History Main / LoveTranscendsSpacetime

* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Relativity}}''. When Irina Novak finishes a successful light speed space mission and [[spoiler: returns to an alternate Earth instead of her own, she's more than happy to reunite with that Earth's version of Anne, and that Anne is more than happy to reunite with her. However, Anne was in the process of divorcing that universe's version of Irina Novak.]]

* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Relativity}}''. When Irina Novak finishes a successful light speed space mission and [[spoiler: returns to an alternate Earth instead of her own, she's more than happy to reunite with that Earth's version of Anne, and that Anne is more than happy to reunite with her. However, Anne was in the process of divorcing that universe's version of Irina Novak, who had already returned to Earth much earlier after a failed mission.]]

** Furthermore, the romance between the Doctor and River Song, besides the two of them having perhaps the most ''convoluted'' romance in existence. How convoluted? [[spoiler: He was present at her birth, he was almost romantically engaged with her mum, Amy, she was raised to kill him, their time lines are roughly back-to-front, so his first meeting was her last, etc...]] It seems to be working out pretty well, all things considered.
** The love that exists between the Doctor and Clara Oswald reaches its climax when [[spoiler: after her death, the Doctor spends 4.5 billion years on a gambit to get his people, the Time Lords, to save her and change history. Later, when she is extracted from her timeline, the Doctor races literally to the end moments of the universe in the hopes of keeping her alive.]] An uber-example of the trope.

* In full play in the 2016 South Korean film ''Time Renegades'' (Korean title: 시간이탈자, or ''Let's Turn Back Time''). The male and female leads of both the 1983 timeline and the 2015 timeline are reincarnations of each other.

* ''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 out of commiting suicide. Although that worked because of [[ShrinkingViolet Kinon's]] romantic love for Rossiu ''and'' Simon both supporting her love and still considering Rossiu enough of a friend to go InterruptedSuicide on him even after he condemned him to death]]. Love is, of course, far from the only thing in the setting that transcends spacetime, and not to mention there are ''many'' kinds of love aside of romance.

* 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.]]

** The love that exists between the Doctor and Clara Oswald reaches its climax when [[spoiler: after her death, the Doctor spends 4.5 billion years on a gambit to get his people, the Time Lords, to save her and change history. Later, when she is extracted from her timeline, the Doctor races literally to the end moments of the universe in the hopes of keeping her alive.]]

* ''SakuraWars: So Long My Love''. A flashback reveals that 500 years ago, a previous incarnation of the main character Shinjirou battled the Demon Lord OdaNobunaga along with several comrades, including one mysterious foreign nun. They fall in love, [[StarCrossedLovers 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 main girls you choose at the end of the game turns out to be a reincarnation of said nun]].

* In ''ScottPilgrim'', when [[spoiler: Gideon KILLS Scott on volume 6]] we see more than half a page full with reaction shots... including [[spoiler: Kim Pine, who isn't even remotely near the scene, but still felt it.]] It's only a panel, casually sneaked in, but it's colored darker than the rest, drawing attention to itself.

* One old storyline in ''Comicbook/XMen'' is that Professor X had a long distance relationship with the empress of another galaxy. Having never even visited each other's galaxies before, their minds nontheless touched telepathically by the virtue of being soulmates.
* [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] {{Hawkman}} and Hawkgirl.

* 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.

* In ''VoicesOfADistantStar'', junior-high sweethearts Mikako and Noboru are separated when Mikako is selected as a HumongousMecha pilot and sent with the fleet into space. As the fleet does not have FTL communications technology, the only means of contact the two have is email, with increasingly long delays in transmission - first six months, then a year, until finally Mikako ends up eight and a half lightyears from Earth. The anime does some deconstructing as both Mikako and Noboru struggle to cope with the separation - Noboru at one point even making up his mind to give up on Mikako, saying that "a distance that takes eight years at the speed of light is no different than saying 'forever'," - but ultimately plays the trope straight in its final scenes.
-->''"I am here."''

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* One old storyline in ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' is that Professor X had a long distance relationship with the empress of another galaxy. Having never even visited each other's galaxies before, their minds nontheless touched telepathically by the virtue of being soulmates.

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* In "Film/RunLolaRun", love alone appears to allows the protagonist to reload the day and try again.
* Played straight in ''Film/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.
--> '''Claire''' What if you had to tell someone the most important thing in the world, but you knew they'd never believe you?
--> '''Doug:''' I'd try.

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* 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]]

* ''LoisAndClark'' had an episode where it was revealed they were lovers in past lives and that Tempus's lives in those times hated Clark as much as the mainstream Tempus hates Clark/Superman.
** [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]], LexLuthor would be that episode's villain, but the actor who portrayed him in that series wasn't available when they filmed the episode.

** The first movie had the subtitle ''[[InuYashaTheMovieAffectionsTouchingAcrossTime 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 [[PortalToThePast Bone-Eaters' Well]] was out of order.)

* In the [[Fanfic/BloodBondBloodOmenSeries Blood Bond Blood Omen Series]] of fanfics for KimPossible, Kim and Ron have been kept apart in all their previous incarnations by a curse. When they finally break it, they achieve this trope.

* [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] {{Hawkman}} and Hawkgirl.

* ''FateStayNight'' gives us Saber and Shirou (at least in the [[UpdatedRerelease Realta Nua]] version), who manage to fullfil the StarCrossedLovers prophecy of Merlin ([[IWillFindYou Shirou must forever search for Saber]], [[IWillWaitForYou and Saber must forever wait for Shirou]]) and reunite in Avalon.

* Played straight in ''JustLikeHeaven''. The main character David sees a ghost Elizabeth, who believes she still lives in her old apartment. Over the course of the movie, they genuinely start to love each other, when he finds out [[spoiler:Elizabeth is in a coma]]. He races to prevent [[spoiler:her death]], and succeeds. Once this happens, their love transcends [[spoiler:her re-entering her body, forgetting him completely.]]

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

* In the movie MadeInHeaven, when Annie incarnates for the first time (leaving Heaven in the process), Elmo reincarnates to be with her even though Emmett (a stand-in for God) warns him that they only have 30 years to meet. The searching is the basis for the entire movie. Eventually, [[spoiler:when they see each other on the street, they remember their past in Heaven, including their love. This becomes a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming ending]].
* There's ''TheFountain'', where a couple are seemingly re-incarnated and fall in love again and again.
* ''DeadAgain'', where The Boy and The Girl are reincarnations of a previous pair of lovers. [[spoiler:Except in their previous lives The Boy was The Girl and The Girl was The Boy.]]

* 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 whose photograph he fell in love with in the future. [[spoiler: It works.]]

* Sadly subverted in JackieChan's ''TheMyth''. Jack is not really Meng Yi, and the princess who had been waiting for Meng Yi, floats away from him to die in the tomb.

* ''{{Fringe}}'' has Peter and Olivia. They cross universes, rewrite time lines and change the future.

* ''SakuraWars: So Long My Love''. A flashback reveals that 500 years ago, a previous incarnation of the main character Shinjirou 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 main girls you choose at the end of the game turns out to be a reincarnation of said nun]].

* ''FateStayNight'' gives us Saber and Shirou (at least in the [[UpdatedRerelease Realta Nua]] version), who manage to fullfil the StarCrossedLovers prophecy of Merlin (Shirou must forever search for Saber, and Saber must forever wait for Shirou) and reunite in Avalon.

* In ''Beastly'', [[spoiler:when Kyle looks in the magic mirror and sees Lindsy being abducted, he can somehow hear her her screaming for him, even though the mirror doesn't provide sound for what it shows. It's chalked up to Lindsy and Kyle sharing a connection like JaneEyre and Mr. Rochester, and it's revealed that Lindsy had been trying to invoke that connection to find him as well.]]

* Played with in ''FanFic/AndAllTheStarsBurnedBright''. Destiny quite explicitly throws Barbara Havers and Thomas Lynley together in ''every single reality'', but it can't compel them to fall in love with each other. Barbara rather wryly notes that in their case, Destiny doesn't have to do a damn thing about their feelings because they fall in love with each other in every reality anyway -- all it has to do is make sure their paths cross, and the two of them take it from there.

* The video for Howard Jones' "Everlasting Love" has two mummies doing romantic things together in the modern world.