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''And love is unkind
''Because she came first, darling
''Will she hang on your mind?"''
|'''Gladys Knight & The Pips''', "If I Were Your Woman"}}
In works featuring a male protagonist, the first girl
There are all sorts of explanations as to why this is. Things [[Book Ends|ending up the same place they started]] is a very old narrative technique. The First Girl "winning" has a [[Because Destiny Says So]] kind of a appeal—she metaphorically "called dibs" on the hero and [[Red String of Fate|tied a string to his heart]]. This might actually strike a chord with readers because of its [[Truth in Television]] overtones; recent psychological studies suggest that the first people someone meets in a new or unfamiliar social situation have a greater chance at becoming their close friends later on.
From a [[Watsonian Versus Doylist|Doylist]] point of view, actually introducing the First Girl early is a solid writing tactic. The girl who is going to "win" needs an early introduction for a lot of
As weird as it may sound, sometimes it isn't that obvious which girl is the First. Is it the first girl the protagonist meets according to [[In-Universe]] chronology, even if we first see her halfway through the show's run? The first one to show romantic feelings? The first ''new'' girl the protagonist meets? If we have different adaptations, by which of them are we going? If you're suspecting some girl is supposed to be the First Girl, a good idea would be to take a look at how the writer has played her up. Is she a major character? Is her "first" interaction with the hero led up to, emphasized, treated as a big deal? All other things being equal, is she a strong contender for being the hero's [[Love Interest]]? These things may be the difference between the First Girl and a girl who happened to be first. Most writers will take care to put some effort into building a would-be triumphant First Girl as a romantic option in her own right, so as not to get the hero [[Strangled by the Red String]].
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Of course, a writer can't outright admit that's what they're doing, which is why you can expect an in-universe justification for how these two people met so early and took so long to figure out they belong together. Their first impression of each other will be that of [[Slap Slap Kiss|immense dislike]].
Complications will abound, [[Romantic False Lead]]s will show up, [[Third-Act Misunderstanding|misunderstandings will arise]] between them, pride and denial will keep them apart. In extreme cases, it may turn out [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased|her apparent lack of interest in him was a major turn-on]]. Paradoxically enough, nothing screams "major romance incoming" like this sort of thing. A more subtle tactic is to get the First Girl "off the radar" somehow- [[Demoted to Extra]], [[Put on a Bus]] and similar tactics- though writing her transition from a nobody to a love interest in a believable way can be a problem.
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Ai Kora]]'', Sakurako is the first girl introduced as Maeda comes to Tokyo, and they are arguably the closest couple. Though, Maeda actually wants all the girls (for a special reason) and quite a few of the other girls want him too. In the end, {{spoiler|Sakurako is the one he falls for.}}
* It's made very clear early on in ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'' that Aoi has already "won" Kaoru, and vice-versa. The fact that they are forced to hide the relationship amongst the [[Unwanted Harem]] is when [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' has the trope and a [[Gender Flip]]ped subversion: {{spoiler|The main female character, Honda Tohru, meets Sohma Yuki before Sohma Kyo but develops mutual romantic feelings for Kyo. Later, Yuki starts a relationship with the first student council girl introduced, Kuragi Machi.}}
** [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]], however, in the manga: {{spoiler|when discussing the various Zodiac signs, Tohru makes ''reference to'' the Cat first, which turns out to be the animal Kyo is cursed with. In the flashback which introduces the story, Tohru's mother tells her the story of the zodiac and how the Cat was tricked by the Rat; Tohru insists that from that moment on, she is going to "be" a Cat. It also may be relevant that Tohru's ''Mom'' knew Kyo well before Tohru did}}.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''- Winry wins. Duh. It probably helps that A. Ed really has more important things to do than be in a relationship, and B. he seems to be [[Single-Target Sexuality|Winry-Sexual.]]
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', although Sousuke knew Tessa before Kaname, the first girl who is introduced is Kaname. She's also the first girl to show (at least to the audience - obviously, Tessa had already been romantically interested in him offscreen) romantic interest in Sousuke. And she's also one of the last girls to admit her feelings for him. This makes Tessa something of a sort of [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] (although she didn't know him since childhood - just much earlier than Kaname did). Interestingly enough, it's been speculated by quite a few fans that if he had actually met [[Fan-Preferred Couple|Nami]] (from the novels) before Kaname, he would have fallen for ''her'' (seeing as how, after spending a little time with her, and even after having already fallen in love with Kaname, he started developing feelings for her and even considered settling down with her).
* [[Gender Flip]]ped on ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'': Hotohori, Tamahome, Nuriko (maybe) and Tasuki all like Yuuki Miaka. Tamahome was the first guy introduced. Draw your own conclusions.
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** Subverted in season 1. While Mariel "won", the first girl Taro met was Sango, who was also his first kiss, and by the end of the first episode she and her sisters had all ''slept with him''.
** Played straight in ''La Verite''. Taro met Mariel first and fell in love with her.
* Gender-flipped in ''[[
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Played with. In both the manga and anime, Kikyou is the first girl introduced. She is also the first girl we see with Inuyasha (despite the fact they're fighting), and we later find out {{spoiler|the two had a prior relationship established before Naraku tricked them}}. Even at the very end, Inuyasha still declares his love for Kikyou. The back and forth manner of Rumiko Takahashi could honestly lead a person to be unsure of whom Inuyasha will pick, if he picks at all. Inuyasha's feelings for Kagome and the fact Kikyou is essentially undead works against Kikyou, but Inuyasha doesn't seem to care that she is made of bones and dirt. Kagome ultimately wins, but kind of by default; since {{spoiler|Kikyou ends up dying [[Deader Than Dead|for real]]}}. I don't believe it qualifies for [[Last Girl Wins]] because for awhile we're lead to believe that Kikyou remains dead after the opening sequence. [[Back
* In the first ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]'' movie, Shiki invokes this during her second fight with Fujyou about Mikiya.
* Subverted in the manga of ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]''. In the anime she wins at first, but this gets "corrected" in the [[OVA]]—in a way most fans found quite contrived.
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* In ''[[Koko ni Iru yo!]]'', it's played with, as both contenders are "first guys." Hinata was the first person who "noticed" Hikage, the first to confess to her, and the first love interest introduced. But ''Black Rabbit'' -- {{spoiler|revealed to be Teru}}—is Hikage's first friend, the first to support her, and knew her first. {{spoiler|And while Hinata was introduced before ''Black Rabbit'', Hinata and Teru were introduced into the series ''at the same time''. In the end, Hikage chooses to be with Hinata instead of Teru.}}
* ''[[Love Hina]]''; Narusegawa Naru is the first girl introduced, and despite [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Aoyama Motoko]], [[Shrinking Violet|Maehara Shinobu]], [[Genius Ditz|Otohime Mutsumi]] and even his adopted sister [[Brother-Sister Incest|Kanako]] [[Unwanted Harem|also liking]] Urashima Keitaro, the pairing of Naru and Keitaro is inevitable.
** Additionally, Keitaro met Naru long before any of the others (except Mutsumi) as a child. She is {{spoiler|the girl he made the Tokyo U promise with long ago.}}▼
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▲Additionally, Keitaro met Naru long before any of the others (except Mutsumi) as a child. She is {{spoiler|the girl he made the Tokyo U promise with long ago.}}
▲** Actually, this trope is ''inverted'' on Love Hina. The first girl Keitaro met was ''Mutsumi'', and then both befriended a sick, bed-ridden and lonely Naru. The three of them made the Tokyo U promise and years later, Mutsumi politely stepped aside for Naru's sake.
* ''[[Macross]]'' - Hikaru first had his butt handed to him (verbally) by a fairly cross "old lady" before he ever came to [[Idol Singer|Lynn Minmay]]'s rescue. And that "old lady" turns out to be [[Broken Bird|Misa Hayase]].
* [[Macross Frontier]] second movie came with [[Word of God|Kawamori's]] promise to end the triangle. Alto confesses his love to {{spoiler|Sheryl Nome. They first met when they were very young, in Galaxy.}}
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*** It's not a subversion at all, he still met Yurika first. {{spoiler|Shortly after Akito meets her, Ai Boson Jumps 20 or so years into the past and becomes the the woman we see today through [[The Slow Path]].}}
* In ''[[Midori Days]]'', although Seiji had asked out another girl earlier, the first girl who was properly introduced was Midori, who of course (as this trope goes) wins out against the various other girls introduced later. Midori also had the advantage of being the title character.
* ''[[Naruto]]'' due to the ambiguity of the claim to the title of the first girl, has two main contenders; Sakura and Hinata. With Sakura being both the first to be introduced to the audiance and the first for the protagonist to show a romantic interest in, while Hinata is the first to show romantic feelings for the protagonist and the first to confess them as well. Neither has won yet, and the [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] continues.
* At least three possible interpretations in ''[[Omamori Himari]]'' - Kuesu was the first girl Yuuto kissed (when they were children), Rinko was the first girl Yuuto met when he moved out to live on his own, and Himari was the first girl to appear in the series. Right now it seems that the series is going in the direction of having Yuuto and Himari be the Official Couple.
* ''[[Please Teacher!]]'': Kazami Mizuho is introduced to the audience before Herikawa Koishi is, leading to her inevitable romantic pairing with Kusanagi Kei.
** Yeah, but Koishi was already Kei's classmate by the time the story starts. Should that count as a subversion then?
* ''[[
* In ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', Haruhi falls for the first Host guy she meets, {{spoiler|Tamaki}}.
* Averted in the manga ''[[Manga/Outanders|Outanders]]'' (the much-abriged OVA manages to avoid the subject altogether by paring down the cast and storyline considerably). The first girl that we're introduced to is [[Implied Love Interest|Aki Okizawa]], the coworker and boss of protagonist Tetsuya Wakatsuki, but he winds up marrying alien princess Kham—who tries to kill him when first they meet, later kidnaps him, and is finally won over by him...before being brainwashed into trying to once again kill him, by the [[Knight Templar Parent|most overprotective father in the universe]]. But even then Tetsuya remains faithful to her, rather than turning to another, less abusive member of his modestly-sized harem.
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Follows this trope pretty straight, Akane is the first fiancee introduced in the series, and serves as the primary love interest, and takes up the most
** Of course that wedding was forced on him when Soun Tendo bribed him into it by promising him Jusenkyo water if he married Akane so their planned wedding doesn't mean much.
* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', Misty is the first girl Red meets on his journey and the first girl who develops a crush on him. Unfortunately, this trope is subverted as she never gets the chance to properly confess to him.
* While there's no real confirmation of this in the show itself, it sure seems as though Lime wins out at the end of ''[[Saber Marionette J]]'', given that she seems to get the most attention from Otaru. Now... J to X, that's another story.
* Played with in ''[[School Days]]''. The first girl the audience sees is Kotonoha Katsura (better said, her photo in Makoto's cellphone), Sekai Saionji is the first girl we see him interact with, and Otome Katou is the first of all his possible love interests that he ever met (during junior high times; he only met the others in highschool).
**
* ''[[School Rumble]]'': By the end, it's obvious that Tenma's endless devotion to Karasuma has paid off, {{spoiler|even if he lost his memories.}}
* ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'': it's obvious from about the second episode that Nagasumi is dedicated to San.
* In ''[[Sorcerer Hunters]]'', Carrot met both Misu sisters at the same time, but Tira was the first sister introduced in the manga and the one Carrot marries at the end. This doesn't stop Chocolat, as she can be seen having snuck into their bed to be with Carrot after the marriage since she wants him to live up to his promise to let her bear his first child.
* ''[[Steel Angel Kurumi]]'': both Kurumi and Karinka like Kagura Nakaito, but Kurumi is introduced first (and has the extra advantage of being the title character).
* Somewhat averted in the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' OVA. While many fans remain firm in their insistence that Ryoko
** Played straight in the ''[[Tenchi Universe]]'' continuity:
** ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' takes this to new extremes, [[combining First Girl Wins]] with [[Tenchi Solution]] to produce "First Girls Win".
** See also [[Halfbreed]].
* There are two possible interpretations of first girl wins in ''[[To
* ''[[Toradora!]]'' is another prominent example for this trope as it seems obvious from the beginning that the main characters Ryuuji and Taiga, who are are introduced simultaneously in the first scenes of the show, later become a couple. Nevertheless, the way to that outcome is executed in such a wonderful and lovely manner that the show still won't be boring for anyone who does see it coming.
* ''[[True Tears]]'' has the main character choosing Hiromi at the end, who is the first girl introduced and the first girl he crosses paths with.
* ''[[Umi no Misaki]]'', by the same mangaka as ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi]]'', is still up in the air as to who "wins," and is doing its best to manipulate this trope for all it's worth. Each girl can count as a different "first" for Nagi: Shizuku is the first girl he meets, Karin is the first who realizes and confesses her feelings to him, and Soyogi is his [[First Kiss]] (not counting Shizuku giving him [[Clean Pretty Reliable|CPR]]) as well as the first to make further overtures towards gaining his "favor" in the same night. Each girl has roughly equal potential to win, at this point.
** This was lampshaded when Karin and Soyogi realize that Shizuku may have had a leg up on them because he met her first.▼
▲This was lampshaded when Karin and Soyogi realize that Shizuku may have had a leg up on them because he met her first.
* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', the first girl introduced is Shinobu, but Ataru ends up with Lum, which seems like a subversion... but Lum's popularity took the author by surprise and at the start of the series Shinobu ''was'' intended to be the girl Ataru ended up with.
** Not necessarily a subversion since Ataru and Lum's first meeting occurs during the [[Pilot]] and Ataru first met Shinobu before the series started.
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* ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam]]'': Fa ends up with Kamille, [[Kill'Em All|by virture of being the only love interest left alive.]] And only after he recovered from his [[Mind Rape]] at the end of the series in the [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|sequel.]]
* Played straight in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]''. Ma Renka tells Miu: "He only saw you first. That's all there is!".
* In [[
* Louise is the first person [[The Hero|Saito]] sees upon being summoned in ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* The Patterson children in ''For Better or Worse'' all seem destined to end up with the first person of the opposite sex they met in pre-school, which is a more extreme example of this trope. All but April. She gets a line or two in the finale strip that says she ends up with some nameless guy she meets when she moves far, far away from the rest of the family.
* Either played straight or averted for [[Superman]], depending on your point of view: Lois Lane appeared in ''Action Comics'' #1, so she was the first potential love interest for Clark introduced in the series, but it was later established that Clark had in his youth had Lana Lang as a potential love interest, before he met Lois.
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* In the movie adaptation of ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'', Peter has a crush on Mary Jane since long before boys are even supposed to like girls, and only ever looks at any other girl when he suddenly had the urge to hurt her (and even then only when he's been corrupted by an alien.)
** Played straight in the ''Ultimate'' comics where Peter and Mary Jane are childhood friends and fellow book worms.
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Jean]] was Scott's first love... until [[Heroic Sacrifice|she died]]. And then [[Back
** You can say she lost though, since she was actually his ''second'' wife. Even if [[Cloning Blues|his first wife was an identical clone of her...]]
* In ''[[Archie]]'', Betty was intended to be this, but usually on a day to day basis Veronica is his girlfriend and Betty just wants to be, and the days when Betty was Archie's sole love interest and Veronica hadn't yet come to town are unknown to modern readerships.
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* ''Tales of the Frog Princess'' fanfiction ''Confessions of a Vampire Prince''. {{spoiler|Garrid's two best friends are Andrea ("Andy") and Ben. Ben dates a girl named Miranda, oblivious to Andy's love for him. In the second-to-last chapter, Miranda dumps him. Guess who he ends up with.}}
== Film ==
* In ''[[Unicorn City]]'' Marsha is quite obvious from her first interaction with Voss.
* ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' - Jones has just managed this, also with a childhood friend. Well, anyway he knew her before we meet her.
* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (
* Averted in ''[[Scaramouche (film)|Scaramouche]]'', where Andre Moreau ends up married to the woman he met half an hour into the movie over the woman he was engaged to at the beginning. Interestingly, in the book the woman he married was a childhood friend while he was engaged to the other one for about six chapters (in a 50+ chapter work) somewhere in the middle.
* This trope is a staple of teen movies where the main character will spend the whole movie going after one girl because [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]], but ends up realizing his [[Hollywood Homely]] best friend is the girl for him. There are too many examples to list here.
** In ''The New Guy'', at the end the main character and his female friend have a close moment, complete with poetic music... Then she reaches over and snogs another of their group instead. Then the cheerleader comes back to him.
* Subverted several times in the ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' franchise. The major love interest can sometimes be the first woman (besides Miss Moneypenny or Judi Dench's "M") that Bond meets in the film, but because James is a such a womanizer, the first girl he meets will often be either a quick fling, or a quick fling that ends in the woman's untimely and bizarre death, ala {{spoiler|''[[Casino Royale]]'', [[
** In fact, this happens often enough that one might say that the Bond films tend to follow the [[Last Girl Wins]] trope rather faithfully.
* ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' {{spoiler|Averted as the original ending to the movie was Scott getting back together with Knives, but test audiences didn't approve.}}
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== Literature ==
* Arguably, this is a convention of just about any story which revolves around romance. During the opening chapter, the first character of preferred gender our protagonist meets and is attracted to is almost guaranteed to be the character s/he ends up with. (This might be First ''Boy'' Wins if the viewpoint character is female.)
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Despite Harry's notable [[Just Friends]] relationship with Hermione, his crush on and disastrous date with Cho Chang, his ''other'' disastrous not-date with Parvati Patil, and a school full of devoted fangirls, fans will note that [[Naive Everygirl|Ginny]] [[Action Girl|Weasley]], whom he ultimately fell in love with in ''The Half-Blood Prince,'' {{spoiler|and married, according to ''Deathly Hallows''}}, was the first Wizarding girl Harry ever crossed paths with in the series.
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* In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, {{spoiler|Annabeth is the first demigod female that Percy comes into contact with}} and they eventually get together {{spoiler|at the end of the fifth book}}, after a long Just Friends relationship.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Scrubs]]'': JD and Elliot met at the beginning of the series, and while technically both have dated other people before, Elliot is the first girl JD falls for and dated in the series. But it didn't work out so they moved on to other people. [[Will They or Won't They?|Until JD fell for Elliot again. So they hooked up again. Then JD realized he didn't love Elliot so they broke up again! Then two seasons later, oh wait, JD likes her again! So they start dating]] ''[[Will They or Won't They?|again]]''! Now that <s>the show's coming to a close</s> the show has ended, <s> it looks like this one will actually stick so maybe, just maybe</s> First Girl Wins after all. Yay!
** On a much smaller scale, it also happened with Dr Cox: the first woman he's seen with is his ex-wife, then he dates another one and a crush on Carla's revealed, but at the end (although it's still very early in the series) he picks Jordan (even though she was pregnant and he thought the kid wasn't his).
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* Played with in ''[[Glee]]''. Will's first girlfriend was his wife Terri. However, it isn't portrayed as a good thing, as they are in an unhappy marriage. However, Emma was the first romantic interest of Will seen.
* ''[[Lost]]'' this can be seen to an extent with {{spoiler|Kate/Jack, he ended up with her in the sense that they embraced death together. They were portrayed as soulmates. However, this is subverted when Juliet is proven to be Sawyer's soulmate.}}
* Played with in ''[[
* Josh and Donna of ''[[The West Wing]]'' are this trope to each other, finally getting together after a bunch of other relationships or potential relationships and [[Will They or Won't They?|seven seasons of buildup]].
* In ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', it's a First Boy Wins—despite dating other guys, literally creating room in her heart for her fiance, and nearly getting married, Sabrina winds up with Harvey, her first love.
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* A rather interesting gender-flipped subversion occurred in the Filipino series [[wikipedia:My Binondo Girl|My Binondo Girl]]. Onyx, the protagonist Jade's childhood friend, was the first to be introduced. [[Word of God]] also stated that the original plan was indeed to have them end together. However, as the actor playing Onyx was sidelined by sickness, the writers chose to focus instead on the Jade-Andy (the second guy to be introduced) pairing. Eventually, the Jade-Andy pairing was declared as the [[Official Couple]], and Onyx was turned into the [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] {{spoiler|and dies in the end.}}
== New
=== Online Role-playing ===
* Although any specific examples would probably best be left to [[Troper Tales]], most roleplaying communities tend to fall to this for different reasons. Players are excited to get their characters involved in as many ways as possible, so they tend to fall for the first reasonably aged, unattached person of the opposite (or in some cases same) gender they see. Since breakups rarely happen in these games unless preplanned, they tend to last the long haul.
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* Taken to an extreme in ''[[The Tempest]]'': Ferdinand is the first male (not counting [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|the monster Caliban]] or her father) Miranda has ever ''seen''. She instantly falls madly in love with him.
* In ''[[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'', Proteus ends up returning to his first love Julia, after having spent most of the play pursuing Sylvia.
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* In the ''[[Dark Parables]]'' games, Prince James {{spoiler|(a.k.a. [[The Frog Prince]])}} is immortal, and marries five princesses. But Princess Ivy, his first wife, remains his very obvious favorite.
=== Visual Novels ===
* In ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', there are three potential winners, each of whom can be seen as the First Girl. Sakura is the first girl introduced in the main storyline and also the first girl to show obvious interest in Shirou (who is, of course, completely oblivious to it), Rin is the first female character introduced and the first we get to see interact with Shirou because the prologue is from her point of view, and Saber is the first girl seen on-screen and heard as the second image in the Novel is of her.
** Sakura is the girl Shirou first met as well (in the backstory). She's also the one Nasu always supported as his main love interest (even if Saber is more popular).
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** [[Key Visual Arts]] did the same thing in ''[[AIR]]'', except the first girl Yukito meets ''does'' turn out to be the same girl that the prologue talks about. (Not the narrator, though, considering she's a) his mother, b) the reincarnation of his ancestor, c) dead.)
*** It's quite ironic to talk about "winning" in this case though, considering how the story unfolds.
** It's played [[anvilicious]]ly straight in ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' with Nagisa, however.
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'': Quite a few female characters could possibly qualify as the "first girl" by some definition, but this title officially goes to Arcueid, who is the first girl [[First Installment Wins|whose story you see]] and Shiki meeting her starts the first plot.
* In ''[[Frozen Essence]]'', the first attainable character Mina meets is Rune, whose path is the only one that has a possible "True End", so he appears to fit this trope as well as a [[Dating Sim]] character can. {{spoiler|...Unless you remember that Mina actually met the Oracle ''before'' Rune, and find out how to unlock his path which reveals that he's actually Mina's childhood friend who met her ''long'' before any other character in the game did.}}
* In ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', you can make cases for both [[Meganekko|Shizune]] and [[Fragile Flower|Hanako]] as this for Hisao. On one hand, Shizune is the first of the five choose-able girls that addresses you directly (sorta, she's deaf/mute). On the other, when Hisao comes into the classroom, the first of the girls that he pays attention to is Hanako, due to [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|the scars on her body]].
▲== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Misfile]]'' is approaching this trope with all the subtlety of a berserk elephant.
* ''[[Coga Suro]]'': Yeah, Steve and Jane end up married with kids. Who saw that coming?
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== Web Original ==
* Stefan 'Twoflower' Gagne's "[[Unreal Estate]]" uses this: the first girl's house falls on him while he's still on Grunwald. Nevertheless, possibly to obfuscate the first girl winning, the main character manages to run into each of the girls before finding himself in the 'harem', a la ''[[Ai Kora]]''. Though it's technically not a harem comdedy towards the end.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' had interests in [[Loves My Alter Ego|Paulina]] and [[Dating Catwoman|Valerie]], but [[Perky Goth|Sam]] was the first girl.
* ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'': The girl in question was brought back in the [[Grand Finale]], and is implied to rekindle her relationship with Jake.
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** Meanwhile, [[Anti-Villain|Zuko]] and [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Mai]] used to be friends since they were children, and despite Zuko's one date with one another girl while in exile, they become a couple again as soon as he's un-exiled, are separated when Mai gets herself imprisoned for treason while saving Zuko's life, and happily reunite in the series finale.
** And then of course there's the two main characters [[Kid Hero|Aang]] and [[The Chick|Katara]]. She had never met a boy her own age before who wasn't her brother, while her face was actually the first thing he saw after being frozen for a century, and they likewise hook up by the end of the show (despite the [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|many, many.....MANY]] other boys vying for Katara's affection, in canon or [[Fanon]]).
* It was [[Word of God|revealed by the creator]] of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' that, had the planned second movie (''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130620190040/http://heyarnold.wikia.com/wiki/The_Jungle_Movie The Jungle Movie]'') been made, Arnold would have finally recognized his feelings for Helga and they would have dated for years before he moved away in the also-planned [[Spin-Off]] ''[http://heyarnold.wikia.com/wiki/The_Patakis The Patakis]''. It's worth noting that Helga was the first girl from their class that Arnold met when they were 3 years old. (During the series, he crushed on Ruth, then Lila and Summer. He lost his crushes on all three sometime during the course of the series.)
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Leela is the first girl Fry meets after defrosting in the future.
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'': Despite a couple of flings with [[Dating Catwoman|Melanie/Ten]], a few [[Girl of the Week|Girls Of The Week]], and a questionable [[Just Friends]] relationship with his [[Secret Keeper]]/Sidekick Wannabe Max, The [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]] confirmed that Terry seals the deal with Dana, his first girlfriend, who he's implied to have dated since they were [[Victorious Childhood Friend|fourteen]].
* ''[[The Fairly
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