Intimate Healing / Webcomics

• College Roomies from Hell!!!: Three words: "Indian method of relaxation." (It always works.)
• Erika and the Princes in Distress : Prince Aurel has the ability to heal wounds by kissing them, although it is ineffective to treat non-physical afflictions.
• Homestuck:
  • All princes and princesses of Prospit and Derse (or, in other words, all Sburb/Sgrub players) can revive other players with a kiss. Instead of reviving the kissee's actual body, however, it awakens their dream self if it's still alive, causing it to take over as the 'real self'.
  • This is first shown when Sollux gets killed by the Vast Glub because he had stayed behind to get Feferi into the Medium first. She repays him by bringing him back to life this way.
  • Later, Tavros attempts it on Vriska, but her Dream-Self stops it just before it happens, having other plans.
  • Karkat and Terezi also attempt it on Kanaya and Tavros, respectively. It doesn't work, since their dream selves are dead.
  • Attempted on Rose and Dave, with more success.
  • As it turns out, this kiss can even be successfully performed on a severed head.
  • This element was likely introduced to poke fun at the old cliche of someone near death waking up after someone kisses them, by giving it an actual justification.
• Looking for Group: In this strip Benny and Pella are required to have a sexy pillow fight in order to do a spell that would get them to a shaman's hut. Then in said shaman's hut they use Pella to channel Richard, whom had been banished, and physically separate him from her to get him back. The Unfortunate Implications of Richard's last line in that page are ... well ... let's say they fuel the Richard/Pella shippers.
• Narbonic: A sex change serum is reversed by swapping bodily fluids with somebody else that has taken the serum in the past. The easiest way to do this is through saliva, which can be done fastest by, well, you know.
  Helen: It's not pleasant, but Dave and I will have to swap spit!
  (Beat Panel)
  Mell: Um... I don't think that came out the way you meant it--
  Helen: Oh, yes it did.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • While it's not life-saving, in this strip, Durkon has to cast "Cat's Grace" on Elan to make him put his clothes back on (through a misunderstanding, Elan believes that the fewer clothes he has on, the less he'll be seen). The problem? "'Cat's Grace' is a touch spell..."
  • In a more straightforward example of the trope, there's the time that Roy refuses female paladin Miko's offer to heal him with a "Lay On Hands" spell out of embarrassment, opting for his dwarf companion Durkon to heal him instead. Not surprisingly, Belkar calls him out on this. Miko doesn't get it at all.
• Fairy Pibgorn uses her "Baiser de la Fie" (sp?) to activate her magic. Actually, any physical contact will do, she just prefers kissing. Her romantic rival, a succubus, on the other hand...
• In Questionable Content, Faye and her girlfriend Bubbles (a giant ex-combat droid) go to a bar to celebrate two of their friends getting engaged, but Faye, a recovering alcoholic, is disgusted to find that she can't last an hour in a bar without craving booze. As they walk home, Bubbles attempts to cheer Faye up with a few well-chosen words, but Faye suggests they play soldier and commanding officer instead. Bubbles agrees to go home and "debrief" Faye. Faye's response is to tell Bubbles that she isn't wearing any briefs.
• Res Nullius: After a suit heater failure on a cold planet, the human Sam had to resort to this to save the reptilian alien Hazel. For Sam it was something necessary to save her. For Hazel, it was much more.
• Sticky Dilly Buns plays with some implications of the trope when the virginal Ruby, unconscious after nearly drowning in a swimming pool, is revived by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from lifeguard Andy — and Dillon not only tells her about this, but produces a video recording. She is subsequently confused and stressed about the incident, believing that she's just had her first kiss while unconscious. Her more experienced sister Amber has to try and reassure her that "mouth-to-mouth isn't exactly a kiss".

---