History Main / TimeTravelRomance

* ''This is How You Lose The Time War'' is the story about Red and Blue, two agents from warring factions traveling up and down the timestream in an attempt to rewrite history to their superiors' liking, [[EpistolaryNovel leaving messages for one another]] across time. It starts as taunting, but it eventually evolves into WorthyOpponent, then FriendlyEnemy, and finally into genuine love. [[spoiler:The messages are eventually discovered and Red is made to assassinate Blue, a plan that is foiled by their future selves, and they decide to team up and end the war by rewriting time around their relationship.]]

* ''Film/TheKnightBeforeChristmas'': Sir Cole is a 14th Century Knight who good witch sends on a magical quest through time to 21st century small-town America. The quest mostly appears to be to fall in love with down-on-her-luck-romantically high school science teacher Brooke Winters.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', Doc Brown unexpectedly encounters love in the Wild West with a much younger woman named Clara. [[spoiler: They stay together and they travel through time together.]]

* "Literature/AprilInParis" by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin has two couples like this form after a lonely 15th-century alchemist Jehan starts magically summoning companions from other eras. Barry, an American philology professor who arrives from 1961, finds love with Bota, a Gallic girl from the Roman Empire, and Jehan himself with Keslk, an interstellar archaeologist from the 8th millennium AD. The whole point of the story is that the four’s loneliness and longing for love and friendship was so strong that it bent the laws of time.

* "April in Paris" by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin has two couples like this form after a lonely 15th-century alchemist Jehan starts magically summoning companions from other eras. Barry, an American philology professor who arrives from 1961, finds love with Bota, a Gallic girl from the Roman Empire, and Jehan himself with Keslk, an interstellar archaeologist from the 8th millennium AD. The whole point of the story is that the four’s loneliness and longing for love and friendship was so strong that it bent the laws of time.

* ''April in Paris'' by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin has two couples like this form after a lonely 15th century alchemist Jehan starts magically summoning companions from other eras. Barry, an American philology professor who arrives from 1961, finds love with Bota, a Gallic girl from the Roman Empire, and Jehan himself with Keslk, an interstellar archaeologist from the 8th millennium AD. The whole point of the story is that the four’s loneliness and longing for love and friendship was so strong that it bent the laws of time.

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31564853 A Little Red and Blue]]'', Sharon is inadvertently sent to the year 1944 by Wanda. She later meets the past Steve, introducing herself as "Kate". Despite her initial hostility towards him [[AbandonmentInducedAnimosity due to her timeline's Steve]] [[DeconstructionFic seemingly leaving her behind]] [[Film/AvengersEndgame to stay in the past with her aunt Peggy]], she [[DefrostingIceQueen eventually warms up to him and the past Steve develops feelings for her]]. Past Steve tries to convince her to come with him and be a part of the Howling Commandos which she eventually agrees to but is pulled back into the present. She comes across the present Steve who [[FixFic explains that he didn't actually stay in the past and affirms that he belongs in the present with her]], officially starting a relationship.

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31564853 A Little Red and Blue]]'', Sharon is inadvertently sent to the year 1944 by Wanda. She later meets the past Steve, introducing herself as "Kate". Despite her initial hostility towards him to her timeline's Steve [[DeconstructionFic seemingly leaving her behind]] [[Film/AvengersEndgame to stay in the past with her aunt Peggy]], she eventually warms up to him and the past Steve develops feelings for her. Past Steve tries to convince her to come with him and be a part of the Howling Commandos which she eventually agrees to but is pulled back into the present. She comes across the present Steve who [[FixFic explains that he didn't actually stay in the past and affirms that he belongs in the present with her]], officially starting a relationship.

* In ''Fanfic/MementoVivere'', a VideoGame/FinalFantasyX fanfiction, the romance between Auron and Rikku is a main plot point of the story.
* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31564853 A Little Red and Blue]]'', Sharon is inadvertently sent to the year 1944 by Wanda. She later meets the past Steve, introducing herself as "Kate". Despite her initial hostility towards him to her timeline's Steve [[DeconstructionFic seemingly leaving her behind]] [[Film/AvengersEndgame to stay in the past with her aunt Peggy]], she eventually warms up to him and the past Steve develops feelings for her. Past Steve tries to convince her to come with him and be a part of the Howling Commandos which she eventually agrees to but is pulled back into the present. She comes across the present Steve who explains that he didn't actually stay in the past and affirms that he belongs in the present with her, officially starting a relationship.

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31564853 A Little Red and Blue]]'', Sharon is inadvertently sent to the year 1944 by Wanda. She later meets the past Steve, introducing herself as "Kate". Despite her initial hostility towards him to her timeline's Steve [[DeconstructionFic seemingly leaving her behind to stay in the past with her aunt Peggy]], she eventually warms up to him and the past Steve develops feelings for her. Past Steve tries to convince her to come with him and be a part of the Howling Commandos which she eventually agrees to but is pulled back into the present. She comes across the present Steve who explains that he didn't actually stay in the past and that he belongs in the present with her, officially starting a relationship.

* In ''Anime/VoicesOfADistantStar'', due to lack of {{FTL}}, lovers are separated by relativistic considerations and light travel time.

* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] goes back in time to be reunited with an AlternateTimeline ComicBook/PeggyCarter. They get their dance and seemingly live happily for the rest of their life.]]

* ''Series/AgentsOfShield'': Season 7 has Daisy Johnson, an agent from the 2010's, hook up with Daniel Sousa, and agent from 1955.

* The original ''Film/TheTerminator'' had Sarah Connor falling in love with her rescuer from the future.

* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': Played with as La'an gets trapped in the past with an [[spoiler: alternate timeline James T. Kirk]] and they both have to cope with being in their mutual past and figure out where their timelines diverged and how to stop that divergence. They fall for each other as they do so.

* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': Played with as La'an gets trapped in the past with an [[spoiler: alternate timeline James T. Kirk]] and they both have to cope with being in their mutual past and figure out where their timelines diverged and how to stop that divergence. They fall for each other as they do so.