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== [[Film]] ==
* In the film ''[[Five Hundred500 Days of Summer (Film)|Five Hundred Days of Summer]]'' this leans heavily on the positive end of the [[Second Love]] idea, where boy finds girl. Boy falls head over heels for girl. Girl breaks up with boy. Boy is heartbroken because he has failed to win his [[First Love]], but he recovers once he realises that the [[Second Love]] is not only better but that fate had had a hand in getting them together, and they live happily ever after.
* ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]''. Jack Spade's mother Belle was once in love with John Slade and almost married him. They broke up because he spent so much time fighting crime, and she married the man who became Jack's father. Near the end of the movie she falls in love with John Slade again.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Given the quote above, this trope is referenced in one of the [[American Girls Collection]] of stories, this one being Josefina's, whose [[Missing Mom|mother has died]] before the series began, and it turns out the poem was a favorite of hers, even though she could not read, although the reader is allowed to infer that Josefina's papa read it to her mother, and their relationship was very close, as it takes Josefina's father some time to grow to [[Second Love|love her aunt, Tia' Dolores]].
* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables (Literature)|Anne of Green Gables]]'', Anne Shirley was always Gilbert Blythe's [[First Love]] since that moment she cracked a slate over his head, and he faithfully waited for years for her, hoping she would realise his love.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Harry and Cho Chang. Although it was not so much love as a crush that got ''really'' complicated. On the flipside, Harry was ''Ginny's'' [[First Love]], and he even ends up with her when the series concludes in a triumphant case of [[First Girl Wins]]. Also in [[Harry Potter]], there is the example of Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, who dated other people before getting together. They just really only loved each other, as the other relationships were shallow or to make the other jealous.
* ''[[Bridge to Terabithia]]'': in this [[Tear Jerker]] of a novel, this trope is subtly implied with the friendship between Jess and his friend Leslie, a girl who introduces him to the titular Terabithia, and this variety of the "special, sweet, innocent" type of first love, on both Jess and Leslie's parts, as Jess realises it was not his teacher he was really in love with, but Leslie, thus her death hits him hard.
* In the [[Casson Family Series]], Rose Casson's [[First Love]] has always been American [[First Girl Wins|boy]] Tom Levin, and fans are waiting eagerly to see the long-anticipated [[Relationship Upgrade|resolution]] to their relationship.
* In [[Charles Dickens (Creator)|Charles Dickens]]' novel ''[[David Copperfield]]'', this is an important element, used both ways, {{spoiler|since David marries his first love, Dora, only to realise that they are not well-suited. He loves her but she can't be a partner to him. Upon her death, he marries Agnes, who considered ''him'' to be her first love, and who had loved him the whole time. A rare case of both the unhappy [[First Love]] type and the triumphant [[First Love]] type, for Agnes, who ultimately ends up marrying David - in one story}}.
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Harry's [[First Love]] was Elaine Lillian Mallory, a fellow apprentice of a wizard he learned dark magic from. Given Harry's [[Cartwright Curse|luck with women, or lack thereof]], it ended somewhat badly, and when she reappears in a later novel, Harry is feels pangs when he sees her again.
* An important element in the novels of [[Jane Austen (Creator)|Jane Austen]], who uses the [[First Love]] trope often under the role of [[Wrong Guy First]], and her examples are as follows: In ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'', Lizzie is infatuated with Wickham before she eventually realising that he is not a decent person and that Darcy, a man she scorned, is a true gentleman. The concept of the first love is also humorously undermined when Mr Collins rapidly transfers his affections from Jane to Lizzie to Charlotte Lucas. In ''[[Sense and Sensibility (Literaturenovel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', Marianne has to move past Willoughby before appreciating the worth of Colonel Brandon. Prior to the story beginning, Edward Ferrars has imprudently gotten engaged to Lucy Steele, which prevents him from courting Eleanor. These are all examples of First Loves going wrong, but Austen also has a few examples among her repertoire of [[First Love]] turning out right: In ''[[Persuasion]]'', Anne's early romance with Captain Wentworth had been scuttled by her family, but she never forgot him. Their paths cross again years later and she has to watch him court others before eventually winning him back. In ''[[Emma]]'', Emma thinks she's in love with Frank Churchill, but when she discovers her true feelings for another she realises she never really loved Frank. Meanwhile, she persuades Harriet that her first love wasn't good enough for her, so Harriet sets her sights on various unobtainable men before gratefully accepting her first love's proposal again. In ''[[Mansfield Park]]'', Edmund has to burned by Mary Crawford before he recognises Fanny's worth and Fanny is almost tempted away from Edmund, her first love, but Edmund's brother Henry.
* [[Georgette Heyer]] uses this trope several times in her novels. One notable example is ''[[Bath Tangle]]'' in which one main character has to recognise the shallowness of her attachment to her [[First Love]] before accepting a match with [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|an antagonistic friend.]] The issue of [[First Love]] versus [[Second Love]] is even more seriously in ''A Civil Contract,'' in which the main character is unable to marry his [[First Love]], but ultimately develops a deeper (if less passionate) emotional bond with the wife he married for her fortune.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[I CarlyICarly]]'', Freddie Benson's first crush and his first love will always be Carly Shay, and he is so sincere in this that he has told her that he will be her second husband if necessary, implying that he will always stay true to his [[First Love]].
* In ''[[Glee]]'', Finn is Rachel's First Love, while Quinn is Finn's First Love. Cheating, breakups, hypocrisy, [[Dating Do-Si-Do]] and [[Relationship Writing Fumble]] ensue... [[Handwaved]] with the phrase "You can forgive your [[First Love]] anything".
* In ''[[Wild Palms]]'', Paige Katz is Harry's first love from college. His wife, Gracie, is of course suspicious when Paige and Harry become close again after years apart.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Buffy and Angel: Angel never really loved anyone before, being a drunken wastrel when he was alive and demon after his death. Buffy never loved anyone before, as she was fifteen when they met, and never truly loved anyone after because of the connection she had made with Angel.
* Lancelot was Guinevere's first love, and is explicitly identified as such on ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''.
* Will was Ingrid's first love on ''[[Young Dracula]]'', he's also pretty much the first person to get to know her properly {{spoiler|Ingrid even has fond memories of him four years after his death}} She even refers to him as the closest thing she could get to a soulmate.
 
 
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Justin Bieber (Music)|Justin Bieber]]: "My first love broke my heart for the first time, and I was like BABY BAY BAY OH"
* [[Lampshade Hanging|"The First Cut is the Deepest"]] by Sheryl Crow is all about this trope.
** [[Covered Up|You mean by Cat Stevens.]]
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