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{{quote|''"Love is a very powerful force. [[Comically Missing the Point|Even more so when it is focused into a]] [[Kamehame Hadoken|coherent beam of destruction]]."''
|'''Black Mage''', ''[[8-Bit Theater]]''}}
{{quote|''"Love makes people do all sorts of stupid things.''"
▲{{quote|''"Love is a very powerful force. [[Comically Missing the Point|Even more so when it is focused into a]] [[Kamehame Hadoken|coherent beam of destruction]]."''|'''Black Mage''', ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''}}
|'''Grim''', ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy]]''}}
''(For an even better effect, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6Ery4Q_uE listen to this] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|while reading the page]].)''
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[[Back to The Future|The Power]] [[Huey Lewis and The News|Of Love]] is [[Love Makes You Crazy|a curious thing]]. It makes [[Love Hurts|one man weep]], and [[Happily Married|another man]] [[Waxing Lyrical|sing]]. It can [[Love Redeems|change a hawk to a little white dove]]. [[Love Imbues Life|Bring inanimate objects to life]]. It might just save your life. It makes people want to give up personal freedom to [[Property of Love|belong to each other]]. [[Love Makes You Evil|Don't you dare mock]], [[Back to The Future|that's the Power of Love]].
It's also an occasionally useful [[Deus Ex Machina]]. Even more than [[The Power of Friendship]],
Common applications of
[[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]] can sometimes be overcome by the [[Power of Love]]; however, it may take time, and the love itself must be [[Character Development|purified]] of any pity it does contain.
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Contrast with [[The Power of Hate]]. Occasionally classified as one of the [[Elemental Powers]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', Mamiya was doomed to die because of seeing the Death Star, a star only seen by those fate has decided need to go. Rei, dying from his wounds after fighting Raoh, uses all his remaining time to fight Yuda, the cause of Mamiya's misfortune, out of desire to do right with her and make his last moments count. Not only does Rei defeat Yuda, but as he dies, Mamiya realizes she cannot see the Death Star anymore, her fate changed by Rei's sacrifice. Truly one of the most awesome, heartwarming and heartbreaking moments in a series stuffed to the gills with them.
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* Sora's crest in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''. She's a quicker learner than [[The Power of Friendship|Yamato]], thankfully.
** The crest passes onto Miyako after Sora.
* The power base of most lead [[Magical Girl
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' deserves an example entry all by itself really. Let's see, the Power of Love...
** Cures brainwashed boyfriends and daughters from the future
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** Not to mention summoning the King of Hearts to blast a heart shaped hole in the Big Bad. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fUJ6LehQ3I Just... Watch it.]
* In ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'', apparently "no one" can overcome the [[Brainwashed|brainwashing]] power of the Orochi, but Souma manages to through his love for their target, Himeko. Of course, [[Girls Love|he picked the wrong kind of series to love her in]]...
** A bigger example would be Himeko and Chikane, who invokes
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* In ''[[Pokémon:
** In the Mewtwo backstory [[Send in
*** Subverted in Mewtwo's [[Fake Memories|forgotten]] backstory. {{spoiler|His tears did nothing to save his four best friends.}}
**** Then again, Mewtwo's tears might have done nothing because he's {{spoiler|a clone, and not a real Pokemon.}} Or because he cried by himself, whereas there were many Pokemon who cried for Ash.
**** Ash was turned to stone, while Mewtwo was the only one still ''alive''.
** Also Meowth, while usually a pitiful battler who loses to even the weakest Pokemon, romance seems to bring out a greater strength in him. With "Fury Swipes of Love", he singlehandedly took down Ash's Infernape and Staraptor, Jessie's Seviper and Yanmega, and Dawn's Togekiss...because he was in love with Glameow. He also defeated a Persian with a one-hit swipe to earn his childhood girlfriend ([[Pyrrhic Victory|even if it was all in vain]]).
* ''[[Pokémon Special]]'': Ruby does this with Sapphire before the final confrontation with {{spoiler|Kyogre and Groudon.}} He pushes Sapphire out of the way and traps her in a safe place just so she would be safe and prevent the risk of her being taken over by the {{spoiler|Red and Blue Jewel used to control Kyogre and Groudon.}} Reason why: she's the [[Girl of My Dreams|girl of his dreams]] from so long ago.
* Reversed and slightly subverted with Nova and Hikaru's relationship in the second season of ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]''. Nova's hatred for Umi and Fuu is driven by the fact that Hikaru loves them so much, and her similar utter devotion and adoration of Hikaru is prompted {{spoiler|by Hikaru's intense self-hatred that she's had since being forced to kill both Zagato and Princess Emeraude at the conclusion of the first season.}}
* Just about everything in ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' is powered by love...even some of the [[Humongous Mecha]]!
* Ditto ''[[Simoun]]'' from the [[Girls Love]] genre.
* Kurau in ''[[Kurau Phantom Memory]]'' appears to gain a lot more strength with the help of Christmas, her Rynax-pair.
* In ''[[
** In Special 25, Natsuki says that she realized that people cannot live alone after seeing Shizuru's love for her and Mai and Yuuichi's love for each other.
* A slightly cynical variant comes from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'': in the final battle with Kenshiro, Raoh the [[Big Bad]] uses a technique that is powered by his love for Yuria {{spoiler|and sorrow over her impending death}}.
** Hey, it's an improvement over his original idea for how to learn that technique and thus beat Kenshiro: [[What an Idiot!|learn/know sadness by killing Yuria]]. Thank gosh {{spoiler|he apparently didn't like nuclear fallout killing people before he could}}.
** Played straight in Kenshiro's case. When love meets with tragedy, it becomes sadness. When sadness meets injustice, it becomes righteous rage... and when righteous rage meets Hokuto Shinken... [[Catch Phrase|you're already dead]]. Also summed up perfectly [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/45202/hara_tetsuo-hokuto_no_ken-kenshirou-love-manga-mon here].
* One episode of ''[[Pretty Sammy|Magical Project S]]'' has a group who gains their power from their devotion to their husbands
* In the last episode of ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', the [[Official Couple]] finally getting over their [[Will They or Won't They?]] and sharing [[True Love's Kiss]] is what allows the crew to make their getaway with the series [[MacGuffin]]. Naturally, there's a [[Techno Babble]] reason for this, but one suspects Inez came up with it just to ''finally'' get the two of them together.
* ''[[Penguin Musume Heart]]'' contains one of the more unusual uses of love power. When Sakura is losing her one-on-one sumo match with her [[The Rival|rival]], Marie, her little sister takes the initiative to shoot her in the head with a tranquilizer called the Love Drive that absorbs the love of everyone in the arena into her. Somehow this makes Sakura [[Attack of the 50
* In the ''[[Sonic X]]'' anime, Chaos energy is defined as "the power enriched by the heart". So when Eggman or Chaos tried to use the power of the seven emeralds [[Chaotic Evil|selfishly or cruelly]], the effect was rather... [[Nightmare Fuel|disturbing]]. When Sonic used them, however, he used them out of the desire to help people (and his friends gave them to him specifically because they cared), which meant he was able to transform into [[Super Mode|Super Sonic]].
** Also possibly a contributing factor to Chris Thorndyke's ability to escape from Eggman and rip the Emeralds out of an active 'Badnik after witnessing Sonic attacked and hurt by aforementioned 'Badnik. (Okay, it's never explicitly stated, but how many twelve-year-olds do you know who can ''break out of solid metal restraints'' without some kind of powerful motivator being involved?)
* ''[[
* According to the manga, and implicitly within the TV series, "love" is the control medium for ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion
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** 'Love' is slightly too general a description. The Ventral Tegmental Area (A10) of the brain is a dopamine receptor that provides the reward system for numerous things, among them the bond between a mother and child. It's not 'love' in general that allows the pilots to synchronize with the Evangelion series, but rather their longing for {{spoiler|their mothers whose souls are trapped within the units themselves}}. It would be more accurate to say that the Evangelions are controlled by depression and loneliness, something the cast of Eva has plenty of.
** ''Rebuild 2.0'' showed this spectacularly: usually, it's Yui's parental love of Shinji is what drives Unit 01 berserk. This time, it's Shinji's love of Rei and we're not talking about simple berserking: he literally broke Unit 01's [[Restraining Bolt]] out of sheer willpower. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnW08kuTOKg&feature=related Asskicking ensues].
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* Subtly but constantly used in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]''. Early in the series, Rosette stops Chrono from losing himself in [[Unstoppable Rage|demonic rage]] when he thinks she's dead. Joshua stops Fiore from {{spoiler|becoming a completely mindless doll}} by mistaking her for his sister {{spoiler|and reminding her of her own}}. Later, Rosette {{spoiler|saves Joshua}} in a similar way. And Rosette even {{spoiler|''comes back from the dead''}} partially because of her love for Chrono and partially through simple [[Determinator|stubbornness]]. To top it off, she's aided in it from Chrono's ''former'' love. This is only ''some'' of the examples.
* This is how Daisuke of ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' transforms into his alter-ego, Dark. It's implied that Satoshi's transformation may be triggered similarly.
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[Zoids|Zoids: Chaotic Century]]'', [[The Hero|Van Flyheight]] was down and about to be shot by his [[The Rival|Rival's]] [[Humongous Mecha|Geno Saurer's]] [[Wave Motion Gun]], which would instantly kill him. Then [[The Chick|Fiona]] gets up, merges with the [[Team Pet]] which happens to be a [[Mechanical Lifeform]], and warps into Van's [[Humongous Mecha]], and then a hologram of her [[True Love's Kiss|kisses Van]], thus starting a full regeneration of Van's [[Humongous Mecha]], and activates its [[Plot Armor|ability to disperse charged particles]], thus rendering Raven's [[Wave Motion Gun]] completely useless, and allows [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Van to stab the Geno Saurer in its mouth, causing it to explode.]]
* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', Simon and Nia's love for each other is what allows Simon to follow her to the dimension of the Anti-
** As Leeron once said, the Gunmen are ''literally'' powered by love, or rather humans' ability to reproduce if you wanna get technical. Well, that and [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Heroic Willpower]].
*** And then brilliantly and controversially subverted when {{spoiler|Simon refuses to bring Nia back to life, as it would make him no better than her father, [[Big Bad]] number one, as well as threaten the very integrity of the universe. Basically, he loves her so much that he won't bring her back. It's complicated.}}
** As Leeron said, "love changes the universe." He's referring to the fact that sexual reproduction is one of the basis of human evolution and evolution is one of the biggest theme of the series.
*** The fact that love is one of the mayor sources of [[Hot-Blooded]] wilpower doensn't hurt, either.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': Considering Seto's history with Kisara, Kaiba's power to [[Screw Destiny]] in his duel with Isis comes from the Power of Love, even if he is unconscious of it.
** The Power of Love may also be what has actually allowed Kaiba to get the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons. Considering that Kisara's inner spirit was a White Dragon-God, a spirit stronger than the Pharaoh's three Egyptian Gods, and that the High Priest Seto had a relationship with Kisara, it wouldn't be surprising.
*** It only goes so far in describing Kaiba's attachment to the card though, which largely has to do with being [[Bigger Stick|one of the most powerful monsters in the game]], and his attachment to [[Power Equals Rarity|rare and powerful cards]], not to mention his only interest in the game having to do with winning, to [[Munchkin]] levels.
* Played straight and subverted ''[[Berserk]]''. The lead character, Guts {{spoiler|hacks off his own arm to free himself to try to save his lover Caska from his best-friend-turned-traitor-turned-demon-god Griffith.}} Subverted when one of Griffith's minions tackles him, holds him down, and forces him to watch helplessly {{spoiler|as Griffith rapes Caska.}} Played straight and invoked by other characters {{spoiler|since the end of the Retribution Arc where Caska becomes Guts' [[Morality Chain]] and also the one thing that prevents him from giving into his [[Enemy Within]].}}
* Subtly played in ''[[Skip Beat
* In the Angel Eater arc of ''[[Ah!
** Pretty much every other arc in Ah My goddess involves the power of love playing a role, in a recent chapter of the Manga for example, Belldandy's is on the brink of death after having all of her power drained out of her by a demonic machine. Fortunately, the power of love stored within the ring Keiichi gave her protects and re-energizes her.
* [[Touch]]. For Minami, Katsuya and Tatsuya can and will do anything.
* ''[[Daimos]]'' runs on this trope. The reason why Kazuya continues to fight on and win is derived from his love to Erika. Sometimes, when [[Humongous Mecha]] is not enough to win, there's always this thing to make him win.
* Cruelly, horrifically subverted in ''[[Naruto]]''. {{spoiler|Hinata finally, truly declares her love to Naruto, and charges Pain, warming up the best she's got to strike him down... and Pain reverses gravity in her face, then proceeds to stab her ([[Unexplained Recovery|somehow managing to fail to kill her]]).}}
** Then {{spoiler|Naruto is so enraged by her apparent death that for the first time ever he transforms into his 8-tailed form (just one stage away from fully releasing the [[Sealed Inside a Person
*** Finally played absolutely straight, with {{spoiler|Uzumaki Kushina's love for her son saving Naruto from his own darkness. "You belong here" never sounded so wonderful.}} Then it's played [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesomely]] straight when {{spoiler|after meeting his mom, Naruto's spirits and power go off the fucking charts (he even goes in Sage mode to boot). He then forces the Kyuubi's influence out and then proceeds to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|kick his ass for all time, steal his chakra, and seal him back where he belongs]]. All because of three words: "''I love you.''"}}
* Played straight in the ''[[Ga-Rei]]'' manga, where Kensuke is flatly told that he needs the [[Power of Love]] to draw out the true strength of his sword. Naturally, he only remembers this during the {{spoiler|final battle of Kyubi arc}}, where his love gives the sword the power to ''cut dimensions'', {{spoiler|freeing the [[Love Interest]] Kagura}}.
** It gets worse during the Naraku arc...This is what powers Kagura's abilities as the White Priestess, giving Byaukei and her "escorts" power. Kensuke once again uses the cutting dimensions power. Michael literally says, "Kagura! It's time to use the power of love!"
* In ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' Hazumu would have {{spoiler|died}} if it weren't for the power of love. {{spoiler|His, or should I say [[Gender Bender|her]],heart had to link with someone she truly loves,or she would die.}}.
* ''[[Dragonaut:
* ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' subverts this trope TWICE, when {{spoiler|Suiseiseki tries to convince Souseiseki to stop fighting but instead is forced to see her die because of ignoring these arguments}} and later when {{spoiler|Suiseiseki tries to win her Rosa Mystica back, but ends up getting killed trying to do so}}.
* ''[[One Piece]].'' Luffy wouldn't do half the shit he does if it wasn't for the love of his crew.
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** In the OVA, it was stated that Apollonius split Aquarion into 3 because the love between Celiane and Apollonius could destroy the world, a third person was needed to prevent that.
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''. Pretty obvious considering Suzaku symbolizes love.
* In ''[[Monster (
* ''[[Rave Master]]''. Shiba has been preserving and fighting for 50 years for one girl. Haru's doing pretty much the same thing, and for the very same girl.
** Also Sieg Hart, who dedicated his live to guarding that same girl for 50 years and continued to do so even long after death.
* ''[[Kyouran Kazoku Nikki]]'' is relying on this to placate one of the potential World Destroying Children of Enka into not doing it by letting them experience loving family life.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' to a smaller extent. During his duel with Gauron in Khanka, Sousuke had trouble operating the Lambda Driver until Kaname told him exactly what will Gauron do to her if he loses (she was wrong about one thing: those are what Gauron would do to ''Sousuke'', by the way). He won.
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'''Sousuke''': Right...
'''Kaname''': Does it make you mad?
'''Sousuke''': I guess so...
'''Kaname''': He's trying to do these things to me! You can't let him do that, can you?
'''Sousuke''': ''NO!!!'' }}
** Later, in ''The Second Raid'', all it takes is Kaname's arrival (and her delivery of an epic [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]) to snap Sousuke out of his half-a-season-long [[Heroic BSOD]], giving him the wherewithal to not only immediately [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomp]] five enemy mechs including the [[Big Bad]], but then confront his ultimate superiors in Mithril to ''demand'' reinstatement as Kaname's bodyguard... informing them that he never sold his soul to them and if they don't like how he works then they can just pay him less.
* The 7th Diary Holders of ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' are an [[Anti-Villain]] couple who fight with incredible teamwork thanks to their love for one another. The 2nd, Yuno Gasai, seems to run off of the power of [[Yandere|creepy]] [[Stalker
* In ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]'', do
* Subverted in ''[[Durarara!!]]'', with {{spoiler|the Saika (demon blades that have a zombie-like effect upon the people they stab).}} They constantly claim to be powered by the love that they have for humanity, but their actions are [[Yandere|obsessive and violent]].
** Also subverted by the fact that {{spoiler|it's Anri's ''inability'' to feel love that allows her to keep control of Saika}}.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Franken Fran]]'', when Fran and Veronica go see a movie very, very, ''[[Adaptation Decay|very]]'' loosely based on a previous chapter, where a girl who had been sick with leukemia tells her man-dog (long story) "My leukemia has magically been cured, somehow! The doctors said it was the power of love!" This, among other things, causes Veronica to throw a chair at the screen, yelling that the movie was crap.
* In ''[[
** In the game, Primula's storyline includes {{spoiler|her wiping Rin's mind so he won't miss her when she leaves. The next time he sees her, the memory is miraculously restored.}} The Devil King gives some elaborate theory as to why this could have happened, but in the end says they might just as well call it... That's right. {{spoiler|Primula stays.}}
* The last episode of ''[[
* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' plays with this a little. Evil spirits take up residence in girls through "gaps in the heart" (basically emotional issues they're going through), and Keima exorcises them by getting the girls to fall in love with him. But love isn't the only way to capture the spirits, and is in fact the most dangerous method of drawing them out, since screwing it up can cause the girl to get even worse. However, love is still the most potent method, and is more beneficial to the girl in the long run.
* In ''[[Tenshi
** {{spoiler|Also a reason why only Mikael can touch Raphael, who is an angel and is supposed to be untouchable to humans (well, Mikael isn't a human himself but he did lost his halo and yet still could see and touch him, while when Noelle lost hers she couldn't even see Raphael anymore)}}.
*** Geez, there's even an episode named like that - episode 19.
* Subtly played straight in ''[[Ah!
** The goddesses' powers also stem from love. The moment a goddess's powers begin to grow is the moment they first fall in love.
* The Power of Love was defeated by the Giant Sakura Tree in [[Da Capo]] S.S. The tree actually successfully prevented two people from loving each other. Only Aisha's horror at the power she now wields convinces her to kill the tree again.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' [[Shotacon|Ayaka's]] love {{spoiler|[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|reversed the pactio ritual.]]}}
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* In ''[[Dragon Crisis]]'', Ryuji and Rose use the Power of Love to win the final battle with {{spoiler|Onyx}} by kissing each other and creating a giant pink heart in the sky that disintegrates {{spoiler|Onyx}}.
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', {{spoiler|Meldy does a [[Heel Face Turn]] when she reads Juvia's mind and is overwhelmed by Juvia's love for Gray.}}
* In the second season of ''[[Saiunkoku Monogatari]],'' Shusui is mind-controlled by Hyou Ruka, and Ryuuki and Jyuusanhime encourage Ran Shuuei to break her out of it through the power of his unrequited love for her. Shuuei acts on their advice by {{spoiler|invoking Shusui's love for Kou Shouka instead}}. It works, but he is subsequently called out for having no shame.
* In ''[[Ponyo
* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', this is how Shin overcomes being brainwashed.
* ''[[Bleach]]'': If we are to take the {{spoiler|last act of Ichigo's final fight with Ulquiorra}} seriously, {{spoiler|Ichigo was brought back to life by Orihime's care and some hidden love for her. Ironically, if we follow that proof, Ulquiorra was killed by the thing he didn't understand the most.}}
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== Comic Books ==
*
** Hell, it allowed {{spoiler|Barry Allen to break the Anti-Life Equation's hold over Iris Allen in [[Final Crisis]].}} They're kind of built of this trope.
** Flash-type speedsters rely on this trope to keep them from being absorbed by the Speed Force (the aformentioned speedster heaven). It doesn't necessarily need to be romantic - the [[Parental Substitute|paternal bond]] between Max Mercury and Bart Allen is a [[Heartwarming
* For a split second, it looks as if this trope is going to be averted in the ''[[Justice Society of America]]'' arc "Princes of Darkness"
* In the fourth ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' book, The Power of Love is manifested as a giant flaming katana, which Scott yanks out of his chest after leveling up by confessing his love for Ramona. {{spoiler|In the sixth book, [[Big Bad|Gideon]] steals it after learning Ramona has left Scott. [[And That's Terrible|What a dick]]! Ramona gets it back when she returns.}}
** In the movie, it's subverted, {{spoiler|as the love is tainted - Scott's double-timing Ramona and Knives. Gideon shatters the katana with one good swing from his [[Cane Sword]]. When Scott does a second run using his extra life, he instead gains "the Power of Self-Respect" (demonstrating that you can't have love if you don't have self-respect), which he uses to take out Gideon before resolving his romantic issues.}}
* Veteran [[Green Lantern]] enemy Star Sapphire and the [[The Chosen Many|Star Sapphire Corps]] that recently succeeded her were fueled by love. If uncontrolled(as can happen when all the power is consolidated into a single person), it is of the [[Yandere|insane, possessive, destructive sort]], which is why the entity that provides their power is called The Predator, but they run on all kinds of love(be it between a man and woman or a mother and her child or so on and so forth) and the Predator is actually the one that is corrupted by its hosts, not the other way around.
** One Star Sapphire used {{spoiler|Soranik Natu's love for Kyle Rayner and channeled it ''to bring him back to life''}}.
* Ultra Boy is saved from [[Mind Control|The Blight]] by
* The New Zealand comic ''[[Footrot Flats]]'' features a scene where the main character, [[Intellectual Animal|the Dog]], finds himself able to ''walk on water'' due to his love for Jess, the neighbour's dog
* The finale of Abnett & Lanning's run on ''[[The Authority]]'' depended on this. To go with the [[Apocalypse How|Class 2 Apocalypse]], there's a [[Body Horror|horrific and intelligent virus]] floating around that ends up infecting Apollo, prompting Midnighter to look desperately for a cure. He's called north, eventually finding an island, which turns out to be a [[Genius Loci|giant]], [[Swamp Thing]]-like Century Baby named Gaia. In return for his help, she gives him an apple, and tells him to remember Avalon, the isle of apples: [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|"The fruit of immortality... of love..."]] Two pages later, Apollo's fine. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Yeah, that's a Crowner]].
* From ''[[Ninja High School]]'' Jeremy uses this to bring back his friend, [[Cute Witch]] turned dark, Mimi. (The story also a bit of a homage to [[X-Men|Dark Phoenix]] so take that as you will)
* Referenced in a classic [[Stan Lee]]/[[Jack Kirby]] ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' story line, when Reed Richards, alerted by the Watcher, takes on the [[Silver Surfer]]. When Sue Richards asks the Watcher how Reed can take on the "all-powerful Silver Surfer", the Watcher answers, "All-powerful? There is only one who deserves that name. And his only weapon--is love!"
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
** Others point out it was because he spent several months being toughened up while trapped on Anti-Mobius, where all of his 'friends' were evil and he was pretty much on his own.
* Defied in ''X-Campus''. Magnus claims he will show them the greatest power of the world. "Love?" asks Storm. "Magnetism".
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* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic ''[[
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" {{spoiler|Remus}} and {{spoiler|Tonks}} got married?" Harry repeated innocently.
"No, the other last part. The one about {{spoiler|Voldemort killing you," Sirius}} clarified.
"Oh, well {{spoiler|he killed me}} and I had a nice chat with
{{spoiler|Sirius}} just stared at him.
"It gets better," Harry grinned. "Apparently I only
{{spoiler|Sirius}} groaned. "For the record, when you're telling this to other people, try to come up with an explanation that sounds more [[Badass]]." }}
** This was also a generally-held theory about how Harry would defeat Voldemort.
* In the ''[[Gears of War]]'' fanfiction
* This, to an only slightly lesser extent than [[The Power of Friendship]], is what drives the good guys in the ''[[
* Totally screwed around with in ''[[
* Ridyr's ''[[Tron
* This trope is quoted word for word in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2wL6i-kX9s HERMIONE AND GINNY VERUSES THE SPACE WIZARDS]'' by Harry, after Ginny and Hermione have sex, combine their powers and free the other wizards so they can fight the evil Spacewizard Griz'nakh.
* ''
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== Film ==
* The trope takes its name and first sentence from the
** This is also apparent in ''Back to the Future 3'', when Clara Clayton transforms herself from a quiet schoolteacher to a full on superwoman, who can scale trains in motion, in order to catch up with Doc before he goes back to 1985.
* Disney's ''[[Beauty and
** And the theme song from the movie was sung by Celine Dion. See below.
* ''[[The Sword in
** The trope frequently pops up in the [[Disney Animated Canon]] and in ''[[Disney]]'' in general.
*** [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]] much?
* This is pretty much the whole [[Aesop]] of Disney's ''[[Enchanted]]'', right down to [[True Love's Kiss]].
* There are few places where ''[[
* While love doesn't actually accomplish anything supernatural in the ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' films, the fact that genies can't cause people to fall in love puts Love on the same level of ''greater''-than-phenomenal-cosmic-power as Life or Death.
* ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'': As the page quote by Nikodemus proves, only when her children were in mortal danger did Mrs. Brisby's love and courage become a tangible force, with the Stone as a foci. Even more explicit is the Stone's inscription "You can unlock any door, if you only have the key." According to the [[Theme Song]] ''Flying Dreams'', "Love is the key."
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** And the fact that the sensation of Trinity kissing him makes Neo realize that despite the Matrix input, he isn't actually dead, so it makes sense.
* In ''[[
* In ''Next'', the precognitive abilities of Nicolas Cage's character only allow him to see up to 2 minutes into his own future, except, for no apparent reason, for one recurring vision that presages the arrival of his eventual love interest. Once he's finally met and slept with her, he can see further ahead than ever before.
* In ''[[Pleasantville]]'', it's
** Technically, it's the Power of Change that causes people to, well, change color. The conversion happens when the one-dimensional citizens of Pleasantville do something unexpected or uncharacteristic. For the most of the supporting cast, this was when they had sex, which didn't exist in their world before. The two main characters, coming from the real world, had a harder time gaining color, but likewise changed when they did something they normally wouldn't do
* Perhaps the quintessential example of this trope is ''[[The Princess Bride (
* In the film version of ''[[Stardust (
** {{spoiler|Because of her love, Tristan now "possessed the heart a star" and got bonus immortality too.}}
* This is basically what ultimately saved [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker's]] life, prompted Darth Vader's [[Heel Face Turn]], and brought down [[The Empire]] in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''. In this case, [[Love Redeems|love does much more than "just" redeem]].
** Which is ironic considering that's what causes Anakin to turn to [[The Dark Side]] [[Love Makes You Evil|in the first place]].
*** Love did not do Anakin in, fear did. [[Your Mileage May Vary|Well...]] along with a healthy dose of [[Ambition Is Evil|arrogance and selfish entitlement]].
** The [[Novelization]] of ''[[
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Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars. }}
** In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]]
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** In the Expanded Universe, Qui-Gon Jinn explains that love, a connection to others, is a prerequisite for becoming a Force Ghost.
* A more cynical and indirect usage: In the film ''[[Ultraviolet (
* ''Santo contra La Hija de Frankenstein'': Santo's girlfriend is hypnotized and ordered to cut out his eyes and deliver them to Dr Frankenstein. She gets as far as holding the knife over the helpless luchador's face before this trope snaps her out of it.
* [[Yellow Submarine|To defeat the glove,]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QfEiDO9opg All You Need Is Love].
* In ''[[G.I.
* In the denouement to ''[[A Matter of Life and Death]]'', {{spoiler|the protagonist wins a second chance at life by virtue of love being the most powerful force in the world of the living, and therefore triumphing over the power of the celestial jury.}}
* Parodied in ''[[Scary Movie]] 3''. Upon hearing Cindy and George express their love for each other, the corpse of Tabitha turns into a beautiful little girl and says that their love has broken the curse and she won't ever have to kill again. "Really?" asks Cindy and Tabitha turns back into a corpse and admits "Nah, I was just screwing with you."
* ''[[
* Averted in ''Dance of the Dead'', after the students {{spoiler|(well, MOST of them anyway)}} manage to escape the school and the zombie infestation, Jimmy and Lindsey share a passionate kiss in front of the school, at the exact same time as the building explodes. The timing would indicate that it's the passion between the two rekindled young lovers that is causing the explosion, but it's really [[Earthshattering Kaboom|just the metric ton of C4 Coach Keel set up around the perimeter]].
* In ''[[Star Trek II:
** And debate the nature of Kirk's love all you like, but the rest of the crew were definitely ''not'' in romantic love with Spock, yet all risked their careers and lives to save him, despite Kirk reminding them only he and [[
* In ''[[Ernest Scared Stupid]]'', trolls can be killed by milk (mother's care). Trantor becomes more powerful and that milk can't stop him. Only thing Ernest can do is to defeat him by unconditional love by hugging and dancing.
* In ''[[Rio]]'', the power of love is what gives Blu {{spoiler|the power to fly}}.
* In ''[[Peter Pan (
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** And kisses him. This actually makes the guy
* In ''[[
* In
* Believe it or not, this is actually how Freddy Kruger gets defeated in ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2 Freddys Revenge]]''. When Freddy possesses the hero of the film, Jesse, and chases his girlfriend Lisa, Lisa states that she still loves him and kisses Jesse/Freddy. Jesse then manages to get the strength to fight Freddy from within and destroy him, regaining control of his body.
== Literature ==
* In [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''[[A Midsummer Tempest]]'',
* In Jim Butcher's ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' love is literally poison to the White Court, a species of [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] (specifically, the Raith family) who feed on human lust, fear, and/or despair.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series, love is a literal source of magical power. According to Dumbledore, the Department of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic has a room dedicated to it, but it's kept locked at all times. Love is said to be the source of the force which saved Harry from Voldemort in his infancy, and is cited as the secret power he has over You-Know-Who. In the seventh book, however, {{spoiler|it is made clear that it is mostly a mother's love for her child, and other non-romantic types of love, that actually have concrete magical power. Romantic love has a role only for its psychological effect.}}
** On the other hand, love is the reason for {{spoiler|Severus Snape's decision to betray Lord Voldemort}}, who [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|could neither understand]] nor detect this decision because it was motivated by love.
** Voldemort's blindness to the emotion also leaves him vulnerable to
** The ultimate example of how love is his power is near the finale of the story when {{spoiler|Harry, to protect his friends, allows himself to be killed. His love for them was so great that he gave up his life, and in so doing destroyed the Horcrux embedded within his soul, leaving Voldemort vulnerable. Voldemort could not imagine somebody killing themselves for another and so didn't realize the significance of the sacrifice. More than that, his willingness to die for them provided everyone in the castle with the same type of protection his mother gave him.}}.
** [[The Dragon|Bellatrix Lestrange]] is implied to genuinely love Voldemort, but it's an obsessive love rather than a pure one. It's likely he doesn't even realize this.
*** [[Word of God]] states that
** Used subtly in ''Deathly Hallows''. Harry's love for his girlfriend Ginny helps keep him together after {{spoiler|Ron ditches them}}.
*** In a [[Take That]] example, Voldemort uses his locket to posses Ron and puts it in his head that he is not loved by his family and friends and they'd all be much happier without him. It works for a while since Ron has always had a bit of an [[Inferiority Complex]], and it is likely that these are fears had for a while. If anything, the plan backfires because of [[The Power of Friendship]], and it might have helped Ron overcome these fears.
** At it's basic core,
* In ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'', Meg is able to save her little brother Charles Wallace from being possessed by IT through the power of her love for him. She suspects that if anyone ever offered love to IT, IT would shrivel up and die.
* In ''The Fangs of K'aath'', the power of love in the heroes is able to repel the minions of the titular demon as if they are physically burned and cancel out a magic poison at the book's climax.
* Quite a few of David Eddings' novels have the goddess [[The Elenium|Aphrael]]. Her "real" form is an adult woman, but she always appears to everyone as a [[The Cutie|eight year old girl]]. This allows her to use
* [[Older Than Feudalism|To quote Virgil, "Omnia vincit Amor".]]<ref>Love conquers All.</ref>
** "Et nos cedamus Amori..."<ref>And we too yield to Love...</ref>
* A [[Double Subversion]] in ''[[Sword of Truth|Wizard's First Rule]]''. The subversion is in Kahlan's power which uses a person's love to make them a slave to her will. This completely destroys a person, with no possibility of reversal, and causes her to be hated and feared, despite being the de facto ruler of the land. The double subversion comes {{spoiler|in the climax, where Richard's love for Kahlan protects him from her power, allowing them to get together.}}
* There is an interesting use of this trope at the climax of [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Memory, Sorrow,
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'''Camaris''': "Forgiven... yes, let all be forgiven..." }}
* A central theme in ''[[The English Patient]]'' is the question of whether love can transcend national boundaries in wartime. The short answer? Yes. The long answer? Yes, but the results [[Love Makes You Crazy|aren't always pretty]], and don't necessarily last.
* [[Tom Holt]]'s ''The Portable Door''. {{spoiler|The only way to get the swords out of the stones to get a hold of the keys on the end is to have two people who are in love pulling them}}.
** An even more bizarre version comes from ''You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here''. {{spoiler|Screwing with True Love actually causes ''the entire Universe'' to go a bit out of whack, and maths stops working properly}}.
* Subverted in the ''[[Georgina Kincaid|Succubus]]'' series by Mead. The heroine is a succubus, feeding on
* The Power of Love was a particularly troubling notion to the Legalists during the Warring States Period, as it could inspire people to defy the government in favour of getting a better deal for their families. Hence, ''[[
* In [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Year of the Unicorn'', Gillian's love inspires Herrel to take on the rest of the Were-Riders.
* In the book ''[[Once Upon a Marigold]],'' Marigold's love for Crispin heals him of his arrow wound. The doctor on-scene even outright states this.
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* In the ''[[Prydain Chronicles]]'', this is used to {{spoiler|make the Pelydryn illuminate the night sky so that it appears to be noon}}, resulting in a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
* In ''The [[Wheel of Time]]'', [[The Chosen One]] becomes more and more [[Nietzsche Wannabe|nihilistic]] and [[Heroic BSOD|self-destructive]] as a result of the memories of his [[Reincarnation|past life]], when he [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|was driven mad]] and killed his entire family. {{spoiler|What brings him back from the brink?}}
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* This is all over [[The Bible]], with the most obvious being 1 John 4:8, which simply states "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." That's right, God, the omnipotent force behind the entire universe, that God, IS Love. The Power of God IS the Power of Love.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''The Hour of the Dragon'', what inspires Zenobia to rescue [[Conan the Barbarian]] from the [[Tailor-Made Prison|oubliette]].
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[
* In [[Kate
* In [[
* In ''[[Space Beasts]]'', The Power of Love is what drives the plot. The Prophecy that sets the plot in motion states, ''"If a virgin human male loves a humanimal female with all his heart and '''he''' loses his virginity to her, then the universe will be altered and all intelligent beings will become equal."''
* [[
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'', the subject of love is debated extensively by the characters. It is [[The Older Immortal|Lazarus Long's]] opinion that love is the only thing that could make life worth living for thousands of years, and being loved can go so far as to cause complex computers to [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|become self-aware]].
* Emily Elizabeth's love is what caused ''[[Clifford the Big Red Dog]]'' to become so big, even though he was the runt of the litter. The [[Expository Theme Tune]] of the Scholastic animated version lays it out-- "Clifford needed Emily, so she chose him for her own / And her love made Clifford grow so big that the Howards had to leave their home."
* In Teresa Frohock's ''[[Miserere An Autumn Tale]]'', Lucian's deliberate attempt to keep from loving Lindsay, to protect her, weakened him; when he realized it, he let himself love her.
* In [[Devon Monk]]'s ''[[Age of Steam
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** It's a little different though: in this case Xander is reminding Willow of who she really is by presenting her with the most powerful (surviving) figure in her "real" life and her connection with him. He was sort of "bringing her back to herself".
*** However you read it it is definitely Xander's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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** Also remember season five [[Arc Words]]: Death is [Buffy's] gift, but love is [her] power.
**
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': In "Fear Her", we meet an alien quite ''literally'' powered by a combination of love and
** More recently{{when}} a {{spoiler|Dalek sleeper agent android guy}} overcame his {{spoiler|Dalek programming}} by thinking of a woman he fancied.
** And then in the series five finale, {{spoiler|Rory's love for Amy keeps him sane through nearly two thousand years of nothing but standing next to a box and protecting it.}}
** Something of a recurring theme in Season 5: In "The Lodger", {{spoiler|the reason that the Pilot Program couldn't use Craig as a pilot was because he didn't want to leave England...because he loved Sophie. Prompting the Doctor and Amy to shout, "KISS HER!"}}
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** Appears in the sequel episode to "The Lodger," "Closing Time", after {{spoiler|Craig is able to overcome the Cybermen process of turning him into their leader byhearing his son crying and in need of him. It is so strong it feeds back into the rest of their circuits and undoes their emotional inhibitors, which makes their heads explode. Doubles as [[Papa Wolf]] moment as well.}}
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"No, that's impossible, and also grossly over-sentimental and over-simplistic. You destroyed them because of the deeply ingrained hereditary trait to protect one's own genes, which in turn triggered a... a..." *everyone is staring at him* "Yeah. Love. You blew them up with love." }}
** River Song takes in the series 6 finale - she ''{{spoiler|collapses history itself}}'' simply to tell the Doctor how much she loves him.
* A very strange and freaky example: In ''[[Jekyll]]'', Claire is told that the Hyde personality first emerges when the original personality falls in
* For some reason, [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Cylons]] can only reproduce if they're in love. They have all the equipment, but it just doesn't work otherwise.
* Villain example: In ''[[Super Sentai|Juuken Sentai Gekiranger]]'', [[The Dragon|Mele]] is driven by and draws strength from the love she holds for [[Evil Overlord|Rio]], the main villain. {{spoiler|And with all the [[Character Development]] and [[Pet the Dog]] moments they get, it hardly comes as a surprise to anyone when, in the end, Rio discovers that he also loved Mele all along, and both do a [[Heel Face Turn]] to defeat [[Treacherous Advisor]]-turned-[[Big Bad]] Long. In the second round of said fight they [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifice themselves]] as a [[Redemption Equals Death]], after Long turned out to be immortal. It didn't take the second time either; Love may conquer all (twice), but some people ''just won't stay dead''...}}
* ''[[Phil of the Future]]'': Phil and Keely. They are from two different centuries. Yet they end up together.
* In ''[[Babylon
* Subverted in the finale of the first series of ''[[Being Human (
* ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'': The court scene in the episode "Right Ho, Jeeves" was interrupted by the arrival of [[Love Freak|Madeline Basset]], who used the Power of Love to keep Bertie out of jail. Going into a story about how he broke into a house and "stole" a picture of her because he was "''so madly in love with her''," she has the whole courtroom moved to tears in about ''ten seconds''.
** To clarify for those not familiar with the show, they weren't actually in love at the time, which makes this an interesting subversion of sorts, although Madeline spends the entire series convinced Bertie loves her; He spends it trying not to get engaged to her again.
* Whitelighters' powers in ''[[
* In ''[[
* Made fun of in ''Point of No Return '' on ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': When a character asks how the Winchesters propose to stop the End of the World, {{spoiler|a suicidal Dean}} snarks back "Well, we're working on the Power of Love." "How's that going?" "Mmm. Not good."
** Despite Dean losing faith in his little brother, Sam's [[The Power of Trust|faith in him]] was enough to make Dean [[I Lied|change his mind]] after agreeing to let [[Archangel Michael|Michael]] possess him to kill Lucifer.
** Played straight at the end of season five. In Sam's [[Self-Sacrifice Scheme|plan]] to prevent both [[Kill All Humans|Lucifer's Apocalypse]] and Michael's killing of Lucifer [[Utopia Justifies the Means|that will destroy half the world]], [[Thicker Than Water|the power of love]] ''does'' save the day. {{spoiler|Dean's presence gives Sam the [[Heroic Willpower|strength]] to [[Fighting From the Inside|beat Lucifer]] and throw himself (with Lucifer inside) into Hell's solitary confinement.}}
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* On ''[[Smallville]]'', {{spoiler|Clark unconsciously floats under his own power, completely in-character, awake, without any ambiguity, for the first time in his entire life...while dancing with Lois, telling her that he loves her.}}
* Seems to have been making an appearance in ''[[V-2009]]'' with, of all people, {{spoiler|Lisa}}, who has been slowly turned away from her nature and the control of her mother and [[Love Redeems|set onto the road of becoming human]].
* On ''[[Soap
* Tragi-hilarously played straight and simultaneously averted in the ''[[
* ''[[Firefly]]'': For most of the series, and a good portion of [[Big Damn Movie|the film]], [[Big Brother Instinct|Simon's]] [[I Will Protect Her|love]] for [[The Woobie|River]] is practically the only thing holding her [[Mind Rape|fractured psyche]] together. As a result, this is
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* On ''[[Alphas]]'', one villian actually uses a version this as a weapon. {{spoiler|she manipulates the body chemistry of her victims, increasing their feelings of affection, effectively addicting them to her. She then kills them by withdrawing her love.}}
* In the ''[[Haven]]'' episode "Roots", the key to pacifying the homicidal hate-powered plants is rekindling the love between members of a pair of Troubled families who'd been feuding for generations.
* In ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' an unfortunate accident, triggered by an aggression attempt, puts Kayla in front of a strong explosion that, somehow, manages to shatter her inner ears and her voice box while leaving the rest of her body mostly intact. While she later gets her hearing back thanks to an expensive, experimental surgery, her seemingly crushed voice box gets in perfect working order on its own accord, when Kayla is exchanging her wedding vows with her husband-to-be.
* [[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin's]] endless devotion to Arthur, Guinevere and Gaius has led him to practically move mountains in their name, achieving everything from calling lightning down from the sky to destroy an enemy, to mastering a difficult spell that allows him to take the form of an old man, to offering himself up as a sacrifice in order to spare their lives. A line from the Great Dragon all but states that his power is rooted in love, when discussing his relationship with Morgana:
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** Also the plot of "Sweet Dreams" with Arthur being freed from a spell by [[True Love's Kiss]].
** To prevent Guinevere from becoming Queen of Camelot, Morgana instigates the famous Arthurian [[Love Triangle]] by enchanting Lancelot and Guinevere to kiss on the eve of Gwen's wedding to Arthur, planning for Arthur to catch them at it and banish Gwen from Camelot. What she didn't count on was Arthur loving Guinevere so deeply and completely that he would forgive her and marry her anyway.
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== Music ==
* Subverted in the Glass Hammer song [http://www.ghfan.net/ontoev.html#angel/ "Junkyard Angel"]
* As noted above, [[Huey Lewis and The News]] on the ''[[Back to The Future]]'' soundtrack.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfptieWXEJA "Alive with the Glory of Love"], by Say Anything. About the singer's grandparents surviving the Holocaust to be together again.
* Played straight in Nightwish's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VF0BlXP-0Y "Ghost Love Score"], essentially a ballad about two lovers who separate and reunite, but amped-up to insanely epic power metal proportions. [[Memetic Mutation|Epic Love Maneuver!]]
* [[JAM Project]]'s GONG. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0TiqIjF-uk I GET THE POWER OF LOVE!]
* Rozalla's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5UYYNt6dbM Faith]". 'Cause you've gotta have faith ♪ In the power of love ♪ You've gotta have faith ♪ In the power of love ♪
* [[Switchfoot]]'s "Your Love Is a Gun", the older version of "Bullet Soul".
*
* [[Beatles]]'
** 'And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make'
* Every single thing [[Celine Dion]] has ever sung, including one song with the Trope Name.
* [[Luther Vandross]] has his own song based on this trope of the same name.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShN8UIk5-mw Frankie Goes To Hollywood and their video celebration of the Nativity.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSMNbnC9Kp8
* The parson from ''[[Jeff
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''And what use are good and mercy, against all Satan's might?" }}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWIjlwdNLos "Through the Barricades"] by [[Spandau Ballet]] suggests this trope as a means of overcoming divisions caused by [[The Troubles]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3564XqELyeY Amy Grant -- "That's What Love Is For."] ''Round off the edges, talk us down from the ledges...''
* The topic of quite a few [[Michael Jackson]] songs. Probably one of the straighter examples is [http://www.mtvmusic.com/artist/jackson_michael/videos/15223/don_t_stop_til_you_get_enough "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough."]
* Harry and the Potters' third album is titled
* In the [[Ayreon]] album
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The [[Fun
*
** In 4th Edition, this is actually a ''feat'' in the new ''Divine Power'' supplement.
** The infamous third-party 3.5 sourcebook ''The Book of Erotic Fantasy'' has a more easily-accessible version of the Resurrection spell. The somatic component is kissing the recently deceased, and it only works on someone who you love.
* [[Magic the Gathering]] compares [[The Power of Love]] to the power of [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=27249 rhinos].▼
** The 1st level Cleric Spell ''ceremony'' (first appearing in the ''[[Advanced Dungeons and Dragons]]'' tome ''Unearthed Arcana'' and much later in the 5th Edition ''Xanathar's Guide To Everything'') is a ritual that can be used to conduct various religious rites, including weddings. If used as such, the married couple gains a +2 bonus to their Armor Class for a week afterwards, so long as they stay within 30 feet of each other.
{{quote| ''Love is like a rhino, short-sighted and hasty; if it cannot find a way, it will make a way.''}}▼
▲* ''[[Magic:
* The Virtue of Compassion in [[Exalted]].▼
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▲* The Virtue of Compassion in ''[[Exalted]]''.
== Theatre ==
* Surprising, given the style of the play, but in the final scene of ''[[Rent]]'', death is converted to [[Disney Death]] by a love song.
* [[Richard Wagner]]'s version of the [[Flying Dutchman]] trope allows the character - traditionally cursed to sail forever, to be saved by the power of love. Pity the love interest is a total [[Mary Sue]]. Good music, though.
** According to [[The Other Wiki]], [[wikipedia:The Flying Dutchman
** Inverted in ''[[Der Ring Des Nibelungen]]'', only the one who renounce love will be able to forge the ring that will let him rule the world.
* In ''[[Damn Yankees]]'', Joe manages to thwart the devil partly because of his unswerving fidelity to his wife.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''. You can turn {{spoiler|Bastila Shan}} from the Dark Side with this.
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* Lunar. Repeatedly.
** The first game has two very good examples: [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Alex restoring Luna's memory and personality by playing the game's theme on his Ocarina]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Kyle breaking out of solid stone to save Jessica.]]
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** With people like [[Our Vampires Are Different|Remilia]] (power over fate), [[Human Aliens|Kaguya]] (power over the eternity and the moment) and [[Oni|Suika]] (power to manipulate density), it's only a matter of time until a literal power of love incident breaks out.
** Marisa also has "Love Sign: Non-Directional Laser". Indicating that she uses "Love Sign" to refer to...spells that she [[Mega Manning|steals from other people]] (Master Spark from Yuuka, Non-Directional Laser from Patchouli). Spells of her own creation are placed in categories like "Magic Sign" and "Light Sign".
* It is possible to get Aribeth to turn back to the light side at the end of the original ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' campaign using the Power of Love.
** In both the original ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' and the first ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', the most foolproof way of getting your love interest to turn back after her [[Face Heel Turn]] is to tell her that you love her. (Sorry, female characters have to do it the hard way).
** But it's equally possible that a female [[Player Character]] can get this invoked ''on'' her. There was a cut [[Take a Third Option|ending]] from KOTOR that involved a heavy dose of it.
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has one mission where the reward is a temporary power; a wedding ring, filled with the love of a woman for her dead husband, that can give you resistance to all kinds of damage for a limited time.
* Subverted in ''[[Disgaea]]''. [[Love Freak]] Flonne points out that an Alternate Universe Overlord couldn't possibly defeat the [[Anti-Hero|Anti Heroes]], because his power of love is divided among his ten (still very massive) copies. [[Hopeless Boss Fight|Oh, how very, very wrong she was...]]
** If you're on a [[New Game+]], the Prinny commentary will lampshade this.
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** Of course, Flonne isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Regardless, at the end of the game the Power Of Love does factor in: {{spoiler|After Master Lamington turns Flonne into a flower, Laharl goes insane. depending on your actions, Laharl will not kill Lamington, and Flonne will be healed. It was all one big [[Batman Gambit]] to make Laharl into a good person and to unite the Netherworld and Celestia. }}
** "Power of Love" is also the name of Flonne's technique that heals everyone in the eight adjacent cells.
** Actually, it turns out Flonne's completely right about
** Spoofed in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]''. Mao is entirely aware of the trope and tries to exploit it, but quite frankly has no idea how. His servant Almaz spends a good deal of time politely informing him that love does not work that way.
** Flonne finally gets to demonstrate the ''real'' Power Of Love in [[Disgaea 4:
* One of the arcana powersets in the fighting game ''[[
** In fact, this arcana is statistically so balanced that any character can use it skillfully without any major stat dampeners. This will leave you out of a few perks like extra power, healing, speed- In fact, the Extend force is just a normal cancel without using up your super bar.
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars]]: [[Original Generation]]'' and ''[[Super Robot Wars Compact 2|Super Robot Wars: Impact]]'',
** And then there's the fact that Excellen refuses to call it anything but "Love Love Attack".
** Also present throughout the franchise is the Love (Ai) Seishin, which gives almost every useful Status Effect in the game all at once, for comparatively little SP cost. The only people to get it are one person per [[Official Couple]], usually.
** Then somewhat subverted with Ring Mao and Irm Kazahara, one of Banpresto's original official couples. Irm's Ace Bonus reduces the Love Seishin's cost down to the point it ''costs less to cast it than cast one of the Seishins that's just a part of it''. Irm and Ring, however, have ''not'' gotten along very well for quite a while and really don't have any genuine shipping sequences in ''OG 2'', where Ring becomes a recurring member of the group.
*** They still get a [[Relationship Values|Love bonus]], though. In fact, theirs is bigger than the bonus some of the more overt couples get.
** In OG 2, each character that is in love with another character will receive a bonus from the character they are in love with, even if that character is not in love with them ;_;.
* In ''[[Tales of the World]]: Narikiri Dungeon 3'', certain characters, who are [[Official Couple
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia
** Also parodied in this victory quote:
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'''R.Emil:''' So you lose if there's no love?
'''Marta:''' [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Yes, so please say you love me!]]
'''R.Emil:''' We can lose next time... }}
* In ''[[Drakengard|Drakengard 2]]'', [[The Hero]] receives a [[True Love's Kiss|kiss]] from the [[White Mage]] and this activates his [[Super Mode]] for the final boss fight. [[Villain Protagonist|Caim]] however is driven by [[The Power of Hate]].
* In ''[[Elder Scrolls]]'', one benefit to being married is the Lover's Comfort effect, which boosts your rate of learning skills by 15% for eight hours by sleeping with the spouse in their own home. (If the Dragonborn owns more than one property, "their own home" is defined by one shared with the spouse.) Also, if the spouse is also a follower, the bonus can be gained by sharing ''any'' bed with the spouse.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' : After Sora {{spoiler|comitted "suicide" to save Kairi, who was locked within him, his heart is changed into a heartless. Kairi, however, recognizes him and just by [[Say My Name|yelling his name]] and hugging him, she somehow manages to return him to normal. Sora later explains to Kairi: "I was lost in the darkness, couldn't find my way. As I stumbled through the dark, I started forgetting things: My friends, who I was... the darkness almost swallowed me. But then, I heard a voice.
** {{spoiler|It's implied that
* In ''[[Final Fantasy X
* In ''[[Sly Cooper|Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves]]'', Penelope utilizes the power of love to gain mad sword fighting skills against Captain LeFwee to save Bentley.
* The entire ''[[MOTHER]]'' franchise revolves around Empathy!
** The lyrics in one of ''[[MOTHER 1
** Hell, Lucas' signature move in ''[[
* In ''[[
* Welkin from ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' has this as his hidden potential. That's for the gameplay side. On the plot side, his love for Alicia is what convinced her to not let the Valkyria power overtake herself and win the war in conventional means - a possible hidden anti-nuclear warfare message.
* ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]'''s Fated Passion. In this attack, {{spoiler|Jaster and Kisala's love for each other can cause the whole galaxy to ''explode''.}} At ''[[Mana Meter|22 AP]]''.
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** The [[Lampshade Hanging|exact phrase]] is even used in one of the routes.
* In ''[[King's Quest IV]]'', Rosella assassinates an evil, hateful fairy by shooting her with one of Cupid's arrows of love.
** It's also what prompts Edgar's [[Heel Face Turn]], and breaks his [[More Than Mind Control]] in ''[[King's Quest VII]]''. It also sets into motion the plots of ''[[King's Quest II]]'' and ''[[King's Quest VI]]''. In the [[Fan Remake]] of ''[[King's Quest II]]'', it's also {{spoiler|the last anchor Caldaur has to humanity - love for his wife and granddaughter}}.
* In at least ''[[The Sims|The Sims 2]]'', pleading with the Grim Reaper appears to be a game of chance, but in reality it depends on the relationship values. If two sims love each other enough, there's literally no way to possibly fail at this. One can even keep a vampire sim through the day if he's married to a human, let him dust, have his love plead, rinse and repeat until nightfall.
* The opening narration for ''[[
** Not to mention that the Pure Hearts are physical embodiments of love themselves.
* Hagspawns <s> usually</s> always look like [[media:hagspawn.jpg|this]]. Gann, the female protagonist's love interest from ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]: Mask of the Betrayer'' however, looks like [[media:gannayev.jpg|this]]. Why? Because his mother and father actually loved each other.
** And completing the [[Romance Sidequest]] with either Gann or Safiya will give you a bonus feat.
* In ''[[
* It's powerful enough in ''[[
* In the [[Video Game Remake|DS remake]] of ''[[
* In ''[[
* In most ''[[Pokémon]]'' games, there is an Affection system regarding how close the trainer is to his Pokemon, with results varying by game. For example, the move Return, which becomes more powerful based on how much the user likes its trainer. Also, starting with Generation V, a battling Pokemon can sometimes shrug off a debilitating condition (like Poison, Burned, Asleep, etc) its chances of doing so rising with its Affection score.
** Canonically
** An interesting take on this trope comes in the form of Attract, which has a 50% chance of immobilizing a Pokémon of the opposite gender each turn after affliction.
* In ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'', the power of Harry Mason's paternal love for {{spoiler|Heather aka Cheryl aka Alessa reborn}} kept {{spoiler|the "god" of Silent Hill's Order}} dormant in her body, since it needs pain and hatred to grow. It's one of the major reasons why {{spoiler|Claudia has Harry killed--to evoke Heather's hatred}}.
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Luminous Arc 2]]'', it's {{spoiler|the basis behind the Final Bond Roland can form with one of his love interests, depending on the player's dialogue choices throughout the game. With Althea, it saves her from her self-inflicted sword stab and sealed away her Beast Fiend side. With Fatima, it guides back her soul to her body after doing a realistic-looking suicide to calm down a crazy Althea. The strength of Roland's love for [[Multiple Endings|one of them]] pretty much saves them.}}
* Yeto and Yeta from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'' create the Snowpeak Ruins' Heart Container while they're all cuddly. An extraordinary amount of Recovery Hearts are generated from the sequence as well, but most of them won't be necessary. Also, Fanadi the fortuneteller seeks out Pieces of Heart when asked to find "love". This implies that Heart Containers, and probably Recovery Hearts, are formed from the very essence of love.
* At the end of ''[[
* This is the only way to {{spoiler|stop being a shinigami}} in [[Suika]]. And it can't be unrequited love, either.
* [[Square Enix]]'s iPhone RPG ''[[Chaos Rings (
* In the game ''[[Mischief Makers]]'', a major enemy attacks you with literally hurtful words; words like "sad," "fear," and "hate" are actually being shot at you. You beat the enemy by grabbing the words, shaking them until they become positive words like "happy," "courage," and "love," and then throwing them back.
* In ''[[Okami]]'',
* In ''[[The Force Unleashed]] II'', {{spoiler|[[Love Interest|Juno Eclipse]] comes back to life from being hit by a force pulse from Darth Vader for no other reason than it being
* A prevalent, if not ''the'' most prevalent, theme of the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series, a [[Dating Sim]] franchise known for being at the extreme end of the idealistic side of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]]. The Power of Love is ''extremely'' strong in there, creating true and sweet romances that last forever, helping out the few depressive characters out there, and making [[Long-Distance Relationship|Long Distance Relationships]] work.
*
* ''[[Karoshi|Mr. Karoshi]]'' has a girlfriend and getting in contact with her, causes Mr. Karoshi to be happy, being able to jump higher. It's also averted as it turns all spikes into flowers, which could be a problem in a game where you [[The Many Deaths of You|have to kill yourself]] to win.
* [[The Legend of Spyro|Spyro and Cynder's]] love for each other is ultimately the [[Spanner in
* ''[[Alpha Centauri]]'' deliberately invokes this with the Children's Creche colony facility, with the description noting that aside from providing children with security and education, the fact that parents' children are close at hand will drive them to fight to the death to protect them (in-game, this means that all defending units in that colony will fight at Commando-level morale, giving them major defense bonuses).
* [[Unstoppable Rage]] and [[The Power of Hate|his hate for those who betrayed him]] aren't the only things driving Asura in ''[[Asura's Wrath]]''. [[Papa Wolf|His love for his daughter Mithra]] is arguably the greatest strength he possesses, and what sets him apart from his former comrades {{spoiler|with the exception of Yasha, who eventually sides with Asura believing they can save the world without sacrificing Mithra or anyone else.}}
* Your main goal in ''[[
* In ''[[Planescape:
* Fans of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' tend to see Amy’s affection towards Sonic as that of a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]], occasionally teetering into [[Yandere]] territory. Be that as it may, by pursuing Sonic, Amy’s sheer willpower and dedication let her unlock her own “innate hedgehog speed gene” in order to keep up with him, in effect learning how to run at [[Super Speed]] purely out of her love for him. Keep in mind, Sonic’s ''casual'' running speed averages about 765 MPH; ''that’s'' dedication!
== Web Comics ==
* Played scarily straight and lampshaded in [http://thespiphobia.comicgenesis.com/d/20070413.html this] ''[[Thespiphobia]]'' page.
== Webcomic ==▼
*
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518151138/http://www.beaverandsteve.com/index.php?comic=201 this] ''[[Beaver and Steve]]'' story arc, love comes from another dimension populated with evil hearts that want to take over the earth.▼
* Subverted in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/11/27/8-bit-chronicles-3-of-3/ this] ''
▲* In [http://www.beaverandsteve.com/index.php?comic=201 this] ''[[Beaver and Steve]]'' story arc, love comes from another dimension populated with evil hearts that want to take over the earth.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', Haley becomes able to pick a lock
▲* Subverted in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/11/27/8-bit-chronicles-3-of-3/ this] ''~8-Bit Theater~'' strip, where Black Mage explains that his Hadoken spell is literally powered by love, in the same sense that a car is powered by petroleum (i.e. the spell ''consumes'' love, causing a net reduction in the amount of love in the universe). Every time he uses it the divorce rate goes up measurably. Basically Black Mage has managed to use the Power of Love to cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Also, he got the spell by [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/12/09/episode-489-oh-that-black-mage-of-ours/ sacrificing nine orphans to a god of evil].
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▲* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', Haley becomes able to pick a lock when Elan encourages her. [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0262.html\]
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▲{{quote| ''Love makes the world go round. And has been known to provide a +2 circumstance bonus to certain skill checks.''}}
* [http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=283 This] ''[[The B
▲** Not to mention the time when Haley had started speaking gibberish and {{spoiler|breaks out of it when she tells Elan she loves him. She had been honestly trying to tell the truth and overcome her mental problem for some time, but finally managed it when her cynicism told her that Elan was going to leave her "just like everyone else" if she didn't recover right now.}}
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]
▲* [http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=283 This] ''[[The B Movie Comic (Webcomic)|The B Movie Comic]]'' strip and the associated [[The Rant|rant]].
* In ''[[
▲* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' the fate of [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] Galatea, [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080902.html here] and [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080906.html here.]
▲* In ''[[Yu Me Dream]]'', Fiona's decision to {{spoiler|attempt to go back into the Dream World to find Lia}}, especially considering {{spoiler|Sadako had banned Fiona from the Dream Land}}, as well as the possibility that {{spoiler|Fiona may never return to the real world if she finds Lia}}.
* Used and nicely summed up in the final part of ''[[Demonology 101]]'', when {{spoiler|[[Affably Evil|Isaac]] [[Cain and Abel|Jenner]] and [[Our Demons Are Different|Madeline]] get [[Unholy Matrimony|married]].}} Two Witnesses attend the wedding and one comments on the [[Power of Love]].
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'''Banai:''' It probably means the same thing it meant [[Star-Crossed Lovers|when you married Lily.]] That love is one of those annoying things that somehow manages to [[Screw Destiny|transcend destiny]], [[
* ''[[Girly]]'' has ''loads'' of this throughout the series, but especially in the final arc, where all the artificial sidekicks explode when exposed to love (except for the sidekick cops, who are [[Crazy Prepared|armored against love]]). Half the enemies are taken out by a sex god and his ex-wife, while the other half (including the sidekick cops) are dealt with by a pair of real cops through a combination of [[Clothing Damage]] and dirty dancing. The protagonists defeat the [[Final Boss]] by having hot, steamy lesbian sex next to her.
* [http://buttersafe.com/2007/09/27/the-power-of-love/ According to] ''[[Buttersafe]]'', "love is the source of energy that fuels [[Eye Beams|eye lasers]]."
* The ''[[
*
*
*
* As with many things, the exact nature and significance of love in ''[[Megatokyo]]'' is ambiguous, but [[Magical Girl|magical girls]] appear to draw their power from it, and it's widely known to be a force to be reckoned with:
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'''Clerk:''' All ya got? That's enough, mate. }}
** The power of ''obsessive adoration'', meanwhile, is a separate matter altogether, albeit ''possibly'' connected.
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* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', [[Big Badass Wolf]] Bec's love for Jade is so strong that {{spoiler|when he sacrifices his body to save her and inadvertantly imbues the [[Big Bad]] with his own strength and form, said [[Big Bad]] is tormented by the feelings of loyalty that were transferred, and can not bring himself to kill Jade when he finds her.}}
** As of the End of Act 5 flash, {{spoiler|he killed the Courtyard Droll in an act of vengeance, and then laid Jade on her Quest Bed after CD managed to kill her in an explosion.}}
* Hilariously mentioned and subverted in ''[[
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''' {{spoiler|[[Fan Nickname|iJeeves]]}}:''' Indeed. {{spoiler|[slices Marian in to pieces}}] As a tactic, it leaves something to be desired. }}
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20131028130928/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2672 the power of love can even withstand concentrated efforts to stop it.]
** [
** [
* Chloe in ''[[
== Web Original ==
* This is, ultimately, what the web animated series ''[[Broken Saints]]'' is all about, and what drives its [[Earn Your Happy Ending]].
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* In ''[[Draw With Me]]'', this is what compels the boy to {{spoiler|break through the glass, and later the girl to cut off her hand}}.
* [http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower JLA Watchtower]/[[DC Nation]]
* In the ''[[Colour My... Series]]'', it's implied that the protagonist's coloring powers are based off of love. Or, rather, the two go hand in hand.
* Supervillainess Sahar, in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. She has a psychic ability to - once she's seduced a Psi - get so close that she can learn to copy that Psi's best 'knacks'. This makes her a ruthless ''femme fatale'', until she falls in love with a mark, Zenith. She doesn't know how to handle that. So it takes a different kind of love - [[The Power of Friendship|friendship]] - to get her to finish her [[Heel Face Turn]]. And she gets Zenith back.
* In one of the possible endings of ''[[Today I Die]]'', love gives the protagonist strength to survive.
* In ''[[Mall Fight]]'', Eric brings Connor back to life with this trope.
== Western Animation ==
* Ma-Ti of ''[[Captain Planet]]'' had "heart" as his element, considered to be a warped version of this, which garnered a lot of [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|ridicule]] for how little and ineffectively it was used, as well as how ridiculously it was named. However, it is actually an [[Heart Is an Awesome Power|awesome power]], probably the best [[Fridge Brilliance|when you think about it]]. He has mind-control and the ability to [[The Beast Master|summon potentially deadly animals]] as his powers, which he could use for very mischievous purposes if he wasn't so kind-hearted.
* Jake and Rose from ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]''. Jake wished that Rose was never taken by the Huntsclan, but then she remembers everything when she sees the photo of her and Jake from a dance.
* ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]'': {{spoiler|Sprx is turned evil by the [[Artifact of Doom|Object of Hate]], and Nova tells him she loves him to bring him back.}}
* In ''[[Transformers]]: [[
** Later, she's [[Not Quite Dead|Mostly Dead]] until Silverbolt winds up facing the uber-powerful Rampage... At which point she's brought back to life in a new form and kicks Rampage to the curb, which is ''not'' an easy task.
* Subverted in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', when the power of love {{spoiler|prevented the protagonist from getting powerful enough to defeat evil, temporarily got him killed, and had the greatest city of the world conquered by the bad guys. Then again, a [[Older and Wiser|wise old guy]] told Aang he made a good choice, and seeing as Aang won in the end, it probably paid off.}}
* Parodied in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Love and Rocket", which features a very ''literal'' power of love: when a whole load of chalky Valentines heart-shaped candies are dumped into a supernova, it causes a wave of "mystical love radiation" that is powerful enough to destroy "[[Planet of Hats|three gangster planets and a cowboy world]]", but causes (or at least enhances) a wave of Valentines-inspired romance on Earth (which is far enough to see the radiation without being destroyed by it).
* In the ''[[
* This is how ''[[Lilo
* This is essentially how Spider-Man {{spoiler|defeats Venom}} in the season 1 finale of ''[[The Spectacular Spider
* [[This Loser Is You|Ron Stoppable]] got his [[Badass]] [[Chunky Updraft]] in the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' because the aliens grabbed an unconscious Kim and gloated that she'd be a great trophy.
* ''[[Clone High]]'' had a whole episode parodying this trope as well as the power of rock. During the climactic scene where they tried breaking down the wall with love, one of the characters said "But guys, love is just an abstract concept! It can't break down stuff!"
* In the cartoon pilot, ''[[
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy|Billy and Mandy
* In ''[[The Fairly
** Very frequently throughout the series, love seems to be the one thing that is more powerful than the fairies' magic. So much so, in one episode, Timmy wished to have parents that couldn't care less. The spell worked too well, and the only way Timmy was able to undo it was to put himself in danger, causing his parents' love for him to cancel out the magic.
* Used in the animated special ''[[Freaknik:
** [[Running Gag|It's in the book.]]
* When Link's spirit is severed from his body in an episode of the 80's ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
** [[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|...why does that sound familiar?]]
* In an episode of ''[[El Tigre]]'', [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Zebra Donkey]] dies but is brought back as a zombie when Manny and Frida steal Sartana's mystic guitar. Sartana eventually takes it back and tries to destroy Manny for stealing it. Zebra Donkey manages to get his hooves on it and destroys it, [[Heroic Sacrifice|knowing full well doing so will destroy him as well]]. Manny, Frida and the rest of the kids gather around Zebra Donkey's ashes and the pieces of the mystic guitar and tearfully sing his theme song as Manny plucks one of the guitar's strings. Zebra Donkey is returned to life... or, undeath, rather.
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'''Principal:''' And the love of you children.
'''Frida:''' Yeah. [[Subverted Trope|But mostly the guitar string]]. }}
* Inverted in an episode of ''Super Secret [[Secret Squirrel]]'', where the titular protagonist overcomes Queen Bea's love potion with the power of ''hate''.
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[Batman
* The title characters in ''Robotman and Friends'' are robots powered by human love, literally requiring it to stay alive. Without love they lose power and become tired and physically weak.
* This is played with in the season 2 finale of ''[[My Little Pony:
== Real Life ==
* [[wikipedia:Sacred Band of Thebes|The Sacred Band of Thebes.]]
* Mary Ann Patten, who was the wife of the Captain of the Clipper ''Neptune's Car'' and got the ship around the Horn propelled by this.
* An underweight failing newborn was saved by a hug from her tiny twin sister in [http://www.planetdeb.net/spirit/rescue.htm this] unspeakably adorable story from 1995.
* [[wikipedia:Weinsberg#Middle Ages|The Castle of the Faithful Wives]]
* "[[I Love Nuclear Power|Nuke Hugger]]" [https://web.archive.org/web/20131012050746/http://wearscience.com/design/hugger/ T-shirt], after a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fashion]].
{{quote|Hypothesis: Unfettered expression of physical affection from researchers toward power facility will produce noticeable gains in fission output due to interaction between emotional energy fields and beta decay.
Result: Power output nearly doubled
NOTE: in further study inform researchers affection should be purely platonic}}
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