History Main / GrandRomanticGesture

This is also not recommended even if you ''are'' already dating the person you are doing it to, especially when proposing. The public display often pressures him or her into accepting it in front of the crowd to avoid awkwardness. Not to mention, pulling off such a public stunt meant that later on, [[{{Irony}} it might strain your once-perfect relationship instead]]. So do not do this ever unless you are ''very'' sure that your significant other is waiting for you to make the first move.

** [[spoiler:Ishigami unwittingly gives one to Tsubame at the school festival by giving her a large heart-shaped chocolate, demonstrating his romantic intentions towards her. Thing is, he was unaware that there was undertones to giving hearts to a significant other during the festival, so he remained unaware of what he did for most of the arc. To make things worse, he also gives a heart locket to Iino, as he hasn't quite grasped that hearts don't only apply to Tsubame.]]
** [[spoiler:Kaguya and Shirogane's relationship takes the biggest step forward when the latter plans an elaborate scheme to distract all the supporting characters that would normally get in the way and engineer a huge romantic gesture during the culture festival by showering the school in hundreds of heart-shaped balloons. There's a big ol' kiss and everything seems great. ''However,'' afterward, while Kaguya appreciates the gesture and finds it very romantic, she makes a point to drive in to him that [[IJustWantToBeNormal she would really prefer something much more low key, normal and honest from here on]]. She's just as excited to have a quiet kiss on a park bench with no one else around on a snowless Christmas Eve.]]
** Inverted during the End of Secrets arc. [[spoiler:Tsubame uses her social connections to repair Ishigami's reputation among the student body at large because she ''isn't'' in love with him and is trying to avoid breaking his heart when she ultimately turns down his love confession.]]
** In the final chapter, [[spoiler:Kaguya (knowing that Shirogane was flying back to Japan unannounced to surprise her at graduation) prepares a surprise of her own by getting the entire student body to celebrate ''his'' graduation so he wouldn't feel left out after leaving several months early to attend Stanford.]]

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Lampshaded by Louis de Pointe du Lac in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf After the Phantoms of Your Former Self]]" when his boyfriend Lestat de Lioncourt agrees to lend him a large sum of money to purchase the Fairplay Saloon: "It was a grand and loving gesture on Lestat's part."

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', vampire [[StalkerWithACrush Spike]], to prove his love to Buffy... stuns her with a cattle prod, chains her to a wall and offers to kill his ex for her. In hindsight, this probably wasn't the best idea. Later, however, he goes and gets his ''soul'' for her, which falls under this trope a little bit better.

* ''Series/BanjunDrama'': "His Double Life"'s Jun-hyeok does one for his main piece's birthday. While working late at the hospital, she suddenly gets an urgent patient rushed to her. Taking off the cloth covering the patient reveals her boyfriend, with a doll and a declaration of "I love you." The employees who rushed him in bring out the party poppers and birthday commemorations; it was Jun-hyeok's elaborate birthday present for her.

Well, whatever it is, it should be '''big'''. Jewelry doesn't cut it, flowers are for losers, and [[ChocolateOfRomance chocolates?]] Are you kidding?

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': Two of the suitors of Vesper the Morning Star try using this to win her over and choose him for her husband, one of them presenting her with a grand painting of her at ease, the other giving her an extended make-out session. She rejects both of them and chooses Caspian Waterson, who [[TheSimpleGestureWins presented her with evidence of corruption in the court]], as he rightly interpreted what she wanted in a husband: a loyal number two to be her eyes and ears.

* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', Agnes is in love with Jasper, but Jasper thinks they are BetterAsFriends because he is afraid that a relationship between them would break apart like his parents' marriage. In an attempt to get Jasper to face his fears, Agnes tries to face one of her own fears - she goes to the lake that Jasper enjoys swimming in, and dives into it from a great height, something that Jasper often did, but she was afraid to do. This quickly backfires; as Agnes isn't as good at swimming as Jasper, she ends up drowning before she can reach the shore, and Jasper gets sucked into Deadland when he tries to save her.

* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'':

* The one at the end of ''LightNovel/ThePrincessAndThePilot'' stands out due to the economic FridgeHorror involved. If that really was "more gold than he could spend in a lifetime", and he threw it all into the sea just to show her that she mattered more to him, thereby removing it from the nation's economy, ''during a war''... well. It's a movie.

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* Firmly and hilariously defied in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' by Axel Higgs, who has seen way too many of these from various Sparks and proposes a more {{Mundane Solution}} for a lovesick Gil: Write Agatha a letter.