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Runs heavy on [[Rule of Romantic]].
Sub-tropes include [[Serenade Your Lover]], [[Flower From the Mountaintop]], [[
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
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** Mulder's after-dark baseball lesson could count, too. For most couples, this would simply be a cute date. But given that his and Scully's relationship moves ''slower'' than a snail's pace and usually takes two steps forward and one step back, this is a pretty gutsy and grand gesture on his part.
* In ''[[Coupling]]'' Patrick tries to tell Sally that he loves her (and buggers it up, but it's not like he's got much practice at that sort of thing), then, having bought out the entire pub for the evening, plays the Spiderman theme [[Crowning Moment of Funny|with his two best friends dancing to it. In costume.]] Sounds odd, except that he and Sally had their first kiss to the Spiderman theme.
* [[Subverted]] in the episode "Sweet Dreams" of ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'' in which Prince Arthur is put under a spell to fall in love with the spoilt princess Vivian. He wakes up with the desire to woo her with increasingly elaborate measures, ranging from taking her a roast chicken to scaling the castle wall at night to reach her bedroom and finally fighting a duel to the death with her father. When the spell wears off due to a [[
** Played straight when Arthur proposes to Guinevere by candlelight. He's filled her wooden house with lit candles in what is quite frankly a terrifying fire hazard.
* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', [[Action Girl|River Song]] threatens to unravel all of time and reality by stalling The Doctor's death... to build a distress beacon that calls out to every point in time and space. {{spoiler|She couldn't allow the Doctor to die without knowing how much he is loved, by a million ''million'' people throughout all of creation... and by [[Love Confession|none moreso than her.]] }}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Magical Diary]]'' sees Damien (if you pick his path) writing you offers of anything he can think of that you might want. This includes [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|jewels, silk dresses, a seat in the government, and world conquest or the death of your enemies]]. He later apologizes for the last one, musing that it would probably be wrong - unless you wanted him to, of course, but he admits that he doesn't actually know how to be 'good'. "But for you, I would try." Possibly just played with, in that the game (as it currently stands) does not let you see if he would actually go through with any of this.
{{quote| '''Mary Sue''': I bet he'd kill people for me, if I asked him to! ...oh ''dear''. He probably would, too.}}
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