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* At the end of ''[[Legend (film)|Legend]]'', Lily awakens after Jack kisses her.
* At the end of ''[[WALL-E]]'' {{spoiler|a "kiss" from EVE restores WALL-E's apparently lost memory. Note that this is one of the few straight examples that can be explained beyond [[The Power of Love]]: EVE's "kisses" are literally electric.}}
* ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension]]''
* Parodied in Amanda Bynes' ''[[Sydney White]]'', where Sydney was simply exhausted from staying up all night for her paper and fell asleep in the library, causing her to be late for the presidential debate. The [[Love Interest]] finds her and treats it as if she would never wake up, culminating with the kiss to "break the spell".
* In ''[[Snow White and the Huntsman]]'', the most recent{{when}} film adaptation of ''[[Snow White]]'', it's subverted and played straight. Snow gets into a coma caused by a poisoned apple, and the {{spoiler|Prince's}} kiss fails to revive her. Then the {{spoiler|titular Huntsman}} kisses her, and she [[It Got Better|gets better]]. It's nowhere explained about the meaning of this, though. Supposedly the filmmakers thought the audience would recognize this trope on their own.
* Subverted in ''[[Maleficent]]'', where the teenaged hormones between Phillip and Aurora are insufficient for the task, but {{spoiler|Maleficent's own kiss of ''maternal'' love breaks the curse she laid on the girl sixteen years earlier}}. And Maleficent made that the condition for breaking the curse
* The Disney ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' zig-zags this: Ariel needs the "Kiss of True Love" to become human permanently, though it does not work out that way. ([[Hans Christian Andersen|The original version]] of the story required that she actually married the prince to become human forever, on the condition that if he betrayed her, she would die. [[It Got Worse|It also does not work out well either...]])
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* Spoofed in the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon "Bewitched Bunny". Bugs is drugged with a carrot full of sleeping potion by Witch Hazel, and is rescued by Prince Charming showing up and kissing him on the hand. Though Bugs is grateful, he points out to the prince that they're doing a parody of ''Hansel and Gretel'', not ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''.
* In one ''[[Underdog]]'' cartoon, an unnamed [[Wicked Witch]] kidnaps [[Action Girlfriend| Sweet Polly]] and put her under the typical thousand-year sleeping princess spell that had this type of cure, but it had a twist; the witch knew that, but she only tells Polly, lying to Underdog later (saying that only she could reverse the spell) so she could blackmail him into doing her evil deeds for her. Underdog finds loopholes to complete two of her demands without hurting anyone, but with the third - helping her conquer the world - he sees no way to do without compromising his morals, so he decides he has no choice but to leave Sweet Polly as she was... After beating the tar out of the witch, of course. A fierce battle later, the witch perishes when her broom - a [[Soul Jar]], of sorts - is destroyed - and her now-free formerly oppressed subjects make a promise to Underdog that they and all their descendants would watch Polly for as long as they had to until the thousand-year curse expired. Believing that was the best he could hope for, the hero decides to leave with a final kiss. By pure luck, he discovers the cure.
* Deconstructed in ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]''. {{spoiler| Poison Ivy has been turned into a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] slave by Dr. Psycho and is trying to strangle Harley, and with no other options, Harley tries this. It works... But only because [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot| Dr. Psycho is a pervert]] who lost his concentration by seeing it. Nonetheless, Harley and Ivy proceeded to beat the crud out of him, and [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain| the experience ''finally'' got Harley to confess her love to Ivy]].}}
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And they all lived [[Happily Ever After]].
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