History Main / MeetCute

* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces'': Not exactly a direct meeting, but the first meeting of Adam Squall and [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Violet Parr]] turns out to be fairly awkward, especially because [[ItMakesSenseInContext Adam had just turned back into a human.]] [[spoiler:They become an OfficialCouple by the end of the fourth act.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'':

* In ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'', Shuurei and Ryuuki meet when she tries to get some [[CherryBlossoms cherry blossom petals]] to float in her tea, but can't reach any. Ryuuki stops to help her out, but a strong wind make him accidentally break the whole branch off. They end up having tea and Shuurei's home made sweet bean buns together. Of course, Shuurei was in the garden in the first place specifically to meet Ryuuki, making the encounter semi-planned, but the "cute" of the meet-cute happened purely by accident.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'':

Not to be confused with TheCutie, even though either or both of them could very well be just that.

* Sally Sparrow meets [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Dr. Watson]] this way in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'': Watson bumps into her on the sidewalk and spills her textbooks. Being the Victorian gentleman that he is, he helps her pick them back up and offers her coffee in apology. The two of them chitchat over their coffee... and at the end of the next episode, TheyDo. Their relationship forms the story arc that finishes with the season finale.

* ''Film/CassanovaWasAWoman'': Cassanova runs into Lola after accidentally falling into a clothing rack while at the theatre both women work at.

This is a subtrope of BoyMeetsGirl and sister trope to ChicAndAwe. When one party has arranged the "chance" encounter for the purpose of romance, it's a Stalker's Meet Cute. (This is ''very common.'') When it's for dark nefarious purposes (i.e., not romance; usually a crime of some sort), it's ''Weaponized'' Meet Cute.

* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': Subverted and lampshaded during the Greed Island arc with "Love-Love, The City of Romance" which is "famous for its easy meetings": various {{Moe}}-looking characters [[CrashIntoHello crash into]] the main characters, [[BlindWithoutEm lose their glasses]], and generally [[DistressedDamsel need rescuing]], but the main characters ignore them because they've got a mission to complete.

* ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'': Makoto, after several failed matchmaking attempts, uses her time-leaping ability to forcibly arrange a Meet-cute for Kousuke and Kaho by putting them in just the right positions for Kousuke to get [[CrashIntoHello involuntarily tackled into Kaho]] by another student. [[spoiler: This ultimately leads to Kousuke and Kaho dying in a train accident, and Makoto later undoes her meddling in favor of a much simpler approach.]]

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has an interesting Meet-cute. Haruhi stumbles into the Host Club while looking for a quiet place to study and is mistaken for a ''boy''. When Tamaki finally finds out Haruhi is really a girl he's left speechless and blushing. We even get two different versions: the anime has Haruhi walking out in Ouran's female uniform and Tamaki finally realizes Haruhi's a girl; the manga has Tamaki pick up Haruhi's school ID, and from that learn she's a girl. While Meet-cute tends to force a coupling, Haruhi's initially disinterested in all six boys in her [[UnwantedHarem Unwanted]] ReverseHarem and relationships in the manga seem develop pretty naturally.

* In ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'', Shuurei and Ryuuki meet when she tries to get some [[CherryBlossoms cherry blossom petals]] to float in her tea, but can't reach any. Ryuuki stops to help her out, but a strong wind make him accidentally break the whole branch off. They end up having tea and Shuurei's home made sweet bean buns together. Of course, Shuurei was in the garden in the first place specifically to meet Ryuuki, making the encounter semi-planned, but the "cute" of the Meet-cute happened purely by accident.

* The ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'' story "Romantic Comedy (With Corpses)": Girl meets boy, boy asks girl out, boy turns out to be a vampire wanting to feed, girl turns out to be another vampire who was actually looking for a date, they decide to go on one after all. The girl vampire, who is [[WrongGenreSavvy firmly convinced she's in a romantic comedy]], even ''calls'' it a Meet-cute.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'', Jenko [[DoubleEntendre drops his Q-tip into Zook's meat sandwich.]] The resultant product is called a "meat Q-tip" sandwich, shortened to Meet-cute.

* Played with in ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. In the beginning, Lorraine reveals that she met George this way and they don't have a particularly good marriage. When Marty goes back in time, he meets her the same way and she falls for him instead. So basically Lorraine would have fallen for whoever her dad's car hit that day. Doc Brown ''explains this onscreen'' with the same implications. Ew. Of course, once Marty gets involved, he turns it from Meet-cute into a RescueRomance and things turn out to go surprisingly well from then on.

* Subverted in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Scarlett and Rhett Meet-cute several times over the course of the Civil War, eventually marry... and have a horrible marriage, because people whose only contact is bumping into each other during a war [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome probably don't have much in common]].

* ''Film/HandsAcrossTheTable'' - Coming out of Allen’s apartment, Creator/CaroleLombard bumps into Fred [=MacMurray=] while he’s playing hopscotch on the checkered floor. She’s not impressed.

* Played with in the movie ''Film/MadeInHeaven1987'', the couple meets, falls in love and gets married in heaven. However, Annie is sent down to earth. Mike goes down to find her, and must Meet-cute by the time he is 30. So, basically, Meet-cute drives the main plot of the entire film.

* In a scene from ''Film/MyBestFriendsGirl'', Creator/DaneCook's character actually talks about this trope and calls it Meet-cute, saying it's common in Rom Coms because all girls want that funny, witty guy, charming, dorky guy. He then goes on to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope by running with her on the track and falling over her then being struck by her beauty when she tries to help him up.

* The ''Film/TheTrumanShow'', being a TV show in which the main character was unaware of his reality, played with numerous tropes like this. Truman's hand-picked cheerleader love interest in his high school years, the woman who eventually would be his wife, was set up to meet him in an artificial Meet-cute; she tripped and fell right in front of him. It didn't work, and an incidental background extra who happened to be nearby at the time was the one he truly fell in love with, and after she was forcibly removed from his made-up world, he nursed a secret, almost obsessive love for her for his whole life.

* ''Series/TheEternalLove'': Xiao Tan and Lian Cheng's first meeting is a subversion. She's stuck on top of a wall after an ill-advised escape attempt, doesn't know he's the man she's expected to marry, and asks him to help her down. It looks like it's going to be a Meet-cute... but Lian Cheng is uninterested in the whole situation, refuses to help, and doesn't lift a finger when she falls.

* ''Series/GuardianTheLonelyAndGreatGod'': Amusingly subverted. Shin, in his capacity as a guardian, arranges a Meet-cute between two people in a coffee shop. When it turns out they're both already in relationships and also pretty horrible people in general, Eun-tak asks why he bothers to play GuardianAngel for them. Turns out that he doesn't; he's the guardian of the two people they are about to dump to be with each other, thus saving them from their lousy partners.

* The entire run of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' turned out to be a setup for a huge Meet-cute between Ted and "The Mother", Tracy.

* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' pulls a Meet-cute almost right out of the gate with Slick pulling a CrashIntoHello onto Jigsaw as he's trying to evade his guards. Granted, Slick and Jigsaw aren't a couple yet, but being [[TokenMinorityCouple the only other of her species on board so far]] leaves little to the imagination.

* 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/Vino]] meets Chane Laforet while he is on top of a train, [[TheButcher soaked in the blood of his victims]]. She tries to kill him. He proposes. [[spoiler: They end up HappilyMarried.]]

* ''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 badass and adorable... and it [[HeroicBSOD broke]] [[FailureKnight Ryuuken]] in the process.]]

* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', how Euphemia and Suzaku first met. With her jumping out of a window several stories above ground and landing in his arms. Then again, everything about Euphemia tends to be played as being {{Moe}}. Well, [[WhamEpisode almost everything]].

* The way Sena and Suzuna meet in ''Manga/Eyeshield21''...so...very...Meet Cute...(mixed with some CrashIntoHello.) Seriously, the artist should have put a big fat "Love Interest" label on her forehead. The sad part is that being a shounen sports manga, ''nothing was ever done with them.'' Not even in the DistantFinale.

* ''Manga/GaRei'': Kensuke Nimura met Kagura Tsuchimiya when she crashed into him on her scooter, resulting in an AccidentalKiss.
* ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'': Makoto, after several failed matchmaking attempts, uses her time-leaping ability to forcibly arrange a MeetCute for Kousuke and Kaho by putting them in just the right positions for Kousuke to get [[CrashIntoHello involuntarily tackled into Kaho]] by another student. [[spoiler: This ultimately leads to Kousuke and Kaho dying in a train accident, and Makoto later undoes her meddling in favor of a much simpler approach.]]

* In ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' this is done twice. Maria meets Hayate by accidentally running him over with her bike while he was lying in the snow, then giving him her scarf since he was out in the snow without even a jacket. Hinagiku first meets Hayate while she is standing high up in a tree after going up to save a baby bird and then getting stuck due to her fear of heights; she then accidentally kicks off Hayate's face after jumping down since he wasn't ready to catch her.

* In ''Manga/HekikaiNoAiON'', Tatsuya first saw Seine after she steps on his money when a couple of bullies throw it to the ground.
** Also, Tatsuya's parents. They met when he saw her hanging white radishes.

* In ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'', Yukino's parents were childhood friends who bumped into each other on her mother's first day in middle school.

* ''Anime/TheIdolMaster'' - '''14''' of them in the first episode, each with their own little quirk.

* Yuuichi meets every available girl in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' in an odd manner.
** This literally becomes a running gag with Ayu.

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has an interesting MeetCute. Haruhi stumbles into the Host Club while looking for a quiet place to study and is mistaken for a ''boy''. When Tamaki finally finds out Haruhi is really a girl he's left speechless and blushing. We even get two different versions: the anime has Haruhi walking out in Ouran's female uniform and Tamaki finally realizes Haruhi's a girl; the manga has Tamaki pick up Haruhi's school ID, and from that learn she's a girl. While MeetCute tends to force a coupling, Haruhi's initially disinterested in all six boys in her [[UnwantedHarem Unwanted]] ReverseHarem and relationships in the manga seem develop pretty naturally.

* In ''LightNovel/TheStoryOfSaiunkoku'', Shuurei and Ryuuki meet when she tries to get some [[CherryBlossoms cherry blossom petals]] to float in her tea, but can't reach any. Ryuuki stops to help her out, but a strong wind make him accidentally break the whole branch off. They end up having tea and Shuurei's home made sweet bean buns together. Of course, Shuurei was in the garden in the first place specifically to meet Ryuuki, making the encounter semi-planned, but the "cute" of the MeetCute happened purely by accident.

* How did ComicBook/{{Empowered}} meet her boyfriend Thugboy? She was a captured superheroine, he was the minion tying her up. Sparks flew. They don't like to talk about how they met.
* In Marvel’s ''ComicBook/{{Eternals}}'', Khoryphos is unexpectedly teleported to Lemuria, arriving in the Deviant artist Yrdisis’s house. She’s initially scared because of the bad blood between their races, then embarrassed because he loves and understands her art and they clearly have a lot in common. But he’s the enemy, so she flees the house. They work it out, eventually, and are now a happy couple.

* The ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'' story "Romantic Comedy (With Corpses)": Girl meets boy, boy asks girl out, boy turns out to be a vampire wanting to feed, girl turns out to be another vampire who was actually looking for a date, they decide to go on one after all. The girl vampire, who is [[WrongGenreSavvy firmly convinced she's in a romantic comedy]], even ''calls'' it a MeetCute.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'', Jenko [[DoubleEntendre drops his Q-tip into Zook's meat sandwich.]] The resultant product is called a "meat Q-tip" sandwich, shortened to MeetCute.

* Played with in ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. In the beginning, Lorraine reveals that she met George this way and they don't have a particularly good marriage. When Marty goes back in time, he meets her the same way and she falls for him instead. So basically Lorraine would have fallen for whoever her dad's car hit that day. Doc Brown ''explains this onscreen'' with the same implications. Ew. Of course, once Marty gets involved, he turns it from MeetCute into a RescueRomance and things turn out to go surprisingly well from then on.

* In ''Film/DesertHeat'', Rhonda and Eddie MeetCute in a diner complete with name mix-ups and being unable to take their eyes off each other.

* Subverted in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Scarlett and Rhett MeetCute several times over the course of the Civil War, eventually marry... and have a horrible marriage, because people whose only contact is bumping into each other during a war [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome probably don't have much in common]].

* Played with in the movie ''Film/MadeInHeaven1987'', the couple meets, falls in love and gets married in heaven. However, Annie is sent down to earth. Mike goes down to find her, and must MeetCute by the time he is 30. So, basically, MeetCute drives the main plot of the entire film.

* In a scene from ''Film/MyBestFriendsGirl'', Creator/DaneCook's character actually talks about this trope and calls it MeetCute, saying it's common in Rom Coms because all girls want that funny, witty guy, charming, dorky guy. He then goes on to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope by running with her on the track and falling over her then being struck by her beauty when she tries to help him up.

* Cited in the commentary of the Film/DirtyHarry movie ''Film/SuddenImpact'' when Harry and Jennifer Spencer meet for the first time.

* The ''Film/TheTrumanShow'', being a TV show in which the main character was unaware of his reality, played with numerous tropes like this. Truman's hand-picked cheerleader love interest in his high school years, the woman who eventually would be his wife, was set up to meet him in an artificial MeetCute; she tripped and fell right in front of him. It didn't work, and an incidental background extra who happened to be nearby at the time was the one he truly fell in love with, and after she was forcibly removed from his made-up world, he nursed a secret, almost obsessive love for her for his whole life.

* In the Russian film ''Film/YouNeverDreamed'', Roma and Katya MeetCute many times over.

* Lampshaded by name in what turns out to be a dream sequence in Creator/KimNewman's horror novel ''Literature/BadDreams''.

* In Creator/FrederikPohl's ''Literature/DayMillion'', Don and Dora are explicitly said to have "met cute".
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

* Piper to Jason in ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus''.

* Literature/{{Prep}} has an unconventional one, but Lee first properly interacts with her crush, Cross Sugarman, when she goes to the nearby mall to get her ears pierced and ends up passing out, waking up to Cross asking if she's okay.

* Clare and Eli first meet in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' when Clare's glasses get run over by Eli's ''hearse''.

* ''Series/TheEternalLove'': Xiao Tan and Lian Cheng's first meeting is a subversion. She's stuck on top of a wall after an ill-advised escape attempt, doesn't know he's the man she's expected to marry, and asks him to help her down. It looks like it's going to be a MeetCute... but Lian Cheng is uninterested in the whole situation, refuses to help, and doesn't lift a finger when she falls.
* ''Series/TheEternalLove2'' invokes this trope when Xiao Tan has amnesia and Lian Cheng deliberately recreates the first time he met her -- though this time he catches her instead of letting her fall.

* This is every meeting between Barry and Patty in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' until their date.
** Later in the "Flashpoint" timeline, Barry is purposefully trying to invoke this with Iris, as due to the changes of the timeline, the two never met.

* In ''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'' Riley meets Lucas by falling into his arms after tripping/being pushed in a subway car.

* ''Series/GuardianTheLonelyAndGreatGod'': Amusingly subverted. Shin, in his capacity as a guardian, arranges a MeetCute between two people in a coffee shop. When it turns out they're both already in relationships and also pretty horrible people in general, Eun-tak asks why he bothers to play GuardianAngel for them. Turns out that he doesn't; he's the guardian of the two people they are about to dump to be with each other, thus saving them from their lousy partners.

* The entire run of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' turned out to be a setup for a huge MeetCute between Ted and "The Mother", Tracy.

* An amusing variation occurs on the first episode of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' during Sophie's flashback. This moment ends with her and Nate shooting each other.

* The cold open for the episode "Blinded" of ''Series/LieToMe'' hits quite a few hallmarks of a meetcute: girl and guy accidentally bump into each other, books in her hands drop, awkward conversation, glowing filter on top, blissful background music. Turns out [[spoiler:the guy is a creep, this is no chance encounter, he has planned to lure her into a trap, then rapes and blinds her.]]

* ''Series/{{Schmigadoon}}'': The very first scenes depict Josh and Melissa's first meeting. Melissa's chocolate bar got stuck in the hospital vending machine and Josh instructed her to kick it. When she does so, snacks come pouring out of the machine. Sparks fly between them and they proceed to date for many years.

* How about Lois and Clark on ''Series/{{Smallville}}''? [[spoiler:He's amnesiac and naked in a field.]] She even teases him about it later.

* In ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'' Chase and Zoey meet when Chase crashes his bike into the school's flagpole.

* Puccini's opera ''Theatre/LaBoheme'': Mimi comes to Rudolfo's bachelor pad for matches. She drops her key. The wind blows out their candles. The two grope for the key in the dark. Rodolfo finds the key, hides it, and continues "searching" as an excuse to hold Mimi's hand -- "Your little hand is frozen! Let me warm it in my own."

* The work of A-gnosis has several, but an especially adorable one is the meeting of [[http://a-gnosis.deviantart.com/art/Dionysos-and-Ariadne-497895104 Dionysos and Ariadne.]]

* This ''Webcomic/CheckerboardNightmare'' [[http://chex.chainsawsuit.com/d/20040929.shtml strip.]]

* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' pulls a MeetCute almost right out of the gate with Slick pulling a CrashIntoHello onto Jigsaw as he's trying to evade his guards. Granted, Slick and Jigsaw aren't a couple yet, but being [[TokenMinorityCouple the only other of her species on board so far]] leaves little to the imagination.

* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in this ''Webcomic/{{Subnormality}}'' [[http://www.viruscomix.com/page548.html comic]].

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
*** Mako and Asami Sato meet when he runs into the street to catch the bus, stepping out from behind a parked car. On her moped, Asami doesn't see him until it's too late, and barely manages to slow down and [[CrashIntoHello bump him over]]. Mako is pissed but changes his tune when she removes her helmet. She invites him to dinner to apologize, which he gladly accepts.
*** Notably averted with Korra's endgame love interest, [[spoiler: Asami. When the two of them first meet, it's at a formal gala event, and although Korra feels hostile,]] the situation has none of the Meet-Cute's trademark... well, cuteness. Justified by the writers having not so much dreamed of this pairing at that point in the story.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'': In "The Sky's The Limit!", Ralph mentions that he met Melissa when he accidentally spilled coffee on her.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'''s [=AndrAIa=] and Enzo. She's trying to kill him in a game. He thinks she's just another sprite and that her abilities are really cool. They end up working together to beat the game and forever afterword.

* Ann Landers did a series of letters from couples who had experienced this trope.

* Documented on [[http://www.heyweiner.com/ Hey, Weiner!]].
* [[http://www.fmylife.com/love/16136002 This FML]], hopefully.
* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and name-dropped on Creator/{{NPR}} in an April 2012 interview.
* Fittingly, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer met her husband this way. They were waiting for a ski lift, and her very tall future husband decided to ride with the very short Ruth... even though he already had a girlfriend.

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* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'', Jenko drops his Q-tip into Zook's meat sandwich. The resultant product is called a "meat Q-tip" sandwich, shortened to MeetCute.

* By the end of ''Film/NightOfTheComet'' the whole world is dead ezcept for the protagonists: teenage girls Sam and Reggie, Hector, the hunky stranger Reggie has hooked up with, and the two little kids they have taken under their wing. Sam is upset because her older sister has once again stolen the guy she had her eye on, in this case the last man in the world, and she thinks it's ridiculous when Reggie tells the kids to wait for the light to change before crossing the deserted street. So Sam crosses against the light - and is almost run over by a cute boy who appears from out of nowhere. He asks her if she wants to go for a ride, and they drive off.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': Although it's not even hinted at in the main continuity, Kyon has ''two'' encounters that fit this bill with Nagato during the movie.

* In ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' Trillian and Arthur meet at a costume party where Arthur is dressed as Livingstone and Trillian as Darwin. Amusingly in the [[DVDcommentary commentary]] Bill Nighy tries to reference this trope but calls it a '[[DoubleEntendre sweet]] [[AccidentalInnuendo meet]]'. He is promptly [[HehHehYouSaidX mocked]].

* ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' has Luigi and Daisy meet by chance when Daisy needs the phone Luigi is currently using. An earlier version of the script had a more traditional Meet Cute where Luigi helped Daisy after she slipped on some water coming out of the Riverfront Cafe.

* In Creator/FrederikPohl's ''Day Million'', Don and Dora are explicitly said to have "met cute".

** Deconstructed in ([[DeconstructorFleet surprise]], [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed surprise]]) ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2''. We learn that Raiden and Rose met over a [[GeekyTurnOn pedantic argument over which building King Kong was climbing in the movie]]. It later turns out to have been [[spoiler: all a big set-up to ensure Raiden would fall for her, allowing her to spy on him as part of the set-up for an EvilPlan]].
** When Snake first meets Otacon in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Otacon [[BringMyBrownPants wets his pants]]. Snake teases him about it in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' (in a flirtatious, 'I remember the day when we first met' kind of way), Otacon jokes about it in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', and in ''Metal Gear Mobile'' it's actually a plot element when Snake asks Otacon what happened when they first met in a SpotTheImpostor situation.

* Happens with John and Mary in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', when their hands accidentally meet on the seat control.
** Also happens with Wall-E and Eve. Wall-E is watching her flying from afar, but he makes a noise and she immediately blasts at him with her plasma cannon. This happens several more times before she recognizes that he's not a threat.

* Played twice in different ways in ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'', the titular character meets Charlie when she's accidentally locked out of her house naked and has him help her. Later she and Chris lock eyes, only for him to run away and vomit out of nervousness.
* Will Smith's character in ''Film/{{Hitch}}'' has made a career out of helping his clients get the attention and affections of the women of their dreams. This is one of the techniques he uses.
* In ''Film/{{Serendipity}}'', Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas meet in Bloomingdale's after grabbing the same pair of gloves as a Christmas gift for their respective partners but end up falling for each other.
* This trope was already old and dusty when it was used in ''Film/SinginInTheRain''. Early in the film, Creator/GeneKelly's character is running from a crowd of fans. He's jumping from the roofs of cars, taxis, trolleys, etc. until he goes flying and lands in the seat of a roofless car. The driver, played by Creator/DebbieReynolds, accuses Kelly's character of being a no-talent hack, and they yell at each other before he leaves. Needless to say, they end up romantically involved.

* Subverted in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''. Scarlett and Rhett MeetCute several times over the course of the Civil War, eventually marry... and have a horrible marriage, because people whose only contact is bumping into each other during a war [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome probably don't have much in common]].
* ''Film/KalHoNaaHo'' must take this to the extreme. Aman yells at the Kapoors for their awful singing, and their arguing gets Naina's attention. When he sees her, he begins singing (beautifully) what develops into a Bollywood/Hip-hop/Gospel remix of ''Pretty Woman'', in front of a giant American flag, with the entire street playing background music and joining in the dance. [[spoiler:Of course, he doesn't get her.]]
* Played with in the movie ''Film/MadeInHeaven1987'', the couple meets, falls in love and gets married in heaven. However, Annie is sent down to earth. Mike goes down to find her, and must MeetCute by the time he is 30. So, basically, MeetCute drives the main plot of the entire film.
* A DoubleSubversion occurs in ''Film/TrueRomance''. Clarence and Alabama meet cute in classic style, complete with spilled popcorn, bonding over Sonny Chiba movies, and romance in a comic-book store. Then it turns out that she's a call girl who was hired specifically to meet cute with him. However, they ''do'' eventually fall in love with each other for real.
* The ''Film/TheTrumanShow'', being a TV show in which the main character was unaware of his reality, played with numerous tropes like this. Truman's hand-picked cheerleader love interest in his high school years, the woman who eventually would be his wife, was set up to meet him in an artificial MeetCute; she tripped and fell right in front of him. It didn't work, and an incidental background extra who happened to be nearby at the time was the one he truly fell in love with, and after she was forcibly removed from his made-up world, he nursed a secret, almost obsessive love for her for his whole life.

* This is a staple in many of the classic {{screwball comed|y}}ies:

** ''Film/ItHappenedOneNight'' - Creator/ClarkGable, playing a penniless, cynical reporter, and Creator/ClaudetteColbert, playing a spoiled runaway heiress, meet on a bus. They argue over who should get the last seat, and Claudette Colbert ends up falling asleep on his shoulder overnight.
** ''Film/BluebeardsEighthWife'' - Creator/GaryCooper and Claudette Colbert meet at the men's pajamas counter of a department store. Colbert likes to sleep in a man's pajama top but doesn't wear the bottoms, so she wants to buy only a top. Cooper sleeps in pajama bottoms and doesn't want to buy a top. Since the store sells pajamas only as top and bottom sets, it's inevitable that she and he will choose a pair they both like. This movie was directed by European-born Hollywood director Ernst Lubitsch, who inadvertently invented the term "meet cute" because he had difficulty speaking English.
** ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' - Creator/CaryGrant's dorky paleontologist runs into Creator/KatharineHepburn's madcap heiress on the golf course; she mistakes his ball for her own, and he follows her around trying to convince her that it's his ball, not hers. She then drives off in his car, with him teetering on the running board.
** ''The Lady Eve'' - Creator/BarbaraStanwyck plays a femme fatale out to snag rich men so she and her father can cheat them at cards; Henry Fonda plays a naive but wealthy heir to a brewery. Wanting to make lots of money off him, she deliberately sticks out her foot and trips him, then berates him for breaking the heel off her shoe. He accompanies her to her cabin, where he puts a new pair of shoes on her feet himself as she aggressively flirts with him.
** ''Film/MrDeedsGoesToTown'' - Gary Cooper plays a naive country boy who suddenly becomes a millionaire. Once he moves to the big city, the cynical reporter played by Creator/JeanArthur wants to meet him so she can do a big story on him -- so she pretends to faint outside his mansion, and he gallantly comes to her aid.
** ''Film/{{Midnight|1939}}'' - Creator/ClaudetteColbert's character is looking for a cab driver that's willing to take her to find a job. She finds Don Ameche, and bluntly tells him her plan: she doesn't have money now, but will double what the meter says and give him a tip if he just gives her a free ride. He agrees, opens the car door, and then hostilely says a big fat no. She then buys a newspaper for cover from the rain, and Ameche's character, out of guilt, gives her a free ride.
** ''Film/HandsAcrossTheTable'' - Coming out of Allen’s apartment, Creator/CaroleLombard bumps into Fred [=MacMurray=] while he’s playing hopscotch on the checkered floor. She’s not impressed.
* In a scene from ''My Best Friend's Girl'', Creator/DaneCook's character actually talks about this trope and calls it MeetCute, saying it's common in Rom Coms because all girls want that funny, witty guy, charming, dorky guy. He then goes on to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope by running with her on the track and falling over her then being struck by her beauty when she tries to help him up.

* The film whose review gave us the former quote at the top of the page, ''Serendipity'', consists of a couple meeting cute for the entire first half of the movie, before trying to ScrewDestiny for no particular reason by testing how badly fate wants them to be together (The answer: Fate wants them to get together REALLY badly).

* Played with in ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. In the beginning, Lorraine reveals that she met George this way and they don't have a particularly good marriage. When Marty goes back in time, he meets her the same way and she falls for him instead. So basically Lorraine would have fallen for whoever her dad's car hit that day. Doc Brown ''explains this onscreen'' with the same implications. Ew. Of course, once Marty gets involved, he turns it from MeetCute into a RescueRomance and things turn out to go surprisingly well from then on.
* In ''Film/GoodByeLenin!'' Alex meets Lara when she saves him from choking at a press freedom rally.
* The Weaponized Meet Cute subversion appears in the movie ''Film/RedEye''. Lisa meets this charming guy at the ticket counter, they have a drink and flirt at the airport bar, and end up sitting next to each other on the plane. Too bad he's a PsychoForHire who may or may not be a StalkerWithACrush. She probably should have guessed as much when she found out his name was [[MeaningfulName Jackson]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Rippner]].
* Played with in ''Film/FiftyFirstDates'', where a woman and a guy meet in standard fashion, in a bar. Except she got a brain injury that kept her from converting her daily short-term memory to long term. The rest of the movie is him making her fall in love with him. Every. Single. Day. [[spoiler:They even marry and have kids.]]
* Rakesh and Vimmi in ''Film/BuntyAurBabli'' meet in a train station after they both fail to get the jobs they really wanted. Vimmi lies to Rakesh, saying she's going to be a model. Rakesh congratulates her and then she starts bawling (in a really loud and annoying way.) [[spoiler:they then decide to [[HilarityEnsues become thieves]] and along the way fall in love.]]
* Lampshaded (and subverted, given what follows) in Disney's ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' after Giselle falls into her Prince's arms.
--> "And in years to come we'll reminisce / How we came to love..."
* In ''Film/MississippiMasala'', [[Creator/DenzelWashington Demetrius]] and Mina first meet when she accidentally hits him with her car.
* In ''Film/TestPilot'', Ann lives on a farm in Kansas. Jim the test pilot crashes his plane on her farm. Pretty impressive, as far as meet cutes go.
* Non-romantic example in ''Film/StarTrek2009''. Kirk and Spock's first meeting involves Spock getting Kirk court-martialed for cheating on the ''[[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Kobayashi Maru]]'' test. The writers have actually stated that the heart of the film is them falling in love with each other - but in a platonic sense.
** Kirk and Uhura meet cute in the bar, then reacquaint cute in her room later. For that matter, Kirk and Pike also meet cute in the bar. And then Kirk and [=McCoy=] more or less meet cute on the shuttle.
* In the Russian film ''Film/YouNeverDreamed'', Roma and Katya MeetCute many times over.
* The events of ''Film/TheAdjustmentBureau'' are kicked off with a meet cute, when David Harris is in the men's room nervously preparing his "defeat speech" after losing the senate vote - and dancer Elise pops out of a stall, having hidden there to avoid security. This meeting was pre-approved by the eponymous bureau. Their ''next'' meeting, however, was not.
* In ''Film/{{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 Film/DirtyHarry movie ''Film/SuddenImpact'' when Harry and Jennifer Spencer meet for the first time.
* ''Film/{{Hardball}}'' had Keanu Reeves' character Conor meet his eventual love interest after she unintentionally smacked him with a door.

* In ''Film/{{Scrooged}},'' Frank Cross meets the love of his life when she walks out of a store and whacks him "right between the eyes" with the door. She nicknames him "Lumpy" after the incident.
-->'''Young Frank:''' Do you shop here often? Because if you do, I can walk on the other side of the street.\\
'''Frank and The Ghost of Christmas Past:''' [[{{Rimshot}} Badum bum bum]]
* In ''Film/NottingHill'', the characters played by Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts meet when he [[CrashIntoHello smacks into her]] as they both round a corner from opposite directions and he spills juice all over her blouse -- setting up both the need for him to invite her to his house across the street to clean up and his charming clumsiness. The best part is that as we track them both heading for this collision, Hugh Grant's character seems to be avoiding looking straight ahead, for no particular reason.

* In ''Film/DesertHeat'', Rhonda and Eddie MeetCute in a diner complete with name mix-ups and being unable to take their eyes off each other.

* Played with in ''Film/Godzilla2014'' to make a Kaiju version. He-MUTO and She-MUTO meet up in San Francisco for the first time, and the male presents the female with a nuclear warhead as a courtship present. They trade it from mouth to mouth like a kiss before the female takes it to feather the nest.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'', Jenko drops his Q-tip into Zook's meat sandwich. The resultant product is called a "meat Q-tip" sandwich, shortened to MeetCute.
* ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'': Town prostitute Callie Travers tries to engineer this by 'accidentally' bumping into the Stranger and starting an argument with him. The Stranger is not amused, [[SociopathicHero dragging her into a nearby barn and raping her]].
* ''Film/ZabriskiePoint'' features an elaborate and jokey version where the boy is an outlaw flying an aeroplane on the lam across the LA desert and the girl is driving a car cross-country on an empty road below. The boy catches the girl's attention by flying really low in a series of stunt flights to get a closer look.
* In ''Film/Ariel1988'', Taisto meets Irmeli when she gives him a parking ticket.
* In ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'', the title character and Joséphine first run into each other when she's on the way to the famous clairvoyant Mlle. Lenormant and he's trying to fix his cardboard boots after they got wet.
* In ''Film/IrreconcilableDifferences'', Albert meets Lucy while he's hitchhiking across the country. She drives through a puddle and splatters him with mud.

* In ''Film/AprilShowers'', April and Sean first meet during the theater group's initiation ceremony.
* ''Film/SetItUp'':
** Harper and Charlie first meet when arguing over buying food from a delivery man. Rocky first meeting aside, they prove to get along well later on.
** They later try to invoke this when trying to set up their bosses. They decide on [[LockedInARoom locking them in an elevator]].
--->'''Harper''': [[DiscussedTrope Every great romance begins with a meet cute]]!
* In ''Film/MargaritaWithAStraw'', Laila first meets Khanum after pulling her to safety when a protest turns violent and Khanum is left disoriented from tear gas.
* In ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'', Hibiscus and Chen meet when a SuggestiveCollision during the fight on the plane leaves them entangled in each others arms and almost results in an AccidentalKiss. Chen's next scene has him telling his friends about this cute girl he met on the flight.
* ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' has Luigi and Daisy meet by chance when Daisy needs the phone Luigi is currently using. An earlier version of the script had a more traditional Meet Cute where Luigi helped Daisy after she slipped on some water coming out of the Riverfront Cafe.

* ''Film/Flower2017'': Invoked by Erica, who stages a cutesy bump-in 'first meeting' at the grocery store in order to charm Will.
* ''Film/{{Bit}}'': Laurel runs into Izzy at a party, with their attraction being obvious with Laurel's awkward and nervous behavior with her. Izzy eases past her defenses and they get involved.
* ''Film/ImThinkingOfEndingThings'': AmbiguousSituation version. When begged by Jake's mother for a cute meeting story, the young woman describes meeting Jake at trivia night at a bar; they had been attracted to each other but Jake had initially been too shy to ask for her number before finally doing so. But later, when talking to the janitor, the woman seems to spiral and admit that [[spoiler:they had barely interacted at the bar, implying that she is an idealized fantasy of what might have been.]]

* ''Film/JackAndDiane'': Diane bumps into Jack while trying to awkwardly borrow a cell phone, and then her nose starts bleeding. Jack is smitten at once.
* ''Film/CassanovaWasAWoman'': Cassanova runs into Lola after accidentally falling into a clothing rack while at the theatre both women work at.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence arrives at Winston's home in the middle of a hurricane while he is watching a werewolf movie. He hears knocking, opens the door, [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00354.htm sees Florence]], and bolts in terror. Florence puts it down to showing too many teeth when trying to smile.

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''. Amir and Natasha first met in a mosh pit, when she kicked out one of his teeth. She saved the tooth, happened to bump into him a few days later and offered to return it kicking off their romance. If you're a metalhead you'll go "Nawww!" and if you're something else you'll go "WTF!!".

* In ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'' the titular protagonist and his beloved Eva Kant first met when she caught him trying and steal the Pink Diamond from her, and he threatened her with a knife. As she was captured in his eyes and had to admire his the ability to arrive there undetected and he was caught by surprise by her not fearing him in the slightest, they fell in love.

* ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' features a flashback to how Alana and Marko met, which their child describes as "what they call the '[[DiscussedTrope Meet Cute]].'" However, this was when Marko was a prisoner under Alana's care, and she says this [[SubvertedTrope just as Alana lays some police brutality on Marko]].
* [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Karolina Dean]] and [[ComicBook/PowerPack Julie Power]] first met when Julie was part of a group hired to shut the Runaways down. And then they really hit it off several years later when the Runaways tried to sneak into ComicBook/AvengersAcademy.
* Towards the end of Creator/AlanMoore's "The Reversible Man", the [[MerlinSickness backwards-in-time]] protagonist walks into a train station with his ex-wife and they spread newspapers on the floor. He realises she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen, and the papers collect into their hands as he loses eye contact with her. [[TearJerker They never see each other again]].
* Years after their breakup in the previous universe, the closing pages of ''ComicBook/BatmanEternal'' see [[spoiler:Stephanie Brown walk in on a conversation between Red Robin (Tim Drake) and her new roommate Harper. The two share a silent panel adorably smiling at one another.]]

* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces'': Not exactly a direct meeting, but the first meeting of Adam Squall and [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Violet Parr]] turns out to be fairly awkward, especially because [[ItMakesSenseInContext Adam had just turned back into a human.]] [[spoiler:They become an OfficialCouple by the end of the fourth act.]]

* Sally Sparrow meets [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Dr. Watson]] this way in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'': Watson bumps into her on the sidewalk and spills her textbooks. Being the Victorian gentleman that he is, he helps her pick them back up and offers her coffee in apology. The two of them chitchat over their coffee... and at the end of the next episode, TheyDo. Their relationship forms the story arc that finishes with the season finale.
* Agents [[Manga/MonsterMusume Stephanie Podd]] and [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Cupid Carmine]] in the WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum mission [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/12nFPwjpdFbfdkMyBi42BZW72uUii3wUbnRNGkIeeMak/edit "In Other News, Water is Wet"]]. WordOfGod has [[http://skarmorydraws.tumblr.com/post/132455148877/30-day-monster-girl-challenge-day-29-a-monster confirmed]] that this wasn't intentional on the part of Cupid's creator, so this sorta counts as a Meet Cute for their authors as well.

* ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MyYouthIsYours'': Kara and Lena met in college when Lena ran into what she ''thought'' was a wall.
* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In “The Paris Trip,” Berlioz helps the hopelessly lost Mittens find Sainte-Chapelle after they engage in flirting banter. Afterwards, Berlioz becomes Mittens’s tour guide and then her vacation-fling lover.
* In ''Fanfic/JuniorOfficers'', Kitsune and Akio met in college when Akio spilled his papers on the ground and Kitsune helped him pick them up.
* In ''Fanfic/AlwaysYou'': Strange and Abby meet when bumping into each-other at Tim Horton's.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Rapunzel knocks Flynn out with a frying pan when he intrudes into her tower. In ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'', he even mentions that [[LoveAtFirstPunch he fell in love with her after she first hit him with it]].
* Anna and Hans meet cute in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', when he nearly knocks her into the water with his horse. [[spoiler:Hans turns out to have [[ExploitedTrope exploited this trope]] [[FlawExploitation as a way to get close to Anna and take advantage of her naivete]]. Turns out that he's just heartlessly using her to get to the throne of Arendelle, and couldn't give two craps about her]].
* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'': At the end of the movie, Riley bumps into a boy on her way into the hockey rink. The boy is unable to speak, and his emotions are in a blind panic (Fear is actually in the fetal position, crying), while an alarm blares "Girl! Girl!" inside his head.

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Jerin meets Ren when he sneaks to the kitchen to get something to eat (he hasn't eaten all day because he didn't want to show his face with so many strange women in the house), Ren startles him, and he nearly falls into the fireplace, so she has to catch him.
%%* Used in ''Literature/TheBookThief'' with Liesel and Rudy, complete with lampshade.

* In the Newberry Award-winning children's book ''Ginger Pye,'' the children's father (Mr. Pye) met their mother (the soon-to-be Mrs. Pye) when, [[JustForFun for kicks and giggles]], he decided to run "up" the "down" escalator in what he thought was an abandoned subway station. Naturally, he ended up running down their mother-to-be, who was riding "down" it. [[HilarityEnsues Romance ensued.]]
* Piper to Jason in ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus''.
* The ''[[Literature/TheWheelOfTime Wheel of Time]]'' has several. Rand meets Elayne after climbing the wall of her palace garden to use as a vantage point and falling down the wrong side of it, Mat meets Tuon (properly) when he encounters her while trying to escape a city occupied by her troops, Bayle Domon meets Egeanin when she boarded his ship to inspect his cargo, etc.
* Jack and Ellen's first meeting in ''[[Literature/TheHeirChronicles The Warrior Heir]]'' is relatively normal, but their introduction to the other's secret identities comes when they are thrown into a ring and forced into a duel to the death to determine which of the two wizard houses would gain supremacy for the next few decades. [[spoiler: Ellen ends up saving his life in the duel instead of killing him, due to developing a crush on him during their normal time together.]] Seph and Madison in the next book meet when Seph tries to use magic to get information out of Madison and she drains his energy through the spell.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] and referenced in ''Literature/GravitysRainbow'':
--> It was what Hollywood likes to call a "cute meet," out in the neat 18th-century heart of downtown Tunbridge Wells, Roger motoring in the vintage Jaguar up to London, Jessica at the roadside struggling prettily with a busted bicycle, murky wool ATS skirt hiked up on a handle bar...
* In ''Literature/MasksOfAygrima'': Mara meets her LoveInterest Keltan when she's sneaking around Tamita at night and hides in the coal cellar he was hiding in, forcing him to threaten her with a knife in order to stay hidden. When they meet later, they quickly become friends due to the previous incident being NothingPersonal.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': A [[TheGrotesque dwarf]] boy and his athletic older brother [[RescueRomance run into a girl pursued by bandits]]. The older brother fights off the thugs and the younger brother comforts the girl. Boy and girl like each other and get married. This is how Tysha and Tyrion Lannister (with the brother being Jaime) meet... [[StarCrossedLovers And]] [[PrankDate then it doesn't go well]]. [[spoiler: Averted later on when it was revealed by Jamie that it in fact wasn't a date prank, and that Tysha in fact did love Tyrion]]
* In the novel ''Literature/VariableStar'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein and Creator/SpiderRobinson, the protagonist refers to this trope by name when describing his initial encounters with various women.
* Lampshaded in "Identical Twins Aren't the Same in Bed (and other observations): A Novel" where the narrator meets friend he ends up falling for when she persistently [=IMs=] him out of the blue with different screen names. He's never met her, except possibly in passing, and he has no idea who the names belong to. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the author met a female friend (albeit, one he never dated) that way, and the book is assembled from fictionalized versions of real events. [[spoiler:Subverted in that he met her that way years before the events of the novel, they never got together in that time (in fact, he was sort-of seeing someone for part of it) and the plot of the book is partially about him [[CanNotSpitItOut trying to tell her his feelings]] and that the book ends intentionally ambiguously with regards to whether they ever get together.]]

* OlderThanTelevision: In ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' (1909) Christine and Raoul meet as children when he rushes into the sea to save her scarf.

* ''Literature/RaptorRed'' has a series of these with a male raptor, where a series of unusual circumstances prevent him from carrying out the normal courtship ritual. When they first meet, for example, they happen to be hunting the same dinosaur. Awkward!
* In ''The Crocodile on the Sandbank'', Amelia Peabody and Emerson first meet in a museum, where they promptly have a blazing row over antiquities. By the end of the book [[spoiler: they're happily married and expecting their first child.]]

* A platonic version occurs in ''Literature/TalesOfTheCity'', where future best friends Michael and Mary Ann first meet when Michael's then-boyfriend Robert asks for advice on making hollandaise sauce, and she thinks he's hitting on her. Later, after she moves into Mrs. Madrigal's building, she discovers that Michael is her neighbor.

%% * ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'': Thomas, meet Theresa.
* In ''Literature/{{Relativity}},'' when Greg meets Sara he knows he's going to fall in love with her, partially because when he dropped a bunch of empty take-out trays on a busy street, she was the ''only'' person to stop and help him gather them up.
* Franchise/BerniceSummerfield and Jason Kane in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresDeathAndDiplomacy Death and Diplomacy]]''. She's on an multispecies alien planet which she knows has no contact with Earth, trying to communicate with a shifty humanoid alien in pidgin (the Doctor has disappeared and taken his TranslatorMicrobes with him). He's an [[AlienAbduction Alien Abductee]], who is partly fascinated by the first fellow human he's seen in years, but is mostly amusing himself playing along with what he considers her patronising attitude to the natives. She is not happy when she figures it out. BelligerentSexualTension ensues, and at the end of the book they decide to get married.
* Lampshaded by name in what turns out to be a dream sequence in Creator/KimNewman's horror novel ''Literature/BadDreams''.
* Literature/{{Prep}} has an unconventional one, but Lee first properly interacts with her crush, Cross Sugarman, when she goes to the nearby mall to get her ears pierced and ends up passing out, waking up to Cross asking if she's okay.
* In ''Literature/TheLawAndTheLady'', Valeria met her future husband by tripping and falling into the trout stream where he was fishing.

* The play ''Theatre/ThoroughlyModernMillie'' begins with the titular Millie quite literally running into Jimmy, her love interest [[spoiler: and also very, very rich]]

* The ''Theatre/{{Mrs Hawking}}'' play series: In part II: ''[[http://www.mrshawking.com/?page_id=526 Vivat Regina]]'', Mary and Arthur meet when, while Mary is on a stakeout for a case, she comes across him needing a spot of help subduing a ruffian. She brains the ruffian with her poker, and the two have a conversation that, while nothing overtly romantic happens in that play, definitely hints at a possible affection developing.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in part IV: ''[[http://www.mrshawking.com/sample-page/scripts/gilded-cages-stage-play/ Gilded Cages]]''. The first time Reginald and Victoria meet, he attempts to save her from what he perceives to be her falling off a roof, but she's so startled by his unnecessary intervention she ends up punching him in the eye. Their marriage ends up an unmitigated disaster.
* In ''Theatre/CactusFlower'', Igor Sullivan meets Toni by breaking into her apartment to [[InterruptedSuicide foil her suicide attempt]] and give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. She's already in a relationship with Julian, but he's a married man (or so he's led her to believe) and Igor conveniently has a neighboring apartment.
* In ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'', Oscar meets the Pigeon sisters he arranges his and Felix's double date with by getting stuck in the elevator with them. At least partially averted in the female version, though, because though Olive (female Oscar) gets asked on a date by the Costazuela brothers when she's stuck in the elevator with them, we know she's at least heard of them or seen them around the building before because she mentions them much earlier in the play.
* ''Theatre/{{Hadestown}}'': Orpheus is so blown away by Eurydice from the [[LoveAtFirstSight moment he sees her]], he asks her to marry him before even introducing himself, then blows her away in return by singing for her with his [[VoiceOfTheLegion literal]] [[BeautifulSingingVoice divine voice]].

* A flashback in ''[[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy We Love Katamari]]'' reveals that The Prince's parents - The King of All Cosmos and his wife - met cute to a ridiculous degree, in a CrashIntoHello involving a cut-off Pompadour and a half-eaten bread accidentally forming a heart shape. The result: love at first sight.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' had Aerith meet Cloud when he fell through the ceiling of her church into a flowerbed - ''from a terminal height, mind you''. Also, [[spoiler:''Crisis Core'' reveals she met previous love interest Zack in the exact same way]]. Ironically, Aerith and Cloud's ''real'' first meeting was a subversion of the CrashIntoHello where she was knocked over - by a random NPC - before calmly asking Cloud if he wanted to buy a flower as he wandered past.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Squall first meets Rinoa at the [=SeeD=] ceremony. He looks up at a shooting star and looks where it came from, and his eyes lay on Rinoa, who seeks the ''same'' shooting star and looks where it's headed to, and ''her'' eyes meet Squall's. Rinoa goes over to him and gets a rather reluctant Squall to dance with her. She leaves him open-ended at the end of the dance when she sees someone she knows, leaving a slightly disappointed Squall.

* Bioware seems to like this trope.
** ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': When you first meet Aribeth, you are almost immediately attacked by mysterious assassins.
** ''Hordes of the Underdark'': 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. And when your new character meets Aribeth, 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.
** ''VideoGame/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. However, if you play the main character as female, this trope is averted. You meet Carth when the two of you grab an escape pod as the ''Endar Spire'' explodes--not particularly cute.
** ''VideoGame/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.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': Master thief Kasumi met her now-deceased boyfriend while they were both trying to steal the same painting. They ended up keeping it as a memento. Most of Shepard's romantic interests, however, are met when you either talk to them while pursuing a specific goal - Garrus, Jacob, Traynor, Cortez - or when one of you [[RescueRomance helps out the other in a bad situation]] - Tali, Liara, Ashley, Jack, Miranda, Thane if you count serving as a distraction - and neither option really qualifies as particularly "cute", especially given the typical bodycount of the latter.
* Obsidian likes this too.
** In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', 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 ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', you rescue Neeshka from a band of thugs, Elanee hops in to rescue you from a bladeling and a band of Duregar, and Safiya bandages your potentially fatal chest wound and drags you out of an ancient cavern system in Mask of the Betrayer. A female player meeting the male love interests might also qualify, with Casavir showing up to attack a bunch of orcs about to attack you, and in Mask of the Betrayer you coming into Gann's cell with an offer of freedom in exchange for military service.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' features one of these as the main character runs into (or gets run into by) Marle, and causes her to lose her pendant, which Crono then helps return. Shortly afterwards, Crono goes after Marle when she gets sent into the past.

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/NamcoHigh'', with Davesprite suggesting that his entire courtship with Cousin should consist of them both falling into water fountains at every opportunity. Averted in the actual story, however, with Cousin meeting each potential partner by being in detention at the same time.
* Parodied in ''VideoGame/CrushCrush''. You meet the first girl, Cassie, with a textbook CrashIntoHello... that injures her so badly that her next appearance is in a full-body cast. Quite understandably, she's majorly pissed off at you for a while. Many of the game's girls are met in similarly Meet ''Ugly'' encounters that leave them mad at or upset with you until you apologize to them enough times.
* Occurs in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' between two minor playable characters, the cavalier Franz and the recruit Amelia. The two meet as enemies on the battlefield, but when the latter tries to attack the former, she trips over her own lance. Franz then helps her up, and noticing that she doesn't actually want to fight, he convinces her to lay down and join his side instead.

* The anime-inspired ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' naturally has this happen several times. Of particular note is the main couple, Piro and Kimiko, who've managed to meet cute 'bout 3 times so far... Largo and Erika probably also qualify, albeit ''only'' twice.
** Yuki and Kobayashi's Meet Cute is almost a parody; their first interaction within the strip involving her falling on him from a great height (immediately after he unintentionally distracted her) and giving him three broken ribs, a concussion, and a broken arm.
** Don't forget the exact details of Largo's first meeting with Erika. His near-fatal error of thinking her breasts weren't real and that she padded her Kasumi outfit was followed by his being asked in Japanese "Want me to break your other arm so you have a matched set?" most definitely didn't point at 'cute', rather 'keep your distance, you perv.'
* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' pulls a MeetCute almost right out of the gate with Slick pulling a CrashIntoHello onto Jigsaw as he's trying to evade his guards. Granted, Slick and Jigsaw aren't a couple yet, but being [[TokenMinorityCouple the only other of her species on board so far]] leaves little to the imagination.

* In ''Webcomic/TheDreamer'', although Alexander and Beatrice technically already knew each other, they still met cute in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100322194741/http://thedreamercomic.com:80/comic.php?id=237 issue nine]]. Granted, they aren't in a relationship yet, it's still worth noting.

* Shroomy from ''Webcomic/ElectricWonderland'' tried to [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/electricwonderland/index.php?issue=13&page=8&seriesID=11 invoke this]] in a Valentine's Day-themed comic.
* The stalker version is used in ''Webcomic/ElsannaBramStokersDracula'', as Elsa stalks Anna before revealing herself.
* ''Webcomic/LeifAndThorn'': The title characters meet when Leif is pruning a tree, and [[http://leifandthorn.com/comic/homecoming-624/ a branch knocks Thorn in the head]].
* The [[CreatorCouple Foglio's]] ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' avatars ([[DirectLineToTheAuthor the storyteller and the biographer]]) are shown meeting in a piece of extra art where she's holding a book titled FATE and has accidentally [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161116 dropped another book on his head.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' Florence arrives at Winston's home in the middle of a hurricane while he is watching a werewolf movie. He hears knocking, opens the door, [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00354.htm sees Florence]], and bolts in terror. Florence puts it down to showing too many teeth when trying to smile.
* In the space arc of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'', [[http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0002.htm Guenevere first meets Arthur and Lancelot at the same time]], and mistakes Lancelot for the king, something he finds embarrassing, but she and Arthur find funny. It's a meet cute between her and ''both'' of them.
* ''Webcomic/RobberXLover'': The two main characters meet when one tries to return the other's things and is mistaken for a robber.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang met Katara after running away from home, getting caught in a massive storm, and ending up frozen in an [[HumanPopsicle iceberg]] for a century. Her face is the first thing he sees when he wakes up. The result: LoveAtFirstSight. He immediately asks her to go penguin sledding with him, and she confusedly accepts.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** Mako and Asami Sato meet when he runs into the street to catch the bus, stepping out from behind a parked car. On her moped, Asami doesn't see him until it's too late, and barely manages to slow down and [[CrashIntoHello bump him over]]. Mako is pissed but changes his tune when she removes her helmet. She invites him to dinner to apologize, which he gladly accepts.
** Notably averted with Korra's endgame love interest, [[spoiler: Asami. When the two of them first meet, it's at a formal gala event, and although Korra feels hostile,]] the situation has none of the Meet-Cute's trademark... well, cuteness. Justified by the writers having not so much dreamed of this pairing at that point in the story.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Soos and the Real Girl" Soos meets a girl named Melody when she sees him riding a kiddie ride and finds it cute. Melody is a mall employee who [[LampshadeHanging actually works at a place called]] [[PunnyName Meat Cute.]]
* The short cartoon ''Westernanimation/JinxyJenkinsAndLuckyLou'' is about [[TheJinx a boy with incredibly bad luck]] meeting [[BornLucky a girl with incredibly good luck]]. HilarityEnsues, involving an out-of-control ice-cream cart and falling pianos.

* In "Lisa's Wedding" of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Lisa has her future told by a fortune-teller. College-aged Lisa meets Hugh at university. First they bump their heads together at a drinking fountain, he then grabs the last soy pop at the vending machine which Lisa also craved, he steals her an elevator and doesn't share it with her so she has to climb the stairs, and then even snatches the last copy of a book Lisa needs to read. Last part includes them reading the book together with a sort of reading race. [[GeekyTurnOn Then Hugh is impressed and turned on by Lisa's knowing the definition of "stochastic"]], and they start making out in the library.
-->'''Female Librarian:''' First, they hate each other. All of a sudden, they love each other. Oh, it doesn't make any sense to me.\\
'''Male Librarian:''' Of course not. You're a robot.\\
''[Female librarian robot sheds a single tear, then shorts out, and her head melts.]''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Good Times, Bat Times", Dale and Foxglove meet for the first time when Dale, previously suspended on a string of chewing gum, plummets into the deep, and she saves him. To make it even cuter, Dale wonders how a little bat like Foxy can carry something as heavy as him, upon which she realizes that she can't. They hold on to each other in sheer terror while [[CartoonPhysics hovering for a second or so]] before falling into a dumpster together. Then again, Foxy had had a crush on Dale even before they met for the first time which heavily implies that she has been at least watching the Rangers since their arrival at the drive in, if not outright secretly stalked them since even earlier. Their first meeting is cute nonetheless.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'': In "The Sky's The Limit!", Ralph mentions that he met Melissa when he accidentally spilled coffee on her.

** Name dropped by Martin in [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3209 Issue 3209]] after [[spoiler:Claire attempted (and failed) to invoke it to secure a second date with Emily for her brother, Clinton]]. (This is despite Jeph Jacques claiming to despise Wiki/TVTropes).

* Played with in ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' to make a Kaiju version. He-MUTO and She-MUTO meet up in San Francisco for the first time, and the male presents the female with a nuclear warhead as a courtship present. They trade it from mouth to mouth like a kiss before the female takes it to feather the nest.

* In ''Film/{{Ariel}}'', Taisto meets Irmeli when she gives him a parking ticket.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Mommy Fearest" has Professor Utonium falling in love at first sight to a new woman in the neighborhood who baked him a cake. In the episode "Meet the Beat-Alls," Mojo Jojo comes across an eccentric female chimpanzee (an {{expy}} of Music/YokoOno in behavior). In both cases, the romance was simply a means to an end, with the man being a pawn in the woman's schemes, and the love is over within 7 minutes of episode time.

* ComicBook/SpiderMan: Boy's aunt tries to set him up on a BlindDate. Boy is convinced girl is awful because his aunt likes her. Boys spends months trying to evade meeting this girl. Boy finally gets tricked into seeing girl. Boys opens door and to his surprise realizes the girl is stunningly beautiful. He stumbles with um...uh..."That's [[ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson Mary Jane]]?" Girl confidently declares "Face it tiger, you just hit the jackpot!" And thus the award for most memorable/cutesy meeting of a couple in the Marvel Universe goes to...

* ''Anime/TheIdolMaster'' - '''14''' of them in the [[UpToEleven first]] episode, each with their own little quirk.