History Main / FlirtingUnderFire

* In [[HandOfThrawn Vision of the Future]] Luke proposes to Mara before they know if they could actually escape or not after a life and death battle with nearly indestructible enemies. It is also notable it that it is the rare time in which she is completely honest as she is [[FireAndIcePersonality extremely sarcastic most of the time]].

'''Luke:''' I mean regardless.

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', after Halley and Elan bid each other farewall, one guard offers to take another out for a drink after this.

* In ''OrderOfTheStick'', after Halley and Elan bid each other farewall, one guard offers to take another out for a drink after this.

* In the first AmeliaPeabody novel, ''The Crocodile on the Sandbox'', Emerson kisses Amelia right before the final battle, "even at the risk of surviving to face the consequences."

* ''RobinHood2010'': Marion and Robin have their Big Damn Kiss in the water between the French warships as [[spoiler: Marion bleeds from a wound]] and the fighting rages on around them.

* Katniss and Peeta forge their relationship during the actual ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' themselves, actively encouraged by the Gamemakers.

* Katniss and Peeta forge their relationship during the actual ''Literature/HungerGames'' themselves, actively encouraged by the Gamemakers.

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* ''RanmaOneHalf'': People accuse Ranma and Akane of doing this. Usually, they're just bickering with an extra large dose of [[BelligerentSexualTension Belligerent Sexual Tension]]. The comments keep coming, however.
--> '''Ryoga:''' How dare he flirt in the middle of a fight!
* ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': This actually happens during [[OfficialCouple Kamina and Yoko's]] first meeting. She comes down through the roof, firing at the enemy gunman, and he's instantly attracted to her. When he starts flirting, Yoko's baffled that he isn't running for his life instead.
--> '''Yoko:''' I only knocked it backwards. It could still get up and get us!
--> '''Kamina:''' Hey, babe! Come here often?
--> '''Yoko:''' ''What?''

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* KimPossible and Ron get flirty under attack, especially once they are an OfficialCouple.

* In a late episode of ''GetSmart'', Max and 99 are caught in death-trap with no apparent means of escape. Thinking they are about to die, Max realizes that he's in love with 99 and declares that if they could get out he'd marry her. She immediately thinks of a way to escape and they get married a few episodes later.

* ''{{Farscape}}'' frequently makes use of this trope with Crichton and Aeryn. Even before becoming a couple the two, particularly John, would make flirtatious comments during fights. Taken UpToEleven in the Peacekeeper Wars, where not only are the two married by Stark during the apocalyptic Scarran attack on the planet they're defending, but [[spoiler: Aeryn is in the process of ''giving birth'']].

* In the first ''Film/{{Speed}}'' film, the two protagonists constantly flirt with the female character saying, "Relationships based on traumatic events always end up failing." At the end of the film, they come together, have the same exchange and the guy replies, "Well, I guess we'll have to base ours on sex, then."

* Robin (Tim Drake) and Spoiler (Stephanie Brown) from the {{Batman}} comics. In one issue, Stephanie kisses Tim and then pins him to the floor ("Isn't this romantic?" "...Not really"), while armed kidnappers stands outside the door, searching for them.

* KimPossible and Ron get flirty under attack, especially once they are an OfficialCouple.

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* [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]: People accuse [[OfficialCouple Ranma and Akane]] of doing this. Usually, they're just bickering with an extra large dose of [[BelligerentSexualTension Belligerent Sexual Tension]]. The comments keep coming, however.

* In the first ''{{Speed}}'' film, the two protagonists constantly flirt with the female character saying, "Relationships based on traumatic events always end up failing." At the end of the film, they come together, have the same exchange and the guy replies, "Well, I guess we'll have to base ours on sex, then."

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* [[http://calvinayre.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/vancouver-riot-couple.jpg This now-iconic photograph]] of a couple sharing a tender moment... ''in the middle of a hockey riot''.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Day of the Moon]]", The Doctor and River trade flirtatious quips while Amy Pond is held prisoner feet away, and the Silence trying to manipulate the 69 Apollo moon shot. Amy ends up snapping them out of it with a barbed remark.
* Every five seconds in ''{{Torchwood}}''. Particularly with Gwen, whose motto appears to be "Makeouts first, ask questions later."