History Main / IWillWaitForYou

** In the movie version, Eureka waited patiently and hoped for the moment she could be reunited with Renton, considering she thought of suicide throughout the 8 years of imprisonment.

* Done significantly darker in Ryuukishi's other work, ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', as it is one of the many causes of the tragedy. [[spoiler:[[AmbiguousGender Yasu]], also known as Shannon, a young servant in the Rokkenjima island's mansion, falls in love with Battler. He promises to come and take her out of the island the next year, so that she can start a new life, but due to problems in his family, he seems like he won't come back. After three years of vainly waiting, Shannon tries to find love with George, Battler's cousin. Then, through Kanon, a male personna she created as one of her coping mechanisms, s/he starts to fall in love with her childhood friend Jessica, Battler's other cousin, who lives on the island. So after six years, Yasu in engaged in three separate relationships: the "Shannon" persona is with George, the "Kanon" persona loves Jessica, and deep down a part of her (represented by the "Beatrice" persona) is ''still'' waiting for Battler. And just as George is about to propose to her, she learns Battler's return; by that time she is already broken and suicidal, but his return is the final nail in the coffin that decides her to blow up the island so that she can create her ideal imaginary world.]] The complex set of reasons that led to this is [[http://pastebin.com/631gzV4H Better explained here.]]

* Done significantly darker in Ryuukishi's other work, ''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi''. [[spoiler:[[AmbiguousGender Yasu]], also known as Shannon, a young servant in the Rokkenjima island's mansion, falls in love with Battler. However he only visits the island where she works once or twice a year. He promises to come and rescue her on a white horse the next year, but due to problems in his family (his mother's death and his distancement from his dad), he doesn't return for six years. Trying to cope, Shannon responds by trying to find love while in the guise of her two other personalities. She transfers her love for Battler to Beatrice, one of her personalities, after two years. She then gets into a relationship with George, Battler's cousin, while her other personality, Kanon (a boy) gets into a relationship with Battler's ''other'' cousin, Jessica (who ''lives'' on the island). So after six years, Yasu has three personalities with separate relationships: the Shannon persona is with George, the Kanon persona is with Jessica, and the Beatrice persona is ''still'' waiting for Battler. After six years, Battler returns... but unable to decide between the three, and hurt that Battler doesn't remember anything about him/her anymore, Yasu does the logical thing and plans to slaughters his entire extended family.]]

* In the Sacred Weapons (Kyo, Chizuru, Iori) Team in TheKingOfFighters 97, [[spoiler: as the three work together to re-seal Orochi, Kyo has a vision of his girlfriend Yuki promising to wait for his return. It's all but stated that she does.]]
** Played differently in the KOF:KYO game. [[spoiler: Yuki ''does'' actually say this in canon, but more exactly as a part of her train of thoughts when she's held hostage by the New Face Team and they tell Kyo that she is the game's BarrierMaiden. When Kyo defeats the NFT, she runs to him in joy.]]
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', [[spoiler: after the Avatar [[DyingmomentOfAwesome sacrifices him/herself]] to defeat [[BigBad Grima]], everyone is sure that somehow s/he survived and they all vow to wait for his/her return. [[EarnYourHappyEnding And s/he comes back to them]].]]

* ''GhostTrick'': [[spoiler: In the new timeline, when Yomiel isn't killed by the Temsik meteorite, Sissel (the fiancee, not the cat) waits ten years for him to get out of jail.]]

** ''Discworld/Eric'' mocks the tale of Argos, saying what killed the dog was holding his master's slippers in his mouth for twenty years nonstop.

The person waiting, incidentally, is almost AlwaysFemale... or [[{{Hachiko}} a]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} dog]]. See also MyGirlIsNotASlut, TheSlowPath. Compare IWillFindYou for when the speaker plans to take a more proactive stance. Contrast AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder and TakingTheVeil, a common historical alternative.

* Both Millenia and Elena from ''GrandiaII'' [[spoiler:at the end]] are shown waiting for Ryudo to return to them.

* Ciel, at the end of ''MegaManZero 4'', still believes that Zero is out there somewhere and that she needs to help the world for him. ''Freesia'', the slow "I miss you" vocal version of the game's theme, plays over the ending credits, presumably expressing the thoughts of Ciel herself (especially as RieTanaka [[DoItYourselfThemeTune is the singer]]). After the credits, [[spoiler:we see [[DeadHatShot Zero's shattered helmet]] [[TearJerker lying in the ruins of Ragnarok.]]]]
* In VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia Klarth's assistant Mirald promises to wait as long as necessary for his return. Up until that point it had been implied that he wasn't fully aware she loved him (or even that he loved her, depending on how you interpret the character). Made all the more poignant because [[spoiler: he learns this in a vision after the party has traveled to the future to confront the BigBad. Meaning that in this timeline, she is long dead, having presumably waited her whole life for him.]] If you beat the game, he does indeed return. In a different variant, Arche makes this promise [[spoiler: to Chester, when she returns to the past. Particularly unfair, as she has to wait a hundred years to see him again, but since time travel is involved, he only has to wait until she shows up looking for him, or until he finds her.]]

* Deconstructed in VideoGame/TalesOfGraces. After seven years of waiting for Asbel after the prologue, Cheria is... rather bitter by the time the main game starts.
* In PlanescapeTorment, the Nameless One has this effect on his love interests.

* {{Persona 3}} has Koromaru, who went for walks at Naginaki Shrine after his master died. Eventually, he moves into the dorm with S.E.E.S. but the player can still take him on walks there.
* In ''RomancingSaGa'', this happens at the end of one hero's scenario: [[spoiler: Farah is shown arguing with [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough her mother]] over her decision to wait for Jamil to return from the final battle. Thankfully, it's implied that she didn't have to wait ''too'' long.]]

* Arwen does this for Aragorn in ''TheLordOfTheRings'' once he goes off on the quest to destroy the One Ring, which eventually escalates into a war. Although this time they are only parted for half a year.

* "Girl I Wait" and "The Other Side" by [[Bruno Mars]]

* TheDecemberists' folk-inspired ballad ''From My Own True Love, Lost at Sea'' starts out: "Fourscore years / Living down in this rain swept town / Sea salt tears / Swimming round as the rain comes down / Mr Postman, do you have a letter for me? ... From my own true love / Lost at sea"...

* AFI's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8yk7Dx35o4 'Endlessly, She Said']] embodies this. The closing song to a ConceptAlbum about isolation, it presents the idea of waiting as a misery-filled experience.

The person waiting, incidentally, is almost AlwaysFemale... or [[{{Hachiko}} a]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} dog]]. See also MyGirlIsNotASlut, TheSlowPath. Compare IWillFindYou for when the speaker plans to take a more proactive stance. Contrast AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder and TakingTheVeil, a common historical alternate.

* In MobileSuitGundam, [[spoiler: Bright Noa]] says the trope words almost exactly to [[spoiler: a LoveConfession to Mirai, his NumberTwo, before a crucial battle]]. [[spoiler: They later get married.]]
-->[[spoiler: Bright]]: "I know what you're thinking. I.. I will always be waiting."

* In FireEmblemAwakening, [[spoiler: after the Avatar [[DyingmomentOfAwesome sacrifices him/herself]] to defeat [[BigBad Grima]], everyone is sure that somehow s/he survived and they all vow to wait for his/her return. [[EarnYourHappyEnding And s/he comes back to them]].]]

* In JohnCWright's ''The Literature/CountToTheEschaton'', this is Menelaus's motivation to sleep through the millenia until Rania returns. He hates being woken because every time ages him.

* LoisLane in ''AllStarSuperman'', insisting {{Superman}} will come back - he's just fixing the Sun.

** It's worth noting that if a man did return after the bill of divorce was delivered and she had already remarried, he could never marry her again, not even if her second husband died. That is the gravity of invoking IWanyMyBelovedToBeHappy in this situation.

* Invoked for massive TearJerker effect in one of the DetectiveConan OVA's. [[spoiler: If Conan doesn't return to his Shinichi identity, Ran will wait for him to return... ''even if more than ten years pass.'' (The OAV itself was AllJustADream, but it's not too farfected to believe that it ''would'' be within [[TheWoobie Ran's]] character to do this.]]

* ''SoWeird'': "Widow's Walk" features an old woman who has waited decades for her husband, lost at sea, to return. She learns an important life lesson about something or other, then goes right back to waiting. The ghost of her husband seems to approve of this.