Separated by the Wall: Difference between revisions

== Anime and Manga ==

* There's one scene in the second arc of ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. Red has just shown up, and Yellow and his Pika, who have been searching for him, frantically beat at the strange, one-way mirror wall hoping to get his attention. {{spoiler|They don't.}}

* ''[[Dragonaut]]'' deserves mention here, during the episode in which {{spoiler|Toa has gotten briefly captured by Prince Asim Jamar and Jin goes to rescue her}}.

* In episode 5 of ''[[Anime/Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch|Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'', Kaito has a meeting with the mermaid Lucia (who he doesn't recognize) when she was in an aquarium and he on the outside. She begs him to find her soon since she cannot tell him who she is unless he figures out himself. Then they kiss with their lips and hands touching the glass.

* Variant in ''[[Hedwig and The Angry Inch]]''- Hansel and Luthor (an American stationed in East Germany) are both on the East side of the Berlin Wall but in order to cross over and move with him to America, Hansel must become Hedwig to marry him. The song "Angry Inch" details the botched sex change operation, and the song "Tear Me Down" explicitly compares Hedwig to the wall itself- "Ladies and gentlemen, Hedwig is like that wall! Standing before you in a divide between East and West, slavery and freedom, man and woman, top and bottom."

* The famous Siren dance in the original ''[[The Wicker Man]]''.

* In the movie ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' a spoiled heiress runs away from her controlling father. [[Nationwide Manhunt]] occurs. A newspaper reporter finds her. They are forced by circumstances to stay in a hotel room over night and the reporter hangs a sheet to preserve her reputation.

** They even call it the Wall of Jericho. And we all know what happened to [[Meaningful Name|that wall]].

== Literature ==

** Pyramus and Thisbe themselves, who can only communicate through the literal wall separating their parent's properties. It comes from Roman writer Ovid, making this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]].

* In ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', Maximilien and Valentine, another pair of star-crossed lovers also have to communicate through a hole in the wall; the chapter is titled "Pyramus and Thisbe".

* In ''[[Fresh Meat]]'' Howard's and Josie's rooms are separated by a thin plaster board. A little bonus, there's a glory hole through which they sometimes talk through. Howard even does a piece of interpretive drama about this predicament entitled "Wall Man".

* Lee Adama and Kara Thrace end up sitting back-to-back against a firing-range barrier in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' in a scene which ends with him telling her he loves her.

* On [[The Borgias]], one of Cesare's early meetings with Ursula (the main image) is in a [[Confessional]] during which much is made of the wall between them.

** In detail: his actual inspiration (as it turns out) was his (American) producer Tony Visconti embracing his (West German) mistress Antonia Maaß in front of the Wall (both safely living on the Western side, thank you very much). This (it seems) they regarded as quasi-heroic: love next to a symbol of oppression, how romantic! Bowie wasn't impressed (the lyrics are actually quite ironic when you think about it, particularly when you consider the scare quotes around the title), not least because the studio in question was the famous Hansa-by-the-Wall, which was exactly what it said it was: right next to the Wall. In other words: (1) Dude, you're cheating on your wife and (2) you pretend it's all heroic and crap because you're doing it next to the Berlin Wall...but you ''work'' next to the Berlin Wall. Stop fooling yourself.

* The video for the Marillion song "Kayleigh," on the other hand, definitely plays this straight, again with the Berlin Wall.

== Theatre ==

* The entire first act of ''The Fantasticks'', in which two lovers are prevented from seeing each other due to their parents wishes.

== Web Original ==

== Western Animation ==

* An old, 90's era CGI short film had a globe/universe divided into sky and ocean by a solid crystal barrier. A school of fish swam beneath and a flock of birds flew above. When one fish and bird see each other, they become friends/fall in love, but are frustrated by the crystal separating them. The bird flies to the highest reaches of the sphere and dives down, crashing through the crystal and allowing all the other birds and fish to mingle. The fish who fell in love nudges the prone body, hoping for life, when thankfully the bird perks up and they both embrace face to face.

* That scene in ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'' count when the family escapes from the dome Springfield has been put in and Lisa is separated from her love interest (although they could still see each other).

== Real Life ==