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* ''Series/{{DarkShadows}}'': In a storyline spanning April to December 1968, Peter Bradford follows time-traveling governess Victoria Winters from 1795 back to the present day. Returning to 1968, Vicki is heartbroken to leave her 18th-century lover behind. A couple weeks later, she meets "Jeff Clark", a mysterious amnesiac who looks just like Peter. After months of speculation, it's finally revealed that Peter loved Vicki so much that he was able to transcend death and time to see her again. Immediately following their wedding, Peter and Vicki both disappeared, returning to the 1790s for an off-screen life together.

* The first ''{{Inuyasha}}'' movie had the subtitle ''Toki wo Koeru Omoi'' / ''Affections Touching Across Time'', which referred to a scene where Kagome (in the present) and Inuyasha (in the past) both touch the goshinboku tree and then can communicate telepathically. (They did this because the Bone-Eaters' Well was out of order.)
** The ending of the series proper features [[spoiler:Kagome's love for Inuyasha allowing her to travel to the past through what's left of the Bone-Eaters' Well, after it had been erased by Naraku's wish and/or the Shikon Jewel itself.]]

* The film ''For All Time'' - based off the classic ''Series/TwilightZone'' episode "A Stop At Willoughby" - heavily implies that this is what keeps pulling the protagonist back into the past. (Incidentally, the lovers are played by [[Series/{{NCIS}} Mark Harmon]] and [[MaryMcDonnell Mary]] [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined [=McDonnell=]]].)

* In ''CityOfDreams'', the prince and the queens appear to be visitors in the waking world, coming there only for the protagonist.

* The ending of [[Music/{{a-ha}} Take on Me]], where the guy from the comic world apparently dies in a HeroicSacrifice to save the main girl but shows up alive in the real world. [[spoiler: [[TearJerker Cruelly subverted]] at the start of the video for "The Sun always shines on TV"... [[StarCrossedLovers it was only a temporary effect]] so the guy turns back into a drawing and has to leave and [[TheWoobie the poor girl]] [[DidnotGetTheGirl ends up all alone]].]]

* In FireEmblemAwakening, this is played straight if [[spoiler: you choose the Sacrifice Ending (having the Avatar kill Grima knowing that s/he will be erased from existence if s/he does so.) with a married Avatar. Sh/he ''is'' erased as the price for vanishing Grima forever, but ultimately returns to his/her friends and spouse/children.]] Though if you include ''[[ThefourLoves other]]'' [[ThefourLoves kinds of love]] aside of romance, like [[TrueCompanions friendship]] or [[PatrioticFervor love for the continents/countries]] or [[spoiler: familiar love (Mom or Dad Avatar to any of his/her possible children)]], then it's '''always''' played straight.

* The film ''For All Time'' - based off the classic ''TwilightZone'' episode "A Stop At Willoughby" - heavily implies that this is what keeps pulling the protagonist back into the past. (Incidentally, the lovers are played by [[Series/{{NCIS}} Mark Harmon]] and [[MaryMcDonnell Mary]] [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined [=McDonnell=]]].)

* ''SakuraWars: So Long My Love''. A flashback reveals that 500 years ago, a previous incarnation of the main character battled the Demon Lord OdaNobunaga along with several comrades, and one mysterious foreign nun. They fall in love, but she has to perform a HeroicSacrifice in order to [[SealedEvilInACan seal the Demon Lord]]. Before she dies, she assures him that their souls will find their way together again someday. [[SchrodingersGun Whichever of the 5 main girls you choose at the end of the game turns out to be a reincarnation of said nun]].

* ''GurrenLagann'': By the second part of the series, [[spoiler:love renders you capable of teleportation, and it's weaponised so Simon can [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan Bright Slap]] Rossiu. Although that worked because of [[ShrinkingViolet Kinon's]] roantic love for Rossiu, not [[HoYay Simon's]] (though it's not like he wanted Rossiu to die either)]]. Love is, of course, far from the only thing in the setting that transcends spacetime.

* In FireEmblemAwakening, this is played straight if [[spoiler: you choose the Sacrifice Ending (having the Avatar kill Grima knowing that s/he will be erased from existence if s/he does so.) with a married Avatar. Sh/he ''is'' erased as the price for vanishing Grima forever, but ultimately returns to his/her friends and spouse/children.]] Though if you include ''other'' kinds of love aside of romance, then it's '''always''' played straight.

* This is revealed to be the cause of much of the plot of ''MuvLuvAlternative''. [[spoiler: Sumika's desire to see Takeru again combined with the dimensional distortions caused by G-Bombs is what leads to him being drawn to her universe.]]

* In ''Film/SomewhereInTime'', the protagonist wills himself to teleport backwards in time so he can be with his true love.

* The ending of [[Music/{{a-ha}} Take on Me]], where the guy from the comic world apparently dies in a HeroicSacrifice to save the main girl but shows up alive in the real world. [[spoiler: [[TearJerker Cruelly subverted]] at the start of the video for "The Sun always shines on TV"... [[StarCrossedLovers it was only a temporary effect]].]]

* Played straight in ''DejaVu''- Doug regularly gets feelings of "deja vu" where he feels as though he has experienced similar events before such as when he is in the time machine or in the car listening to the radio. Unbeknownst to him these events actually happened in previously altered timelines to alternate versions of himself. It can be imagined that this is due to the power of his love for Claire or fate dictating that they be together.

* In ''SlidingDoors'', the main character finds her true love in one of the timelines. [[spoiler: She eventually finds him in the other timeline as well, because she recognizes him from the DejaVu kind of FlashSideways she gets from loving him in the first timeline.]]

* In ''TabletopGame/{{KULT}}'', passion can be strong enough to make people even return from the dead, and this trope is even less a problem. [[@/MaxSinister This troper]] has the theory that passion is so strong in this universe that it can beat everything else.

* ''GurrenLagann'': By the second part of the series, [[spoiler:love renders you capable of teleportation, and it's weaponised so Simon can [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan Bright Slap]] Rossiu. Although that worked because of [[ShrinkingViolet Kinon's]] love for Rossiu, not [[HoYay Simon's]]]]. Love is, of course, far from the only thing in the setting that transcends spacetime.

* The ending of Take on Me.

* In the ''DragonridersOfPern'' novel ''Dragonquest'', Brekke's love for F'nor is apparently enough to telepathically reach out to the Red Star and cause Canth to teleport them home, despite being unconscious at the time. Although there is occasional mention of "empathy," no human character in the series had ever evidenced the ability to telepathically communicate across interplanetary distances before (or after).
* MercedesLackey's ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar By the Sword]]'' plays with the trope a bit with Kerowyn and Eldan - the beginning of the last third of the book shows that Kero has had recurring dreams about Eldan over the ten years since they met, fell in love, and parted. Only when they are reunited some chapters later does Kero discover that the dreams were not ''just'' dreams: the two of them were [[TalkingInYourDreams communicating telepathically]] the whole time, from completely different countries, a fact that gives her a considerable shock when she realizes it. (Eldan, who'd already figured it out, is rather sheepish.)

* An episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' had May and Meowth hurled back in time for no discernible reason but to get a couple to hook up. This was before [[TimeLord Dialga]] was introduced to the canon.

Noelle and Yusuke from ''Anime/{{TenshiniNarumon}}''- [[spoiler: in the final episode]] their love for each other makes them able to [[spoiler: touch each other again, after Noelle became full angel]]. Also, strongly hinted to be basis of [[spoiler: Raphael and Mikael's relationship]]

* An interesting case happens in the Glee fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6995918/1/but-with-a-whimper But A Whimper]]. The premises is that everyone is born with their soulmates name on their hand. Soul mates can be born in a different time though. And then the story averts this trope [[TearJerker hard]]. [[spoiler: Quinn's soul mate ends up being a singer from somewhere around the 1920s. He obviously died and she has to deal with a heart that's broken to smithereens.]]

* Played straight in ''DejaVu''- Doug regularly get's feelings of "deja vu" where he feels as though he has experienced similar events before such as when he is in the time machine or in the car listening to the radio. Unbeknownst to him these events actually happened in previously altered timelines to alternate versions of himself. It can be imagined that this is due to the power of his love for Claire or fate dictating that they be together.

* In ''Happy Accidents'', time travel itself is done via technology, but the protagonist says that the past can only be changed through an extreme amount of emotional energy. This leads him to think that he can save the life of a woman who's photograph he fell in love with in the future. [[spoiler: It works.]]

* And episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' had May and Meowth hurled back in time for no discernible reason but to get a couple to hook up. This was before [[TimeLord Dialga]] was introduced to the canon.

* In "Run Lola Run", love alone appears to allows the protagonist to reload the day and try again.

* The end of ''{{Brigadoon}}.'' Tommy turned down joining Brigadoon, but magically gets let in anyway 4 months later.