Love At First Sight/Comic Books

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Examples of Love At First Sight in Comic Books include:

  • Colossus and Zsaji from Secret Wars, despite the facts that a) they couldn't speak each other's languages and b) she died literally days after they met. A popular Fanon theory states that Zsaji was an empath who either intentionally or inadvertently manipulated Peter's emotions, especially since he went from pining over Kitty to doting over the alien healer so fast that the boy probably got whiplash. And apart from his subsequently breaking things off with Kitty(which was the sole purpose for Zsaji's existence), she was almost entirely forgotten within a year and is almost never mentioned.
  • The Elf Quest concept of Recognition is this trope in spades. "Soul meets soul when eyes meet eyes, stands your lover recognized." When a male elf and a female elf see each other and learn each others' soul names, and are compelled by a biological imperitave to have sex. A life-long romance is not guaranteed (Dewshine and Tyldak), but does tend to follow more often than not (Cutter and Leetah).
  • Fantastic Four: When Susan "Sue" Storm was 12 years old, her aunt rented a room to a Teen Genius university student named Reed Richards. She fell for the Hollywood Nerd at first sight, but would only date and marry him when they were older.
  • In Brazilian comic Monica's Gang, the Unrequited Love between Franklin and Marina (though it starts with some Post Modernism: Marina, author Mauricio de Sousa's daughter, entered the comic book world, where Franklin promptly fell in love with her; when she returned, Mauricio reveals he created a character based on Marina).
  • This seems to happen quite often to mortals who spend time around the Endless. In Endless Nights, the mortal protagonists of Death and Destruction's stories both end up falling in love with them after spending a short time in their company. Death gets it the most in general, too.
  • Thugboy fell for Empowered hard when he first laid eyes on her—it even broke him out of his terminal "Whatever." mood.
  • Victor and Lillie from Runaways. It doesn't work out, though.
  • Tarot and Jon from Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose.
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