The Last Kiss: A Tale Of True Love

True Love's Kiss

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When she meets a bumblingly charming stranger, Rora's heart begins to thaw. But, try as she might, she can't run from true love forever. Valutazioni e recensioni 0 1 valutazioni con stelle 0 recensioni. Chiudi Segnala una recensione Noi di Kobo ci assicuriamo che le recensioni pubblicate non contengano un linguaggio scurrile e sgradevole, spoiler o dati personali dei nostri recensori. Vuoi dare un altro sguardo a questa recensione? Hai segnalato con successo questa recensione. Ti ringraziamo per il feedback. Scrivi la tua recensione. Inglese Opzioni di download: Puoi leggerlo utilizzando uno qualsiasi dei seguenti dispositivi o una app Kobo: At the end, she leaves in disgust, leaving him as a portly centaur who protests that she's "just one kiss away" from a rich, handsome prince.

Also spoofed in an Australian beer commercial; the Farmer's Daughter sees a frog and hopes that if she kisses it, the frog will turn into a handsome sheep shearer. The frog does change accordingly, but then when he kisses her, she turns into a pint of beer. Painfully averted in Absolute Boyfriend. 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. Played for Laughs in Beelzebub. 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.

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. Parodied in A Certain Scientific Railgun. 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. Others including Word of God claim she made effective use of Save States. Still, quite the Ship Tease. In 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. Final Episode of Eureka Seven whereby Renton and Eureka kissed for the very first time and resulted in not only saving their planet from destruction, but they were also given a chance to go back to their planet to live together.

The Kodoku arc in Fushigi Yuugi ends with this trope. Nakago, of course, being the horrendously evil jerk that he is, doesn't realize it. How did you manage to break the spell? There's no method known in the world for curing Kodoku poisoning once it has entered a person's body and affected them! You'll spend your whole life trying to figure that out! I love you as a half demon. Snaps out of it Kagome Just as I expected It was like a rough, dry wilderness.

Also, it was really warm 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 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 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.

In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 comics, Buffy needs one of these to awaken from a magically induced nightmare. Assuming that at least one person in the group must be 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, but she doesn't reciprocate the feeling. She makes up for it, however, by reciprocating something else.

In one Justice League run, the Queen of Fables has made all the fairy tales come to life and warped them so she can rule the world. This includes making Wonder Woman into Snow White. The heroes know they need a Prince Charming to wake her up with a kiss, so Aquaman King of the Seas volunteers to do it. You're of no use here anyway As Superman has just informed me, this is a job for a handsome prince. I thought you were the king of Atlantis. 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: It's like in the fairytale! If I give him a kiss, he'll surely wake up!

To her disappointment, it does not work. A truly heartwarming example occurs in A Pleasant surprise. 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. 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.

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. It happens a few times, as well as being discussed and lampshaded, in the Contractually Obligated Chaos series, because the stories are based on Disney fairy tales. 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. As mentioned above, this trope is far rarer in traditional fairy tales than Common Knowledge would have it. Examples where it does occur are the following: The Brothers Grimm 's " The True Bride " has the heroine breaks the spell over her prince after an evil princess bewitched him to forget her with a kiss.

This little tidbit was retained when the story was adapted for The Storyteller. A borderline case is the Grimms' version of " Sleeping Beauty " a. Briar Rose is indeed wakened by a kiss. However, the fated years of sleep were up, which implies that Briar Rose would have eventually woken up anyway, and the kiss was never the condition to lift the curse. The trope does not occur in the originals of the following tales, and was only introduced by retellings: 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.

Sleeping Beauty simply wakes up after years, and the prince either just happens to be there at the right time or, as played in the Grimms Fairytale Classics , by is already destined to be the one to wake her up. One of the babies crawled up to her body and suckled the flax out of her finger, reviving her.

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 Baleful Polymorph by decapitating the frog on his own wish.

Disney's The Little Mermaid zig-zags this, as Ariel needs the "Kiss of True Love" to become human permanently, though it does not work out that way. The original story by Hans Christian Andersen required that the Mermaid actually marry the prince to become human forever, on the condition that if he betrayed her, she would die.

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It also does not work out either, but in a different way. 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. And from this slumber, you shall wake, when true love's kiss, the spell shall break.

However, Sophie is already in love with Howl, so how can she be his True Love as well?

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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. The film Shrek 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.

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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. 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. 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.

It works the second time though. 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.

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