History Main / ElectricLove

* In ''Film/AsterixAndObelixGodSaveBritannia'', Obelix (Creator/GerardDepardieu) kisses the hand of Miss Macintosh. The contact between their bodies creates a big electric arc.
* ''Film/BuckarooBanzai'': Buckaroo has saved the world! Unfortunately, although he rescued his LoveInterest Penny Priddy, it wasn't in time to save her life. Thanks to a little help from the alien John Emdall, though, what Buckaroo intended as a goodbye kiss is literally electric and behaves like a defibrillator. Penny revives, and they get to do TheBigDamnKiss.

* In ''Film/LeGendarmeSeMarie'', a big electric arc appears when Cruchot (Creator/LouisDeFunes) kisses Josépha's hand.

* Pa's technique for TestingTheLoveInterest in ''Series/BadBuddy'' includes touching the other person's hand to see if you feel something when you do. For her brother Pat, his then-LoveInterest Ink fails this test, but confusingly, Pran passes.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':

* WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons: Near the end of "The Shooting of Dan [=McGoo=]", "the lady who's known as Lou" plants a kiss on Droopy, causing him to shoot into the air like a rocket.

* Used as BookEnds in ''Film/InspectorGadget'' ''2.'' When Gadget and G-2 first meet and shake hands, a blue spark passes between their fingertips, and the same happens at the end.

* ''Fanfic/GuysBeingDudes'': A logical extension from [[VideoGame/PokemonGo Spark's]] particular [[ElementalMotif motif]] from canon. The first time Arlo pets his hair during Day 1 of Go Fest in the conversation during which they officially declare themselves as boyfriends, he gets a static shock from it.

* ''Fanfic/GuysBeingDudes'': A logical extension from [[VideoGame/PokemonGo Spark's]] [[ElementalMotifs Elemental Motif]] from canon. The first time Arlo pets his hair during Day 1 of Go Fest in the conversation during which they officially declare themselves as boyfriends, he gets a static shock from it.

The [[FireIceLightning Lightning]] equivalent to SnowMeansLove and FlamesOfLove. Compare to RomanticRain if it overlaps with thunderstorms, LoveAtFirstSight, ElectricInstantGratification, and LightningGlare. Contrast to NoSparks and DeadSparks.

* A very literal example in ''Series/TheFlash2014''. Iris touching Barry's hand causes sparks to jump between them. Of course this is justified in-universe as a speedster generating lightning which sparked off Barry, but it still holds the same symbolic effect.

* In ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'', Dave, a physics major who experiments with [[UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla Tesla coils]], realizes through his budding relationship with music major Becky that the lightning from the coils makes its own kind of music. He shows this off to her one night by standing in a Faraday cage with her and playing [[Music/StevieWonder Stevie Wonder's]] "Superstition" and [[Music/OneRepublic OneRepublic's]] [[BrekawayPopHit "Secrets"]] ''with the Tesla coils''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdIYwIWfYyo See here]].

* ''Series/AmazingStories'': "The Main Attraction", a JerkJock is given the power of magnetism by a meteor but ''[[PowerIncontinence can't turn it off]]''. Turns out there was another one that hit a HollywoodNerd girl. Of course they are pulled together and when she tries to kiss him little sparks fly between the two.

* In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', George Fennec and Danielle Kindle [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0728.html discovered an electrical connection between each other]] when she scooped him up off the floor after he was violently rejected by a fennec he had a crush on. Their connection was [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0917.html weaponized]] in the climax of the Rabbits' Revenge story arc, [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0921.html which ended with the]] HeroicSacrifice and death of Danielle. When a {{doppelganger}} came through the dimensional portal from the human world and took her form, [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1020.html it took a little time]] [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1025.html for the connection to remanifest itself,]] [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1026.html but it eventually did.]] These days, they wear ground wires connected to their wedding rings, so this is downplayed these days.

* In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', George Fennec and Danielle Kindle [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0728.html discovered an electrical connection between each other]] when she scooped him up off the floor after he was violently rejected by a fennec he had a crush on. Their connection was [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0917.html weaponized]] in the climax of the Rabbits' Revenge story arc, [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk0921.html which ended with the]] HeroicSacrifice and death of Danielle. When a {{doppelganger}} came through the dimensional portal from the human world and took her form, [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1020.html it took a little time]] [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1025.html for the connection to remanifest itself,]] [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2003/kk1026.html but it eventually did.]]

* When Michael Corleone hides out in Sicily in ''Literature/TheGodfather'', he experiences what the locals call "the thunderbolt" on meeting Apollonia. The two quickly fall in love and get married [[spoiler: but it ends tragically when she's murdered by a car bomb meant for Michael]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Bendless Love," this is [[{{Justified}} justified]] between Bender and Angleyne as [[RobotRomance both are robots]].