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* ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour'': Childhood sweethearts Richard and Anne briefly fit this category, after her Yorkist father switches sides and joins the Lancastrian cause. Anne's parents force her to marry the Lancastrian heir Edouard, while Richard stays loyal to his brother, King Edward IV. Richard's side wins and Anne's husband and father are killed. Although she's branded a traitor by many Yorkists, Edward knows she was her father's pawn so he forgives her and allows Richard and Anne marry. The same events are portrayed in the novel ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour'', albeit in a LighterAndSofter form.

* ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour'': Childhood sweethearts Richard and Anne briefly fit this category, after her Yorkist father switches sides and joins the Lancastrian cause. Anne's parents force her to marry the Lancastrian heir Edouard, while Richard stays loyal to his brother, King Edward IV. Richard's side wins and Anne's husband and father are killed. Although she's branded a traitor by many Yorkists, Edward knows she was her father's pawn so he forgives her and allows Richard and Anne marry.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Powell Elinor Powell]] was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps where she met Frederick Albert, a former Luftwaffe medic. They quickly fell for each other when they met at a prisoner of war camp during [[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/they-didnt-let-racism-win-the-story-of-an-interracial-couple-on-opposite-sides-of-wwii World War II.]]

* Elinor Powell and Frederick Albert quickly fell for each other when they met at a prisoner of war camp during [[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/they-didnt-let-racism-win-the-story-of-an-interracial-couple-on-opposite-sides-of-wwii World War II.]]

* Walter and Dasha in ''Series/NineteenFortyOne''. He's the Nazi officer in charge of the forces occupying her village, and she's secretly in LaResistance.

* ''Literature/{{Succession}}'' has Rana and the Rix commando, as well Laurent and Nara who are on completely opposite sides of political spectrum and have tremendously differing views on the Emperor [[spoiler: however Laurent comes to agree with Nara.]]

The lovers are likely to ''not'' be StarCrossedLovers: In some works they are, but in others they are never kept apart. Instead, the drama is about how they have to fight for their love or what a high price they have to pay for it as people shun at least one of them as being some variety of CategoryTraitor. Or simply the internal struggle of hating one nation/faction/family/whatever while loving one member of it. Don't be surprised if some StrawLoser antagonists goes all EntitledToHaveYou.

Compare EthicalSlut and MalignedMixedMarriage. If Love Across Battlelines is combined with TroubledSympatheticBigot, also compare SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny as well as LoveRedeems. If the lover is an antagonist rather than a citizen/relative/whatever of the enemy nation/family/whatever, see instead DatingCatwoman if she remain a villain and DefectingForLove if she makes a HeelFaceTurn[=/=]HighHeelFaceTurn. WarShip covers fanon versions.

* A staple in the various ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' series, as part of its traditional LoveHurts aesop.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the love story is the [[BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama mixed-race romance]] of Julian Smith-Rhodes and Ruth N'Kweze. Julian isn't just a white guy. He isn't quite the heir - but in the line of succession - to one of the richest and most influential men in [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Rimwards Howondaland]]. She is a Princess in the Disc's analogue of [[DarkestAfrica Black Africa]]. Julian's country is stuck in UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra and what he's up to with Ruth is not only socially shocking, it's ''illegal''. Ruth's nation is in a perpetual Cold War with Rimwards Howondaland, one which occassionally gets hot. At least partly because of apartheid. As all this is happening in faraway Ankh-Morpork, people around them collude to keep their secret, and their families accept it as one of those things. The rules are different in the Big City. But sooner or later both need to return to their respective homelands.

* Torquato Tasso's ''Gerusalemme Liberata'' features a sub-plot involving a heathen amazon Clorinda and a christian knight Tancredi in love but on opposite sides. Eventually, they end up fighting each other (she was disguised in a full armor) and the girl is mortally wounded by Tancredi and dies.

** In the RPG game, he's the Captain of Orcadia's Royal Knights, she's [[spoiler: a NobleFugitive from a aristocrat family of the fallen Parmet Kingdom]]; she'll try to assasinate him several times before gradually growing fond of him, [[spoiler: and later, if you're following the Licence of Heartless Odd Number route, he reveals to her he's the Crown Prince of Parmet in hiding, and just as much out for revenge against Orcadia as her: after this, they'll completely fall in love with each other.]].

* ''VideoGame/MyChildLebensborn'': The child is the product of a loving relationship between a Norewgian woman and an occupying soldier from UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.

* Aldran's parents in ''Webcomic/AntiHeroes'', also an celestial and a fiend.

* In ''Series/{{Noob}}'' this is the cas between Kary and Arthéon [[spoiler:for the time it lasts]], the two playing in enemy faction is a {{MMORPG}} that plenty of characters take as SeriousBusiness.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' episode "Big Fat Alien Wedding" Ben's cousin Joel is marrying a BlobMonster alien called a Leopan, whose species have had a long history of conflict over decades with [[SpacePolice the Plumbers]]. Max states that the wedding is a chance for [[AltarDiplomacy peace between the two sides]] which some wouldn't want, and sure enough the bride's own parents attempt to disrupt it with violence.

Compare EthicalSlut and MalignedMixedMarriage. If Love Across Battlelines is combined with TroubledSympatheticBigot, also compare SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny as well as LoveRedeems. If the lover is an antagonist rather than a citizen/relative/whatever of the enemy nation/family/whatever, see instead DatingCatwoman if she remain a villain and DefectingForLove if she makes a HeelFaceTurn[=/=]HighHeelFaceTurn. Note that a Love Across Battlelines plot often doesn't have this division into a good side and a villainous side - it is common that BothSidesHaveAPoint and that the protagonists view the conflict as a senseless GoodVersusGood.

* In ''Anime/{{K}}'', Scepter 4 and HOMRA are [[PunchClockVillain more or less enemies...]] but the top 3 of both sides have constant ShipTease that's more than just FoeYay. [[spoiler: Luckily, in season 2, they make an alliance with both of them and the Silver Clan,]] but look at the [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/851536 opening fight scene of the second season]]. While Saruhiko and Misaki aren't exactly on speaking terms at the time of the series, Mikoto and Reisi's interactions and Izumo and Seri's interactions make it clear they'd rather be doing things other than fighting. And Izumo clearly knows Misaki and Saruhiko won't stay enemies forever.

* In ''[[Literature/TheBridgeKingdomArchives Traitor Queen]]'' [[spoiler: Prince Keris]] of Maridrina and [[spoiler: general Zarrah Anaphora]] of Valcotta. Maridrina and Valcotta are great enemies and Ithicana and their war has been going on for [[ForeverWar hundreds of years]].

Compare EthicalSlut. If Love Across Battlelines is combined with TroubledSympatheticBigot, also compare SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny as well as LoveRedeems. If the lover is an antagonist rather than a citizen/relative/whatever of the enemy nation/family/whatever, see instead DatingCatwoman if she remain a villain and DefectingForLove if she makes a HeelFaceTurn / HighHeelFaceTurn. Note that a Love Across Battlelines plot often doesn't have this division into a good side and a villainous side - it is common that BothSidesHaveAPoint and that the protagonists view the conflict as a senseless GoodVersusGood.

* Elinor Powell and Frederick Albert quickly fell for each other during [[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/they-didnt-let-racism-win-the-story-of-an-interracial-couple-on-opposite-sides-of-wwii World War II.]]

* American Elinor Powell and German Frederick Albert quickly fell for each other during [[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/they-didnt-let-racism-win-the-story-of-an-interracial-couple-on-opposite-sides-of-wwii World War II.]]

The lovers are likely to ''not'' be StarCrossedLovers: In some works they are, but in others they are never kept apart. Instead, the drama is about how they have to fight for their love or what a high price they have to pay for it as people shun at least one of them as being CategoryTraitor. Or simply the internal struggle of hating one lantion/faction/family/whatever while loving one member of it. Don't be surprised if some StrawLoser antagonists goes all EntitledToHaveYou.

* ''Theatre/{{Aida}}'': The titular character and her lover Radames.