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* Terry, the protagonist of ''BatmanBeyond'', is constantly doing '''Type 3''' to his girlfriend, Dana, in lieu of a Gotham City crime. This happens so much throughout the series that Dana even breaks up with Terry once or twice, only to go back to him at the end of the episode. At one point, her breaking up with him due to his constant standing up allows for Terry to [[DatingCatwoman Date Catwoman]].
* Alfred classily turns up to apologize to the young woman he cajoled Bruce into making an online date with in an episode of ''TheBatman''.

* ''CodeGeass'' does a version of StoodUp that doesn't quite fit one of the five examples above. Shirley, who has a crush on Lelouch, invites him to a concert. When an important meeting for his LaResistance group comes up, he tries to phone her to apologize, but she calls first to say that she and her mother have to do something out in the country. When he finally shows up at the concert hall long after it's over, Shirley's standing alone in the rain. He tries to apologize, but she interrupts to reveal that her father was killed by Zero (Lelouch's secret identity), and that "something out in the country" was identifying his corpse. Cue full-episode {{Angst}} for Lelouch.

* Hiro in ''[[EfAFairyTaleOfTheTwo Ef- A Tale of Memories]]'' tells his would be girlfriend Miyako he'll meet her at the fountain. In a classic '''Type 4,''' his other potential love interest Kei gets a serious injury in her leg and he accompanies her to the clinic. Miyako is so distressed that she waits for hours and leaves a series of 99(!) increasingly distressed messages on his phone, which he doesn't have with him. [[KickTheDog Kei finds said phone and deletes them before he can even check]], [[GreenEyedMonster out of pure jealousy]].
* [[TearJerker A particularly tragic version]] of '''Type 5''' occurs in ''OutlawStar''. Jim sets up a date with a nice girl that he meets... [[spoiler: and then without even knowing it kills her in a space battle. Neither was aware that the other was aboard the ship that they were fighting and both wanted to hurry up and win so that they could make the date.]] In the end Jim shows up on time and when she doesn't he thinks that he's been stood up.

* [[spoiler: Nanako Misonou]] from OniisamaE is in the receiving end of '''Type [[spoiler: Five]]''' in the anime. [[spoiler: Rei Asaka, the [[LesYay older girl]] she was meeting with, [[BuryYourGays falls in the path of a train and gets hit]]. The police calls her siblings Takeshi and Fukiko, with the latter attending the call and suffering an HeroicBSOD. Nanako, however, has no idea, so she waits for Rei in their date spot for hours, and doesn't find out unti her friend Tomoko meets up with her and takes her to the hospital where Fukiko, Takeshi, and Rei's best friend Kaoru are waiting -- next to Rei's lifeless body.]] The poor kid's following HeroicBSOD is ''the'' TearJerker of the series.

* {{CSI NY}} had a rare female on male version that was somewhere between '''Type 1''' and '''Type 2'''...Lindsay had agreed to meet Danny for dinner but stood him up because she was wanting to deal with her past trauma on her own before going anywhere with a relationship. Things worked out eventually and now they're a HappilyMarried OfficialCouple.

** Will realizes he's started mistreating his original group of friends when his powers manifest and he's moved from SideKick to Hero. By way of making it up to childhood friend Layla, he invites her out for Chinese food. This is doubly significant because Layla has romantic feelings for Will, and Will hates Chinese food, but knows Layla loves it; so Will's truly trying to prove how sincerely sorry he is. Unfortunately, TheLibby, Gwen, puts the moves on Will that afternoon and evening and he completely forgets about having promised to meet Layla for dinner. Layla is left to lean on the shoulder of busboy Warren Peace. On remembering, Will feels like a JerkAss, and Layla is understandably furious.

* In "Annie Waits" by Ben Folds Five, the titular character has been stood up, and she thinks it was a '''Type 4''', but then wonders if it would be better or worse if it was a '''Type 5'''.

* In a rare male example, Hal from ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' (who's more like the girl in the relationship to be honest), is stood up on his aniversary dinner, because Lois is attempting to find out which of her sons ruined the dress she was going to wear to dinner. Hal ends up having a good time. At the end of the episode it is revealed that [[spoiler:Hal burned the dress accidently]].
* Not actually romantic--[[{{Squick}} or at least, we hope not]]--but in an early episode of ''{{Alias}}'', after finding out what her father does for a living (he's a spy, like her), the two of them make a dinner date for the first time in many, many years. You see her waiting... and then he pulls up outside, outside her field of vision. You think, just for a second, that he's doing to join her... and then he pulls out his phone and says he's working late. She accepts this quietly, then almost breaks down once he hangs up because she knows he's lying to her.

* Hiro in ''Ef- A Tale of Memories'' tells Miyako he'll meet her at the fountain. In a classic '''Type 4,''' his other potential love interest Kei gets injured and he accompanies her to the clinic. Miyako leaves a series of 99(!) increasingly distressed messages on his phone, which he doesn't have with him. [[KickTheDog Kei deletes them before he can even check.]]

* [[spoiler: Nanako Misonou]] from OniisamaE is in the receiving end of '''Type [[spoiler: Five]]''' in the anime. [[spoiler: Rei Asaka, the [[LesYay older girl]] she was meeting with, [[BuryYourGays falls in the path of a train and gets hit]]. The police calls her siblings Takeshi and Fukiko, with the latter attending the call and suffering an HeroisBSOD. Nanako, however, has no idea, so she waits for Rei in their date spot for hours, and doesn't find out unti her friend Tomoko meets up with her and takes her to the hospital where Fukiko, Takeshi, and Rei's best friend Kaoru are waiting -- next to Rei's lifeless body.]] The poor kid's following HeroicBSOD is ''the'' TearJerker of the series.

* [[spoiler: Nanako Misonou]] from OniisamaE is in the receiving end of ''Type Five'' as well in the anime. [[spoiler: Rei Asaka, the [[LesYay older girl]] she was meeting with, [[BuryYourGays falls in the path of a train and gets hit by it]]. The police calls her siblings Takeshi and Fukiko, with the latter attending the call and suffering an HeroisBSOD. Nanako, however, has no idea, so she waits for Rei in their date spot for hours, and doesn't find out unti her friend Tomoko meets up with her and takes her to the hospital where Rei's siblings and her best friend Kaoru are waiting next to her lifeless body.]] The poor kid's following HeroicBSOD is ''the'' TearJerker of the series.

* In ''AtomicLaundromat'' Angela thinks she was stood up by [[InvisibleMan Admiral Invisible]]. Only he also had laryngitis that night; a rather unfortunate malady if you [[PowerIncontinence can't turn off your invisibility]].

* In TigerAndBunny, [[spoiler: Keith/Sky High]] goes through ''Type Five.'' [[spoiler: The girl he befriended and fell for was a RobotGirl that he had just destroyed, unaware of such a fight due to her appearance being destroyed.]]

** The second occasion, also '''Type 3''' is years later. Johnny has seen Roxanne reporting on one of his stunt shows. He risks life and limb and stops traffic to get her to agree to a date with him. She grudgingly agrees. Unfortunately, the night of their date is the night Satan decides to call in his marker. Johnny is forced to become Ghost Rider and fight Satan's enemies. Roxanne drinks an entire bottle of wine while she waits; and the waiter does nothing to reassure her. The next morning, when Johnny explains to Roxanne what happened, she tells him she can either believe he believes what he's saying and have him committed or accept that he's so messed up he'd rather make up a crazy story than be honest with her. [[strike:This is something of a WallBanger for the viewer, given that in the ComicBook MarvelUniverse, she'd ''know'' that such things were perfectly plausible. But AdaptationDecay and the problems of the MarvelUniverse movies being produced by different studios is why something that's elementary in the comics is troublesome in a movie.]] Except that every comic movie so far (save Iron Man, which will be joined by the Incredible Hulk, Thor, G.I.Ant Man, and Captain America to form a new continuity) has been set in its own, real-world based continuity.

# Bob shows up sometime later with an apology and an extremely good reason for not having been there. Alice may or may not forgive him.

* [[TenchiMuyo ''Tenchi in Tokyo'']] has a mixture of '''Type 1''' and '''Type 4''' in a certain episode that features Tenchi agreeing to meet up with his prospect girlfriend Sakuya Kumashiro, but Ryoko shows up and they go in an impromptu date. When it's all over and Ryoko goes back home after a great day, Tenchi goes home, passes by the local park... and finds Sakuya, who has been waiting for him around ''five hours'' (thank God she chose a bench in the park instead of a restaurant). She lets Tenchi explain himself and forgives him, but she can't help crying anyway as she explains herself to Tenchi as well. [[spoiler: Since Sakuya is a "shadow" of the BigBad Yuugi, there's some lampshading as Yuugi watches the whole exchange over, and when Sakuya starts crying... Yugi cries too, much to her own shock. ]]

* Sousuke from FullMetalPanic does '''Type 3''' to Chidori fairly often, when he's called to go away on a mission and forgets to tell her.
* Hiro in Ef- A Tale of Memories tells Miyako he'll meet her at the fountain. In a classic '''Type 4,''' his other potential love interest Kei gets injured and he accompanies her to the clinic. Miyako leaves a series of 99(!) increasingly distressed messages on his phone, which he doesn't have with him. [[KickTheDog Kei deletes them before he can even check.]]
* [[TearJerker A particularly tragic version]] of '''Type 5''' occurs in OutlawStar. Jim sets up a date with a nice girl that he meets... [[spoiler: and then without even knowing it kills her in a space battle. Neither was aware that the other was aboard the ship that they were fighting and both wanted to hurry up and win so that they could make the date.]] In the end Jim shows up on time and when she doesn't he thinks that he's been stood up.

* Non-romantic version happens in {{Hayate the Combat Butler}}. Hayate sends Hinagiku a challenge letter (written by Isumi). After thinking it over she realizes she might be in love with him, and the letter is his way of planning to confess to her. She waits until 11:30 before he arrives, getting increasingly angry at his lateness. When he finally does show up, she attacks him before he can explain himself.

** Hayate had a good reason for forgetting it as well. The challenge was issued because he needed to defeat her to get rid of a curse. During the festival she was named for, his master was kidnapped and Hayate had to deal with running through the crowd while crossdressed to save her, then she frightened off the curse, so he didn't have any reason to still keep the appointment. He's tired, and falls asleep right after that, waking up thinking he's forgotten something and remembers.
* A really strange variant happens in an early chapter of MaisonIkkoku. Godai asks Kyoko to a fancy restaurant for the anniversary of her becoming the landlady. However, she mistook the name of the restaurant for the local pub. She realizes the mistake later in the evening and rushes there.

* Inverted in a recent issue of Spider-Man, where Peter Parker is (unintentionally) stood up by Mary Jane Watson after spending the day trying to remember where he agreed to meet her. Of course, Peter has had to ditch a fair number of dates while trying to save the day.

* There's a particularly bizarre version in ''The Sixth Sense'', and when Malcolm shows up all apologies, his wife simply mutters "Happy anniversary", otherwise ignoring him. There's a [[DeadAllAlong reason,]] of course...

* In a rare male example, Hal from ''Malcolm in the Middle'' (who's more like the girl in the relationship to be honest), is stood up on his aniversary dinner, because Lois is attempting to find out which of her sons ruined the dress she was going to wear to dinner. Hal ends up having a good time. At the end of the episode it is revealed that [[spoiler:Hal burned the dress accidently]].
* Not actually romantic--[[{{Squick}} or at least, we hope not]]--but in an early episode of ''{{Alias}}'', after finding out what her father does for a living (he's a spy, like her), the two of them make a dinner date for the first time in many, many years. You see her waiting...and then he pulls up outside, outside her field of vision. You think, just for a second, that he's doing to join her...and then he pulls out his phone and says he's working late. She accepts this quietly, then almost breaks down once he hangs up because she knows he's lying to her.
* '''Type 4''' occured on Season 1 of {{Scrubs}}. J.D was meant to meet his girlfriend at a restaurant, but was on a roll at the hospital and either forgot about it, or put his job first (he claimed to have forgotten, but Dr. Cox pointed out he was continually checking his watch). His girlfriend was not happy.

* [[http://www.kismetropolis.com Kismetropolis]] has a '''Type 3'''. Forsythe is desperately '[[http://www.kismetropolis.com/view.php?date=2006-01-27 ''trying'' to make his date]] with Jamie, but he is thwarted by an old lady, and a gang fight [started by demons]. Jamie, however, is willing to be forgiving even before he tries to give his good reason.

* What should've been a non-lethal '''Type 5''' becomes a '''Type 1''' in {{Questionable Content}} when Wil breaks his arm but [[{{Determinator}} shows up anyway]] because [[http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1255 a gentleman never stands a lady up]].
* In {{Megatokyo}}, Piro forgets both of Sonoda Yuki's first two art lessons, which are {{Not a Date}} [[ObliviousToLove from his perspective]], but she [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend subconsciously]] [[AllLoveIsUnrequited wishes they were]].

* DannyPhantom has an honorable mention. Sam takes an overshadowed Tucker on an invite to the dance because Valerie stood him up. But we don't see the waiting...and the standing up may not have happened either, as it was Danny telling Sam the stand up happened.
* An episode of TheSimpsons has Bart doing '''Type 4''' to his teacher Miss Krabapple as a culmination of a prank where he wrote her love letters under a fake name. When he feels guilty and confesses to Marge, she advises him to write a final letter making it look like a '''Type 5''' kind of situation.

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* In the sixth ''Film/HarryPotter'' film, Harry flirts with a [[CanonForeigner random Muggle waitress]], whom he's forced to stand up when Dumbledore arrives just before their date. She's never seen again. Interestingly, RogerEbert liked this incidental character enough to express his hope that they could fit her into the next movie somehow.

* In the sixth ''Film/HarryPotter'' film, Harry flirts with a [[CanonForeigner random Muggle waitress]], whom he's forced to stand up when Dumbledore shows up. She's never seen again. Interestingly, RogerEbert liked this incidental character enough to express his hope that they could fit her into the next movie somehow.

* In the sixth ''Film/HarryPotter'' film, Harry flirts with a [[CanonForeigner random Muggle waitress]], whom he's forced to stand up when Dumbledore shows up. She's never seen again. Interestingly, RogerEbert liked this incidental character enough to express his hope that they could fit her into the next movie.

* In the sixth ''Film/HarryPotter'' film, Harry flirts with a [[CanonForeigner random Muggle waitress]], whom he's forced to stand up when Dumbledore shows up. She's never seen again.

* A Type 2 showed up in ''Last Chance Harvey.'' Turns out the poor guy was in the hospital for a preexisting condition and extremely upset about it. He got quite cranky with the doctors.

* Not actually romantic--[[{{Squick}} or at least, we hope not]]--but in an early episode of ''{{Alias}}'', after finding out what her father does for a living ([[YouShouldKnowThisAlready he's a spy, like her]]), the two of them make a dinner date for the first time in many, many years. You see her waiting...and then he pulls up outside, outside her field of vision. You think, just for a second, that he's doing to join her...and then he pulls out his phone and says he's working late. She accepts this quietly, then almost breaks down once he hangs up because she knows he's lying to her.