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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' has a thousand years-long romance between {{spoiler|Rin and Tajimamori}}, both immortal and eternally young.
* ''[[
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': Usagi and Mamoru's romance.
* In Axis Powers Hetalia, it is inferred that {{spoiler|Germany is the Holy Roman Empire,}} meaning that he and Italy found each other again. Daawww...
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Hancock]]'', Hancock and Mary have had an off-again-on-again relationship for many centuries. However, this trope is inverted in that {{spoiler|the superman/woman pairs lose their powers when they come together so that they are able to grow old together}}.
* The film version of ''[[Stardust (
== [[Literature]] ==
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* [[The Dresden Files]] has an [[Unholy Matrimony]] example between Nicodemus Archleone and Polonius Lartessa, both made immortal through [[Demonic Possession]] over a thousand years ago. Many characters, however, reasonably suspect that their twisted relationship cannot be love in the usual sense.
** Particularly when it's shown that Nicodemus regularly cheats on Lartessa. [[Squick|With their daughter.]]
* The Cullens from ''[[Twilight (
* Roger Zelazny's ''The Graveyard Heart'' features a couple who achieve their long-lasting relationship through science rather than supernatural forces: they're members of a group that put themselves into cryogenic stasis for years at a time, only coming out of it to throw a huge party, and going back into stasis afterwards.
* In Greg Egan's ''Schild's Ladder'', before Tchicaya finally gets to have sex with his childhood lover Mariama he contemplates "Nothing could have lived up to four thousand years of waiting. Except perhaps an original theorem."
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' ''[[A Tale of Time City]]'' features an immortal or near-immortal couple: Faber John and The Time Lady. They have been separated for thousands of years {{spoiler|but that doesn't seem to have broken their love for each other once they're reunited.}}
* This trope applies to all of [[
* ''[[The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel]]'' has Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel, naturally.
* In the closing moments of Greg Bear's The City at The End of Time, it is revealed that Sangmer and his love, who are forced to spend literally eternity apart in order to prevent the end of everything, meet again every time the current universe reaches it's end, only to part again when the next one is created.
* The High Elves Caelir and Rhianna in Graham McNeill's Ulthuan Duology. {{spoiler|Rhianna must take her ancestor's place on the Isle of the Dead, being trapped there forever, and Caelir, dying from a wound, chooses to stay with her. The two are kept together and will eternally be in a moment of perfect bliss with each other.}}
* Deconstructed by [[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* From ''[[Highlander the Series]]'', you've got the four-hundred year old immortal Duncan MacLeod and his three-hundred-and-fifty year long on-again, off-again snarky romance with the twelve hundred year old immortal Amanda Devereaux.
** There's also a pair of immortal friends of Duncan's who've been married for centuries.
* Spike and Drusilla from ''[[
** Angel and Darla were together for 150 years.
* In ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' {{spoiler|Katherine wants this with Stefan. Damon also uses the threat of it against her to convince her to help to delay Klaus' plan until Elena won't become a vampire because of it, by asking her how she feels about competing with Elena for Stefan ''forever''.}}
* The ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "What's Wrong with Dr. Phil?" features a pair of witches, Don and Maggie Stark, who have been together for 800 years, despite some rocky times.
{{quote| '''Don:''' You're the woman I want to never grow old with.}}
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== [[Theater]] ==
* One wonders if some of Oberon and Titania's relationship woes in ''[[A Midsummer
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In [[Planescape: Torment]], the relationship between Nameless One and his ghost girlfriend is confusing, but still qualifies.
* One of [[Avernum]] 3's sidequests involve a vampire who asks your party to deal with a group of ogres who have killed his beloved.
* [[Luminous Arc 3|Anogia]] 's goal {{spoiler|is to live with Miria forever,}} and depend on you {{spoiler|he may die, Miria disappeared from this world or he just gave up and spend his time with Miria the rest of time that he has.}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Fox:''' Mother, who is this guy?<br />
'''Oberon:''' "Mother"? ''ha-ha'' Titania... what have you been up to?
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