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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Happens at the beginning of the ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' manga with Sakura and Syaoran.
* ''[[Star Driver]]'': It big trend for the boy to go outside to a different class and ask a girl to kiss against the window them to show affection without being too serious. Several characters does this, and one girl. Kanako love doing this as way to show affection without cheating her husband.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* From ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' we have the Thing and the Human Torch, {{spoiler|when Human Torch dies}}.
 
== [[Film -- Animated]] ==
* There's an instance of this with Lisa and her boyfriend in ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''.
 
== Film -- Live Action ==
* Spock and Kirk in ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]'' in {{spoiler|Spock's death scene}} is the [[Ur Example]] of this trope. Spock's doing the Vulcan salute, Kirk just puts his hand up there. It's quite the [[Tear Jerker]]. (Alternatively, they're [[Ho Yay|Vulcan kissing]] through the window, which makes it ''more tragic'').
* Wolverine and Stryker in ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]] 2'', with a semitransparent sheet of ice between.
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* Parodied in ''[[Return of the Killer Tomatoes]]'' (AKA ''Attack of the Killer Tomatoes II''). When Tara is being gassed, she slaps her hand onto the glass in the door. Chad bereavedly trails his hand down after hers. She then slaps it up again, several times, and he follows it each time.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* In the book trilogy ''[[The Nine Lives of Chloe King]]'' by Celia Thomson, Chloe does this with her [[Love Interest]], whom she can't touch without poisoning.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* In [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The rebooted ''Battlestar Galactica'']]:
** Kara Thrace does it to a Cylon in "Flesh and Bone".
** Tyrol, with Boomer, in "Someone to Watch Over Me".
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* When Kate goes to visit Neal in prison in ''[[White Collar]]'', he tries to do this but she'll have none of it. {{spoiler|Later, when he watches the security footage, he realizes she's tapping her leg in Morse code to send him a secret message instead.}}
* At the end of the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode "Revenging Angel", Crichton and D'Argo touch hands apologetically through one of Moya's windows (and Crichton's spacesuit).
* Parodied on the sitcom ''[[Titus]]'', where Titus finds out that his younger brother, Dave, got arrested and finds him in a cell with a Plexiglass barrier. Titus and Dave touch their hands on the glass and Titus's dad says, "Isn't that cute? Two brothers joined at the wussy!"
 
== [[Music]] ==
 
== Music ==
* In the Blink 182 video for "Feeling This", two teens make out through a glass window.
* The [[Foo Fighters]] in "Walking After You".
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* The music video for "Poor Leno" by Röyksopp shows a strange bear-like creature doing this to another similar creature in a zoo pen.
* Played for laughs in the Otis Lee Crenshaw song "Glass" where, after several window love encounters, a convict develops a sexual fetish for glass windows.
* The video for Travis Tritt's "Best of Intentions", when the man's wife visits him in prison. The gesture is [[Meaningful Echo|repeated later]], once he's been pardoned... this time with no glass between them.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
 
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Ever 17]]'', Takeshi and Sora share a touch through a glass. Bonus points for Sora being a hologram, and therefore incorporeal. In fact, her incorporeality is why they do this - it's the closest thing he can get to touching her.
* Used oddly in ''[[Chzo Mythos|6 Days a Sacrifice]]''. Dacabe does the rare "through an opaque wall" variation, trying to reach Janine. {{spoiler|She's actually ''inside'' the wall, dead.}}
* ''[[No More Heroes]]'': The ending of the second game has Sylvia and Travis each pressing a hand against a window. Sylvia says, "Travis...my No More Hero!"
 
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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