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In fiction, the best way to calm down someone having a [[Superpower Meltdown]] or having their [[Berserk Button]] pressed is to hug them, [[The Power of Trust|regardless of how much danger the hugger puts themselves in]] to get to the huggee. Often overlaps with the [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]], and sometimes counts as a [[Ship Tease]] between the involved characters. Often serves something of a dual purpose, in some cases not only is the person trying to use the [[Power of Love]], they're also trying to pin their arms down so their rampage will end.

* In [[Samurai Deeper Kyo]], Akira does this to a girl whose power is to release deadly corrosive spores into the air (her first ever hug, obviously), it startled her enough to manage to stop the flow.

* In ''[[Ookamikakushi]]'', Kaori does this to {{spoiler|Sakaki}} after he has a bit of a freakout. {{spoiler|And then it turns out she's hugging him to ''drag him off a cliff.'' }}

* {{spoiler|Inugami}} gives one to {{spoiler|Aoshika}} in [[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]. {{spoiler|Coupled with an [[Anguished Declaration of Love]].}}

* Sheryl does this to Ranka in ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' when she gets depressed of Alto is with the former.

* In [[Blue Exorcist]], The crippling self-doubt from which {{spoiler|Rin suffers in Chapter 26}} is ended when he receives a Cooldown Hug. What makes this even more [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] is that they were {{spoiler|on fire at the moment, and shrinking violet Shiemi, who hugged him, did so in order to prove her trust that he would not burn her with said flames}}.

** Giles and Buffy share a mutual hug at the end of "Passions", with Giles weeping over {{spoiler|his dead lover Jenny Calender}}, and Buffy crying for him not to throw away his life in a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] as "I can't do this alone."

* In ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'', during the [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] between the Zeo Rangers and a brainwashed Tommy, Katherine demorphs to try and get him to stop fighting them. He does freeze, and she uses that opportunity to hug him, and hold on to him even when he tries to resist, eventually breaking the spell.

* In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' ("The Changeling"), Kirk gives one of these to Spock after the latter tried to mind meld with a robot.

* Near the end arcs of ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'', {{spoiler|Maya tries to calm down her son, Taiga, with one of these. This is one of the "hugger gets stabbed" subversions, though she doesn't die.}}

* ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'' needs one of these the first time he uses [[Mid-Season Upgrade|PuToTyranno]] form. After wiping out both of the monster he was fighting, he starts whaling on Kamen Rider Birth instead. When Hina tries to stop him, he almost hits her, but freezes at the last second. She takes the chance to grab him, which fully snaps him out of it.

** The first time it happened was in the ''third'' episode of the whole series: "The Southern Air Temple." It can be considered foreshadowing that they would become a [[Canon]] Couple.

*** Though Katara didn't hug him out of the Avatar State in "The Southern Air Temple." She just talked him out of it, and then when he came back to his senses she hugged him.

* In the Season 2 finale of ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', Gwen {{spoiler|transforms into a full Anodite about halfway through}}. She's certain that she could use her powers to destroy the threat right then and there, but Kevin, rightly fearing that she'd lose her humanity as a result, brings her back to earth with one of these.

* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', a Friendly Friend Rainbow Monkey Goodbye Hug is the only way to calm down a giant rampaging rainbow monkey. Numbuh Four has to administer one after he pisses one off and it starts destroying the tree house.