Comic Books
Batgirl: My secrets may be the key to saving your boyfriend.
Supergirl: Don't be trite — We're just friends.
Supergirl: Don't be trite — We're just friends.
Fanfiction
Harry: It's complicated, but the short version is that we've both got issues. Different issues, but we both have issues. Because of what's gone on, what she wants, what she needs, me to be is a friend. A best friend. And as far as I'm concerned, that comes before anything else.
Diana: And if you ever do go down that path, you want it to be because you're whole and because you both want to. Not because Carol's trying to hold all your pieces together.
Film — Live-Action
Miri: We're friends. We're just friends. We'll always just be just friends.
Tom: So what's going on between you and Bernie?
Mink: We're just friends! Amigos! Can't a guy have more than one friend?
Live-Action TV
Dan: If we're not going to be more than friends it's too hard to be... Just Friends.
"We are what is popularly known as just friends."
— John Fleming, The Andromeda Breakthrough
Ilsa: He's not my lover. We're just good friends.
Jackson: The Friend Zone? NOT THE ZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNE!
— Danger 5
"I love Xander, I just don't...love Xander."
— Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Bad Girls"
Theatre
Phoebe: Silvius, the time was that I hated thee,
And yet it is not that I bear thee love;
But since that thou canst talk of love so well,
Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,
I will endure, and I'll employ thee too:
But do not look for further recompense
Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd.
Silvius: So holy and so perfect is my love,
And I in such a poverty of grace,
That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps: loose now and then
A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon.
And yet it is not that I bear thee love;
But since that thou canst talk of love so well,
Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,
I will endure, and I'll employ thee too:
But do not look for further recompense
Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd.
Silvius: So holy and so perfect is my love,
And I in such a poverty of grace,
That I shall think it a most plenteous crop
To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps: loose now and then
A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon.
Video Games
Mad Scientist: Friends?! We've only gone out together three times, and already you're telling me you just want to be "friends"? You never gave me a chance, and for that you'll fry like a pork sausage! (starts powering up his Death Trap)
Hostage: (while strapped to said Death Trap) It's that I don't like you. It's just, well, you're too nice a guy, I guess. I think I rather go out with someone with someone more... unpredictable.
Hostage: (while strapped to said Death Trap) It's that I don't like you. It's just, well, you're too nice a guy, I guess. I think I rather go out with someone with someone more... unpredictable.
Western Animation
Star: So now, Marco and I can barely make eye contact because of Ruberiot's dumb song! I mean, Marco actually thinks I have a crush on him! (forced laughter)
Pony Head: Yeah, but like...don't you though?
Star: (stammering) Wh- No! Maybe once.
StarFan13: (gasps)
Star: But I don't anymore!
StarFan13: Aww.
Star: I just think he's kinda cute! I think lots of things are cute.
Pony Head: Yeah, but like...don't you though?
Star: (stammering) Wh- No! Maybe once.
StarFan13: (gasps)
Star: But I don't anymore!
StarFan13: Aww.
Star: I just think he's kinda cute! I think lots of things are cute.
— Star vs. the Forces of Evil, "Starcrushed"
"Perhaps Ladybug will love me someday. I mean, like I love her. I have to believe. In the meantime, her friendship is the best gift of all."
— Adrien, Miraculous Ladybug
