History Main / MeetCute

** "You're not really my type... [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And I'm more than a little disturbed to think I might be yours]].

* A couple of years before Ash's journey began in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', he helped out a girl when she was lost in the forest and has injured her leg. Ash has forgotten the meeting, but the girl, Serena, does not, and Serena started her own journey to try meeting up with him again when he journeyed to the Kalos region, where she and her mother currently live.

* ''WhatILikeAboutYou'': Holly met her FirstLove, Henry, when [[ItMakesSenseInContext her and her sister walked into the men's room.]]

* Used by name in an early episode of ''{{Californication}}'', when Hank's daughter is explaining how he and his ex (the girl's mother) met.

* The OfficialCouple of ''EurekaSeven'' meet when she crashes her HumongousMecha into his house. She then sets the remains on fire.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', Ennis and Firo meet when they bump into each other, she loses a button on her suit, and he runs after her to return it. In a slightly less traditional example, [[spoiler: Claire Stanfield/the Rail Tracer/Vino]] meets Chane Laforet while he is soaked in blood on top of a train, and promptly proposes.

* Kate and Peter on ''Trophy Wife'' meet this way. In that while she was drunkenly singing at a karaoke bar, she slips and falls off a ledge and right into his lap. Then she accidentally dislocates his nose with the microphone. He asks her out on a date after she takes him to the hospital.

* In ''{{Closer}}'' one of the couples (if you can call them that) meets when Larry chats to Dan in an online sex chat room. Dan is pretending to be Anna, and sends Larry to where she's likely to be. He meets her there, and despite some initial confusion she very quickly figures out that Dan must have been pretending to be her. She and Larry then hit it off really well.

* Cited in the commentary of the DirtyHarry movie SuddenImpact when Harry and SondraLocke's character Jennifer Spencer meet for the first time

* JudyGarland and VanJohnson in ''InTheGoodOldSummertime.'' They bump into each other when Van is on his way to work and Judy is on her way to look for a job. He knocks her hat off, accidentally puts a bird on her head, and then her skirt gets caught in his bike wheel as he drives off leaving her in her bloomies. Judy then gets a job at the same store as Van. ''YouveGotMail'' does Meet Cute as well, just updates it to 1998.

** "You're not really my type... [[CrowningMomentofFunny And I'm more than a little disturbed to think I might be yours]].

** ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': When you first meet Aribeth, you are almost immediately attacked by mysterious assassins. When your new character meets her in Hordes of the Underdark, you just literally defrosted her and she immediately attacks you, following which you either have to convince her that Tyr hasn't abandoned her or that it doesn't matter. You first meet Nathyrra when she is trying to get you not to kill her for being a drow so she can give you important information to help you defeat the evil drow faction.

* Lampshaded in ''TheDeadZone'' when Johnny meets Natalie after she spills a drink on him. On hearing the story, Dana replies "Oh, a cute meet. I thought the internet had pretty much done away with those."

** ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': You meet Bastila when she is in a cage wearing only undergarments being offered as the first-place prize for a victor in a swoop race.
** ''JadeEmpire'': Silk Fox is trying to kill you because she mistook you for a minion of the minions of the minion of the evil rival of the BigBad. The only female LoveInterest in a Bioware game who you meet ordinarily is Dawn Star, who you grew up with.

** In ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'', you meet Visas when she is sent to assassinate you and the Handmaiden when she stows away aboard your ship on the orders of Atris. Also, one of the best examples of this trope is the half-naked Exile walking into Atton's cell in KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2.

* {{Lampshaded}} in ''KatawaShoujo''. One version of the scene in which Emi [[CrashIntoHello slams into]] the protagonist Hisao is actually titled "Meet Cute."

* ''AnnieOnMyMind'' has a very peaceful meeting... but the two girls meet when one of them is singing folk songs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Medieval Wing, as I recall). They then proceed to act out swordfighting in the Arms and Armor hall. It's a Meet ([[{{Squee}} Very]]) Cute.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' finally provided the long-anticipated MeetCute story for Isshin and Masaki in the "Everything but the Rain" flashback mini-arc. [[spoiler:And the trope was both played straight and subverted: Their RescueRomance was indeed both [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome badass]] and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming adorable]]...it's just a pity [[HeroicBSOD what it did]] to [[ArrangedMarriage Ryuuken]]...]]

* Creator/MelBrooks met [[MrsRobinson Anne Bancroft]] on the set of a talk show. Afterwards, Brooks bribed a woman to find out where Anne planned on eating dinner that night so he could "accidently" bump into her again. This resulted in marriage and the creator of TheZombieSurvivalGuide.

* Subverted in ''DarkerThanBlack''. Li ends up saving Chiaki several times just by being in the right place at the right time, including once with a FakeOutMakeOut, and eventually promises to help her escape the country. [[spoiler:However, "Li" is just the civilian alias of Hei, a.k.a. "The Black Angel of Death". He was stringing her along purposefully in order to learn what she knew. And on top of that, it wasn't even the real Chiaki- it was a Doll programmed with her personality as a decoy to draw him out.]]

* In ''{{Baccano}}'', Ennis and Firo meet when they bump into each other, she loses a button on her suit, and he runs after her to return it. In a slightly less traditional example, [[spoiler: Claire Stanfield/the Rail Tracer/Vino]] meets Chane Laforet while he is soaked in blood on top of a train, and promptly proposes.

* In ''SentimentalGraffitti'', each of the girls is introduced to the player in this manner.

** The relationship still manages to evolve organically, it just begins with embarrassment and head trauma.