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{{quote|'''Liu Kang:''' My heart belongs to another.
'''The Nostalgia Critic:''' Your heart belongs to another? Who? Kitana? That chick you've known for less than an hour? How does she own your heart? True, you just met this other woman, but give her a few minutes and you'll have known her just as long.|''[[The Nostalgia Critic]]'' reviewing ''[[Mortal Kombat: Annihilation|Mortal Kombat Annihilation]]''}}
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* ''[[Zardoz]]'' has [[Sean Connery|Zed]] hooking up with [[Straw Feminist|Consuella]], instead of May, in the end, even {{spoiler|having a son with her}}, despite the fact that she literally spends the entire movie demanding that Zed gets eliminated.
* ''[[Speed]]'': Jack ([[Keanu Reeves]]) and Annie ([[Sandra Bullock]]). After knowing each other for all of a few hours, they're making out and about to have sex in a wrecked subway car in the middle of a street with a [[Concert Kiss|crowd of people watching]]. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] and [[Truth in Television]]; people bond over traumatic experiences quickly. They both [[Lampshade Hanging]] this.
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'''Annie:''' OK. We'll have to base it on sex then. }}
** In the sequel, {{spoiler|they're broken up. }}
* ''[[Back to The Future]] Part III'' discusses this in regards to Doc and Clara's relationship. After going back to 1885, Marty shows Doc a picture of his future tombstone, which contains a mention of "his beloved Clara", though Doc doesn't know who she is, even though he's supposed to be killed in three days. After finding out who Clara is and that he's supposed to be meeting her Doc and Marty discuss it. Marty believes it's possible, but Doc, being a man of science, refuses.
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'''Doc''': Marty. It's impossible. The idea that I could fall in [[Love At First Sight]]? It's romantic nonsense. There's no scientific rationale to that.
'''Marty''': (Laughing) C'mon, Doc, it's not science. You meet the right girl, it just hits ya; [[Call Back|it's like lightning]]. }}
* In ''[[I Am Number Four]],'' it's explained that the alien race ''works like this,'' with your first love being for life. The main character falls in love with his [[Shallow Love Interest]] within two days and apparently ''permanently.'' (Major [[Fridge Logic]] there: has he never known a girl for two days before? And what if she doesn't like you if the whole race works like this? Maybe the bad guys had an easy time annihilating that population because it was ''never'' higher than two digits!) There's a long scene of overly-flowery declarations of love delivered in a manner that would make ''[[Star Wars|Padme and Anakin]]'' cringe.
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** Martha Jones and Mickey Smith, two characters who before "Journey's End" had never even met, and had only been onscreen together in the scene where ''everybody from the new series ever'' flies the TARDIS, are shown in their "happy ending" vignette in ''The End of Time'' as a married couple, freelancers and fighting a Sontaran. On the other hand, the two had clearly departed the Doctor's company together, so it's not ''entirely'' out of the blue for them to have stuck together and then shipped off-screen.
* In ''[[Torchwood]]'', Ianto accused Captain Jack of being a [[Complete Monster]] after the Captain killed Ianto's Cyberman-girlfriend in defense (long story). However, Ianto goes back to shagging Jack by a few episodes with no significant on-screen development.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' In S7 Ep 11, "Paralells" Worf is sent multiverse-hopping, and he briefly winds up in a world where he and Troi are very [[Happily Married]]. While he had never considered this before he decided to give it a try when he got back. This was the starting point of the writers developing a bizarre obsession with hooking them up despite the two never having any kind of romantic chemistry before despite Troi serving as a mother figure to Worf's son, Alexander, as well as Troi having a long standing [[Will They or Won't They?]] with Riker. In what's probably a an
** Johnathan Frakes (Riker) and Marina Sirtis (Troi) apparently disliked the idea as well, and were quite happy to have their characters get married in [[Star Trek Nemesis|their last film]]. Michael Dorn (Worf), on the other hand, refused to forget it, and, when given a line about how Riker and Troi were always made for each other, subtexted it like mad.
* Foreman and Thirteen on ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', who went from "awkward conversations in the locker room" to "awkward kiss in a conference room" to "willing to commit career suicide for this person" in the span of about two weeks. Which, in fairness, is lampshaded by Thirteen herself at one point.
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