History Main / SlapSlapKiss

* In ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', Jenny and Amderstam insult each other which escalates into a physical fight with slapping, punching, grappling, clawing, and even try to bite, followed up with a kiss".

%%* Vlad of the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' series and his wife, a former assassin, fall in lust/love after she kills him and he is revived from the dead. This is subverted later when the series takes a more realistic perspective toward this kind of tumultuous relationship by having their marriage fall apart very quickly when the two discover how different they really are.

* Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged and [[spoiler:Trillian Astra]] in ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'', after a heated argument regarding a) the treatment of Random Dent, and b) whether or not the chosen pastimes of either them is more or less pathetic and laced with schadenfreude than the other's.

* Hot Goblin Girl Nitrine and her archfoe Halfling Sorceress Morgana satisfy our LesYay and FoeYay expectations in [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=233 this episode]] of ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry''.

* Selwyn and Tallulah, the bickering sorcerer couple in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', who fight with each other as much as they love each other. Zap-Zap-Kiss, anyone?

* Joe and Nicky take this to an extreme in ''Film/TheOldGuard''. A pair of nearly 1000 year old immortals of the ResurrectiveImmortality variety, the two met on opposite sides of a war and ''killed each other multiple times'' before finally calling a truce and eventually falling deeply in love.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': A more violent version in season nine, shown in ''Escape''. [[spoiler:Tess and Zod had a passionate kiss after Tess shoots at Zod, who returns a NeckLift only to be subdued with kryptonite.]]
** In Season 8 episode "Committed" when Oliver and Tess are fighting with sticks before their date, they wind up kissing each other.
* ''Series/{{Desperate Housewives}}'' contains the following interaction between Carlos and Gabrielle:
--> '''Gabrielle''': Why are all rich men jerks?
--> '''Carlos''': Same reason all beautiful women are bitches. (beat) Same time tomorrow?
--> '''Gabrielle''': Sure baby. (they kiss)
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', practically a TropeNamer, centered around the WillTheyOrWontThey relationship of Sam and Diane that seemed eternally poised to trigger this trope.
-->'''Sam''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6c_g-25jXc You are the nuttiest...the stupidest..the PHONIEST FRUITCAKE I ever met!]]\\
'''Diane''': And ''you'', Sam Malone--are the most ''arrogant'', ''self-centered'', [[CurseCutShort SON OF]]--\\
'''Sam''': [[BigShutUp SHUT UP! ...Shut your fat mouth!]]\\
'''Diane''': Make me.\\
'''Sam''': ''Make'' you...? My God, I'm, I'm gonna, [[WouldHitAGirl I'M GONNA BOUNCE YOU OFF EVERY WALL IN THIS OFFICE!!]]\\
'''Diane''': ''(smirk)'' [[GroinAttack Try it and you'll be walking FUNNY tomorrow.]] Or should I say ''funnier''!\\
'''Sam''': You know...you know I always wanted to ''pop'' you one. Maybe this is my lucky day, huh?\\
'''Diane''': ''(low voice)'' You ''disgust'' me.... I ''hate'' you.\\
'''Sam''': [[BelligerentSexualTension Are you as turned on as I am?]]\\
'''Diane''': ''More''!\\
'''Sam''': Bet me.\\
''(they kiss passionately)''
** ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' referenced this scene twice with Frasier. The most direct homage (where Frasier actually ''says'' "Are you as turned on as I am?") is actually an amusing [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]...
%%* Niles and C.C. in ''Series/TheNanny'' triggered a quantum leap in their relationship this way.
* ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'': Dave and Maddie finally resolve years of BelligerentSexualTension, when the two swap insults like bitch and bastard, Maddie slaps him hard across the face and tells him to get out. She tries to slap him a third time and he grabs her wrist. Then they kiss and keep going from there.
* Dana and Rich from the 1990s comedy series ''Series/StepByStep''.
-->'''Dana''': God, why am I wasting my time on you? You're nothing but a drooling, illiterate, imbecile!\\
'''Rich''': Hey, it's better than being a stuck up, man-hitting, know-it-all.\\
'''Dana''': Oh yeah? Here's an idea: why don't you go down to the railroad tracks and hop a train back to munchkin land?\\
'''Rich''': Oh yeah well, I got a better idea: why don't I find a tutor who isn't a member of the Lorena Bobbitt ''fan club?''\\
'''Dana''': Oh yeah, that's pretty good for someone with the IQ of a potato.\\
'''Rich''': Better than having the sex appeal of a potato.\\
'''Dana''': Ugh, you make me sick!\\
'''Rich''': You make me sicker!\\
'''Dana''': I hate you!\\
'''Rich''': ... are you as hot as I am?\\
'''Dana''': Hotter! ''(passionate kiss ensues)''
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E9Smashed Smashed]]", when Spike discovers that his [[RestrainingBolt chip]] doesn't stop him from hurting Buffy, he starts taunting her that she CameBackWrong and they get into a violent fight/insult exchange, which ends with Buffy aggressively kissing Spike and having passionate sex [[DestructoNookie as the building collapses around them]]. Subverted in that, rather than showing their BelligerentSexualTension, it actually foreshadows the InterplayOfSexAndViolence in the Buffy/Spike 'relationship'.
** Invoked in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More, With Feeling]]":
--->'''Spike''': First I'll save her, then I'll kill her!
** Also Cordelia and Xander, who at one point gets trapped in a basement.
--->'''Cordelia''': I can't believe that I'm stuck spending what will probably be my last few moments on Earth here ''with you!''\\
'''Xander''': I ''hope'' these are my last few moments! Three more seconds with you, and I'm gonna... ''(steps closer)''\\
'''Cordelia''': ''(steps closer)'' I'm gonna what? Coward!\\
'''Xander''': Moron!\\
'''Cordelia''': I ''hate'' you!\\
'''Xander''': I hate ''you!''
-->They look at each other for another second before grabbing each other and engaging in a mad, passionate kiss. It goes on for several seconds before they suddenly release each other and look at each other in horror.
--->'''Xander''': We ''so'' need to get outta here.\\
'''Cordelia''': ''(nods)'' Mm-hm!
** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E6WildAtHeart Wild at Heart]]", fellow werewolves Oz and Veruca meet in their wolf forms and immediately start snarling and fighting. The next day they wake up naked in each others arms.
** A KissOfTheVampire version happens in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E22GraduationDayPart2 Graduation Day Part 2]]" when Buffy punches Angel until he vamps out and feeds on her.
%%* Although they are brother and sister, Justin and Alex from ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' have this kind of relationship. Despite the fact that the ''slap slap'' part is much more dominant, they occasionally hug and support each other, especially in the last episodes (plus TheMovie), where these gestures are ''quite'' frequent. Now, it might sound like a normal sibling relationship... if the entire fandom wasn't led by fans who support [[PortmanteauCoupleName Jalex]] ([[BrotherSisterIncest Justin/Alex]]).
%%** [[RelationshipWritingFumble And this is the producers' fault, of course.]]
%%** This is really accentuated in an episode where Justin and Alex stand with their arms crossed, declaring their deep hatred for each other, and then hug in the next moment like their lives depend on it. And let's not forget that [[InnocentInnuendo Alex giggles like a school girl]] and [[DoubleEntendre Justin pokes her with his wand]] after that.
* Hawkeye and Margaret's brief liaison under fire in ''[[Series/{{MASH}} M*A*S*H]]'' is a variation on this trope. Even Hot Lips and Frank conveyed this trope note for note years earlier.
* In ''Series/PicketFences'', Max and Kenny finally end their [[WillTheyOrWontThey three season]] [[BelligerentSexualTension long dance]] whilst they are, typically, arguing and in the full throes of denial about their feelings for each other. Max has her back to Kenny, ranting about his behaviour whilst he calmly walks up behind her, waits for her to turn around, and then kisses her. Humorously she attempts to continue arguing ''whilst'' he's kissing her until she finally gives in and [[LustfulMelt melts into it]]. [[TheyDo Consummation of their relationship then ensues.]]
* Aeryn and John on ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', often complete with literal punches and backhands. They yell at each other, and then they make out... [[KissKissSlap or they make out and then yell at each other]].
* Chuck and Blair on ''Series/GossipGirl'', all the time. Most clearly portrayed when they viciously say how much they hate each other and then have sex on a piano.
%%** Also Blair and Dan, platonically, right from the start of the show. The writers say this is why they've always wanted to do a romantic relationship between the two.
* Pretty much the entire plot of every instance of "The Needlers", a recurring sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
* Happened in the penultimate episode of ''Series/TwoGuysAndAGirl'' to set Pete and Ashley together.
%%** It was {{deconstructed}} earlier in the show with Berg and Ashley. Berg ended the relationship because it wasn't healthy.
* ''Series/{{Rome}}'':
** Happened completely in the late first season between Marc Antony and Atia of the Julii. Slap. Pause. Slap. Pause. Kiss.
** And in Season 2, Marc Antony gets into an argument with Cleopatra (over Atia, no less). She starts throwing vases at him and they end up [[WallBangHer having sex against a column]].
* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': There was a GirlOfTheWeek who was rude to everyone, and Will wasn't getting along with her for that reason. Carlton had better luck, however, and after the "kiss" part of the trope kicked in, he was able to get her to treat people in a civil manner. After discovering that Carlton was able to assert himself, Will tried doing the same thing as Carlton did... however, Will was just as unable as ever to get past the "slap slap" stage of the relationship.
* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Josh and Mindy share the following heated exchange...
-->'''Josh''': So today, you were just messing with my head?\\
'''Mindy''': I think you deserved it after the way you screamed at me.\\
'''Josh''': I still think that was a really obnoxious thing for you to do!\\
'''Mindy''': I think you acted ''way'' more obnoxious.\\
'''Josh''': Well, I'm just glad we're broken up!\\
'''Mindy''': Not as glad as I am!\\
'''Josh''': Oh, really?!\\
'''Mindy''': REALLY!\\
''(they make out)''
* Maddie shares one such scene with a one-shot character, Trevor, a "merit scholar", on ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', ending with the most passionate make-out scene ever on children's programming:
-->'''Trevor''': I don't need a vote from some tree-hugger.\\
'''Maddie''': If you have it your way, there won't be any trees left to hug.\\
'''Trevor''': Oh, next you're going to blame the oil companies for global warming.\\
'''Maddie''': Yeah, 'cause they're to blame!\\
'''Trevor''': Oh, cry me a river!\\
'''Maddie''': If I did, you'd just pollute it!\\
'''Trevor''': You bleeding-heart liberal!\\
'''Maddie''': You establishment puppet!\\
'''Trevor''': Do you wanna kiss me as much as I wanna kiss you!?\\
'''Maddie''': I'm surprised someone as smart as you would have to ask!\\
'''London''': ''(to a nearby museum staff)'' Didn't see ''that'' comin'.\\
''(the man nods)''
** It doesn't help that Trevor and Maddie are played by the same people who played [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Troy and Sharpay]].
** "I wonder what they'd do if they liked each other?"
* One episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' subverts it by having Frasier in the slap phase with a coworker, but when (in a ContinuityNod to the ''Cheers'' example) he asks if she is as turned on as he is, she just says no and looks disgusted. Since the station manager saw the situation, everyone in the station has to attend a SensitivityTraining.
** DoublySubverted because eventually Frasier and the coworker do date.
** A straight example of this trope occurred in an earlier episode in a very similar situation, and they actually had sex multiple times (on the air, once) despite claiming that they can't stand each other, but without the ShoutOut to the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' line.
** A version of this trope occurred in the episode "Daphne Returns" where Daphne and Niles' first fight leads to them kissing and then having sex for the first time.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' has raised this to the level of an art form; nearly ''every'' canonical couple has engaged in it at some point and to some degree, often in the most literal sense (see -- unsurprisingly -- Lee Adama and Kara Thrace; also Saul and Ellen Tigh). Though Adama and Thrace seem to be more inclined to Punch Punch Kiss/Punch Punch UST than anything else.
** Deserving of special mention are Chief Tyrol and [[spoiler:Cally]]. The first slap was actually [[spoiler:Cally]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse Murdering The Hypotenuse]] by [[spoiler:shooting Tyrol's Cylon lover right before his eyes]]. The slap back came later that season, when she woke Tyrol up from a nightmare. Believing he was still dreaming, he [[spoiler:beat her]] so brutally that it required not only a DiscretionShot but a [[ContentWarnings Content Warning]] at the beginning of the episode. Two and a half episodes later, [[spoiler:they were HappilyMarried]] and [[BabiesEverAfter expecting]]. Admittedly there was a one-year TimeSkip in the meantime, but ''damn''. And this was one of the more ''stable'' relationships on the show. At least until the fourth season, but that's another story...
* ''Series/BurnNotice'' takes this and runs with it, since one of the "combatants" is a former CIA operative and the other an ex-IRA terrorist. After a short fight with heavy subtext, one finally gets the other in a choke pin... but then they start making out.
* Ellen from ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'' does this twice within three episodes of each other: the first time with Geoffrey, the second with her brother-in-law Eric.
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': The Luke/Lorelai relationship is built on this (although they only get to the 'kiss' part in Season 4). To a lesser degree Jess/Rory. Particuarly amusing as Luke is Jess' uncle and Lorelai Rory's mother; it must run in the family...
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. A variation that doesn't involve BelligerentSexualTension is in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf What Are Little Girls Made Of?]]" To demonstrate that the gynoid Andrea is JustAMachine, her creator Dr Korby has her kiss-- then slap--Captain Kirk to show she's an EmotionlessGirl either way. Kirk later kisses Andrea again, blocks her slap then gives her a BigDamnKiss.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Worf explains to Wesley that this is how all Klingon courtship works. The woman roars and throws heavy objects, while the man reads love poetry and ducks a lot. Martok and Sirella's relationship (the Klingon equivalent of Benedick and Beatrice) backs this up.
** Captain Picard has one with Captain Phillipa Louvois, who had previously prosecuted Picard with zeal during the court martial following the loss of the USS Stargazer, in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E9TheMeasureOfAMan The Measure Of A Man]]".
--->'''Picard''' It's been ten years, but seeing you again like this makes it seem like fifty. If we weren't around all these people, do you know what I would like to do?\\
'''Louvois''' Bust a chair across my teeth.\\
'''Picard''' After that.\\
'''Louvois''' Oh, ain't love wonderful.
*** Picard frequently has this with Vash, too.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E07LetHeWhoIsWithoutSin Let He Who is Without Sin]]", Worf and Ezri Dax have a heated argument while stranded on a forest planet, intensified by the feelings shared between Worf and Jadzia Dax, Ezri's symbiont predecessor. It eventually degrades into name-calling and fisticuffs, and a passionate kiss with (implied) off-camera relations.
** Odo and Kira in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E20HisWay His Way]]" -- not too heavy on the slapping, but a heated argument in the middle of the frickin' Promenade should count too.
** Chief O'Brien has this almost done to him as well. He's working with a female Cardassian engineer and the two of them won't stop arguing over everything. Soon he learns that she believed that he was flirting with her.
** The way Worf and Jadzia got together in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E03LookingForParmachInAllTheWrongPlaces Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places]]". Although that was more "Bat'leth Fight, Attempted Strangulation, DestructoNookie." This is more of a traditional Klingon romantic interlude - they even have (implied) ritual phrases for initiating a fight that they intend will end in sex.
--->'''Bashir''': No... No, I don't need that image, either. In fact I'm gonna stop asking that question altogether. People will come in, I will treat them, and that's all.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. In "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS2E11PreciousCargo Precious Cargo]]", Tucker rescues the princess Kaitaama after she was kidnapped by an alien species for ransom. From the moment they meet Kaitaama and Tucker bicker and argue which continues as they use an escape pod to land on an uninhabited planet. Here, their argument escalates to name-calling and insults culminating in Kaitaama kissing Tucker followed by off-camera relations.
* ''Series/TheTick2001'' (live-action): Batmanuel and Captain Liberty.
** Who are expies of Die Fleidermaus and American Maid from the animated version.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''
** Jordan and Dr. Cox. Although it's more of a "Stab Stab Sex" sort of thing. In later seasons, however, it becomes more because of habit and pride than any actual friction. In fact, in season 8, Cox tells Jordan he's fed up with all the snarking and insulting, and deconstructs this trope, as it's become contrived and fake:
--->'''Cox''': I'm sick of pretending we don't like each other. It is distinctly not fun anymore, and would you like to know why? Because a) we are over 12, and b) we actually do like each other. In fact, brace yourself, we love each other.\\
'''Jordan''': *''{{GASP}}!!''*
** Jordan again, this time with JD. He gets fed up with her behaviour as a patient, tells her so, and she tells him to take his pants off.
* Gene Hunt to Alex Drake in Episode 1 of ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' (immediately after grabbing her breast in the supply room):
-->'''Gene''': ''Now'' then, Bollinger Knickers. You going to kiss me or punch me?
** She did not, needless to say, kiss him. Nor has she yet, but let's face it -- it's only a matter of time.
* Dick and Mary from ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' have this quite often. Most bizarrely, the first episode has Dick kiss Mary, she slaps him, she kisses him again, then he, confused, ''slaps her back''. [[RunningGag Then she slaps him again]]. [[OverlyLongGag Then he slaps her again]].
** As he leaves the party where this happens, the hostess kisses him goodbye. He says goodbye then slaps her.
* ''Series/UglyBetty'':
** Receptionist Amanda and Nick Pepper revert to this after quite a few scenes of sexual tension, coming to a close when both tag each other out of a game of [[PaintballEpisode company paintball]] -- and consequently decide that their catfights actually turn them on.
** Justin and Austin had a mild form of this before their first kiss which included insulting one another, and right before the kiss, them playfully shoving one another.
* Spike and Lynda of ''Series/PressGang'' conducted their kissing-and-slapping exchange while on the set of a Saturday morning children's cartoon show, where Lynda was supposed to be promoting the wholesomeness and public-spiritedness of the ''Junior Gazette''.
* ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'' has something similar to the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' subversion but played more seriously: Geraldine, the title character and a liberal female vicar, is always trading insults with the [[StrawmanPolitical arch-conservative]] councilman David. At one point in the series, he reveals his love for her, interpreting her snarking as flirting. In actuality, she doesn't really consciously ''like him'' much at this point. This declaration starts his character on a more PetTheDog path and makes her better disposed to him.
* From ''Series/{{House}}'', Greg House and Lisa Cuddy: "I try to make you miserable. You deny that it's making you miserable. You try to make me miserable so I'll stop making you miserable." How romantic... And let us not forget [[spoiler:the ending of the episode "Joy" in season 5, where they actually do kiss after the slap slap.]] Season 6 seems to be heading for [[spoiler:[[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing]] this trope. Apparently, Cuddy doesn't find it at all romantic. Maybe House should read ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''.]]
* Done in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' between Ross and Rachel. After their major break up in Season 3, the couple are constantly at each other's throats, insulting and humiliating each other and sabotaging the other's relationships every chance they get, despite still obviously being attracted to each other and sleeping together at least twice. At the end of Season 8, Rachel is very pregnant and overdue for labor, and the doctor has advised several home remedies, including sex, to speed up the process. They try everything else and nothing works, so Rachel insists they have sex. Since she had been very mean to Ross that entire episode, Ross declines. Rachel then starts angrily ranting at him about how this is all his fault and so on, but is interrupted by Ross kissing her. Rachel is surprised and Ross says, "I don't care what it takes, I am getting that baby out of you!" Rachel immediately starts having contractions and Ross says, "I am ''good''!"
** Also done between Rachel and her colleague/love interest Gavin in season 9. Their relationship is initially competitive and Gavin is a jerk to Rachel, but the two kiss at Rachel's birthday party leading to a brief fling between the two.
** Interestingly, this trope is repeatedly, deliberately [[DefiedTrope defied]] with Ross' and Rachel's {{Foil}} BetaCouple Chandler and Monica, for whom fighting is always unquestionably non-sexy. They try taking a romantic weekend trip together in "The One With the Kips," only to end up bickering over petty things; they spend the weekend fighting and ''not'' having any sex. "The One With Ross and Monica's Cousin" takes place during a period when they've decided not to have sex before their wedding; when they both can't take it anymore, they decide that ''if'' they were to, say, have a big fight and call the wedding off, they could have sex again, but they end up jokingly insulting each other so much that Monica decides "the wedding is back on" -- even fake fighting turns them off. Then there's the infamous scene in "The One With Phoebe's Birthday Dinner" where they have a big fight over Chandler smoking again; Monica still wants to have sex like they planned because she's ovulating and they're trying to get pregnant, but Chandler just can't do it when they're fighting like this, so she has to pretend to apologize and make up with him to trick him into sleeping with her. Watching the two opposite approaches to this trope side by side in the same series makes for some fascinating viewing.
* Basically describes the whole relationship between Luke and Reid in ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns''. The Slap Slap part of the relationship dies down some after they become an actual couple.
* An episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' featured Slater and Jessie arguing as they always do before launching into a kiss.
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'':
** Samantha Bee and Jason Jones (married in RL) pulled this off... [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=120392&title=Chalabi/Cheney-Transcript while acting as Dick Cheney and Ahmad Chalabi]].
** Jon Stewart and Wyatt Cenac did something similar during their [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-july-30-2009/white-house-beer-simulation White House Beer Simulation]], though it was more Fight Dance Fight Dance Fight Dance Grope.
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': In the Season 5 episode "Opposites Attract", Laura is the editor of her school paper and can't stop arguing with a writer for the paper. After several fights, it ends in their making out.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Ana Lucia tries to get Sawyer's gun -- she asks him for it, tries to steal it, and gets caught. She and Sawyer fight before he pins her down and asks her what she's going to do, and she kisses him, leading to them having sex. [[spoiler:She steals the gun after when he's too distracted to think about it.]]
* Played around with in the season 4 finale of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', between Barney and Robin. The two are unable to admit their feelings without provoking the other into an automatic rejection response (as both are relationship averse). Leads to a long, rapid back-and-forth "I love you"/"Let's be friends" style exchange that escalates in aggravation until they become so confused and frustrated they simply kiss. And it's awesome:
-->'''Barney''': Why are you so afraid of giving this a chance?\\
'''Robin''': Because I am scared of how much I like you!\\
'''Barney''': Whoa, this is a bad idea.\\
'''Robin''': You're right, this is a mistake.\\
'''Barney''': Yes. No!\\
'''Robin''': I love you!\\
'''Barney''': Let's be friends.\\
'''Robin''': Okay, friends then.\\
'''Barney''': I love you.\\
'''Robin''': Let's get married!\\
'''Barney''': No, you're smothering me!\\
'''Robin''': Okay, forget it!\\
'''Barney''': Gaaah!\\
'''Robin''': Gaaah! ''(they kiss)''
* In series 1 of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', Jack and Ianto go from pointing guns at each other's heads in episode 4 to {{UST}} in episode 5 and discussing stopwatches in episode 8. (To be fair, it's also been suggested that they were having sex before episode 4, though nothing in canon actually proves it.)
* ''Series/TwentyFour'':
** Notable [[AvertedTrope aversion]]: the original script called for this between Jack Bauer and Renee Walker in season 7, but the kiss was cut for being "[[LampshadeHanging too cliché]]". She instead breaks down crying in his arms. The actress who plays Renee added that she [[http://au.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b104556_24_cuts_out_hot_kiefer_kiss.html wasn't quite sure if she wanted a romantic subplot with Jack]] [[CartwrightCurse because that's "usually the kiss of death for a character"]]. I smell GenreSavvy here.
** Played straight in Season 8 [[spoiler:including Annie Wersching's prediction...]]
* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Vala and Daniel go through this a few times:
** Vala tried to invoke it with Daniel in the first episode. During a brutal fight, she kisses him as a means to disarm him, but that just leads to more fighting, followed by a stun blast. He did see her naked, but she's rather disappointed that she was unconscious, thus defeating the purpose.
** In "Unending" where a pretty brutal argument (mostly on Daniel's side) turns into smooches.
* Joe and Helen do this on ''Series/{{Wings}}'', except that the slaps are done with flour-coated pieces of veal. (Don't ask.)
-->'''Joe''': One minute we're spanking each other with meat, and the next minute it got weird!
* Delayed version in ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', where Topher is forced to punch out Bennett when he finds out she is trying to kill Caroline/Echo. Later on, when Bennett is helping Topher put together Caroline's original personality wedge, she forces him to tell her why, and subsequently returns the favor with an even more vicious right hook. A scene later, the two finally give in to their respective crushes and start kissing.
* Happens offscreen in ''Series/ICarly'' "iDate a Bad Boy". The audience (and Carly's brother) only get the kissing part, but Carly later explains that it started off with an argument.
* On ''Series/{{Glee}}'' in the episode "Never Been Kissed", [[spoiler:Kurt confronts Dave Karofsky, a recurring bully who has been torturing Kurt for being gay, which leads to Dave passionately kissing Kurt and leaving Kurt visibly traumatized, and understandably considering that it was Kurt's first real kiss.]]
* In ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'', the episode, "Sex, Lies, and Red Tape", [[spoiler:Laura]] gives the bewildered [[spoiler:Mr. Brittas]] a rather solid kiss after yelling about her unrelenting hatred of his idiocy.
* In ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', Nancy and Arnie did this CONSTANTLY when they were married. On one memorable occasion, Roseanne and Dan playfully fight over items to sell in a garage sale (including throwing furniture outside), before pausing to stare at each other, panting, and running to the bedroom.
* In the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode "The Two Live Crew Job", the fight scene between Eliot and Mikel, his counterpart in the opposing crew, feels like (extremely violent) foreplay even before it hits the kissing stage. Nicely done, and hot enough to definitely qualify as FanService.
* Max and Iago from ''El Cor de la Ciutat'' were like this during the early stages of their relationship when Max was still [[{{Tsundere}} conflicted about]] [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys his feelings for a delinquent]]:
-->'''Max''': No, Iago, it isn't fucking funny! You always have to bother everyone, or what? First lying to the whole world, then it turns out that you are a thief, and now disappearing and the whole world is concerned about what happened to poor Iago.\\
'''Iago''': Are you worrying [about me] too?\\
'''Max''': Don't say foolish things! I haven't thought about you for even a second, Iago, do you understand? I don't care if they're breaking your legs and locking you up in prison, which is what you deserve!\\
''(they kiss passionately)''
* Done with unique minimalism in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s "The Puerto-Rican Day" episode. Elaine leads a group of complete strangers underneath the bleachers along 5th Avenue when suddenly they reach a dead-end. The guy following her starts screaming in panic and she [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slaps him across the face]]. He [[BorrowedCatchphrase pushes her]], she pushes him back, and as they grab each other for more serious violence they suddenly pause, look in each others' eyes, and then kiss passionately.
* In the third season finale of ''Series/{{Suits}}'', [[spoiler:Mike and Rachel]] are locked in a file room, arguing. Finally, he [[spoiler:admits he never went to Harvard, and he's a fraud.]] She slaps him twice, and when she reels back for a third, he grabs her wrist. She goes to storm off, and he grabs her arm to stop her. Then, they make out and have some very acrobatic sex.
* Matthew and Mary in ''Series/DowntonAbbey''. A great deal of the first series revolves around their BelligerentSexualTension, though they only get to the "kiss" part in the penultimate hour. Only increases in Series 3 after [[spoiler:they get married.]]
* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': Pretty much ''anyone'' Casey gets involved with, particularly Verbanski.
* Done as a VisualPun in a commercial where a Latina woman walks up to a guy and slaps him for no reason, then starts making out with him.
* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': Damon and Elena.
--> '''Damon''': Listen to us! This is toxic! We are in a toxic relationship, Elena! I just killed your friend and you find someone else to blame!\\
'''Elena''': You want me to blame you? Easy! Done! You screwed up, Damon. Again!\\
'''Damon''': Thank you!\\
'''Elena''': You put me in a position where I have to defend you, again, where I have to bend my morals, again. Where I have to go against every single thing that I believe in, again, because I love you!\\
'''Damon''': Then stop loving me!\\
'''Elena''': I can't!\\
'''Damon''': Well, that's the problem! We don't work!\\
'''Elena''': I know..\\
'''Damon''': Then we agree? This has to end.\\
'''Elena''': It just did. It's over.. We're over.\\
''(They stand next to each other's eyes and for a second they start kissing)''
* ''Series/{{Jonas}}'': Joe and Stella are prone to this due to their {{Relationship Revolving Door}}, but the biggest example was in "Double Date".
-->'''Joe''': What up?!\\
'''Stella''': Don't give me all what up all so innocent like you don't know what up!!! I can't believe how somebody can be so irresponsible selfish and just thoughtless!!!!\\
'''Joe''': Well you are stuck up pretentious and totally gorgeous!!!!\\
'''Stella''': Gorgeous?! You said I was gorgeous!!!\\
'''Joe''': I meant adorable!!! You're so adorable you make me sick!!!!\\
'''Stella''': I'm sorry. If I'm so sickeningly adorable, then why did you come to the restaurant tonight?!\\
'''Joe''': Why did you go out with Van Dike?!!\\
'''Stella''': Because he asked me!!!! Isn't that how it works, Joe?! A guy asks out a girl because he likes her!!!\\
'''Joe''': What about a guy ''not'' asking out a girl because he likes her?!!! Have you ever thought of that???!!!!\\
'''Stella''': [[BigWhat What?!!!]]\\
'''Joe''': I don't want to wreck everything you and I ''don't'' have together!!!!\\
'''Stella''': That makes absolutely no sense!!!!\\
'''Joe''': Well sometimes things don't make sense!!!!!\\
'''Stella''': Okay well....(Joe pulls Stella in and they kiss)
* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': Alex and Piper spend their time in season 3 saying how much they hate each other, getting physically violent before kissing and having sex.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Happens with John Reese and Kara Stanton, who was his EvilMentor while they were assassins for the CIA. Kara is annoyed because Reese is a reluctant killer, and "to be good at this job, you need to enjoy it." Finally she puts a gun to his head and invites him to leave, saying she needs a killer, "not a boy scout". Reese then grabs Stanton by the throat and slams her up against the wall, saying that he ''does'' enjoy his work. Cue passionate kiss.
* A nasty version occurs in ''Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond''. Ian Fleming slaps Ann O'Neill after she taunts him about the death of Muriel and gets slapped in return, so he pins her to the floor and beats her with a belt, then tries to rape her only to ejaculate prematurely. Anne is a sadomasochist however, so that's when they start kissing.
* ''Series/{{Treadstone}}''
** A variation when Petra has her KGB superior shouting right in her face before a full KGB tribunal for letting a Cicada agent escape, then we cut to them in bed together, with him explaining that he had to put on a performance for everyone else. He does explain that if she doesn't fix her latest mistake however, he'll have to punish her for real.
** Played straight when Petra is with CIA agent John Bentley [[MoreThanMindControl whom she seduced during his brainwashing]]--one minute they're shouting in each other's faces and Bentley is threatening to shoot himself, next they're tearing off each other's clothing.
* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. In "Nakazat", there's a particularly gruesome example between Billy Russo and his therapist Krista Dumont, who's hiding him from a police manhunt while also trying to treat him. They get into a loud argument, Krista slaps him, then Billy starts choking her, then she ''stabs his hand'', and instead of pulling the knife free he kisses her instead.
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* Joe and Nicky take this to an extreme in ''Film/TheOldGuard''. A pair of nearly 1000 year old immortals of the ResurrectiveImmortality variety, the two met on opposite sides of a war and killed each other ''multiple times'' before finally calling a truce and falling deeply in love.

* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' seems to be quite fond of this trope when it comes to romance. In [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe the seventh installment]], we have GenkiGirl RichBitch Serra and BadassBookworm Erk, {{Tsundere}} Farina and the BoisterousBruiser Dart the Pirate, GeniusBruiser Hector and ActionGirl Lyn, Hector and Farina, and to some extent Wil and Rebecca (she kicks him in the gut and yells at him quite a bit shortly before rushing into his arms). ''Sword of Seals'' has WellExcuseMePrincess Clarine and FragileSpeedster Rutger, while ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones The Sacred Stones]]'' has the ''other'' WellExcuseMePrincess L'Arachel behave this way towards her two pairing options (Innes Archer and TheWisePrince of sorts Ephraim) and popular fanon option Rennac.
** You also forgot Serra/Matthew from the seventh game. And Boyd/Mist from the [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance ninth]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn tenth]].
** Earlier still, Tanya and Othin from [[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral the fifth game]].
** Panne and Kellam get into deadly sparring matches if you pair them up in Awakening, ending in marriage if you get them to S support.

* Receptionist Amanda and Nick Pepper of ''Series/UglyBetty'' revert to this after quite a few scenes of sexual tension, coming to a close when both tag each other out of a game of [[PaintballEpisode company paintball]] -- and consequently decide that their catfights actually turn them on.

->''"''[Punches Hiccup on the arm]'' That was for kidnapping me. ''[Kisses him on the cheek]'' That was for everything else."''

* A rather extreme example is used very briefly early in the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''. When Remy is running through the walls of an apartment building, we briefly see a woman holding a man ''at gunpoint'' as he runs by; a shot goes off, narrowly missing Remy, who goes back to investigate. The two struggle over the gun briefly before they passionately kiss one another. Those French...

* Taken to a ridiculous extreme by ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005''. The two main characters practically demolish a house with gunfire in an attempt to kill each other. They then proceed to punch, kick and smash objects onto each other, demolishing even more furniture in the process, until they grab their weapons again and get to a MexicanStandoff. Surprising nobody, little time passes before they put down the guns and start kissing and ripping each other's clothes off. They then proceed to [[DestructoNookie demolish even more of the house...]]

* ''Series/{{Treadstone}}'' has a variation. Petra has her KGB superior shouting right in her face before a full KGB tribunal for letting a Cicada agent escape, then we cut to them in bed together, with him explaining that he had to put on a performance for everyone else. He does explain that if she doesn't fix her latest mistake however, he'll have to punish her for real.

* ''Manga/GokinjoMonogatari'' A kiss directly follows a bitchslap, which [[{{Tsundere}} the heroine's]] given her somewhat tactless lover.

Compare ShutUpKiss, LoveAtFirstPunch, BelligerentSexualTension, TakeThatKiss, VitriolicBestBuds, and DestructoNookie. Often considered in similar terms to FoeRomanceSubtext. {{Tsundere}}s are often involved on at least one end.

KissKissSlap is this in reverse (kissing, ''then'' fighting). These two tropes can easily be ZigZagged. (So easily, that the trope images of these two tropes share a frame [[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck from the same exact story]].)

KissKissSlap is this in reverse (kissing, ''then'' fighting). Naturally, these two tropes can easily be ZigZagged. (So easily, that the trope images of these two tropes share a frame [[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck from the same exact story]].)

[[caption-width-right:350:And if you think she's done, [[KissKissSlap think again]].]]

Compare ShutUpKiss, LoveAtFirstPunch, BelligerentSexualTension, TakeThatKiss, VitriolicBestBuds, and DestructoNookie. Often considered in similar terms to FoeRomanceSubtext. {{Tsundere}}s are often involved on at least one end. KissKissSlap is this in reverse (kissing, ''then'' fighting).

'''Rattrap''': Heh, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar beats the heck out of plowing]] ''[[AccidentalInnuendo your]]'' [[AccidentalInnuendo little field of dreams]]!\\

Compare ShutUpKiss, LoveAtFirstPunch, BelligerentSexualTension, TakeThatKiss, VitriolicBestBuds, and DestructoNookie. Often considered in similar terms to FoeYay. {{Tsundere}}s are often involved on at least one end. KissKissSlap is this in reverse (kissing, ''then'' fighting).

%%* ''Anime/MazingerZ'' has maybe the earliest {{Anime}} example: [[IdiotHero Kouji]] / [[{{Tsundere}} Sayaka]]. The BelligerentSexualTension between them was legendary, and sometimes they applied this trope ''literally''.

* In ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' at first Glinda and Elphaba, more apparent in the musical where they have a song that revolves around FoeYay and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything lust related lyrics]].

* Hot Goblin Girl Nitrine and her archfoe Halfling Sorceress Morgana satisfy our LesYay & FoeYay expectations in [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=233 this episode]] of ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry''.

This trope is a major factor in FoeYayShipping, since such arguments between those characters in the actual shows are often similar to examples of this trope (or even get WhyDontYouMarryIt reactions). It should be noted that in RealLife it's not exactly a sign of a healthy relationship, with the exception of a little roleplay between consenting adults.

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' with scene where [[IdiotHero Shinji]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Asuka]] kiss which was actually a heartbreakingly epic and twisted failure of communications for both of them contributing to Asuka's mental breakdown and Shinji's DespairEventHorizon. They are attracted to each other but both fear rejection, so Shinji doesn't dare believe it's anything more than just a way to pass the time and Asuka pinches his nose (ostensibly because his breathing is bothering her) to get at least some kind of reaction out of him and to ensure some kind of "plausible deniability" of her own emotions in the face of possible rejection. And rejection is what she reads from his passiveness even if he doesn't mean it as such, because he doesn't understand there to be anything to accept or reject... mostly because her words and actions just then and there give him no reason to actually think so! So after seeing Shinji's reaction (that is, gasping for air, not hugging or comforting her) she ran into the bathroom, making gargling noises as a front. Shinji is left feeling even worse.

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s seventh episode is an fight Rock and Revy which cumulates with Rock punching her, Revy shooting him in the face, and the two making of [[IndirectKiss by kissing through their cigarettes]].

* Lawrence and Holo from ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'' in the last episode of season 2. Lawrence shows up to redeem Holo from being collateral from a deal gone bad. Cue strangle attempt, a mean-sounding right hook, and the obligatory LoveConfession. A few self-depreciating lines, a kick to the torso, a snappy one-liner, and then the kiss. All to cheesy violin music.

%%** [[NobleDemon Hiei]] is eventually subjected to this when he returns to Makai. He was invited at the behest of powerful demon Mokuro. At first it looks like a boss-underling relationship until Mokuro [[TheReveal is revealed to be female and somewhat interested in him]]. Eventually, the two of them face each other in the Makai Tournament, and Hiei eventually loses to her... but not before one last Slap breaks the nigh-unbreakable shackles that were a reminder of [[OldShame her days in slavery]]. It's eventually revealed they're developing what might best be called a "tempestuous romance": not so much BelligerentSexualTension but rather that (a) they tend to express their feelings in unusual ways, and (b) every so often things get rocky and it goes to KissKissSlap for a while.

* Sunako Nakahara and Kyouhei Takano from ''Manga/TheWallflower'' have their first kiss after dissing each others faults for a good page or so.

* In Frank Miller's ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'', Franchise/WonderWoman is characterized as a [[StrawFeminist man-hating shrew]], someone who thinks [[DoesNotLikeMen men do nothing but destroy the planet]] and even calling some random onlooker in the street a "sperm-bank". She meets up with the rest of the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]], including Franchise/{{Superman}} and, after saying that she hates their guts (several times, using the same wording) she suddenly starts making out with Supes. After that she returns to her ultra radical feminist self with no explanation given for the two heroes suddenly massaging each others' tonsils.

* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', Asuka almost gets herself killed when she fights [[EldritchAbomination Sandalphon]], [[AngerBornOfWorry getting Shinji angry and frightened enough to slap her and yell her.]] When she laughs it off, he cries and asks her to kiss him. She obliged him.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic ''Fanfic/SomethingInTheNight'' has the two heroes being reunited seven years after Ladybug failed to show up to a planned meeting in the park, where they would have revealed their identities. Chat Noir is not in the mood to listen to her explanation, though he does allow her to spend the night in his apartment to prevent the police tracking her down. The tension between them becomes especially heated after she happens to mention living in New York recently, leading to a shouting match as she continues to insist that she didn't stand him up on purpose.

** Ursa, the Klingon Pathfinder on the Andromeda mission, and Pelessaria, the Klingons' Asari scientific advisor, constantly bicker and get on each other's nerves. And as their plot line goes on, it becomes apparent that they're in love, they just don't realize it yet.
* ''Fanfic/FateBlackDawn'': Shirou's relationship with Morgan le Faye starts out this way, with Shirou repeatedly making her angry enough for her to be interested. This culminates when they fight about Mordred, and Morgan flat-out tries to kill him, but he ultimately calms her down by grappling her into an impromptu hug and kissing her neck. After that, they're mostly SickeninglySweethearts, but in the sequel Morgan mentions that he gets a lot more violent when he's jealous, which she enjoys.

* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'' has this between (ex)CIA-Agent Snow and Emilie Warnock at the end of the movie. She arrives, they banter, and then when you think they are going to kiss she punches him in the face. He admits that "for a second there I thought you were going to kiss me" at which point she smiles, turns, and walks away. And he follows...and more banter ensues....sexual banter....

* ''Film/FatherGoose'' does this. The first time, Leslie Caron slaps Creator/CaryGrant, he calmly slaps her back, and she dissolves in tears and runs away. The second time, she slaps him, he slaps her back, she slaps him'back ... cut to Trevor Howard, reaction to the news that they want to be married.

* In ''Film/{{Whitecoats}}'', this is done with out the will they or won't they, in this case the Slaps were a fist fight where they gave as good as they got, with the rest of the cast trying to pull them apart. It ended when they started making out.

** An argument between Tony Stark and Christine Everheart cuts directly to them having sex. However this is a one-night-stand and isn't a set-up for a relationship.

%%* Stef and Mouth have this sort of relationship in ''Film/TheGoonies''. At first they hate each other, but then she hugs him when they find the pirate ship and then pushes him back. Finally at the end they really do make up.

* It's played with in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' where Martin and Debi are kissing and Debi stops the make out session and says something is missing, then slaps Martin across the face before going back to kissing and proceeding to have sex

* At the end of ''Film/PrairieFever'', Preston and Abigale are travelling back to Clearwater when Olivia, who they had left in Carson City, catches up with them. Preston and Olivia start their usual argument when Preston suddenly grabs her and kisses her. When he releases her, Olivia slaps him, and then grabs him and kisses. ShipperOnDeck Abigale watches all of this with a huge smile on her face.

%%* Vlad of the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' series and his wife, a former assassin, fall in lust/love after she kills him and he is revived from the dead. This is subverted later, when the series takes a more realistic perspective toward this kind of tumultuous relationship by having their marriage fall apart very quickly when the two discover how different they really are.

* OlderThanDirt: The real ur-example is most certainly the Sumerian poem ''The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi'', in which the {{Tsundere}} goddess Inanna spends most of the story berating the shepherd Dumuzi for not being a farmer, until they have a good argument and Inanna becomes smitten. They spend the rest of the story having awesome sex.

** Pratchett sums up their relationship in ''Soul Music'': [Mort and Ysobel] took a strong and immediately dislike to one another and everyone knows there's only one inevitable outcome to that kind of relationship.

* In ''[[Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus The House of Hades]]'' this happens between [[spoiler:Leo and Calypso. She's fed up with being sent heroes to fall in love with, so she's incredibly acerbic and argumentative with Leo from the moment he lands there. He reacts indignantly, but is okay with setting up camp on Ogygia away from her. After a little time, she starts to visit him when she hears him building a way to leave and offers to help. As soon as he noticed how good she looked in working clothes and with dirt and grime on her hands, anyone could tell what would happen. She gives him his {{FirstKiss}} before he leaves and he swears on the River Styx to rescue her from Ogygia.]]

** ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' referenced this scene twice with Frasier. The most direct homage (where Frasier actually ''says'' "Are you as turned on as I am?") is actually an amusing [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]....

* ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'': Dave and Maddie finally resolve years of BelligerentSexualTension, when the two swap insults like bitch and bastard, Maddie slaps him hard across the face and tells him to get out. She tries to slap him a third time and he grabs her wrist. Then they kiss, and keep going from there.
* Dana and Rich from the 1990's comedy series ''Series/StepByStep''.

'''Rich''': Oh yeah well, I got a better idea: why don't I find a tutor who isn't a member of the Lorena Bobbitt ''fanclub?''\\

* In ''Series/PicketFences'', Max and Kenny finally end their [[WillTheyOrWontThey three season]] [[BelligerentSexualTension long dance]] whilst they are, typically, arguing and in the full throes of denial about their feelings for each other. Max has her back to Kenny, ranting about his behaviour whilst he calmly walks up behind her, waits for her to turn around and then kisses her. Humorously she attempts to continue arguing ''whilst'' he's kissing her until she finally gives in and [[LustfulMelt melts into it]]. [[TheyDo Consumation of their relationship then ensues.]]

* Pretty much the entire plot of every instance of "The Needlers" , a recurring sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.

* Maddie shares one such scene with a one-shot character, Trevor, a "merit scholar", on ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', ending with the most passionate make out scene ever on children's programming:

** Deserving of special mention are Chief Tyrol and [[spoiler:Cally]]. The first slap was actually [[spoiler:Cally]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse Murdering The Hypotenuse]] by [[spoiler:shooting Tyrol's Cylon lover right before his eyes]]. The slap back came later that season, when she woke Tyrol up from a nightmare. Believing he was still dreaming, he [[spoiler:beat her]] so brutally that it required not only a DiscretionShot, but a [[ContentWarnings Content Warning]] at the beginning of the episode. Two and a half episodes later, [[spoiler:they were HappilyMarried]] and [[BabiesEverAfter expecting]]. Admittedly there was a one year TimeSkip in the meantime, but ''damn''. And this was one of the more ''stable'' relationships on the show. At least until the fourth season, but that's another story...

** The way Worf and Jadzia got together in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E03LookingForParmachInAllTheWrongPlaces Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places]]". Although that was more "Bat'leth Fight, Attempted Strangulation, DestructoNookie." This is more of a traditional Klingon romantic interlude - they even have (implied) ritual phrases for initiawting a fight that they intend will end in sex.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. In "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS2E11PreciousCargo Precious Cargo]]", Tucker rescues the princess Kaitaama after she was kidnapped by an alien species for ransom. From the moment they meet Kaitaama and Tucker bicker and argue which continues as they use an escape pod to land on uninhabited planet. Here, their argument escalates to name-calling and insults culminating in Kaitaama kissing Tucker followed by off-camera relations.

* Done in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' between Ross and Rachel. After their major break up in Season 3, the couple are constantly at each other's throats, insulting and humiliating each other and sabotaging the other's relationships every chance they get, despite still obviously being attracted to each other and sleeping together at least twice. At the end of Season 8, Rachel is very pregnant and overdue for labor, and the doctor has advised several home remedies, including sex, to speed up the process. They try everything else and nothing works, so Rachel insists they have sex. Since she had been very mean to Ross that entire episode, Ross declines. Rachel then starts angrily ranting at him how this is all his fault and so on, but is interrupted by Ross kissing her. Rachel is surprised and Ross says, "I don't care what it takes, I am getting that baby out of you!" Rachel immediately starts having contractions and Ross says, "I am ''good''!"

* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' In the Season 5 episode, "Opposites Attract" Laura is editor of her school paper and can't stop arguing with a write for the paper. After several fights it ends in their making out.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}''. Ana Lucia tries to get Sawyer's gun -- she asks him for it, tries to steal it, and gets caught. She and Sawyer fight before he pins her down and asks her what she's going to do, and she kisses him, leading to them having sex. [[spoiler:She steals the gun after, when he's too distracted to think about it.]]
* Played around with in the season 4 finale of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', between Barney and Robin. The two are unable to admit their feelings without provoking the other into an automatic rejection response (as both are relationship averse). Leads to a long, rapid back-and-forth "I love you"/"Lets be friends" style exchange that escalates in aggravation until they become so confused and frustrated they simply kiss. And it's awesome:

** Vala tried to invoke it with Daniel with Daniel in the first episode. During a brutal fight, she kisses him as a means to disarm him, but that just leads to more fighting, followed by a stun blast. He did see her naked, but she's rather disappointed that she was unconscious, thus defeating the purpose.

* Done with unique minimalism in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s "The Puerto-Rican Day" episode. Elaine leads a group of complete strangers underneath the bleachers along 5th Avenue, when suddenly they reach a dead-end. The guy following her starts screaming in panic and she [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slaps him across the face]]. He [[BorrowedCatchphrase pushes her]], she pushes him back, and as they grab each other for more serious violence they suddenly pause, look in each others' eyes, and then kiss passionately.

'''Elena''': You put me in a position where I have to defend you, again, where I have to bend my morals, again. Where I have to go against every single thing thar I believe in, again, because I love you!\\

** Played straight when Petra is with CIA agent John Bentley [[MoreThanMindControl whom she seduced during his brainwashing]]--one minute they're shouting in each other's faces and Bentley is threatening to shoot himself, next they're tearing off each others clothing.

* Music/{{Muse}}'s ''Music/KnightsOfCydonia'' music video (which is done in the style of a 70s SciFi movie). The love interest slaps the hero in a bar, SmashCut to the slap shown again, but they're now in a bedroom and wearing less clothes. Again, with less clothes, but he grabs her arm and they kiss.
* The whole point of the 80's Latin-American pop song "Dame un beso" ("Gimme a Kiss") by Yuri, which plays it up as comedy.

* 'The Ballad Of Tom Jones', Music/{{Space}}'s duet with Cerys Matthews, veers between this and TheMasochismTango. The couple in the song are constantly at each other's throats, to the point where the woman tries to kill the man by driving him off a cliff. The only thing that stops the couple killing each other is - you've guessed it - the sound of the music of Tom Jones.

* In the TV Zapping intro of the first ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' game, the third sequence (on channel 319) is a ''perfect'' example of this. Joe Kucan, who directed all of the live action scenes in ''Command & Conquer'' (and plays the iconic villain Kane), has [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160512233434/http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=3&cId=3156010 named it as his favorite scene]] in the whole series. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS9irxBAwb0#t=16s here.]]

* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', several scenes where a male Exile gains Influence with the Handmaiden are immediately preceded by a fistfight with her. Unfortunately it never gets to the point where a fistfight seamlessly turns into a makeout session.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', Oghren and his old flame Felsi's reunion is this, with the two tossing insults at each other before Felsi asks him to stay a bit longer so that they could continue the namecalling. By ''Awakening'', they're married and have a kid together though still not quite peaceful due to Oghren's inherent BloodKnight nature.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', any romance with a rival.
* Discussed in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', where Dorian asks Varric if he has this relationship with Cassandra. Varric fiercely denies this.
--> Just because two people dislike each other doesn't mean they're about to kiss, Sparkler.

** Same with the ''Romantic Garden Stuff Pack'', which features the Whispering Wishing Well, which, depending on it's mood, can give you different results for various wishes. So if you wish for romance when he's in a really bad mood, he could be giving you a relationship with a random Sim who has a full Romance bar with your Sim, but also a completely red Friendship bar, resulting in the status mentioned above.

* ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo''[='=]s BetaCouple: Largo/Erika. She has broken his arm on two separate occasions. Noythat he didn't supply [[{{cloudcuckoolander}} enough]] [[IdiotHero reasons]] for this.

** Some of this comes about because of the troll concept of [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004295 "kismesissitude"]], symbolized by a spade. Despite being entirely based on the two parties hating each other, it's considered as valid and important a form or romance as matespritship, their closest analogue to normal human romance. The second example above is ambiguously an example of kismesissitude, while the kiss between Spades Slick and Snowman definitely is.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' goes into greater detail on how Bulma and Vegeta got together in Episode 34. At the end of the episode, the incident where Bulma phones into the gravity room where Vegeta is training devolves into VolleyingInsults, until Bulma invites him into her bedroom. It's then implied that the resulting sexual encounter led to Trunks' conception.

* ''WesternAnimation/AngelsFriends'': Raf and Sulfus in episode 26 when they both hit each other and then make up with a kiss. But unfortunately, they unwittingly seal the BigBad Reina from her prison in Limbo, thanks to the sacrilege they commited. They also broke off the scales of VETO, much to the disdain of their superiors.

%%* Multiple pairings in ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fandom are built on this, the more popular ones including [[MasochismTango France/England]] and [[LoveMartyr Spain/South Italy]].

%%* [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Eric Cartman and Kyle Broflovski]]. [[TheMasochismTango Given]] [[ArchEnemy their relationship]] [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou in-universe]], [[MistakenForGay it's not]] [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend hard to see]] [[BelligerentSexualTension why fans pair]] [[EveryoneCanSeeIt them together]] [[FoeYay like this]].

* Scrooge [=McDuck=] and Glittering Goldie in the Creator/DonRosa story ''[[Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck The Prisoner of White Agony Creek]]'', pictured. The action cuts to outside the cabin, where there are sound effects of yelling and crashing -- and [[SexyDiscretionShot then, suddenly, silence]]. [[InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson]] attempt to rush in, shouting, "They killed each other!" but the more GenreSavvy Judge Roy Bean prevents them from [[MomentKiller ruining the moment]].

** It's even more so with DonaldDuck's parents in ''The Invader of Fort Duckburg''.

* In the short-lived ''Penthouse ComiX'' line, this happened ''every time'' (which was OnceAnEpisode) Captain Adventure and Hericane met; insults, then fighting, usually levelling one or more city blocks in the process, and eventually ending in [[DestructoNookie rather intense and destructive intimacy]], often resulting in far ''more'' property damage. (Hericane seemed to be turned on by violence, regardless of whether she was on the giving or receiving end.)

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Circe and Ares' romance once they're both out of the disguises they'd been in when they first started and meet back up after Ares takes their daughter from the Amazons, has a definite hostile yet attracted to each other element. Its odd since Ares is usually nicer to his romantic interests than he is to most folk, but makes sense for Circe who is trying to reclaim her former status as someone who hates ''everyone'' save for her daughter.

* In ''Film/{{Bruno}}'', the titular character adapts the alias of "Straight Dave" and becomes an MMA fighter. At one match, his scorned former assistant/ex-boyfriend shows up and proceeds to give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, which soon turns into make-up sex, much to the redneck audience's horror and disgust.