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* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is a love story in a cyberpunk setting that boils down to: Boy meets girl. Boy joins the gang girl's part of. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl protects boy by killing [[spoiler:[[MegaCorp Arasaka]] executives and netrunners]]. [[spoiler:Girl gets caught]]. [[spoiler:Boy uses a DeadlyUpgrade that makes him go insane to save girl]]. [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Boy gets killed]] by [[FinalBoss Adam Smasher]] after saving girl]].

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is a love story in a cyberpunk setting that boils down to: Boy meets girl. Boy joins the gang girl's part of. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl protects the boy by killing [[spoiler:[[MegaCorp Arasaka]] executives and netrunners]]. [[spoiler:Girl gets caught]]. [[spoiler:Boy uses a DeadlyUpgrade that makes him go insane to save girl]]. [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Boy gets killed]] by [[FinalBoss Adam Smasher]] after saving girl]].

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is a love story in a cyberpunk setting that boils down to: Boy meets girl. Boy joins the gang girl's part of. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl protects the boy by killing [[spoiler:[[MegaCorp Arasaka]] executives and netrunners]]. [[spoiler:Girl gets caught]]. [[spoiler:Boy uses a DeadlyUpgrade that makes him go insane to save the girl]]. [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Boy gets killed]] by [[FinalBoss Adam Smasher]] after saving the girl]].

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is a love story in a cyberpunk setting that boils down to: Boy meets girl. Boy joins the gang girl's part of. Boy and girl fall in love. Girl kills [[spoiler:[[MegaCorp Arasaka]] executives and netrunners]] to protect the boy. [[spoiler:Girl gets caught]]. [[spoiler:Boy uses a DeadlyUpgrade that triggers insanity to save the girl]]. [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Boy gets killed]] by [[FinalBoss Adam Smasher]] after saving the girl]].

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is a love story in a cyberpunk setting that boils down to: Boy meets girl. Boy joins the gang girl's part of. Boy and girl fall in love. [[spoiler:Girl kills [[MegaCorp Arasaka]] executives and netrunners to protect the boy]]. [[spoiler:Girl gets caught]]. [[spoiler:Boy uses a DeadlyUpgrade that will make him go insane to save the girl]]. [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Boy gets killed]] by [[FinalBoss Adam Smasher]] after saving the girl]].

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is a love story in a cyberpunk setting that boils down to: Boy meets girl. Boy joins the gang girl's part of. Boy and girl fall in love. [[spoiler:Girl kills [[MegaCorp Arasaka]] executives and netrunners to protect boy]]. [[spoiler:Girl gets caught]]. [[spoiler:Boy uses a DeadlyUpgrade that will make him go insane to save the girl]]. [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice Boy gets killed]] by [[FinalBoss Adam Smasher]] after saving the girl]].

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is a love story in a cyberpunk setting that boils down to: boy meets girl, boy joins the gang girl's part of, boy and girl fall in love, [[spoiler:girl kills [[MegaCorp Arasaka]] executives and netrunners to protect boy]], [[spoiler:girl gets caught]], [[spoiler:boy uses a DeadlyUpgrade that will make him go insane to save the girl]].

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is, in short, a love story in a cyberpunk setting that boils down to: boy meets girl, boy joins the gang girl's part of, boy and girl fall in love, [[spoiler:girl kills [[MegaCorp Arasaka]] executives and netrunners to protect boy]], [[spoiler:girl gets caught]], [[spoiler:boy uses a DeadlyUpgrade that will make him go insane to save the girl]].

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' is, in short, a love story in a cyberpunk setting that boils down to: boy meets girl, boy joins the gang girl's part of, boy and girl fall in love, [[spoiler:girl kills [[MegaCorp Arasaka]] executives and netrunners to protect boy, girl gets caught, boy uses a DeadlyUpgrade that will make him go insane to save the girl]].

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound1983'' has Ness and Paula. Oh, by the way... The song that plays in Twoson is also called ''Boy Meets Girl'', and it kinda foreshadows Paula's disappearance.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' has Ness and Paula. Oh, by the way... The song that plays in Twoson is also called ''Boy Meets Girl'', and it kinda foreshadows Paula's disappearance.

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* The French film ''Les Jeux Sont Faits'' had the two main characters meeting and falling in love...after they were both dead. They got better, [[spoiler:but died again anyway]].
* In ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'', the protagonists are perfect for each other - but they've never met. The entire movie is about them ''not'' finding each other. They don't meet until the very end, when boy finally meets girl, ''after'' the girl believes she has lost him.
* ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer''. Like it says in the opening credits: It's a story of boy-meets-girl. It is not a love story.

* ''Film/{{Adam}}'' is a film about a young man with UsefulNotes/AspergersSyndrome living alone in a Manhattan apartment after his father's death. He meets his neighbour Beth, a teacher and aspiring children's author, over laundry and the two form an awkward friendship which eventually becomes an awkward romance. [[spoiler:[[DidNotGetTheGirl It doesn't work out, sadly.]]]]
* This is literally the plot for the movie adaption of ''Film/EverythingEverything'', in which the two leads grow their bond in, despite Maddy being the one restricted to her home due to an illness.
* In {{Film/Serendipity}}, the leads meet one another for one night, get separated, and then found each other again.

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* The ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' series has an interesting one between Johnny/Meryl. Boy meets girl falls in love with her then she promptly kicks hithe s ass and takes his clothing. Boy meets girl 10 years later and cheats the army's system to get into the same unit as her. Boy sucks at being a soldier and gets ass kicked by girl often. Boy saves girl using CPR, but Girl still doesn't care much for him. Girl gets mind controlled, different guy saves her while Boy gets knocked out and becomes useless. Girl gets into fight to help different guy, and runs out of ammo. Boy suddenly becomes a badass and saves girl. Epic fight ensues. Boy and Girl fall in love and get married.

* The ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' series has an interesting one between Johnny/Meryl. Boy meets girl falls in love with her then she promptly kicks his ass and takes his clothing. Boy meets girl 10 years later and cheats the army's system to get into the same unit as her. Boy sucks at being a soldier and gets ass kicked by girl often. Boy saves girl using CPR, but Girl still doesn't care much for him. Girl gets mind controlled, different guy saves her while Boy gets knocked out and becomes useless. Girl gets into fight to help different guy, and runs out of ammo. Boy suddenly becomes a badass and saves girl. Epic fight ensues. Boy and Girl fall in love and get married.

* Sigurd and Deirdre from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar]''. The boy saves the girl from being harassed by a thug. They fall in love, get married and have a child. Then the girl gets kidnapped by a BigBad. When the boy reunites with her, tragedy strikes: [[spoiler: Deirdre has been brainwashed and cannot remember her husband at all, while Sigurd dies a horrible death at the hands of her new husband]]. Seliph and Julia in the second generation are GenerationXerox, though they are much less tragic and much more platonic/familial (unless you glitch the game).

* Played very staright in the beginning of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', where boy meets girl and embarks on a journey to find the girl's lost homeland and save the world. [[spoiler: Boy later meets the [[SharingABody other personality of the girl]], and then boy loses the girls and fights to get them back. At the very end of the final chapter – aptly titled "And thus, boy met girl" – the girls pull a HeroicSacrifice, but soon [[DisneyDeath come back]] to meet the boy again.]]

* {{Subverted|trope}} in ''Manga/AsteroidInLove''. In the beginning to the story, Mira sees her story with Ao to be like this: Girl meets boy, Girl loses boy, and then... Girl regains boy, only to know she mistook [[UnsettlingGenderReveal a girl]] for a boy all along. That, though, doesn't seem to prevent Mira from seeing the two as under RomanticTwoGirlFriendship.

MeetCute is a subtrope of this. Not related to JustForFun/XMeetsY. See also BoyMeetsGhoul.

* One could interpret Music/TheBeatles classic "[[Music/{{Revolver}} Eleanor Rigby]]" in this light as well--although in this particular case, both parties are probably up in years. [[TearJerker Still tragic, though...]]

* In ''Anime/SK8TheInfinity'', among the CastFullOfPrettyBoys, this is the personal storyline for [[spoiler:the protagonists Langa and Reki]], who have a MeetCute, become very close friends, lose each other, and find each other again, seeming to have an increasingly implied crush on each other throughout, with [[spoiler:Langa]] implying that [[spoiler:Reki]] is his ImpliedLoveInterest several times by its conclusion.

* ''Series/TeenWolf'' plays with this, if not intentionally. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl (after 2 seasons). The third season appears to build up toward the "boy finds girl" ending, but girl DIES. It's all very sad. Extremely sad. I don't wanna talk about it.

* Boy Meets Boy - TheMusical from 1975: No relation to the webcomic.

* ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl''
** Played straighter than the title would suggest, as the main character met both potential love interests [[GenderBender when s/he was still a boy.]]

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' is essentially "Boy meets girl'''s'''". And between all of them, most forms of this trope get played out.

* The premise for ''FanFic/APikachuInLove'' is [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] falling in love with another Pikachu and slowly questioning his bond with Ash, eventually being forced between spending his life with Pichi or continuing his adventures with his trainer. [[spoiler:Though incredibly painful, he chooses to stick with Ash.]]

* Theatre/WestSideStory famously uses this trope with the characters Tony and Maria- unsurprisingly, seeing as the play is based on [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet one of the most iconic examples of the trope of all time, Romeo and Juliet]].

* Sigurd and Deirdre from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]''. The boy saves the girl from being harassed by a thug. They fall in love, get married and have a child. Then the girl gets kidnapped by a BigBad. When the boy reunites with her, tragedy strikes: [[spoiler: Deirdre has been brainwashed and cannot remember her husband at all, while Sigurd dies a horrible death at the hands of her new husband]]. Seliph and Julia in the second generation are GenerationXerox, though they are much less tragic and much more platonic/familial (unless you glitch the game).

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', as the title suggests, is the story of how Ted meets the eponymous mother... only it's been [[strike:four]] eight seasons and he's still building up to the point where he meets her.

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''

* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}, played with and subverted between Shion and Kevin: Shion meets Kevin as a child; he dislikes her simple and naive attitude, and she's too young to have an opinion of him. Eventually, Kevin learns to love Shion, and they have a budding relationship together as two scientists and two lovers. But then, Kevin dies. [[spoiler: Finally, in ''Episode III'', Shion finds Kevin again, and he's become immortal. She finds she cannot be with him anymore because of the implications it would bring and decides to go with Allen Ridgely, who has had a crush on her for the entire series but CannotSpitItOut until he tries to win her back from Kevin.]]

* Pictured above, Sigurd and Deirdre from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]''. The boy saves the girl from being harassed by a thug. They fall in love, get married and have a child. Then the girl gets kidnapped by a BigBad. When the boy reunites with her, tragedy strikes: [[spoiler: Deirdre has been brainwashed and cannot remember her husband at all, while Sigurd dies a horrible death at the hands of her new husband]]. Seliph and Julia in the second generation are GenerationXerox, though they are much less tragic and much more platonic/familial (unless you glitch the game).

* Pictured above, Sigurd and Deirdre from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War]]''. The boy saves the girl from being harassed by a thug. They fall in love, get married and have a child. Then the girl gets kidnapped by a BigBad. When the boy reunions with her right when the tragic struck [[spoiler: Deirdre is brainwashed and cannot remember her husband at all, while Sigure dies a horrible death.]] Seliph and Julia in the second generation are GenerationXerox, though they are much less tragic.

* ''{{Disney/Cinderella}}'': mentioned by name by the king, who has a bad case of IWantGrandkids. As he explains to the doubtful duke, "Just a boy meeting a girl under the right conditions. So, we'll ''arrange'' the conditions!"

%%* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' had a chapter called "Boy meets [[ActionGirl Battle Girl]]".

* The final episode of ''Manga/BusouRenkin'' was titled "Boy Meets Battle Girl". Subverted in that they met on the first episode and the eponymous ActionGirl actually ''retires'' from her life of combat at this point, as does the rest of the cast.

%%* ''Manga/BusouRenkin'' had a chapter called "Boy meets [[ActionGirl Battle Girl]]".