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* Quetzalcoatl from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' loves lucha libre because she immediately fell in love with the sport in the past when she was summoned as a Servant and witnessed it for the first time. This love is so powerful, it transcended ''the universe'' and imposed itself on the version residing in the Throne of Heroes which lies outside of time, applying to every version of her summoned after that moment. Heroic spirits in the Throne of Heroes are ''supposed'' to be unaffected by the experiences of the summoned Servant versions, but Quetzalcoatl's love was too strong to be having any of that.

* In ''KingdomHearts'', [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast]] was able to travel to Hollow Bastion to save Belle by sheer willpower.

* Quetzalcoatl from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' loves lucha libre because she immediately fell in love with the sport in the past when she was summoned as a Servant and witnessed it for the first time. This love is so powerful, it transcended ''the universe'' and imposed itself on the version residing in the Throne of Heroes which lies outside of time, applying to every version of her summoned after that moment.

* The ''Film/StarTrek'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WrittenInTheStars'' takes this trope and runs away with it. Spock and Fem!Kirk end up together in ''four different realities'', '''no matter what happens'''.

* In the movie ''Film/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]].

* In ''Literature/{{Beastly}}'', [[spoiler:when Kyle looks in the magic mirror and sees Lindy 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 Lindy and Kyle sharing a connection like JaneEyre and Mr. Rochester, and it's revealed that Lindy had been trying to invoke that connection to find him as well.]]

-->''"I spent six months locked up in an off-the-books military prison, not to mention 80 years frozen in space, all just hoping to find you. But here you are. You know, I realized something: the universe can’t stop us, because we have crossed galaxies, we have traveled through time, we survived the bottom of the Atlantic just so we could be together. And a love like that, that is stronger than any curse."'

* Near the end of Creator/EEDocSmith's last ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' novel ''Children of the Lens'', Kimball Kinnison is thrown outside the space-time continuum. His wife Clarrissa, his children and Mentor of Arisia use the PowerOfLove to find him and bring him back.
%%* ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife''

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', Rand is the reincarnation of Lews Therin Telamon. One of his love interests, Elayne, is heavily implied to be the reincarnation of Illena, Lews Therin's wife. Birgitte and Gaidal Cain also meet and fall in love every time they are reincarnated.
* In the ''Literature/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).
* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''[[Literature/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.)

* J. R. R. Tolkien's ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' has his most famous love story, Beren and Luthien. He's a mortal man, she's an immortal elf. Her father couldn't keep them apart. Sauron couldn't keep them apart. Morgoth couldn't keep them apart. Not even death itself and the Valar could keep them apart. In Tolkien's work, elves and men had different fates after death; elves would go to a Hall in the Undying Lands and eventually be resurrected, while men would leave the world entirely to places unknown. When Beren died, Luthien died of grief soon after and sang a song of such sorrow that Mandos, who judges over the souls who come to his Halls, was moved to pity for the first time in his life. So he gave Luthien a choice; be resurrected and live among the Valar, forgetting Beren and her grief, or she and Beren can return to life and live together, but she will become mortal and leave the world with Beren when she dies, separated from her family forever. She chose the latter.

* The various [[TheFlash Flashes]] use their loved ones as an emotional tether to avoid bouncing uncontrollably through time or being absorbed by the Speed Force their powers draw upon. Specifically, the couple whose love is demonstrably the strongest is Wally West (the third Flash) and Linda Park. When Abra Kadabra retcons Linda from existence, Wally has nothing to ground him and falls into the Speed Force after running too fast. He ''still'' ends up being pulled out of it by Linda.

* In ''VideoGame/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 various [[TheFlash Flashes]] use their loved ones as an emotional tether to avoid bouncing uncontrollably through time or being absorbed by the Speed Force their powers draw upon.

* In the ''Literature/WheelOfTime'', Rand is the reincarnation of Lews Therin Telamon. One of his love interests, Elayne, is heavily implied to be the reincarnation of Illena, Lews Therin's wife. Birgitte and Gaidal Cain also meet and fall in love every time they are reincarnated.

* In ''Anime/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.

* ''VideoGame/SakuraWarsSoLongMyLove''. 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 ''Videogame/{{Toukiden}}, Oni are monstrous creatures that devour human souls. They are able to travel through time by harnessing these souls' desire to be reunited with loved ones.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Desmond has a history of mental time-travel in which his girlfriend Penny serves as his [[TheConstant Constant]] (also TropeNamer): his first time-traveling experience is at least partially triggered by him proclaiming his life to her, his second one is stopped when he makes contact with her in both time periods.
** And then later the FlashSideways allows all principal characters to reunite with their love interest regardless of the mistakes they made in the original timeline.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'' Series 5, Amy's love brings back, first Rory, then her Parents, and finally the Doctor himself from nonexistence.
** Between Rory's death and his revival, there was also the fact that Amy's love helped her remember Rory on some subconscious level, even though he'd been completely erased from existence and thus have nothing left ''to be'' remembered.
** Furthermore, this is the nature of the love between the Doctor and River Song, which is 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 worked out pretty well, all things considered: [[spoiler: The ''second''-to-last meeting she has with him, a night he puts off for a long time due to his foreknowledge but ultimately cannot avoid, turns out to be on a planet where a single night lasts '''''twenty-four years''''']].
** The love that exists between the Doctor and Clara Oswald reaches its climax in Series 9 when [[spoiler: after her death, the Doctor spends 4.5 billion years on a universe-risking 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]]. The ending is extremely bittersweet, but it's an uber-example of the trope nonetheless!
* ''Series/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]], ComicBook/LexLuthor would be that episode's villain, but the actor who portrayed him in that series wasn't available when they filmed the episode.

* ''{{Series/Fringe}}'' has Peter and Olivia. They cross universes, rewrite time lines and change the future.
** And now as of episode 4x20, we have [[spoiler: Lincoln Lee crossing universes ''permanently'' to be with [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest Fauxlivia]].]] Fringe runs on this trope.
* ''Series/{{Dark Shadows}}'': 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.

In some stories, a FlashSideways - or even outright TimeTravel - can be caused by ThePowerOfLove. Not just motivated by it. CAUSED by it.

* The ''Film/StarTrek'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/WrittenInTheStars]]'' takes this trope and runs away with it. Spock and Fem!Kirk end up together in ''four different realities'', '''no matter what happens'''.

* The ''Film/StarTrek'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9795158/1/Written-in-the-Stars Written in the Stars]]'' takes this trope and runs away with it. Spock and Fem!Kirk end up together in ''four different realities'', '''no matter what happens'''.

* Sadly subverted in JackieChan's ''Film/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.

* ''TheTimeTravelersWife''

* In the ''WheelOfTime'', Rand is the reincarnation of Lews Therin Telamon. One of his love interests, Elayne, is heavily implied to be the reincarnation of Illena, Lews Therin's wife. Birgitte and Gaidal Cain also meet and fall in love every time they are reincarnated.

* MercedesLackey's ''[[Literature/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.)
* In ''Beastly'', [[spoiler:when Kyle looks in the magic mirror and sees Lindy 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 Lindy and Kyle sharing a connection like JaneEyre and Mr. Rochester, and it's revealed that Lindy had been trying to invoke that connection to find him as well.]]

* In ''TheDreamer'', Alan and Beatrice have a rather complicated relationship, to say the least. Bea can only see Alan in her dreams.