The power to overcome outside forces with a kiss between two lovers. Variation of Love Empowerment.
Also Called
- Kiss of True Love
Capabilities
User can break through any outside forces, including magic/curses/etc. with a kiss shared between two lovers. For instance, if one person is cursed into deep slumber, a kiss of true love will return that person's consciousness.
In rare cases, True Love's kiss neither has to be on the lips or between lovers (like between a parent and child).
Applications
Associations
Limitations
- Takes powerful mutual love for the kiss to be effective.
- Can be persuaded by emotion-based powers, such as Apathy.
- May work if the cursed party is the one with feelings.
- May not work if one of the lovers is influenced by Love Inducement or True Love Visage.
- In most cases, the kiss is not effective if one of the two lovers is dead.
Known Users
Literature
- Western Fairytale characters (various franchise)
- Snow White and the Prince
- Sleeping and the Prince
- Gerda and Kai (The Snow Queen)
- Julie Grigio and R (Warm Bodies)
Movies
- Giselle and Robert Phillip (Enchanted)
- Snow White and Eric (Snow White and the Huntsman)
- David Abbott and Elizabeth Masterson (Just Like Heaven)
- Jared Howe and Melanie Snyder/Wanda (The Host)
- Inuyasha and Kagome (Inuyasha Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass)
- Maleficent and Aurora (Maleficent)
- Susu and Xu Xian (The Sorcerer and the White Snake)
- Mal and Ben (Descendants 2)
- Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)
Television
- Will Scarlet/Knave of Hearts and Anastasia/Red Queen (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
- Rumpelstiltskin/Mr. Gold and Belle (Once Upon a Time)
- Emma Swan (Once Upon a Time)
- Regina Mills (Once Upon a Time)
- Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time)
- King Stefan and Briar Rose (Once Upon a Time)
- Red Riding Hood/Ruby Lucas and Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time)
- Zelena Mills and Hades (Once Upon a Time)
- Aladdin and Jasmine (Once Upon a Time)
- Lady Julia and the Prince (Charmed)
- Billy and Georgia (The Dresden Files)
- Freya Beauchamp and Killian Gardiner (Witches of East End)
- Zhang Zhen and Hong Ling (The Legend of Chasing Fish)
- Max Evans and Liz Parker (Roswell)
- Barry Allen/The Flash and Iris West (The Flash)
- Kara Danvers/Supergirl and Mon-El (Supergirl/The Flash)
- Princess Cadence and Shining Armor (My Little Pony Series); only by use of unicorn magic
Manga/Anime
- Ichigo Momomiya and Masaya Aoyama (Tokyo Mew Mew)
- Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon)
- Zeref Dragneel and Mavis Vermilion (Fairy Tail)
Video Games
- Princess Elise the Third (Sonic the Hedgehog); via Chaos Emeralds
Gallery
Zeref (Fairy Tail) shared a kiss with Mavis that is the highest level of the Contradicition Curse, because they loved each other it was even able to take away an immortal life.
Jared Howe (The Host) brings Melanie Strider's consciousness back with a kiss.
The Prince (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) awakes Snow White with a kiss.
Will Scarlet (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) frees Anastasia from Jafar's spell.
Zhang Zhen (The Legend of Chasing Fish) kisses Hong Ling to restore her youth.
Freya Beauchamp (Witches of East End) kisses Killian Gardiner to bring him back to life.
Princess Elise the Third (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Aurora and Prince Phillip (Sleeping Beauty)
Princess Cadence and Shining Armour (My Little Pony Series), combining their magic to perform power of love to throw the changelings out of Canterlot.
Robert Phillip (Enchanted) kisses Giselle to save her.
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The Sorcerer And The White Snake 白蛇传说 (Last Scene)
Xu Xian (The Sorcerer and the White Snake) remembers Susu with true love's kiss.
Last Story (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Elise kisses Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog) to save him.
Regina (Once Upon A Time) breaks the Dark Curse
Regina Mills (Once Upon a Time) breaks the Dark Curse when she kisses Henry.
Iris and Mon-El (The Flash) save Barry and Kara with true love's kiss
