History Main / ReincarnationRomance

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "A Star is Reborn". An old silen film actress believes that [[Characters/AmericanDadStanSmith Stan Smith]] is the reincarnation of her late husband, a silent film star...and Francine is the reincarnation of the ingenue he left her for...which is why she made them ghosts in the first place. After Stan rescues Francine, she muses the story could be true, but Stan seems to dismiss it, teasingly calling her a "fruitcake," leaving it ambiguous.

* A [[CompanyCrossReferences cross]]-[[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld series]] example occurs between [[WebVideo/LifeSMP 3rd Life SMP]] and ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1. Scott and Jimmy's characters fall for each other and have a CommonLawMarriage in ''3rd Life'', [[spoiler:become TogetherInDeath after both of them are KilledOffForReal by nature of the DeadlyGame premise of the series]], reincarnate in the ''Empires'' world at some point, and fall for each other again.[[note]]Granted, ''3rd Life'' being a past life of ''Empires'' Season 1 started out as AscendedFanon, but it's clearly a good enough idea for Scott the content creator to canonize it.[[/note]]

** ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Seto and Kisara were reincarnated as Kaiba and... the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. [[LoveHurts This complicates things...]]

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3735319?view_adult=true We Are the Next Time Around]]'', [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyOlympians Hades and Persephone]] are continually reborn into mortal bodies, right up until the present day. In the first few iterations, they only recognize the other upon making eye contact, but eventually the memories become so instinctive that Persephone even recognizes his [[ReincarnationFriendship reincarnated pet]].

* ''Anime/AquarionEvol'': The main couple, Amata and Mikono, are the reincarnations of the below mentioned Apollo and Silvia, the main couple from ''Anime/GenesisOfAquarion''. [[spoiler:[[LiteralSplitPersonality Kagura]] is ''also'' Apollo's reincarnation and is in love with Mikono too. In addition, there's the revelation that Apollo was the reincarnation of Apollonius' dog who was in love with Apollonius' human lover and wished to be reborn as a human to be with her.]]

* Played with and possibly {{deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Anime/GenesisOfAquarion''. Silvia is supposedly the reincarnation of Celiane, and she believes that the reincarnation of her lover, Apollonius, isn't the protagonist Apollo but rather ''[[BrotherSisterIncest her brother]]'', Sirius. Much drama is milked from the trope until it's finally revealed that [[spoiler:Sirius and Silvia are ''both'' the reincarnated halves of Celiane's soul, and Apollo is indeed her/their lover.]] Sirius reacts exactly as anyone would expect. The ExpositoryThemeTune about the romance has become one of the most famous anime songs of all time.

* In the movie ''Film/TwoTwentyTwo'' the main couple is reincarnated from a previous one, shot dead at the day both of them were born. Fate drives the two of them together to solve their own destiny for the better.

* Dan "Series/DarkShadows" Curtis beat Coppola to it with his 1974 TV movie version of ''Dracula'' starring Jack Palance.

* Between Song Yu and Cheng Yuet-heung in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Lovers Dream Lovers]].

* The RomanceNovel ''Literature/AndGold WasOurs'' has a similar scenario, where the heroine dreams of a couple that resembles her and the hero, seeing them in caveman days, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, etc. She too comes to the conclusion that after much tragedy--one or the other or both has died in every vignette--that they have finally been brought together.

* The RomanceNovel ''AndGold WasOurs'' has a similar scenario, where the heroine dreams of a couple that resembles her and the hero, seeing them in caveman days, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, etc. She too comes to the conclusion that after much tragedy--one or the other or both has died in every vignette--that they have finally been brought together.

* ''Literature/TheSecretCircle's'' Adam and Cassie are destined soul mates who, like their ''[[Literature/TheVampireDiaries Vampire Diaries]]'' novel counterparts, are bound together by a [[RedStringOfFate silver cord or string]].

* In the RomanceNovel ''TheSilverWitch'', the hero and heroine arrive at an abandoned house and are immediately struck by the sensation that they've lived there before. Throughout the book, each of them finds themself knowing things about the house that they couldn't possibly have known, having [[WrongNameOutburst wrong name outbursts]]--he calls her "Amanda", she calls him "Beau" when their names are "Connor" and "Ashley", and they each have flashbacks or visions of the couple in question. They soon learn that the pair was murdered there 100 years ago and conclude that they are their reincarnations.

* The novel ''Time and Time Again'' features this, with the added bonus that (a) the guy remembers all of his past lives while the girl does not, and (b) he ''murdered'' her in a past life. And can't get over it.

* Played with on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. In the episode, "Peter's Progress," [[Characters/FamilyGuyPeterGriffin Peter Griffin's]] past life Griffin Peterson's true love is a woman who resembles Lois, though she's never explicitly identified as being Lois' past life.

* The bodice-ripper RomanceNovel ''And Gold Was Ours'' has a similar scenario, where the heroine dreams of a couple that resembles her and the hero, seeing them in caveman days, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, etc. She too comes to the conclusion that after much tragedy--one or the other or both has died in every vignette--that they have finally been brought together.

* In the bodice-ripper RomanceNovel ''The Silver Witch'', the hero and heroine arrive at an abandoned house and are immediately struck by the sensation that they've lived there before. Throughout the book, each of them finds themself knowing things about the house that they couldn't possibly have known, having [[WrongNameOutburst wrong name outbursts]]--he calls her "Amanda", she calls him "Beau" when their names are "Connor" and "Ashley", and they each have flashbacks or visions of the couple in question. They soon learn that the pair was murdered there 100 years ago and conclude that they are their reincarnations.

* One fan-setting for ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' combined the backstory of Scarab (''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'''s {{Expy}} of Hawkman) with that of Red Phoenix (a reincarnating MagicalGirlWarrior from ''TabletopGame/SilverAgeSentinels''), giving them a Carter-and-Shiera-style Reincarnation Romance. The twist is that in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} this became a MayDecemberRomance, with the middle-aged Scarab trying to hide his feelings for the 20something reincarnation of his lost love from UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|of Comic Books}}. Then in UsefulNotes/{{the Modern Age|of Comic Books}}, Red Phoenix finds herself in a similar situation with the "new" Scarab.

* ''Manhwa/FlowersOfEvil'': The manga starts off with the story of two lovers who are reincarnated as twins. This is what the twin protagonists like to believe has happened to them.

* Si-Joon Lee and Mu-Yeon Park from the {{Manhwa}} ''Manhwa/PigBride'' are [[spoiler:the reincarnations of their ancestors, Si-Baek Li and his wife Lady Park.]]

* In ''Manhwa/TheTarotCafe'', [[spoiler: Aaron]] turns out near the end to be [[spoiler: Nebiros]]'s angelic (and previously female) lover reborn. It seems to help them reconcile after being estranged in their first focus story.

* The bodice-ripper ''And Gold Was Ours'' has a similar scenario, where the heroine dreams of a couple that resembles her and the hero, seeing them in caveman days, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, etc. She too comes to the conclusion that after much tragedy--one or the other or both has died in every vignette--that they have finally been brought together.

* In the bodice-ripper novel ''The Silver Witch'', the hero and heroine arrive at an abandoned house and are immediately struck by the sensation that they've lived there before. Throughout the book, each of them finds themself knowing things about the house that they couldn't possibly have known, having [[WrongNameOutburst wrong name outbursts]]--he calls her "Amanda", she calls him "Beau" when their names are "Connor" and "Ashley", and they each have flashbacks or visions of the couple in question. They soon learn that the pair was murdered there 100 years ago and conclude that they are their reincarnations.

* ''WebVideo/LastLife'' has this as its central premise, featuring an enduring romance between two dark witches—one who has no memory of her past lives, and the other who finds out that her current life might be her last (hence the title).

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "A Star is Reborn". An old silen film actress believes that Stan is the reincarnation of her late husband, a silent film star...and Francine is the reincarnation of the ingenue he left her for...which is why she made them ghosts in the first place. After Stan rescues Francine, she muses the story could be true, but Stan seems to dismiss it, teasingly calling her a "fruitcake," leaving it ambiguous.

* Played with on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. In the episode, "Peter's Progress," Peter's past life Griffin Peterson's true love is a woman who resembles Lois, though she's never explicitly identified as being Lois' past life.

* The main plot and several subplots in ''Manhua/FoxSpiritMatchmaker'' revolve around spirits/ demons and their reincarnated human lovers.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', it is [[HoYay/MetalGearSolid strongly]] hinted, [[HideYourLesbians although never outright stated,]] that Snake and Otacon are the reincarnations of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 The Joy and The Sorrow.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and its power couple, Peter and Lois have apparently been reincarnated several times from the stone age to now. The most prominent are Nate Griffin and Lois' ancestor (meaning that in some way, Lois and Peter may be blood related), and Griffin Peterson and Lady Redbush (which may or may not have the same conspiracy).

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "A Star is Reborn". Stan and Francine were revealed to be reincarnations of former Hollywood stars, both of whom were murdered by the wife of Stan's previous incarnation.

* In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', elder vampires run into a strange phenomenon called an Inamorata, a person too exactly like someone extremely dear to the vampire to be a coincidence, centuries after that person died. Drinking their blood makes a vampire feel human again, though in actuality they lose their vampire powers without losing their weaknesses and banes. Very, very old run vampires into the same Inamorata again and again over the centuries.