History Main / CooldownHug

* ''Fanfic/ThroughHerEyes'' : Zigzagged. Soon after the failed assination attempt on Weiss' life, Yang drags her into a tight hug, but not to calm her friend but to keep herself from lashing out.

** Ash's Dragonite specializes in these when it's not battling. A recap episode before the Masters Eight finals notes that offscreen it once calmed down ''Iris's'' Dragonite, a noted GrumpyBear.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' gives you the option to give [[HoYay Yosuke]] a hug during his Social Link. And it's around the waist, too.
* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has a memorable one in the trip to [[BeachEpisode Yakushima Island]], where [[{{Tsundere}} Yukari Takeba]] has a breakdown and storms off after the party is shown a video implicating her [[DisappearedDad father]] in the creation of [[TheHeartless the shadows]] they're fighting. The MC is sent off to calm her down and bring her back, and giving her one of these is one option in the ensuing conversation.
** Her social link has another instance as well, where the MC gets the option to give her a hug after beating up a bunch of thugs that were harassing her. [[spoiler: This one's a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], though - she'll be ''pissed'' if you select the option to hug her, since she'll see it as being condescending.]]

* Used in ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 in the 2012 cartoon]]'' one by Mikey and another by Leo

** Leonardo gives Raphael one when Raph argues with Leo about the fact that he's jealous of Leo because he is Splinter's favorite and even tells Raph how much he cares about him.

* Used in ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012]]'' one by Mikey and another by Leo

* Michelangelo gives Raphael a pretty epic one in [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon]] when they witness [[spoiler:Splinter's apparent murder by the Shredder]] and Raph strikes out in a blind rage.

* ''Anime/Dororo2019'': Dororo does this to Hyakkimaru in Episode 6 [[spoiler: to calm his UnstoppableRage after killing the soldiers who murdered Mio.]]

* The ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' fic "Thought Reading Alchemist" features a similar trait to the anime. Instead of Ross hugging Edward, Roberta herself hugged him to calm him down.

* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'': In the 2003 anime adaptation, at the end of the Laboratory Five arc, Ed needs one of these from Maria Ross. Which is notably different from most of the examples because it's done by someone who didn't really have a close relationship to Ed. Normally a cooldown hug is used as an affirmation of the huggers true love for the hugee (be it platonic or romantic). In the dubbed version and its subtitling, Ed can be heard (very softly) saying something along the lines of, "Mom... You're back," when hugged by Lt. Ross, thus confirming the emotional parental transference he experienced at that time which allowed the Cooldown Hug to work.

* In episode 12 of ''LightNovel/AbsoluteDuo'', K gravely injures Toru, causing Julie to go into an UnstoppableRage and give K a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown serious beatdown]]. When Julie turns to attack Toru as well, Toru hugs her, begging her to come back to him. This brings Julie back to her senses.

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Betty Ross can do this when the Hulk is especially irate. If she's not available, the next most likely candidates are Rick Jones and ComicBook/SheHulk.
** Subverted during Betty's time as the Red She-Hulk. Amadeus Cho begs Betty to give him a Cooldown Hug, but she knows that she can't anymore. If anything, [[InvertedTrope she'd only piss him off more]].

* Betty Ross can do this when the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk is especially irate. If she's not available, the next most likely candidates are Rick Jones and ComicBook/SheHulk.

* At the beginning of Franchise/{{Superman}} story ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'', Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} has a breakdown after seeing a Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}’s probe, so her cousin hugs her and reassures her.

* Comes up in BookEnds in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. [[spoiler:On the [[MoralEventHorizon now infamous]] [[KillEmAll Genocide Run]], the WakeUpCallBoss Papyrus will offer you one if you promise to stop killing and try to be a better person; you may take this opportunity to kill him in one hit while his guard is down. Later on, the FinalBoss, his brother Sans will offer you one halfway through his boss fight if you accept his mercy. Accepting his mercy will result in ''him'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard taking the opportunity to take you out cleanly]] with his own OneHitKill. [[HaveANiceDeath Geetttt dunked on!]]]]

** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E4AndTheChildrenShallLead}} And the Children Shall Lead]]", Spock snaps Kirk out of his hallucination-induced desperate fear by pulling him into the turbolift and... [[HoYay staring at him from an inch or two away, his arms around him]]. For some reason that is never explained, this works like a charm - [[HealingHands probably because Spock is a powerful touch telepath and thus able tocancel out the hallucination.]]

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* A waitress in China [[http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-06/24/content_12767124.htm stopped a 16-year-old boy from killing himself]] by hugging him and giving him a kiss. Of course, she also listened to his story and revealed to him that [[YouAreNotAlone she's been in a similar situation herself]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' webcomic ''Webcomic/TheChosenFour'', Ness gets lost in [[HumongousMecha Dungeon Man]] and grows frustrated and angry to the point of he is bursting with psychic energy and he scares minions away with only glaring at them. Then his friends find him, Paula hugs him... and he suddenly feels completely cheered up. He even forgets what he was upset about.

* In ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', after Sora has [[spoiler:become a Heartless]] Kairi saves him from the darkness by hugging him and telling him to come back to her.

* ''Manga/DGrayMan'':
** Allen does this to Lavi in chapter 120.
** Road gives Allen a Cooldown Hug in chapter 192. Yes, the [[OlderThanTheyLook older-than-she-looks]], [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] CreepyChild. Allen was ''[[MindRape THAT]]'' out of it. And she was ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards that]]'' upset at the culprit.

* ''Manga/DawnOfTheArcana'': Caesar to Nakaba in chapter 5 when she's freaking out over blood.

* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** Mayu tries one on Lucy when she and Nana begin to fight at Maple House; after a moment, Lucy [[SubvertedTrope just pushes her away]].
** Kurama gives one to Mariko to stop her from killing Nana in the anime finale, with much more success.

* [[OpenMindedParent Tomoko]] does this to [[ClosetGay Hiroki]] in Chapter 10 of ''Manga/IThinkOurSonIsGay''. Right before Akiyoshi leaves again for work, he somewhat suggested IWantGrandkids. After Akiyoshi left, Hiroki suggested, with a LongingLook, that he's doubtful whether he can fulfill his father's expectations. Tomoko, knowing what [[{{Gayngst}} Hiroki means]], gives him a hug to show she'll always support him as her son.
* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'':

* ''Manga/KOn'': Yui does this to Azusa. Humorously, it seems to work ''instantly'', no matter how worked up Azusa was before.

* Possibly explained - though not properly used - in the Komi Naoshi oneshot, ''Koi No Kami Sama'': if chaos and Bad Things are happening around but not to Subject A, then the safest place to be is wrapped around Subject A's shoulders. The story being what it is, the hug is key to stopping the Chaos and Bad Things.

* At the beginning of Franchise/{{Superman}} story ''Comicbook/SupermanBrainiac'', Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} has a breakdown after seeing a Comicbook/{{Brainiac}}’s probe, so her cousin hugs her and reassures her.

* This has happened numerous times in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', with one time being Haruhi hugging Tsuruya because she's angry at herself as she feels responsible of [[spoiler:Kyon being shot]].
** A few scenes later there's another, in which Haruhi and Tsuruya [[TheGlomp glomp]] Mikuru and Yuki, who are already hugging, forming a Cooldown GroupHug.

* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': In one of the first chapters Asuka was having a nightmare while sleeping, and she calmed down when Shinji hugged her. That was the first of many times where Asuka was distraught and upset and Shinji embraced her to make her feel better and vice versa. In chapter 25:

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' Tigress and Po nearly come to blows over Po's desire for revenge against Lord Shen for killing his birth family. Tigress ended the fight by hugging Po, much to everyone else's surprise.
-->'''Tigress''': The hardcore ''do'' understand...
* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': when Hiro starts apologizing for [[spoiler: trying to avenge Tadashi's death by having Baymax try to kill Callaghan]] Gogo, [[TheStoic of all people]], gives him a cooldown hug, letting him know that she and the others understand his anger.
-->'''Gogo''': We're going to catch Callaghan, and this time we're going to do it right.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThorTalesOfAsgard'', the teenage Thor gives one to his younger brother Loki after a particularly grueling fight.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''. Lester, a park mascot, attempts to do this when he comes across a very angry Max. All the hug ends up doing is making Max even angrier.

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** Played with in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' as Wolverine fights his way to Jean. [[spoiler: Unusually for this trope, he's only able to calm her down momentarily, and takes that moment to stab ''her'', though at Jean's request.]]
** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Charles Xavier does this to Erik Lehnsherr to save his life when the latter almost drowns himself trying to lift Shaw's sub for the first time. Also comes with liberal applications of telepathic persuasion since they are both under water at the time.
* In ''Film/TheSantaClause 3'', Jack Frost's heart is warmed by a Cooldown hug.
* Sirius does this to a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent transforming Remus]] in the movie version of ''[[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. It doesn't work.

* Done almost literally in ''Film/Hellboy2004'' when Liz Sherman goes a little berserk early on with her pyrokinetic abilities, only stopping when Hellboy comes up close and tells her she can stop.

* In ''Film/TropicThunder'', just when it seems like Kirk Lazarus and Alpa Chino are going to get into a brawl, Lazarus hugs Chino and recites the lyrics to the theme song of ''Series/TheJeffersons''. Chino calls him on it, but the situation is still defused.
** Though that may be less an example of the hug working and more that they had more pressing problems (namely, they just found out that they're stuck somewhere between Vietnam and Laos, Tugg Speedman has been captured by actual drug dealers, and Jeff Portnoy was starting to show serious signs of withdrawal) to deal with than NWordPrivileges.
* Played straight and effectively in ''Film/MonaLisaSmile'' between Giselle (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and Betty (Kirsten Dunst).
* In the 2011 film ''Film/{{Warrior}}'': At the end. %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.

* ''Film/SchindlersList'': At the end of the movie, Schindler breaks down over not having been able to [[SamaritanSyndrome save more people]]. His employees all come together in a GroupHug to show him he did ''a lot.''
* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', there's a procedure to calming the Hulk and triggering his transformation back into Bruce Banner, which involves Black Widow gently caressing his arm, perhaps as some kind of hypnotic trigger.
* ''Film/{{Justice|League 2017}} [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague League]]'': Superman has been brought BackFromTheDead and is not happy, attacking the Justice League when they try to talk to him. Then Lois Lane is brought on the scene, and he calms down on the spot, recognizing the love of his life. She hugs Superman tightly, urging him to just take them away from there. Sure enough Superman flies off with Lois, taking them to his home in Smallville where he's finally able to calm down.
* In ''Film/TheFly1986'', when Seth allows Veronica to see him again after a month's isolation -- [[BodyHorror during which his ongoing mutation completely disfigured him]] -- he manages to retain his composure as he explains to her exactly what's happening to him and why, even as she's increasingly upset to learn these things. However, as he tries to find the words to explain why he asked her to come see him after he refuses to seek outside help (because he knows such help doesn't exist), he attempts to consume a doughnut...forgetting that he hasn't yet told her about how he eats now, leaving her gasping at the sight of him ''vomiting upon it''. On top of the resultant embarrassment, his right ear suddenly molts away. His composure breaks and with that he finally can tell her why he needs her -- "I'm scared" -- and reaches out to her for an embrace, which she returns without hesitation despite her own emotional distress, effectively making this trope apply to ''both'' characters as they try to get their heads around the horrible situation. (Incidentally, as discussed in the retrospective making-of documentary ''Fear of the Flesh'', this embrace is notorious for eliciting ''screams'' from audiences.)
* In ''Film/{{Glass}}'', Casey manages to bring Kevin out to the "light" over his 23 Dissociative Identities, some of them evil, temporarily simply through holding his hand. Dr. Staples posits that as Kevin created his identities in response to his horribly abusive mother, Casey's empathetic and caring physical touch helps soothe Kevin. [[spoiler:Casey manages to stop theBeast from ramapaging at the Osaka Tower by grabbing and hugging the shirtless man. Unfortunately this also means Kevin is no longer bullet proof and a sniper quickly puts him down.]]
* ''Film/NobodySleepsInTheWoodsTonightII'': In the camp's main cabin, Adas and Wanessa both have one after [[spoiler:the plan to catch Zosia fails]].

* ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'': One of the {{happy ending}}s of Louise Munro Foley's ''Curse of the Highland Crest'' involves this. [[spoiler: When CuteGhostGirl Emily's spirit appears ''inside'' the manor, the Protagonist can either confront her or run away. If the Protagonist talks to her, it will be followed by ''giving the ghost a hug'', allowing Emily's penitent soul to to Heaven; before disappearing, she'll thank the protagonist and tell them where the MacGuffin is. If the reader decides to have the Protagonist run away, however, they will fall out of the nearest window and die. ]]
* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Nesessitas gives one to Relkin (by enveloping him with her tail) when he breaks down crying in despair due to his own dragon going MIA and possibly dying.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** Happens between Faith and Angel in "[[{{Recap/AngelS01E18FiveByFive}} Five By Five]]". After spending the entire episode trying to get Angel to fight her, [[spoiler:Faith breaks down crying, begging Angel to kill her.]] He simply hugs her until she calms down in the next episode.
** Again with Faith and Angel, in "[[{{Recap/AngelS01E19Sanctuary}} Sanctuary]]". Faith kills an assassin sent after her by Wolfram and Hart, freaking out when she sees the blood on her hands. Angel hugs her to calm her down, [[NotWhatItLooksLike right as Buffy walks in the door]].
* In ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', during the IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight between the Zeo Rangers and a brainwashed Tommy, Katherine demorphs to try and get him to stop fighting them. He does freeze, and she uses that opportunity to hug him, and hold on to him even when he tries to resist, eventually breaking the spell.
* In ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', Jen temporarily gets brainwashed and beats the crap out of Wes. He manages to grap her into a hug and refuses to let her go, despite her struggling, until she snaps out of it.
* ''Series/{{Star Trek|TheOriginalSeries}}'':
** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling}} The Changeling]]", Kirk gives one of these to Spock after the latter's mind meld with the omnicidal robot Nomad went badly wrong.
** In "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS3E4AndTheChildrenShallLead}} And the Children Shall Lead]]", Spock snaps Kirk out of his hallucination-induced desperate fear by pulling him into the turbolift and... [[HoYay staring at him from an inch or two away, his arms around him]]. For some reason that is never explained, this works like a charm - [[HealingHands probably because Spock is a powerful touch telepath and thus able tocancel out the hallucination.]]
* Near the end arcs of ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'', [[spoiler:Maya tries to calm down her son, Taiga, with one of these. This is one of the "hugger gets stabbed" subversions, though she doesn't die.]]
* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' needs one of these the first time he uses [[MidSeasonUpgrade PuToTyranno]] form. After wiping out both of the monster he was fighting, he starts whaling on Kamen Rider Birth instead. When Hina tries to stop him, he almost hits her, but freezes at the last second. She takes the chance to grab him, which fully snaps him out of it.

* ''Series/TheXFiles''. Scully gives a big one to Mulder after his mother commits suicide.
* In the series 4 premiere of ''Series/TheInspectorLynleyMysteries'', Barbara Havers is held hostage at gunpoint - on her first case back after taking a bullet to the stomach in the series 3 finale. She's terrified out of her skin, but largely keeps in control, until she is rescued - at which point she whales the tar out of the hostage-taker until Lynley manages to pull her off. She tries to hit him until it sinks in who's holding her - and then she bursts into tears and [[CryIntoChest cries herself out against Lynley's chest]].

* There's a game on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' called Two Line Vocabulary, and in one playing, Ryan Stiles had the line "Somebody needs a hug." He repeats this consistently during the game, resulting in Colin hugging Brad when the latter would become hysterical (until Colin, as is normal for his character in the game, loses his temper and refuses hugs).

* Done hilariously in the 2011 Christmas episode of the PanelGame ''Series/EightOutOfTenCats'', when the panel featured Jedward and Greg Davies. After about twenty minutes of inane blathering from Jedward, Greg Davies ''breaks'' and starts mimicking Jedward's semi-surreal speech in frustration, [[SanitySlippage descending into pure incoherent gibberish]]. He gets a consoling hug from team captain Jon Richardson.
* ''Series/{{Cracker}}'' features the tall, heavyset Fitz grabbing a hysterical, furious and much smaller young man in a BearHug, indicating that he's prepared to headbutt the other man if he tries anything funny, and hanging onto him until he calms down.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. [[TeamMom Captain Janeway]] does this to [[RaisedByOrcs Seven of Nine]] even though she's gasping in pain from implied broken ribs after Seven lashed out at her, furious over how Janeway has forced her to leave the Borg Collective.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' after Will's famous rant after his father abandons him ''yet again'', full of screaming and shouting and crying, while Uncle Phil stands there and watches, not sure what he can do to help. Finally, Will runs out of steam and stops shouting, before miserably asking, "...How come he don't want me, man?" All Phil does is pull Will into a hug, and then the episode ends. (Both the line and hug [[ThrowItIn were ad-libbed]], Smith drawing on the memories of his childhood friends' experiences with ParentalAbandonment and James Avery dropping character to comfort him.)
* ''Series/MyKitchenRules'' has this happen during Lynn and Tony's instant restaurant in the 15th episode of season 6. The couple had been going through a bad day in the kitchen, and everything they've planned for their menu went out the window, resulting in a negative feedback for both their entrée and main course. When it seems that their dessert was going to end up as another disaster, Lynn was so overcome with the stress that she started crying while serving the plates. Another contestant, Will, gave her a hug and told her that she's done great.
* After ''Series/GuidingLight'''s Lucy Cooper tests positive for HIV (actually, her vengeful rapist altered the test results), her boyfriend Alan-Michael calls a friend of hers to come over and offer support, then smashes the phone and bursts into tears, prompting her father and brother to pull him into his one of these.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015''. Wilson Fisk has convinced psychopathic FBI Agent [[ComicBook/{{Bullseye|MarvelComics}} Poindexter]] to become TheDragon, but worries that a woman he's interested in might become a MoralityChain so has her assassinated, then uses the dead woman's phone to send false text messages saying she's broken up with him. When a distraught Poindexter comes to see him he encourages Dex to let out his anger with a primal scream, then hugs Dex [[RevealingHug while giving the nod to his underling]] to have the assassins he has waiting outside pack up and leave as they're not needed.

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has a memorable one in the trip to [[BeachEpisode Yakushima Island]], where [[{{Tsundere}} Yukari Takeba]] has a breakdown and storms off after the party is shown a video implicating her [[DisappearedDad father]] in the creation of [[TheHeartless the shadows]] they're fighting. The MC is sent off to calm her down and bring her back, and giving her one of these is one option in the ensuing conversation.
** Her social link has another instance as well, where the MC gets the option to give her a hug after beating up a bunch of thugs that were harassing her. [[spoiler: This one's a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], though - she'll be ''pissed'' if you select the option to hug her, since she'll see it as being condescending.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' gives you the option to give [[HoYay Yosuke]] a hug during his Social Link. And it's around the waist, too.

* Rachel from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' nearly has an emotional breakdown when she remembers [[spoiler:Bam]]'s HeroicSacrifice, but his best friend Khun is there to hug her and cheer her up. [[spoiler: It would be so touching if you didn't know that Rachel herself killed Bam and just made up that story, crying crocodile tears and living off of Khun's kindness. The best part of it is that [[MagnificentBastard Khun knows]]. He's just keeping Rachel around to get to her co-conspirators, the people he thinks are ultimately responsible for planning Bam's death. [[NeverFoundTheBody Not that Bam is dead]], but that's an entirely different matter.]]

* And [[http://www.captainsnes.com/2009/08/01/584-eyes-wide-open-to-the-world-now-new/ here]] in ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES''.
* ''Webcomic/{{Collar 6}}'': [[spoiler: Laura to Michelle.]]
* [[http://owmysanity.comicgenesis.com/d/20100607.html From David to Nancy]] in ''Webcomic/OwMySanity''.
* Hannelore got one of these from [[TsunDere Faye]] of all people in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''.

* [[http://robotandghost.com/nggallery/page-27/image/176/ Simulated Comic Product]]'s Mope. [[spoiler: subverted]]

* [[http://www.thebeastlegion.com/comic/issue-12-page-44-with-thanks/ From Fyre to Xeus]] in ''Webcomic/TheBeastLegion''.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' makes an InvokedTrope of it when [[GenderBender Elliot]] gets himself worked up [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1758 here.]]
-->'''[[MadScientist Tedd]]:''' [[GenkiGirl Grace!]] [[CallingYourAttacks Use Hug!]]\\
'''[[TheGlomp GLOMP]]'''\\
'''Elliot:''' [[DerailedTrainOfThought Eh-buh wha-za!?]]
* [[http://dna.thewebcomic.com/comics/2282506/tooth-page-14/ This page]] of ''Webcomic/DNATheWebcomic'', when Orion stops Sirius from attacking Jay in retaliation for hurting Orion.

* ''Webcomic/NeverSatisfied'' has several examples:
** Peony calms Lucy down after they break down and [[spoiler:reveal they can't use magic]].
--->Lucy! You're ''not'' useless! You're nice and pretty and-and! I don't care if [[spoiler:you can't do magic]]! That's not why I like you! And [[spoiler:I can't do magic either]]! But-but-- You still like me! So it... it isn't fair to not like yourself!
** She also [[spoiler:[[InterruptedCooldownHug attempts this]] on Su-Yeong in chapter four, only to be interrupted by Philomena shooting her. She gets her chance to hug Su-Yeong for real in chapter six]].
** In chapter six, [[spoiler:Tobi hugs Su-Yeong when he, Joe, and Peony find her. This calms her enough to shift down from her tier three husk form]].
* ''Webcomic/AmnesiaAU'': can be found [[https://amnesia-au-nora-maheswaran.tumblr.com/ here.]] Having found out that her adoptive mother Priyanka Maheswaran, [[spoiler: forged her medical results,]] Nora goes through a SuperPowerMeltdown, thinking that her adoptive mother and sister, Connie, [[spoiler: knew that she wasn't human and that she would have live out the rest of time alone after everyone died.]] Thankfully, Connie immediately hugs her and tells her that she's not alone.

* A variation in ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': during the Whitestone arc, when Percy's [[spoiler: literal]] demons start to manifest, Vex'ahlia coaxes him out of his fury while holding his hand. Given that Percy had previously been implied to [[HatesBeingTouched dislike physical contact]] and was turning into smoke at the time, keeping her distance was probably a wise move.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Ahjeen does this to Keela to snap her out of her SuperpoweredEvilSide near the end of episode 2.

* Kitty Pryde succeeds in calming down Wolverine with this technique in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution''.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', when Fry begins thinking he's a robot after [[GoAmongMadPeople spending time in a robot asylum]], Leela tries to get him back to normal by hugging and kissing him. Doesn't work, though.
** She didn't try doing his laundry, though.
** Oddly, it's ''being stabbed'' that brings him back to normal. "Robots don't have blood!"
** Used by Fry when he eliminates Lrr from a high stakes poker tournament in ''Into The Wild Green Yonder.'' Luckily he read Lrr's mind to realize that all he needed was a hug.

* In Terra's premiere episode in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Beast Boy brings Terra back [[{{Pun}} down to earth]] this way. Unfortunately, it's only a temporary solution...

* Michelangelo gives Raphael a pretty epic one in [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon]] when they witness [[spoiler:Splinter's apparent murder by the Shredder]] and Raph strikes out in a blind rage.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E29LogDate7152 "Log Date 7 15 2"]], Garnet puts a comforting hand on Peridot's shoulder and gently suggests she calm down. It works, as Peridot goes from [[SanitySlippage crying, cackling, and yelling]] to asking if she'd have to get a star [[HeelFaceTurn now that she's a Crystal Gem]] and asking where she'd even put it, in more normal tones of annoyance.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'': In "Prickly Pair", after Steven brings his cactus to life, he begins dumping his emotional baggage onto it, causing the Cactus Steven to go on a rampage and mimick Steven's aggressive behavior. Steven defuses the fight by putting his shield down and giving it a hug. It works, but Steven ends up [[HumanPincushion a pincushion]], especially when Cactus Steven starts hugging him back.
** In the penultimate episode "I Am My Monster", [[spoiler: a corrupted Steven]] is defeated this way. [[spoiler: The sight of all his friends and family embracing him, offering their unconditional love and support even after all the trouble his declining mental health has caused, finally gets Steven to calm down and turn back into his normal self.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': The plot of the episode [[Recap/WeBareBearsS3E2AngerManagement "Anger Management"]] revolves around Grizz discovering that he can stop Nom Nom's anger by giving him a bear hug.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 108, Mr. Cat gives Kaeloo a hug while she's mad, with the unintended effect of calming her down. The trope is PlayedWith because he didn't know that it would calm her down, but it just did.
* On ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'', [[SweetSheep Lambie's]] role on Doc's team is generally [[CuddleBug to give out cuddles and they are often important in calming down hurt or sick patients.]]

* San gets one of these from Ashitaka in ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''.

** Souma gives one to Masataka after [[spoiler:the torture and rape deal with Katsuragi.]] Somewhat subverted since [[spoiler:Masataka at first rejects Souma's touch ([[BastardBoyfriend understandably]]) and it's only after Souma promises to not go beyond ''and'' keeps his word that Masataka allows him to hug him close.]]

** A few scenes later there's another, in which Haruhi and Tsuruya {{Glomp}} Mikuru and Yuki, who are already hugging, forming a Cooldown GroupHug.

-->'''[[MadScientist Tedd]]:''' [[GenkiGirl Grace!]] [[CallingYourAttacks Use Hug!]]
-->'''[[TheGlomp GLOMP]]'''
-->'''Elliot:''' [[DerailedTrainOfThought Eh-buh wha-za!?]]