No Hugging, No Kissing: Difference between revisions

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* Probably the reason ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' is a total sausagefest. Any women in the series are minor characters who don't stick around long. The two main characters are also prepubescent.

* According to [[Word of God]], ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' isn't so much about romance than teenage boys (and some girls) doing things. In fact, the closest things to romance the series have are the Literature Girl and Emi's crushes towards Hidenori, and even then they are one-sided (and in the latter's case, it was even grounded by [[Surprise Incest]]).

{{quote| "[[Out of Focus|The main characters are almost never there]], [[The Faceless|the female characters don't even get faces]] and love [[Event Flag|flags]] get destroyed all over the place... [[Self-Deprecation|so why is this so popular]]?!"}}

{{quote|"[[Out of Focus|The main characters are almost never there]], [[The Faceless|the female characters don't even get faces]] and love [[Event Flag|flags]] get destroyed all over the place... [[Self-Deprecation|so why is this so popular]]?!"}}

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* In the film adaptations of both [[The Da Vinci Code]] and Angels & Demons, the romantic subplots between Langdon and Sophie and between Langdon and Victoria are scrapped altogether (it was stated that this would make the film less realistic). Langdon does give Sophie a friendly peck on the forehead, but that's about it.

* ''The Mothman Prophecies'', [http://www.cosmoetica.com/B38-DES17.htm apparently to its detriment]:

{{quote| This is a film too bad to be good & too good to be so bad it’s good. DULL is the watchword, unless watching Richard Gere’s Shatnerian reactions to a phone ringing is your idea of edge-of-the-seat horror. That Mothman never makes an appearance would be fine if the film gave us something else, or kept a mystery worth keeping- but nada. & this is perhaps the only ‘action’ film I can recall where a [[Romantic Plot Tumor|gratuitous love story]] would have improved the tale. Laura Linney’s Connie is the only character developed to any emotional or deep extent, or which induces any concern. She radiates a down-home sensuality, yet John never makes a move, even after saving her. Not even a peck on the cheek. Loser!}}

{{quote|This is a film too bad to be good & too good to be so bad it’s good. DULL is the watchword, unless watching Richard Gere’s Shatnerian reactions to a phone ringing is your idea of edge-of-the-seat horror. That Mothman never makes an appearance would be fine if the film gave us something else, or kept a mystery worth keeping- but nada. & this is perhaps the only ‘action’ film I can recall where a [[Romantic Plot Tumor|gratuitous love story]] would have improved the tale. Laura Linney’s Connie is the only character developed to any emotional or deep extent, or which induces any concern. She radiates a down-home sensuality, yet John never makes a move, even after saving her. Not even a peck on the cheek. Loser!}}

* In the made-for-TV film ''Path of Destruction'': Katherine Stern and Nathan McCain apparently go on a date at the end, although they never hug or kiss.

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== Toys ==

* An example of [[Executive Meddling]] in ''[[Bionicle]]''. There were hints of romance in the early flash animations and online games, but these were [[Canon Discontinuity|decanonized]] when the Lego Company decided to eliminate romance on the grounds that the core demographic (5-12 year olds) would find it "icky." Greg Farshtey, the lead story writer for Bionicle, also refuses to explain how new beings come into existence. To paraphrase Farshtey:

{{quote| "If I say no, I open one can of worms. If I say yes, I then get dozens of questions about the [[Squick|sex lives of plastic toys]]."}}

{{quote|"If I say no, I open one can of worms. If I say yes, I then get dozens of questions about the [[Squick|sex lives of plastic toys]]."}}

** And then one of the movies went ahead and had an [[Unholy Matrimony]] plot. Farshtey had to handwave that one as merely a kind of political alliance, the same way kings would have their children married to strengthen bonds between royal houses (which to be fair is very much [[Truth in Television]]).

** The rule is now and forever more broken, officially. In the final novel of the entire saga, Kiina confesses her feelings toward Mata Nui by hugging him, and riding away in tears... and she was a feisty [[Action Girl]] who barely displayed any [[Hidden Depths|deep emotions]] like this up to that point.