History Main / MeetCute

* ''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!!".

* ''WebVideo/Kontrola'': Natalia met Majka in the past while the latter was a store clerk. The two had clear attraction to each other from the start, with awkward banter before Natalia left Majka her number.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E135TheLongMorrow The Long Morrow]]", Commander Douglas Stansfield and Sandra Horn meet when she drops her papers and he helps her to pick them up.

* 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/{{Empowered}} meet her boyfriend Thugboy when [[AMatchMadeInStockholm she was a captured superheroine and he was the minion tying her up]]. Sparks flew. They don't like to talk about how they met.

** [[spoiler: They meet again the next day – Fred is a teller at the bank Mary's gang hit the night before, and Mary was depositing the money she stole back into the bank! Fred is not pleased. They meet again when Fred is working catering at Greg Gaines' ball in Issue 2 - Mary sneaks in the side entrance after being turned away at the door (and insulted by Coco). Mary joins the catering staff to get an in – and Fred interrupts Mary's stealing some jewels. He doesn't turn the charming young thief in then.....]]

* In ''[[Film/Napoleon1927 Napoléon]]'' (1927), the [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte title character]] and Joséphine de Beauharnais first run into each other when she's on the way to the famous FortuneTeller Mlle. Lenormant and he's trying to fix his cardboard boots after they got wet.

* Although the romance angle is limited to {{subtext}}, in ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' "Legacy" Superman hits it off with Alexis, [[RichBitch richest girl in the galaxy]], when he saves her [[HumongousMecha out-of-control mecha-suit]] from plummeting out of the sky.

* ''Film/TheHoliday'' [[DiscussedTrope explicitly spells this out via an elderly screenwriter who's probably been in Hollywood long enough to name most of the tropes found in the film.]] One of the female leads has a meet cute with him that leads only to friendship, but she has another with Creator/JackBlack that leads to romance. It's surprisingly effective.

* [[http://shrineart.tumblr.com/post/89651914103/quietzombiegirl-everyones-grandparents-seem-to This]] tumblr post tells the story of how the OP's grandparents met -- when the grandmother was running away from the police, jumped onto the back of the grandfather's motorcycle, and yelled at him to drive.

* In the [[Anime/AceAttorney anime adaptation]] of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'', Phoenix and Maya cement their new partnership by bowing to each other -- which turns into a cute yet comic pratfall since she's behind a glass wall at the time and they both bump their heads.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

** A couple of years before Ash's journey began, he helped out a girl when she was lost in the forest and has injured her leg. Ash had forgotten the meeting, but the girl, Serena, did not, and Serena started her own journey to meet up with him again when he journeyed to the Kalos region, where she and her mother currently live.
** In one Japanese ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' radio show, Musashi and Kojiro are playing two people (named "Jessie" and "James") who are slowly dying of lack of oxygen on a spaceship that has went off the rails. They mention having met several times before they became friends. They first met when they were trying to save a kid from falling and they hit their heads together. Jessie and James later met again at a store when they noticed they were reading the exact same book. They then kept on meeting again and again.

* Being a modernized version, ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' does a similar thing between Roger and Mimi in the song "Light My Candle". Only it's played with a bit as they'd clearly seen each other around before, don't get involved until later in the movie version, and it's implied that Mimi orchestrated it to try to invoke the trope with Roger.

* 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.

* In 1966 SitCom ''Love on a Rooftop'' Dave met his wife-to-be Julie when his sandwich fell into her bag while he was working. When he finally tracked her down, he showed more interest in Julie than in his lunch.

* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Demon Crowley and angel Aziraphale first met at the Garden of Eden. When it started raining, Aziraphale sheltered Crowley under his wing.
** In series 2 we learn that [[spoiler:it wasn't in fact their first meeting. The had met before, when angel Crowley was creating stars and galaxies. And when the stars started falling it was Crowley who sheltered Aziraphale under his wing]]. It hardly gets cuter that this!

** Also, Crowley vividly remembers their meet-cute at the Garden of Eden, because in season 2 he definitely speaks from his own experience when he suggests the "perfect" way to make two people [[spoiler:fall in love with each other]] - put them under rain and then under a shelter, staring into each others' eyes and - Va-voom! - sorted.

* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Demon Crowley and angel Aziraphale first met at the Garden of Eden. When it started raining, Aziraphale sheltered Crowley under his wing. In series 2 we learn that [[spoiler:it wasn't in fact their first meeting. The had met before, when angel Crowley was creating stars and galaxies. And when the stars started falling it was Crowley who sheltered Aziraphale under his wing]]. It hardly gets cuter that this!
Also, Crowley vividly remembers their meet-cute at the Garden of Eden, because in season 2 he definitely speaks from his own experience when he suggests the "perfect" way to make two people [[spoiler:fall in love with each other]] - put them under rain and then under a shelter, staring into each others' eyes and - Va-voom! - sorted.

* 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.

Not to be confused with TheCutie, even though either or both of them could very well be just that. Nor with the eponymous movie from 2022.

* 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.]]