Anguished Declaration of Love: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."''

|'''Mr. Darcy''', ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''}}

 

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* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]''.

{{quote|'''Nanami''': (to Touga) "Because I love you! BECAUSE I LOVE YOU BIG BROTHER!"}}

** Then again, it's the same thing as in that manga arc in {{spoiler|Chapter 100-105}}.

* After spending approximately fifteen episodes of ''[[My-HiME]]'' following [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Yuuichi]] around like a hawk, Shiho finally confesses that she really loves him. Of course, he's asleep at the time...and she's still angry at Mai because she thinks he likes ''her'' better...

* ''[[Yakuza Girl]]'': Many times.

 

* Cassidy declares his love with Tulip before and after {{spoiler|Jesse dies}} and after {{spoiler|Jesse comes back}} in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]''.

* Something of an unusual case (as they were already having sex) but it's not until he figures he's about to lose her that Mimic confesses his love to Blink in ''[[Exiles]]''.

* In ''[[Elf Quest]]'', Zhantee very emotionally declares his love for Leetah to Leetah's lifemate Cutter. In the elf culture, love is very free and sex is often shared between friends, and Cutter fails to understand why Zhantee never told them about his feelings. He explains to Zhantee that he'd have been welcome in their relationship all along. Through telepathy, Cutter connects himself and Zhantee to the faraway Leetah, and the three share a powerful romantic and sexual bonding for a few brief moments... {{spoiler|until Zhantee dies in Cutter's arms.}}

 

* [[Tsundere|Asuka]] does this to [[Ineffectual Loner|Shinji]] in ''[[Evangelion R]]'', though he remains unaware due to her [[Gratuitous German|speaking in German]].

{{quote|"Because ''I'' love you! You think I can't tell the difference?"}}

** Tornado {{spoiler|[[Relationship Upgrade|returns her feelings]], as he had a crush on her for a while}}.

 

* ''[[Moonstruck]]''

{{quote|'''Ronnie:''' Loretta, I love you. Not, not like they told you love is and I didn't know this either. But love don't make things nice, it ruins everything! It breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect, stars are perfect. Not us! Not US! We are here to ruin ourselves and... and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and... and DIE... I mean, I mean the storybooks are '''BULLSHIT'''. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and... and '''GET''' in my bed. Come on, come on, come on...}}

{{quote|'''Bruno:''' What I really want to tell you is...that...that I'm in love with you. I'm completely sick. I don't know how it happened. It happened to me. I couldn't control it.}}

 

* In Erika Griffin's novel, [http://www.amazon.com/One-Who-Waited-Erika-Griffin/dp/1411627164 The One Who Waited], has a good example of this trope. Upon being repeatedly assailed by the Boogeyman character, Alice finds out that {{spoiler|the only reason he has been terrorizing her was because she abandoned him when she was still a child and he needed her to remember him in order to maintain his existence. These emotions manifested themselves gradually into an obsessive, parasitic kind of love.}}

* Sydney Carton gets one of these in [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]''. Charles Darnay gets a much more subdued (read:dull) one later on. Considering how Chaz is the [[Designated Hero]] and Sid the [[Troubled but Cute]] [[Butt Monkey]], it still is kind of a pain to see Lucy swoon over the milquetoast.

* In [[Jack Campbell]]'s [[The Lost Fleet]] novel ''Invicible'', Geary [[Dirty Business|has to read]] a letter between two [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]. As he expects, it contains this: he declares that his feelings are incapable of changing and therefore they must not meet again. She on receiving it declares that she must not respond to i.

 

* In [[The Mighty Boosh]], episode Tundra, Howard unexpectedly admits his feelings for Vince after they are left for dead:

{{quote|'''Howard:''' This is difficult for me, but I feel as though I should say it... I love you Vince.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Spike is on the point of blurting this out in the Season 5 episode "Crush", when a [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|shocked and disgusted]] Buffy stops him, well aware of what he's about to say despite being clueless [[Stalker with a Crush|as to his odd behaviour up to then]]—Dawn had tipped Buffy off earlier that Spike was [[Foe Yay|smitten]], but Buffy refused to believe it. Buffy violently denies that Spike feels true love—or that she has romantic feelings in return {{spoiler|until the Season 7 [[Grand Finale]] when she tells Spike as he's making a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] that she loves him too. In a subversion of the trope Spike replies, "No you don't, but it was nice of you to say so."}}

 

* "Crown of Love" by [[Arcade Fire]].

 

* In ''[[Fantasia Otome Game Series|Fantasia - Requiem of the Abyss]]'', Valen's confession to Cain was like this.

{{quote|'''Valen''': It's because I LOVE YOU, DAMMMIIIITTTT!!!!}}

* Played with in [[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]. Marta's love for Emil is well known, even as it changes from infatuation with an idea of him to truly falling for the real Emil. Even so, Marta {{spoiler|tearfully shouting while asking if she ever meant anything to Emil in chapter 8, then burying her head into his chest and telling him she want to be with him might be considered one, even if it's not exactly a confession of love. Emil nervously tells Marta that he loves her, though she cuts him off at the end with a kiss. His confession is not all that anguised, but it does come out during a pretty heartwrenching moment, as it may be the last time the two of them will get a chance to make their feelings for each other known.}}

 

** Somewhat of a subversion, as this one was understood and stuck. [[Genre Savvy|Elan groks drama tropes.]]

** Also in that ''Haley'' is the one who tries to backpedal afterwards. Elan stops her with a [["Shut Up" Kiss]].

'''Zeetha:''' Now ''that'', I'll pass along. }}

** [[The Lancer|Tarvek]] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110905 gave one] to Agatha, [[Subtext|without actually going out and saying it.]]

* ''[[Mayonaka Densha]]'': Hatsune, while trapped inside a bank that's being held up by a group of American bank robbers, notices Tom in the crowd outside and screams out the window that she loves him. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, he couldn't hear her over the crowd.}}

* Lucy in ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'' finally admits to {{spoiler|[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c51/p11.html her feelings for Mike]. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.}}

* Parodied in ''[[A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever]]''.

{{quote|'''''<big>Passionate plea!</big>''''' ''<small>Whisper of repetition...</small>''}}

* In the ''[[Neopets]]'' plot, the "Faeries Ruin", {{spoiler|Brynn}} tries to tell {{spoiler|Hanso}} that she loves him, when it seems like {{spoiler|Hanso is joining Xandra}}, but [[False Start|she doesn't get to finish]]. {{spoiler|However, it turns out that Hanso was pulling a bit of a [[Batman Gambit]] anyway...}}

* Goes a little sideways in ''[[Me and My Dick]]'':

{{quote|'''[[Childhood Friend Romance|Sally]]''': Um, Joey... I love you.

'''Sally''': No, no, no... Joey, when I say "I love you", I wanna say something more. What I'm trying to say is... I '''like''' you! }}

 

* Leela's sudden admittance of love for Fry in the face of danger and possible death in the final scene of ''[[Futurama|Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder]]'', after ten years of not returning his feelings and at the ''worst'' possible time. {{spoiler|They got better.}}

* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': Late into the series, Jane gets engaged to Pothole McPucker and throws a party. Lumpus sneaks in, dressed as a woman, and finally confesses his feelings. Since he's in a dress, everyone thinks it's a woman confessing her love to Pothole. Pothole's response? "[[Attractive Bent Gender|Sorry, Jane, she's hot.]]" It's all set up for a later episode where {{spoiler|Jane's wedding falls apart, and Lumpus finally tells her then. [[Earn Your Happy Ending|They marry.]]}}

* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', Numbuh 86 has a habit of confessing her affections towards male operatives ''right'' before she decommissions them, as decommissioning makes them forget their activities in the KND, up to and including the confession. She has done so to Numbuh 4 in "Operation E.N.D" and to Numbuh 19th Century in "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-5". Whether she's serious or whether this is her odd idea of a joke isn't clear.

 

* One afternoon, the Reverend Arthur Nicholls declared out of the blue his passionate attachment to [[Charlotte Bronte]], who wasn't interested at all - until her father drove Nicholls out of the parish. Whereupon the canny Reverend began to write Charlotte desperate and touching love letters... and persuaded her to meet him secretly... and the upshot was they got married!

** The downshot is that [[Downer Ending|she died soon after their wedding; while pregnant with her first child. But after the happiest year of her rather miserable life.]]

 

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[[Category:Romance Arc]]

[[Category:Love Tropes]]

[[Category:Tear Jerker Tropes]]