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When you find a friend in a state of great emotional distress, the appropriate response is a three-step process: Hug her, kiss her forehead, then press your forehead against hers. Murmuring soothing words or wiping away her tears is optional. Both males and females are welcome to take part in this trope, but it's rare for a male character to be a recipient from a female, probably because he's usually taller. This pose is also handy so two can be close to each other without obscuring faces from the camera.
See Headbutt Thermometer for when foreheads touch to check temperature.
Examples:
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Anime And Manga
- Eureka and Renton of Eureka Seven do this quite often, since their First Kiss is saved for the final episode.
- Lovely Complex: Koizumi and Otani do this after Otani passes his entrance exam.
- Done literally in Mahou Sensei Negima! from Nagi to Arika, when the latter was caught up in Self-Deprecation and needed to be reminded that Nagi loved her.
- Medabots has one. When Ikki's about to head out to face Big Bad of Season 1, Erika closes in... Everyone is shocked and wondering if she'll kiss him, but instead she delivers a Headbutt Of Luck. Given that she's a Tsundere (albeit type B) this may or may not express the kiss itself.
- Naruto: Itachi does this to Sasuke at the end of chapter 590.
- A male-to-male version appears in Ouran High School Host Club, between the twins. Sometimes this is acting to play up their twincest appeal; other times it's genuine.
- Shown in a more violent way in Soul Eater. Justin gives a headbutt to Giriko, while yelling, "Headbutt of love!"
- In Spirited Away, Chihiro and the boy formerly known as Haku perform a Headbutt of Love during freefall. Up to Eleven.
- Toradora:
- A somewhat violent version of this trope is used here but it is still heart-warming.
- It also happens to be the very final scene of the anime series. And yes, Ryuuji and Taiga do hook up at the end.
Comic Books
- Daken: Daken does this twice in the #8 issue of his comic, thought it's not romantic. The power of using his pheromones to control people's emotions works best when he's in close contact, and that's as close as he can get without kissing.
- Used frequently in ElfQuest, mostly since elves don't kiss.
Film - Animated
- Aladdin: "I choose you, Aladdin." It brings both Jasmine and Aladdin's desires together: she gets the freedom to choose, he's loved for being himself, and there's nothing preventing them from being together. And then they bop heads.
- Hercules: Megara and Hercules share one.
- The Lion King:
- Sarabi and Mufasa at the beginning of the film when their cub Simba is being presented.
- Simba and Nala during their reunion. Cute and sexy.
- Simba and his mother Sarabi when they meet after being separated. Adorable.
- In Tangled, the Queen does this with Rapunzel.
Film - Live Action
Literature
Live Action TV
- Ally McBeal: Ally and her big love Larry clutch their heads together while they dance at the end of the episode where Larry's ex-girlfriend and mother of his son tried to get get back together with him. He chose Ally.
- Annie and Mitchell on Being Human when Annie is about to leave through her Door in S1 and they're saying a tearful goodbyeas a bit of Ship Tease. He also did a desperate, passionate variation with Lauren at some point.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- When Willow tearfully asks, "Don't you love me?" Oz vows "My whole life, I've never loved anything else," and gives her a textbook Headbutt of Love, complete with hug and kiss.
- Willow and Tara made use of this comforting technique often, mostly because of the WB's policy of no kissing between the same sex.
- At the end of the pilot episode of Defiance, Christie and Alec do this when Alec proposes.
- Degrassi, the Torres brothers do this after Adam is shot.
- Dexter: Dexter affectionately headbutts Rudy AKA his biological brother Brian before he kills him in Season One finale. It's a very poignant scene and emotions simply gush. It's very telling because Dexter claims he doesn't feel anything and has to pretend in every human interaction, but he definitely feels this moment deeply.
- Doctor Who:
- Rather endearingly, the Seventh Doctor does this with Mel.
- The Tenth Doctor has one with his archnemesis, the Master, in "The End Of Time". Then the Master goes back to trying to kill him. It's very deliberately done to show that they could love each other if the Master wasn't stark raving mad.
- In "Flesh and Stone", the Eleventh Doctor and Amy have a sweet moment in the woods, as he asks her to trust him one more time and tells her to remember what he told her when she was seven. Which becomes an important plot point when the universe is rebooted in "The Big Bang".
- Farscape:
- John and Aeryn engage in this, not just when either of them was in distress but when they showed affection in general. It was described by one reviewer as "more intimate than when they kiss".
- Subverted when Scorpius-possessed John does this — then slams Aeryn's head into the wall, fracturing her skull.
- Happens a couple of times between Wash and Zoe in Firefly and Serenity.
- The titular characters of Mork and Mindy at the end of the episode "Mork's Mixed Emotions."
- Silent Witness had one recently between Harry and Nikki when he starts to leave soon after he reveals himself as Not Quite Dead
- On Stargate Atlantis, this was the standard gesture of affection or business dealings, somewhere between a handshake and a kiss, for natives of the Pegasus galaxy, particularly the Athosians. Sheppard picked it up, usually doing it with Teyla.
- Logan from Veronica Mars loves this one.
- The X-Files was a repeat offender, usually between Mulder and Scully. When one of them got out of the hospital (which was often), when one of them had to deal with Skinner/Krycek/CSM/any government representative, when they affirmed their trust in only each other, when one of them almost died (which was practically every episode)... this trope occurred. And it was awesome. UST at its best.
Music
- Lady Gaga and her sidekick/Makeup artist, Tara Savelo
 ◊. Why yes, they do have a shipper following. Why do you ask?
Professional Wrestling
Sports
- The platonic and routine headbutting between victorious hockey teams and their goaltenders.
Theater
Video Games
Visual Novels
- Non-romantic example in Little Busters: at the end of Haruka's route, she does this with Kanata when they make up and pledge to be friends again, where it serves the added bonus of showing clearly how similar they look.
Web Comics
Western Animation
Real Life
- Cats do this partially because they have scent glands in various places on their heads. Thus, the cat is marking its territory (because he likes you, bear in mind).
- Emperor penguins. They are cute birds.
- The real Wesley Willis was fond of this, with both male and female fans. Rock over London; rock on, Chicago.
- Try dating somebody with glandular fever, or another disease spread by saliva. This becomes a hell of a tool.
- When you want to show affection to a relative (or someone you're not romantically interested in), this is very useful.
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