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{{trope}}
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{{quote|<poem>''Watching through windows,''
''You're wondering if I'm okay.''</poem>|'''Cyndi Lauper''', "Time After Time"}}
Bob has feelings for Alice,<ref>(Though gender reversals are commonplace)</ref>
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Of course, this may also indicate less than noble love when Bob is a [[Stalker with a Crush]]. Usually his expression will be [[Green-Eyed Monster|envious]] or darker, or he might look more intensely than he should. In either case, if caught and Alice (or Charlie) asks why and for how long he's been looking, Bob will either deny the accusation or answer with "I wasn't looking at you, [[Tsundere|idiot!]] I was just distracted" or the like.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' brings us a particularly disturbing example, [[Yandere|Yuno Gasai]]'s intoxicated expression as she promises to "protect" the main character, Yuuki, is known as the "[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mirai-nikki-yandere-face-%E2%80%9Cecstatic-yandere-pose%E2%80%9D-%E6%81%8D%E6%83%9A%E3%81%AE%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%AC%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA Yandere Trance]", which has since reached [[Memetic Mutation]] status.
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' has both Syaoran and Tomoyo give these to Sakura.
* Hinata to [[Naruto]]. Constantly.
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* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' most of the characters have actually been caught ''by'' their romantic interest with looks of this, in both directions, sometimes they've actually been prompted by said interest. Save for Ayumu, none of them have had the nerve to actually confess though, so their lack of romantic knowledge ends up with it just being played for [[UST]].
** Actually, Ayumu is only the first (and she did so twice) of three to have confessed, Athena (though she then 'rejected' him, and then denied it as Alice) and Luca have as well (although Luca confessed to Hayate under the impression that he was female and added the condition that 'if he were a guy'). Hayate is just to clueless to have picked up on any of them.
** Hinagiku and Hayate have
* In ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]] 2.0'', Shinji does this to Rei a few times. There is even one instance when the situation is reversed: when Asuka is verbally murdering Shinji for forgetting their lunches, Rei is glancing at him above her shoulders. [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Rei]] [[Extreme Doormat|being]] [[Emotionless Girl|Rei]], this is highly unusual.
* Yusaku Godai of ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' does this to Kyoko a
* Chi gives this to Hideki a ''lot'' throughout ''[[Chobits]]'', {{spoiler|and so did Freya towards her creator/father Ichiro. Hideki even immediately recognizes the look when Chitose shows him the video}}.
== Fan Works ==
* A particularly melancholy version can be found in the fic ''Harry Potter and the Marriage Contracts'' by Clell65619. A while after Tonks breaks up with him, Remus Lupin finds himself lurking outside her apartment in the rain, hoping to catch a glimpse of her through the window. At least until a couple of beat cops show up and tell him it's both creepy and borderline stalker behavior and that he should go home.
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** Ditto for the BBC 1995 miniseries, where at least half of all of Darcy's scenes feature him gazing soulfully at Elizabeth when she's not looking.
* In ''[[The Searchers]]'', a couple of very long exchanged glances are the audience's only clue of Ethan and Martha's feelings for each other.
* In ''[[Harry Potter
** One notable example: In the scene where the
== Literature ==
* ''[[Harry Potter
** Kid!Snape watches Kid!Lily and her sister play this way.
*** The Snape moment with little Lily and Petunia ''was'' still a cute moment, despite any supposed "creepy" elements, because he was [[The Woobie|a malnourished, abused, lonely]] little kid who [[I Just Want to Have Friends|had no friends]], watching two sisters playing happily together.
** In ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', Hermione does a Type 1 to Ron, to the point where Harry feels like [[Foreshadowing|"he had interrupted her in the act of kissing him."]]
* Clara Bow's "triple gaze" (first lovestruck, then lusty, then innocent) at her soon-to-be romantic interest in ''It''.
* In the first book of ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'', Bobby happens to stumble upon Loor bathing. They didn't have anything romantic going at that point in the series, but in hindsight, could have been foreshadowing.
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** And in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Angel is always smoldering at Buffy, especially ''after'' they consumate their relationship and realize that they can't...[[Unusual Euphemism|consumate]], anymore. Later, Spike takes over the lovelorn vampire role and possibly mopes about even more than Angel, alternating between smoldering lust and sappy adoration.
** In "Who Are You?", Faith realises instantly from the look Tara gives Willow that the two are gay lovers.
* There's at least three of these in the pilot episode of ''[[Firefly]]'' between [[The Captain|Mal]] and the [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|courtesan]] Inara. In fact, any time the two of them are together in a scene, either they just miss seeing a
* [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The 2000s ''
* Booth is always giving [[Bones]] these long soulful looks, especially later in the series when the [[UST]] becomes [[Everyone Can See It|the world's worst kept secret]].
* Ross did this to Rachel a few times in the first season of ''[[Friends]]''. Chandler and Joey always teased him about it. "Could you want her more?"
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* Aang of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has all three varieties for Katara.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Homer and Marge show this in a few episodes.
* ''[[Exo Squad]]'': Maggie Weston and Alec De Leon share a few, as do J. T. Marsh and Colleen O'Reilly; but neither of them hold a candle to the looks that Nara Burns gives Marsala. The
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