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Two lovers -- usually teenagers -- destined to be kept apart no matter how hard they struggle to be together. It may be [[BecauseDestinySaysSo Fate]] or just FeudingFamilies, or even something as mundane as a few hundred miles, but something will always be in their way. Often, the two can only be TogetherInDeath. {{Shakespeare}}'s ''Romeo and Juliet'' is the most famous example of this archetype (and provides the title of the trope) but it dates back at least as far as the ancient Greeks, making it OlderThanDirt.

A version of this trope which is at least [[DiscreditedTrope discredited]] if not actually [[DeadHorseTrope dead and buried]] in modern fiction but was true in the past and works in historical settings is Love Above One's Station, i. e. being in love with someone from a different social class. Yes, it's hard even today to have a relationship with someone from a very different background, but in the old days, it was completely out of order; you'd be treated with utter contempt and risk violence and/or arrest if you were from the lower class and courted a "better," and a "better" who reciprocated would be disowned or sent to a nunnery or asylum. This leads to all those usually tragic "servant/slave/peasant loves the lord/lady/king/queen" stories.

Compare DatingCatwoman, where the relationship is forbidden but doesn't end as tragically. Notice the overlaps with InterspeciesRomance and MixedMarriage. Also compare BuryYourGays. Often the case for any VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle.

Contrast HappilyMarried.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Sakura and Syaoran in ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. At first, even though they are physically together, Sakura is never allowed to remember she is in love with him (that is, from the looks of it, until all her feathers are found). Then it gets [[ThirtyXanatosPileup much]], [[MindScrew much]] more complicated, with all the complications putting more distance between them, metaphorically. That [[spoiler: clones of both]] are involved is only the [[OedipusRex the beginning]].
* In the ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' manga, Rina and Hanon both fall in love with humans, knowing full well that they will eventually have to leave them to rule over their kingdoms. (Hamasaki actually has a mermaid ancestor, but this seems inconsequential.) They tell Lucia this too, but her guy turns out to be the prince of an ancient powerful race that can breathe underwater, so she's safe.
** Hippo and Yuuri. Just... ''Hippo and Yuuri''.
* Mari and Hagino from ''BlueDrop'' are divided by the fact that [[InterspeciesRomance one is a high school student and the other the commander of an alien battleship]], whose people plan to invade earth.
* ''[[WolfsRain Wolf's Rain]]'' has not one but ''three'' sets of lovers, all of whom could be considered "star-crossed" in various ways.
** Much of Lord Darcia's motivation for becoming the series' villain involves his lover Hamona falling into a coma [[spoiler:and subsequently dying]], which he blames on the wolves.
** Hubb Leboski spends most of the series trying to get back together with his ex-wife Cher Degré, which indirectly leads to his getting involved with the wolves.
** The wolf Hige, who's always dreamed of finding a hot babe, eventually gets together with the wolf-dog Blue.
*** Of course, with everything else that's going on nobody gets much time for romance, [[spoiler:and [[KillThemAll they all die]] in the OVA episodes. At the very end Hige is apparently reincarnated as a human, along with the other wolves, but we don't see Blue.]]
* Kazuya and Erika in ''{{Daimos}}''. Kazuya is the pilot of Daimos, defender of Earth from the Balm invaders. While Erika is the little sister of Richter, Prince of Balm and leader of the invasion.
* Chrono of ''ChronoCrusade'' has the worst luck when it comes to relationships. First, he meets [[spoiler:Mary Magdalene]], who informs him after he's known her for months that [[spoiler:she has had prophetic dreams since she was a child that he would be the one to take her life. He does, although not in the way either one expects. He's so guilt-ridden over her death that he sleeps for 50 years in her tomb, waiting for his energy to deplete to join her in death.]] But Rosette Christopher comes and wakes him up from his years of slumber, and things start to be going good for him...until her brother Joshua is kidnapped by Aion and he's forced to make a contract with her, slowly draining away at her life. In the anime [[spoiler:they die together, Rosette as a result of the contract and Chrono from his wounds in the final battle]], but in the manga [[spoiler:they spend six years apart, and Chrono arrives back to her side just in time for her to die in his arms. It's implied that he lives on for decades afterwards.]]
* Subverted in ''PrincessTutu''. [[spoiler:Ahiru is forced to give up the pendant she uses to transform into a girl to save Mytho, but Fakir still promises to stay by her side, even though she's now just a duck.]]
* The ''{{Berserk}}'' universe has made it its personal mission to ensure that Guts and Casca ''never'' find happiness.
* Subverted in the ''VampirePrincessMiyu'' OAV's. [[spoiler: Kei Yuzuki is a human who at first only wanted eternal youth and beauty, consulting the UncannyValleyGirl from his school, Ranka. Turns out she's a Shinma and she promises to give him what he wants yet planning to make him her prey... but later, the guy ends up falling in love with her, despite knowing who she is. Much to her own shock, Ranka herself finds herself ''returning'' these feelings. Then, Ranka ''transforms Kei into a Shinma'', so Miyu (who had her eyes set on him too, thus she was horribly humiliated when she found out) had to send them both to the Dark. The last time we see them, they happily and peacefully walk together towards the Shinma world.]]
* Takaki and Akari in ''FiveCentimetersPerSecond'' are an interesting example in that they have ''marginally'' more of a chance at a happy ending than most examples, but it doesn't stop their movie from being a huge TearJerker.
* Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy fit this trope after the WhamEpisode of ''{{Gundam 00}}''. The second season has them fighting on opposite sides, [[spoiler: as he's forced to join Celestial Being to save his life and she's become a DarkActionGirl for the A-Laws. [[EarnYourHappyEnding It takes them LOTS of effort to get back together]].]]
** Lyle Dylandy and [[spoiler: Anew Returner]] also fit in. It doesn't end well for them, since [[spoiler:she turns out to be [[TheMole an Innovator]] and betrays Celestial Being. However, when Lyle offers her a LastSecondChance she almost takes it, only to be mind controlled by Ribbons Almark into fighting him anyway and she eventually has to be killed by Setsuna to keep her from killing Lyle.]]
* Mikako and Noboru in {{Voices of a Distant Star}} are separated by a huge amount of space, not to mention a growing difference in age as Noboru grows older on Earth but Mikako remains 15 years old.
** Note that (as in the entry on TimeDilation) this is due to her sending a message and the movie skipping over to when he receives it, years in the future. The gates they use to jump distances don't seem to actually induce TimeDilation effects, because at the end you actually see Mikako's message from Agharta arriving to a 24-year-old Noboru, thus suggesting that the same amount of time passes for her as it does for him (otherwise he would have been even older). When ([[DownerEnding Don't say "if", please!]]) they finally [[ThePowerOfLove find each other]], they should still be about the same age. But they are still really "the first generation of lovers separated by time and space", because the long distance means they have to [[TearJerker wait years to hear back from each other]].
* In ''ArashiNoYoruNi'': [[spoiler:Averted. Mei and Gabu seem doomed to part ways because their InterspeciesRomance is frowned upon by both their kin, but they find one another again in the end.]]
* ''{{Basilisk}}'', which is essentially a Japanese Tokugawa-era send up of "Romeo and Juliet" has its star crossed lovers: Gennosuke from the Kouga and Oboro from the Iga. They even make reference to the old belief that star-crossed lovers will be reborn as twin siblings.
** Also, the beginning of the show shows another pair of star crossed lovers: [[spoiler: Koga Danjou and Iga Ogen, Gennosuke's grandpa and Oboro's grandma respectively.]]
* Ai and Yota from ''VideoGirlAi'', since he's a human and she's a RobotGirl who [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman shouldn't have human feelings]].
*Two of Adachi Mitsuru's manga series feature romances forbidden by feuding parents. In ''Rough'', the parents run rival confectionery businesses. In ''Katsu!'', the fathers are former boxing rivals. In both cases, the girl's father is more rabid than the boy's father.
*In the village of [[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Hinamizawa]], there were [[spoiler:Satoshi Honjou]] and [[spoiler:Shion Sonozaki]].
* ''CodeGeass'' has two couples like this: Ougi and Viletta, then Lelouch and Shirley. [[spoiler: The first ones subvert the trope and get their happy ending... the second couple plays it [[TearJerker depressingly]] straight]]
* Very twisted BoysLove example: Riki and Iason Mink from ''AiNoKusabi''.
* [[spoiler:Simon and Nia]] from TengenToppaGurrenLagann in a truly epic TearJerker ending. Lampshaded in-series by the BigBad. [[NiceGuysFinishLast Nice guys really do finish last.]]
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''Young Avengers'': Cassie Lang (Stature) and Nate Richards (Iron Lad) seem destined to be star-crossed lovers, separated by centuries and because [[spoiler:Nate's destined to grow up to be the evil supervillain Kang the Conqueror.]]
* While it's unclear how strongly his feelings are returned, [[{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown's]] hopeless infatuation with the Little Red-Haired Girl is tragically doomed to remain Star-Crossed, as he lacks the nerve to speak to her.
* ''NikolaiDante'': the title character and Jena Makarov end up in this situation because Nikolai is an illegitimate scion of the Romanov family, who eventually go to war with the Makarovs.
*Hawkman and Hawkgirl. If they aknowledge their love for each other ''they will be killed by their reincarnating archenemy''. BecauseDestinySaysSo.
** In ''[[GreenLantern Blackest Night]]'' #1, finally Hawkgirl admits that she's fallen in love with Hawkman. [[spoiler:Immediately, they are killed and ''turned into'' Black Lanterns.]] Toldja.
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[[folder:Film]]
* Rose and Jack from 1997's ''{{Titanic}}'' are probably the most infamous use of this trope.
* ''[[RepoTheGeneticOpera Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' has a subversion in Grave-Robber and Amber Sweet--they'd fit this trope perfectly, if they actually gave a damn about each other.
* Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala from ''StarWars''. Due to their respective roles as Jedi and senator requiring them to be on different planets, they were often literally star crossed. Even their romance theme was entitled: ''Across the Stars''.
**Did we mention that Jedi were not allowed to marry until the New Republic era?
* Jamal and Latika in the movie ''Slumdog Millionaire''. [[spoiler: At least until the very end of the movie.]]
* The titular tribesman [[LastOfHisKind Uncas]] and Alice, [[WideEyedIdealist proper English girl]], in ''LastOfTheMohicans''. Barely a [[TheQuietOne word is spoken]] between them, but we know they are destined for this. Sure enough, [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide Alice commits suicide]] after [[HeroicSacrifice Uncas dies trying to save her.]]]]
* Darkly subverted in ''{{Heathers}}''. Everyone in town ''thinks'' the two dead high school football players killed themselves because they were gay lovers who believed that the community would never accept them. Everyone, that is, except for [[spoiler: the two people who murdered them and forged the suicide note that lead the town to believe that two heterosexual football players were secretly gay lovers]].
* CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon: RebelliousPrincess Jen and LovableRogue Lo, LadyOfWar Shu Lien and WarriorTherapist Li Mubai. The first couple [[spoiler:gets together in the end [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence (for a very brief period of time.)]]]] The second [[spoiler:ends as HerHeartWillGoOn after Mubai [[FaceDeathWithDignity dies in Shu Lien's arms]]]].
* The lovers in ''My Beautiful Laundrette'' are maximally star-crossed. One is from a tradition-minded Pakistani family, the other runs with National Front skinheads, and both are boys.
* ''{{Ladyhawke}}'' - the title character Isabeau and her lover Captain Navarre travel together but only ever set eyes upon each other for the briefest moment because [[spoiler: due to a curse, Isabeau turns into a hawk at dawn and Navarre turns into a wolf at sunset]].
* In ''{{The Lion King}}'' 2: Kiara and Kovu.
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[[folder:Folklore]]
* Chinese mythology speaks of the Weaver and the Cowherd, a legend of the stars Vega and Altair. Star-crossed lovers Zhi Nu and Niu Lang are separated forever across the Milky Way. They may only reunite once a year when magpies form a bridge between them. This is the basis of the Chinese cultural equivalent to Valentine's Day.
** Tanabata no Matsuri is the Japanese version with Orihime and Hikoboshi as the star-crossed lovers.
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[[folder: Literature]]
* Hilariously lampshaded and (eventually) averted in David Eddings' ''The {{Belgariad}}'' and ''The Malloreon'': A knight and a lady are in love, but she is married to another man. Various other protagonists grumble about the fact all three characters are genre-aware of their plight, play up to it, and even actively avoid possible solutions because they love the melodrama so much. Eventually, after the husband dies, the main character gets sick of the ongoing {{Wangst}} and forces the couple to get married at the point of a [[NotCompensatingForAnything seven-foot-long sword.]]
*Parodied in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Mort'' with the characters of Mellius and Gretelina "whose pure, passionate and soul-searing affair would have scorched the pages of History if they had not, by some unexplained quirk of fate, been born two hundred years apart on different continents."
* ''Two'' examples from ''TheDresdenFiles'': [[spoiler:Harry and Susan]] are the more obvious, but also Thomas and Justine. Thomas is an [[HornyDevils incubus]], while Justine is a rather disturbed hottie. At first, their relationship was just for mutual benefit; he could feed off her life energy, while he was her psychiatric drug. Unfortunately, Thomas is, quite literally, AllergicToLove, so when they actually did fall for each other, the relationship had to be immediately cut off.
* Though romance is not a major theme in the books, Eisenhorn and Bequin from the ''{{Warhammer 40000}}: {{Eisenhorn}}'' series. Eisenhorn is a Psyker and Bequin is a Blank (anti-psyker), thus meaning it was painful for Eisenhorn just to be near Bequin. The only time he is able to be close to her and open his heart is when [[spoiler:Bequin is in a coma (thus canceling her 'Blankness'),]] after [[spoiler:trying and ''failing'' to stop a possessed Imperial Titan]]. Unfortunately [[spoiler: she doesn't wake up]].
* Lyra and Will from the ''HisDarkMaterials'' series, specifically the last book, ''The Amber Spyglass''.
* About half of all romantic relationships in ''ASongOfIceAndFire''.
* The two main characters of TheHungerGames use this trope for all it's worth.
* Devdas : The book (and subsequent movie versions) is definitely of the second variation, having been written in 1917 when such rules still existed. The titular hero (son of a wealthy upper-class family) and ChildhoodSweetheart Paro (daughter of a middle class trader family) fall in love upon adulthood, but because Devdas is too weak-willed to stand up to his father's disapproval of their getting married, the two of them spend the remainder of the book apart. He spends his days drinking and mourning her, while Paro is in an ArrangedMarraige to an older aristocratic gentleman. [[spoiler: Sensing that he's close to death because of his drinking and despair, Devdas crawls to Paro's house and dies in front of her gate, fulfilling a promise he made to her on the day of her wedding, and Paro can't even see his face because of the rules of Purdah.]]
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Buffy and Angel in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
** ''Everyone'' falls into this eventually. Jenny and Giles in season 2. Willow and Oz in season 4. Willow and Tara in season 6. Xander and Anya, Buffy and Spike in season 7. JossWhedon is mean.
* Angel and Cordelia in ''{{Angel}}''.
** Also Fred and Wesley.
* Played for laughs in ''DegrassiJuniorHigh''. Snake and Melanie are hopelessly crushing on each other, but every attempt they make to date ends in a comic disaster. In one episode, they plan to meet at a WildTeenParty. Snake and his friends are put in charge of bringing the beer, but get arrested by the cops on the way -- so Melanie doesn't get to see him, and the WildTeenParty doesn't get to be wild.
** Played much straighter with Joey and Caitlin.
*Sayid and Nadia, ''{{Lost}}'': he searches for her for eight years, [[spoiler:finds her, and marries her. She's killed only months later.]]
* Played with in BattlestarGalactica. Helo and Athena are in love. The problem? He's one of the few surviving humans left and she's an agent of the Cylon race that just nuked his species to near extinction. The result is that she spends the majority of the second season [[spoiler: locked up in a holding cell and the two of them have to deal with people who want to abort their unborn child and rape her for information.]] Ultimately, this trope is subverted as Athena [[spoiler: has won acceptance, been freed from prison and married to the man she loves]] after the timeskip in between seasons.
* The Doctor and Rose, *oh goodness* ''[[DoctorWho the Doctor and Rose]]''. At least that's how we're intended to perceive their literally here-and-gone-again relationship over seasons 1-4 of the new series.
* Oddly enough the Ultraman series has this with Ultraman Ace's hosts Seiji and Yuuko (yes two people become him at least at first). At first it seems like a standard blooming romance between hero and heroine but then a WhamEpisode hits. Yuuko is a kind of energy being from the moon, and having accomplished her task on Earth must leave. Seiji is heart broken but swears to keep her in his heart as he becomes the sole host of Ace. However in the GrandFinale Seiji must merge with Ace permanently and he too has to leave Earth, as Ace has duties on the Ultraman homeworld. Decades later (both in series and in real life) Seiji and Yuuko would finally meet again during the Aniversery series Ultraman Mebius, and sort of confess their feelings to each other. Since both are energy beings now its implied that they could potentially get together.
* [[TheOffice Michael Scott and Holly Flax]]. The dorkiest, most adorable pair of soulmates you ever did see, cruelly seperated by Dunder-Mifflin corporate for business reasons (he's the Scranton office manager, she's in HR.) Michael fully intends on waiting for her as long as it takes. Awwwww.
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[[folder:Mythology]]
* Tristan and Isolde make this OlderThanSteam.
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[[folder:Music]]
* TheDecemberists' song "We Both Go Down Together" is about a common girl and a young man of rich means whose parents don't approve of his love to said common girl. They solve their problem in the classical manner, if you get my drift.
** There's also an [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation alternate lyrical interpretation]] that takes the unlucky rich kid's somewhat patronising tone and extrapolates that rather than preparing to die ''with'' her, [[DownerEnding he's leading her on so he can murder her, possibly for being pregnant with his child.]]
***There's also also the interpretation that the rich male is actually a deluded rapist who believes that they are in love. The rape angle seems to make sense, but the leaving her for being pregnant fits in well with the theory that We Both Go Down Together and Lesley Anne Levine are interlinked. Possibly it's a bit of both.
**O Valencia, on the other hand, is spot-on for this trope; in fact, the first bit almost seems lifted from ''RomeoAndJuliet'': A young mobster (probably son of the Don/Boss/whathaveyou) falls in love with Valencia, the daughter of a rival Don; her sister rats on them; her brother confronts them; Valencia runs to her lover's side just as her brother is shooting, and gets hit instead; she dies in her lover's arms; the lover decides to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* Referenced in the Blue Oyster Cult song "Don't Fear The Reaper" as well.
* The song "Barricade" by Stars is occasionally, and erroneously, taken to be about a pair of revolutionary lovers who are torn away from each other by The Man. It's ''actually'' about [[HoYay a pair of violent football hooligans]] who are only being kept apart by the fact that one of them grows up and gets a job while the other stays a shiftless thug. Members of the band are somewhat... annoyed by the first interpretation...
* The song "Jueves" by the spanish group La Oreja de Van Gogh, is about a man and a woman who confess their love for each other in a train... just seconds before dying in the terrorist attacks of March 11th.
* "Aisareru Hana, Aisarenu Hana" ("Loved Flower, Unloved Flower") and "Futari wa" ("The Two of Us") by Miyuki Nakajima. The former tells the story of a LoveTriangle where a man married the "loved flower" in an ArrangedMarriage, and, although the "loved flower" thought that he loved her, he never loved her and instead was in love with the "unloved flower," who took his marriage to the "loved" as betrayal, although she never gave up on her love for him after being reborn again and again. The latter is a modern variation on Love Above One's Station. It tells of the love between a [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold prostitute]] and a client who cannot have an actual relationship with her without being rejected by his friends.
* "Running Bear", famously sung by Johnny Preston, is essentially a Romeo and Juliet story between two Indians from warring tribes.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* Subverted in the musical ''The Fantasticks'': two neighboring fathers maintain the appearance of an virulent feud and forbid their children (a son and a daughter) to even look at each other as part of a scheme to get them to fall in love and marry.
* {{Shakespeare}} did this a lot, either because he liked it or his audiences did.
** ''RomeoAndJuliet'', the TropeNamer, from the closing narration.
** ''Antony and Cleopatra''
** ''Pyramus and Thisbe'', a ShowWithinAShow in ''AMidsummerNightsDream'', which has its own forbidden lovers in Hermia and Lysander, but since this is a comedy, they end up together.
*** Pyramus and Thisbe is an actual Greek legend, and one of the better known ancient tragedies, making this [[OlderThanDirt older than paper.]]
* Again, Tristan and Isolde, but now in the opera by RichardWagner.
* Haemon and Antigone in ''{{Theater/Antigone}}'' by {{Sophocles}}.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Fei and Elly in ''Xenogears'', multiple times. They are trapped in an [[ReincarnationRomance endless cycle of reincarnation]], and every single time it ends quite badly for both of them. [[spoiler: Until they break the cycle, of course.]] At least one of their doomed romances has shades of Love Above One's Station.
** Arc and Elle of ''Terranigma'' find themselves in an almost identical situation, as they reincarnate endlessly to save the world... [[spoiler: and be killed off just as their love blooms and the world is safe, each time.]]
* Aerith and Cloud in ''FinalFantasyVII'', and Aerith and Zack in ''Crisis Core''. Aerith really just has ''no'' luck with relationships. Of course Aerith and Zack could be together in ''Advent Children''.
** Well. Together in the [[TogetherInDeath same sense as Romeo and Juliet]].
* Tequila and Billie, the daughter of BigBad Mr. Wong in ''John Woo Presents Stranglehold''.
* Timpani and Blumiere of ''Super PaperMario''. Or, as you know them for most of the game, [[spoiler: Tippi and Count Bleck]].
** Arguable, as the two may or may not be [[spoiler: actually dead.]]
* In FireEmblem, this really happens to Priscilla, if she is paired with either the myrmidon Guy or the DragonRider Heath. Basically, she's a noble girl. But Guy is a tribesman from Sacae, and Heath is a deserter from Bern. So in the end, [[spoiler:they back down]]. This is especially true on the Heath-Priscilla pairing, their A Support Conversation is almost on TearJerker level.
** Don't forget Legault/Isadora, Renault/Isadora and Harken/Vaida.
** The 6th game had Miledy and Gale, which reaches near-epic levels of TearJerker, especially when you let Miledy [[spoiler: talk to Gale before you kill him.]]
* Arcueid/Shiki from ''ShingetsutanTsukihime''.
** Might as well throw Saber/Shiro in there. They're even worse since at least Arcueid/Shiki had a "Good Ending" and maybe a sequel to the "True Ending?"
*** Well, there is a Good ending with Saber... Only it's ''Rin's''...
**** [[RevisedEnding The PS2 port finally gives both Archer and Saber their due.]] [[HundredPercentCompletion You... just have to finish the entire game first.]]
* Laguna and Julia in ''FinalFantasyVIII''. [[spoiler:His son and her daughter have [[OfficialCouple rather more success.]]]]
* ''EVERY'' single pair of lovers in ''OdinSphere''.
* This could apply to [[FinalFantasyX Tidus and Yuna]] with Tidus being [[spoiler: actually a dream of the Fayth]]. But [[spoiler: at the good ending of FinalFantasyX2, they are happily reunited.]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Kat and Alistair from ''GunnerkriggCourt''. It was a ForegoneConclusion that Ali would leave at the end of the week, but it's made worse when the details of his departure (and the word of the {{narrator}}) ensure that Kat will never see him again.
* Aaron and Lily from Demonology 101. [[UnderStatement It did not end well for them.]]
* It's unclear just how much attraction there may be between Bob and Voluptua in ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.'' Unfortunately, Voluptua is [[VoluntaryShapeshifting a disguised]] [[StarfishAliens giant bug,]] so nothing can come of it. Bob is going steady with Jean anyway, but the hint of a LoveTriangle involving Voluptua still pops up now and again.
* Lance and Silvia from [[http://www.shapequest.net Shape Quest]] (Silvia is a princess!)
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'' features a romance between a dragon and a girl raised by a family of dragon-slayers.
* Charmer and Ranger in ''TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood''.
*''DannyPhantom'' had HalfHumanHybrid ghost hero Danny and Valerie, the [[TheHunter Ghost Hunter]]. They dated briefly with Valerie breaking up because of her job, unaware of Danny's ghostly alter ego, but love-lost feelings were mutual during the aftermath...[[FirstGirlWins until Season Three]].
* The original series finale of JusticeLeague was called "Starcrossed" and had to do with the fate of the relationship of the Green Lantern and Hawkgirl. Though really, it could have been called [[IncrediblyLamePun "Planetcrossed"]] just as easily.
* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has this in the story of Oma and Shu. Actual in-series example would be [[spoiler: Sokka and Princess Yue]].
* The Series/DungeonsAndDragons series has two couples like this: [[{{Meganekko}} Presto]] and [[RealityWarper Varla]], as well as [[HotAmazon Diana]] and [[TheMessiah Kosar]]
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[[folder:RealLife]]
* [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8109805.stm This]] example, between a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl. [[TearJerker ;-;]]
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