1	comment	Howl's Moving Castle: Sophie breaks the curse on Turniphead by giving him a True Love's Kiss. However, Sophie is already in love with Howl, so how can she be his True Love as well? Then, Prince Turniphead cheerfully notes that there's no reason someone can't have more than one True Love. So he's fine with Sophie being with her other True Love, Howl, while he goes to look for his own and he ends the war. In the Russian dub the reason is different: her love is Howl, but Prince's True Love is Sophie, so it's still a TLK, even if a little bit one-sided. Then he decides to be a good sport and not interfere, but half-jokingly says that he can wait, for the girl's heart is a fickle thing, and he has the war to end.
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True Love's Kiss / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	In Frozen, Anna is dying from a curse and a wise old troll tells her that the curse can only be broken by "an act of true love". Another troll immediately says, "Like true love's kiss!", and off Anna goes to her true love for that kiss—only to be betrayed, as it turns out that man doesn't really love her, and was only using her as a path to the Arendellian throne. She then goes to find Kristoff, who she realizes is her true love—but before she can reach him, she sacrifices her own life to save her sister Elsa, which turns out to be the act of true love that was called for. Part of the success of Frozen's uses of subversion, was because the audience was set up to expect one subversion (Namely that the kiss between Anna and Hans would happen, but wouldn't work) and was caught off guard when the expected subversion was in and of itself truly doubly subverted. Many first time watchers expected something similar to Enchanted, as described below, when Anna finally meets Hans.
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True Love's Kiss / int_7ff3216c	comment	Spoofed in a Garfield and Friends U.S. Acres two-part episode, 'Snow Wade and the Seven Dwarfs' near the end between Roy Rooster (as the prince) and Wade Duck (as Snow Wade). Though, Orson Pig tried kissing Snow Wade (and gagging a lot from it) before this.
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True Love's Kiss / int_8017eca0	comment	In Snow White & the Huntsman, the most recent film adaptation of "Snow White", it's subverted and played straight. Snow gets into a coma caused by a poisoned apple, and the Prince's kiss fails to revive her. Then the titular Huntsman kisses her, and she recovers. It's nowhere explained about the meaning of this, though. Supposedly the filmmakers thought the audience would recognize this trope on their own. In early drafts of the script, things were slightly different. The Huntsman was conceived as a much older man, playing a surrogate father to the princess. His kiss that wakes her up was meant to symbolise a father's love, much like Maleficent and Once Upon a Time.
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True Love's Kiss / int_817acecf	comment	Parodied in Fables: Frau Totenkinder had a major problem with princes, and went around cursing them and their loved ones left, right and centre. Over the years, she became particularly fond of transforming them in a manner where they needed to persuade a human to fall in love with and kiss them to cure them. But they were all temporary cures, and the prince would find themselves transforming back when their wives became mad at them. Over the course of the story she takes responsibility for almost all of the situations where "True Love's Kiss" was needed to cure a curse. Just because she liked it. Parodied again with a porcupine who goes around telling human girls he was cursed by a witch and must be kissed to transform into a handsome prince... he's lying. He was cursed, all right, but he was always a porcupine and the curse was a perverted attraction to human girls. He learned the kiss-me-I'm-a-prince "scam" from a frog he met once. Parodied yet again — Fables enjoys playing with this trope — by a talking snail who meets young Prince Charming and tells him that she is a transformed princess. When Charming offers to kiss her, she replies that her curse is much more proper and will require a wedding first. Charming brings the snail back to meet his parents, who respond by ordering her cooked for dinner and bemoan the talking animals currently flooding their kingdom. Fables also inverts this with a rabbit cursed by a rabbit witch to become human — unable to transform back, unless he can make another rabbit fall in love with him and receive True Love's Kiss. To neutralize an apartment building, Bigby Wolf has Sleeping Beauty prick her finger within, causing herself and all within to fall asleep. But when they try to use Prince Charming to wake her, it becomes apparent that he no longer qualifies... ...but when Flycatcher, the former Frog Prince tries, it works. Another time, she was woken from the spell by an affectionate police dog who happened to be named 'Prince'. That and later events show the curse isn't too picky about the definitions of 'prince' and 'love'. Flycatcher, the Frog Prince, occasionally reverts to frog form when excited, nervous, or scared. Only his wife died, badly, back in the Homelands, while he was trapped in frog form, unable to help, no less. When he reverts to a frog in modern-day New York, there's no possible fix until Christmas, when Santa Claus brings his wife back to life, just long enough for one kiss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_82439e64	comment	In one episode of The Office (US), Dwight is suffering from severe abdominal pains (actually appendicitis) and Jim pranks him by trying to convince Dwight that he's poisoned him:
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True Love's Kiss / int_82d0db97	comment	Cyberpunk: Edgerunners: In the finale, Lucy does this to David just as he was about to completely succumb to cyberpsychosis after he previously exhausted his supply of immunosuppressants. This kiss helps him recover his sanity long enough to help Lucy escape Arasaka Tower at the expense of his own life.
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True Love's Kiss / int_88ea00a0	comment	Fushigi Yuugi: The Kodoku arc ends with this trope. Nakago, of course, being the horrendously evil jerk that he is, doesn't realize it.
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True Love's Kiss / int_8a5191fd	comment	In The School for Good and Evil, a true love's kiss from Agatha is what revives Sophie after she dies from a stab in the heart.
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True Love's Kiss / int_8bb00c1a	comment	The somewhat obscure Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid had the villain Hedwig turn the title character's boyfriend (who was, of course, a handsome prince) into a vicious monster. Guess how Marina finally broke the curse?
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True Love's Kiss / int_8dd8ec81	comment	Near the end of the first manga story, Mamoru brings back to life a seemingly dead Usagi by kissing her (Luna comments on this, saying that the princess has been woken up by the prince's kiss).
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True Love's Kiss / int_91dc6994	comment	The conclusion of the film The Brothers Grimm (based as it is around the Beethoven Was an Alien Spy trope) has Jacob rescuing twelve girls trapped in an enchanted sleep by giving this to the oldest one of them, Angelika, the woman for whom he spent the film pining. At first this seems to be the only thing that can save his brother Will as well, but discovers as he's about to do it that Will is alive and well and he'd rather have Angelika do the honors here (she obliges).
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True Love's Kiss / int_92916f5a	comment	The first film plays it straight as part of a larger subversion. The female lead has a curse which turns her into an ogre by night, which can only be broken by True Love's Kiss. However, when said love, the ogre Shrek, kisses her, she becomes an ogre permanently — which she preferred. Of course, there is the opening monologue, which mocks this trope lightly; you can see how seriously Shrek takes it.
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True Love's Kiss / int_92916f5b	comment	In the sequel this is mentioned twice. Once as the only thing that can seal a "Happily Ever After" potion, and again in relation to Fiona's father, the Frog Prince.
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True Love's Kiss / int_9293c8a	comment	In Namesake, when Emma is in a magical sleep, true love's kiss is the only thing that can wake her. Notably, this doesn't necessarily have to be romantic love. As her boyfriend isn't available to perform a more traditional kiss, a kiss to the forehead from her best friend does the job equally well.
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True Love's Kiss / int_93542e0c	comment	And then in the fourth movie, the only way to undo the Bad Future was a True Love's Kiss. Shrek spends a great deal of the movie trying to get Fiona to fall in love with him all over again and kiss him. She does (angrily and only to get him to stop asking her to do it) in the middle of the film, but it doesn't work because now she doesn't love him. Later she kisses him again as he is fading away and realizes after that her curse is broken when she remains an ogre after the sun rises. The kiss also satisfies the conditions of Shrek's Curse Escape Clause and the world reverts to its original timeline and he and Fiona are happy and married.
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True Love's Kiss / int_935f154	comment	When Shrek first meets Fiona, Fiona is faking a "Sleeping Beauty" pose, and expects Shrek to wake her up by kissing hernote Her lips can be seen pushing out to accept his kiss. Instead, he violently shakes her.
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True Love's Kiss / int_94f29110	comment	The ending of Sailor Moon R: The Movie may or may not count — it was technically more of Intimate Healing, with Mamoru giving Usagi the life-saving nectar that way; but to the rest of the team it definitely looked like another instance of the Power of Love in work.
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True Love's Kiss / int_9994a14f	comment	At the end of WALL•E, a "kiss" from EVE restores WALL•E's apparently lost memory. Note that this is one of the few straight examples that can be explained beyond The Power of Love: EVE's "kisses" are literally electric. Possibly justified (although non-canon) as the electric jolt from the "kiss" may have caused WALL•E to reload his "personality" from a backup. Maybe.
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True Love's Kiss / int_9ba32ced	comment	In Faux Pas, Cindy's wakes Randy. Dusk is furious — no one had better mention this trope.
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True Love's Kiss / int_9c632773	comment	The Golds: Baelfire was able to return Belle’s memories with a kiss on the forehead after he finds out that she is his stepmother.
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True Love's Kiss / int_9e07c9ac	comment	Inverted in The Tangled Princess Bride. A broken hearted Rapunzel kisses a prince under a love spell and the total lack of love in the kiss is what breaks the spell.
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True Love's Kiss / int_9f5f4811	comment	Inuyasha The Movie The Castle Beyond The Looking Glass: Inuyasha has his human half sealed, causing him to turn him to turn into a full demon and go completely insane. Kagome restores him to normal by kissing him and confessing her love.
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True Love's Kiss / int_a33ae0eb	comment	Done in the end of the first half (and first season, for the anime) of Steel Angel Kurumi, with Nakahito using this to purify Kurumi's heart AND causing the Steel Angels who sacrificed themselves to power the weapon meant to kill her.
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True Love's Kiss / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: C.C. uses this to reverse Lelouch's Laser-Guided Amnesia at the start, depending on who you ask. Others (including Word of God) claim she made effective use of Save States. Still, quite the Ship Tease.
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True Love's Kiss / int_a61cafe9	comment	"The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh": Childe Wynd must give the titular loathsome dragon three kisses to turn her back into his beloved sister, Princess Margaret.
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True Love's Kiss / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: "True Love's Kiss", from the fairytale-inspired Throne of Eldraine set, allows its caster to destroy any one artifact or enchantment in play. Its art depicts a maiden kissing a petrified man and dispelling the magic that kept him like that. Its quote is from a witch warning another person to be careful about dispelling magic like that, since you never know what the other person did to get themselves cursed in the first place.
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True Love's Kiss / int_a8c95694	comment	In The Flight of Dragons, Princess Melisande wakes from the semi-coma which occupies her for about a third of the movie. Her foster father, the wizard Carolinus, thinks it was a magic relic which awakened her, but she corrects him with the information that it was a kiss from the human Peter. (Unlike many of the examples on this page, it was not their first kiss.)
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True Love's Kiss / int_a94922fd	comment	Don't Go Stealing My Heart: Jaskier wakes Geralt from his sleeping curse by kissing him.
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True Love's Kiss / int_a9fc87bf	comment	In Hooky prince William is abducted by witches and later put under a curse of eternal sleep from which only a kiss of true love can save him.
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True Love's Kiss / int_ab4ce362	comment	In A Codette World Tour, Ezekiel uses one to awaken Izzy from her coma.
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True Love's Kiss / int_ac3c747e	comment	It Takes Two: Cody was right to think that they had been turned into dolls because of a spell. But when it comes to this trope, they never consider that it could be the way to break the spell; Dr. Hakim has to coax them towards it on their own.
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True Love's Kiss / int_af2a147e	comment	Enchanted is already an Affectionate Parody of the animated canon and naturally looks to parody this trope as well. Giselle has an "I Want" Song called "True Love's Kiss", and expresses her belief that "it's the most powerful thing in the world." It's also played straight near the end of the movie, when, like a good Disney princess, Giselle is hexed to sleep. She needs a Troperriffic True Love's Kiss before midnight (of course) in order to wake up. Robert manages to rouse her in the nick of time with a kiss... after Prince Edward failed to kiss her awake.
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True Love's Kiss / int_af645fe8	comment	Thanks, but no: During the events of Dark Cupid, Marinette uses a platonic version of this trope to free Alya from the akuma's Hate Plague by kissing her on the cheeks. Later, Nino/Melliferna kisses Chat Noir on the lips to do the same, albeit with more romantic undertones between the two that later lead to their Relationship Upgrade.
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True Love's Kiss / int_b18d447c	comment	In To Love Ru, when Oshizu accidentally possessed Haruna's body, she thought one of these from Rito might wake Haruna's consciousness and free Oshizu. A couple of fighting dogs scared her out before the kiss actually took place; Rito wasn't sure if he was relieved or disappointed.
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True Love's Kiss / int_b309b49	comment	Subverted again in The Unhandsome Prince, when Caroline's kiss frees Prince Hal from being a frog. She takes one look and demands a better prince.
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True Love's Kiss / int_b454fbcc	comment	In Brightest Day, The Predator possesses Abraham Pointe. Eventually, it/they sadly say it/they wanted to know what it is like to be loved. Carol Ferris kisses him to separate them. Hal Jordan (her boyfriend) irritably asks, "Was that really necessary?" Carol says it was.
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True Love's Kiss / int_b4ed82f9	comment	Full Tilt plays with this. A kiss can't directly cure transformation into a monster, but it restores the transformation victim's flagging morale and keeps her from giving up on a cure.
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True Love's Kiss / int_b4f0a147	comment	In the Frosty the Snowman sequel Frosty's Winter Wonderland, Frosty acquires a snow-bride in his Distaff Counterpart Crystal (who's brought to life with a gift of frost flowers he gives her out of love). When jealous Jack Frost blows away the magic hat that initially brought him to life, Crystal brings Frosty back around with a kiss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_b5cd3b89	comment	Subverted quite tragically in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief. The protagonist, Liesel Meminger, is repeatedly pestered by her friend Rudy Steiner throughout the book to give her a kiss, even though she always turns him down. At the climax of the book, the street Liesel lives on is bombed, killing practically the entire main cast save for Liesel. It is now, after Rudy's death, that Liesel finally gives him the kiss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_b5efd918	comment	Played with in the Harley Quinn (2019) episode "Lover's Quarrel". Kite Man tries kissing Poison Ivy to break Dr. Psycho's mind control. It doesn't work. Harley kisses Ivy, which seems to work, though what actually happened was that Dr. Psycho got distracted and lost focus.
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True Love's Kiss / int_b7e8e4b6	comment	My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "Flight to Cloud Castle", Ariel is in an enchanted sleep that can only be broken by the kiss of her true love. Ariel herself, however, sees no real reason to fall in love with someone just for doing this, and isn't very enthusiastic about following this trope's usual conclusion once she wakes up.
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True Love's Kiss / int_b7ee0471	comment	"The Frog Prince": In the Brothers Grimm original, the prince turns back to normal after the princess throws him against a wall. They still get married even after the attempted murder. The principle is the same in virtually all tales of the "Frog Prince" type; for example, in the Scottish "The Queen Who Sought a Drink from a Certain Well" and Joseph Jacobs "The Well of the World's End", the frog demands that the girl marry (not just kiss) him, and the girl eventually breaks the Forced Transformation by decapitating the frog on his own wish.
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True Love's Kiss / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Invoked by Vex'ahlia of Critical Role, when she kisses Percy, as part of the ritual to bring him Back from the Dead. She even rolls a Natural 20 on the resulting persuasion check!
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True Love's Kiss / int_c407a3ac	comment	At the end of Legend (1985), Lili awakens after Jack kisses her.
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True Love's Kiss / int_c7ce3663	comment	In Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny, Zed gets dangerously close to awakening as a Majin in the final chapter, and the group gets a last-minute idea of having Melodia, basically a fairy tale princess, to give a true love's kiss. She doesn't like the idea since it's the prince who's supposed to give the kiss, but she does it anyway. Zed didn't like it, but it successfully suppressed his Majin blood and it unlocks his second Evility.
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True Love's Kiss / int_c9b98f4e	comment	Empath, in the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Smurfette's Inner Beauty," was able to break Hogatha's youth-and-beauty siphoning spell on Smurfette by giving her a heartfelt kiss, thus restoring Smurfette to her normal appearance.
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True Love's Kiss / int_cd81de4	comment	In Quest for Glory IV, a kiss is the only way to free the Rusalka, the beautiful, revenge-seeking spirit of a murdered maiden. However, the hero has to kiss her decaying corpse, which is not for the faint-hearted.
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True Love's Kiss / int_cd899ed6	comment	The Grand Finale of Tokyo Mew Mew uses two or three of these in succession. When the Mysterious Protector-turned-Big Bad releases his true (good) self and saves Tokyo, he has to sacrifice himself; Ichigo will have none of this and kisses him, giving him all her power. Then she dies, he kisses her and she comes Back from the Dead, minus superpowers... temporarily.
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True Love's Kiss / int_d1449385	comment	In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 comics, Buffy needs one of these to awaken from a magically-induced sleep cast on her by Amy, who explains that the love in question has to be romantic but doesn't need to be mutual. Knowing that someone in the group is in love with Buffy, Willow instructs everyone to close their eyes so that whoever that person is can cure Buffy while maintaining their privacy. Buffy eventually figures out who kissed her based on the flavor of her lip gloss; it's Satsu, a fellow Slayer, but Buffy is mostly straight and doesn't reciprocate the feeling. She does, however, sleep with her a couple of times despite it being a not-so-good idea. Satsu ultimately takes on leadership of the Tokyo squad and does her best to get over Buffy.
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True Love's Kiss / int_d3e3e38a	comment	In She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, one of these between Adora and Catra allows Adora to overcome Horde Prime’s virus and put an end to the Heart of Etheria for good, complete with Anguished Declaration of Love, Power Glows, Slipknot Ponytail — the works.
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True Love's Kiss / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Parodied in a Pokémon: The Series episode. Ash and the gang along with Team Rocket, are trying to wake a Snorlax up and Jesse suggests that a kiss from a "noble" Pokemon should wake it up. Well, Psyduck tries, it doesn't work (and Misty gets angry at it). So Meowth is forced to kiss it (after James and Jesse make him wear a really dumb-looking prince costume). However, instead of waking up, poor Snorlax is poisoned!
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True Love's Kiss / int_d9be958a	comment	At the end of Superman Returns, it's two kisses that awake a comatose Superman. A romantic one from Lois and a filial one from little Jason, who turned out to be their son.
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True Love's Kiss / int_daff6a21	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds manages to show the possibility of this trope being used for evil when Jack is forced to duel his Brainwashed and Crazy love interest Carly following her death and undead resurrection by the villains. At one point, she shows him a vision of a potential future where she defeats him, kills him, brings him back in the same state she's in by kissing him, and they become the undead rulers of a hellish world. Fortunately, Jack's able to break through the illusion and stop it from happening.
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True Love's Kiss / int_db2eaaa1	comment	Zig-zagged in The Book of Life. Maria "dies" after being bitten by Xibalba's snake staff. She wakes after Joaquin kisses her, while wearing the Medal of Everlasting Life, which gleams magically when he does so. It turns out, though, that one bite from the snake staff is only enough to induce a trancelike coma. It takes two bites to kill... but Xibalba is a notorious cheater, so it is never clear whether she really died or the medal had anything to do with her waking.
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True Love's Kiss / int_de6659ec	comment	Subverted often, and usually in a nasty fashion, in Once Upon a Time: In the pilot, Snow White kissing her mortally wounded husband doesn't do a thing. In the third episode, Mary Margaret (the brainwashed Snow White) tries it to revive "John Doe" (said husband again), and while it brings him back, he immediately goes back to his estranged wife (who isn't her). Lastly, Sheriff Graham kisses Emma, and remembers everything about his past life in the fairy tale world... right before Regina decides to kill him. And when Belle tries to invoke this, the fact that it works actually ruins her budding relationship with Rumpelstiltskin. Ouch. Subverted for them again when he tries to invoke it to return her memories after she crosses the town line. It not only doesn't work, but also scares the poor girl senseless, and seriously hampers his attempts to get her to trust him afterwards. Played straight in the Season 1 finale, when Emma kissing a comatose Henry on the forehead breaks the curse on Storybrooke, waking Henry up and restoring the townsfolk's memories. Regina later succeeds in doing the same thing in season 3. "True Love" in Storybrooke doesn't necessarily mean romantic love; in both these cases it's maternal love. Played straight with Phillip and Aurora. Double subverted in an episode where Snow White has forgotten who David is via a magic potion. A kiss doesn't cure her but he decides to jump in front of an arrow to prove his love for her. Snow is so touched that someone would be willing to die for her, that she kisses him - and thus gets her memories back. In season four, a kiss from Robin Hood fails to break the curse on Maid Marian. This causes pretty much everyone involved to realise that Marian is no longer his True Love, Regina is. Or it could have been because "Marian" was really a shapeshifted Zelena, but nobody realised that until much later. In Season 5, Zelena and Hades's true love's kiss breaks the curse that froze the latter's heart. Unfortunately, Hades is still secretly bent on world domination and Zelena realizes that Love Cannot Overcome and Hades will always want more, and is forced to kill him to save Regina. In Season 6, Aladdin and Jasmine's First Kiss breaks two curses at once: Agrabah is restored to its initial size, and Aladdin goes from genie to human.
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True Love's Kiss / int_e293455a	comment	A variation in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Killer In Me". Willow kissing her new girlfriend Kennedy causes her to turn into Warren Mears, her old girlfriend Tara's killer, because she feels like doing so meant letting Tara be dead and her old frenemy Amy has secretly placed a malediction on her that takes form from her subconscious. In the climax, Kennedy is able to turn Willow back by kissing her again. Kennedy even references that magic is "just like fairy tales".
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True Love's Kiss / int_eae8ef96	comment	At the end of Shining Force II, the team defeating Zeon only makes him more powerful, as he puts Princess Elis into a poisoned sleep before being sealed up forever by the Jewels of Light and Evil. Bowie and his friends try in vain to wake her up before the Goddess Mitula takes the two jewels, then tells the team that the poison in Elis' body will last a year before vanishing. After a year has passed, if she is still sleeping, she will need "a kiss from her true love" to awaken. Mitula's prophecy is coming into fruition as Bowie kneels down to kiss Elis, and then, after the end credits, she wakes up, fulfilling the prophecy.
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True Love's Kiss / int_eee7448f	comment	Discussed in Dora Wilk Series when Dora and Witkac wonder what to do with three men turned into giant toads and remember The Frog Prince. Both dearly hope it's not true, but Dora suggests, just in case, that she knows a girl with reptile fetish ("close enough").
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True Love's Kiss / int_ef7a115	comment	On an episode of Terra Nova, Jim kisses Elisabeth to infect her with a virus that will help cure her memory loss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_f0d1e61a	comment	Inverted in Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Cycle. If the main character kisses her true love, he will die, not be saved. Blue has been warned about this since she was young and has gone her life never kissing anyone just to be safe. In the second book when Adam (who she hasn't told about the curse) angrily confronts her about the fact that she barely lets him touch her and won't kiss him and acts like she's hiding something. Around when he finds out and demands that she stop tip-toeing around it she refuses to kiss him and they both know it's more because they know he'll live than because she doesn't want to kill him. This is what eventually leads to their break-up.
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True Love's Kiss / int_f10a65b	comment	The Legends of Tomorrow fic True Love's First Kiss features this as its main plot point, with Sara in a coma that can only be ended by "… a kiss from the one whose… heart is meant for theirs." Hilarity Ensues when everyone else decides that Leonard should give it a shot.
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True Love's Kiss / int_f38e9f9	comment	The Curse of Sleeping Beauty: Through his prophetic dreams, Thomas believes that his kiss will awaken Briar Rose from her eternal sleep. Thomas, Linda and Richard return to Kaiser Gardens and open a second door behind the shrine room. Linda and Richard distract the Veiled Demon while Thomas finds and attempts to wake Rose. He finds her and kisses her. But he is unable to wake Rose with a kiss, so Thomas uses his blood.
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True Love's Kiss / int_f3e1f424	comment	On an episode of Merlin Arthur is put under a spell that makes him fall in love with a spoiled princess. The only way to break the spell is if he is kissed by the woman he truly loves. Cue Guinevere and a rather spectacular kiss...
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True Love's Kiss / int_f502a38a	comment	In The Smurfs (1981) episode "The Prince And The Hopper", Prince Theodore has been turned into a frog and must receive a kiss from the one who truly loves him within a few days or else he will become a frog forever. The prince thinks that his bride-to-be Lady Jasmine is the one who truly loves him, but Smurfette finds out that she's only interested in his money. Just as Prince Theodore is about turn permanently into a frog, Smurfette confesses her love for the prince and kisses him, restoring him to his true human form.
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True Love's Kiss / int_f5a661a6	comment	In Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous if the cave-dwelling Wendaug is romanced the player ends up poisoned and coughing up blood, and upon surviving will notice she has blood on her lips too. She confesses she'd heard about true love's kiss being a panacea and tried it - and is then doubly embarrassed by having implicitly confessed her love and the realization she'd mistaken a surface world fairytale for a genuine treatment. The player's survival can likely be attributed to being almost a demigod by the time this happens, rather than any curative powers of the kiss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_f78beeee	comment	In chapter 54 of There's More Magic Out There, the Incubus Mireille uses her charm powers to brainwash Alix into serving her and seeing the rest of her friends as their enemies. Chloe is able to snap Alix out of the spell by kissing her, at the suggestion of stoned Juleka.
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True Love's Kiss / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	The Little Mermaid plays around with the trope: Ursula, as quoted above, informs Ariel that she must receive True Love's Kiss from Prince Eric in order to remain human. Thanks to Ursula's meddling, while Eric is willing to give Ariel a kiss, he fails to do this before Ariel's three days are up; though he was damn close twice. Things work out in the end, though, no thanks to any kissing. It takes Eric killing Ursula and King Triton using his powers on Ariel to make it work, instead.
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True Love's Kiss / int_f9cb2c07	comment	The Second Try: Invoked and defied in the epilogue. Shinji and Asuka take their daughter Aki to the hospital to see a comatose Gendo. They explain Aki that maybe her grandfather will never wake up. She gets sad and then exclaims: "I know! It's like in the fairytale! If I give him a kiss, he'll surely wake up!" Before no one can stop her, she gives him a short peck. To her disappointment, it does not work.
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True Love's Kiss / int_fa738078	comment	Seen numerous times in Sailor Moon: Near the end of the first manga story, Mamoru brings back to life a seemingly dead Usagi by kissing her (Luna comments on this, saying that the princess has been woken up by the prince's kiss). The first anime uses this at least two times: in the Sailor Moon R episode 69 (which actually contains a "Sleeping Beauty" reference), and later near the end of Sailor Moon SuperS (this time with Chibi-Usa and Helios). The ending of Sailor Moon R: The Movie may or may not count — it was technically more of Intimate Healing, with Mamoru giving Usagi the life-saving nectar that way; but to the rest of the team it definitely looked like another instance of the Power of Love in work. It's genderflipped once, in both the manga and in Sailor Moon Crystal: when Neo Queen Serenity wakes up from her Convenient Coma, her first action is to wake up her also comatose husband King Endymion (who has been hanging around via Astral Projection) via a kiss.
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True Love's Kiss / int_fab6bdd9	comment	Played absolutely straight in Young Avengers, where Billy is unable to fully access his Demiurge powers. His fiancé, Teddy, who had previously left to try to figure out whether he actually loves Billy after Loki insinuated that Teddy may have been accidentally wished into existence in the first place by Billy's powers, returns and decides that it doesn't matter to him whether or not he's alive because Billy subconsciously wanted someone like him to be. After True Loves Kiss, Billy immediately and effortlessly becomes the Demiurge and nonchalantly rearranges the universe the same way most people organize things in the fridge.
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True Love's Kiss / int_fc1d6ac6	comment	Oddly (or perhaps heartwarmingly) enough, for all that the world of The Witcher is a dark one, with pogroms and war ever around the corner, and in which the fairy tales are usually given harsher retellings, this actually works.
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True Love's Kiss / int_fd678b81	comment	Subverted in the first game of the Dark Parables series, which is based on the story of "Sleeping Beauty". The prince did kiss the sleeping Princess Briar Rose to break her enchantment, successfully waking every person in the entire castle - except her. A thousand years later, at the time of the game, she's still asleep. Not only that, he soon fell ill as a side effect of the curse and died, with his crypt built near her room. note Supplemental material explains that the reason the kiss failed is because it wasn't True Love's Kiss. Briar Rose and the Prince had never even met, so they were definitely not in love, and therefore it didn't fulfill the curse's requirements. Played straight, meanwhile, in several other games in the series. As the entire series is brimming with Fairy Tale Motifs, this is to be expected.
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Skyhold Academy Yearbook (Fanfic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Somnus Ultima (Fanfic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Thanks, but no (Fanfic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Queen's Mercy (Fanfic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Royal Canterlot Family (Fanfic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
There's More Magic Out There (Fanfic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Matrix / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
A Cinderella Story / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Descendants / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Enchanted / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Flash Gordon (1980) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
George of the Jungle / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Just Like Heaven / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Legend (1985) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Maleficent / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Mirror Mirror (2012) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Naruto 7 The Last	seeAlso	True Love's Kiss
Nina's Heavenly Delights / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Snow Day / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Snow White & the Huntsman / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Superman Returns / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Superman: The Movie / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Sydney White / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Adjustment Bureau / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Brothers Grimm / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Curse of Sleeping Beauty / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Fifth Element / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Little Mermaid (2023) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Thief of Bagdad (1940) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Warm Bodies / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Witch Way Love / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
A Tale of... / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Beastly / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Disney Chills / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Dora Wilk Series / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Enchanted Forest Chronicles / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
His Fair Assassin / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Majyk by Accident / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Sleeping Beauty / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Frog Prince / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Raven Cycle / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The School for Good and Evil / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Sisters Grimm / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Beastly	seeAlso	True Love's Kiss
HisFairAssassin	seeAlso	True Love's Kiss
TrueLovesKIss	sameAs	True Love's Kiss
Absolute Boyfriend (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Ayakashi Triangle (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Change 123 (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Cynthia the Mission (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Karin (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Met My Sister On A Dating Site (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Prétear (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Strange+ (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Duke of Death and His Black Maid (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
To Love Ru (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Tokyo Mew Mew (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Towa Kamo Shirenai (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Vampire Dormitory (Manga) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Confession Executive Committee (Music) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Confession Executive Committee ~Love Series~ (Music) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
It's Just a Game (Roleplay) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Chuck / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Grimm / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Mighty Med / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
My Hero (2000) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Revenge (2011) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Sabrina the Teenage Witch / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Terra Nova / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Middle / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
La Nouba (Theatre) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Tanz der Vampire (Theatre) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
A Tale of Two Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Beyond: Two Souls (Video Game) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny (Video Game) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Disney Dreamlight Valley (Video Game) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Dragon's Lair (Video Game) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Mitsumete Knight (Video Game) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Shining Force II (Video Game) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) (Video Game) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Dark Parables / Videogame / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Radical Dreamers (Visual Novel) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
La La La Dema Cia (Web Animation) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Seaglass (Webcomic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Critical Role: Campaign One (Web Video) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Dimension 20 (Web Video) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Sailor Moon Abridged (Web Video) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Wedding Peach Abridged (Web Video) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Cursed Princess Club (Webcomic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
EQG Crossover (Webcomic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Forever After (Webcomic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Friendship Is Magic (Webcomic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Hooky (Webcomic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Surviving Romance (Webcomic) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (Website) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Aladdin: The Series / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Barbie in the Nutcracker / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Billy & Mandy’s Big Boogey Adventure / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Frosty's Winter Wonderland / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
LoliRock / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
My Giant Friend / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
PAW Patrol / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Ralph Breaks the Internet / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Shrek / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Shrek / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Shrek Forever After / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Sleeping Beauty / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Superman: Brainiac Attacks / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The 7D / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Little Mermaid / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The Smurfs (1981) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
WALLâ€¢E / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Winsome Witch / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
The First (Comic Book) / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
trueloveskiss	sameAs	True Love's Kiss
The Book of Life / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss
Underdog / int_1777836c	type	True Love's Kiss

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