Line #140 Main/LockerMail


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9	[[quoteright:307:[[VideoGame/YandereSimulator https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lockermail2.png]]]]
10	[[caption-width-right:307:[[https://www.deviantart.com/thecittiverse/art/Dank-Midori-160-Notes-for-Senpai-833242431 Source]]]]
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12	->''"Long before texting, the only way to profess your deepest feelings for a girl was to pen an epic love letter and coolly hand-deliver it into her locker."''
13	-->-- '''Adam Goldberg''', ''Series/TheGoldbergs'', "[[Recap/TheGoldbergsS2E24GoldbergsFeelHard Goldbergs Feel Hard]]"
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15	A student opens their school locker and out falls an envelope or note. Usually anonymous, often a LoveLetter. Or a lot of love letters.
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17	Frequently the locker is a shoe locker at a Japanese school, used when the student wants to change between street and UsefulNotes/InsideShoes.
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19	The easiest way to post such a letter is if there's no lock on the locker. In the likely case that there is one, options vary. If a locker door has vents, the sender can slip the note through them. If it doesn't, the sender either has to figure out the locker combination or somehow find a way to jimmy it open. Barring that, the sender can simply tape their letter to the outside of the locker.
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21	In its most benign form, locker letters are just a way to show that the recipient has admirers, then how they deal with them. However, this is not always the case. Malicious notes could just as easily be hidden in a victim's locker.
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23	May overlap with LoveLetterLunacy. ''Not'' related to StuffedIntoALocker (though overlap is possible), or using lockers as ImprovisedArmour.
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25	!!Examples
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'':
31	** Meme leaves a note and a plushie in Rentarou's shoe locker the day after their first face-to-face meeting.
32	** The anime's opening has Hakari, Karane, Shizuka, Nano, and Kusuri slip a love letter in Rentarou's locker, with each fitting their personalities ([[LoveFreak Hakari]]'s has a photo of her in bra and panties, [[TheSmartGirl Nano]]'s is written like an algebraic formula, [[MadScientist Kusuri]]'s is burned from an explosion...)
33	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh'': Jean receives an anonymous love letter in his locker and nearly loses his mind trying to find its author. Annie eventually confesses to writing it. He tries to hit on her, but she beats him up and clarifies that [[ExactWords she wrote it]]... for a female Titan who was his real secret admirer. The revelation does make him go crazy.
34	* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': The Detective Boys get "official" jobs through notes dropped in Genta's shoe locker, though this element has steadily gone OutOfFocus over the [[LongRunners last 400 or so chapters]].
35	* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'': In "[[Recap/ACertainScientificRailgunEp14SpecialWorkshop Special Workshop]]," Saten finds a letter from Miho Jufuku in her shoe locker that says her strength and courage have inspired Miho to try to be more confident in the future.
36	* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'': Sousuke receives a love letter in his shoe locker. Unfortunately, as a former {{Child Soldier\|s}}, his reaction is to blow up the school's entry hall because he ([[ImproperlyParanoid quite erroneously]]) expects the locker to have been booby-trapped. The shreds that remain of the poor girl's letter read like a death threat, causing his second crazy paranoid act of spending the time of the date/"challenge" lying in wait with a sniper rifle.
37	* ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'': Just after the opening credits of the first episode, several love letters spill out of Nagisa's locker. They're all from girls, much to her chagrin.
38	* ''Manga/IAmHere'': The plot [[spoiler:by Aya]] to destroy the relationships between Teru, Hinata, and Hikage includes planting a fake note from Hikage in Teru's locker.
39	* ''Manga/IBelongToTheBaddestGirlAtSchool'': Matsuri's first appearance is putting a fake love letter in Fuyuhiko's locker so that she can lure him out and fight him.
40	* ''Manga/IrisZero'': Toru gets a bullying note in his locker.
41	* ''Manga/JuujikaNoRokunin'': Uruma's reaction to receiving a letter in his locker is confusion as to who would want to send him a letter.
42	* ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'': Episode 3 has Naeka find a love letter in her locker. She spends the episode wondering if she should meet up with the sender. [[spoiler:The sender turns out to be an obsessive female classmate named Saki and the two get trapped together in a room resembling a love suite, [[BlackComedyRape where it's heavily implied Saki has her way with her]].]]
43	* ''Manga/KiniroMosaic'': Youko receives what appears to be a love letter in her shoe locker. It turns out to be a practice letter written by Shinobu.
44	* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': Kagami finds a love letter in her locker and worries about it. [[spoiler:On account of this, Konata can't bring herself to admit it was an AprilFoolsDay joke.]]
45	* ''Manga/MachidaKunNoSekai'': Nishino tries to confess his feelings to Inohara, only to accidentally put his letter in Machida's shoe locker. This results in Inohara and Machida [[MistakenForGay mistakenly assuming Nishino is gay]].
46	* ''Manga/MagicalGirlSite'': [[spoiler:Reiko Maguchi]] has the mean-spirited hobby of looking through school lockers and tearing up any love letters found inside them.
47	* ''Anime/MobPsycho100'': In "[[Recap/MobPsycho100S1E4IdiotsOnlyEvent Idiots Only Event ~Kin~]]," Tenga leaves a misspelled love letter in Mob's locker as part of a trap.
48	* ''Manga/MyNeighborSeki'': Yokoi being seen putting a note in Seki's locker fuels the rumor mill that they're dating. In truth, it's NotWhatItLooksLike. Her notes kept getting rejected by his note-passing "postal service," so she wanted to bypass the system to force him to deliver it.
49	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': In "[[Recap/NeonGenesisEvangelionEpisode09MomentHeartTogether Moment, Heart, Together]]," Asuka opens her locker to see a pile of letters for her. However, despite loving all of the attention, she stomps on the letters since her eyes are only for Kaji.
50	* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': In chapter 180, Yuuko slips a fake love letter in Mio's shoe locker in an attempt to snap a funny photo of her reaction.
51	* ''Anime/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'': In Episode 13, Jin receives a partially completed marriage registration, courtesy of Misaki, in his locker.
52	* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': At the end of Episode 178, a whole cascade of (love-)letters fall out of Yaren-kun's shoe locker.
53	* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': Tenma's love confession to Karasuma gets so long that what she leaves in his locker amounts to a love ''scroll''.
54	* ''Manga/{{Tadokorosan}}'': {{Even the Girls Want\|Her}} Sakurako, to the point that she finds her shoe locker full of chocolates on Valentine's Day, which in Japan is a day when girls give chocolate to boys.
55	* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': In "[[Recap/YuGiOhGXS1E3ADuelInLove A Duel in Love]]," [[SadistTeacher Dr. Crowler]] leaves a fake love letter from Alexis in Jaden's locker as part of a plan to lure him into a trap. Unfortunately for him, Jaden shares a locker with Syrus, who's the one who finds the letter. His involvement derails the evil plot entirely.
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58	[[folder:Comic Books]]
59	* ''ComicBook/BlueMonday'': Victor writes a mushy letter to Clover asking her to the Valentine's Day dance, but sticks it in the wrong locker. It ends up in the hands of the incredibly homely Sally instead. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he ''did'' put it in the correct locker. Clover was so angered by Victor writing the letter in a way that bettered his chances of getting a date from the three main girls that she stuffed it into Sally's locker.]]
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62	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
63	* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': In one of his more BigBrotherBully moments, Peter leaves fake love letters in Paige's locker that are supposedly from a SecretAdmirer.
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66	[[folder:Fan Works]]
67	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8493574/1/Outcast Outcast]]'', a ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' fanfic, Kyon receives a rather sinister message in his shoe locker in the form of a dead rat.
68	* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16198370 Poisoned]]'', a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' fanfic, Noctis and Prompto exchange lockers, and an assassin puts a poisoned chocolate intended for Noctis in Prompto's locker.
69	* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17730827/chapters/41831069 A Valentine for Jesper]]'', a ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' fanfic, Wylan leaves wordless secret admirer valentines in Jesper's locker.
70	* ''Fanfic/ZooCoupRiot'': During the fire drill, a guy slips an envelope through the vents in Sid's locker. It's not a love letter; it's an environmental extremist's diatribe against Sid's mother for being a zookeeper.
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73	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
74	* ''Anime/TheCatReturns'': The Cat King's idea of thank-you gifts to Haru for saving Prince Lune's life includes leaving boxes in her school locker containing live mice.
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77	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
78	* ''Film/{{K12}}'': Ben slips a love letter into Cry Baby's locker.
79	* ''Film/ScaryMovie'': Greg is left a threatening message on his locker consisting of the words "I know" written on a Polaroid of his TeenyWeenie.
80	* ''Film/SecretAdmirer'' centers around Michael receiving an anonymous love letter in his locker and the LoveLetterLunacy that ensues.
81	* ''Film/ToAllTheBoysPSIStillLoveYou'': On Valentine's Day, a bunch of valentines fall out when Peter opens his locker door, much to his girlfriend's concern.
82	* ''Film/AWrinkleInTime2018'': AlphaBitch Veronica leaves cruel notes on Meg's locker.
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85	[[folder:Literature]]
86	* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Touma finds a letter in his locker telling him to come to the roof, which he thinks is a love letter. It turns out that the letter was never a love letter at all, but an invitation by the {{Troll}}ish High Priest.
87	* ''Literature/TheGoldenFeather'': Elijah cramming Isaac's locker full of love letters gives away his crush.
88	* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'':
89	** In ''JustForFun/TheAdventuresOfMikuruAsahina'', we see Yuki place a note in Itsuki's locker.
90	** Kyon finds a note telling him to meet the sender in a classroom after school. [[spoiler:It's from an alien who wants to kill him to goad Haruhi into action.]]
91	* ''Literature/HensukiAreYouWillingToFallInLoveWithAPervertAsLongAsShesACutie'' revolves around protagonist Keiki Kiryu trying to figure out who left an anonymous love letter in his locker. Unfortunately for him, this is made difficult by the letter including panties.
92	* ''Literature/HowISurvivedMiddleSchool'': ''P.S. I Really Like You'' is centered around anonymous love letters that Jenny keeps receiving in her locker.
93	* Lauren Thoman's ''[[Literature/IllStopTheWorld I'll Stop the World]]'' has high school students using an unassigned locker as a DeadDrop for notes containing cash payments to an anonymous source of answer keys for upcoming tests. They include their own locker numbers for delivery. [[spoiler:The supplier turns out to be the janitor who's raising money for his mother's medical bills.]]
94	* ''Literature/IntertwinedTheSeries'': Evelyn is left a secret admirer letter in her locker.
95	* ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'': In one sequel, Tina convinces Mia to sign up for the week-long SecretSanta. Mia immediately forgets that she did that, and so mistakenly thinks the flowers left on her locker each day are from a secret admirer.
96	* ''Literature/SleepingFreshmenNeverLie'': Lee receives a note on her locker telling her to kill herself.
97	* ''Literature/TheTraitorGame'' begins with Michael finding the note in his locker.
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100	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
101	* ''Series/{{Community}}'': When Jeff discovers he has a locker in "[[Recap/CommunityS3E13DigitalExplorationOfInteriorDesign Digital Exploration of Interior Design]]," a hate letter falls out, kicking off his plotline for the episode.
102	* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': In the VerySpecialEpisode "Fight the Good Fight," Laura finds her locker open with a racist note attached to it in response to her petition for a Black history course.
103	* ''Series/GameOn2015'': In "Toby's Valentine," Toby puts a valentine in the wrong girl's locker.
104	* ''Series/TheGoldbergs'': In "[[Recap/TheGoldbergsS2E24GoldbergsFeelHard Goldbergs Feel Hard]]," a talk with Barry about TheILoveYouStigma results in Adam trying to get back a love letter he'd slipped into Dana's locker.
105	* ''Series/HighSchoolMusicalTheMusicalTheSeries'': In "Valentine's Day," Big Red ''himself'' is the mail. He wants to do a singing telegram for his girlfriend Ashlyn, so he tries to [[StuffedIntoALocker hide inside her locker]] in order to surprise her. Unfortunately, he gets stuck, so by the time she opens it he falls out and sprays confetti everywhere.
106	* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'':
107	** In the second season, Amber and Fabian slip notes into Patricia and Alfie's lockers to ask them to meet in the Sibuna Clearing after school. This was done to keep it secret from Nina, who was against inviting Patricia and Alfie back due to the risk that they could get hurt.
108	** PlayedForDrama in season three. Denby invents a fake "love letter" that she then claims that someone was trying to give to Eddie in class, all as part of her effort to fuel Patricia's insecurities. When he ditches it in class, she stuffs it into his locker so that it looks as though he'd kept the note.
109	* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': In "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS2EP29GoldarsViceVersa Goldar's Vice-Versa]]," Bulk finds a note in his locker that reads "I have what you're looking for." He thinks that someone has information regarding his season-long obsession with finding the [[SecretIdentity identities]] of the Power Rangers. [[spoiler:Turns out it was just a LoveLetter.]]
110	* ''Series/MrYoung'': Adam writes a hate letter to Echo that ends up in [[TheBully Slab]]'s locker by mistake.
111	* ''Series/MsMarvel2022'': Near the end of the finale, Bruno slips a letter into Kamala's school locker.
112	* ''Series/RadioActive'': A series of miscommunications results in Kevin [[MistakenForGay mistaking Ethan and George for gay]] after finding a love letter in his locker.
113	* ''Series/SoyLuna'': Ramiro tapes a heart-emblazoned envelope containing two concert tickets to Yam's locker at the Jam & Roller in an effort to win her back. Jazmín finds it, opens it, then decides it's not her business. She tapes it back up... to the locker below Yam's.
114	* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': Veronica is framed for running a fake ID business, which operates by high school students putting their name and cash in an envelope and depositing it in a "magic" locker that doesn't belong to anyone, and then a fake ID appears in their locker the next day.
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117	[[folder:Video Games]]
118	* ''VideoGame/Persona4'':
119	** One of the sidequests has the protagonist get a locker letter by accident (as the girl in question meant to put it in another locker). The quest is completed by confronting her about it and nudging her into telling her crush outright.
120	** If [[PlayerCharacter Yu]] gets top of his class on any of the tests over the course of the school year, other students may leave random rewards in his locker.
121	* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': The player can put notes in shoe lockers to lure students. To be successful, the notes have to request a chat about the right topic(s) at a selected time and location.
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124	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
125	* ''VisualNovel/CrimsonGray'': Lizzie leaves notes and a chocolate in John's locker.
126	* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'': Discussed at the beginning. As Hisao waits to meet someone who slipped a note into his math book during class, he notes that he prefers "the letter in the locker," but admits that the sender's method "shows a bit of initiative."
127	* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'': In Rin's route, Riki receives a very generic love letter in his shoe locker. It was written by the friends of Suginami, a shy girl he's never talked to, in an effort to force her to say something about her crush. He's flattered and polite but not interested.
128	* ''VisualNovel/AProfile'': In Miku's route, a love letter is left in Masayuki's shoe locker. The scenario is so cliché that Miou, Rizu, Kaine believe it is a prank. It's not; the letter is from Miku.
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131	[[folder:Web Animation]]
132	* ''WebAnimation/AttackOnMika'': Iketa receives tons of love letters in his locker that include the implication that [[StalkerWithACrush the sender watches him sleep]].
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135	[[folder:Webcomics]]
136	* ''Webcomic/{{Avalon\|1999}}'': Ceilidh receives two love letters in her locker.
137	** The first, at the beginning of the comic, was left in the wrong locker. Ryan had intended it for Phoebe.
138	** In Grade 12, she gets one from an actual secret admirer who asks to meet.
139	* ''Webcomic/LifeOfAnAspie'': In Chapter 7, Susan receives a pink letter in her locker that she misinterprets as a lesbian love letter.
140	* ''Webcomic/OurWorld'': Art receives a love letter in his locker from a StalkerWithACrush that mentions watching him sleep, asks him on a date, and tells him to leave his response in that same locker. It turns out to be from [[spoiler:his runaway sister.]]
141	* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'': Aggie tries to get Duane a date with Penny by leaving a note and concert tickets in her locker from a secret admirer. Unfortunately, the vagueness in the description of said admirer makes the plan go awry.
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144	[[folder:Western Animation]]
145	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E25TheEx The Ex]]," Gumball apologizes to Penny for ignoring her by writing "I'm Sorry" on everything in her locker because he couldn't find a card specific to their situation. He wasn't able to find an apology balloon, either, so he scrawled his message on Alan and [[StuffedIntoALocker put him in the locker]], too.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "[[Recap/ArthurS2E16LoveNotesForMuffyDWBlowsTheWhistle Love Notes for Muffy]]," Brain and Francine take revenge on Muffy for bribing the science fair judges by writing her a fake love note. She later tells them that she figured out that her SecretAdmirer was school bully Rattles and left him a gentle rejection letter in his locker. Brain and Francine rush to fish the letter out of his locker before he finds it and retaliates against Muffy, only to learn there was no such letter. It was all a ploy by Muffy (with Rattles's assistance) to get them back for their meanness.
147	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': The titular protagonist keeps getting secret love notes every time he opens his locker and assumes they are from his crush. They are actually from the school's RichBitch and not meant for him, but his best friend. (She had the wrong locker.)
148	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS2E12PottyMouthLIsForLove L Is for Love]]," Luna slips a love letter into her crush Sam's locker. [[spoiler:It becomes a QueerEstablishingMoment because Sam turns out to be a girl.]]
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