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While aggressive hugs are nothing new (in [[Real Life]] or in media) the use of the term "Glomp" to describe them appears to have stemmed from its use as a sound effect in early manga translations by [[Viz Media]]. (One folk etymology asserts that it stands for ''"Grab, Latch On, Maintain Pressure"'' but that is a backronym applied to the word after it became popular.) The word itself appears to be a mutation of the established English word "glom" which means "to grab; to latch on" (as found in the words "agglomeration" and "conglomerate") with a final "p" sound added to give it more of a sense of definite action. Can function as an onomatopoeia.

** The aggressive hugs that Shampoo gives to Ranma in ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]]'' are archetypal glomps and are indeed accompanied by the "glomp" sound effect in the manga. The subsequent wholesale adoption of the word by the highly prolific ''Ranma'' [[Fanfic|fanfiction]] community probably did much to popularise the term.

*** Even less welcome are Kuno's glompings of Akane and the Pigtailed Girl, sometimes simultaneously. He invariably receives a [[Megaton Punch]] in reply.

* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' during the Cell saga, after Goku heals from a near fatal disease and everyone notices him in better condition, Goku gets glomped through a moving plane by Krillin.

* In ''[[Drama Con]]'', Matt is glomped by a fan, which pisses off his then girlfriend Emily. The con security has to get involved.

* Usagi, ChibiUsa, Ann, Rei and Fish Eye in regards to Mamoru in ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.

* Asuka Langley Soryuu of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is not nearly as violent about it as some, but the way she adheres herself to Ryoji Kaji is clearly a glomp.

** She does actually glomp him in episode 17, much to his exasperation.

* Shiho Munakata frequently glomps Yuuichi Tate in the early parts of ''[[Mai-HiME]]''. Mikoto does this to Mai from time to time, sometimes adding a [[Skinship Grope]] or a self-inflicted [[Marshmallow Hell]] for good measure. During the ending, Shizuru [[Glomp|Glomps]] Natsuki from behind while Mai is preparing to sing karaoke.

* Kairi has glomped Momo on occasion, as has Sae to Toji and other guys as well in ''[[Peach Girl]]''.

** Youko, Sachiko's ''grande sœur'', once does this too, very much to Yumi's surprise since Youko is usually rather dignified.

* Wakaba glomps the title character of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' all the time, and frequently goes for rides on her back after.

** It can get dangerous when they're both in front of an open window.

* Kaolla Su in ''[[Love Hina]]'' does this frequently, usually in the form of a leaping hug.

* Many girls in Rin's [[Harem]] in ''[[Shuffle]]'' have done this.

* The aim of many of Ayu's [[Crash Into Hello]] meetings with Yuuichi in ''[[Kanon]]''.

** She gets irritable (as much as she can, anyway) if he dodges. Probably because that generally involves her crashing into trees instead.

** What ''should'' be a painful example would be Ash's Muk, a ''Poison''-type who tends to do this on people he likes (although Professor Oak seems to be a frequent target). No one seems to be hurt from it otherwise.

** During the Johto arc, when Ash and Misty were battling over a Totodile, Ash sends out Pikachu; Misty sends out Togepi. She tells Togepi to give Pikachu a great big hug, and he does just that. Between that and a Charm attack, Pikachu is sent running off the battlefield, since he wouldn't willingly hurt Togepi.

** James' Grass-type Pokemon glomp him upon being let out of their Poke Balls. One of them's [[Human Pincushion|a cactus]].

** Except that one time where he was in Ichigo's body and he finally pulled off snuggling her ([[Pettanko|non-existent]]) funbags. He was very happy that day.

** Don't forget Ichigo receiving a near lethal variety from {{spoiler|adult Nel}}.

* [[Sissy Villain]] Michio Yuki of ''[[MW]]'' does this quite a bit to Father Garai. Usually while in various states of undress or [[Villainous Crossdresser|drag]].

* In ''[[Pita-Ten]],'' Misha ''loves'' to glomp Kotarou. Since she is at least one head taller than him, the sensation is uncomfortable to Kotarou, the nearby ones and the spectators...

** Chii's glomps are more a kin to the flying tackle though.

** And Plum's previous owner encouraged this (and many other) behaviors Hideki has issues with. Persocoms in general are as unconditionally affectionate as housepets; their (usual) extreme sensitivity to their owner's preferences and comfort levels are the only reason we don't see more generalized public glomping.

* Poor helpless Tama-Chan in ''[[Bamboo Blade]]'' was double-glomped by Kirino and Saya

* In ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'', Haida does this to Hiroto constantly.

* ''[[Busou Renkin]]'': "Don't touch me!" [[The Ditz|"I WANNA TOUCH!"]]

* Dio from ''[[Last Exile]]'' is exceedingly fond of this. Not only will he glomp his faithful companion Luciola, he also has a thing for glomping Claus who is pretty freaked out.

* Iris does this to Gene in ''[[Outlaw Star]]''. Gene happily reciprocates, though...by [[Handsome Lech|immediately grabbing her ass.]]

** Fred loves doing this to Gene. Really loves it.

** On various occasions Saito was also glomped by Kirche, Siesta, Tiffania, Scarron, and Marto, the school's head [[Even the Guys Want Him|male cook]].

* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Enacted under similar circumstances]] in the second season of ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'' by [[Expy|expies]] Shana and Yuji: once to intercept Yuji's fall following his possession at high altitude by Johann, and again in the final episode when she finds him after singlehandedly [[Storming the Castle|storming]] [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] in order to do so before he fades from existence.

* In ''[[Claymore]]'', [[Cute Shotaro Boy|Raki]] does this fairly regular to the [[Kuudere]], Clare

** In its [[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle|crossover series,]] Sakura is introduced as a character by glomping Syaoran.

* In the third episode of ''[[Kannagi]]'' [[Magical Girlfriend|Nagi]] attempts to do this to [[Unlucky Everydude|Jin]]... [[Averted Trope|And he sidesteps it, causing Nagi to skid face-first across the ground]].

** Karin takes it up a notch in part II. Even locking out Suigetsu so he couldn't interfere with her glomping time with Sasuke.

** Chapter 498 has an absolutely adorable/heartwarming moment where {{spoiler|Naruto suddenly surprises his mother with a hug and cries while hugging her upon meeting her for the first time}}.

* Hikaru from ''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]''.

* In the ''[[Hamlet]]'' manga adaptation, the title character does this to Horatio.

** [http://i50.tinypic.com/2rrqkjm.gif Not an unpopular interpretation for that scene.]

* Memorably, in ''[[Saiunkoku Monogatari]]'', Kou Shuurei's [[Fear of Thunder]] causes her to glomp onto - of all people - Ko Kijin. To make matters worse, Shuurei is disguised as a boy at the time.

* Choco from ''[[Chocotto Sister]]'' does this a lot to Yurika -- usually under loud protest from the latter.

** Lenalee glomps Cross Marian at the end of the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Ark Arc]] in order to keep him from wandering off again after spending roughly forty episodes looking for him. [[Fridge Brilliance|In fact this is the very reason she was brought along.]]

** And in chapter 211, Johnny [http://www.mangatoyou.com/D.Gray-Man/211/05/ tackle-hugs Allen] with tears in his eyes.

* As the first item on the Quotes page hints, Shader from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' is ''very'' fond of hugging others...violently, without warning.

* Yu-Jen in the manga ''A Kiss to the Prince'' is fond of doing this to Sei-Ann.

* Toko of ''[[Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru]]'' is fond of doing this to Yuki.

** And [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilariously]] Tachibana tries to do this to Yuki upon meeting him but Luka pulls Yuki out of the way before Tachibana can hug him.

* Mihoshi from ''[[Sora no Manimani]]'' is a glomping machine, strong enough to knock down her usual target, [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl|Saku]].

** In chapter 66 upon learning that Ciel wasn't having another asthma attack Agni and Soma glomp him.

** Elizabeth generally loves to glomp Ciel, being his future wife and all.

* In ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'', [[Genki Girl|Hokuto]] does this to her [[Half-Identical Twins|twin brother]], [[The Messiah|Subaru]].

** Near the conclusion of the series, Winry does this [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|very effectively]] to {{spoiler|Ed and Al in his restored human body when they return to Resembool}}.

** In the manga and Brotherhood, May's standard greeting toward Alphonse seems to be glomping him.

* In ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'', Elsie is prone to this, to the discomfort of [[Hates Being Touched|Keima]] and [[Punchy Love|Hakua]].

* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has one of the more [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] examples when Lisanna returns to Earthland after 2 years and finally meets Natsu again. She can't help but glomp him, understandable enough.

* Episode 9 of ''[[Lovely Complex]]'' has some [[Les Yay]] between Risa and her best friend Nobu. Nobu comforts Risa over Otani basically being oblivious to Risa's love for him, and feels it's her fault things aren't going so well because she's the one who pushed Risa to confess to Otani. Risa reassures her not to worry about it, and that's she's grateful to Nobu for motivating her to confess her love to Otani. In response, Nobu makes the total out of the blue decision to glomp Risa to the ground, and grope her as she's hugging her. Nobu releases lots of heart marks and Risa freaks out, telling Nobu "don't touch me there!"

* Italy once does this to Japan in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''. And in episode 18 of the World Series Finland glomps Estonia.

* Ryuuichi once glomped Shuichi from behind in ''[[Gravitation]]''.

* In ''[[Koharu no Hibi]]'' [[Yandere|Koharu]] often does this to Akira.

* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', Miaka does this to Yui at the top of the stairs in the manga. Resulting in a conspicuous [[Panty Shot]] of Yui, and a teacher telling them to have some modesty.

* ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'': Knives does this to Scott in Book 2 {{spoiler|shortly before Scott dumps her}}.

{{quote| "Attack hug!"}}

== Fan Works ==

* Starfire's reaction during JLA Watchtower's Olympics plot when she sees that Nightwing had [[Back From the Dead|returned to life]]. Considering she had spent most of the time before that in an [[Unstoppable Rage]], it also lampshades that her moods can change ''rapidly'' and without a lot of warning.

* In ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'', Po and Tigress get into a fight which ends with Tigress glomping Po in the form of a [[Cooldown Hug]] to show how much she cares about him. {{spoiler|Po later glomps Tigress at the end of the film; the look on her face is ''priceless''.}}

** The rest of the Furious Five can only stare in disbelief. Crane gets a [[Jaw Drop|Beak Drop]].

== [[Literature]] ==

* Captain Kirk gets glomped by Prrgh, an acquaintance of his, in one of the ''[[Expanded Universe|Captain's Table]]'' novellas. Since she's a [[Catgirl]] [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Space Babe]], he doesn't mind.

** And in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', Sirius glomps Remus Lupin.

** Neville gets glomped by every Gryffindor that can reach him when his house points win them the cup at the end of the first book.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* On ''[[The Office]]'' (USA), Michael glomps Jim after learning that Jim and Pam are engaged.

* In the Japanese drama ''[[Nobuta wo Produce]],'' Akira loves to unexpectedly hug Shuji. Cue the [[Ho Yay]].

* Lois glomps Clark(complete with a running start) at the end of the ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Isis", when [[The Reveal|he tells her that he's the Blur.]]

* JB does this to Kuru in "[[Elephant Princess]]", knocking him down to the ground, and destroying a party table.

** And then in [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E11 Utopia|Utopia]], Jack glomps the TARDIS.

* In [[Star Trek|"The City on the Edge of Forever,"]] Bones gets one of these from Kirk near the end when the latter and Spock are overjoyed to finally find him, but {{spoiler|the happy celebrations are cut short because Edith Keeler is hit by a car seconds later.}}

** [http://neifirst.deviantart.com/art/Amy-needs-glasses-43641055 Or a cactus.]

** She successfully glomps him in ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]''... while he's in Werehog form. The one time she actually gets him, she thinks she has the wrong guy almost immediately afterward.

* The final boss in ''[[Parasite Eve]]'' does this {{spoiler|when it crawls after you after you just pumped its body with bullets laced with Aya's DNA. [[The Glomp]] here equals [[Touch of Death]]}}.

* Gandrayda features an atomic glomp -- literally -- in ''[[Metroid]] Prime 3: Corruption.'' {{spoiler|When you fight her on the Pirate Homeworld, one of Gandrayda's attacks involves her glomping you and irradiating the hell out of you.}} May have [[Unfortunate Implications]] depending on where you think Gandrayda's motivation for [[Les Yay|glomping another female]] might lie.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''. Rinoa does this to Squall when he is sent to wake her up on the Timber Forest Owls train.

* ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]''. Garnet/Dagger glomps Zidane in the final scene of the game, when she learns that he's still alive.

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In [http://friendlyhostility.com/d/20041208.html this] Friendly Hostility strip, Fox pounce-glomps his boyfriend for getting him the email address of his favorite Fanta dancer.

** And while the word isn't used in the strip to describe it, [http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-03-29 this definitely qualifies]. [http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-24 This one] comes with a bonus [[Brick Joke]], but without a [[Calvin and Hobbes|stuffed tiger]]).

** In an early strip, [http://egscomics.com/?date=2004-11-09 Ellen Glomps Grace using a Tackle Hug]. Note Grace's [[Wingding Eyes]].

* Alice, the [[Anti Cliche and Mary Sue Elimination Society]]'s resident Glomper, takes the glomp from a show of affection to an ''art form''. She once glomped ''[[Eldritch Abomination|Cthulhu]]''.

* In the 2012 Valentine's Day [[Google Doodle]], this is how the boy knows the girl likes him.

* [[Transformers|Starscream]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce_VOlRTT_8 once glomped Megatron].

* Kiina glomps Berix in ''[[Bionicle]]'':''The Legend Reborn''.

** Zuko gets a [[Luminescent Blush]] when Toph does this to him in the [[Grand Finale]]. You'd think he'd be used to getting that from girls by now...

** [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ty Lee]] makes a habit of this, and of course [[Kuudere|Mai]] is her most common target.

* GIR from ''[[Invader Zim]]''.

* In ''[[Justice League]]'', of all places. On the final episode of the three part "The Savage Time" when half of the Leaguers come back from time travel, Superman finds that Batman is in fact alive and well and glomps him. This causes an awkward pause of Batman staring at him from inches away and very dryly asking: "Am I missing something here?"

{{quote| '''Starfire''': Oh, hello long-lost friend!! You remember me, yes?<br />

'''Terra''': Of course, Starfire. I still have bruises from the last time you hugged me. }}

* Pepe Le Pew frequently does this in ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts, particularly to cats who have accidentally acquired a white paint stripe down their backs.

** Same for [[Tiny Toon Adventures|Fifi La Fume]] when pursuing TT characters such as Furball, Calamity Coyote and Little Beeper.

* * ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Happens in the beginning of the episode 'Flaming Moe's' in one scene in which Bart gets glomped and kissed by Susan, one of Lisa's friends, in a 'Truth or Dare' game.

** "Marge in Chains": In one of the conjugal visit trailers, Marge aggressively glomps Homer for sex, which then turns over the trailer.

'''Homer''': Whoa! }}

* In the episode "Curse of the Kobra (Part II)" of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', Terry rescues his best friend Max from the Cobra cult and she's so glad to see him that she gives him a very cute glomp... which is ruined seconds later as he breaks free because he had four cracked ribs from trying to save her the first time.

** Spike also glomps Fluttershy in "Feeling Pinkie Keen" when he finds out she hasn't exploded twice.

* On ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]],;' Elmyra does this to any and all animals, sometimes to the point of hurting them.