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== Films -- Live Action ==
* A good candidate for [[Trope Codifier]] would be ''[[The Sandlot]]''. One of the boys, Squints, tries to fake drowning at the community pool to get a shot at kissing an older girl who's working as the lifeguard. Not only does he pull it off, but in the narrator's epilogue, we find out that he eventually ''marries'' her.
** The narrator mentions they were banned from the pool for life, and about that time they pass by the pool and the lifeguard gives Squints a flirty wave. So...I guess she sortof liked it.
* 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]].
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** He also pukes all over Denise after the CPR, at least partially thwarting [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]].
* In ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)]]'', 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.
* In the [[Legend of the Seeker]], the Mord-Sith's Kiss of Life becomes a staple strategy for just about everything the protagonists need to do. While it does show up in the original work ([[Sword of Truth]]) exactly as portrayed, the adaptation does it significantly more frequently. But then, as the director, would you ever pass up a chance to watch Tabrett Bethel kiss someone?
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* Averted many times in the City Watch stories of the ''[[Discworld]]'' series, when the Watch are trained in the Kiss of Life and Nobby seems the most eager to practice it at every opportunity -- he never gets the chance. Generally because as soon as he even mentions the possibility, most people suddenly find themselves feeling a lot better, really, that won't be necessary at all, bye now.
* [[Torture Technician|Mord-Sith]] in the [[Sword of Truth]] have the "Kiss of Life", where a recently-dead victim with their trachea and lungs intact can be revived. It's never explained how. Made fairly squicky because usually it's used so that the Mord-Sith can ''kill and revive their torture victims over and over''. Yeah. They are not fun people.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has two types. The Ironmen, who worship the Drowned God and practice a type of baptism in which the subject is drowned, have developed a crude form of CPR called the Kiss of Life to revive each other. The death rites for followers of R'hllor include a kiss on the lips of the deceased, which starts to occasionally bring certain people back to life.
* From ''Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim'', David Sedaris relates a story of when his brother was drowning:
{{quote|"I headed back in his direction, trying to recall the water safety class I'd taken at the country club...all that came to me was the instructor, an athletic seventeen year old named Chip Pancake. I remembered the spray of freckles on his broad, bronzed shoulders, and my small rush of hope as he searched the assembled students for a resuscitation victim...and the crushing disappointment I'd felt when Chip selected Kimberly Matthews, who would later describe the experience as 'lifechanging.'"}}
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* In one later episode of [[Stargate SG-1]], someone who ''really'' should be more mature freaks out when he might have to give mouth-to-mouth to General Hammond, and is profoundly relieved when he wakes up on his own. (The force of head-to-wall contact prevents me from [[Easy Amnesia|remembering any more details]].)
** Likely a great part of the discomfort comes from the fact that this is his superior he's being forced to kiss.
* In [[Quantum Leap]] episode "Moments to Live", Sam leaped into a doctor who was in an operating room just as soon as the heartbeat monitor stops. When accused by the patient that he killed her, he tries CPR, which becomes a literal kiss of life. The producer watching the scene announced cut, revealing that Sam actually leaped into an actor.
* The doctor was trying to trick Divya in ''[[Royal Pains]]'' into doing this.
* In the season two episode "Single Stamina" of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', this is shown as an example of how Barney and his brother James work in tandem to pick up: James pretends to have passed out, while Barney frantically asks nearby men if they know mouth-to-mouth, and even turns down one man for not being good-looking enough.
* In ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', Talisa recounts how a slave from a fishing ship resuscitated her brother from drowining using CPR, causing her to pursue a life of medicine and turn her back on slavery.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Magellan]]'', [[Badass Normal]] Kaycee Jones is teamed with [[Half-Human Hybrid]] Fatima, who is half squid and an [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] because she doesn't have experience with human quirks. They have to dive to the bottom of a pool with no time for Kaycee to don scuba gear, so Fatima gives her air by [http://magellanverse.com/?p=737 kissing her and exhaling]. The guys on other teams ''definitely'' [http://magellanverse.com/?p=741 notice].
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', {{spoiler|Sollux}} gets killed by the [[Brown Note|Vast Glub]] when he stays behind to get Feferi into the Medium first. She repays him by bringing him back to life this way. However, instead of reviving his actual body, it wakes up his dream self. {{spoiler|Or rather, dream ''selves''.}}
** As it turns out, all princes and princesses of Prospit and Derse (or, in other words, all Sburb/Sgrub players) have this ability. Tavros attempts it on {{spoiler|Vriska, but her Dream-Self stops it just before it happens, having other plans.}} Karkat and Terezi also attempt it on {{spoiler|Kanaya and Tavros}}, respectively. {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real|The latter doesn't work]], but turns out Kanaya is [[Our Vampires Are Different|a special case]].}}
*** And more recently attempted on {{spoiler|Rose and Dave, with more success}}.
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