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See also LovePotion and LoveGoddess.

* On Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger, Dora Pixie does this with baseballs, throwing them into people’s mouths. It effects Dan and Boi, making them fall for Mei and Goushi with one of the [[CargoShip motorcycles]].

* In short film ''Film/GodOfLove'', Ray, who was praying to God to get Kelly to fall in love with him, is sent a box of "Love Dart 3000" darts, from a company called Olympus. In the end, after he has used the darts to get his friend Fozzie to fall in love with Kelly, Olympus sends him the standard bow-and-arrow set, and he realizes that he has actually become Cupid.

Cupid, the personification of LoveAtFirstSight. Always looking for couples to shoot with his arrows to make them fall in love. Sometimes he misfires and hits the wrong person. The results are sometimes PlayedForLaughs, sometimes not. Unsurprisingly, the day Cupid often does his "work" is Valentine's Day.

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* Happens in ''Webcomic/ZeroPercentDiscount'' in [[http://zeropercentdiscountcomic.tumblr.com/post/110634511340 this strip]] with RealityEnsues.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Cupid is a DistaffCounterpart of the title character, an obsessed fan trained in archery who has a psychological inability to form permanent relationships.

Cupid, the personification of LoveAtFirstSight. Always looking for couples to shoot with his arrows to make them fall in love. Sometimes he misfires and hits the wrong person. The results are sometimes PlayedForLaughs, sometimes not. Unsurprisingly, the day Cupid often does his "work" is Valentines Day.

* ''Website/Collegehumor'' had a sketch about Cupid being frustrated that no one seems to need his help anymore in the era of social networking and dating sites. He gets the idea to break up all those couples and then get them back together, and messes with their Valentine's Day gifts, then shoots them with his arrows. He has one last couple to reunite (the first one he broke up), and runs out of arrows. He puts together "The Love Bomb" (a bunch of candy hearts, confetti, chocolates, and condoms held together with dynamite.) It goes about as well as you'd expect, but the couple in question ''do'' get back together on their own, if only for some angry sex in the bushes.

* In the episode "[[Recap/WanderOverYonderS1E17TheDateTheBuddies The Date]]" of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' the title character is on a [[HeartSymbol ♥-shaped planet]], referencing CardiovasularLove, and it has a Cupid's arrow sticking out of it.

* In the episode "[[Recap/WanderOverYonderS1E17TheDateTheBuddies The Date]]" of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' the title character is on a [[HeartSymbol valentine-shaped planet]], complete with a Cupid's arrow sticking out of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{American Dragon Jake Long}}'': In the episode "The Love Cruise", Gramps is entrusted to guard Cupid's arrows while the latter is on vacation. However, Jake steals the arrow and tries to shoot Rose with it during a cruise trip for the school, thinking that Rose doesn't love him anymore. However, things get out of hand when he accidentally starts shooting at other people and making them fall in love (such as the captain to the Statue of Liberty, Fu with [[ScrewYourself himself]], etc.), and when he finally shoots Rose she instead starts hating him due to the effects of the arrows on someone who is already in love with you.

* Cupid is a recurring character on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', and he shoots arrows that make people fall in love with the first thing they see. This has become a plot point for episodes such as "[[ValentinesDayEpisode Love Struck!]]", when it's necessary to make people fall in love with each other again when Timmy separates the two genders of the world by a wall, and "Stupid Cupid!", when Timmy gets Cosmo to fill in for Cupid so Trixie Tang will fall in love with him. Cosmo ends up making him fall in love with himself, Wanda fall in love with Juandissimo, Mrs. Turner fall in love with Mr. Crocker, and Mr. Turner [[CargoShip fall in love with a rosebush]].

* The premise of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Stupid Cupid" where the role of cupid is taken by Elmer Fudd, who takes drastic steps to ensure the (already bitterly married) WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck gets into the romantic spirit of things.

* Parodied in the ''[[WesternAnimation/KaBlam Life With Loopy]]'' short "Larry's Girl", where Cupid instead runs a computer based love-matching service while the bow and arrow are "just part of the costume". Later in the episode, as it turns out Cupid's computer service didn't work as well as planned when Saffron, the girl Cupid matched up for Larry, turned out not to be a good match, Loopy grabs his bow and arrow to save the relationship by stating it has to be done "the old-fashioned way". She tries shooting the arrow at Saffron, she misses, and it lands on another girl named Stacey. The arrow, as expected from earlier in the episode, really was only for show and didn't work- but after realizing they had the same favorite show (and wearing the same shirt to go with it), [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Stacey falls for Larry anyway, and vice versa]].

* In the ''Literature/MythOMania'' series, Cupid uses three different kinds of arrows, two of which invoke the TemporaryLoveInterest trope. Love induced with yellow-tipped arrows only lasts an hour. Orange-tipped arrows create romantic effects that wear off after three days[[note]]unless the couple can form a genuine affection, like Hades and Persephone[[/note]]. Red-tipped arrows make people permanently fall in love. ''Hit the Road, Helen!'' introduces the "Smoochie Woochie" arrow, which Cupid uses to make Helen of Troy leave Menelaus for Paris. [[spoiler:The Smoochie Woochie's effects wear off of Helen after Philoctetes slays Paris.]]

* ''Website/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' focuses on a [[MechanoidLifeform race]] of artificial, clockwork Cupids who believe it is their sacred duty to make everyone in the multiverse fall in love with someone, or, failing that, some''thing''. And [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul pesky things like "free will"]] aren't going to stop them.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOho-r-oBog "Cupid"]] by Sam Cooke.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' :

* In the ''Literature/MythOMania'' series, Cupid uses three different kinds of arrows, two of which invoke the TemporaryLoveInterest trope. Love induced with yellow-tipped arrows only lasts an hour. Orange-tipped arrows create romantic effects that wear off after three days. Red-tipped arrows make people permanently fall in love. ''Hit the Road, Helen!'' introduces the "Smoochie Woochie" arrow, which Cupid uses to make Helen of Troy leave Menelaus for Paris. [[spoiler:The Smoochie Woochie's effects wear off of Helen after Philoctetes slays Paris.]]