History Main / LoveRevelationEpiphany

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}, Lili [[VisualPun goes weak in the knees]] [[LoveAtFirstSight the moment Razputin introduces himself]]. Razputin, on the other hand, takes a FirstKiss and an additional game and a half to fully process his feelings. His own knees [[CallBack finally give out]] when Lili comes to his aid in the climax of ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts 2}}'' announcing herself as his girlfriend.

* ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'': Melani only starts developing feelings for Bambang after his (failed) love confession. It took another several episodes before Melani realize it and make her own confession.

* In ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into falling in love because they hear their friends respectively [[BluffTheEavesdropper "talking"]] about how the other has been secretly pining for them but has hidden their feelings because they fear they will be mocked for them. It's implied that they actually ''have'' been genuinely pining after each other for a while, but refused to realize it until they "heard" that their feelings were requited.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'', Gilbert Blythe confesses his love to Anne Shirley in the book ''Anne of the Island'', hoping she will return his love when he finally speaks to her about it. Anne's still ObliviousToLove (in this case, her own love for Gil) and so she refuses his declaration of love/marriage proposal. They end up together anyway.

* On ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', Lane doesn't realize she has feelings for Zach until one of his groupies apologizes to her. Zach, in turn, needs some time to process his own feelings for her after she comes clean.

* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' depicts the moments when Luna, Hermione, Susan, Demelza and Fleur realise their feelings for Harry to varying extents (Ginny was obviously already dating him and Katie was already aware of an existing attraction that she hasn't defined as 'love' even before the idea was presented to her);

** As with Demelza, there is no clear moment when Fleur first acknowledges that she loves Harry, but after they bond in Chapter 77, as Fleur tries to express her gratitude to Harry for accepting all of her, Harry assures Fleur that he loves her for giving him the family he never had, as Fleur is now pregnant.

* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' has shown Luna, Hermione, Susan and Demelza have such a moment to varying extents (Ginny was obviously already dating him, Katie was already aware of an existing attraction that she hasn't defined as 'love' yet, and Fleur has not defined her feelings for Harry in that regard);

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13716489/1/LOST LOST]]'' doesn't show the exact moment when Webby realised how she felt about Dewey, but after they shared a passionate kiss under the mistletoe and Dewey never came home after Christmas, Webby not only realises that Dewey was in love with her, but also realises that she's missing him so much because she loved him too.

* In ''Fanfic/LostInCamelot'', this occurs for Bo, Merlin and Morgana at various points in the story, although for Bo and Morgana in particular; Bo had a brief crush on Morgana after arriving in Camelot, but only realises that she still has deeper feelings for Morgana despite beginning a relationship with Merlin when Kenzi confronts her about her physically affectionate relationship with the other woman, and Morgana then has a similar epiphany after Bo kisses her while proposing that she and Morgana [[TakeAThirdOption deal with their mutual feelings for Merlin]] by [[OneTrueThreesome sharing him]].

* WesternAnimation/HeyArnold: In "Arnold & Lila", Lila starts to like Arnold only because Helga wrote "Arnold Loves Lila" on the wall and Lila assumed it had to be true. Arnold tells her he doesn't "like-like her" and Lila becomes very disappointed, but realizes she only came to "like-like" Arnold because she thought he felt that way about her. So when Arnold realizes he does "like-like her", Lila isn't interested in him anymore.

* This happens in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' when Olaf reunites with Anna after she realizes her love for Hans wasn't true love. When she says she doesn't know what love is, Olaf says Kristoff loves her, which makes Anna realize her feelings for him.
-->'''Olaf:''' Love is putting someone else's needs before yours like, y'know, how Kristoff brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.
-->'''Anna:''' Kristoff...loves me?
-->...
-->'''Olaf:''' Oh wait, he's coming back. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I guess he didn't love you enough to leave you forever after all]].

!!Examples

** In the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', Naruto realizes the true nature of [[spoiler:Hinata's]] feelings for him, and his own for her, after witnessing her feelings for him firsthand when they were trapped in a genjutsu that makes them relive their memories. Considering Kakashi stated in Chapter 314 that Naruto is a kinesthetic/direct learner (someone who learns with his body or by doing, [[LikeFatherLikeSon just like his father Minato]]), [[FridgeBrilliance this actually makes sense]]--Naruto ''needed'' to physically walk through his and [[spoiler:Hinata's]] merged memories to finally understand both her feelings and his own.

** In the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', Naruto realizes the true nature of [[spoiler:Hinata's]] feelings for him, and his own for her, after witnessing her feelings for him firsthand when they were trapped in a genjutsu that makes them relive their memories. Considering Kakashi once stated that Naruto is a kinesthetic learner (someone who learns with his body or by doing, [[LikeFatherLikeSon just like his father Minato]]), [[FridgeBrilliance this actually makes sense]]--Naruto ''needed'' to physically walk through his and [[spoiler:Hinata's]] merged memories to finally understand both her feelings and his own.

* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' sees Luna, Hermione, and Susan have these to varying extents;
** Luna realises that she’s been attracted to Harry since she met him as Ginny helps teach her how to masturbate

** Susan Bones is party to a few of these; initially, after Harry explains the situation to her, she admits that she's been attracted to Harry for a while and Harry apologises for not realising this by explaining that he's hopeless with girls. Chapter 27 reveals that Susan realised her own feelings for Harry when he was correcting her posture during a DA lesson the previous year, and Harry responds to her declaration of love with his own when he actually takes her virginity.

* ''Fanfic/WhatYouAlreadyKnow'':
** Despite having shared a kiss over a month ago, as well as a few intense emotional moments since then, Daniel only realises that he’s in love with Sam about a minute after he learns she’s dating someone else (although Jack had guessed this a couple of weeks ago).
** Likewise, while Sam begins to acknowledge that she has feelings for Daniel after his own confession, her own self-denial due to her [[CartwrightCurse ‘black widow’ status when it comes to relationships]] means that she only consciously realises that she’s in love with Daniel after he’s downloaded the contents of the Ancient repository into his brain and may die in the next few days.

They're shocked. All of a sudden, they begin to look at the other character differently, resulting in them beginning to have feelings, too!

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

Two characters have had some sort of ShipTease, but there's no sign of it progressing to a RelationshipUpgrade. Likely, one character will have feelings for the other, but are resigned to AllLoveIsUnrequited -- until the other character somehow hears (from another person directly or indirectly or from a LoveConfession) they have feelings for them.

* The anime finale of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' revolves around Syaoran finally confessing his love for Sakura, who ultimately requites the feeling and spends most of the closing movie trying to do the same. While established as being ObliviousToLove, Sakura's closeness towards Syaoran had been developed throughout the series, and punctuated by being rejected by her own unrecognized crush, Yukito.

* Aki from ''Manga/SilverSpoon'' is convinced that Hachiken's just a "friend" and never realizes why she freezes solid at the thought some other girl's confessing to him. Then after he asks to go some place with her and her friends forcefully spell it all out to her that he's in love with her, she is shocked. As she sleeps and wonders whether she'd been suppressing herself due to personal issues (she's a farmer's daughter and has a lot of "baggage"), she suddenly freaks out at the realization.

* Fumiya from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' had always shown attraction to Saori but it wasn't until after he begged her to go on a date with him that she agreed to dating him. Saori isn't the best of girlfriends but there isn't much to say that she doesn't love him back.

* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': {{Subverted|Trope}}. Misato thinks that Shinji and Asuka are oblivious to each other's feelings and in the Prologue she tries to make Shinji realizing Asuka loves him. {{Iron|y}}ically they had gotten together several weeks ago and had kept their relationship a secret.

* ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': In Chapter 5 Jessika often teases Asuka about her liking Shinji. At the beginning Asuka denies it vehemently and refuses to admit it to herself, but due to her friend's prolonged teasing she starts to second-guess herself and realizes she really likes Shinji.

* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': In Chapter 1 Rei gave Shinji chocolates. In reaction Asuka got beyond mad, yelled him and slapped him. Then she cried and ran out of the class. And Shinji had absolutely no idea of why. Later Hikari yelled him he was a blind, thick-headed idiot and told him that Asuka loved him. Shinji was shocked because he liked Asuka but he could not believe she was interested in him.

* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' sees Luna, Hermione, and Susan havethese to varying extents;

* This happens in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', when Olaf reunites with Anna after she realizes her love for Hans wasn't true love. When she says she doesn't know what love is, Olaf says Kristoff loves her, which makes Anna realize her feelings for him.

--> ''...and when Indis saw Finwe climbing the paths of the mountain (and the light of Laurelin was behind him as a glory) without forethought she sang suddenly in a great joy... And when Finwe heard that song falling from above he looked up and saw Indis in the golden light, and he knew in that moment that she loved him and had long done so. Then his heart turned at last to her, and he believed that this chance, as it seemed, had been granted for the comfort of them both. 'Behold!' he said. 'There is indeed healing of grief in Aman!'''

** The Doctor has this when listening to River Song talking about how much she loves him in "The Husbands of River Song" (the twist being that, thanks to [[TheNthDoctor regeneration]], she doesn't realize she's saying these things in front of the Doctor.) Zigzagged a bit due to the fact the Doctor was actually married to her at the time, but wasn't aware of the full depth of her feelings.

* In ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Daphne starts to develop feelings for Niles once she finds out that he has feelings for her.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Odo was friend-zoned by Kira until in "Children of Time", when a parallel version of Odo tells her he loves her. From that point on, Kira begins to develop feelings for him over several more episodes.

* In ''Fanfic/AAMLDiamondAndPearlVersion'', Ash has this regarding his feelings for Misty early on in the story (Although Brock has to spell it out for him).
* In ''Fanfic/LostInCamelot'', this occurs for Bo, Merlin and Morgana at various points in the story, although for Bo and Morgana in particular; Bo had a brief crush on Morgana after arriving in Camelot, but only realises that she still has deeper feelings for Morgana despite beginning a relationship with Merlin when Kenzi confronts her about her physically affectionate relationship with the other woman, and Morgana then has a similar epiphany after Bo kisses her while proposing that she and Morgana [[TakeAThirdOption deal with their mutual feelings for Merlin]] by [[OneTrueThreesome sharing him]].
* In Chapter 36 of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Ash has a chat with Pikachu, who proceeds to reveal that his female companions have been attracted to him for quite a while.

-->'''Olaf:''' Love is putting someone else's needs before yours like, y'know, how Kristoph brought you back here to Hans and left you forever.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheJungleMovie The Jungle Movie]]'': After Helga gives Arnold a second LoveConfession (her first attempt in [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie the previous film]] failed), Arnold has a private talk with her about her flaws and noble qualities, as well as, how the latter led to him [[spoiler:finding his parents]]. All culminating in their first romantic, mutual kiss. If we can pinpoint it to a precise ''moment'', it's when they're [[https://i.imgur.com/FtBZf5v.jpg hanging from the cliff and they look over at each other]] - and it's obvious Arnold is finally really ''looking'' at her for the first time (They exchange the exact same gaze - and we ''know'' Helga loves Arnold.)

* In ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into falling in love because they hear their friends respectively [[BluffTheEavesdropper "talking"]] about how the other has been secretly pinning for them but has hidden their feelings because they fear they will be mocked for them. It's implied that they actually have been genuinely pinning after each other for a while, but refused to realize it until they "heard" that their feelings were requited.

* In ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into falling in love because each believes that the other is in love with them.