Loves Kiss

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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. 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. Subverted in An Ordinary Miracle. A bear that has been turned into a human can only turn back if a princess a human one, mind you falls in love with him and kisses him. However, their love is so strong that after the kiss, nothing happens and everyone, including the former bear, is quite happy with the outcome. 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.

Wrede 's Talking to Dragons , a book in a series famous for modernizing fairy tales without subverting them, Daystar uses this to transform Shiara back from being turned into stone. Lyra and Will save the multiverse from falling apart with their First Kiss. In Mercedes Lackey 's Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series, this get subverted all to hell since the 'hook' of the series is that there is an ambient magic in the land trying to make events turn out like fairy tales.

One unfortunate prince was a frog for decades and was restored to human form when an infant princess picked him up and kissed him. Not that there was any love — she just liked animals and liked to kiss things. Neal Shusterman has a couple of examples: 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. 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. In Beastly , the terms of Kyle's curse are that he must genuinely love a girl, she must genuinely love him back, and both must prove it by kissing. He tries to end the curse early by having his Satellite Love Interest of a girlfriend show up and kiss him in the dark. Since neither love each other, it doesn't work. Of course, it's played straight at the end of the book. No one can wake up the maiden who's been asleep for centuries, because no one can truly love her when they can't get to know her.

In the end, they put her in a museum until some future wizard can figure out how to wake her. In Esther Friesner 's 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. John Moore loves to play with this in his Fractured Fairy Tales: Subverted in Slay and Rescue , when Prince Charming yes, that's his name finds a Sleeping Beauty and rescues her with a kiss, but then it turns out that he's not her true love.

She takes one look and demands a better prince. In Alethea Kontis 's Enchanted , this is the condition on the frog's spell. He says this after Sunday has kissed him twice. Thisteldown 's girlfriend and Morality Pet Lilybell is put into a magical sleep by the Brownies and he is the only one who can save her , but he needs much more than a true love's kiss to wake her up.

So he has to go through several tests and quests as well as huge Character Development to get the right to give her the kiss that ultimately brings her back to him. 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. 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.

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". 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.

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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. 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. 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.

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. 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. In Haven Audrey's cheek kiss to Nathan awakens his ability to feel touch, though only hers. 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 Subverted in My Hero: 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.

On an episode of Terra Nova , Jim kisses Elisabeth to infect her with a virus that will help cure her memory loss. 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, 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 of heart to do it. What kills the villain in the Charmed episode; "Magic Hour", by undoing the curse he sets. When Paige is revived thanks to the Wicked Witch being vanquished, one of the dwarves tells her to get a boyfriend in case it happens again.

Willow kissing her new girlfriend Kennedy causes her to turn into Warren Mears. In the climax, Kennedy is able to turn Willow back by kissing her again. She even references that magic seems "just like a fairy tale". 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. 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.

In the episode 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. 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 And when Belle tries to invoke this, the fact that it works actually ruins her budding relationship with Rumpelstiltskin. 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. 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.

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. Among the many myths about Kumiho from Korean Mythology , one of the more benevolent ways they can become human is to find a human lover who loves them for themselves and kisses them.

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. I heard he once made out with a girl while she was blacked out. That's not charming — that's kind of rapey. Unlike most examples here, it doesn't require the two to be in love, however. 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. 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.

Subverted in Devil May Cry 4. Nero and Kyrie lean in, sunset in the background, for the big moment 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. A rather darker and less PG-rated version shows up in Dragon Age: Origins , in which having sex with Morrigan can prevent one of the Wardens from having to die after slaying the Archdemon.

It is something of a subversion, though, as love is in no way required. At the end of Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp , Dirk uses this to resurrect Daphne. That's The Power of Love. Quistis teases that all Rinoa might need is a kiss from "the prince". Squall is not amused.

True Love's Kiss

Kissing Valanice won't break the spell, leaving Graham to resort to another method to break the enchantment. Played with in Odin Sphere when Odin places his daughter Gwendolyn in an enchanted sleep 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. Subverted at the end of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II: Darth Vader has apparently killed Juno Eclipse.

Starkiller leans down tearfully as if to kiss her—and before he does, she wakes up and kisses him instead. This happens in the climax arc of Sonic the Hedgehog , although it was more of a Sacred First Kiss combined with the Chaos Emeralds. 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.

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.

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. Dusk is furious — no one had better mention this trope. PvP parodied it here. Lampshaded in SMBC here. The man kisses the sleeping princess. Nothing happens, and he realizes that he just kissed a woman who had never consented to it. She even rolls a Natural 20 on the resulting persuasion check!

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. 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 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 is debatable. Katara and Aang finally overcome their Unresolved Sexual Tension and give each other a fully-committed kiss in the final scene of the series. Scooby, a Great Dane and dressed in a prince's outfit, licks Daphne's face and breaks the curse. Subverted in Ever After High.

In Dragon Games Apple White falls into a magic induced coma. Daring Charming tries to revive her with kisses but is unable to. It is his sister Darling who resuscitates her by doing CPR. 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.

Spoofed in a Garfield and Friends U. These could all be signs that he's in love with you or at least feels strongly about you. This step mainly helps prevent heartbreak in a relationship. Kissing someone you love who doesn't feel the same way about you can be embarrassing and also hurtful, so before you make a move you should feel confident that he would want to reciprocate.

This doesn't mean physically, but before you kiss someone you love, you should know him emotionally, because this will amp up the kiss and make it more meaningful.

Kissing someone you love is different than kissing someone during a hook-up -- you want it to be special and communicate strong feelings towards that person. If you are not at a point yet where you know someone intimately, take time to get to know them. Maybe you fell in love with him because you saw how he interacted with others, but you haven't had the chance to know him personally.

Taking this time to learn who he really is will help create a special kiss. One key to making a kiss special and magical is to kiss the person you love in an environment that you view as romantic. This doesn't have to be a stereotypical romantic scene, like on a horse-drawn carriage ride, but it can be something that feels sweet and magical to you.

Think about some special spots that you have been to in your relationship or some spots that you think of as romantic. Plan to kiss your partner in one of these locations. Often times the best kisses are somewhere secluded and quiet, so the two of you aren't distracted. However, you can kiss your partner in a place a with a lot going on if you still feel that it would be meaningful. Plan a special date. You can kiss a person anywhere, but to make it meaningful, it's helpful to plan a meaningful date to set the scene for the kiss.

As previously mentioned, choose a romantic location and plan a date that you and your partner would both really enjoy. Maybe you don't find roses and candlelight romantic, but you both love sporting events. Whatever you think would be the most enjoyable date, plan your night around that. If you are doing something where there's always a foot between the two of you, it may not be the best place to kiss. Plan a date where you can become close and intimate with your love. Make it unique to your relationship. The most romantic times in a relationship can also be the most thoughtful, when you've planned a date or given someone a gift because it means a lot to them.

Don't just go with a classic "date night" but do something fun and different. Take your love to the first place that you met, or the place you first realized you loved him or her. For example, a couple may be really into books and so a romantic place to kiss would be in the secluded section of an old library. Or maybe they are really into the outdoors, so kissing in a canoe might be really sweet. If you think your partner would enjoy a classic date night, then do that!

There is no perfect formula for a good date, so just do whatever you think your date would most enjoy. Leave hints throughout the week. One way to make your love eager and excited for the upcoming date is to leave little hints or reminders throughout the week. Text your love throughout the week saying that you are excited for your date, or send him or her sweet messages throughout the week with compliments or expressing your feelings towards your partner.

Maybe you aren't much of a planner so a planned date and picked out location seems a bit mechanical to you. In that case, kiss that special someone at a moment that feels right to you. It doesn't always have to be a planned out, perfect date, so when you are with your love and you look at him or her, realizing you are in love, then make the move at that moment! Before you make the move to kiss your love, you'll want to look your best so that the kiss can be really special and meaningful. If you normally hang out with your partner in t-shirts and sweats, try a new style like throwing on a nice pair of pants or a skirt and fixing up your hair.

This will likely make your love more attracted to you, which will make the kiss even more romantic and passionate. Consider spritzing on a nice cologne or perfume so that your love will want to snuggle up even closer to you. Check your breath and lips. Before you kiss someone you'll want to make sure your breath doesn't smell and that your lips aren't chapped. If you just ate a meal, chew some minty gum to freshen your breath, or if you have time, brush your teeth. You might also want to put on some chapstick if your lips are more chapped than usual.

Move closer to your love. Now that you look the part you're ready to actually make the first move. On your date, or wherever you are, become more intimate with your love by inching closer to her. Consider sitting next to her and putting your arm around her or holding her hand. Look her in the eyes. This is key to showing your partner that you love them and to making your kiss special.

Eye contact can do so much, as people who know each other well can often communicate a lot of emotions just by staring into each other's eyes.

True Love's Kiss

Looking people in the eye is also a way to show someone you aren't just playing around and that they can trust you. Speak tenderly towards her. Show your love how much you care about her or what she means to you by expressing your feelings in sweet words to her. Tell her how you feel about her or compliment her on qualities you really admire in her.

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