Kiss of Life: Difference between revisions

'''Kuzco:''' Well, ''whatever'' you call it, it was ''disgusting!'' And if you'd done what I ordered you to do in the first place, we all could have been spared your little ''kiss of life''.|''[[The Emperor's New Groove (Disney)|The Emperors New Groove]]''}}

 

 

Distinct from [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|Dude, She's, Like, In A Coma]] in that the rescuer isn't actually attempting to ''really'' kiss the rescuee. See also [[Indirect Kiss]] and [[Intimate Healing]]. Sometimes doubled up with some CPR for extra drama.

In several cases, a character will fake drowning, in an attempt to get an opportunity to kiss a certain someone. Usually, they'll either mess it up and actually come close to drowning, or wind up with the "wrong" person trying to resucitate them. In real life, this would never work. Lifeguards and other people trained in CPR are trained to look for signs of breathing before they ever begin. Further more, most carry a "Breath Barrier" which is designed to prevent the transfer of bodily liquids that could contain pathogens. Finally, if you are so determined to get that kiss that you legitimately stop breathing, well, [[Too Dumb to Live|we have tropes for that too.]]

 

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* In the first chapter of ''[[Pink Innocent]]'', when Renji comes to save Kokona from a burning apartment, she, swooning, asks him to perform CPR on her. His response is simply a deadpan "I see you're fine."

* This is exactly how Takuto, having washed up on a beach, meets Sugata and Wako (the latter actually carrying out the resuscitation) in the first episode of ''[[Star Driver]]''.

 

 

* Played with in the movie ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'': after Amy nearly drowns, Russ performs artificial respiration. It's played straight and not sexualized - but not long after Amy has revived, her little brother Nick asks Russ where he learned how to do that. Russ replies, "French class", a reference revisited at the very end of the movie when Nick [[Late to The Punchline|finally gets the joke]].

* In ''[[Hot Rod]]'', after Rod nearly drowns during his training, Denise uses CPR on him, which he is informed of later. He asks his stepbrother Kevin if it looked like they were making out, and Kevin tells him it did, a little. Rod's response: "Awesome."

* In ''[[Robin Hood 2010]]'', after Marion has been knocked out by the [[Big Bad]]. Starts out as this - but once her arm comes up around his neck, all bets are off and it just turns into a snogging session. In the middle of a battle.

* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119809/ Nowhere]'' - Dingbat has a crush on Ducky, and tries to kiss him at one point, only to chip his tooth with her braces. He tries to drown himself in the pool. So she pulls him out and needs only to breathe into his mouth once in order to save him.

* At the end of the first season finale in ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'', {{spoiler|Gwen kissed Jack after his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and he awakened. He may have just revived under his own power, though as he awoke, the first thing he said was thanking Gwen}}.

** Jack does this in an earlier episode, to {{spoiler|Ianto}}, who had just been attacked by {{spoiler|Lisa. Lisa is a half-converted cyberwoman, and the method of attack she used on Ianto is lethal. Jack had already died at least once as a result. Thus, we can assume that Jack actually ''brought Ianto back from the dead.''}}

* Like the ''Sword of Truth'' example above, this was retained in ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'', except in the TV series, the Kiss of Life is explicitly magical, which is good considering the first time it's used is to revive someone who was killed via sword-through-the-gut.

* ''[[Eureka]]'' uses this in the episode "Shower to the People," when Tess's lungs are filling with irradiated expanding artificial water that got into her bloodstream, Sheriff Carter uses the [[Kiss of Life]] to bring her back, and then to keep her alive for several minutes. He even quips that it's "...not how I imagined our first kiss."

* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': In episode "Marabounta", Ulrich almost drowns at the pool after belly-flopping in the water. It is unclear whether he's hoping for Yumi to give him mouth-to-mouth afterward (he does blink, but seems still out of it). Unfortunately, it's Jim Moralès who does save him.

** Repeat incident in "The Lake", where Jim almost gives mouth-to-mouth to Suzanne Hertz... but she wakes up before his lips can make contact, threatening him with his life if he gets closer.

* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' provides an example where Johnny attempts to save a drowning person at the beach to impress girls. His rescue attempt fails miserably and he ends up needing to be rescued. Seeing no other option, Johnny's annoying, nerdy "friend," Carl, administers the kiss of life. Johnny regains consciousness, freaks out and rushes to the ocean to wash out his mouth with salt water, knocking the person he initially tried to save out of his way and back into the ocean. Also Carl gets the girls.

* Attempted in episode 15 of ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]'', with Sadlygrove on an unconscious Evangelyne. But Eva wakes up a split-second before the kiss, and instead gives Grovy a faceful of jellyfish.

** Later in season 2 he does this for real, played more for drama.

* Done on ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' for an in-universe television show where Arnold and Helga win a sand castle contest and get to be on the show. Arnold is playing a boy who's drowning and gets rescued by the life guards, however, Helga pushes them aside and goes straight for the kill... I mean, kiss of life. However she turns it into a kiss rather than just mouth-to-mouth ressucitation.

 

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