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Sister trope to [[Did Not Get the Girl]], only here we never even meet the girl (in the present anyway, flashbacks are allowed).
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== Anime And Manga ==
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Carl Barks]]' creation Glittering Goldie for Scrooge McDuck; future writers like [[Don Rosa]] jumped on the tragic story and made her a [[New Old Flame]] in most adaptations, including ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''.
== Film ==
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{{quote|'''Harry:''' You know the high school girl you had a crush on? The one that got away, and haunts you for the rest of your life?
'''Gay Perry:''' Yeah, I've had that. Bobby Mills. }}
* The whole plot of ''[[Chasing Amy]]'' is the unfolding events of how a girl becomes this to the protagonist. The title of the movie itself is presented as another way of saying "
{{quote|'''Silent Bob''': So there's me and Amy, and we're all inseparable, right? Just big time in love. And then four months down the road, the idiot gear kicks in, and I ask about the ex-boyfriend. Which, as we all know, is a really dumb move. But you know how it is: you don't wanna know, but you just have to, right? Stupid guy bullshit. So, anyway, she starts telling me about him... how they fell in love, and how they went out for a couple of years, and how they lived together, her mother likes me better, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah... and I'm okay. But then she drops the bomb on me, and the bomb is this: it seems that a couple of times, while they were going out, he brought some people to bed with them. Menage à trois, I believe it's called. Now this just blows my mind, right? I mean, I am not used to this sort of thing. I mean, I was raised Catholic, for God's sake.
'''Jay''': Saint Shithead.
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== Theatre ==
* ''One Touch Of Venus'': The reason that modern art collecter Whitlaw Savory buys a 3000-year-old Anatolian statue of a goddess is that it reminds him of "the girl who got away." When Savory runs into the goddess wandering through the [[Big Applesauce]], he recognizes her as
== Web Original ==
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== Western Animation ==
* In the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Epilogue" (the [[Fully-Absorbed Finale]] for ''[[Batman Beyond]]''), Selina is given a [[Continuity Nod|nod]] as being this for [[Batman|Bruce]].
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[[Category:Love Tropes]]
[[Category:The One That Got Away]]
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