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{{quote|'''Itoshiki:''' You could even say that relationships in high school are a preview of love, for when you seriously fall in love!... I think I just said something smart.
'''Abiru Kobushi:''' No, not really.
'''Itoshiki:''' Oh. Yet high schoolers these days skip the preview and go straight for the real thing!... I think I ''really'' said something smart this time.|''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
{{quote|'''Lincoln:''' I don't want to exaggerate the significance of that, but we're going to be together forever.
'''JFK:''' Come on, she's drunk.|''[[Clone High]]''}}
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See also the [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]], who may have ''thought'' things were going to go this way...or the [[Victorious Childhood Friend]], who didn't bother to wait until high school.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Gohan and Videl in ''[[
** And their first non-school interaction was her chasing him down in a helicopter for having saved a busload of people in his superhero identity.
* In the ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' manga, the sweethearts {{spoiler|are bound by the "fate-gene" and will both die when one of them stops loving the other}}. Add this to the fact that they are still very young ''and'' [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|of the same gender]] in a fairly homophobic society and you have a situation which might complicate their future lives considerably.
* Akane and Kazuya in ''[[
* Yumi and Sachiko from ''[[
* ''[[Ranma
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' perpetrated the [[Because Destiny Says So]] version of the trope with Mamoru and Usagi, but mostly averted it otherwise.
* ''[[
* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]''. This even extended to Ichigo's parents, who themselves met in junior high.
* The manga ''[[Ultra Maniac]]'' includes not one but ''three'' couples who pair up in junior high, and are still strongly together at the end of high school, suggesting a [[Happily Ever After]] for all of them.
* [[Tiger and Bunny]]'s first [[All There in the Manual|Drama CD]] implies that Kotetsu married {{spoiler|Tomoe Amamiya, a superhero fan from his high school class who helped him come up with his eventual superhero codename}}.
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* Pretty much every teenage movie ever made that wasn't meant to appeal to oversexed teenage dudes. And even some that ''are''.
* In ''[[Back to The Future]]'', Lorraine states that she knew she would spend the rest of her life with George McFly after they kissed at the [[High School Dance]]. Depending which timeline you're using, this is one week or less after she ''met'' him. There may be a slight subversion, though, as in the original timeline, the marriage was less than perfect.
** The main character, Marty, also has this relationship with his girlfriend,
* Troy and Gabriella qualify in ''[[High School Musical]]'', with Troy even picking a college for no other reason than that it's near the one Gabriella is going to.
* Brutally parodied by ''[[Not Another Teen Movie]]''. Jake spends much of the film trying to get together with Janey. At the end, she debates whether she should go off to an art school in Paris. Jake starts to convince her not to go, then he realizes the problems with this trope:
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* In ''[[Se7en]]'', Bradd Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow are a married couple who were high school sweethearts. Morgan Freeman [[Lampshade Hanging|comments]] on how rare that is.
* The ultimate fate of {{spoiler|Jenna and Matt}} in ''[[
== Literature ==
* Almost all the main couples in [[Jodi Picoult]]'s books. They may not still be together, but they did(or will) get married.
* Several from the [[Harry Potter]] books. {{spoiler|Ron and Hermione. Ginny and Harry. Possibly Angelina and George, and Neville and Hannah, though we/Harry don't see them dating.}} Subverted with {{spoiler|Percy Penelope - Percy marries a woman named Audrey who wasn't in the books - and Draco and Pansy - Draco marries classmate Daphne Greengrass' younger sister, Astoria.}}
** Memorable is an exchange between Molly Weasley and Ginny Weasley, which boils down to Molly complaining about people eloping, and Ginny mentioning that Molly was one of them. Molly replies that she and Arthur knew they were meant for each other, so why wait?
** Bill and Fleur met when Fleur was in high school (graduating that year) and Bill was already working. It's averted with Lupin and Tonks, who got together after knowing each other while in the Order, and {{spoiler|[[Cloudcuckoolander|Luna Lovegood]] and Rolf Scamander, who got together later in life as wizarding naturalists. She is the only character of the main cast's age who does ''not'' marry her high-school sweetheart, or even someone known in the school. Rolf is the grandson of ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'''s author Newt Scamander, but he does not appear in the books.}}
** {{spoiler|James Potter and Lily Evans began dating when they were in seventh year and went on to get married.}}
* Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from ''[[Twilight (
* Averted in ''[[Betsy Tacy]]''. Despite the large Crowd and multiple love affairs, very few characters end up marrying their high school sweetheart, and instead marry someone they met after graduation.
== Live Action TV ==
* Zach and Kelly on ''[[Saved
* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', which actually started in ''Elementary'' School. Though to be fair, Cory considered her a freak back then, and he didn't really like her until about Middle School.
** Later [[
* This did not work out well for Will Schuester in ''[[Glee]]''. In fact, one might even call it a [[Deconstruction]].
** Quinn plans for her and Finn to end up like that.
** This is a source of tension whenever Finn and Rachel get together. She has big plans and wants to leave town after graduation. Finn does not know whether he will want to leave with her.
** Kurt and Blaine are implied to end up this way - Blaine calls Kurt the [[One True Love|love of his life]] in "Dance With Somebody", and their tension comes not from wanting different things - they both want to end up in New York - but with how they will deal with their year apart since Blaine is a year behind Kurt in school.
* Bob and Amy Duncan in the [[Disney Channel]] original series ''[[Good Luck Charlie]]''. Bob played basketball; Amy was the mascot.
* Al and Peggy from ''[[Married...
* Strongly implied to be the fate of Naomi and Emily in ''[[Skins]]''. Very much averted with the earlier Tony and Michelle though, who realise that they had great times together but now they're going to different universities.
** [[Word of God]] states Emily and Naomi eventually even got married.
* Jenna's parents on ''[[Awkward (TV series)|Awkward]]'' who married at a young age following the [[Teen Pregnancy]] that resulted in Jenna.
* Marshall and Lily on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' ''barely'' escape this trope (they've been together since the first day of college). However, Lily's actual high school sweetheart, Scooter, is convinced he and Lily are this trope, and fifteen years later, he's ''still'' in love with her and chasing after her, trying to cajole her into leaving Marshall. One wonders why she hasn't slapped him with a restraining order yet...
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' had Elizabeth and [[
** Averted with the youngest Patterson, April: the Strip of Destiny revealed she'd moved away and had hooked up with an unnamed "country boy". Prior to this, however, the strip had teased the idea of her ending up with her childhood friend Gerald.
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* Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable in ''[[Kim Possible]]''. They were Best Friends since Pre-K but became an [[Official Couple]] at the Junior Prom.
** The final season of the show, their Senior Year, had an episode that actually tackled the "fall in love in High School, but what about College?" issue. Ron, who applies everywhere on the off chance of getting in anywhere, stresses over the fact that it's unlikely he'll wind up at the same college as Kim, who can attend just about any school in the world.
* On ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Hank and Peggy, Bill and Lenore (before she crushed him in the divorce), and Dale and Nancy are this. And while Nancy does have an affair with John Redcorn for several years, its hard to understand how someone as odd as Dale got with her in the first place.
* Homer and Marge from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', [[Official Couple|Terry and his long-time on/off girlfriend]], become this in the [[Justice League Unlimited|JLU]], fully absorbed finale episode, "Epilogue", when Terry decides he's going to propose to her at the end of the episode.
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