History Main / LoveBeforeFirstSight

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Lu only knows her friend Matsuri as a girl, [[GenderBenderFriendship but he was male until shortly before they met]]. When Matsuri sends a SoulFragment into Lu to exorcist an evil spirit, [[BoyOfMyDreams he appears before her]] [[ResidualSelfImage in his original male form]]. Later on, Lu encounters [[ShapeshiftingTrickster Shirogane shapeshifted into male Matsuri]]. She ends up falling in love with "Shiromatsu" ([[MistakenForAliens who she thinks is an alien]]), having still never physically met [[LovesMyAlterEgo Matsuri's original identity]].

* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko fell head-over-heels for Mahiro the moment she read the mission report about him and immediately begged to be assigned to his case. When she actually tells Mahiro this, he's more than a little surprised...mainly since she's already progressed to [[LovableSexManiac "Desire to Bear Enough of His Kids to Start a Soccer Team Before First Sight"]]...

* Though of debatable merit, some characters may have predicted that Hayate would fall for Hinagiku in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' before she was even introduced in the manga. Given that EvenTheGirlsWantHer, and she falls for him [[LoveAtFirstSight when she does first meet him]], this is plausibly explainable.

* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko fell head-over-heels for Mahiro the moment she read the mission report about him, and immediately begged to be assigned to his case. When she actually tells Mahiro this, he's more than a little surprised...mainly since she's already progressed to [[LovableSexManiac "Desire to Bear Enough of His Kids to Start a Soccer Team Before First Sight"]]...

* It can't be more fitting for Mitsuha & Taki in ''Anime/YourName''. Both first learnt of each other's existence through the body-swapping. Their only way of communicating with each other is via leaving notes on their respective phones during the body-swapping. Both already fell for each other by the time they met each other for the first time at the top of the hill as their respective original bodies. [[spoiler:This trope even repeats itself when they lost memory of each other after leaving "the underworld", making them yearn each other, despite not knowing who or what it is. At the end of the film, their reunion after several years brings out the tearful joy in each other, & prompts them to ask each other's names.]]

* In the French movie ''Film/WitchWayLove'', HotWitch Morgane tells to her infant son, Arthur, the story of a little witch. This witch fell in love with the portrait of a young man, and found a magic spell that would get her pregnant by him without actually requiring his presence. Then the little witch was punished with a mindwipe, and the portrait was also erased, save the eyes of the man. Later, Morgan meets and falls in love with inventor Michael. Suddenly, we guess: Arthur was never seen with a father around him, and there is a portrait with only the eyes visible in Morgane's room. Said eyes are identical to those of Michael.

* ''Film/TheShopAroundTheCorner'' has the two leads fall in love with another just by reading their letters/mails. The SettingUpdate, ''Film/YouveGotMail'', has Creator/MegRyan's character fall in love with a guy she's online dating.
* The whole plot of ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle''. The official couple, Annie and Sam, meet face-to-face only in very last scene. Annie is engaged, and she has never seen Sam; she only knows his voice, thanks to radio. This doesn't stop her from breaking off her engagement for a guy she doesn't know yet.

* In the tale of [[https://www.bartleby.com/library/prose/4038.html "Maguelonne"]], Pierre of Provence, a southern French nobleman in Middle Ages, compares himself to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaufre_Rudel Rudel]]. He once heard pilgrims talk about Napoli's princess, Maguelonne, and her golden hair. He falls in love with the description, rushes to Napoli, confirms his love for the princess, and she even starts to love him as well.

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', men are rare, and unmarried man are chaperoned by their sisters, for STDImmunity is thoroughly averted, and a man who is not pure anymore would be unmarriageable. As a result of this, falling in love with a description is not all that unusual. Therefore, it is no surprise that [[spoiler: Ren spends the night in the kitchen in the hopes of meeting Jerin, of whose beauty she knows only from the description of her sister Odelia. She does meet him, and is just as smitten with him as Odelia]].

* In ''Someone to Run With'' Assaf follows a dog which is supposed to lead him to its master. While he does so he speaks with people the girl knows, later even reads her diary and is already half in love with when he finally meets her. And he only falls harder from then on.

* ''Literature/{{Emma}}'': Emma Woodhouse feels Attraction Before First Sight towards Mr Frank Churchill. He's son of her close family friend, though they have never met each other. They are socially equal and close in age, and both are intelligent, charming and handsome.

* In HarpyHigh, the wizard falls in love with the protagonists's mother, who is in a coma. He explains that he can read most of her personality through her face (laughter lines, etc) and so strongly believes that he knows her very well, despite never talking to her.

* Shawn of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' finds a lost purse and, from its contents, becomes convinced that the purse's owner is the perfect woman for him. He's actually already met the owner of the purse's contents (the owner of the actual purse didn't own the contents), but didn't get to know her well enough to start a long-term relationship.

* The TV series ''Catfish'' which centers about online romances runs on this trope. The premise is people who have fallen in love but never met in person. Every time, one of the potential people is hesitant to meet, because they are hiding something. Usually has a DownerEnding because the lies, even if for innocent reasons (such as insecurity about his/her real appearance or career), break the trust upon which the relationship was built.
* In ''Series/CriminalMinds,'' Reid's {{Love Interest|s}} in Season 8, Maeve, is being stalked. Therefore, she's afraid to leave her apartment and even more afraid of being seen in public with him, fearing the stalker will go after ''him''. Thus, they talk on the phone and exchange emails, but they never meet in person (or even exchange pictures). Reid is even afraid to meet her because he doesn't want something as superficial as appearance to come between them. [[spoiler: They do get one chance to see each other, when her stalker kidnaps them both, but it only lasts about five minutes before the stalker takes out Maeve in a murder-suicide.]]
* ''Series/DashAndLily'': Lily and Dash develop feelings for each other through their interactions in the notebook that they pass to and from each other, but neither know what the other looks like and Dash only knows Lily's name. Deconstructed — they had both idealized the other in their head so [[spoiler:when their actual first meeting where they know each others' identities happens under less-than-favorable conditions both are upset and disappointed.]]

** In episode "Haven", it is revealed that Troi is due for an ArrangedMarriage. When she meets her husband to be, she sees a bunch of drawings he made showing a woman's face from childhood to adult. The groom claims this is a woman who has been appearing in is dreams from a young age and always assumed it was Troi. Sure enough, said woman turns up later in the episode, prompting the groom to run off with her returning us to status quo.
** Geordi [=LaForge=] falls in love with starship designer Leah Brahms after working with a holographic version of her. It makes things really awkward when he meets the real (and already-married) Dr. Brahms who unlike the hologram turns out to be bossy, cold and highly critical of Geordi's work (to makes things worse, she gets really pissed when she finds out about the hologram). However, they manage to become friends, and the final episode suggests they end up getting married in at least one timeline.
* ''Series/{{Terriers}}'', of all shows, uses this one. Britt saw pictures of Katie when he robbed her apartment, tracked her down at the bar where she worked, and asked her out. ''And'' immediately gave up burglary.

* In Creator/OscarWilde's ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' both Gwendolen and Cecily dream of loving someone called Ernest, and decides to love Ernest Worthing immediately after hearing of his existence.

* This seems to be the case for [[StalkerWithACrush Camus O. Laphroaig]], the leader of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Hell Hounds]], in the first ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'' game. He proclaims his love for Milfeulle Sakuraba, despite the two never having met before, and demonstrates it by revealing several facts from her past at [[OldShame Elementary School]] and [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto Pilot Academy]]. Befitting his nature as a IneffectualSympatheticVillain, this scene is as silly as you can imagine. In the [[DarkerAndEdgier manga]], however, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Camus]] personality is [[PsychoForHire completely different]], which results in his advances being downright terrifying.

* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'' plays this. After a big mess involving TimeTravel, Roger's KidFromTheFuture shows him a holographic projection of Beatrice Wankmeister. Roger is instantly smitten, and (contrary to what his kid states) doesn't forget his trip to the future. At the opening of ''Space Quest V'', Roger still can't quite get Beatrice out of his mind. In the course of the game he meets her, and the pair start up a romance.

* Zhuge Liang had fallen in love with Yue Ying when she had started spreading rumors about herself that she was highly unattractive, but very smart ([[ValuesDissonance this'd be in late 2nd Century, early 3rd Century China]]). Upon finally besting the few other suitors, Zhuge Liang fell even more deeply in love with her and [[EngagingConversation proposed to her on the spot when he finally met her]].

* ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'': Bazett has had a crush on Lancer (aka [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]]) long before she summoned him -- She fell in love with him when she read the Ulster Cycle as a child, and joined the Holy Grail War in hopes that she could rescue him from his early, unpleasant death. In the [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight original game]], she was instead murdered and her command spells stolen, but in ''Ataraxia'' she gets a different try.

* ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'': Bazett has had a crush on Lancer (aka [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]]) long before she summoned him -- She fell in love with him when she read the Ulster Cycle as a child, and joined the Holy Grail War in hopes that she could rescue him from his early, unpleasant death. In the [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight original game]] , she was instead murdered and her command spells stolen, but in ''Ataraxia'' she gets a different try.

* ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'': Bazett has had a crush on Lancer (aka [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]]) long before she summoned him -- She fell in love with him when she read the Ulster Cycle as a child, and joined the Holy Grail War in hopes that she could rescue him from his early, unpleasant death. In the[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight
original game]] , she was instead murdered and her command spells stolen, but in ''Ataraxia'' she gets a different try.

* ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'': Bazett has had a crush on Lancer (aka [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]]) long before she summoned him -- She fell in love with him when she read the Ulster Cycle as a child, and joined the Holy Grail War in hopes that she could rescue him from his early, unpleasant death. In the[[VisualNovel/FateStayNight original game]] , she was instead murdered and her command spells stolen, but in ''Ataraxia'' she gets a different try.

* A somewhat [[FatalAttraction twisted]] [[YourCheatingHeart example]] from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Oz and Veruca, who are both werewolves.

* ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'': Bazett has had a crush on Lancer (aka [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]]) long before she summoned him -- She fell in love with him when she read the Ulster Cycle as a child, and joined the Holy Grail War in hopes that she could rescue him from his early, unpleasant death. In [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Original game]] , she was instead murdered and her command spells stolen, but in ''Ataraxia'' she gets a different try.

* ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'': Bazett has had a crush on Lancer (aka [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]]) long before she summoned him -- She fell in love with him when she read the Ulster Cycle as a child, and joined the Holy Grail War in hopes that she could rescue him from his early, unpleasant death. In "VisualNovel/FateStayNight" , she was instead murdered and her command spells stolen, but in ''Ataraxia'' she gets a different try.

* ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'': Bazett has had a crush on Lancer (aka [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]]) long before she summoned him -- She fell in love with him when she read the Ulster Cycle as a child, and joined the Holy Grail War in hopes that she could rescue him from his early, unpleasant death. In [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight the main timeline]], she was instead murdered and her command spells stolen, but in ''Ataraxia'' she gets a different try.

* In the French movie ''Film/ALovelyWitch'' (''Un amour de sorcière''), HotWitch Morgan tells to her infant son, Arthur, the story of a little witch. This witch fell in love with the portrait of a young man, and found a magic spell that would get her pregnant by him without actually requiring his presence. Then the little witch was punished with a mindwipe, and the portrait was also erased, save the eyes of the man. Later, Morgan meets and falls in love with GadgeteerGenius Michael. Suddenly, we guess: Arthur was never seen with a father around him, and there is a portrait with only the eyes visible in Morgan's room. Eyes identical to those of Michael.

* It can't be more fitting for Mitsuha & Taki in ''Anime/YourName''. Both only learnt of each other's existence through the body-swapping. Their only way of communicating with each other is via leaving notes on their respective phones during the body-swapping. Both already fell for each other by the time they met each other for the first time at the top of the hill as their respective original bodies. [[spoiler:This trope even repeats itself when they lost memory of each other after leaving "the underworld", making them yearn each other, despite not knowing who or what it is. At the end of the film, their reunion after several years brings out the tearful joy in each other, & prompts them to ask each other's names.]]

* It can't be more fitting for Mitsuha & Taki in ''Anime/YourName''. Both only learnt of each other's existence through the body-swapping. Their only way of communicating with each other is via leaving notes on their respective phones during the body-swapping. Both already fell for each other by the time they met each other for the first time at the top of the hill as their respective original bodies. This trope even repeats itself when they lost memory of each other after leaving "the underworld", making them yearn each other, despite not knowing who or what it is. At the end of the film, their reunion after several years brings out the tearful joy in each other, & prompts them to ask each other's names.

* It can't be more fitting for Mitsuha & Taki in ''Anime/YourName''. Both only learnt of each other's existence through the body-swapping. Their only way of communicating with each other is via leaving notes on their respective phones during the body-swapping. Both already fell for each other by the time they met each other for the first timeat the top of the hill as their respective original bodies. This trope even repeats itself when they lost memory of each other after leaving "the underworld", making them yearn each other, despite not knowing who or what it is. At the end of the film, their reunion after several years brings out the tearful joy in each other, & prompts them to ask each other's names.

* It can't be more fitting for Mitsuha & Taki in ''Anime/YourName''. Both only learnt of each other's existence through the body-swapping. Their only way of communicating with each other is via leaving notes on their respective phones during the body-swapping. Both already fell for each other by the time they met each other at the top of the hill for the first time as their respective original bodies. History even repeats itself when they lost memory of each other after leaving "the underworld", making them yearn each other, despite not knowing who or what it is. At the end of the film, their reunion brings out the tearful joy in each other, & prompts them to ask each other's names.

* It can't be more fitting for Mitsuha & Taki in ''Anime/YourName''. Both only learnt of each other's existence through the body-swapping. Their only way of communicating with each other is via leaving notes on their respective phones during the body-swapping. Both already fell for each other by the time they met each other at the top of the hill as their respective original bodies. History even repeats itself when they lost memory of each other after leaving "the underworld", making them yearn each other, despite not knowing who or what it is. At the end of the film, their reunion brings out the tearful joy in each other, & prompts them to ask each other's names.

* It can't be more fitting for Mitsuha & Taki in ''Anime/YourName''. Both only learnt of each other's existence through the body-swapping. Their only way of communicating with each other is via leaving notes on their respective phones during the body-swapping. Both already fell for each other by the time they met each other at the top of the hill as their respective original bodies. History even repeats itself when they lost memory of each other after leaving "the underworld", making them yearn each other, despite not knowing who or what it is. At the end of the film, their happy reunion confirms that they still love each other after several years have passed after the comet incident.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'', Bazett has had a crush on Lancer (aka [[Myth/CelticMythology Cu Chulainn]]) long before she summoned him -- She fell in love with him when she read the Ulster Cycle as a child, and joined the Holy Grail War in hopes that she could rescue him from his early, unpleasant death.

* In ''Film/{{Amelie}}'' the shy Amelie would like to give Nino, her new love interest, his lost album photo back. Without having to speak to him. Naturally, this is true love.