History Main / MagicKiss

* In ''LightNovel/MagikaNoKenshiToShoukanMaou'', the hero has the ability to use the magic of girls who love and trust him; the stronger their feelings toward him are, the higher-level magic he can use. But for each girl, the first time he kisses her will momentarily force a full connection and allow him to use the highest-level magic they possess regardless of her feelings. It only works with that first kiss though, after which the girl develops a "resistance" to its power.

* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': Almira the [[HornyDevils Succubus]] teaches the player character to [[TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential improve their Source powers]] through a passionate kiss. It's normally her means of enthralling mortals to her will, but she can use the magical connection for other purposes.

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* ''Disney/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' is all about Naveen and Tiana searching for a princess to administer the magic kiss that will [[BalefulPolymorph turn them human again]].

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Ayla's Kiss ability heals your party members' health while confirming her BiTheWay interest in strong men and women.

* In ''Manga/{{Outlanders}}'', Kahm gives Tetsuya the ability to understand her alien language with a kiss. Though later they cast an area-affect version of the spell, probably so Kahm didn't have kiss the entire [[FishPeople Nuba tribe]].
* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Anthy would kiss Utena's sword (which she had just pulled from Utena's chest) to "abandon her body and protect the sword".
** In the movie she does this to transform into the Rose Bride and give Utena her sword to fight Saionji.
* The "Kiss of Life" from ''Manga/UFOPrincessValkyrie'' is both this and AMagicContractComesWithAKiss. Specifically, when Valkyrie first uses the Kiss Of Life to save Kazuto by injecting him with half her soul, it's a case of a kiss contract... but subsequently, after she's wound up in SleepModeSize, she could 'reconnect' with the missing half of her soul and temporarily regain her magical powers by kissing Kazuto again - which would be another magic kiss.
* In ''LightNovel/MagikaNoKenshiToShoukanMaou'', the hero has the ability to use the magic of girls who love and trust him; the stronger their feelings toward him are, the higher-level magic he can use. But for each girl, the first time he kisses her will momentarily force a full connection and allow him to use the highest-level magic they possess regardless of her feelings. It only works with that first kiss though, after which the girl develops a "resistance" to its power.
* In ''Manga/MythicalDetectiveLokiRagnarok'', Heimdall kisses Mayura and puts a spell on her, which Loki later has to remove with a kiss.
* A major element in ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'', in the form of [[AMagicContractComesWithAKiss winging]] and a winged Sekirei's most powerful ability, the [[LimitBreak Norito]].
* Evoked in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'';
** [[DarkMagicalGirl Princess Kraehe]] kisses [[EmotionlessBoy Mytho]] as she steals [[HeartTrauma his feeling of love]]. The kiss (presumably) isn't actually magical, but it sure looks like it.
** It also (seemingly) happens between [[spoiler:their true selves, Rue and Prince Siegfried, in the finale; the moment they kiss, Rue is suddenly clad in a FairytaleWeddingDress]].
* [[MeaningfulName Baise]] from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' has the ability to make one a slave for 180 minutes by kissing a person. In the first anime, she tries to entice another boy into kissing her. Too bad he is TheStoic.
* ''Anime/KiddyGirlAnd'' has Di-air kissing other ES members and even an artificial monster to super-charge their super powers.

* The entire concept of ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches''. The so-called witches use their PsychicPowers by kissing. The so-called witch killers copy/steal a witch's power by kissing her. HilarityEnsues when one of the witches orders the the titular Yamada (one of the witch killers) and his girlfriend to have sex in the middle of the street to find out if the powers can be activated by other displays of affection than just kissing. It's later mentioned that there is a specific reason why kisses are needed to use the powers, though that reason is never revealed.

* In ''Manga/AnatoliaStory'', the Japanese-born Yuri Suzuki can't speak or understand the Hitite language until Prince Kail gives her a kiss. It's used as a HandWave for the usual issues regarding {{Language Barrier}}s and the like, and it probably worked only because [[AWizardDidIt Kail himself is a magic user]].

* Comicbook/{{Starfire}} of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' can learn any person's language by kissing them. (She says immediately after kissing Robin that it can work with any form of touch, but she prefers kisses because it's [[MsFanservice more fun that way]].)

* ''Film/{{Superman II}}''. The "[[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands kiss]] of LaserGuidedAmnesia" Superman gives to Lois Lane at the end of the movie.

* In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz,'' the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] Good Witch of the North gives Dorothy a kiss on the forehead, which marks her as being [[ProtectiveCharm under her protection]]..

* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Zaticana does this to impart her Omniglout blessing. When Eric tries to guess the magical mechanics of it, she says she just does it for fun.

-->"I think I've got this magic thing figured out. It's like the fairy tales." ''[Kennedy kisses Willow and she turns back to normal]''

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is a SBURB game mechanic. If a player dies (and if they have an intact dreamself), they can be revived if another player kisses their corpse within an unspecified time limit (if time runs out, the wounds propagate to the dreamself, killing them too).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Starfire can learn new languages with a kiss, which makes her the TeamFace. Unlike her comic and DCAMU incarnations, she doesn't explain why she kissed Robin when they first met, as she was under the considerable stress of fleeing from slave traders at the time, which is why he's so shocked in [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo the movie]] when she kisses a Japanese boy to learn his language. (This version also seems to lack her comic counterpart's ability to assimilate languages through any form of touch as opposed to kissing specifically.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse,'' Garnet is able to temporarily pass her future vision to Steven with a kiss on the forehead.
* In episode 10 of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', [[{{BadassAdorable}} Ladybug]] kisses [[spoiler: [[{{Catboy}} Chat Noir]]]] to get rid of a magic spell cast on him.

* ''Series/PunkyBrewster'': In "Fish Story," Punky and Margaux are competing for the role of a mermaid in a school play. Glomer tries to help out by using his magic to turn Punky into an actual mermaid. Not wanting to be a tuna for the rest of her life, Punky subjects herself to a rather peculiar remedy Glomer whipped up to turn her back to normal which actually didn't work. Glomer bashfully confesses that the actual way to turn Punky back to normal was for a glomley (of which Glomer is) to kiss her on the cheek. It worked.

* Comicbook/{{Starfire}} of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' can learn any person's language by kissing them. (Later retcons say that it can work with any form of touch, but she prefers kisses because it's [[MsFanservice more fun that way]].)

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Starfire can learn new languages with a kiss, which makes her the TeamFace. The comic book version was sometimes stated to learn with any skin contact and used kisses because she liked it, but there's no indication of that here.

* Demons seal their contracts with a kiss (or more...) in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

* ''Series/PunkyBrewster'': In "Fish Story," Punk and Margaux are competing for the role of a mermaid in a school play. Glomer tries to help out by using his magic to turn Punky into an actual mermaid. Not wanting to be a tuna for the rest of her life, Punky subjects herself to a rather peculiar remedy Glomer whipped up to turn her back to normal which actually didn't work. Glomer bashfully confesses that the actual way to turn Punky back to normal was for a glomley (of which Glomer is) to kiss her on the cheek. It worked.

& ''Series/PunkyBrewster'': In "Fish Story," Punk and Margaux are competing for the role of a mermaid in a school play. Glomer tries to help out by using his magic to turn Punky into an actual mermaid. Not wanting to be a tuna for the rest of her life, Punky subjects herself to a rather peculiar remedy Glomer whipped up to turn her back to normal which actually didn't work. Glomer bashfully confesses that the actual way to turn Punky back to normal was for a glomley (of which Glomer is) to kiss her on the cheek. It worked.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse,'' Garnet is able to temporarily pass her future vision to Steven with a kiss.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Starfire can learn new languages with a kiss, which makes her the TeamFace. The comic book version could do it with any touch but usually used the ability with a kiss, but it was [[AdaptationDistillation distilled]] to just kissing in the animation.

[[caption-width-right:350:The CurseEscapeClause said that it can be broken by a kiss from a princess.... [[labelnote:spoiler]]Don't get surprised that it's GoneHorriblyWrong; [[RealityEnsues she wasn't a real princess.]][[/labelnote]]]]

* With powers are all used like this in ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches''. Even the power copying power requires a kiss to copy the power.

* Comicbook/{{Starfire}} of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' can learn any person's language with a touch, but she chooses to do it with a kiss because it's [[MsFanservice more fun that way]].

* The Good Witch of the North gives Dorothy a kiss on the forehead, which marks her as being [[ProtectiveCharm under her protection]] in ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.

* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'', Link spends one episode as a BalefulPolymorph and can only be returned to normal by a kiss from a princess. This does not go quite the way he intends.

* In ''Manga/AnatoliaStory'', Yuri can't speak or understand the Hitite language until Prince Kail gives her a kiss. It's used as a HandWave for the usual issues regarding {{Language Barrier}}s and the like.

* The entire concept of ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches''. The so-called witches use their PsychicPowers by kissing. The so-called witch killers copy/steal a witch's power by kissing her. HilarityEnsues when one of the witches orders the the titular Yamada (one of the witch killers) and his girlfriend to have sex in the middle of the street to find out if the powers can be activated by other displays of affection than just kissing. It's later revealed that there is a reason why kisses are needed to use the powers, but further details aren't known yet.

* A major element in ''{{Sekirei}}'', in the form of [[AMagicContractComesWithAKiss winging]] and a winged Sekirei's most powerful ability, the [[LimitBreak Norito]].

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* ''Film/{{Superman II}}''. The "[[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands kiss]] of LaserGuidedAmnesia" Superman gives to Lois Lane at the end of the movie.
* In the Creator/LindsayLohan film ''Film/JustMyLuck'', the main characters can swap their BornLucky and BornUnlucky status with each other by kissing.

* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', Anthy would kiss Utena's sword (which she had just pulled from Utena's chest) to "abandon her body and protect the sword". {{Freud was right}}, indeed.