History Main / FinalFirstHug

* In ''Literature/MoDaoZuShi,'' it's not ''explicity'' stated whether Yu Ziyuan has ever hugged her children before, but given [[IronLady her]] [[AlphaBitch entire]] [[{{Jerkass}} personality]], the chances are low. She only hugs her son [[spoiler: when sending him away from the attack on Lotus Pier, which she then dies in]]. It's a sweet moment[[spoiler:...until she [[KickTheDog pivots]] into giving a DyingDeclarationOfHate to Wei Wuxian that blames him for the attack, further deepening the considerable psychological scars she had been inflicting on him and her son their whole lives.]]

* Arika and her mother Lena do this in ''Anime/MaiOtome''. It's a TearJerker in that this is the first time they met since separated when Arika was only a baby. Tragic in that [[spoiler: Arika had to MercyKill Lena to stop Schwartz and get the Otomes' powers back.]]

** One of Vegeta's most emotional scenes, made especially poignant by the voice actors' performances in multiple languages, was the scene where he must get his son Trunks to escape from the incoming demon Buu. The invariably proud Warrior Prince softens with sincerity and hugs his son before [[HeroicSacrifice giving his life to save his family's. (Of course, he also knocks him unconscious to prevent the boy from following.)]] His lines from ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' also provide the page quote of this trope.

** One of Vegeta's most emotional scenes, made especially poignant by the voice actors' performances in multiple languages, was the scene where he must get his son Trunks to escape from the incoming demon Buu. The invariably proud Warrior Prince softens with sincerity and hugs his son before [[HeroicSacrifice giving his life to save his family's. (Of course, he also knocks him unconscious to prevent the boy from following.)]] His lines from ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' also provides the page quote of this trope.

* ''Anime/DragonballZ'':

** One of Vegeta's most emotional scenes, made especially poignant by the voice actors' performances in multiple languages, was the scene where he must get his son Trunks to escape from the incoming demon Buu. The invariably proud Warrior Prince softens with sincerity and hugs his son before [[HeroicSacrifice giving his life to save his family's. (Of course, he also knocks him unconscious to prevent the boy from following.)]]
->''"Trunks... from the time you were a little baby, I've never once hugged you because I always wanted to make you a tougher man. I'll hug you, now."''

* In the Japanese version of ''Anime/DragonballZ'', Creator/RyoHorikawa's finest performance as Vegeta was encapsulated in the scene where he must get his son Trunks to escape from the incoming demon Buu. The invariably proud Warrior Prince softens with sincerity, and says the page quote above, does so before [[HeroicSacrifice giving his life to save his family's. (Of course, he also knocks him unconscious to prevent the boy from following.)]]
** Creator/ChristopherSabat likewise did an outstanding job, leaving many in the English speaking audience crying ManlyTears that day hearing his performance, giving his son, Trunks his FinalFirstHug.
*** Same goes to Creator/ReneGarcia earning the hearts of the Latin-American fans with his own performance.
*** Alberto Hidalgo made tears come out of the Spanish fans in that episode.

* A friendly version in ''Manga/FairyTail'', Jellal and Erza do this when they believe that they are about to be obliterated by Etherion, Jellal seeing the error of his ways and Erza refusing to abandon him like before. [[spoiler:They don't die and Jellal still turns out to be evil, so...]]

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:

* It's not exactly the trope, but after the final battle of ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', [[spoiler: after Claus kills himself with his own lightning, he stumbles towards his twin brother Lucas and hugs him for the last time.]]
* It's pretty safe to assume that [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Jecht hasn't praised Tidus once]], at least not that Tidus can recall. So after [[spoiler: the party defeats Sin/Jecht and Jecht collapses, dying For Real]], it means a lot that Tidus rushes to his dad's side and that Jecht doesn't push him away.

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has a non-fatal example of it - [[spoiler: the player character gets a hug from Toriel, the friendly creature that saved their life and was acting like a mother to them, if she is still alive after the battle with her.]] However, she told the player character not to return, explaining why this is a last hug. [[spoiler:They can meet again later on, subverting the trope, but she is not expecting this at the time.]]

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* David Vetter, due to not having an immune system, spent his entire life isolated in a plastic bubble (yes, this is the original BubbleBoy). His parents were only able to hold him as he lay dying.
* On ''Diagnosis: Dead or Alive'', there was a man named David's wife, Bonnie, who had some terminal motor neuron disease, throwing her left arm around him (which she wasn't able to do since nearing that stage of her illness), and pulled him into [[{{Tearjerker}} something of a hug before passing away the next day]].
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* ''Manga/DaiNoDaibouken'': [[spoiler: Baran]] dies after hugging [[spoiler: his son Dai]].

** Finally, in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler:once Peter has been restored, Tony, holding in the ManlyTears, embraces him before they take part in the BigBadassBattleSequence. (It's worth mentioning that, as is the case for everyone who's been brought back in the MassResurrection, Peter [[DeathAmnesia doesn't clearly recall]] his actual dying moments.) The battle ends with Tony making a HeroicSacrifice.]]

* [[spoiler:Big Boss]] of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' hugs [[spoiler:his cloned son for the first and final time as he dies in front of the grave of The Boss, his adoptive mother and teacher. Notable since Solid Snake and Big Boss were enemies in the original ''VideoGame/Metal Gear'' games, ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''.]]

* [[spoiler:Big Boss]] of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' hugs [[spoiler:his cloned son for the first and final time as he dies in front of the grave of The Boss, his adoptive mother and teacher. Notable since Solid Snake and Big Boss were enemies in the original ''Metal Gear'' games, ''VideoGame/MetalGear1'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake''.]]

* [[spoiler:Big Boss]] of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' hugs [[spoiler:his cloned son for the first and final time as he dies in front of the grave of The Boss, his adoptive mother and teacher. Notable since Solid Snake and Big Boss were enemies in the original ''Metal Gear'' games.]]

* Fate gave one to Alicia ([[spoiler:the dead girl she was cloned from]]) before escaping a LotusEaterMachine near the end of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''.

[[folder:FanWorks]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3665921/51/Black-Flames-Dance-In-The-Wind-Rise-of-Naruto Black Flames Dance In The Wind: Rise of Naruto]] has Kiba hugging his sister, Hana, and telling her he loved her, something he hadnt't done since he was eight before he later commits suicide.

* Fate gave one to Alicia ([[spoiler:the dead girl she was cloned from]]) before escaping a LotusEaterMachine near the end of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''. It's one of only two times in the franchise that [[StoicWoobie Fate]] cries, the other being when she realized that she was in said LotusEaterMachine and it was giving her [[YourHeartsDesire everything she ever wanted but could never have]].

[[folder:FanWorks]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3665921/51/Black-Flames-Dance-In-The-Wind-Rise-of-Naruto Black Flames Dance In The Wind: Rise of Naruto]] has Kiba hugging his sister, Hana, and telling her he loved her, something he hadnt't done since he was eight before he later commits suicide.
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** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', [[spoiler: Tony Stark largely keeps himself emotionally distant from Peter Parker, rebuffing a hug from him in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming.'' When Thanos's BadassFingersnap culls half the universe's population, Peter is one of the victims. All Tony does is hold the terrified, crying boy as tight as he can as Peter disintegrates.]]
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler:once Peter has been restored, Tony, holding in the ManlyTears, embraces him before they take part in the BigBadassBattleSequence. (It's worth mentioning that, as is the case for everyone who's been brought back in the MassResurrection, Peter [[DeathAmnesia doesn't clearly recall]] his actual dying moments.) The battle ends with Tony making a HeroicSacrifice.]]

->''"Trunks... Papa has not hugged you once... not since you were born. Please let Papa hug you."''
-->-- '''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Vegeta]]''', ''Anime/DragonBallZ''

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', [[spoiler:Yondu rescues Peter as Ego's planet collapses due to Ego's death. Sadly, there is only one spare spacesuit left, which Yondu uses to protect Peter from the vacuum of space, leaving him exposed. Peter is horrified and tearfully screams in denial while desperately trying to tear off the spacesuit so he can save Yondu, having only realized at that moment that Yondu was the dad he had always wanted. Yondu spends his final moments reassuringly patting his son's head, his first and last open display of paternal affection.]]
* In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', [[spoiler: Tony Stark largely keeps himself emotionally distant from Peter Parker, rebuffing a hug from him in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming.'' When Thanos's BadassFingersnap culls half the universe's population, and Peter is one of the victims, all Tony does is hug the terrified, crying boy as he disintegrates.]]

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Anasazi," Mulder visits his father, who gives him a big hug [[spoiler: shortly before he is killed in his own bathroom.]] Earlier in the season, he had noticeably declined to hug his son. Probably not the first hug ''ever'', but likely the first in a long while.
** Similarly, in season 8, Mulder only gets to see his son for two days before having to leave to go into hiding. Originally intending just to be a long absence, this turns out to be the only time he ever got to see William.

--> '''Raoh:''' [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Come, let me see the face of the man who has defeated Raoh...]] You are magnificent, my little brother.
--> '''Kenshiro:''' [[TearJerker Big brother...]]

* David Vetter spent his entire life isolated in a plastic bubble (yes, this is the original BubbleBoy). His parents were only able to hold him as he lay dying.

* In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', [[spoiler: Tony Stark largely keeps himself emotionally distant from Peter Parker, rebuffing a hug from him in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming.'' When Thanos' BadassFingersnap culls half the universe's population, and Peter is one of the victims, all Tony does is hug the terrified, crying boy as he disintegrates.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' has a non-fatal example of it - [[spoiler: the player character gets a hug from Toriel, the friendly creature that saved thier life and was acting like a mother to them, if she is still alive after the battle with her.]] However, she told the player character not to return, explaining why this is a last hug. [[spoiler:They can meet again later on, subverting the trope, but she is not expecting this at the time.]]

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalxyVol2'', [[spoiler:Yondu rescues Peter as Ego's planet collapses due to Ego's death. Sadly, there is only one spare spacesuit left, which Yondu uses to protect Peter from the vacuum of space, leaving him exposed. Peter is horrified and tearfully screams in denial while desperately trying to tear off the spacesuit so he can save Yondu, having only realized at that moment that Yondu was the dad he had always wanted. Yondu spends his final moments reassuringly patting his son's head, his first and last open display of paternal affection.]]