History Main / LonelyTogether

* In the manga version of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Viede guesses that [[EmotionlessGirl Fiore]] and [[PsychopathicManchild Joshua]] might care for each other so much because they're both "missing something" -- that is, they've both been separated from a beloved sibling ([[spoiler: Satella]] for the former, Rosette for the latter).

* ''ComicBook/TheInternship'': [[spoiler: In Volume 3, during (yet another) argument with Cooper, River admits that this is part of why they want to genuinely get along with him. River, having faced isolation themselves due to identifying as a transgender individual, actually empathizes with Cooper's feelings of being an outcast. Realizing this turns out to be a major wake-up call for Coop, as it makes him realize that he's not alone in the world, causing him to start thinking positively for the first time.]]
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel: In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', Gwen Stacy suddenly became an orphan: her mother ran away and refuses to come back for her, and her father is killed by a criminal. So May welcomed her in the Parkers' house. She confessed during psychology that she did not do so just because of being a good person, she kept her because Peter is usually out, the quiet house reminds her of the people she lost, and having Gwen around prevents the house from being quiet.

* Owl City, "The Christmas Song"
-->''I don't have anyone at home to talk to\\
And you don't have anything to do\\
So I'll spend my Christmas with you''
* The Music/BarryManilow song "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Lonely Together]]" could possibly be the TropeNamer. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-a7j1l3dt4 Video here]].
* Harry Chapin, "A Better Place to Be". The refrain says it all: "If you want me to come with you then that's all right with me / 'cause I know I'm going nowhere and anywhere's a better place to be."

* Air Supply's "Even the Nights Are Better" is about two people who first got together due to loneliness and then fell in love for real.

* Music/FallOutBoy's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=996nDRrFa64 "Alone Together"]]. "I don't know where you're going, but do you have room for one more troubled soul..."

* The music video for ''Music/HayleyKiyoko'''s "One Bad Night" tells the story of a miserable valet and a woman down on her luck who meet after both are injured in a mugging. They wind up sharing a meal at a diner together and having a good time, and she even helps him flirt with a waitress he likes.
* The opening lyrics of "Sharing The Night Together" have the male singer, approaching a lonely woman in a bar and describing himself as lonely too, looking to alleviate that for even one night.

-->Seems I'm not alone at being alone.
-->Hundred billion castaways, looking for a home.

* "broken" by lovelytheband puts it succinctly:
-->I like that you're lonely\\
Lonely like me\\
I could be lonely with you

--> '''King Arthur:''' We must be lonely side-by-side. It's a perfect way to hide.

''[they hold hands]''\\

* On ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Revenge of the Island]]''--[[NaiveEverygirl Zoey]] and [[BubbleBoy Cameron]] both have {{Friendless Background}}s and become close friends over the course of the season. It's only PlayedWith, however, since they both also get other friends (and in Zoey's case, a boyfriend) over the course of the season.

* The reason for Lu Xiao's desire to be with Long Wei in ''Manhua/InfinityGame'', as he's just as cripplingly lonely as she is, but she never has the courage to tell him.

* Tarma and Kethry in ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'''s ''Vows and Honor'' start off from this basis, teaming up to help Tarma take {{Revenge}} on the bandits who slaughtered her clan, only for Tarma to try to die when they had finished. Kethry saves her and gets her to talk about why she didn't want to live. At the end of it Tarma proposes becoming [[BloodBrothers oath-sisters]] because neither of them has anyone else, and they wind up [[HeterosexualLifePartners exceedingly close]] over time.

* Creator/PoulAnderson's "Losers' Night": The Old Phoenix, the InnBetweenTheWorlds, has a night where all the guests are failures. Unusually for the inn, this night allows people to magically understand each other -- so they can commiserate.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ''Literature/ShadowsInTheMoonlight'', Olivia uses this on Literature/ConanTheBarbarian.

* On ''Series/BabylonFive'', Lennier and Vir are shown sitting at a bar commiserating on a number of occasions, having similar concerns about their jobs and various ongoing situations. It is implied that this is something they actually do on a regular basis, despite their bosses spending a significant portion of the show on opposite sides of the larger conflict.