History Main / TimeTravelRomance

* In ''VisualNovel/KoshotengainoHashihime''[[spoiler: Between Minakami and Tamamori. Minakami traveled back in time ten times to save him, while Minakami did it 23 times. And Tamamori's distant future self is also responsible for creating the timeline in which they currently live, where their romance is not doomed in the first place.]]

* ''Film/TheLakeHouse'': Dr. Kate Forster and Alex Wyler fall in love via a trans-temporal mailbox.

* In ''Fanfic/BackToTheFrollo'', Danisha discovers [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture a time-traveling Chevy]], travels to 1480's Paris, meets [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Judge Claude Frollo]], and falls madly in love with him.

* DC's ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow" has a few examples.
** Nate and Amaya in Seasons 2 and 3. He's a historian from the 2010's, she's a JSA member from 1942. Their relationship is literally DoomedByCanon, since Amaya is destined to marry another man in her own time in Zambesi, and her granddaughter ends up being the present-day superhero WesternAnimation/{Vixen}.[[spoiler: Ultimately, they are forced to part ways, with Amaya returning to 1942 to live out her destined life.]]

* ''{{Anime/One Piece}}'' [[spoiler: Toki from 800 years in the past falls in love with and marries Oden. ]]

* ''{{One Piece}}'' [[spoiler: Toki from 800 years in the past falls in love with and marries Oden. ]]

* There are quite a few ''Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture'' fanfics shipping Alice with canon or original characters from the past, especially with her 20th-century classmates from ''One Hundred Years Ahead''/''Series/GuestFromTheFuture''. For example:

* In ''VisualNovel/KoshotengainoHashihime''[[spoiler:Between Minakami and Tamamori. Minakami traveled back in time ten times to save him, while Minakami did it 23 times. And Tamamori's distant future self is also responsible for creating the timeline in which they currently live, where their romance is not doomed in the first place.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/KoshotengainoHashihime''[[spoiler: Between Minakami and Tamamori. Minakami traveled back in time ten times to save him, while Minakami did it 23 times.]]

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''; Saber and Shirou. Saber is [[spoiler:Myth/KingArthur]], while Shirou is from the modern era. This eventually leads to a rather BittersweetEnding, until the Realta Nua UpdatedRerelease first made them StarCrossedLovers, then proof that LoveTranscendsSpacetime upon their (impossible) reunion.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' features the main cast (and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Cruella]]) arriving in a time and space-transcending village cursed by a witch as a response to Cruella's ancestor's harshness. The witch's spell reduces all [[ItMakesSenseInContext but Cruella and Spot]] to become mindlessly happy and never want to leave. During their stay, Lucky meets up with a carriage pup named Rebecca and becomes smitten with her, seemingly because of the spell. When the spell is broken and the main cast are making their escape before the village disappears, Lucky shows legitimate feelings for Rebecca when he asks her to come with them. It's shown to be quite mutual, but Rebecca chooses to remain to keep an eye on Cruella's ancestor. And because it wasn't enough of a BittersweetEnding, LaserGuidedAmnesia kicks in, leaving Lucky completely unaware of her existence not long afterwards.

* ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'' has [[RobotGirl Ifurita]] getting sent back in time thousands of years and taking TheSlowPath to get back to the main character Makoto, so he could go meet her for the first time. [[spoiler: Eventually Makoto finds out how to TimeTravel to her right after that point, and they're reunited.]]

* In ''Manga/AnatoliaStory'', a girl named Yuri Suzuki is thrown into the old Hitite Empire and becomes the concubine of one of the Hitite princes, Kail Mursili. Both are aware of the trope, and in fact Kail points out the HUGE inconveniences. [[spoiler: But in the end, Yuri decides to stay in Hattusa and officially marry Kail.]]
* Touta from ''Manga/UQHolder'', gets himself involved in a particularly convoluted one during his training with Dana. In Dana's PlaceBeyondTime castle, Touta meets a younger version of Yukihime who calls herself Kitty. Touta immediately becomes infatuated with Kitty and inadvertently becomes her FirstLove despite [[{{Squick}} being adopted mother and son in the present]]. Things get complicated because Kitty can only be transported to Touta's time when Dana falls asleep and the time spans between their short meetings are much more longer for Kitty than they are for Touta (to Touta is only one day, while for Kitty several years have passed). Knowing Kitty was suffering in the past and still feeling attached to her younger self, Touta tries to pick up the romance with present-day!Yukihime. Yukihime turns him down because she can't move on with anyone else as long as she loves Negi, but Touta continues to pine after past!Yukihime.
* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': This is essentially why Origami has feelings for Shidou when they meet at the start of the series, even though he doesn't remember meeting her before. To give a brief summary, Shidou eventually travels back into the past and comforts Origami after her parents were killed, causing her to become emotionally dependent on him. It's complicated by the fact that multiple instances of time travel were involved, resulting in a major case of TimeyWimeyBall.

* In the "Dead End Kids" arc of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', the team is sent back in time to 1907, where Victor falls in love with local girl Lillie. [[spoiler:It doesn't work out, and it's later revealed that their travelling back in time was a result of the machinations of Lillie's modern-day self, who had hoped that Victor would take her away from the brewing gang war of that era... which turned out to be an unforeseen consequence of the Runaways being sent back in time]].

* ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom'': During the second fight with the Future Brotherhood in ''Comicbook/AllNewXMen'', the time-displaced teenaged Angel begins to take an interest in Comicbook/{{X 23}}. They go out on a wild date in issue 31, in which somehow Laura (despite her HealingFactor) gets wasted enough that she blacks out and Warren has to relate the events, and which is also heavily implied to have ended in sex. For most of the subsequent ten issues the nature of their relationship is left up in the air, primarily due to Laura's standoffishness on the matter. They finally have a RelationshipUpgrade to OfficialCouple in issue 40.
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'', Brainiac-5 (Querl Dox) and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} (Kara Zor-El). Brainy always falls hard for Kara as soon as he lays his eyes on her, and she likes him back. But he can't live in the 21st century and she can't stay permanently in the future. Her oftentimes prolonged absences have led Brainy to pull some truly ''dumb'' stunts.

* In ''Fanfic/MementoVivere'', a VideoGame/FinalFantasyX fanfiction, the romance between Auron and Rikku is a main plot point of the story.
* In ''Fanfic/BackToTheFrollo'', Danisha discovers [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture a time-traveling Chevy]], travels to 1480's Paris, meets [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Judge Claude Frollo]], and falls madly in love with him.
* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} travels to the 30th century, meets Dev-Em while undertaking a ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes mission, and falls for him.
* In ''Fanfic/DoctorWhoovesTheSeries'', [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]] and Renaissance artist Leonard [=DiHoovsie=] fall in love.

* In ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'', there's a potential romance between the main character Makoto and one of her closest friends, Chiaki.

%%* ''Film/AboutTime''

* The Japanese movie ''[[Film/MyTomorrowYourYesterday My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday]]'' has a unique take on this trope. [[spoiler:Both of the leads don't actually do any time-traveling per se, and they both experience time at the same pace. The twist is that their individual timelines move opposite from each other, so his future is her past, and vice-versa. They experience each day together, but when the clock strikes midnight, while he moves forward a day, she in turn goes backwards]].
* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] goes back in time to be reunited with an AlternateTimeline ComicBook/PeggyCarter. They get their dance and seemingly live happily for the rest of their life.]]

%%* ''Literature/TheTimeTravelersWife''
* Creator/RansomRigg's ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' features Jacob going back in time and falling in love with his grandfather's ex, and having to make the decision of whether or not to stay. [[spoiler: He does. For a while, at least.]]

* [[spoiler: Rachel Weintraub /]] Moneta and Kassad in Creator/DanSimmons' ''Literature/HyperionCantos''. Like [[Series/DoctorWho River Song]], Moneta travels in a different time stream than Kassad, but she keeps meeting him during important training of his early years training under FORCE (but when they first meet she is in her late twenties, he is younger), which causes him to fall in love with her. She, on the other hand, has been in love with him long before, as ''Rise of Endymion'' divulges and even sends him off with a goodbye kiss with the admonition to be on the look out for her as he returns to his own time, [[spoiler: after having dying in combat with the Shrike and being taken by Moneta into the Time Tombs. Kassad's paradoxes in the time stream in connexion with Moneta are delineated in more depth on the work's page.]]
* There is a romance in Literature/{{Dinoverse}} like this. Time travel in that 'verse entails [[IntangibleTimeTravel possessing the bodies of whatever's big at the time]], and a girl named Patience ends up in the body of a hulking carnivorous acrocanthosaur, soon befriending and then being attracted to a [[AmplifiedAnimalAptitude bright native acro]] which she nicknames Green Knight or GK. Her host had made overtures to him before, but he hadn't been interested; he wanted ''Patience''. She had angst over how they could never be, since she didn't want to stay a dinosaur. He died trying to make a HeroicSacrifice to save one of her human friends - he failed - but it was okay, because he and the friend both ended [[SharingABody up in the human's body]]. This meant that Patience and GK could be together after all! ...along with the friend. Strangely, all three parties were okay with this.
* Creator/ConnieWillis:
** ''Literature/{{Blackout}}'': Colin Templer searches spacetime for his lost time-traveling love
** ''Literature/ToSayNothingOfTheDog'': Ned and Verity [[FlirtingUnderFire fall in love during the course of averting the crisis]]. Somewhat of a special case, though, as in both cases the characters are time-travelers who fall in love with other time-travelers from the same future, in the past.
* This is part of the main premise of Diana Gabaldon's ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' series.

* Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory in ''Literature/CountAndCountess''.
* The Creator/MichaelCrichton novel ''Literature/{{Timeline}}'' has André Marek, a Yale archaeology researcher traveling to 1357 France with his associates. While getting mixed up in one of the many skirmishes of UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar, he falls in love with the English noblewoman Lady Claire. When the others return to the present, the MiddleAges loving Marek decides to stay behind. In the epilogue of the novel, the others learn Marek married Lady Claire and sired children. His final words were "[[AGoodWayToDie I have chosen a good life]]."
* ''Literature/{{Tomorrows Ghost}}'' by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, based around a romance between a Regency-era woman and a 1980s man.
* Creator/HarryTurtledove's CrosstimeTraffic series has elements of this, with a bit of StarCrossedLovers mixed in.
* Miss Price decides to marry Emelius in ''Literature/BedknobAndBroomstick'', returning to the 17th century with him.
* In Creator/EdmondHamilton's ''Literature/TheStarKings'', a person from the 20th century swaps bodies with a prince from the far future. While there, he and a princess fall in love with each other (the princess is in love with ''him'', despite being unaware of the BodySwap). At the end, he returns to his own time and, depending on the edition, the princess either follows him by swapping bodies with a permanently comatose woman, or makes telepathic contact to say they are working on a way to bring him to the future physically ([[OrwellianRetcon setting the ground for the sequel]]).
* The premise of ''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'' is that Jake Epping, a high school teacher from 2011, steps through a [[PortalToThePast portal to 1958]] so that he can prevent the Kennedy assassination. However, since he's got about five years before the dreaded date comes around, he has time to get a job teaching again and fall madly in love with the school's HotLibrarian Sadie Dunhill. [[spoiler: Sadie ends up getting killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jake finds out that his mucking around in the past has made such a monstrous TimeyWimeyBall that he needs to undo all of it, making a new timeline where he never meets Sadie and Oswald never shoots her. Back in 2011, Jake finds Sadie, now a stranger over twice his age, and dances with her one last time, their love momentarily transcending the decades and universes now forever holding them apart.]]
* ''April in Paris'' by Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin has two couples like this form after a lonely 15th century alchemist Jehan starts magically summoning companions from other eras. Barry, an American philology professor who arrives from 1961, finds love with Bota, a Gallic girl from the Roman Empire, and Jehan himself with Keslk, an interstellar archaeologist from the 8th millennium AD. The whole point of the story is that the four’s loneliness and longing for love and friendship was so strong that it bent the laws of time.

* ''Shippu VideoGame/MahouDaisakusen'': Kickle & Laycle have this dynamic. In the end, they both go back to the future, to Kickle's time period, and Laycle becomes a part of the family.
* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'': [[spoiler:Claire]] and Layton have this going on. [[spoiler:Claire was thought to have]] died in an accident involving a time travel experiment, but she ended up [[spoiler:being sent ten years into the future instead.]] Unfortunately, as it was still experimental, this results in molecular instability, and they are ultimately forced to go back to their own time... in other words, [[spoiler:back to the time machine explosion that would kill her.]] [[NotSoStoic Even Layton takes off his hat in tears.]]
--> '''[[spoiler:Claire (JP)]]:''' It appears my time is up, at last. It was nice to see you again. It ended so suddenly; my... [[TitleDrop last time travel]].

* This can happen in VideoGame/TheSims3 if one has the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Into The Future]] Expansion installed. One can travel to the future and end up dating someone who lives there, and eventually even bring them back to the present time. Depending on how one goes about this, the spouse from the future may eventually even return to the future to find [[TimeyWimeyBall their own descendants living alongside their original family]].

* Considering that it calls itself "A Time Traveling Otome Game", ''VisualNovel/AreaX'' is obviously this, as the heroine can travel to different timelines and romance a different guy in each one, with the LoveInterest of her time being the only aversion of this trope. [[spoiler:Sort of--further time-traveling shenanigans mean that which romances count as this is a lot more complicated, though Yuras will always count, along with at least one other LoveInterest.]]
* Between Sigma and Diana in ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' and the backstory of ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward''. When he first meets her, she's already known him for days. When she first meets him, [[TheLostLenore he hasn't seen her alive for decades]] and built a gynoid[[note]]aka Luna[[/note]] in her image. [[spoiler:Complicating this even further are their [[SuperNaturallyYoungParent 20 year-old daughter]] and ''[[UpToEleven 124 year-old son]]'' who both don't even get born in the timelines that either ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' or the GoldenEnding take place in]].
* [[spoiler: Rosemary and Crow's route]] in ''VisualNovel/RoseOfWinter''. Whether or not it works out depends on which ending you get.

* Time travel plays a role in Fry and Leela's WillTheyOrWontThey relationship in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Fry is also [[spoiler:his own grandfather by having slept with his grandmother in a trip to 1947 Roswell]].

* Happens in season 5 of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' with Jack, who is from the past, and Ashi, from the future. [[spoiler: Ashi takes Jack back in time to kill Past Aku, thus ensuring that he won't take over the world in the future. Unfortunately, because Ashi is Aku's (future) daughter, she is [[RetGone erased from existence]] at hers and Jack's wedding. ]]

* There are quite a few ''Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture'' fanfics shipping her with canon or original characters from the past, especially with her 20th-century classmates from ''One Hundred Years Ahead''/''Series/GuestFromTheFuture''. For example:

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with in]] ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', where [[spoiler: the Second Generation Characters are all time travelers [[TimeTravelEscape who fled from a]] BadFuture where [[OmnicidalManiac Grima destroyed the world]]. Now for the most part, they cannot fall in love with the First Generation characters, averting this trope... until you realize they can fall for [[PlayerCharacter the Avatar]], who is a friend of the First Generation characters and a potential parent of the kids in his/her own right. And to top it all off, such a pairing will give these future children their own KidFromTheFuture: Morgan (who can also be the future kids' [[PromotionToParent little sibling]]). In this case though, none of them actually want to go back to their original BadFuture -- and even if they ''did'' want to return, that's a feat which may be impossible to do anyways since Grima trashed everything. [[note]](Though one DLC in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has [[PhysicalGod Good Anankos]] managing [[WorldHealingWave to fix the lands themselves]], so who knows now.)[[/note]].]] The fandom [[InternetBackdraft is split]] on whether this is a good move story/gameplay wise or a ''really'' {{squick}}y deal, since [[spoiler:while the future kids are close to the Avatar's age (in fact, some are implied to be actually ''older'' than some of the potential First-Gen spouses), they are marrying someone who was at least two decades their senior in their original timeline, while their "current day" selves haven't even been born yet (with the exception of Lucina, and she's still only an infant)]].

* During the second fight with the [[Comicbook/BattleOfTheAtom Future Brotherhood]] in ''Comicbook/AllNewXMen'', the time-displaced teenaged Angel begins to take an interest in Comicbook/{{X 23}}. They go out on a wild date in issue 31, in which somehow Laura (despite her HealingFactor) gets wasted enough that she blacks out and Warren has to relate the events, and which is also heavily implied to have ended in sex. For most of the subsequent ten issues the nature of their relationship is left up in the air, primarily due to Laura's standoffishness on the matter. They finally have a RelationshipUpgrade to OfficialCouple in issue 40.

* In the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', pairing up nearly anyone in the franchise with Silver (except for Blaze, who's from another dimension, and Gold, who's in the same time period as Silver) can come across as this. Amy, Tikal, Shade, you name it.

* ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Romances Across Time]]'' has its main character get unexpectedly sent back in time to the Sengoku era of Japan where she makes the acquaintance of Nobunaga Oda and other famous Sengoku warlords and has to deal with CultureClash and developing feelings for one of these warlords in spite of Sasuke cautioning her against letting love cloud her desire to return to her time. She ''can'' avert this trope, however, by falling for Sasuke instead who came from the same time as her (once his route comes out, that is).

* ''April in Paris'' by Literature/UrsulaKLeGuin has two couples like this form after a lonely 15th century alchemist Jehan starts magically summoning companions from other eras. Barry, an American philology professor who arrives from 1961, finds love with Bota, a Gallic girl from the Roman Empire, and Jehan himself with Keslk, an interstellar archaeologist from the 8th millennium AD. The whole point of the story is that the four’s loneliness and longing for love and friendship was so strong that it bent the laws of time.

* Creator/RansomRigg's ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' features Jacob going back in time and falling in love with his grandfather's ex, and having to make the decision of whether or not to stay. [[spoiler: He does]]