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* AbortedDeclarationOfLove: In "Peach Scone", Music/HoboJohnson describes being out for coffee with someone he likes who's in a relationship and tries to stop himself from confessing to her:

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* A variant in ''Film/{{Once}}'' between the nameless protagonists: the girl tells the guy she loves him, but [[BilingualBonus she says it in Czech]]. When the guy asks what she said, she refused to translate.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': In ''Kakashi Gaiden'', [[spoiler:Obito's]] dying thoughts are that he never told [[spoiler:Rin]] that he loves her, and his reasons for not confessing are never explained. [[spoiler:Kakashi]] reveals this to [[spoiler:Rin]] just after [[spoiler:Obito]] dies. As we find out ''much'' ''much'' later, [[spoiler:Obito]] never confessed because [[spoiler:Rin loved Kakashi]].

* Although she didn't die afterwards, Elizabeth in the Bollywood film ''Bollywood/{{Lagaan}}'' declares her love to the Indian hero Bhuvan... In English (While her Hindi's pretty good, she didn't know the correct words. However, she passes up the chance to tell him at another point when she knows the correct ones) . She did, however, then leave the country without really telling him.
--> '''Elizabeth''': ''(In English)'' I'm falling in love with you, Bhuvan.
--> '''Bhuvan''': ''(In Hindi)'' Ma'am, I don't speak English.

* In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', [[spoiler:Kayano, after working up the courage to tell Nagisa how she feels on Valentine's Day, decides against it because she sees how focused he is on his future and doesn't want to distract him]].

* In the ending of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Vivian, while seeing Mario off, almost confesses her love to him, but suggests that he and Peach would be a good couple.

* Coulson and May on ''Series/AgentsofSHIELD'', multiple times. Most notably in Season 1 Episode 17 and Season 5 Episode 19.

* A lot of DatingSim games love this trope - especially if the love interest is a ShrinkingViolet, [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Unlucky Childhood Friend]]], or JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

* An ExploitedTrope by Lee Thompkins in the ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' episode "Mandatory Brunch Meeting", when in a RiddleContest with (of course) the Riddler. The riddle she sets has the answer "I love you", and Riddler solves it instantly, but owing to Ed Nygma's suppressed feelings for her, he can't bring himself to actually say it.

* Hammer in ''{{Webcomic/Angels 2200}}'' has feelings for Kid, but her position as leader of the Icebreakers prevents them from getting closer. When she volunteers to stay behind to allow the Icebreakers to escape from the Ellie Arroway, she considers telling her how she feels, but decides that doing so would be inappropriate for the situation and unprofessional, and ends up saying she "loves" her hair. [[spoiler:While she seemingly dies, she is actually still alive and a prisoner of the rebels, and may yet get another chance in Angels 2.0]].

* A variant in ''Film/{{Once}} between the nameless protagonists: the girl tells the guy she loves him, but [[BilingualBonus she says it in Czech]]. When the guy asks what she said, she refused to translate.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', on the other hand, zigzags this with regards to its male and female lead, as in the last episode, the night before they all go their separate ways to live out their dreams, Aki visits Yusei in their team garage and very NEARLY blurts out her feelings, but stops herself at the last minute. Unlike with Judai above, Yusei has always been aware of her feelings, as he then wordlessly shows that he reciprocates. What follows is the two looking at each other's eyes while holding hands, then what fans debate is a KissingDiscretionShot, before she pulls away and goes back home.

* Anime/YuGiOh5Ds zigzags this with regards to its male and female lead, as in the last episode, the night before they all go their separate ways to live out their dreams, Aki visits Yusei in their team garage and very NEARLY blurts out her feelings, but stops herself at the last minute. Unlike with Judai above, Yusei has always been aware of her feelings, as he then wordlessly shows that he reciprocates. What follows is the two looking at each other's eyes while holding hands, then what fans debate is a KissingDiscretionShot, before she pulls away and goes back home.

* [[spoiler:Toy]] in ComicBook/TheBalladOfHaloJones. When she tries to perform a DyingDeclarationOfLove Halo fails to take the hint and thinks they're talking about their friendship. [[spoiler:Toy]] decides not to clarify and dies soon after.

* ''Series/{{Wizards of Waverly Place}}'': Alex came close a few times in telling her {{Precocious Crush}} Dean how she feels about him. When she finally spits it out and they start dating, she still could not go through with saying it again.

-->-- '''Sasha "Hammer" Carelli''', ''Webcomic/{{Angels 2200}}''.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': In ''Kakashi Gaiden'', [[spoiler:Obito's]] dying thoughts are that he never told [[spoiler:Rin]] that he loves her, and his reasons for not confessing are never explained. [[spoiler:Kakashi]] reveals this to [[spoiler:Rin]] just after [[spoiler:Obito]] dies. As we find out ''much'' ''much'' later, [[spoiler: Obito]] never confessed because [[spoiler:Rin loved Kakashi]].

* In ComicBook/BlackWidow 008, Natasha meets up with [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes the Winter Solder]], [[spoiler:whom she doesn't remember her relationship with]]. Just before she leaves, he calls her back and is clearly about to tell her that he loves her, but tells her to stay warm and be careful instead. [[spoiler: This is presumably right before he leaves earth for good to become 'the Man on the Wall', in part because he's been a bit of a loose cannon without her.]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. There is massive disagreement among fans over the nature of the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald's relationship, but just before she is [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]] in "Face the Raven", Clara spends [[spoiler: her last few minutes]] trying to comfort the Doctor and at one point he begins to say something to her which she interrupts with a hug and "Everything you're about to say, I already know. Don't do it now; we've already had enough bad timing." Rather than saying anything herself along these lines (having made a promise to her now-deceased boyfriend in the previous season never to say "I love you" to anyone else again), she strokes the Doctor's face instead.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', when Princess Zelda [[spoiler: leaves the Master Sword with The Great Deku Tree before going to face Ganon alone, it's implied that she was going to ask The Great Deku Tree to pass on her LoveConfession to Link once he returned for the sword.]] It's also possible that she wasn't, given that The Great Deku Tree cuts her off before she says it, but the lead of up of "Tell him I--" sure seems to point in that direction.
** ''Breath of the Wild'' also has the Zora Princess Mipha. After Zelda suffers several failures to summon her power, Mipha steps up to try and offer the Hylian Princess some pointers. Given the lead-up, it's heavily implied that [[spoiler: Mipha was going to admit that she used her feelings for Link as an emotional anchor to help summon her healing powers, and that Zelda should try the same.]] However, she was cut-off before she could finish speaking.

* Dipper of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' nearly confesses his feelings to Wendy at the beginning of "Into The Bunker", but he aborts it and asks her if she wants to hang out with him and Mabel to do some exploring. [[spoiler: He eventually pulls a MistakenDeclarationOfLove within her earshot, she later lets him down easily and they part as friends.]]

* ''Series/{{Wizards of Waverly Place}}'': Alex's reaction to Dean reading her a wooden card he made in woodshop.
--->'''Alex:'''(hugs Dean for the card) I love it!
--->'''Dean:''' You do?
--->'''Alex:''' Yes! And I love...this card.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** In ''Kakashi Gaiden'', [[spoiler:Obito's]] dying thoughts are that he never told [[spoiler:Rin]] that he loves her, and his reasons for not confessing are never explained. [[spoiler:Kakashi]] reveals this to [[spoiler:Rin]] just after [[spoiler:Obito]] dies. As we find out ''much'' ''much'' later, [[spoiler: Obito]] never confessed because [[spoiler:Rin loved Kakashi]].

* This happened on ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', when JT was killed before he could tell Liberty that he still loved her.

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* In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', [[spoiler:Kayano, after working up the courage to tell Nagisa how she feels on Valentine's Day, decides against it when she sees how focused he is on his future and not wanting to distract him]].