Kiss whatever's in range goodbye.
A character creates a heart or lips shape by smooching her or his lips and blows it over, usually causing whoever it hits to fall in love. A rare variation of this is an invisible version. This is a situation wherein the recipient actually tries to avoid the air kiss but gets hit by it anyway, usually to some comically haphazard way (ee/g. the kiss knocks them literally off of their feet). In anime, a similar move like this is used when ever a male or female characters winks sometimes a heart pop out of their eyes when they wink, or sometimes when they do wink hearts might fly straight to a person he or she loves or is flirting with.
In video games, this can be used offensively, usually by a Charm Person, and usually causes a Status Effect of "charmed", "infatuated", or the like.
Related to Heart Beat-Down (its own Sub-Trope), which is framed as a traditional superpower instead of a comedy trope. Might overlap with Kiss of Death.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Baby Felix and Friends: Baby Felix, like all the other persons, blows a kiss on Baby Kitty in the episode "Tour de TinkyVille", but it is a kiss sequence.
- Takes the form of a tiny heart-themed superhero with a Porn Stache in an episode of Crayon Shin-chan. The Funimation dub had a field day:
Maso: Wow! A kiss! That's the best thing a girl can blow!
- El-Hazard: The Magnificent World. Priestess Miz Mishtal blows one of these to her beloved Fujisawa.
- Taken to extremes in Naruto; on their second meeting, Rock Lee starts shooting gently floating kisses at Sakura and she starts dodging them as though her life depends on it.
- Boa Hancock in One Piece has the move Pistol Kiss in which she blows a Heart Symbol onto her finger and then fired it from said finger.
- Pokémon: The Series: How the move Sweet Kiss is usually animated, with a flurry of hearts blowing from the mouth.
- While Clover from Happy Happy Clover doesn't actually do this, she does making a kissing gesture at the reader in Volume 3 between chapters after she learns that the reader is still reading about her and friends. The expression she makes is cute to say the least.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, the Maiden in Love card does this when placing Maiden Counters on enemy monsters that attack her.
- Weaponized in Sailor Moon, where Minako/Venus unleashes her Love and Beauty Shock by first mimicking a kissing gesture and creating a heart-shaped projectile, then shooting the latter on her enemies.
Comic Strips
- Garfield: Odie gives one to Garfield, who's standing Under the Mistletoe at the time, in the December 22, 2022 strip
. Garfield reacts by furiously wiping his mouth.
Films — Animated
- Jessica Rabbit blows a kiss at Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Since she's a toon, her kiss flies on Eddie's face like a red butterfly.
Films — Live-Action
- In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, when Robin blows Marian a kiss at the end of an action sequence, her Matron Chaperone Brumhilde intercepts it midflight.
- Young Frankenstein. When Frederick blows Elizabeth a kiss, she ducks so as not to mess up her makeup.
Live-Action TV
- On the 60's-70's version of The Dating Game hosted by the late Jim Lange. Just before the credits, the host and the winning contestants would appear on stage, then on cue all would blow a kiss to the viewers. The word "kiss" or some other words zoomed in on screen.
- In episode 59 of Mimpi Metropolitan, Trisno blows several kiss at an unattracted Mami Bibir, who dodges most of them and throws the last one away.
- One of the Whammies on the 2019 revival of Press Your Luck blows kisses at the contestant's score screen. Each heart that floats over erases a number on the score.
Video Games
- In the Animaniacs Licensed Game for the Sega Genesis, this is Dot's attack. She can use this to distract other characters in the Warners' path.
- Bayonetta blows a kiss that shatters the invisible barrier blocking her way after all mook fights.
- Devil May Cry 4: The Special Edition makes this into Trish's S-rank taunt. It quite literally sweeps your enemies off their feet.
- In The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' da Rules, the Crimson Chin villain Spatula Woman will blow kisses at Timmy/Cleft, The Boy Chin Wonder during her boss fight, and will cause him to lose health if she hits him.
- In Final Fantasy VI, living paintings in Owzer's art gallery can use this as an attack that inflicts a unique unblockable Charm status on party members.
- Heidelberg 1693 weaponizes this trope; there are overweight, Victorian zombie ladies who can blow their kisses at you. Which drains your health.
- League of Legends. Ahri's "Charm" ability is a heart-shaped projectile kiss that incapacitates the target for a few seconds.
- In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, during the Abkhazia mission, Raiden uses the zoom function of his cybernetic eyes to spy on a meeting between Mistral and the terrorists' leader. Afterwards, she's apparently noticed the attention and blows a kiss in Raiden's direction, prompting him to suddenly enter a defensive stance.
Doktor: [over codec] Raiden, what's happening? Your heart rate spiked...
Raiden: Yeah, I just dodged a bullet. - A couple of Sonya Blade's fatality moves in the Mortal Kombat series have this motif.
- One of Mitsuru's attacks in Persona 4: Arena has her Persona blowing a kiss and shooting a slow-moving heart projectile. It deals no damage, but inflicts Charm when touching the enemy.
- Shantae: Risky's Revenge: Mermaids can do a kiss as an attack, but instead of the projectile being just a variant on their bubble shot travelling horizontally towards Shantae, it instead creates a cloud of Heart Symbols above the mermaid, to discourage jumping over them. Stationary Enemy they are.
- In Sonic Drift 1 and 2, this is Amy's special move.
- In many Super Mario Bros. games, this is Princess Peach's special move.
- Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Doronjo's Practical Taunt, which works similarly to Rogue's.
- X-Men: Next Dimension: Rogue's Practical Taunt has her doing this which can stun enemies.
Visual Novels
- In Virtue's Last Reward, when Phi is trying to explain the nature of the Many Worlds Theory that they can seemingly observe, she asks Sigma to do something random. This is presented to the player as a list of actions (wave, clap, cheer, tap dance, moonwalk) that ultimately continue the conversation in the same way, with one of them letting Sigma blow a kiss at her; he notices that she actively dodges every one of them as if they were fired out of a gun.
Western Animation
- When Jamie blows a kiss at Gumball in The Amazing World of Gumball, it narrowly misses him, to his shock and relief, as it lodges sideways in a metal locker right next to him like a thrown dagger or shuriken.
- In Danny Phantom, the ghost villain, Kitty, has the ability to do this, causing whichever male she hits to disappear forever unless she blows another kiss to bring them back.
- DC Super Hero Girls: In "#ShockItToMe", Livewire makes the blowing-a-kiss gesture to send an electric shock into Wonder Woman's sword, disarming her.
- In Dexter's Laboratory, Dexter's school teacher, Miss Wimple, blows a kiss to Dexter, which hits him on the cheek, leaving an A+ mark.
- In Ed, Edd n Eddy, Ed tells a story in which the Kankers are giant radioactive monsters that attack them with projectile kisses, which leave huge holes in the pavement.
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In "Frankie My Dear," Bloo intercepts the projectile kiss Frankie threw to Mac, leading to a physical tussle between the two.
- In the Futurama episode "Route of All Evil", Prof. Farnsworth teases his cloned son Cubert as he's off to deliver papers by blowing him a kiss. Cubert tries evasive maneuvers, but Farnsworth claims it's a cheek-seeking missile.
- In Miraculous Ladybug, the villain Zombizou can blow kisses at people that are represented by a moving pair of black lips; anyone who gets hit by them goes into a zombie-like state where they will want to kiss others, spreading the infection onto them.
- Mr. Bogus
- In the second act of the episode "Bogunda, Bogetta & Bogus", a woman on a shampoo bottle (Long story) blows a kiss in the shape of a heart at Bogus, which causes Bogus to become emotionally excited once he gets the kiss.
- Near the end of the first act of the episode "Bogus Private Eye", the female rat who hired Bogus to solve the mystery of the smuggled goods rewards Bogus by blowing him a kiss in the shape of her lips, but Brattus pushes Bogus out of the way and gets the kiss instead.
- In the My Life as a Teenage Robot episode "This Time With Feeling", Jenny gives herself robotic nerves that only let her feel ticklish and pain. When Sheldon throws a projectile kiss at Jenny, she ends up falling to the floor in pain when it hits her.
- In the episode of Spongebob Squarepants called Le Big Switch, Spongebob does this with a heart. However, Squidward accidentally swallows it and chokes on it a bit.
- There was one instance in Superman: The Animated Series where Volcana thanks/flirts with Superman for saving her life by blowing a kiss (made of harmless fire) at him. In Justice League, however, she uses a harmful version when fighting Batman and Green Lantern during the events of "Only A Dream".
- Wakfu: In an early episode, the group must rescue Sadlygrove from some princesses that have been cursed to be ugly, with the biggest danger being that if he attempts to break their curse by kissing them, he'll be turned into a frog if it isn't genuine. After the others rescue him, he blows the princesses a goodbye kiss, which is genuine enough to break the curse.
