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* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' loved to play around with this at the beginning. The first girl shown is NOT the female lead [[{{Shorttank}} Sanae]] but Tsubasa's old friend [[YamatoNadeshiko Yayoi Aoba]], who's seen when he is moving to Shizuoka and she barely manages to say goodbye to him. This is brought up later when Yayoi reappears with a crush on Tsubasa, much to Sanae's despair... but several years later, Yayoi hangs out more with [[IllGirl Jun Misugi]] than Tsubasa himself. He later comes to [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend aknowledge and return Sanae's feelings for him]].

** And then, Yuki went and fell onto [[CannotSpitItOut Kobayashi-kun]] from [[IHaveTheHighGround the top of a power pole]], leaving him in hospital with concussion and fractured ribs. It goes to show... the quickest way to a man's heart is through his rib cage.

* ComicBook/BettyRoss was [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]]'s first canonical love interest, and the one that the writers will always come back to.

** While the first girl Naruto [[LovingAShadow crushed on]] was his teammate Sakura, the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'' reveals that he met his future wife [[spoiler:Hinata]] -- the first and only girl to show a ''genuine'' interest in ''him'' -- on [[SnowMeansLove a snowy day]] before they enrolled in the Academy, ''before'' he met Sakura. Also on a meta level, [[AllThereInTheManual according to the first databook]], [[WordOfGod Kishimoto]] created [[spoiler:Hinata]] ''before'' Sakura[[note]][[spoiler:Hinata]] is among the characters that Kishimoto designed "at a very early stage", while Sakura is notably '''not''' among them. The full list is: Naruto, Kurama, the First and Second Hokages, Ibiki, Anko, Kakashi, Iruka, [[spoiler:Hinata]], Jiraiya, and Gamabunta[[/note]], and the only reason he added Sakura into the story is because [[ExecutiveMeddling his editor told him to]].
** Sakura was Sasuke's first female teammate, and [[spoiler:she marries him in the epilogue]].

* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'' Yang and Ruby at the first two girls to meet Izuku after Ruby literally steps on and trips over him. [[spoiler:Yang is the first one to ask him out and becomes his girlfriend.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Subverted with Korra and Mako. Mako met Korra before Asami and at the end of the first season, Mako ends up with Korra. However, in the second season they realize they don't work as a couple and break up. Subverted even [[UpToEleven further]] by the GrandFinale revealing [[spoiler: Korra and ''Asami'' hooking up as they were each the first and only girl the other was interested in.]]

** Out of Ichigo's female friends, Rukia is the first one seen by the audience whereas Tatsuki is said to be the first one he met. [[spoiler: Then it's averted because Ichigo marries Orihime, the girl who is both the ''second'' female friend he made AND the second one introduced.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' ends with protagonist Star Butterfly and deuteragonist Marco Diaz as a couple. Star was the first girl (and first character) introduced and Marco was the first boy introduced other than Star's father. The RomanticFalseLead for each of them would've also been a "first girl" in other senses, with Marco briefly dating Jackie Lynn Thomas (on whom he had a crush since kindergarten) and Star spending nearly half the show dating Tom Lucitor, the first humanoid boy she'd met who's her own age and not a relative. Both of them ended up breaking up Marco and Star at least in part because [[EveryoneCanSeeIt they realized the two of them are in love long before Star and Marco themselves figured it out]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': Tootie was the first of Timmy's love interests to be introduced. The plot of the LiveActionAdaptation ''Film/AFairlyOddMovieGrowUpTimmyTurner'' and [[WordOfGod some of Butch Hartman's posts/tweets/dialogue regarding the movie]] suggest that Timmy was destined to fall in love with her.

* Used twice in ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'': the first major female character introduced is [[BrokenBird Erika]], whom [[CloudCuckooLander Largo]] [[WhatAnIdiot tries to grope]] to find out if her boobs are real and gets another broken arm in return. The second, [[CuteClumsyGirl Kimiko]], almost immediately accidentally hits Piro in the head with a coffee pot. Insert joke about winning girls injuring their future boyfriends here.

* ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi'': both Kurumi and Karinka like Kagura Nakaito, but Kurumi is introduced first (and has the extra advantage of being the title character).

* Averted in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', as everyone knows [[{{Superman}} Clark]] ends up with Lois, not for either Chloe or Lana. However, Chloe has his first kiss [[spoiler:and first date]], while later Lana [[spoiler:and Clark lose their virginity to each other]].

* ''Manga/RandomWalk'' zigzags the trope. High schooler Yuka just broke up with her boyfriend, and decides to start afresh and find her OneTrueLove. After two failed romances with Nozomu and Kaito, her middle school boyfriend (the one she broke up with at the start of the story) arrives and begs her to take him back. She agrees, and Touko lampshades this trope by saying that the first boyfriend must be the most special, only for Yuka to reveal that Hikaru is not her first boyfriend -- her good friend Hiro is. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, she breaks up with Hikaru (again), and ends up with Towa, who might not be the first guy to be shown, or introduced, on-screen, but is probably the first guy she meets in-universe]].

* ''Series/ModernFamily'': First Guy Wins with [[spoiler:Haley and Dylan, who was introduced in Season 1 as Haley's first boyfriend. They later break up and, after Haley spends several seasons with various other LoveInterests, they eventually get back together in Season 10, and later get married after Haley gets pregnant with Dylan's child.]]

* In ''Manga/KokoNiIruYo!'', it's played with, as both contenders are "first guys." Hinata was the first person who "noticed" Hikage, the first to confess to her, and the first love interest introduced. But ''Black Rabbit'' -- [[spoiler:revealed to be Teru]] -- is Hikage's first friend, the first to support her, and knew her first. [[spoiler:And while Hinata was introduced before ''Black Rabbit'', Hinata and Teru were introduced into the series ''at the same time''. In the end, Hikage chooses to be with Hinata instead of Teru.]]

** Finally, Yotsuba is the first quintuplet to support him as their tutor, the first one to have a date with him (notably averting NotADate by calling it such), [[spoiler:and [[SacredFirstKiss the first one to kiss him]] (she did so disguised as Itsuki under the Bell of Vows). She was also the first one he met in Kyoto as children and took his photo with, thus making her the first one to fall in love with him, and ends up being the one who marries Fuutarou, turning her into FirstGirlAfterAll]].

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Of course, a writer can't outright admit that's what they're doing, which is why you can expect an in-universe justification for how these two people met so early and took so long to figure out they belong together. Their first impression of each other may be [[SlapSlapKiss immense dislike]] or possibly indifference. Complications will abound, {{Romantic False Lead}}s will show up, [[ThirdActMisunderstanding misunderstandings will arise]] between them, pride and denial will keep them apart. In extreme cases, it may turn out [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased her apparent lack of interest in him was a major turn-on]]. Paradoxically enough, nothing screams "major romance incoming" like this sort of thing. A more subtle tactic is to get the First Girl "off the radar" somehow -- DemotedToExtra, PutOnABus and similar tactics--but this adds the additional challenge of bringing her ''out'' of exile in a believable way.

* ''Manga/BunnyDrop'': [[spoiler:Daikichi ends up marrying the now-adult Rin in the end. Yes, that Rin. The 6 year old he adopts at the beginning of the series.]] Averted in the anime and live action adaptations, which imply he ends up with Kouki's mother.

** The first main character shown is Lucy (aka. Nyu), with whom Kohta does not actually end up. He instead ends up with the first one he meets--[[KissingCousins his cousin Yuka]].[[note]]This is not considered as {{Squick}}y in Japan as it is in some other parts of the world.[[/note]] Although Yuka's [[ClingyJealousGirl insecurity and paranoia]] could lead her to believe otherwise, the other girls who boarded with them (Mayu, Nana and Nozomi) never really had a chance in the UnwantedHarem, and most of them simply didn't really like Kohta in ''that'' way.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', although Sousuke knew Tessa before Kaname, the first girl who is introduced is Kaname. She's also the first girl to show (at least to the audience--obviously, Tessa had already been romantically interested in him offscreen) romantic interest in Sousuke. And she's also one of the last girls to admit her feelings for him. This makes Tessa something of a sort of UnluckyChildhoodFriend (although she didn't know him since childhood--just much earlier than Kaname did). Interestingly enough, it's been speculated by quite a few fans that if he had actually met [[FanPreferredCouple Nami]] (from the novels) before Kaname, he would have fallen for ''her'' (seeing as how, after spending a little time with her, and even after having already fallen in love with Kaname, he started developing feelings for her and even considered settling down with her).

** Subverted in season 1. While Mariel "won", the first girl Taro met was Sango, who was also his first kiss, and by the end of the first episode she and her sisters had all ''slept with him''.

* Subverted in the manga of ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl''. In the anime she wins at first, but this gets "corrected" in the {{OVA}}--in a way most fans found quite contrived.

** While the first girl Naruto [[LovingAShadow crushed on]] was his teammate Sakura, the {{canon}} movie ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'' reveals that he met his future wife [[spoiler:Hinata]]--the first and only girl to show a ''genuine'' interest in ''him''--on [[SnowMeansLove a snowy day]] before they enrolled in the Academy, ''before'' he met Sakura. Also on a meta level, [[AllThereInTheManual according to the first databook]], [[WordOfGod Kishimoto]] created [[spoiler:Hinata]] ''before'' Sakura[[note]][[spoiler:Hinata]] is among the characters that Kishimoto designed "at a very early stage", while Sakura is notably '''not''' among them. The full list is: Naruto, Kurama, the First and Second Hokages, Ibiki, Anko, Kakashi, Iruka, [[spoiler:Hinata]], Jiraiya, and Gamabunta[[/note]], and the only reason he added Sakura into the story is because [[ExecutiveMeddling his editor told him to]].

** At least three possible interpretations in ''Manga/OmamoriHimari''--Kuesu was the first girl Yuuto kissed (when they were children), Rinko was the first girl Yuuto met when he moved out to live on his own, and Himari was the first girl to appear in the series. Right now it seems that the series is going in the direction of having Yuuto and Himari be the Official Couple.

* Averted in the manga ''Manga/{{Outlanders}}'' (the much-abriged OVA manages to avoid the subject altogether by paring down the cast and storyline considerably). The first girl that we're introduced to is [[ImpliedLoveInterest Aki Okizawa]], the coworker and boss of protagonist Tetsuya Wakatsuki, but he winds up marrying alien princess Kham--who tries to kill him when first they meet, later kidnaps him, and is finally won over by him...before being brainwashed into trying to once again kill him, by the [[KnightTemplarParent most overprotective father in the universe]]. But even then Tetsuya remains faithful to her, rather than turning to another, less abusive member of his modestly-sized harem.

* ''Manga/RandomWalk'' zigzags the trope. High schooler Yuka just broke up with her boyfriend, and decides to start afresh and find her OneTrueLove. After two failed romances with Nozomu and Kaito, her middle school boyfriend (the one she broke up with at the start of the story) arrives and begs her to take him back. She agrees, and Touko lampshades this trope by saying that the first boyfriend must be the most special, only for Yuka to reveal that Hikaru is not her first boyfriend--her good friend Hiro is. [[spoiler:By the end of the series, she breaks up with Hikaru (again), and ends up with Towa, who might not be the first guy to be shown, or introduced, on-screen, but is probably the first guy she meets in-universe]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Archie|Comics}}'', Betty was intended to be this, but usually on a day to day basis Veronica is his girlfriend and Betty just wants to be; the days when Betty was Archie's sole love interest and Veronica hadn't yet come to town are unknown to modern readerships.
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Tim Drake]] met [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Stephanie]] months before meeting his first girlfriend Ariana. He later breaks up with Ariana to date Steph, and ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' shows that even after all the trials their relationship faced he and Steph are happily together in the end.
* In ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'', Lana Lang was Superman's first love, before she used Merlin's staff to become a superheroine in her own right. Then there was Lois Lane, whom he met at a junket of journalist students in Gotham City, whom he fell in love with and married, fathering two children, Joel and Kara Kent. However, Joel, resentful that he was the only offspring of Superman born without any powers, gained temporary powers through his association with Lex Luthor, [[spoiler:who was secretly the Ultra-Humanite using Luthor's body as a house for his brain,]] and with them killed his sister before the temporary powers destroyed him, while Luthor himself killed a very frail and aged Lois. Superman was left a widower for centuries until Lana Lang again came into his life, having now become immortal with eternal youth through her magic, and she became Superman's second wife in his later years.

* In the movie adaptation of ''Film/SpiderMan1'', Peter has a crush on Mary Jane since long before boys are even supposed to like girls, and only ever looks at any other girl when he suddenly had the urge to hurt her (and even then only when he's been corrupted by an alien).
* Male example in the Israeli movie ''Film/TheWeddingPlan.'' Shimi is the first man Michal sees in the movie, but he's married and he pops in and out periodically with many {{red herring}} suitors thrown in the way. But his First Girl status is confirmed at the end when he proposes and brings up this first meeting.
* In ''Film/UnicornCity'' Marsha is quite obvious from her first interaction with Voss.
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'': Over the course of four movies, Indiana Jones has had several lovers. The first one he knows chronologically is adventurous Marion Ravenwood, whom he knew as a young adult while studying with her father, and met again during the first movie's events. During the prequel second movie, set between the times of Indiana's times with Marion, he meets lounge singer Willie Scott, and in the third he has a fling with the scholarly Elsa Schnieder. In the fourth movie, he finds Marion once again and the romance blossoms despite them not having seen each other in 20 years. At the end of the film [[spoiler:they end up marrying]].
-->'''Marion''': I'm sure I wasn't the only one to go on with my life! There must have been [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom plenty of]] [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade women]] for you over the years.\\
'''Indy''': There were a few, yeah, but they all had the same problem.\\
'''Marion''': Oh yeah? What's that??\\
'''Indy''': They weren't you, honey.\\
''Marion has a soft smile on her face.''
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' the first girl he meets after becoming a hero will be his love interest. Bonus points for a MeetCute. Pretty much every Disney movie is this way.
* Averted in ''Film/{{Scaramouche|1952}}'', where Andre Moreau ends up married to the woman he met half an hour into the movie over the woman he was engaged to at the beginning.

* Subverted several times in the ''Film/JamesBond'' franchise. The major love interest can sometimes be the first woman (besides Miss Moneypenny or Judi Dench's "M") that Bond meets in the film, but because James is a such a womanizer, the first girl he meets will often be either a quick fling, or a quick fling that ends in the woman's untimely and bizarre death, a la [[spoiler:''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', Film/GoldenEye'', ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', and so on]].
** In fact, this happens often enough that one might say that the Bond films tend to follow the LastGirlWins trope rather faithfully.
** Only in the context of a single movie. By the next one he'll be with another girl, so it's either ''No'' Girl Wins (if the goal is to be Bond's stable long term love interest) or ''Every'' (Hot) Girl Wins (if the goal is just to get to have sex with him).
** Notably, the only women Bond ever loved were not the First Girls of his chronological life, though one was the first girl of that particular film/novel.
* Averted in ''Film/EdWood,'' if only because it was a biopic. May be an example of RealityIsUnrealistic.
* In ''Film/DefinitelyMaybe'', the mother of Maya is [[spoiler: Emily, getting together again with Will after spending years apart.]] Subverted in that the two of them are divorced in the present.

* Subverted in ''Film/TooManyHusbands.'' Henry is introduced onscreen first, and Bill was Vicky's first husband, but neither guy really "wins." [[spoiler:The court decides that Bill is Vicky's legal husband, but she declares herself unable to choose between them, and the last scene shows them both vowing to make her happy in the future.]]

* ''Film/LittleWomen2019'' uses its AnachronicOrder structure to play this trope straight. While following the linear timeline that the book and other adaptations use, Laurie first falls in love with Jo, gets rejected and eventually marries Amy - in this film, Laurie's first scene is with the now-grown up Amy and it establishes him as her love interest.
* ''Film/TheWorldOfSuzieWong'' - Robert meets Suzie first on the ferry into Hong Kong, not meeting other potential love interest Kay until later.
* The film version of ''Literature/FlowerDrumSong'':
** While the stage version opens with Ta and Linda on a date, the first time Linda is introduced, we see her winking at Sammy. They are a BetaCouple but Linda first pursues Ta when she thinks Sammy won't marry her, only to eventually come back to him.
** Mei Li likewise is the first character we meet in the story, and she is who Ta will end up with.

* Averted in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', as everyone knows [[{{Superman}} Clark]] ends up with Lois, not for either Chloe or Lana. However, Chloe has his first kiss [[spoiler:and first date]], while later Lana [[spoiler:and Clark lose their virginity to each other]].
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': JD and Elliot met at the beginning of the series, and while technically both have dated other people before, Elliot is the first girl JD falls for and dated in the series. But it didn't work out so they moved on to other people. [[WillTheyOrWontThey Until JD fell for Elliot again. So they hooked up again. Then JD realized he didn't love Elliot so they broke up again! Then two seasons later, oh wait, JD likes her again! So they start dating]] ''[[WillTheyOrWontThey again]]''! Now that [[strike:the show's coming to a close]] the show has ended, [[strike: it looks like this one will actually stick so maybe, just maybe]] First Girl Wins after all. Yay!
** On a much smaller scale, it also happened with Dr Cox: the first woman he's seen with is his ex-wife, then he dates another one and a crush on Carla's revealed, but at the end (although it's still very early in the series) he picks Jordan (even though she was pregnant and he thought the kid wasn't his).
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** Ross and Rachel. It's revealed in the pilot episode that Ross has been in love with her for years even though he moved on with his life. She didn't reciprocate and the entire span of the show follows them [[UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo falling in and out of love with each other, often completely out of sync with the other, so they're never in the same place at the same time]]. After several failed attempts, they finally get back together for good at the very end of the show.
** A Season 5 Thanksgiving flashback to two Thanksgivings ten years before hand reveal that Chandler and Monica first met when Ross brought Chandler back from college for Thanksgiving two years in a row. Monica was immediately attracted to Chandler, but her attraction was killed when she overheard him calling her fat. She spent a year losing weight in a plan to get him back for calling her fat. The next year, he's completely bowled over by her new look, but her attempt to gain revenge for the previous year's insult results in a kitchen accident that leads to the loss of one of Chandler's toes and the death of his attraction to her. Unlike Ross and Rachel, however, once their interest in each other is rekindled in season 5, they become a much more stable beta couple than the alpha couple.
* Quite obviously ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' with Derek and Meredith.
* Ephram and Amy in ''Series/{{Everwood}}''. Also Andy and Nina for some extent, although at first there was no clear sign of UST between them.

* Both of the Fisher sons in ''Series/SixFeetUnder'' eventually end up with the partners they are shown with in the pilot [[spoiler: 'til death do they part]]. The Fisher women, not so much: Claire and Ruth both end up in relationships with men not introduced until much later in the series.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' this can be seen to an extent with [[spoiler: Kate/Jack, he ended up with her in the sense that they embraced death together. They were portrayed as soulmates. However, this is subverted when Juliet is proven to be Sawyer's soulmate.]]

* Josh and Donna of ''Series/TheWestWing'' are this trope to each other, finally getting together after a bunch of other relationships or potential relationships and [[WillTheyOrWontThey seven seasons of buildup]].
* In ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', it's a First Boy Wins--despite dating other guys, literally creating room in her heart for her fiance, and nearly getting married, Sabrina winds up with Harvey, her first love.
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', Aeryn Sun is the first Human-like female that John Crichton meets after his travel through the wormhole in the premiere. Naturally, they end up together.

** Right from the beginning of the series, Amita hangs around a lot more and works a lot more closely with Charlie than any other grad student, prompting both Don and Alan to comment on the romantic potential there. After two seasons of WillTheyOrWontThey, they get together in the beginning of Season Three and stay together for the rest of the series, [[TheyDo marrying]] in the series finale.

* Played with in ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' with Constable George Crabtree and Edna Garrison. They meet in the very first episode of the series ("Power") when she's an animal rights activist protesting the planned electrocution of a dog to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current. The demonstration is sabotaged and a woman dies. George has to investigate Edna, who is found to have incriminating device plans, and the suspicion comes between them--at one point George says, "That ship has sailed." Several seasons pass, during which George has a budding romance with Dr. Grace that also fizzles out, partly over George's class insecurities. Edna reappears in the eighth season having married a soldier with a young son; she's recently received an official letter telling her she's a widow, and over the course of the season she and George rekindle their romance. Late in the season, after learning of his impending promotion to detective, he proposes marriage to her and she accepts. Just when the trio is discussing their new family life over dinner, Edna's first husband suddenly reappears and things go downhill fast.
* {{Averted}} in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', in that Harper ''never'' seems to catch a break in terms of landing Justin. They do, however, find out that they do make excellent friends--but things revert back, because StatusQuoIsGod. And now she's not interested anymore.
* Chuck and Blair on ''Series/GossipGirl''. She's the first girl he ever had romantic feelings for and he never stops loving her, marrying her at the end of the series.
** Dan's first love was Serena and the show ends with them getting married. Noted for being squicky rather than romantic since [[spoiler:it turns out Dan is Gossip Girl and has been stalking and berating her online for years.]]
* Cory and Topanga from ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld''. Topanga is the first girl Cory speaks to outside his family, and the first girl he befriends. Though initially their relationship is a case of SlapSlapKiss, [[spoiler: they begin dating in the third season.]] Shortly after, however, [[spoiler: they break up, but get back together a few months later.]] In season five, [[spoiler: they break up again because Cory kisses another girl, but they quickly reunite.]] Finally, at their high school graduation, [[spoiler: Topanga proposes to Cory, and they get married in the show’s final season.]]
* ''Series/{{Revenge}}'': [[spoiler:Emily Thorne/the real Amanda Clarke and her childhood friend Jack Porter. Took them the entire run of the show to sleep together in the series finale, and they married six months later]].

* ''Series/AustinAndAlly''. Subverted early-Season 2, but played straight as of mid-Season 3. Coincidentally, Ally was the first girl Austin met ''and'' the first girl introduced in the show proper.
* ''Series/MillionYenWomen'': The flash-back to the women moving into Shin's apartment shows that Hitomi was the first to arrive. She's also the one who ends up living with him permanently.
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': In the GrandFinale, Ned does not end up with Suzie, but with Moze, his longtime best friend, who's been close to him since day one.

* Painfully averted for Eponine in ''Theatre/LesMiserables''. She has a visible crush on Marius from the moment they are first onstage together, and constantly flirts with and teases him. Nonetheless, Marius becomes enamored with Cosette the first time he sees her, and vice versa, and the show ends with their wedding [[spoiler:while [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse Eponine dies early into Act 2]]]].

* Milfeulle and Apricot in the ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' games.

* In ''[[VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2 Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer]]'', the love interest for male characters is the first NPC to show up on screen. The main campaign has the 'first girl' die and deleted the romance arc with the second, leaving the third female party member as the only romance for male characters.
* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', if a male character sticks with Dawn Star.

* ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' games all have a [[OfficialCouple "main heroine"]] that is the first girl the protagonist meets after [[EasyAmnesia losing his memory]]. That's Mist in ''Rune Factory'' (and ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryFrontier''), Mana in ''Rune Factory 2'', and Shara in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3''.
** The one exception to this rule so far is ''VideoGame/RuneFactoryOceans'', in which neither player character has amnesia and there's no one main heroine (instead, having three "main heroines"; none of them are the First Girl, and there's no OfficialCouple). Sonja, the female protagonist, is the first girl [[TheHero Aden]] meets and the first girl the audience sees, and that they ''both'' get [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] when the other starts forming a relationship with other candidates (along with the trope's prevalence in the series) makes it seem as though this was the intended outcome.
** While ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'' has no official love interest, Clorica can be this for Lest and Vishnal for Frey, as they're the first bachelorette and bachelor they meet after losing their memory and falling into Selphia.
* ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' uses this trope in all five games.
** In ''[[VideoGame/StarOcean1 The First Departure]]'', Milly is the easiest character to gain relationship points with, and she is a childhood friend of Roddick.
** In ''[[VideoGame/StarOceanTheSecondStory The Second Story]]'', while it is logical that Claude would have met other girls in his past, they are never mentioned and Rena, the first girl you meet, is the intended love interest.
** In ''[[VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime Till The End of Time]]'', Fayt starts the game being close friends with Sophia, who later becomes a party member and is the easiest of Fayt's potential love interests to woo.
** In ''[[VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope The Last Hope]]'', [[GuysSmashGirlsShoot Edge and Reimi]] have known each other since early childhood. [[CatGirl Meracle]] and [[TheTease maybe]] Myuria express an interest in Edge, but he ultimately ends up with Reimi.
** In ''[[VideoGame/StarOceanIntegrityAndFaithlessness Integrity and Faithlessness]]'', Fidel and Miki have been friends their whole lives, Fidel's father having taken Miki in after her parents died, and Miki is the easiest party member for Fidel to gain affection with.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': You see Aerith first, but Cloud knew [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Tifa]] long before this. Tifa also joins your team first. Tifa and Cloud can confess their feelings to one another if the affection level is high.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': Zidane is a notorious womaniser and skirt chaser, flirting with nearly every female character in the game. Yet Princess Garnet is the first one we see him interact with as well as being the first character we're introduced to.
* ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'': [[spoiler:Nate and Elena]].

* In ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': Alistair and Morrigan, the gender-exclusive love interests with the most amount of content for the PlayerCharacter, are the first two companions encountered.
*** It's noted that if he's romanced, this trope is also in play for Alistair; the PC is the first woman his own age that he's ever really known, due to his sheltered upbringing and the fact that she's the first female Grey Warden in Ferelden in a couple centuries.
** Averted in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', in which the potential Love Interests are the last four party members you meet, after your siblings, Aveline, and Varric. However, it might still apply with regards to the order in which you recruit the potential Love Interests; the game is flexible about which quests are done when, so you could go to Sundermount before anything else and then pursue a relationship with Merrill, for instance. (Installing the ''Exiled Prince'' DLC adds the possibility of Sebastian as a romance for female Hawkes; however, he doesn't become a companion until Act 2, so this trope can never apply to him.)
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has [[ActionGirl Cassandra]] for male characters. For female elves, we have [[BadassBookworm Solas]]. Female humans get [[KnightInShiningArmor Cullen]], and depending on whom you recruit first, female dwarves and Qunari get [[StraightMan Blackwall]] or [[AnythingThatMoves The Iron Bull]]. For gay male Inquisitors, either [[AgentPeacock Dorian]] or The Iron Bull can be the first guy depending on when they're recruited; for gay female Inquisitors, it's Josephine.
* {{Tsundere}} Becky Fox of ''[[VideoGame/LivePowerfulProBaseball MLB Power Pros]]'' is the first girl introduced in the Success Mode. Although the possibility to woo her is based on luck, she's still the easiest girl to win if you play as a pitcher and [[TheAce are good at it]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}'', Rose is the first mistress that the Overlord gets to "liberate". While the game allows you to eventually dump her for her "[[EvilIsSexy saucy]]" sister Velvet, [[VideoGame/OverlordII the sequel]] proceeds as if you had stuck with Rose, for she becomes the mother of the Fourth Overlord.
* While either the [[HotWitch sexy sorceress]] Triss or [[HospitalHottie cute nurse]] Shani can end up winning Geralt's affections in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'', ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'' makes Triss the canon choice.
** For those who have enjoyed the books that were the beginning of the ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' franchise, as well as the games, ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3'' allows you to do this as well. After two or three years of wandering and amnesia, including engaging in a very serious relationship with Triss, Geralt gets the opportunity to rekindle his long-standing relationship with Yennefer.

* In the ''VideoGame/DarkParables'' games, Prince James [[spoiler:(a.k.a. Literature/TheFrogPrince)]] is immortal, and marries five princesses. But Princess Ivy, his first wife, remains his very obvious favorite.

* While in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', Link and Zelda's relationship is not always necessarily romantic, when it is at least [[ImpliedLoveInterest implied]], Zelda is usually the first suitable female character that is met. The exceptions to Zelda being the first girl met are usually the game where a different first girl is the love interest--like Ilia from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. Interestingly, the non-canon spinoff ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'' actually makes this explicit. At one point, two characters in love with Link talk about how it is impossible to win in a lifetime where Link has already met Zelda (even if, such as in this case, they've barely spoken to each other).
* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' you can choose to marry Bianca Whitaker, who in the original game is the first girl you meet as well as the hero's childhood friend.
* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': The very first romance option introduced in the game is [[GadgeteerGenius Judy Alvarez]]. She's introduced in act one, but her romance arc only starts in act two. The player can still finish it before even meeting the other three romance options.

* In ''VisualNovel/FrozenEssence'', the first attainable character Mina meets is Rune, whose path is the only one that has a possible "True End", so he appears to fit this trope as well as a DatingSim character can. [[spoiler:...Unless you remember that Mina actually met the Oracle ''before'' Rune, and find out how to unlock his path which reveals that he's actually Mina's childhood friend who met her ''long'' before any other character in the game did.]]
* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'':
** One can make cases for both [[{{Meganekko}} Shizune]] and [[ShrinkingViolet Hanako]] as this for Hisao. On one hand, Shizune is the first of the five choose-able girls that addresses you directly (sorta, she's deaf/mute). On the other, when Hisao comes into the classroom, the first of the girls that he pays attention to is Hanako, due to [[GoodScarsEvilScars the scars on her body]].
** On the ''other'' other hand, the ''very'' first girl, Iwanako, is a subversion. Hisao liked her at one point, she liked him back, but they never come close to getting together...except for the part where [[spoiler:her LoveConfession accidentally gives Hisao a literal heart attack and leads to them drifting apart]]. All of the actual heroines are technically SecondLove candidates.
* In ''VisualNovel/TrueLoveJunaiMonogatari'', the first girl who shows up is [[{{Tsundere}} Mikae]] [[HartmanHips Morikawa]]. [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest By far]].
* Out of all the boyfriends in ''[[VisualNovel/ShallWeDateNinjaShadow Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow]]'', the first one to show up onscreen is the IntrepidReporter Ritsu, who shows up in the Prologue right before Saori aka the PlayerCharacter meets the Nagasaki Vigilantes.

* ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' is approaching this trope with all the subtlety of a berserk elephant.
** And pretty much settled as of [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2013-01-16 this page]]

* Used twice in ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'': the first major female character introduced is [[BrokenBird Erika]], whom [[CloudCuckooLander Largo]] [[WhatAnIdiot tries to grope]] to find out if her boobs are real and gets another broken arm in return. The second, [[CuteClumsyGirl Kimiko]], almost immediately accidentally hits Piro in the head with a coffee pot. Insert joke about winning girls injuring their future boyfriends here.
** And then, Yuki went and fell onto [[CannotSpitItOut Kobayashi-kun]] from [[IHaveTheHighGround the top of a power pole]], leaving him in hospital with concussion and fractured ribs. It goes to show... the quickest way to a man's heart is through his rib cage.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', it's pretty clear that Agatha is going to end up with the first potential love interest introduced, Gil. At this point, the only question is whether [[OneTrueThreesome Tarvek will be included as well]]. That question will probably be answered [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder when we figure out whose side he's on]]. If the answer is yes... well, the Heterodyne castle already has a seraglio available.
* In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', Nick, who has never been in a relationship before, meets Ki early on in his time at GPF, and they get married in spite of Trudy's attempts to get Nick for himself (and the fact that he seriously considers her for a time).
* ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany'''s Tiren ''[[SubvertedTrope would have]]'' realized she was this, had she not been [[BloodKnight preoccupied]] by [[AlphaBitch Mary and Sue]] [[ManipulativeBitch goading]] her into a catfight with Sakura. The result lead her and Walter back to {{UST}} territory.
* Subverted--probably intentionally, given Jeph Jacques' anime and manga fandom--in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''. Marten sees Faye in the third strip of the comic, actually talks to her in the fourth, and they've moved in together by strip 22 (not like that; she burned her apartment down making toast). 500 strips of wacky hijinks later, everyone (including the audience) is getting annoyed at how Marten and Faye haven't gotten together despite the obvious attraction. [[WhamEpisode Faye then has a talk with Marten about why.]] [[spoiler: She watched her father kill himself with a gunshot to the head and has yet to recover from the trauma.]]

* Stefan 'Twoflower' Gagne's "Literature/UnrealEstate" uses this: the first girl's house falls on him while he's still on Grunwald. Nevertheless, possibly to obfuscate the first girl winning, the main character manages to run into each of the girls before finding himself in the 'harem', a la ''Manga/AiKora''. Though it's technically not a harem comdedy towards the end.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' had interests in [[LovesMyAlterEgo Paulina]] and [[DatingCatwoman Valerie]], but [[PerkyGoth Sam]] was the first girl.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Robin falls for Starfire, the first girl he encounters in the series, though it requires a {{flashback}} to let the viewers know that.
** It probably helps that their first conversation ended with her kissing him. [[ItMakesSenseInContext While in the middle of tearing up a city]].
* Throughout the series, ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' and her {{sidekick}} Ron date or crush on a few other people, but in the end choose their oldest friend and partner in villain-fighting. It also works in relation to both their {{backstory}} (they were each other's first friend in preschool) and the series itself (Kim tears into the school and Ron is the first person she stops to talk to).
* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Numbuh 3]] and [[BookDumb Numbuh 4]] each end up with their first person [[spoiler: which results in them being married to each other]]. [[TheHero Numbuh 1]], however, does not end up with Lizzie, [[MissionControl Numbuh 362]], or with anyone at all.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': Subverted with Korra and Mako. Mako met Korra before Asami and at the end of the first season, Mako ends up with Korra. However, in the second season they realize they don't work as a couple and break up. Subverted even [[UpToEleven further]] by the GrandFinale revealing [[spoiler: Korra and ''Asami'' hooking up as they were each the first and only girl the other was interested in.]]
* It was [[WordOfGod revealed by the creator]] of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' that, had the planned second movie (''[[http://heyarnold.wikia.com/wiki/The_Jungle_Movie The Jungle Movie]]'') been made ([[WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheJungleMovie which it is now]]), Arnold would have finally recognized his feelings for Helga and they would have dated for years before he moved away in the also-planned SpinOff ''[[http://heyarnold.wikia.com/wiki/The_Patakis The Patakis]]''. It's worth noting that Helga was the first girl from their class that Arnold met when they were 3 years old. (During the series, he crushed on Ruth, then Lila and Summer. He lost his crushes on all three sometime during the course of the series.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Leela is the first girl Fry meets after defrosting in the future.

* ''Franchise/Ben10'''s first official love interest was Kai Green, and a pop-up in the original series reveals she is Ben's future wife and the mother of his children. She doesn't reappear until ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', where it's confirmed that she is the eventual "winner" of Ben's "harem". [[spoiler:This comes to pass in "Most Dangerous Game Show"]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' ends with protagonist Star Butterfly and deuteragonist Marco Diaz as a couple. Star was the first girl (and first character) introduced and Marco was the first boy introduced other than Star's father. The RomanticFalseLead for each of them would've also been a "first girl" in other senses, with Marco briefly dating Jackie Lynn Thomas (on whom he had a crush since kindergarten) and Star spending nearly half the show dating Tom Lucitor, the first humanoid boy she'd met who's her own age and not a relative. Both of them ended up breaking up Marco and Star at least in part because [[EveryoneCanSeeIt they realized the two of them are in love long before Star and Marco themselves figured it out]].
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* ''Manga/RandomWalk'' zigzags the trope. High schooler Yuka just broke up with her boyfriend, and decides to start afresh and find her OneTrueLove. After two failed romances with Nozomu and Kaito, she decides to get back together with her middle school ex. She agrees, and Touko lampshades this trope by saying that the first boyfriend must be the most special, only for Yuka to reveal that Hikaru is not her first boyfriend--her good friend Hiro is. By the end of the series, she breaks up with Hikaru (again), and ends up with [[spoiler:Towa]], who might not be the first guy to be seen on-screen, but is probably the first guy she meets in-universe.

* At the very beginning of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', Tsukune first meets Moka (the first fellow Yokai student, friend, monster ''and'' member of his harem he ever meets in the series) after she [[MeetCute runs him over with her bike]]. Not only does she become his closest friend and [[UnwantedHarem the only member of his harem who’s feelings he returns]], but the feelings are mutual.

** Finally, Yotsuba is the first quintuplet to support him as their tutor, [[spoiler:as well as [[SacredFirstKiss the first one to kiss him]] (she did so disguised as Itsuki under the Bell of Vows). She was also the first one he met in Kyoto as children and took his photo with, thus making her the first one to fall in love with him, and ends up being the one who marries Fuutarou, turning her into FirstGirlAfterAll]].