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* In ''Film/TheGreenGoblinsLastStand'', Gwen is introduced playing "he loves me, he loves me not" with a flower before changing it to guessing whether or not Peter will be there at all.
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* Poison Ivy does this in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', which really raises questions considering her self-proclaimed role as the defender of all plant life.

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* ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': Poison Ivy does this plucks a flower's petals during her captivity in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Arkham Asylum while mentioning "loves me, loves me not", which really raises questions considering her self-proclaimed role as the defender of all plant life.life. In a twist, she doesn't finish the plucking, because Mr. Freeze appears (while completing the "loves me '''not'''" part of the phrase) in front of her.
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* ''[[Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil The Stronger Evil]]'': Drago first meets Nataline as he tries to find the flower with Earth Demon chi in the flower shop and already shown signs of having a VillainousCrush. Angered by his arrogance and flirting, the demon hunter tries to slice the half-demon with her katana, and he presents two flowers to her while quipping "Chi loves me… chi loves me not!" as she slices them in half.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': During "Black and White and Chi All Over", Drago looks for the flower that holds the [[DishingOutDirt Earth Demon Chi]] in the flower shop and quips "Chi loves me. Chi loves me not." as he inspects two wrong flowers.
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I intend to move this to the name Flower Angel soon, as the series' name was changed from Flower Fairy.


* ''Animation/FlowerFairy'': In Season 1 episode 13, An'an picks the petals off a flower to see if [[PrecociousCrush Wangke]] loves her back. She ends with "he doesn't like me", so she and Qianhan keep looking for flowers to pick to see if she gets a different result. They all turn up with "he doesn't like me".

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* ''Animation/FlowerFairy'': ''Animation/FlowerAngel'': In Season 1 episode 13, An'an picks the petals off a flower to see if [[PrecociousCrush Wangke]] loves her back. She ends with "he doesn't like me", so she and Qianhan keep looking for flowers to pick to see if she gets a different result. They all turn up with "he doesn't like me".
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTriplets and Cleopatra'', Julius Caesar is plucking petals from a daisy. When he finally gets "she loves me", the Bored Witch makes one more petal appear, changing the result to "she loves me not".
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* The song "Loves Me Not" by {{Music/Tatu}} uses the exact phrase, but with a bit of a twist; the phrase is used both for a prospective love interest ("he loves me, he loves me not") and for a dear friend ("'''she''' loves me, she loves me not"), with the focus of the song being on having to choose between the two.

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* The song "Loves Me Not" by {{Music/Tatu}} uses the exact phrase, but with a bit of a twist; the phrase is used both for a prospective love interest ("he loves me, he loves me not") and for a dear friend ("'''she''' loves me, she loves me not"), with the focus of the song being on having to choose between the two.
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* The song "Loves Me Not" by {{Music/Tatu}} uses the exact phrase, but with a bit of a twist; the phrase is used both for a prospective love interest ("he loves me, he loves me not") and for a dear friend ("'''she''' loves me, she loves me not"), with the focus of the song being on having to choose between the two.
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--> ''Picking petals to see if you will be mine/ /

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--> ''Picking petals to see if you will be mine/ /mine\\
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--> ''Picking petals to see if you will be mine //

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--> ''Picking petals to see if you will be mine //mine/ /
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--> ''Picking petals to see if you will be mine//

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* This image is invoked in the chorus of "Partner in Crime" by Lucy Dacus. Given that the song is about her lying about her age to appeal to older men, this emphasizes that she is still at heart a child, with a naive view of love.
--> ''Picking petals to see if you will be mine//
Do you love me? Do you love me not?''
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* Chapter 83 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' shows the tail end of Shirogane doing this after a period of Kaguya avoiding him. It tips off his little sister Kei that he has a crush, though she doesn't find out that it's specifically Kaguya that he's pining over at the time.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The Three Smurfketeers", both Smurfette and Clumsy do this - Smurfette by picking the petals off the flower, and Clumsy by counting the falling petals.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "The Three Smurfketeers", both Smurfette and Clumsy do this - Smurfette by picking the petals off the flower, and Clumsy by counting the falling petals.
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* ''VideoGame/WarioWare: Touched!'' has a microgame based around this concept called "No Love for You", where the player has to pluck all the petals off of a flower within the given time limit. On the first level of difficulty, the flower is replaced with a four-leaf clover.
* Sumia from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' does this in order to predict whether she'll survive the next battle. She claims that they give her confidence, and if she ends up with a bad fortune, she just repeats it until she gets a good fortune.
** If she's Chrom's wife, when Chrom had a heart-to-heart talk with their future daughter Lucina, Sumia attempts to assure herself that Chrom is not cheating on her by doing this instead.
** [[spoiler: Her daughter Cynthia also does the same, except she uses it to choose which Dramatic Entrance she should do for the next battle.]]

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* ''VideoGame/WarioWare: Touched!'' ''VideoGame/WarioWareTouched'' has a microgame based around this concept called "No Love for You", where the player has to pluck all the petals off of a flower within the given time limit. On the first level of difficulty, the flower is replaced with a four-leaf clover.
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Sumia from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' does this in order to predict whether she'll survive the next battle. She claims that they give her confidence, and if she ends up with a bad fortune, she just repeats it until she gets a good fortune.
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fortune. If she's Chrom's wife, when Chrom had a heart-to-heart talk with their future daughter Lucina, Sumia attempts to assure herself that Chrom is not cheating on her by doing this instead.
** [[spoiler: Her daughter Sumia's [[spoiler:daughter Cynthia also does the same, except she uses it to choose which Dramatic Entrance she should do for the next battle.]]
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* Fiona in the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' film does this with a sunflower Shrek left at her doorstop, but to decide whether she should tell Shrek her deep, DarkSecret: "I tell him, I tell him not..." She plucks the last petal on a "I tell him!" but [[spoiler:the sun rises just then and she returns to human form before she can find Shrek.]]

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* Fiona in the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' film does this with a sunflower Shrek left at her doorstop, but to decide whether she should tell Shrek her deep, DarkSecret: "I tell him, I tell him not..." She plucks the last petal on a "I tell him!" but [[spoiler:the sun rises just then and she returns to human form before she can find Shrek.]]

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* One of Yoshi's minigames in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 DS'' is plucking the petals off a flower. Getting the same result three times in a row results in "Really loves me!" and "Really loves me... not!". There's a rare chance of all the petals falling off at once, which counts as a "Loves me not" but without the "Loves me not" text showing up.
** All to the theme from the underwater stages of the first game, as played through a music box.

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* One of Yoshi's minigames in ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
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''VideoGame/SuperMario64 DS'' DS'': One of Yoshi's minigames is plucking the petals off a flower. Getting the same result three times in a row results in "Really loves me!" and "Really loves me... not!". There's a rare chance of all the petals falling off at once, which counts as a "Loves me not" but without the "Loves me not" text showing up.
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up. All to the theme from the underwater stages of the first game, as played through a music box.



* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheLastSpecter'', one of the puzzles involves a young man who bought three flowers from a florist to predict with: one for the standard question, one for happy or unhappy, and one for the gift to give his sweetheart. Your job is to pick the set of flowers that give the best result for him.
** [[spoiler: The prediction for the gift is to buy her a bouquet. The puzzle solution notes: "It seems reasonable that a florist would want the man to buy another bouquet right?"]]

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* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheLastSpecter'', one ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheLastSpecter'': One of the puzzles involves a young man who bought three flowers from a florist to predict with: one for the standard question, one for happy or unhappy, and one for the gift to give his sweetheart. Your job is to pick the set of flowers that give the best result for him.
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him. [[spoiler:The prediction for the gift is to buy her a bouquet. The puzzle solution notes: "It seems reasonable that a florist would want the man to buy another bouquet right?"]]
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* ''''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'''': In "The Flower", when Leslie escapes Jealousy's deathtrap and arrives in the cafeteria, The possessed Gumball brutalized him by ripping his petals shouting "SHE LOVES ME! SHE LOVES YOU NOT!" over and over again, forcing Darwin and Penny to restrain him, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness realizing that gumball is not acting like himself]].

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* ''''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'''': ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Flower", when Leslie escapes Jealousy's deathtrap and arrives in the cafeteria, The possessed Gumball brutalized him by ripping his petals shouting "SHE LOVES ME! SHE LOVES YOU NOT!" over and over again, forcing Darwin and Penny to restrain him, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness realizing that gumball is not acting like himself]].
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* ''''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'''': In "The Flower", when Leslie escapes Jealousy's deathtrap and arrives in the cafeteria, The possessed Gumball brutalized him by ripping his petals shouting "SHE LOVES ME! SHE LOVES YOU NOT!" over and over again, forcing Darwin and Penny to restrain him, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness realizing that gumball is not acting like himself]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'': Gordy Rhinehart does this at the start of the episode "Cyrano d'Angela", saying, "She ''doesn't'' love me... she loves me not..."
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* In ''Film/{{Popeye}}'', Bluto does this at the engagement party, soon upgrading it to "She'll marry me". Every time he gets a negative, he inflicts violence on whoever happens to be nearby. When he's on the last petal, it's going to be "Won't", but he's distracted before he can pluck it.
-->'''Bluto:''' Now, where was I?\\
'''Castor Oyl:''' Oh! She ''won't'' marry you...\\
'''Bluto:''' ''(Plucks petal)'' She will!
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* ''Film/ScreamersTheHunting''. [[KnifeNut Hannah]] is doing this as a MadnessMantra while the [[{{Yandere}} object of her infatuation]] is loading bullets into a magazine and she's [[SinisterScrapingSound sharpening her blade]]. Later she sees him talking to TheSquadette and finishes, "He loves me not..."

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* ''Film/ScreamersTheHunting''. [[KnifeNut Hannah]] Hannah is doing this as a MadnessMantra while the [[{{Yandere}} object of her infatuation]] is loading bullets into a magazine and she's [[SinisterScrapingSound sharpening her blade]]. Later she sees him talking to TheSquadette and finishes, "He loves me not..."
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* ''Fanfic/ErikaTheRadical'': After watching yet another girl confess her feelings to her love interest, a heartbroken Leila Rou is seen plucking flower petals for Erika Itsumi to this trope, while getting a "loves-me-not" last petal, ''[[UpToEleven fourteen]]'' ''flowers in a row''.

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* ''Fanfic/ErikaTheRadical'': After watching yet another girl confess her feelings to her love interest, a heartbroken Leila Rou is seen plucking flower petals for Erika Itsumi to this trope, while getting a "loves-me-not" last petal, ''[[UpToEleven fourteen]]'' ''fourteen'' ''flowers in a row''.
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* Link does this at the start of the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'' episode "Stinging A Stinger". He ends up with a "loves me not" and blames the flower.

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* Link does this at the start of the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'' ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989'' episode "Stinging A Stinger". He ends up with a "loves me not" and blames the flower.
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* The iconography is invoked, and the phrase subverted, in Dream's "He Loves You Not." The singer tells a woman sniffing after her boyfriend that she can flirt as much as she likes, the boyfriend won't be tempted--"he loves me, he loves you not."
-->''Pulling petals off a flower trying to get your way\\
Keep pulling til' it says what you wanna say\\
Girl, you can pick a field full of daisies\\
But he'd still be my baby''
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* In ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'', during the introduction of the Dark Elf campaign, EvilSorceress Morathi briefly amuses herself by [[BadBoss killing random slaves]] with calls of "you live, you die". Her son, [[EvilOverlord Malekith]], scolds her for playing petty games during the [[CometOfDoom auspicious celestial event]] that begins the plot.
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* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Ghorgor Bey plays it with the man responsible for the murder and imprisonment of Ghorgor's adopted family, replacing the petals with the man's limbs and using the French version where there are four increasingly intense "I love you"s.
-->"I hate you! A little, a lot, passionately, madly- [[OffWithHisHead not at all!]]"

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Twilight Sparkle uses a flower trying to work out which of her friends should get the other Grand Galloping Gala ticket. After one round, she gives up. [[FurryReminder And eats the petals.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony'':
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE6TheEndOfFlutterValley6 The End of Flutter Valley: Part 6]]", Draggle does this with several flowers [[WellDoneSonGuy regarding her mother]], also saying "she hates me, she hates me not".
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''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E3TheTicketMaster The Ticket Master]]", Twilight Sparkle uses a flower trying to work out which of her friends should get the other Grand Galloping Gala ticket. After one round, she gives up. [[FurryReminder And eats the petals.]]



* On the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' episode "The End of Flutter Valley: Part 6", Draggle does this with several flowers [[WellDoneSonGuy regarding her mother]], also saying "she hates me, she hates me not".

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