An aggressive hug verging upon a flying tackle which sometimes knocks the recipient over and invariably ends up with the glomper wrapped securely around some part of the glompee's body. If the glomper's rather intense feelings for their target are not shared by the glompee, things will immediately get awkward at best or (if the glompee is a Tsundere) violent at worst. Stalkers with a Crush, Clingy Jealous Girls, and Abhorrent Admirers frequently glomp the objects of their affection. Usually considered a comedy trope, for obvious reasons.
While aggressive hugs are nothing new (in Real Life or in media) the use of the term "glomp" to describe them appears to have stemmed from its use as a sound effect in early manga translations by Viz Media. (One folk etymology asserts that it stands for "Grab, Latch On, Maintain Pressure", but that is a backronym applied to the word after it became popular.) The word itself appears to be a mutation of the established English word "glom" which means "to grab; to latch on" (as found in the words "agglomeration" and "conglomerate") with a final "p" sound added to give it more of a sense of definite action. Can function as an Unsound Effect.
This may also be used in a more positive manner if the glompee actually does reciprocate the glomper's feelings; in these cases, a glomp symbolizes one character literally bowling another over with affection, but there again it's typically played for comedy.
Whole-team glomping of anyone who's just scored a goal is also common in sports in Real Life. In soccer, it seems to be compulsory.
This is a form of Cute Aggression. May overlap with Non-Sexual Intimacy.
A Super-Trope to Cry into Chest.
A glomper is often the Cuddle Bug. See also No Sense of Personal Space, which glompers often exhibit. If the glomper is frightened, it's a Security Cling. If the glomper is very big, the unfortunate object of their affection may suffer Belly Flop Crushing or get accidentally squashed. If the glomper is genuinely attacking, it's a Deadly Lunge or Attack Hello. In Real Life, it can turn into assault regardless of the glomper's intent, especially if the glompee Hates Being Touched, so Don't Try This at Home.
Examples:
- In All Fall Down, Grace tackles Sophie with one of these after seeing her for the first time in months.
- All-New Wolverine: In issue #12, X-23 does one, even though she Hates Being Touched. After believing Old Man Logan accidentally killed her younger clone/sister, Gabby, at the end of #11 while in a feral rage, she's about ready to abandon her recent swearing off of killing to put him down. Just as she's about to strike the fatal blow, Gabby appears and stops her. Laura is so overjoyed to see her that she pulls her into a bear hug so fierce she actually lifts her off the ground.
- One issue of the tie-in to Batman: The Brave and the Bold has Stephanie Brown do this to Batman after he recovers from a near-case of dead. Making it funnier, Batman has no idea who she is (time-travel's involved), or why she's hugging him.
- In Doctor Who (Titan): Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald delivers an epic one on the Twelfth Doctor (with both her feet off the ground, yet!) at the end of the storyline "Clara Oswald and the School of Death".
- Empowered: The main character does this twice with Ninjette. Complete with sound effect.
- JLA (1997): This is done by Nightwing to Batman when the League returns to the present after saving Atlantis.
- Lula und Yankee: Lula does the flying tackle version on her BF Yankee when he invites her for a trip to Paris.
- In PS238, Julie has a tendency to do this to Moonshadow whenever she gets excited. Unfortunately for him, she also tends to forget that she has Super-Strength when she gets excited.
- Ratchet & Clank (Comic): Talwyn delivers a particularly happy one of these to Ratchet in the third issue after meeting up again.
- Scott Pilgrim: Knives does this to Scott in Book 2 shortly before Scott dumps her.
Knives: Attack hug!
- Supergirl:
- Bizarrogirl: Kara's Bizarro counterpart performs a flying tackle
when she sees her cousin Bizarro.
- Girl Power: Supergirl glomps Nightwing, and she even kisses him as well right in front of Starfire... who forgives Kara since it is only an unrequited crush.
- Bizarrogirl: Kara's Bizarro counterpart performs a flying tackle
- Teen Titans: Koriand'r tends to do this
◊ to Dick Grayson (as he's her frequent love interest) as well as other Titans.
- In Calvin and Hobbes, it's a Running Gag that Hobbes (in Calvin's eyes, a six-foot tiger) always pounces on Calvin the moment he sets foot through the door after school. Mostly used for comedy, but one strip shows Calvin silently suffering through a terrible day, only for his mood to pick up when Hobbes pounces and very gleefully glomps him.
- In Overboard!, even a diversion in the form of a false alarm about "a life-threatening situation developing over here" can't keep the ship's dog Louie from glomping someone who has just returned from the grocery store.
- Alice, the Anti-Cliché and Mary-Sue Elimination Society's resident Glomper, takes the glomp from a show of affection to an art form. She once glomped Cthulhu.
- Anything for Family: Mana, Rikka, and Alice all glomp Makoto when she comes home from her mission.
- In The Beast of Gusu, Jiang Cheng's greeting towards Wei Wuxian after the latter was missing for three months was to tackle him and ask where he's been.
- Ben 10: Unlimited: A Running Gag in earlier chapters was Ben being on the receiving end of an enthusiastic hug from Kara whenever he did something heroic or heartwarming. Naturally, her Kryptonian Super-Strength doesn't mix with Ben's ability to breathe.
"Kara! Air!"
- The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Ship", Bolt gives Mittens a flying-tackle hug to enthusiastically express that he returns her love for him.
- Childhood Friends (gelefant): Blossom hugs Jermaine this way when she first sees him.
- Child of the Storm: In Ghosts of the Past, Carol does this to Harry after a bit of UST heavy amateur telepathic therapy. The result is a Sleep Cute adorable enough to give you cavities, but nothing more.
- Comes and Goes (in Waves): Klaus makes it his personal mission to hug his brother Five at least once a day. Five objects to this plan, so Klaus often treats it as an ambush operation. Then again, they both know Five could easily teleport away from the hugs, but he never does...
- A Crown of Stars:
- In Chapter 22, Misato glomps Shinji as soon as she sees him and Asuka. According to the narration: "Shinji found himself tackled hard from behind by someone who began trying to squeeze the life out of him."
- In Chapter 26 Hikari glomps Asuka so hard that she's thrown both out of the chair and on the ground.
"Drink orders, not very much, but the people bringing the drinks will probably be happier to hear that Shinji would fight this time. Might save some trouble anyway, if you don't have a drink in your hand when she tackles you," Daniel said absently, reaching down for his coconut. "Four, three, two..."
This did not clear up Asuka's confusion. "What are you tal—" The tackle took her right out of the chair and into the sand beside her.
"ASUKA!OHMIGODYOU'REALIVEYOU'REALIVEI'MSOGLADTOSEEYOU!" The blue and brunette blur that had struck her finally resolved itself into an extremely excited Hikari Horaki. - Used by Asuka on Shinji in Chapter 46.
She tackled him onto the bunk behind him.
Shinji had just enough time to turn around before he was nearly tackled onto the bunk by a flying Eva Pilot. Asuka wrapped her arms around him and clung fiercely tight.
- A Diplomatic Visit:
- In Chapter 2 of the second sequel, Diplomacy Through Schooling, Tempest Shadow delivers one to Discord after he restores her horn.
- In Chapter 7 of the same story, Twilight lays an epic one on Celestia after the latter admits that she sees Twilight as a daughter and that Twilight Velvet (Twilight's birth mother) is perfectly fine with this.
- In Doing It Right This Time, after running into one another and discovering they're both time travellers...
Simultaneous mutual glomping is a hazardous activity even for professional anime characters on a closed screen, but somehow Asuka and Hikari managed not to hurt themselves.
- Ha-chan does this to Brad several times in FREAKIN GENSOKYO.
- In Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità
, just like in Hetalia: Axis Powers canon, Italy can't help but glomp people.
- Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past: Harry gets one from Ginny that turns into a group hug after he tells his friends about how he killed himself to come back from the future and save them.
- HERZ: In Chapter 3, Kurumi glomps Shinji, much to his chagrin (since Kurumi cannot get in her head that he is married... and his wife is temperamental and very jealous).
- The Infinite Loops:
- Cheerilee is somewhat depressed after several loops. After explaining why to three of her fellow Loopers, they give her one of these to help cheer her up.
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS GROUP GLOMP YAY!"
- Musa does one to Darcy when the latter starts Looping. Darcy, having just started Looping, sees it as an invasion of her personal space, but doesn't mind too much.
- Cheerilee is somewhat depressed after several loops. After explaining why to three of her fellow Loopers, they give her one of these to help cheer her up.
- Intercom has Joy greet Riley this way when she first enters headquarters.
- Starfire's reaction during JLA Watchtower's Olympics plot when she sees that Nightwing had returned to life. Considering she had spent most of the time before that in an Unstoppable Rage, it also lampshades that her moods can change rapidly and without a lot of warning.
- Haruhi and Tsuruya glomp the already-hugging Nagato and Mikuru in Kyon: Big Damn Hero, whilst Kyon is in a hospital recovering from being shot.
- Last Child of Krypton: Performed by Asuka on Shinji in Chapter 12 after their First Kiss. Her flying tackle was so powerful that she sent both to the ground. The feat is even more impressive when you keep in mind she should not be capable to move him (because in this story he has Superman's powers).
- Last One Standing features a particularly memorable instance of this trope. Just after Twilight Sparkle dies, she suddenly wakes up to being mob hugged by her friends.
- Lionheart
: After Draco delivers a dose of Gillyweed to Harry Just in Time to enter the lake, he can tell that Harry wants to give him a friendly hug, and reluctantly allows it. Harry is less reluctant.
The hug punched open valves in his lungs he’d forgotten about, cracked that disc from earlier straight back into place, and, had he been choking, would have forcefully dislodged any solid objects loitering in his trachea. Harry had a promising career in mediwizardry. - In A Loud Among Demons, Apple, a succubi on Verosika's crew, is the most affectionate of the crew towards Lincoln, and tends to cuddle with him the most.
- In Mabel in Butterhurst, Naomi does this upon meeting Mabel.
- Yuno in Mirai Nikki Abridged: "It's too much. I can't take it anymore! I MUST GLOMP YUKI!"
- Naru-Hina Chronicles: Hinata has this habit of giving big hugs to Naruto. Sometimes, it's to express how relieved she is to see him being safe and sound. Other times, it's to express how happy he makes her.
- One Girl with Ten Brothers: When Linka accepts Luke's bisexuality and romantic relationship with his boyfriend Sam, he scoops up Linka into a big hug, complete with a brotherly kiss on her forehead, to thank her for her support.
- Doubling as Mundane Utility and Chekhov's Skill in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines. When Ash recaptures his Muk in the Gringy City Power Plant, he takes along his thirty-two Grimer friends, who are just as affectionate and hug-happy as their boss. They come in handy to scare off would-be poachers during the group's shopping spree in Chapter 31, and later during Chapter 34, they use it to smother a group Wobbuffet to avoid getting Countered.
- Quizzical:
- Thweet Geniuth — The Hard Part:
"Quiz, you do know that you are about to get glomped but good, right?"
Quiz nodded. "I accept that you cannot resist, Sweetie Belle. Thank you for allowing me a moment to brace myself." - Thweet Geniuth — Take The Last Train To Manehattan:
"Thank you, Applejack, thank you, thankyouthankyouthankyou..." Apple Bloom hit her sister with a full-on flying hug that sent Applejack's hat spinning into the air.
- Thweet Geniuth — The Hard Part:
- Remembrance of the Fallen has a positively played example when Sobaru does this to Tia when she learns about Tia's brother Tiida's death and how Tia is now all alone. The feeling is reciprocated, and Tia starts crying into Sobaru's chest.
- Genki Girl Fu is fond of doing this in Son of the Sannin, especially to her love interest Shino.
- In Stages of Hope
, Harry greets an other-dimension version of Sirius with a flying glomp that Severus mentally compares to a clinging koala, much to Sirius' surprise since his new attachment is a stranger to him (in this dimension, Harry was never born).
- In The Storms of War
, a Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfic, Steve refuses to let Sharon, who was recently injured during a mission and hasn't fully recovered yet, accompany him, Sam, and Wanda to Wakanda when they receive a distress signal, stating that it's too dangerous for her to go, upsetting her, which isn't helped by the fact that he had already basically left her behind after she stole his shield for him. When Sharon is left alone at the team's safe house, she's attacked by mercenaries and the fight ends with her blowing the safe house up. By the time Steve, Sam, and Wanda get back, they can't find Sharon in the wreckage which causes Steve to feel immense guilt for his decision to leave her behind. When Steve reunites with Sharon, who was rescued by Natasha, they have an intimate hug. After they separate, Sharon is embraced again by Wanda, who throws herself at the other woman.
- Things I Am Not Allowed to Do at the PPC: It's against the rules for agents to tackle-hug anyone who qualifies as a "ridiculously hot elf".
- This And That: After she willingly offers it, Powder leaps into Angela's arms and hugs the living life out of her as thanks for gifting her own room for tinkering, her passion in life.
- Together
: A common reaction to seeing that Laurel is Back from the Dead. Special mention has to go to Thea, who throws herself at Laurel and then "seemed incapable of letting go of her"; and later runs across the room to hug her again, forcing Felicity to step aside lest she be run over. Sara is also said to launch herself at Laurel.
- The Vinyl and Octavia Series: Done quite nicely in Vinyl and Octavia Machete Their Way Through The Jungle.
"You finally called me Octavia!" Octavia squealed, leaping at Vinyl in some sort of hug attack.
- Katy, a little girl whom teen Cyclops befriends in X-Men: The Early Years, is prone to pounce-and-cuddle.
Before Jade could hand her a pass, an orange streak came out of nowhere and leaped in Scott's direction. The streak hit Scott with enough force that he staggered back a few steps and it seemed suddenly, almost out of nowhere, there was an eight-year-old girl in Scott's arms, wrapped all around him.
- Done in Alpha and Omega by Lilly when she finds out that Garth's father has just relented to allowing an Alpha and Omega to wed.
- In Anastasia, the title character does this to Dimitri when he revives from his Disney Death near the end. His injuries make it very painful.
- Kida does this to Milo at the end of Atlantis: The Lost Empire right after she is transformed back from her crystalline form.
- Kiina glomps Berix in BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn.
- In Encanto, Bruno gets glomped by his sisters to the point of them lifting him off the ground when he returns home after hiding in the walls for ten years.
- Alphonse does this to Edward in Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa. While in the armor. He even nuzzles him!
- Esmeralda does to Quasimodo at the end of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney) just right after Frollo falls to his doom, and Quasimodo is rescued by Phoebus.
- Sid from Ice Age does this a lot, much to his pal Diego's displeasure.
- Kung Fu Panda 2:
- Po and Tigress get into a fight which ends with Tigress glomping Po in the form of a Cooldown Hug to show how much she cares about him. Po later glomps Tigress at the end of the film; the look on her face is priceless. In both situations, the rest of the Furious Five can only stare in disbelief. Crane gets a Beak Drop.
- Then Po tries to Bear Hug Master Shifu, only to find he's Flash Stepped away. On his return, Po's dad tries to glomp him, but Po's a bit too big and Mr. Ping just bounces off.
- Part of a funny moment at the beginning of Pocahontas where a wife glomps her returning husband, the force of which knocks him into the river.
- The eponymous fish character of Ponyo spends the first half of the film befriending a boy named Sosuke and having to cope with being separated from him when her father, Fujimoto, states in no uncertain words that he can't allow her to be with humans or be a human. She turns into a human anyway, and upon finding Sosuke's house, her first action is to run up to a shocked Sosuke and give him a tackle hug that sends him back somewhat, clearly having missed him.
- Project A-Ko: C-Ko Kotobuki is known to glomp A-Ko Magami on occasion.
- In Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, Tails' default reaction to lightning involves glomping onto Sonic in his panic.
- Mikey does this to Leo in TMNT when he finally returns home.
- Jessie from Toy Story 2 loves this trope. She glomps Woody upon first meeting him — one of many things that causes Woody to become "officially freaked out" in that scene. Jessie glomps Woody again at the end of the movie after she and Woody have successfully escaped from the plane and landed safely behind Buzz on Bullseye's back. In Toy Story 3, Jessie glomps Buzz after he rescues her in the trash compactor, gets crushed under a falling TV, and, just when everyone thinks he's dead, turns out to be not only alive but restored to his normal self.
- Treasure Planet: "I just wanna hug ya and squeeze ya and hold ya close to me...!"
- In Turning Red, Abby glomps Mei when she agrees to turn into her panda form in the bathroom.
- One of the most heartwarming scenes in Across the Universe (2007) is towards the end, when Jude returns to the US legally. Max meets him at the airport, and they share a massive man-hug.
- The Adventures of Robin Hood ends with the Merry Men glomping Robin and Marian; good thing Robin can Offscreen Teleport.
- Mary lands one of these on Steve in All About Steve at the hospital, nearly bowling him over.
- At the end of Armageddon (1998), a stripper that Rockhound mentioned dropping a hundred grand on (which he is afraid he will be unable to pay back) by the name of Molly Mounds greets Rockhound on the tarmac after the survivors get home and hugs him so enthusiastically that they are both knocked to the ground.
- At the opening of Die Hard, John McClane watches as a young lady in the airport runs over to a man who is ostensibly her boyfriend, jumps up, wraps herself around him, and kisses him passionately.
John: [in disbelief]] California!
- Die Reise nach Tilsit: Elske leaves the ground and leaps into her husband's arms when he comes home because she's that darn happy to see him.
- The Galloping Ghost: Barbara is introduced when she takes a running leap into her brother Buddy's arms and hugs him, after Buddy's team, Clay College, just won a dramatic football victory. Buddy then literally throws Barbara into the arms of his friend and her possible boyfriend, Red Grange.
- In both adaptations of Lolita when Dolores Haze departs for summer camp she suddenly rushes upstairs and hugs Humbert; in the 1997 version, she actually wraps her legs around him and kisses him.
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: As in the comic, Knives on Scott.
- Space Jam: Michael Jordan has refreshed his basketball skills in Schlesinger's Gym when the clownish Stan Podolak appears, declaring, "Michael! You're all right!" In fairness, the last time Stan had seen Jordan, Michael had disappeared down a golf hole, and been missing for half a day. Stan waddles up to Michael and gives him such a hug that Michael is momentarily taken off his feet. "Don't hug me, Stan," he states flatly. Upon learning that Michael is helping the Looney Tunes win a basketball game, Stan becomes the Team Wannabe.
- While most warriors of the Star Wars universe would be fine with a handshake as a sign of friendship, the Gentle Giant Chewbacca settles for no less than a big hug for anyone that he loves; this trait makes him no less manly for it all. The EU makes this into something of a Wookie ritual for old friends who have not seen each other in a long while or since before dangerous events.
- White Blessing: Davaa gets a running start and leaps up into her coach's arms after winning bronze at the judo world championships in 2015.
- In Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, Alex glomps Max at the end after she wishes her brothers back into existence.
- Demon World Boba Shop: Arthur wonders for a moment if something is wrong when he arrives home and Lily steps away from him. But it turns out she just wanted a run-up, followed by a flying leap off the stairs to wrap herself around him.
- The Familiar of Zero:
- Louise does this to Saito after he comes back from the dead. Too bad for Saito that she's flat.
- On various occasions, Saito is also glomped by Kirche, Siesta, Tiffania, Scarron, and Marto, the school's head male cook.
- Full Metal Panic!: Glomping is Tessa's favorite method to use when trying to seduce Sousuke.
- Harry Potter:
- A flying broomstick-mounted tackle hug is a common reaction to winning Quidditch games.
- Hermione does this to Harry a couple of times, usually when they meet for the first time at the beginning of a given book.
- Neville gets glomped by every Gryffindor who can reach him when his house points win them the cup at the end of the first book.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban:
- When Harry clinches their first Quidditch Cup win in seven years, practically the entire Gryffindor house attempts this all at once the very moment Harry returns to the ground.
- Also, Sirius glomps Remus Lupin.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, after Harry defeats Voldemort (or more accurately, provokes Voldemort into defeating himself), he gets glomped by pretty much everyone.
- Hurog: In Dragon Bones, Ciarra greets her brother Ward this way. As he's a Gentle Giant, he doesn't lose his balance at all but picks her up to carry her around.
- Kyo Kara Maoh!: Both Sara and Günter do this to Yuuri from time to time.
- Lumbanico, the Cubic Planet: When the three protagonists reunite with their families after spending three months travelling, Mela (who is still a little kid) glomps her mother and doesn't let her go until she is tucked up in her bed.
- Maria Watches Over Us:
- Sei Satou (the first "Rosa Gigantea") is fond of glomping Yumi, the series protagonist.
- Youko, Sachiko's grande saur once does this too, to Yumi's surprise since Youko is usually rather dignified.
- Mirror Project: Lynn and Bill's daughter Chelsea catches a glimpse of the roboticized Lynn wandering the campus, runs over, and tackle-hugs her. Lynn, who has none of her flesh-and-blood self's maternal feelings, finds the sensation repulsive.
- Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Oliver is on the receiving end in volume 4 after Nanao gets drunk off a restaurant drink that turned out to be a lot stronger than expected. Unfortunately, Oliver is still having symptoms from a prior antagonist's Sex Magic, and the close contact with his love interest sends him running for the bathroom to cool off.
- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong: Luo Binghe's fond of glomping Shen Qingqiu as a teen, to which the other believes is due to him tripping.
- Shadow of the Conqueror: Almost immediately after being rescued, Sharra dives straight into Daylen's arms and hugs him, ignoring his protests.
- Shakugan no Shana: Enacted by Shana and Yuji, once to intercept Yuji's fall following his possession at high altitude by Johann, and again when she finds him after singlehandedly storming The Very Definitely Final Dungeon in order to do so before he fades from existence.
- Star Trek Novel 'Verse: Captain Kirk gets glomped by Prrgh, an acquaintance of his, in one of the Captain's Table novellas. Since she's a Cat Girl Space Babe, he doesn't mind.
- The Story of Saiunkoku: Kou Shuurei's Fear of Thunder causes her to glomp onto — of all people — Ko Kijin. To make matters worse, Shuurei is disguised as a boy at the time.
- The Testament of Sister New Devil: Yuki does one to Basara shortly after he transfers into her school. Unfortunately, she does it in front of the entire class, which not only angers Mio but all the guys in the school as well.
- Unlimited Fafnir: Tear does this to Yuu after seeing him at the school.
- Altered Carbon: When Lt. Kirstin Ortega finds that Takeshi Kovacs is still alive, she tracks him down and hugs him on sight. This makes it even more of a tearjerker when Kovacs has to cold-shoulder her by pretending to think she's only glad his body (which belonged to Ortega's boyfriend) is still intact.
- Phil Keoghan, the host of the American version of The Amazing Race, has been on the receiving end of a couple of these from female contestants. In Season 21, a woman jumped into his arms covered in fish juice to mess with him after winning a leg. In Season 25, one of the winners didn't even stop at the finish line when they won, she ran straight into his arms.
- Arrow:
- Used in the pilot to show the close relationship between Oliver Queen and his kid sister Thea.
Thea: I knew it; I knew you were alive! [runs down the stairs and throws her arms around her brother] I missed you so much...
Oliver: You were with me the whole time. - In "Time of Death", Sin glomps Sara Lance to everyone's confusion, as they don't know Sin already knows her as the Canary. Sin quickly makes up a story about how she always does that when people come Back from the Dead due to having a zombie fetish, then rolls her eyes.
- Oliver and Thea's final goodbye in Season 8.
- Used in the pilot to show the close relationship between Oliver Queen and his kid sister Thea.
- The Book of Boba Fett: When Grogu is reunited with Din Djarin, he does what appears to be a Force Glomp to leap up to Din's much greater height and hug him. The fact that this happens on a speeding robo-rickshaw being chased by a droid Spider Tank shows a lot about how glad the little guy is to see The Mandalorian.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- Buffy glomps Willow in "Choices" after learning that Willow has decided to enroll at UC Sunnydale with Buffy, as opposed to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, or any of the other top colleges she got into. It's definitely appreciated.
- Buffy and Xander both glomp Willow in "Doppelgangland" when they realize she wasn't a vampire after all (following an earlier encounter with Willow's AU vampire counterpart). After they let her go, Giles glomps on her, prompting Willow's reaction:
Willow: It's really great that you missed me. Say, you didn't all just do a bunch of drugs, did you?
- In "Bad Girls", Buffy and Faith get revved up killing vampires and dance together at the Bronze. On seeing Angel, Buffy rushes up and leaps into his arms, wrapping her legs around him. As they Can't Have Sex, Ever, Angel isn't as pleased as he should be and makes a point of putting some personal space between them.
- Chernobyl: A woman is warned not to touch a radiation victim, but this trope happens instead when the distraught man hugs her and she is unwilling to refuse this comfort.
- Doctor Who:
- In "Utopia", Jack glomps the TARDIS, but that's because he's desperately trying to hitch a lift.
- "Vincent and the Doctor" paints Vincent van Gogh as extremely prone to mood swings. If he likes you, though, chances are very good he'll do this, for example when the Doc takes him to visit a Parisian Gallery where an art critic describes him as "the greatest artist of all time."
- In "The Big Bang", Amy glomps Rory when they are reunited in the museum. She also gives him a "Shut Up" Kiss.
- Clara glomps the Doctor at the end of "Listen", despite Twelve's open protests. "No, no, not the hugging! I'm against the hugging, please..."
- Subverted in "World Enough and Time". Bill is trapped in a hospital after being implanted with a bulky artificial heart unit. Her only friend is the hospital handyman Mr. Razor, whom she glomps when he finally agrees to help her escape.
Razor: When you hug me, it hurts my heart.
Bill: Ah, sweet.
Razor: No. Your chest unit. It digs right in.
- In Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger, Misao hugs Yamato so hard he knocks him off his feet.
- JB does this to Kuru in The Elephant Princess, knocking him down to the ground, and destroying a party table.
- Everybody Loves Raymond: Raymond tries to help Debra through that time of the month, and she suggests (aggressively) that he try a hug. After she simmers down, Ray brings it up again, and Debra loses her cool again. He tries to console her with a (rather aggressive) hug. It doesn't work.
- Chiana did this to John in an episode of Farscape; for effect, the camera tilted as she did so. She's more than a little insane at that point in the series.
- Friends: Monica glomps Chandler after he asks to move in together. As in she literally catapults off the couch and into his arms, (thankfully he responds with equal enthusiasm and catches her).
- Game of Thrones:
- Done by Arya to Jon in the second episode after he gives her a sword he had made for her before their family is separated. This is done to demonstrate that of all the Stark siblings, she has the closest relationship with Jon, despite sharing only a brief few seconds onscreen together in the previous episode, a plot point that the show was unable to go into for reasons of television and time limitations. She does it again in Season 8 when they meet after years of separation and Arya is all grown up.
- Fast-forward to Season 6 when Sansa arrives at Castle Black, she glomps Jon as well, which is indeed a very heartwarming moment after the hell that both siblings have been through. It’s also worth noting that the two never interacted onscreen together up until this point in the show, and their interactions are only seen in past memories the two have of each other and their family in the books — though they and their family were separated very early on in both the television series and the books.
- In Glee, when Blaine transfers to McKinley, he gets glomped by Kurt for his trouble. Of course, since they're madly in love it's definitely the second, bowled-over-with-affection kind of glomp.
- Leverage: Parker gives one to Eliot coming off a stint in rehab where she took a lot of antidepressants, which is funny because neither of them generally seem like huggers and they're not a couple on the show (she's in an Official Couple with their teammate Hardison).
- An episode of the 1989 Indian medical show Lifeline has a particularly dark example. The Patient of the Week consists of a couple with serious third-degree burns. The guy was a greedy prick who only married his wife for the dowry money and was contemplating divorcing her to marry a different woman just so he could extract a larger dowry payment. His wife refuses to grant him the divorce, so he sneaks up behind her, douses her with perfume, then sets her ablaze with a lit match. Instead of panicking and screaming in terror and pain, the wife immediately glomps him. As a result, he suffers more serious burns than she does and dies while she survives.
- Lost: After watching everyone take Sawyer and Kate's return in Season 3 in such a casual way, Hurley's high-velocity glomp to Sawyer ("DUDE! YOU'RE ALIVE!") is more than a little sweet.
- Lucifer (2016): Ella Lopez, the forensic girl at the precinct, likes to greet people by hugging them, especially if they're people she's never met before and they're thus not expecting the sudden intimacy. This includes people like Lucifer and Maze.
- In Merlin (2008), Arthur proposes to Gwen, and Gwen's response is The Glomp. Arthur is just confused and has to ask for clarification of her answer.
- Abby in NCIS. She glomps everyone. A Running Gag is that she even does this when the glompee is injured.
- In Nobuta Wo Produce, Akira loves to unexpectedly hug Shuji. Cue the Ho Yay.
- In The Office (US), Michael glomps Jim after learning that Jim and Pam are engaged.
- The Punisher (2017): In "Two Dead Men", Frank Castle makes contact with Karen Page for information, the first time they've met since the events of Daredevil (2015) Season 2. It's implied Karen is still in mourning for Matt Murdock, who supposedly died during the events of The Defenders (2017), so as Frank is leaving, she spontaneously hugs him.
- Psychopath Diary: Dong-sik glomps In-woo to distract him while he switches their drinks.
- Scrubs: JD occasionally attempts this tactic when trying to get a hug out of Dr. Cox. Dr. Cox does not appreciate it.
- Silverpoint: Alice's introduction is delivering a jumping hug that knocks Bea to the ground.
- Smallville:
- Chloe does this to Clark a lot of times. In "Zod", she does this when he returns from the Phantom Zone and defeats Zod. She does it again in "Persona" after making sure he is the real Clark, not Bizarro. Clark does it on a rare occasion in "Labyrinth" after he thought she just died in his arms, which turned out to be All Just a Dream.
- Lois glomps Clark (complete with a running start) at the end of "Isis" when he tells her that he's the Blur. It's violent enough to knock him to the floor.
- Sonny does this to the Alpha Bitch on the first episode of Sonny with a Chance, after which she informs her disbelieving target "Yeah, I'm a hugger."
- In Stargate SG-1, Vala likes doing this, usually after moments of extreme tension being resolved. One instance in "Line in the Sand" has Vala teleported to the presumably destroyed village that she was trying to protect. When the village is revealed to be "out of phase" and unharmed, she responds by running up to and jumping on Teal'c, complete with wrapping her legs around him.
- In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", Bones gets one of these from Kirk near the end when the latter and Spock are overjoyed to finally find him, but the happy celebrations are cut short because Edith Keeler is hit by a car seconds later.
- In Supernatural, Cupids like to give people big naked hugs.
Dean: Is this a fight? Are we in a fight?
Castiel: It's... their handshake.
Dean: Well, I don't like it!
Castiel: Nobody likes it. - Vincenzo: Team Leader Ahn's Ambiguously Gay affection for Vincenzo reaches its peak in episode 11. Ahn pulls strings to get Vincenzo released from custody, offers his help in Vincenzo's campaign against Babel, and in return asks for...a hug. Vincenzo offers a handshake but instead, Ahn leaps into his arms, his legs wrapped around Vincenzo's waist while a stunned Vincenzo is left grabbing onto Ahn's butt.
- Even MsChif, with her limited understanding of "personal space", has had a LuFisto aversion since SHIMMER Volume 26 when she was glomped while preparing for the then-upcoming event.
- In a bit of Foreshadowing, after Kimberly's SHINE losing streak came to an end, she glomped Daffney. Kimberly's Heel–Face Turn would be completed when she came to the aid of Daffney's All-Star Squad seven shows later in an effort to join the group and have friends. Speaking of the squad, glomps are common in Solo Darling matches, as she has goodwill towards most of her opponents.
- Bayley, star-struck to be in even a developmental farm league of WWE, eventually decided she wanted to hug everyone she met. Often without warning, she's just that happy to meet you, you see. It's become such a part of her character that she now uses a glomp as her Finishing Move, dubbed "Bayley-to-Belly".
- After reading listeners' stories, British DJ Sara Cox sometimes says things like "Sending you an overly affectionate hug that goes on slightly too long."
- In Jasper in Deadland, Agnes immediately does this to Jasper once her memories return and she realizes the lengths that Jasper went to in order to save her from the Underworld.
- ANNO: Mutationem: Ayane is particularly fond of doing this with Ann at various opportunities. At one moment, she attempts to playfully leap onto Ann for a kiss, only to get repeatedly shoved aside until she stopped. In the ending, when reunited, Ayane spends a moment looking at Ann's buxom before immediately jumping onto Ann and grabbing her chest with a Squee.
- Billy vs. SNAKEMAN has this as a minigame during Billycon. If you wear cosplay, you may attract the Squee (a small horde of fans), and must then evade them by seeking out hiding places. If you succeed you get a Trophy, but fail and you get Glomped, which adds penalties to the rest of your con-going due to having several squealing fans stuck to you and slowing you down. (However, you also get some nice bonuses for the next day if/when you go to sleep later...)
- In the Disgaea drama CD, Flonne practices to a recital, but when it is time no one shows up. She is driven to tears but sings her heart out even without an audience. When she is done someone starts to clap, turns out Laharl and Etna came after all. This touches her so greatly, that she starts to cry Tears of Joy and glomp Laharl as hard as she can.
- Final Fantasy:
- Final Fantasy VIII: Rinoa does this to Squall when he is sent to wake her up on the Timber Forest Owls train.
- Final Fantasy IX: Garnet/Dagger glomps Zidane in the final scene of the game when she learns that he's still alive.
- Final Fantasy X: This is what Yuna seems to be going for in the ending (towards Tidus, who reciprocates her feelings), but she just crashes straight through him and lands hard. The sequel has a much happier result if the Good Ending is obtained.
- In the 3DS remake of Fire Emblem Gaiden, Celica greets Alm with one upon being reunited with him after seven years.
- First Encounter Assault Recon's Alma manages to turn glomping into Nightmare Fuel in Project Origin. Whatever happens, do not let her. Project Origin practically runs on the glomping into Nightmare Fuel conversion. Every time she shows up, you have to fight her off. So much glompage ensues. Hilarity does not, however.
- This is a recurring gag in the Kingdom Hearts series, with Sora normally doing the glomping, mostly towards his close friends. He's also been glomped himself in Kingdom Hearts II, first by Simba (well... a lion version of a glomp; upon reuniting), then by Tron (after defeating the Master Control Program), then by Kairi (after reuniting with her in The World That Never Was), then finally by Donald and Goofy (upon returning home).
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II: Genki Girl Millium Orion is a great fan of this maneuver, with Claire, Rean, and Jusis often at the receiving end.
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The "GORON HUG!" scene has the Gorons try to do this en masse to Link, who responds to this like any rational person would — by screaming and fleeing in terror.
- Love of Magic: In the Alternate Timeline, when Bella's bond with Owyn re-establishes itself, she rushes over and tackles him, wrapping herself around his upper body.
- In Mega Man Star Force, Luna Platz does this to Mega Man after he defeats her in her Queen Ophiuca form. As the Comp Room they are in at the time collapses due to Gemini Spark's attack on Queen Ophiuca, they are shunted back to the real world while Luna is still glomping Mega Man, this is the point in the game where Luna learns that Geo Stelar and Mega Man are one and the same.
- Gandrayda features an atomic glomp — literally — in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. When you fight her on the Pirate Homeworld, one of Gandrayda's attacks involves her glomping you and irradiating the hell out of you.
- Neptunia has Neptune glomping Noire. Now, watch the last third of this video.
- The final boss in Parasite Eve (1998) does this when it crawls after you just pumped its body with bullets laced with Aya's DNA. The glomp here equals Touch of Death.
- Goodra's Pokémon X and Y Pokédex entry states that it likes to hug its trainer, leaving them covered in slime.
- In Purgatory 2, Emma does this to Ebel after he rescues her from being All Webbed Up.
- If you make Leon of Rune Factory 4 jealous, he'll glomp Frey and tell her they don't spend enough time together, so he's not going to let her go for a while. His polygon model even animates for the glomp, though the 2D sprite that talks doesn't. Amber frequently glomps onto Lest as well. The game itself even refers to it as a glomp.
- In the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Sonic gets glomped by Amy. Or at least he would be if Amy wasn't color blind. She can't seem to tell the difference between blue Sonic, black-and-red Shadow, and white-colored Silver. She successfully glomps him in Sonic Unleashed... while he's in Werehog form. The one time she actually gets him, she thinks she has the wrong guy almost immediately afterward.
- Fox ends up on the receiving end of one by Tricky in Star Fox: Assault. Unfortunately for him, Tricky has grown quite a bit since the last time they met.
Fox: Tricky! So heavy! Ouch!
- Super Mario Bros.:
- In Luigi's Mansion 3, upon reuniting after being separated for the majority of the game, Luigi and Mario give each other a gigantic hug. Aside from fanart, this is the first time viewers see the brothers hug.
- Paper Mario: The Origami King: After she gets rescued from the Handaconda, Olivia glomps Mario so hard that he gets pinned against a door due to her relief at getting rescued, thankfulness toward Mario, and embarrassment over her inability to help him more.
- Hilariously, Kirby gets a good glomp in the 'Subspace Emissary' campaign of Super Smash Bros. Brawl thanks to King Dedede spearing him from behind, affectionately patting him on the head, then dragging him off towards the Great Maze. Kirby looks utterly confused the entire time, even as he leaves a tiny skidmark from Dedede hauling him off.
- Tales of Symphonia has just one. Zelos glomps Lloyd during a scene at Altessa's house, while trying to force Lloyd to eat. It could be a disingenuous glomp, though. Zelos has drugged the food.
Zelos: [glomp] Cause we're best friends, right? I'm worried about you. You've got to be tired.
- The reunion between Lars and Alisa in Tekken 7's Story Mode has Alisa immediately tackling Lars the moment he addresses her, almost tearfully expressing how long she waited to see him again. Given what happened to her in the previous game, it's hard not to blame her. Meanwhile, Lee, the party responsible for bringing them back together, gives an approving round of applause.
Lee: Excellent! How moving!
- Touhou Project: Flandre does this to Marisa in Aozora-Market's Christmas Present,
complete with audible CRACK!
- In Zone of the Enders: Fist of Mars, The female lead character, Myona Alderan, achieves a most excessive glomp (even by glomp standards) by glomping the male lead, Cage Midwell, from a distance of over 30 meters, from one 'mech to another, in the middle of a battle being held high above the ground!
- CLANNAD: Kyou performs this manoeuvre on a very shy Kotomi, who has obvious difficulties deciding how to respond.
- Disgaea Infinite: You can mind-control Laharl into glomping Jennifer. She makes a remark about him going through puberty after he regains control over himself and freaks out.
- The Eden of Grisaia: Millie runs straight for Yuuji to give a tackling hug but instead ends up meeting his fist, which he put directly in front of her face. She's overjoyed, though. All's well that ends well?
- Higurashi: When They Cry:
- A more emotional, but still happy variation occurs when Rika does this to Akasaka in the final arc after finding out that the latter survived by yelling his name several times, sprinting down a hill at him, and launching herself down at him from halfway down the slope.
- Rena seems to like glomping anything cute.
- Kanon: The aim of many of Ayu's Crash-Into Hello meetings with Yuuichi. She gets irritable (as much as she can, anyway) if he dodges. Probably because that generally involves her crashing into trees instead.
- SHUFFLE!: Many girls in Rin's harem have done this.
- RWBY:
- In Volume 3, this is how Penny greets Ruby. Because Penny is a Robot Girl, the tackles knock both Ruby to the ground and the wind from her lungs. She does it again in Volume 7, this time rocket-powered.
- Ruby also greets her Uncle Qrow in this fashion, although due to the size difference she just casually ends up on his arm, the only pain occurring when he accidentally drops her.
- When Weiss realizes that Yang is in the bandit camp, she decides to escape from her cage by openly using her Semblance to summon her Knight clone. When she reaches Yang's side, they are initially prepared to fight the bandits back-to-back until Raven calls them off and decides the girls need to hear a few home truths in private. Just before they follow Raven into her tent, Weiss tackles Yang in a fierce hug, emphatically declaring how much she has missed her. Initially startled, Yang hugs her back and tells Weiss that she's missed her, too.
- In Volume 6, the plot forces the heroes apart; Team JNPR continues onto the city of Argus, while everyone else gets stranded in the wilderness. Once they reunite, Nora's first reaction is to scream "CUTE BOY OZ!" and tackle poor Oscar to the ground.
- In Volume 9, team RWBY and Jaune fall in Ever After. Shortly afterwards team RWBY reunites, and when Blake sees that Yang (who fell first) is okay, she knocks her down and hugs her tightly, saying her name quietly.
- In There she is!!, Doki does this to Nabi constantly.
- This
strip of Better Days when Fisk returns home from the Battle of Mogadishu.
- Between Failures has Nina giving one to Ed before they're properly introduced.
- In Candi, Jess insists that the easily-affectionate title character hug her so that Jess can get over her instinctually violent response to physical contact. When Candi refuses out of fear, Jess chases her through the house and finally delivers a flying-tackle glomp. Candi then hugs her back, thinking "Amateur."
- Zatachi, the group's funny guy in City of Somnus, tends to give people "dragon dive hugs" that sometimes knock them off their feet. Once or twice, he's glomped by Paollo, too.
- Lettie from Crankrats has a bad habit of hugging people's faces.
- Dean & Nala + Vinny: Holly, Dean's sister, finds herself at the receiving end from one of these from Nala. Unfortunately she is not a cat person, but Nala doesn't mind.
Holly: DEAN!! Call yer cat off! Ah'm serious!
Nala: Shhh. Hold still. - In Dominic Deegan Luna walks out of the panel when Dominic proposes. After a Beat Panel she calls from off-panel that she "wanted a running start" before making a flying glomp tackle.
- Eerie Cuties: Mr. Wolfhart's reaction when Ace goes to school as a boy, but comes home as a girl...
Mr. Wolfhart: [glomps Ace] I've always wanted a daughter!
- In El Goonish Shive, The Glomp is usually a good thing, with the Glompee being, at worst, neutral. For a long time, "* GLOMP* " actually became a word for greeting new members on the forums. Among other things.
- And while the word isn't used in the strip to describe it, this definitely qualifies
. This one
comes with a bonus Brick Joke but without a stuffed tiger).
- In an early strip, Ellen Glomps Grace using a Tackle Hug
. Note Grace's Wingding Eyes.
- This strip
uses the "word of the day" approach.
- Mini-glomp? You bet.
- A pounce-glomp
. A surprise tackle-glomp.
Grace is definitely one for glompage.
- Catalina Bobcat Glomps Tedd
.
- Grace Glomps Ellen back!
.
- Grace glomps
Ellen and Tedd.
- And while the word isn't used in the strip to describe it, this definitely qualifies
- Hex of all people does this to Rogue in Exterminatus Now. Adding "Never ever leave again" leaves Rogue scared. Confused and scared.
- Lemmy gives a very exuberant glomp to Sylvia in this
Fanboys strip.
- This page
from Fans! (scroll to the bottom) has Aly glomping Rikk, indicating their reconciliation.
- In this
Friendly Hostility strip, Fox pounce-glomps his boyfriend for getting him the email address of his favorite Fanta dancer.
- Girl Genius. Glomp, 4th panel.
- Zoing "Glomph"-s his long-unseen creator
.
- Upon Zeetha and Higgs' reunion in the nation of Albion, she gives a classic glomp
, complete with Reunion Kiss.
- Zoing "Glomph"-s his long-unseen creator
- Page 120
of Girly. After the big love confession, Winter gets promptly love glomped by Otra. And gets regular loved behind a bush
- Homestuck: Nepeta to Equius: Pouncegreet! Tackleslide!
- Blinky the world's loviest pillbug from the Insecticomics is fond of doing this, often accompanied with a delighted "SQUEEEEEEEE!"
- After his return from the Plane Of Suck, Looking for Group's (undead omnicidal warlock) Richard is glomped by Cale.
- It is very much in character for Genki Girl Clau, from M9 Girls!, to glomp her boyfriend
when she finally sees him.
- Rather impressive one in this strip
of MegaTokyo.
- Yuki does it to both Zii and Gary at times in Ménage à 3. And in this strip,
Izz and Yuki add themselves to a Group Hug with low-velocity glomps, each marked by an Unsound Effect, to Sonya's increasing discomfort.
- This happens frequently between the title characters of Milk and Mocha, with the former almost always being the one responsible. As they're cartoon bears, no harm is done.
- Judging by her first appearance in the comic, Serrin from Murphy's Law considers this an appropriate greeting for armed strangers.
- Oriel does this to Erik in chapter VII of Nixvir after she saves him from falling after Ragnar tosses him away. She also glomps him towards the end of chapter XIV, after the Chief Weasel becomes distracted during their three-way Wizard Duel as a result of the winds throwing off his focus and towards the end of Chapter XIX, when Erik returns from The Underworld. It's a hint of their very strong bond.
- From The Order of the Stick: BULL RUSH TACKLE HUG!
- After
637 strips
, Haley finally gets the chance to Glomp her father.
- Celia glomps Roy
after he's brought back from the dead. (Warning: link is spoilerific.)
- After
- In Overlord Academy, Nova tacklehugs Thae with so much force that she knocks her
to the ground
.
- Persephone does this to Hades in the Punderworld comic "Impatient
".
- A drunk Faye does this to Hanners in Questionable Content, leading to the latter passing out due to severe OCD and an inability to handle physical contact. "NO HUGGING! NO HUGGING!"
- And then there's Glompocalypse!
- And then there's Glompocalypse!
- For Michelle, in Rhapsodies, it's virtually the same as a handshake.
- Sandra from Sandra and Woo gives her boyfriend Cloud one that knocks his socks off after getting a love poem by him
. Woo also occasionally tackles
Sandra.
- In Sandra on the Rocks, Lavali executes a rather sedate glomp
onto her brother Alex, marked as such with an Unsound Effect, when she needs comfort after a breakup.
- Scurry: Umf the rat greets the mice Wix and Pict upon their return to the abandoned house on page 205. What's left of the mouse colony has presumed Wix and Pict had perished in the massed cat attack that had decimated so many others. Umf is understandably overjoyed to see these two alive and intact, so he welcomes them with a hearty glomp that takes them off their feet.
- Sleepless Domain: During Chapter 19, Kokoro and Undine are unexpectedly separated while on patrol, courtesy of a monster rendering Kokoro physically unable to interact with anything. Once she eventually returns to normal, the first thing Undine does
upon being reunited with Kokoro is give her a water jet-powered tackle hug.
- Kiki from Sluggy Freelance. One word: Hugamundo!
- Not to overlook how Riff appears to be a glomp-magnet for Zoe's little sister Min...
- A normal glomp may be bad enough, now just imagine what it must be like for the glompee when the glomper has six arms and super strength
as in this example from the Krakow Studio comic Spinnerette.
- Their Story: Qiu Tong often does this to Sun Jing out of affection (and possibly latent romantic interest). Sun Jing's reactions indicate that she hardly minds.
- Kaya from Twin Dragons, is just that much excited
to find out their new neighbour is a hybrid like her and her brother.
- In Undead Friend, Mahalah does this to Orrick when he agrees to be her friend and is in general overly affectionate and excited all the time.
- Wapsi Square features Monica glomping a kitten
.
- The Whiteboard: Nothing says "I love you" like playing facehugger on one's loved ones. Just ask Tawny
and Robin
, both of whom wrap around the head of their respective targets.
- In Yokoka's Quest, the first panel that Raya appears in has her glomping Yfa. After a Double Take, she glomps him again two pages later.
- Google: In the 2012 Valentine's Day Google Doodle, this is how the boy knows the girl likes him.
- Natalie Tran of Community Channel describes her first experience with glomping here.
- Iconically used to represent the titular relationship in Jake and Amir (with Amir as the glomper and Jake as the unwilling glompee) to the point of appearing in two of the show's title sequences as well as the title sequence of The CollegeHumor Show, a short-lived television adaptation of both Jake and Amir and its sister series Hardly Working.
- The Nostalgia Chick, mourning the death of Dark Nella, is surprised to find the non-clone Nella comes running out of the ocean and delivers a sopping wet Glomp.
- Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers: In "Trouble at Texton", Shane was caught in a particle accelerator and made a Heroic Sacrifice to protect his teammates. When he comes Back from the Dead courtesy of an extra-dimensional entity, Niko's reaction is to almost tackle him.
- Arcane:
- In "The Base Violence Necessary for Change", believing Vi has abandoned her, Powder straight up tackles Silco off his feet with the force of her desperate hug.
- In "The Boy Savior", Vi is captured by Ekko after he's grown up and become the leader of the Firelights. Their initial terse discussion becomes heartwarming when she suddenly hugs him, to Ekko's shock as Vi was supposed to be chained up at the time.
- As Told by Ginger: When Courtney sees Ginger and her friends hugging, she asks Miranda why they never do it. Miranda glomps her for a moment before deciding "there, there, that's quite enough of that"
- Avatar: The Last Airbender:
- Ty Lee makes a habit of this, and of course Mai is her most common target.
- Zuko gets a Luminescent Blush when Toph does this to him in the Grand Finale. You'd think he'd be used to getting that from girls by now...
- Batman Beyond: In "Curse of the Kobra (Part II)", Terry rescues his best friend Max from the Cobra cult and she's so glad to see him that she gives him a very cute glomp... which is ruined seconds later as he breaks free because he had four cracked ribs from trying to save her the first time.
- Blaze and the Monster Machines: Zeg has a tendency to hug Blaze so hard that he struggles to breathe.
- Caillou: In the live-action segments, Rexy is very fond of giving these to the other characters of the segment, Teddy and Gilbert.
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In "Beast of the Temple", Wheeler disappears after luring the titular beast away from Linka. When Gi brings him back safely, Linka throws herself at him.
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers:
- Chip is a frequent recipient of these, almost always from Dale. A notable occurrence is when Chip is believed to have been killed after a gypsy's prediction begins coming true, only to appear unharmed after narrowly avoiding the falling trunk containing the other imprisoned Rangers that was meant to kill him. Unfortunately, Dale's overjoyed glomp after seeing him alive and well interrupts a much more welcome hug from Gadget...
- Chip also receives several from Stalker with a Crush Tammy.
- Dale is on the receiving end of one or two from Foxglove in her single appearance.
- Codename: Kids Next Door: Numbuh Four gets glomped by Numbuh Three in "Operation: O.F.F.I.C.E." when she sees that he's okay after crashing with a rocket into Mr. Boss' car. Also in "Operation: N.A.U.G.H.T.Y." when he gives her a Christmas present (his leftover french fries), thus saving her from the effects of Santa's sleigh.
- Danny Phantom: Near the end of the finale, Danny gets triple glomped by Sam, Jazz, and Tucker respectively. He collapses.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy: Ed has Edd and Eddy in a tight hug practically every episode. ("HUG ME!")
- Fireman Sam: At the end of "Sergeant Sarah", polic dog Shadow is put at ease for the day, so she jumps onto Sam and licks him.
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Bloo does this to Mac at the end of the opening sequence.
- Justice League: In the final episode of the three-parter "The Savage Time", when half of the Leaguers come back from time travel, Superman finds that Batman is in fact alive and well and glomps him. This causes an awkward pause of Batman staring at him from inches away and very dryly asking: "Am I missing something here?"
- Kaeloo: Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat in one episode after the latter asked if he could team up with her for a game.
- Kim Possible:
- Kim glomps Ron when he saves the day at the end of "The Fearless Ferret".
- Under the influence of a Moodulator chip in "Emotion Sickness", Shego dragged Drakken into a photo booth. The resulting Photo-Booth Montage ends with a picture of her pouncing on him.
- Looney Tunes: Pepé Le Pew frequently does this in his shorts, particularly to cats who have accidentally acquired a white paint stripe down their backs.
- Making Fiends has Mr. Huggles, the fiend Vendetta allowed Charlotte to create after a magazine test declared her eviler than Vendetta. Its raison d'etre is to charge at people and grab them in a big, fuzzy hug while declaring, "I love you!"
- Motorcity: Texas does this to Julie at the end of "Off the Rack".
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- Spike glomps Fluttershy in "Feeling Pinkie Keen" when he finds out she hasn't exploded twice.
- Fluttershy glomps Pinkie Pie in "Over a Barrel" when she returns from the Buffalo Camp.
- Ms. Cheerilee does this to Big Mac in "Hearts and Hooves Day" when she rushes out of the dressing room after wearing a wedding veil, as the latter waits in the pit. Fortunately, the love poison spell inflicted on them is broken by the time she jumps in.
- Pinkie Pie glomps Twilight in "Too Many Pinkie Pies".
Pinkie Pie: Hugs are funrific, especially when you wrap one around a friend!
- Discord glomps Fluttershy when they're reunited at the end of "To Where and Back Again - Part 2".
- Ready Jet Go!:
- In "A Visit from Uncle Zucchini", Jet tackle-hugs Zucchini.
- In "That's One Gigantic Pumpkin, Jet Propulsion!", Sunspot pounces on Mindy.
- ReBoot:
- Bob is frequently glomped by Enzo. In fairness, it's more flying tackle and less hug and Bob is usually pinned. It is meant as a sign of affection, however.
- Marvelously parodied in season three. By this time, Enzo has grown up into a huge muscle-bound man and is attacked in this way by another child. At first, you think he is about to receive a taste of his own medicine, only for the boy to bounce harmlessly off of his enormous chest.
- Later in the same season, after realizing his search is over and he's finally found Bob, he rushes forward as if to tackle him like old times. Bob very quickly stops him, saying, "I think you're a little too big for that."
- The end of Season 3 after the big reboot where kid Enzo reappears and glomps Bob before asking "Who's the big ugly green guy?" about adult Enzo. He later warms up to Matrix and starts idolizing him, though, even attempting to glomp him at some point, only to bounce off his chest just like the previously mentioned boy.
- Enzo getting glomped by AndrAIa earlier in the season. Not that he seemed to mind.
- Bob is frequently glomped by Enzo. In fairness, it's more flying tackle and less hug and Bob is usually pinned. It is meant as a sign of affection, however.
- Rugrats: In an episode where Angelica is supposedly moving away, she confesses to the babies that they're her best friends. When they find out she's not moving, they all Glomp her while she furiously tries to deny that she was telling the truth.
- Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo: In "The Ransom of Scooby Chief", Scrappy gives one to Scooby after they've been reunited.
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: In the original, Scorpia was a slaver who was constantly at odds with Catra. In the reboot, she is... not.
Scorpia: Just so you know, I'm a hugger.
Catra: Wha— [gets scooped up in a giant hug] - The Simpsons:
- Happens at the beginning of "Flaming Moe's" in one scene in which Bart gets glomped and kissed by Susan, one of Lisa's friends, in a 'Truth or Dare' game.
- In "Marge in Chains", in one of the conjugal visit trailers, Marge aggressively glomps Homer for sex, which then turns over the trailer.
Homer: Honey, I don't know what you're feeling, right now. So I don't want to push anything. We can just hold hands or sit and talk...
[Marge, overwhelmed with feelings of lust, immediately glomps Homer aggressively]
Homer: Whoa!
- Teen Titans (2003):
- Starfire is fond of glomping... well, everyone.
Starfire: Oh, hello, long-lost friend! You remember me, yes?
Terra: Of course, Starfire. I still have bruises from the last time you hugged me. - Beast Boy does it to Raven in the Season 4 finale. She tells him to knock it off.
- Strangely enough, Raven (of all people) does something like this to Beast Boy (of all people) after her heart has been broken by Malchior and Beast Boy comes to console her. However, since this is more a case of being extremely depressed, lonely, and wanting some sort of comfort, rather than being truly happy to see him, it's debatable whether this counts. The jump-on-and-hug-tightly physical actions are played straight.
- At the end of "The End" arc, Raven glomps Robin.
- Starfire is fond of glomping... well, everyone.
- Thunderbirds Are Go: After finally being rescued, Jeff Tracey is glomped by his children while floating in zero-gravity.
- Tiny Toon Adventures:
- Elmyra does this to any and all animals, sometimes to the point of hurting them.
- Pepe's successor, Fifi La Fume, when pursuing characters such as Furrball, Calamity Coyote, and Little Beeper.
- Total Drama: Sierra does this a lot to Cody.
- Winnie-the-Pooh: Tigger's entire shtick is "bouncing" people, usually from off-screen, as his standard form of greeting.
- Winx Club:
- In the fourth episode of the second season, the pixies do this to Aisha after escaping from lord Darkar.
- Stella usually to Brandon when she is happy.
- W.I.T.C.H. (2004): In "T is for Trauma", Eric receives a glomp from Hay Lin after complimenting her new braces. Unlike a lot of other examples on this page, Eric immediately reciprocates, wrapping his arms around Hay Lin as she takes him to the ground.
- Baby orangutans, gorillas, and several other primates instinctively lock their arms around their mothers and do not let go for anything for the first four to six months of their lives. This makes caring for orphaned primates especially challenging, as they will try to keep a death grip on their human caregivers 24/7.
- At the 2014 World Championships, US gymnast Mykayla Skinner hit the best floor routine of her career up to that point in the event finals. Her teammate Simone Biles was very excited about it
.
- Travis Willingham has been known to tell a story
where someone tried to glomp him at his first con and he, not understanding what was about to happen, put his shoulder out like a football player trying to get through a tackle (the man is built like a linebacker, to boot). Suffice to say, he doesn't get glomped very often anymore.
- Travis Willingham has been known to tell a story
- A fan once did this to Greg Ayres at the top of a flight of stairs while his back was turned, causing both to tumble down the stairs.
- During an episode of Voiceprint with Trevor Devall and Guests interviewing Scott McNeil, Scott admitted to being afraid of the very word, having once had his back injured in a glomping incident.
- In team sports, specially in Association Football when a player scores a decisive or spectacular goal. In other team sports is normal to do lighter celebrations due to the number of goals they can score like in Basketball, Baseball or American Football, but you can expect the team to do one at the end of a game, specially if they score a decisive winning play.

