I Will Wait for You: Difference between revisions

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'Til I hear you sigh here in my arms |''Les Parapluies de Cherbourg'' }}

* The "turned to stone" variant is featured as a local legend in an episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' called "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak." The stone girl's spirit is also said to haunt the area.

** The trope is lampshaded and defied by Jessie in reference to said ghost.

** Done again in another episode with a Ninetales (kitsune Pokemon who can reach 1000 years of age) who spent hundreds of years waiting for its master to return.

* Alpha in ''[[Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou]]'' is ''still'' waiting for her owner to return at the end of the series {{spoiler|when humanity goes extinct.}}

* [[Windaria]] Juilet to her lover and the promise has prevented her from 'achieving enlightenment' and passing on. {{spoiler|She passes after giving Alan some words of wisdom.}} Marie too.

* This was {{spoiler|Chiaki and Makoto}}'s promise at the end of ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]''.

{{spoiler|Makoto}}: "Okay. I won't be long. I'll come running." }}

* [[Mahou Sensei Negima]] has {{spoiler|Ayaka}} as a ([[Les Yay|probably]]) platonic version of this with {{spoiler|[[Rip Van Winkle|Asuna]]}}, waiting and clinging to life until she was 115- the year when the person in question was scheduled to come back. {{spoiler|But she didn't, and by the time she finally got there thirty years after, it was too late. Naturally, once the poor girl ''did'' wake up and learn that Ayaka had waited ''that'' long for her, she broke down in tears.}}

== [[Film]] ==

* The classic French musical ''Les Parapluies de Cherbourg'' centers around this when the man goes off to war for two years, and she promises to wait for him, even if it takes forever--until the woman (played by Catherine Deneuve) discovers that she's pregnant with his child and marries someone else in act III just four months later. Unlike in American films of this type, they never get back together, not even briefly.

** This film is sort of indirectly the [[Trope Namer]] - the main musical theme was also adapted into an English song with this title.

* ''Dear Friend'' by [[Charlie Peacock]], where the bride has been waiting for many years for her groom to return, and people around her laugh at her for it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi2kzSCC44E Video]

* The rock opera ''She'' (based on the novel of the same name). The titular character, seeing her lover fall for another woman, kills him in a fit of rage and jealousy. After realising what she has done, she nearly commits suicide - until learning of a magical fire that can grant her eternal life, which she uses to wait for him to return, reincarnated. Two thousand years later, he arrives in the form of an English explorer. {{spoiler|In the end, when She dies by bathing in the magical flame a second time, her reincarnated lover decides that it is his turn to wait, and bathes in the flames to become immortal and wait for her to return...}}

Wait beyond eternity for me... }}

* [[Scissor Sisters]]' Other Side is about waiting for someone [[Together in Death|from beyond the veil]]:

On the other side...]] }}

* ''In The Hills of Shiloh'' is a haunting ballad of a woman waiting in her bridal gown for her beloved to return to her, running up and down the hills, written by [[Shel Silverstein]].