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Not to be confused with [[Kiss of Death]].
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== Anime
* ''[[Peach Girl]]'': When Kairi kisses Momo in the first episode, she reacts by going stiff and staring straight ahead in utter shock. Kairi thinks this means she liked it and tries to kiss her again but just receives a [[Groin Attack]] from Momo for his attempt.
* In ''[[Sonic X]]'', episode 45, Rouge defeats Tails in the face-off using this as her secret weapon. Serious contender for [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]. I didn't know the bat was a cougar.
** Which is probably referencing a scene in ''[[Sonic Battle]]'' where if you lose a fight with Rouge, she kisses you.
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'''Rouge''': Aww. You're blushing. }}
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Shinji found his and Asuka's [[First Kiss]] absolutely... breathtaking. {{spoiler|But that was because she held his nose. His breath "tickled".}} He turns several interesting colors and stands stunned for a good half minute after she disengages, long enough for Asuka to conclude kissing is a bad way to kill time.
** Or that Shinji doesn't like her, depending on how you read the subtext. Point is, with this as with all other tropes, Evangelion subverts it horribly.
** Shinji likes Asuka. He even nearly kisses Asuka while she's sleeping the night before the fight with Israfel. Asuka was just suffocating the hell out of Shinji by pinching his nose! {{spoiler|During Asuka's [[Mind Rape]] it's revealed that the kiss meant a lot to her and she was angry he didn't embrace her during their kiss.}}
* When Kurokawa spontaneously kisses Tomoe in Hinako Takanaga's ''[[Challengers]]'', the latter is so stunned that he faints, mainly because he and Kurokawa are [[Boys Love|both men]].
* Sana almost has an [[Heroic BSOD]] in ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'', when Hayama steals her first kiss.
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** There's also Asuna after the Kissing Terminator Incident.
** It happens to {{spoiler|Negi}} in chapter 340 when {{spoiler|Ayaka kisses Negi with so much force, that not only does it leave Negi twitching on the floor, but almost [[Beyond the Impossible|reverses the Pactio!]]}}
* Kakeru goes into this state in ''[[Onegai My Melody]]'' after he saves Uta from being kissed by Dar-
* In ''[[Hatsukoi Limited]]'' this happens to {{spoiler|Megane-kun}} (can't remember his actual name at the moment) when {{spoiler|Dobahshi}} makes the first move. In his defense, he had just worked up the courage to ask her to hold hands.
* Nagisa faints just from getting a kiss on the forehead from Shizuma in the first episode of ''[[Strawberry Panic!|Strawberry Panic]]''.
* It's perfectly understandable that ''[[D.Gray-man]]'''s {{spoiler|Allen}} would react like this when {{spoiler|Road}} kissed him; last time they met she {{spoiler|''stabbed him in the eye''}}.
* When we first see Urd on Earth in ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', she's pretending to be the clerk at a drugstore (with a Naughty Nurse outfit on) when Keiichi comes in to buy cold medicine for Belldandy. When the camera angle changes, we see the real clerk on the floor, KOed, with a big grin on his face and a [[Lipstick Mark]] on his cheek.
* Sunako Nakahara of ''[[The Wallflower]]'' went into severe catatonia after her kiss with Kyouhei, and often doesn't even need another kiss to go into it again, now. All one has to do is mention something that ''sounds'' like the word "kiss" to send her into a rampage or a relapse of catatonia.
* When Ryo Saeba of ''[[City Hunter]]'' plants a kiss on the forehead of his [[The Masochism Tango|true love]] and assistant Kaori during the second series finale, the only reaction that Kaori can muster is for her [[High-Pressure Emotion|to blush, with her skin literally becoming RED HOT under the rain to cause steam to literally rise from her skin. Kaori is later bedridden with a nasty cold as a result but when she recalls that "moment", her skin yet again becomes RED HOT with a fever of 107.6.]]
* In chapter 75 of the ''[[Hajimete no Aku]]'' manga, Jiro is seemingly unaffected by Kyoko [[Accidental Kiss|accidentally kissing him]] on the cheek. When Kyoko turns to him to demand he tell their [[Everyone Can See It|teasing friends]] the kiss was accidental, he is still in the same position. Then, [[Funny Moments|his legs give out]].
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* Shichika from ''[[Katanagatari]]'' not only passes out after Togame kisses him, but also [[Easy Amnesia|forgets everything he's ever learned about swordplay]]. Although, this was Togame's intention. He reverts to the same dazed state later when she offers to make him forget again.
* A rare dramatic occurrence happens with Ryo of [[FAKE]], after the second time Dee kisses him (not counting the [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]). This is because Dee was unexpectedly intense, telling Ryo to "Never dismiss [him] again" after Ryo treated the first kiss as a joke and Ryo was taken off guard that Dee was "such a good kisser".
* In episode 7 of ''[[Princess Princess]]'' [[Ho Yay|Yuujirou kisses Tooru]] to drive [[Stalker with a Crush|Sayaka]] away and after the kiss Tooru is shown to stare ahead with a shocked look on his face.
* In ''[[
* Subverted in one of the [[Haruhi Suzumiya]] light novels. Nakagawa thinks he has this reaction to seeing Yuki, but it turns out to be latent esper powers causing him to see some part of the Integrated Data Sentient Entity, resulting in him freezing for several hours from information overload.
== Comic Books ==
* Scrooge McDuck had this intentionally used to stun for a critical moment in ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck|The Prisoner of White Agony Creek]]''. Goldie wasn't expecting it to become a rare case of ''mutual'' post kiss catatonia, though.
* [[Archie Comics|Archie Andrews]].{{context}}
== Fan Works ==
* Happens several times in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', including once to {{spoiler|Haruhi after starting a [[Forceful Kiss]] via [[Necktie Leash]] with Kyon}} and once to {{spoiler|Kyon, whom Mikuru(big) kissed}} a few hours earlier.
* [[Doctor Who|Chibi!Doctor]] seems to [http://jesidres.deviantart.com/art/Whooligans-In-her-Kiss-61982562 get this].▼
* In ''[[Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns]]'', Alistair goes through this after Gwen Cousland kisses him, right after {{spoiler|the dwarven noble protagonist sets things up so that Gwen is at the door and hears Alistair ask him for ideas as to how to give Gwen the Lothering rose.}}▼
▲* [[Doctor Who|Chibi!Doctor]] seems to [http://jesidres.deviantart.com/art/Whooligans-In-her-Kiss-61982562 get this]
* Happens to [[Gender Flip|Harriet Lily Potter]] at ''least'' once with much hilarity in ''[[A Butterfly Effect]]''.
▲* In [[Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns]], Alistair goes through this after Gwen Cousland kisses him, right after {{spoiler|the dwarven noble protagonist sets things up so that Gwen is at the door and hears Alistair ask him for ideas as to how to give Gwen the Lothering rose.}}
* Happens to [[Gender Flip|
*
* in the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' [[Peggy Sue]] fic ''[[Once More with Feeling]]'', a kiss on the cheek from Rei reduces Kensuke to stunned and frozen in place for several minutes. His friends eventually have to drag him back into the shop where they had been playing a game.
▲* {{spoiler|Luso}} after {{spoiler|Maria}} kissed him on the cheek in [[The Tainted Grimoire]].
== Films -- Animation ==
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** Generally, Disney has a few instances of these in their older cartoons.
* Stanley, the title character of ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'', overdoes it in response to ''a toddler'' kissing his nose.
* A [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious moment]] in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' when {{spoiler|Spanish Buzz}} kisses Woody twice on the cheeks.
* A hug-instead-of-kiss variation for ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'', when {{spoiler|Po hugs Tigress}}.
* Hiccup momentarily freezes in ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'' after {{spoiler|Astrid}}'s [["Shut Up" Kiss]].
* [[Rango]] plays with this trope. One of the characters, Beans, has a "condition" that causes her to go catatonic (and amnesic) for a moment whenever she gets angry or scared. At one point, she goes catatonic, and ''then'' Rango kisses her on the cheek and quickly leaves, {{spoiler|but she comes out of it smoothly and has full memory of what happened, showing that she was faking it}}.
* ''[[Rio]]'' After Jewel plants one on Blu, he completely blisses out for a few moments, his body going on autopilot.
== Films -- Live Action ==
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* The film ''[[Supergirl (film)|Supergirl]]'': Supergirl/Linda walks around in a daze for a while after Ethan [[Kissing Under the Influence|kisses her after being put under a love spell]].
* ''[[The Goonies]]'': Mikey being kissed accidentally by Andy in a cave while Stephanie is watching. Then Mikey walks dizzy afterwards.
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'''Andy:''' There's something weird.
'''Stef:''' What? What is it?
'''Andy:''' Does Brand wear braces?
'''Andy:''' ''(Stef bursts into laughter)'' Why are you laughing? Stef, it was beautiful.
'''Stef:''' Next time you kiss him, do it with your eyes open. It's a whole different experience. }}
* From ''[[In and Out]]'', Peter [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iC_vLICPsg unexpectedly kissing] Howard. Peter even holds his arms for a bit afterward, like he's making sure Howard won't fall over.
* In ''[[Hitch]]'', after Albert and Allegra kiss for the first time, Albert gets this huge grin on his face kind of wanders down the street.
* ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]'' has a rare female example. After John kisses Esther, she says something stupid and wanders back to her house in a daze with an idiotic grin on her face. When her mother says, "Your ice cream is getting cold," Esther dreamily responds, "Isn't it?" Then when her mother asks if there's something wrong with her, Esther thoughtlessly replies, "Yes, Mama," and then goes to say something, but stops. It takes her two youngest sisters mocking her to snap her out of it.
* In ''[[My Girl (manga)|My Girl]] 2'', the title character shares her first kiss with her uncle's stepson just before she goes home from her visit. Afterward, the boy walks through the airport looking completely blissed out and dazed.
* In ''How to Steal a Million'', [[Peter O'Toole|Simon]] kisses [[Audrey Hepburn|Nicole]] after she said sarcastically that it'd be the next thing he asked for. (He'd just asked her to [[It Makes Sense In Context|wipe away the fingerprints he left while burglarizing her father's house]].) She returns home in a daze and cleans up the prints as requested, not noticing her dad's curiosity.
== Literature ==
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* In the fourth book of the ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|Percy Jackson]]'' series, {{spoiler|Annabeth}} gives Percy a kiss as he goes off on a presumably suicidal mission. He sits there in a daze for a while until he hears approaching doom.
* The only account in [[King Arthur|Arthuriana]] of a woman donning armor has her pretending to be an attacking knight in order to startle her [[Courtly Love|suitor]] out of his rapturous contemplation of her beauty.
== Live-Action TV ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Smith and Jones", Martha is stunned when The Doctor gives her a
** The Tenth Doctor himself tends to go glassy-eyed for a few seconds when he's unexpectedly
* Louie suffers a version of this in an episode of the sitcom ''[[Taxi]]'', guest-starring Danny Devito's real-life wife Rhea Perlman.
* Done in small in an episode of ''[[The Nanny]]'' after Fran and Maxwell reenact a scene from ''Romeo & Juliet''. Stunned, Fran stumbles all the way back down the stairs due to weak knees.
* In a episode of ''[[Cheers]]'', Rebecca, in a the-hell-with-it moment (she had no genuine intentions), passionately kissed Cliff Clavin right on the lips. Cliff stood in the bar all night in a catatonic daze, muttering "Thank You" over and over...
* The Piemaker of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' is particularly prone to this. Not only does he freeze up when his girlfriend, [[Blessed with Suck|whom he can't touch]], manages to plant one on him, but his brain turns off at the mere mention:
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'''Chuck:''' So a kiss is out of the question?
'''Ned:''' ''(long pause)'' ... I've lost my train of thought. }}
* ''[[iCarly]]'': Freddie did this twice in ''iSaved Your Life'', when Carly finally kissed Freddie on his bed, the show abruptly cuts into a commercial break. When the scene resumes, Freddie became stiff and wide-eyed as he and Carly continue kissing throughout the half-hour absence of his mother. In the extended version, Freddie was dumbfounded and even tased himself to prove that Carly had really kissed him.
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* ''[[Lois and Clark]]'': Happened to Lois after her first ''[[Fake-Out Make-Out|real]]'' kiss with Clark. So much so, that it took a frickin' ''car bomb'' to snap her out of it.
* Not exactly romantic: ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' had Mike McShane [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OjtcE2PTAU#t=2m35s plant a big wet one] on Brad Sherwood. It probably would've lasted longer had Brad not been buzzed out.
== Video Games ==
* In the combined ending to the [[The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games]], Link goes into one of these after receiving a [[Smooch of Victory]] from Princess Zelda.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Miranda]] is rather confused after her first kiss with [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|Renegade!Shepard]] in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
* In ''[[Yo-Jin-Bo]]'', Sayori can give Ittosai a kiss on the cheek which turns him into a "moaning zombie" - and has a similar effect on the rest of the guys who are looking on.
== Web Comics ==
* This happens a lot to Dave Jones of the webcomic ''[[
* Gilgamesh Wulfenbach gets a mild form of this in ''[[Girl Genius]]'', when Agatha [[Smooch of Victory|on an adrenalin rush lays one on him]]. He's still with it enough to react to the imminent danger that shows up soon after, though.
* This was used as a battle tactic by a mind-controlled Mai Shiranui in [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/gamer/index.php?comic=67&num=3 this]{{Dead link}} ''Captain Gamer: OOC'' strip (#68), to which the title character practically [[Hangs a Lampshade]], monologuing, "Hormones. My greatest weakness!"
* ''[[User Friendly]]'', starting [https://web.archive.org/web/20190502163904/http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050916 here], including the next strip, and then continuing after a different story arc.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', both Durkon and Vaarsuvius are caught in a version of this after Belkar kisses V while in a drunk stupor on New Year.
* Vincent of ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]'' stumbles around in a loopy daze after his puppy-love crush Autumn kisses him. Still leaves Vincent's love unrequited, though: [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/08/16 Autumn just wanted her blackmail folder back.]
* Faye falls victim in [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1725 this] ''[[Questionable Content]]'' strip.
* Vincent in ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles|Darius]]'' [http://cyantian.net/blog/2011/12/14/12142011/ faints]{{Dead link}} after getting a [["Shut Up" Kiss]] from a vixen, telling him to pretend to have fun beforehand.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' after Doctor Bunnigus was impressed by Reverend [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-03-03 whipping out a rapier] at a guy kidnapping her. [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-03-14 The next time she sees him] —
{{quote|'''Bunni''': You've got the 'hero reflex' down pat.
'''Bunni''': The 'gracious acceptance of a maiden's kiss' reflex needs work, though.}}
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'': Himei uses this trope to stall Seiki while she [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself|has something she's got to do herself]].
== Western Animation ==
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** He then "shows her what a real kiss is."
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'': Happens at the end of "My Dinner With Elmyra". After Elmyra [[Big Damn Kiss|plants a big one on Montana Max]], he was left shocked and then went to his limo, saying to himself:
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* One episode of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' had Hoagie turned into a teenager through mad science. Teen enemy Cree falls for him and after she kisses him, all he can say is "N-i-i-i-ice," even while his team mates are being attacked.
* Sheldon on ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' plays this trope exceptionally well in the Christmas episode, especially since it wasn't even on the mouth, it was just a peck on the cheek. He is frozen in position then slowly and rigidly tumbles down the stairs.
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