History Main / MotivationalKiss

->'''Zelda:''' [[DefiedTrope You've]] ''[[DefiedTrope got]]'' [[DefiedTrope to be kidding me.]]

* Actively defied by Zelda in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Link: The Faces of Evil]] - see the page quote.

-->-- ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames Link: The Faces of Evil]]''

* Actively defied by Zelda in [[TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Link: The Faces of Evil]] - see the page quote.

* In CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger, Steve Rogers receives a kiss from Peggy Carter just before he boards the [[BigBad Red Skull's]] plane.
* In StarWars Episode IV, Princess Leia gives Luke a peck on the cheek "for luck" before he tries to swing over a precarious gap.
* Played more-or-less straight in MysteryTeam...except that Jason doesn't actually know how to kiss, and just blows into the love interest's mouth.
* Happens in VanHelsing when Van Helsing and Anna split up before the climactic battle, he to face down Dracula [[spoiler: using his werewolf power to defeat the vampire]] and she to retrieve the werewolf cure serum.

* Inverted in LightNovel/{{Baccano}}, when [[spoiler: Jacuzzi kisses Nice just before running off to confront an Ax Crazy Mook with a Flamethrower. She admits that's the first time they kissed.]]

May sometimes overlap with LastKiss, or a (successful) ComicallySmallBribe.

* Actively defied by Zelda in [[TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Link: The Faces of Evil]].
--->'''Link''': How about a kiss? For luck?
--->'''Zelda''': You've GOT to be kidding.

!Examples

* Sera gives one to Knuckles in [[SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie]].

* In [[CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Captain America: The First Avenger]], Steve Rogers receives a kiss from Peggy Carter just before he boards the [[BigBad Red Skull's]] plane.

* GenderFlipped in StephenKing's ''TheStand'', where Stu Redman gives Dayna Jurgens two kisses for luck when she's about to go away on a dangerous mission.

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* In MassEffect3, when EDI describes Normandy's readiness before the final battle, she states she even kissed Joker for luck.

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* In ''GirlGenius'', Gil gets one [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110817 here]] (continued to the next page).

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* ''TheBattleOfTheLabyrinth'': [[spoiler: Right before Percy heads into a volcano for a very dangerous mission, Annabeth gives him a kiss and tells him to be careful. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Then disappears under her hat.]]]]

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* ''TheBattleOfTheLabyrinth'': [[spoiler: Right before Percy heads into a volcano for a very dangerous mission, Annabeth gives him a kiss and tells him to be careful. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Then disappears under her hat.]]

* ''TheBattleoftheLabyrinth'': [[spoiler: Right before Percy heads into a volcano for a very dangerous mission, Annabeth gives him a kiss and tells him to be careful. [ItMakesSenseInContext: Then disappears under her hat.]]

* In MassEffect3, when EDI describes Nirmandy's readiness before the final battle, she states she even kissed Joker for luck.

* Inverted in {{Baccano}}, when [[spoiler: Jacuzzi kisses Nice just before running off to confront an Ax Crazy Mook with a Flamethrower. She admits that's the first time they kissed.]]

* Subverted radically by the villainess, Poison Ivy in [[BatmanAndRobin Batman & Robin]]. Late in the film, [[RecklessSidekick Robin]] is lured into the villainess' lair under the pretense of her love for him. When Ivy reveals Freeze's plan to destroy Gotham City, Robin turns to leave in order to stop him- only to be pulled back by the [[TheVamp villainess]].

* At the climax of MonsterHouse, our protagonist, DJ, is faced with the task of climbing up a crane and dropping a stick of dynamite down Constance's chimney, destroying her once and for all. When he says that he doesn't think he can do it, his LoveInterest Jenny loudly proclaims, "Yes, you ''can''!" before kissing him on the mouth.

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': one time when Data was on an away mission a local girl gave him such a kiss. He was perplexed.

* Done by CaptainPower to his female crewmate Pilot before the big trench run against the Icarus Platform.

** Though in truth it's doubly subverted by Robin as he came prepared thus didn't die.

May sometimes overlap with LastKiss, or a (sucessful) ComicallySmallBribe.

May sometimes overlap with LastKiss.

TheHero is just about to take on a herculean and possibly life- threatening task, be it facing down the BigBad, barging into a burning building, or even trying to clear a massive BottomlessPit. All his friends are depending on him, and time is running out, but he ''still'' may be a little nervous and apprehensive.

* In ''GirlGenius'', Gil gets one [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110819 here]].