History Main / YourUniverseOrMine

* Toyed with and ultimately discarded for the ''ComicBook/MarvelVersusDC'' crossover (the big one that lead to the ''ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse''), where Jubilee and Tim Drake (Robin) struck up a rather sweet mini-romance that made them having to fight each other rather difficult.

* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}''. [[spoiler:At the end, Kagome stays on the Sengoku Jidai to "get married", on the words of her present day's friends. Inuyasha would've likely been alive in our world, though he cannot pass through the well anymore - and Kagome temporarily cannot either, her last "jump" into the past being the one she makes to stay with him.]]

* Toyed with and ultimately discarded for the ''ComicBook/MarvelVersusDC'' crossover (the big one that lead to the [[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Amalgam]] comics), where Jubilee and Tim Drake (Robin) struck up a rather sweet mini-romance that made them having to fight each other rather difficult. Due to the whole thing having since been quietly shuffled away, only a few remaining [[YueRyong shippers]] remember what might have been.
* Perhaps not quite the same thing, but in ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'', Two cosmic entities of the DC and Marvel universes Kismet and Eternity fall for each other only to be forced apart at the mini-series' end.

* This was the main tension in the relationship between Comicbook/DoctorStrange and Clea. He was Sorcerer Supreme of his dimension and she was a member of the royal house in hers -- they never did find a way to solve the problem and eventually separated to their own worlds.

* ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}, in the last Warren Issue, has a Multiverse traveler falling in love with her. When things go haywire, he tries the next universe. [[note]] Bonus {{Squick}}: Selfsame traveler had been much later retconned to be the biblical Cain by Harris. And much later Cain has been retconned to be Vampirellas father by Dynamite. [[IncestIsRelative Maybe they should do the research next time...]][[/note]]

* In ''Fanfic/OnACrossAndArrow'', both Fluttershy and Rarity end up falling in love with [[ScrewYourself their male counterparts]] (Butterscotch and Elusive, respectively). Meanwhile, Applejack and Rainbow Dash seem to be sweet on each other's male counterparts, Rainbow Blitz and [[NamesTheSame Applejack]]. There's also a hint of this with Celestia and her RuleSixtyThree-universe counterpart, Prince Solaris, at the end.

* In the JLA Watchtower universe, Starfire and Hugo. A bit of background: Watchtower was a spin-off of Livejournal [[JournalRoleplay roleplay]] Lunatic Cafe, which was a multiverse crossroads. One of the Watchtower players had a character for the Lunatic, a universe-displaced, alternate timeline version of Creator/HugoWeaving who had been slated to die in a traffic accident, but was snatched to the Lunatic. In a plot that crossed both games, an injured Nightwing stumbled into the cafe after an incident on Watchtower. Hugo was the first to intervene and saved Nightwing's life. When Nightwing's friends from Watchtower came to take him home, that universe's version of Starfire took a fancy to Hugo. A whirlwind courtship later, "Hugo Wallace Anders" was set up with a new life and identity in Watchtower-verse.

** Discussed in chapter 20; Twilight mentions having had feelings for a boy from another dimension once (she doesn't say outright, but from the context, it's pretty clear she means the human Flash Sentry), but when faced with this trope and knowing she had her responsibilities in Equestria, she chose to return home.

* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', John has to choose between Earth and Aeryn. [[spoiler: He chooses Aeryn.]]
--> ''John'': There's no wormhole. There's no home. There's only you...

** [[spoiler: Chapter 11 of the sequel ''Diplomat at Large'' reveals that the Alpha of the Packlands is going steady with Principal Celestia, and drops by her universe to take her out every now and then. The epilogue of the fourth story, ''The Diplomat's Life'', further reveals that they got married during the six-year timeskip, and Principal Celestia is expecting their first child; the Alpha visits her every weekend.]]

** [[spoiler: Chapter 11 of the sequel ''Diplomat at Large'' reveals that the Alpha of the Packlands is going steady with Principal Celestia, and drops by her universe to take her out every now and then.]]

* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': Discussed in chapter 20; Twilight mentions having had feelings for a boy from another dimension once (she doesn't say outright, but from the context, it's pretty clear she means the human Flash Sentry), but when faced with this trope and knowing she had her responsibilities in Equestria, she chose to return home.

* Toyed with and ultimately discarded for the DC vs Marvel Universe crossover (the big one that lead to the [[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Amalgam]] comics), where Jubilee and Tim Drake (Robin) struck up a rather sweet mini-romance that made them having to fight each other rather difficult. Due to the whole thing having since been quietly shuffled away, only a few remaining [[YueRyong shippers]] remember what might have been.

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* Toyed with and ultimately discarded for the DC vs Marvel Universe crossover (the big one that lead to the [[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Amalgam]] comics), where Jubilee and Tim Drake(Robin) struck up a rather sweet mini-romance that made them having to fight each other rather difficult. Due to the whole thing having since been quietly shuffled away, only a few remaining [[YueRyong shippers]] remember what might have been.

-->'''Doctor Strange:''' You and I are one, Clea. Something more than either of us. Something more than a thousand mystic sages could fathom. Our spirits are wed forever.
-->'''Clea:''' I know, Stephen. But it’s the commute, isn’t it?

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** When Rose is [[spoiler: trapped in an Alternate Reality, she can no longer be with the Doctor. Later, a clone of him joins her in this universe.]]

** In Season 3, the Doctor must become human to escape The Family, and falls in love with nurse Joan Redfern. He must choose whether to remain a human and live out his life as John Smith with her, or to return to his life as a Time Lord.
* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' had this come up more than once.
** In "Love Gods", a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Mrs. Fields fell in love with Quinn in a universe which was dangerously short on men. Quinn slid off and left her [[spoiler:[[SomeoneToRememberHimBy pregnant]]]].
** In "Luck of the Draw", both Rembrandt and Wade get involved with people in that universe. (Or rather, someone from that universe gets involved with Wade.) Rembrandt's interest would rather die (she's looking forward to it) than slide off, and is looking forward to his joining her; Wade's interest helps rescue them and slides off with them -- though, since this was a SeasonFinale, he is dropped with only a Handwave at the beginning of the next season.
** And in the third season, Maggie gives up an adopted universe, and Quinn gives up a short trip to his home universe, for each other.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Yesterday's Enterprise," (an AlternateUniverse version of) Tasha Yar returns to the past with Lt. Richard Castillo on the ''Enterprise-C''.
** That wasn't really about the feelings they had for each other, more that Yar knew she was probably dead in the original timeline, and her best chance of survival was actually to go with them.
* At the end of Creator/{{Syfy}}'s ''Series/{{Alice|2009}}'' Alice and Hatter have an awkward goodbye where they lightly suggest one of them could sometime visit the other one's world. It doesn't take long for Hatter to show up at Alice's door.
* In ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', Richard Mayhew is offered the choice between his normal life in London Above and his new life in London Below ''twice''. The first time, he doesn't really understand the choice [[spoiler: and stays in London Below.]] The second, he returns to his normal life... [[spoiler: and ends up hating it so much he returns to London Below, and to the Lady Door.]]
* In ''Series/{{Life on Mars|2006}}'', Sam [[spoiler: abandons the team and wakes up]] only to change his mind and [[spoiler: commit suicide to get back, save everyone and kiss Annie]]
* Also slightly subverted in ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' it isn't really much of a choice for Alex; she wants Gene, but wants to go home to her daughter more [[spoiler: however she realises this is impossible when she discovers she is in fact dead. So she chooses to stay with Gene, but then that's thrown out the window too as he insists she [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy goes to heaven instead]].]]
* The ending of ''Series/LostInAusten'' sees Amanda staying inside the world of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' to be with Darcy -- [[FridgeLogic after having systematically burned all her bridges there because she was planning on returning to the 21st century]].

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* Happens at the end of ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}''.
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* {{Comics/Vampirella}}, in the last Warren Issue, has a Multiverse traveler falling in love with her. When things go haywire, he tries the next universe. [[note]] Bonus {{Squick}}: Selfsame traveler had been much later retconned to be the biblical Cain by Harris. And much later Cain has been retconned to be Vampirellas father by Dynamite. [[IncestIsRelative Maybe they should do the research next time...]][[/note]]

* Several examples in ''Series/Doctor Who''.

* Also slightly subverted in ''Series/{{Ashes to Ashes}}'' it isn't really much of a choice for Alex; she wants Gene, but wants to go home to her daughter more [[spoiler: however she realises this is impossible when she discovers she is in fact dead. So she chooses to stay with Gene, but then that's thrown out the window too as he insists she [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy goes to heaven instead]].]]

** In an early episode, a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Mrs. Fields fell in love with Quinn in a universe which was dangerously short on men. Quinn slid off and left her [[spoiler:[[SomeoneToRememberHimBy pregnant]]]].
** In another, the one with the Malthusian lottery, both Rembrandt and Wade get involved with people in that universe. (Or rather, someone from that universe gets involved with Wade.) Rembrandt's interest would rather die (she's looking forward to it) than slide off, and is looking forward to his joining her; Wade's interest helps rescue them and slides off with them -- though, since this was a SeasonFinale, he is dropped with only a Handwave at the beginning of the next season.

* The ending of ''Series/LostInAusten'' sees Amanda staying inside the world of ''PrideAndPrejudice'' to be with Darcy -- [[FridgeLogic after having systematically burned all her bridges there because she was planning on returning to the 21st century]].

* In the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' [[TheMovie movie]] (and fourth LightNovel), [[spoiler:Nagato's attraction to Kyon]] causes her to ''create'' an alternate universe [[spoiler:(technically, she just modifies the existing one)]] in which, unlike in the old universe, it is possible for them to become a couple. She leaves the "which universe?" decision to [[spoiler:Kyon, who decides to reset the world to its original state, partly due to his [[BelligerentSexualTension self-denied feelings for Haruhi]]. But the other option [[Manga/TheVanishingOfNagatoYukiChan is not ignored]]]].

* In the JLA Watchtower universe, Starfire and Hugo. A bit of background: Watchtower was a spin-off of Livejournal [[JournalRoleplay roleplay]] Lunatic Cafe, which was a multiverse crossroads. One of the Watchtower players had a character for the Lunatic, a universe-displaced, alternate timeline version of HugoWeaving who had been slated to die in a traffic accident, but was snatched to the Lunatic. In a plot that crossed both games, an injured Nightwing stumbled into the cafe after an incident on Watchtower. Hugo was the first to intervene and saved Nightwing's life. When Nightwing's friends from Watchtower came to take him home, that universe's version of Starfire took a fancy to Hugo. A whirlwind courtship later, "Hugo Wallace Anders" was set up with a new life and identity in Watchtower-verse.

* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' and its prequels, ''Genbu Kaiden'' and ''Byakko Ibun''. As for the results... [[spoiler: Tamahome is ultimately reincarnated in Earth and reunites with Miaka. Takiko dies in Hokkan and in Uruki's arms, and their reincarnations get together again. Suzuno and Tatara are separated, but they die at the same time in their worlds and are ultimatelt TogetherInDeath.]]

* In ''Series/{{The Flash}}'', Wally West (Earth-1) and Jesse Quick (Earth-2) date despite her having to return to her Earth. Cisco Ramon (Earth-1) and Gypsy (Earth-19) have feelings for one another, but haven't taken the plunge yet.

* It's key to ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' as well.

A person from one universe (of TheMultiverse) falls in love with someone from an alternate universe. Or a {{Time Travel}}ler [[TimeTravelRomance falls for someone]] in the period he's visiting, or vice versa. The dilemma for the Time Traveller or dimension-hopper is how far to pursue the relationship: Maintaining such a relationship often means that one of the parties involved will have to [[IChooseToStay give up his own life in his own universe or timeline]] to fit into the other's.

* At the end of SyFy's ''Series/{{Alice|2009}}'' Alice and Hatter have an awkward goodbye where they lightly suggest one of them could sometime visit the other one's world. It doesn't take long for Hatter to show up at Alice's door.

* Perhaps not quite the same thing, but in ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'', the anthropomorphic representations of the DC and Marvel universes fall for each other only to be forced apart at the mini-series' end.

* Roger Whittaker sings in ''The Last Farewell'' of a man who must return to his (sailing) ship to fight in the war, then return to England and leave the woman he loves behind in her tropical paradise.

* ''Film/KateAndLeopold'' depends on this as well.

* Doc Brown and Clara Clayton in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'' have something like this, but the fact that Clara was supposed to have died (and survived only through Doc's [[JustForPun timely]] intervention) may help simplify matters.
** In the end the seem to choose option C. Live sort of outside of time traveling through the past and future with their flying train.
*** Due to some other time-related shenanigans in ''The Game'', [[spoiler:Doc is left in charge of his father's estate (he wasn't in the "older" timelines) and, thus, the Browns take partial residence in Doc's house in the 1980s.]]
* In fact, the same actress (Mary Steenburgen) faced a similar decision in ''Film/TimeAfterTime''. Playing a modern woman who falls in love with H.G. Wells on his trip to the 20th century, she finally decides to return with him to the 1880s. "I'm not makin' any promises, but when we get back, I'm changin' my name to Susan B. Anthony".
* TheFilmOfTheBook ''[[{{Weenalized}} only]]'' of ''Film/PrinceCaspian'' has this between Caspian and Susan, who are from different worlds, but have no romance at all in the original books. Interestingly, the Pevensie siblings never married in all the years they ruled Narnia, despite all but forgetting they came from another world and despite ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'' mentioning Susan and Lucy having many, many suitors (but the only one we ever meet personally is a [[BreakTheHaughty haughty]], [[TheEvilPrince evil prince]]).