History Main / LoveatFirstSight

* HarryPotter crushes on Cho the instant he sees her during a Quiddich match in his third year. [[spoiler:Of course, it doesn't last...]]

** Nine-year-old [[HarryPotter Severus Snape]] seems completely entranced by [[spoiler: little [[HarryPotter Lily Evans]]]] from the moment he lays eyes on her.
*** Though in this instance it seems unclear whether the scene is actually the first time they've seen each other. [[spoiler: Petunia]] points him out to her sister as 'that Snape boy from Spinner's End', and with a judgmental air... this means there has been some interaction before, even if he was only pointed out to them, but it is memorable enough that they recognize him. Some of his dialogue also implies he has seen her before he actually had the opportunity to speak to her.

* Renton loves Eureka. That's the whole premise of ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', a giant mecha anime. Renton, the hero of the story, falls madly in love with Eureka the moment she crashlands near his grandfather's house. Complicated by the fact that Eureka [[spoiler:is not human]] and doesn't understand his feelings. Around the end of second season, when Eureka begins to show more and more human emotions and eventually falls in love with Renton. The fact that [[spoiler:[[InterspeciesRomance she is a Coralian]]]], however, leads her to think that she and Renton are unable to be together, leading to problems in their relationship.

* Renton loves Eureka. That's the whole premise of ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', a giant mecha anime. Renton, the hero of the story, falls madly in love with Eureka the moment she crashlands near his grandfather's house. Complicated by [[spoiler:the fact that Eureka is not human and doesn't understand his feelings]]. Around the end of second season, when Eureka begins to show more and more human emotions and eventually falls in love with Renton. The fact that [[spoiler:[[InterspeciesRomance she is a Coralian]]]], however, leads her to think that she and Renton are unable to be together, leading to problems in their relationship.

* Kodachi Kunō from ''[[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]'' fell for the title character once she glanced at him for the first time after he saved her from taking a bad fall.

* Juvia Loxar falls in love with Grey Fullbuster at first site in ''Manga/FairyTail''. Her feelings are compounded as he's the first person to defeat her and his accidental groping her.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. One of the stories in the novel involves one of Kyon's old friends who he hasn't talked to in months calling to ask about the cute girl he was walking with one day. Turns out to be Yuki. The friend took one look at this girl, briefly, from a distance, and spent the next few months obsessing over her, to the point of laying out a five-year plan for college and starting his own business to prove himself worthy of her. Turns out [[spoiler:he had the ability to perceive Yuki's communication with her boss, the Data Integration Thought Entity, and that's what he saw that gave Yuki an angelic aura in his eyes. Yuki quietly removed this ability, and he (embarrassed) gave up on her. Note that he was just seeing the ''communication''; Yuki explains to Kyon that if he looked too closely, he would have eventually perceived the Entity itself, which [[EldritchAbomination would have killed him]]]].

* Renton loves Eureka. That's the whole premise of ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', a giant mecha anime. Renton, the hero of the story, falls madly in love with Eureka the moment she crashlands near his grandfather's house. Complicated by [[spoiler: the fact that Eureka is not human and doesn't understand his feelings.]]
** [[spoiler: This is true until around the end of second season, when Eureka begins to show more and more human emotions and eventually falls in love with Renton. [[InterspeciesRomance The fact that she is a Coralian]], however, leads her to think that she and Renton are unable to be together, leading to problems in their relationship.]]

* Shinra Kishitani from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' fell in love with [[HeadlessHorseman Celty Strulusen]] the day he met her... when he was [[PrecociousCrush four years old at the time]], and his father [[MadScientist Shingen]] was also performing a vivisection on her. [[spoiler:Twenty years later, though, Celty has mutual feelings for him, but even then, it's [[SlapSlapKiss no perfect romance]]. Not that Shinra is complaining.]]

* Subverted in ''Anime/PrincessTutu''. Ahiru/[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Duck]] falls in love with Mytho the first time she sees him (when she's ''a duck''). She's turned into a girl to help him, and later admits she just liked him because she "thought he was handsome" but came to care about him even more as she got to know him. [[spoiler:Then he picks Rue aka Kraehe, the girl he's known for years, as his Princess instead. And ''she'' fell in love with him at first sight, too, after he saves her life as a child.]]

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** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080609 Zeetha's first meeting with Higgs]] is like this. For ''her''. For him, [[ImplacableMan its one of the few things that terrifies him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has [[TallDarkAndSnarky Mako]] fall hard for [[UptownGirl Asami]] within seconds of their CrashIntoHello, as communicated by [[CardiovascularLove cartoon heart bubbles]]. Bolin explicitly tells Korra he fell for her the moment he saw her. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment The first time we see him]] was him [[FunnyBackgroundEvent spotting Korra across the room]] and smoothing back his hair, and immediately after he walks up to her he starts implying to Toza that they are a couple (which Korra is quick to [[JustFriends correct]]).
** [[spoiler: In direct contrast to the original series, love at first sight falls flat, both times.]]
** According to Shiro Shinobi, even Korra fell in love with Mako the moment she saw him [[spoiler: and unlike the others, it was fore real.]]
** It seems to be a trend among Avatars at this point: Roku was in love with Ta Min at 16 and the two later married into their 80s, Kuruk immediately fell in love with Ummi and was going to change his lazy ways, Aang fell in love with Katara and never noticed another girl, and Korra loved Mako to the point she seemed uncomfortable with the prospect of dating other guys.

** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Completely]] PlayedForLaughs with [[spoiler: Riruka]] for Ichigo.

* ...Which leads to LBJ himself, who asked Lady Bird for a date within minutes of meeting her, and asked her to marry him at the end of it. She turned him down. He wooed her assidiously for ten weeks, whereupon she agreed, though she insisted on marrying the next day, not that one. Forty years later, when he died, they were still HappilyMarried.

** Sakura herself claims to have fallen for Shirou from when she first saw him trying to overcome a jump that was completely impossible for him for hours on end.

* Victor and Lillie from ''{{Runaways}}''. [[spoiler: It doesn't work out, though.]]

* Acclaimed British screenwriter Heidi Thomas, responsible for, among others, ''{{Ballet Shoes}}'', ''{{Cranford}}'', and the massively popular ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', met her husband Stephen [=McGann=] when he starred in one of her early plays at the Liverpool Playhouse, and [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3670148/Heidi-Thomas-Ballet-Shoes-saw-me-through.html she admits that it was love at first sight]] for both of them. Unfortunately, they were both with other people. Two years later, when they were both finally single, they started dating. Four weeks after ''that'', [=McGann=] said, "Let's just cut to the chase," and asked her to marry him. They've been happily married for over twenty-five years.

* [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Completely]] PlayedForLaughs with [[spoiler: Riruka]] in Manga/{{Bleach}} for Ichigo.

* Acclaimed British screenwriter Heidi Thomas, responsible for, among others, ''{{Ballet Shoes}}'', ''{{Cranford}}'', the ''UpstairsDownstairs'' revival, and the massively popular ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', met her husband Stephen [=McGann=] when he starred in one of her early plays at the Liverpool Playhouse, and [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3670148/Heidi-Thomas-Ballet-Shoes-saw-me-through.html she admits that it was love at first sight]] for both of them. Unfortunately, they were both with other people. Two years later, when they were both finally single, they started dating. Four weeks after ''that'', [=McGann=] said, "Let's just cut to the chase," and asked her to marry him. They've been together for over twenty-five years.

** In the main story, Yuno Gasai also fell madly in love with Yukiteru during the first time the two talked, and protects him from the other participants in the game. Unlike with Akise, this is a ''[[{{Yandere}} very]]'' mixed blessing for Yukiteru...

** [[TheHero Roland Deschain]] and Susan Delgado in TheDarkTower. [[spoiler: [[StarCrossedLovers It doesn't last.]]]]

* Subverted in ''{{Friends}}'' with Monica and Chandler. Monica had a Crush At First Sight when they met...but Chandler called her fat killing those feelings. She lost weight and Chandler fell into Lust At Second Sight...then she cut off his toe so that attraction ended pretty fast. It took them almost ten years of being best friends to finally fall in love properly! They ended up HappilyMarried. Sheesh.

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* Subverted in ''{{Friends}}'' with Monica and Chandler. Monica had a CrushAtFirstSight when they met...but Chandler called her fat killing that attraction. She lost weight and Chandler fell into LustAtSecondSight...then she cut off his toe so that was over too. It took ten years of being best friends to finally sleep together and properly fall in love!

* Averted ''so hard'' in the ''DarkestPowers'' series by Chloe and Derek that it's worth mentioning. First of all, they meet in a group home for "troubled" kids, which is a code word for "mentally disturbed" [[strike:which is a code word for "has superpowers"]]. Derek assumes that Chloe is a [[UpperClassTwit flighty]] [[DumbBlonde blonde]] [[TheDitz ditz]] whose only point of interest is the fact that she's a necromancer, and even then only because he can use her to manipulate his brother, Simon, into finally escaping to safety. As for physical attraction, he doesn't even ''notice'' her looks (although she is legitimately cute). On Chloe's end of things, Derek is initially withdrawn, ominous, intimidating, and pretty much a JerkAss. He has also been viciously mauled by (werewolf) puberty, so his face looks like a "before" picture for acne cream, his hair is constantly greasy, lank, and dull, and [[GogglesDoNothing the deodorant does nothing]] -- even though he showers twice a day. Not to mention that the first time they're alone together, the interaction goes downhill, until Derek ends up ''[[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength throwing her across the room]]''. It's an accident -- ''actually'' an accident, not "[[DomesticAbuse Why'd you make me hit you, baby]]?" -- but Chloe doesn't know that until a few chapters later[[superscript:1]]. At the end of the trilogy, they end up together after their relationships develops in a completely believable manner, turning out to be the complete opposite of StrangledByTheRedString.